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1863 videos available
Polish Pickup School
SBS March 25, 2011
Classification: Mature
A group of young misfits without any success with women, enrol in a school that promises to teach them the secrets of seduction. An insight into sexual relationships within a ...
A group of young misfits without any success with women, enrol in a school that promises to teach them the secrets of seduction. An insight into sexual relationships within a country that remains strictly Catholic.
Saddam's Tribe
ABC November 26, 2012
Drawing on access to Raghad Husssein, this drama looks at Saddam through the eyes of his daughter. It exposes how the fate of the country turned on the fluctuations of family ...
Drawing on access to Raghad Husssein, this drama looks at Saddam through the eyes of his daughter. It exposes how the fate of the country turned on the fluctuations of family loyalty, competitveness and eventual betrayal.
Playing In The Shadows
ABC December 7, 2009
Classification: Mature Accompanied (15+)
Cheer on the kids of Woolloomooloo as they become basketball All Stars, struggling to pursue their aspirations while avoiding the disadvantages of growing up in this forgotten ...
Cheer on the kids of Woolloomooloo as they become basketball All Stars, struggling to pursue their aspirations while avoiding the disadvantages of growing up in this forgotten pocket of public housing.
60 Days In: Hazed And Confused
Season 2 Episode 5 CI October 26, 2016
Ethical understanding
Hazing, drug use and violence envelop Clark County Jail as two participants are on the brink of dropping out of the program.
Fear the Walking Dead: Pablo and Jessica
Season 2 Episode 11 FX November 14, 2016
Alicia and Madison work to unite two competing factions. Nick draws upon skills from his past to take on a new role at the colonia.
Original Sin: Sex: Sex in Advertising
Season 1 Episode 5 National Geographic October 7, 2016
The media has recognised that "sex sells". Explore the progression of sexualised images used to promote consumerism and the impact on popular culture.
Motherboard: Who Killed The Smart Gun?
Season 1 Episode 6 SBS Viceland August 23, 2017
Classification: Parental Guidance
Smart gun proponents say they're safer than the average gun. This program discovers why they're not for sale.
ABC March 21, 2017
Chloe suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her significant disabilities. Since starting high school, she's endured relentless bullying. Chloe attempts to record ...
Chloe suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes her significant disabilities. Since starting high school, she's endured relentless bullying. Chloe attempts to record video, but will the plan produce unexpected results?
SBS June 10, 2015
A documentary portrait of artist and mother Susie Dureau, who uses painting as a way of processing significant events in her life.
Earthquake on Everest
National Geographic June 21, 2015
As the shockwaves subside following the earthquake in Nepal, National Geographic Channel examines the human cost, shares astonishing stories of survival and looks at what ...
As the shockwaves subside following the earthquake in Nepal, National Geographic Channel examines the human cost, shares astonishing stories of survival and looks at what lessons we can learn from the tragedy.
Carlos The Jackal
Season 1 Episode 1 ABC2 September 6, 2014
From Olivier Assayas, director of Irma Vep and Summer Hours, comes a powerful three-part series: an epic portrayal of the notorious revolutionary and terrorist, Ilich Ramirez ...
From Olivier Assayas, director of Irma Vep and Summer Hours, comes a powerful three-part series: an epic portrayal of the notorious revolutionary and terrorist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos the Jackal.
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
SBS2 November 21, 2014
This exquisite documentary provides a powerful inside look at the talented, scandalous, and iconic world of Bob Guccione - a visionary, public-relations master, recluse, ...
This exquisite documentary provides a powerful inside look at the talented, scandalous, and iconic world of Bob Guccione - a visionary, public-relations master, recluse, self-destructive optimist and founder of Penthouse.
Snake Underworld With Henry Rollins
SBS2 April 23, 2013
Revealing how millions of Americans have welcomed snakes into their homes as pets, Henry Rollins meets some obsessive serpent lovers who deliberately seek out the most ...
Revealing how millions of Americans have welcomed snakes into their homes as pets, Henry Rollins meets some obsessive serpent lovers who deliberately seek out the most dangerous breeds they can get their hands on.
Kids and Guns
SBS2 December 4, 2014
A jaw-dropping character-led documentary following American families who are passionate about firearms and believe their children are safer armed. Provocative and explosive, ...
A jaw-dropping character-led documentary following American families who are passionate about firearms and believe their children are safer armed. Provocative and explosive, this eye-opening documentary follows American parents who love guns and want their kids to be the same.
Knot At Home: Stories Of Security
Season 1 Episode 2 SBS October 9, 2010
In this episode, seven young people tell their own story in their own way about how they survived living in domestic situations without a feeling of security.
My Perestroika
SBS December 6, 2011
Could it be that the more things are restructured, the more they stay the same? That's the question for the five principal characters in My Perestroika, a revealing ...
Could it be that the more things are restructured, the more they stay the same? That's the question for the five principal characters in My Perestroika, a revealing documentary about contemporary Russia.
The Family UK: Life Is Not A Picnic
Season 3 Episode 6 SBS2 February 10, 2013
In this episode, the pressure of running a family business takes its toll, and arguments erupt over who's really in charge.
What Happens in Kavos
Season 2 Episode 1 SBS2 March 27, 2014
This documentary series follows young Brits over a summer on working holidays in Kavos, Greece, to get a glimpse of what really happens in the hedonistic party towns away from ...
This documentary series follows young Brits over a summer on working holidays in Kavos, Greece, to get a glimpse of what really happens in the hedonistic party towns away from parents and surrounded by temptation.
Aussie Olympians
Meet some of the athletes who've represented Australia at the Olympic Games, and learn some of what motivated them to achieve their goals and overcome adversity.
Eating disorders and body image
It is important to address mental health and body image issues as many teens and adults face this ongoing battle. Become aware of eating disorders and how to keep yourself healthy with this collection, that not only informs you but questions your eating style and lifestyle habits.
Being mindful in May
It is often easy to loose track and forget what is around you. Practising mindfulness can help you to cope with everyday life and deal with tough times. This collection discovers what mindfulness is and showcases the positive effects of looking after yourself, self-esteem and mind.
Women and social change
Learn how the role of women has changed over time and how people have fought for their civil rights in a collection to mark International Women's Day.
About 1 billion people around the world live with a disability – that’s roughly 15 per cent of our global population. Learn about and promote awareness of the challenges that people with disability face.
The world of psychology
Help students develop 21st-century skills and knowledge for success in their future work and life by understanding how complex interactions continually influence human behaviour.
Learning sign language
Celebrate and acknowledge International day of sign languages by viewing this collection with your class featuring video content about the lives of individuals who use sign language as well as schools that support them.
R U OK? skills for kids
Encourage your students to look out for their classmates, introduce some of the issues children face at home and at school, and reveal strategies to help deal with bullying and anxiety.
Use this playlist to allow students to explore different families and understand the reasons why certain people, events and days are important to themselves and their families.
Discovering exercise
Discuss the importance and benefits of physical activity with your class using this curated collection.
Introduce the concepts of being healthy to your class and use this playlist to discuss the role of food in being healthy and how food affects our overall well being.
Story time with Play School and Bookaboo
Spark your younger students' imagination with this collection of stories helping students to become familiar with new words, sounds and ideas with the best storytellers on television.
Respectful relationships for primary students
Resilience, rights and respectful relationships can be modelled at school to inform students about positive relationships at school, home and the world. Share this playlist that focuses on building positive relationships.
Food, nutrition and production
Knowing where food comes from and what's in it is critical to making healthy food choices. Encourage your students to be more mindful about what they eat by sharing these videos with them.
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Fighting-fit females
Wondering what sport you should introduce to your class next? Follow the adventures of these inspirational women and girls participating in a range of sports to get some ideas.
Understanding autism for primary students
Use this playlist to introduce students to autism and how it may affect an individual's life. Explore ways to combat problems and issues one may face.
All about autism for secondary students
Autism is a condition that affects the way an individual relates to his or her environment and their interaction with other people. Get insights into the lives of individuals living with autism.
Music for primary students
Encourage your students to develop their musical skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music, including dynamic, pitch and rhythm with this collection.
Bullying. No way! for secondary students
Bullying sucks whether it is online, at school or in a workplace, there is no space for it in our lives. Find more about bullying experiences and how to combat issues related to bullying in this playlist.
Bullying. No way! for primary students
There is no space for bullying, whether it is in the playground, classroom or online. No way! View this collection, which deals with all aspects of bullying and how it can be prevented.
Insights into cancer
Cancer is a disease of the body's cells. Normally cells grow and multiply in a controlled way. Cancer affects a large number of Australians, both directly and indirectly. (ACSHE160)
Freedom Day: the birth of a new nation
On April 27, 1994, millions of first-time voters cast their ballots in South Africa's first free elections, ushering in the presidency of Mandela. Learn about the enormous change from those who lived it.
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Feb 26, 2019 SOURCE: PR NewsWire
"Silent-type" Cells Play Greater Role in Brain Behavior than Previously Thought
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Brain cells recorded as among the least electrically active during a specific task may be the most important to doing it right.
Results of new experiments in rodents, led by neuroscientists at NYU School of Medicine, challenge the assumption in brain research that the most active brain cells, or neurons, involved in any complex activity are also the most important in controlling that behavior.
For the study, published in detail in the journal eLife online Feb. 26, the researchers monitored brain cell activity with probes in two brain regions of the cerebral cortex, the front portion of the mammalian brain known to control how tasks are carried out in response to what is heard and seen in the environment.
Among the study's key findings was that among nearly 200 monitored brain cells or sets of the brain cells in rats, 60 percent appeared at first glance to be relatively quiet as the rats, based on training, successfully pushed a button with their noses to get food in response to a certain sound. However, computer analysis showed that the least-active neurons in the cortex "fired" at the same time with more active brain cells when the rodents correctly pushed the button in response to the right sound, researchers say.
Moreover, when these least-active neurons were not in sync, there was a greater likelihood that rodents would err during the exercise. This suggests, say the study authors, that those relatively quiet cells were essential to success. Researchers described this coordinated motion, which varied by just thousandths of a second, as a form of "consensus building" among distinct groups of neurons that add importance to a message by acting in unison.
"Our study offers firm evidence that some neurons presumed to be the least involved in controlling a particular behavior may actually be among the most important in 'building consensus' among other neurons to carry out complicated tasks," says study senior investigator and neuroscientist Robert Froemke, PhD.
Specifically, researchers monitored individual cells and groups of up to eight brain cells in rats as they performed the task. Animals were exposed to several different sounds, and researchers recorded neural activity when the task was carried out correctly, as well as when mistakes were made.
The complex data were then analyzed using a computer algorithm developed at NYU specifically designed to detect patterns among the electrical recordings, or what researchers described as "spike trains" of brain cells actively involved in carrying out tasks.
"If further experiments confirm our findings, these 'silent-type' neurons might be the most responsible cells doing much of the hard work in the mammalian brain," says Froemke, an associate professor at NYU Langone Health and its Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine.
Froemke, who is also a faculty scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, says the team's latest findings could have clinical significance in the future for people living with brain disorders, such as epilepsy, who use electrical implants to stop epileptic seizures. Instead of focusing on single brain cells, future electrical devices could focus on networks or groups of neurons thought to be involved in the activity.
Funding support for the study was provided by National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders grants R01 DC009635, R01 DC012557, and R01 DC05014; National Institute of Development Administration grant T32 DA007254; a Sloan Research Fellowship; a Klingenstein Fellowship; and the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences.
Besides Froemke, other NYU Langone researchers involved in the study are lead investigator Michele Insanally, PhD; and co-investigators Ioana Carcea, PhD; and Rachel Field, BS. Additional study support was provided by co-investigators Chris Rodgers, PhD, at Columbia University in New York; Brian DePasquale, PhD, at Princeton University in New Jersey; Kanaka Rajan, PhD, at Mount Sinai Health System in New York; Michael DeWeese, PhD, at University of California, Berkeley; and Badr Albanna, PhD, at Fordham University, in New York.
David March
david.march@nyulangone.org
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Tar Heels add to haul with grad transfer Pierce
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North Carolina landed a commitment from William & Mary graduate transfer Justin Pierce on Thursday, the Tar Heels' fourth addition in the last two weeks.
Pierce, a versatile 6-foot-7 small forward, was ranked No. 5 in ESPN's graduate transfer rankings. He chose the Tar Heels over Michigan and Notre Dame after visiting all three schools.
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"They offer me the best opportunity to pursue my dreams, on and off the court," Pierce told ESPN. "They need somebody like me who brings versatility on the court and experience, to help them win at the highest level. They're losing Cam Johnson, Luke Maye and Nassir Little, a lot of production from guys in my position.
"Then off the court, I'm able to earn my MBA from their business school, which is a top 10 business school in the country. After my playing career, I want to get into the front office of an NBA organization, and obviously they have as many connections as anybody. Just the overall tradition they have. It's crazy to think I'm part of that. It was too much to pass up."
With Pierce now in the fold, North Carolina has transformed its 2019-20 roster in the last couple weeks. The Tar Heels picked up No. 1 guard Cole Anthony, followed the same day by ESPN 100 guard and former Virginia Tech commit Anthony Harris. Last weekend, Charleston Southern graduate transfer Christian Keeling -- No. 7 in ESPN's rankings -- picked Carolina.
With Roy Williams losing his top five scorers from last season -- Johnson, Maye, Little and guards Coby White and Kenny Williams -- he needed to reload.
"It definitely helped. It helped me envision who my teammates are," Pierce said. "A week or two ago, they had four or five open spots. It was more of an unknown. They're all great players. They all bring a different skill set to the table. That group, when you throw me in there as well, along with the group of returnees, we have a chance to be really, really good."
Pierce earned third-team All-CAA honors after averaging 14.9 points, 8.9 rebounds and 4.1 assists last season. He's hoping to emulate what Johnson -- a graduate transfer who averaged 16.9 points and 5.8 rebounds this past season -- did the last couple seasons in Chapel Hill.
"Seeing what type of impact he had early on his career, it made me comfortable to that system, that style of play, because I like to play up-tempo and fast," Pierce said. "I think I can make a big impact there. They really need someone on the perimeter with size. It's a really unique opportunity for me.
"I bring a lot of experience to the table, because they're going to have a lot of young guys. I pride my game on my versatility. I'm going to do whatever it takes to help the team win. I can obviously score and shoot the ball, but I also consider myself an excellent rebounder for my size. I love to get other guys involved, love to pass the ball. They really liked all those three things I can consistently do at a high level. I can impact a game even if my shot isn't going in that game."
Pierce, who is still only 20 years old, graduates from William & Mary next weekend after three years with the Tribe.
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India ETFs Will React To Election
Gaurav Sinha is an asset allocation strategist at WisdomTree, an ETF issuer with nearly $40 billion in assets under management. He writes frequently about emerging markets, and India in particular. ETF.com recently spoke with him about the ongoing elections in that country—what Sinha calls the largest and most expensive democratic exercise in the world—and what they mean for India stocks and ETFs.
ETF.com: India is in the midst of countrywide elections. Would you fill us in with what’s going on?
Gaurav Sinha: Not many people realize how complicated elections in India are and how sophisticated the planning for the election is. The whole process runs over multiple weeks. It started on April 11 and will go until May 19. And then the results will be counted on May 23.
The constitution of India mandates that all citizens have to be less than approximately 1 1/2 miles from a polling booth. That means there are polling stations 15,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of the Himalayas and there are polling stations in lush, green tropical forests with tigers and leopards.
It's the biggest democratic exercise anywhere on the planet. It's also the most expensive one, estimated to cost $7 billion. For perspective, the last U.S. presidential elections costed $6.5 billion, which was at the time the most expensive ever.
These elections are a high stakes game for Prime Minister Modi, who, even after all the criticisms from the market liberals, continues to be the darling of the investment community in India and elsewhere.
Most likely, Modi will stay in power, whether it be with a clean mandate or with some sort of a coalition of like-minded parties.
ETF.com: How important are these elections for India?
Sinha: From an investment perspective, what matters for any country—especially in the medium to long term—is the history of reforms and the trajectory of economic and monetary policy, not who’s governing.
Either way this election goes, there’s no fundamental change in the opinion on India from a medium-term perspective.
Not many people realize India’s economy is almost the size of the United Kingdom’s. It's bigger than France, Brazil, Italy and all of these other traditional economic powerhouses. It’s by no means a small economy at $2.5 trillion.
There are 1.2 billion people in India, similar to the population of China, and the economy is growing at a 7-7.5% rate for the foreseeable future. That makes it a great investment opportunity for the medium term.
The democratic setup of the country ensures that no matter who comes to power, it's extraordinarily difficult to change the fundamental structures of the economy.
Even with the clean mandate that Modi had five years ago, when he won in 2014—the first clean mandate in 30 years of election history in India—he still had a tough time implementing some of the reforms.
He managed to implement a lot of it, but a lot of it still needs to be done. It wasn't a cakewalk for him. What it means is that, tomorrow, if there’s somebody else in power, similar checks and balances of the democratic structure would make it so it's not easy for them to reverse all the good things that he’s done. Fundamentally, India will continue to be on the same track.
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Top 10 Turn-Offs for Women
When it comes to the opposite sex, what gets your motor running — and what makes you run for the hills? Here are the top 10 turn-offs for women, whether old or young, partnered up or single…
1. Being Ignored
One of the key ways most women judge how important they are to their partner is by how much attention they get from him when expressing concerns and opinions.
Women are turned off when men act like other things are more important or more interesting, or when they casually dismiss something that's important to a woman. And when men show interest in the beginning of a relationship but then switch gears as things progress, a woman’s attraction for him often takes a dive too.
2. More Swagger than Substance
Men who talk a big game but can’t follow through don’t rank high on the attractive meter. Almost every woman has met some guy at a bar who ends up loudly talking about his work/house/car/sports team so that everyone can hear him. Even worse, he’s the one who picks you up in a rented BMW, pretending he owns it.
Some men convince themselves that women want the guy with the biggest and the best of everything, so they paint colorful (and fictitious) pictures of themselves. But the wannabe big shot is actually a huge turn-off to most women.
3. Self-Admiration
Some women get dinner and a movie. Others get dinner plus an earful of “Let me tell you how great I am.”
His college GPA, stellar performance at work or investment ideas may not be anywhere near as impressive (or even interesting) as he thinks. Men who waste a woman’s time by inviting her out only to have someone to brag to are truly a bore.
4. Preoccupation with Sex
Whether you’re on a first date or in a 10-year marriage, women don’t want to feel solely like sex objects.
Though it depends on the woman, when a relationship is new, a man would do best to hold off on sharing any sexually explicit stories (including past performances) and comments until he’s sure the woman he’s with is up for it.
Most women want to be caressed, complimented and otherwise shown affection and intimacy outside the bedroom too.
5. Straight-Up Chauvinism
The path toward gender equality has improved a lot over the past decades, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still men who consider themselves the superior sex. Some, for example, have a belittling title for every woman. The cashier is “Little lady.” The waitress is “Darling.” And the bartender is “Sweet Cheeks.”
Whatever the chauvinist behavior, it almost never fails to be a turn-off for women.
6. Not Helping Out
Most women prefer to share the responsibilities of raising kids and running a household. Since the vast majority of women work outside the home, this is more a necessity than anything else.
So it’s a real turn-off for a woman if a man’s notion of who handles child-rearing and household chores is stuck in the 1950s.
7. Ogling Other Women
Men who stare at other women or are overly flirtatious with them may find themselves largely on their own.
Simply put, women like men who are respectful enough to pretend they don’t notice other women (even when they do).
8. Boorish Behavior
Women always prefer a gentleman. A woman expects a man who’s interested in her to approach her thoughtfully and respectfully.
So any guy who wants to attract women should aim to check the boorish behavior — using vulgar language, getting drunk or high, dominating conversations so no one else can get a word in, showboating — at the door.
9. Poor Grooming Habits
While sweaty athletes and grungy rock stars may initially turn a woman on, getting closer to the body odors that accompany them is another story.
Beyond basic hygiene, women want more. Most men want sleek, gorgeous women, so it’s fair to assume women don’t want men with pot bellies, dirty fingernails, rumpled clothes and disheveled hair, right?
10. Bad Pickup Lines
A sense of humor is a great thing — when a guy is actually funny. A good pickup line will leave a woman with a lasting impression. But so many guys try too hard (sometimes with offensive pickup lines), and that’s a turn-off.
What Guys Can Do
If you’re a guy whose relationship is suffering and you don’t know why, consider these female turn-offs. They should give you some insight into how to do better to attract more women.
And if you’re a woman whose partner is guilty of any of these turn-offs for women and you don’t know how to confront him, consider leaving this article where he’ll see it.
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Educator HOF nominees sought
The Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation is accepting nominations for the BPSF Educator Hall of Fame Class of 2019.
In its tenth year, the Educator Hall of Fame seeks to recognize outstanding former Bartlesville Public School District educators who made a positive impact on students and the Bartlesville community. Last year’s inductees included Carol Ann Cone, Diane Dixon and Gerald Thompson.
If you know of a former BPSD educator who you feel deserves to be a member of the BPSF Educator Hall of Fame, you are encouraged to nominate that person for this prestigious honor.
Nomination forms can be found on the BPSF website http://bpsfoundation.org/educator-hall-of-fame. If you are unable fill out the online form, you may print the application available on the website or write a short description of the nominee’s employment history at Bartlesville Schools and why the educator is worthy of Hall of Fame induction.
Mail written applications to the Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation at 1100 SW Jennings, Bartlesville 74003.
The deadline to submit all nominations is Friday, October 19. For more information, contact Blair Ellis at bpsfoundation@bps-ok.org or by phone, 918-336-8600, ext 3523. Inductees will be announced early next year.
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McKay library celebrates renovation
The library at the McKay Arts Academy recently underwent a comprehensive renovation and restructuring thanks to months of effort from the staff of Fitchburg State University’s Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library.
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Staff members from the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library spent the summer cataloging McKay’s holdings and organizing the renovated space into a workable lending library. The library space was also redesigned with new carpeting and replacement furniture.
“McKay is an important component of Fitchburg State University, a unique resource for our teacher candidates and a source of great pride for the school,” said Lapidus. “This collaboration builds on a strong foundation connecting the university with the wider community.”
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Letters and feedback: Feb. 13, 2019
Readers share views in Letters to the Editor
Letters and feedback: Feb. 13, 2019 Readers share views in Letters to the Editor Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/12/letters-and-feedback-feb-13-2019/2812295002/
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President Donald Trump speaks Monday at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. (Photo: Eric Gay, AP)
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There are so many other ways that we can use $5.7 billion dollars, which will only pay for a small part of what Trump wants to complete this debacle. Once we give in, he will come back for more and continue to punish the American people with government shutdowns. Illegal immigration has been steadily declining over the last 10 years and is at its lowest since 1974.
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Collins Stewart plans split
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Home Columns The drab sparrow is often ignored by birders
Scott Shalaway
The drab sparrow is often ignored by birders
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Among birders, sparrows tend to be disrespected, or at least ignored.
Most are small, drab little brown birds.
Brightly colored showstoppers such as yellow-throated warblers, Baltimore Orioles and scarlet tanagers usually steal the attention on spring bird walks.
Sparrows are certainly more subtle visually, but there are usually quite a few species everywhere.
The soon to be published Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America by Rick Wright (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pub. date: March 19, 2019) might change that, at least a little.
Though Sparrows is lavishly illustrated with more than 300 striking color photos, it is not a field guide.
But detailed descriptions of each species, some dating back to when the bird was first named, make it a historical identification guide.
In fact, Sparrows might be best described as a detailed example of how curious humans used art and science to create the taxonomy of sparrows.
Though it lacks ecological details, distribution maps and audio files, Sparrows provides a rich glimpse into a single branch of American ornithology.
With that introduction, let’s look at some of the common sparrows that frequent backyard feeding stations on cold winter days.
Ground feeding sparrows are especially nice to have around because they help clean up the seeds other birds kick to the ground.
Song sparrows exemplify the classic LBB (little brown bird).
Careful study, however, reveals several distinctive markings. For example, they have a long, rounded tail, which they pump up and down when they fly.
Their white throat is bordered by long dark stripes that suggest a mustache. And the white belly and chest are marked by heavy brown streaks that often converge into a central breast spot.
Dark-eyed juncos are often called “snowbirds” because they are so often seen in winter. They usually arrive in mid-October.
Juncos are easy to recognize. The charcoal gray body contrasts with the white belly, white outer tail feathers, which flash in flight, and the bright pink bill.
The body of female juncos is a duller brownish-gray.
White-throated and white-crowned sparrows can be identified by distinctive facial patterns.
White-throats sport a prominent white throat, black and white crown stripes, and broad eyebrow stripes that are yellow in front of the eye and white or tan behind it.
White-crowns lack the bright white throat, and the head pattern consists of zebra-like bold black and white stripes.
Tree sparrows usually arrive shortly before Christmas from their breeding range in northern Canada and Alaska and are easy to identify.
Look for a rusty crown, a fine rusty stripe behind the eye, two white wing bars and, most importantly, a dark spot in the middle of an otherwise plain breast.
Despite the name, tree sparrows are not forest birds.
They nest in northern Canada and Alaska among the stunted trees and shrubs that characterize the tundra.
Visits by tree sparrows are particularly gratifying because they travel so far to reach our backyards.
Here, tree sparrows inhabit old fields, forest edges and marshes where they roam in flocks of 30 to 40 individuals.
Within these flocks, smaller sub-groups of four to eight birds travel and feed together.
Another winter visitor from the north whose arrival often trails the holiday season is the fox sparrow.
Among the largest sparrows, foxies measure about seven inches long and sport a bright rusty plumage. Heavy streaking across the chest converges to form a distinct central spot.
When feeding, they make a lot of noise by kicking back the leaf litter with both feet like a towhee.
Fox sparrows are unmistakable. When I see one, I’m reminded of a big rusty song sparrow.
A few years ago, I devised a simple, multi-level platform feeder to attract a greater variety of native sparrows.
I placed a three foot by 5-foot piece of exterior plywood on top of two sawhorses.
Then, I put two concrete blocks on top of the plywood and covered them with a smaller piece of plywood.
I anchored the whole arrangement with another concrete block.
This setup created a large, three-tiered covered platform feeder for native sparrows.
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Home News Beef 509 class helps producers think like packers
Beef 509 class helps producers think like packers
By Chris Kick -
Cattle producers evaluate live cattle at Beef 509.
COLUMBUS — When a finished beef animal leaves the farm, it’s rare that cattle producers get to see the whole process of what it becomes.
They might occasionally get to see the hanging carcass, or the final cuts, but are usually less familiar with how it became a cut, and some of the finer details that influenced those cuts.
For the past 20 years, the Ohio Beef Council and Ohio State University have offered a hands-on live cattle workshop known as Beef 509, designed to bridge the farm gate-to-plate gap.
The program started in 1997 and is offered as a two-day, interactive seminar that walks beef producers through the process of evaluating, buying, butchering and fabricating, and lastly, tasting meat that they processed.
On two Saturdays in February, about 30 beef producers from across the state, ranging from hobby farmers to full-time operators, met at Ohio State’s Animal Sciences facility in Columbus.
Buying cattle at Beef 509.
With cattle mooing in the background, they listened to a half-dozen experts talk about the process of buying and processing finished cattle.
The first step is to “stop thinking like a producer, and to think like a packer,” said Henry Zerby, chairman of OSU’s Department of Animal Sciences.
That means thinking about things like quality versus yield, and how much money a packer can expect to get out of each animal.
Zerby said farmers often blame packers for short-changing them, when, in reality, the producer may not understand the decisions being made.
From a buyer’s perspective, the process starts by identifying the live animals. Certain details like breed, weight, muscle and fat, and sometimes even diet can be determined to some extent, but as participants found out, accuracy is limited.
The 33 participants were divided into seven teams, and given the challenge of buying eight live beef cattle, and following those cattle through the process of butchering and fabrication — to see which team could make the most money.
The process was competitive and difficult — just as it often is for competing packers at an auction. As Zerby pointed out, sometimes the winner is “the team that lost the least amount of money.”
John Grimes, OSU Extension beef coordinator, reminded producers that “muscle has definition,” and told them to think of a body builder versus a sumo wrestler. Fat usually makes the animal look more smooth, where as muscle leads to shape.
Another visual he gave is to think of the shape a Coke bottle, versus a canoe. The Coke bottle has a more defined and structured shape — and is a more desirable shape for a beef animal.
But as Zerby pointed out, most of a beef animal’s fat is found inside the carcass, between the muscles. Buyers can sometimes touch the animals, but have to know what they’re feeling for, and how to assess what they’re feeling.
The best bet is to know the producer, who can supply information about breed and diet, but the truest information is what the packer sees when the animal is on the rail.
Butchering process
In a separate wing of the building, participants walked through the whole process of stunning, dehiding and butchering. The process was monitored by OSU meat staff and a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector.
When the hides came off, the fat content was clearly visible. Participants also got to see the defects, which in some cases included abscessed livers, or bruised meat that was condemned or rendered as waste.
Henry Zerby, explaining how beef cattle are processed.
All parts of the animal were evaluated, including the lymph glands, kidneys, liver and other internal organs, before the carcass was cut and hung in the meat locker.
While some animals are bought live, others are bought by the hanging weight, or according to a grid analysis that quantifies quality and yield.
Sam Roberts, of United Producers, walked participants through the different types of grids, and how yield and quality grades determine price.
Most cattle grade somewhere in the middle, he said, with only about 5 percent of cattle that make prime grade, and even less that make prime and also have the highest yield grade.
But even slight differences in carcass quality can have a significant impact on incentives and penalties, he said, and therefore the overall value of the animal.
One thing that can affect the quality grade — aside from the breed and genetics — is the care given to the animal.
Steve Boyles, Ohio’s beef quality assurance coordinator, said facilities and transportation are key factors to maintaining the health of the animal, and a quality carcass.
“If we don’t load that animal properly, we’re hurting ourselves,” he said. “Two years of hard work can be undone by poor handling in the last ride.”
He said producers need to be responsible with how they move cattle, using moving aids responsibly and ethically. Electrical prods are acceptable, he said, but only 5 percent of the time.
A bigger factor is making sure the setup is accommodating — that the trailer is sized appropriately and that all areas are well-lit and visible, so the animals will be less frightened.
Animals that are more flighty, or that have been rushed during the loading process, often have a lower quality of meat, and are more susceptible to carcass bruising, said Boyles, who also is an animal sciences professor at Ohio State.
“Loading and unloading cattle is every bit as important as special teams are to the Ohio State Buckeyes,” he said.
Jason Fox and his wife, Mindy, were two of the participants this year. They operate a cow-calf farm in Seneca County, near Tiffin.
Mindy said because they sell most of their animals as calves, she just assumed the carcass quality was up to the next person. But the 509 program helped her to see everything that affects the carcass, even from the time animals are young.
“The decisions I make within the first four months of that calf’s life really affect what’s going to happen when that animal becomes a hanging carcass,” she said.
A team discusses which cattle it wants to purchase during the contest.
Her team thought they purchased good cattle during the sale, but ended up finishing fifth. Part of the reason was the discovery of bruised meat that had to be thrown away.
“I bet we threw at least seven pounds of what should have been good meat, right into the dumpster,” she said. “It’s interesting to see what that looks like once you peel back the skin and get into the carcass.”
She said she could take the class a second time, and probably learn even more.
In fact, some producers do take a continuation class — called Beef 510, Zerby said.
Staying relevant
Over the years, Zerby and other organizers have worked to keep the program relevant for today’s beef producers. That means evolving with the times, and meeting the needs of changing consumer appetites.
“As the supply chain has changed to meet the consumers’ needs, we’ve changed the program as well,” Zerby said.
Today, there is more emphasis on convenience-type cuts, and newer, processed cuts that more consumers are demanding. The program also shows producers how lower-value cuts can be manipulated to increase flavor and tenderness, and add value.
“We had to start looking at what could we do with that carcass, that got more consumers eating more beef, more often,” said Elizabeth Harsh, executive director of the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association and the Ohio Beef Council.
Zerby said producers learn from the experts, but also from each other. He said the program has made a lasting difference for many participants — whether it’s feed decisions, choosing genetics, when and how to market cattle, or how to judge live cattle.
“It’s an experience that otherwise, you (as a producer) wouldn’t be able to get,” he said.
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Is Blue Apron Even Going To Exist In Five Years?
Meal kit businesses are all the rage, but whether or not they are really viable as stand-alone businesses is an open question.
[Photos: courtesy of Blue Apron]
By Ruth Reader 8 minute Read
One of the food delivery industry’s biggest and most well-funded meal-kit subscription companies, Blue Apron, has filed its intent to go public. The company’s stated goal is to take on grocery stores and dining out. “We believe our customers choose to buy Blue Apron meals instead of shopping at grocery stores, ordering takeout, or eating at restaurants,” its filing reads.
But while interest in meal kits is growing, there isn’t strong evidence that most people are ready to give up entirely on the grocery aisle. Meanwhile, Blue Apron’s marketing department is spending an exorbitant $94 per customer to get people to sign up for its service–and in the last year, its customer growth rate has actually slowed. So is Blue Apron really cut out to be a public, stand-alone company?
Meal-kit subscription companies fancy themselves innovators, refashioning grocery shopping for a digital world. But not everyone is equally enchanted by this newfangled shopping experience. Recipe cards and quick meal prep packages represent less than 1% of retail food and alcohol spending in the U.S., according to a recent report from research firm Morningstar (Editor’s note: Fast Company‘s owner, Joe Manuseto, is executive chairman of Morningstar.)
Among meal-kit adoptees, the metrics are more encouraging. Food box loyalists are known to spend 13% of their weekly grocery dollars outside the traditional grocery store, the report notes. The research asserts these kits could be the catnip that convinces consumers to shop for groceries online–not just for meal kits, but as part of their regular grocery routine (online grocery shopping has had many false starts as it attempts to go truly mainstream).
That puts Blue Apron in an interesting role—a pied piper luring the masses to online grocery shelves. Though Blue Apron was one of the first to offer meal-kit subscriptions, it’s not alone. There are countless meal-kit offerings out there from a bevy of providers–both brand names and newcomers. These adversaries are all aggressively waving their own coupons and rock-bottom deals as they attempt to attract customers.
Notably, one in four Americans has tried a meal kit–with 70% continuing to purchase them, according to Nielsen. All the price competition, however, enables someone with an interest in meal kits to hop from one platform to the other, sopping up discounts as easily as bread in pasta sauce. That means not all meal-kit consumers are staying loyal to just one service.
Given the high cost of customer acquisition–thanks to hyper-competitive pricing and epic marketing budgets–turning this product into a consistent profit generator is one of the biggest challenges Blue Apron and businesses like it face. The whole scenario calls into question whether meal-kit subscriptions are a sustainable business on their own–or if they are better off as components of a larger digital grocery spread.
Meal-kit subscription services endure a lot of customer drop-off. In its filing to the SEC, Blue Apron notes that while its high spending has grown its customer base, its expansion efforts have the potential to lose steam. “Over time our customers on average order less frequently or sometimes cease ordering.” That statement is echoed in Morningstar’s data, which reports that a year after trying a meal kit, only 8% to 18% customers remain with that particular service. Some of that drop-off is circumstantial–for example, you might not restart a meal-kit subscription you paused while you were away on vacation.
That’s problematic because meal kits–especially those hoping to capture a wider market like Blue Apron–are limited in their ability to increase prices on kits without losing customers to competitors offering better deals. “Meal-kit startups can’t raise their prices too significantly because they’re competing with traditional groceries as well as other meal kits, which limits margin potential. Therefore, their main way to grow is by adding customers, pushing them to focus heavily on costly customer acquisition,” says CB Insights’ Natan Reddy, a tech industry analyst.
Signing up and keeping loads of customers in this space is a fraught endeavor. Meal kits are at once trying to change a deeply ingrained customer behavior and attempting to introduce them to a new brand. In order to get people on board, they need to spend heavily on marketing—particularly cost-intensive offline marketing like television ads. On top of that, they have to keep their product affordable–they can’t make up for the cost of their high marketing spend with higher prices on their products. Because many of these players, like Blue Apron, have received a lot of venture funding, they’ve been comfortable spending a lot to get customers, says Reddy, “even in the face of reportedly high churn.”
