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Trading News
News Markets News
Watching for Signs of Global Risk Events
By John Jagerson
Major Moves
As I mentioned in yesterday's Chart Advisor newsletter, the British pound (GBP) has been surprisingly defensive lately. From a technical perspective, the GBP/USD exchange rate was forming a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern, which was completed today. That pattern is surprising because of all the uncertainty Brexit is causing – it seems investors have already priced Brexit into the market.
As you can see in the following chart, the technical pattern I pointed out yesterday has completed a breakout with a provisional price target of 1.3685 based on a Fibonacci retracement of the pattern itself. This method is reasonable at estimating breakout targets; however, in this case, the unknowns around Brexit could make this more of a guess than an estimate.
The bullishness in the GBP is the result of news that the European Union may insist on a delay of two years or more if an agreement can't be reached. This announcement reduces the risk for a very "hard" or "no deal" Brexit where there is no agreement in place when the U.K. leaves the EU.
As major components of the global economy, both sides of Brexit would benefit from a smoother transition out of the EU (or even an increased potential for the U.K. remaining in the union). This is also a positive for U.S. stocks, which would otherwise suffer if growth in Europe and the U.K. were to decline further.
Unfortunately, the Brexit news did not help the S&P 500 make progress against resistance at 2,800 today. Investors may have been distracted by Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testimony to the House Financial Services Committee or President Trump's former attorney's testimony to the House Oversight Committee. The potential for anything earthshaking to emerge from either event was unlikely, but there weren't any other positive catalysts for a breakout today either.
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Risk Indicators – Armed Conflict
With all the political news soaking up the headlines today, another issue facing the markets is heating up without very much coverage. Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian pilots over the disputed region of Kashmir after India had launched airstrikes on Pakistani territory yesterday. While this doesn't guarantee war between the two nuclear powers, it is a significant escalation of hostilities.
It should go without saying that the potential for armed conflict is almost always a source of risk for the markets. However, traders have been surprisingly sanguine about the news. Indian stocks like Infosys Limited (INFY), Tata Motors, Limited (TTM) and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Limited (RDY) were a little mixed but didn't show any signs of panic selling or hedging.
Hopefully, the conflict will be cooled before more lives are lost, and this week's events won't have a lasting impact on the markets. However, keeping an eye on asset classes that move the most when investors fear an escalation may provide some advance notice for stock traders.
In my experience, gold and the Swiss franc (CHF) are the easiest safe-haven assets to track, and both rise in value quickly when investors start to discount or hedge against global risk events like the Pakistan/India conflict. Both assets retreated today, which is a good sign. If you don't have access to spot quotes or futures charts for the CHF or gold, you can use ETFs that hold those assets as a substitute.
For example, in the following chart, I have plotted the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and the CurrencyShares Swiss Franc ETF (FXF). As you can see, both funds retreated today as investors evaluated the risks of the incidents over the past two days. However, if both safe-haven assets start to rise dramatically, investors should be careful about their long-stock positions as well.
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Bottom Line: Expectations
Besides the unexpected news of conflict between India and Pakistan, this week's schedule hasn't produced many surprises. Powell's testimony didn't contribute much to market volatility, and investors seem to be encouraged by the Brexit news. The last major remaining news event for this week is an advance GDP report for the fourth quarter that will be out before the market opens on Thursday. In my opinion, although resistance on the S&P 500 has been holding at 2,800, the risk of any major declines is continuing to recede.
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Have you been struck by hay fever this year?
PUBLISHED: 10:00 06 July 2019
Pretty but a pain: Oil seed rape in an East Anglian field. It is to many hay fever sufferers as kryptonite is to Superman Picture: SIMON PARKER
More people than ever seem to be complaining about symptoms in 2019...thankfully The Digital Doctor Bella Smith has some handy tips to help ease them.
The O2 Nose Filter from 3M.Steven Russell would need to roadtest it for longer to assess its efficiency, but says it did open up his nasal airways - always a good thing Picture: ARCHANT
Almost everyone's got hay fever these days, haven't they, judging by the number of times we're sneezed on? (As a passing colleague has just demonstrated, in fact.) But are more of us really coughing our way through the warmer months? Cue GP Dr Bella Smith.
"We know from studies that allergies in general and asthma cases have been increasing over the past 20 years," she says. "There appears to be an increase in cases of hay fever, especially in the last four years, and recent data shows that the pollen count appears to be increasing."
"That's a good question and there is a great deal of research going on into this phenomenon.
Steven Russell's current anti-hay fever strategy - plus some of the plantlife that causes trouble... Picture: ARCHANT
"Current theories include the 'hygiene hypothesis', where we are 'too clean' and our children are not being exposed to enough micro-organisms to build their immunity and protect against allergies.
"Similarly, there is a theory that overuse of antibiotics may affect the bacteria in our gut and our microbiome [communities of bacteria, fungi and viruses] that would otherwise help protect us.
"Another theory is that climate change and milder temperatures in spring and summer are causing higher levels of pollen, the duration that the pollen remains high, and the air humidity that could contribute to symptoms.
"Air pollution may also be a factor as research shows that hay fever was virtually unknown a few centuries ago, before cars and engines were invented. Air pollution is thought to aggravate our upper airways and increase symptoms of hay fever and asthma.
"It is also important to consider 'reporting bias', as in our new world with social media and the internet we are able to report our conditions more, are more aware of our health and are able to self-diagnose better than we did in history."
* East Anglian-based NHS doctor Bella Smith launched The Digital GP to provide online medical information and tips. It's designed to help people make lifestyle changes and improve their health and that of their families.
The Digital GP's what-to-do guide
Try to avoid exposure to high levels of pollen. Look at pollen forecasts and, if it's going to be a high-pollen day, try to change activities so you are not exposed to it, and try to close your car and home windows. You can try fitting air or pollen filters for your house or car.
Barrier method
Invest in a good pair of wraparound sunglasses that helps stop pollen getting into your eyes. Use Vaseline in your nostrils to avoid pollen getting into your nasal passages.
If you work or spend time outside, consider using a face mask that covers your nose and mouth - or a wide-brimmed hat, as this may act as a barrier to the pollen. Try wearing goggles if you are swimming outside.
When you are coming in from outside, wash your clothing, change your clothes, wash the dog! Use a saline nasal wash or douche to wash all the pollen out of the inside of your nose.
For pregnant women who don't want to or can't have regular medicines, using a saline wash three times a day is a safe and effective way of helping with hay fever symptoms.
If that doesn't work…
If you have tried all these basic measures and are still having hay fever symptoms, see your chemist to try some medication:
Steroid nasal sprays
In studies, these have been found to be most superior, but often we don't use them correctly. To use them correctly you must do the following:
1) Take at least two weeks before hay fever starts.
2) Use regularly - twice daily, both nostrils. Do not use ad hoc as they will not be as effective.
3) When you use them, shake the bottle well, look down (not up) and squirt into both nostrils. Do not do one gigantic sniff as the medicine will go up into your nose and straight down to your stomach. So try to hold it in your nose for 10 minutes.
There are different types - some help you sleep and some are non-drowsy. If these do not help, your GP can prescribe slightly stronger ones.
Anti-allergy eye-drops
These are really effective if you have itchy eyes. You can buy them from your chemist.
Severe?
If your symptoms are severe and not controlled with over-the-counter medications, you should see your GP for review.
Asthma can also be triggered by pollen, so it is important to carry your blue inhaler with you and see your GP if you are concerned.
Hay fever: The basics
"Hay fever is a common condition that affects 10-30% of adults and 40% of children in the UK and is also known as Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis," says Dr Smith.
"Hay fever is inflammation of our nasal cavity due to an allergy to certain pollens - that can be from trees, plants or grass weeds - that increase depending on the season and the weather.
"It can be mild, moderate or severe, but most cases are mild and can be managed with over-the-counter medication from the chemist. Some people, however, are affected very severely and may need to see an allergy specialist.
"Symptoms can include a runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing, nasal congestion, an itchy throat, a cough and worsening of underlying asthma. In severe cases, hay fever can affect your sleep, exercise and the ability to go to work or school."
What happened when I tried out some over-the-counter relief products
It's spring 1970, the sun is beating down and Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky has pushed Dana's Eurovision Song Contest-winning saccharin ballad All Kinds of Everything off the top of the pop charts. I'm seven years old and have sore, weeping and swollen eyes. I must look like those poor rabbits with myxomatosis (though, obviously, they are much worse off).
We'd moved the previous Christmas to the eastern edge of Ipswich. On, it seems, the Suffolk Sandlings. The heathlands, sand and gorse bushes thereabouts are fingered as the culprits for my emerging allergic rhinitis.
The doctor prescribes little yellow pills called Piriton. They bring some relief. But weekends in the garden are still an ordeal. Never puts me off making dens with deckchairs and old blankets, though.
It eases as the years go by. The eyes become less sore. For much of adulthood, it's been like having a cold: invariably bunged; always a slight cough; generally bleurgh. (Sorry.)
In 1992 another move: to a village. Searing-yellow oil seed rape, growing 300m from the house, signals the start of "the season". Later, the harvesting of cereal crops sends dust into the air that makes breathing harder.
It's been like that ever since.
Mind you, people with hay fever tend to plough on, don't they, if they can? (With a little help from antihistamine tablets and a Beconase nasal spray.)
In recent years, though, it's got worse. So it's interesting to hear from Dr Bella Smith that there appears to have been a rise in cases of hay fever, especially in the past four years. Our eyes and noses bear it out.
I've been trying a couple of other things to see if they're golden bullets - both recommended by other people.
One's a Benadryl NaturEase nasal spray. The other is the O2 Nose Filter from 3M. Made from clear rubber, and latex-free, it sits inside the nostrils. Layers of electrostatic material are said to capture pollen particles before they do damage.
They cost £5.99 for three pairs and each one can be worn for up to 12 hours.
What's the verdict on these two things? Hard to say. I'd need to try the nasal filters for a decent length of time to assess their effectiveness in different temperatures and on days of various wind speeds and directions.
What I can say is that the Benadryl seems pretty quick-acting.
For hay fever sufferers, probably the best strategy is to try lots of things and stick to the one that works best for you.
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Katie Holmes-Smith, The Backing Vocalist
Singing Careers March 1, 2014December 10, 2018 Line Hilton
“You can go from pop sessions, to classical singing, to gospel, to any style of singing and I love the variety of it.”
Line Hilton from iSing Magazine met up with cover gal – Katie Holmes-Smith, and four other very talented singers, Lloyd Wade, Andy Playfoot, Louise Bagan and Craig Stein, who all who work regularly as backing vocalists. These guys have sung with some of the biggest artists out there, such as Adele, Jessie J, Professor Green, Lily Allan, Kylie Minogue, Will Young, Chaka Khan, Westlife, George Michael, Eliza Doolittle and Take That. Between them they have performed at all the major UK music festivals, as well as strutted practically every significant stadium and live venue. They all have careers in their own right, both as singers and, as in the case of Andy and Craig, actors too.
These five came together to form a vocal group called Band of Voices, showcasing their talents on Britain’s Got Talent 2013. They blew away Simon Cowell and all the judges with their rendition of Jessie J’s Price Tag, going on to eventually reach the semi-finals.
Band Of Voices
In this video interview, we meet the group and hear what they have to say about the role and job of the backing vocalist, how each of them got into the game, what kinds of experiences it has brought them, how they fit their job in and around their own artistic ambitions. We get some top backing vocal tips.
Band of Voices did an exclusive for iSing Magazine, here is their cover of Katy Perry’s Roar:
Website: bandofvoices.co.uk
Feature photos: Matthew Joseph
Andy Playfoot, backing singer, backing vocalist, backing vocals, band of voices, Craig Stein, Katie Holmes-Smith, Lloyd Wade, Louise Bagan
Making her own rules, Kate Miller-Heidke
Strong by London Grammar
Line Hilton
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iSing founder Line, is passionate about creating a place where singers can gain knowledge, skills, advice and support. Something she wishes she had when she first started. In her private practice she helps pro and semipro singers, artists and voice teachers with their voice, performance, mindset and teacher training. Her speciality areas include Performing Arts Medicine, anatomy, health, technique and mindset. She pulls on a wide range of qualifications, experiences and interests to assist her clients to build and develop the knowledge and skills they require for their craft. She is a member of the BVA, PAVA, PAMA, is an MU she.grows.X mentor and Education Section committee member and Advisor to Vocology In Practice, and a BAST singing teacher trainer.
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Travelport Appoints Riona as New Country Manager for Ireland
Travelport has appointed Riona McGrath as Country Manager for Ireland. Riona replaces Sinead Reilly who held the role for six years before taking on the new role of Strategic Account Director for Travelport in the Northern European region.
Riona McGrath, Country Manager Ireland, Travelport
Riona will be responsible for managing operations in Ireland while accelerating its growth through introducing new initiatives that meet and exceed the evolving needs of Travelport customers and industry partners. She will report to Paul Broughton, Regional Director for the UK and Ireland, and be based at Travelport’s office in Dublin.
From 2016 to 2018 Riona was Head of Sales and Marketing for International House Dublin, an English language training school and a member of the renowned International House World Organisation, one of the largest English language teaching and teacher training organisations in the world. Prior to this, she held numerous management positions at CarTrawler, the B2B travel technology platform providing multimodal transport solutions in the vehicle rental sector, where she spent six years.
Paul Broughton said: “I am delighted to welcome Riona to Travelport as the new Country Manager to lead our important operation in Ireland. Her wealth of commercial, sales and account management experience will enable us to further build on the recent successes that we have seen in the region.”
Riona said: “This is an exciting time for Travelport and I am delighted to be leading its highly knowledgeable and experienced team in Ireland. It’s my aim to increase the strong presence and capability that Travelport has in the country to further help the Irish travel industry provide travellers with more choice, more personalisation, and more flexibility than ever before.”
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20 June 2017 at 6:22pm
Author becomes double winner at Borders Book Festival
Sebastian Barry, authoer and double Walter Scott Prize winner Photo: Stone Hill Salt
Sebastian Barry won the eighth £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, collecting his award at the 2017 Borders Book Festival.
He won the award for his American novel 'Days Without End'.
The author's previous novel, 'On Canaan's Side' won the prize in 2012.
It’s difficult to itemise my simple childish joy at receiving this prize; that the judges did all this work to make a 61 year old man feel 12 again.
– Sebastian Barry, Author
The judges for the prize included writers and journalists and the festival director.
Our decision to award Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End was one of the hardest the Walter Scott Prize has ever had to make.
With all seven books on the shortlist having strong supporters on the judging panel who championed their cause in a protracted and passionate debate about the nature and purpose of historical fiction, the very books themselves seemed to fight tooth and nail for the accolade.
What a hard choice it was. But we are delighted to declare Days Without End the winner of the eighth Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – and Sebastian Barry the first writer to win the Prize twice.
– Alistair Moffat, Borders Book Festival Director
The Walter Scott Prize is awarded to UK, Irish or Commonwealth novels that are considered to be the "best" of the previous year, that are set more than sixty years ago.
It was founded in honour of Sir Walter Scott, who is considered to be one of the inventors of the historical novel genre.
Previous winners include Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Tan Twan Eng, Robert Harris, John Spurling and Simon Mawer.
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Reynolds, Joseph H.
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1850 U.S. Census, Blue, Jackson Co., MO, 264[A]; 1860 U.S. Census, Independence, Jackson Co., MO, 293.
Comprehensive Works Cited
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
–29 Mar. 1884.
Independence, Jackson Co., MO, Probate Court, Probate Case Files, 1828–1900, box 64, no. 9, microfilm 2,257,419, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Grocer, government official.
1850 U.S. Census, Blue, Jackson Co., MO, 264[A]; 1860 U.S. Census, Independence, Jackson Co., MO, 293; History of Jackson County, Missouri, 664.
The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing A History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc. . . . Cape Girardeau, MO: Cape Ramfre Press, 1966.
Born in Lincoln Co., Kentucky.
History of Jackson County, Missouri, 297.
Moved to Independence, Jackson Co., Missouri, 1834.
Elected county coroner, Aug. 1836, and justice of the peace, 1837.
History of Jackson County, Missouri, 111, 643.
Served in Seminole War.
“Reynolds, Joseph,” in Col. Genry’s Regiment Missouri Volunteers, Record of Service Card, Seminole War, 1836–1842, box 69, reel s00914, Office of Adjutant General, Missouri Soldier’s Database: War of 1812–WWI, Missouri Digital Heritage [database online], http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers/details.asp?id=S6932&conflict=Seminole%20War&sType=unit&txtUnit=Col%2E+Gentry%27s+Regiment+Missouri+Volunteers&selConflict=Seminole+War&offset=300# (accessed 4 Sept. 2014).
Missouri Digital Heritage. http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh.
Married first, by June 1840.
1840 U.S. Census, Jackson Co., MO, 81.
Served as Jackson Co. sheriff, 1840–1844.
Represented Jackson Co. in Missouri Senate, 1844.
History of Jackson County, Missouri, 180–181.
Married second Martha W. Haynes, 16 Oct. 1849, in Independence.
Jackson Co., MO, Marriage Records, 1827–1917, vol. 2 p. 211, microfilm 1,019,757, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Represented Jackson Co. in Missouri House of Representatives, 1852.
Married third Mary Ward, 1 Sept. 1859, in Independence.
Jackson Co., MO, Marriage Records, 1827–1917, vol. 4 pp. 134–135, microfilm 1,019,757, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Died in Independence.
Appendix 3: Willard Richards, Journal Excerpt, 23–27 June 1844
Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
Discourse, 30 June 1843, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff
Discourse, 4 July 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
Discourse, 6 August 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
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Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
Letter from Edward Southwick, 29 July 1843
Letter from Mason Brayman, 29 July 1843
Letter from Shepherd Patrick, 11 August 1843
Letter to Thomas Ford, 21 August 1843
Letter, Joseph H. Reynolds to Newel K. Whitney, 7 April 1843
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Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
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Nefertiti Overdrive: High Octane Action in Ancient Egypt
A tabletop, pen & paper RPG, Nefertiti Overdrive is mash-up of legendary Ancient Egypt and high octane, cinematic action.
Fraser Ronald
302 backers pledged CA$ 4,892 to help bring this project to life.
Project We Love Ottawa, Canada Tabletop Games
The Nefertiti Overdrive Quickstart rules are available on Drive Thru RPG and also here, through Dropbox. The Drive Thru files will be updated should any changes be made to the rules, while the Dropbox will be closed at the end of the Kickstarter campaign.
All backers have access to a system preview document that expands on the rules presented in the Nefertiti Overdrive Quickstart. You can find the link to the preview in the first update.
Music in the video "From War to Dust" by Ryve Gretur.
Defying physics and common sense, you are legendary heroes protecting the royal house of 25th Dynasty Egypt from both internal enemies and the marauding Assyrian army. Do you want to leap from crocodile head to crocodile head before planting your sandaled foot directly in the face of an Assyrian giant bearing an axe bigger than you? Do you want to rebound off the side of a pyramid and fly into the centre of a mob of badguys, whom you then lay low with your lightning-fast fists?
Then you are our kind of people. Nefertiti Overdrive is a role-playing game of crazy wire-fu action set in Ancient Egypt. This is a game about kicking badguys in the face, or using a fallen foe as a step to get your character high enough to drive her knee into another bad-guy's face.
Temple Fight by Kieron O'Gorman
Who are these legendary heroes?
The Princess is a child of the royal blood, counsellor to Pharaoh and a natural-born leader.
The Etruscan is the loyal bodyguard and surrogate father of the Princess.
The Spartan is the perfect warrior, exiled from his home and certain he will die in a foreign land.
The Amazon is barbarian royalty, born to horse and bow, and better than any man she knows – except, perhaps, the Spartan.
The Misfit is a wandering philosopher with deadly fists and a clown’s levity hiding a past tragedy.
The Serpent is an assassin, from the streets of Waset, linked by oath to a goddess of death.
The characters of Nefertiti Overdrive cannot be threatened by mere Assyrian soldiers. They are the heroes of this story, and heroes can do the extraordinary. From the Spartan bursting through a wall of mud bricks to attack an unsuspecting squad of Lower Egyptian collaborators, to the Amazon putting an arrow into the eye of the Assyrian commander the others can only barely identify in the distance, to the Etruscan leaping from rooftop to tower in pursuit of an Assyrian spy, the heroes get to do amazing feats that defy gravity, physics, and/or the Geneva Conventions.
Thebes by Jeff Brown
Nefertiti Overdrive will include a simple system intended to speed through play while encouraging lots of crazy antics. Like the systems from Centurion: Legionaries of Rome and Sword Noir: A Roleplaying Game of Hard-Boiled Sword & Sorcery, Nefertiti Overdrive will allow for character customization in a rules-light context that focuses on player characters succeeding within their niche.
The book should be between 100 and 130 pages in length, and will be presented as a 6X9 softcover.
Along with these rules, Nefertiti Overdrive will provide six pre-generated characters with an alternate version of each and an adventure designed to introduce players to both the system and the setting.
Further ideas and hooks for continuing campaigns in Ancient Egypt are provided to help the GM craft a story beyond the introductory adventures. This section includes general advice on crafting campaigns and adventures.
Finally, the book will include a sub-system to allow for a group of players and a GM to cooperatively create an adventure or campaign using ingredients and ideas. This process can be done as a game or as a framework for a brainstorming session, and allows not just for the creation of adventures and campaigns, but also for the kinds of characters one would play in these.
Avenue of the Rams Battle by Kieron O'Gorman
If you are interested in the other games I've written, this is your chance to get them cheap. Backers supporting at the Acolyte of the Scarab or above can order these games at the prices listed below. Add the total amount for the games in which you are interested to your pledge, and then message me through Kickstarter or at fraser@swordsedge.ca indicating which games you would like. Print prices include the PDF.
After the project is funded, I will be sending download codes for the PDFs through Drive Thru RPG as well as PDF copies directly by email. The Drive Thru RPG copies will ensure that should any of the games be updated, you will have access to that update.
Print copies are available in Canada and the continental USA. If you are outside of these regions, I am still happy to send print copies, but I'm afraid you will need to cover the shipping, and it can be expensive.
Sword Noir: A Role-playing Game of Hardboiled Sword & Sorcery. $3.00 PDF, $15.00 Print & PDF. As the name implies, Sword Noir is inspired by the novels and stories of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Robert E Howard, and Fritz Leiber. It's Conan seeking for the Maltese Falcon, it's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the Big Sleep, set in Lankhmar, it's hardboiled crime fiction in the worlds of sword & sorcery.
Kiss My Axe: Thirteen Warriors and an Angel of Death. $3.00 PDF. $12.00 Print & PDF. Kiss My Axe is the grandfather of Nefertiti Overdrive. This was the first game in which high octane, cinematic action was hardcoded into the system. Kiss My Axe is a role-playing game of Viking adventure, focused more on the heroics of the sagas than the violence inflicted upon innocents.
Centurion: Legionaries of Rome. $5.00 PDF. $19.00 Print & PDF. This was my first Kickstarter. In Centurion, players play scouts, spies, or special troops marching under the eagle of Rome. The book supports games in the Late Republic (from the Second Punic War to the rise of Gaius Marius), the Civil Wars (from Marius to Augustus), the Principate (from Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century) and the Third Century (when order collapsed, warlords rose, and the Empire divided), providing ideas for characters and adventures.
Chariot Chase by Kieron O'Gorman
ACHIEVED! Should our Kickstarter reach $4,500, the book will include maps for the adventure. At present, the budget for the book doesn’t cover these, but will have links to useful maps available on the internet – as was done in the Quickstart. At $4,500, we can afford both a map of Waset/Thebes, where the adventure takes place, and smaller maps for the various scenes encountered in the adventure.
Should our Kickstarter reach $6,000, Jason Pitre, the designer of Spark and Posthuman Pathways, will adapt Nefertiti Overdrive for Fate Accelerated. This will be provided as an appendix in the book, giving you an avenue for high-octane action in Ancient Egypt, using the Fate system.
Should our Kickstarter reach $7,500, all backers at the Acolyte of the Scarab level and above will receive Daredevils of the Water Wastes as a PDF. This is an alternate setting for Nefertiti Overdrive, with slightly different character Attributes but the same focus on detailed narratives and intense action. It will be a minimum of 2,000 words and will include art.
Here is the setting pitch for Daredevils of the Water Wastes: the late 19th Century sees cataclysms and inundations. Europe becomes an archipelago of isolated islands.Plague tears through the survivors, bringing with it the terrifying undead. The mindless Ghouls and the cunning Wraiths vie for dominance, devastating humanity. But in Sunken London one might find a man who knows of a cure. He can be found among the warriors of the Prize Ring, the greatest sport in Europe and perhaps the world.
Amazon by Kieron O'Gorman
All amounts are in Canadian Dollars.
$ 7 ACOLYTE OF THE SCARAB: You will have access to the playtest rules as soon as you pledge and you will receive a PDF copy of Nefertiti Overdrive once the project funds. All backers at this level may purchase print-on-demand copies through Drive Thru RPG when those become available at a cost of $13 plus shipping.
This print-on-demand option is intended for international backers as providing international shipping at a rate that is acceptable is not an option at present. Print-on-demand will almost certainly be cheaper for most international backers as multiple facilities in multiple geographic regions exist, and shipping will be from the closest facility. This is a suboptimal option, but at present, it is the only practical one for this project.
$ 20 STING OF THE SCORPION: You receive everything from the ACOLYTE OF THE SCARAB tier, but also receive the print version of Nefertiti Overdrive. This is only available to backers in Canada and the continental USA, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA.
$ 35 SCREAMING FIST of the FALCON: You will receive everything from the Sting of the Scorpion tier, however you will receive a print copy of Nefertiti Overdrive signed by the author with a personalized message. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping.
$60 FLASHING FANGS OF THE ASP: This tier is specifically for retailers. You receive five copies of the print version of Nefertiti Overdrive. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping.
$70 PIERCING HOWL OF THE JACKAL: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will be included in a game session of Nefertiti Overdrive run by the author over Google Hangouts. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping.
$ 125 STUNNING ROAR of the LION: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will be included in a scenario creation session using Nefertiti Overdrive's campaign creation rules and two game sessions based in the campaign created. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping. The sessions will occur over Google Hangouts and each will last a minimum of four hours for a minimum of 12 hours total. Limit of 12.
$ 250 SOARING TALON of the PHOENIX: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will act as a model for one of the alternate character portraits. The alternate Princess, Amazon, and Serpent are male while the alternate Etruscan, Spartan, and Monk are female. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping. Limit of 6.
$ 300 GOD'S HAND of AMUN: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will also receive your own icon of Amun-Ra. This is a reproduction of crushed stone and resin, and handpainted. It is approximately 28 cm/11 inches in height. If the Amun-Ra icon is unavailable, an icon of Hathor or Isis may be provided as a replacement. This tier is limited to the US and Canada, and the pledge level includes postage for Canada or the continental USA. For international backers, please contact the creator to discuss worldwide shipping. Limit of 10.
Icon of Amun-Ra
These are some places to find information on Nefertiti Overdrive.
I had a nice chat with Jess Purdy over at Gamer XP.
I answered Five or So Questions from Brianna Sheldon.
Roachware put up a review of the Quickstart and the Kickstarter (note: it is in German).
You can hear me talk about Nefertiti Overdrive - among other topics - on the Tell Me Another podcast. This interview was about an earlier incarnation of Nefertiti Overdrive, but the essentials remain the same.
You can read a little more about Nefertiti Overdrive in my interview at Dorkland! This interview was about an earlier incarnation of Nefertiti Overdrive, but the essentials remain the same.
You can see (well, mostly hear) a game of Nefertiti Overdrive here. You can download the audio of the fight example here and the audio of the non-combat challenge here. These clips used an earlier incarnation of Nefertiti Overdrive, but the essentials remain the same.
The greatest risk of any Kickstarter – as any backer of Kickstarter is bound to learn – is delay. Delays can easily happen, especially when one is reliant upon others to provide parts of or support for one's project. I cannot foresee any problems delivering on the timescale provided, which is based on my experiences with my successful Centurion: Legionaries of Rome Kickstarter. If I can get rewards to you sooner, I will, but I am confident that the target date is practical, and delays will be minimal. I will be communicating with you as milestones are met or missed so you will have visibility on the onward movement of the project.
Certain key parts of the project – art, editing, maps if they are funded – are being undertaken by third parties, so there is always the possibility of failure at some point. Failure of any of these will result in delays, possibly substantial delays. I promise to be open about problems I encounter, letting you know if we have a problem, how it is being addressed, and updating the due date.
Pledge CA$ 7 or more About US$ 5
ACOLYTE OF THE SCARAB: You will have access to the playtest rules and you will receive a PDF copy of Nefertiti Overdrive. All backers at this level may purchase print on demand copies when those become available at a cost of $13 plus shipping. This option allows international backers to receive a printed book.
Estimated delivery Aug 2015
STING OF THE SCORPION: You receive everything from the ACOLYTE OF THE SCARAB tier, but also receive the print version of Nefertiti Overdrive. This is only available to backers in Canada and the continental USA.
Ships to Only certain countries
SCREAMING FIST of the FALCON: You will receive everything from the Sting of the Scorpion tier, however you will receive a print copy of Nefertiti Overdrive signed by the author with a personalized message. This tier is limited to the US and Canada.
FLASHING FANGS OF THE ASP: This tier is specifically for retailers. You receive five copies of the print version of Nefertiti Overdrive. This is only available to backers in Canada and the continental USA.
PIERCING HOWL OF THE JACKAL: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will be included in a game session of Nefertiti Overdrive. This tier is limited to the US and Canada,
STUNNING ROAR of the LION: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will be included in a scenario creation session using Nefertiti Overdrive's campaign creation rules and two game sessions based in the campaign created. This tier is limited to the US and Canada,
SOARING TALON of the PHOENIX: You will receive everything from the SCREAMING FIST of the FALCON tier, and you will act as a model for one of the alternate character portraits. The alternate Princess, Amazon, and Serpent are male while the alternate Etruscan, Spartan, and Monk are female. This tier is limited to the US and Canada
GOD'S HAND of AMUN: You will receive everything from the Screaming Fist of the Falcon tier, and you will also receive your own icon of Amun-ra. This tier is limited to the US and Canada,
Jan 13, 2015 - Feb 10, 2015 (28 days)
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(-) Governance and regulation
The Care Quality Commission and improvement: a system-wide issue
How can we maximise the impact of CQC’s regulatory action in health and social care? It takes two at least: CQC, providers and other system partners all need to contribute.
By Ruth Robertson - 5 December 2018
Quality improvement and collaborative working: partnerships across services in East London, Bedfordshire and Luton
Following on from our recent report on the impact of the Care Quality Commission's approach to regulation, Navina Evans, Chief Executive of East London NHS Foundation Trust, writes about their experience of the inspection regime.
By Navina Evans - 12 November 2018
CQC, the state of care and system-level regulation
CQC must ensure it creates a mix of regulatory tools that work together to efficiently assure people’s overall experience of care, rather than simply adding a layer of regulation to a health and care system that is already one of the most heavily regulated in the world.
By Ruth Robertson - 18 October 2018
Initiating improvement: the impact of the Care Quality Commission’s approach to inspection
In light of the recent National Audit Office report, Rachael Smithson considers the Care Quality Commission’s approach and the ways in which the organisation is having an impact on quality of care.
By Rachael Smithson - 2 November 2017
Public engagement – pitfalls, barriers and benefits
As part of our project on the NHS and the public, Dan Wellings asks why the NHS can be reluctant to involve the public in decision-making and makes the case for why it should.
By Dan Wellings - 18 October 2017
A system response to provider failure: does Greater Manchester point to a different future?
Should we start to look at provider failure as a system issue rather than an organisational one? Chris Ham looks at the lessons the NHS can learn from Greater Manchester.
Streamlining the organisation of the NHS without a top-down reorganisation
Chris Ham makes the case for aligning the work of NHS Improvement and NHS England.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 19 September 2017
Growing up with the NHS: born on 5 July 1948
As part of our work on the changing relationship between the NHS and the public, Aneira Thomas, who was the first baby born on the NHS, shares her views on its past and its future.
By Aneira Thomas - 16 September 2017
Tearing up the rulebook: legislation and new care models
Ben Collins reflects on the reintroduction of top-down control of the NHS and system-wide planning, despite legislation that aimed to establish a very different type of health system. How far can this go before the wheels fall off?
By Ben Collins - 23 August 2017
Great expectations: the changing nature of the public’s relationship with the NHS
What are the biggest issues and priorities for the NHS, and what do people expect from our health care system in the 21st century? As we start a new research project, Beth Adams reflects on the insights we’ve had so far.
By Beth Adams - 16 August 2017
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The Ultimate Decider: Democrats' Proportion Rule
Washington Matters
By Richard Sammon, Senior Associate Editor
If there's one word to describe the driver of this presidential race, it may not be race, gender, age, money, Iraq or economy. The most powerful word arguably is "proportional," referring to the Democratic Party rule on dividing delegates based on primary results, not awarding them on a winner-take-all basis. Candidates have lived and perished by it ...
Sure, this sounds technical, but sometimes a technical rule defines the entire race, the ultimate outcome and its impact on history.
The Democratic Party's rule on dividing delegate votes on a proportional basis is why Barack Obama is near to locking up the nomination. It's why Clinton has not been able to break his dominance in the delegate math. Even with her wins in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, the delegates are nearly evenly split between the two, making even small net gains difficult. The only way for her to close ground substantially has been to win with super-large margins, such as 70 to 30 or so. With two very good candidates after others bowed out, that's proven impossible. It's also the reason Obama has labored under criticism that he's not "closing the deal" even as he gets closer.
Had Democrats opted for a winner-take-all approach, such as Republicans have, Clinton would have sewn up the nomination awhile ago, racking up a huge margin from wins in New York, New Jersey, California and Texas.
Conversely, had Republicans followed a propotional rule, the GOP race might still be going on, with Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and what would probably be a financially strapped John McCain fighting to gain ground in what by now would be a bitterly divided Republican party.
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Best Deals in Online Banking, 2016
By Lisa Gerstner, Contributing Editor | September 28, 2016
Many customers are saying bye-bye to national and large regional banks. Among those who switched banks over the past year, more left the big banks than joined them, with the banks suffering a 15% loss in customers, according to a recent survey of consumers in the U.S. and Canada by consulting firm Accenture. Where are they going? Credit unions and community banks had a small bump in business, but online banks saw the biggest benefit, scooping up 11% more customers.
What's the attraction of internet banks? Because they don’t have the overhead costs that come with full-service branches, they tend to have lower fees and higher interest rates. Online banks are upping their customer-friendly features, too. Some have jumped on the mobile-wallet bandwagon; Ally Bank, Bank of Internet USA, Charles Schwab Bank and EverBank now offer debit cards with Apple Pay compatibility. Online banks often have kinder overdraft policies than those of traditional banks, too, with some letting you borrow from a line of credit for a low fee. And with mobile-deposit capability and refunds of ATM fees now common among the online banks, customers can do without tellers or a dedicated network of ATMs.
We've picked top accounts from online banks in a variety of categories. We also give honorable mention to runners-up in each category. Except where noted, the accounts don't charge monthly maintenance fees or require you to keep a minimum balance (though some ask for a minimum initial deposit). And all but one of the checking accounts include free bill-paying services, as well as mobile check deposit.
Interest rates are as of early August 2016
Best Deals in Online Banking, 2016 | Slide 2 of 9
High-Yield Checking
Screenshot/Thinkstock
Our pick: Redneck Rewards Checking
Interest rate: 1.5% on up to $10,000; 0.5% on the portion of your balance higher than $10,000
Minimum initial deposit: $50
ATM fees: Reimbursed up to $25 per month
Overdrafts: Free automatic transfers from a linked account or a $25 fee per item if the bank covers the overdraft.
Despite the unconventional name, this account from the internet division of All America Bank is the real deal. If you receive electronic statements and use your debit card to make at least 10 purchases a month, you’ll qualify for the maximum yield (otherwise you’ll earn 0.25%), as well as for reimbursement of fees that other institutions charge to use their ATMs, both in the U.S. and abroad. Because the bank’s network of ATMs is limited to Oklahoma, it charges 75 cents per ATM withdrawal at other ATMs. But that’s covered by the $25 monthly refund. Bill-paying is free up to 10 payments a month (then it’s 50 cents a payment).
HONORABLE MENTION: Bank of Internet USA Rewards Checking pays 1.25% interest if you have a monthly direct deposit of at least $1,000 and make 15 or more monthly debit card purchases of at least $3 each. Regardless of whether you meet those requirements, you’ll get unlimited reimbursement of surcharges for U.S. ATM withdrawals.
SEE ALSO: 7 Great Credit Unions Anyone Can Join
Hassle-Free Interest Checking
Our pick: Bank5 Connect High-Interest Checking
ATM fees: $15 reimbursed per statement cycle
Overdrafts: Free automatic transfers from a linked account or $15 per item
You earn a respectable interest rate with just one string attached: You must maintain a $100 balance. Enroll in the debit rewards program and you’ll also get one point per $2 spent on your debit card when you sign for transactions (rather than enter a PIN). You can use the points for vacation packages, gift cards and other items. Cash withdrawals are free from the thousands of ATMs in the SUM network. Bonus: Your entire checking account balance is protected if the bank fails, even if your account is larger than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage limit of $250,000 per depositor, because the bank is a member of a consortium of Massachusetts-based banks. The account is not available to residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which are home to the bank’s brick-and-mortar counterpart, Bank5.
HONORABLE MENTION: EverBank Yield Pledge Checking ($1,500 opening deposit) pays a bonus yield of 1.11% on up to $100,000 the first year the account is open, then pays from 0.25% to 0.61%, depending on your balance (you’ll need $100,000 on deposit to get the maximum yield). You’ll get unlimited ATM fee rebates if you keep at least $5,000 in the account. Capital One 360 Checking yields from 0.2% (on less than $50,000) to 0.9% (on $100,000 or more), and ATM withdrawals are free from about 40,000 machines in the AllPoint and Capital One networks.
Traveler-Friendly Checking
Our pick: Schwab Bank High Yield Investor Checking
Minimum initial deposit: None
ATM fees: Unlimited reimbursement
High yield is an exaggeration, but this account from Charles Schwab’s online bank has a lot of appeal—especially for travelers. Schwab refunds all ATM-withdrawal fees, both domestic and international, and you’ll pay no foreign-transaction fee when you make purchases outside the U.S. with your debit card. You must open a Schwab One brokerage account, too, but there’s no minimum initial deposit and you don’t have to pay maintenance fees.
HONORABLE MENTION: The Aspiration Summit checking account refunds all fees from ATMs worldwide, charges a reasonable 1.1% foreign-transaction fee for debit card purchases, and pays 1% interest on your entire balance if you have $2,500 or more in the account (0.25% on smaller balances). You have to sign up for an invitation to open an account (click on “Secure Your Spot” and enter your e-mail address). You should get the invitation in less than a week. Summit currently doesn’t offer bill-paying or remote check deposit.
SEE ALSO: 8 Best Ways to Earn More Interest on Your Savings
Hassle-Free Savings
Our picks: GS Bank Online Savings and Synchrony Bank High Yield Savings
Interest rate: 1.05% (both accounts)
We awarded a tie in this category. Goldman Sachs recently acquired GE Capital’s online savings business, but GS didn’t change the savings account’s best features: no minimum balance or deposit requirement, no fees for inactivity (helpful if you want to park your emergency fund in the account) and one of the highest yields available. Synchrony offers the same perks. If you need access to cash directly from savings, though, Synchrony is your better bet—it provides an ATM card upon request, with a $5 refund of ATM fees per statement cycle. (If you want to write checks, consider putting your savings in a money market deposit account, such as the one from Ally Bank.)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: At 1.06%, the yield on the SFGI Direct Savings Account is a hair higher than the yields of GS Bank or Synchrony, but you have to make a $500 deposit to open the account (and maintain a $1 balance to earn interest). The AloStar Bank of Commerce Savings Account yields 1.05% and requires $50 to open but has no ongoing minimum-balance requirement. It also comes with a debit card.
Savings Accounts for Big Balances
Our pick: Salem Five Direct eOne Savings
Interest rate: 1.1%
Earn 1.1% on balances up to $500,000—and get unlimited deposit insurance coverage. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insures up to $250,000 per depositor in case the bank fails, and an insurance fund sponsored by participating Massachusetts-based banks covers all balances above that. You’ll need to deposit $100 to open an account, but no minimum balance is required after that.
HONORABLE MENTION: The Incredible Bank Savings Account ($2,500 minimum deposit) yields 1.11% on balances of less than $250,000, but you’ll pay a $15 monthly maintenance fee if the balance falls below $2,500. You have to agree to get electronic statements to avoid a $5 fee for each paper statement. If the account is inactive for two years, the bank will begin issuing paper statements, triggering the $5 fee.
SEE ALSO: Savers Feel the Pain of Low Interest Rates
Our pick: Barclays Online CDs
Interest rate: 1.25% on a one-year CD; 1.75% on a five-year CD
Besides competitive rates, Barclays CDs have no minimum, and early-withdrawal penalties aren’t overly punitive—from 90 days’ interest on a one-year CD to 180 days’ interest on a five-year CD.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Synchrony Bank ($2,000 minimum deposit) pays 1.25% on a one-year CD and 1.8% on a five-year CD. Colorado Federal Savings Bank ($5,000 minimum deposit) pays 1.25% on a one-year CD and 2% on its five-year maturities.
Do-It-All Online Bank
Our pick: Ally Bank
Ally Bank has consistently offered a strong combination of minimal fees and solid yields on its accounts. The checking account reimburses up to $10 per statement cycle in ATM surcharges and yields 0.6% on balances of $15,000 or more (0.1% on smaller balances). For savings, you can choose a money market account (0.85% yield), which comes with a debit card and checks, or a savings account (1%). The bank’s CDs (one-year, 1.05%; five-year, starting at 1.65% with less than $5,000 deposited) require no minimum deposit, and early-withdrawal penalties are reasonable. Ally also offers the no-annual-fee CashBack credit card, which pays 2% back at gas stations and grocery stores and 1% on all other purchases.
HONORABLE MENTION: Discover Bank has a checking account that pays no interest, but you earn 10 cents each time you make a purchase with your debit card, pay a bill online or write a check (up to 100 transactions a month). Cash withdrawals are free at a network of more than 60,000 ATMs. Discover’s savings account yields 0.95%, and the money market deposit account ($2,500 minimum balance to avoid a $10 monthly fee) comes with a debit card and checks; it pays 0.8% on balances below $100,000 and 0.85% for higher balances. CDs require a $2,500 minimum.
SEE ALSO: Bank Accounts Paying Up to 4% Interest
Best Online Accounts From Brick-and-Mortar Banks
Some traditional banks and credit unions offer great accounts that you can manage online from anywhere in the country.
Michigan-based Northpointe Bank, for example, recently paid an almost unheard-of 5% yield on balances up to $5,000 in its Ultimate checking account, available nationally. To earn the rate, you must make at least 15 debit card purchases totaling $500 or more a month, receive electronic statements, and set up a monthly direct deposit or automatic withdrawal of $100 or more. Fees that other institutions charge you to use their ATMs are reimbursed up to $10 monthly. The Free Rewards Checking account from Illinois-based Consumers Credit Union yields 4.59% on up to $20,000 if you meet similar requirements, plus spend $1,000 or more monthly on a CCU credit card. All ATM surcharges are refunded. (Join the credit union by paying a onetime, $5 fee to the Consumers Cooperative Association.)
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Active shooter simulation training, references Kirkland school
Friday, May 20, 2016 11:52 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
NORCOM's 911 call center will be running an active shooter simulation training on May 23 starting at 11 p.m. and will run for approximately two hours. The simulation will be broadcast on police radio on a training frequency. The simulated training will reference a school in Kirkland.
The simulation training will broadcast pre-recorded sound effects over the radio including gunfire, children screaming and multiple sirens. During the simulation, NORCOM's 911 dispatchers will be tested on their ability to handle a large scale, emotionally charged event. The high risk, low frequency scenario-based simulation is part of NORCOM's police radio training.
"It is our hope that no one, in their dispatch career, should ever have to use these skills," said Jami Hoppen, NORCOM's training coordinator. "However, as part of our ongoing training program, our call center runs through crisis simulation exercises to look for any weaknesses and identify the strengths of our personnel and practices."
NORCOM operates in downtown Bellevue and provides 911 emergency call receiving and dispatch services covering 625 square miles.