When I met with Sunbasket CEO Adam Zbar last month, he claimed his company could be profitable tomorrow if not for its marketing spend. The same seems to be true for Blue Apron. Though it enjoyed a quarter of profitability from January to March last year, in the first quarter of 2017 it took a loss of $52 million. Already this year it’s spent $61 million on marketing, setting it up to nearly double last year’s spend. Yes, you read that right.
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Customer acquisition is an age-old problem in the digital grocery world. Both Webvan and Peapod attempted to build web-based grocery delivery in the late 1990s. Webvan went under and Peapod, which went public, found an acquirer in Royal Ahold N.V. The main issue for both? Not enough orders and mounting costs. By coming under Royal Ahold N.V., which owns Giant and Shop & Stop retail grocery stores, Peapod was able to access a ready customer base.
What Peapod has done in the years since it was acquired is well worth paying attention to. Peapod still does grocery delivery, but exclusively for its parent company stores. It also has its own meal kits, which it sells in tandem with its online grocery service. That allows customers to do their normal weekly shopping in addition to buying instructional meal kits. Incorporating a la carte meal kits into a bigger, a la carte online and offline grocery service allows customers to be flexible in their approach as they shop for food. They don’t need to cancel a subscription meal kit service if they go on vacation because they are buying meal kits individually, and Royal Ahold N.V. doesn’t have to worry about customers dropping off after they come back from a holiday the way most meal-kit subscription services do. Even if customers don’t race online to order a meal kit when they get back home, they’ll probably run to the grocery store to pick up some staples for their first meal back.
This need for fluidity makes obituaries for retail grocery businesses appear premature: “I think people love going to the grocery store to find new products and to be a part of their social community and it is just a part of the fabric of how people exist,” says Andy Levitt, CEO of vegan meal kit Purple Carrot.
Blue Apron and many meal kits are rigid in format and as such largely supplemental to traditional grocery stores. That makes them potential targets for acquisition by grocers with a digital strategy—like Peapod’s scenario in the early aughts. Because Blue Apron’s meal kits are something of a luxury–not necessary products that a standard household can’t live without–it makes them susceptible to getting nixed when belts need to tighten.
Blue Apron’s last uttered valuation was $2 billion, making it unlikely to get bought up—and this may be a part of why it’s going public. At the end of March, the company had $61 million in cash, but its working capital was negative $84.8 million. It’s possible that Blue Apron is going public to raise more money. The last time it raised privately was in 2015.
Another reason: Right now Blue Apron is still considered an emerging company, which entitles it to disclose less in its public filings. Once it starts earning more than $1.07 billion in revenue, that stops being the case. If it waited until after it was earning more, Blue Apron would have to report on executive compensation and more readily comply with certain accounting standards.
Going public in the immediate future gives the company a little bit of shield from prying investors and reporters while it figures out how to become reliably solvent. To that end, there are still unexplored revenue channels that Blue Apron has yet to take advantage of.
“We view the meal-kit service category as another means through which packaged-food firms can position their products to get in front of consumers,” Morningstar’s report on meal kits notes. Consumer packaged goods companies like Unilever or Nestle might pay for product placement in boxes, helping to spur an additional channel of revenue for Blue Apron.
There’s also opportunity in Amazon. With Amazon Fresh, the Everything Store is exploring a bid at online grocery and is considered the biggest threat to the brick and mortar grocery stores. But when it comes to meal kits, Amazon may offer a boost. Right now the platform is selling a meal kit from Martha Stewart and Marleyspoon through a partnership. If this initial foray goes well, it stands to reason that Amazon could team up with other meal kits, making it a distribution platform rather than a meal-kit brand of its own. On Amazon, meal kits have a chance to reach the masses they so desperately need to support their companies, possibly helping to reduce consumer acquisition costs (depending of course on the potential the terms of being featured on the site). Such an alliance could also benefit Amazon. Meal kits could act as a lure to its larger grocery store offering, giving customers access to both meal kits and all the usual items they might need in a given week.
Meal kits may be convincing some shoppers to consider going online, but it will never fulfill all their needs. Whether Blue Apron’s business model can fulfill the desires of investors has yet to be seen.
Ruth Reader is a writer for Fast Company. She covers the intersection of real estate, technology, and the future of work.
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Washington, DC: Food Truck Reform an All-or-Nothing Proposition
May 17, 2013 / Foodable Network
Photo Credit: MobileFoodNews.com
When it comes to the mayor’s proposed food truck regulations, D.C. Council members are in a bind: They can only vote yes or no.
“The council can only act to approve or disapprove the regulations before us in their entirety,” said Vincent Orange, the chair of the Committee on Business, Consumer & Regulatory Affairs, during a hearing Friday. “I can tell you my current thought is that we the council should have an opportunity to seize control of this issue.”
Orange, joined by Councilmen David Grosso and Jim Graham, mulled changing District law to give the council the power to change the regulations.
This is the fourth version of the city’s proposed food truck regulations. It has been met with howls of disapproval from food truck owners who staged a protest in Farragut Square last Monday.
Graham said the debate over food truck regulations reminded him of a previous city-wide food feud.
“I’ve been around Washington long enough to remember the debate around sidewalk cafes,” Graham said. Ultimately, the District welcomed sidewalk cafes and they have been accepted as part of life in the District.
Food trucks have focused their opposition on two features of the District’s proposed regulations. For one, the regulations do not specify how many spaces will be provided in regulated food truck zones. These regulated zones are scattered throughout the city in areas known to attract food trucks, like Farragut Square and L’Enfant Promenade. Read More
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November 2014: Essential Tremor Enrollment Complete and More…
Also in this issue:
Elekta Executive Offers Insights
Jane Batten Hosts Virginia Beach Event
Winter School Funding Awards Available
Focused Ultrasound Survey Findings
FUS Research Recognized at MRI Meeting
CarThera Study Opens the BBB
JOURNAL OF THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND
Article of the Month: Brain Tumor Ablation
EDAP Receives FDA Guidance
Mark Carol Named CEO of SonaCare
FUS Tackles Brain Disorders and more…
November 30-December 5 RSNA
February 28-March 5 SIR
March 8-13 Therapeutic Ultrasound Winter School
Essential Tremor Pivotal Trial Enrollment Complete
Dr. Elias presenting the pivotal study design at the Focused Ultrasound Symposium
InSightec has completed enrollment in the pivotal study of their ExAblate Neuro system for the treatment of essential tremor. Physicians at eight sites worldwide have now treated 76 patients in the trial. The first randomized, controlled trial of unilateral MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy with InSightec’s system began in August 2013 and completed enrollment in September 2014. Results will be submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for regulatory approval of the device. The pivotal study was designed based on the clinical outcome of the initial 15-patient pilot study that was conducted from 2011 to 2012 and published in an August 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"We all know someone with essential tremor; it's a common problem. Hopefully this study will lead to a treatment that might be applicable to many patients around the world."
– Jeff Elias, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of Virginia and principal investigator of the study
Patients with severe, medication-refractory essential tremor were enrolled after being assessed for tremor severity and disability and then randomized in a one-to-three fashion to receive either sham (pretend) procedure or the focused ultrasound treatment. Participating patients are now being followed for one year.
Treatment safety and efficacy are the study’s primary endpoints, with secondary endpoints including durability at 12 months, quality of life, functional improvement, and comparison between the sham and treatment groups. During the follow-up period, an independent, blinded corelab group of neurologists specializing in the management of essential tremor rate the clinical outcomes from videotaped assessments, and the patients will complete disease-specific quality of life questionnaires. Final results are expected to be submitted to the FDA by the end of 2015.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF DR. ELIAS SPEAKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PIVOTAL STUDY ►
Tomas Puusepp
"As long as you capitalize on change and are ahead of the curve, you can succeed. "
– Tomas Puusepp
Elekta’s Executive Director Shares Insight, Praises the Role of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation
Tomas Puusepp, Executive Director of the Board of Elekta and its former CEO, recently visited the Foundation and shared his experience in providing an emerging technology (the Gamma Knife) to the patients who need it. His thoughts on taking risks, competition, and overcoming barriers provide many valuable insights that apply to focused ultrasound.
When Puusepp joined Elekta in 1988, it was a $5 million company with a staff of 22—today it has $1.5 billion in revenue and 4,000 employees. With a background in electrical engineering and physics, he advanced through the management ranks within Elekta to serve as President and CEO from 2005 through April 2014.
Puusepp recognizes the benefit of a foundation in supporting technology. "It took decades for the Gamma Knife to become a standard of care. However, after we established the Leksell Gamma Knife Society, we gained traction much faster. If an organization similar to the Focused Ultrasound Foundation existed for advancing stereotactic radiosurgery from the start, this time would have been much shorter."
Learn more about the parallels between the path of the Gamma Knife and the development of focused ultrasound, his top three tips for device companies, and his praise for the role of the Foundation.
Jane Batten
Council Co-Chair Jane Batten Hosts Virginia Beach Awareness Event
On November 3rd, Foundation Council co-chair Jane Batten and Vince Mastracco hosted a luncheon in Virginia Beach for 25 community leaders who were interested in learning about focused ultrasound and its potential to revolutionize medicine, save lives, and reduce suffering. During the program, Chairman Neal F. Kassell, MD, presented the Foundation’s history and a brief overview of the technology. A focused ultrasound patient then shared his story with the group.
READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT AND THE PATIENT'S STORY ►
Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, and letter of recommendation from their mentor to Matt Eames meames@
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Student Funding Available for Winter School - Apply Now!
The Foundation is offering travel support for US students to attend the Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Les Houches, France, March 8-13, 2015.
The meeting is sponsored by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO), The International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and the Society for Thermal Medicine (STM).
The Winter School explores the rapidly emerging field of therapeutic ultrasound. Participants will learn the physics behind the technology, the biophysical effects in the body, and the clinical applications of the therapy.
Click to see a word cloud of the role respondents thought the Foundation should play
If you have not yet completed our survey, please take a few minutes to share your perspective
FUS Experts Believe Brain and Cancer Applications Have Most Potential to Improve QOL
The Foundation conducted a survey of 150 members of the focused ultrasound community on the state of the field prior to the October 2014 Symposium.
Respondents were asked to identify which clinical indications were most likely to improve patients’ quality of life. Neurological and oncological indications are tied for the most votes, with brain tumors, essential tremor, and pancreatic cancer being rated as the top three individual indications. Similarly, respondents were asked to rank the top three bioeffects that are most likely to have long-term therapeutic value. Thermal ablation is ranked first, followed by drug delivery and neuromodulation.
Read more to find out about the community’s perspective on:
Which indications are most likely to be commercially successful
What the obstacles are to widespread use
Whether there are any differences between scientist and clinician views on the potential of FUS
Focused Ultrasound Research Broadly Recognized at the 10th Interventional MRI Symposium in Germany
A research group based at Kobe University in Japan received the magna cum laude poster award at the 10th Interventional MRI Symposium held last month in Leipzig, Germany. Their winning project featured work in analyzing liver deformation to obtain MR images prior to focused ultrasound (FUS) treatment. Of the 63 posters accepted at this technically oriented meeting, seven included FUS.
Image courtesy of CarThera
CarThera Opens the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound
Although they do not use focused ultrasound, one of the developmental companies that presented at last month’s Symposium is using low intensity ultrasound waves to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to allow drug delivery to brain tumors. CarThera researchers gained attention after reporting that they initiated a Phase 1/2a clinical trial to open the BBB in recurrent glioblastoma patients last July.
At the time of the presentation, four patients had been enrolled in the study. A tiny ultrasound transducer device is inserted into a standard burr hole, fixed to the surrounding skull bone, and covered with skin. The energy is delivered once a month when the device is connected to an external generator system via transdermal needle. The patient receives up to two minutes of pulsed ultrasound. At the same time, an ultrasound contrast agent is given and BBB disruption is monitored via MRI. As the BBB is opening with ultrasound, the chemotherapy is administered.
After the Symposium, New Scientist, i09, and China Topix reported the study.
Three interesting papers have recently been published about the use of focused ultrasound (FUS) in the brain. Could 3D MR thermometry play a key role in understanding and expanding the FUS treatment envelope? Does skull thickness matter? What parameters are needed to begin using low-frequency FUS in the brain?
Read these manuscripts, and one about liver disease clinical trials. READ MORE ►
JTU Article of the Month – Brain Tumor Ablation
The first successful noninvasive thermal ablation of a brain tumor with MR-guided focused ultrasound is highlighted in the October issue of The Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound.
This work from Switzerland supports the potential use of transcranial focused ultrasound for the noninvasive treatment of patients suffering from malignant brain tumors, especially in areas not amenable to conventional neurosurgical interventions.
Further treatments in the context of this ongoing pilot study will be needed to assess the feasibility and safety of the procedure. If the results are positive, then a larger study in the future will be needed to demonstrate safety and efficacy.
THE FULL-TEXT, OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE ON THE JTU WEBSITE ►
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EDAP Receives FDA Guidance for Ablatherm
EDAP-TMS received a letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicating that, although their premarket application for the Ablatherm device to treat localized prostate cancer was not approvable in its current form, a path forward is possible.
The letter provides specific guidance and recommendations for modifying the patient population to those prostate cancer patients with a greater risk of morbidity and/or mortality from their disease and for using the company's European registry along with the already existing safety data to support approval for the modified indication. EDAP’s press release provides additional details.
"This response from the FDA reflects the extensive and ongoing discussions between our team and agency staff…We appreciate their constructive and comprehensive recommendations."
– EDAP CEO Marc Oczachowski
Mark Carol, MD
Mark Carol Named CEO and President of SonaCare Medical
SonaCare Medical has named Mark Carol, MD, CEO and President. According to the company’s press release, Carol plans to focus on further developing SonaCare’s HIFU technology while overseeing commercialization, manufacturing, and finance.
Dr. Carol, who joined SonaCare in 2011 as Chief Development Officer, has led the company’s clinical study program and the ongoing effort for US regulatory approval of the Sonablate 450.
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Focused Ultrasound Tackles Brain Disorders on Medical Physics Web 10/30/14
UVA Physicians are Using Focused Ultrasound as an Alternative to Brain Surgery on InTheCapitol.com 10/18/14
Sound Waves Can Heal Brain Disorders on ScientificAmerican.com 10/16/14
BRIEF-Theraclion Presents Positive Thyroid Nodule Trial Results on Reuters.com 10/15/14
High-Intensity Ultrasound OK for Cesarean Scar Pregnancy on DoctorsLounge.com 10/9/14
November 30-December 5, 2014 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 100th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
February 28-March 5, 2015 Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA
March 8-13, 2015 Winter School on Therapeutic Ultrasound, Les Houches, France (see above article on travel awards)
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Karen de los Angeles
Agoura Hills, California
During my last trip to LA, I was pleasantly surprised to find out a friend from home had recently relocated there and was working at a ranch in Agoura Hills. We set up a time to hang out on an afternoon after my meetings. I love all things horses; growing up I used to show jump & dressage, so i leapt at the chance to see Karen in her element and learn more about how Karen got into the horse world. We chatted about her background as she prepped a beautiful Friesian, named Standing Ovation, affectionately known as "Ovi" for his afternoon exercise.
Karen started out young, "My mom put me on a horse in Baguio when I was 3 years old - I didn’t want to get off. It was love at first sight! Was obsessed with horses since then, and wouldn’t stop asking for a horse. I Got my first pony, Ginger, at 8 and started formal lessons at Manila Polo Club." Karen spent 15 years as an international competitive rider in show jumping and dressage. Accumulating numerous wins in local and international shows, with the highlight being a silver medal at the RP UK Cup, part of the FEI Grand Prix Series.
Her dedication to the sport has led her to seek training under many great riders and coaches; Chris Delia, Eric Lamaze, Jos Kups, Hideo Watabe, Vicki Roycroft, Mikee Jaworski, Maree Hewitt, just to name a few. She also founded and continues to operate MKL Stables in the Philippines. With Karens move to the United States, she changed her focus from show jumping to dressage. I asked her the reasons behind the decision, and she answered that jumping places an extreme physical strain and demand on the body, leading to increased risk of injury alongside her desire to find a new challenge.
Karen currently works as the Assistant Dressage Trainer & Instructor at Dressage for All Disciplines, under head trainer Tane McClure. "I really love being a coach and hope to continue to do that. I love teaching people and kids of all ages and seeing them improve and gain confidence." Her Long term is to earn a USDF Gold Medal and represent the Philippines at the top level. Follow Karen & all her horsey friends on her instagram @kdlaequestrian.
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Mole Valley District Council
Mole Valley District Council blocks LGBTQ+ rainbow crossings amid concerns over cost
“Would you prefer money allocated towards saving the tip or would you prefer rainbow crossings painted in the High Street?"
Jenny Seymour
The rainbow crossings would have been Surrey's first (Image: James Friend)
Rainbow crossings celebrating the LGBTQ+ community will not be installed in Leatherhead and Dorking.
A motion to install the colourful pedestrian crossings in support of the area’s sexual diversity was discussed by Mole Valley District Council on Tuesday night (July 9).
Several crossings in London were given a multicolour makeover last month, to coincide with LGBTQ Pride Month and councillor James Friend believed Mole Valley should have done the same.
It comes just weeks after rainbow knitted bollard covers, to celebrate Pride, disappeared from a Dorking street and a homophobic letter was posted through a shop’s letterbox.
Cllr Friend’s motion was not just about showing support for the district’s LGBTQ+ residents, but about inclusivity in general, he said.
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“I wouldn’t say there is actually an issue [with homophobia],” said the member for Westcott. “I think there is an opportunity; there is an opportunity for us to make sure we have done everything we possibly can to make all local residents and businesses feel included.”
Mole Valley’s rainbow crossings would have been Surrey’s first, said Cllr Friend.
“This is about one particular part of our local community that may feel excluded from time to time, but really the whole point is about moving the diversity and inclusion agenda on to be very much more front of mind,” he said.
His idea predated the removal of the rainbow-coloured bollard covers in West Street, he said.
Concerns over cost
More than 4,000 Mole Valley residents identify as non-heterosexual, according to the council motion. At the meeting, councillor for Dorking North David Draper raised concerns about the cost of installing the pedestrian crossings.
He said: “I just asked residents in this motion tonight, ‘would you prefer money allocated towards saving the Dorking tip or would you prefer rainbow crossings painted in the High Street?’. The answers were such that I can not vote for recommendation three (the rainbow crossings).”
Many other councillors believed the crossings would promote exclusivity because they were only proposed for the town centres and due to the fact that about only 5% of the district identified as LGBTQ, mostly young people.
A rainbow crossing unveiled in Wimbledon in June as part of Pride Month (Image: Copyright Unknown)
Councillor Helyn Clack believed many of the objections originated from a standpoint of discrimination.
She said: “Our population we are talking about today are those who identify as non-heterosexual but we also have a vast array of different people in our society, including those who suffer from mental health, those who suffer from physical and mental limitations and disabilities.
“We need to make sure all those people are given the opportunity to do the very best in our society without getting that prejudice I am hearing underlying some of the objections I’m hearing here. We must be open and engaged.”
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Microsoft Office 2010 Download And Evaluation
by Martin Brinkmann on May 14, 2010 in Microsoft - 15 comments
Should you make the switch to Microsoft Office 2010? If you are not sure yet you could download the latest version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus to evaluate it for 60 days.
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 is the top of the line edition of Office 2010. It is the only edition that contains all Office modules and therefor best suited for testing and evaluation purposes.
The Office 2010 evaluation version comes with restrictions that everyone should be aware of before downloading it.
Office 2010 installs only on clean systems meaning no other version of Office can be present on the PC.
The evaluation version will deactivate itself in 60 days with no way of making it a full version. This means that it has to be uninstalled before another version of Office 2010 can be installed on the computer.
A Windows Live ID is needed to register for the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 evaluation
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they are using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications. Office Professional Plus 2010 provides smart, simple, time-saving tools to help everyone do more with less.
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Computer and processor -500-megahertz (MHz) processor or higher; 1 gigahertz (GHz) required for Outlook with Business Contact Manager
Memory - 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher; 512 MB recommended for graphics features, Outlook Instant Search, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, Communicator, and certain advanced functionality
Hard disk - 3.5 gigabyte (GB) available disk space
Display - 1024 × 768 or higher-resolution monitor; 1024 × 576 or higher for Excel 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, and Word 2010
Operating system - Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit) with MSXML 6.0 installed, Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit). Terminal Server and Windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are supported
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RvdP said on May 14, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Which version is it exactly? I am currently running office 2010 professional plus from the beta program which is version 14.0.4536.1000.
Martin said on May 14, 2010 at 7:40 pm
This is the RTM version.
Indian-Art said on May 15, 2010 at 9:51 am
I find OpenOffice is a great alternative. It’s free and works very well with GoogleDocs and Zoho. It’s like my Offline Zoho or Google Docs. Very useful when the Internet is slow or not available. In fact, I find it has several features that ‘online word processors’ don’t (& I’m not even a power user) ;)
I use the extension OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs (gdocs_2.2.0.oxt 2.2.0): This extension helps me upload to Google Docs or Zoho in just 2 clicks!
I also sometimes use Lotus Symphony which I find very helpful.
Todd said on May 20, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Thanks for the great write-up about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010! I just wanted to drop by and let everyone know that you are now able to pre-order the new version of Office at http://store.microsoft.com/Category.aspx?CatId=210. Thanks for the support, and feel free to send me any questions you may have about Office.
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Jeff Kingston said on November 2, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Downloaded and installed the evaluation of Office 2010… Outlook no in the eval??????
Martin said on November 2, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Depends, Outlook is only available in some editions, not all.
publisherscloth said on November 11, 2014 at 3:54 am
Thx a lot , i download office201-0, it works fine. But it’s trail version , u could search “windows 8.1 key sale” on bing to get activated code ,it’s easy .
Kat said on September 1, 2015 at 4:37 pm
Hi whre can I find the product key for the 2010 professional plus?
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Product Report: GLO-024
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new orleans, zydeco, cajun: 1st Globe release by the West Coast's premier Zydeco/Cajun band, original and traditional music. Leader and accordionist Richard Domingue, from South Louisiana, is affluent in Cajun and French and keeps the band focused on both authentic and original zydeco and cajun music, with a touch of New Orleans funk. This is not another copy band: they have their own unique sound, which is interesting even by Louisiana standards. Last year they played the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, the premier Zydeco/Cajun Festival in Louisiana, which is unheard of for a California band. They can play a sit-down show or street dance with equally high impact. They have set sales records in several big festivals including the Sacramento Jazz Festival, Mammoth Lakes Jazz Festvial, San Juan Jazz Festival, and Victoria Jazz Festival. They play at least 40 festivals a year, and work the club circuit from the West Coast to The Crescent City. They have an ever growing fan base that includes a strong core of Cajun-dancers just about everywhere they perform.
"Why You Treat Me?"
"River's Gonna Go"
"Stop, Baby Please"
"The Wolf's Howlin"
"Canaille (Trickster)"
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"Juste Un Autre Soir"
"Simone"
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GATOR BEAT PROD #GLO-024 (1999)
new orleans, zydeco, cajun: West Coast's premier Zydeco/Cajun band, original and traditional music. Leader and accordionist Richard Domingue, from South Louisiana, is affluent in Cajun and French and keeps the band focused on both authentic and original zydeco and cajun music, with a touch of New Orleans funk. This is not another copy band: they have their own unique sound, which is interesting even by Louisiana standards. Last year they played the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, the premier Zydeco/Cajun Festival in Louisiana, which is unheard of for a California band. They can play a sit-down show or street dance with equally high impact. They have set sales records in several big festivals including the Sacramento Jazz Festival, Mammoth Lakes Jazz Festvial, San Juan Jazz Festival, and Victoria Jazz Festival. They play at least 40 festivals a year, and work the club circuit from the West Coast to The Crescent City. They have an ever growing fan base that includes a strong core of Cajun-dancers just about everywhere they perform.
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baby • daughter • miracle • mother • Pregnancy
Sometimes we forget that things don't always go the way we plan. This is especially true for pregnancies. And when Shelly Cawley went into labor, she and her husband, Jeremy, had no way to expect the crazy turn things were about to take.
The couple certainly wasn't expecting an emergency c-section. But that's what was in order, and Rylan, a healthy baby girl, made her debut safely.
But then the unthinkable happened. A blood clot broke loose, putting mom, Shelly, into a coma. For her husband, Jeremy, it was an emotional rollercoaster. He said,
"The idea of going from the highest of emotions of having a child born...to the next moments where you think you're going to be saying goodbye to your wife within four or five hours. I was numb."
Credit: Fox 46
Hours after giving birth, Shelly was still in a coma. Nothing seemed to be waking her, and doctors told her husband that if Shelly didn't do something on her own soon, she wasn't likely to make it to morning. And so, friends and family prayed for a miracle.
Meanwhile, one of Shelly's nurses came up with an idea. It's widely known how important skin to skin contact is for newborn babies. So, nurse Ashley suggested that the effects may be equally beneficial to the mother.
Precious, little Rylan was placed on her mother's chest. Naturally, this was very soothing to the baby and she fell asleep. So, Jeremy and the nurses worked to keep Rylan awake. And that's when God worked a miracle!
When baby Rylan, undoubtedly annoyed that she was not being permitted to sleep, started to cry, everything changed. Every time her daughter would cry, Shelly's vitals would spike. Even though she was not conscious, Shelly's subconscious knew she needed to fight. She began to stabilize, and after a few days, she woke up!
"I remember waking up," Shelly says. "It was like being caught between a dream and reality. I remember staring at Rylan's face and thinking she is the most beautiful baby in the world. I know every mom feels that way but I felt like we had a special connection because of everything that had happened."
Once awake, the medical staff gave Shelly and Rylan every opportunity to be together. And it did wonders!
After some time, Shelly was finally out of bed moving around.
And then, she was finally headed home!
Shelly has fully healed, and the entire family is incredibly grateful for the beautiful miracle God sent in Rylan, who recently turned one. Shelly recently posted the following on Facebook:
"As the night comes to a close, I reflect on my day and how different it was than at the same time a year ago. What a difference a year makes! Last year I was fighting for my life, and this year I have a 1 year old who is thriving, and I am back in nursing school doing what I love. Satan tried to take me down, but thanks to our mighty God and all of you amazing prayer warriors, what could have been an end to my life has just been a bump in the road on my journey! Can’t wait to discover what God has planned for my life, and to just enjoy the ride on the way there!"
God truly does answer prayers!
And you can watch the touching video below of one of the first meetings between Shelly and little Rylan (just grab some tissues first!)
And if you're up for it, we've got another great story right here!
h/t: BuzzFeed
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UK Must Invest More to Compete Online – UKFast Round Table Results
13th March 2012 18th August 2010 by Press Release Writer
The latest UKFast round table results reveal that the UK must invest more in Internet businesses in order to compete online internationally.
Despite Internet sales reaching 4.4bn pounds last month, business leaders are still not recognising the importance of investing in quality technology to compete online, according to an industry round table.
Paul Harris, Marketing Director at hosting provider UKFast, says, “Companies are failing to deliver the experiences that customers expect. Despite the huge demand online, users are being left unsatisfied and businesses are failing as a result.
“Considering how important having an online presence is to most people, whether it is as an ecommerce site or for lead generation, you have to question why anyone would take the risk of providing a poor user experience when it is that important to their livelihoods.”
From the consumer perspective, due to insufficient government funding the UK is struggling as a nation to set up an appropriate broadband network to connect users to the Internet. Tom Cheesewright, Strategy Director at And Digital, believes that with the absence of a universal network the onus must fall to fast local fibre rings to satisfy the demand.
He says, “I can’t see there being a universal next generation broadband network in the UK. I think a patchwork quilt fibre structure is the way forward, where there is someone like a Metronet in every area offering this kind of service who can then progressively link up.”
Although supportive of a citywide structure, John Earley, the Strategic Development Director for Metronet UK, believes that it will eventually fail at the hands of BT.
Ultimately, to be able to challenge Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands in terms of European broadband penetration, the UK must work together to provide a nurturing environment for growth online.
Supporting Martha Lane Fox’s manifesto to create a networked nation, the future of online Britain lies in educating SMEs and blue chip companies to work together to help bring more consumers online.
John says, “Whoever your customer is, whether it is a consumer or a B2B customer, you have a vested interest within an ecommerce environment to ensure that the shopping experience is the best that it possibly can be.”
Jeff McCarthy, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, adds, “In terms of the responsibility of building online Britain we all have a role to play, from the government and industry to education. Ideas are what generate online growth and we need to nurture talent and open ourselves up to new ideas.”
The round table discussions are held in association with UKFast with the aim of uniting business leaders to share advice and provide a wealth of ideas for other developing companies.
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Volta Region: Abandoned baby retrieved from 10-ft pit latrine
Date: Oct 23 , 2018 , 16:12
BY: Timothy Ngnenbe
Category: General News
The baby being washed off after its retrieval
The Police at Sibi in the Nkwanta-North District in the Volta Region have mounted a search for a mother who dumped her newborn baby in a pit latrine shortly after delivery.
The runaway mother is said to have dropped the baby girl inside a 10-feet abandoned latrine at the Sibi Central Basic School with the intention of killing it.
However, a "good Samaritan" heard its cries from inside the pit latrine and drew people's attention to it.
The timely intervention of the passerby and other members of the community saved the child from dying.
The Assembly member of the Sibi Central Electoral Area, Mr Emmanuel Triko, who confirmed the story to Graphic Online, said the baby was being cared for by a nursing mother.
"It all happened on Sunday dawn [October 21, 2018] at Sibi Central when the unknown person delivered on a path leading to the Sibi central primary school compound and then carried the baby to the abandoned school KVIP and dropped it into the pit with the intention that there is faeces in the pit to facilitate the death of the innocent baby," Mr Triko said.
"But God being so good, there are no faeces and miraculously, the baby fell in about 10-feet pit with the face facing the sky.
"A good Samaritan was going to attend the nature's call when he heard a baby crying. He drew closer to toilet building only to realise the baby was lying in the toilet pit.
"All efforts to find the culprit so far proved futile," he explained.
He added that the case was reported to the Damanko police who visited the baby and were now searching for the mother.
Mr Triko said the baby was also sent to the Sibi central clinic for checkup and medical advice.
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The new line of Fiat Chrysler's don't have the same "cache" as the ones lovingly photographed in this commercial. But enjoy the commercial for framing up these beautiful cars the way it does. Automotive beauty.
It shows cars during a time where it was design over function. You hear me? DESIGN OVER FUNCTION. What a simple concept that was just forgotten.
Of course it cribs the music from my most favorite car commercial of all time... It isn't about function or design. It's about story telling and ad making in less then a minute. The one that is better then 90% of all movies out there. I'd be remiss not to mention it. It inspired me to make video things.
What remains so powerful about it is my perception of it. I don't know the actors. They aren't on TMZ or on magazine covers. It hints at the movie The Graduate, but I don't feel it steals from it. Viewing it I feel free to convey whatever I like.
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Swachh Bharat: Dirty picture in Ludhiana
Can you name the Punjab city that figures on just about every ‘dirty’ list? No prizes for guessing. Ludhiana, it is. A year after the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) was launched, unbearable stink rising from garbage dumps with waste spilling out of bins and trash littered along city roads continue to depict a squalid picture of the city.
punjab Updated: Oct 03, 2015 16:23 IST
Anshu Seth
Garbage heaps speak volumes of Ludhiana’s indifference to cleanliness. (JS Grewal/HT)
Can you name the Punjab city that figures on just about every ‘dirty’ list? No prizes for guessing. Ludhiana, it is. A year after the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) was launched, unbearable stink rising from garbage dumps with waste spilling out of bins and trash littered along city roads continue to depict a squalid picture of the city. The industrial township was on the ‘dirty’ list with a low rank when the union urban development ministry announced the Swachh Bharat rankings six weeks ago.
The SBA launch last year had got the administrative machinery and politicians, including the then municipal commissioner Pradeep Agarwal, deputy commissioner Rajat Agarwal and mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria, in cleanliness mode, but it failed to make much difference in the absence of public participation. The firm engaged for solid waste management also failed to deliver.
MIGRANT PRESSURE
All in all, it’s a sorry state of affairs in the city where open defecation is another challenge before the authorities. The city has a large migrant population working in factories. They live in vehras – a cluster of 10-20 rooms of 8x8 feet with one or at best two toilets per vehra. On an average, 50-80 of them live in one cluster and are forced to defecate in the open. Dhandari Kalan, Giaspura, Dugri, Dhandra Road, Punjabi Bagh, Fauji Colony and Tajpur Road are the worst-affected areas with thousands of migrants living in insanitary conditions.
Though the municipal authorities have shortlisted 2,202 households for the construction of toilets, it’s a small step given the magnitude of the problem. The condition of the bus stand and railway station exposes the reality of the drive.
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There are, however, some initiatives that offer hope. A city-based non-governmental organisation, Let’s Clean Ludhiana, is working to keep the city clean. Also, a few local business houses have adopted bridges on the Sidhwan canal and are funding efforts to restrict people from throwing litter in it.
Trying but need people’s help: MC Commissioner
What steps have been taken to improve sanitation in the past one year?
When I joined, solid waste management was in poor shape. We are focusing on waste collection and transportation. A sanitation campaign is on. The city looks better, if not completely clean. Public participation is important as no programme can succeed without people’s support.
What challenges did you face in implementing the campaign?
Planning and financial crunch were major problems. We have now involved ward councillors, but funding issues remain.
How will you strengthen sanitation in the future?
The plan is to reactivate solid waste transport and processing to make space at the garbage dump in Jamalpur.
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The National Hotel
Destinations | Florida | The National Hotel
Enter a classic era of grace, elegance, and style at National Hotel Miami Beach, an authentically restored Art Deco landmark that epitomizes the mood and décor of the 1940s, redefined with a modern panache.
Designed by Roy France, one of the period’s foremost architects, National Hotel was one of the grandest luxury hotels on Miami Beach when it opened in 1940. In 1997, new owners and management restored and reopened the hotel, which today stands as an Art Deco treasure in the heart of South Beach’s Art Deco Historical District.
Many original furnishings can be seen throughout the hotel, such as re-upholstered “barrel” chairs in the lounge and lobby, polished chrome light fixtures illuminating public areas, and the terrazzo flooring in the Martini Room cigar bar. Particularly notable is the massive oak bar that serves as the centerpiece of the hotel’s Blues Bar, and the original carpeting and chandelier which were lovingly restored and modernized, located in the National’s ballroom, the Oval Room.
Where original fixtures or design could not be used, the owners worked within the theme. An intricate mosaic was commissioned and comprised of thousands of tiny tiles patterned after a 1921 painting entitled, “Girl with Gloves” by Tamara de Lempicka, a celebrated Art Deco artist and the venerated patroness of the hotel, for the hotel’s French fusion restaurant, Tamara’s atrium ceiling. Authentic Art Deco antiques were hand-picked to enhance existing adornments along with specially designed and installed railings along the mezzanine, to mirror in the precise manner of those found in the hotel’s original architecture plans. Also maintaining the original Art Deco style of the guestrooms, the hotel created custom-made furniture and the original dark wood furnishings in the Historic Tower were refinished. Paying homage to Art Deco streamlined shapes and lines, the hotel’s 205-foot-long palm-lined infinity pool was created, renowned for being the longest pool on Miami Beach. A classic icon of style and impeccable service, National Hotel stands as a proud landmark in the heart of South Beach’s Art Deco Historic District.
The National Hotel, a member of Historic Hotels of America since 2010, dates back to 1939.
The marble compass in front of the 205-foot infinity pool points to the National Hotel in Cuba.
Original Property Opened: 1939
Historic Hotels of America toll-free reservations number +1 800 678 8946
Check-in time: 4:00 p.m.
Check-out time: 11:00 a.m.
Hotel Amenities & Policies
Accessible Rooms: Accessible rooms are available. Please notify request at time of booking.
Adjoining Rooms: Adjoining rooms are subject to availability. Please notify request at time of booking.
Age Requirements: Guests are required to be 21 years or older with photo identification to reserve a room and check-in.
Airport Transportation: None provided by hotel.