NORCOM dispatches for five police agencies: Bellevue, Clyde Hill, Kirkland, Medina and Mercer Island. NORCOM dispatches for fourteen fire and EMS agencies: Bellevue, Bothell, Duvall Fire District No. 45, Eastside Fire and Rescue, Fall City Fire District No. 27, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Northshore, Redmond, Shoreline, Skykomish Fire District No. 50, City of Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass and Woodinville.
Reposed from Kirkland Reporter: http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/379672461.html?utm_source=Kirkland+Reporter&utm_campaign=79cede6f6c-Newsletter_Daily_Update_Monday_PM&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_23f1c59371-79cede6f6c-228489445#
Cascadia Rising 2016
Sunday, November 01, 2015 10:11 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
The Kirkland Office of Emergency Management is hard at work planning for Cascadia Rising 2016, a full-scale functional exercise taking place over four days, June 7-10, 2016.
CERTs will be incorporated in a variety of ways. Click here for more information.
Ham Radio License Class Starting Soon
Tuesday, September 08, 2015 11:44 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
West Seattle Amateur Radio Club is offering a ham radio license class in South-West Seattle November 6, 7 and 8 2015. This class is for the Technician License, the introductory level of licensing in amateur radio. We are using a conference room of Beckwith and Kuffel Inc., at 1313 S 96th St, Seattle , WA 98108. Class will be 5pm to 9pm Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday and will conclude with a testing session.
Contact the club President, Ken, AB7X at 206 933-0459 or ab7x@westseattlearc.org for more information or to signup.
School Emergency Planning
Friday, September 04, 2015 4:13 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
reposted from FEMA Individual & Community eBrief, August 14, 2015
Are you a parent or caregiver of a school-aged child? Disasters can strike at any time, even during school hours. As a new school year begins, it’s important for you to know how your child’s school handles emergencies.The Ready Campaign suggests asking the following questions about your child's school emergency plan:
How does the school plan on communicating with you in the event of a disaster?
Does the school store adequate water, food and other basic supplies?
Does the school have a plan for students to shelter in place?
If not, where will students go if they must evacuate?
You can never be too informed when it comes to school safety plans. Popular preparedness blogger, The Survival Mom, lists other questions you might want to ask, so be sure to check out her blog.
If your child’s school doesn’t have an emergency plan, consider volunteering to help create one. Parents and caregivers will be better prepared to safely reunite with their child if plans are made ahead of time.
“Don’t Wait. Communicate. Make Your Emergency Plan Today.” Get ready for National Preparedness Month in September. Making and testing your plan is also one of the 10 Ways to Participate in America’s PrepareAthon!
Lessons Learned from the Chelan Firestorm
Monday, August 17, 2015 4:23 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
by Janet Merriam, Kirkland CERT Team Member: Finn Hill
On Friday morning 8/14/15, my husband and I headed to our second home in Manson, WA to enjoy a quiet weekend. We knew that there had been lightning strikes on the ridges earlier that morning, but it was only when we neared Chelan that we realized how quickly the fires had spread and that sections of the town were being evacuated.
We made it to our home on the south shore without incident and watched throughout the afternoon as the First Creek fire across the lake from us grew from a few puffs of smoke to a major event. By early evening, homes started burning. We watched from the deck in horrified fascination as several went up in flames. We lost our power, internet connection and ability to make phone calls.
We thought about leaving but were asked to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles. Several times during the night we got up to check on conditions and watch more homes burn. In the morning, the highways reopened so we loaded all the fridge & freezer stuff into coolers and headed back to Kenmore. My CERT training served me well, but I could have prepared better. Here are my lessons learned.
The good things:
Emphasis was definitely on safety first. We continually assessed this and were never in any personal danger.
We had adequate supplies (food and water) to shelter in place for a reasonably long period of time.
I knew that the best source of info on-line was the Chelan County Emergency Management Facebook page.
Areas to improve:
Once power and internet died, our only source of information was a battery-operated AM/FM radio. I wished I had my weather band radio with me.
We had only the propane-fueled barbeque grill to heat water and cook with. We will be taking a camp stove over.
We had no ability to recharge our devices; texts were occasionally going through but then our phones died. Needed to have a crank or battery operated charger with us.
We need an evacuation plan in place. Our Manson home is surrounded by irrigated orchards and has a fire hydrant right across the street, but this experience emphasizes that the unexpected can happen.
We had water, but needed to be judicious as we weren't sure how much the drainage holding tank next to our house could hold until it overflowed. Need to have that info in advance, also need a water filter for long-term shelter in place.
And finally... a cup of hot coffee was a great comfort in the morning. We fortunately had some good Via instant coffee available. Need more!
The emotional impact of watching houses burn down and dealing with clouds of smoke is huge. Although we were safe, it felt like the apocalypse.
Sometimes, there is nothing you can do. We wanted so much to help, but could only watch. We kept busy with little chores.
Hope this is helpful to other CERTS.
Kirkland Police Explorers host Benefit Car Show to raise funds for training
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 3:12 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
KIRKLAND, Wash. – The Kirkland Police Explorer Program is a unique volunteer program for youth to explore the field of law enforcement through training, community relations, volunteering and competition. To help support the costs of training, the Kirkland Explorer Program is hosting its first Benefit Car Show on Saturday, September 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kirkland Justice Center/Police Department. The event is free to the public. To register your antique, classic, futuristic, or “sweet ride,” contact Patricia Ball, Kirkland Police Department, at 425-587-3408 or pball@kirklandwa.gov by September 1, 2015. A nominal registration fee is required.
The Kirkland Police Explorer Program involves young men and women ages 14 or 15 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years old. Applicants are typically those who are interested in a career in the law enforcement field, appreciate a Para-military type structure, or just have a general interest in the services that law enforcement officers provide on a daily basis. The Explorer program’s purpose is to provide experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults. Training and practical demonstrations such as: defensive tactics; physical agility; domestic/family violence; criminal investigations; traffic enforcement; collision investigations; search & seizure; firearms training; bomb squad; SRT/SWAT; crisis negotiations; and crime prevention. Persons interested in the program can contact Detective Deana Lansing atdlansing@kirklandwa.gov. To learn more about the program, go to www.kirklandwa.gov/police.
Kirkland Police looking for crisis intervention volunteers
Saturday, August 01, 2015 8:51 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
KIRKLAND, Wash. – DART, the Kirkland Police Department’s Domestic Abuse Response Team, is seeking volunteers to provide crisis intervention and support to victims of domestic violence. Volunteer duties include helping the Family/Youth Advocate with follow-up phone calls to victims, assisting victims brought to the police station after a domestic violence incident and occasionally aiding officers, on-scene, to provide immediate support.
There will be a 20-hour, free training required to become a DART volunteer. Training will cover providing emotional support, the dynamics of domestic violence, safety planning, the criminal justice system and referring community support services. The training is scheduled to begin in early October 2015 and the application deadline is August 27, 2015.
Volunteers are needed for weekday and weekend evenings and must commit to one shift plus one meeting per month, for a minimum of one year. To be considered, volunteers must pass an application, interview, background check and screening, including a C.V.S.A (similar to a polygraph).
For more information, or to begin the volunteer registration and screening process, please contact Patrick Tefft, Volunteer Services Coordinator at 425-587-3012 or ptefft@kirklandwa.gov.
New Yorker Earthquake Article Goes Viral - thousands read about "The Really Big One"
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Hi, everyone! Jen Mahan here. Today I want to share my thoughts on the article that has taken social media by storm - The New Yorker article "The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when", by Kathryn Schulz.
In case you haven't read it, here's a link: The New Yorker article
I encourage you to take a few minutes and read it. As CERTs, we have trained to help ourselves, our families, and our neighbors in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic disaster. But are we prepared for the hardships we'll face in the weeks, months, and years following such an event?
The article touches on the difference in Japan's preparedness levels versus ours. What can we do to build a culture of readiness in our families, communities, and workplaces?
Share your ideas with me and I'll include them in the August newsletter. Email your idea, along with your name and neighborhood to cert@kirklandwa.gov.
PSE customers encouraged to be energy efficient as temperatures soar this summer
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:33 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
The following is a release from Puget Sound Energy:
Puget Sound Energy is encouraging its more than 1.1 million electric customers to be even more energy conscious when temperatures jump into the 90s this summer.
PSE’s electric infrastructure is performing well, and our generating facilities have the capacity to meet the needs of our customers. While excessive heat puts extra demands on the power grid, the region uses more energy on cold winter days than we will during this heat wave.
Over the years, PSE has been seeing more power consumption during the summertime as customers add some form of air conditioning in their homes; it’s estimated about 11 percent of our residential electric customers currently have AC. Because of that growth, energy conservation is even more important this summer. PSE plans for peak customer usage by constantly monitoring the health of the system and investing in infrastructure projects to keep the system redundant and reliable.
PSE’s one-hour summer record for power usage was set back on July 27, 2009. As temperatures reached into the 100s, 3,430 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity was used between 7-8 p.m. By comparison, PSE customers’ all-time, one-hour high for power usage was 4,906 MWh set on Dec. 15, 2008 during a major cold weather event.
Here is what customers can do to save energy:
• Set thermostats as high as comfortably possible. For those with central air or air conditioning, PSE recommends no lower than 75 degrees. That might seem on the warm side, but customers can save up to 5 percent on their electric bill by taking that simple step.
• Invest in a programmable thermostat that will automatically adjust the indoor temperature while away.
• Use fans to help circulate the air. Remember that ceiling fans cool residents, not the room, so make sure to turn off the fan when leaving the room.
• Make sure to close window blinds and curtains to block direct sunlight. In the evening, open windows for cross ventilation.
• Switch out any conventional light bulbs with LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs, which produce 70 percent less heat.
• Run appliances – such as dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers – at night. A hot dishwasher sends heat throughout the house; run only on full loads and use the ‘no heat’ option for the drying cycle.
• Consider cooking a later dinner or grilling outside to prevent any additional heat buildup.
Governor issues emergency proclamation to prepare for extreme wildfire risk; DNR expands burn ban to prohibit fires and campfires on state lands, parks and forests
Saturday, June 27, 2015 6:51 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Web Link:http://mil.wa.gov/blog/news/post/governor-issues-emergency-proclamation-to-prepare-for-extreme-wildfire-risk
Reposting from Washington Military Department
OLYMPIA – With extraordinary heat and drought conditions across the state — and forecasts for more of the same — Governor Jay Inslee and Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark are taking steps to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Inslee today issued an emergency proclamation for all 39 counties, activating critical resources needed to prevent and contain expected wildfires. The emergency proclamation gives the Washington State Department of Natural Resources the ability to call on the resources of the National Guard and the State Guard on short notice to assist in responding to wildfires.
“The fire danger now is unlike any we’ve seen in a long time, if ever,” Gov. Inslee said. “We need to be prepared for the possibility of an unprecedented fire season.”
The declaration comes early this year in an effort to have firefighting resources ready to quickly mobilize and stamp out fire starts before they expand to larger wildfires. The order also empowers the Washington State Emergency Operations Center at Camp Murray to coordinate all incident-related assistance to the affected areas.
Last week, about 125 new Washington National Guard members received firefighting training in Yakima. Last year, more than 850 Guard members helped fight wildfires.
In addition, Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark has banned all outdoor fires on Washington State Department of Natural Resources-protected lands. The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission is likewise banning all campfires at state parks and on the ocean beaches Seashore Conservation Area.
This new burn ban, which supersedes DNR’s June 22 statewide burn ban, prohibits campfires in state forests, state parks and anywhere else on the 13 million acres of Washington forestlands DNR protects from wildfire. It will be valid from today until September 30.
“The weather forecasts are pointing to a dangerous weekend, with an ominous fire-weather pattern that shows hot temperatures, low humidity and high potential for lightning and gusty winds,” said Goldmark.
“Our forests and grasslands are so dry that once a fire starts, it will be more difficult to suppress. We need to take all precautionary steps possible, and residents should do whatever they can to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires,” said Goldmark.
The expanded statewide ban prohibits all fires, including wood and charcoal fires in designated campground fire pits or campfire rings. Gas and propane cook stoves are allowed. Fireworks and incendiary devices, such as exploding targets, sky lanterns, or tracer ammunition, are always illegal on all DNR-protected forestlands, including state parks.
The DNR burn ban does not cover federal lands such as national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges or other areas administered by federal agencies. It also does not cover county and municipal parks. Visitors to national, county and city parks should contact the park for specific restrictions on campfires.
The Governor and Commissioner are also urging people to limit their use of fireworks, or forgo fireworks completely.
“Fireworks, while often part of our Fourth of July celebration, pose an increased risk with the extremely dry conditions we’re experiencing this year,” Gov. Inslee said. “We’re strongly urging people to not use them this year and celebrate in a different way.”
Residents are encouraged to contact their local officials to determine whether any city or county ordinances are in place that prohibit the use of fireworks.
DNR fire and forest health experts believe some of the uptick in the number of earlier fires is due to years of persistent drought on the east side of the Cascades, which have weakened forests and made them more susceptible to insects and disease. Ailing forests become flammable “tinder bombs” ready to ignite from a human-caused spark or lightning strike.
Over recent years, the state wildfire season has begun earlier and with greater intensity. As of June 23, there have been 313 wildfires across the state. In 2014, by this date, there were 214 wildfires; in 2013 there were 169; in 2012 there were 155; and in 2011 there were 55 wildfires by this date.
DNR is awaiting legislative action on requests for $4.5 million for additional firefighting teams and equipment and $20 million to improve the health of drought-ravaged, flammable forests.
Last year’s fire season was the biggest on record in Washington, with the largest state fire ever — the Carlton Complex — destroying more than 250,000 acres. More than 1 million acres of Washington’s landscape has been consumed by wildfire since 2009.
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TRIPLE BILL: Hiba Alansari + Mayer Alexane & Hoor Malas + Waël Ali & Chrystèle Kodr
Crazy But True (8+)
Children have an insatiable hunger for unusual facts and trivia of the ‘crazy but true’ type. In the performance, children between the ages of eight and eleven form a panel of experts. A text is whispered to them via headsets. They repeat what they hear, and thus present a growing list of extraordinary facts.
Michiel Vandevelde & fABULEUS
July 1968. The legendary Paradise Now by The Living Theatre premieres at the Festival d’Avignon. The actors attempted to unleash a revolution by getting the audience into a state of readiness. Half a century later, Michiel Vandevelde is exploring the vestiges of the legacy of May ’68. Will new future perspectives open up when thirteen young people survey a half century of history in a wild choreography of iconic images?
La Piscine is a collective project that gathers different artistic practices and works addressed to a single spectator. Going from a walk with the eyes closed, to a conversation, to a bath, a single spectator and one of the artists will tune to each other to draw a singular path into Les Bains du Centre – at the heart of the Marolles.
In the performance Crazy But True, children between the ages of eight and eleven form a panel of experts. A text is whispered to them via headsets. They repeat what they hear, and thus present a growing list of extraordinary facts.
Tania El Khoury
Gardens Speak
Numerous Syrian gardens cover the bodies of demonstrators who took to the streets during the civil war. Gardens Speak shares the oral history of ten of these people, in the form of an interactive sound installation. Each story is carefully told in consultation with their family and friends.
Sirine Fattouh
Une histoire du Liban
Sirine Fattouh guides you through a piece of Lebanese history based on a personal selection of artworks. She hereby focuses on three specific moments: the end of the civil war in the late nineties, the assassination of the former prime minister in 2005, and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 2006.
Rachida Aziz
The Price of the Ticket
dance music film spoken word
Brussels has always been a city that embraced exiles.The Price of the Ticket continues this tradition. The Fashion designer and activist Rachida Aziz is now inviting a new generation of refugees on stage. Expect an evening of music, dance, poetry and video.
Robert Cantarella
Faire le Gilles
Robert Cantarella has been ‘doing a Gilles’ for several years now. Which means that he has been giving new voice to the renowned lectures the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave in the 1980s, including the correct intonation, rhythm, hesitations and incoherence of the spoken word.
#rethink
Baisse-toi montagne, lève-toi vallon
PERFORMATIK 2015 - The French-German artist Ulla von Brandenburg presents her first major theatre performance, a piece sung by five actors and the Brussels Brecht-Eisler Chorus, a sort of ‘re-enactment’ of the celebrations of the Saint-Simonists in Paris between 1832 and 1835.
Auranne Leray / Kurt Deruyter + Johan Reyniers
Verhalenmachine / La machine à raconter
performance installation
Folk tales, fairy tales and legends are recounted beneath the wings of an amazing bicycle - an intimate space in the middle of a crowded, busy city.
Isabelle Dumont
Hortus Minor
Burning Ice - Following her splendid Animalia during Burning Ice #6, we are inviting the Brussels theatre-maker Isabelle Dumont once again, this time with her new production Hortus Minor. With words, music and a superb collection of 'rarities', she tells the story of our relationship with plants.
BXL NORD
In the North quarter of Brussels, in the shadow of the ‘Manhattan’ towers, migrants, local residents and chance passers-by cross each other’s paths. Said, a new inhabitant of Brussels who lives in this neighbourhood, dreams of setting up an independent ambulance service. A social fiction film by Globe Aroma, made together with residents and visitors to North Brussels, directed by Jan Geers and Jamal Boukhriss.
Vinciane Despret + Didier Demorcy
Que diraient les animaux si…? + video/installation
talk film installation
The philosopher Vinciane Despret asks 26 intriguing and pertinent questions about what animals do, want and ‘think’. This yields marvellous and sometimes hilarious stories, told by scientists, animal-tamers, zookeepers, etc. Stories that make us think. We are screening two short documentaries made in 2005 by film-maker and activist Didier Demorcy, to which Vinciane Despret also contributed, one on sheep, one on wolves.
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Federico León
Yo en el Futuro (Me in the Future)
Tue 19.05 - Fri 22.05.09
The Argentine actor, writer, stage director and film-maker Federico León has assembled three trios, each comprising two women and a man, of 70, 30 and 10 years old, nine actors, in other words, and a dog. The children and the thirty-year-olds re-enact the seventy-year-olds’ childhood and youth.
Shiro Maeda
Suteru Tabi
Thu 14.05 - Wed 20.05.09
In Japanese, suteru means “rid oneself of” and tabi “journey” or “occasion”. Suteru Tabi is the moving story of a young man who is trying to cope with the death of his father. Out of the loss and mourning he becomes stronger and succeeds in taking responsibility for his life. With just four chairs and a handful of props, the Japanese author and director Shiro Maeda creates a performance rich in imagery that combines poetry with humour, magic and realism.
Tristero / Transquinquennal
Two Brussels-based collectives – the Dutch-speaking Tristero and the French-speaking Transquinquennal – have decided to work together. Both partners in this exceptional coalition have a reputation for seeking out unknown and/or contemporary pieces. In Coalition they take a closer look at events which need not have happened and might not have happened, but which did happen: from the most banal traffic accidents to major disasters involving thousands of deaths. In other words: things could have turned out differently.
Abattoir Fermé
Snuff (Index 1)
Over the last few years, the Mechelen collective Abattoir Fermé has built up a strong repertoire that swings between dream, hallucination and nightmare. Snuff (Index 1) is the company’s first production for the large stage. It premieres at the Kaaitheater.
Brandhout / Een irritatie
In the 80s Thomas Bernhard wrote three novels on the arts: Der Untergeher, about the pianist Glenn Gould, Alte Meister, about painting, and Holzfällen, about theatre. Twelve years ago STAN adapted the second part of this trilogy. Damiaan De Schrijver and Jolente De Keersmaeker have now created an adaptation of part three.
Dominique Pauwels, Pieter de Buysser & Inne Goris / LOD
Judaspassie
theatre music
Apart from the ‘official’ gospels there is also a gospel according to Judas. In it Judas relates his version of the facts: he did not ‘betray’ Jesus. In the Judas Passion by the composer Dominique Pauwels and the writer Pieter de Buysser Judas tells his story from a modern perspective. An apology of the weakness of human nature.
Josse De Pauw / Toneelhuis
De versie Claus
It was while working on De versie Claus that the writer Mark Schaevers and theatre-maker Josse De Pauw were caught unawares by the news that Hugo Claus had chosen to have his life brought to an end. Their ‘Claus version’, intended as a tribute, now became a memorial for the master of Flemish literature.
Apart from two permanent members, Natali Broods, Robby Cleiren, Tine Embrechts and Nico Sturm will join in the creation and performance of STUKKEN which will have its opening performance in Kaaitheater. The material of the performance is provided by the writers Saskia De Coster, Patricia De Martelaere, Tom Lanoye, Bart Moeyaert, Yves Petry and Annelies Verbeke.
A lone performer takes to the stage, explaining that the show we’re watching is somehow different tonight. The atmosphere is different, his entrance was off, the lights are wrong, the tone is all wrong. Spectacular is about the trembling edge of laughter, possibility and invention. Simple, absurd and comical, this provocative new show from Forced Entertainment promises to add to their already remarkable body of work.
Linoleum / speed
Sat 28.02 - Wed 04.03.09
New performance by Abke Haring, in association with poet and theatre-maker Bart Meuleman. Sound (Senjan Jansen) and image (the artist Jean Bernard Koeman) play an interactive role.
Rodrigo Garcia / La Carnicería Teatro
Aproximacion a la idea de desconfianza
Three actors perform simple ritualistic acts in silence using elementary materials: water, earth, milk and honey. A text is projected onto the back wall of the stage; it is an analysis of the consumer society, alternately accusatory and self-critical. The Madrid based Argentinian Rodrigo Garcia makes highly physical and provocative theatre. This piece is more contemplative, a transcript of his baroque language.
In late November, Rodrigo Garcia was awarded the Prix Europe Nouvelles Réalités Théâtrales. There were five winners, including Guy Cassiers.
Stef Lernous / Abattoir Fermé & Daan Janssens / LOD
theatre music performance
Stef Lernous, director with Abattoir Fermé, and the young composer Daan Janssens have been working with two young singers and two musicians on a study project based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The atmosphere is one of chaos, gloom, madness and ancient gods. Lovecraft is one of the ‘grandparents’ of modern science fiction and horror. His writing presented the prospect of a horrible world for mankind.
Diederik Peeters
THRILLER...
In his new piece, called THRILLER..., Diederik Peeters examines the dramatic and narrative qualities of space and the extent to which the context of an action influences our perception of it. What happens when the action remains the same but the environment changes? When the environment starts to manipulate us and steers the story?
Jan Decorte/Bloet, Comp.Marius & Kaaitheater
Wintervögelchen
Inspired by Shakespeare and Hölderlin, Jan Decorte has created a cheery performance about power, jealousy, despair, love and a little bird. He is supported by his faithful henchmen Sigrid Vinks, Johan Daenen (set design), Sofie D’Hoore (costumes) and Luc Schaltin (lighting), and his actor friends Waas Gramser, Kris Van Trier and Herwig Ilegems.
Dood Paard & Maatschappij Discordia
Mannetje met de lange lul
Philosophy and art run away with each other in this piece by Kuno Bakker and Jorn Heijdenrijk. They drew their inspiration from the frivolous and controversial ideas on freedom and happiness propagated by the 18th-century philosopher Julien Offray de la Mettrie. Mannetje met de lange lul (Little Chap with the Big Prick) is about freedom of thought and action, both on and off stage.
Superamas
Empire (Art & Politics)
Superamas opened the Kaaitheater season with their fantastic BIG 3 (Happy/End). Their theatre is both light and complex. Full of delights and seduction, with an underlying critique of the media, society and politics. Empire (Art & Politics) criticises ‘the State’, how it is established, how it works and makes propaganda, uses violence, patronises terrorism, satisfies its hunger for power, handles foreigners, reproduces itself and, ultimately, dies.
21 C / Retool Earth #2 - "Over/Vol(k)"
Artists, thinkers, doers and students on the future. Subsequent dates: 22 January, 5 March and during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in May.
Tim Etchells / Jim Fletcher
Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first
Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first is a free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic as it outlines a broad picture of the world. Comical in its naiveté and preposterously encyclopaedic in its ambitions, it explores the absurdities and horror of the human brain, which wants to understand everything.
blijf / weg
Frank Vercruyssen and Tine Embrechts are working on a play based a.o. on the short story Plumes de bécasse by the Greek writer Thanassis Valtinos. This novella tells the story of a married couple. She wants a divorce, but he does not. She is quite insufferable, he possibly even more so. The title (stay / away) perfectly captures the atmosphere of their conversations, which is anything but peaceful!
Tristero
Since the opening performance at our Comedy Festival in 2004, Tristero has presented no less than five sold-out series of Abigail’s Party, a bittersweet comedy by the filmmaker and playwright Mike Leigh. In Living, the characters from Abigail’s Party meet again. However, whereas in Abigail’s Party they are narrow-minded conformists who can never be themselves, in Living they are given the opportunity to be just this. What is the story behind their façades? For the first time Tristero is creating a performance without words.
Random Scream / Davis Freeman
WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL - A dark, disturbing black comedy musical by Stephen Sondheim about the presidential assassinations in the US and the reverse side of the American Dream. It was staged when Bush Sr. went to war in Iraq and was denounced as unpatriotic.
NTGent / Peter Verhelst & LOD / Dominique Pauwels
LEX resembles a feverish dream or an oracle. The person speaking is a man whose being we cannot immediately identify. Is this God in his true guise? A god born of words and images? Or is this man an Idol? A divine figure? Verhelst’s inspiration was Alexander the Great. The script contains passages from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Joyce’s Ulysses and the collected works of Shakespeare.
Maison Dahl Bonnema & Needcompany
The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny
In The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny – a pop opera, Anna Sophia Bonnema and Hans Petter Dahl continue their quest for the ideal combination of stage play and concert. The show premiered in the Kaaistudio’s, in October 2007, and was nominated for the Theaterfestival 08.
Guy Cassiers / Toneelhuis
Triptiek van de macht - part 3. Atropa. De wraak van de vrede centres on the Trojan War. The Greek general Agamemnon is confronted with the victims of his decisions. This involved Tom Lanoye rewriting several Greek tragedies. Here, as in his other plays, Guy Cassiers is a subtle master at combining the written word, image and acting.
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Ends of worlds
How can we say something about the future through the lens of the past? Michiel Vandevelde examines the recent history of western modern and contemporary dance, from Isadora Duncan to Anna Halprin. In five speculative acts about the past from the future, the present is inevitably reflected upon. This way, choreography becomes a form of science-fiction.
#brusselsdance
Jan Vromman
Het museum van het lokale en het universele
Jan Vromman focuses on the uncertainty of humans – and artists – about their role in this existence. In this respect, we all seem like poets with an alphabet, searching for a language that might generate meaning. Vromman’s lecture highlights texts that seek to express this train of thought. He combines this with footage from his extensive archive.
Bryana Fritz
Submission submission
Bryana Fritz takes the position of an amateur hagiographer. In four different portraits, she makes a performative collage based on female medieval saints and the modes by which they subverted their enclosed and restricted lives, deaths and passions. Submitting her physical and digital body to holy echoes from the past, she dissects and harnesses the tools that give body.
Els Dietvorst, Dirk Roofthooft & Aurelie Di Marino
MEMENTO MORI! !IROM OTNEMEM
In MEMENTO MORI!, documentary filmmaker and visual artist Els Dietvorst brings two solos together. The first is performed by Dirk Roofthooft, one of Flanders’ most iconic actors, the second is performed by the Brussels-based actress Aurelie Di Marino. You can expect a theatre evening about fragility and transience, but also about universal themes like individualization, globalization, the relationship between humanity and nature, and migration.
Boyzie Cekwana & Danya Hammoud
[CANCELLED] Bootlegged
Unfortunately, we have to cancel both shows due to health issues of one of the dancers.
In the American Midwest in the 1880s, white people hid illegal alcohol in their boots when they traded with Native Americans – an effective strategy to neutralize rebellious Native Americans through drunkenness. ‘Bootlegging’ was born. Now we are presenting Bootlegged: an encounter between Boyzie Cekwana and Danya Hammoud: two bodies, two stories, and two histories.
Pepe Elmas Naswa
Dans la peau de l’autre
August 2016, a spring fair somewhere in Kinshasa. The young choreographer Pepe Elmas Naswa is watching an impressive snake dance, performed by a group of street kids and gang members. Afterwards, he convinces the kids to teach a group of contemporary dancers the snake dance during a workshop. This was when Dans la peau de l’autre was born.
Ictus & Julie Pfleiderer
SAFE begins as a concert and then evolves into a sophisticated audio play. Based on Todd Haynes’ film Safe (1995) – in which a woman suffers increasingly intense allergic reactions – Ictus and Julie Pfleiderer sketch a picture of contemporary hypersensitivity. Join an immersive journey that will stimulate all your senses!
Jan Decorte & Sigrid Vinks / Bloet
Hamlet 0.2
With the help of the youngest generation of theatre performers, Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks explore Hamlet in depth. By recycling all the different versions, they create a new Hamletmachine, but this is one for the 21st century. Using fragments and scraps of texts from the past, Decorte redefines the primal conflicts of human existence.
Thierry De Mey
SIMPLEXITY
Thierry De Mey has been exploring the grey area between dance and music for more than 30 years. He has composed music for dance performances, directed films about dance, and constructed choreographic multimedia installations. In 2016, for the first time, he has created a dance performance for the big stage, in collaboration with Ensemble intercontemporain, the legendary Paris music ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez.
The night of the moles
Fri 06.05 - Mon 09.05.16
Welcome to Caveland! is set in an allegorical world populated by fantasy animals, giant moles and figures from the underworld. The cave dwellers travel from city to city like a circus to present their ‘ecosophical’ tale in theatres and at festivals.
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Ebright said playing high-profile games in high-profile locations are part of the process toward getting back to Eck Stadium.
“No matter what, you have jitters before the game when you’re playing at a stadium like this,” senior outfielder Reece Flax said. “So it was a really good opportunity to get out there and play in this atmosphere, especially against someone like Kapaun.
“This is our last shot at getting it done, so it makes you want it that much more.”
Carroll’s strength will be on the mound this season. Returning four major contributors, the Golden Eagles are already off to a 6-0 start and haven’t given up more than three runs. Thursday night, it was sophomore Jorey Faber and senior Carsen Pracht.
They combined for just 85 pitches in five innings in the Holy War victory. And the scariest part for the rest of the Wichita area and Kansas: Carroll’s ace hasn’t even taken the mound this season.
One of last year’s All-Metro selections, Brady Bockover posted a 0.59 ERA last season with a 5-1 record in 35 1/3 innings. Bockover will return in a couple of weeks from a rib injury he suffered at this year’s state wrestling tournament.
Ebright said with Bockover out, some of his younger, less experienced arms are getting a go before they will be needed come postseason.
“Jorey started the state semifinal last year and didn’t make it through,” Ebright said. “He wanted to get back out here. He gave up a two-spot but then came back and put up a zero, so that’s huge for him.”
The Golden Eagles’ defense will be their calling card in 2019, but the bats will have to come through, too. Carroll must replace its most clutch performer, RJ Lara, who came through with a walk-off hit over Valley Center in the Eagles’ regional championship.
Ebright said that will come down to the seniors. Carroll enters 2019 with 13 seniors on the varsity roster. Experienced players like Pracht, shortstop Jesse Peoples, and outfielders Mason Baalman, Cale Blasi and Flax will be the leaders on and off the diamond.
“I challenged Reece Flax last year,” Ebright said. “I said, ‘I need you to step up and be my three-hole guy,’ and he said, ‘Coach, I will.’ And so far, he has been tearing it up.”
Flax said the seniors are up for the challenge. They remember how last year’s ending felt and were eager to make a statement back where it happened.
Pracht has been part of plenty of state championship runs, including Carroll’s first boys basketball title in school history. He said he and the Eagles are ready for another.
“The biggest thing is chemistry,” Pracht said. “We have each other’s back and know that if one of us messes up, we’re there to pick each other up. This team has probably the best chemistry that I’ve been on. Last year’s basketball was good, but this team - I’ve known these guys a long, long time.”
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In their world, pleasure takes many forms. A Chanku disgraced, a woman in peril and a man who will change all of their lives forever.
Enter the world of Chanku.
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Part I: Deception
She really needed to get the ceiling patched. Shannon Murphy stared at the ugly crack running from one corner of her bedroom to the light fixture in the middle, paying only vague attention to the man diligently licking between her legs.
His short, coarse hair irritated her inner thighs. He had a death grip on her buttocks that would surely leave bruises, and while he slurped and licked her pussy with enthusiasm, his tongue managed to miss her clitoris completely.
Shannon tilted her hips, hoping Robert would take the hint and lick where it counted.
That doesn't sound right. Robert? Richard?
Shit. She couldn't remember his name.
Whoever, he missed his cue. His tongue stabbed her pussy, then he sucked her labia between his lips. His slurping grew louder and his fingers tightened on her butt.
Bruises. Definitely bruises.
The ceiling caught Shannon's attention again. Maybe she could talk the landlord into new paint? A different color? That would be nice. Change was good, wasn't it?
Not always. She really thought she'd been ready for a change when Tia Mason moved out, but Shannon missed her friend. Badly. She glanced at the clock. Tia would have brought her to climax at least a couple times by now. Yeah, Shannon definitely missed Tia.
What a strange phone call from Tia this afternoon! So unlike her. Tia hadn't made much sense, other than to scare the crap out of her, but Tia seemed to think Shannon might be in some kind of danger. Enough danger that a new acquaintance of Tia's was on his way to Boston to protect her, a man who worked for Tia's father, Ulrich Mason.
Robert or Richard or whoever the hell he was crawled up Shannon's body and slobbered on first one breast, then the other. Shannon's nipples didn't respond, even though he sucked and licked the flat, soft circles. Then he rammed his hard little latex-covered dick between her legs.
Dick! That's it! He calls his cock Big Dick...and he's... Richard!
Shannon sighed with relief over the remembered name and lifted her hips, searching in vain for more penetration. There certainly wasn't anything remotely big about the little pecker banging around inside her totally unaroused pussy. She wished he'd hurry up and finish.
He grunted like a pig, slamming his pelvis against her mound with each thrust. Shannon thought about faking an O, but she had to draw the line somewhere.
Suddenly Richard's body stiffened. He squealed.
How the hell had she managed to bring home a guy who squealed?
Depression settled over Shannon, along with the full weight of the man who hadn't turned her on enough to leave her wanting. She shoved his inert body aside and crawled out of bed.
A stray thought flitted through her mind. She wondered about the guy headed to Boston and her apartment at this very moment. Hopefully he was younger than Tia's dad...young and sexy and very good looking...and really good between the sheets. Shannon glanced at the man in her bed and shuddered.
"I'm going to take a shower. I'd really appreciate it if you'd let yourself out before I'm through."
Richard lifted his head and stared at her, obviously not comprehending.
Shannon shoved her tangled hair back from her face. "This was a mistake, Richard. Take Big Dick and go home. Don't come back. I'm sorry." She turned and walked into the bathroom, still muttering to herself. "Really, really, really sorry."
Jacob Trent glanced at the piece of paper in his hand and shoved it back in his pocket. He'd thought about renting a car at Logan Airport, but the broad's address was in Boston's North End, land of no parking, so he looked for a cab instead.
Let Luc Stone pick up the tab, along with the rest of the expenses, since the trip was obviously Luc's idea. Right about now, Jake figured his buddy Lucien would do anything to keep Jake's sorry ass away from Tia, the pack's only bitch...and Luc's mate.
Jake wished he could blame Luc for what was, without a doubt, the biggest fuck-up Jake had ever engineered in his life. He'd been stewing about it all the way from San Francisco to Boston, wondering exactly why he'd been chosen for this assignment. He'd rather have gotten the details from Luc, not AJ. If Luc had been the one to call, it might have given Jake a chance to apologize.
Obviously, Luc didn't want any part of him right now. Jake wished he knew, though, if this assignment was punishment or an honest job.
He rubbed at the raw bite wound on his throat. It itched like a son of a bitch, which meant it must be healing, but the raw wound was a reminder of the really shitty thing Jake had done to his best friend.
Make that, his best friend's woman.
Jake sure as hell owed Luc--and Tia--an apology. One did not try to fuck as wolf with the pack alpha's bitch. Jake still couldn't believe he'd been so stupid, but for the first time in his life he'd lost it. His Chanku side had gone totally out of control.
Tia was just so damned hot. So ready, on her hands and knees in front of him, her pussy all wet and soft, her scent rising up and grabbing Jake by the balls until he'd totally lost sight of who and where he was.
Even now, almost three thousand miles away and possibly facing banishment from his pack, Jake still tasted Tia on his tongue, still felt the hot, wet pulsation as her clenching pussy grabbed his fingers. Jake's body tightened with the memory. His nostrils flared.
Then shame won out. His cock quieted. The air whooshed out of his lungs.
Tia'd been damned generous with her body, willing to take each man in the pack without hesitation. Only Jake had fucked things up, shifting from man to wolf in mid thrust, planning to catch her unaware with his wolven cock.
Figuring in some convoluted corner of his horny brain that if he tied with Tia, if he took her as his mate while in wolven form, she'd be his. She'd bond with him, not Luc. Like it was that simple? Like Tia didn't have a brain and feelings and wasn't already head over heels in love with Lucien Stone?
Jake felt like a damned fool. He'd risked everything to tie with the only female Chanku shapeshifter any of them had ever known.
Fortunately, Tia had been faster and Luc's aim was off or Jake's story would have been all she wrote. When Luc had shifted to wolf and gone for Jake's throat, he'd gotten a mouthful of fur along with his hunk of Jake's flesh. Otherwise, Jake wouldn't be standing here at Logan Airport, looking for a cab.
Feeling like a total jerk, remembering.
Nope. He would've been dead.
Shannon turned off the shower, rubbed lotion over her arms and legs, then wrapped one fluffy towel around her dripping mass of hair and another around her body. She stepped out of the bathroom in a billowing cloud of steam.
She wasn't alone. "Richard, I meant it when I asked you to leave."
The man sitting with his back to her stood up. It wasn't Richard. No, this man might have his hair cut military short like Richard's, but there the resemblance ended. Tall and muscular, he filled her bedroom with menace. His eyes were hidden behind expensive dark glasses, his hands encased in black leather gloves. He radiated danger without saying a word.
Tia's frantic phone call slammed into Shannon's mind. Was this Tia's friend? No. Nothing about this man felt right. Shannon took a step back, but strong arms caught her around the waist, lifted her off the ground. A leather clad hand clapped over her mouth. Shannon hadn't even seen the second man standing beside the bathroom door.
Frantic, she twisted and bucked against his iron-like grip, kicking at jeans-covered shins with her bare feet. Her right hand came free. Shannon raked her fingernails along a sturdy forearm.
"Sonofabitch."
The man shook her so hard her teeth rattled. Her towel fell off her hair, spilling down over her eyes, blinding her. The towel around her torso slipped and twisted around her body, tangling in the man's gloved hands.
Shannon tried to take advantage of her attacker's compromised grip, but the first man grabbed her ankles and quickly taped them together. Still wriggling and twisting for all she was worth, Shannon was dumped unceremoniously on her belly on the rumpled bed. With two large men holding her down, she could barely move. One bound her hands tightly behind her back, almost dislocating her shoulders.
Then he flipped her over, but before she could get a good look, another strip of tape went over her eyes. The last strip covered Shannon's mouth, leaving barely enough room for her to breathe.
Shannon sucked air through her nose. It wasn't enough! Panic gave her strength. She bucked and twisted her body as meaty, leather-clad hands grabbed for her. Still wet from her shower, skin slick from lotion, she slipped free of first one set of hands then the other.
She was falling. Sliding off the edge of the bed amid curses and kicks, large hands grabbing at her slippery body with bruising strength, throwing her face down on the bed once more.
Shannon couldn't breathe, couldn't see it coming. Had no way to prepare for the knee in the middle of her back and the sharp prick of a needle in her left buttock. Pain blossomed outward from the injection site. She saw stars and flashing lights behind the tape, then felt herself falling, as if from a very high point.
Falling through thick wads of cotton, falling deeper and darker into oblivion.
Jake paid the cabby and got out just down the street from a three story brick apartment building sandwiched in among a row of identical structures. A couple of street lights had burned out, leaving the neighborhood bathed in shadow. He set his leather travel case down and checked the address on the slip of paper barely visible in the low light, then studied his surroundings. Streets in Boston’s North End were notoriously narrow, but this was little more than an alley.
A large black sedan filled the entire lane in front of number twelve. Jake noted its presence, felt a shiver of anticipation along his spine. According to AJ, Ms. Shannon Murphy resided in a two bedroom apartment on the third floor. Jake knew Shannon had been Tia Mason’s roommate for almost ten years, but little else about her. If AJ was right, the woman was quite possibly in danger from the same crooked politician who had gone after Jake’s boss and Tia’s father, Ulrich Mason.
AJ hadn’t told Jake precisely why Mason, and now Ms. Murphy, had been targeted, but he’d dropped one tantalizing bit of information. There was a chance, a very slim chance, Shannon Murphy might carry Chanku genes. Unaware, unawakened, yet potentially Chanku, a shapeshifter just like Tia and the rest of the members of Pack Dynamics.
That alone would have brought Jake to Boston. The fact she could be in danger because she might be Chanku made it imperative he come. Jake smiled grimly into the darkness as a huge weight lifted from his chest. He hadn’t really thought it through before. If Luc had chosen Jake for this assignment, maybe, just maybe, it meant he’d found it in his heart to forgive his longtime friend.
Thank God Ulrich was safe. Jake didn’t know all the details, only that Ulrich had been kidnapped then rescued, all while Jake was racing around the woods of northern California, so fucked up he hadn’t known where to turn. While Jake’s packmates were busy saving their boss’s life, he’d been trying to build up enough courage to go home with his tail tucked between his legs and ask Luc and Tia for forgiveness.
Thank God for AJ’s call. Jake had grabbed this job like a lifeline, a chance to do something for the pack. The more he thought about it, the more Jake wanted to believe this wasn’t an assignment made in retribution, to get him away from Tia. He hoped like hell Luc had decided to give him a chance to atone for his unforgivable behavior.
She might be Chanku.
Hell. What a mess.
If only he had a better feel for what Luc really wanted.
Jake shoved the slip of paper into his pocket and pulled the collar of his leather coat up over his ears. He touched the bandage he’d taped over the wound on his throat. The bloody scab looked a lot worse than it felt and he really didn’t want to scare the woman half to death.
He grabbed his bag and started forward, then stopped. Someone was coming down the stairs. Jake slipped back into the shadows and waited.
Two men lugged a large canvas sack between them. It looked like a military duffle bag, filled with something big and obviously heavy. Both men appeared well built, but they grunted with effort as they carried their load to the back of the sedan and set it carefully on the ground.
It didn’t take a genius to figure out what they had. Or who. Jake quickly stripped his coat off and slipped out of his shoes. He quietly unzipped his pants just enough to slide them down his legs. Cool air raised the hair across his thighs.
One man opened the trunk, then turned to help the other lift the bag. They rolled it into the back and stared into the dark interior for a moment.
Jake’s shirt and boxers landed quietly on the pile beside him.
“You think there’s enough air?”
“Better be. We’re supposed to deliver the package alive and unharmed.”
“The bitch is in better shape than I am. Did you see what she did to my arm?”
The first man laughed. He never saw what hit him. The wolf burst out of the shadows aiming directly for the man’s throat. He went down, hard, his head bouncing off the cobblestones.
The wolf spun around, his attack silent and deadly. The second man reached for his gun. The wolf took him down before he could pull the weapon from his shoulder holster.
Like the first, this fellow hit the ground hard with the full weight of the beast bearing him to the rocky street. He landed hard with his arm trapped beneath his body. Panting, the wolf stood over him, glancing from one still body to the other, waiting to see if either man moved.
Blood trickled from a head wound on the first man, but he appeared to be breathing. The second man’s arm had twisted at an awkward angle. He was unconscious as well, but still alive. Satisfied he wasn’t leaving two potential corpses behind, the wolf trotted back into the shadows.
Within moments, Jake emerged fully dressed. He dragged both bodies behind a large trash bin, then raced back to the car. The keys lay on the ground where the first man had fallen. Jake shoved them in his pocket and carefully opened the duffle bag.
Even in the darkness she was beautiful, though still unconscious. There was no doubt in his mind this was the woman he’d been sent to protect. Jake carefully pulled the tape off her eyes and mouth. It left darker marks against her pale skin.
She was lean and long-limbed and completely naked. Her fair skin gleamed in the low light. Already, dark bruises marred her arms and legs and spread across one hip. Her long hair hung in damp tangles. The woman’s captors had practically folded her in two to fit her into the bag. Jake pulled a knife out of his boot and sliced through the duct tape holding her arms and legs together, then slowly dragged her out of the bag. Her hair hung down in wet ribbons as he carried the woman around to the back door of the car.