Cancellation Policy: Please contact hotel for details.
Cribs and Pack-in-Plays: Available upon request; complimentary.
Deposit: Credit card guarantee required at check-in for incidentals.
Early Check-In/Late Check-Out: Subject to availability. Please contact hotel.
Extra Person Fees: Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Hotel/Resort Fees & Taxes: Accommodations are subject to a resort fee of $28.50 per day. Resort fee covers pool access, beach access, towels, fitness center, business center, and other amenities. All reservations may be subject to additional city or state taxes.
Occupancy Restrictions: Varies by room type.
Parking: Self-parking: Not available. Valet parking: Available; $40 per night.
Payment: All forms of payment are accepted. Payment is required at time of booking. Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Diners Club International, and Discover are accepted.
Pet Policy: Service animals allowed: Yes. Pets allowed: Yes. Services: Pet-sitting. Restrictions: Maximum weight: 25 lbs. Fees: $150.
Rollaways: Available upon request; $35 per night.
Smoking Policy: Non-smoking property.
Transportation: Limo or town car service available; arrange with hotel concierge.
The above list may not be comprehensive and information is subject to change without notice. Fees and deposits may not include tax. Taxes, fees, deposits, and policies are subject to change without notice.
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Najet Laabidi sentenced to six months imprisonment
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On 27 June 2019, lawyer and woman human rights defender Najet Laabidi is due to appear before the military court of first instance of Tunis for the final hearing of her case. She is charged with “attributing to a public official (…) illegal acts related to his job without proof” under Article 128 of the Tunisian Penal Code.
On 11 May 2017, the 8th Misdemeanour Chamber of the Tunis Court of First Instance found human rights lawyer, Najet Laabidi, guilty of “attributing to a public official (…) illegal acts related to his job without proof” and sentenced her to six months imprisonment under Article 128 of the Tunisian Penal Code. The verdict came after over one hundred lawyers pleaded in favour of Najet Laabidi on 10 May 2017. She intends to appeal the Court’s decision.
About Najet Laabidi
Najet Laabidi is a human rights lawyer and former member of the executive bureau of Tunisian human rights group, Liberté Equité. She is the legal representative of victims of reported torture in what is known as the “Barraket Essahel” case. The Barraket Essahel case goes back to 1991, when authorities said they had uncovered a plan orchestrated by officers to topple President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and establish an Islamist regime. Between May and July 1991, 244 army officers were arrested, many of whom were reportedly tortured by state security agents in the Tunis headquarters of the Interior Ministry.
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26 June 2019 : Final hearing of Najet Laabidi's case
16 May 2017 : Najet Laabidi sentenced to six months imprisonment
Final hearing of Najet Laabidi's case
The charge was filed by Judge Leila Hammami, the president of the military court of first instance of Tunis, who claimed that Najet Laabidi had made declarations that defamed her without proof.
On 11 May 2017, the 8th Misdemeanour Chamber of the Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced Najet Laabidi to six months imprisonment for “attributing to a public official (…) illegal acts related to his job without proof” under the article 128 of the Tunisian Penal Code. On 12 October 2016, Najet Laabidi had been sentenced in absentia to a year in prison on the basis of article 128 of the Penal Code. The charge had been filed by Judge Leila Hammami, the president of the military court of first instance of Tunis. According to Leila Hammami, Najet Laabidi made declarations that defamed her without proof. Najet Laabidi was only informed of this conviction on 24 April 2017. While she immediately opposed the initial verdict, she was unsuccessful in her appeal which was heard on 10 May 2017.
A first complaint against Najet Laabidi had been filed after she pleaded on 26 November 2015 in an appeal case concerning former director of National security, Ezzedine Jenaiyeh, who was convicted in absentia in the Barraket Essahel case. She was accused by Judge Leila Hammami of violating articles 125 and 126 of the Penal Code (related to insults to a judicial officer) after she pointed out some procedural irregularities in the trial. Judge Leila Hammami then filed another complaint on 21 December 2015 after Najet Laabidi accused the military court of being partial in the Barraket Essahel Case. The Attorney General of the Appeal Court of Tunis then charged Najet Laabidi on the basis of article 128 of the Penal Code.
Front Line Defenders condemns the sentencing of human rights lawyer, Najet Laabidi, to six months imprisonment, as it believes it to be in retaliation to her legitimate and peaceful work in the defence of human rights in Tunisia, particularly the provision of legal representation to victims of torture.
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2. Guarantee in all circumstances that all human rights defenders in Tunisia are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions.
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Mapped DNA probes from Ioblolly pine can be used for restriction fragment length polymorphism mapping in other conifers
A high-density genetic map based on restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) is being constructed for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Consequently, a large number of DNA probes from loblolly pine are potentially available for use in other species. We have used some of these DNA probes to detect RFLPs in 12 conifers and an angiosperm....
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Pinus taeda L., Conifers, Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), Genetic mapping
Theor. Appl. Genet. 88:279-282
A sex-averaged genetic linkage map in coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb] Franco var menziesii) based on RFLP and RAPD markers
We have constructed a sex-averaged genetic linkage map in coastal Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco var menziesii) using a three-generation outcrossed pedigree and molecular markers. Our research objectives are to learn about genome organization and to identify markers associated with adaptive traits. The map...
K.D. Jermstad; D.L. Bassoni; N.C. Wheeler; D.B. Neale
RFLP, RAPD, Genetic map, Null loci, Gene family
Theor Appl Genet 97:762-770
Comparative mapping in Pinus: sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Dougl.) and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.).Tree Genet Genomes 7:457-468
The majority of genomic research in conifers has been conducted in the Pinus subgenus Pinus mostly due to the high economic importance of the species within this taxon. Genetic maps have been constructed for several of these pines and comparative mapping analyses have consistently revealed notable synteny. In contrast,...
Kathleen D. Jermstad; Andrew J. Eckert; Jill L. Wegrzyn; Annette Delfino-Mix; Dean A Davis; Deems C. Burton; David B. Neale
Linkage map, Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), Comparative mapping, Major gene resistance, Sequence-characterized amplified regions (SCARs)
Tree Genet Genomes 7:457-468
Comparative mapping in the Pinaceae
A comparative genetic map was constructed between two important genera of the family Pinaceae. Ten homologous linkage groups in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) were identified using orthologous expressed sequence tag polymorphism (ESTP) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers. The comparative...
Konstantin V. Krutovsky; Michela Troggio; Garth R. Brown; Kathleen D. Jermstad; David B. Neale
Genetics 168(1): 447-461
Isolation of a full-length CC-NBS-LRR resistance gene analog candidate from sugar pine showing low nucleotide diversity.
The nucleotide-binding-site and leucine-rich-repeat (NBS?LRR) class of R proteins is abundant and widely distributed in plants. By using degenerate primers designed on the NBS domain in lettuce, we amplified sequences in sugar pine that shared sequence identity with many of the NBS?LRR class resistance genes catalogued in GenBank. The polymerase chain reaction products...
K.D. Jermstad; L.A. Sheppard; B.B. Kinloch; A. Delfino-Mix; E.S. Ersoz; K.V. Krutovsky; D.B Neale
Resistance gene analog - SNP - Haplotype - Nucleotide diversity
Tree Genetics & Genomes 2: 76-85
Inheritance of RFLP loci in a loblolly pine three-generation pedigree
A high-density restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) linkage map is being constructed for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Loblolly pine cDNA and genomic DNA clones were used as probes in hybridizations to genomic DNAs prepared from grandparents, parents, and progeny of a three-generation outbred pedigree. Approximately 200 probes were...
M.D. Devey; K.D. Jermstad; C.G. Tauer; D.B. Neale
Pinus taeda L., Restriction fragment length polymorphisms, genome mapping
Theor Appl Genet 83 (2):238-242
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Missouri Forests 2013
The third full cycle of annual inventories (2009-2013) of Missouri's forests, completed in 2013, reports that there are an estimated 15.5 million acres of forest land in the State. An estimated 60 percent of the forest land area is in sawtimber size stands, 30 percent are pole timber size, and 10 percent are seedling/sapling size or nontstocked. The net volume of...
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Ronald J. Piva; Thomas B. Treiman; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Dale D. Gormanson; Douglas M. Griffith; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Tonya W. Lister; William G. Luppold; William H. McWilliams; Patrick D. Miles; Randall S. Morin; Mark D. Nelson; Charles H. (Hobie) Perry; Rachel Riemann; James E. Smith; Brian F. Walters; Christopher W. Woodall
biomass, carbon, growth, inventory, forest land, forest health, forest statistics, mortality, removals, volume
Resour. Bull. NRS-108. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 116 p.
Enhancing the soil organic matter pool through biomass incorporation
A study was installed in the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA that sought to examine the impact of incorporating downed slash materials into subsoil layers on soil chemical and physical properties as compared with the effect of slash materials left on the soil surface. Baseline levels of slash were estimated by establishing transects within harvested stands...
Felipe G. Sanchez; Emily A. Carter; John F. Klepac
Biomass, Carbon, Nitrogen, Bulk density, Cone index, Machine costs, Machine production
Biomass and Bioenergy 24 (2003) 337-349
Carbon Sequestration in loblolly pine plantations: Methods, limitations, and research needs for estimating storage pools
Globally, the species most widely used for plantation forestry is loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Because loblolly pine plantations are so extensive and grow so rapidly, they provide a great potential for sequestering atmospheric carbon (C). Because loblolly pine plantations are relatively simple ecosystems and because such a great volume of...
Kurt Johnsen; Bob Teskey; Lisa Samuelson; John Butnor; David Sampson; Felipe Sanchez; Chris Maier; Steve McKeand
In: Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–75. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. Chapter 32. p. 373-381.
Forests of Wisconsin, 2016
Publication updated February 9, 2018 to correct the number of forest field plots (page 1).
This resource update provides an overview of forest resources in Wisconsin based on an inventory conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of...
Cassandra M. Kurtz
Resource Update FS-108. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 4 p.
Iowa's Forests 2008
The second full annual inventory of Iowa's forests (2004-2008) reports more than 3 million acres of forest land, almost all of which is timberland (98 percent), with an average volume of more than 1,000 cubic feet of growing stock per acre. American elm and eastern hophornbeam are the most numerous tree species, but silver maple and bur oak predominate in terms of...
Mark D. Nelson; Matt Brewer; Christopher W. Woodall; Charles H. Perry; Grant M. Domke; Ronald J. Piva; Cassandra M. Kurtz; W. Keith Moser; Tonya W. Lister; Brett J. Butler; Dacia M. Meneguzzo; Patrick D. Miles; Charles J. Barnett; Dale Gormanson
inventory, forest statistics, forest health, FIA
Resour. Bull. NRS-52. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 48 p. [DVD included].
Delaware Forests 2013
This report summarizes the 2013 results of the annualized inventory of Delaware?s forests conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program. Results are based on data collected from 389 plots located across the State. There are an estimated 362,000 acres of forest land in Delaware with a total live- tree volume of 936 million cubic feet. There...
Tonya W. Lister; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Andrew J. Lister; William G. Luppold; William H. McWilliams; Patrick D. Miles; Randall S. Morin; Mark D. Nelson; Ronald J. Piva; Rachel I. Riemann; James E. Smith; James A. Westfall; Richard H. Widmann; Christopher W. Woodall
forest resources, forest health, forest products, volume, biomass, carbon, habitat
Resour. Bull. NRS-115. Newtown Square, PA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 104 p.
Missouri's forests 2008
The second full annual inventory of Missouri's forests (2004-2008) reports more than 15 million acres of forest land, almost all of which is timberland (98 percent), with an average volume of more than 1,117 cubic feet of growing stock per acre. White oak and black oak are the most abundant in terms of live tree volume. Eighty-three percent of the State's...
Gus Raeker; W. Keith Moser; Brett J. Butler; John Fleming; Dale D. Gormanson; Mark H. Hansen; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Patrick D. Miles; Mike Morris; Thomas B. Treiman
inventory, forest statistics, forest land, volume, biomass, carbon, growth, forest health
Pennsylvania's Forests, 2009
The second full annual inventory of Pennsylvania's forests reports a stable base of 16.7 million acres of forest land. Northern hardwoods and mixed-oak forest-type groups account for 54 and 32 percent of the forest land, respectively. The State's forest land averages about 61 dry tons of wood per acre and almost 6,500 board feet (International ¼-inch...
George L. McCaskill; William H. McWilliams; Carol A. Alerich; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Grant M. Domke; Doug Griffith; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Shawn Lehman; Tonya W. Lister; Randall S. Morin; W. Keith Moser; Paul Roth; Rachel Riemann; James A. Westfall
inventory, timberland, forest land, sampling error, sample design, volume, growth, mortality, removals
Resour. Bull. NRS-82. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 52 p.
Northern Great Plains Forests 2015
The 2015 inventory of the forests of the Northern Great Plains States (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) reports more than 6.8 million acres of forest land and almost 2.2 billion trees. Forest land is dominated by the ponderosa pine and sugarberry/hackberry/elm/green ash forest types, which together occupy one-third of the total forest land area. The...
Dacia M. Meneguzzo; David E. Haugen; Brian F. Walters; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Randall S. Morin; Mark D. Nelson; Ronald J. Piva; James E. Smith
inventory, forest statistics, forest land, trees outside forests, volume, biomass, carbon, growth, removals, mortality, forest health, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota
Resour. Bull. NRS-116 Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 108 p.
Wisconsin Forests 2014
This report summarizes the third annual inventory of Wisconsin?s forests, conducted 2009?2014. Wisconsin?s forests cover 17.1 million acres with 16.6 million acres classified as timberland. Forests are bountiful in the north with Florence, Forest, Menominee, and Vilas Counties having over 90 percent forest cover. In the southeastern part of the State, forest cover is...
Cassandra M. Kurtz; Sally E. Dahir; Andrew M. Stoltman; William H. McWilliams; Brett J. Butler; Mark D. Nelson; Randall S. Morin; Ronald J. Piva; Sarah K. Herrick; Laura J. Lorentz; Mark Guthmiller; Charles H. Perry
forest resources, volume, regeneration, forest health, forest products, biomass, carbon
Forests of Indiana, 2016
This resource update provides an overview of forest resources in Indiana based on an inventory conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Estimates are based on field data collected using the FIA annualized strategic sample design and...
Dale D. Gormanson; Cassandra M. Kurtz
Illinois Forests 2015
The third full annual inventory of Illinois' forests reports more than 4.9 million acres of forest land and 99 tree species. Forest land is dominated by oak/hickory and elm/ash/cottonwood forest types, which make up 92 percent of total forest area. The volume of growing stock on timberland has been rising since 1948 and currently totals 7.0 billion cubic feet....
Susan J. Crocker; Brett J. Butler; Cassandra M. Kurtz; William H. McWilliams; Patrick D. Miles; Randall S. Morin; Mark D. Nelson; Rachel I. Riemann; James E. Smith; James A. Westfall; Christopher W. Woodall
inventory, forest statistics, forest land, volume, biomass, carbon, growth, removals, mortality, forest health, Illinois
Resour. Bull. NRS-113. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 82 p.
This resource update provides an overview of forest resources in Wisconsin based on an inventory conducted by the USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Estimates are based on field data collected using the FIA annualized sample design and are...
Iowa Forests, 2013
The third full annual inventory of Iowa's forests (2009-2013) indicates that just under 3 million acres of forest land exists in the State, 81 percent of which is in family forest ownership. Almost all of Iowa's forest land is timberland (96 percent), with an average volume of more than 1,000 cubic feet of growing stock per acre on timberland and more than 1,...
Mark D. Nelson; Charles J. Barnett; Matt Brewer; Brett J. Butler; Susan J. Crocker; Grant M. Domke; Dale D. Gormanson; Cassandra M. Kurtz; Tonya W. Lister; Stephen Matthews; William H. McWilliams; Dacia M. Meneguzzo; Patrick D. Miles; Randall S. Morin; Ronald J. Piva; Rachel Riemann; James E. Smith; Brian F. Walters; Jim Westfall; Christopher W. Woodall
inventory, forest statistics, forest health, wildlife, carbon, FIA
Forest resources of the Shawnee National Forest, 2007
This publication provides an overview of forest resource attributes for the Shawnee National Forest based on an annual inventory conducted by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station. These estimates, along with web-posted core tables, will be updated annually. For more information, please refer to page 4 of...
C.M. Kurtz; S.J. Crocker
Res. Note NRS-59. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 4 p.
Connecticut's forest resources, 2010
This publication provides an overview of forest resource attributes for Connecticut based on an annual inventory conducted by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. These estimates, along with web-posted core tables, will be updated annually. For more information please refer to page 4 of this report...
Brett J. Butler; Cassandra Kurtz; Christopher Martin; W. Keith Moser
Res. Note NRS-107. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 4 p.
Missouri's forest resources, 2010
This publication provides an overview of forest resource attributes for Missouri based on an annual inventory conducted by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. These estimates, along with web-posted core tables, will be updated annually. For more information, please refer to page 4 of this report...
W.K. Moser; C.H. Barnett; M.H. Hansen; C.M. Kurtz; T.B. Treiman
Rhode Island's forest resources, 2010
This publication provides an overview of forest resource attributes for Rhode Island based on an annual inventory conducted by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. These estimates, along with web-posted core tables, will be updated annually. For more information please refer to page 4 of this...
Brett J. Butler; Cassandra Kurtz; W. Keith Moser; Bruce Payton
Res. Note. NRS-113. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 4 p.
Massachusetts' forest resources, 2010
This publication provides an overview of forest resource attributes for Massachusetts based on an annual inventory conducted by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program at the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service. These estimates, along with web-posted core tables, will be updated annually. For more information please refer to page 4 of this...
Brett J. Butler; William N. Hill; Cassandra Kurtz; W. Keith Moser
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Comparison of methods for estimating the spread of a non-indigenous species
Aim: To compare different quantitative approaches for estimating rates of spread in the exotic species gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., using county-level presence/absence data and spatially extensive trapping grids. Location: USA. Methods: We used county-level presence/absence records of the gypsy moth?s distribution in the USA, which are available beginning in 1900,...
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Patrick C. Tobin; Andrew M. Liebhold; E. Anderson Roberts
biological invasions, gypsy moth, invasion modelling, invasive species, range expansion, spread
Journal of Biogeography. 34: 305?312.
Estimating spread rates of non-native species: the gypsy moth as a case study
Estimating rates of spread and generating projections of future range expansion for invasive alien species is a key process in the development of management guidelines and policy. Critical needs to estimate spread rates include the availability of surveys to characterize the spatial distribution of an invading species and the application of analytical methods to...
Patrick Tobin; Andrew M. Liebhold; E. Anderson Roberts; Laura M. Blackburn
In: Venette, R.C., ed.; Pest risk modelling and mapping for invasive alien species. Wallingford, UK: CAB International: 131-144. Chapter 9.
Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States
Reliable estimates of the impacts and costs of biological invasions are critical to developing credible management, trade and regulatory policies. Worldwide, forests and urban trees provide important ecosystem services as well as economic and social benefits, but are threatened by non-native insects. More than 450 non-native forest insects are established in the United...
Juliann E. Aukema; Brian Leung; Kent Kovacs; Corey Chivers; Jeffrey Englin; Susan J. Frankel; Robert G. Haight; Thomas P. Holmes; Andrew M. Liebhold; Deborah G. McCullough; Betsy Von Holle
invasive species, emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle
PLoS ONE 6(9): e24587. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024587
Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S communities, 2009-2019
Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire), a phloem-feeding beetle native to Asia, was discovered near Detroit, Michigan and...
Kent F. Kovacs; Robert G. Haight; Deborah G. McCullough; Rodrigo J. Mercader; Nathan W. Siegert; Andrew M. Liebhold
natural disaster, invasive species, emerald ash borer, cost of ash treatment, removal, and replacement
Ecological Economics. 69: 569-578.
Spread of beech bark disease in the eastern United States and its relationship to regional forest composition
Beech bark disease (BBD) is an insect-fungus complex involving the beech scale insect (Cryptococcus fagisuga Lind.) and one of two canker fungi. Beech scale was introduced to Halifax, Nova Scotia around 1890, presumably with the fungus Neonectria coccinea var. faginata Lohm. The disease has subsequently spread...
Randall S. Morin; Andrew M. Liebhold; Patrick C. Tobin; Kurt W. Gottschalk; Eugene Luzader
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 726-736.
Benefits of invasion prevention: Effect of time lags, spread rates, and damage persistence
Quantifying economic damages caused by invasive species is crucial for cost-benefit analyses of biosecurity measures. Most studies focus on short-term damage estimates, but evaluating exclusion or prevention measures requires estimates of total anticipated damages from the time of establishment onward. The magnitude of such damages critically depends on the timing of...
Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell; Andrew M. Liebhold
Biological invasion, Economic impact, Damages, Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)
Ecological Economics. 116: 146-153.
The influence of satellite populations of emerald ash borer on projected economic damage in U.S. communities, 2010-2020
The invasion spread of the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is characterized by the formation of satellite populations that expand and coalesce with the continuously invading population front. As of January 2010, satellite infestations have been detected in 13 states and two Canadian provinces. Understanding...
Kent F. Kovacs; Rodrigo J. Mercader; Robert G. Haight; Nathan W. Siegert; Deborah G. McCullough; Andrew M. Liebhold
invasive species impacts, exotic forest insect management, spatial damage assessment
Journal of Environmental Management. 92: 2170-2181.
Mapping host-species abundance of three major exotic forest pests
Periodically over the last century, forests of the Eastern United States devastated by invasive pests. We used existing data to predict the geographical extent of future damage from beech bark disease (BBD), hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), and gypsy moth. The distributions of host species of these alien pests were mapped in 1-km2 cells by interpolating host basal area/ha...
Randall S. Morin; Andrew M. Liebhold; Eugene R. Luzader; Andrew J. Lister; Kurt W. Gottschalk; Daniel B. Twardus
Beech bark disease, hemlock woolly adelgid, gypsy moth
Res. Pap. NE-726. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 11 p.
A spatial-dynamic value transfer model of economic losses from a biological invasion
Rigorous assessments of the economic impacts of introduced species at broad spatial scales are required to provide credible information to policy makers. We propose that economic models of aggregate damages induced by biological invasions need to link microeconomic analyses of site-specific economic damages with spatial-dynamic models of value change associated with...
Thomas P. Holmes; Andrew M. Liebhold; Kent F. Kovacs; Betsy Von Holle
invasive species, hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, population dynamics, non-market values, economic damage, Quantile regression
Ecological Economics. 70: 86-95.
Changes in ash tree demography associated with emerld ash borer invasion, indicated by regional forest inventory data from the Great Lakes States
The emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) is a nonnative phloem-feeding beetle that was accidentally introduced near Detroit, Michigan, two to three decades ago. North American ash (Fraxinus spp.) exhibit little or no resistance, and as this insect species expands its range, extensive mortality results. Previous...
Scott A. Pugh; Andrew M. Liebhold; Randall S. Morin
Application of a distributed process-based hydrologic model to estimate the effects of forest road density on stormflows in the Southern Appalachians
Managed forests have historically been linked to watershed protection and flood mitigation. Research indicates that forests can potentially minimize peak flows during storm events, yet the relationship between forests and flooding is complex. Forest roads, usually found in managed systems, can potentially magnify the effects of forest harvesting on water yields. The...
Salli F. Dymond; W. Michael Aust; Stephen P. Prisley; Mark H. Eisenbies; James M. Vose
distributed process-based hydrologic model, forest roads, watershed modeling, forest hydrology
Forest Science. 60(6): 1213-1223
A decade of emerald ash borer effects on regional woodpecker and nuthatch populations
The emerald ash borer (EAB) Agrilus planipennis, first detected in 2002 in the vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, USA, has spread throughout much of eastern and midwestern North America as of 2016, resulting in widespread mortality of ash trees in the genus Fraxinus. We investigated the effects of this newly available, exotic food...
Walter D. Koenig; Andrew M. Liebhold
Agrilus planipennis, Emerald ash borer, Forest pests, Invasive species
Biological Invasions
Potential social and economic impacts of the hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England
Adelges tsugae (Hemlock Woolly Adelgid; HWA) is a non-native forest insect that causes defoliation and mortality of hemlock in the eastern US. We quantified the extent to which people are potentially affected by the spread of HWA infestation where they live and where they recreate. We also considered how these impacts might change through time...
Xiaoshu Li; Evan L. Preisser; Kevin J. Boyle; Thomas P. Holmes; Andrew Liebhold; David Orwig
Southeastern Naturalist. 13(6): 130-146.
A model for the spread of the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, in recently colonized sites.
We developed a flexible model to predict the spread of the EAB in recently colonized sites. This model is structured as a coupled map lattice built around an interchangeable "phloem...
Rodrigo J. Mercader; N.W. Siegert; A.M. Liebhold; D.G. McCullough
In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. Proceedings. 20th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2009; 2009 January 13-16; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-51. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 87.
Economic impacts of invasive species in forest past, present, and future
Biological invasions by nonnative species are a by-product of economic activities, with the vast majority of nonnative species introduced by trade and transport of products and people. Although most introduced species are relatively innocuous, a few species ultimately cause irreversible economic and ecological impacts, such as the chestnut blight that functionally...
Thomas P. Holmes; Juliann E. Aukema; Betsy Von Holle; Andrew Liebhold; Erin Sills
forest pests, pathogens, invasive, nonnative, economic, contingent valuation, hedonics, ecosystem services, chestnut blight, management, trade, gypsy moth
In: The Year In Ecology and Conservation Biology, 2009. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1162:18-38.
Temporal and interspecific variation in rates of spread for insect species invading Europe during the last 200 years
Globalization is triggering an increase in the establishment of alien insects in Europe, with several species having substantial ecological and economic impacts. We investigated long-term changes in rates of species spread following establishment. We used the total area of countries invaded by 1171 insect species for which the date of first record in Europe is known,...
Alain Roques; Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg; Tim M. Blackburn; Jeff Garnas; Petr Pysek; Wolfgang Rabitsch; David M. Richardson; Michael J. Wingfield; Andrew M. Liebhold; Richard P. Duncan
Biological invasions, Insects, Introductions, Spread, Europe, Cold War
Biological Invasions. 18(4): 907-920.
Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of isolated emerald ash borer populations
The ability to predict the distance and rate of emerald ash borer (EAB) spread in outlier populations is needed to continue development of effective management strategies for improved EAB control. We have developed a coupled map lattice model to estimate the spread and dispersal of isolated emerald ash borer populations. This model creates an artificial environment in...
Nathan W. Siegert; Andrew M. Liebhold; Deborah G. McCullough
In: Mastro, Victor; Lance, David; Reardon, Richard; Parra, Gregory, comps. Emerald ash borer research and development meeting; 2007 October 23-24; Pittsburgh, PA. FHTET 2008-07. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team: 6.
Geographic variation in North American gypsy moth cycles: subharmonics, generalist predators, and spatial coupling
Many defoliating forest lepidopterans cause predictable periodic deforestation. Several of these species exhibit geographical...
Ottar N. Bjornstad; Christelle Robinet; Andrew M. Liebhold
allee effect, gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, nonparametric spatial covariance function, Northeastern United States, space-time defoliation data, spatiotemporal dynamics, virus-insect interactions
Ecology. 91(1): 106-118.
Predicting costs of alien species surveillance across varying transportation networks
Efforts to detect and eradicate invading populations before they establish are a critical component of national biosecurity programmes. An essential element for maximizing the efficiency of these efforts is the balancing of expenditures on surveillance (e.g. trapping) versus treatment (e.g. eradication). Identifying the optimal allocation of resources towards...
Laura Blackburn; Rebecca Epanchin-Niell; Alexandra Thompson; Andrew Liebhold; Jacqueline Beggs
biosecurity, cost-effective monitoring, gypsy moth, invasive alien species, network analyst, non-native species, pest detection and eradication, point sampling, survey costs, vehicle routing
Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(1): 225-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12754.
Allee effects and pulsed invasion by the gypsy moth
Biological invasions pose considerable threats to the world's ecosystems and cause substantial economic losses. A prime example is the invasion of the gypsy moth in the United States, for which more than $194 million was spent on management and monitoring between 1985 and 2004 alone. The spread of the gypsy moth across eastern North America is, perhaps, the most...
Derk M. Johnson; Andrew M. Liebhold; Patrick C. Tobin; Ottar N. Bjornstad
Nature. 444: 361-363.
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In vitro propagation of tropical hardwood tree species A review (2001-2011)
Tropical hardwood tree species are important economically and ecologically, and play a significant role in the biodiversity of plant and animal species within an ecosystem. There are over 600 species of tropical timbers in the world, many of which are commercially valuable in the international trade of plywood, roundwood, sawnwood, and veneer. Many of these tree...
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Paula M. Pijut; Rochelle R. Beasley; Shaneka S. Lawson; Kaitlin J. Palla; Micah E. Stevens; Ying Wang
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A decision algorithm for determining safe clearing limits for the construction of skid roads
The majority of the timber harvested in the United States is extracted by ground-based skidders and crawler/dozer systems. Ground-based systems generally require a primary transportation network (a network of skid trails/roads) throughout the area being harvested. Logs are skidded or dragged along these skid roads/trails as they are transported from where they were cut...
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We developed a method that can be used to quantify the opportunity costs and ecological benefits of implementing alternative streamside management zones/buffer zone widths. The opportunity costs are computed based on the net value of the timber left behind in the buffer zone, the stump-to-mill logging costs for the logging technology that would have been used to...
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Assessing the ecological benefits and opportunity costs of alternative stream management zone widths for eastern hardwoods
Leaving buffer zones adjacent to waterways can effectively reduce the water quality concerns associated with timber harvesting. However, riparian areas are also some of the most productive sites and can yield high quality wood. The amount of unharvested timber left in SMZs (Streamside Management Zones) can represent a substantial opportunity cost to landowners. In this...
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A case study assessing opportunity costs and ecological benefits of streamside management zones and logging systems for eastern hardwood forests
Forest landowners, managers, loggers, land-use planners, and other decision and policy-makers need to understand the opportunity costs and ecological benefits associated with different widths of streamside management zones (SMZs). In this paper, a simulation model was used to assess the opportunity costs of SMZ retention for four different logging systems, two mature...
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Hardwood tree species in forest, plantation, and urban environments (temperate regions of the world) are important biological resources that play a significant role in the economy and the ecology of terrestrial ecosystems, and they have aesthetic and spiritual value. Because of these many values of hardwood tree species, preserving forest tree biodiversity through the...
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Mechanized systems for harvesting eastern hardwoods
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Malampuzha Garden is located in Malampuzha Township which is located near Palakkad in God's Own Country, Kerala. It is situated in the foothills of the Western Ghats of India near the Malampuzha Dam reservoir which is built on River Malampuzha, the tributary of River Bharatapuzha, Kerala's largest river. The landscaped garden is a perfect picnic spot for tourists. The scenic beauty of the garden on the banks of the reservoir is a treat to the eyes. The garden occupies a huge expanse of land on the foothills of the Ghat. The well-maintained park consists of flower beds, tall trees, stretches of well-maintained grasslands, artificial water bodies.
There is something for everyone here. Apart from the lush green garden, there is an aquarium, a rock garden, mesmerizing waterfalls and an amusement park. The entire area is adorned with captivating sculptures and structures. It also houses the famous Yakshi Statue sculpted by the renowned sculptor Kanai Kanhiraman. It is a perfect picnic location for art and nature lovers. Visitors can also go boating in the serene backwaters of the Malampuzha Dam or pay a visit to the aquarium where one can find a variety of species of fish. Pedal boat rides are a favourite here. Families spend some real quality time with each other and capture beautiful memories for life. The garden is also known as the Vrindavan of Kerala.
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Boating facilities are available in the Malampuzha Dam Reservoir. Enthusiasts can opt for 2-seat or 4-seat Pedal boats or the 6 pax or 8 pax motorboats that cost anything between INR 200 to INR 400. The serene boat rides are a perfect way to unwind with friends and family.
Visitors can go for a refreshing swim in the Garden Swimming Pool. There are provisions for lockers on a refundable advance payment of INR 100 and non-refundable fee of INR 15. The pool is functional from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM for all. From 2:00 to 3:00 PM, the pool is open only for ladies.
Aquarium & Snake Park
The garden has a Fish-shaped fresh-water aquarium that has a variety of fishes from all over the world. The snake park houses a variety of snakes that children and adults can all experience.
The amusement park here is called Fantasy Park and has a choice of rides and slides to choose from for every age group.
A toy train sunning all over the garden is a fun way to explore the vast expanse of the garden.
There are two ropeways in the Malampuzha Gardens that run across the entire garden. These ropeways are the best ways to get an aerial view of the beautiful garden from a height.
The rock garden is a work of art. Built from scraps and tiles, it is an illustration of creating captivating art from waste. The arrangement, the colours and the designs will take your breath away.
Tourists can indulge in shopping and purchase clothing, accessories, gifts and souvenirs for themselves, their friends and family. Items are sold at really affordable rates, and you can bargain too.
Best Time To Visit Malampuzha Gardens
The best time to visit Malampuzha Garden is in the evening or the mornings as the weather stays pleasant. Also, the dam is beautifully lit in the evening after sunset which can be viewed from the garden. Malampuzha is best when visited between the months of October and February.
Tips For Visiting Malampuzha Gardens
1. Washroom facilities are available.
2. Ample parking space is available near the gardens.
3. Visitors can take a pass for 3 people instead of paying per head.
4. Drinking water is available in the Garden.
How to Reach Malampuzha Gardens
Malampuzha Garden is easily accessible by road from Malampuzha. Cabs and Taxis are the best way to reach the garden. Tourists opting for self-driven vehicles can drive via the Malampuzha - Kava - Anakkallu road to reach the garden in about 15 minutes from the Malampuzha Township.
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The Best of Enemies Blu-ray Review
Posted on July 5, 2019 by Todd Erwin
Powerful performances 4 Stars
The Best of Enemies is a truth is stranger than fiction movie about how a Klu Klux Klan leader, C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), and civil rights activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) forge a friendship as they are forced to co-chair a charrette to determine if Durham, North Carolina public schools should be desegregated in 1971.
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Robin Bissell
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Nick Searcy
Writer(s): Robin Bissell (adaptation), Osha Gray Davidson (based on the book by)
Plot: Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
IMDB rating: 6.8
MetaScore: 49
Studio: Other
Distributed By: Universal
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC
Aspect Ratio: 2.39.1
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, English DVS 2.0
Subtitles: English SDH
Run Time: 2 Hr. 13 Min.
Package Includes: 3D Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy
Case Type: 2-disc Blu-ray keepcase with slipcover
Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer)
Region: A
The Production: 3/5
When the public school for black children is heavily damaged from a fire, local civil rights activities Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) demands that Durham, North Carolina city council allow the black students to attend the white schools, at least until their school is repaired. City council refuses, forcing the NAACP to file a lawsuit which leads to a court-mandated charrette, a small committee made up of members of the community, to determine if the schools should be desegregated once and for all. In charge of forming the charrette is Bill Riddick (Babou Ceesay), who selects an unlikely duo to co-chair the committee – Ann Attwater and local KKK leader C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell). Ellis is also a local business owner who runs a gas station that discriminates by selling fuel only to white patrons. He is an extreme racist, forming youth groups within the KKK and participating in many of their activities, including shooting out a white woman’s house simply because she is dating a black man. As the charrette continues and issues are raised and eventually voted on, Ellis and Atwater begin to bond and eventually become friends as the final votes come in, despite the intimidation members of the KKK place on member of the committee.
What really drives The Best of Enemies are the performances, notably of the two leads Rockwell and Henson. Bruce McGill turns in another solid performance as a racist politician, and Anne Heche is almost unrecognizable as Ellis’ sympathetic wife who wants nothing to do with the KKK. The real controversy of the film, though, is a similar one that plagued Green Book, and that is the movie revolves more around Ellis while Atwater becomes more of a supporting character. To give writer/director Robin Bissell some credit, it is Ellis that undergoes the real transformation here, so I am willing to give the film some slack (but not that much) for making Ellis the central character, but I would have liked to see more of Atwater’s side of the story (which we do get to see in the included documentary short that inspired the film, An Unlikely Friendship).
Video: 4.5/5
3D Rating: NA
The Best of Enemies has a definite 1970’s look to it, from its 2.39:1 widescreen aspect ratio to its soft color palette bathed in yellows and greens. Universal’s AVC-encoded 1080p transfer captures that look expertly, with excellent clarity providing details such as the mostly polyester fabrics worn at the time and facial features including sheens of sweat from the humid south. Contrast is also very good, with deep blacks that retain a great deal of shadow details and bright whites that are not blown out. Another great-looking Blu-ray from Universal.
Audio: 4/5
The DTS-HD MA5.1 track handles the material well, considering this is a mostly dialogue-driven drama that relies at times on music of the time. Dialogue is clear and understandable throughout, surrounds are used to fill out the environment with atmospheric sounds and spreading the music throughout the room. LFE is present, used mostly to enhance the lower end of much of the music in the film.
Special Features: 3.5/5
Make a Connection (1080p; 1:46): A behind the scenes trailer (typical of STX releases) centering on the two main characters of the movie.
Ann Atwater (1080p; 2:20): Another behind the scenes trailer (typical of STX releases) centering on Ann Atwater.
An Unlikely Friendship (upscaled 1080i; 34:46): The 2002 documentary short subject by Diane Bloom, featuring interviews with the real C.P. Ellis, Ann Atwater, and Bill Riddick.
Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 2:37)
DVD Copy: The movie in 480p with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, plus all of the above special features.
Digital Copy: An insert contains a code to redeem a digital copy on iTunes.
The Best of Enemies has some powerful performances and is an interesting story, although some may find it skirts the issue a bit with making the KKK leader the main character. The big plus in this package is the inclusion of the 2002 documentary that inspired the film.
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Chris Tomlinson March 31, 2015
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence holds a news conference at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Pence has signed into law a religious objections bill that some convention organizers and business leaders have opposed amid concern it could allow discrimination against gay people. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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Watching Indiana Gov. Mike Pence call for a revision to a week-old religious freedom law this morning should be required viewing for every Houston politician and business person.
After refusing to denounce discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals for days out of fear of alienating his political base, Pence did what all politicians who see their careers slipping away do. He flip-flopped, called it a clarification and denied there was a problem.
Why did this conservative Republican suddenly speak out against LGBT discrimination? Because American consumers and businesses made it clear that they would not accept bigotry in any form, even when disguised as religiosity. Corporations announced they would not subject their LGBT employees to the chance they may face legally-sanctioned discrimination. Angie's List announced it would not expand in Indiana and numerous other groups began canceling conventions in the state.
What happened to Pence could happen to Houston and Texas.
The Greater Houston Partnership deserves a tip of the hat for staking out the morally and economically correct position by supporting Houston's equal rights ordinance that protects LGBT people. Bigotry is ugly and consumers want nothing to do with it. Houston's image is one of a city without limits, not one that punishes those who are different.
Yet that has not stopped some groups from trying to overturn the law. Through a petition drive and a lawsuit, these opponents of personal freedom want to roll back the law at the ballot box. Can you imagine what would happen if the small number of Houston voters who actually show up to the polls approved a repeal of the law? Houston would be labeled a city of bigots and the firestorm over Indiana would look like a campfire.
I know business people don't like to think about social issues, most are concentrating on running the best business they can. But the business community needs to pay attention to what's happening to Houston's civil rights ordinance in court and what could happen at the ballot box. If the repeal passes, those new hotels and the updated convention center may have a hard time finding customers.
The Indiana experience should also serve as a warning to our lawmakers in Austin. If you pass laws with even a hint of bigotry, you will bring ridicule and anger on our state that could take years to overcome.
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Chris Tomlinson has written commentary on business, energy and economics for the Houston Chronicle since 2014. Before joining the Chronicle, he spent 20 years with The Associated Press reporting on politics, conflicts and economics from more than 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller Tomlinson Hill, and he produced the award-winning documentary film by the same name. Both examine the history and consequences of race, politics and economics in Texas.
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Naomi Morenzoni, Contributor
5 Big Ideas for Building Philanthropy Into Your Company's DNA
Any veteran of Dreamforce knows that our community gives back in a big way. This year was no exception with 1 million books donated to libraries and schools around the world, 3,500 kits packed for Project Night Night to support homeless children, 325 students learning to code on site, 75 vets participating in mentoring sessions with executives -- and not to mention 10,000 individuals from nonprofits and universities discovering how they can power their mission with Salesforce.
We're incredibly proud of these efforts and what we can accomplish as a community when we come together. But perhaps what's even more exciting is how many of our partners and customers have been inspired to build giving back into their own culture through the Pledge 1% movement.
Since it's founding nine months ago on #GivingTuesday in partnership with Atlassian, Rally and Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado, more than 425 companies have pledged 1% of their equity, profit, product and/or time to support the causes and nonprofits of their choosing. 61 of these pledges happened at Dreamforce 2015 alone.
A number of Pledge 1% members shared their advice during the four days to inspire others to follow their leadership and take the pledge to build integrated philanthropy into their DNA.
Start now. Integrating philanthropy at the founding phase may be easier, but there is always an opportunity to build giving back into your culture. Robert Hohman, Glassdoor CEO, and one of Pledge 1%'s newest members, admitted his company is late to the game. However, because of Glassdoor's 1% equity pledge, his employees will now have a better sense of purpose when they come to work each day by knowing that when they create value for the company they are also creating value for the disadvantaged.
But start small. For many companies, the feeling that you have to do it all at once often means they end up doing nothing. Karyn Smith, General Counsel at Twilio recommended companies bite off what they can chew. A few years ago they launched Twilio.org to offer their technology at a free and discounted rate to support nonprofits. They have since grown that program and pledged 1% of equity to further expand their commitment to giving back.
Make it tangible. When giving back is truly integrated into a company culture, it starts from day one. Follow the lead of Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com, whose company makes it clear even at the hiring process that giving is core to their values. And in walking the talk, all new hires take part in a volunteering event their first day on the job.
Make it part of your business. While not all business models are designed to donate 1% of product, there are ways to make giving back part of your core business operations. Leila Janah, CEO of Sama Group, urged companies to consider impact sourcing, which taps into employment resources that support individuals at the base of the pyramid.
Make it count. Some entrepreneurs worry that their investors will see setting aside 1% of equity, profit, product or time as detracting value from their company. Ron Conway of SV Angel, countered that notion, noting that committing to giving back early in a company's culture provides a better sense of purpose that is appreciated by all stakeholders from employees to investors to customers.
Hear more from Dave Elkington and Karyn Smith on why integrating philanthropy into their respective companies was not only good for their communities but good for business.
Inspired to see what your 1% could do for your community and your world? Take the pledge today to begin building a culture of giving back and join a network of like-minded peers at www.pledge1percent.org.
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Qanta Ahmed, MD, Contributor
Author, 'In the Land of Invisible Women'
The Evolution of an Anti-Islamist Muslim
06/05/2012 02:55 pm ET Updated Aug 03, 2012
In the years since 9-11, every Muslim has been compelled to confront his or her identity.
Matters were brought into particularly sharp relief for me on that day, because I was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when the Towers fell. Within hours, I discovered my sentiments of loss and sorrow were not widely shared, either by Saudi colleagues or by fellow Muslim expatriate workers, many of whom had been trained in New York City like myself.
This came as a terrible shock to my Pollyanna naiiveties at the time. I realized the version of Islam my parents had given to me wasn't widely accepted. Our faith always centered on pluralism, deep reverence for other monotheisms and an acknowledgement of our beliefs as Muslims to have been informed by the believers preceding Islam, as the Qur'an explicitly acknowledges.
On my 2001 return from Saudi Arabia, I began to record my experiences in a manuscript that would become my first book, In the Land of Invisible Women. Realizing I would be representing two versions of Islam- mine, and that espoused by Sunni Wahabi theocracy of Saudi Arabia -I needed to broaden my reading around key areas.
It was in my reading that I discovered the political ideology termed Islamism, and the many strains of contemporary radical Islam, both violent and non-violent. I learned unlike my own experience, many Muslims struggled with a pervasive sense of inferiority influencing all their beliefs, sense of justice and identities leading to deep and rather novel resentments. The fascist supremacy of Islamist ideologues was therefore a predictably appealing, if very frightening development, which, to my perspective was completely alien to the Islam I knew.
In the wake of 9-11, I saw Osama bin Laden feted as a hero in Pakistan. On one 2008 trip I recall a Pakistani driver in Karachi explaining to me why, years after 9-11, Pakistani families still named their newborns Osama. He was still recognized by many as a 'defender' of Islam, a 'warrior-savior'.
Nothing could be more offensive to my beliefs as a Muslim or my principles as a human being. This was extraordinarily difficult to reconcile with the knowledge that Islam condemns murder, and particularly the execution of non-combatant civilians in any setting. In my mind Bin Laden and his sympathizers had renounced Islam by their acts and represented nothing more than violent terrorists.
Over time the Islamist voice has become increasingly prominent, both in the West and the East: whether advancing the intrusion of ritual symbolism of Islam into the public space - for instance the battle for the niqab in the public arena in France, the demands for the veil to be permitted in FIFA soccer tournaments - or the most recent debacle involving the vilification of the NYPD for their counter terrorism efforts drawing false accusations of Muslim profiling.
Banning Lady Gaga from performing in Indonesia, or violent protests against Muslim writer Irshad Manji, the examples of Islamist actions are countless. Pakistan, the country of my parental heritage, is especially disturbing because Islamists are in full control of the constitution, judiciary and public discourse, resulting in some of the worst abuses against minorities anywhere in the world.
Throughout the world, the Islamists' goal is one and the same: to stoke the fires of unwitting Muslims into believing in their own manufactured sense of victimhood as a means to exploit both the uninformed Muslim and, often times, the liberal democracies where we make our homes.
Claiming persecution, discrimination, profiling or victimization liberal democracies are pressured in relinquishing not only their own sense of identity but also significant concessions in a shared public space which truly belongs to everyone, irrespective of faith and not merely the 'victimized Islamist Muslim'. It is this last fallacy, of collective victimhood, that most fuels my drive to expose Islamism for what it is - a weak yet vicious imposter for a great religion, an imposter which seeks to exploit and devour both Muslims and non Muslims it its pursuit for power and dominance.
In this country Islamist organizations seek to drown out the complex, heterogeneous and multifaceted community of Muslims in America. Their goal is to promote a unified sense of disadvantage and debasement of Muslim Americans. In fact, demographic data point in exactly the opposite direction- Muslims in America are more rapidly economically mobile than anywhere else in the world making it very hard to equate this reality with a fantasy of a disadvantaged marginalized American minority. They struggle to claim the right to represent all Muslims and become the owners of the Muslim American narrative but anti Islamist Muslims like me are here to challenge and ultimately overturn their audacity.
This very belief lead to my defense of the NYPD, a defense rooted in Islamic principles which demand every Muslim meet his duty to his society, its protection, cohesion and enhancement. I wrote about this in the Wall Street Journal at some length. Unfairly vilifying the NYPD in the way the AP reports have accomplished -published without balanced context or true expert analysis - has been enormously destructive to post 9-11 New York.
In my practice as a physician I am honored to attend to a great many law enforcement officials, whether the NYPD policeman on patrol, commanders operating counter terrorism task forces, federal bureau officials, or many other experts. Understanding their work and the toll it takes on them makes clear to me the enormous sacrifice these Americans (many of whom are also Muslim) and their families make to safeguard us at times of crisis and in between. We cannot tear these institutions (which the public likes to forget are made of individuals) in this fashion. That is the height of ingratitude and ignorance.
As a Muslim it is very simple to argue theologically against the Islamists. Islam is nothing if not justice. Any injustice committed or pursued in the name of Islam is anathema to the believing Muslim and counter to the ideal which is Islam. Muslims must remember their duty not only to themselves or their Maker but also to their society wherever they find themselves.
There is no place for Muslim claims of supremacy. The Prophet Mohammed (SAW) himself admonished his followers not to make claims of supremacy over Moses, or indeed any other messenger of God. The Qur'an repeatedly reminds the Muslim that 'to each is sent a Law and a Way' and to each they must 'judge themselves by their Law and their Way'. Islamist Muslims overlook this.
Our role as believers is to cooperate and collaborate and enhance the world, not to oppress, discriminate, exclude or persecute others. Major Muslim democracies around the world, foremost Pakistan and Indonesia have departed from these foundational principles and in doing so have renounced their rights to call themselves Islamic.
They are operating as Islamist Supremacists who legally persecute Muslim and non-Muslim minorities to extinction through execution and do so with impunity. Worse they seek to propagate extraordinarily vicious blasphemy laws into the wider field of international law through the Organization of the Islamic Conference seeking to confine and then suffocate free speech- which, along with free press is the bulwark of any vibrant democracy.
These are not the ways of Muslims. These are the ways of fascists. Fortunately organizations like The Lawfare Project provide anti-Islamist Muslims like me a platform from which to challenge these abuses and misuses of international law and a critically intelligent means to understand the impact of Islamist Lawfare.
In my position of privilege and opportunity, if I do not oppose this, I am failing in my duty to American society and in failing American society, I fail as a Muslim. I am reminded of a saying attributed by the Prophet Mohammed by one of his companions recounting it to an early believer:
"Whoever sees a wrong and is able to put it right with his hand, let him do so; if he can't, then with his tongue, if he cant, then with his heart. That is the bare minimum of faith".
This, having both hand, tongue, and heart, I am committed to I live by.
Much of this article was recently published following my interview with National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro, Fellow at The Clarion Fund, concerning my motives to confront contemporary radical Islamism. You can read our animated dialogue here. My thanks to Ryan Mauro and all his colleagues at Clarion Fund's Flagship Educational Website http://www.radicalislam.org/ which has been exploring anti-Islamist Muslims and their growing voice. I am grateful for their efforts and the opportunity they provide me.
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Suhr, Whiting and Gebrhiwet join Boston’s parade of stars
A trio of 2013 world leaders and the IAAF young athlete of the year are among the latest top athletes set to compete in the 2014 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on 8 February.
Jenn Suhr, who last year set the world indoor record in the pole vault and went on to clear a world-leading 4.91m outdoors, returns to the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in quest of her seventh victory here.
Suhr, the Olympic champion and world silver medallist, is undefeated in her six appearances at this meeting, where she set American records in 2009 and 2012.
The Reggie Lewis Center also played host to Suhr’s first US title in 2005 as a virtual unknown. She has since won six more US titles indoors and seven outdoors for a total of 14 national titles.
Making his debut at the meeting is shot putter Ryan Whiting, the world indoor champion and world silver medallist who last year recorded five of the six longest throws in the world indoors and the top four throws outdoors.
Also making the trip to Boston as a 2013 world leader is Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet, who will defend his 3000m title. Last year he set a world junior indoor record of 7:32.87 in Boston, then went on to run the fastest outdoor 3000m in the world for 2013 and took 5000m silver at the World Championships.
Making her return to Boston after a record-shattering 2013 will be Mary Cain, the 17-year-old who last year at this meeting set a world youth indoor best for two miles. She went on to set American junior records for the mile indoors and the 800m and 1500m outdoors.
After finishing second at the US Championships, Cain became the youngest athlete ever to represent the US at the World Championships, where she finished 10th in the 1500m. In her first season as a professional, Cain will run the 2000m in Boston and will have one eye on the world junior indoor record of 5:52.18 set by Zola Budd in 1985.
The men’s mile, always a highlight in Boston, will feature a face-off between the last two Olympic 1500m silver medallists, Nick Willis of New Zealand and USA’s Leo Manzano.
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See the wreck of the Carthaginian—a replica whaling supply ship and former Lahaina Harbor tourist attraction, on Atlantis Tours Maui.
An Atlantis Submarines tour is a unique eco-friendly adventure
Explore the mysteries beneath Hawaii's oceans on these tours.
By Atlantis Submarines Oct 24, 2018
Have you ever explored Hawaii’s marine mysteries over 100 feet below the sea in a battery powered submarine? It’s just one of the many unique activities you can do in Hawaii.
Since introducing Atlantis Submarines in August 1988, Atlantis has shared its message of ocean conservation and protecting the environment with millions of guests at its dive sites located off the coast of Waikiki, Lahaina and Kona.
Atlantis sees its success as linked to the responsibility of being a good steward for Hawaii’s marine life. While its tour operations are designed to entertain guests and show them the beauty of Hawaii’s marine world up close, the company also encourages them to embrace the spirit of conservation and protecting the environment for the good of all.
Atlantis’ conservationism is evident at their dive sites, such as the one on Maui, where you can find an artificial reef that Atlantis established in Lahaina. In December 2005, Atlantis successfully sank the 97-foot Carthaginian—a replica whaling supply ship and former Lahaina Harbor tourist attraction—in a coastline area that lacked a natural reef.
The Carthaginian, which would have been scuttled at sea due to its decaying condition, is now home to an ever-increasing biodiversity of marine life. Observers note that schools of fish, along with several moray eels, have become permanent inhabitants. In addition to becoming a new place for many fish species to grow and congregate, the Carthaginian also promotes coral growth and sustainability.
Jim Walsh, General Manager of Atlantis Submarines Maui, says the artificial reef was the ideal solution for the ship’s future. “We not only kept the Carthaginian in Lahaina where she belongs, but now the vessel is making a permanent contribution to helping preserve our ocean environment,” says Walsh.
Atlantis’ dedication to being green in Hawaii can also be seen in its operations with the use of battery-powered submarines that emit no pollutants or noise as they glide to depths of more than 100 feet. Because Atlantis uses the world’s most technologically advanced passenger submarines, guests safely enjoy an up close—and dry—encounter with Hawaii’s marine world inhabitants without disturbing their surroundings.
It’s this commitment to marine conservation that is at the core of Atlantis’ company philosophy for its tours.
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5 Things You Must Know for Alzheimer’s Action Day
Tomorrow is Alzheimer’s Action Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about--and one day eliminating--a disease that afflicts more than 5 million Americans and 35 million people worldwide. (September is also World Alzheimer’s Month.)
By Anne Krueger
One thing you can do? Wear purple to show your support! And there's more, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, which suggests using their icon on your Facebook and Twitter profile for the day.
You can also share your personal story about Alzheimer's or if you want, make a donation or participate in a Walk to End Alzheimer's.
With an aging population (baby boomers are turning 65 at the rate of 8,000 a day), the number of people who have symptoms of Alzheimer’s (problems with memory, thinking, and behavior) are only going to go up. In fact, by 2050, the number of people with Alzheimer’s could triple. Here’s what you need to know.
1. Alzheimer’s isn’t “normal” aging. Run-of-the-mill memory loss shouldn't be confused for Alzheimer's. We all suffer from memory lapses from time to time and it's often caused by nothing more than sleep deprivation, stress, or maybe a vitamin deficiency. Alzheimer's, which can vary from brain to brain, is a form of dementia that is progressive; it may start with someone forgetting what you just said or repeating things over and over again and worsen to the point where the person is disoriented and can't reason, talk, or move.
2. Alzheimer’s affects the whole family. In 2012, 15.4 million family and friends provided 17.5 billion hours of unpaid care to those with Alzheimer's and other dementias, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
"Spouses and adult children (and sometimes grandchildren) tend to take care of the person as the disease progresses, mostly in their homes, because 'it's just what families do,'" says expert Paula Spencer Scott, author of Surviving Alzheimer's (November 2013), who has had four family members with dementia and was recently a panelist with Leeza Gibbons for Conversations in Caregiving at AlzheimersDisease.com.
"Caring for a family member with Alzheimer's can be an emotionally, logistically, physically, and financially taxing job for which few of us are prepared," she says. "And it can go on for years as you watch the person you love recede in slow motion. That's a unique package of stressors--on relationships, on jobs, and on health."
3. Alzheimer’s takes a big toll on caregivers. More than 60% of Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers rate the emotional stress of caregiving as high or very high; more than one-third report symptoms of depression, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
That's why keeping yourself and your well being high up on the priority list is so important, says Scott. "It's easy to put everybody else's needs first--lack of time, lack of sleep are very real issues --but there's some pretty compelling evidence that the demands of caregiving can be pretty toxic on a person's mental and physical health," she says.
In fact, thanks to the physical and emotional toll of caregiving, Alzheimer's and dementia caregivers racked up $9.1 billion in additional health care costs of their own in 2012.
4. There is no cure for Alzheimer's--yet. The five FDA-approved drugs available today mask the symptoms but don’t currently treat the causes of Alzheimer’s. Part of the purpose of Alzheimer's Alert Day is to raise awareness about the need for more research. Meanwhile, some progress is being made. A study published in a recent issue of the journal Neuron revealed that fluorescent compounds used in brain scans prove might help researchers diagnose the disease, monitor treatment effectiveness, and test new drugs.
Even if a cure were found tomorrow, it's likely it would benefit people in the earliest disease stages, says Scott. "That leaves millions who already have the disease who need effective treatments," she says. In the absence of medications that can stop or reverse the progression of the disease, treatment still has to rely heavily on hands-on care and attention, responding appropriately to behaviors, and providing love and security, she says. "It comes down to those all-consuming things that families do. It will keep coming back to families."
5. It really does take a village. If you're caring for someone with Alzheimer's, it's critically important that you realize you can't go it alone, says Scott. "You need practical help as well as emotional support." Talk to the patient's doctor for suggestions and reach out to Alzheimer's organizations (Alz.org, Alzheimersdisease.com), which might have local chapters, or a site like Caring.com, which specializes in supporting families. How critical is it to find your "village"?
"It's actually common for caregivers to get too sick to continue or to be outlived by the person with Alzheimer's. So you have to see your own self care as something you're doing for the good of the person in your care," Scott says.
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Guest post: Time is running out for sand
Benjamin Blonder by Benjamin Blonder - 2d ago
Lab postdoctoral researcher Lars Iversen and his partner Mette Bendixen just had their research on sand featured in Nature and the New York Times – Lars’ guest post follows below.
Mette and I had a commentary article out in Nature last week. Here we argue that there is an urgent need for a global agenda for sand. The paper is promoted via globalsand.org which we plan to develop into a global hub for future research on sand shortage.
Rapid urbanization and global population growth have fueled the demand for sand and gravel, with between 32 and 50 billion tons extracted globally each year, and both consumption and prices are expected to rise further. Consequently, we are now starting to exhaust a resource that many people often consider infinite.
In the article we discuss how research must adopt a holistic approach, not only focusing on issues such as the amount of sediment held back in reservoirs, and the effects of changing riverine water and sediment flux in a warming climate, but also take into account the sediment removed through sand mining. New technologies are, at last, enabling us to see the realistic goal of a global sediment monitoring network: what is required now is the political will and finance to put this in place. Furthermore, the full range of anthropogenic impacts on the world’s rivers, and their potentially nonlinear interactions, must be incorporated into estimates of global sediment fluxes. The issue of sand scarcity cannot be studied in geographical isolation as it has worldwide implications and the reality and size of the problem must be acknowledged, and action taken, on a global stage. In a rapidly changing world, we cannot afford blind spots.
Although the paper is targeting a general audience it has sparked several promising ideas for future research on sand mining in the world big rivers.
Mette is highlighting our paper in the most recent Nature podcast, starting at 10:48.
Bendixen M., Best J., Hackney C., & Iversen L.L. (2019): Time is running out for sand. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02042-4. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02042-4
Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand. New York Times (Jul 1 2019) – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/01/climate/greenland-glacier-melting-sand.html
Unexpected challenges with gas exchange
Benjamin Blonder by Benjamin Blonder - 1w ago
Lab postdoc Dr. Luiza Aparecido has been busy in Yasuní measuring photosynthesis rates on many of the common canopy-dominant species, but the work has been more challenging than expected.
Everything has been going well with our side of experiments, which focus on understanding how vein architecture affects photosynthetic responses to leaf damage. Above our student Emily is severing leaves with a razor blade; below, Luiza uses our LI-6800 gas analyzer to measure photosynthesis.
Nature has been providing the challenges.
The rains have been more frequent and intense than normal, limiting when we can collect branches from the forest. Fortunately we’re doing all the measurements under a roof, so this only slow us down a bit.
We have had a few hitchhikers come along to interfere with lab operations, like this grasshopper investigating the gas exchange system’s cuvette.
We have also had some more serious flow rate issues with the instrument. Luiza took it apart to see what was going on, and found, very surprisingly, a spider web in one of the air intakes for the system.
With a bit more nudging, she also found the spider – now that both have been evicted, the system is running much better and the results are a little more trustworthy.
But the most surprising problem we have had is a Baird’s tapir. This adult female has become quite accustomed to humans near the field station, and has been regularly making friendly visits to Luiza during her work. Unfortunately our cut branches often look like a good lunch, so Luiza has had to persuade her to leave on more than a few occasions.
We’ve been lucky to enjoy all of these beautiful challenges, and are now halfway through the field work for this project. More to come soon!
Into the field again
Off to the Amazon – two weeks ago Dr. Luiza Aparecido and I headed to eastern Ecuador to start a new ecophysiology project.
We are working with Dr. Renato Valencia, his student Emily Guevara, botanist Pablo Alvia, and Dr. Rafael Cárdenas (all at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) to better understand tradeoffs underlying herbivory in diverse tropical forest canopies.
The journey to our field site was a small adventure, taking us through cities, forests, farms, oil concessions, and some beautiful forests.
Fortunately our gas analyzer did not sink in the Rio Napo on a canoe crossing, so all is well in the field – more stories to come soon!
Congratulations to lab researcher Sabrina Woo
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Undergraduate researcher Sabrina Woo just accepted two prestigious awards here at ASU – a ‘true grit’ award, and a ‘student of the year’ award. They are both well-deserved. Sabrina joined us a year ago, and has done a great job working in both the desert and in the wet lab, while also taking good care of her job and family. She’s off to another research program for the summer, and we look forward to having her back in the autumn. Congratulations, Sabrina!
Congratulations to Carolyn! First ASU masters’ thesis defense
This week Carolyn Flower defended her masters thesis, titled “Food Plant Biogeography of the Sonoran Desert”. She is the lab’s first ASU student to graduate.
Carolyn’s work focused on human impacts on plant dispersal and biogeography, as seen through the lens of food uses. She has shown that in the Sonoran Desert, many edible species (like this cactus, Echinocereus engelmannii) may be found in places today because of the actions of past human groups who have lived on these landscapes. It is very exciting work and I hope we will have it published soon.
Carolyn is off to a great job with the Arizona Game and Fish Department in a few weeks. We’ll be sad to lose her from the lab, but wish her well on her new adventures!
Sharing the secrets of leaves
A few weeks ago our lab participated in ASU’s Open Door outreach event, sharing our research with families and children throughout the region. Here are a few photos of our team in action!
Our biggest draw was our leaf tensiometer, which we use for studying the mechanical properties of plants (like force to tear). We brought branches of a range of desert and campus species for people to experiment with. More than a few leaves were sacrificed for the cause.
We also brought along some microscopes to examine the branching patterns of leaf veins using some of our research samples for ongoing desert studies – these were a big hit as well!
Thanks to all our dedicated lab members for committing their weekend to communicating the excitement of what we do to the public – and thanks to postdoc Dr. Pierre Gaüzère for the photographs.
The lab’s first ASU undergraduate research symposium
This week was the ASU School of Life Sciences’ annual undergraduate research symposium. Last year, my first at ASU, I attended the event and was surprised by the limited amount of field ecological research being showcased. This year, thanks to a lot of dedicated mentoring effort by lab members Courtenay Ray and Dr. Luiza Aparecido, we were able to send six students and five ecology research projects to the symposium.
I’m proud of all the students’ hard work – the presentations were the culmination of months of effort, and represent waypoints along a journey to what will hopefully become student-led papers and undergraduate theses.
This week we are back to the lab – more chemistry to do, more soils to pick through, more data to analyze – and I am excited to see where all this work goes. We have a great team to do the work with.
Guest post: A mating war in diving beetles has stopped speciation
(Written by lab postdoc Lars Iversen)
In nature, males’ eager attempts to mate with females can be so extreme that they will harm females. Such negative impact of mating interactions has been shown to promote the emergence of new species. This week, in Proceedings B, we publish a study exploring an alternative scenario in which female diversification brings the coevolutionary chase to the end.
In a seminal PNAS paper from 2002 Sergey Gavrilets and David Waxman outlined several regimes in which sexual conflict would maintain population polymorphism and thereby stop population divergence. Under these alternative scenarios, negative frequency-dependent sexual conflict acts as a conservative pullback force that prevents population divergence by maintaining rare male and female morphs in local populations rather than resulting in evolutionary escalation. However, it is largely unknown if such stabilizing selection occur in natural populations and this is what we set out to show in this study.
The front leg of a male diving beetle Graphoderus zonatus. Dense clusters of tiny hairs form a number of suctions cups which the male uses to attached to the back of the female during mating. © Aslak Kappel Hansen
Diving beetles are one of the few well documented examples of speciation via sexual conflicts. In many diving beetles, males are equipped with suction cups on their front legs. They use these suction cups to attach on the elytra of females during mating. This grasping ability has become so effective that females can be harmed under high mating pressure. As a consequence, some females have developed a rough elytra reducing the male adhesive ability. As a counteradaptation males have evolved their suction cups to increase adhesive power on rougher elytra structures. These male/female counteradaptations have been described as an arms race causing speciation in diving beetles.
A male of the diving beetle Graphoderus zonatus and the two female morphs with or without granulated elytra. The species has been trapped in an evolutionary standstill due to mating conflicts between males and females. Left: © Niels Sloth/Biopix. Right: © Johannes Bergsten.
Here we study a species in which the female is known to be polymorphic. In the diving beetle Graphoderus zonatus females are present in two morphs, one with a smooth elytra and one with a granulated elytra. We wanted to test if this polymorphism was an ongoing speciation event or if the females was captured in a polymorphic state due to sexual conflict (as described by Gavrilets and Waxman). The work consisted of two field campaigns, one in 2016 and one in 2017, where we collected beetles from 29 boreal lakes in Sweden.
The first important finding in our study is that males have diversified in correlation with the females. The variation in male suction cup morphology was divided into two distinct clusters. Within populations the proportion of these clusters were closely correlated to the proportion of female morphs. The match between male and female morphs within G. zonatus is identical to what we see between species in the family. Males adapted to a smooth elytra structure have a few rather large suction cups optimized to attach to a smooth surface. In contrast, males adapted to rough elytra structures have a high density of very small suction cups. This all suggest that there indeed is correlated traits between the sexes.
Correlation between male and female sexual traits in Graphoderus zonatus. Left: Two separated morphological clusters of males based on variation in male protarsal discs (the inserts depict examples from each group). Right: Positive relationship between the proportion of females with granulated elytra and males with Group 2 disc-traits in the 29 sampled populations.
The second important finding is the presence of assortative mating and negative frequency-dependent selection between the male and female morphs. By collecting copulating beetles, we did show that there was assortative mating (and thereby genetic correlation) between male and female trait pairs. The presence of negative frequency-dependent selection was inferred indirectly as a morph “pullback force” within population dynamics. We had historical trait data in seven of our study sites. From these we could see that populations move towards a state where both smooth and granulated females are equally abundant and thereby minimizing the mating pressure on a specific female type. These repeated measurements also confirmed the outcome in Gavrilets and Waxman’s model, that populations maintain polymorphism through time.
Evolutionary dynamics of male and female morph frequencies in Graphoderus zonatus polymorphism. Left: Change in the proportion of male and female morphs from 1990s (red) to 2017 (blue) in seven populations. The dotted line depicts a saturated morph correlation. Right: Distance from observed proportions of male and female morphs to the 0.5/0.5 equilibrium point in the 1990s (red) and 2017 (blue). The average distance to the predicted equilibrium point decreased during the study period, consistent with equal fitness of all morphs, frequency-dependent sexual conflict selection and assortative mating maintaining both male and female morphs locally.
In many ways this study points to some remaining and outstanding questions under which circumstances sexual conflicts do and do not promote speciation. Hopefully, there will be follow up work on these beetles exploring aspects such as the genetic architecture of this polymorphism and if sexual antagonism arises under specific conditions breaking the evolutionary limbo these beetles are currently kept in.
Lab postdoc Lars featured in Nature Careers
Lab postdoc Lars Iversen and his wife Mette Bendixen have just written up a nice piece entitled “One couple, two cities: How to handle an international career move” for Nature Careers. Have a read at the journal!
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Stephanie R. Thomas is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. She teaches courses in microeconomics, labor economics and personnel economics. From August 2013 through June 2016, Dr. Thomas also served as the Program Director of the ILR School’s Institute for Compensation Studies, an interdisciplinary initiative that analyzes, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work. Dr. Thomas earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research.
Dr. Thomas teaches courses in microeconomics, labor economics and personnel economics. She strives to present complex theoretical concepts in an intuitive manner, and to demonstrate the relevance of these concepts to real-world issues. In all of her classes, Dr. Thomas incorporates a variety of active learning techniques encompassing a variety of learning styles. In 1998, she was awarded the NYU College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award.
Dr. Thomas's current research interests focus on the relationship between performance pay, worker motivation and productivity. Throughout her career, Dr. Thomas has completed research on a variety of labor economics topics including wage determination, pay gaps and inequality, and the quantitative analysis of employment discrimination.
Dr. Thomas serves as a House Fellow at the Alice Cook House, engaging residents through intellectual and social opportunities to enhance student-faculty-staff interaction. She also serves on the Cornell University Football Academic Support Team (FAST) and works with Coach Archer and his players, providing support and guidance on economics courses. During the Fall 2016 semester, Dr. Thomas was selected to serve as a Dining Discussion Leader in connection with Cornell University’s First Year Experience Program.
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Stephanie R. Thomas. 2012. A Conversation with OFCCP Director Shiu about "Good Jobs for Everyone", The OFCCP Digest . 2(7):2.
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2012. OFCCP Proposes Utilization Goal for Disabled Individuals, The OFCCP Digest . 2(2):2.
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Stephanie R. Thomas. 2010. The Changing Landscape of Compensation Equity Enforcement, Corporate Counselor .
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2010. The Gender Pay Gap: A Closer Look at the Underlying Causes, Bloomberg Law Report . 11.
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2009. Five Standards for an OFCCP-Compliant Compensation Self-Evaluation, Compensation & Benefits Review . (41).
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2008. Self-Audits as a Mechanism to Understand the How and Why of Compensation, Journal of Compensation and Benefits . 24(4).
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2008. Are Your Employees 'Fairly' Compensated? A 10-Point Inspection, Mealey's Litigation Report: Employment Law . 4(11):6.
Stephanie R. Thomas. 2013. Compensating Your Employees Fairly: A Guide to Internal Pay Equity. New York, NY, United States: Apress / Springer Science&Business, 2013. Robert Hutchinson and Rita Fernando. (308)
Stephanie R. Thomas. 1997. Appendix: The Postwar Empirics of the United States and the United Kingdom. in Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle. London, England: Routledge, 1997. Edward J Nell. (20)
Stephanie R. Thomas. 1997. United Kingdom Business Cycles: Stylized Facts and the Marginal Cost / Marginal Productivity Debate. in Transformational growth and the Business Cycle. London, England: Routledge, 1997. Edward J Nell. (30)
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Causes and Consequences of the Gender Pay Gap. Presented to Alice Cook House. Ithaca, NY. 2015.
Using Total Rewards to Improve Employee Retention. Presented to Northeast Dairy Foods Association. Canandaigua, NY. 2015.
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The Optics of Executive Compensation. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2014.
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Pay Equity: What President Obama's New Executive Order Means for You and Your Employees. Presented to Kenexa. online. 2014.
Pay Equity: Understanding the Relationship Between Pay Transparency, Compensation Communications and Perceptions. Presented to BLR. online. 2014.
Five Years After Ledbetter: ILR Perspectives. Presented to ILR Institute for Compensation Studies. Ithaca, NY. 2014.
Equal Pay for Equal - or Comparable - Work: Effective Pay Practices that Don't Breed Equal Pay Act or Job Segregation Claims. Presented to BLR. online. 2013.
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Using Quantitative Tools to Examine Compensation for Equity and Fairness. Presented to SHRM. Chicago, IL. 2013.
Managing the Risk of Litigation with Compensation Reviews. Presented to Avant Resources. online. 2012.