He opened the door and stretched her out as much as possible on the back seat. She was tall and he had to bend her knees to make her fit. Slowly Jake ran his hands over her sleek body in search of injuries. She was warm, living satin beneath his fingers. His Chanku senses brought him the sound of each breath she took, the rush of blood through her veins, the slow but steady beat of her heart.
He felt his awareness shift. She was no longer a victim to be protected. Jake touched warm, breathing woman, inhaled her freshly bathed scent and found her primal essence beneath the perfumed soap and body lotion. His body tightened as awareness blossomed into desire, as desire fed arousal.
Suddenly, Jake’s fingers brushed over a hard lump on her left buttock, what felt like an injection site. He blinked, returning immediately to here and now, aware once again of the danger.
They’d drugged her. Bastards.
Anger surged, hot and visceral, beyond any reaction he should have felt. His skin shivered. Jake’s mind filled with the image of the wolf, but instead of taking down the two men, he was ripping their throats, leaving their mangled bodies in the open for all to witness.
With effort, Jake brought himself under control. Logic. He had to act and think logically. Not thinking was a good way to get himself, even the young woman, killed.
She was alive. Obviously drugs, not injury, kept her unconscious.
He’d heard them say they wanted her safe and alive. Jake brushed her hair back from her forehead and gazed at her perfect features. Her beauty tore at him and he clenched his free hand into a fist. He’d have to assume whatever they’d given her wasn’t dangerous.
He had no idea when she might awaken and the night air was cold. After searching for a minute, Jake found a blanket on the floor, tucked under the front seat. He covered her, then tossed his suitcase in the back and quietly shut the trunk. After another quick check to see that the woman was breathing okay, he climbed into the driver’s seat.
Jake grabbed the steering wheel in both hands and took long, steadying breaths, forcing both his libido and suddenly jangled nerves under control.
After a moment, he stuck the key in the ignition and started the engine. The original plan, staying here to protect Ms. Murphy, was not an option. Whoever wanted her knew where she lived. Odds of keeping her safe in Boston weren’t in Jake’s favor, especially since he had no idea who he was dealing with. Slowly, he edged the big sedan down the narrow street, then pulled out onto a wider road.
Jake had no idea why anyone wanted to harm her. No idea, even, why Ulrich had been kidnapped, but according to AJ it was all connected.
It had to be tied to their genetics, the fact each of them carried the genes of the shapeshifting Chanku. The secret, the fact they existed at all, grew harder to contain each year, especially with the number of cases they’d worked since the terrorists hit New York.
Talk about the shit hitting the fan if the public at large ever found out they lived side by side with an entire race of beings able to shift from human to wolf and back again.
Instantaneously, at will. Unlike the werewolves of legend, dependent on the phases of the moon, Chanku never became mindless creatures ruled by bloodlust.
Jake shook his head, almost snarling at the irony within the thought. No, they only became mindless when they were Jacob Trent faced with a wet and ready Chanku bitch. Damn! Would he ever find forgiveness for that one act of stupidity? It never should have happened.
He was a sentient being, a thinking creature. He had powers beyond anything mere humans might imagine, but he couldn’t control his damned dick.
Jake should have known better than to try and mate his alpha’s woman. Luc had every right to go for his throat. Had every right to kill Jake. No one would have judged Luc badly.
The bite itched. Absentmindedly, Jake rubbed it.
The woman in the backseat stirred, then quieted once again. Jake glanced back over his shoulder, then turned his attention back to the road. It was almost midnight. There was hardly any traffic this late at night.
Still, the drug must be wearing off. She needed clothing, but he couldn’t leave her alone in the car until she awakened. If she came to while he was in a store, she’d be terrified, might even try to escape.
He really didn’t want Shannon Murphy to get away. Already Jake felt oddly protective, drawn to her on a gut level, intuitively, instinctually. He’d never reacted quite this way to a woman before.
Except Tia.
Like attracting like? Did he instinctively recognize another of the same species? This one might be Chanku. A woman like Tia. A female who would completely understand the needs and desires of another just like her.
Unawakened. Unaware of her potential, in danger because of her ignorance, entirely dependent, for now, on one Jacob Trent.
Jake glanced into the rear view mirror and grinned. If this was punishment, Jake owed Lucien Stone big time. He rubbed at the healing bite on his throat once again, then pulled around a slow van. Merging into the fast lane, he headed north on the Interstate.
Almost an hour passed before Jake noticed any more movement in the backseat. Shannon stirred again. Jake heard her groan, then the sharp intake of breath that told him she must be awake.
“Ms. Murphy? Are you okay?” Jake looked in the rear view mirror, saw that she was wrapping the blanket tightly around her body and trying to sit up.
“I think so. Who are you?” She held up her right arm, stared for a moment at the duct tape still hanging from her wrists, then looked up. Her gaze met Jake’s in the rear view mirror. He couldn’t tell the color of her eyes. Wondered if they were the same green and amber as Tia’s. As his own.
“I’m Jacob Trent. Call me Jake. I’m the one Tia sent to protect you. I’m sorry I didn’t get here sooner.”
“Ah.” Shannon closed her eyes and nodded. Her voice sounded slurred. “Tia’s friend.”
Tia’s friend? Would they ever be friends, after what he’d done? “Yeah. Tia said she called you. Explained I’d be coming out here. Are you okay?”
Shannon reached up and brushed her long hair out of her eyes. “I think so. A little woozy. A lot naked.” She readjusted the blanket, probably to wrap it tighter around her body. “Where are we going?”
“North. I’m taking us up into Maine until we can figure out why those two wanted you. I’ve got a cabin up there. It’s isolated and sort of rough, but it’s a good place to keep you out of sight for a few days, at least until we know what’s going on.”
“About the naked thing...” Her eyes, looking directly at his in the rear view mirror, were steady.
Jake had to give her credit. She didn’t scare easily. He couldn’t imagine what it would be like, waking up out of a drugged sleep in the back of a car, wrapped in nothing but a blanket, traveling through the dark with a complete stranger.
He flashed her a smile. With any luck, it would reassure her, not scare the crap out of her. “Once we get into Maine, I know where there’s an all night shopping center. They’ve got everything from clothes to groceries. I figured I’d go in and get you something to wear, then once you’re dressed, you can come back with me and we can shop for supplies.”
Jake glanced up again as she nodded. “Why don’t you get some sleep. We’ve got a long night ahead of us. Whatever drug they shot you with is probably still in your system.” He grabbed a water bottle off the front seat and handed it back to Shannon. She took it with a grateful smile.
“Thanks. My mouth feels like cotton.”
Jake watched in the mirror as she upended the water bottle and drank almost half of it. Her throat glowed like an ivory column in the light from passing cars. Jake glanced briefly at the road but watching Shannon’s reflection claimed him once again. She smiled, handed the water bottle back to him and once more stretched out on the back seat. She didn’t ask about the men who’d tried to abduct her, or even comment on what had happened. Maybe it all seemed like a bad dream at this point.
Jake took a sip out of the water bottle, imagining the taste of Shannon’s lips on the cool plastic. He turned his attention back to the road ahead, relaxing for the first time in days as he guided the sedan through the dark night.
She really must be one sick puppy, to feel aroused by a stranger hauling her bare butt through the night to Lord knows where. Shannon wrapped the blanket close around her shoulders and lay down in the wide back seat, scrunching her butt in tight against the soft leather. Whatever drug they’d shot her with must really pack a punch, because she felt as woozy and hung over as if she’d combined drugs and booze and bad sex.
Well, she’d definitely had the bad sex.
What the hell happened tonight? She’d booted Richard and his Big Dick out the door, taken her shower and walked into a nightmare. Where were the men who attacked her? Had the stranger in the front seat dealt with both of them?
Were the two who attacked her still alive? Still a threat to her safety? How had Jake managed to rescue her from two dangerous men?
She had no idea how big a man Jake was, though his shoulders were definitely broad enough to go with a fairly tall frame. It looked as if he’d shoved the driver’s seat as far back as it would go, obviously adjusting to long legs. She hadn’t been able to see him all that well in the pale reflection from the dashboard lights, but she noticed he wore his hair unfashionably long, so that it curled around his collar. His jaw was shadowed with at least a day’s growth of beard and there was something dangerous about him, almost feral, something that appealed to whatever base instincts seemed to rule Shannon’s body and mind.
She heard a rustling in the front seat and blinked, surprised she’d almost fallen asleep again. Jake glanced back in her direction, then he shoved his leather coat over the seat. “Here. It’s pretty soft. Maybe you can use it for a pillow. Get some sleep. We’ve got about an hour until we get to Biddeford. That’s where the store is.”
“Thank you.” Shannon grabbed the coat. Her fingers sank into the soft, creamy leather still warm from Jake’s body. She folded it over and tucked it beneath her head. It carried his scent, a tantalizing blend of man and forest that reminded her of something, some place just out of memory’s reach.
Inhaling deeply, filling herself with Jake’s heat and scent, Shannon felt herself growing drowsy once again. She should have been frightened, or at least uneasy, traveling through the night with a strange man, her naked body wrapped in nothing but an old blanket with no idea where they were headed.
She wasn’t. Maybe it was the drugs, but for the first time in ages, Shannon actually felt calm, even relaxed. Snuggling her cheek close against the soft leather coat, she sighed and let her thoughts drift. After so many years in the city, there was something comforting about a man who reminded her of the forest.
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We asked Grammy winner Bela Fleck's thoughts on Knoxville hosting Big Ears — he's 'amazed'
Bela Fleck, banjo virtuoso and Grammy winner, said in an exclusive interview with Knox News he's 'amazed' at how Big Ears is working in Knoxville.
We asked Grammy winner Bela Fleck's thoughts on Knoxville hosting Big Ears — he's 'amazed' Bela Fleck, banjo virtuoso and Grammy winner, said in an exclusive interview with Knox News he's 'amazed' at how Big Ears is working in Knoxville. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/2019/03/24/grammy-winner-bela-fleck-banjo-interview-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tn/3235812002/
Ryan Wilusz, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 7:00 a.m. ET March 24, 2019 | Updated 10:46 a.m. ET March 24, 2019
Banjo master Bela Fleck talks about the one and only banjo that he likes to play--and takes with him everywhere.
Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck has won 16 Grammy Awards, played at least 15 major festivals and recorded countless albums through his involvement in various music projects.
Needless to say, with a list of accolades of that magnitude, his opinion on anything music-related should be valued. So what does he think about Big Ears in Knoxville?
"I think it's a really neat thing, and I'm amazed and thrilled that it's working so well," he said in an exclusive interview with Knox News. "I was hoping they'd ask me to be a part of it. Now that I'm in, I'll stay as long as I can."
Artists are 'lining up to play' Big Ears
I caught up with Fleck backstage Friday afternoon at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral following a remarkable collaborative performance with master harp player Edmar Castaneda.
Big Ears 2019: A front row view of the Knoxville music festival
Bela Fleck & Edmar Castaneda perform at St. John's Episcopal Church during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Ian Chang performs at the Knoxville Museum of Art at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Serpentwithfeet performs at The Standard at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Kayhan Kalhor performs at Church Street United Methodist at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
This Is Not The Heat performs at the Mill & Mine at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Thumbscrew performs at The Standard at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Jerusalem In My Heart performs at The Standard during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Mosaic Interactive performs at The Square Room at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
KTL performs at the Mill & Mine at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Musicians perform in the 12-hour drone at The Standard during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Sunday, March 24, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
The Comet is Coming's saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings plays in The Mill & Mine during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Carl Stone performs in The Standard during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Attendees sit in light at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral before listening to the Shai Maestro Trio during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Spiritualized performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Fans watch Spiritualized performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Big Ears fans wait outside Church Street United Methodist Church to hear Harold Budd with nief-norf with Mary Lattimore perform during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Trance Map+ performs at The Bijou during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Serpentwithfeet performs at The Standard at Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, March 23, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Fans gather to listen to Ralph Towner at St. John's Episcopal Church during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Mercury Rev performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Shai Maestro performs at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral with the Shai Maestro Trio during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Spiritualized performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Members of Uncle Earl participate in a jam session during the 2019 Big Ears festival Friday, March 22, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Bob and Eric's 1st Period performs at the Pilot Light during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Fans line up to attend Ralph Towner at St. John's Episcopal Church during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Ralph Towner performs at St. John's Episcopal Church during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Big Ears fans wait inside Church Street United Methodist Church to hear Harold Budd with nief-norf with Mary Lattimore perform during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Big Ears attendees sit in Church Street United Methodist Church listening to Harold Budd with nief-norf with Mary Lattimore perform during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
The Nashville Ballet performs Lucy Negro Redux in the Tennessee Theatre, with music by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, and poetry by Caroline Randall Williams, in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Jacob Clark performs at Boyd's Jig & Reel during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Kukangendai performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Roomful of Teeth perform in the Knoxville Museum of Art as Big Ears Festival attendees listen, in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Avey Tare performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Musicians experiment with traditional Appalachian tunes during a jam session at Boyd's Jig and Reel during the 2019 Big Ears festival Thursday, March 21, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Big Ears Festival founder Ashley Capps speaks to a crowd of attendees in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Rhiannon Giddens performs during the WDVX Blue Plate Special in downtown Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. The concert is the first performances of the 2019 Big Ears festival. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform music for The Nashville Ballet's Lucy Negro Redux, in the Tennessee Theatre, with music by , and poetry by Caroline Randall Williams, in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
A crowd of Big Ears Festival attendees mingle in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Avey Tare performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Unique shoes are seen on stage at the Big Ears Festival, in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Musicians perform in the 12-hour drone at The Standard during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Sundnay, March 24, 2019. Ryan Wilusz/News Sentinel
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform during the WDVX Blue Plate Special in downtown Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
An attendee peacefully enjoys music by Roomful of Teeth in the Knoxville Museum of Art as Big Ears Festival attendees listen, in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
A crowd listens to Big Ears Festival founder Ashley Capps speak at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Big Ears Festival attendee Sarah Geledi of New York City stands in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Fans listen as Kukangendai performs at the Mill & Mine during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, March 21, 2019. Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel
Francesco Turrisi perform during the WDVX Blue Plate Special in downtown Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. The concert is the first performances of the 2019 Big Ears festival. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Attendees clap at the end of a song performed by Roomful of Teeth in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
The Comet is Coming's drummer Max Hallett plays in The Mill & Mine during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Francesco Turrisi performs during the WDVX Blue Plate Special in downtown Knoxville Thursday, March 21, 2019. The concert is the first performances of the 2019 Big Ears festival. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
The Comet is Coming's keyboardist Dan Leavers plays in The Mill & Mine during Big Ears Music Festival in downtown Knoxville Friday, March 22, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
"This is a guy I wanted to play with for a long time," Fleck said. "It's been one of those appointments on the calendar, but it never actually solidified. So I'm just thrilled we finally got to do it and crack it open. This is the first time we ever played together today."
That's one of the things that works well for Big Ears — stunning and sometimes unthinkable collaborations.
"I think it's the whole idea that anything goes (at Big Ears) and that you're not playing to try to appeal to anyone in particular," Fleck said. "It's kind of a narcissistic festival, in a certain way, for the musicians because it's like, 'No, you go do what you really always wanted to do, and we'll put you on stage and have an audience come listen to you do that.'"
Bela Fleck & Edmar Castaneda perform at St. John's Episcopal Church during Big Ears Festival 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, March 22, 2019. (Photo: Calvin Mattheis/News Sentinel)
Fleck said Big Ears "takes the chains off" performers — something the artists appreciate and want to be a part of.
"It doesn't pay as much as the other festivals, yet people are lining up to play here," Fleck said. "They want the opportunity to just play what they want to play, and so you feel very free here.
"You don't feel like you better tighten it up because the audience won't understand what I'm doing. They're here to have their minds open. In fact, you should take it to the moon. You should take it as far out as you always wanted to."
Knoxville works 'perfectly' for a festival
Fleck has been playing in Knoxville since the '80s. His early days in Scruffy City consisted of performances at Ella Guru's, a nightclub started by Big Ears founder Ashley Capps.
"I didn't know if (Big Ears) would work," Fleck said. "I've seen Knoxville go through periods where it was really supportive of live music and periods where it wasn't — periods where it was booming and periods where it was dry."
Fleck said he's been able to pack the house at the Tennessee Theatre some years yet struggled at a different point to get people into seats at the Bijou. But just the fact that those venues are so close together and near other performance spaces makes Knoxville a desirable place for a festival like Big Ears, Fleck said.
Bela Fleck & Brooklyn Rider perform at Church Street United Methodist Church as part of Big Ears Festival in downtown Knoxville on Friday, March 23, 2018. (Photo: Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel )
"This set up works perfectly because you have a lot of small venues in walking distance of each other," he said.
The quality and uniqueness of the venues surely help, too. Fleck performed at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral twice at this year's festival, and at both the Tennessee Theatre and Church Street United Methodist Church last year.
"I like these kind of places," he said of St. John's. "I have this whole idea about doing solo banjo concerts in sacred spaces. The reason for it is when I play in a room like this, the banjo starts to sing.
"It's not the sacred part of it. It's just the sacred spaces to be these big, open rooms with a long, beautiful reverb. The banjo starts to take on a whole vocal kind of quality."
These venues are intimate, and the crowds are attentive. And part of the reason for that attentiveness, Fleck said, is because Knoxville doesn't have the name recognition of some major music cities.
"I’m thrilled there are so many people that are interested in this kind of festival that’s its working as a destination festival without the hype of Nashville," he said. "Knoxville is more like just taking a place on the map ... (and saying), 'Here's the music. If you want to check it out, this is where you're going to go to have a real healthy helping of a whole lot of really crazy, great music.'"
Keep up with downtown and all things Scruffy City by following me on Instagram @knoxscruff. I can also be reached at 865-317-5138 or by email at ryan.wilusz@knoxnews.com.
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Posted: May 30, 2017 / 09:57 AM PDT / Updated: May 30, 2017 / 09:57 AM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Jeremy Joseph Christian, the man accused of stabbing 3 people on a MAX train Friday, told officials he is a transient and doesn’t know the last time he had a permanent address.
Christian, 35, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon on charges related to the fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche and 53-year-old Ricky Best. Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, survived the stabbing and was in court for the arraignment.
The suspect reportedly confessed to the stabbing after being taken into custody. He was then placed in an isolation cell in Multnomah County Detention Center.
While being interviewed by court staff, jail records show Christian yelled, “If you don’t like free speech get the f*** out of my country.”
Christian didn’t report having any history of mental illness, according to court records, but when asked if he had any mental health concerns, he reportedly responded by saying, “he was concerned about free speech in Portland.”
When police contacted his family after his arrest following a robbery in 2002, Christian’s mother reportedly said her son was addicted to marijuana and “possibly [had] mental health problems.” Records show court staff said he “possibly needs help for depression.”
The 3-time convicted felon told officials he uses alcohol weekly. He said he was treated for marijuana use in 2012 as part of his federal supervision program.
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KOIN 6 News learned Christian is a convicted felon in the State of Oregon.
In 2002, he was accused of first-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping, coercion, carrying or using a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm.
According to court documents, the incident happened on May 12, 2002 at Ed’s Market on N Lombard Street. Christian, who was reportedly wearing all black and a stocking mask, carried a .38 caliber handgun when he walked into the store.
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The case never went to trial because Christian took a plea deal. He was convicted of the robbery and kidnapping charges on November 4, 2002. He was sentenced to 90 months in prison on the robbery charge and 70 months for the kidnapping charge.
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Walt Disney hired Bob Gurr in 1954 to design sports car bodies for the Autopia cars at Disneyland. Gurr went on to design most of the conveyances at the park including the Monorail, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and the Haunted Mansion Doom Buggies. After Disney he ran his own design firm creating attractions at Universal Studios, foreign parks, and in Las Vegas. A new documentary film, Bob Gurr: Dreams to Reality, about the Disney legend will be released this week. We reached Bob in Seattle where he was speaking at a Disney convention.
What is this new film about?
People seem to know what I did but they always ask how I did it. This is about how Imagineers did their work working with Walt Disney. I use the monorail as an example. Usually one person does the external design and then an engineer takes over, then manufacturing takes over. Well, that’s not the way I work. I do the styling and the engineering. The advantage there is that we don’t have to have any meetings because they all occur in my head.
“The first Monorail in the Western hemisphere is still a big icon. Earlier ones looked like a loaf of bread on a stick. I made it sleek and graceful, like a Buck Rogers rocket ship.”
What’s it like being the subject of a documentary film?
Uncomfortable. The filmmakers wanted to explain to the Disney fans the fact that I do things completely different than most people would. I didn’t have a formal education or an engineering license. I didn’t want to be on film but she wouldn’t give up. I told her to get witnesses to tell you what makes Bob tick.
Who else is in the movie?
She asked 8 people that had worked with me over the years, starting with (former Imagineering president) Marty Sklar, and Craig Russell, who was head of Imagineering for the last15 years. Garner Holt, who is the largest manufacturer of animated figures for theme parks. Rolly Crump‘s son Chris Crump who has been at Disney a long time.
How did growing up in the San Fernando Valley influence your childhood?
Some of the streets were dirt with no sidewalks. There were lots of orchards and agricultural fields and I got to see my favorite military airplanes flying all the time. During World War II Lockheed was building the P38 and Boeing built the B17 Flying Fortress in Burbank. I could ride my bicycle over there and see all the planes I loved to look at.
Do you go to Disneyland in the movie?
There’s a cute little shot of Main Street vehicles moving and you hear my voice and I walk into the scene and say, “Here we are at Disneyland.” We used the antique yellow car, the fire engine, and the Omnibus, all my design.
“Ward Kimball was one of Walt’s crazier animators. He had me drive his 1916 American LaFrance fire truck, and I wanted one. I talked Walt into letting me do the Fire Engine for Disneyland’s Main Street.”
What treasures did you dig out of your collection for the movie?
There’s a copious amount of images including Disneyland construction. I have a scale model of the King Kong I did for Universal Studios. It was a 30-foot animated creature and I use the model to demonstrate how simple it is and how the motions all work. As I’m talking about it, it’s being animated before your very eyes.
How did you feel when King Kong burned down?
I was delighted because it lasted 22 years. It’s much better for a famous effigy to go out in a blaze of glory than to get old and have it dismantled. What if James Dean had lasted forever? Who would want to go see an 85-year-old James Dean in a movie today?
When is the last time your rode on one of your vehicles?
That would have been last July 17th for the 60th anniversary of Disneyland. They gave me a ride in the electric vehicle I designed for Walt. I was in the parade again just like I was for the opening in 1955.
What’s your favorite memory of Walt Disney?
He’s not a guy who would give orders to people as to what he wants you to do. He’d sort of walk up and say “Gee, Bob we’re thinking of doing this project. What do you think?” He’d ask you to start thinking about it rather than tell you like a presidential order. He would get people interested. Get their creative juices going and get your best ideas. That’s a completely different way than most executives manage a company but that’s the way Walt did it.
Where can people see your movie?
It will premiere on Thursday at the Disneyana convention in Garden Grove. If they miss that the DVD can be purchased online. We’re showing a short version of the film and then there will be a panel discussion with several people from the film.
Here’s the trailer for Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams Into Reality
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The boats students build vary from year to year to ensure students build a boat or boats that match the student cohort and interest, and the skills needed in the industry. Typically, students might expect to develop their fundamental boat building skills by building a small skiff in the fall semester, and then go on to further develop those skills by building a more complex mid-sized powerboat or sailboat in the spring semester. You will work in boat-specific groups and develop the skills, techniques, and artistry that comprise wooden boat building while becoming a high performing individual and team
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Pale green eyes, 37 freckles, and the laugh of a red haired boy she had secretly been in love with for almost 7 years. Everything changed with that one simple kiss.
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It was finally over. The war was won and Voldemort was dead. The wizarding world was free. It was hard to believe that everything had happened only yesterday. Was it yesterday? Hermione couldn't be sure. The last she remembered herself and Harry had drug Ron from Freds lifeless body up to Gryffindor Tower where they magically enlarged Harrys bed and finally succumbed to the exhaustion of the past year. It had been a good sleep, free of nightmares and horror. It had been warm and refreshing, and for Hermione, had been filled with the 'what if's' of her future.
Pale green eyes outlined by 37 freckles across a long nose, on a sunbaked face. Red haired children playing in the front yard, strong arms holding her securely, and the laugh of the boy (man, he was a man now) she had secretly been in love with for almost seven years. But Hermione knew they were only fantasies made available to her in dreams. Ron and Harry were her best friends, and while they had shared more secrets than most friends shared, they were certainly no closer to being romantic with one another than Voldemort was to coming back to life.
Not wishing to disturb her comrades but no longer able to sleep, Hermione thought back to the kiss. It had been brief. Passionate. Desperate. It spoke of a future hanging in the balance, and a longing that had never been verbally expressed, but Hermione rationalized that it had been one of those 'heat of the moment, this may be the last kiss (first, this was her first kiss) I ever get to experience.' Because really, Ron didn't love her. He couldn't. She was just Hermione after all. Just one third of the Golden Trio; the girl who carried Ron and Harry through much of their school career with her endless notes, and obesessive study schedules, and her soft heart that always had her up til all hours of the morning revising their essays that were due the next day. Heaving a sigh she touched her lips and thought on what could be...if only she were prettier...softer...less bookish and obsessed.
"A penny for your thoughts?" he whispered, and when she turned to face him she was lost in endless green eyes, the color of the sea, and 37 freckles, and the smell of parchment, and freshly mown grass...and spearmint toothpaste.
"We're free aren't we? It's over, I mean," she asked hesitantly.
"It's over 'Mione. We're free," he smiled.
And they were. Free to relax, and to breathe. To celebrate and to mourn. To rebuild and move on. And lost in the momentary idea of freedom, the freedom she found in his soft smile he used only with her, their lips met in a soft, loving kiss, and Hermione was home.
The following week was a whirlwind of emotions and engagements. There were funerals, and ceremonies; celebrations, and dedications. The wizarding world started to rebuild and to document this important time in history. Ron and Hermione both dutifully attended the few interviews that were required, met with Ministry Officials, and humbly accepted their Order of Merlin, First Class designations right alongside Harry, and surprisingly enough, Neville. But then life got in the way and they had their own pieces to pick up. Ron went back home to The Burrow to bury Fred, and mourn the loss of his brother and mentor; to make sure that his mother would be alright, and to reflect on what to do with the future he had been provided.
Hermione fled to Austrailia in search of her parents and to reverse the Obliviate she had preformed on them. They were less than pleased at first, but after Hermione had explained everything that had happened in the past year they found they could not fault her. She had saved their lives after all. But with the knowledge that England was not the place they left, the Grangers decided that Austrailia was now home, and that they would not be returning, unless it was for a quick visit. Hermione however knew that she at least must return. Her final year of Hogwarts was waiting, and she had up and left Harry and Ron with nothing more than a note that said 'Sorry.'
Ron would have followed Hermione to the end of the earth if she had asked, but he reckoned she needed this time alone with her parents to sort everything out. She needed time to find herself, and Ron would wait. After all, how many Hermiones existed in the world? One. And he would make her his if she would have him. But Hermione was smart, and gentle, and...beautiful. He could never compare to her. He was physically strong, and a great stratigist, but she was smart in all the ways of the world. She could be anything...be with anybody. Why would she choose him?
He had stayed gaurded for all those years, at first because he was a silly little boy, and later because he saw how dangerous it was being friends with Harry, and he hadn't wanted to add any extra danger into the mix. He built walls around his heart to keep Hermione safe. She was a big enough target as it was and he would do anything to protect her, even if it meant he would never have her. But then the horocruxes had been destroyed and the end was near, and his walls came crumbling down. He reached for Hermione like a life line and kissed her with the passion of all the kisses he had denied them in the past. He was in love with her and that may have been the only time he had to show her. Life had become a commodity and they were living on borrowed time.
"Hermione!" Ron let out a breath he hadn't realized he been holding when she showed up on the doorstep of Number 12 Grimmuald Place a week before term began.
"Hey Ron," she smiled ruefully.
"Come on. Harry and Ginny are in the study eating eachothers faces, but the library is unoccupied," he said shutting the door behind her.
Hermione raised an eyebrow. "You? In the library?"
Ron blushed. "Yeah, well, our schedule is accelerated this year, and I can't rely on you for help all the time. Figured I'd get a headstart."
"Who are you and where is Ronald?" she asked with a sly smile.
"Funny 'Mione. It's not easy being a third wheel and I dont much feel like watching my baby sister and my best mate playing tonsil hockey."
"Fair enough."
And so Hermione and Ron spent that last week of freedom reading up on textbooks and catching up on summer homework and never once mentioning the two kisses that had passed between them.
The first half of term had been brutal and Ron and Hermione were no closer to figuring out exactly what they were to eachother than they had been when she had shown up on the doorstep of Harrys home. All around them classmates were getting married, or engaged, and they were still strictly 'friends'.
'Ron,
You don't know me. Not the real me. But I know you. I know everything about you. And I think I love you. But I need to know if you love me too. Please, find me in the Astronomy Tower at midnight. Use Harry's cloak.'
She hadn't dared to sign it in case he didn't come but she needed to know. Her heart was slowly breaking and if rejection was what she was going to face, it was going to be tonight.
A school owl had delivered the note and for the life of him Ron couldn't figure out who sent it. The only girl in their year who had ever shown him any attention was dead, and all the other girls were paired off now. Maybe a younger girl then?
"Hey Harry? Can I borrow your cloak tonight?" he asked.
"Sure Ron, but why?"
"I got someone I gotta meet," he said handing the letter over.
Harry read it and smiled. If Ron Weasley didn't recognize Hermione's writing by now he probably never would. Harry only hoped it all turned out. He loved his two friends dearly and knew neither one would ever be truely happy without the other.
When Ron turned up in the Astronomy Tower at quarter eleven he immediately stopped. Standing there staring out over the grounds of Hogwarts was Hermione. Heart racing, and palms sweating, Ron slowly removed Harrys cloak.
"I know you're here Ronald, and if this was a mistake, if you don't want to be here, leave now. I promise I wont be mad."
"You think you love me?" he squeaked out, and she laughed. Her beautiful, nervous, contagious laugh.
"Why did you kiss me? Twice?" she asked.
"Because I know that I love you. But you could never love me. You're the brightest witch of our age Hermione. You'll go off and do great things, and you'll find someone who can understand those great things. I'm just Harry's sidekick. I'll play quidditch or work in the Ministry or something. You deserve better than that."
"Ronald!" she sighed in exasperation. "None of that matters. There's no point in doing great things if I don't have anyone to share them with. I know I'm not exactly pretty, but I want to share my life with you and-"
And suddenly his lips were on hers and there was no need for words because that one kiss said it all.
"I love you Hermione. You are the prettiest girl I know, and the smartest. And you know everything about me. You accept me. I might never be anything great, but I promise that I will always be yours, for as long as you'll have me."
"I'll always have you," she breathed.
"Always," he smiled.
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Scott Disick & Sofia Richie Have Reportedly Been Living Together For Months
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Scott Disick and his girlfriend Sofia Richie are reportedly officially living together, and they have been for quite some time.
According to a January 7 report by Hollywood Life, Sofia Richie moved in with Scott Disick months ago, and the move was a wake-up call for Scott’s baby mama, Kourtney Kardashian.
“Sofia moved in with Scott this past summer, and that’s when Kourtney realized things were really getting serious between them,” an insider told the outlet.
The source went on to reveal that Kardashian was initially jealous of Disick and Richie’s serious relationship, but that Scott made the transition as smooth as possible by insisting that the three of them sit down for a conversation.
“Scott could tell Kourtney was a bit jealous at the time, but more so concerned of the fact that their kids would be sleeping there while Sofia lived there, too. She wanted to make sure they were in good hands,” the insider dished.
The trio eventually met up at Nobu in Malibu, where they talked about the situation and the smoothed things over, especially since Kourtney and Scott’s three children, Mason, Penelope, and Reign, would be staying there with Sofia.
“That’s when they all went to dinner together in November. It was important for Scott that Kourtney felt comfortable with Sofia and got to meet her, so she could see for herself that Sofia truly does care about, and treat their children amazing,” the source stated.
A post shared by Sofia Richie (@sofiarichie) on Dec 17, 2018 at 7:14pm PST
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Sofia Richie and Scott Disick are currently going through a tough time. Richie announced this week via her Instagram account that her beloved dog, Jake, had passed away, calling the canine an “angel,” and revealing that she will miss him “forever.”
Shortly after it was revealed that the pup had passed away, Scott and Sofia were seen out grabbing a meal together. The two were spotted in Calabasas, where they were seen taking out some grub from Rosti.
Sofia kept things casual by wearing a pair of black leggings, a gray crewneck sweater, and a black coat. She sported a bronzed glow and wore oversize sunglasses. Meanwhile, Scott donned a pair of khaki cargo pants, a gray hooded sweatshirt with a black vest over top, and his own set of shades for the outing.
Scott Disick was seen carrying food from the establishment, as perhaps Sofia Richie was a bit too blue over the loss of her rescue dog to make a public appearance at the restaurant.
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3 Giugno 2009 In evidenza, Persecuzioni
Gli Uiguri d’America preoccupati per le accuse di terrorismo
L’Associazione americana Uiguri (UAA) raccomanda estrema cautela circa le accuse di terrorismo recentemente apparse sui media ufficiali cinesi. Il 3 giugno 2009, il China Daily, quotidiano governativo cinese di lingua inglese, aveva pubblicato una dichiarazione del segretario del partito della città di Kashgar, Zhang Jin’s, in cui asseriva che in appena quattro mesi le autorità cinesi avevano scoperto sette cellule del terrore nella città di Kashgar, in East Turkestan.
Segue l’articolo in inglese
The Uyghur American Association (UAA) urges extreme caution over allegations of organized Uyghur terror made recently in official Chinese media.
On June 3, 2009, the China Daily, the Chinese government’s English language newspaper published Kashgar party secretary Zhang Jian’s claim that Chinese authorities had “in just four months” uncovered seven terror cells in the East Turkestan city of Kashgar. However, reports issued by Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP) highlight the lack of details and corroborating evidence regarding the Chinese government official’s claims.
For this reason, UAA asks the international community to approach with extreme caution allegations made by Chinese officials on Uyghur terrorism. UAA also asks the international community to seek independent verification of Chinese government claims regarding Uyghur terror before making their own assessments. UAA itself is unequivocally opposed to any form of violence, condemns any violent actions and asserts that terrorist actions will only serve to increase the suppression of the Uyghur people and exacerbate tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. UAA works peacefully for the realization of democracy, freedom and human rights for Uyghurs.
Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader, said in a statement that “once again the Chinese government has gone public with terror allegations against Uyghurs without producing the slightest piece of evidence. I stress that the international community should view these claims with the utmost of skepticism and should not believe or act on the word of a local official until Uyghur terror claims have been independently verified. These allegations are being made in such a way so as to associate peaceful Uyghurs with the scourge of terrorism.”
UAA believes that the timing of the allegations is designed to convince the international community, at a very sensitive time, that an organized Uyghur terror threat exists despite uncertainty raised by independent observers. UAA also believes that by labeling Uyghurs as terrorists and exaggerating the terror threat supposedly posed by Uyghurs, the Chinese government hopes to influence key decision makers overseas.
In addition, the Chinese government allegations come during international opposition to the government-led demolition of Kashgar Old City, which is a cradle of Uyghur culture and identity. The China Daily report states that “[t]he border city of Kashi [Kashgar] has long been a launching ground for terrorists” and quotes Zhang Jian as stating that “[w]e know it is going to be a constant battle due to Kashi’s [Kashgar’s] sensitive location and we are always ready for it”. UAA is concerned that the terror allegations are also a justification for the Old City demolition, in which the resettlement of Old City residents into regimented government-organized living arrangements is motivated by an attempt to control and monitor peaceful Uyghur dissent.
Over the past seven years, using “terrorism” as a justification, Beijing has undertaken a renewed, systematic, and sustained crackdown on all forms of Uyghur dissent. As is common in the Chinese justice system, those arrested in these campaigns frequently suffer from physical abuse and other maltreatment while in government custody. In addition, they are often subject to nontransparent trials and denied access to independent counsel. Convictions are regularly obtained on the basis of forced confessions extracted through torture. Security forces target Uyghurs who express any type of dissent as they “strike hard” against the “three evil forces” of “separatism, terrorism, and extremism.”
Since 9/11, Amnesty International has documented that, under these types of campaigns, “tens of thousands of people are reported to have been detained for investigation in the region, and hundreds, possibly thousands, have been charged or sentenced under the Criminal Law; many Uighurs are believed to have been sentenced to death and executed for alleged “separatist” or “terrorist” offences.”
Two days before the Olympic Games in Beijing, Chinese state media reported that two Uyghurs, one taxi driver and one vegetable seller, attacked and killed sixteen policemen using a truck, homemade grenades and machetes in the city of Kashgar. However, a September 28, 2008 New York Times report detailed the eyewitness accounts of three western tourists, one of whom had taken photographs of the attack, who had been staying in a hotel across the street from the events. The New York Times reported that the three tourists “heard no loud explosions and that the men wielding the machetes appeared to be paramilitary officers who were attacking other uniformed men.” Furthermore, according to the tourists, “[t]he men with the machetes mingled freely with other officers afterward”.
The discrepancies raised by the New York Times reports have never been explained by Chinese authorities. Initial Chinese-language reports from the official Chinese media regarding the Kashgar attack described the incident as a criminal attack, and did not make the terror angle a prominent feature, although English-language reports produced by Xinhua reported the incident as a terror attack.
Subsequently, 34-year-old Abdurahman Azat and 29-year-old Kurbanjan Hemit were detained for allegedly carrying out the attack. They were sentenced to death in December 2008 for “intentional homicide and illegally producing guns, ammunition and explosives”.
The two Uyghurs were executed on April 9, 2009 at an unknown location after the announcement of their impending execution was read out in front of 4,000 officials and Kashgar residents in a local stadium. According to local sources, Hemit appeared to have been severely beaten while in custody. The two men were reportedly also denied access to legal counsel and were not allowed to see their families following their initial detention.
The Uyghur American Association (UAA) works to promote the preservation and flourishing of a rich, humanistic and diverse Uyghur culture, and to support the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their own political future.
The UAA has undertaken the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) for the purpose of promoting improved human rights conditions for Uyghurs and other indigenous groups in East Turkestan, on the premise that the assurance of basic human rights will facilitate the realization of the community’s democratic aspirations.
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Uyghur American Association
1701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Suite 300
Tel: +1 (202) 349 1496
Fax: +1 (202) 349 1491
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MauritiusBlack River Gorges National ParkTravel with children
Black River Gorges Nation… in detail
Children's Attractions
Travelling with children in Mauritius presents no particular problems. To put their holiday in context, there's a wonderful series of English-language cartoon books by Henry Koombes (published locally by Editions Vizavi Ltd), including In Dodoland, SOS Shark and Meli-Melo in the Molasses.
For more information, see Lonely Planet's Travel with Children.
Besides the seaside, Mauritius has numerous attractions that make for excellent day excursions for families. Remember, however, that some activities may be subject to minimum-age requirements – phone ahead or check the relevant website before getting the kids all excited. Our favourite attractions for children:
La Vanille, Rivière des Anguilles
Île aux Aigrettes, Pointe d'Esny
Snorkelling, anywhere…
Casela World of Adventures, Flic en Flac
Mauritius Aquarium, Pointe aux Piments
Most high-end hotels have dedicated facilities (like 'kids clubs') for children, and those that don't sometimes have a small playground. Most top-end hotels also include babysitting services. The proliferation of villa leases has made it easy to bring the entire family on holiday, while many hotels and even some chambres d'hôtes offer family rooms. Most hotels have cots, though usually only a limited number, so always request one when making your reservation and send a reminder some weeks in advance of your arrival.
Remember that some top-end resorts market themselves as 'adults only'. This is less an indication of risqué behaviour than an attempt by hotels and resorts to appeal to the honeymoon or romantic-getaway market. In other words, kids are not welcome. If you're making a reservation online and there's no option of adding kids to your booking, chances are that's the reason.
Disposable nappies are widely available in supermarkets, and most car-hire companies have a limited number and range of child safety seats available (the smaller the company, the fewer options you’ll have). Baby-changing facilities in restaurants and other public areas are almost nonexistent. Breastfeeding in public is not really the done thing (though it’s usually fine within hotel or resort grounds), but you’re unlikely to feel uncomfortable as long as you're discreet.
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The Alarm in Leeds
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Wednesday 20th November 2019, £19.80
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Mike Peters presents The Alarm - Hurricane Of Change Tour 2019
The Alarm lead singer and songwriter Mike Peters, will present The Alarm - Hurricane of Change 30th Anniversary Acoustic Tour throughout the UK this coming October / November (see dates below).
The tour will honour The Alarm's late 1980's trilogy of iconic album's 'Eye Of The Hurricane', 'Electric Folklore' and 'Change', and will feature intimate acoustic readings of some of The Alarm's most famous songs such as Rain In The Summertime (1987 - International Top 20 Hit), Sold Me Down The River (1989 - Number 1 Rock Song in the USA) and A New South Wales (1990 UK Top 40), alongside a host of Alarm standards as captured on the 1988 live album 'Electric Folklore'.
30 years ago, as Mike Peters undertook a creative song-writing journey through the heart of his home country - Wales, the Berlin Wall would fall and Europe itself, would plunge into a period of enormous and seismic change. Caught in the middle of this political maelstrom, Mike Peters and the Alarm would record the albums 'Eye of The Hurricane' (1987), Electric Folklore (1988), and 'Change' (1989) each of which would in their own way, capture the essence of these most turbulent times.
The Hurricane of Change tour will be performed solo with a first set dedicated to 'Eye Of The Hurricane' followed by a second performance of 'Change' along with a third set featuring songs from The Alarm's classic live recording 'Electric Folklore".
"I have always seen these three albums as an Alarm trilogy", says Mike Peters. "A lot happened to the band and the world, during the writing and recording sessions from 1987-1990. As one decade bled into another, the themes of response and resolve to contend with uncertain times are running through the core of each and every album. Played together these songs tell their own story and with the tumultuous times Europe can expect to face in the coming months and years, are still as relevant today as when they were first written."
Intimate acoustic readings of some of The Alarm's most famous songs
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By Michael S. Didiuk, J. Dax Hansen, Jesse P. Kanach, Keith Miller, Lowell D. Ness, Thomas Ahmadifar, Conor O'Hanlon & Michael Selig on June 21, 2018
From Uncertainty toward Regulatory Clarity: Senior SEC Officials Provide Regulatory Clarity for Digital Assets Summary is below, please click here for the full alert narrative. On June 14, 2018, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission delivered a speech outlining the framework used by the SEC Staff in evaluating whether a given token sale qualifies as a securities offering. The Director clarified that a token sale may qualify…
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U.S. Developments Regulatory Updates CFTC Staff Issues Advisory to Exchanges and Clearinghouses on Virtual Currency Derivatives On May 21, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk released an advisory that provides guidance to designated contract markets (DCM), swap execution facilities (SEF), and derivatives clearing organizations (DCO) that offer derivatives with virtual currency underliers (the Advisory). The key take-aways are summarized below: The Advisory notes that virtual…
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California City to Explore Blockchain-Based Financing
By Herbert F. Kozlov, Kari Larsen, Michael Selig & Kelley Chittenden on March 14, 2018
The City of Berkeley, California will be the first U.S. city to explore blockchain-based financing to tackle social issues such as affordable housing. Mayor Jesse Arreguin and Councilmember Ben Bartlett are collaborating with the UC Berkeley Blockchain Lab and San Francisco-based financial startup Neighborly for the Berkeley Blockchain Initiative (“BBI”) to develop a tokenized municipal bond. According to Forbes, Berkeley had a similar idea twenty years ago with a local currency called “Berkeley Bucks.” This…
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Statement Released That Multiple Crypto Exchanges Warned by Hong Kong Securities Commission
By Herbert F. Kozlov, Kari Larsen, Michael Selig & Kelley Chittenden on February 13, 2018
On February 9, 2018, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) released a statement which, among other things, informs the marketplace that the SFC sent letters to seven Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchanges warning against listing instruments that qualify as “securities” under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (“SFO”) without a required license.[1] Additionally, the SFC sent letters to seven crypto token issuers inquiring about compliance with the securities laws. In response to the…
Hong Kong Securities Commission Launches Inquiry Into Seven Crypto Exchanges
More Enforcement Action Taken by the SEC on Crypto Sales
By Herbert F. Kozlov, Kari Larsen & Michael Selig on February 1, 2018
On January 30, 2018, dissatisfied crypto token purchasers filed a class action lawsuit against Paragon Coin, Inc. (“Paragon”) and founders Jessica VerSteeg and Egor Lavrov, alleging that the Paragon initial coin offering (“ICO”) violated the federal securities laws.[1] This lawsuit follows those filed by plaintiffs against Centra, Tezos, ATBCoin, BitConnect, and Xunlei in connection with their ICOs in recent months. One of the more high profile class action defendants is BitConnect, which is…
Securities Class Action Lawsuits Continue to Test the “Utility” Token Sale Model
SEC Taking Action Against Companies Hyping Blockchain-Related Trading
By Herbert F. Kozlov, Kari Larsen & Michael Selig on January 9, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is continuing to increase its scrutiny of companies that might be taking advantage of investor excitement for blockchain and cryptocurrency (ICO) deals to inflate their share prices and raise funds. On January 8, 2018, the SEC suspended trading in the securities of Hong Kong-based UBI Blockchain Internet, Ltd. (“UBI Blockchain”) through at least January 22, 2018. This action follows the SEC’s suspension of trading in the securities of…
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The Top Ten Most Fun Chromecast Games
Music For Your Life
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Android and iOS fans, this is for you
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by Scott Orgera
Scott Orgera has been a tech journalist since 2007. He has 25+ years' experience as a programmer and QA leader and several Microsoft certifications.
Google Chromecast is commonly used to stream movies, shows and other video content directly to your TV. This handy little dongle does a fine job of accomplishing that task, but that's not all it's good for.
An area where Chromecast also shines is gaming, functionality that many of its owners are not even aware exists. Games are installed and cast from your Android or iOS device, many which allow for multiplayer participation on your television - making Chromecast gaming fun for the whole family.
Below are our top ten Chromecast games, with each title supporting either one or both mobile platforms.
Angry Birds Friends
Trying to climb the leaderboards is almost as addictive as the actual game itself.
The in-game purchases can be pretty expensive if you play regularly.
Angry Birds Friends takes the well-known game and ports it to a tournament structure, pitting you against friends and strangers as you ascend to higher levels. Multiple types of challenges are available, each with their own rules and rewards, letting you prove your prowess in stopping those pesky pigs from getting your eggs. Theme-based tournaments take place at different points throughout the year as well, giving you a chance to earn special prizes often related to a particular holiday.
Supported on the following platforms:
Angry Birds Go!
It has a Mario Kart feel to it, which is always a positive.
Crashes too often (especially on advertisements) and takes up quite a bit of space.
Angry Birds games in the top ten?!? Don't fret. Angry Birds Go! is nothing like Angry Birds in the traditional sense, although it does feature Chuck, Red, Terence, King Pig and many of the original game's favorite characters. The difference here is that instead of bird flinging you're downhill racing on colorful 3D tracks in either local or multiplayer mode. With a bevy of tracks and off-road terrain available as well as the ability to upgrade to souped-up karts, there are virtually hundreds of hours of gameplay here before things grow stale. You can even purchase Telepods figures, which let you teleport characters into the game by placing them on your smartphone or tablet's camera.
It supports Fischer Random Chess and allows you to install additional UCI engines.
The addition of next move recommendations, as well as the ability to toggle them on and off, would be a nice option for beginners.
This Android game has a fairly basic chess interface, providing the ability to tweak the AI based on your level of play. Ad-free and devoid of unnecessary clutter, the app also lets you play online and includes the Bobby Fischer-inspired Chess960 variation.
Vivid graphics and smooth gameplay.
Like a lot of free games, you'll eventually need to spend some money if you want to keep advancing gear-wise as you play in higher regions.
A staple in bars and arcades for years, the Deer Hunter series revolves around pursuing big game animals through a combination of precise marksmanship and lightning-fast reaction times. Chromecast lets you come close to simulating the coin-operated experience by projecting the action-packed shooter onto your big-screen TV. Deer Hunter 2018 also features trophy collections and leaderboards, allowing you to compete against others just like the arcade version.
Draw King
The perfect app for when you have company visiting.
Forces you to reset often, which can be a real pain if you're playing for hours.
Draw King brings old favorite Pictionary into the modern era, replacing a paper sketchpad with your smartphone and Chromecast-connected TV. The concept is similar, where players have to guess what the other is drawing and points are earned on both sides when successful. This is the type of game that is simply perfect for the Android/Chromecast setup, with the potential to transform a dull evening into a laugh-filled riot.
Just Dance Now
Ubisoft actually seems invested in the long-term quality of the app, which is reflected in the updates.
The stringent waiting system for new coins significantly limits how often you can dance. Unless you want to spend real money, that is.
Just Dance Now helps get those feet in motion to a mix of today's most popular songs needing nothing but your smartphone and Chromecast, stepping along to choreographed rhythms while tracking how many calories you've burned. Custom playlists ensure that you only hear what you want to, unlocking additional tunes as you earn digital coins. The game's social aspects let you dance with others from around the globe, making it feel like you're at a party while showing off your latest moves from the comfort of your living room.
Motion Tennis Cast
When working as expected, the app provides a fairly realistic tennis experience.
It needs sensor improvements, which probably aren't coming since the app hasn't been updated since 2015.
Just because you might not have a Nintendo Wii doesn't mean that you can't play a motion-controlled tennis match in front of your television. Motion Tennis Cast combines your Android smartphone's motion detection with Chromecast to make you feel like you're actually out on the court serving and volleying. You're given the choice to play on grass, clay or a synthetic surface as you take on the computer or challenge real players online, all the while recording how much exercise you're getting in the game's calorie tracking feature.
RISK: Global Domination
This app isn't perfect, but it's one of the best digital adaptations of RISK we've come across.
The seemingly large number of cheaters constantly lurking in online multiplayer mode.
Seinfeld fans may think of RISK as the game that made Kramer and Newman take drastic measures to get an edge, going as far as breaking into Jerry's apartment to shift game pieces around. This classic title tends to get the competitive juices flowing, with a lofty goal like ruling the world tough to resist.
Adapted for the big-screen and Chromecast, RISK: Global Domination lets you test your strategy with up to six players, no matter if they're sitting on your couch or sitting halfway around the world. Defend what's yours and attempt to conquer other lands as you work your way up the leaderboard ranks in a truly addictive, engaging contest.
Tankcast
It brings back nostalgia.
Controls can take some getting used to, even in such a basic game.
An old-fashioned game reminisicent of early Atari or ColecoVision titles, Tankcast lets you battle one-on-one on your Chromecast-connected TV. Gamers from a certain generation will be brought back to their youth as soon as they fire upon their opponent, while younger folks can experience the simple yet fun gameplay of yesteryear.
Does an excellent job of bringing the Twitch livestream experience to your television.
You won't find many of the customizable settings offered in the computer-based version.
While Amazon's Twitch isn't technically a game in itself, it belongs on this list because of the hours of entertainment that it can provide to gamers with a Chromecast. Watch previously recorded or real-time streams of professional gamers and others, chiming in on live chat throughout the experience. Sure, you can watch these streams on your phone or tablet. But casting them to your flat screen sounds much better, doesn't it?
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Pricing And Specifications Revealed For New Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio sets a new benchmark in the premium midsize SUV segment with its combination of awe-inspiring design, performance and technology and is priced from £69,500 OTR.
The Stelvio Quadrifoglio is powered by an innovative 2.9-litre V6 Bi-Turbo petrol engine, combined with the innovative Q4 all-wheel drive system, to offer a potent combination of unbeatable performance, traction, driving pleasure and safety in all situations. In normal conditions, the Q4 system transfers 100 percent of the torque to the rear axle. As the wheels approach their grip limit, the system transmits up to 50 percent of the torque to the front axle in real time, by means of a transfer case.
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio is equipped with the exclusive AlfaTM Chassis Domain Control unit, which acts as the brain to coordinate all the car's electronic systems, to deliver the best performance and the utmost driving pleasure at all times. The system simultaneously assigns specific tasks to the various active systems, such as the AlfaTM DNA Pro selector, Q4 all-wheel drive, AlfaTM Active Torque Vectoring system, AlfaTM Active Suspension system and the ESC.
The standard Torque Vectoring technology optimises the Stelvio Quadrifoglio's drive distribution and accentuates its sporting character. The two electronically controlled clutches in the rear differential make it possible to control torque delivery to each wheel separately. This ensures the optimal transfer of power to the ground even when the car is pushed to its dynamic limits, without the need for intrusive inputs from the stability control system.
The 2.9 V6 Bi-Turbo petrol engine in the Stelvio Quadrifoglio led the car to set a new lap record at the legendary Nurburgring. Delivering maximum power of 510hp at 6,500rpm and generation a maximum torque of 600Nm from 2,500 to 5,000rpm, the car is capable of sprinting from zero to 62mph in just 3.8 seconds and on to a top speed of more than 176mph, helping it to achieve a lap time of just 7minutes 51.7 seconds. This power plant is teamed with a specifically calibrated eight-speed automatic transmission that allows gear shifts in just 150 milliseconds in Race mode.
Standard specification on the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio includes 20-inch Quadrifoglio alloy wheels with specifically profiled wheel arches, restyled rear diffuser, sports exhaust with four outlets and bi-xenon headlamps with LED DRL. Inside, the Stelvio Quadrifoglio comes as standard with a leather dashboard and door tops, leather and Alcantara seats, leather steering wheel, carbon fibre trim and stainless steel pedals. The centre of the dashboard is dominated by the 8.8-inch AlfaTM Connect infotainment system, with Apple CarPlay and Android AutoTM to replicate the smartphone environment on the on-board display.
Safety specification includes advanced Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Blind Spot Monitoring (DSM), Integrated Braking System (IBS), Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and a rear-view camera with guide lines. AlfaTM Chassis Domain Control, AlfaTM Active Torque Vectoring, AlfaTM Active Suspension system and AlfaTM DNA Pro, with Race Mode, complete the standard set-up.
The new Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio is priced from £69,500 OTR.
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Streetwise Madrid Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Madrid, Spain
Michelin Streetwise Madrid Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Madrid, Spain
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Streetwise Madrid Map is a laminated city center map of Madrid, Spain. The accordion-fold pocket size travel map has integrated metro map including lines & stations.
Coverage includes:
Main Madrid Map 1:12,000
Madrid Area Map 1:87,000
Dimensions: 4" x 8.5" folded, 8.5" x 27" unfolded
Madrid sits on a plateau like an elegantly dressed matron, bejeweled with classic monuments and crowned with stately museums housing some of the world's greatest works of art. But don't be fooled by this formal exterior. At night, the confines of being the economic and governmental center of Spain are shed, and the city transforms into an energetic party girl staying out until dawn swinging through the myriad of clubs, cafes and restaurants. Madrid is compact and most of the sights of interest are found in the Centro area between the Royal Palace and Parque del Retiro. Some of the important sights not to miss are: Museo del Prado, one of the world's greatest art galleries containing important works by Spanish and European masters, the massive Royal Palace, commissioned by Philip V and open to the public, and the Plaza Mayor, Madrid's famous central arcaded square, a very lively bustling place day and night. If you re in Madrid during the bullfighting season (March to October) Plaza de Toros is Spain's largest bullring, where regular bullfights are held each Sunday. The STREETWISE® map of Madrid contains all important sites, plus hotels, metro stations and parks.
Also highlighted are special walks through old Madrid. The inset Madrid Metro map provides a quick way to travel throughout the city. The Madrid Area map inset will navigate you in and out of Madrid and help you find the Aeroporto International Barajas.
To enhance your visit to Madrid, check out the Michelin Green Guide Spain which details sites and attractions using the famed Michelin star-rating system so you can prioritize your trip based on your time and interest. For a selection of the best restaurants and hotels, buy the red MICHELIN Guide Main Cities of Europe. Plan your trip to and from Madrid using the Michelin Spain/Portugal Map Road and Tourist Map No. 734.
Michelin City Plans (Wipe & Write) - Streetwise
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Todibo interests both Barcelona and Real Madrid
Transfer Market He becomes a free agent in the summer
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As much as Barcelona would like to sign Matthijs de Ligt in the summer to strengthen their central defence, they know it won't be easy to acquire the defender from Ajax and they are, therefore, looking at other options.
One of these options is Jean-Clair Todibo, a French 18-year-old at Toulouse who is good in defence and also able to pass the ball out from the back given his history as a midfielder.
The Catalan club's technical secretary Eric Abidal knows the French market very well and MARCA has been able to confirm the interest that was initially reported by Mundo Deportivo.
There are a number of other clubs keeping tabs on Todibo and Real Madrid are one of them, so there could be a battle between the Spanish giants to sign him.
Given that Los Blancos are looking for a centre-back of the future and given that they are keen to maintain their policy of signing younger players, the teenager ticks all the boxes.
There are other big European clubs monitoring the player too, including Juventus, Manchester United, Liverpool, Napoli and Borussia Dortmund.
"He'll go to a big league soon," his agent Bruno Satin recently said of the centre-back.
"He wants to show himself that he can take that step and he isn't afraid to take on the best.
"I'm sure he could go to a big club without going out on loan."
Making his situation all the more interesting is the fact that his contract runs out in June, meaning he'd be a free agent.
He has refused to renew with Toulouse and this has cost him in the short term, as they've stopped playing him and have separated him from the first team.
At the same time, Toulouse are aware that they could see him walk away for free in just a few months and would, therefore, be willing to negotiate a transfer fee in January.
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China iPhone deal faces trademark conflict
A Chinese company that owns the trademark “i-phone” has said it is not in talks with Apple, even though Apple may need the company's blessing to sell its similarly named iPhone in China.
Apple is in negotiations with carrier China Unicom to offer the iPhone, and in April it said it hoped to start sales in China in the next year.
But Hanwang Technology, a maker of devices and Chinese handwriting recognition systems, owns the trademark “i-phone” for mobile phones in China. The iPhone’s similar name would make it illegal to sell in China, said Wang Hao, general manager of BSFD, an intellectual property law agency in Beijing.
Apple applied to register the iPhone trademark in China in late 2002, but its application only covered computer hardware and software, not mobile phones, according to the Web site of China's trademark office.
Two years later Hanwang, also known as Hanvon, applied to register the i-phone trademark in the category covering phone equipment including mobile handsets. The company went on to sell a handset called i-phone, a Hanwang spokeswoman said.
To sell the iPhone in China, Apple would need to reach an agreement with Hanwang or apply for the trademark office to revoke Hanwang’s trademark, said Wang. Revoking a trademark usually takes three to four years and is a process unlikely to succeed, Wang said.
Hanwang has not been contacted by Apple about the issue, the Hanwang spokeswoman said. It also has not received notification from China’s trademark office of any action by the U.S. company, she said.
She declined to comment when asked what Hanwang would do if Apple announced plans to sell the iPhone in China.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
Smuggled iPhones are already extremely popular among wealthy, urban Chinese. There are already more than 1 million iPhones in China, consultancy Ovum estimates.
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The Week in iPad Cases: Hello.
By Marco Tabini
It's time for the latest roundup of protective accessories for your iPad. In this installment, we bring you the usual mix of cases for all tastes and needs—and an old friend makes a surprise appearance.
Acase's Omni
Acase: The Omni (iPad 2 and iPad 3; price unavailable) is an ultraslim portfolio-style case made of PU leather and available in black with a subtle, brown trim. In addition to protecting your tablet from bumps and scratches, it features a built-in Bluetooth keyboard and an extendable pull-out flap that makes it easier to stand the iPad upright for typing or viewing.
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G-Form's Extreme Edge
G-Form: The Extreme Edge (all iPad models; $40) is a protective solution designed for active and extreme use. Its foam padding keeps your tablet safe, while the military-grade ballistic fabric provides additional protection against bumps and scrapes. As an added bonus, the case, according to the manufacturer, fits most tablets up to 10 inches in size—which is great if you happen to have more than one iPad around, but only need to take one out of the house at a time.
Sherpa's Original Sherpa
Sherpa: The Original Sherpa (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $25) is a handy case for the iPad that comes with a convenient shoulder strap that helps keep your hands free while you're on the road. In addition to the original model, the company also sells a Magnetic edition (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $50), which is compatible with the iPad's magnetic sleep/wake feature, and the Scribe (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $60), which also includes a silicone Bluetooth keyboard.
ThinkGeek's Padintosh
ThinkGeek: The Padintosh (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $25) is a snap-on hardshell case that protects the back of your iPad—and sports a picture of the original Macintosh, complete with its iconic “hello.” text, written using MacPaint. The case is made of ultrathin (2mm) material that fits snuggly around your tablet, and it’s even compatible with Apple's own Smart Cover. A series of cutouts provide unhindered access to the iPad's cameras, controls, and ports.
Toast's walnut cover
Toast: This company's iPad back covers (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $45) are made of real wood veneer that is specially scored so as to bend and conform to the iPad's contours precisely. The cases are also compatible with the Smart Cover thanks to a small tab that can be peeled off to accommodate Apple's screen-protecting accessory. The covers are available in three woods—walnut, bamboo, and ash—and can be personalized with a line of custom text for an additional $5.
Vaja's Smart Grip
Vaja: The Smart Grip (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $100) is a snap-on, hardshell back cover crafted from leather. It weighs less than four ounces yet still provides excellent protection for your iPad. The body and inside of the case, which is handmade using a process that takes twenty days, can be manufactured in a variety of custom color combinations chosen from a selection of over two dozen base hues.
ZooGue's Genius Pro
ZooGue: The Genius Pro (iPad 2 and iPad 3; $50) is a case hand-made using premium leather. It can be propped up for viewing and typing at a variety of angles in landscape orientation. The case's cover closes securely thanks to its magnetic clasp, which is also compatible with the iPad's magnetic sleep/wake feature, and its microfiber interior contributes to keeping your tablet's screen tidy. The Genius Pro features enhanced corner and side padding to protect your tablet from bumps and scratches, and the case comes in black or pink.
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Home News Education News McKinney ISD Leverages Naviance to Build Pathways to College and Career Success
McKinney ISD Leverages Naviance to Build Pathways to College and Career Success
According to College Board, only 43% of college-bound seniors in the U.S. are prepared for college, with fewer than one in two students meeting "college readiness" standards in Texas.
In an effort to promote post-secondary success, McKinney Independent School District (ISD) has partnered with Hobsons to implement Naviance, the world's most widely adopted college-and career-readiness platform. The solution will help McKinney students to connect personal skills to college and career goals, track progress towards those goals through individual plans of study, and simplify the college application process.
Spanning eight campuses at McKinney – including middle and high schools – Naviance will enable educators to facilitate the college search process, career exploration and course planning for their students, and allow school counselors and administrators to track and monitor the progress of their students through Naviance's reporting and analytics tools. Using Naviance Course Planner, the school district plans to introduce an electronic version of four-year course plans to for students and families to monitor constantly to better prepare students for their college majors or careers of choice.
"Naviance will offer better college- and career-preparation resources for our students, allow them to chart a path to reach a career, and help our school and district staff communicate more effectively with students and their families about college and career planning decisions," said Tamy Smalskas, director of Career and Technical Education and Special Projects, McKinney ISD.
"We will also be using Naviance Course Planner to create four-year course plans that will help our students tie what they're doing in the classroom to their future goals."
Through Naviance Course Planner, schools can also manage more efficiently the process of tracking and reporting on CTE courses, which is a requirement in the state of Texas.
Additionally, McKinney will implement Naviance eDocs to automate the delivery of college application documents such as transcripts and letters of recommendation, thus improving operational efficiency and reducing costs associated with mailing paper documents. Naviance eDocs allows seniors to prepare and send college application documentation electronically to more than 1,700 destinations around the world.
Smalskas said that each of McKinney ISD’s high schools have already begun implementing the Career Planning and College Planning features of the Family Connection section of Naviance and that information updates will be provided at the campus level as more features are made available.
“It is our hope that within a year students and families will be utilizing the entire array of Family Connection features in the Naviance program,” said Smalskas, “including 4-year course planning, college planning, and the career inventory and planning. All the counselors have been trained on how to use the college planning and career planning component, which I expect all secondary students to begin using now.”
For additional information on McKinney ISD, contact Shane Mauldin, MISD Communications Specialist, at 469-302-4007 or smauldin@mckinneyisd.net.
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Concord City Council to appoint new member to…
Concord City Council to appoint new member to fill Mark Peterson’s seat
By Paul Thissen | Berkeley Voice, Bay Area News Group, Mercury News
CONCORD — Another new face will join Concord’s City Council early next year, taking a seat beside the three candidates voters chose earlier this month and sitting Councilman Bill Shinn.
And it will likely be those four council members who choose their fifth colleague, because they say a special election would be too expensive.
The vacancy comes because Councilman Mark Peterson was elected Contra Costa County District Attorney, requiring him to give up the seat he has held on the council since 1995.
The remaining four council members — Shinn, longtime Councilwoman Laura Hoffmeister, and newcomers Tim Grayson and Ron Leone — will have the choice between making an appointment or setting a special election.
All four say the city can’t afford a special election, which City Clerk Mary Rae Lehman said would cost more than $100,000.
But they have yet to decide how the appointment will be made. State law gives them wide latitude on how they make their choice, and whom they choose.
Grayson, Hoffmeister and Shinn said they were still considering what process should be used. They want to get more information from the city’s staff and from their fellow council members, they said.
Leone said the City Council should take applications and hold interviews, as it did three years ago to fill the seat vacated when Councilman Michael Chavez died. Leone applied for that seat, which was eventually filled by Guy Bjerke.
Ed Birsan, the fourth-place candidate in the election, said he should get the seat.
“It’s very simple. If there had been four seats open, who would have gotten the fourth seat?” Birsan said.
Appointing someone else to the seat would be ignoring the voters’ will, he said.
“We each represented different views, different points of views, and represented our sections of the dynamic of the city,” Birsan said. “After all, we’re all concerned about Concord “… it’s sort of ideal for fence-mending and for unification of the community.”
The timing of the choice depends on when Peterson officially vacates his seat, which he must do before Jan. 3. He said he is still finalizing his plans, but he expects to step down in the first few days of January, giving the city 60 days to fill his seat.
Because of a quirk of state law, the city council would have only 30 days to act if he steps down before Jan. 1.
If the four-member council votes 2-2 in selecting a fifth member and can’t resolve the stalemate, a special election would automatically be triggered, City Manager Dan Keen said.
Contact Paul Thissen at 925-943-8163. Follow him at Twitter.com/pthissen.
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Gas-Fired Water Heater Safety
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been working to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths from gas-fired water heaters.
The Commission was briefed on the issue by CPSC staff in June of 1994. The Commission let the industry know that it wanted to see a solution to this problem, and that it was considering development of a Federal regulation that would address the problem of flammable vapor ignition in gas-fired heaters.
Prior to 1994, the Commission staff had been seeking a permanent, technical solution to the hazard of flammable vapors. Commission staff believed that this problem required not only the education of consumers about the proper use and storage of flammable liquids, but also a redesign of water heaters.
Following the June 1994 Commission meeting, industry officials informed the Commission that they were working on a technical solution -- a redesign of water heaters -- that would eliminate the ignition of flammable vapors by water heaters. Industry also expressed a willingness to work closely in voluntary cooperation with CPSC on the issue.
Giving industry the opportunity to voluntarily develop the technology necessary to achieve a permanent solution has several advantages over regulation. The voluntary approach results in manufacturers investing their own resources in developing test methodologies -- saving taxpayer dollars and making use of industry's knowledge and technical expertise about the product they manufacture.
In December, 1994, following the water heater manufacturers' offer to work with CPSC to eliminate the hazard, the Commission agreed to postpone the regulatory process. But, CPSC Chairman Ann Brown expressly stated that industry must make real progress toward a technical solution and on developing a performance standard by which the safety of any new design could be measured.
As part of the CPSC's participation with industry in the efforts to reach a technical solution to this problem, CPSC staff has been closely monitoring the development of vapor-ignition resistant water heaters by the Water Heater Joint Research and Development Consortium. Three prototypes have already been tested and performed well in flammability tests.
The industry is funding the independent development of that performance test standard. The Gas Research Institute is developing a way to test gas-fired water heaters to ensure that they will not ignite flammable vapors. A technical advisory group consisting of representatives from the gas industry, manufacturers, industry trade associations and CPSC staff, oversees this project.
The Commission has also worked with industry to educate the public on the hazard of flammable vapors. The Commission endorsed a large public information campaign launched by the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association in 1994 which included television commercials and materials designed to appeal to and inform children about the hazard. In addition, the Commission published its own information on the hazard in its home and fire safety brochures.
To reduce the hazard of flammable vapors, consumers should:
>Make sure gas-fired water heaters are installed according to code requirements;
Where possible, elevate heaters 18 inches from the floor, whether installed in a basement or garage;
Never use gasoline to clean equipment or tools;
Use gasoline only as a motor fuel;
Store gasoline only in tightly sealed red containers intended for gasoline; and
Keep all flammable materials and liquids away from gas-fired water heaters.
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Thai Weave Inspiration
Ceramic Bowl and Plate Set with Blue Glaze from Thailand, 'Thai Weave Inspiration'
Thai artisans Thatsanee and Ramphan pay homage to the ancient weaving traditions of Thailand with this beautiful bowl and plate set. The set of one bowl and one plate is crafted using time-honored celadon ceramic techniques and given a blue crackle glaze. A colorful patterned band reminiscent of Thai textiles is hand-painted on both pieces.
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Plate: 1.1" H x 7.75" Diam.
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Artfully crafted by Thatsanee and Ramphan from Thailand.
Thatsanee and Ramphan
"The success we have been reaping is not just from the celadon we love. It is from the nice, gentle and humble mentality from our ancestors that has been passed on to all of us."
Thatsanee was born in Sankamphang, a land of beautiful and attractive handicrafts, celadon items chief among them. According to Thatsanee, "I worked in a bank for quite a few years but the office work prevented me from admiring the beauty of the handicrafts of my area. The advantage of working in the bank was that I could access fund resources so that I got some small capital to be able to start up a little celadon kiln and workshop along with my partner Kanda. Working with celadon was a dream of mine, and being able to focus my life in this special traditional craft of Thailand brought deep meaning to me. Soonafter I was joined by Ramphan Khumsingkaew, an extraordinary painter, and we all helped to form the base of our small team many years ago."
Master painter and artist Ramphan (pictured here) tells her story: "Dearest Novica clients, we are artists in the celadon ceramic tradition, one of the three main ceramic styles in Thailand, dating back many hundreds of years. The traditional green tones of the glaze are intended to bring to mind the tonal qualities of jade. The celadon glaze is thick and strong, yet has many intricate weblike cracks in its surface for an antique feel.
"I initially learned how to paint basic patterns such as bamboo and lotus, focusing on that for a period of three years. Then I learned more intricate and artistic Thai patterns that I have been painting up to now. My inspiration comes from Thai culture and traditions, and my personal experiences in day-to-day life.
"Painting on celadon can be quite difficult, for this kind of ceramic has a rough surface; it requires much skill and patience, and it sometimes takes me a month to complete a single piece. I am very proud of my work.
"At present, I lead a happy and peaceful life. I have a loving family with two children. I intend to continue my painting career and would be pleased to teach others, for I hope that my work will never be forgotten."
Thatsanee adds, "Our work ethos is included the King's teachings on 'Economic Sufficiency,' which encourages to be efficient in all aspects of life and to always learn new things and new techniques. Then we add morality into it, for we work with happiness and care for each other. We're all members of a big family, and always help each other. The most important thing is that we understand each other above all, and that we understand the beauty of our art and traditions.
"My main focus in handling all celadon work is focused on the happiness and satisfaction of my team and myself. Good life and good will between all of us is the most important thing for me. As such, I do only good things for myself and every one around me. The result is that the team and I are equally proud of being able to present the beauty of a local art and handicraft from Chiang Mai to the world.
"Finally, a noble motivation also helps. We work with the sense that we are continuing history, our heritage. The products are beautiful and unique. Celadon is anchored in the Lanna culture. The fine skill needed to create it and that it is useful in these modern times is what makes the work meaningful.
"We specialize in seven main categories, which include monotone celadon (in green or blue); carved; art design (where the color is painted under the glazing); Lanna Celadon (depicting Lanna life); Benja Celadon (featuring five main colors); lacquer Celadon (applying lacquer ware texture); and Celadon Jewelry, which is elegant and unique celadon jewelry.
"As a local Thai woman, I feel so proud to have the chance to create and present unique celadon items to the world. The success we have been reaping is not just from the celadon we love. It is from the nice, gentle and humble mentality from our ancestors that has been passed on to all of us.
"Working with celadon was a dream of mine, and being able to focus my life in this special traditional craft of Thailand has brought deep meaning to me."
This item was handmade in Thailand. UNICEF helped thousands of children across Thailand keep learning after the 2004 tsunami destroyed their schools.
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JC Penney and Coke steal Super Bowl ad spotlight
JC Penney and Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl marketing campaigns sparked outrage and praise during last night’s match (2 February) making them among the most-talked about ads in the game.
By Seb Joseph 3 Feb 2014 10:19 am
The hotly anticipated match-up between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos ended up becoming a one-sided affair as the former steam-rollered their opponents to claim their first Super Bowl trophy. Despite not having much to talk about by way of match highlights, fans and in some cases brands took the opportunity to air views on some of the more polarizing campaigns from Super Bowl advertisers.
Department store JC Penney attracted lots of attention for two (seemingly) clumsily written tweets about the earlier plays in the game. One post read: “Toughdown Seadawks!! Is sSeattle going toa runaway wit h this???”
Observers were quick to pounce on the nonesencal tweets with some claiming that the person managing the Twitter account was either drunk or had been hacked. Kia Motors tweeted: “Hey @jcpenney need a designated driver”, while Coors Light posted: “.JCPenney We know football goes great with Coors Light, but please tweet responsibly”.
The department store’s fleet-footed riposte to the observations signaled its initial tweets had been planned all along with it revealing it had actually been “tweeting with mittens” on – a plug for its Team USA mittens ahead of the Winter Olympics later this week (7 February). The tweet generated more than 31,000 retweets and 11,800 favourites.
Elsewhere, Coke’s bid to communicate more pointed diversity messages divided Super Bowl viewers. The drinks maker ran an ad, titled “It’s Beautiful”, featuring people from different religions, ethnic backgrounds and individuals in classic scenes of American life including two male partners and their daughter going roller skating. The ad (see below) is soundtracked to a chorus of children singing “America the beautiful” which starts off being sung in English before also being sung in languages such as Hindi and Arabic.
The ad, which is the first Super Bowl spot to feature a gay couple, was one of the most talked-about during the game with reaction from fans who hated it and those who loved it. Some Coke fans tweeted they would never drink the brand again as a result of the song being sung in foreign languages, while others praised the ad for trying to tackle political subjects such as gay marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs
This year’s Super Bowl was billed as the battle of the real-time marketers as brands looked for their own Oreo “Dunk in the Dunk” moment. The efforts were stunted by the game’s lack of real talking points and so brands turned on each other to spark conversation.
Jaguar took a swipe at Maserati’s spot for its new Ghiblu ad (see below) with the tweet: “Did you know that #ghibli means hot air? Seems appropriate. CC: Maserati_HQ #GoodToBeBad”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsrdldNAMM
Meanwhile, Doritos and telecoms firm Verizon exchanged playful chides during the game.
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Another year, another loss. The latest figures from Ocado mean the online grocery firm still hasn’t managed to turn a pre-tax profit in its 14 years of business. This despite the UK grocery market hitting what CEO Tim Steiner describes as an “inflexion” point as shoppers rapidly move online.
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Diageo credits marketing for delivering GB’s return to growth
Seb Joseph
Diageo credited the “exceptional” campaigns for Guinness and Captain Morgan for helping return sales across Great Britain to growth for the first time in several quarters as its efforts to drive marketing efficiencies across Western Europe started to take effect.
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Is 'Robo' Warren Buffett Coming Soon?
By Rob Daly
Is ‘Robo’ Warren Buffett Coming Soon?
‘WWWD?’ is a question some of the more ardent devotees of Warren Buffett ask themselves before making an investment decision — that is, what would Warren do?
That acronym may be expanded to WWRWD within the next decade, as people turn to a digital version of the Oracle of Omaha for wealth-management counsel.
Financial advisors of 2026 can expect to face more competition for their piece of the wealth-management pie, as so-called robo advisors gain traction and win over more customers.
The local-branch financial advisor for all but the highest-net-worth clients likely will be replaced by automated advisory platforms power by artificial intelligence, according to Grant Easterbrook, co-founder of 401(k) company Dream Forward Financial.
Mansi Singhal, co-founder of robo-advisory platform provider qplum, is seeing the onset of this. “We work with a lot of asset managers when we integrate our platform, and we see this fear in financial advisors’ eyes that robo advisors will replace a whole lot of them,” she said.
Grant Easterbrook, Dream Forward Financial
Although some people remain skeptical about artificial intelligence’s capabilities, Easterbrook equates recent advances in AI to having the industry go from playing checkers to playing chess with the technology.
“Imagine a phone application that looked like Warren Buffett,” he said. “You could ask the app any time of day: ‘Warren, what does this mean again?’ or ‘Warren, should I be doing this?’ and get a pretty good answer.”
Easterbrook also sees these platforms supporting more complex, highly personalized products like insurance and retirement planning, in addition to the support of the more basic managed accounts, remote human advisory, and trading advice that is available on today’s second-generation advisory platforms.
“These are mass industries with complex products and zero transparency” he said. “There’s a reason why they have 50-page documents written in a 10-point font.”
Third-generation robo advisors likely will not take over complex tasks, such as estate-, tax-, and multi-generational planning, since few people would be comfortable relying solely on an automated platform no matter how flawless an AI might be, according to Easterbrook.
“Tax planning alone is extremely complicated for high-net-worth individuals,” he said. “Portions of the process might be automated like filling out forms online before a human advisor reviews them before signing off on them. There are ways to make the process more efficient, but it will be hard to automate to the extent that something like portfolio investments can be automated.”
No matter what, next-generation platforms will continue to compress advisory fees, just as automated trading tools compressed trading commission beginning in the 1990s. There will be other byproducts as well. “The increased transparency that comes with automation will prevent things like advisors putting clients in certain funds, and double-dipping,” Easterbrook explained.
One thing automation will not take away is the relationship aspect between a financial advisor and their high-net-worth clients, according to qplum’s Singhal.
“All they are going to have left will be the trust that they have built with their client,” agreed Easterbrook. “They’ve built that when they’ve called and calmed down their clients Susan, Sally, or Joe when they’re freaking out about the market.”
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Time/CNN: Now Hear This
By Jeffrey Kluger
If you’re like most people, you’re way too smart for advertising. You flip right past newspaper ads, never click on ads online and leave the room during TV commercials.
That, at least, is what we tell ourselves. But what we tell ourselves is hooey. Advertising works, which is why, even in hard economic times, Madison Avenue is a $34 billion–a–year business. And if Martin Lindstrom–author of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for FORTUNE 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disney–is correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get a whole lot harder.
Lindstrom is a practitioner of neuromarketing research, in which consumers are exposed to ads while hooked up to machines that monitor brain activity, pupil dilation, sweat responses and flickers in facial muscles, all of which are markers of emotion. According to his studies, 83% of all forms of advertising principally engage only one of our senses: sight. Hearing, however, can be just as powerful, though advertisers have taken only limited advantage of it. Historically, ads have relied on jingles and slogans to catch our ear, largely ignoring everyday sounds–a steak sizzling, a baby laughing and other noises our bodies can’t help paying attention to. Weave this stuff into an ad campaign, and we may be powerless to resist it.
To figure out what most appeals to our ear, Lindstrom wired up his volunteers, then played them recordings of dozens of familiar sounds, from McDonald’s ubiquitous “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle to birds chirping and cigarettes being lit. The sound that blew the doors off all the rest–both in terms of interest and positive feelings–was a baby giggling. The other high-ranking sounds were less primal but still powerful. The hum of a vibrating cell phone was Lindstrom’s second-place finisher. Others that followed were an ATM dispensing cash, a steak sizzling on a grill and a soda being popped and poured.
In all of these cases, it didn’t take a Mad Man to invent the sounds, infuse them with meaning and then play them over and over until the subjects internalized them. Rather, the sounds already had meaning and thus triggered a cascade of reactions: hunger, thirst, happy anticipation.
“Cultural messages that get into your nervous system are very common and make you behave certain ways,” says neuroscientist Read Montague of Baylor College of Medicine. Advertisers who fail to understand that pay a price. Lindstrom admits to being mystified by TV ads that give viewers close-up food-porn shots of meat on a grill but accompany that with generic jangly guitar music. One of his earlier brain studies showed that numerous regions, including the insula and orbital frontal cortex, jump into action when such discordance occurs, trying to make sense of it.
TV advertisers aren’t the only ones who may start putting sound to greater use. Retailers are also catching on. The 0101 department store in Japan, for example, has been designed as a series of soundscapes, playing different sound effects such as children at play, birdsongs and lapping water in the sportswear, fragrance and formal-wear sections. Lindstrom is consulting with clients about employing a similar strategy in European supermarkets, piping the sound of percolating coffee or fizzing soda into the beverage department or that of a baby cooing into the baby-food aisle.
None of this means that advertisers just have to turn the audio dials and consumers will come running. Indeed, sometimes they flee. In the early years of mainstream cell-phone use, the Nokia ringtone was recognized by 42% of people in the U.K.–and soon became widely loathed. That, Lindstrom says, was partly because so few users practiced cell-phone etiquette and the blasted things kept going off in movie theaters. The Microsoft start-up sound has taken on similarly negative associations, because people so often hear it when they’re rebooting after their computer has crashed. In these cases, manufacturers themselves must reboot by changing the offending sound slightly or replacing it entirely.
If history is any indication, marketers will keep getting more manipulative, and the storm of commercial noise will become more focused. Even then, there may be hope: Lindstrom’s testing shows that people respond to a sound better when it’s subtler. If nothing else, smart marketers may at least keep the volume low.
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What new ad trickery awaits? Find out at time.com/addictive_sounds
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Vincent Kompany savours '... Vincent Kompany savours ‘hardest, most satisfying’ title
Vincent Kompany savours ‘hardest, most satisfying’ title
by Andy Sims Published May 13, 2019 Published May 13, 2019
VINCENT KOMPANY claims Manchester City’s latest title success was the most difficult, and the most satisfying, of them all.
The Belgian defender (pictured above) lifted his fourth Premier League trophy after a 4-1 win over Brighton ensured City pipped rivals Liverpool by one point.
He told the club website: ‘It was the hardest and most satisfying Premier League title win ever.
‘Liverpool were exceptional this year and I don’t mean to rub it in — it is what it is — they didn’t deserve to be second this year.
Champions: Kompany of Manchester City lifts the Premier League trophy after Man City’s win against Brighton PICTURE: PA
‘But that only makes me that much more happy that we’ve been up against such a good team and when our backs were against the wall we kept finding the results.
‘We won at the Etihad against Liverpool and I think that made the difference and once we got our noses in front, we were able to stay in front. I’m so happy for myself, the team and our fans.’
There were a nervous few minutes at the Amex Stadium when news filtered through that Liverpool had gone ahead against Wolves, before Glenn Murray headed Brighton into a shock lead.
‘I wasn’t aware,’ added Kompany. ‘I did hear the Brighton fans singing “1-0 to the Liverpool” and then we fell behind, but we’ve done it before and we stayed calm.’
Brighton’s lead lasted just 83 seconds before Sergio Aguero equalised, and there were to be no more twists and turns after Aymeric Laporte headed them into the lead.
Further goals from Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan got the party started — and it lasted well into the night with celebrations on the Amex pitch, in the dressing room, and then back in Manchester outside the Etihad Stadium.
‘We felt we did everything we needed to do and were magnificent,’ said Kompany.
‘This title is a combination of the staff, the group of players we have and the desire we have to over-achieve, and it’s hard to over-achieve with a team as good as we have.
‘It wasn’t just the way we won – we had so many clean sheets on the run-in, it was ridiculous, and won our last 14 games.
‘I’m so proud of the guys because when we had to dig deep and defend and win 1-0, we did it again and again.
‘We’re looking forward to the FA Cup final now. What we are doing is unprecedented and we are just thinking about the game against Watford now.’
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Old Saybrook PD: Trio tried to use Clinton woman’s identity to illegally buy phones
Allegedly defrauded 80-year-old of $1,000
By Press Staff
Published 10:17 am EDT, Friday, October 16, 2015
Esmaylin Delacruz, Latonya Roberts and Francisco Zambrano
Photo: Courtesy Old Saybrook Police
OLD SAYBROOK >> Three people were arrested Thursday after police say they conspired to steal a woman’s identity to purchase $1,200 worth of cell phones.
Esmaylin Delacruz, 28, of Milford; Francisco Zambrano, 31, of New Haven; and Latonya Roberts, 42, of Bridgeport were involved in an incident in Old Saybrook Thursday, police say.
Zambrano and Roberts appeared Friday in Middletown court to answer several charges in the case, police spokesman Lt. Kevin Roche said in a press release Friday.
Police responded to the AT&T store on Main Street in Old Saybrook Thursday after receiving a report of a suspicious female customer.
Officers allegedly found Roberts was trying to use the identity of another person — a Clinton woman in her 80s — to purchase the phones.
Officers also allegedly found Roberts had 11 fraudulent Connecticut and Pennsylvania drivers licenses in her possession, as well as two fraudulent credit cards.
Roche said Zambrano had been outside the store when police arrived, acting as a lookout. He took off when police showed up but they tracked him down at the train station, where he had purchased a ticket to New Haven.
Police allegedly found Zambrano had six fraudulent Connecticut and Pennsylvania licenses on him and he had two outstanding warrants for his arrest from other police departments.
Officers found Delacruz in a vehicle near the AT&T store, waiting for Roberts and Zambrano to return. He allegedly had 14 fraudulent Connecticut and Pennsylvania licenses, as well as $1,200 worth of phones illegally obtained from a different AT&T store.
Roche said Delacruz also had an illegal credit card embosser, which is used to put names on cards.
Delacruz, who lives on Knoll Avenue in Milford, was charged with conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny, unlawful possession of a credit card embossing machine, third-degree larceny by possession and 14 counts of second-degree forgery. He was released Thursday night after posting $100,000 bond. He’s due in court Oct. 27.
Zambrano, who lives on Greenwich Avenue in New Haven, was charged with conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny and six counts of second-degree forgery. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Roberts, who lives on Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport, was charged with attempted third-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny, second-degree identity theft, criminal impersonation, 11 counts of second-degree forgery and two counts of credit card forgery. She was held in lieu of $150,000 bail.
Roberts’ and Delacruz’s cases were continued to Oct. 27.
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Denver law firm representing plaintiffs in defective eclipse glasses class action lawsuit
Photo by NASA's Carla Thomas
By Susanna Speier
The bad news is that the most viewed eclipse in history resulted in permanent eye injuries for people who purchased counterfeit or defective eclipse glasses on Amazon. The good news? If your eyes were fried by last month's eclipse, there is now a class action personal injury lawsuit pending and one of the law firms representing the plaintiffs is the Hannon Law Firm, LLC which is conveniently located on Downing Street in Denver, Colorado.
The class action lawsuit against Amazon was filed on August 29th by a Charleston, South Carolina couple who sustained eye injuries after viewing the August 21st eclipse. The compensation is an undisclosed amount that will exceed $75,000 according to the Class Action Complaint on file. "Corey Payne and Kayla Harris said they experienced headaches and vision impairment after using the glasses to watch the US eclipse on 21 August," reported the BBC last week.
Amazon issued a recall on August 10th, however the South Carolina couple says they were not notified in time and ended up viewing the eclipse through defective glasses. The couple experienced headaches, watery eyes and dizziness in the hours following the eclipse and reported experiencing distorted vision during the days that followed.
According to PBS digital science producer, Nsikan Akpan, Amazon had been offering to reimburse customers who purchased defective glasses before the eclipse however Amazon refused to list names of the vendors carrying the faulty products.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provided information to the public on how to obtain ISO and ISO 12312-2 compliant glasses. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) also issued a list specifying credible eclipse glasses retailers vendors along with credible sources for camera lens solar filters.
According to ABC, "Paper Optics" was one of the manufacturers responsible for selling products that resulted in eye damage however, the name of the manufacturer is not specified on the Class Action Complaint and Amazon currently carries a number of American Paper Optics product listings with no mention of the lawsuit. An Amazon sellers forum, however, is discussing the lawsuit.
On their website, American Paper Optics claims to be ISO certified and tested. The company is also first on the AAS list of safe manufacturers. A safety notification on American Paper Optics' website however illustrates the visual characteristics that distinguish real from counterfeit eclipse glasses.