If I Shred It Will I Dread It? A Primer on EEO Document Retention. Presented to Avant Resources. online. 2012.
Statistics and Adverse Impact. Presented to University of Maryland. College Park, MD. 2012.
Examining Compensation for Internal Equity. Presented to North Florida Compensation and Benefits Association. Jacksonville, FL. 2012.
Examining Compensation for Internal Equity. Presented to Texas Total Rewards. Richardson, TX. 2012.
The Compensation Review: Evaluate Internal Pay Equity and Manage Compensation Discrimination Litigation. Presented to Florida SHRM. Orlando, FL. 2012.
Compensation Reviews. Presented to Illinois SHRM. Oakbrook Terrace, IL. 2012.
Compensation in 2012: Examining Your Pay Systems for Discrimination. Presented to WorldatWork. online. 2012.
Preventive Pay Equity Audits: Fairness & EEOC Compliance. Presented to Center for Competitive Management. online. 2012.
Compensation Data, Analysis and AAPs: What You Need to Know. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2012.
HR Metrics: What You're Tracking and Why Nobody Cares. Presented to Avant Rersources. online. 2012.
Compensation in 2012: Examining Your Pay Systems for Discrimination. Presented to Kenexa. online. 2012.
The Changing Landscape of Pay Equity Enforcement. Presented to Human Resource Association of the National Capital Area. Washington, DC. 2012.
Managing the Risk of Employment Litigation with a Compensation Self-Audit. Presented to ComplianceOnline. online. 2012.
The HR Practitioner's Guide to Adverse Impact. Presented to ComplianceOnline. online. 2012.
Avoiding (Un)intentional Discrimination When Recruiting Via Social Media. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2012.
The Compensation Review: How to Use the Most Important Tool in the Risk Management Arsenal. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2011.
What's Causing the Gender Pay Gap?. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2011.
Be a Compliance Rock Star: Working Proactively with the EEOC and Department of Labor. Presented to Ohio State SHRM. Sandusky, OH. 2011.
Recent Developments in Compensation Analysis. Presented to Institute for Human Resources. online. 2011.
Examining Class Certification Issues in Employment Discrimination Litigation with Statistics. Presented to Insurance Society of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA. 2011.
Evaluation of Economic Damages in Whongful Termination Litigation. Presented to Practising Law Institute. 2008.
Financial Innovation and the Reconstruction of Monetary Aggregates in teh Postwar United States. Presented to Eastern Economics Association. New York, NY. 1998.
United Kingdom Business Cycles: Stylized Facts and the Marginal Cost / Marginal Productivity Debate. Presented to Post Keynsian Economics Group. New Orleans. 1997.
Dining Discussion Leader, Cornell University First Year Program, North Campus. 2017
Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research. 1999
Edith and Henry Johnson Award for Outstanding Dissertation, New School for Social Research. 1999
New York University Economics Students Association Student Appreciation Award, New York University. 1999
College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, New York University. 1998
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Education is the basic right of every citizen in our country regardless of their caste, creed and financial status but practically that does not happen and the good quality education remains the privilege of few. Educational institutions are mushrooming in the state rampantly and the quality of the Government run schools degrades day by day. Is this the system we are looking for? The kids of poor people do not have a right to quality education? What is the government doing to improve the standards of education in the country?
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News Courts
'Don't travel in car with Hutch widow,' judge tells court after 'accident-prone' woman is awarded €28k
Noeleen Coakley Hutch of Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin pictured leaving the Four Courts on Friday after she was awarded €28,000 damages following a Circuit Civil Court action. Pic: Collins Courts
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A judge has advised against travelling in a car with gangster Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's widowed sister-in-law, after she was awarded €28,000 for a traffic accident.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/dont-travel-in-car-with-hutch-widow-judge-tells-court-after-accidentprone-woman-is-awarded-28k-36511798.html
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Noeleen Coakley Hutch (45) was married to The Monk's brother, Derek Hutch, who took his own life in 2009.
She is the mother of notorious criminal Nathan Coakley (24).
Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond Groarke said she was "a woman who just seems to attract misfortune" after she suffered a rear-end crash.
The court had heard she has been injured in six car accidents.
"She seems to have an attraction for misfortune and the moral of the story is don't travel in a car with Ms Coakley," Judge Groarke told the court.
Frank Crean, counsel for Ms Coakley, of Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin, outlined the injuries and compensation she had from each accident and said she had lost her husband tragically in 2009.
He said liability had been conceded in the case, which had become an assessment of damages for personal injuries.
Judge Groarke, when told of a similarity of injuries involved in each incident, said he believed her to be an honest lady who had quite a history of accidents.
Insofar as she had described all of the accidents to him, he accepted she was an entirely innocent party.
The judge said he took exception to the manner in which counsel for the defence sought to assume that because Ms Coakley had been involved in so many accidents, and had obtained in the region of €60,000 damages, she was "a chancer or a fraud".
He said Ms Coakley was an honest lady.
She sustained a serious dental injury, for which she had to receive emergency treatment including root canal treatment.
She also suffered soft tissue injuries to her neck and shoulder.
Judge Groarke told Mr Crean there was a complexity with regard to injuries she had suffered in the accidents and the time period over which she had achieved recovery.
The judge was told Ms Coakley had been rear-ended while driving in Ballybough, on May 19, 2014, and had been brought by ambulance to the Emergency Department of the Mater Hospital, where she had been assessed and treated.
Mr Crean told the court that since the incident, Ms Coakley had been injured in two subsequent accidents, details of which were not outlined to the judge.
She said one of the earlier claims she made had been under her married name of Noeleen Hutch, of the same Upper Buckingham Street address.
Ms Coakley, a part-time carer, had sued the driver of the second vehicle involved in the May 2014 accident - Ms Laura O'Neill, of Charleville Avenue, North Strand, Dublin 3 - whose insurance company had taken over the case.
Judge Groarke assessed Ms Coakley's damages at €28,000 and awarded her legal costs.
He granted a stay in event of an appeal, on condition of a payment out of €17,500.
Ms Coakley's son, Nathan, is considered to be one of the most dangerous armed robbers in the capital, and had managed to evade any serious prison term for the majority of his life.
However, his luck ran out last year when he was extradited from the UK to face a number of charges related to driving a stolen vehicle and armed robbery.
One of the cases related to a city centre car chase on Christmas Eve 2015, when Coakley was spotted in a stolen car in the Ballsbridge area.
Despite managing to flee the scene, the vehicle was later found to contain the thug's DNA, as well as a knife and a canister of petrol.
He subsequently received a two-year jail term.
A week later, Coakley received a five-year jail term for his role in the armed robbery of a Spar shop in north Dublin.
He has been placed on a secure landing with his associates in Wheatfield Prison due to ongoing threats from the Kinahan cartel.
Though his mother has absolutely no involvement in crime, her north inner city home has been raided on numerous occasions because of the criminal activities of her son.
Ms Coakley has been no stranger to tragedy in her personal life.
Her husband, Derek (44), died at the Mater Hospital on February 23, 2009, two days after he was admitted with self-inflicted cuts on his arms and ankle.
Hutch had reportedly approached gardai a week before taking his own life and admitted to killing a south Dublin man 18 years before.
Dublin City Coroner's Court heard in January 2010 that his wife returned to her home on February 21 to find her husband lying semi-conscious and bloodied in the sitting room.
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News Britain
Private team find wreck of missing player's plane
Sympathy: A tribute show to Emiliano Sala on the big screen during Cardiff’s game in the FA Cup at Swansea’s stadium last week. Photo: Simon Galloway/PA Wire.
The wreckage of the plane carrying the missing Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala has been found almost two weeks after it disappeared.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/private-team-find-wreck-of-missing-players-plane-37779527.html
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Marine scientist David Mearns, who directed a privately funded search operation north of Guernsey on behalf of the Sala family, said the wreckage of the plane was "located earlier this morning".
The Piper Malibu carrying 28-year-old Sala and pilot David Ibbotson (59) disappeared over the English Channel on January 21 after leaving Nantes in France for Cardiff.
Two vessels, including one commissioned by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), using sonar had been taking part in a fresh search covering an area of around four square nautical miles.
Mr Mearns, the director of Blue Water Recoveries, led a team on the search vessel FPV Morven while the AAIB also sent a team aboard the Geo Ocean III.
"Wreckage of the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and piloted by David Ibbotson was located early this morning by the FPV Morven. As agreed with the AAIB they moved the GEO OCEAN III over the position we provided them to visually identify the plane by ROV," Mr Mearns tweeted.
"The families of Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson have been notified by police. The AAIB will be making a statement tomorrow. Tonight our sole thoughts are with the families and friends of Emiliano and David."
The privately funded operation on behalf of the Sala family was made possible after a campaign raised more than £260,000 (€300,000) to fund it.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Mearns said: "This is about the best result we could have hoped for the families."
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Invisible Citizens: Designing for the Disabled
Have we failed to provide equal access and equal opportunity for the disabled community? Where can A+D improve?
BY Calum York
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Architecture and design have an inherent relationship with disability. However, despite legislation in place to mandate equal access within our shared built environment, the history of A&D has often been a discriminating one. The able-bodied end user has more often than not been the human model to design towards, evident in Le Corbusier’s “Modulor Man” or Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly using his own height as basis for doorway and ceiling heights. Understanding the proportions of the human body is certainly valuable, but fails to take into account the sheer variation possible in human form – disabled or not.
Today we might laugh at stories of conversations between clients and the stubborn Mr Wright. However, while the relationship between architecture and disability has certainly come a long way from being a private problem to a public issue since the times of those two architectural giants, there is still a ways to go when it comes to complete recognition.
One study undertaken in 1991 from schools of architecture in the United States revealed that students had “limited knowledge on disability and accessibility provision.” Furthermore, while a few students defined disability as including wheelchair users, children, people with prams, pregnant women and others, most of the students defined disabled people solely as wheelchair users. While true, this is evidence of a continual inadvertent discrimination against many of those with disabilities that aren’t physically evident. A similar study conducted around architects in Istanbul revealed that physical disability generally was prioritised when considering design problems.
Invisible disabilities, such as vision impairment, chronic pain or a host of mental illnesses may not be readily evident, and nor do they hold solutions that will necessarily come immediately. However, they still have the potential to be assisted through a design-centric approach, as explored by Sydney University’s 2016 “Enabled by Design-athon”, which aimed to “mastermind new products and technology that could help improve the lives of people living with a disability.” A more widespread acceptance of such an approach may require a shift in mindset from education up, given the tendency to see the consideration of disability as currently being another requirement legislated by the BCA in the same vein as door heights and stair tread lengths.
Questioning what really entails a ‘typical’ user, as academic Jos Boys writes, might lead to more innovative design solutions that don’t attempt to “solve” the problem of disability, but rather simply take into account “how diverse human bodies actually occupy space.” Design solutions need not be overly complicated or one-off opportunities to explore something crazy, like OMA’s Maison Bordeaux. Rather, the A+D community is undoubtedly better off “confronting the ordinary” and making disability less of a taboo issue for everyone as a result.
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Japan Sets the Record for the Most Powerful Laser Ever Fired
By: Nidhi Goyal | August 9th, 2015
Sci-Fi fans still remember the famous scene in Star Wars in which a fictional spacecraft and galactic superlaser, the Death Star, wipes out the planet Alderaan and all its inhabitants.
Superlasers are not exactly fiction anymore. The Death Star weapon is here!
Researchers at Osaka University, Japan are claiming to have set the record for successfully firing the world’s most powerful laser. The device is known as the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX).
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itbusinessedge > Blogs > Integration > Picking Apart Microsoft's Patent for Cloud Data Migration
Picking Apart Microsoft's Patent for Cloud Data Migration
By Loraine Lawson, Posted December 1, 2009
So, I'm strolling along the Intertubes today when I stumble across this little item, which seems to have first appeared on InformationWeek but is spreading like kudzu along a southern highway:
So, I'm strolling along the Intertubes today when I stumble across this little item, which seems to have first appeared on InformationWeek but is spreading like kudzu along a southern highway: "Microsoft Seeks Patent For Cloud Data Migration."
Oh, reeeeeeeally?
Now, it's a patent and only a patent, but this could be big news for those worried about cloud-lock in, which certainly includes Microsoft. After all, Microsoft won't be arriving at the cloud ball until next year's release of Azure, which, as I've already noted, reflects Microsoft's support for interoperability. So arriving with a plan for helping others migrate their data to a new cloud is like arriving to the party with Lady Gaga-it's bound to turn some heads.
You can read the patent for yourself online, but The Register offered this summary of Microsoft's application:
The company describes an architecture that involves executor, detection, organizer, and summary components that will received and verify notices that a cloud service is to be terminated, find the relevant data and service, prioritize the data or service, and give a summary. According to the filing, Microsoft's technology will preserve the data, meta-data, or service that's being terminated, roll it back to a state that allows migration, find a similar service comparable to the one already use, and then provide the migration.
InformationWeek's Alexander Wolfe offered a more in-depth look at the Microsoft cloud migration patent request. One interesting aspect, he notes, is the specified rationale for the technology: Basically, Microsoft is saying the data would be migrated as "an auto fail-over data protection mechanism," and not, as one would expect, because you want to switch cloud vendors.
But come on, this is business-savvy Microsoft, so, as Wolfe points out, that whole switch-vendors thing is in the fine print, a bit farther down.
Cloud and SOA vendor Vordel is already nay-saying that this patent would address lock-in problems, "as identified by the European Network and Information Security Agency," The Register reports:
Vordel has instead pitched the case that only a broker - which it's in the process of rolling out - can really help customers avoid lock in. The company claimed brokers allow users to make a switch over at the interface level to a back up in the event of a failure.
There is a third possible motivation for the patent: At the bottom of the InformationWeek article, Wolfe notes that @swardley believes the patent suggests that when when Azure launches, Microsoft will launch with multiple ISPs, in addition to its own.
Whatever the driver, Wolfe points out Microsoft's proposed patent doesn't address the problem of transferring large amounts-think petabytes-of data over the Internet. How does he know this? Apparently, Sun Microsystems CEO and mathematician Jonathan Schwartz calculated it out, determining that most Internet connections are so slow, you'd be better off moving the data to tapes and shipping it-by boat.
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IIT Hyderabad launches M2Smart Testbed to develop low carbon transport models
M2Smart Testbed by IIT Hyderabad will help to gain a better understanding of multi-modal transportation in India that will help to provide solutions to reduce the carbon footprint.
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Prof. Uday B. Desai, director of IIT Hyderabad, while speaking about the importance of this research said, “India has diverse modes of transportation and we need to understand this diversity in mobility better than we already do. The data acquired using the Testbed will enable us to gain a better understanding of multi-modal transportation in India that will ultimately help us provide solutions to reduce the carbon footprint.”
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How SATCOM as a Service delivers reduced TCO for agencies
Joel Machen, Director of Solutions Engineering, Special Programs, U.S. Government BU
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In interacting with United States government users, I am finding that a number of them continue to build and manage their own satellite and ground networks. Of course, this is the way agencies have “done it for years.” But today, users are finding that it makes more sense to switch to a managed service. Typically, the core mission of these agencies does not include satellite communications (SATCOM), yet they still dedicate countless budgetary and personnel resources to running their own networks. This approach is ever more challenging in the face of budgets pressure and push to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of information technology throughout the government.
Inmarsat’s SATCOM as a Service offers a readily available alternative that directly addresses these issues. SATCOM as a Service is an end-to-end managed service capability that provides global, mobile, high-throughput connectivity the way government users seek it: easily, affordably and operationally available – anytime, anywhere. With no infrastructure charges or research and development investment on their part, they travel from one location to another and simply connect to get the global connectivity they need, when they need it.
Mobile government users are increasingly adopting this managed service model, seeking access to rapid, reliable, worldwide satellite connectivity that delivers the following TCO advantages:
Users benefit from continuous system advancements
Inmarsat’s systems are always evolving. We are investing significantly to add new satellites, ground stations and secure enclaves, while constantly upgrading our networks. Our fourth Global Xpress satellite recently launched and a fifth is planned to launch in 2019; the first Inmarsat-6 satellite is expected to launch shortly afterwards to enhance the connectivity, reliability, capacity and capabilities of our communications services. This arrives without capital investment from our customers. Once we implement and test these new technological improvements, users simply connect and get to enjoy the benefits.
Users are not restricted to confining contracts for infrastructure
When agencies build and oversee their own satellite networks, they make large investments and long term contractual commitments for the hubs, modems and other infrastructure that they purchase. When new versions come out, they usually require a major contract revision, which often involves unplanned costs for infrastructure, software and even hardware. Beyond this, agencies are always evaluating end of life projections for systems and equipment, which requires them to devote significant time and energy to researching the market for replacements. Our customers avoid this experience because we keep our systems modern and our equipment current, and their SATCOM as a Service subscription allows them to access the latest technology with no capital outlays on their part. Additionally, our terminal type approval process removes the control version/configuration management and certification burden and ensures that terminals operate efficiently and according to specifications.
Users only pay for the access they need
When agencies operate their own network, they typically lease bandwidth to cover any potential operating region. This results in an expensive, often frustrating guessing game, in which a network planner attempts to forecast where and when coverage will be required. Inevitably, they end up over-leasing bandwidth in certain regions ( paying for bandwidth they do not use) and under-leasing it in others, which means their users do not have adequate connectivity to perform data-intensive missions. In contrast, SATCOM as a Service delivers guaranteed data rates to satisfy mission needs at a moment’s notice, worldwide. With solid service level agreements and committed information rates, users get what they ask for and only use it when they need to, and the quality of the acquired service is assured. In other words, no more guessing games or over-leasing and under-leasing.
Users eliminate training costs
Maintaining and operating a satellite system requires significant personnel resources and can get complicated: The technologies require extensive subject matter expertise and 24/7 network operation centers demand trained staff capable of managing intricate operating systems. However, SATCOM as a Service is an always-on capability. Because we house the expertise and invest in ongoing staff development, it frees up military resources from administering disparate networks, allowing them to focus on mission-critical operations, a significant bottom-line saving.
At Inmarsat, we have earned the trust of our customers. Ever since we were founded in 1979, we have tirelessly and effectively served the requirements of government users. We understand first-hand their missions, challenges and ultimate goals. We build our systems end-to-end with government users in mind, complementing military satellite resources cost-effectively and delivering worldwide connectivity that is completely secure, reliable, resilient, and always on – so you can focus on your agency’s core mission.
Joel Machen is Director of Solutions Engineering, Special Programs, U.S. Government Business Unit, providing focused support to the Special Operations, Intelligence and aero/UAV customer communities.
Joel brings to this role 20 years of tactical communications experience, developing and implementing technical solutions for Tactical and VIP networks. Prior to joining Inmarsat, Joel was the Commercial Market Lead for TeraLogics and before that held a variety of positions at Booz Allen Hamilton, White House Communication Agency, and the U.S. Army.
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Iraqi Interior Ministry mourns two policemen killed, northeast of Diyala
by Nehal Mostafa Oct 27, 2018, 10:46 pm
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Interior Ministry has mourned two officers, who were killed while on duty, northeast of Diyala province.
In a press release, the ministry said “officers of the federal investigations and intelligence agency, within the ministry, still do their best for the sake of Iraq. Today we mourn Lt.Gen.Hussein Mohamed Ebeid and policeman Abdullah Kazem Jasim.”
The statement added that they were killed while being on duty near Hamrin mountains, northeast of Diyala.
A total of 75 Iraqi civilians were killed, while 179 others were injured due to acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in September 2018, according to casualty figures by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Baghdad came on top of the worst affected Governorate, with 101 civilian casualties (31 killed, 70 injured), followed by Anbar (15 killed and 37 injured).
Thousands of Islamic State militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016.
Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops. Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country. The group still has dormant cells, through which it carries out attacks, across Iraq like it used to do before 2014.
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SMC: 3 wanted persons arrested on terrorism charges in Mosul
by Loaa Adel Dec 29, 2018, 3:23 pm
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Security Media Center (SMC) announced, on Friday, that the security forces have arrested three wanted persons, on charges of terrorism, in the city of Mosul, in Nineveh Province.
The Center reported in a statement that based on accurate intelligence information, security forces of Nineveh managed to arrest three wanted persons, who were charged with terrorism.
Furthermore, it revealed that the wanted persons were arrested in the areas of al-Rashidiyah and Yarmaja in the city of Mosul, where one of them was working as the Islamic State’s officer of the bureau of tribal affairs.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State militants took over Mosul in June 2014, after the Iraqi troops stationed there abandoned their headquarters.
After over two years of ISIS occupation of Mosul, Iraqi, Kurdish, American and French forces launched a joint offensive to recapture the city in October 2016. On 9 July 2017, and Iraqi forces managed to regain full control of Mosul in July 2017.
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Home International News Gaza braces for further violent protests
Gaza braces for further violent protests
Fresh protests against Israel are expected in the Palestinian territories, a day after Israeli troops killed 55 people in the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of what Palestinians call the Nakba, or Catastrophe, that saw thousands flee amid the creation of Israel in 1948.
Tensions will be high in Gaza where those killed on Monday will be buried.
The violence came as the US completed the move of its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, incensing Palestinians.
They claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and see the US move as backing Israeli control over the whole of the city – which Israel regards as its indivisible capital.
Palestinian officials said that, as well as those killed, about 2,700 people were injured in Monday’s violence – which they condemned as a massacre. It was the deadliest day in Gaza since the 2014 war.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was acting in self-defence against Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, who he said wanted to destroy Israel.
Palestinians were demonstrating on Monday as they have been for six weeks as part of a protest, orchestrated by Hamas, called the “Great March of Return”.
However, Monday’s protests – and those planned for Tuesday – are the culmination as they mark the anniversary of Israel’s creation in 1948 and commemorate the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who subsequently fled their homes or were displaced in the war that followed.
Monday also coincided with the dedication ceremony for the US embassy.
Israel said some 40,000 Palestinians had taken part in “violent riots” at 13 locations along the Gaza Strip security fence.
Palestinians hurled stones and incendiary devices, while the Israeli military used tear gas and live fire from snipers.
Mr Netanyahu defended his military, saying: “Every country has an obligation to defend its borders.
“The Hamas terrorist organisation declares its intention to destroy Israel and sends thousands to breach the border fence in order to achieve this goal. We will continue to act with determination to protect our sovereignty and our citizens.”
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said soldiers had fired on those engaged in “terrorist activity and not on demonstrators, who were dispersed by usual means such as tear gas and according to the rules of engagement”.
Announcing three days of mourning, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said: “Today once again, the massacres against our people continue.”
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Ava's Man
By: Bragg, Rick
Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A Knopf Inc: 2001
002769: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly: "Following up his bestselling memoir, All Over But the Shoutin', Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grand father, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born. Lacking a grandfather, the New York Times reporter sets out to build one "from dirt level, using half-forg... View more info
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me
By: Brando, Marlon / Lindsey, Robert
005730: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "This is Marlon Brando's own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words. To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey. The result is an extraordinary book, at once a funny, moving, absorbing, ribald, angry... View more info
Norman Rockwell * A Sixty Year Retrospective
By: Buechner, Thomas S.
Publisher: New York, New York, Harry N. Abrams Publishers: 1972
001582: "Catalogue of an Exhibition Organized by Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, with Text by Thomas S. Buechner. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : 8.75 x 11.75 in.: 155 pages View more info
In The Presence Of My Enemies
By: Burnham, Gracia / Merrill, Dean
Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House Publishers: 2003
Condition: Very Good in Fine Dust Jacket
002768: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "A gripping account of the kidnapping of American missionaries and their year of terror in the Philippine jungle. " Original owner's name stamp has been whited out on inside of covers. "Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of the plight of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple captured and held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama Bin Laden. After a year of captivity, and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the ... View more info
Martha Inc. (The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)
By: Byron, Christopher M.
Publisher: New York, New York, John Wiley & Sons: 2002
007308: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. "The story of Martha Stewart is the story of an incredible woman who had the brains to recognize opportunities when they dropped in her lap and who had the drive, energy, and determination to turn them into unprecedented success by gathering around her, and often ruthlessly exploiting, the talents, and sometimes even the loyalty of many people. The less visible s... View more info
Inside: A Public And Private Life
By: Califano, Joseph A.
Publisher: New York, New York, Public Affairs: 2004
003707: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "A history, memoir, and profoundly revealing personal drama of a powerful figures involved in many defining events of the last half-century. Inside is a tale of how ambition, tenacity, and courage, guided by a deeply held faith, can change the world - from the inside. ": 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 539 pages View more info
Light For The Night In Europe (Reflections On A Lifetime Of Ministry)
By: Campbell, Robert J.
Publisher: Robert J. Campbell (The Author): 1999
003579: No Jacket as Issued. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Contains an hard-written inscription to the original owners by the author, signed "Dr. Bob" on the Dedication Page. Foreword by Billy Graham. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : Signed by Author: 5.75 x 8.5 in.: 363 pages View more info
Dan Rice : The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of
By: Carlyon, David
Publisher: New York, New York, PublicAffairs: 2001
012698: Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. Book is SIGNED BY AUTHOR, David Carlyon and dated (July 13, 2002) on Title Page. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "This brilliant, richly illustrated biography of a 19th century performer introduces readers to the most famous American they've never heard of, while exploring the history of entertainment and the cult of celebrity. Circus clown and presidential candidate: A 21st century punch line, tha... View more info
Tales From The Cubs Dugout (A Collection Of The Greatest Cubs Stories Ever Told)
By: Cava, Pete
Publisher: Champaign, Illinois, Sports Publishing: 2002
003287: Lower corner of front cover is creased. Has inscription of original owner on inside of front cover. "Featuring stories and anecdotes from the illustrious century-and-a-quarter history of the Chicago Cubs, Tales From The Cubs Dugout is sure to delight fans from 9 to 90. Whether you're old enough to remember Hack Wilson or just started thrilling to the exploits of Sammy Sosa, you'll enjoy reading about both the on-field and off-field antics of your heroes. ": 5.5 x 8.25 in.: 274 pages View more info
Do-Gooders : How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim To Help -- And The Rest Of Us
By: Charen, Mona
Publisher: Sentinel - Penguin Group: 2004
003648: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Liberals from Washington, D. C. , to Hollywood, from our major news organizations to our leading universities, are convinced that they know what's best for America's poor and middle class. And they are equally convinced that anyone who disagrees with them isn't just wrong, but morally inferior, cold hearted ... And maybe even evil. " Front Board has a small dent in upper edge; else book would be classified as in Fine Condition.: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 269 pages View more info
The Letters Of John Cheever
By: Cheever, Benjamin (Editor)
001023: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Novelist, short-story writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, John Cheever is one of America's most significant literary figures. At his death in 1982 he left an enduring body of published work which both perfectly captures the lives of a class of men and women in the middle of our century - their aspirations and tribulations, their peccadilloes as well as their graver sins - and elevates those same lives to the transcendent level of myth. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 397 pages View more info
Every Man A Tiger
By: Clancy, Tom / Horner, Chuck
002667: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Every Man A Tiger is a ground-breaking exploration of the art of war - a look deep into modern air power, as seen through the eyes of one of its most outstanding commanders. ": 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 564 pages View more info
Elvis Presley (Unseen Archives)
By: Clayton, Marie
Publisher: Bath, United Kingdom, Paragon Publishing: 2002
003910: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Many, many color and black & white photographs throughout the book. "Charts the life and achievements of the boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, from his first taste of fame in the early 1950s to his untimely death in 1977. Over 400 fabulous photographs document the important events in his life and career; his early concerts, the movies, his time in the army, his marriage to Priscilla and the birth of his daughter Lisa Marie, the resurgence of his career in the 1970s with the Las Vegas shows, and the gradual decline in his health. &#... View more info
Poussin Works On Paper (Drawings From The Collection Of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
By: Clayton, Martin
Publisher: London, England, Merrell Holberton: 1995
005413: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Poussin's drawings are concerned mostly with the development of compositions, rather than with exploring individual poses or catching particular motifs. This book is both a catalogue of the drawings by Poussin and his circle in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle - one of the world's most important holdings of drawings by Poussin, with a provenance going back to the collections of his friends & patrons - and an accompaniment to a travelling exhibition of sixty-five drawings, as part of the celebrati... View more info
Generation (The 17th Century Scientists Who Unraveled The Secrets Of Human Reproduction)
By: Cobb, Matthew
Publisher: New York, New York, Bloomsbury: 2006
005419: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Stated First U. S. Edition, Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) . Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Generation is the story of the exciting, all but forgotten decade when four men - Jan Swammerdam, the son of a Protestant apothecary; Nils Stensen (also known as Steno) , a Danish anatomist who first discovered the human tear duct; Reinier de Graaf, the attractive and brilliant son of a rich and successful Catholic architect; and Antoni Leeuwenhoek, a self-taught draper - dared to challenge thousands of years of orthodox think... View more info
The Trials Of Lenny Bruce (The Fall And Rise Of An American Icon)
By: Collins, Ronald K. L. / Skover, David M.
Publisher: Naperville, Illinois, Sourcebooks: 2002
006483: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. With unopened One-Hour CD, which includes Lenny Bruce's notorious routines and excepts from Lenny's never-before-released secret trail tapes; narrated by Nat Hentof. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (LB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) . "Lenny Bruce’s words had the power to provoke laughter and debate—as well as shock and outrage. It was the force of his voice that would place him on the wrong side of the law in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. The first carefully documented account of Lenny Bruce’s... View more info
Barabbas (A Dream Of The World's Tragedy)
By: Corelli, Marie
Publisher: New York, New York, The American News Company - J. B. Lippincott Company: 1893
003796: No Jacket as Issued. "A Special Edition Limited to One Hundred Thousand Copies." Boards are dark green cloth with dark red lettering and lines/symbols on front and spine. Pages are clean and sharp cornered. Spine is slighly separated at third page. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book: 4.75 x 7.25 in.: 317 pages View more info
When John And Caroline Lived In The White House
By: Coulter, Laurie
Publisher: New York, New York, Hyperion Books - Madison Press: 2000
003094: First Printing (9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) . Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "This evocative book combines reminiscences, memorabilia, and rarely seen photographs to bring to life the story of the most famous children ever to live in the White House. From John's first steps to his poignant farewell salute, from Caroline greeting her new baby brother to clasping her widowed mother's hand on the steps of the Capitol, the storied Kennedy era is touchingly recreated for a new generation. " Copy has original owners name on front and back inside covers. Otherwise would... View more info
A Widow, A Chihuahua, And Harry Truman (A Story Of Love, Loss, And Love Again)
By: Crain, Mary Beth
Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000
003471: Stated First Edition. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Has small black remainder mark on bottom. "For anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one, this story is all too familiar. Having lost her husband to cancer, Mary Beth Crain struggled to cope with the ensuing grief. Mary Beth named the puppy Truman, after her idol, former President Harry S. Truman, whose down-to-earth wisdom she had often turned to during life's hard times. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : 5.75 x 8.5 in.: 202 pages View more info
By: Craze, Sophia
Publisher: Crescent Books: 1989
Edition: First Edition: Sixth Printing
011074: "With nearly 70 full-color and 25 black-and-white illustrations, this volume exhibits some of the finest Remington drawings, paintings, and sculpture which are part of an invaluable record of America's last frontier." Content Chapters include: Introduction * Military Scenes * Cowboys And Other Frontiersmen * Indians * Sculptures * List Of Color Plates. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for very light bumping of top of spine). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.: 10.5 x 14.5 in.: 112 pages View more info
The Story Of Bing Crosby
By: Crosby, Ted (Author) / Hope, Bob (Foreword By)
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company: 1946
003896: Book is Forum Edition. Pages are foxed/browned, corners of boards and spine are rubbed. Pages and black and white pictures of the Crosby family are clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "The deep thinkers, in reading this life of Bing, will probably see once more the rags-to-riches theme that is so inherently American. And you really don't have to be a very deep thinker to see it in Bing. Frankly, the richer he gets, the raggeder he gets. You heard, of course, about his getting the box from Poland. And, by the way, have you heard about his hair? Ha ...... View more info
Wagner - The Man And His Music
By: Culshaw, John
Publisher: New York, New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. - Metropolitan Opera Guild: 1978
005895: Printing Number Line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) . Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Presents a lively text and over 150 historic photographs and drawings - many in full color - to document the life and work of the master of Bayreuth. Also included in this brief but authoritative biography are the stories of each of Wagner's operas with notes on the casts and conductors of the world premieres and Metropolitan Opera premieres. ": 7.25 x 9 in.: 181 pages View more info
Stories Of The English Artists (From Van Dyke To Turner 1600-1851)
By: Davies, Randall (Compiler) / Hunt, Cecil (Compiler)
Publisher: New York, New York, Tudor Publishing Co.: 1938
005914: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Frontispiece is "Portrait Of The Artist (self-portrait by William Hogarth)". Volume contains four Color illustrations and 24 Half-tone ones. First few pages have a brown stain at upper edge. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. No writing or other marks are found on any pages. "Throughout, the chief interest lies in the trifling personal details, anecdotes, scrapes of gossip, notes of conversations, and the like, which enable us to form some idea of the characters, habits, and thoug... View more info
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Coroner sees his job as caring for the living | Lexington Herald Leader
Crash of Flight 5191
Coroner sees his job as caring for the living
By Amy Wilson - HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
On that Sunday morning, only a few hours after the plane had crashed, Gary Ginn knew for certain something all the rest of us feared.
He knew someone on the plane. It was Les Morris, the first person to contribute money to Ginn's efforts to win the coroner job in Fayette County in 2002. Morris had called Ginn out of the blue one day because Ginn's mother, a court clerk in Trimble County, had bragged on her son to Morris, an attorney.
In retrieving the bodies from the plane, Ginn did not try to find Morris. He had full confidence everyone would be identified. He kept what he knew to himself. His mourning could wait.
Gary Ginn had been putting on his church clothes before 7 that Sunday morning. He and his wife help out at the Broadway Christian Church worship services, and 7 really isn't all that early for them.
All 49 autopsies are done. Some of those onboard died of blunt force trauma, he says, and some had smoke in their lungs.
So they burned to death?
Yes, he says, they burned to death. It is still unknown whether any were conscious after the plane slammed into the ground.
The individuals were found from the front of the plane to the back as they died in their seats, though that is not certain given that upholstery melted, seat belts, too. There is no sign, says Ginn, that there was anyone actively trying to get out of the airplane. There was no bunching up of humanity at emergency doors. It looks as if they died where they sat. Except, he says, for the two individuals who were thrown clear of the plane and died of their injuries free of the aircraft.
Inside the plane, says Ginn, there was a lot of churned earth, torn-up sod and refuse from trees and parts of tree trunks. Once the fire had been extinguished, there was little left of the fuselage itself.
From the beginning, he says, he has tried to tell the community of Lexington what they needed to know. He says the National Transportation Safety Board worked well with him --- as did the FBI, the state police, the airport police, the city police, the fire department -- but ultimately it was his death scene.
"I knew what (the NTSB) wanted. I made it apparent to them what I was going to do. I told the families from the first day, if you ask me a question and I know the answer I will tell you to the best of my ability."
He says he tries not to use language that is hurtful. He never calls the people on board "bodies." "They are individuals who didn't stop being individuals when they died."
More than once, he called them "souls."
Matthew Snoddy, son of passenger Timothy Snoddy, said Ginn has been "open and honest with the families." He said that most of the families of the crash victims understood how confusing the initial reports of cause of death were and that the families appreciated Ginn's kind manner, his straightforward posture and his tough position.
In each case, once Ginn found out the circumstances of death, he has notified loved ones. The process of determining where each individual finally came to rest was hastened by the county's use of high-end mapping technology. The process of removing each individual from the place where they came to rest was more personal. Ginn had received calls from the coroners of surrounding, even far-flung, Kentucky counties. He told them to please come, "that there was work to do."
There is little, if anything, that can be done to prepare for the scene of a mass disaster. Ginn, in his three decades of handling the dead as, first, a mortician, then later in the coroner's office, had not been faced with anything like it. It was a deficiency he recognized in August 2005 when he decided to use his vacation time assisting in body retrieval on the Gulf Coast, post-Katrina.
So he was as ready as he knew how to be.