"American Paper Optics" is a Tennessee based company who, according to TopClassActionsDOTcom "projected it would make and sell 100 million pairs of eclipse glasses, about 10 million of which were sold to Amazon.
"Amazon attempted to recall these Amazon eclipse glasses in an email announcement sent out Aug. 19, two days before the eclipse. The email stated that the supplier of Amazon eclipse glasses could not confirm that they were produced by a recommended manufacturer. Amazon recommended that people not use the glasses to view the eclipse.
The plaintiffs say this recall announcement was “tragically too little, too late.” Despite the allegedly inadequate email announcement, plaintiffs and their proposed Class Members still used these Amazon eclipse glasses to view the eclipse, exposing themselves to eye damage.
Payne says he bought a three-pack of eclipse glasses from Amazon on Aug. 1. He and Harris, his fiancée, say they never got notice of the Amazon eclipse glasses recall before they used these glasses to watch the eclipse."
"The safety of solar eclipse glasses was a major concern of astronomy experts in the weeks leading up to the much-watched event," according to MarketWatch, "Third-party online vendors, such as Amazon and eBay, EBAY... monitored their sites for counterfeit solar eclipse glasses, removing posts and refunding customers for glasses that were not compliant with safety standards, both companies told MarketWatch," when interviewed for the story.
The United States district court document excerpt is attached below. The complete document was obtained through Geekwire and you can click through to view that document in full. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the case.
A screenshot of American Paper Optics' warning is also included along with a link to their website. It is still unclear whether the glasses the plaintiffs purchased through Amazon were counterfeit or defective, however we expect to be learning more shortly.
Party like a gumshoe at the Clyfford Still Museum's DiSTILLed: Noir
With 8.4 breweries per capita (Colorado is third in the nation) Denver distilleries are no anomaly. Given the mile high city's epic frontier, crime and bootlegger history, however it is surprising that Detective and film noir themed parties are as rare as grizzly bear sightings.
You'll be able to catch one of those rare opportunities on Saturday, July 8th when the Clifford Still Museum hosts DiSTILLed: Noir. The theme draws inspiration from Shade: Clyfford Still/Mark Bradford, an exhibit they are running in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum.
The invitation encourages participants to "dress in your noir best" which may actually make this the best private investigator date night event in the city's post-speakeasy history. The party will also include blackout poetry (popularized by the writer Austin Kleon) and a detail detective game to play in the galleries.
Tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. As well as getting you access to the party and galleries, entry includes two bands (one of them is blues) spinning spiral video projections, a cash bar with a selection of locally brewed gin, beer and vodka. There will also be a selection of Filipino food and Sleuths with a sweet tooth can hover by the candy station!
The Clyfford Still museum is located at:
1250 Bannock Street
DiSTILLed Noir takes place Saturday, July 8th from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
Advanced tickets available on the website.
For discounted parking garages near the Museum, guests may use Parking Panda and the promotion code: CLYFFORD15. Metered street parking is also available. Bike racks are located on the south side of the Museum.
If you're planning to drive in from Wyoming, Ft Collins, Boulder, Louisville or Westminster click here for directions. If you're coming from Colorado Springs, Monument, Castle Rock, Centennial, Parker, Lone Tree, Englewood other places south of Denver, drive north on I-25 to the Lincoln-Broadway exit (207).
Denver private investigator PI story roundup and the best and worst Colorado climates for summer surveillance jobs
Over the last week three local and national stories have found themselves on private investigator radars and heat maps. We've taken you to the International Spy Museum before but this week. The New York Times' Shivani Vora, however, just wrote about the museum's now flourishing golden age age of tourism due to the increased concerns over Russian intervention in United States politics.
You can't not love Duncan Strauss' widely shared Washington Post story about full-time lost pet investigator, Jamie Katz enough. In the two-years since founding her business Katz has reunited 150 animals with their owners. You'll also find out about pioneer of pet investigation, Kat Albrecht who has trained hundred of pet investigator proteges.
Last week's biggest hit new story may have actually been in our homegrown Denver Post. Chris Osher's story "Colorado's Pricey Polygraph Test discusses Colorado's use of the problematic polygraph test with sex offenders. Is this a fair game for law enforcement to play?
Finally, with summer surveillance assignments round the corner, what could be more worth a trip to the hardware store than a cooler than a cooler tricked up to actually stay cool for a long period of time?
This gem was brought to our attention by Joe LaSorsa of LaSorsa & Associates security group. No word yet on how long it'll actually keep your bottled water cool but we'd welcome your feedback.
What we do know, for certain is that in 2017, Colorado had it's warmest March on record, according to the National Centers for Environment Information but ultimately it'll depend on where your surveillance assignment is.
Summer days in Sedgwick and Las Animas will be exceptionally excruciating according to Colorado State's Colorado Extremes map so if surveillance is your specialty you may want to consider preparing multiple coolers for the regions' extreme heat.
A visit to the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. is one-third theme park, one-third History Channel documentary and one third behemoth shrine to every imaginable type of gadgetry that you may or may not have imagined.
On the outside It's a corner building near to the Shakespeare Theater and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery where you enter through the gift shop. Did I mention a lot of gadgetry?
Interactive elements make the museum exceptionally kid-friendly. And they seem to have all kinds of educational outreach initiatives going on. But back to the gadgetry, which isn't only hard to take in but difficult to focus on due to the shifting polyphonic soundtracks as you walk through the exhibits. And the video screens and the blinking lights. Wait...where was I?
Okay, the blurbs on the plaques are robust with meticulously researched anecdotes. As the experience itself makes it difficult to focus for a long period of time it is also recommended that you plan to spend half a day there and take breaks when you need them because the collection is as extensive and comprehensive as the history of the profession, itself. It will also take you back farther than you expected it to go.
The Cold War era segment --a sizable part of the museum-- provides artifacts from Cold War history and gives detailed insights into how government operatives conceal devices to enable them to pick almost every kind of lock imaginable. Granted, KGB lock picking devices have no relevance to a private investigator who is restricted by the same laws that would restrict any other citizen from picking a lock that doesn't belong to them. But, hey, in the world of international espionage, sky's the limit. More or less...
Apps for Private investigators - Dark Sky weather prediction software's unique "time machine" feature
Working on a slip and fall case that requires data specifying what the weather in Englewood was on a specific day a year and a half ago? What about that ten month old personal injury investigation that requires evidence of a Colorado Springs hailstorm at a specific time on a specific date? Was it truly a dark and story night in Westminster on leap day five years back or is a witness' testimony questionable?
The Dark Sky website, funded through ongoing Kickstarter donations, provides fast and free access to weather data. It's unique selling point is it's accurate hyperlocal weather prediction abilities so while you may find it useful for figuring out whether or not rain will prevent you from flying a drone in your Highlands Ranch yard in the next five minutes, what provides the most value to private investigators is the option to punch in the date and location of your choosing using the "time machine" feature.
You can access the "time machine feature" by scrolling down to the bottom of the forecast page and punching in a date.
How does it do this? According to one of the site's creators, Adam Grossman, the developers use radar data obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and break it into code. They then clean up the data, do a bunch of esoteric tech thingie things, lift the velvet cloth and da-dumm, your accurate weather pastcast or forecast.
Granted, it will be accurate as long as you don't try and project too far into the future. The software is only designed for short term predictions and has the added archive bonus that gives you access to past data.
Apps are for Android and iOS versions and for the Apple watch are available for $4.
Black History Month - Double agent James Armistead
For the last day of Black History month we're playing tribute to double agent, James Armistead. Born into slavery James Armistead was owned by William Armistead, who granted him permission to join the American Continental Army where the Marquis de Lafayette urged him to pose as a runaway slave so he could join the British army and gather enemy intelligence.
After securing the trust of British officer's Benedict Arnold and British General Charles Cornwallis, Armistead guided British troops through the Virginia thoroughfares he'd grown up navigating, while listening in on officer discussions regarding upcoming raids and battle plans. Most of the time he actually listened in plain view of British officers --who didn't regard him as a threat-- and then delivered intelligence reports to Lafayette before returning to British headquarters to gather more intelligence.
One of Armistead's detailed reports, dated July 31, 1781, provided the intelligence that Washington and Lafayette used to secure the American/French blockade and force a British surrender at Yorktown. The big reveal happened when Cornwallis showed up at Lafayette's headquarters to surrender and was greeted by the person he, up until that point, had regarded as a personal slave.
The Missed in History: Double Agent: James Armistead and the American Revolution podcast looks at possible reasons he fought for the country that enslaved him as well as the reasons he may have returned to slavery after fighting in the Revolutionary War.
According to the podcast there was actually strong early support for the Revolutionary war among African Americans and the early continental army, who counted a lot of black soldiers among its ranks. Perhaps they felt the army would provide a better life?
The Emancipation Act of 1783 freed slave-soldiers, however the law didn't apply to slave-spies. One year later, in 1784, when Lafayette learned that Armistead was still enslaved, he wrote a testimonial on his behalf.
The testimonial resulted in the Virginia General Assembly paying off his owner two years later so he could be freed. Armistead bought his own land, began farming in Virginia and eventually even started receiving a military pension. He died a free man.
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Holiday gifts for Colorado private investigators
What do you get the person who has access to everything? Holiday gifts for private investigators aren't easy because --if nothing else-- you'll want to avoid the obvious. That said, we've come up with the following options for prices that range from $10.00 to $99.00.
The International Spy Museum makes an exclusive spy Gnome
The International Spy Museum's, "Agent You Don't Gnome Me" ($18) Gnomes are kinda weird, kinda useless, and kinda fun. Plus, if you or someone you gnome is into the trench and sunglasses cliche but doesn't actually want to wear them, you can place the gnome as a fashion forward stand in or buy the spy gnome tree ornament --which is also available through the Spy Museum website shop. What we like about it for Coloradoans in particular is the fact you can plant it anywhere along the front range landscape and send us the photos to share with our Twitter and Facebook followers. You can even use it in your prairie garden!
Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage by Gordon Corera is available at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in hardcover ($29.95) MP3 CD ($44.95) paperback ($16.95) and CD $118.00. Rich with historical detail and characters as well as contemporary international insights, the book will put the reader on solid ground with the present and future of cyber espionage.
Women with jobs that require them to carry a concealed firearm for self protection can express their enthusiasm for the Colorado outdoors and simultaneously misdiret a potential attacker by carrying a faux leather Gwyneth Realtree Concealed Carry Tote ($54.99). The faux leather also makes it perfect for vegetarians. Handbag contains a hidden gun holster on the inside outside, a pattern of what one may see on a typical hike through Estes Park. Available on Gun Goddess.
A spy specializing in surveillance who wants to teach his or her kids what mommy or daddy does for a living would be well served to invest in a few Santa Cam ornaments ($10+) And if they're not Etsy savvy, perhaps a friend is willing to track one down on their behalf or --if the kid insists on viewing the footage-- dress in costume to place gifts. This Etsy shop happens to be based in Denver, Colorado and offers personaliztion and multiple color as well as glitter options.
A Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado (PPIAC) apprentice membership is the perfect gift for the fledgeling PI in your life who is looking for ways to grow their career. The annual cost is only $99 and it will connect the to a savvy and supportive regional community through training, networking events and mentorship.
This particular membership is designed for the PI with less than 2,000 hours of experience. For PIs with more experienc, Associate, Senior and Premiere Senior memberships are also available for $125.
Have a happy and safe holiday season. Fa la la la la la la la la.
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Maharashtra, Haryana polls: revision of rolls from July 15
By Thehindu 13-Jul-2019
Ahead of the Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra later this year, election authorities in the States would be revising the electoral rolls from July 15 in order to give those eligible another opportunity to enrol.
Writing to the Chief Electoral Officers of the States about the schedule of the second special summary revision in the States, the Election Commission of India on Thursday said the draft rolls would be published on July 15 and claims and objections could be filed from that date till July 30.
After two special camps over the next two weekends (July 20-21 and July 27-28), the claims would be disposed of by August 13, ahead of publication of the final rolls on August 18.
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Rider Quotes: 2019 Thunder Valley National
Feature photo by: Octopi
The 2019 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship went to the mile-high facility in Lakewood, Co. for the 2019 Thunder Valley National. For the second time in three weekend’s, it was HRC / Honda’s Ken Roczen taking the win in the 450MX class and for the third week in a row, Monster Energy / Pro Circuit / Kawasaki’s Adam Cianciarulo won the overall in the 250MX class.
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AC was joined on the 250MX podium by the Monster Energy / Star Racing / Yamaha’s Justin Cooper—2nd for the third week in a row—and Rockstar / Husqvarna’s Michael Mosiman in 3rd—the first podium of his career. In the 450MX class, Roczen was joined by Monster Energy / Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac 2nd and Rockstar / Husqvarna’s Zach Osborne (3rd) on the podium.
450 podium from Thunder Valley. Photo by: Octopi
After the racing was over, we gathered numerous quotes from riders about their day at round 3.
Ken Roczen: (1st in 450MX) “I’m stoked to come away with another overall win and to get the red plate back. The first moto was awesome. I’m honestly not sure what happened; the gate just dropped and I was on. I like this track and the ruts, so something just clicked. I could really just make something happen quickly in the first few laps and get away from the pack. It was a good feeling to have a gap and finish the moto not having to worry about everything. The track was a lot gnarlier in the second moto. I led about half the race but then Eli [Tomac] and I had a good battle, then even when he went by I tried to stick right behind him. He obviously gapped me a bit, especially when we started to get into some lappers; there were a few sketchy moments with some of them. I tried my best to stay with him but also didn’t want to risk making too big of a mistake, so I just rode solid to the finish.”
Adam Cianciarulo: (1st in 250MX) “I’m so pumped on this overall today, and it wasn’t an easy one by any means. From the crazy weather in Moto 1 to some mistakes and sketchy moments in Moto 2, today was just wild. I’m so happy that we get to carry this red plate to High Point. This team has been working so hard week after week and I think it’s showing in these results.”
Eli Tomac: (2nd in 450MX) “It’s always great to come home to Colorado and put my KX™ on the podium for my hometown fans. That first moto ended up being a little tougher than anticipated after a bad start and running into vision issues, but we were able to regroup and get back on top in Moto 2. We’ll take a second place finish for now, but expect to see us back up front making the charge in two weeks and taking that red plate back.”
Justin Cooper: (2nd in 250MX) “I have been feeling really good. It was another good win in Moto 1 even though it was cut short. In Moto 2, I came out of the rut and it threw my feet off the bike and I couldn’t get them back on and had to lay it over. I felt strong and was pushing until the end. I did my best today for all that was in my control. The bike and the team were awesome all day and it showed! I feel I definitely proved a lot today and look forward to bringing the heat at the next one. [About AC’s off-track incident] I don’t know what’s going to happen with that. Adam cut that corner and came in behind me. If they’re going to let that slide, there’s really no rules on the table. I saw it and believed I still had the overall, but I wanted to make a statement and go back after him. I don’t think they’re going to let that slide, but if they do, that’s a shame. I earned this one and we’ll see what happens”
Zach Osborne: (3rd in 450MX) “It was a pretty solid day. To get third in qualifying and then 2-4 in the motos for third overall, I feel pretty good about it. I feel like I didn’t ride to my peak today but I’m going to work on finding a little bit more speed and continuing to move forward from here.”
AC celebrates his third straight win in ’19. Photo by: Octopi
Michael Mosiman: (3rd in 250MX) “I like this track and I knew I liked it, so I had a good feeling about this weekend. I qualified fourth and that’s where I started to believe I can run with those guys. It was super cool to bring it home for my first-ever podium.”
Jason Anderson: (4th in 450MX) “I’m happy to be leaving Colorado with 4-5 finishes, that’s the most points I’ve ever scored here. I’ll move on and try to be better for the next one at High Point.”
Dylan Ferrandis: (4th in 250MX) “The conditions were good and the track was actually good, too. We had a little storm during Moto 1 so we had red flag and had to stop before the end. I managed to finish third, but Moto 2 wasn’t good for me. I had a bad start then crashed in the corner before the finish line and lost lots of positions today. We will work again to get ready for High Point in two weeks.”
Marvin Musquin: (5th in 450MX) “It was a rough start of the day for the motos and I gave my best to come back to eighth in the first moto. Those guys out front were fast, so to catch more than that, it was difficult. I put myself in a better position to fight for the podium and the win in the second moto. Something clicked a little bit and then my riding was better – I had better lines and better flow. We improved the bike a little bit for the second moto and that was the positive.”
Chase Sexton: (5th in 250MX) “We had some long testing days and I think it paid off, I felt a lot better than last week. My starts were not there this weekend. Second moto, I came from last to trying to pass for third but ended up falling over. Then I had to go back to work on [Justin] Cooper, and I think he got a second wind and I did everything I could but I couldn’t get him. Coming from that far back, you spend a lot of energy. Fifth overall is okay, we’re making progress, kind of the same way we started the season in supercross. I feel like I should be battling for wins, and I was up there in the first moto, I mean, I got fifth and was only 3.8 seconds behind the leader! So I can’t be too upset. We’re looking forward to Colorado making a few adjustments on the bike, but not too much.”
Cooper Webb: (6th in 450SX) “It was a tough day in Colorado. I struggled a little bit in practice so it was nice to get on the podium in Moto 1. In Moto 2, I made a bike change that wasn’t good at all and I really struggled. It was a tough day but we have two weeks now to try to get better and start the east coast nationals off on a better note.”
Colt Nichols: (6th in 250MX) “The conditions varied a lot throughout the day from practice to the downpour in the first moto, and then the second moto had a ton of ruts that were a little stickier from the rain. The first moto was tough because I didn’t get a great start. I had to make a goggle swap and in the second moto I didn’t really have the pace midway through, but I was able to manage a fourth. We will keep working. I’m looking forward to the next one.”
Dean Ferris: (8th in 450MX) “Big improvements for me today. I got two reasonably good starts and kind of got pulled along with the big group. We made improvements with the bike. I’m somewhat comfortable now and feel like we’re getting the train on the tracks now for the rest of the season. The conditions were demanding, the track was really rutted and rough as usual, but I liked it. I’m definitely really happy about the improvements we made and the result this weekend. It’s something to build on.”
RJ Hampshire: (7th in 250MX) “Felt really good all day and was happy with my bike. First moto I didn’t get a great start and struggled the first couple laps. I hung in there and just started flowing, late in the moto was so much fun. Top 5 finishing within 4 seconds is crazy! I was definitely happy with the second [place finish]. Second moto the gate flinched so a few of us hit the gate. 100 percent, that race should have been red flagged. The whole first lap I was expecting a red flag, and I was not happy that it didn’t come out. So my start was terrible, and then as I was making my way through the pack, AMart [Alex Martin] got sketchy and I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, he smoked me and I ended up going down pretty hard. When we hit he broke my water pump which caused the DNF. A lot of positives from the weekend and could have been a different ending with a red flag. Oh well, heal up and be ready for Colorado!”
Justin Barcia: (9th in 450MX) “It was a tough day for me. I went back to Florida this week and came down with some kind of sickness. I don’t really know what it was but I had really bad migraines all week and struggled with that. I didn’t get a lot of sleep. It was difficult. I wasn’t feeling good the first moto at all and unfortunately, it showed. That was really frustrating. In the second moto I felt a little bit better, kind of regrouped, got a little energy and put it all out there. All in all, I was happy with my bike settings and stuff like that. It seems like I’ve been making some progress, but it really hasn’t shown at the moment. I just need to use this off-week coming up to do a little testing, get healthy and go to the East Coast. That’s when I plan on really moving forward and turning it on.”
After struggling to get through the pack in moto 1, Eli Tomac was dominant in moto 2. Photo by: Octopi
Hunter Lawrence: (8th in 250MX) “Bitter sweet weekend here at Fox Raceway. Started off the day solid with third and fourth in the qualifying sessions. First moto had a good start and worked my way into third and then a rock broke my oil filter cap so all the engine oil was draining out and it was dying on the lap just before the accident with Smith happened [Jordon Smith and Lawrence came together and both crashed]. The crash didn’t cause the bike problem, it was already happening, and then it locked up on the downhill where we came together. Lucky to have no injuries. The next moto was cool! Average start from all the way outside and worked my way up to first. I was really feeling it, but I washed the front wheel out and ended up second. Such a big week and I want to give a huge thank you to the team, we rode five days in a row this week, with three big testing days to improve the bike from last weekend, then press day and then race day so it was a big week for us and we are happy to see it pay off in relation to speed and how the bike handled!”
Cole Seely: (11th in 450MX) “This weekend definitely went better than the past weekends, but unfortunately it doesn’t really show that in the results. The first moto I felt like I had a really good flow and got into the zone. I started setting good lap times and picking my way through the pack. I went from 10th and almost passed into fourth before I fell over. I kind of knocked the wind out of myself because the bike just stopped in the rut and I went forward into the bars. I managed to get up and finish ninth. In the second moto I definitely didn’t have the same flow. I was just a little off and I think it was a combination of the altitude and being a bit tired from the first race. I just tried to push through it and tried to manage my energy and fight my way through, but I wasn’t able to put together the results I needed. I’m looking forward to continuing to build and get stronger.”
Garrett Marchbanks: (11th in 250MX) “This weekend wasn’t my best result, but an overall good learning experience. I was pumped and ready to ride after posting my best finish so far in the 250MX class last weekend, but the bad weather in the first moto gave me some problems and my results suffered a little bit. We’ll get back to work this week, I’m ready to be back in the top-10.”
Joey Savatgy: (39th in 450MX) “Today was rough, man. I was really looking forward to this weekend since it was my first race back, but things just didn’t come together like I hoped they would. The entire Monster Energy Kawasaki team and I will work on some things during the off week, I’ll continue to rehab and I just know we will be ready to go for High Point.”
Ty Masterpool: (13th in 250MX) “It was a great learning day with a ton of experience gained. I got the holeshot in the first moto and rode smart but ended up sixth. In the second moto I got a top-five start and rode pretty well but then I collided with a rider so I lost around five spots and tweaked my shoulder pretty good. I ended up 13th overall. I’m enjoying the learning process and look to keep moving forward.”
After winning moto 1 for the third straight weekend, a crash while leading in moto 2 handed the overall once again to AC. Photo by: Octopi
Thomas Covington: (16th in 250MX) We had a tough weekend out here. I made a lot of mistakes. I went off the track in the first moto and then I was starting all the way on the outside and had a hard time coming back. I’m really just looking forward to resting up so I can get ready for the next weekend.”
Christian Craig: (18th in 250MX) “Overall, I had some good improvement from the first round. Worked my way to sixth in the first moto and felt good. Second moto I got a terrible start but worked my way to around ninth but unfortunately had a second-to-last-lap crash which forced me to lose a couple spots. Would have had a solid overall if I hadn’t crashed but overall I’m happy with my improvements and look forward to next weekend!”
Martin Davalos: (19th in 250MX) “I’m pretty disappointed in our results this weekend. I haven’t been to this track in a couple of years and my ribs are still a little sore from my crash at Hangtown, which I feel is hindering my performance right now. I know what I’m capable of and we’ll keep putting in the work. It will be nice to have this week off from racing to fully heal and get us back up where we belong.”
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Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health / Témoignage Vivant: La Fistule Obstétricale et les Inegalités en Santé Maternelle
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Obstetric fistula is an injury to the birth canal, resulting from prolonged labour, that has devastating physical and psychological effects on women's lives. Its persistence reveals vast inequities in access to and quality of reproductive health care.
Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health brings together the voices of women from 29 countries in Africa, the Arab States, and Asia, who speak out about life with obstetric fistula. Their families, community members, and health care providers share knowledge, attitudes, and perspectives on pregnancy, delivery, and fistula. This advocacy publication presents promising practices and strategic recommendations for policy makers, programmers, and researchers seeking to improve access to vital maternal health services and strengthen fistula prevention and treatment programmes in affected countries. Living Testimony was produced by Family Care International and UNFPA in 2007, and is available in English and French.
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New York Investor Snaps Up 124040 Park Central
12404 Park Central, a 239,000-square-foot office building near North Central Expressway and LBJ Freeway was recently purchased by Red River Asset Management LLC, a New York-based investor. he four-story property was sold by Oaktree Capital for $15.4 million. The property was bought with a loan made by American National Insurance Co.
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12404 Park Central, a 239,000-square-foot office building near North Central Expressway and LBJ Freeway, was recently purchased by Red River Asset Management L.L.C., a New York-based investor.
The four-story property was sold by Oaktree Capital for $15.4 million. Red River financed the property with a loan from American National Insurance Co.
Built in 1987 as the headquarters for Steak and Ale, the Park Central building was 89 percent leased at the time of the sale. Its tenant list includes brands like Greatwide Logistics, Mercer HR Services and MEplusYOU, a company that extended its 74,000-square-foot lease through 2020.
The new owner plans to spend big to renovate the building’s atrium. New plans include a 3,000-gallon fresh-water aquarium with tropical fish and a four-story-tall plant wall. Red River will use Dallas-based Merriman Associates Architects to design the atrium project, according to the Dallas Business Journal.
In November 2012, the investor also bought a five-building office complex in Irving, according to the Dallas Business Journal. Imperial Square, a 129,000-square-foot office property, was 68 percent leased at the time of the sale.
“We like deals that have hair on them, or something the large institutional players won’t go for that usually takes more effort to understand,” said Bruce Stern, a Red River principal told the Dallas publication. He added that his company is interested in buying more property in North Texas.
Photo of the 12404 Park Central office building courtesy of Red River Asset Management.
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Promoting the Sector to Powys Youth
Mid Wales Manufacturing Group were delighted to take part in the Choose Your Future Powys Careers Festival held on 7th March 2018 at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells.
Around 3,000 pupils from across Powys attended the event. The interactive careers and skills festival is organised by the Positive Pathways Powys partnership – a multi-agency group made up of Powys County Council, Careers Wales, Secondary schools in the county, the NPTC Group of Colleges, Cambrian Training and the Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations. The partnership aims to highlight to young people the opportunities available to them when they leave school or college.
Exhibitors from a wide range of sectors including many members were present on the day along with representation from universities, colleges, private and public sector employers and the voluntary sector, giving young people the opportunity to hear from industry experts first hand.
The 2016 winner of BBC TV’s The Apprentice, Alana Spencer, was guest speaker at the event passed on her experiences to High School, Special School and College students from across the county. The mid-Wales based businesswoman took first place in the 2016 series, winning £250,000 in prize money for her business. Lord Alan Sugar, the face of the series, continues to play an instrumental role in supporting her business.
The 2018 Powys Careers Festival was sponsored by The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, Cambrian Training Company/ Cwmni Hyfforddiant Cambrian, Powys Secondary Schools, North & Mid Wales Reaching Wider Partnership’s Regional Operational Group, West Ent Ltd audio visual and event production, Compact Orbital Gears, Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors and Kier Construction.
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Texas Officers Suspended for Taking Cardboard Signs from Homeless
By Betsy Blaney
Published Feb 27, 2014 at 5:52 AM | Updated at 6:41 AM PST on Feb 27, 2014
Two police officers in an oil-rich West Texas city spent weeks competing to see who could take the most cardboard signs away from homeless people, even though panhandling doesn't violate any city law.
Nearly two months after the Midland Police Department learned of the game, the two officers were suspended for three days without pay, according to findings of the internal affairs investigation obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.
Advocate groups immediately blasted the department's handling, suggesting that the punishment wasn't harsh enough and that the probe should have been made public much earlier, before news organizations, including the AP, started asking about it.
"The fact that they are making sport out of collecting the personal property of homeless individuals could be seen as them targeting these individuals for discriminatory harassment," said Cassandra Champion, an attorney in the Odessa office of the Texas Civil Rights Project. "Simply holding a sign is absolutely a protected part of our free speech."
Police Chief Price Robinson said the actions were an isolated incident in a department of 186 officers and didn't deserve a harsher punishment. After the investigation all officers were reminded to respect individual rights and human dignity, he said.
"We want to respect people, no matter who they are -- homeless, whatever," Robinson said. "That situation's been dealt with. Those officers understand."
The investigation found the two officers, Derek Hester and Daniel Zoelzer, violated the department's professional standards of conduct. There is no ordinance against panhandling in Midland, an oil-boom city of more than 110,000 where a recent count put the homeless number at about 300. About a quarter of those are transient.
Evan Rogers, founder of Church Under the Bridge Midland's ministry, said the failure by police to disclose the officers' behavior once discovered made it appear the department was "pushing it under the carpet.
"I think that does give the public the wrong message," he said.
Asked Wednesday about why the investigation wasn't made public earlier, city spokeswoman Sara Higgins said it is not the department's standard protocol to announce when an internal affairs investigation is completed. She said the officers weren't suspended until January because of staffing issues and the winter holidays.
On a recent afternoon, one group of homeless people could be seen near a trash bin behind a fast-food restaurant and another around an intersection. Among their signs was one that read: "Anything helps. God bless."
"If it was them, I guarantee you they'd be doing the same thing," said Desarie Caine, who sought donations on a street corner while eating from a package of beef jerky. "I think they're bored."
The two officers, who did not appeal their suspensions, have been with the department about two years. They both returned emails from the AP declining to be interviewed.
According to the investigation report, eight signs were found in the trunk of Hester's patrol car on Nov. 20 and Zoelzer had thrown the about 10 signs he had confiscated into a city trash container after Hester called him to warn him he had been reprimanded by his superior for having the signs.
The two told the internal affairs investigator, that they were issuing criminal trespass warnings when they took the signs. But according to the report, no homeless people were issued criminal trespass warnings by either officer in 2013. Most of those warnings in Midland are written, but some are verbal.
The investigation also looked into complaints from within the department that Hester and Zoelzer failed to log into evidence brass knuckles, a small set of scales and two knives they had obtained during other patrol stops. The investigation into the signs began after an officer on patrol with Hester when Hester obtained the brass knuckles sent an email to his sergeant Nov. 18 about Hester saying he wasn't going to log them in as evidence.
The signs and the brass knuckles were found in Hester's car during a vehicle inspection two days later.
The contest between Hester, 25, and Zoelzer, 26, was alluded to in text messages on Nov. 21 obtained by the AP. It was unclear which of the officers sent each message.
"My bad man when he first ask me about it he didn't seem mad or anything so I just told him me and u wereaking (sic) a game outta it when we'd trespass them and stuff," one text read. Another read, "Man this is some bs."
Although Rogers said he doesn't believe the officers' actions reflect on the whole department, he considered the penalty insufficient.
"I don't believe three days gives it justice," Rogers said.
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Novak Djokovic ... greatest athlete in the world
From Comcast SportsNetPARIS (AP) -- What a horrific dilemma this could be. The men's 100 meter sprint final and men's tennis final fall on the same day, Aug. 5, at the London Olympics. If forced, which of those would you choose to miss: Usain Bolt possibly becoming the first man since Carl Lewis to win the 100 dash at consecutive games or Novak Djokovic perhaps putting a golden sheen on what promises to be another astounding year? Until Sunday, Bolt would have been a comfortable winner. But now? Impossible choice. And what a memorable day it could prove to be for those with time to rush from one event to the other or to tune into both. Like Bolt, Djokovic is becoming one of those special athletes who transcends the confines of their sport, a figure whose achievements on the field of play teach us not only new things about sporting endeavor but also about the bottomless well of human possibility. Bolt's 100, 200 and relay golds at the 2008 Beijing Games made the Jamaican more than just an Olympic champion sprinter but one of the greatest sportsmen of all time because he redefined our understanding of how fast humans can run. Likewise, in outlasting Rafael Nadal for 5 hours and 53 minutes in the longest ever Grand Slam final, Djokovic played far more than a mere tennis match to win the Australian Open. He tested our definition of human endurance. How, just how, did he find those last drops of energy to first reel in and then finish off the Spaniard who, with a 4-2 lead in the fifth set, looked as though he might wriggle free? It was the incredible will Djokovic demonstrated that made this feat immortal. Like Muhammad Ali flooring George Foreman with a left, then a right in the eighth round of the Rumble in the Jungle or Lance Armstrong picking himself up from a crash at the 2003 Tour de France and powering up a climb with cold-eyed fury on his broken bike, this was epic because it was as much about heart as it was about physical ability. "You're going through so much suffering, your toes are bleeding," Djokovic said. "Everything is just outrageous, you know, but you're still enjoying that pain." At the end, he ripped open his shirt with a primal scream. It wouldn't have been that much of a shock if Djokovic had also ripped open his hairy chest to show us just how fiercely his ticker beats. What a terrifying sight for Andy Murray and Roger Federer. Is Djokovic the most impressive athlete in activity? Certainly, he is part of the debate that that question provokes. We would have to forgive Djokovic if he started to wear his underpants outside of his trousers. The hypochondriac Djokovic who in years past looked unlikely to ever match Nadal's physicality, the joker Djokovic who seemed unlikely to equal Federer's cool professionalism, has been body-snatched and replaced by Superman on a gluten-free diet. Murray, the world No. 4, came away from his five-set, 4 hour and 50-minute Australian semifinal loss to Djokovic feeling that he is edging closer to the No. 1. Maybe. But two days later, on Sunday, Djokovic and Nadal then shifted the benchmark yet further forward. The ferocity of their contest made the idea that Murray could beat first one of them and then the other in a Grand Slam semifinal and final look fanciful again. Same goes for Federer, the No. 3. As long as Nadal and Djokovic are fit, it's only going to get ever harder for the 30-year-old Swiss to get his hands on a 17th Grand Slam title by toppling those men five and six years his junior. From Nadal, Sunday's final offered some evidence that the No. 2 no longer looks in trepidation across the net at Djokovic and that the deep hurt done to his confidence by losing six finals to the Serb last year may not be permanent. In becoming the first man to lose three consecutive Grand Slam finals, all to Djokovic, at least Nadal this time pushed his nemesis to five sets. But as positive as Nadal sounded about this defeat -- "I always said is good suffer, enjoy -- enjoy suffering, no?" -- will the scabs on his psyche simply flake right off the next time they meet? One hopes not. Because, like the very best Hollywood blockbusters, this epic cried out for a sequel and left us hungry for more. Some, including 7-time major winner Mats Wilander, are already talking up the possibility of a calendar Grand Slam for Djokovic this year. That is premature, but won't be if Djokovic wins the French Open -- the only major he let slip away in 2011 -- this June. After that, Wimbledon's Center Court will be calling, with the men's final on July 8 and the Olympic final a month later. Just imagine if those produce a Djokovic-Nadal double-bill. If that happens, then the Aug. 5 dilemma won't seem so quite knotty anymore. Anyone want tickets for Bolt?
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Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Jan 1;48(1):1-12. doi: 10.1086/595011.
Bad bugs, no drugs: no ESKAPE! An update from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Boucher HW1, Talbot GH, Bradley JS, Edwards JE, Gilbert D, Rice LB, Scheld M, Spellberg B, Bartlett J.
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA. hboucher@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) continues to view with concern the lean pipeline for novel therapeutics to treat drug-resistant infections, especially those caused by gram-negative pathogens. Infections now occur that are resistant to all current antibacterial options. Although the IDSA is encouraged by the prospect of success for some agents currently in preclinical development, there is an urgent, immediate need for new agents with activity against these panresistant organisms. There is no evidence that this need will be met in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, we remain concerned that the infrastructure for discovering and developing new antibacterials continues to stagnate, thereby risking the future pipeline of antibacterial drugs. The IDSA proposed solutions in its 2004 policy report, "Bad Bugs, No Drugs: As Antibiotic R&D Stagnates, a Public Health Crisis Brews," and recently issued a "Call to Action" to provide an update on the scope of the problem and the proposed solutions. A primary objective of these periodic reports is to encourage a community and legislative response to establish greater financial parity between the antimicrobial development and the development of other drugs. Although recent actions of the Food and Drug Administration and the 110th US Congress present a glimmer of hope, significant uncertainly remains. Now, more than ever, it is essential to create a robust and sustainable antibacterial research and development infrastructure--one that can respond to current antibacterial resistance now and anticipate evolving resistance. This challenge requires that industry, academia, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Department of Defense, and the new Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority at the Department of Health and Human Services work productively together. This report provides an update on potentially effective antibacterial drugs in the late-stage development pipeline, in the hope of encouraging such collaborative action.
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MGMT are back and we should all be very excited
Rhian Daly Jul 29, 2017 4:09 pm BST
MGMT performing live at Panorama Credit: Nikki Jahanforouz/Press
After four years away, the psych-pop band are finally about to release a new album and it's sounding promising so far
It’s been three long years without MGMT brightening up our festivals and another year on top of that since they last put out a record. They’ve teased us with their return, tweeting what seemed like an excellent Christmas present in 2015 and promising they’d be back in 2016. That year passed with little evidence of that being true, but now MGMT are back and their new songs should get you very excited.
Tonight (July 28), they add to the handful of festival performances they’ve already completed in 2017 with a set at New York’s Panorama festival. Stand in the right place and you can see the Manhattan skyline looking majestic behind the main stage on which the band are playing. It’s one of the greatest sights on earth, but you’ll barely notice it once MGMT get going.
Throughout the set they drop classics like ‘Time To Pretend’, which has late-comers dashing across the field as its opening melody bubbles across the field, and ‘Kids’, which they expand into a krautish epic. In the middle, as his bandmates go on a sonic exploration, frontman Andrew VanWyngarden sits down at the edge of the stage and repeats into the microphone “I’m in the mood to get down, I’m in the mood to dance.”
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Predictably, those songs and a faithful rendition of ‘Electric Eel’ get the biggest cheers of the set, but they could soon have competition when the band’s new album ‘Little Dark Age‘ gets released. Tonight, they play three songs from it, as they have done elsewhere this summer. MGMT have always married an adventurous experimentalism with pop sensibilities, and these tracks are no different.
First, the upcoming record’s title track is a sci-fi-tinged treat, VanWyngarden singing over Ben Goldwasser’s intergalactic synth ripples like an emotionless robot. His voice sounds cold and metallic, but its completely compelling. Later, ‘When You Die’ shows there’s still plenty of feeling in the band. “I wanna eat your heart out,” the frontman sings at one point, while the chorus has him telling someone to “go fuck yourself/Don’t call me nice, again”. Musically, the song contrasts hugely with those barbed lines – it’s a shuffling, glimmering piece that has strains of George Harrison‘s solo work to it.
They save the best ’til last, in terms of new cuts. ‘Me And Michael’ immediately sounds massive and there’s plenty of fists punching the air when it drops. It’s a gleaming, pastel-hued track that sounds like Chromatics put through a soft-rock filter – elegant and atmospheric, but with a bit of bite too.
“We’re MGMT, we’re a band playing some songs… music festivals,” says VanWyngarden by way of stunted introduction mid-way through the set. Thank god they are and thank god they’re back. Based on these tunes, ‘Little Dark Age’ can’t come soon enough.
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McBrides emerge as mystery Telopea buyers10 months, 4 weeks ago
AJ & PA McBride named as buyers of Hassad Australia's Telopea Downs property
24 Aug 2018, 12:13 p.m.
An aerial view at one of the properties at Telopea Downs purchased by the McBrides.
AJ & PA McBride have been revealed as the mystery buyers of Hassad Australia's 47,600ha property at Telopea Downs in Victoria's west.
THE MYSTERY buyer of one of Victoria’s largest farms has been revealed.
On Friday Hassad Australia announced South Australian agribusiness AJ & PA McBride had purchased its 47,677 hectare Telopea Downs aggregation, confirming rumours that had been circling the livestock sector on the Vic-SA border for some weeks.
The Telopea Downs aggregation is made up of eleven properties and the sale is one of the largest single parcel farmland deals on record in Victoria.
The price was not confirmed officially due to confidentiality clauses around the sale; however third party reports have indicated a figure of around $70 million.
Situated north of Kaniva in the far west Wimmera, the Telopea Downs district was one of the last parts of Victoria to be opened up to agriculture.
It was cleared in the 1960s and used primarily for grazing.
Annual rainfall is a relatively healthy 425mm, however non-wetting sandy soil made significant crop production unrealistic during the early years of farming in the area.
In recent years there has been success with clay delving throughout the area, creating a better top soil more capable of holding moisture, while irrigation using ground water has also been successful, especially in terms of lucerne production.
Chairman of AJ & PA McBride, Keith McBride, said the property was a good fit for his business, which owns ten properties across South Australia including iconic Outback stations and farms in premium parts of the south-east of the state.
AJ & PA McBride chairman Keith McBride.
“It’s a good fit with our portfolio and long-term strategic plan and is the largest increase in the size of the company since the acquisition of (northern SA station) Wilgena in 1924,” Mr McBride said.
Hassad Australia, which is owned by a Qatari sovereign wealth fund, primarily used the aggregation as a sheep breeding and trading station, together with ancillary cropping and cattle operations.
When it purchased the properties in 2012, it was interested in creating a large scale Awasssi sheep flock.
The Awassi breed, with their distinctive fat tails, are one of the most popular breeds in the Middle East.
However, Mr McBride said the new purchase would be primarily used to bolster the business’s wool producing capacity.
“The acquisition will complement our strength in wool production and may provide some short-term stock trading opportunities as well as long-term pasture improvement potential to enhance productivity on the property.”
Hassad Australia has shifted its focus in the past 18 months, divesting a number of properties throughout Victoria and South Australia, with Barton Station at Moyston its property remaining in the two states now.
It now has a stronger focus on cropping, through a number of holdings in NSW and Western Australia.
The company reported a $5.2m loss for 2017 in its last reported results, however it is expected to profit handsomely on the Telopea sale, with land prices in the area appreciating significantly since it purchased the properties in 2012.
The story McBrides emerge as mystery Telopea buyers first appeared on Farm Online.
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Weyers Cave caregiver guilty of stealing from elderly woman
Lori Miller, 47, stole from an elderly woman suffering from dementia and then sold the stolen property from the Factory Antique Mall in Verona.
Weyers Cave caregiver guilty of stealing from elderly woman Lori Miller, 47, stole from an elderly woman suffering from dementia and then sold the stolen property from the Factory Antique Mall in Verona. Check out this story on newsleader.com: https://stnva.nl/2Jybqql
Brad Zinn, The News Leader Published 10:53 a.m. ET June 11, 2018
Lori A. Miller(Photo: Submitted)
STAUNTON - Lori A. Miller was supposed to take care of an elderly Fort Defiance woman suffering from a dementia-related illness.
Instead, she stole the 91-year-old's belongings and sold them from the Factory Antique Mall in Verona.
On Friday in Augusta County Circuit Court, Miller, 47, of Weyers Cave, pleaded guilty to felony charges of financial exploitation of a mentally incapacitated adult and possession with intent to sell stolen property.
Last year, Miller was a hired caregiver for the elderly woman for a just one month when family members began noticing items were missing from the woman's Fort Defiance home.
"It was obvious a lot of items were missing," said Holly Rasheed, an Augusta County assistant prosecutor.
More: Suspect sought by Aug. Co. Sheriff's Office
In mid-October, a relative of the Fort Defiance woman called the Augusta County Sheriff's Office to report he was looking at Miller's Facebook page when he spotted several pictures of merchandise she was selling at the antique mall, including a nightstand, table, a brass inkwell and a pot. The items posted on Miller's Facebook page were identical to the elderly woman's missing property, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities went to Miller's booth at the antique mall and recovered some of the stolen property, according to a search warrant.
"They were very cooperative with investigators as soon as they found out," Rasheed said of management at the antique mall.
Miller initially denied stealing the woman's property, Rasheed said, and claimed a family member of the victim gave her permission to take the items. After the family member spoke to an investigator and said no such permission had been given, Rahseed said Miller then tried to blame another family member of the woman "who doesn't exist."
Authorities arrested Miller in December.
In a plea deal, Miller was sentenced to two years in prison with both years suspended, giving her no time behind bars. Virginia's recommended sentencing guidelines, which are not binding, called for Miller to serve no prison time.
Miller, who had no prior felony convictions before Friday's guilty pleas, was also placed on two years of probation.
Rasheed said the victim's family is also planning to pursue Miller in civil court.
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‘Ultimate offence’ caused by Bogside bonfire posters will not derail progress: Middleton
DUP MLA Gary Middleton said the ongoing Bogside trouble is 'some sort of battle' between rival groups
Mark Rainey
The Londonderry republicans who caused “ultimate offence” by burning poppy wreaths and the names of murdered police and prison officers will not destroy the improving community relations in the city, a DUP MLA has said.
Gary Middleton described the ongoing anti-social behaviour in the Bogside area as “some sort of battle” between a number of groupings, which often spills over into attacks on the mainly Protestant Fountain estate or the PSNI.