As the 49 bodies were being moved from the pasture to medical examiner vans and driven to Frankfort for identification and autopsy, Ginn asked for prayers.
"There were so many people out there. It was a little chaotic. I just wanted that presence out there."
He wanted reverence. This time, a gift from the living to one another, and the only real thing he could offer the dead.
Gary Ginn's days are not like yours. He is always one step behind death.
And when he must face the living, it is often on the very worst day of their lives. He feels their wrath as well as their sorrow.
Gary Ginn's most revealing day this year came on May 16 when a piece of concrete from a downtown parking garage fell on a woman who was going to work early so she might bank a few hours of extra maternity leave before the birth of her second child.
Stephanie Hufnagel and the 8-month-old fetus she was carrying both died instantly.
Hufnagel's body and the body of her child were still on the scene in the Chase Bank plaza when Brian, Stephanie's husband, arrived.
Brian was charging across police lines and toward where police and firefighters stood helpless guard over the calamity.
Ginn intercepted him.
Brian Hufnagel looked ready to punch Ginn, and Ginn says he was ready to take it.
"I remember when my wife was pregnant," says the coroner as if that explains everything.
Instead of violence, Ginn was able to move Brian toward a safe place inside the bank. Then Ginn took personal charge of the bodies, washing the baby, making ink imprints of the baby's feet and removing Stephanie's rings. That late Tuesday night of the accident, Ginn delivered these small tokens to Brian.
It bothers Ginn that Stephanie was just walking to work and, he notes, a few seconds one way or another and she is "laughing with her baby right now."
Or that, in March, a Nicholasville man was working at a Lexington garbage transfer station when the bucket of a small loader he was operating fell on his head, killing him instantly. Justin Avery was "young and strong, working hard, real hard to get his life together," says Ginn. Then, his chances evaporate.
Or that Lindsey Harp and Lauren Fannin, two women who accidentally drowned after being sucked into a storm drain in September, "did everything right. They took a taxi home and then made a mistake."
Mistakes, like the ones that caused the plane crash, nag at Ginn.
Still, it is the suicides he must pronounce that stay with him the longest. It is the utter despair that surrounds them and those who survive them that he recalls.
"Their pain is over for them, but what about the hurt everybody else who loved them gets to deal with," he says. "It's selfish."
He is thinking now of a teen-ager found hanged in a closet or the woman who walked in front of a tractor-trailer speeding down Interstate 75.
The latter incident occurred just two days after the death of Hufnagel and her baby.
Ginn had cried publicly that day during an impromptu press conference near the bank parking lot. Not big wailing tears, but the kind that come unbidden and without fanfare.
"I can grieve. I don't mind letting myself be emotional."
But, he added after a moment's thought, "When I stop feeling, I oughta quit this job."
Living by a golden rule
This is the year Gary Ginn lost a little anonymity. These days, he's invariably approached at Wal-Mart, told by some guy that "I know you from somewhere."
It's the year churches -- like his own and Southland Christian and others -- prayed for him, by name, on that sad Sunday in August because he was the only one they knew for sure would be there.
It's the year he leaned more heavily than usual on his Sunday School class at Broadway Christian and on his teacher, Marie Eades. Marie is 80, and the class of 30-plus is diverse, racially and life-stage-wise. They call themselves "The Encouragers."
The most Eades will say is Ginn sometimes needs somebody to listen to him. "But so do we all," she says.
She says sometimes he will ask for the group to pray for others whom he has just met.
"I try to take care of family members," he explains, "as I would want them to take care of me or my family."
This is the year Ginn tried to live again, he says, how Jesus meant us all to live.
On the Sunday following the crash, Gary Ginn penciled in a quick visit to church before he attended the other hundred things on his list.
Upon seeing him, everyone there stood.
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Lead investigator still chokes up when recalling Flight 5191
By Linda B. Blackford - lblackford@herald-leader.com
Even now, five years later, Deborah Hersman can't stop herself from choking up when she talks about the day Comair Flight 5191 crashed at Blue Grass Airport.
"The accident occurred at 6 o'clock in the morning, and there were hundreds of people who stopped what they were doing and started to help," she said with frequent pauses in a phone interview from Washington, D.C. this week. "It was people from Home Depot who came out and brought us rope and work gloves, the people who lined the streets when ... when the families were being brought in, and they held signs up ... it was just a special community."
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Lawson case: Harsh words, sudden fight started it all
Fortune... can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
– Julius Caesar
Chance rules an empire that renders choice a fool’s illusion.
– George Eliot, Middlemarch
Paul Mann
ARCATA – A chance tiff over a common iPhone led to the violent death of David Josiah Lawson, 24 hours before the High Holy Day of the Christian spring.
Women propelled fortune’s wheel at the outset.
Renlyn Bobadilla, “D.J’s” girlfriend, stepped from the threshold of a small bungalow at 1120 Spear Ave. at about 2:30 in the morning. She was accompanied by Lawson and two of his many friends, brothers Kyle and Kristoff Castillo.
Immediately the four saw three people about 10 feet away from the two-step wooden stairs to the front door.
The three were later identified as Kyle Zoellner, thin, tall and almost gaunt, with a wispy goatee and brown hair; his long-time partner, Lila Ortega, petite and stocky with blue-dyed hair; and a tall, slender woman with short blond tresses, Naiya Wilkins.
Bobadilla testified that the trio of strangers questioned her and her companions about Ortega’s missing phone. A search by Ortega and her friends had turned up nothing as they waited for Zoellner to come pick them up.
By several accounts, Zoellner was the first to speak on his girlfriend’s behalf, inquiring courteously as to the phone’s whereabouts. Had the four come across it by any chance? He was believed to be holding his car keys in one hand.
Bobadilla began her narrative on the witness stand pointing to Ortega, not Zoellner. Bobadilla and her three companions felt they were being accused of theft.
“I know you stole my phone, you piece of shit!” Bobadilla quoted Ortega as mouthing off.
Ortega had testified previously that when she asked about her phone, the four “got mad, got very aggressive.
“We weren’t trying to accuse them,” she told the court. “I was being very polite.”
Not so, Bobadilla testified. Ortega ordered the three men to turn out their pockets. “I yelled she shouldn’t be saying that to my boyfriend!”
Bobadilla called herself “highly protective” of people of color. Like Lawson, the Castillo brothers are African-American.
The HSU senior said she didn’t remember how, but suddenly Ortega was biting her breast, sinking her teeth into Bobadilla’s flesh and holding on. Photography exhibits placed in courtroom evidence documented the bites, scabs and bruising she suffered on and underneath her left breast. She also suffered a tiny, unexplained puncture wound on one forearm.
Bobadilla said she did not see Zoellner throw punches. She did not say whether any of her male friends landed the first blow as she and Ortega squabbled.
Zoellner’s girlfriend, Ortega, testified, “They punched me in the face,” blackening her left eye and cheek bone. But she could not distinguish who threw the punch.
Bobadilla said the scuffle, however it began, trailed off in short order. She couldn’t explain why or if someone had intervened to break it up.
Within moments she realized, “My face was burning. We all realized our faces were burning.”
Ortega’s friend, Naiya Wilkins, testified independently that she and another woman used pepper spray on Zoellner’s alleged assailants, one or more of the men with Bobadilla. Apparently the men skirmished separately as the women fought, pulling each other’s hair and raining mutual blows with abandon.
Zoellner admitted to detectives after his arrest that he had fought with Lawson, but it is not certain whether they clashed once or twice in the two skirmishes that early morning, separated by an indeterminate number of minutes. Deputy District Attorney Roger Rees argued that the stabbing occurred in the second showdown during a “window” of 20-25 seconds and that Zoellner was the perpetrator.
Kyle Castillo said his brother Kristoff was sprayed directly in one eye and took the hardest hit, but the entire group was affected, he testified.
Bobadilla, in shock, walked with her companions from the doorstep to Spear Avenue, a distance of some 60 feet along an asphalt cul-de-sac. It terminates just short of the house. Two parking aprons jut to the left and right, opposite one another, by the front steps. Each cramped parking space is fringed with small, narrow patches of grass where a good deal of blood was found.
“I was freakin’ out when we made it to the street,” Bobadilla continued. Lawson was on her right, while the Castillo brothers headed to a car parked farther down the avenue to see if their driver was there and ready to leave.
Abruptly, Bobadilla sprinted back toward the house and saw two women, curious and panicky about what was burning her face. “I asked, ‘What the fuck did you throw in my face?’”
At that, one of the women bit her breast again “and I punched her in the face,” Bobadilla said without hesitation. “I grabbed both by their scalps. They were biting me and punching me.”
Lawson, left behind on the avenue to drain his eyes and recover his bearings, turned immediately and headed back toward the house when a third party confided that Bobadilla, Ortega and Wilkins were at it again.
“Josiah was behind me somewhere and I screamed out to him and he screamed ‘babe’” in a worried tone, Bobadilla recalled.
Evidently Lawson proceeded past the women as they mutually agreed to retreat from brawling with each other.
His life about to end, Lawson became caught up, voluntarily or not, in a second skirmish, again close to the house and the nearby grassy areas and involving, on and off, as many as 10-15 combatants.
In his last seconds, was the 19-year-old out for revenge for the pepper spray assault? Was he feeling mounting fury that his girlfriend was being mocked, insulted and roughed up?
It is about these fateful, final minutes that witness testimony at the preliminary hearing split sharply, ranging from inconclusive to irreconcilable.
The one undisputed fact for now is that no one saw a knife or witnessed Lawson’s mortal stabbing.
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The shutdown hit TV and Internet customers on Google Fiber’s system broadly across the Kansas City market. Most lost service from shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday until about 7:35 p.m. Others lost their connections for several hours, although it returned before the hometown club bested the Mets in a 14-inning nail-biter.
Google Fiber said it did not know exactly how many customers lost service. It has regularly declined to say how many subscribers it sells to in the market.
The outage sprung from a failure of a computer server designed to authenticate customer equipment, what the company describes as a security feature. When the server’s authentication process was interrupted, the company said, it began denying legitimate customers access to the network.
Google said it had resolved the problem entirely by 10:15 p.m. and the company was taking steps to make sure the problem doesn’t make an encore.
But the outage had customers fuming. On the company’s help forum, one of dozens of angry posts summed up the vibe: “Not a good time to go down.” Google Fiber got so many calls to its customer service phone line that most users only heard rings or busy signals. That prompted even more complaints on the forum.
The timing proved particularly embarrassing to Google. An estimated three of every four TVs in the city were tuned to the World Series game. It was also the evening before the company announced that it was beginning negotiations to expand service to Oklahoma City and Florida markets in Tampa and Jacksonville.
Hey @kcpolice, could you do a welfare check on #googlefiber KC?
— Tanner Banion (@tbanion) October 28, 2015
Online, one person tweeted, “Hey @kcpolice, could you do a welfare check on #googlefiber KC?” and others labeled it an “#EpicFail.”
A few innings after most Google Fiber customers saw their service return, Fox’s national broadcast was disrupted and viewers missed one at-bat, a Kendrys Morales strikeout, because of what that network said was a loss of power to an operations truck at the stadium.
Scott Canon: 816-234-4754, @ScottCanon
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Last bits of DRM ranting for a while
I had a big rant about DRM last time, and an example of an issue it caused. I thought I'd round off with a few other examples of DRM issues I have experienced in the past. Get all the rants out of my system, before I move on to a post about more positive matters - the new cover for Turner!
My last post was about a computer game. Games with online activation are always problematic. See this recent example from Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Or their previous coverage of SimCity, or Diablo 3, or Anno 2070. Or the Ubisoft single-player games that stop working when they upgrade servers (which can then break other games). DRM leads to a cruddy, unstable, frustrating experience. Many of the important arguments against online DRM in games can be found here.
Even with physical discs, DRM reared its ugly head. Back in November 2010 I took an afternoon off work to play a newly bought game: Shellshock 2 on DVD. The game used Securom DRM, though I didn't know that at the time, since it wasn't mentioned in the item description when I bought it. The Securom DRM refused to install the game, saying it detected 'Emulation Software'. Yet there was nothing else running on my PC. After a lot of time I decided it must have browsed my hard drive without my permission and refused to let me play the game if I had (fully legal!) software installed that Securom didn't like. So I uninstalled Daemon Tools (used for my music software), but the game still wouldn't install. The Securom website was no help. I tried the Eidos website but that wouldn't even let you email them unless you created an account first. I spent over four hours trying to sort it out (with lots of back and forth emails and phonecalls to Securom). And it still wouldn't run, since the Securom DRM then claimed there was no disc inserted, even though it was. By then I'd had enough. I downloaded a pirated version, scanned it for malware, then installed and started playing that, because the DRM in the version I'd bought made the game unplayable. A month later I had exactly the same issues when I tried to play the game Jericho on DVD. In the end I tracked down a cracked .exe that disabled Securom - I could then play the game I had bought.
Nowadays, if a game has DRM then the amount I’ll pay drops by about 90%, depending on how severe it is.
Music At the height of the music DRM craze I stopped buying any music. Then Sony et al backed down and you could buy DRM-free MP3s. I rejoiced and started buying again, and now have a huge MP3 collection. The lesson is clear: many customers will pay for something that they feel they then own, but not for things that can be taken back from them.
DRM makes the purchaser jump through hoops
Last year I bought Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. It turned out you needed a serial number to install it, as it was an education edition. To get that I had to send scans of various forms of identification to an email address (which is bad security practice from the start!), then they said that within 24 hours I should get sent a code. A minimum of 24 hours of waiting to unlock the DRM! I just downloaded a crack and got it running quickly. As usual the DRM causes hassles for paying customers and doesn’t stop piracy.
Fun with film
When I first bought a projector I was really excited about being able to watch films by connecting it to my laptop (I don't own a TV). I researched the different options and eventually bought one. It worked well, except that on some films the picture kept getting darker, then brighter again. It was really distracting. I spent weeks trying to find out what the issue was, before I finally discovered it was the DRM system on some DVDs - Macrovision - interfering with the display. I then had a stressful time of it trying to return the projector as not fit for purpose.
“It works fine with DVDs, we never guaranteed it would work with Macrovision,” I was told. "You should have checked."
"I'd never even heard of Macrovision before this!" I replied. "Anyway, the projector description said you could use it to watch films, and apparently most films have a Macrovision DRM signal included now."
"Well, you can't expect the manufacturer to add extra hardware just to deal with an unnecessary and proprietary restrictive system, can you?"
Macrovision didn't even reply to my emails.
Repeated hassles
Software with DRM is often downplayed by the publisher. "It's only a one-time activation!". That's a lie. It's not a one-time activation since you have to do it again if you reinstall Windows or get a new PC or want to play it on a different computer or uninstall the game when you've finished and then reinstall it in the future... Basically normal life.
It doesn't get better over time. Over the years I have had massive and repeated problems with iPlayer downloads, where it just fails for no obvious reason. It always turns out to be related to Adobe AIR, the DRM system. Usually I have to uninstall iPlayer and Adobe AIR, reinstall them both, sometimes multiple times before it magically works. And then at some point it will break again. I've had similar issues with HTC Sync - the updated version added Adobe AIR (and doubled the size of the files). Suddenly my PC and phone couldn’t recognise each other, cue uninstall, reinstall, debug modes, switching cables and so on. That never worked again no matter what I tried, I had to give up. And no, these issues weren't on the same PC - different PCs, different operating systems.
DRM-free is a selling point. I pre-ordered and paid for Witcher 2 at full price despite not having even played the first game yet (which I owned twice, once in a lovely boxed version, once on GOG). I buy more when I feel goodwill towards the publisher.
Don't treat paying customers like thieves, or make their life harder than that of pirates. DRM creates mistrust and wariness in the very people the publishers should be wanting a good relationship with. Loyalty is worth so much.
Have a look at the Defective By Design site, lots of useful information there.
Yeh, I don;t know about bluray but Macrovision came up a lot with DVD players on projectors. I think almost all the Region Free mods for DVD players also disabled the Macrovision. If I recall it was to prevent talking an analogue recording of the DVD and TV's coped fine, but projects didn;t.
It's one of the reasons my excitement about HD video such as Blu-Ray fizzled out: I read an article about the DRM systems built into it, that if it even suspected one of the pieces of hardware was in some way non-compliant with their standards it would downgrade the signal. I just knew there would be problems, so never bothered with it. Which suggests DRM puts early adopters off too, and people like me who are normally really into the implications of new technology.
Friendly heads up, Carl: You haven't credited cyanide and happiness for the header comic.
Thanks for mentioning that - I'd linked to the source of the image, but I assume from your comment that it comes from somewhere else! I'll look into it and update the picture.
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Records: Tribal school board seriously wasted funds
Chris Ramirez
ALAMO NAVAJO, N.M. – It’s arguably one of the poorest school districts in New Mexico, with limited funds to educate 347 students from kindergarten through high school. But that hasn’t stopped the Alamo Navajo Nation School Board from misusing those scarce funds, as KOB 4 Investigates discovered.
The Alamo Navajo Indian Reservation is a carve-out of the Navajo Nation, sitting northwest of Socorro and just north of Magdalena. Many homes in the region still lack utility hookups, much less modern conveniences like Wi-Fi and cell phone service. The importance of education is especially important in communities like these.
KOB discovered that in six months, the four-member board ran up a travel bill totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and proved money has been misdirected by board members instead of going to students.
“We’re registered voters from the Navajo Nation. Why is it they are treating us like this?” asked John Apachito, a local parent who stood outside the school board’s most recent meeting on Tuesday along with other parents and district employees.
They had been kicked out of what was a public meeting.
Pages and pages of financial reports obtained by KOB 4 Investigates weave a story that shows the four elected men who make up the school board – Stephen Apache, Bucky Apache, Hector Guerro and Edward Padilla – are abusing their authority.
District internal reports show that in the latter months of 2017 and early 2018, those four board members spent nearly $200,000 of district funds on travel. They went to Las Vegas, Orlando and Washington, D.C., and took out thousands in cash advances to drive to Albuquerque, Farmington and Window Rock.
While traveling, they ran a scheme with receipts. For example, after returning from Orlando, Bucky Apache turned in an Uber receipt for $6.97 for reimbursement and signed his name on it.
Then Stephen Apache turned in the same receipt with his signature. Padilla did the same.
Each board member got reimbursed on one receipt. Financial records from the district show that receipt shell game was repeated on multiple trips.
“They are spending a hell of a lot of money for no reason. For their own personal travel,” Bill Hererra Sr. said.
Additionally, while traveling, the four men expected the district to pay for their dining and entertainment. When Guerro stayed at Paris Las Vegas, he charged the district for room fees, which would include pay-per-view movies or items from the hotel’s mini-bar – usually stocked with snacks and alcohol.
The expenses didn’t stop there. Guerro charged the district $146 for a Las Vegas show, also spending $100 at a buffet on Dec. 14, 2017. The next day, a reimbursement receipt showed he charged the district a total of $222 on food at four different restaurants.
In total, Guerro ran up a tab of $1,232 at Paris Las Vegas and demanded the district pay for it all.
KOB 4 Investigates found school board members also claimed mileage reimbursements to be in two places at once. For example, Bucky Apache asked for $377 for a drive to Window Rock on Sept. 6, 2017, but he also claimed he went to Santa Fe on the same day, receiving $307 for that trip.
An email from a high-ranking district official obtained by KOB states the board approved itself a $1,000 payout.
“The board felt that they were experiencing a shortage of funds due to campaign expenses,” the email states. “One had funeral expenses to pay for.”
Administrative staff wrote in a different email, “ignoring all ethics and training, the board gave themselves a $1,000 bonus to purchase appropriate clothing.”
When administrative staff objected, the school board overruled them. The administrative staff knew the payouts were illegal, and signed each check with the message: “Signed under duress.”
SEEKING ANSWERS
At the top of each school board agenda for the district, the message “No public comment” is written, prompting frustration among members of the community.
“We can’t even voice our concerns,” said Sarah Apache, one of those community members.
KOB 4 Investigates experienced what happens to people when the board is asked questions aimed at holding them accountable. While at a regularly scheduled public meeting, the board called an executive session and cleared out the room.
The board and its lawyer wanted to speak just with KOB. They ordered KOB’s cameras out of the room, but held reporter Chris Ramirez inside. Ramirez was transparent with the board, explaining the concerns the 4 Investigates Team had found. Ramirez even agreed to meet the board that same day for a formal interview.
The members of the board refused the requests, and when Ramirez asked KOB’s photojournalist to return to the room, the board and its attorney refused to answer any questions while showing the KOB crew out the door.
‘THEY CHASE US OUT’
The school board keeps a security team at each meeting, adding to the community’s concerns.
“It’s true,” Beverly Vicente said when asked if the school board may be using bully tactics to withhold the truth. “They can’t even listen to our concerns about what is going on on this campus. They are pushing us out every time there is a meeting. If we say something wrong, they chase us out. The security comes and tells us to leave.”
Tribal leaders are aware of the problems. Alamo Chapter President Buddy Mexicano’s board wrote a scathing resolution about the school board’s members. It reads in part, “School board officials have violated their oath of office and governing ethics through malfeasance of office through seeking and receiving personal and financial gain through extensive non-essential travel, awarding themselves pay adjustments that far exceed and was 10 times that of any pay adjustment for the employees.”
When asked if the board is abusing its power and if it is defrauding schools, Mexicano has the same one-word answer: “Yes.”
Once KOB returned from the Alamo Navajo Indian Reservation, public relations professional Tom Garrity contacted KOB. Garrity sent the following email:
“The following information is being sent on behalf of Mr. Justin Jones who represents the Alamo Navajo School Board.
Dear Mr. Ramirez and Mr. Mason,
Based on your visit to the Alamo Navajo School Board (ANSB) earlier this week, you identified information that was needed from our organization. Since a written request was not made we only responding to the verbal requests made at our meeting.
Budget and Travel Expenses
The ANSB Education operating budget is $5,686,567. These funds are provided through an ISEP and Title Fund Grants. Education Administrative Support expenses are funded through a third, Administrative Cost Grant ($611,000). All three grants are restricted funds, meaning they can not be appropriated for any other purpose than what is designated by the funder. These restrictions are audited yearly, in accordance with the Federal Single Audit Act. The ANSB has had a clean audit for many years.
The travel and training budget, approved by the government, is represented largely in the Administrative Cost Grant. Represented in two (2) different designations, the board’s travel budget is $80,000. Of that amount roughly $28,000 is designated to cover travel expenses related strictly for Board training travel; (budget is set by a Federal Grant formula); and $52,000 for Board travel to monthly Education related meetings: Navajo Nation Government, School Board Associations, Education Lobbying.
The ANSB seriously considers all budget matters including the total travel and training items which amount to less than 1.4 Percent of the total budget (which comes out of the Administrative Cost Grant).
ANSB Housing
The ANSB has 35 rental quarters which are rented to staff members and a board member. All of the occupants pay rent, including the one Board member. The board member who is renting from ANSB has renal sickness and needs access to modern living quarters.
Funeral Expenses
The ANSB has a long tradition of giving monetary funeral assistance to members of the Alamo community. This assistance has been in place for years and is provided for residents who have financial need. Money is not appropriated for board members and no special consideration or funding has been provided to ANSB members in recent memory. Last year, the ANSB provided $3,000 in funding to pay for this service. The funding came from the Community Support account, which is a part of the Administrative Cost Grant (the grant guidelines deem this as an allow expense).
Alamo Navajo Chapter and its connection to the ANSB
There is no legal connection or governance oversight between the Alamo Navajo Chapter and the ANSB. To provide the comparison to New Mexico governance, Cibola County and the State Department of Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department are separate entities and one cannot sanction another. The Alamo Navajo Chapter has its own governance and is a standalone government entity that does not receive funding from or is a vendor to the ANSB. The Navajo Nation Central Government, Navajo Nation Council, is the direct oversight over the Education operations, not the Chapter Government.”
Updated: April 26, 2018 10:22 PM
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Review: Garage-band blues played by ‘The Black Suits’
The Black Suits cast members Will Roland, left, Harrison Chad, Coby Getzug and Jimmy Brewer at Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
(Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)
By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic
Joe Iconis, a promising 32-year-old composer, is best known for writing the song “Broadway, Here I Come” for Season 2 of the now-defunct backstage theater soap opera “Smash.”
His new musical “The Black Suits,” which opened Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, will likely be as swiftly forgotten as that much-derided NBC series, but it at least gives us a chance to get better acquainted with a talent musical theater insiders have been excitedly touting.
The show revolves around a Long Island garage band led by Christopher (Coby Getzug), a high school kid with an anxiety disorder, an absentee father and dreams of Nassau County stardom. The three other members of the group each has his own issues and quirks, all of which are writ large in the none-too-subtle book that Iconis co-wrote with Robert Emmett Maddock and in the character-revealing songs Iconis assigns them.
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The newly christened Black Suits — so new they don’t even have their signature duds yet — is a ragtag crew of amateur musicians. The Bad News Bears of ingratiating rock.
John (Jimmy Brewer), the good-looking guitarist, is home from the Merchant Marines Academy, uncertain of his future and not wanting to follow in the footsteps of his imprisoned father. Nate (Will Roland), the bass player who goes by “Nato,” carries around a ceramic frog he calls Mr. Ribbit and has himself a sort of goofy Kermit-like demeanor. Brandon (Harrison Chad), the heavyset drummer, is a nerd heading to a prestigious music school who can’t for the life of him crack the code of being cool.
Two other characters lend oddball support: Lisa (Veronica Dunne), Chris’ arty girlfriend with the hemp purse who grows weary of being shunted aside for the band, and Mrs. Werring (Annie Golden), Chris’ wacky neighbor who serves as mentor to him, regaling him with tales from her glam rock groupie days while offering words of encouragement and a ready supply of weed.
The majority of new musicals have second-act problems. “The Black Suits” has a first-act problem. The issue: banality. Iconis and Maddock set up the dramatic situation with all the edginess of an “After School Special.”
Will this justifiably insecure white suburban band realize Chris’ dream of winning the St. Ann’s Battle of the Bands? Forgive me if this local contest didn’t exactly have me on the edge of my seat.
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It’s not the small-time nature of the competition that depresses dramatic interest. It’s that the characters are generically constructed, their pathos standard-issue. As outsiders go, they’re a bunch of milquetoasts. Even their eccentricities have an innocuous quality. When student photographer Lisa rebels, she dyes her hair blue. Shocking as this may be to parents, there’s a tremendous amount of adolescent brooding, hip-hop mimicry and junk-food bingeing.
When the intermission arrived, I was bewildered by the low dramatic stakes. What was compelling our return? Certainly not the music, which is pleasant enough if you like homemade rock processed through a glee club filter. But even when confidently performed by an out-of-sight orchestra (conducted by bass player Charlie Rosen), this isn’t a genre most people eagerly seek out.
Every generation has its own garage band sound. John jokingly refers to the Who’s Roger Daltrey as “Dad Rock,” but there’s nothing particularly distinctive about the Black Suits, whose first gig, appropriately enough, is at a roller rink. Seriously, the play could be set one or two decades in the past without Iconis having to revamp his score.
Fortunately, the second act begins with one of the musical’s best numbers, “Amphibian.” The song is written expressly for Nato (“I’m hanging around and dreaming of chicks / And my area code is 516 / And I would thrive in the Caribbean / But I’m a Long Island amphibian”) but enjoyed by all the Black Suits, who finally get the opportunity to revel in their camaraderie. It’s one of the few moments when I was aware that the show had a choreographer (Jennifer Werner).
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The banality, I’m afraid, isn’t held in abeyance for long. When the band temporarily breaks up, Nato hits the Oreos hard and Chris and John come to blows! But Golden gets a song worthy of her outré delightfulness: “Band-Aids and Cigarettes,” in which she acknowledges to Chris the limits of what she, a blowsy relic from the Velvet Underground days, can offer him.
Is it a problem that Golden is the only cast member who can conjure the distinct tang of a Long Island accent? The production, directed by John Simpkins, is as concerned with place as it is with time. Which is to say “The Black Suits” could be set anywhere a lack of diversity wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. The garage designed by Derek McLane might reasonably be next door to the Partridge Family’s old house.
The real interest in “The Black Suits” is Iconis’ budding craft. Too often his songs explicitly advance the story or update us on character, as though he’s still trying to impress his professors from NYU’s graduate musical theater writing program. But on those few occasions when he lets the music and lyrics playfully off their narrative leash, he winds up making good on the high expectations placed on his evident gifts.
charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
‘The Black Suits’
Where: Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City
When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays. (Call for exceptions.)
Ends: Nov. 24
Price: $20 to $55
Contact: (213) 628-2772 or https://www.centertheatregroup.org
Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
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Part 1: Louisiana Barge Case Showcases Divide and Conquer Strategy When Suing Multiple Defendants
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals for Louisiana released their decision in Cotone v. Corrosion Control Systems, Inc. The case highlights the importance of the plaintiff’s “divide and conquer” strategy when litigating against multiple defendants. Additionally, it illuminates the challenges defendants and plaintiffs may both face in lawsuits involving injuries occuring in settings controlled and occupied by multiple parties.
In 2006, Timothy Cotone was employed by Superior Derrick Services as a shipyard supervisor on a Lousisiana river barge. Superior was tasked with converting the barge into a drilling rig. In order to accelerate the conversion, Superior subcontracted temporary workers supplied by Maxum Industries to perform welding and fitting services. Meanwhile, Corrosion Control Systems was hired separately by the barge owner to provide sandblasting and painting services. Superior and Corrosion were separate companies otherwise unaffiliated with one another.
On November 3, 2006, Cotone stepped into an open hole on the barge and suffered injuries. Typically, the hole was barricaded by safety cables. However, when Cotone stepped into the hole, no such safety cables were in place. Furthermore, plastic had been placed over the whole, preventing Cotone from noticing the opening. Naturally, Cotone concluded that one of the other barge workers must have negligently removed the safety cables and placed the plastic over the hole. Consequently, he sued to recover for his injuries.
Faced with multiple actors who occupied and controlled the hole in question, Cotone originally sued only Corrosion. Later, by amended pleading, he added Maxum to his suit. Cotone’s amended lawsuit alleged that either a Corrosion or Maxum employee had negligently removed the safety cables, and both companies should therefore be jointly and severally liable. (Notably, Cotone did not name is own employer, Superior, as a defendant in the suit).
In a game of legal “hot potato,” Corrosion and Maxum each denied responsibility and implied that the other was to blame for Cotone’s injuries. When Maxum filed a motion for summary judgment to remove itself from suit, Corrosion resisted. Corrosion wanted Maxum to remain in the suit so it could share the cost of any damages award a jury might award to Cotone.
Maxum alleged that it had presented enough evidence to show that no trier of fact could conclude that a Maxum employee had removed the cables or placed the plastic over the hole. Because Maxum, as a defendant, would not have to bear the burden of proof in a subsequent trial, Maxum only needed to “point out that there [was an] absence of factual support for one or more” elements essential to an adverse party’s claim. Convinced of Maxum’s motion, the district court dismissed Maxum as a defendant. In response, Corrosion appealed.
In determining whether the dismissal of Maxum should stand, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals looked to the depositions of Cotone and Maxum employees, as well as documentation submitted by the company during the discovery phase of the litigation.
The court first looked to Cotone’s deposition. In it, Cotone noted that he was the last person to leave the barge on the evening before his accident. This fact suggested that the person responsible for removing the safety cables and adding the plastic committed the negligent act sometime in the evening between Cotone’s departure for the previous day and his arrival on the day of the injury. Cotone further asserted that Corrosion’s crew worked on the barge during the evenings.
Next, the court looked to an invoice provided by Maxum. The invoice showed that during the week surronding Cotone’s injury, the majority of Maxum’s workers completed assignments in the shipyard and away from the barge. Because most of Maxum’s employees were not working around the hole Cotone fell in, the liklihood of a Maxum employee removing the safety cables and adding the plastic was diminished.
Check out the blog tomorrow for more information on this important case.
Posted in: Admiralty/Maritime, Civil Matter, Litigation, Miscellaneous, Negligence, Offshore Accidents, Pain And Suffering Claims, Strict Liability and Workers Compensation
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Tourism and Italy are synonymous, since Italy is a paradise for history lovers, with more than 3,000 museums, churches and archaeological sites dating from roman times. There are hundreds of goods and places protected by UNESCO and open for tourism. The islands of Italy such Capri, famous for its romanticism, or Ischia, with hot springs are visited and revered for centuries. The renaissance movement in arts and culture has left behind a precious heritage that can be admired today in the old town squares and cities, unchanged over time.
Altogether though, wherever you choose to make a trip to Italy, surely will be a pleasant experience. Even if it seems almost impossible, sometime it's good to sink into history and culture, just to forget those small things which perturb our everyday existence.
Italy is one such place...
where history and culture, romance and modernism coexist all together and make tourists take part to a unique experience.
Popular things to Do & See in Italy
• Discover the historical sites of Rome - the Colosseum, Forum and Pantheon. At the Trevi Fountain you can ensure your return to Rome if you throw a coin into the water.
• Enter the Vatican City, an independent sovereign state best known for St Peter's basilica. Among the specific features of the Vatican palace (papal residence) include the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museum.
• Explore the city of Venice, a masterpiece of art in itself. St Mark's Basilica and the Doge Palace, overlooking St Mark Square, have gained their fame by appearing in paintings by Canaletto. The Academy Gallery exhibit hundreds of Venetian paintings.
• Discover Torino's sights. The Egyptian Museum is second in the world, after the museum in Cairo. The symbol of the town is Mole Antonelliana (19th century), in which operates the italian National Cinema Museum. In the cathedral you can see a copy of the famous Shroud of Turin.
• In Milan you can appreciate the masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci, "The Last Supper", which can be seen in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. La Scala theatre remains the undisputed opera and ballet theatres in the world.
• In Genoa, the place where Christopher Columbus was born, visit the Galleria di Palazzo Bianco. Here you'll find an extensive collection of genoese artists.
• Visit the romantic city of Verona, the place of Romeo and Juliet tragedy. Casa di Giulietta attracts thousands of visitors each year. The roman arena built in 290 is where the annual opera festival takes place.
• Discover the byzantine and christian monuments decorated with stunning mosaics, in Ravenna, including splendid Galla Placidia mausoleum, a place on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
• Visit Florence to see the revolutionary architecture of the cathedral designed by the architect Brunelleschi. Cross the medieval bridge and visit the Uffizi art galleries and the famous statue of David by Michelangelo, situated at the Academy's Galleries.
• Admire the cathedral of Siena with its numerous columns striped in black and white. The cathedral' s floor, which is covered most of the year, can be seen in september.
• Visit the place where pizza was first invented - Naples. The National Archaeological Museum houses an impressive collection of greco-roman artifacts, including the mosaics from Pompeii.
• Visit the basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, birthplace of St Francis, founder of the franciscan monk order.
• Go to the Piazza del Campo in Siena. The best time of the day is early in the morning and at sunset.
• Go to Sicily to see the remnants of the invading cultures. The most important ancient greek sites include the temples from Valle dei Templi Agriegento, which is said to be better preserved than any site in Greece. The catacombs from Capuchin monastery contain thousands of mummified bodies.
• In Rome, you can stroll through the Trastevere district, an alternative tourist center, with numerous bars, restaurants and nightclubs.
• Go shopping in Milan, Italy's most sophisticated city.
• Learn new skills - italian and art courses are available throughout the country. Italian language courses are often supplemented by cooking or architecture courses. Art courses are offered by Palazzo Spinelli and "Universita Internazionale dell Arte" in Florence.
• Spa centers are famous since roman times. The most modern resorts are Abano Terme and Montecatini Terme, Acqui Terme (Piedmont), L'Andana, Tombolo, Talassa, Terme di Saturnia and Chianciano Terme, Fiuggi (Lazio), Porretta Terme and Salsomaggiore Terme (Emilia Romagna).
• Do not miss the chance to wear an elaborate mask and costume during the Carnival of Venice.
• Head to the coast, where you can practice all sorts of water sports. Popular destinations include the Italian Riviera from Liguria, the Adriatic coast and Amalfi coast. Less busy are the beaches of Sicily and Sardinia.
• From Capri, Italy's most visited island, you can take a boat to the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra).
• Go skiing in the italian Alps. West of Turin, in Piedmont region, you can find many resorts such Bardonechia, Sestriere and Sauze d'Oulx. Further north, the ski resorts from Aosta Valley include Cervinia, Courmayeur and La Thuile. The most luxurious resort in Italy is Cortina D'Ampezzo, located in the Dolomites.
• Search for truffles in Umbria, a region of rare natural beauty, famous for its truffles. Black truffles are celebrated each year at the festival in the town of Norcia. Between october and december you have the chance to find rare white truffles.
• Visit the wine cellars of Tuscany. The landscape of this region is characterized by vineyards, cypress forests, sunflower fields and isolated villages. Chianti, the most famous italian wine, is produced in the north of Siena, where some wineries are open to the public.
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Peter Abrams
Male, Actor
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Award-winning musician and comedian, best-selling author, actor and presenter. Peter broke into the industry aged 17 under mentorship of Russell Brand and his best-selling book 'Our Story Called Life'.
Since then, Peter has toured the country with his tour 'Life is a Joke', winning 'best-newcomer' at Glastonbury 2017, gaining a large following and even travelling across the pond and breaking into the American circuit.
Over the last few years, he has built up his resume within the acting scene, working as a presenter and in small-roles and worked on numerous commercial shoots, including being the 'face' of a huge global campaign for Apple for the 2018 World Cup.
Since 2018, Peter and his brother David have been performing with their band 'Current Affairs' and have toured in the UK and the US, with notable performances at Madison Square Garden and Glastonbury Festival.
Peter's most consistent work, comes as a presenter, where after having delivered a TED talk in 2018, has spent the last year speaking to over 20,000 students in UK schools as well as corporate events and festivals.
Peter is exclusively managed by OurStoryCalledLife and looks forward to the future opportunities coming his way.
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Slow start costs Sabre women’s lacrosse in 18-6 loss at CUW
MEQUON, Wis. – Marian University women’s lacrosse (3-7, 2-5 MWLC) fell to Concordia Wisconsin 18-6 on the road in MWLC action.
The Falcons opened the game taking a 14-3 lead heading into halftime after scoring seven unanswered goals in a span of 7:14 in the middle of the first half. Freshman Sally Moris had a pair of the first-half goals for the Sabres, while senior Haily Miller scored the third goal. Freshman Bayli Mannek and junior Lindsay Lewison each earned assists.
The Sabres scored three of the first four goals to open the first half cutting their deficit down to 15-6, but Concordia Wisconsin answered scoring three unanswered goals to close out the game. Moris once again had two goals in the second half to close out a four-goal game, while Miller also found the back of the net. Mannek assisted one of the Moris goals to give her multiple assists for the game.
Along with her four goals, Moris went on to grab six ground balls with six draw controls and seven caused turnovers. In goal, junior Molly Gross made 14 saves on the 32 shots she faced with nine of her saves coming in the first half.
Marian is next scheduled to host Northwestern Saturday, April 6 at 1 p.m. in MWLC play.
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30/08/2011 Tue 10:58 in Hong Kong by Matt Eaton
OOH spending leaves print in its wake
As ad spend hits another record high, the out-of-home industry has received a vote of confidence with its share of advertising spend up 70% from last year.
Fresh data from admanGo shows spending from Hong Kong advertisers hit a record high in July, up 16% year-on-year to HK$3.13 billion.
Banking again led the bulk of the spending, but the food industry was a surprise entrant into the top 10 list, with the industry contributing 45% to the high result. McDonald’s was the top spender of the food sub-category with a YOY growth of 55%.
AdmanGo said the outdoor industry overtook print as the preferred advertising medium, with its share growing to 13.57%, compared to print’s 13.11%.
PrimeCredit recorded the second largest YOY growth amongst the top 10 advertisers, spending an estimated $20 million on brand advertising.
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The committee still has “several individuals” left to interview, he said. When interviews are over, Burr said the report will likely take 60 days to write and 60 days to redact and declassify. Rather than summarize for the public what the committee finds, Burr hopes the committee will “lay out the facts.”
However, Burr said those facts may be interpreted differently.
“Two people can read facts and possibly come to a different conclusion,” he said. “I think when we get through with our report, there won’t be any room for anybody to make these wild accusations about collusion.”
In his appearance at Duke, Burr reiterated many of the points he has made publicly and in a lengthy interview with CBS News that was published in February.
Burr reiterated that he hasn’t seen any proof that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government.
“If you take the Special Counsel’s conclusion — which is that there was no collusion that they could find evidence of between the campaign and Russians — it will probably be pretty consistent with the report we come out with,” he said.
Burr emphasized that his committee’s probe looks beyond the 2016 election into a vast, complicated effort by Russia to raise political tensions in the United States.
“One of the early determinations we made is that Russia manipulated the 2016 election using social media to create societal chaos in the United States,” he said. “They didn’t fabricate issues. They used existing splits in society in the United States and tried to highlight those splits.”
Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Mark Warner of Virginia, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Republican chairman and senior Democrat, said the committee would hold its first public hearing on the investigation into Russian election meddli
Burr also backed Attorney General William Barr’s interpretation of the report recently completed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but he said he hasn’t seen Mueller’s report.
Burr said Mueller’s report likely includes some information provided by the Senate Intelligence Committee. He said he would find it “strange” if Mueller’s report doesn’t reference “two interviews that we did.” He didn’t elaborate.
He noted that the committee’s staff wasn’t necessarily focusing on criminal acts. But when the committee’s investigators discovered actions that appeared to be criminal, Burr said, they referred them to the appropriate authorities. Burr said the committee has referred more than one, but less than 10 people for prosecution.
“Our function is not criminality,” he said. “When we identify something that we think is criminal, then we refer it to the appropriate person, whether that’s the Special Counsel, whether it’s the prosecutor in the District of Columbia or whether it’s the Southern District of New York. We look to see what the appropriate venue would be, and we have used that referral very aggressively.”
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MSO to offer quick-check screening application
March 9, 2016 By cmsadmin
By Martin Kidston/MISSOULA CURRENT
Looking to get through that airport security line a little faster?
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has scheduled a pre-screening application program at Missoula International Airport early next month.
Brian Ellestad, deputy director at Missoula International Airport, said those interested in the program must register online and complete the enrollment in person, or apply as a walk-in at the airport’s temporary application center.
Passengers considered low-risk who qualify for the program receive expedited screening at TSA checkpoints. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who complete the enrollment process don’t have to remove their shoes, light outerwear and belt at security.
They can also leave their laptop in its case when passing through the screening process.
Ellestad said more than 160 airports participate in the TSA program, along with 13 airlines including Alaska, Allegiant, Delta and United, all of which serve Missoula.
Participating airlines also include American, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest, One Jet, Sun Country, WestJet, Air Canada and Virgin America.
After completing enrollment, Ellestad said successful applicants will receive a Known Traveler Number in the mail within several weeks. The number is valid for five years and appears on tickets during the booking process.
To register for the TSA screening program, travelers must bring documentation proving identity and proof of citizenship. The application fee is $85. The program is scheduled for April 4-8 and runs from 8 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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› States › Rhode Island › Rhode Island Mesothelioma Lawyers
Mesothelioma Lawyers in Rhode Island
Commercial and military asbestos exposure in Rhode Island has placed many men and women in harm's way. Asbestos exposure can lead to the development of malignant mesothelioma and other related diseases. If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may wish to consult a local lawyer who can help you get compensation to pay for medical treatments and hold responsible companies accountable for their negligence.
Information about Rhode Island laws that specifically deal with mesothelioma and asbestos are summarized below. Prominent Rhode Island job sites where asbestos exposure occurred are identified below. We also list top law firms that have handled cases for Rhode Island mesothelioma victims. Additionally, we list sample mesothelioma settlements that have been obtained for Rhode Island residents. Lastly we provide information about the Rhode Island statute of limitations for filing an asbestos-related claim.
Rhode Island Asbestos Laws and Regulations
Several agencies in Rhode Island are responsible for governing asbestos laws in the state. For the most part, these regulations adhere to federal standards for the handling of asbestos and the protection of workers.
Occupational Asbestos Exposure in Rhode Island
Rhode Island does not have a state-approved OSHA plan, but does have an Occupational Safety Unit under the Department of Labor and Training that helps oversee adherence to occupational health and safety laws. A federal OSHA office is located in Providence , and there is also an on-site consultation program available through the Department of Health to help businesses improve their safety protocols.
Training and Licensing of Asbestos Professionals in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Department of Health is in charge of governing most laws in regard to the handling of asbestos. Asbestos professionals cannot work on any asbestos projects unless they have satisfactorily completed an approved-training course and pass the final examination. Licenses will have to be renewed annually for asbestos abatement workers and biannually for site supervisors and asbestos abatement contractors. Asbestos contractors and abatement workers will also have to complete a certified annual review course that includes at least 8 hours of instruction. Asbestos site supervisors will need to complete an annual refresher course that involves at least 6 hours of instruction. Further detail for these regulations can be found in Section B.3 of the Rules and Regulations for Asbestos Control or Chapter 24.5 of Title 23 of the General Laws of the State of Rhode Island.
Financial Assistance Available for Mesothelioma Victims
Help provide security for loved ones.
High Profile Rhode Island Asbestos Sites
Many residents of Rhode Island who worked at large commercial or military sites were unknowingly exposed to asbestos. Hundreds of major sites throughout Rhode Island and the employers who managed them have put unsuspecting workers at risk for exposure to asbestos. Lawsuits have been filed on behalf of numerous people who worked at the following sites in Rhode Island.
Asbestos Exposure at Rhode Island Job Sites
Owens-Corning
American Hoechst Corporation
U. S. Naval Base
Pawtucket Electric Company
Royal Electric Corp
Allied Chemical
Narragansett Electric Lighting Company
Rhode Island Covering Company, Inc.
Roger Williams Hospital
Union Railroad Company
Uniroyal Incorporated
United Engineering
United States Rubber Company
Walsh-Kaiser Company, Inc.
Quonset
Quonset Point Naval Station
Rhode Island Dyeing and Finishing
Beyond the list above, asbestos exposure was prevalent at many other work sites in Rhode Island as well. If the site where you or a loved one was exposed to asbestos is not on the list above, contact a lawyer to see if the job site where you worked had a history of exposing workers to asbestos.
Mesothelioma Lawsuits Filed in Rhode Island
Rhode Island residents living in the following towns and cities have filed mesothelioma lawsuits to protect their rights and seek compensation from manufacturers and distributers of asbestos.
Ashaway, RI
Barrington, RI
Charlestown, RI
Chepachet, RI
Coventry, RI
Cumberland, RI
East Greenwich, RI
Foster, RI
Harrisville, RI
Hope Valley, RI
Jamestown, RI
Johnston, RI
Narragansett, RI
North Kingston, RI
North Kingstown, RI
North Providence, RI
Portsmouth, RI
Richmond, RI
Riverside, RI
Rumford, RI
Tiverton, RI
West Greenwich, RI
West Kingstown, RI
Westerly, RI
Mesothelioma Settlements for Rhode Island Residents
As a reference point, we have provided below a sampling of settlements achieved on behalf of Rhode Island residents who were exposed to asbestos in the workplace.
Rhode Island Mesothelioma Settlements
Maintenance / Shipyard - 74 years old
Plantworker - 69 years old
Navy / Mechanic - 76 years old
Merchant Marine / Construction Worker - 87 years old
Navy Worker / Railroad Worker - 72 years old
Navy / Boiler Operator - 56 years old
Steamfitter / Shipyard - 67 years old
Merchant Marine / Construction - 78 years old
Navy / Pipefitter - 70 years old
Insulator - 70 years old
Note: Each lawsuit is different, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in the future. Contact a reputable Rhode Island mesothelioma lawyer to understand how much compensation you may be eligible to receive.
Mesothelioma Firms Practicing in Rhode Island
The following law firms have lawyers who specialize in handling mesothelioma cases. These firms either have offices in Rhode Island or have filed asbestos lawsuits on behalf of Rhode Island residents. They have knowledge of asbestos companies that have unknowingly caused exposure to asbestos to unsuspecting workers.
The Deaton Law Firm offers support to those suffering from Mesothelioma and asbestos related diseases. We provide compassionate assistance, guidance and hope to those diagnosed with Mesothelioma. We are dedicated to holding corporate entities accountable to you and your family for their negligent actions.
Early, Lucarelli, Sweeney and Meisenkothen is a national law firm recognized for its representation of over 3,000 hardworking men and women who have been exposed to asbestos and diagnosed with mesothelioma. ELSM's experience in asbestos litigation spans four decades.
Have a Question About Your Legal Rights in Rhode Island?
Jennifer Lucarelli is happy to help
Mesothelioma Statute of Limitations in Rhode Island
Once diagnosed, a mesothelioma victim has a limited amount of time to file a mesothelioma lawsuit in Rhode Island. For individuals who die from this aggressive cancer, their surviving family members also have a limited period in which to submit a claim. The table below outlines the specific personal injury and wrongful death statutes of limitation in the state of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Mesothelioma Lawsuit Deadlines
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Best Of :: Food & Drink
Best of Miami® /// Food & Drink /// 2000
The mallification of the once-distinctive Road is now complete. Just like every other mall, it has: (1) a Williams-Sonoma, and (2) a food court. Though restaurants are strung along its length, the culinary heart of the Road is at the artificial grassy knoll where skaters and homeless folks rub shoulders with the world's best-looking mall rats. What more could you want in generic upscale eatin'? There's the Joffrey's Coffee shop, the Thai/sushi place, the ... other Thai/sushi place. Okay, okay, there's no Cheesecake Factory, but there's the Nexxt best thing. And for dessert you've got the packed-to-the gills Gelateria Parmalat. All within striking distance of real.life.basic. Coming soon, just down the street: Victoria's Secret! Just like every other mall.
Oh, we know the myth. The best hamburgers are made from ground chuck, because the meat has more fat in it. The fat then prevents the burger from shrinking into a McDonald's-esque disk while cooking. Well, baloney. At the downtown location of Morton's, the hamburger is a full eight ounces of lean ground sirloin. Hard to feel guilty eating that. And it's just about the juiciest thing we've encountered outside the Chris Paciello story. The single drawback? The burger is served only during the noontime meal. Still, order with a side of lyonnaise taters, and that's what we call a power lunch.
17399 Biscayne Blvd., Sunny Isles Beach, 33160
mortons.com
1200 Brickell Ave., Miami, 33131
This converted no-tell motel on South Dixie is painted a really disgusting shade of green; a more reliable harbinger of the food within can be seen in the clusters of patrons on the benches outside the front door, eagerly awaiting their tables. Inside it's long and narrow, with a boxcarlike feel, but the friendly service and the pungent scent of Thai basil, fish sauce, and chili paste more than compensate for the cramped quarters. A Thai restaurant is only as good as its pad thai, and this one kills: a light hand with the ground pork, and it actually has plenty of shrimp! The rich curries are excellent, as are appetizers like tiger tear and nam sod. The chefs also show a deft touch with seafood; if you find a restaurant of any ethnic description that can cook up a tastier whole snapper, let us know. And if you like your Thai food with plenty of fire, you'll be pleased to know Siam Lotus Room actually takes you at your word when you ask for "four stars" of spiciness. Ouch! Hurts so good.
6388 S. Dixie Highway, South Miami, 33143
siamlotusroom.com
Aran S Graham
You just made it. Booth okay? Care for a beverage? Will that be the pasta fagioli or the garden salad? And your rolls: plain or dripping with garlic? For dinner there's lasagna, stuffed shells, eggplant rollatini, chicken parmigiana, veal cacciatore, linguine in clam sauce, ziti with sausage, or something else ... I forgot; I'll be right back. What do you mean you're full? No dessert? Either way it's $7.95. Come on, take the cannoli! (Oh well, just come back: The early bird special is offered seven days a week, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
11720 NE Second Ave., North Miami, 33161
mamajennies.com
Alejandra Cicilia
Tart enough. Sweet enough. Mellow yellow filling, almost ecru. Velvety texture. Moist, crumbly graham cracker crust. Outside edge daintily adorned with a ring of whipped cream. Center garnished with more cream and a twisted lime slice. Ideal to serve to your friends, but at close to ten bucks, certainly not meant to throw at your enemies.
1656 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, 33139
epicuremarket.com
Some folks visit this corner storefront eatery for its baked pastas. Other patrons go for its wonderfully prepared veal scaloppine dishes and fillets of fish sprinkled with capers. And most appreciate the lengths the staff goes to ensure that even those waiting for a table outside have a glass of refreshment. We, however, frequent the cafe for its absolutely fresh caesar salad, which is redolent with garlic, Parmesan, and the all-important anchovies. Oh, we know picky diners don't like to look an anchovy fillet in the eye, so to speak. But you don't have to. The dressing here incorporates chopped anchovies, not whole ones, so you get the proper flavor without being, well, grossed out. Best of all, the kitchen will split an order for you, and the results usually are two huge salads for the price of one.
9500 Harding Ave., Miami Beach, 33140
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3101 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 33134
christysrestaurant.com
In the restaurant's bygone heyday both the famous and infamous, from Jackie Gleason to Meyer Lansky, were regularly seated in the rounded vinyl booths of the Celebrity Corner. Although Wolfie Cohen hasn't owned it for quite some time, the 53-year-old institution still offers both old-timers and tourists a place to savor an authentic slice of Miami Beach's past, or maybe just a satisfying hunk of cheesecake. Even the waiters' uniforms -- black vests, white dress shirts, and bow ties -- appear to be circa the more formal Fifties. Miami Beach artist Stewart Stewart added a burst of color to the already character-filled place in 1991 with his Pickle People Promenade and a smorgasbord of 3-D paintings of Wolfie's standards, including Day-Glo borscht with a dollop of sour cream, matzo ball soup, and a perky BLT, all of which take on a surreal glow at 3:00 a.m. in the seemingly timeless 24-hour eatery.
In the South Beach scene, late-night snacking really has become the norm. So it's not unusual to see couples supping at 10:00 p.m., parties laughing over veal chops at 11:00 p.m., clubbers strapping on the predance feedbag at midnight. But while you can find plenty of places to eat, it's harder to discover one where you can dine. So far Secrets, open till 2:00 a.m. daily, has been something of a, well, secret. But proprietors Filip Rady and Milan Radesits are bound to have a late-night success on their hands with items like tenderloin bites marinated in yogurt and served with mango chipotle coulis, and a crab and rock shrimp "burger." Indeed the tropically influenced fare ranges from pan-seared tuna steak topped with sugar-cane juice to fruit-stuffed French toast, which pretty much means you can enjoy the secrets of culinary success not only late at night, but early in the morning as well.
The black embroidered shawl of a flamenco dancer drapes down from the arched entrance of this cavelike tavern. The air inside is misty, lanterns hang over the bar, and the waiters are dressed like toreros. Here the tapas are eaten medieval style: standing while chugging down an ice-cold Estrella Galicia (Spanish beer) or sitting at a wooden barrel. To really get into el tapeo, try the bandeja de tapas variadas, an assortment of six tapas for two or more people that includes Spanish sausages, pan tomaca (toasted bread dipped in a tomato and garlic sauce), fluffy Spanish tortillas, ham-and-cheese croquettes, and fried crabmeat. Feast on fried calamari a la andaluza (soaked in aioli sauce and lemon) or shrimp sautéed in white wine and garlic; both will bring out the duende in you. The seafood-stuffed mushrooms and the roasted red peppers bursting with calamari will have you, as the Spanish say, entrando en calor.
The "dining" part might be a bit of a misnomer, given that this restaurant is more of a good place to snack on caviar and sip champagne. But you can't argue with the seductive nature of the fare: caviar, lobster, crab, smoked salmon, Kobe beef carpaccio. Ply your sweetie with some of these luxury foodstuffs and no doubt you'll get quite a return on the investment. And make no mistake -- investment it is. Black truffle soup can run you $45, and a platter of beluga, osetra, and sevruga can cost you $195. Plus, since all of these gourmet items are served with little more than toast points, expect your appetite to be stimulated rather than sated. But that, after all, is the point of aphrodisiac dining: to leave you wanting, craving, desiring more.
You can work up a desert of thirst out on the River of Grass, whether you're fishing, enjoying an airboat ride, or watching a man tangle with an alligator at the Miccosukee Cultural Center. A twenty-minute drive west of Krome Avenue, this tribe-owned establishment is the perfect spot in which to rehydrate. Here the iced brew is served the way it's supposed to be. The age-old formula: tall glass full of ice cubes (ice quantity is crucial); real tea, robust and unsweetened (you can take the country boy out of the country but you can't take the sugar out of the presweetened tea); a quarter of a lemon (not a dinky piece like some places); and finally, free refills.
Cuban sandwich and Versailles -- in Miami, they go together like, well, José Martí and poetry. Like most everything on Versailles' extensive menu, this Cuban sandwich is a credit to its cuisine. Lots of ham, generally more than in other versions, and melted Swiss cheese between not-overly-flattened slices of very fresh Cuban bread. No gratuitous grease. The only thing that could make it better: a little less stinginess with the pickles.
Best Food Court: Lincoln Road and Euclid Avenue
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Best Of :: People & Places
Best of Miami® /// People & Places /// 2000
Who wants to go to a smoky bar on a first date? Or a cacophonous dance club where you can't talk to each other? And who wants to risk half-a-week's pay at an expensive restaurant with someone you don't really know yet? Tell her to go fly a kite. With you. Drive to the Haulover Beach and use the huge kites to guide you into the park area on the west side of Collins. Find the concession trailer displaying an airborne apparatus. That's Skyward Kites. Buy yourself a kite; they start at four bucks. Then proceed to the park's field, or cross Collins to the beach. Have some fun. Run around. Relax. Talk. By the end of the day you'll know a lot more about each other than you would after a bleary night out. If it's a bust, you still have the kite, and you had some fun flying it. If there's chemistry, invite her out for dinner. Skyward Kites is open daily from 9:00 a.m. until sunset.
"If you could call this place something, it would be tantamount, in Spanish, to that sitcom in English where everybody knows your name -- Cheers," says Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Lt. Eddie Ballester. The firefighter and paramedic, stationed five blocks away, is a regular at this window. Over the years Brothers to the Rescue leader José Basulto has scarfed not a few pastelitos at this locale while pondering his next move. Miami-Dade County Manager Merrett Stierheim also has been spotted here, along with several of his assistants. Univision's answer to Walter Cronkite, newsman Guillermo Benitez, is another familiar face. Policemen, businessmen, plumbers, retirees, and Harley-Davidson aficionados all make this their chitchat haven. On a recent Saturday, while waiting for his coffee and Danish, Ballester talked about saving lives with Retavase, a new clot-busting medication for heart-attack victims currently being tested at his station. You never know what new things you'll learn at the Universidad de la Carreta.
Miami Commissioner J.L. Plummer had his re-election formula down pat: Raise tons of cash, glad-hand voters at community festivals, and have his Cuban friends praise him on Spanish-language radio. It had worked seven times before, after all. Upstart businessman Johnny Winton might push him into a runoff, but the veteran's vast war chest would crush him. Oops! While Miami politics changed, Plummer didn't. District elections had turned the city's politically neglected Upper East Side into a powerful force that overwhelmed Plummer's traditional base in the Cuban community. He also underestimated how badly the city's scandals sullied his reputation. Most voters, including many in Plummer's Coconut Grove back yard, didn't buy his pleas of ignorance as his colleagues were arrested, the city fell into disarray, and taxes climbed. In addition the 29-year incumbent didn't take underdog Winton seriously. The end result: Plummer maintained his unprecedented streak of seven elections without a runoff. But he was clobbered in the eighth.
It all began here in 1993: salsa classes on Monday and Wednesday nights at the spacious and charmingly down-at-the-heels Blue Banquet Hall. By now the place is packed four nights a week, and Salsa Lovers is a huge enterprise, having expanded to two more locations. But the West Miami-Dade scene has a festive, nightclubby quality all its own, and it just keeps getting hotter (sometimes literally; the AC is erratic). Monday through Thursday a large and varied crowd descends on the hall, everyone from senior citizens to families to middle-school students, though the 20- to 30-year-old crowd dominates. The sheer energy generated by hundreds of slaves to the salsa rhythm is irresistible. Some people skip the classes and instead hang out, flirt, or practice moves with a partner. Between classes (three levels, each one hour long, beginning at 7:00 p.m.) the DJ spins a "practice song," and a gigantic circle of couples fills the entire main dance floor, so big the instructors have to call out the turns on a microphone. Oscar D'Leon blares from the speakers, and pretty soon everyone's in a whirl -- dile que no, dame una, hips going and fondillos shaking, abrázala, abanico, arms rising and feet pivoting, montaña, balsero, and sometimes the lights will dim and the tacky disco balls will turn. For seven dollars (price per lesson) you get all this, and you might even learn the paseo por el parque.
9848 Bird Rd., Miami, 33165
salsalovers.com
In many American political plays, a guy (it's usually a guy) comes onstage and talks. The set, the costumes, the lighting -- they're all window dressing, which helps to explain the sorry state of political drama. Doug Wright's 1995 work Quills, however, dissects the issues of censorship through the trials of the Marquis de Sade. It's a play of ideas, driving home the notion that you can't get rid of art you don't like merely by destroying its author. But it's also a play of images. In the exquisitely designed Florida Stage production, Jim Fulton's lighting design reproduced the Marquis's naughty writing as luminescent streaks across the theater walls. Allen D. Cornell's inventive turntable set gave rise to multiple arresting scenes, not the least of which was the yanking out of the Marquis's tongue. Suzette Pare's costumes smartly outfitted the small-minded denizens of nineteenth-century France as well as the increasingly-more-disrobed Sade. And Scott Burgess's sound design created an asylumwide orgy we could "see," though it happened off-stage. At the helm was artistic director Louis Tyrrell, whose fluid hand and wicked sense of humor proved to be assets the Marquis would have loved.
In his many years as the public face of the county's public schools, Fraind had repeatedly proven himself to be inarticulate, insensitive, and inflexible. When school-board members finally got tired of him making them look bad and decided, at their March meeting, to appoint someone else as their spokesman, Fraind demonstrated the wisdom of the decision by offering an upraised arm and fist -- in the universal gesture for "up yours" -- to a parent who had questioned his salary level. How ironic that the first candid, straightforward, concise statement from this guy, captured by the television cameras that record each meeting, came only on the eve of his removal as the district's mouthpiece.
It's supposed to feel like a little bit of Nantucket down here on the lower peninsula. A fresh and crisp Northeastern respite from the scorching Southern sun. But really the lobby in the new Beach House is Florida through and through. This is no rectangular foyer, stop-over-while-you-check-in type of lobby. Instead you get different lounges with different flavors for different moods, all outfitted (if the blue hue didn't already give it away) by the Polo Ralph Lauren design team. If you enter from Collins Avenue, huge vases of fresh-cut flowers -- usually yellow -- greet the visitor at the entrance, which is decked out in muted blue and white. But no need to dally here. Head for the bright and playful room to the right -- the, well, Florida room. Two walls are windows, with views out to the pool and to the ocean beyond. Lime-green covers the walls; pink, salmon, yellow, green, and blue cover the cushions and pillows on the white-wicker furniture. That may sound noisy but it's not. The colors combine into a soothing balm, light and airy but well removed from the heat. All the rooms are furnished like a bed and breakfast -- knickknacks on the end tables, art books scattered about for a leisurely browse. The main lobby is toned down, furnished in brown wicker with blue upholstery, and trimmed with sophisticated Chinese porcelains and paintings (heavy on deep red and gold, adding an extra-lush touch). From here it's also possible to see the pool area, which really should be considered part of the lobby as well, with its multicolor cabanas, ample seating, and hedges sculpted into sea horses. Grab a drink from the bar and choose your mood: There's no better way to refresh your feeling for Florida.
In a season fraught with top-drawer solo performances (Charles Nelson Reilly in Life of Reilly, Kathleen Turner in Tallulah, Melinda Lopez in Medianoche, and Jean Stapleton in Eleanor: Her Secret Journey), Judith Delgado towered over all. Playing fashion diva Diana Vreeland, the actress delivered a performance that lived up to Vreeland's motto: "Give 'em what they didn't know they wanted." Vreeland's life story garnered 1996 Drama Desk and Obie awards for creators Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson when Wilson starred in it. Elizabeth Ashley did the honors when the national tour passed through South Florida in 1998. Nonetheless Delgado, a genius at transforming herself, turned the tastemaker and long-time Vogue editor into something of her own (and director Joseph Adler's) making. Even the actress's elegant, oversize hands conspired to become a perfect physical match for Vreeland's elegant, larger-than-life personality. It was a performance that reached out and grabbed us by our lapels.
"Have Character, Will Travel." So reads the business card of Daniel Ricker, self-appointed "citizen advocate," who spent the past year attending county commission meetings, city commission meetings, school board meetings, and Public Health Trust meetings, all in an effort to better understand how government operates. He even sat through the public-corruption trial of former county Commissioner James Burke so he could hear firsthand how deals are made at the county level. Why did he do it? Ricker, who made his fortune managing international companies that sell coronary pacemakers, says he became so disgusted with the sleaze and corruption of politics in South Florida that, rather than withdraw into apathy, he became hyperactive in the community. He took a year off work and dedicated himself to his task. A man of limitless patience (a necessary attribute in order to sit through some of those meetings), he says he never became bored and always found the working of government fascinating and important. Simply knowing that an informed member of the public was attending those meetings, watching every move they made, undoubtedly had a sobering effect on Miami's less-than-trustworthy politicians and bureaucrats.
In a county with woefully slim public-transportation options, Miami Beach planners looked out their windows, past the backed-up traffic at the stoplights, and saw the future. It was pretty, environmentally friendly, and didn't cost a lot. The ElectroWave shuttle buses premiered two years ago and have proven to be a wonderfully hassle-free way to navigate the often congested streets of South Beach. And a good thing was recently improved: In April the routes were expanded to cover more city blocks north of the original South Pointe-to-Seventeenth Street loop. Plus the fleet grew from seven to eleven vehicles, and payment options were increased (you can now use your parking debit card to pay the 25-cent fare). The shuttles are completely electric, with propane-powered air-conditioning units. "We are the only all-electric transit system in the country," exclaims Judy Evans, executive director of Miami Beach Transportation Management Association. "We've become a model for other cities."
Best Place For A First Date: Skyward Kites
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There's Really No Sensible Reason to Ever Have Sex on the Beach
By Kate Hakala
"I was a little tipsy and went skinny dipping with this dude I just met," recalled Natalie*, 30, to Mic. "We ended up having sex on the beach in the pitch dark. I woke up with sand in every crevice imaginable."
Sex on the beach — it's a cocktail, it's a Hollywood cliche, and it remains one of the most glorified aspects of a summer romance. There's something nostalgically enticing about limbs out in the sun, playful flirting in the ocean before a quickie in the dunes. The glorification is exacerbated by those tan bodies clogging our Instagram feeds, the legs of at least some of the 200 million millennials taking yearly vacations abroad.
But ask any person who has actually dared to drop their swimsuit and get busy, and you will learn that sex on the beach is far from it's cracked up to be.
"You picture fireworks on a beach blanket with the sunset in the background," Natalie said. "It never ends with a UTI. But my night did."
In short, it's just one more unrealistic sex expectation that leaves us feeling unfulfilled.
The vacation ruiner: "Hot fantasy, logistical nightmare" is how sex educator Kate McCombs described sex on the beach to Mic. A passion-filled evening can even turn into a felony when it's public. Last month, a Florida couple was sentenced to 15 years in prison and put on the state's sex offender registry after having a romp in broad daylight on the beach.
Absurdly harsh penalty aside, the couple serves as a cautionary tale. As Scott*, 25, told Mic, "You basically have an entire beach full of iPhones ready to catch you mid BJ."
"It might sound exciting, but it's not kind to have unsuspecting folks happen upon your public sex," added McCombs.
That kind of pressure (not to mention potential arrest) can be a major drawback. "Physiologically, arousal is a relaxation response. Unless the thrill of getting caught is your thing, your libido will benefit from eliminating those potentially vacation-ruining variables," McCombs said.
"I couldn't get over the fact that someone could see us," Mark*, 29 — who reports on his beach sex romp with regret — told Mic.
Dan and Serena have sex on the beach in "Gossip Girl."Source: YouTube
Less romance, more sand: Also killing the mood? The environment. As Scott put it, "sand is not an aphrodisiac."
"There is nothing sexy about sand in your coochie, pee hole, mouth, ears or any other area that's generally involved in sex, foreplay and kissing," Kat George wrote for Bustle. "Sex on the beach involves a lot of spitting sand out of your mouth and weird chafing, all of which is a real mood-killer."
So good luck with the limitations. "He took me out for a moonlit stroll and went down on me under the stars," Jade*, 22, told Mic. "But I wouldn't want to try penetrative sex for obvious reasons. Sand in uncomfortable places, much?"
It's also potentially unsafe. "Lake, river, ocean, and pond water all contain bacteria. Having sex can introduce that bacteria into your vagina, which could put you at risk for infections that you don't want up there," PopSugar's Tara Block said. In fact, a 2007 study found that the dangerous waterborne microbes that shut beaches down can be found that same sand you're rolling naked in.
Plus, when condoms come into contact with foreign bodies, they risk tearing, and condom companies don't test their products for salty or sandy conditions, a Durex spokesperson told LiveScience.
"A condom and sand are about as bad a combination as you could think of," Mark said. "Everything tends to be less wet in an ocean. If you get my drift."
David Bowie has sex on the beach in "China Girl."Source: YouTube
Hot fantasy, logistical nightmare: Which is why the fantasy seemed past its prime. Like so many other sex expectations, the truth is that not everyone will find something pleasing about sex in the sand. Like shower sex, water beds and 69ing before it, sex in the sand is an idea pop culture would have us believe is the ideal. But the other side of the tide — the sand-lined vagina, broken condoms and possible spectators — so rarely make the Hollywood script. Luckily, there are romantic alternatives.
"If ocean waves rock your boat, try camping by the beach or stay at a hotel with ocean view rooms," McCombs said.
* Names have been changed to allow subjects to speak freely on private matters.
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Scary Spice Mel B announces home-town date for 'Intimate Conversation with ...' - tickets on sale today
Scary Spice Mel B is bringing her show to Leeds Grand
Sue Wilkinson
Fresh from the success of the Spice Girls sell-out tour, her Sunday Times best selling autobiography, Brutally Honest and her Piers Morgan Life Stories interview the loudest, proudest Spice Girl has announced two exclusive, intimate ‘in conversation’ style shows in her home town of Leeds and in London.
Melanie will be appearing at the Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House on Sunday August 25 and the Savoy Theatre in London on Sunday September 1. Tickets for the dates go on sale on Wednesday June 26 at 10am via www.leedsgrandtheatre.com and Friday June 26 at 11am via www.thesavoytheatre.com
Fans will get a rare chance to get up close and personal with the star as she reveals the real truth behind the headlines, with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. The live shows will support Women’s Aid for whom she is a patron.
As one-fifth of the iconic Spice Girls and judge on X Factor and America's Got Talent, Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, has been an international star since the age of 19. And yet there are sides of Mel that no one has ever seen or really known.
The show will examine every aspect of Mel’s life, from where she began to where she is today. Mel’s self-effacing, mercurial story-telling will shatter your illusions in every way possible. The show takes the Spice Girls sell out reunion as its starting point and will zigzag back and forth through an exceptional life story. The show will also feature never-before-seen video content.
Melanie said: “ I’m so honoured to be sharing my story - good and bad - because I kept so many things secret for so long out of shame and I have learnt over these past few years that through talking, through sharing you learn and you make real bonds with people. This is a first for me. I want to make it very special, very real and very intimate. I know there will be tears but I am also hoping for few laughs too because that’s the woman I am - as you will discover.”
Melanie will be interviewed by co-author of her book and trusted friend, the celebrity journalist, Louise Gannon.
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Trump Claims NFL Owners Are “Afraid” of Their Players
The dog whistles continue.
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President Donald Trump continued attacking NFL players for protesting during the national anthem, telling Fox & Friends he believes team owners are unwilling to punish athletes because they are scared of players.
“I think they’re afraid of their players, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said. “I think it’s disgraceful. And they’ve got to be tough and they’ve got to be smart because you look at their ratings are going way down.”