The latest incident took place on Wednesday when posters containing the names of murdered police constables Ronan Kerr and Stephen Carroll, slain prison officers David Black and Adrian Ismay, and a number of flags were burned on a Bogside bonfire.
Last month, youths from the same area attacked the Fountain residents on successive nights before attacking police officers over a number of subsequent nights. Several vehicles were also hijacked and set on fire.
The worst violence erupted on the night of July 10 when around six shots were fired at officers close to the city’s walls. Police said 16 petrol bombs were thrown the same evening.
Mr Middleton said: “There appears to some sort of battle within the Bogside involving a number of groupings and that has been evident over the past number of years.
“It’s clear there is a group that won’t listen to anybody, that is disengaged and have taken it upon themselves, particularly last night (Wednesday), to cause ultimate offence with the burning of the police and the prison officers’ names, and of course the [poppy] wreaths as well.
“It seems that they want to be a law unto themselves and won’t listen to anybody.”
The Foyle MLA said the majority of people are disgusted by the behaviour of the bonfire builders, and added: “The majority of people condemned it and, going forward, people will just want to continue to build on the work that has been done. A lot of work has been done by community representatives in the areas. I don’t believe this latest incident will have a major impact over the next number of years.”
A sign welcoming visitors to the Fountain was also stolen and placed on the republican bonfire.
Fountain resident Grace Curry – who gave first aid at the scene of the 1988 Ballygawley bus bombing that claimed the lives of eight soldiers – said she was upset that poppies had been destroyed.
“It has sort of hurt me today when I heard about them burning the poppies on the bonfire,” she told the News Letter.
N.I. flag fury after Union Jack erected on Rathfriland water tower
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Caroline Lucas holds Brighton Pavilion, in a good night for the Greens
"Most successful election campaign ever."
By Anoosh Chakelian
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Caroline Lucas wins again. Photo: Getty
Caroline Lucas has held Brighton Pavilion. Lucas, who was elected as the first and only Green MP in 2010, added 11 per cent to her vote share, receiving 22,871 votes to Labour's 14,904.
It looks like the Green council's problems in Brighton did nothing to diminish her popularity.
Lucas called the night "historic", and said "the politics of fear triumphed over the politics of hope".
She added that this general election has been the "Greens' most successful election campaign ever, with almost a million people voting Green."
Indeed, the party has had a good night. Although it narrowly missed out on their second target Bristol West, their candidate Darren Hall still received the largest swing in the constituency's electoral history (23 per cent).
The party leader, Natalie Bennett, went from fourth place (in 2010) to third in Holborn & St Pancras, with her votes rocketing from 1,480 (in 2010) to 7,013.
The Greens came second in four seats – quite an achievement for a party that has never come second before.
As for the Greens in Scotland, a senior source in the Scottish party tells me they are looking ahead with confidence to the Scottish Parliament elections next year: "We've focused on giving our huge number of new members a positive taste of campaigning, ahead of next year's Holyrood election. We know that's really the one that can pay off for us."
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Anoosh Chakelian is senior writer at the New Statesman.
Embracing innovation in cancer care
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TOP STORY: Horticulture, the untapped industry
Information from RHODA indicates that Rwanda earned about $131 million (Rwf 72.3m) as of August last year Rwanda has unrealised potential in the horticulture industry that if exploited can produce quality and competitive products for the regional and international markets.
Draceana trees ready for export. (File Photo).
Information from RHODA indicates that Rwanda earned about $131 million (Rwf 72.3m) as of August last year
Rwanda has unrealised potential in the horticulture industry that if exploited can produce quality and competitive products for the regional and international markets.
Though it’s identified as a priority area for export development, there is limited interest and investment which is seriously crippling the horticulture industry.
The government is therefore calling upon Public Private Partnership venture to invest in the production and processing.
Rwanda has the opportunity to export concentrated juices and organic products such as bananas products, passion fruits because of its favourable climate and soils.
The government secured about 200 ha of land, the Flower Park in Gishari sector Rwamagana district but only a few investors have shown interest to acquire 50 ha for the rose farm in the park.
According to Rwanda Horticulture Development Authority (RHODA), the project is expected to produce 60 million stems and progressively with time to 100 million stems every year which will be at least 90 percent export product.
The initiative is replicated from Ethiopia that has attracted many flower investors both local and international generating $25m per year.
Countries like Kenya and Ethiopia which Rwanda, earn billions from flower sales.
Information from RHODA indicates that Kenya earned $1.7 billion of horticulture sales in 2007, Ethiopia generated a total of $298 million from flower exports while Rwanda made to $131.171 (Rwf 72.3m) as of August last year.
Earlier on, because most horticulture products are perishable, investors in the flower sector complained about the lack of a cold-rooms and the government installed the refrigerated room with capacity to store a total of 30 metric tonnes of perishable products.
Since the installation of a cold- room, only East African growers, a subsidiary of East African Growers Kenya, came into the Rwandan market and has been able to diversify exports like passion fruit, snow pees, pineapples and Japanese plums unlike before where only roses and bananas could be shipped from the airport.
According to Aimable Gakirage, EAG Rwanda representative, Rwanda has demonstrated huge potential for the production and export of snow peas that are in high demand on the international markets.
EAG have farms in Rwamagana district and buy from independent farmers in Kaniga Sector, Gicumbi District.
Currently snow peas are shipped to the UK where they are bought and sold by Tesco, a leading UK supermarket. EAG Rwanda sells the peas at approximately $5 per kilo (Rwf2,700).
Most horticulture crops grown in the country include passion fruits, pineapples, citrus, avocadoes, mangoes, Japanese plum, apple bananas, gooseberry, strawberry, water melon, pawpaw, guava various types of vegetables flowers and ornamentals all consumed locally with 1 percent export.
Its in this regard that government is to acquire a fruit juice ‘concentrate’ plant in a bid to see the country’s horticulture products compete with others on the international markets. According to a survey done by the RHODA less than 10 percent of horticulture products from Rwanda are processed.
The plant worth $6.8m with a capacity of five metric tones per hour is expected to be in place by the end of this year. It’s said that horticulture is expensive especially flower growing needs huge investment which is beyond the capacity of most Rwandans.
Information from Rhoda indicates that one hectare needs about $450,000 in 10 ha which is the minimum acreage that is profitable.
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Author: Marie Simoneaux
The Perfect Wedding Day Entertainment
Say "I Do" to the best band, or DJ, for you
Stephen Materne, Maxwell Materne, Dr. Corey Hebert and Zach Materne are pictured at the “New Orleans Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride,” an international event held in over 600 cities in September for men to don their finest garb and ride their motorcycles…
You have the dress, venue, cake, flowers and food, plus all of the other details essential to creating the perfect wedding. But if you step back, what’s going to be left when all is said and done? For a lot…
Planning a wedding is no easy task, but all the stress is worth it when your wedding is remembered as the party of the century. And what party is complete without music? Whether you’re looking for classy jazz, a hip…
Modern Love, Part 8: Generations Hall
For the past few months, we've been highlighting excerpts, from the New Orleans Bride Summer 2017 issue, on modern venue spaces around New Orleans. One may not think "modern" when they first think of the Big Easy, with it's charming southern atmosphere and loads…
Executive Brian Friedman and Producer and Co-Director Alen Frederic of New Orleans are pictured at the Napa Valley Film Festival where their film The King of New Orleans won Best Narrative Feature.
Modern Love, Part 7: The Cannery
For weeks we’ve been discussing the premier modern and contemporary spaces for weddings and receptions around New Orleans. In a city full of history and culture, one would think contemporary style would be lost, but this is not true. This…
Modern Love, Part 6: NOPSI
The other day, there was buzz around the office about the New Orleans tricentennial celebration next year. It's easy to assume that a city, rich in centuries-worth of history, could only serve those looking for a traditionally historic wedding. Yes, New…
Modern Love, Part 5: Eiffel Society
For a few weeks, we have been highlighting multiple venues from around New Orleans. Each is a contemporary location that lends its aesthetic to couples looking for a less traditional approach to their Big Day. Surprising to some, New Orleans…
Modern Love, Part 4: La Thai
The city of New Orleans is full of surprises. So, it should come as no surprise that in the midst of the city's vast historical background there are modern locations and buildings that lend themselves to those looking to switch…
Modern Love, Part 3: The Chicory
The mix of modern high-rise buildings and chic restaurants and nightlife cozied up next to some of the oldest buildings in the country in downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter perfectly embodies the life of this vibrant city: historical charm with a contemporary twist.…
Modern Love, Part 2: Emeril’s Delmonico
It may seem as if New Orleans is home only to charming, historical venues, but countless contemporary restaurants and venues can be found all around the city. In the latest Summer/Autum 2017 issue of New Orleans Bride magazine, Marie Simoneaux gathered a…
Modern Love: Il Mercato
Though New Orleans is rich in history and lined with historical venues ready for a New Orleans wedding, it can seem that there is nothing set aside for the modern couple. As the city too is full of surprises, it…
SCHOOLDAYS
Nine chic, contemporary spaces for a New Orleans wedding that wows
Historic Charm
Wedding venues and places to prep steeped in history and beauty
Chef DeWitt Ginn takes the helm at Baton Rouge’s Galatoire’s, holds fast to favorites and adds his own take on new items
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Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry : The Salt Forty percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten each year. The major problem is also a major opportunity for startups like Food Cowboy and CropMobster, which are trying to cash in by connecting sellers of excess food to people in need of it.
What's On Your Plate
Eating And Health
Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry
October 29, 201311:14 AM ET
Serri Graslie
Roger Gordon (left) is offered a box of bananas from a worker who was throwing away the lightly speckled fruit at Mexican Fruits in Washington, D.C. Gordon's startup, Food Cowboy, works with truckers to divert edible produce from landfills to food charities. Serri Graslie/NPR hide caption
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Roger Gordon (left) is offered a box of bananas from a worker who was throwing away the lightly speckled fruit at Mexican Fruits in Washington, D.C. Gordon's startup, Food Cowboy, works with truckers to divert edible produce from landfills to food charities.
In an alley in Northeast Washington, D.C., hundreds of pounds of produce are piled haphazardly on pallets. Mexican Fruits, a discount grocer, can't sell the fruit and vegetables inside these boxes because the food has gone soft or is lightly bruised. Some will be donated, but most boxes are destined for a large, green Dumpster nearby.
Before it gets tossed, Roger Gordon grabs one box of lightly speckled bananas. Gordon is the co-founder of Food Cowboy, a startup that's trying to redirect discarded food from Dumpsters to hunger relief groups. He's here at Mexican Fruits because he's hoping the grocer will call him the next time it has this problem.
"We want to set ourselves up as air traffic control for food," says Gordon, who's based in the Washington, D.C., area.
According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten. And many see this wasted food as a business opportunity — from startups like Food Cowboy and CropMobster to the former president of Trader Joe's, who is opening up a market. But although food waste is an obvious problem, it's a complicated one to solve, whether you're targeting farmers, retailers or consumers.
In the retail food world, a lot of waste happens because distributors don't have time to find a home for the perishable food stores won't accept.
Gordon's brother, Richard, came to understand this firsthand. In his work as a trucker, he hauls "kicked" loads of food rejected by retailers often just for aesthetic reasons. If the load is small enough, he can take it home. But if it's large, his distributor might instruct him to drop it at the nearest Dumpster or landfill.
Convinced there should be a better way, the brothers started working together to scout out nearby food charities along Richard's trucking route. "The trucker is under time pressure. ... But oftentimes the charity is just a few miles away from where the shipment has been rejected," he says. "It's just that the truckers don't know about it."
Boxes of unsold produce sit stacked outside Mexican Fruits, a discount grocer. A few loads will be donated to churches but the rest will be thrown away. Serri Graslie/NPR hide caption
Boxes of unsold produce sit stacked outside Mexican Fruits, a discount grocer. A few loads will be donated to churches but the rest will be thrown away.
To help make these connections, Food Cowboy has built a website where food companies, truckers and charities can find each other. Food Cowboy makes money by taking a small commission from the transactions. For 10 cents a pound, a food bank can buy as much from Food Cowboy as they can store.
But there are still challenges. Gordon says it has been difficult to get food retailers on board. Many are concerned they'll be blamed if someone gets sick. And even though there is a federal tax credit, the financial incentive may not be enough to sway them. Another major hurdle is convincing food charities to have flexible hours to receive a load on a trucker's 24/7 schedule.
"Dumpsters are always open. And there are more Dumpsters than food banks," Gordon says.
Food Cowboy had a soft start three months ago. So far, Gordon estimates its diverted about 300,000 pounds of food from landfills to food charities in Texas, Florida, Nebraska, Connecticut, New York and Georgia. The service launches nationwide this week; Gordon says its next iteration will be based on Twitter and have a compost component for the food too spoiled to save.
Like Food Cowboy, CropMobster connects people with excess food to others who can use it. The group uses an online message board, similar to Craigslist, where food producers, grocers and food charities can post ads in one of five categories: free, deal (meaning deeply discounted), wanted, donations or trade.
Co-founder Nick Papadopoulos tells The Salt he got the idea for the company while working on his family's farm in Petaluma, Calif., when he had to till excess food into the ground.
What started in one county six months ago is now open to people all over the Bay Area. Papadopoulos estimates his group has saved 100,000 pounds of food and generated $50,000 in new cash for the small businesses that have sold their surplus product on the site.
Earlier this month a rancher posted an ad for 35 percent off whole chickens when he ran out of freezer room. On the other end, a woman with 10 suburban apple trees used CropMobster to put a call out to gleaners who picked them clean within 12 hours.
Although the company is growing rapidly, no one working for CropMobster has been able to quit his or her day job yet. Papadopoulos says he wants to stay true to Crop Mobster's mission as he eyes expansion and angel investors and venture capitalists come calling.
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The great horse meat scandal infographic. via The Australian Institute of Food Safety hide caption
via The Australian Institute of Food Safety
China's Horses May End Up In Russia's Kabobs
February 28, 2013 The horse meat scandal might be playing out in Europe, but China is the biggest producer in the global market for horseflesh, a new infographic reveals.
Shen Lixiu, 58, says she had her front teeth kicked out in a re-education through labor camp. Chinese authorities say they are considering "reforms" to a system that is coming under increasing public criticism. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
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In China, Not Everything Has Changed
February 24, 2013 China has transformed itself in recent years. But for an NPR reporter now on his second tour of the country, some things, like re-education through labor camps, remain the same.
Who's Been Hacked By China? Better Question Might Be: Who Hasn't?
February 21, 2013 As news continues to come in about evidence of hack attacks from China, more companies and agencies are stepping forward to say they were targets of such snooping. Chinese authorities continue to say the state is not behind the attacks.
This 12-story building houses a Chinese military unit allegedly behind dozens of cyberattacks on U.S. and other Western companies. It's in a modern, if bland, part of Shanghai. Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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A Chinese Army Outpost That's Tucked Into Modern Shanghai
February 19, 2013 The Chinese military unit allegedly behind cyberattacks on U.S. firms works out of a nondescript office tower in a Shanghai neighborhood that's modern, but considered a little bland.
Cyberattack headquarters? The 12-story building in a Shanghai suburb that American investigators say houses an operation responsible for hundreds of cyberattacks on companies around the world. Peter Parks /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Clues Connect Global Hacking To Chinese Government, Security Firm Says
February 19, 2013 Years of cyberattacks have produced evidence tracing them to Shanghai, according to researchers from Mandiant Corp. More precisely, to a place where the People's Liberation Army conducts such work.
Chinese Students Wore Uniforms With Cancer-Causing Dyes
February 18, 2013 Students in 21 schools in Shanghai were ordered to stop wearing uniforms that were found to contain the dye. The incident is the latest in quality-related hazards in the country.
In this photo taken in April 1972 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Zhuang Zedong, right, shakes hands with U.S. table tennis player Glenn Cowan during a visit to the U.S. Zhuang, a key figure in 1971's groundbreaking "pingpong diplomacy" between China and the U.S., died in Beijing on Sunday. He was 72. Xu Bihua/AP hide caption
Xu Bihua/AP
Chinese 'Pingpong Diplomacy' Player Dies
February 10, 2013 Zhuang Zedong's gift to an American table tennis player paved the way for President Nixon's groundbreaking visit to China. Zhuang was 73.
Ramin Talaie/Getty Images
Hack Attack On 'New York Times' Looks Like Part Of Chinese Campaign
January 31, 2013 Western news outlets that have been reporting on alleged corruption among China's leadership appear to be targeted. The Times says it has been under attack for four months.
From 'Morning Edition': Renee Montagne speaks with reporter Nicole Perlroth
A salesperson demonstrates the Apple iPhone 4 in New Delhi, India. While mobile device use is growing rapidly in emerging markets, Apple's current product line may prove prohibitively expensive for many consumers. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption
Manish Swarup/AP
As Developing World Goes Mobile, Can Apple Make The Sale?
January 28, 2013 Up to 1 billion people in emerging markets will buy mobile phones in the coming years, and many will use them in lieu of a computer. While this might seem a natural opportunity for Apple, it may be a struggle for the tech giant to land these new customers.
NASA Earth Observatory
Beijing's Pollution, Seen From Space In Before And After Photos
January 15, 2013 Pollution around Beijing has been stifling for the past few days. NASA has released a pair of satellite images, showing the extent of the smog from space and how the air has changed in the past couple weeks.
Don't blame the braised eggplant. Two people reportedly poisoned a Beijing restaurant's eggplant dishes, similar to the one shown here, in an attempt to boost the business of a rival eatery. yoppy/Flickr.com hide caption
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Docs Discover Drug-Spiked Eggplant Sent Beijing Diners To Hospital
January 2, 2013 Chinese officials say two people intentionally spiked a restaurant's eggplant stir-fries with a toxic dose of a blood pressure drug. The poisoning sent 80 diners to the hospital, where doctors figured out the cause. They all eventually recovered.
China Kicks Out 'New York Times' Reporter
December 31, 2012 Reporter Chris Buckley is forced to leave China when his journalist visa is not extended. The case is seen as a sign of an increasingly hard-line stance toward the foreign media.
China Cracks Down On Doomsday Rumors; Link Seen To Friday Attack
December 17, 2012 More than 90 people have been detained in China, where authorities are cracking down on members of a Christian cult and others for spreading rumors about Dec. 21, a " doomsday date" mentioned in the Mayan calendar. Such rumors were said to trouble the man suspected of a school attack in Henan province.
Wei Jingru, one of the students injured in today's attack, is being treated at a hospital in central China's Henan Province. Li Bo/Xinhua /Landov hide caption
Li Bo/Xinhua /Landov
Man With Knife Attacks School Children In China
December 14, 2012 After a spate of such attacks in recent years, concerns were raised about the failures of China's psychiatric care system. Today's attack renews those fears. Fortunately, none of the 22 children wounded today have life-threatening injuries.
NPR's Louisa Lim on the NPR Newscast
The Balancing Act Of Reporting In China
December 7, 2012 Did NPR's Beijing correspondent, Louisa Lim, exploit and endanger an 84-year-old man with impaired hearing when she interviewed him and gave his name on air? The dangers of being interviewed in China are multiple. But Lim explains why the man is safe and offers insights into the difficulties of finding sources and getting the story in the rising superpower.
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Book Review|Winged Victories
Winged Victories
CreditCreditThe New York Times
By Vicki Constantine Croke
Avian migration is such a vast and complex phenomenon that it can accommodate star treatment in two new books. “The Thing With Feathers,” by Noah Strycker, takes on the miracle of navigation as part of a sweeping look at bird behavior. For Bernd Heinrich, in “The Homing Instinct,” the biannual odyssey of billions of birds is the heart of the matter.
Both authors veer from dense scientific canvassing to rich, more personal storytelling. They also share an interest in the odd quirks of avian life. For instance, despite the putrid menu vultures favor, their excrement is sterile. In fact, letting the waste run down their legs can clean off germs from the gore; it’s their version of freshening up with a moist towelette after a barbecue. Tiny bee hummingbirds are so small you could mail 16 of them for the price of a single stamp. Robins can navigate with the right eye alone, but not the left. Albatrosses, who spend 95 percent of their lives over open ocean, are thought to be able to shut down half their brains while continuing to fly at 40 m.p.h. For blackcap warblers, the direction of migration is clearly innate, so crossbreeding a group of blackcaps who flew south for fall migration with a group that oriented westward resulted in offspring who flew in a southwesterly direction. And if bird breakups are seen in human terms, flamingos’ behavior — their divorce rate is 99 percent — fits their flashy profile. Albatrosses, by contrast, really do hang in there for the long haul, staying together till death.
But both books have much more on their minds. Intelligence, altruism, self-awareness, love and the meaning of home (to birds and to us) are the greater concerns that occupy these writers. For Strycker, a discovery in 2008 by German researchers is revelatory: Mirror recognition, found in little more than a handful of big-brained mammals, shows up in only one bird species, the Eurasian magpie. Magpies are members of the corvid family along with crows and ravens, a group considered even more intelligent than parrots. Social and smart, corvids have impressed researchers with their ability to recognize human faces and use tools. Through them, Strycker ponders consciousness, that “intuitive but slippery word that defies scientific definition,” as he thoughtfully stitches together notions of self-awareness and empathy, and of brain structure differences in mammals and birds. Considering that magpies have even been observed holding “funerals” for fallen comrades, laying grass by the body and then standing vigil, Strycker asks, “Is it going too far to suggest that they show behavior analogous to human emotions?”
Comparisons in these books go both ways. While humans tend to get lost easily, Heinrich points out in “The Homing Instinct,” birds do not. They are equipped with any number of systems or senses or talents for navigation that we fail to understand completely, and possibly others we are not yet aware of. Migrating birds are moved, in the fall, by the imperative to travel daunting distances to feeding grounds, and in the spring to return to nesting/mating areas close to where they were born. For Arctic terns, that means flying from pole to pole for an annual round trip of perhaps 44,000 miles. Many birds end these odysseys on ragged wings, their bodies half their starting weight and their muscles and organs shriveled.
How do they do it? We know that they rely on various methods to find their way. Among them, it can be coded in their genes, or a route learned from parents; they use visual landmarks and orient by the sun, or by stars; they sense magnetic fields and infrasound, pick up on scent and take cues from polarized light.
CreditThe New York Times
In an effort to single out which approaches individual species use and how they do it, and considering that, as Heinrich points out, birds don’t migrate in a lab, researchers have had to come up with some inventive experiments. Captive birds do orient their movements in a certain direction during migration season. So several investigators have tested theories of star navigation by placing their subjects inside planetariums.
Both authors are most readable when describing their own fieldwork and personal experiences. For Strycker that’s his chapters on penguins and albatrosses. He explains in wonderful stories that penguins are afraid of the dark (leopard seals wait in black waters to gobble them up) and that albatrosses truly love one another (mating for life and using each other’s breasts as pillows). Young albatrosses come hard-wired for the courtship dance, but they get better with time. They mirror the dance of partners and refine their moves, sometimes over years as they narrow down their choice of mate. “By that time,” Strycker writes, “it has spent so much time dancing with that specific bird . . . that the pair’s sequence of moves is as unique as a lover’s fingerprint.”
Heinrich, meanwhile, widens his scope beyond birds and will make you fall in love with Charlotte, the orb web spider in his home whom he named after E. B. White’s heroine, and to whom he served freshly caught flies and bumblebees. He is also a master at digging up charming anecdotes from natural history. He quotes a 1949 pamphlet for honey hunters on how to track a bee back to the hive: “One’s first task is to catch a bee and paint its tail blue,” it says, suggesting caution since “bees do not like to be painted.”
Both authors ask what bird studies “reveal about being human,” as Strycker’s subtitle has it, but the question can seem forced. Strycker tells us that speedy hummingbirds, eating on the run and flitting from mate to mate, are prone to heart attacks. Considering our accelerating society, he asks, “Do we really want to become hummingbirds?”
Heinrich’s approach to the human connection is more subtle. He writes that animals “open a window with a broad view onto our unending quest into the mysterious minds of animals, and in the process they illuminate our own.” His philosophical and sometimes nostalgic look at what home has meant to him is interwoven throughout his animal stories.
Whether the links are tenuous or tight, the authors agree that, as Strycker writes, “By studying birds, we ultimately learn about ourselves.” And the good news is that the lessons come to us: “Birds are everywhere. All we have to do is watch.”
THE THING WITH FEATHERS
The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
By Noah Strycker
Illustrated. 288 pp. Riverhead Books. $27.95.
THE HOMING INSTINCT
Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
By Bernd Heinrich
Illustrated. 352 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $27.
Vicki Constantine Croke covers our connection to all creatures for public radio at thewildlife.wbur.org. Her book “Elephant Company” was just published.
A version of this article appears in print on , Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Winged Victories. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Hundreds at Catholic youth festival
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Catholic youth of Aotearoa New Zealand have made it clear that they are passionate about the Church and want to be “part of forming the things that form them”.
More than 600 young Catholics from throughout the nation converged in St Mary’s College in Ponsonby, Auckland to celebrate a weekend of music, companionship, reflection and faith at the Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival from December 2-3. The event was capped by a concert of Canadian Catholic singer-songwriter Matt Maher.
The NZCBC National Council for Young People chairman David Mullin said it was an event “to, with, by and for young people”.
“I think the young people have expressed to us in the Voice to the Vatican survey and at the festival that they are passionate about Church and they want to be involved and they want to be part of forming the things that form them. And that is the key component of this festival,” he said. “We had young people presenting. Their gifts and talents were on show to inspire other young people.”
New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference president Bishop Patrick Dunn opened the festival with prayers and lighting of the festival candle along with Fr Alistair Castillo from Christchurch. Mr Maher was welcomed with a powhiri that ended with a hongi.
The theme of the festival was Face to Face – Kanohi Ki Te Kanohi. Keynote speakers stressed the importance of building relationships with people.
“As human persons, we are born for love, for relationships,” Hamilton Bishop Stephen Lowe told the young people in the first keynote address, which he co-presented with youth worker Ciara Lovelock.
He said having relationships might mean “crashing and burning” but he also called on the young people to take the risk anyway.
“It takes a risk to follow Jesus. We may have to lose something. Have the courage to say, ‘I believe’,” he said.
The second keynote was presented by Vinnies’ Delphina Soti and Maria Paula who encouraged the youth and suggested ways to reach out to the poor and the oppressed.
The last one was presented by five young people, Daniel Chow, Dewy Sacayan, Chris McDonald, Wiremu Smith and Nicole Simpson. They challenged the participants to look at their relationships with those marginalised in society.
Each participant also attend three of 19 offered workshops in the two days. The subjects of the workshops included sacraments; love, sex and relationships; the Holy Spirit; human sexuality; and digital disciples.
Bishop Dunn, Bishop Lowe and Wellington Cardinal John Dew each held a one hour workshop called “Bishop’s Banter” where they took all kinds of questions from young people. (see separate story)
Mr Maher led a prayer vigil on Saturday night with worship songs that thumped with a country rock beat. His concert on Sunday night held at Victory Centre in Auckland was attended by 1600 young people.
“Jesus is inviting you every minute,” he told the young Kiwi Catholics. “You don’t have to come as you’re supposed to. Just come as you are.”
Auckland Youth worker Guiann Corcuera, one of the young people involved in organising the festival, said the highlight for him was seeing young people come together.
“[The highlight for me was] not only the whole Catholic community coming together but the whole Christian community, for Auckland at least, coming together, just seeing one people, experiencing the Holy Spirit in one way,” he said.
Viane Makalio, Christchurch diocese events coordinator, echoed this sentiment. He said the feedback from Christchurch participants was they wanted a voice in their parish.
“They really want to participate in parish life. They just aren’t sure how to. And so our conversation ended to like approaching their parish priest and talking to them, communicating with them as a starting point. That was really awesome,” he said.
Wellington Young Church Ministry leader Isabella McCafferty there was a real sense of energy around the young people.
“Everyone was strengthened in our identities as Catholics in New Zealand. [There is] a new realisation of where we’ve come from and those that have gone before us which is really exciting,” she said.
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Ocean in Motion Film Festivals»
Film List & Program 2017»
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Portugal Ocean in Motion Film Festival Film List and Schedule»
Environmental Conflict Resolution Lecture»
Join us for a special screening of the 2019 Hong Kong Ocean In Motion Film Festival on April 13th at the Kerry Hotel in Hong Kong as part of the Conscious Festival o celebrate Earth Day. Come get Oceanized, without getting wet!
For Cambodia, special thanks to our sponsors, the Rosewood Hotel in Phnom Penh, and Treeline Urban Resort in Siem Reap. Venue Partners: Meta House, Bambu Stage and Village Cafe.
In Bangkok, special thanks to our main sponsors: Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), United Nations Environment, and supporting sponsors (Hilton Hotel Phuket and Hilton Sukhumvit, Cafe Del Mar, Chang Chui and Le Meridien), with supporting organizations (Phuket Hotel Association and Sustainable Brands Bangkok), along with the Bangkok School for the Blind where we had a special screening for the visually impaired community.
Istanbul, Turkey - July 2018. Special thanks to Bahar Ozay, Bogazici University, WWF Turkey and The Stay hotel group in Turkey, for also helping to support this event.
Bangkok and Siem Reap were hosts to their first Ocean In Motion Film Festivals in December 2017.
FILM PREVIEW LIST FOR SCREENINGS CAN BE SEEN HERE.
Join us for three days of the Bangkok and Siem Reap Ocean In Motion Film Festivals to enjoy some amazing ocean films that will inspire, excite, and enterain. One of the main features, among many other short films, will be a screening of the new documentary “One Shot,” the life of Russell Ord, a West Australian, world renowned surf photographer as he embarks on a mission to capture 'one shot' that defines who he is. An inspiring journey about taking a chance, following your dreams and living a life without restrictions. You only get one shot at life…you have to live it as best you can. Thanks to Russell Ord for the amazing images!
The event in Bangkok will culminate with a specially curated Ocean Experience performance, created for the Free Form Festival, which will include a live performance by Jonas Dept, who will play piano to a story about the ocean, along with clarinetist Hannelore Vermeir, currently playing with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Jonas has performed as a soloist in multiple venues and festivals including Burapha Music and Performing Arts Festival, Goethe Institut, Payap University, Low Fat Art Fest, Mahidol University, Alliance Francaise while he was also listed as official pianist for UK Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and Imperial Ballet (ISTD), taking him to numerous countries over four continents. Thanks to Thonglor Art Space, Jonas composed his first musical “Cocktails - The Musical” with lyricist Pitch Witwisit (Band August), which was awarded BEST MUSICAL 2016 by the International Association of Theater Critics.
More information can be found on the Free Form Facebook page or on BBKSR's site. The event is brought to you by Ocean Recovery Alliance, and NGO based in Hong Kong, with Red Carpet Sponsorship from Braiform, and hotel sponsorhip from the Hilton Sukhumvit.
Information on the Screenings for 2015 is listed below, with some great trailers for reference.
Aqua Screening of the Ocean Film Festival Australia - April 17th – The Vine, Wanchai
2014 Film Festival information below
Wall Street Journal Live from the HK-SF Int'l Ocean Film Festival 2014, ocean proteciton, and a film by Lego Ho on Hoi Ha Wan.
HK-SF Int'l Ocean Film Fest Trailer 2014
We hope you were able to see the Ocean Art Walk in Stanley last year, put together by our great partner, the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation who created a series of outdoor sculptures, exhibits and dances at the Stanley Waterfront, with the them of "The Ocean and You" The exhibit was displayed for four weeks, from April 12th - May 4th.
See our 2013 Trailer below, and also, follow us on Twitter and Facebook!
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One Direction are worth £50 million each - but Harry Styles is the wealthiest
ONE Direction's individual wealth is staggering.
One Direction are worth a lot of money (Image: Getty)
The boyband, who shot to fame on The X Factor seven years ago, are collectively worth at least £250 million.
According to documents seen by the Daily Mail, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan sold 10 shares in their company, 1D Media, for £70,131,909 (£14,026,381 each) to increase their wealth.
Harry reportedly has the most fortune, with an estimated £56 million to his name. That includes a £4million LA mansion, a £5.5million home in London as well as an art collection worth around £300,000.
Harry Styles is said to be worth £56 million (Image: Mark Robert Milan/GC Images)
His net-worth is set to increase with his solo career about to kick off and a first single expected on April 7.
Liam Payne is roughly worth £54 million and signed a six-figure record deal with Capitol. His solo music is yet to be released as he's just welcomed a baby with girlfriend Cheryl.
His worth will no doubt increase thanks to their high-profile relationship so he might be beating Harry soon enough.
Ex-One Direction member Zayn and Niall Horan are said to be both worth around £51 million with Louis reportedly worth £50 million.
Zayn just brought out his latest single, "Still Got Time," with PARTYNEXTDOOR while Louis' only solo release was a number one collaboration with Steve Aoki.
Liam Payne has just had a child with Cheryl and is reportedly worth £54 million (Image: Getty)
Niall released his first solo single, "This Town," in September and said his album would come out this year.
No doubt these numbers will grow as the band continue to pursue solo projects.
OK! Online has contacted their reps for comment.
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Back to About Okuma
Striving to be the World's Best Comprehensive "Monozukuri" Service Company
Since our founding in 1898 as a company that manufactured and sold noodle machines, we have inherited a pulsating and uncompromising spirit to deliver what you do not have, but you do need, by "making something from nothing."
Okuma started manufacturing machines tools in 1904, has continuously developed advanced technologies and products for over 120 years since its foundation.
In 1963, Okuma became the first Japanese machine tool manufacturer to develop in-house an NC control, the OSP, and market its technical leadership in mechatronics as Your Single Source for Machine & Control. In addition, while digitizing a wealth of engineering and experience into hi-tech, Okuma's Intelligent Technologies represent a merging of M-E-I-K (Mechanics - Electronics - IT - Knowledge creation), a forerunner to AI. And that has evolved into Okuma's smart machine which can autonomously judge and lead performance to optimum levels.
At present, efforts are accelerating to innovate manufacturing globally, and there is a need to build smart factories that optimize overall plant effectiveness (OPE) in production by using AI, IoT, big data, and so on. In addition to machine tools, Okuma will provide various solutions that encourage innovation in manufacturing, and we will strengthen our "comprehensive monozukuri service" to support the customer's entire manufacturing process.
We look forward to the continued and growing patronage of our world community of customers.
”Monozukuri”: making things (better than ever);
where master craftsmanship meets cutting-edge technology
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Editor: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Desenvolvedor: On the Metal LTD
With the help of Big Dave and a crew of trusty roadies, BigFest gives music-lovers the ability to discover real-world music talent and build the ultimate music festival. As a music promoter, your job is to develop bands and manage the festival, starting with a small stage in the middle of a field and progressing to a multi-day mega festival.
At its heart, BigFest is about the music. Working in partnership with Jamendo, the largest free music platform in the world, you uncover real unsigned bands and help them climb the charts by building the perfect show. How you keep the crowd happy is your decision; whether it’s through great music, the best food, or the biggest stages, you will notice the festival “vibe” increase as you get better at your job. As you build up your reputation and more people come to your shows, you’ll earn more notoriety and be able to expand your shows to become the world’s greatest music promoter.
Your music your way
Discover and promote real-world, unsigned bands whose tracks are available via our partnership with Jamendo, the largest free music platform in the world. BigFest features a wide range of artists from Rock to Hip-Hop, Country to Heavy Metal.
Asynchronous multiplayer
Call upon your friends to help you complete tasks or share music recommendations. Players can swing by friends’ festivals to help build the best show or sabotage their success. If you’re feeling generous, boost each other’s festivals by repairing a broken toilet or capturing a streaker. And if you’re feeling a bit naughty, try vandalizing your friend’s tour bus or destroying the stage!
Reactive crowds
The crowd grows and surges dynamically depending on how well you manage the festival. You will know when you’re making the right choices because the crowd will tell you. Will they boo and walk away, or roar for an encore?
BigFest wouldn’t be a music festival unless you could rock out with your friends. BigFest tracks the community’s favorite bands, helping to promote unsigned bands not just in the game but also in the real world.
BigFest is free to play for the PlayStation community.
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©2013 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. BigFest is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC.
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Uplowman Church of England Primary School
Find out how Uplowman Church of England Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Devon with our school ratings
Here Uplowman Church of England Primary School, Uplowman, Tiverton, EX16 7DR, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Uplowman, Tiverton, EX16 7DR
The open date and status above indicate when Uplowman Church of England Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is Uplowman Church of England Primary School?
Voluntary controlled school
How Uplowman Church of England Primary School scores on each indicator.
Uplowman Church of England Primary School has been rated as Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
How does Uplowman Church of England Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2018, 88% of pupils at Uplowman Church of England Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
How have pupils at Uplowman Church of England Primary School done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages?
While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at Uplowman Church of England Primary School had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?
How do children at Uplowman Church of England Primary School with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths?
How does the % of boys and girls at Uplowman Church of England Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at Uplowman Church of England Primary School and how does it compare to the national average?
At Uplowman Church of England Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2018 that was 0.5 compared to the national average of 0.
At Uplowman Church of England Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2018 that was 0.9 compared to the national average of 0.
At Uplowman Church of England Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2018 that was 1.5 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2016/17, the most recent full school year, 3.6% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at Uplowman Church of England Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
What is the total school spend per pupil at Uplowman Church of England Primary School compared to the local average? (school is in blue)
How much does Uplowman Church of England Primary School spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across Devon?
What percentage of the budget at Uplowman Church of England Primary School is spent on supply staff?
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Attorney Terri Booker talks about life with Sickle Cell on World Sickle Cell Awareness Day
Tunde Kelani, iconic Nigerian film maker releases the first official teaser of the movie, Dazzling Mirage. Synopsis: A talented, beautiful young sickle-cell sufferer overcomes social stigma, prejudice and her own low self-esteem, to achieve career success, marriage and motherhood.
Dazzling Mirage – Movie Trailer 1
What does it mean to have a sickle cell trait? Someone having sickle cell disease is not same as having a sickle cell trait. Sickle cell trait is inherited through the parents. Trait carriers carry the genes to spread sickle cell disease.
With Cincinnati Children’s Hospital – What is Sickle Cell Trait?
In recognition of September 2018 as National Sickle Awareness Month, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) hosted a Facebook Live event, "Ask the Stem Cell Team about Sickle Cell Disease", which discussed the latest progress in the development of stem cell-based therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease.
Facebook Live: Stem Cells and Sickle Cell Disease
The Kaiser Permanente Sickle Cell Center of Excellence program at the Inglewood Medical Office leads the way in the advanced treatment of sickle cell anemia, an inherited disorder in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped into elongated “sickle” or “C-shaped” forms. Given that the Inglewood clinic’s African-American population is 40%, a comprehensive sickle cell program is very important.
Debunking the Myths About Sickle Cell Disease
Since birth Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) patient Alliyah has had to overcome the devastating symptoms of living with sickle cell disease. After two years in a wheelchair she now looks forward to the opportunity to try out for her school’s track team.
Sickle Cell Disease Can’t Stop Alliyah
June 19 is World Sickle Cell Day, bringing awareness to sickle cell patients like Khirsten and Kaitlyn. For these sisters, the transition from pediatric to adult care will be critical to their survival. That’s why St. Jude is working to help them learn to manage their disease as they get older, while tirelessly searching for a cure.
World Sickle Cell Day: Sisters Living With Sickle Cell, Hoping for a Cure
Singer Jordin Sparks is telling us about her personal connection to sickle cell disease and why she's raising awareness about it. She's joined by Dr. Venee Tubman. Visit joingens.com to learn more.
Jordin Sparks on Her Personal Connection to Sickle Cell Disease
With help from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), Indiana University Health nurse Abi Huskins has created a new medical device that keeps people with sickle cell safer by providing a more enclosed, transparent cover for their port sites.
IU Nurse Invents Medical Device for People With Sickle Cell Disease
In this video, Dr. Thomas Harrington from the Universty of Miami explains strokes and their complications due to sickle cell disease.
Fighting Through Our Pain TV With Thomas J. Harrington MD
Fighting Through Our Pain TV is with Dr. Thomas Harrington from the University of Miami. Dr Harrington explains warning signs of serious eye problem due to Sickle Cell Disease.
The idea for the #My31 Movement began as a realization by the founders of Hu-manity.co. People were creating tons of data, and were not able to control how it is used, manage it or be compensated for it. And yet, the data market is growing exponentially. This is the reason for the 31st Human Right: "Everyone has the right to legal ownership of their inherent human data as property."
What the #My31 Movement Stands For
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The Case Against Superdelegates
Nicholas Roberts
In a democratic country, few things are more ironic than the idea the nominee of a party that calls itself the Democratic Party could be chosen by a decidedly undemocratic group of "superdelegates," or party mandarins, elected and unelected, who are automatically entered into the Democratic delegation by virtue of their positions.
Yet here we are.
Democratic presidential candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton is currently leading her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in all three categories of importance for the party's nomination: she leads Sanders in the popular vote, in the number of pledged delegates to her and the number of "superdelegates."
As The New York Times' Emma Roller notes, superdelegates in the modern Democratic Party were created in 1981, after incumbent President Jimmy Carter's stunning loss to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter had cast himself as an outsider in 1976, four years after the party had nominated the left-wing candidate George McGovern -- a candidate the Republicans derided as an advocate of amnesty, abortion and acid, as Eleanor Clift highlights -- as its nominee in 1972, reports The Daily Beast.
The Democratic Party was determined to make sure that an insurgent, populist, left-wing candidate could never again block the nomination from an "electable" candidate.
The fundamental problem with superdelegates is that, even though they have never actually decided who a Democratic presidential candidate would be since their inception -- although that streak may come to an end this year -- their existence creates a super-empowered class of officials who may be completely divorced from their party base's concerns.
And this is not something that can simply be dislodged from the political scene. These elites naturally want to retain their power and status within the party, which means that even if the title and position of "superdelegate" were abolished, they would simply run to be delegates of their own states. This effectively means they would have to run against their own constituents to get into a delegate slot, as Roller points out.
That Clinton still leads Sanders in the popular vote by more than 2 million votes would seem to suggest the Democrats will choose the "electable" candidate over the "maverick" one in the end anyway, which is in itself a sort of indictment of the need for superdelegates.
On the Republican side, the party uses all manner of tricks and rule changes to make sure an "electable" candidate is chosen at the convention every four years, but superdelegates do not play as large of a role. With the rise of GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, some Republican leaders surely are reconsidering the need for superdelegates in the future.
That both Sanders and Trump, the two candidates deemed to be more "maverick" and different from the rest of their opponents, keep gaining support in party systems which respectively both contain and lack superdelegates speaks to the populist groundswell that has endured throughout this election cycle.
It now seems possible the Democratic convention will be a brokered convention while it is now taken for certain that the Republicans will have a contested one, as both parties divide themselves into centrist and populist wings. If that happens, then perhaps the end of the Sixth Party System in the U.S. is near.
And if that happens, hopefully American political elites will see that superdelegates have only helped fuel anger at established political parties and have never been decisive in helping the party choose a nominee.
However the primary nomination process is ever eventually reformed, there needs to be less room for superdelegates and more room for rank-and-file voters.
Sources: The New York Times, The Daily Beast / Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr
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NBA Rumors: Are Mike D’Antoni, Lakers Putting Too Much Faith into Steve Nash’s Return?
Alex Groberman
The Los Angeles Lakers’ championship hopes are apparently directly tied to Steve Nash’s health. In other words, if this team’s 38-year-old point guard -- who has played in over 1,100 NBA games and has averaged about 31 minutes per -- isn’t right, they won’t win a chip in 2013.
That’s troubling, to say the least.
Never mind the fact that Nash is away from the Phoenix Suns’ miraculous training staff this year and that nobody knows how it will impact him health-wise, just the simple notion of a team with three future Hall of Famers relying so heavily on another player is nuts.
Again, this team boasts three other future Hall of Famers.
One of those players, Kobe Bryant, is having one of the best early season stretches of his career (27.3 ppg, 53.1 fg%, 41.8 3pt%, 87.6 ft%). And yet, even though the Lakers have played a ridiculously easy first 12 games, they sit at a lowly 6-6 as of Friday morning. If they fall to the Memphis Grizzlies tonight (a very formidable group, mind you), they’ll be back to below .500.
How does Los Angeles’ new head coach explain his team’s struggles to date? Here is what he told USA Today following the Lakers’ Wednesday night loss to the Sacramento Kings:
"Oh no, no, we'll get it done," he said. "We're going to get it done. We've just got to have a little more of a healthier roster. But we'll get it done.
"The biggest point is, and I don't want to belabor the point, but Steve (Nash) is a big part of this, and we need to get him healthy and get him back."
Are you kidding me? Forget Nash’s fractured fibula. He is a veteran with a lot of milage on his tires; when this injury heals, there is a very good chance something else will start bothering him. That’s what happens when you play a 38-year-old too much. (Which the Lakers inevitably will because Steve Blake is hurt, too, and Darius Morris is probably still traumatized from what Deron Williams did to him.) If your entire year rests on how good Nash is feeling, you are not a legitimate championship contender.
This team has enough talent currently on the roster to not rely so heavily on having Nash back. That must stop being a crutch. From here onward, everyone involved has to assume that they will play large chunks of the season sans their extremely talented point guard. And if they can’t? Then Jim Buss stupidly wasted a lot of his dad’s money this summer on a title campaign that simply isn't going to happen.
(Kudos USA Today)
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Astronauts breeze through US EVA-45
October 11, 2017 / Derek Richardson
Mark Vande Hei works to lubricate the end effector of the robotic Canadarm2 during U.S. EVA-45. Credit: NASA
Less than a week after completing one spacewalk, International Space Station Expedition 53 astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei set out on another extravehicular activity. This excursion, U.S. EVA-45, lasted about 6.5 hours.
At 7:56 a.m. EDT (11:56 GMT) Oct. 10, 2017, the two NASA astronauts switched their spacesuits over to battery power, officially starting U.S. EVA-45. The primary task of the spacewalk was to replace a faulty camera and begin the process of lubricating the new Latching End Effector on the robotic Canadarm2. The LEE was attached on the previous spacewalk on October 5.
Bresnik, also the station’s commander, was the lead spacewalker and wore the spacesuit with the red stripes, while Vande Hei wore the suit with no stripes.
Once outside the Quest airlock, the two took different paths to their ultimate destination at the P1 truss segment. Bresnik first fetched a foot restraint and moved to the Destiny laboratory to attach it to the module and then demate a heater cable from a Pump Flow Control Subassembly. He rotated the device 90 degrees in order to allow for a future ammonia vent and be used as a spare.
Vande Hei, on the other hand, went straight to the P1 truss to begin setting up the work area. He installed a Worksite Interface Socket on the recently installed LEE.
After that work was finished, Vande Hei joined Bresnik to work on the Pump Flow Control Subassembly, located nearby at External Stowage Platform-1, which is attached to Destiny. It took two astronauts to rotate the washing machine-sized device.
Randy Bresnik works to replace an external TV camera on the P1 truss segment. Credit: NASA
With the pump subassembly rotation competed, the two then moved back to the P1 work site. Bresnik took his foot restraint there from Destiny and attached it onto the 18-meter arm’s LEE.
Once Bresnik was secured onto the foot restraint, Canadarm2 was moved – with him on it – to the furthest port side of the P1 truss. There, he and truss-based Vande Hei worked to replace an external TV camera. In order to get to it, however, the duo had to first remove a working high-definition camera before removing the standard-definition camera for a replacement. Once finished, the HD camera was re-attached.
The astronauts completed this task with breakneck speed, and, at that point, they were about 45 minutes ahead of the spacewalk timeline.
Vande Hei then started to prepare for the other primary task of this spacewalk: lubricating the LEE installed last week. That involved using a Ballscrew Lubrication Tool and a grease gun. The first part greased was the Central Rigidizing Ballscrew in the center of the LEE. Then he moved on to greasing the outer four latch ballscrews.
The latter part of the grease task was originally planned for U.S. EVA-46 next week. With that assignment now completed, all that needs lubricating on the LEE are the linear bearing tracks and equalization brackets. With arm work for this spacewalk completed, Vande Hei cleaned up his workspace and made his way back to Quest.
Meanwhile, Bresnik worked on some minor tasks. These included removing a Working Interface Socket from the LEE that was removed during last week’s spacewalk. Next, he stowed the foot restraint he was using for this excursion at External Stowage Platform-2 and placed an Orbital Replacement Unit back inside Quest.
Finally, Bresnik began translating to the Tranquility module’s end cone to remove a pair of handrails. This will allow for the installation of advanced wireless antennas in the future for better wireless video transfers from external cameras into the main communications system.
On his way back to Quest to wrap up the spacewalk, Bresnik also removed an insulation blanket from a spare battery charge/discharge unit for eventual use.
Once back inside Quest and the astronauts hooked back up to station power, the spacewalk ended. The 6-hour, 26-minute EVA was officially completed at 2:22 p.m. EDT (18:22 GMT).
This was the second of three planned spacewalks for the month of October. Bresnik, having led the first two, will lead the third. However, while Vande Hei participated in the first two, NASA’s Joe Acaba will venture out with Bresnik on the third, which is currently scheduled for October 18.
The Oct. 18 spacewalk will see the completion of the lubrication of the LEE and replacement of another camera on the Destiny laboratory. Additionally, mission managers are working to add other tasks to the EVA.
U.S. EVA-45 was Bresnik’s fourth spacewalk and the second for Vande Hei. They now have 25 hours, 11 minutes, and 13 hours, 21 minutes of EVA experience, respectively.
Additionally, this was the 204th spacewalk in support of ISS assembly and maintenance since 1998 for a total of 1,272 hours.
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DOE PAGES Journal Article: Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs
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Title: Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs
Quantum chemistry is a discipline which relies heavily on very expensive numerical computations. The scaling of correlated wave function methods lies, in their standard implementation, between $$\mathcal{O}$$(N 5) and $$\mathcal{O}$$(c N), where N is proportional to the system size. Thus, performing accurate calculations on chemically meaningful systems requires (i) approximations that can lower the computational scaling and (ii) efficient implementations that take advantage of modern massively parallel architectures. Quantum Package is an open-source programming environment for quantum chemistry specially designed for wave function methods. Its main goal is the development of determinant-driven selected configuration interaction (sCI) methods and multireference second-order perturbation theory (PT2). The determinant-driven framework allows the programmer to include any arbitrary set of determinants in the reference space, hence providing greater methodological freedom. The sCI method implemented in Quantum Package is based on the CIPSI (Configuration Interaction using a Perturbative Selection made Iteratively) algorithm which complements the variational sCI energy with a PT2 correction. Additional external plugins have been recently added to perform calculations with multireference coupled cluster theory and range-separated density-functional theory. All the programs are developed with the IRPF90 code generator, which simplifies collaborative work and the development of new features. Quantum Package strives to allow easy implementation and experimentation of new methods, while making parallel computation as simple and efficient as possible on modern supercomputer architectures. Currently, the code enables, routinely, to realize runs on roughly 2 000 CPU cores, with tens of millions of determinants in the reference space. Furthermore, we have been able to push up to 12 288 cores in order to test its parallel efficiency. In the present manuscript, we also present some key new developments: (i) a renormalized second-order perturbative correction for efficient extrapolation to the full CI limit and (ii) a stochastic version of the CIPSI selection performed simultaneously to the PT2 calculation at no extra cost.
Garniron, Yann [1]; Applencourt, Thomas [2]; Gasperich, Kevin [3];
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Benali, Anouar [2];
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Ferté, Anthony [4]; Paquier, Julien [4]; Pradines, Barthélémy [5]; Assaraf, Roland [4]; Reinhardt, Peter [4];
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Toulouse, Julien [4]; Barbaresco, Pierrette [6]; Renon, Nicolas [6]; David, Grégoire [7]; Malrieu, Jean-Paul [1];
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Scemama, Anthony [1]
Univ. of Toulouse (France). Lab. of Physical Chemistry
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Lab. of Theoretical Physics and Chemistry
Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Lab. of Theoretical Physics and Chemistry; Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Inst. for Computing and Data Science (ISCD)
Univ. of Toulouse (France). Calculation in Midi-Pyrénées (CALMIP)
Aix-Marseille Univ., and CNRS, Marseille (France)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
AC05-00OR22725
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1549-9618
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Garniron, Yann, Applencourt, Thomas, Gasperich, Kevin, Benali, Anouar, Ferté, Anthony, Paquier, Julien, Pradines, Barthélémy, Assaraf, Roland, Reinhardt, Peter, Toulouse, Julien, Barbaresco, Pierrette, Renon, Nicolas, David, Grégoire, Malrieu, Jean-Paul, Véril, Mickaël, Caffarel, Michel, Loos, Pierre-François, Giner, Emmanuel, and Scemama, Anthony. Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00176.
Garniron, Yann, Applencourt, Thomas, Gasperich, Kevin, Benali, Anouar, Ferté, Anthony, Paquier, Julien, Pradines, Barthélémy, Assaraf, Roland, Reinhardt, Peter, Toulouse, Julien, Barbaresco, Pierrette, Renon, Nicolas, David, Grégoire, Malrieu, Jean-Paul, Véril, Mickaël, Caffarel, Michel, Loos, Pierre-François, Giner, Emmanuel, & Scemama, Anthony. Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs. United States. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00176.
Garniron, Yann, Applencourt, Thomas, Gasperich, Kevin, Benali, Anouar, Ferté, Anthony, Paquier, Julien, Pradines, Barthélémy, Assaraf, Roland, Reinhardt, Peter, Toulouse, Julien, Barbaresco, Pierrette, Renon, Nicolas, David, Grégoire, Malrieu, Jean-Paul, Véril, Mickaël, Caffarel, Michel, Loos, Pierre-François, Giner, Emmanuel, and Scemama, Anthony. Mon . "Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs". United States. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00176.
title = {Quantum Package 2.0: An Open-Source Determinant-Driven Suite of Programs},
author = {Garniron, Yann and Applencourt, Thomas and Gasperich, Kevin and Benali, Anouar and Ferté, Anthony and Paquier, Julien and Pradines, Barthélémy and Assaraf, Roland and Reinhardt, Peter and Toulouse, Julien and Barbaresco, Pierrette and Renon, Nicolas and David, Grégoire and Malrieu, Jean-Paul and Véril, Mickaël and Caffarel, Michel and Loos, Pierre-François and Giner, Emmanuel and Scemama, Anthony},
abstractNote = {Quantum chemistry is a discipline which relies heavily on very expensive numerical computations. The scaling of correlated wave function methods lies, in their standard implementation, between $\mathcal{O}$(N5) and $\mathcal{O}$(cN), where N is proportional to the system size. Thus, performing accurate calculations on chemically meaningful systems requires (i) approximations that can lower the computational scaling and (ii) efficient implementations that take advantage of modern massively parallel architectures. Quantum Package is an open-source programming environment for quantum chemistry specially designed for wave function methods. Its main goal is the development of determinant-driven selected configuration interaction (sCI) methods and multireference second-order perturbation theory (PT2). The determinant-driven framework allows the programmer to include any arbitrary set of determinants in the reference space, hence providing greater methodological freedom. The sCI method implemented in Quantum Package is based on the CIPSI (Configuration Interaction using a Perturbative Selection made Iteratively) algorithm which complements the variational sCI energy with a PT2 correction. Additional external plugins have been recently added to perform calculations with multireference coupled cluster theory and range-separated density-functional theory. All the programs are developed with the IRPF90 code generator, which simplifies collaborative work and the development of new features. Quantum Package strives to allow easy implementation and experimentation of new methods, while making parallel computation as simple and efficient as possible on modern supercomputer architectures. Currently, the code enables, routinely, to realize runs on roughly 2 000 CPU cores, with tens of millions of determinants in the reference space. Furthermore, we have been able to push up to 12 288 cores in order to test its parallel efficiency. In the present manuscript, we also present some key new developments: (i) a renormalized second-order perturbative correction for efficient extrapolation to the full CI limit and (ii) a stochastic version of the CIPSI selection performed simultaneously to the PT2 calculation at no extra cost.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00176},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation},
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00176
QMCPACK : an open source ab initio quantum Monte Carlo package for the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids
Journal Article Kim, Jeongnim ; Baczewski, Andrew D. ; Beaudet, Todd D. ; ... - Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
QMCPACK is an open source quantum Monte Carlo package for ab initio electronic structure calculations. It supports calculations of metallic and insulating solids, molecules, atoms, and some model Hamiltonians. Implemented real space quantum Monte Carlo algorithms include variational, diffusion, and reptation Monte Carlo. QMCPACK uses Slater-Jastrow type trial wavefunctions in conjunction with a sophisticated optimizer capable of optimizing tens of thousands of parameters. The orbital space auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method is also implemented, enabling cross validation between different highly accurate methods. The code is specifically optimized for calculations with large numbers of electrons on the latest high performance computingmore » architectures, including multicore central processing unit and graphical processing unit systems. We detail the program's capabilities, outline its structure, and give examples of its use in current research calculations.« less
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aab9c3
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scraps: An open-source Python-based analysis package for analyzing and plotting superconducting resonator data
Journal Article Carter, Faustin Wirkus ; Khaire, Trupti S. ; Novosad, Valentyn ; ... - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
We present "scraps" (SuperConducting Analysis and Plotting Software), a Python package designed to aid in the analysis and visualization of large amounts of superconducting resonator data, specifically complex transmission as a function of frequency, acquired at many different temperatures and driving powers. The package includes a least-squares fitting engine as well as a Monte-Carlo Markov Chain sampler for sampling the posterior distribution given priors, marginalizing over nuisance parameters, and estimating covariances. A set of plotting tools for generating publication-quality figures is also provided in the package. Lastly, we discuss the functionality of the software and provide some examples of itsmore » utility on data collected from a niobium-nitride coplanar waveguide resonator fabricated at Argonne National Laboratory.« less
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2016.2625767
XDesign: An open-source software package for designing X-ray imaging phantoms and experiments
Journal Article Ching, Daniel J. ; Gursoy, Dogˇa - Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (Online)
Here, the development of new methods or utilization of current X-ray computed tomography methods is impeded by the substantial amount of expertise required to design an X-ray computed tomography experiment from beginning to end. In an attempt to make material models, data acquisition schemes and reconstruction algorithms more accessible to researchers lacking expertise in some of these areas, a software package is described here which can generate complex simulated phantoms and quantitatively evaluate new or existing data acquisition schemes and image reconstruction algorithms for targeted applications.
Adaptive rotating-wave approximation for driven open quantum systems
Journal Article Baker, Brian ; Li, Andy C. Y. ; Irons, Nicholas ; ... - Physical Review A
In this study we present a numerical method to approximate the long-time asymptotic solutionmore » $$\rho_\infty(t)$$ to the Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system under the influence of an external drive. The proposed scheme uses perturbation theory to rank individual drive terms according to their dynamical relevance, and adaptively determines an effective Hamiltonian. In the constructed rotating frame, $$\rho_\infty$$ is approximated by a time-independent, nonequilibrium steady-state. This steady-state can be computed with much better numerical efficiency than asymptotic long-time evolution of the system in the lab frame. We illustrate the use of this method by simulating recent transmission measurements of the heavy-fluxonium device, for which ordinary time-dependent simulations are severely challenging due to the presence of metastable states with lifetimes of the order of milliseconds.« less
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.052111
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Philadelphia Wings relocate
Sad to see this happen.
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Philadelphia, PA (July 11, 2014) - Ownership of the Philadelphia Wings, one of nine teams in the National Lacrosse League (NLL), plan to re-locate the franchise for the 2015 season. The organization is currently taking part in discussions with a new strategic partner for re-location, pending NLL Board of Governor approval.
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That is very sad to see...
I used to love it when Philly came in to play the Saints. They brought so many fans that even though they rooted for the wrong team, it made the place NHL-level loud. Even went down there twice and the arena was crazy and packed.
That being said, I went up to the NLL website and ran the numbers on their home games last season and the average was only about 7000. That's a big step down from a few years ago when they would easily see 13-15000+. Same thing happened on LI in their last few seasons.
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West Chester or just north of the Delaware border could use a 6-7k arena for smaller shows and minor/smaller league teams like this. Wachovia or whatever it is right now is not enough for that city.
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I actually don't think it'll be that far...I believe in 2015 we'll be seeing the Lehigh Valley Wings.
Proud to be a veteran of these boards for the last 5 years...
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Our Town America Raises Funds for Struggling Restaurant
Wilmington Business Journal (October 24) — The impact of Hurricane Florence on area restaurants was far reaching, from the loss of perishable products and structural damage to the loss of revenue. Many independently owned establishments are struggling financially.
Bassam Safi, owner of the Wilmington branch of Our Town America, a national marketing company that targets new residents, was inspired by the company's past efforts to help hurricane victims. Our Town America franchise owners hosted Facebook fundraisers following hurricanes Irma and Harvey, to help businesses impacted by the storm, and Safi said he wanted to follow suit.
Safi’s Hurricane Florence Facebook fundraiser generated more than $1,500, which he will be donating this week to Tavern 14, located at 6309 Market St.
Tavern 14, which remains closed, sustained significant damage due to water and mold, forcing
Christyne of Tavern 14 and Bassam Safi of Our Town America Wilmington
owner Christyne Nagaishi to gut the 5,000-square-foot structure.
In addition to the mounting repair costs, Nagaishi estimates a loss of $4,000 in food and $8,000 in liquor, beer and wine. While her employees are currently receiving unemployment benefits, she is concerned that the longer she remains closed, the fewer of her employees will be likely to return to the tavern.
Nagaishi began working at Tavern 14, formerly a private club that operated under a number of names for the past three decades, when she moved to Wilmington six years ago. At that point it was located across the street at 6320 Market St. She purchased the business two years ago and when the building was sold this past spring, Nagaishi moved to the current location and integrated a kitchen.
When she reopened June 1, she began working with Safi on targeted advertising to capture new business as well as keep the loyal clientele she had worked hard to build.
“I invested everything into the move and took out a loan to add the kitchen,” Nagaishi said. “So for this to happen three months later is really devastating.”
Nagaishi said she learned of Safi’s efforts and the money she would be receiving from the Our Town America corporate office.
“I wasn’t surprised that Bassam was behind the effort, but I had no idea he was doing this with us in mind,” Nagaishi said. “He truly embodies the local spirit of taking care of one another.”
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Lobby decorated with pieces by local artists
Business center with meeting rooms and pleasant library
Free Wi-Fi throughout
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The abba Centrum Alicante is an upper-middle-range hotel is set a nine-minute walk from the city center and train station, and 20 minutes from the beach. The 148 rooms are spacious -- aside from tiny Single Rooms -- and well-maintained, with modern bathrooms, flat-screen TVs, and free Wi-Fi, but few have balconies and some have dated decor. The hotel does not have a pool, but rather a rooftop solarium and a large internal courtyard shaded by a pergola, both of which offer plenty of seating. A restaurant serving well-reviewed food, massage rooms, a gym, sauna, and steam room complete the on-site facilities. Guests looking for access to a pool may wish to consider the AC Hotel Alicante by Marriott.
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The abba Centrum Alicante is a bright and smart hotel decorated throughout with dark-wood panelling on the walls, sleek marble flooring mixed with rich brown carpets, and furniture in shades of white and gray, plus chrome accents. The large and airy lobby is decorated with an eclectic and ever-changing range of artwork by local artists, which at any point might include large, arresting statues, surreal paintings, and tiny stone carvings. The restaurant's design is in a similar manner, with dark wooden rafters on the ceiling, cream sandstone wall tiles, and unusual paintings on the walls. The large and bright space, made more intimate by its division into smaller areas with dividers made of whitewashed tree branches. This room leads to an internal courtyard with a number of sofas and tables, sheltered somewhat from the elements by a heavy pergola. Given the sophisticated vibe of the property, guests are primarily couples, followed by business travelers.
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The hotel is centrally located in Alicante’s commercial district, with a number of shops and restaurants nearby, including a branch of the department store El Corte Ingles -- a six-minute walk away. The train station is nine minutes away on foot. Alicante’s Old Town, the Barrio de la Santa Cruz, is a 13-minute walk, while the Port of Alicante -- the site of heavy combat during the Spanish Civil War -- is a 17-minute walk away. The beach, Platja del Postiguet, is a 20-minute walk or a nine-minute taxi ride away. Both the Alicante Golf Course and the El Plantio Golf Course are 15 minutes away by car, while Murcia is an hour’s drive away. Expect transfers to Alicante Airport to take 15 minutes by car, or 28 minutes by train.
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Bright, mostly modern rooms with flat-screen TVs and up-to-date bathrooms
The abba Centrum Alicante’s 148 rooms are mostly modern, with varying decor by category. Some have neutral decor that's stylish and attractive, while others are outfitted in basic honey-tone wood furniture, a deep-red accent wall opposite close-up plant photographs, and old-fashioned linens. Most rooms are spacious, except for the tiny Single Rooms that clock in at 19 square meters (204 square feet). The 27-square-meter (290-square-foot) Standard rooms have enough space for an armchair, large bedside tables, and a full-size writing desk. Guests have reported that the beds are extremely comfortable, and Executive Rooms and Suites all have queen-sized beds. Junior Suites make room for a separate lounge room, while fully fledged Suites have two separate, interconnected bedrooms. The majority of rooms lack balconies, but all Suites have large terraces.
Cream-colored bathrooms are clean and light, equipped with a shower/tub combo -- except Single Rooms that have a shower stall -- bidet, magnifying mirror, hairdryer, and free toiletries. Executive Rooms and Suites add bathtubs with hydrotherapy jets. All rooms have a flat-screen TV, free Wi-Fi, and a minibar.
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Large rooftop solarium and interior courtyard, plus all-day restaurant
Guests seeking sun are able to head to a large rooftop solarium carpeted with fake grass, and offering views over the rooftops of Alicante and out toward the hills. There is also a sunny interior courtyard with comfortable sofas and dining tables, leading out from the hotel’s restaurant. The eatery serves a continental buffet breakfast and a la carte dinner -- both of which receive mostly positive reviews. Just off from the lobby is a small, tastefully decorated library lined with lots of books for borrow. A spa facility has both a sauna and Turkish bath, and offers massage and beauty treatments. Additionally, there is a modern gym with a handful of cardio machines and free weights. For business travelers, 12 different spaces can be booked for meetings. Wi-Fi is free throughout, but it can be spotty in areas. Underground parking is available for a fee.
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Bolivian president visits Russia to discuss expanding ties
Posted: Jul 11, 2019 / 10:50 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 11, 2019 / 01:04 PM CDT
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, left, points as he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, during their meeting in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 11, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)
MOSCOW (AP) — Bolivian leader Evo Morales has visited Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on expanding economic ties.
Speaking after talks in the Kremlin Thursday, Putin hailed the “strategic cooperation” between the two countries, including Russia’s investment in Bolivia’s natural gas fields and a project to build a Russian research nuclear reactor in the country.
He said Russian companies are considering investments in lithium mining in Bolivia and plan to participate in the planned reconstruction of Santa Cruz airport.
Both leaders noted that they have similar views on international issues and underlined their shared emphasis on respect for sovereignty and opposition to unilateral sanctions.
Morales praised Putin for leading global efforts to “protect international order, oppose use of force in international affairs and prevent interference into other nations’ internal affairs.”
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by DAMIAN J. TROISE, Associated Press / Jul 18, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks moved lower in early trading on Wall Street Thursday after Netflix reported a slump in new subscribers and dragged down communications companies.
The streaming video service plunged after subscriber additions fell far below Wall Street forecasts during its April-June period. The communications sector, which also includes Walt Disney and Facebook, had the most severe drop.
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Have the Washington Redskins Reached a Turning Point?
By Rachel Sasser
On October 17, 2018 October 16, 2018
The Redskins needed this one. After an ugly loss to the Saints in Week 5, halftime drama with Josh Norman, and rock-bottom team morale, Sunday’s game might have been a turning point for the Washington Redskins. Their 23-17 win against the Panthers puts the Redskins at 3-2 after Week 6. In some ways, it was a crucial win for the team. So… have they bounced back?
The Panthers are a good team. Cam Newton is a force to be reckoned with. This game was a close call, but the Redskins hung on and cashed in some early turnovers to get the job done. Under Head Coach Jay Gruden, the team runs the ball and plays good defense. (Well, this season anyway.) On Sunday, they controlled the clock and a handful of players stood out to win at home – most noticeably, Adrian Peterson and Josh Norman.
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Adrian Peterson is still great
Yeah, the Redskins have some studs. Veteran Peterson proved that he’s not too old to run, with 17 carries and 97 rushing yards this game. Peterson’s play so far this season has made the decision to pick him up for the year (after Derrius Guice’s season-ending injury) look like a good one. He’s racked up over 90 yards in each of the Redskins’ three wins. Although he was listed as “questionable” prior to Sunday due to knee and shoulder injuries, Peterson wrecked the Panthers defense while playing through the pain. He’s now on pace to lead the team in rushing yards this year. There’s no question about it, Panthers Head Coach Ron Rivera admitted after the game, “They run the ball extremely well with Adrian.”
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Josh Norman might be worth the money
After all the recent criticism, cornerback Josh Norman needed this win too. He’s signed a $75 million contract for five years with the Redskins and lots are folks suggest he’s not worth the money. Tensions have been building, and last Monday night, he and Jay Gruden were involved in a little incident at halftime when Gruden yanked the headphones off Norman’s head and then didn’t start him during the second half. (Apparently, coach didn’t think he was listening to him in the locker room.)
Arise & Fly into the Storm.. because we are those who create the chaos. From the front to the back. We fear no squadron! invincibility is our trade, and precision is our mark! Aim high and fire relentless. Let’s go get em’
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Reportedly, that’s all settled now and Norman had a big game against his former Panthers teammates and good buddy Cam Newton. Along with some solid tackling, he forced a fumble which the Redskins capitalized on, and he nabbed his first interception since 2016. After a bad, bad week, Norman responded with a great performance and now critics are saying he’s gone “from penny stock to blue chip.”
Other important players this game? Veteran Vernon Davis caught three passes and snagged 48 yards and a touchdown, while Jordan Reed led the receivers with five receptions and an extra 36 yards for the team.
Potential pitfalls
So what do the Redskins need to work on? Well, their quarterback Alex Smith didn’t do anything terribly wrong or make any big mistakes… but he’s just not that consistent. From the opposing team’s point of view, he isn’t that scary quarterback you need to worry (think, Mahomes or Brady). Overall, Smith’s game against the Panthers was just mediocre. Another issue? The Redskins offense has a tough time putting points on the board in the second half.
History also says that the Redskins will lose their next game against the Cowboys. They’ve got a record of .500 over the past 57 games. They win one, they lose one. Seriously. In games following a win, they’re 1-7 if you look at their past eight games.
Always looking ahead. #CARvsWAS | #HTTR
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So can they beat the Cowboys (who are coming off a strong 40-7 win against the Jaguars) to stay on top of the NFC East? This is a big one because, right now, the Redskins have a half-game lead over the Eagles and the Cowboys and a win would put them solidly on top of the division. Vegas is giving the Redskins a 1.5-point edge, probably because the Cowboys haven’t been able to seal the deal away from home yet this season, losing road games at Houston, Seattle, and Carolina.
The Redskins play at home again next week, so anything could happen. Can they keep rolling?
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The National Portrait Gallery
Family Activity Base Unit Design & Build
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The brief described the Family Activity Base Unit (FAB) as being family friendly, a visible meeting point, intuitive, fully accessible, interactive and flexible. The FAB is used in three main gallery locations, depending on programme focus and other activities at the gallery, so as well as being portable, it also has to store away into a compact space when not in use. The FAB unit had to incorporate the galleries family visual identity branding as well as being hard wearing and portable.
We worked very closely with the learning team at The National Portrait Gallery to develop FAB.
The National Portrait Gallery appointed Paragon Creative for the design and build of the new FAB Unit. This is a bespoke piece of mobile furniture which acts as a dedicated welcome area for families and has been fitted out with materials, resources and activities for self-directed portrait based learning on site at weekends and during holidays.
The finished design was produced in solid surface to ensure that the unit was as durable as possible and met all client criteria.
Our Client: National Portrait Gallery, London
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Paramedics Australasia meets with Queensland Health Minister
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Paramedics Australasia meets with Queensland Health Minister Paramedics Australasia National Board Director Helen Eyles and National Policy Advisor Ray Bange met with The Queensland Minister for Health Hon. Lawrence Springborg MP and his Principal Policy Advisor Mr Neil Hamilton-Smith on Monday 13 August 2012. The discussions covered a number of issues in relation to recent developments within the profession and the role of paramedics in healthcare.
Particular reference was made to the underlying reasons for national registration of paramedics and the current progress under the limited consultation program being managed by the WA Department of Health. The distinction between the provision of ambulance services and the registration of health practitioners (including paramedics) were raised, including the overarching responsibility of Health Ministers for the safety and quality of healthcare within their jurisdictions.
The support of the Minister was sought for national registration of paramedics and it was noted that both the West Australian and the South Australian Health Ministers had already declared their strong support for registration of paramedic practitioners.
The discussions were fruitful and it was agreed that Paramedics Australasia would ensure the Minister and his advisors were kept informed of further developments as the registration program unfolded.
Paramedic Registration Information BookletSA Health Minister confirms support for paramedic registration at EMSA2012
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Be A Smart Ash
By Sara Davis
In the city and county of Denver, Colo., one in six trees is an ash, making it vital that residents understand how they can save the ash trees and protect the city’s urban forest. The Be A Smart Ash movement, an unexpectedly irreverent, city-driven, five-year campaign launched in 2016, has rallied citizens to protect the ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The campaign’s goal is to encourage residents to take action, identify ash trees, and (when necessary) treat or replace them.
One year later, citizens, community leaders, and tourists are falling in love with the campaign, which includes:
An original song and outrageous music video sponsored by Be A Smart Ash and produced by Denver Botanic Gardens and Jonny 5 of The Flobots
An interactive map, using tree inventory data that allow citizens to quickly assess whether there is an ash tree on their property
Bus tails: “Big Ash, Small Ash: No matter the size, it’s time to get your ash in gear”
Tree tags: “This Ash is Covered,” following treatment by the city
Tree wraps that are winning hearts
A playful but informative Twitter handle, @BeASmartAsh.
“We’ve had overwhelming support from city officials at all levels—from city council to the mayor’s office—which enabled us to not only anticipate the Emerald Ash Borer’s arrival in Denver, but work to reduce its impact,” Denver City Forester Rob Davis says. “Through this support, we are now advising Denver residents to Be A Smart Ash, not just because we need to heighten awareness, but also because we need community support to effectively battle EAB. Through this campaign, we strive to give residents the information they need to be part of a movement that will have a significant and long-term impact.”
“The Emerald Ash Borer has devastated ash tree populations in more than 25 states and parts of Canada, costing communities there billions of dollars,” Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock says. “Based on this widespread destruction, the city of Denver has been proactively planning to battle the pest for the past several years.”
Coming Up With A Plan
These initiatives, enabled by a complete tree inventory completed in 2016, have led to 4,500 free tree plantings on private property. The city also plans to replace all small ash trees on city-maintained land, and a rigorous treatment schedule is in place for some of the historic ash trees on city property. But most importantly, the tree census enables residents to use an interactive map to identify trees on their property, and they can request a free replacement tree to be planted in the right-of-way on their property through a public-private partnership.
“Properly administered treatments are 90-percent effective and tree removal and replacement can be dangerous work, so the campaign highly recommends that residents work with a reputable tree-care professional, such as those listed on our website, no matter which course of action residents choose to take in battling EAB,” Davis says.
A Proactive Approach
A report from the Colorado State Forest Service estimates that the economic damage to metro Denver alone could total $82 million. In preparing for the inevitable EAB infestation, Denver used an innovative approach to assess its risk—it used satellite technology to conduct a tree census. An enterprising data scientist for the city then combined information gathered from the assessment and tree inventory with equations coming from peer-reviewed papers that explained how quickly EAB infestation spreads and how long it takes for infected trees to die. Focused on the potential costs to the city if it did nothing, the data team worked with the Office of the City Forester to overlay the data with real-life experiences of municipalities devastated by EAB—including visits to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wis., to see the devastation first-hand.
Even though it’s just a matter of time before all the ash trees in Denver will be devoured by the Emerald Ash Borer, the city and its residents are putting up a fight for their urban canopy. But who wants to be a Debbie Downer when you can Be A Smart Ash?
For more information on the Emerald Ash Borer and to learn how to Be A Smart Ash, visit BeASmartAsh.org or follow us on Twitter, @BeASmartAsh.
Sara Davis is the program manager for the Office of the City Forester in the Denver Parks and Recreation Department in Denver, Colo. Reach her at (720) 913-0651.
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ID Associates Joins Philadelphia Sign, adding a Southeast Headquarters
PALMYRA, NJ – Philadelphia Sign, (“PSCO”), a global leader in sign design, fabrication, installation and maintenance, announces the addition of ID Associates, (“ID”), to the PSCO family of companies. ID Associates, based in Dothan, AL is a national sign manufacturer. The addition of ID Associates to the PSCO family broadens its reach with a physical presence in the Southeast and beyond. This expansion furthers the company’s commitment to its customers, particularly those with conversions and national sign programs.
Since incorporating in May of 1999, ID Associates has become a national leader in the sign industry. This is attributable to the company’s dedication to manufacturing quality sign products, excellence in project management and by offering exceptional service. Under the new agreement, ID Associates will maintain business as usual. The two companies will capitalize on each other’s strengths, growing their signage offerings and business globally.
“Joining forces with ID Associates will expand our horizons nationwide,” states Bob Mehmet, President & CEO of Philadelphia Sign. “They have great people with extensive expertise in the sign industry. ID has a long-standing history of impeccable client services and we are thrilled they will be joining our PSCO family.”
“The joining of ID Associates with Philadelphia Sign is the perfect marriage,” said Louis Simera, COO of ID Associates. “We are excited for what the future holds and the opportunities for years to come.”
ID provides interior and exterior signage solutions for some of the nation’s most recognizable companies in diverse markets including hospitality, fitness & health, automotive, financial, restaurants, and retail. Both ID Associates and Philadelphia Sign create signage that attracts and informs customers, and increases brand awareness.
About ID Associates
Established in 1999, ID Associates, Inc. is a national provider of signage and branding solutions, providing a full range of sign services from initial consultation through manufacturing and expert installation. Learn more about ID at www.idassociatesinc.com
About Philadelphia Sign
Philadelphia Sign is the country’s oldest turnkey national sign provider, and a recognized leader in sign design, fabrication, installation and maintenance. Specializing in branding and conversion programs, PSCO has earned the trust of the world’s top retail brands. Drawing on more than a century of experience, PSCO offers inspired design engineering, unlimited manufacturing capabilities and world class program management.
Headquartered in Palmyra, New Jersey, Philadelphia Sign has five sign manufacturing facilities and offices, totaling 467,000 square feet in Palmyra, NJ, Pennsauken, NJ, Littleton, MA and most recently, Dothan, AL. Complemented by additional sales and service locations in Chicago, IL, Naples, FL, Portland, OR, Virginia Beach, VA, and Knoxville, TN, Detroit, MI, and Long Island, NY. Philadelphia Sign with its partner in New England and in the UK formed the International Sign Alliance (TISA) to connect our customer’s brand with their audience – globally, regionally and locally.
For more information, contact Carly DeGrasse, Marketing Manager, Philadelphia Sign marketing@PhiladelphiaSign.com
ID Associates is a national sign manufacturer based in Dothan, Alabama in a 82,000 square foot facility. ID Associates provides a full package of sign services from initial consultation through manufacturing and expert installation. ID Associates’ experience with interior and exterior signage helps you effectively communicate your message or image and increase your company’s brand awareness. Visit www.idassociatesinc.com
Philadelphia Sign Company has been branding America’s businesses with quality signage since 1905. Headquartered in Palmyra, New Jersey, Philadelphia Sign Company continues be at the forefront of the industry with expert project management, innovative engineering and manufacturing technologies. Visit www.philadelphiasign.com
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Pilibhit is one of those cities which have a strong religious influence with many prominent and notable sacred spots around various places of the city and Pilibhit district. Since religion plays a very important role in people’s life it has a strong impact on the Pilibhit society as well as attracting people from all over the country. It is the emotions and the faith of people that gets reflected in the creation and beautification of various temples, mosques and dargahs. Among various religious places in Pilibhit, Jama Masjid deserves special mention just because of its creativity, architecture but also for its structural design.
History of Jama Masjid Pilibhit
Speaking of the history of Jama Masjid essentially requires the mention of its creator Hafiz Rahmat Khan. Ruling over the Rohillas, Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech, was the Regent of Rohilkhand in North India from the year 1749 to 1774. It was reigns of almost three Mughal emperors that he served successfully with absolute honor and pride of his position. It is the common belief that the town of Pilibhit was founded by Hafiz Rahmat Khan and he also influenced by the supreme architectural work of Jama Masjid Delhi, built in, an exact replica of that in Pilibhit and named it as Jama Masjid. There were many buildings constructed by the Mughals at that time which shows excellent architecture but it was the structural design and the construction of Jama Masjid, Delhi that caught the eye of Hafiz Rahmat Khan and he thought of building Jama Masjid in Pilibhit in 1769. It must be noted that the beautiful gateway that catches the eye in Jama Masjid Delhi will not be missed in Jama Masjid Pilibhit as the creator has successfully created the same beauty here as the Mughals. Even
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s palace at Agra shows a brilliant curvilinear Bengali roof which has been replicated in Jama Masjid in Pilibhit in the marvelously created wall that encircles the mosque. Every part of Jama Masjid has been well imitated from the Masjid in Delhi and that is why at that time the cost of making the Masjid was not less than Rs 3 lakhs.
Rituals and Prayers in Jama Masjid Pilibhit
It is one of the pious places of Pilibhit where mainly people from Islam come to offer their prayers to the Almighty. It is not only a popular Masjid in Pilibhit district and Pilibhit city but also in the neighborhood regions of the city. Even people from various other states come to visit this Masjid. The festivals celebrated in a grand way here in Jama Masjid, Pilibhit are Eid and Ramzan with many devotees coming from various cities across state. Even on every Friday, the footfalls at the Masjid premises are quite high since all come together on that day to offer the prayer in zamat. Near the Jama Masjid compound there‘s a new tehsil compound increasing the popularity of Jama Masjid, Pilibhit.
Though the condition of the mosque with lack of maintenance and care has failed to retain its original charm but it is believed that with the new initiative of reconstruction, the hundreds of year old construction will win back its lost glory.
The best time to visit Jama Masjid is between the months of November to February every year since the climate remains cool with moderate temperatures in Pilibhit. These months form the winter season here with ideal temperature for tours and visits.
How to Reach Jama Masjid Pilibhit
It's a 7 minutes drive through station road, from Pilibhit Junction Railway Station, covering a distance of 3.2 kms. One can also visit the place by going through Sh 29 and Tankpur Road where the distance can be little more in kms. Any local conveyence would be ideal for visiting this spot.
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Submission from the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) to the United Nations Committee Against Torture 6th Periodic Review for the UK May 2019
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Judgement of ECHR | 20 March 2018
ECHR have rejected application by Irish Government to revise the original judgement in the Hooded Men case ROI v UK 1978. The 1978 judgement found that the treatment constituted inhuman & degrading treatment, but not torture. Today the ECHR has upheld that judgement 6-1 (Judge O'Leary dissenting- se...
"Malice Intended" The Hooded Men
Morning Star | 01 April 2017
Anne Cadwallader tells the story of the Hooded Men, internees subjected to fine-tuned methods of torture, that left little physical evidence, in various imperial theatres of war – from Malaya to Kenya – imported by Britain to Ireland in 1971
Event to Mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
| 23 June 2017
26th June marks the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The PFC, along with our colleagues in CAJ, Amnesty International and Matrix Chambers marked the day by outlining evidence of torture carried out by the RUC and British Army during the 1970's in the north of Ireland at an eve...
British Empire-Students should be taught history of colonialism say historians
The Independent newspaper 22 January 2016 | 03 July 2017
Article from the Independent with comments from various historians regarding the need to teach the history of colonialisation in British universities.
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PFC | 25 July 2017
The PFC is making two presentations at this year's Féile an Phobail. (1) Torture and the Legacy of Colonialism and (2) How Statistics Are Twisted For Political Purposes
British Lies to European Court Paved Way for Global Use of Torture
Tom Griffin/Open Democracy | 25 July 2017
When the European Court ruled that detainees in Northern Ireland were NOT tortured but only subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment, it gave the green light to other regimes worldwide. New evidence shows the court's ruling was based on false evidence - yet people are still being tortured toda...
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“Throughout Britain's colonial history, in Kenya, Yemen, Malaya and elsewhere, London broke all accepted moral and legal standards by torturing its opponents. Ireland was no different with British 'water-boarding' detainee thirty years before the USA did the same in Guantanamo. Using statements made...
MI5 and the 'Hooded Men'
Tom Griffin | 11 September 2017
MI5 and the Hooded Men: The role of David Eastwood in Operation Calaba In recent months, the Pat Finucane Centre has uncovered an array of new evidence pointing to the use of waterboarding and electric shock treatment by army and RUC interrogators in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
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The Wolf Among Us Episode Three review
By Tyler Wilde 2014-04-08T18:58:00.97Z Review
A great comeback from episode two, A Crooked Mile amplifies the dramathough sometimes in the wrong waysand confronts Bigby with hard choices and proper detective work.
This review references the events of episodes one and two. I've been careful not to reveal any major plot points from episode three, but some details may be inferred.
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Most game characters are vessels for the player to pour input into, but Telltale is at its finest when it reaches out and pours its characters' dilemmas back into us. In my favorite moments of its branching stories, the protagonist's conflicting motives become my conflicting motives—I don't enter the correct input to decide what happens next, I struggle to do what's right and live with the fallout. After a disappointing second episode , The Wolf Among Us nails this design in the third.
A Crooked Mile continues an investigation into the murders of two prostitutes in the weird noir world of the Fables comics. The violent but semi-reformed Bigby (a.k.a. The Big Bad Wolf) is the sheriff of Fabletown, a magically disguised New York City ghetto where fairytale characters live in exile. Few trust him, and if he has good intentions, they're masked by his reputation as an incompetent bully.
The episodes play out in scenes—sometimes fully staged, other times with a little strolling around—which branch as you examine clues and select Bigby's dialog in conversations and confrontations. Occasional combat generates the least appealing moments, where you're prompted to enter the correct input (press this to dodge, click here to throw a dumpster at someone), and are then asked for a big binary decision: keep beating this poor sap or back away? I'm pleased that episode three uses combat sparingly and to better effect than in previous episodes.
Which witch hunt?
A Crooked Mile is less about wrestling with Bigby's violent rage, and more about how he indirectly hurts others. He's caught between revenge and justice, integrity and the barrel of a gun—where episode two tested Bigby's predisposition for violence with what felt like minor decisions, Episode Three opens with a tense stand-off. Rather than a binary “who gets hurt” decision, it cleverly pits his integrity as sheriff against his responsibility to protect, and sets up the episode's central conflict between due process and a witch hunt. (Cheekily, the main investigation is a literal witch hunt, which I found a bit too direct.)
I'm glad that I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd made different decisions. Foresight into consequences replaces the struggle to do what's right, and makes the decision about where I want the story to go instead of how I want the character to act. You can rewind to change your decisions in important scenes, but I don't recommend it. You'll discover that certain events are inevitable, which breaks the illusion that every path has a branch. I would feel cheated by the deception, but The Wolf Among Us does such a good job of maintaining its illusion that poking around in its logic feels more like revealing a magician's tricks. Ruining the mystery doesn't make it more fun.
From there, A Crooked Mile becomes one of the best expressions of Telltale's consequence engine yet. The first episode included a pivotal two-way decision (something that also felt missing in the second episode), but Episode Three outdoes it with a decision among three locations, kicking off a timed investigation which actually feels like an investigation . Where we previously poked at clues and interrogated suspects until Bigby put things together, here I was pressured to put it together myself or risk an undesirable outcome. The order in which I chose to visit the three locations mattered, and I was asked to make smart decisions about which clues I examined in each scene.
Though I botched some parts of the investigation, I never hit a fail state. Instead, The Wolf Among Us adapted the story to my decisions, and that's great. Telltale further rejects traditional action and adventure game design to replace "you died, do it over" with "you messed up, deal with it." Near the end, it did use its annoying key-mashing mechanic to make my wrist suffer as much as the characters, but I'm thankful the regression into Commodore 64-era design was brief.
Telling tall tales
I'm lightly disappointed by episode three's pacing. Its urgency makes the short running time (about an hour and a half) hard to turn away from, but I missed the first episode's moment of repose, where Bigby returns to his apartment to feel sorry for himself. I left the episode wondering what Bigby might think and say given a little time to reflect. There is one brilliant, brief moment of calm in this episode, though. I won't spoil the details, but it asks Bigby and the player to answer a question about their motives, and was the only thing I answered with silence.
The worst part of A Crooked Mile is how it uses the threat of sexual violence as an obvious ploy to manipulate Bigby and the player into hasty and severe action. It's easy to see through from the first scene, and put me in a position to temper Bigby's anger with my foreknowledge. The Wolf Among Us is better when it doesn't try so hard to push me in a direction just so it can spin me around, and with the danger of gruesome violence already in play, using my repulsion of sex crimes to motivate feels unnecessarily exploitative.
Thank goodness Snow has developed into better character, though. She no longer seeks Bigby's approval, now demanding it and revealing some of her flaws. Navigating her flaws along with Bigby's is much more interesting than the relationship set up in the first two episodes, which leaned more heavily on a desire to protect her. She's still vulnerable, and Bigby is still afraid for her, but the decisions here are more about questioning her judgment than taking responsibility for her well-being. Though she's still the voice of compassion and empathy, some of her advice feels dangerous.
A Crooked Mile's story is a winner for the flaws of its sympathetic characters, not its villains or its condemnation of the worst in humanity. In that department, Telltale is a noir completionist, hitting greed, corruption, violence, deception, prejudice, vengeance, addition, and obsession. This is the greatest expression so far of how conflicted, frightened heroes confront all that misery, with subtle choices that don't forecast their consequences, and the best crime scene investigations yet.
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HTC Wins Ruling in U.S. Case Over Digital Camera Patents
By Michael Kan
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HTC has won a case in the U.S. that alleged the Taiwanese smartphone maker had infringed on several digital camera patents controlled by FlashPoint Technology.
On Tuesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a notice it had found that HTC's smartphones did not violate FlashPoint's patents.
The company had filed the complaint in July, 2010, and had sought to ban the import of HTC smartphones to the U.S.
FlashPoint, based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, had originally also named handset makers Nokia, Research In Motion, and LG Electronics in its patent infringement complaint. The other three companies, however, had arrived at settlements, according to the ITC.
"The Commission's determination validates our position that we respect protected innovations.  We look forward to returning to doing what we do best: creating innovative mobile experiences and providing choice to consumers," HTC's general counsel Grace Lei said in a statement.
FlashPoint could not be immediately reached for comment.
HTC, the largest smartphone vendor in the U.S., has been facing several patent battles in connection with its products. The biggest has been with Apple, which has also asked the ITC to ban the import into the U.S. of HTC's smartphones, because the devices allegedly violate several Apple patents.
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Rebuild: A Lakeside Home Rises Above Restrictions
Chicago's North Shore is well known for teardowns, and this 1950s ranch home set on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan seemed a perfect prospect. The roof leaked, windows needed replacing, mechanicals were out of date, and the house was about half the size of those surrounding it in the community of Glencoe.
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Maintaining a modest profile and fitting the home into an established neighborhood was essential to the homeowners, so the design team selected a rusticated brick that had mottled color tones and a timeworn feel. The cast stone accents the window and door openings and lends richness to the masonry facade. The scale of the frieze board and trim make for an appropriate base for the large roof mass that conceals most of the second floor living space. Hipped rooflines prevent guests from encountering a massively scaled two-story facade upon entering the front drive court. The copper-roofed dormers feature custom arched crown molding, while copper gutters and downspouts add authenticity and charm while maintaining a consistent material palette. A central dormer allows natural light to filter through a handmade leaded glass insert past the second floor walkway and into the arched volume ceiling of the family room.
Because of the constricted buildable area, the large second-floor footprint forced judicious selection of where to build volume ceilings on the first floor. This barrel-vaulted family room ceiling is more complicated and labor intensive than a traditional cathedral vaulted ceiling. It required radiused structural beams at each end of the ceiling with close rafter and fastener spacing to ensure the drywall would shape itself to the radius without segmenting. The tight rafter spacing eliminated the possibility of fitting standard insulation batts and recessed can lights in the rafter cavities.
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Chicago's North Shore is well known for teardowns, and this 1950s ranch home set on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan seemed a perfect prospect. The roof leaked, windows needed replacing, mechanicals were out of date, and the house was about half the size of those surrounding it in the community of Glencoe. But the owners weren't looking to build another "McMansion." Instead of a whole-house demolition, they elected to revive the tired structure from the ground up and maintain a modest profile. That's when they contacted Evanston, Illinois-based full-service remodeler Benvenuti and Stein Inc.
The owner, together with Benvenuti and Stein, developed a plan that doubled the home's space to 6,000 square feet. The project included extending the garage from a two-car to a three-car structure, creating a custom kitchen, adding a bedroom, and more than doubling the number of bathrooms to five full and two half-baths. Furthermore, all bedrooms needed to face the lake so family members and guests could enjoy the magnificent water views. To accommodate the owners for many years to come, the master suite was located on the first floor. The other bedrooms were designed as mini-suites, to suit the owners' college-age children today and in the future, when they would enjoy the home with their spouses and children.
Stringent local setback restrictions on all sides limited design options and forced the contractor to build up instead of out, and to reconfigure the existing first-floor space. "The challenge was not only adhering to the setbacks imposed by the village, but also keeping the house set back from the steep bluff so the structure didn't slide into Lake Michigan," says Geno Benvenuti, founder and president of Benvenuti and Stein. This left a small footprint on which to build and meant the second floor needed to mimic most of the first floor. The result was that all circulation and servant spaces were pushed to the front of the home and rear-facing water views were appointed to the bedrooms and living spaces.
Because the owners and the Benvenuti and Stein team wanted to change several window locations and raise the first floor wall height, they determined it was cost prohibitive to keep the first-floor frame walls. "The labor cost to modify the existing walls would have exceeded the cost of building new stud walls," says Benvenuti. This decision also eliminated the need to replace rotted materials and allowed the team to re-level the new floor joists. "We preserved most of the existing foundation, and even then we drilled new holes in the top of the foundation for new anchor bolts to properly secure the framing to the concrete," he says.
The team designed a flexible plan that kept in mind future accommodations. They incorporated a guest suite into the basement by building a private sleeping area, but kept the full bath and kitchenette open so the bathroom could be accessed by guests and the kitchenette could double as a wet bar for entertaining. And with the prospect of empty nesting in the future, the heating and cooling were zoned to allow the second-floor wings to be shut down when the children are away. The upper level is also set up with a second master suite for a future homeowner to have an in-law arrangement or to give guests a private enclave. This flexible plan anticipates the scenario of a family house that can be handed down through the generations.
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ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders
Submitted by Jessica Mason on July 26, 2016 - 1:21pm
By Jessica Mason and Lisa Graves
The American Legislative Exchange Council will push bills to protect failing charter schools, silence political speech, and obstruct environmental protections in the ALEC 2016 agenda introduced at its annual meeting in Indianapolis this week.
ALEC faces renewed public attention as it gears up for the annual meeting, where corporate lobbyists sit side-by-side with state legislators in luxury hotels to vote as equals on "model bills" that then get pushed to become law in states across the country.
As the Center for Media and Democracy has reported, Donald Trump chose an ALEC ally, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as his running mate, while his party's 2016 platform was clearly stamped in the Koch-fueled ALEC mold.
Pence Pushed ALEC Agenda in the Hoosier State
As Governor, Pence appointed an ALEC staffer to his cabinet, and pushed parts of the ALEC agenda into law, such as anti-worker bills like repealing the prevailing wage and privatizing public schools in various ways. He even sent a letter to state legislators urging them to join ALEC, which is widely described as a corporate bill mill. ALEC is funded by Koch Industries, Peabody Energy, huge global tobacco and drug companies, and other corporations that pay a premium to access ALEC lawmakers.
Conveniently for him, this year's meeting will be held in the snazzy J.W. Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. Pence is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at lunch on Wednesday, then is slated to speak at an evening reception on school "reform" jointly hosted by the Center for Education Reform (CER) and the Jack Kemp Foundation (JKF).
If Pence had time to stay for a few task force meetings, here are some of the new "model bills" he would find voted on behind closed doors by ALEC legislators alongside corporate lobbyists and representatives of special interest groups that are part of the State Policy Network (SPN).
Second Chances for Failing Charter Schools
The for-profit education companies that help fund ALEC, like K12, Inc., have a track record of poor results that tends to result in a high rate of school closures. K12, which was founded in part by junk bond fraudster felon Michael Milken, has a seat and a vote on ALEC's corporate board.
Two new bills being considered by what ALEC now dubs its "Education and Workforce Development Task Force" could help poorly performing charters stay open without having to improve.
Under the Assessment Choice Act, instead of using a uniform assessment for students statewide, charters' authorizers would take their pick from a "menu" of tests, unlike traditional public schools.
If propping up test scores isn't enough to save a charter from closure, the "Student and Family Fair Notice and Impact Statement Act" promises to add new hurdles. Before closing or restructuring a charter school, this act would not just require that families be notified. It would also create a public hearing process in which parents, teachers, and "experts" could give testimony about the school, and the charter board would be allowed to suggest a response plan.
In case it wasn't obvious that the bill is meant to keep the charter in operation, the drafter of that model bill added:
"[drafting note: it should be clear the school can present an alternative for supporters of the school to rally around.]"
School privatization proponents have slowly been dropping the pretense that the "school choice" movement is about helping underprivileged children. At a workshop titled "The Path to Universal Choice: From Theory to Passage to Implementation," lawmakers will be schooled on how to "open up more options to the middle class."
ALEC Aims to Silence Political Speech with Anti-Divestment Bill
While ALEC purports to support "limited government," its bills show that is code for unlimited corporate power, even from democratic control by stockholders.
For example, ALEC bills have leveraged right-wing ALEC control of state legislatures to try to stifle political movements that are winning the battle for public opinion, as CMD has previously reported in its coverage of ALEC's preemption strategy, among other areas.
This ALEC meeting includes a proposal opposing the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions Movement (BDS), which has been growing in strength, especially on college campuses.
The BDS Movement is an international campaign to use economic pressure to push the state of Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and to allow Palestinian refugees the right of return to their homes.
While a healthy public debate is ongoing about the pros and cons of BDS, ALEC's proposal as described doesn't merely express opposition to the movement. Instead, it apparently aims to silence political speech and activity:
"The goal of the resulting model policy will be to create disincentives to engaging in (and prohibit to the extent possible) secondary boycott activities."
ALEC host Indiana and a handful of other states have passed similar anti-boycott bills, which the American Civil Liberties Union has criticized as unconstitutional limits on speech.
This is all par for the course for ALEC, which opposed anti-Apartheid sanctions, as CMD's Nick Surgey uncovered with Calvin Sloan. ALEC has long opposed citizen stockholder movements to urge socially responsible investing.
Still Attacking Public Sector Unions after Losing in the Supreme Court
Earlier this year, a split U.S. Supreme Court left standing a lower court's decision to uphold public sector union fees in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. As CMD documented, ALEC sibling group SPN organized anti-union protests at the Court before the case was decided.
Undaunted, ALEC's "Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development" Task Force is presenting a combined version of its long-standing "Right to Work" Act and Public Employee Choice Act. The new version has been re-branded the "Friedrichs Public Employee Freedom Act" to try to get more mileage from the case. Its namesake Rebecca Friedrichs is a photogenic school teacher and rightwing activist who tried to pave the way for free-riders to get out of union dues. Friedrichs herself is an invited speaker at the conference.
To advance this agenda, the task force meeting will hear just from proponents at a presentation titled, "A State Strategy to Protect Public Employees' Free Speech Rights in the Wake of Friedrichs v. California Teachers' Association." The presentation will likely unfold the next steps of ALEC's Koch-y anti-union strategy.
Leaning Hard on Attorneys General to Block Climate Change and Environmental Protections
ALEC has long relied on funding from its coal and oil industry members. It is also a key cog in the climate science denial machine.
This year its "Energy, Environment, and Agriculture" Task Force is proposing yet another resolution opposing the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP takes important steps toward reducing carbon pollution from coal power plants that are contributing to climate changes underway.
Another proposed resolution attacks a new EPA rule to protect American streams—and along with them American families and wildlife—from dangerous pollution caused by surface coal mining.
Mimicking ALEC's "guerilla warfare" strategy against the CPP, the resolution calls on state attorneys general to actively oppose the rule. ALEC, whose focus has long been legislators, has been increasingly coordinating with top law enforcement officers to thwart an array of legislation, including the CPP and the Affordable Care Act.
As Long as ALEC Is Amending the Constitution. . .
As CMD has previously detailed, one of ALEC's top priorities in recent years has been calling to amend the U.S. Constitution with a balanced budget requirement. Such an amendment would straitjacket the federal government's ability to respond to crises, opportunities, and economic downturns.
Now that the movement may be getting close to the numbers needed to call a constitutional convention under Article V. One estimate counted 28 states of the required 34 having passed resolutions. It looks like ALEC's "Federalism and International Relations" Task Force is piling on to make the most of the opportunity.
Two proposed "model bills" aim to guarantee technicalities don't derail the effort.
The "Article V Records Transparency Act" would enlist the U.S. Archivist to keep track of convention calls. Another model bill conveniently combines and unifies three of ALEC's previous Article V policies.
A presentation on a "Congressional Term Limits Amendment" underscores the potential dangers of the Article V strategy that some have expressed. That's because it appears that any change could be made to the Constitution during a convention (just as the entire Articles of Confederation were scrapped at the last Constitutional Convention in 1787).
It's clear that some proponents see it as an opportunity to tack on a wishlist of right-wing policies without oversight or accountability, based on pre-selecting who gets a vote at such a convention.
An Updated ALEC Agenda for Big Pharma and "Home Sharing"
As usual, ALEC's agenda also includes plenty of bills that aid the corporate interests that bankroll ALEC.
Drug companies are a perennial favorite at ALEC. Representatives of Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America trade group have seats and votes on sit on ALEC's private sector board. A Takeda lobbyist is the "private sector" chair of the "Health and Human Services" Task Force.
The "Federalism and International Relations" Task Force is considering a resolution against Canada's "Promise Doctrine," which requires that a patent applicant actually demonstrate the utility of an invention before being awarded a patent.
ALEC's "Communications and Technology" and "Tax and Fiscal Policy" Task Forces are pulling out the preemption playbook for "home-sharing" operations like Airbnb and HomeAway. HomeAway is a member of the trade association NetChoice, which has a seat and a vote on ALEC's private sector board.
As the hotel alternatives cut into tight housing markets, cities like San Francisco and Phoenix have been experimenting with local rules to ensure the businesses comply with safety and tax rules, and to keep big investors from tying up residential housing.
The proposed Model Act Relating to Online Lodging Marketplaces, Uniform Standard for Lodging Taxes Act, and Resolution in Favor of Tangible Personal Property Tax Repeal would block those local measures.
Corporate Lobbyists Get a Vote on "Tort Reform" Bills
The "Civil Justice" Task Force continues to focus on helping corporations escape liability and the costs of worker injuries. Meeting behind closed doors, the task force includes some of the defense lawyers who represent corporations whose products or practices injure Americans, who will vote as equals with state legislators on bills.
On the docket this meeting is an amendment to ALEC's Statement of Principles on Workers' Compensation Reform. The task force will also hear a presentation on "Sports Industry Liability: Helmets, Concussions and Medical Duties."
Uncoincidentally, the National Athletic Trainers Association will also be welcomed as a new member of the "Health and Human Services" Task Force at the Indianapolis meeting.
Legislators rubbing elbows with so-called "tort reform" lobbyists will be told about "Lawsuits in the Age of Big Data: Bringing Discovery Reform to the States." A presentation titled "The Threat of Groupthink in Jury Decision-Making" will teach them about perceived problems with the democratic check on the criminal justice process, the right to a trial by jury.
ALEC's Local Offshoot ACCE: Defer Local Decisions to the States
ALEC's project, the American City County Exchange, is ostensibly meant to be a municipal version of ALEC.
ALEC reliably leans on rhetoric about local control in its opposition to federal policies. But ACCE's "model bills" are strangely bifurcated between seizing and abandoning local power.
On the one hand, ACCE's Ordinance for Local Coordination on Federal Regulations demands local control over federal land-use and environmental policies. A workshop on "24- hour building permits" looks poised to justify limiting democratically adopted rules governing building codes, purportedly in order to encourage "economic growth." Meanwhile, the workshop "Right to Work or Not, Taxpayers Come First" tries on new rhetoric to peddle limits on collective bargaining for local government workers.
Yet ACCE just as often urges municipalities to turn decision-making power over to the states. This is likely because cities are at the forefront of progressive policy-making, as with the incredibly popular efforts to raise the minimum wage and expand access to earned sick days. Indeed, as CMD documented, most CEOs support those measures by overwhelming majorities, even though business lobbies routinely claim companies oppose such legislation.
ACCE's Ordinance to Repeal Personal Property Tax Collection would interfere with cities like San Francisco, which is experimenting with ways to tax property in short-term HomeAway-type rentals similarly to hotels.
ACCE's Local Resolution in Support of State Minimum Wage Law even urges city officials to claim that the "do not have the authority" to set minimum wages that are appropriate to the conditions in the cities they were elected to represent.
Peddling Harmful Myths, from Guns to Climate
Such efforts are part of ALEC's larger pre-emption playbook, which dates back to its efforts to help the tobacco companies funding it and the gun industry trade groups fueling it thwart progressive city policies to address the deadly harms of inherently dangerous cigarettes and guns.
Four years ago, CMD connected the dots between the Koch-backed ALEC and the Stand Your Ground legislation that initially prevented the arrest of George Zimmerman—and ultimately prevented his conviction—for killing Trayvon Martin. Under public scrutiny, ALEC announced it was parting ways with the NRA.
ALEC is hosting another shooting range event this Saturday.
Like ALEC, Mike Pence has cast his lot with industry, peddling deceptive claims like smoking doesn't cause cancer and opposing laws to reduce gun violence.
It should come as no surprise that he has also claimed that climate change is "a myth," just as ALEC has preached to its legislators numerous times over the years, as it has been funded by Exxon, Koch, Peabody, and other climate change denial operations.
Follow @PRWatch, @ALECexposed, and ExposedbyCMD.org for updates during ALEC's meeting this week.
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Publish Date February 1, 2018
Comparison of Antipsychotic Drugs to Prevent Rehospitalization in Schizophrenia
Gary Rothbard
Researchers examined a nationwide cohort to assess antipsychotics’ long-term efficacy at preventing relapse — particularly those prescribed after an initial schizophrenic episode.
For people with both chronic and newly diagnosed schizophrenia, oral clozapine and several long-acting injection antipsychotic medications were superior to other medications in preventing hospitalization, whether for psychiatric or other reasons, according to findings published in Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Researchers in Finland examined a nationwide cohort to assess the long-term efficacy of antipsychotic medications at preventing relapse — particularly those prescribed after an initial schizophrenic episode. More specifically, the authors sought to clarify whether administration route influenced clinical outcomes, differentiating between oral and long-acting injection forms. The extended follow-up time (up to 20 years) was designed to improve on the findings of prior studies, which were based on shorter time periods.
Finnish health registers provided data on all inpatient hospitalizations related to schizophrenia that occurred from 1972 through 2014. During this period, 81,043 people were hospitalized for schizophrenia. Those with dementia (n=1166) were excluded from the study, along with those who either died during their initial hospitalization (n=2599) or before January 1, 1996 (n=15,028). The remaining individuals were divided into a prevalent cohort (n=62,250) consisting of those previously hospitalized and an incident cohort (n=8719) consisting of patients undergoing initial hospitalization for schizophrenia.
The primary outcome of the study was psychiatric hospitalization, and the secondary outcome was all-cause hospitalization. Cox regression models were plotted, with subjects serving as their own controls, measuring the risk for hospitalization in those receiving antipsychotic medications compared with hospitalization risk in those not receiving antipsychotic medications. Median follow-up time was 14.1 years (interquartile range 6.9-20.0), with 58.8% of the prevalent cohort being readmitted for inpatient psychiatric care during this period. The median follow-up time was 10.1 years (5.0-14.3) for the incident cohort, with 57.9% of this group readmitted for inpatient psychiatric care.
Within the prevalent cohort, patients at lowest risk for readmission to psychiatric inpatient care were those treated with olanzapine long-acting injection (adjusted hazard ratio=0.46; 95% CI=0.36-0.61), oral clozapine (0.51; 0.49-0.53), and paliperidone long-acting injection (0.51; 0.40-0.66). For the incident cohort, those at lowest risk were treated with flupentixol long-acting injection (0.24; 0.12-0.49), perphenazine long-acting injection (0.39; 0.31-0.50) and olanzapine long-acting injection (0.26; 0.16-0.44). In terms of all-cause hospitalization, the lowest risks were associated with oral clozapine and various long-acting injections, regardless of cohort.
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The investigators noted several strengths of their study, including within-individual analysis (acting as one’s own control), which removes potential selection bias and controls for disease duration, treatment order, and concomitant drug use; an unselected patient population, preventing follow-up loss; and representation of the actual outpatient schizophrenia population. Limitations of the study included the use of health registers, which do not offer extended clinical information such as quality of life measures, among others.
Although long-acting injections accounted for much of the risk reduction seen above, the researchers pointed out that this does not mean all long-acting injections are superior to all oral medications for preventing rehospitalization. However, the results do indicate that in the case of the Finnish population examined, long-acting injections and oral clozapine were more effective than other antipsychotic medications at preventing rehospitalization in patients with chronic and first-episode schizophrenia.
Taipale H, Mehtälä J, Tanskanen A, Tiihonen J. Comparative effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs for rehospitalization in schizophrenia—a nationwide study with 20-year follow-up [published online December 20, 2017]. Schizophr Bull. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbx176
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Aquaculture punted as solution
15 December 2017 | Visserye
Aquaculture along rivers is a viable option of relieving pressure from the country's natural capture fisheries, as well as providing nutritious food and sustaining the livelihoods of many people.
The minister of fisheries and marine resources, Bernhardt Esau, said this on the occasion of the fish harvesting of the Epalela Aquaculture Fish Farm near Ruacana in the Omusati Region on Wednesday.
Esau said his ministry was determined to diversify sources of fish in the country and believed that fish farming in Namibia was possible, practical and could be done in an economically viable way.
According him, aquaculture in Namibia started in the early 2000s with a strong commercial drive behind marine aquaculture in the farming of oysters, mussels and clams.
“This sector has had commercial success and produces on average 1 500 metric tonnes a year,” Esau said, adding that freshwater aquaculture was mainly focused on promotion of small-scale fish farming.
He said aquaculture competed with cheaper fish from the Zambezi, Kavango and Kunene river systems, which produced an estimated 5 000 tonnes per year until 2013/14 when commercial exploitation with monofilament dragnets destroyed the fish resource in the Zambezi and Kavango systems.
“Under my leadership, we have banned the use of these destructive nets on inland water bodies and are working closely with other riparian states to ensure sustainable fisheries in these rivers,” Esau stated.
The Epalela Fish Farm has produced 12.3 tonnes of fish this financial year (2017/18). The production is expected to increase after Wednesday's harvest, which is estimated at five tonnes. This increase in production, Esau said, was mainly due to availability of fish feed supplied by the National Fish Corporation of Namibia.
Speaking at the same occasion, Omusati governor Erginus Endjala said his region had two government aquaculture farms at Epalela and Onavivi, as well as 14 successful small-scale farms producing tilapia. - Nampa
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Lincolnshire Police officers to get 500 Reveal body worn cameras
Lincolnshire Police officers will be wearing Reveal body cameras whilst on patrol following a successful pilot scheme.
Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire, Alan Hardwick , has announced the force is to get 500 Reveal body worn video cameras to be used by all front line constables, sergeants and Police Community Support Officers to wear each time they are on duty.
Lincolnshire Police took part in a regional pilot with the cameras which involved forces in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.
Mr Hardwick said: "Body worn video will always be used by officers policing the night time economy.
"Video footage of a person's behaviour and conduct in circumstances where they are arrested for a public order offence has been shown to increase the number of early guilty pleas by defendants.
"When used in domestic abuse situations, footage will provide the Crown Prosecution Service with evidence from the scene which should assist in the making of appropriate charging decisions, particularly where the victim later retracts their evidence.
"This should ensure domestic abusers are dealt with at the earliest opportunity, reducing the incidence of repeat victimisation and the amount of police time spent investigating these crimes."
He said effective use of the body cameras should also reduce the time spent on vexatious complaints made against officers as well as provide valuable footage where complaints against officers are well founded.
Last year, Lincolnshire Police was awarded a share of £1.7 million from the Home Office to be spent on body worn cameras for officers as part of the trial led by Nottinghamshire Police.
The money was part of the Home Office's £50 million Innovation fund.
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Respawn's Star Wars game is Jedi: Fallen Order
9th June 2018 / 7:30PM
That mysterious boldly-going game from Titanfall developers Respawn Entertainment is named Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, EA confirmed during their E3 pressblast today, and it’ll launch next year. Respawn CEO Vince Zampella didn’t have much to say about the game, beyond the obvious that we’ll get to play as a Jedi and swing a glowstick as we delve into the past, somewhere between Episodes 3 and 4.
“It takes place during the dark times–trying to be a little vague here–when the Jedi are being hunted,” Zampella said. And… that’s about it.
But goodness me, I’m well up for more superpowered action from Respawn. Titanfall 2 is such a fine little game, with such wonderful movement and violence, that I’d love to see what they do with these spacewizards. I don’t care about Star Wars, beyond enjoying all the robots and critters who make funny noises, but I certainly do care about games made by Respawn.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is slated to launch in next year’s holiday season, so probably November 2019.
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The best space games on PC
Space games have experienced a rebirth over the past few years, particularly space sims, but as many in the comments pointed out, you don't need to be sitting in a cockpit to enjoy the stars. This updated list broadens our search for the best space games on PC, throwing strategy games, roguelikes and at least one RPG into the mix. Read on to see what…
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THQ Nordic Buy Up NovaLogic’s Games, Including Delta Force & Comanche
Military sim specialists NovaLogic have sold all games and projects they owned to The Nordic Fist Wearing THQ As Fingerless Mittens. THQ Nordic, who are really Nordic Games renamed, today announced that they've picked up serieseses including Delta Force, Comanche, and F-16, along with the NovaLogic trademark. They haven't announced they're making any specific new games in these series, but say they're accepting pitches for…
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The 15 Best Space Games
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Space games have experienced a rebirth over the past few years, exploiting a decade of pent up desire for exploration among the stars in order to launch umpteen new games. But can these sequels, revivals and newcomers compete with the old classics for a place in our heart? Let's find out. Below you'll find the list of the fifteen best space games ever made.
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Rated “AV” for over 25 years by the Denver legal community in Martindale – Hubbell Law Directory (highest rating for legal ability, ethical standards, professional reliability and diligence). Based on peer reviews, 5280 Magazine has named Joel Laufer one of the top ten bankruptcy attorneys in Denver, Colorado for the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
In 1973, Joel Laufer graduated cum laude from Simpson College. In 1976, he graduated with distinction from the University of Iowa School of Law. He served as a law clerk to the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, 1976-1977. He also served as a Summer law clerk to the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 1975. Joel Laufer was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1976. For the past 40 years, Mr. Laufer has practiced exclusively in the bankruptcy area, representing business entities in Chapters 7, 9 and 11, prosecuting and defending avoidance and recovery actions, and advising businesses in out-of-court workouts.
At Robinson, Waters & O’Dorisio, Joel Laufer specializes in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He has many years of experience representing debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, creditor committees, and asset purchasers in the following:
Chapter 7 liquidation cases,
Chapter 9 municipal reorganization cases,
Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy cases,
Chapter 11 business reorganization cases,
Non-bankruptcy distressed business and personal workouts,
Asset purchases from Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy estates, and
Receiverships
Mr. Laufer has represented the following clients involving a variety of business sectors.
American Warrior, Inc.: represented oil and gas company with respect to the acquisition of all assets of National Oil Company, a Chapter 11 debtor, pursuant to an exchange of common stock as provided in a Joint Plan of Reorganization filed by American Warrior, Inc. and Normandy Oil and Gas Company, Inc. The exchange value of the common stock was fixed at approximately $3,000,000.
Baker MO/Services: represented Baker MO/Services with respect to a mechanics lien claim in the amount of $7,000,000 in the jointly administered Chapter 11 cases filed by Storm Cat Energy Corporation, et al.
Crown Resources Corporation: represented precious metals exploration company in Chapter 11 resulting in successful confirmation of its Plan of Reorganization providing for the issuance of new securities in exchange for $15 million in existing subordinated debentures and in exchange for existing preferred and common stock.
CSI Enterprises, Inc.: represented one of Oren Benton affiliated uranium trading companies in Chapter 11, resulting in successful confirmation of Joint Plan of Reorganization.
Pearl Oil Field Services: represented Pearl Oil Field Services with respect to a mechanics lien claim in the amount of $5,000,000 in the jointly administered Chapter 11 cases filed by Storm Cat Energy Corporation, et al.
Pearl Oil Field Services: represented Pearl Oil Field Services with respect to a mechanics lien claim in the amount of $1,000,000 in the jointly administered Chapter 11 cases filed by PRB Energy, Inc., et al.
Sumatra Energy Company, Inc.: represented Sumatra Energy Company, Inc. (“Sumatra”), a Chapter 11 debtor, regarding a Plan of Reorganization filed by Sumatra and Sierra Exploration Company (“Sierra”) resulting in successful confirmation of the Plan. The Plan provided that in exchange for cash and Sierra common and preferred stock, Sierra would acquire all shares of Sumatra common stock, certain limited partnership interests and certain oil and gas properties. Sumatra’s oil and gas properties acquired pursuant to the Plan were valued at approximately $1,500,000.
Entertainment, Gaming and Hotels
Blackhawk Casino By Hyatt: as co-counsel represented casino in Chapter 11 resulting in successful confirmation of a Plan of Reorganization approving a voluntary sale of the casino for in excess of $100 million and payment of creditors in full.
Cripple Creek Development Corp.: represented casino in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, resulting in a structured dismissal following successful negotiation of creditor and shareholder disputes.
Rabex of Colorado, Inc.: represented Breckenridge Hilton Hotel in Chapter 11, resulting in voluntary sale of hotel to Vail Resorts for approximately $20 million.
Centrix Financial, LLC: as co-counsel represented Corporate America Family Credit Union (“CAFCU”) in the Centrix Financial, LLC Chapter 11 respecting approximately $230 million of auto loans funded by CAFCU and originated/serviced by Centrix Financial, LLC.
Merchants Mortgage & Trust Company: represented private mortgage lender in prepackaged Chapter 11 resulting in successful confirmation of its Plan of Reorganization providing for the issuance of new securities in exchange for $25 million in existing subordinated debentures and in exchange for existing preferred and common stock.
RayneMark Investments, LLC: represented investment company as a creditor or investor in several bankruptcy cases including defending attempted “claw back” by a bankruptcy trustee involving the Petters Ponzi scheme and related bankruptcy case.
Amdura National Distribution Company: represented hardware wholesaler in Chapter 11, resulting in voluntary sale of company’s assets for approximately $20 million and confirmation of a Joint Plan of Reorganization.
Gart Properties, LLC: represented Gart Properties as a landlord in the Sports Authority Chapter 11 case relating to six commercial leases including a lease of the Sports Castle located in Denver, Colorado.
Gart Investments: represented Gart Investments as a secured creditor in various commercial transactions.
GolfTEC Enterprises, LLC: represented GolfTEC Enterprises, LLC in the jointly administered Chapter 11 cases filed by Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates regarding in excess of 60 sub-leases by and between Golfsmith U.S.A., L.C.C., as sub-lessor and GolfTEC Enterprises, LLC as sub-lessee.
Monfort Capital, LLC: represented Monfort Capital, LLC as a secured creditor with respect to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed by Rocket Ventures, LLC d/b/a Johnnie Rockets Restaurants.
Packerland Packing Company, Inc.: represented meat packing company jointly administered with the Gillett Holdings, Inc. Chapter 11, resulting in successful confirmation of a Joint Plan of Reorganization resolving upstream guarantees of debt in excess of $1 billion.
Shane CO: represented Mr. Thomas Shane, individually, in the Shane CO Chapter 11 which involved company debt of approximately $100 million, including the representation of Mr. Shane and related family trusts in providing DIP financing to the company in the amount of $10.5 million.
Castle Pines North Metropolitan District: represented Colorado special district in Chapter 9, resulting in successful confirmation of its Plan of Adjustment of Debts adjusting approximately $40 million of bonds issued by the district.
Mount Carbon Metropolitan District: represented creditors’ committee in Chapter 9, involving approximately $20 million of defaulted bonds in which a Plan for Adjustment of Debts was confirmed.
Villages at Castle Rock No. 7: represented Colorado special district in Chapter 9, resulting in successful confirmation of its Plan for Adjustment of Debts adjusting approximately $7.5 million of bonds issued by district.
Colorado Land Consultants, Inc.: represented multi-state engineering firm in prepackaged Chapter 11 resulting in successful confirmation of a Plan of Reorganization restructuring debts in excess of $14 million.
Craddock Development Company: represented real estate development and construction company in Chapter 11, resulting in successful confirmation of its plan resolving debts of approximately $100 million.
First American Title Insurance Co: represented title insurance company and its insureds as creditors in the Landmark Towers Chapter 11 case. The title company had issued all owner and lender policies regarding the properties sold at the project. Resolved millions of dollars of mechanics lien claims asserted under policies issued to approximately 230 owners and lenders.
Lakeview Development Corporation: represented creditors committee in Chapter 11 filed by real estate developer having debts in excess of $40 million.
McStain Enterprises, Inc.: represented creditors’ committee in Chapter 11 filed by Denver area home builder having debts in excess of $45 million.
Van Schaack & Company: represented largest privately owned real estate company in Denver area in Chapter 11, resulting in voluntary sale of business.
Yellow Cab Cooperative Association: represented taxicab company in Chapter 11, resulting in voluntary sale of company and a successful confirmation of its Plan of Reorganization.
Robinson Waters & O'Dorisio, P.C. is located in Denver, CO and serves clients in and around Wheat Ridge, Dupont, Arvada, Englewood, Denver, Westminster, Aurora, Adams County, Arapahoe County, Denver County and Jefferson County.
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Composer: Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, William Garrett, Georgia Dobbins, Freddie Gorman, Artist: Carpenters
Instrumentation: Solo instrument, Primary Instrument: Ukulele [notation], Parts available: none
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Composer: Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, William Garrett, Georgia Dobbins, Artist: James Taylor
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Composer: Georgia Dobbins, Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman, Kalman Cohen, Brian Holland, William Garrett, Artist: William Garrett, Dee Dee Sharp
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Composer: Georgia Dobbins, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman, William Garrett, Artist: The Marvelettes, The Beatles
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
Composer: William Garrett, Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, Freddie Gorman, Georgia Dobbins, Artist: The Isley Brothers
Composer: William Garrett, Brian Holland, Georgia Dobbins, Freddie Gorman, Robert Bateman, Artist: The Marvelettes, Carpenters, The Beatles
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Composer: William Garrett, Georgia Dobbins, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Freddie Gorman, Artist: The Marvelettes, Carpenters, The Beatles
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Composer: Kyle O'Quin, Brian Holland, Jason Wade Sechrist, Freddie Gorman, John Hill, Zachary Scott Carothers, Georgia Dobbins, John Baldwin Gourley, Eric Andrew Howk, William Garrett, Asa Taccone, Robert Bateman, Artist: Portugal. The Man
Composer: John Hill, Robert Bateman, Georgia Dobbins, Freddie Gorman, William Garrett, Jason Wade Sechrist, Asa Taccone, Zachary Scott Carothers, John Baldwin Gourley, Brian Holland, Eric Andrew Howk, Kyle O'Quin, Artist: Portugal. The Man
Composer: Freddie Gorman, Georgia Dobbins, John Hill, Robert Bateman, Kyle O'Quin, John Baldwin Gourley, Asa Taccone, Zachary Scott Carothers, William Garrett, Brian Holland, Jason Wade Sechrist, Eric Andrew Howk, Artist: Portugal. The Man
Composer: Asa Taccone, Jason Wade Sechrist, Kyle O'Quin, Freddie Gorman, John Hill, Zachary Scott Carothers, Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Brian Holland, Eric Andrew Howk, John Baldwin Gourley, Robert Bateman, Artist: Portugal. The Man, Portugal. The Man.
Composer: Brian Holland, Georgia Dobbins, Kyle O'Quin, William Garrett, Eric Andrew Howk, John Baldwin Gourley, Asa Taccone, Robert Bateman, John Hill, Freddie Gorman, Jason Wade Sechrist, Zachary Scott Carothers, Artist: Portugal. The Man., Portugal. The Man
Composer: John Baldwin Gourley, William Garrett, Asa Taccone, Eric Andrew Howk, Jason Wade Sechrist, Kyle O'Quin, Georgia Dobbins, John Hill, Robert Bateman, Zachary Scott Carothers, Brian Holland, Freddie Gorman, Artist: Pentatonix, Portugal. The Man
Feel It Still (arr. Mark Brymer)
SSA Choir
Composer: Freddie Gorman, John Baldwin Gourley, Georgia Dobbins, Robert Bateman, William Garrett, Eric Andrew Howk, Asa Taccone, Brian Holland, Jason Wade Sechrist, John Hill, Zachary Scott Carothers, Kyle O'Quin, Artist: Portugal. The Man, Arranger: Mark Brymer
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SEA Semester’s Polynesia voyage is perfect fit for Drew University student
SEA Semester in the News
Drew Sophomore Studies Ecosystems and Sustainability in Polynesia
Marina Mozak sails on a tall ship research vessel
Drew Today
December 2016 – Drew University student Marina Mozak bid a temporary farewell to The Forest to spend a semester at sea.
Mozak, a sophomore studying environmental science and political science, was among 25 students who studied ecosystems and sustainability in Polynesian island cultures aboard a tall ship research vessel, the SSV Robert C. Seamans. Other schools represented on the trip included the University of Virginia, Wellesley College, Vassar College and Villanova University.
The program, run by the Sea Education Association, began in August with preparatory course work in Woods Hole, Mass. From there, Mozak and her peers traveled to American Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and disembarked for a final time in Auckland, New Zealand last month. Mozak also wrote about life on a ship via the program’s blog, SEA Currents.
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Fijian boats inspire SEA Semester students & Disney film “Moana”
Dr. Jeff Wescott, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
This October, the students of SEA Semester S-269 (Sustainability in Polynesian Island Cultures & Ecosystems) voyaged through Polynesia, interacting with local communities just one month before the release of the Disney feature film “Moana.” Students spent two days with the people of Nakorova village, on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji, learning traditional sailing from the same people who advised on and inspired the magnificent sailing scenes depicted in “Moana.” Our gracious host, Jiujiua “Angel” Bera, is featured in a short Moana featurette.
And then there were Fifteen
Andrew Prunk, C Watch, Connecticut College
Nerves are on edge around the ship. The ship’s company has transformed from loyal shipmates to literal backstabbing looms in the shadows. Every word spoken is carefully analyzed for lies by the listener, attempting to decide if they are being sent to their death. Tensions are a result of Seamans’ real life version of the board game Clue currently in full swing. Participating shipmates were assigned a place, a “weapon” (e.g. story book, triangle, rubber glove), and a target to wack before New Zealand.
Fleece Nugget Has the Con
Tehani Louis-Perkins, B Watch, Whitman College
On October 28th 2016 we started doing JWO (Junior Watch Officer) and JLO (Junior Lab Officer) which was honestly pretty terrifying but it was also an amazing opportunity because honestly in the world of sailing when will you ever have complete control of the deck. A few days ago I was given the opportunity to take the con and call the shots. Right off the back I was ordered to set the tops’l, one of my favorite sails, to hopefully allow us to get more wind.
And the Stormy Winds May Blow
Nolan Fromm, B Watch, Colorado College
It wasn’t long ago that Ben-gineer told us to savor our last few tastes of the tropical weather as we keep sailing south. Soon, he warned, the sweet relief from the sweltering heat of Suva would turn to shivers, and the constant hum of bunk fans would be replaced by the rattle of radiators and the chattering of the helmsman’s teeth. It’s still spring as far as the Kiwis are concerned, and today we got our first real feel for what that’s going to mean for us as we get closer to New Zealand.
Finding another home
Savanna Michener, C Watch, Drexel University
We are now less than 500 nautical miles from our final destination in Auckland, New Zealand and I’m starting to feel a little weird about it. There are so many things to be looking forward to back on land, but it is becoming very apparent at just how well we’ve settled into life on board: Mama Seamans has become another home. Coming in not knowing a thing about how to actually sail a boat, I never thought I would get this far in five weeks.
Jake Blount, A Watch, Hamilton College
Legend has it that Halloween Night is a time when the spirit world and the mortal world collide, and both are thrown out of balance. I’ve always found that concept compelling. This year it has become unusually relatable, as I am also perpetually unable to balance. As I desperately clambered toward the leeward rail this morning to offer Neptune another pre-digested hecatomb, I contemplated the many peculiarities native to the topsy-turvy funhouse that is the SSV Robert C. Seamans.
Clare McClellan, C Watch, Vassar College
Another beautiful day out here on the Big Blue. We are now well into our journey from Suva to Auckland and have settled into our daily routines, which means we have more time and energy to do other things in our free time. Today was also a day of rest which meant we didn’t have class this afternoon—really nice to have that extra time! People used it to go aloft, work on Halloween costumes (you’ll hear more about the festivities tomorrow), work on our projects and papers, do ballet (Dr Professor Mariner Sir Ben Harden taught a class on the science deck and it was hilarious) or just relax.
An Introvert’s Paradise
Addison Wagner, B Watch, Kenyon College
Bow watch at night is an introvert’s paradise. In hour-long shifts, one of the deck hands stands at the front of the boat and acts as lookout. If you’re lucky enough to be sent to the bow during an evening or a dawn watch, you get to spend sixty rapturous minutes with yourself.
Tonight is exceptionally beautiful.
Auckland or Bust
Ben Eliason, C-Watch, Villanova University
We’ve spent around four weeks aboard the Seamans now and it finally feels like we are getting used to living here. We have 11 more days until Auckland and I think we are more than ready for the challenge of sailing there. There is still so much to learn but we have mastered the daily routine of life at sea. Things that were hard at the start have become second nature for us now. It’s nice to be able to talk like a sailor and handle some of the sails without having to stop and think about it first.
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ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES
Tickets available for ‘Leaving Iowa’ in Salem
SALEM–Tickets are now on sale for “Leaving Iowa” at Salem Community Theatre. Show dates are June 14 to the 23. Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances at 2 p.m.
Directed by Chris Fidram, the critically-acclaimed play “Leaving Iowa” by Tim Clue and Spike Manton is a hilarious, family friendly comedy that is a toast to the idealism and character of parents from the “greatest generation” and a little roast of their dedication to the family road trip. It was nominated Best New Play in the Country by the Detroit Free Press and one of SoCal Theater’s 10 Most Memorable Moments of the year after its run at the Laguna Playhouse, stating the play included “the most frighteningly realistic depiction of a family summer road trip” the reviewer had ever seen.
For tickets call 330-332-9688 Ext. 3 or go to www.salemcommunitytheatre.org.
Salem High School ’69 to raffle off Quaker Sam
SALEM–The Salem High School Class of 1969 will begin selling raffle tickets for a stained glass Quaker Sam, designed and created by classmate Randy Babb, prior to the Alumni Association Reunion and Banquet at Salem High on May 18. The glass piece is approximately 22.5-inches tall by 18.5-inches wide, and approximately 24-inches by 20-inches framed.
Tickets are $10 each.
All proceeds will benefit the Salem High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund and is run by the class of ’69’s 50-year reunion committee.
The sale of tickets will continue through the class’s 50th High School Reunion with the winner being drawn and notified on Aug. 5.
Anyone wishing to purchase tickets may also contact Georgia Duhan Hopkins at 330-277-7730 or Ginny Edling Eudy at 234-564-9531 and leave a message.
Salem theater to hold ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ auditions
SALEM– The Salem Community Theatre will hold auditions for its production of “Singin’ in the Rain” at 6 p.m. June 3 and 4. Casting from ages 12 and up.
Auditioners must come prepared with a 32 bar section of a song in the style of the show, songs from the show are allowed as well. There will be no accompanist provided. Those interested in auditioning must provide a CD with voices, a cell phone without voices, or sing acapella. There will be a short dance call, so dress appropriately.
Show dates are Aug. 16 through 25. For information about auditions contact the theatre at 330-332-9688 or message the director on Facebook.
Salem High School ’69 to hold yard sale fundraiser
SALEM–The Salem High School Class of 1969 will hold a yard sale fundraiser for its Alumni Association Scholarship from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 7 and 8 at 1177 N. Lincoln Ave. (corner of North Lincoln Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, with the entrance off Sunset Boulevard).
Donations are being accepted for sale and can be dropped off anytime at the door off the parking lot. Call Ginny Eudy at 234-564-9531 for details.
Backbeat to perform at Waterworth
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