The interview, which was recorded Wednesday and aired Thursday morning, comes as the latest salvo in the president’s ongoing tirade against players protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. Since Friday, when he described anthem protesters as a “son of a bitch” during a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, Trump has spent every day either attacking athletes or calling on NFL officials to forbid such actions.
Many have criticized the president for fixating on the controversy, rather than the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
When asked what prompted his initial remarks in Alabama Friday, Trump claimed NFL owners have personally complained to the president of being trapped in a “box” over how to handle the protests. “When it comes to the respect of our nation, when it comes to the respect of our anthem and our flag—they have no choice,” he said. “You have to have people stand with respect.”
It’s been reported Trump is using the current fight to shore up support among his base, amid fears of angering his core supporters with his recent bipartisanship work with Democrats on DACA.
.@POTUS on NFL owners: When it comes to the respect of our anthem and flag, they have no choice. You have to have people stand with respect. pic.twitter.com/ApAuTFjAvY
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 28, 2017
Trump Keeps Tweeting About NFL Protests While Largely Ignoring Puerto Rico
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PROGRAMMATIC TELEVISION - ADOPT TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY TODAY
by Ramsey McGrory
The buying and selling of media is changing. ‘Programmatic’ developed first in the unsold inventory of digital display media but has now evolved into a way of thinking that uses massive and diverse data, coupled with automation, through cloud-based, agile-developed software. ‘Programmatic’ thinking is changing how we manage all types of media and, as Dave Morgan argued and Allison Weissbrot reported, ‘programmatic’ thinking is turning all media into performance media.
Much of programmatic innovation has focused on digital ad spend which surpassed linear television for the first time in 2016, per eMarketer, and is expected to see “double-digit growth each year […] from $83.00 billion in 2017 to $129.23 billion in 2021” creating a $10 billion gap between spending on the two platforms. Because of statistics like this, there has been a lot of hand wringing by traditional buyers and sellers about how programmatic strategies will eat traditional TV. Foremost in everyone’s mind is Programmatic TV (PTV)—the buying and selling of video inventory using software automation and advanced audience data. PTV video inventory includes any television that is delivered via an IP address or through an OTT service or device.
However, for all the excitement, eMarketer estimates PTV currently accounts for less than 5% of the total TV/video market. The long-term trend is undeniable, but it will not be at significant scale for at least five years as content delivery systems shift to IP based and OTT. Also, the TV ad buying process is far more complex than simply switching to audience targeting.
So, the key question for marketers is what to do in the next 12-18 months that recognizes both the long term trend and short term needs, where we can deliver incremental advancements within the framework of traditional television buying and selling. To massively improve TV upfront ROAS, the answer lies in leveraging data in the schedule planning and optimization process across television and digital.
What follows are two key areas where the industry is already making strides, and presents marketers with opportunities for immediate action:
Rethink your currency. The best example is the industry shift from relying on Nielsen as the sole planning currency, to including comScore/Rentrak as an alternative provider. This was significant enough that Sir Martin Sorrell addressed it at a dinner with partners and clients in Cannes. By incorporating comScore’s rich data sets, marketers can fine-tune target audiences, identify their viewing habits, and measure ROI in near real-time. In a world where the upfront market is softening, scatter is moving to digital, and digital is moving to real time, flexible and robust data is increasingly valuable. Comscore demos available in Mediaocean Platforms for 2018 Upfronts
Infusing data and automation into the Upfronts –Standard Media Index reports that this year’s Upfronts accounted for 76% ($16.5 billion) of national TV spending, so while trends in television buying are changing, Upfronts are still massively important, and ripe for innovation. The process of optimizing brands, campaigns, and target audiences against scheduled commitments is still lengthy, manual, and done too infrequently. But there are companies, such as VideoAmp, that are ushering in the next generation of omni-channel video-focused planning / buying solutions. VideoAmp automates the way agencies and brands have manually allocated their upfront commitments, and instead helps them optimize committed network television buys using offline and digital data from Nielsen, comScore and many other 3rd party sources. By managing linear television budgets with the same precision as digital video (OTT, social video, and VOD) the industry will see greater ROAS and deeper analysis, while freeing personnel to focus on more strategic pursuits.
Mediaocean’s latest partner VideoAmp creates a fully integrated linear TV planning and optimization solution for the upfront and scatter markets for agencies and brands.
Adopting incremental advancements is the best way for brands and agencies to stay competitive without sacrificing healthy operations – people, process, profits, or massively overhauling the TV buying process before much of the necessary infrastructure is in place.
By taking these steps now, marketers can massively improve ROAS and begin reorienting teams around converged planning / buying processes, built on a massive amount of data and automation.
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Lebanon: Grief and the Elderly
Amy Neilson is a doctor from Australia and has been currently working in Lebanon with Syrian refugees. She shares her experiences with us below.
Say it’s true that life’s worth all the dying we do, sings Matthew Perryman-Jones.
There is a lady who comes whose diabetic foot wounds our clinic doctors in Tripoli, Lebanon, and I de-bride and dress. She is in her late 70s, with the saddest, grateful eyes and warmest smile. She came to us taking intramuscular amikacin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic. A wound swab sent to the laboratory from another clinic suggested the organism growing in this lady’s wounds was most sensitive to this particular antibiotic. Not a drug in my regular armory, either here or at home. I was grateful this lady came already taking the medication, and on it described improvement.
There were two wounds, between the great and second toe—one about 5mm deep, the other at least 10mm. Gently we explored the wound, releasing exudate and feeling to assess if we touched bone. “Probe to bone” is an old-school test for osteomyelitis, one I learned as a student in the Indigenous Australian communities of the Torres Strait and the Cape York Peninsula twelve years ago. Osteomyelitis is infection of the bone.
Osteomyelitis is awful in any setting, but it is a potential disaster here. There are challenges accessing hospitals, and, in the event of access, the likelihood of major financial problems. If she needed to be admitted for intravenous antibiotics, would we be able to convince her? Would it be enough of an emergency for UNHCR to pay the bulk of the bill? Would the family be able to pay the rest? Would the hospital even agree with me if I believed it to be a necessary course of action? Would she be charged and discharged? Ultimately, if the treatment did not occur or it failed, would she lose her foot? And if the foot needed to go, would someone do that operation? Again, who would pay? Would there be a physiotherapist to help her walk again? Would there be walking aids? Would her mobility be compromised, and with it her independence? Would infection spread to the rest of her body?
“Some explain that it is enough to stay and live day-to-day, hoping fervently that the opportunity to return home will arise”
Contemplating these standard questions of consequences, imagine my gratitude that I could not probe bone, and that the family were committed to locating and buying the continued intramuscular antibiotics while the wound healed. Consider then that amikacin is an aminoglycoside and our patient is an elderly diabetic. Diabetes and aminoglycosides are not a great combination with potentially impaired kidneys in a setting where serial renal function measurements are problematic. Learning how to work with what you have, press for what you need, and through it all cross your fingers and bank on your clinical judgment and experience.
She was so grateful. Huge smiles and wet cheek kisses. Every dab of betadine, the de-briding of the wound, the dressing, the concern, the conversation. There was much thanking us, and thanking Allah. Five days later our patient returned for review. The smaller ulcer was close to healed; the surrounding skin was not red, the wounds were healing as desired from the inside out, and maybe only 2mm deep. The larger wound was equally improved, persisting at about 5mm deep. I knelt at her feet to again de-bride the edges and dress the foot. She tapped me on the head when it hurt too much. I don’t want to cause her pain, but I was happy that this meant there was persisting sensation.
There are no words for how small your efforts seem taking the time to care for an elderly lady’s foot. A little enough task to me, but life impacting for her. Of course, it’s not small for us as an organisation. It’s an example of the complexity of secondary care services we are trying to deliver in a poor region not far from the border of Syria. Behind that act of sitting at the feet of an elderly lady is a huge team of logistics, supply, nursing, pharmacy, doctors, coordination, security, finances, and, of course ultimately, donors investing in taking outpatient care beyond primary care and into chronic non-communicable disease care. My immense privilege is to be the person sitting at her feet; the privilege of being at the front line.
I am nervous by now though about the duration of aminoglycoside treatment. I hesitated to continue, but was reticent to stop. We’d reduced the dose already but we decide then to cease for three days and test her kidney and liver function. Tossing up between the infection and her kidneys; the risks of permanent foot injury or even sepsis, versus renal failure. Thirty-five this year, our patient’s son was next to be seen in our chronic disease clinic. He was diagnosed with diabetes three years ago. His diabetes is markedly uncontrolled, and we discuss at length to obtain a measure of the issues.
His ever-alert mother listens as we consider the history of his illness and treatment trials. She listens, and then interrupts to tell her story of his diagnosis. He watched his two brothers die, she said. He collapsed, and was taken to hospital. Following this great stress, he was diagnosed with diabetes. Not knowing what to say, I leaned over and put her stray shoe back on her foot. She kissed me again. So many kisses. No wonder she was hanging intently to his every word.
Say it’s true that life’s worth all the dying we do.
The elderly are inspiring me, teaching me, and pummeling my heart in this particular emergency. Old and unwell, with new grief and years of displacement, previously as ordinary or middle class as you and I and now markedly reliant on the support of non-government organisations and on the family that remains. And their families likewise reliant upon them. Some place their hope in UNHCR and the consideration of journeys to a new life. Some explain that it is enough to stay and live day-to-day, hoping fervently that the opportunity to return home will arise. When I hear reporting on the news, ‘women and children’ are persistently touted as a vulnerable group. But consider the elderly. The elderly are a sizeable and often vulnerable group that deserves consideration and investment.
I first gave this group thought while listening to a talk by a lady from Help Age International in London at the Extreme Medicine Expo in December 2014. Amidst an event of excitement and grandeur, with many fascinating people, this talk struck me. The elderly in complex humanitarian emergencies. Epidemiologically, do we consider them? Do we count them? It is important to consider how the elderly access medical and other services, their mobility, their family pressures and expectations, their grief, their literacy, their income capacity, their adaptability. They are the caregivers for their families. Taking the responsibility for grandchildren when fighting-age children have been lost to war. The elderly are culturally important for rebuilding a nation post-war. We should invest in them.
The following day one of our GPs [family doctors] called me when I was at the office. An elderly patient had had a fall. In the past few weeks we have given a lot of thought to how we are managing two key complications experienced by our cohort of hypertensive and diabetic patients. Considerations of possibilities for how we can approach chest pain and new renal impairment in this context has preoccupied my thoughts, words, spreadsheets, and research.
Falls. I hadn’t thought yet about falls. Significant, because it’s not going to be an isolated event. Knowing the cohort, I expect that seeing one we will see more. Mobility. Falls in the elderly are a common presentation in Australian emergency departments—my pre-MSF stomping ground. Was injury sustained? Was there a mechanical reason for the fall? Was it what we call non-mechanical in that it was preceded by such symptoms as chest pain, shortness of breath, or dizziness? Is he stable? Does he need walking aids? What is accessible to him? What resources are available to us? What actions can we take now to assist this man in preserving his mobility? Just as osteomyelitis in a complex humanitarian emergency would be startlingly unwelcome, so too would a fractured neck or femur. Investing in the elderly. Considering their dizziness, neuropathic pain, falls, heart disease, wounds, and arthritis.
“Eighty-five years of age with tears in her eyes and a slight facial droop. Her four sons were killed in front of her in the war. Their throats cut. Elderly, quite deaf, and accompanied by her daughter; her only surviving child”
A fifty-one-year-old woman cried when I returned to the GP’s consult with a glucometer. She was a very poor lady who travelled a long way to our clinic for free diabetic medications. She had owned a glucometer in Syria and used it assiduously. She was struggling with the cost of disposable strips for analysis here. Persisting where she could, she nonetheless was not winning. Our strips did not fit her machine so replacing the whole system was the solution. A number of our patients travel quite a distance despite financial and health limitations. Certainly fifty-one is young to me, but you would say in Australia “she didn’t look a day over seventy.” More kisses. More tears. More thanks.
Then, at the close of my week of considering all the more my older patients, there was the one. The one who, for quite a few more breaths than normal, was the undoing of my heart. Eighty-five years of age with tears in her eyes and a slight facial droop. Her four sons were killed in front of her in the war. Their throats cut. Elderly, quite deaf, and accompanied by her daughter; her only surviving child.
How do you live after watching your four sons killed? How do you place one foot in front of the next? Outside, after the consult and with her unfazed consent, I photographed her and her daughter. Love and sorrow mingled in her daughter’s eyes as she looked upon her mother. “If I die there is a photo to show,” our patient said to me. Yes there is, but I will give it to you before you die. Treating chronic non-communicable disease amongst Syrian refugees in Lebanon is an exercise in humanity, humility, and resilience—for us all.
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Fender American Vintage '64 Telecaster
Another authentic re-creation of a classic Tele
By Neville Marten 2012-12-13T15:42:00.347Z 6 String Solid Body Guitars
Classic tones meet playable design. In our opinion, it's the best of Fender's new American Vintage Teles.
Authentic spec (thankfully, with the exception of modern wiring). Fantastic tones. Top-notch build quality. Manageable neck. Steel saddles.
Not a lot.
Only a handful of classic-era electric guitars genuinely qualify for the tag of "the only one you'll ever need". Gibson has one, the fabulous ES-335, and Fender can boast two; the Stratocaster and the Telecaster. Here we look at the new Vintage '64 Telecaster from Fender's completely overhauled American Vintage range.
"It's remarkable just how much the neck and even the body shapes have altered since early-era Telecasters"
Your humble scribe has been around Teles of all eras, both as a player and repairer, and it's remarkable just how much the neck and even the body shapes have altered, how the transition from one curve into another can vary drastically, and how tiny variations in edge radius - even as inconsequential as those round the headstock - can drastically alter the vibe.
Fender has spent the last 30 years re-learning its past and with the new American Vintage range has homed in on what it sees as the three essential vintage Teles: the quintessential ash-bodied 'black guard' '52; the slimmer-necked '58, also in ash; and the rosewood 'board '64 (reviewed here) that's generally alder-bodied, but employing ash for the White Blonde colour option. Fender has gone to town on accuracy, too, having used several great originals as benchmarks.
First bone of contention: the blonde finish. Chris Fleming says: "It looks to me - this is what we believe - that the 1952 Teles were originally blonde and they turned a bit brown-ish or butterscotch or yellow over a period of time because of the formulation of the lacquer they used. Then in '65 or so the lacquer changed and it stopped yellowing in that way and started looking like the American Vintage '58 Telecaster, which is kind of a whiter blonde. After the colour we put on a thin clear top coat.
"So all of the guitars have a base, white wash coat but the blond Teles and the one blonde Strat all have a sunburst around the edges in white, including the '52 Tele, which then gets its extra colour. We spent a lot of time on this and it was really hard for production to get consistent colour matches. But now we're pretty happy."
The new 'Flash Coat' lacquer finish does drag, but we found a silicon-impregnated cloth helped. For certain, this guitar feels tougher to play than more modern Standards and super-tweaked Custom Shop models. Tougher isn't always negative, however - many players insist on some fight in the guitar to bring out the best in their technique and tone.
"The '64's 'round-lam' rosewood 'board, coupled with a C-shaped neck, proves to be an all-round player-friendly experience in our opinion"
Either way, the '64's 'round-lam' rosewood 'board, coupled with a C-shaped neck, proves to be a good halfway house between the two schools of thought - an all-round player-friendly experience in our opinion. The playing surface's lack of sheen and the micron or two of lacquer that's missing gives the impression of more fret beneath the fingers. Bends and vibrato are accessible, even those down near the nut, and there's a feeling that this is a more modern guitar, despite the ubiquitous 184mm (7.25-inch) radius.
You'd have to say that these days, what with flatter fingerboards and bigger frets being the 'norm' on Fenders rather than the exception, it's easy to forget how early Fenders were trickier to play in some respects and easier in others.
For instance, try bending the third string at the 2nd fret for your archetypal Muddy Waters or Hendrix blues lick; you might find the string slipping from under your fingers due to the low wires. Conversely, bash out barre chords for two hours and the cambered 'board makes it easy, whereas on your modern 'flat board and big frets' Fender it can be tiring.
For years we got around the fretting issue by perseverance, and the fact that if the old guard could do it, then nothing was going to stop us trying. Just as with the Strats, if you use a lot of string bending in your playing, you will need to have that action higher than you would on a flatter 'board. It's a matter of preference though.
Overall, it's hard to criticise this Tele from a build quality or authenticity standpoint. Some of the inherent simplicity and rudimentary nature of the build and component choices are exactly what makes it vintage-correct. You either accept those era-related spec and playability issues as an essential part of the tone and experience, or go elsewhere in Fender's vast range.
What is unavoidable after the generally easy nature of American Standard guitars and the like-an-old-pair-of-shoes instant satisfaction of Custom Relics, is just how squeaky new they feel. Getting them bedded in how you like them will take a while - only you can decide if you want to put the work in.
For context, some of the Guitarist magazine staff have commented that it's the only way to truly end up bonding with a guitar, and also explains their reluctance to chop and change axes with any regularity. The right Tele usually ends up being a lifer, in our experience.
"We can't stress enough how important it is to plug this guitar in, turn it up, and feel the difference for yourself. And, yes, we mean 'feel' as much as we mean 'hear'"
The various eras produced recognisably different Tele tones - some darker, some twangier. This is partly down to wood choices, but the pickups also changed, in their magnet types, wire gauge and so on. Even the bridge saddles can have a significant effect on the sound of the guitar. Recording, too, can flatten things out once you've been through mixing and mastering, so we can't stress enough how important it is to plug this guitar in, turn it up, and feel the difference for yourself. And, yes, we mean 'feel' as much as we mean 'hear'.
Thankfully, the guitar retains modern wiring, not the archaic pre-'67 style that's at odds with today's tastes. On plugging in the '64, the immediate cry was, "You can really hear the rosewood." Indeed, you can. There's a dark warmth here that's absent in the other new Teles in the range, and an early Beck-Kinks-Stones-style wiriness that the others don't quite have. We like the threaded steel saddles, too, because they allow basic string spacing adjustment and always seem to sound great.
This is definitely a versatile Tele, and thanks to that rosewood 'board, the most playable in our opinion, too. The aforementioned '52 kicks a little harder, tonally, but all else considered, this is the guitar that won the most Telecaster votes cast in the Guitarist office. If we owned it, we might even be tempted to fit the '52's pickups (sorry, Fender).
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George Edward Kilmer died peacefully on Saturday, August 8, 2015 surrounded by loved ones. George had lived in Volant since 1954, however, spent the last three years residing at Avalon Springs Nursing Center in Mercer, PA.
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He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Anna; one son, Larry; and one daughter, Nancy.
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Surprise, people are still rubbish in 2019: Overwatch pro leaves team over doxxing threats
Christine King· 4 Jan 2019
It’s only January, people. It’s a little early for this shit.
On 21 December 2018, a player by the name of Ellie joined the Second Wind team in Overwatch’s minor league, Overwatch Contenders. Shock, horror, they only used one name, leaving off their surname. Fun fact: it isn’t a rule for Overwatch Contenders, or Second Wind, that you use your full legal name, other people just always have up until now. And never mind that esports contestants generally go by their screen name alone. The “problem” was that Ellie is a traditionally female name and, thus, a cause for suspicion. Because girls cannot play teh gamez, she must be fake, she must be a male player on a smurf account, anything but a woman that plays games well enough to join a team and get a high rank. And how dare she not provide her full name!
A few days after the Twitter announcement of Ellie joining the team, she released screenshots from her account showing evidence of efforts to doxx her. Doxxing: the abusive act of seeking out and releasing someone’s personal information to the public in an act of intimidation. A high-ranked, but banned, player, named Haunt, had written: “It’s doxxing time,” going on to qualify his suggestion by writing “Not for malicious intent, just to figure shit out.” The reasoning being that no woman they’d never heard of could possibly have reached such a high rank so quickly.
In an effort to prove her existence, ugh, Ellie streamed Overwatch with other professional players, even ones she had been accused of being. However, because this is the internet, she was just accused of talking on screen while someone else played using her account. Is anyone else exhausted?
And so, last night, Ellie stepped down from the team, citing “unforeseen reactions”. On the one side, she was being praised as the next Messiah and on the other, she was having her very existence questioned. Would this have happened if she had chosen to use the name Steve? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say no.
How is this still a thingOverwatchThis is why we can't have nice things
GOATS hate leads to Overwatch voice actor harassment, because REASONS!
Overwatch adds combat medic Baptiste to its hero roster
Overwatch Soldier 76 confirmed gay so I guess we’re all gay now
Overwatch player who quit her team citing harassment was a fake and also a “social experiment” and everybody loses this round, directed by M. Night Shyalaman
Xbox body spray smells like citrus with bottom notes of corporate disconnect
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Did the flood victims benefit from NDMA’s do’s and don’ts?
The jury is still out on how much alerts and advisories on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook helped the flood victims. But Bihar Government officials say everything is ‘under control’
Ashlin Mathew
Updated: 20 Aug 2017, 1:14 PM
Engagement: 0
“Everything is under control. It was known that there would be floods, but we didn’t know that it would flood like this. How could anyone guess? This is not a manmade disaster. This kind of flood is beyond one’s imagination. It has affected 16 of the 38 districts in the state. Until August 17 evening, 98 lakh people have been affected. By August 18 evening, the number will cross 1.20 crore,” said Anirudh Kumar, Joint Secretary, Disaster Management Department.
The flood in Bihar is likely to worsen in a few days. The water level of Ganga is close to the highest flood level and the levels in its major tributaries such as Kosi, Mahananda, Rapti, Bagmati, Gandak and Kamlabalan are close to or have crossed the highest flood levels simultaneously.
Even the NASA flood forecasting site, it appears, had predicted a deluge in the Ganga basin and rainfall in excess of 175 mm. But neither NASA nor our own Meteorological Department’s warnings appear to have had any effect on the Centre or the state governments.
Even the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) claims to have issued flood alerts, warnings and do’s and don’ts on Twitter, Instagram as well as through newspaper advertisements in Bihar in July.
#Floods:Save your valuables - Keep your documents and valuables in water-proof bags.#BiharFloods pic.twitter.com/qWyHFgtdc7
— NDMA India (@ndmaindia) August 18, 2017
#Floods:Survival is key - Prepare an emergency kit with essential items for safety and survival.#BiharFloods pic.twitter.com/GpeAXHizEK
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Whether they helped the 10 million people affected by floods in Bihar so far is of course a different issue altogether.
“We supplement the efforts of the state government. We have stationed 27 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams in Bihar. The IMD and CWC have been issuing advisories. We are in constant touch with the state governments. We provide them with relief resources including helicopters. We began issuing advertisements even before the flood season began,” said RK Jain, member of the National Disaster Management Authority.
“The flood awareness activities begin in June. We have been putting out Do’s and Don’ts during the flood every day on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook since June. On All India Radio, flood-related awareness programmes were held from June 5 to June 20. Even in cinema halls, different educational videos on the flood are shown before the start of a movie,” said Dhirendra Singh Sindhu, Joint Advisor – Operations, NDMA. The only question that needs to be asked if those affected by the floods are those who have active social media accounts.
The NDMA begins its pre-monsoon activities with a review meeting in April with all the flood-prone states. “We follow it up with on-ground activities including the release of advisories including one for urban flooding. During monsoon, the data shared by IMD is given to the concerned state at least four times a day,” added Sindhu.
Last year Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had blamed the Farakka barrage on Ganga river for the floods. He had demanded the Centre to decommission the barrage stating that it caused floods every year. The barrage has been blamed for the siltation, drainage congestion and backwater flood in the region. “This year let us see what he says, now that he has sided with those in the Centre,” quipped an expert. If the upstream dams such as Bansagar in Sone basin in Madhya Pradesh and Tehri in Uttarakhand decide to release water as they are almost full, this would add to the crisis, he warned.
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This Marysville Festival Is Just Peachy
Is the fuzzy phenom your fave? Your dream fruit fest is soon to bloom.
Published Jul 4, 2019 at 10:04 PM
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A peach-tastic party is happening north of Sacramento on July 19 and 20, 2019. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
INCORPORATING FRUIT... into everyday phrases and sayings? We humans love to sweeten up our speech with sweet references, from "apple of my eye" to "that's bananas" to "avocadon't" (okay, that one hasn't quite taken off yet, but it clearly comes in handy when a friend dons a shade of green that doesn't quite suit them). But the nicest of all the fruit sayings, and the one that fizzes with blitheness and optimism, has to be "peachy keen." After all, you're not just merely keen, but you're peachy, too, which is the cherry on top of the sundae (yet another fruit-ism). But we'd expect no less from a goodie as good as a peach, for of course it will inspire positivity and hopefulness, as easily as it inspires cooks to create cobblers and jams and cookies and the occasional sticky-glazed savory dish. If you're the sort of person who is usually peachy keen for peaches, pretty much all of the time, best make a pit stop in...
MARYSVILLE, a scoot north of Sacramento, for the Marysville Peach Festival. Yes, we did say "pit stop" there, but this festival is not the pits (and, yes, we refer to the center solidness of a peach as "the stone," and not "the pit," though both are often used interchangably). This festival is quite the opposite from the pits, since festival goers can find all manner of peach-laden lovelies, peach funnel cakes, peach scones, BBQ peach burgers, peach milkshakes, and so many other peach-ified eats and drinks. It's all blossoming on July 19 and 20, and admission is free, as is parking. And if you've got a frankly amazing peach pie or peach-based pastry? There's a contest for that (oh yes, preserves can be entered, too, oh yum). It's true that California is full of fruity festivals, but this one, pits down, has to be the peachy-keen-est.
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US to Apply Tariffs to Mexican Fabricated Steel Imports
The Commerce Department said the determination is preliminary, but the tariff goes into effect immediately
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A man works in a steel distribution factory in Monterrey in northern Mexico, on May 31, 2018.
The U.S. Commerce Department announced Monday that it has decided to once again apply tariffs on fabricated steel imports from Mexico.
In a statement, the U.S. agency said the decision came after an investigation into government subsidies assisting companies that export fabricated structural steel from Mexico, China and Canada. The agency said it determined Canadian exports do not warrant the tariff, but those from Mexico and China do.
Mexico's economy ministry said the decision was unrelated to tariffs that the U.S. lifted on Mexican steel and aluminum May 20 or to President Donald Trump's since rescinded threat to put tariffs on all Mexican exports to the U.S.
The Commerce Department said the determination is preliminary, but the tariff goes into effect immediately.
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The Chicago-based American Institute of Steel Construction Full Member Subgroup requested the investigation.
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Slovensko zaviedlo euro 1.1.2009. Do 31.12.2008 vydávala kurzové lístky Národná banka Slovenska. Archív kurzových lístkov NBS nájdete tu: http://www.nbs.sk/sk/statisticke-udaje/kurzovy-listok/kurzovy-listok
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Food Chem Toxicol. 2004 Apr;42(4):677-85.
Dietary estimated intake of intense sweeteners by Italian teenagers. Present levels and projections derived from the INRAN-RM-2001 food survey.
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In a previous study, Italian female teenagers regular consumers of sugar free soft drinks and table-top sweeteners were suggested to have a higher intake of intense sweeteners than other teenagers. A food frequency questionnaire designed to identify adolescents who were high consumers of these food products was filled in by a randomly extracted sample of teenagers (n=3982) living in the District of Rome (Italy) in year 2000. A consumer survey was then carried out in a randomly extracted sub-sample of males and females and in all females who reported high consumption of sugar-free soft drinks and/or table-top sweeteners. A total of 362 subjects participated in a detailed food survey by recording, at brand level, all foods and beverages ingested over 12 days. For each sugar-free product, producers provided the concentration of intense sweeteners (saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame K and cyclamate). No intake in excess of the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) was observed. Also medicines and supplements were taken into account and these did not result in a large impact on chronic exposure to intense sweeteners. The intake levels did not exceed the ADI even under a worst case scenario which was performed to take into consideration a hypothetical future substitution of all regular food products with their sugar-free version. It can be concluded that, with the observed current consumption patterns and occurrence levels, the risk of an excessive intake of intense sweeteners by Italian teenagers is extremely low.
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The Mighty Pride
Some of the great names of international rugby can be seen both playing and reminiscing in this hour long history of British and Irish Lions tours of New Zealand. 1930 Lion Harry Bowcott is the oldest player here, conceding his side were surprised by the toughness of the New Zealand style of rugby; tough like 1950 All Black captain Ron Elvidge, who came back on to crash through a tackle and score a try, despite a fractured sternum and stitches in his head. The documentary concludes with Gavin Hastings’ 1993 Lions team. It was made as a preview for the 2005 tour.
Revolution - 1, Fortress New Zealand
Documentary series Revolution mapped the social and economic changes in New Zealand society in the 1980s and early 1990s. This first episode focuses on NZ's radical transformation from a heavily regulated welfare state to a petri dish for free market ideology. It includes interviews with key political and business figures of the day, who reveal how the dire economic situation by the end of Robert Muldoon's reign made it relatively easy for Roger Douglas to implement extreme reform. Revolution won Best Factual Series at the 1997 Film and TV Awards.
This documentary chronicles a shameful passage in New Zealand race relations: the controversial mid-70s raids on the homes and workplaces of alleged Pacific Island overstayers. Director Damon Fepulea’i examines its origins in Pacific Island immigration during full employment in the 1960s, when a blind eye was turned to visa restrictions. As times got tougher, that policy changed to include random street checks by police, despite official denials. Resistance by activists and media coverage helped end a policy which has had a long term effect on the Pacific Island community.
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 3 - Let Us Entertain You
This edition of Prime TV’s history of New Zealand television looks at 50 years of entertainment. The smorgasbord of music, comedy and variety shows ranges from 60s pop stars to Popstars, from the anarchy of Blerta to the anarchy of Telethon, from Radio with Pictures to Dancing with the Stars. Music television moves from C’mon and country, to punk and hip hop videos. Comedy follows the formative Fred Dagg and Billy T, through to Eating Media Lunch and 7 Days. A roll call of New Zealand entertainers muse on seeing Kiwis laugh, sing and shimmy on the small screen.
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After turning “Jeez Wayne” into a national catchphrase with their hit series A Week of It, comedy duo David McPhail and Jon Gadsby continued their TV dream run with the sketch comedy show McPhail and Gadsby. This 'Best of' from the Feltex Award-winning fifth season includes these highlights: 'pronouncing things proper with Jim Knox'; 'This Is Your Life with Robert Muldoon' (featuring McPhail’s infamous caricature of the then Prime Minister); Lynn Waldegrave’s popular impersonation of music show host Karyn Hay; and a Goodnight Kiwi take-off in 'Goodnight from the Beehive'.
Tonight - Robert Muldoon interview
Like many other current affairs shows in the 70s, Tonight had a fairly brief existence, but it provided the forum for this infamous battle of wills between journalist Simon Walker and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. It is May 1976, and Walker is daring to interrogate Muldoon about his claims of a Soviet naval presence in the Pacific, and New Zealand's vulnerability to Russian nuclear attack. Muldoon grows increasingly annoyed and bullish at being asked questions that are not on his sheet: "I will not have some smart alec interviewer changing the rules half way through."
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Poet, activist and soon-to-be Mayor of Waitemata, Tim Shadbolt explores the often-maligned art of graffiti in this 1981 special for documentary slot Contact. Shadbolt searches for wit and inspiraton from school desks and court holding cells, to the bathrooms of trendy restaurants. Some of these scribbled sentiments — like “Rob Muldoon before he robs you” — have passed into legend. The best material however, comes from a group of high school girls, encouraged by their right-on English teacher during a class of well-supervised rebellion: “castrate rapists — have a ball!”
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In one of NZ politics’ more notorious episodes, PM Rob Muldoon, his slim majority in tatters, calls a snap election. Party president Sue Wood is beside him but he has already ignored her advice that the party isn’t ready for the polls. It was widely suggested that Muldoon was drunk (and reporter Rob Neale can’t resist a “high spirits” jibe) — or perhaps he believed his own invincibility — but it was the beginning of the end for an era he had dominated. The limousine looks quaint, but the National Party’s Macintosh is a pointer to the electioneering of the future.
Ken Douglas: Traitor or Visionary?
This 2006 documentary is a portrait of one of New Zealand politics' most contradictory figures: unionist Ken Douglas. At the time of filming Douglas occupied numerous board positions (eg Air New Zealand, the NZ Rugby Football Union), but early on he was a truckie and Marxist. Rob Muldoon branded him 'Red Ken'. For 15 years until 1999 he led the Council of Trade Unions. Directed by Monique Oomen for Top Shelf Productions, the film is framed around interviews with Douglas and his colleagues, and asks whether he is a turncoat or a strategic realist moving with the times.
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To mark 50 years of television in Aotearoa, TVNZ's Heartland channel picked gems from the archive, and surveyed local TV history decade by decade. Each episode in the series featured an interview with a Kiwi TV personality. In this interview from the 1980s slot, comedian David McPhail chats to Andrew Shaw. McPhail describes his involvement in what Shaw calls the "golden age of comedy" (A Week of It, McPhail and Gadsby). He touches on current affairs, screen chemistry, his famous impersonations of Prime Minister Rob Muldoon, and the catchphrase "Jeez Wayne".
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US Senators Introduce Bipartisan Anti-Money Laundering Bill
Published: Wednesday, 19 June 2019 17:44
Written by Maya Perry
Four United States senators have introduced a bipartisan bill intended to put an end to the country’s status as a premiere destination for financial crime.
United States Senate (Architect of the Capitol)In an op-ed published on Tuesday, the senators, who collectively represent both Republican and Democratic parties, made note of the fact that in 2018 the Tax Justice Network ranked the U.S. as the second most attractive jurisdiction in the world for “illicit financial flows and (...) tax evasion.” It is sandwiched between Switzerland (#1) and the Cayman Islands (#3).
TJN’s 10-page report on the United States, which describes it as a “secrecy jurisdiction,” notes that while the country has taken active efforts to prevent its own citizens from evading taxes in foreign tax havens--through the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010, for example--it has remained “mostly content” in continuing to allow foreigners to evade taxes on its own shores.
Those interested in hiding assets in the country are able to do so easily in many U.S. jurisdictions through the creation of a “shell company”-- an entity that allows people to anonymously set up holding firms for their money.
In fact, one only needs US$250 and a credit card to establish such a company, as a Fusion contributor demonstrated in 2016 when setting one up for her cat. A Global Financial Integrity project in March 2019 showed that obtaining a library card requires more personal information than setting up a company.
These anonymous entities can easily be used by money launderers, traffickers, terrorists, and other criminals to obscure their assets.
In 2009 the G20 committed to working together to crack down on international tax havens, and since then over 100 international jurisdictions, including the EU, Canada, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, have signed onto the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), in which nations mutually share financial information on an annual basis in order to prevent individuals from secretly hiding their assets in another country.
The U.S. has not signed onto the CRS, nor has it changed its tax code to compel U.S. financial institutions to share this information, despite the Obama administration’s repeated attempts to pass such amendments through Congress.
In their op-ed on Tuesday, the four senators criticized the way that the U.S. allows “human traffickers, terrorists, money launderers, sanctions evaders, kleptocrats, and other criminals to promote criminal activities here in the United States undetected” and stated that American “regulators and law enforcement personnel are stuck fighting 21st century threats with 20th century tools.”
Their bill, “The Illicit Cash Act”, which was introduced to the senate on June 10, targets shell companies specifically and aims to “update” the country’s anti-money laundering laws, requiring, among other things, beneficial ownership information to be maintained in a comprehensive federal database.
It comes off the heels of congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s “Corporate Transparency Act of 2019” proposal, which was introduced to the house on May 3 and also calls for U.S.-based corporations to fully and continuously disclose all beneficial owners.
The senators are seeking public feedback by Wednesday.
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2019 Ram Heavy Duty provides benchmark for performance and...
2019 Ram Heavy Duty provides benchmark for performance and capability
The standard engine in the 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty is upgraded to the proven and potent 6.4-litre HEMI V8, delivering class-leading 410 gas horsepower @ 5,600 rpm and 429 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4,000 rpm to handle the payload and towing requirements of the heavy-duty truck user.
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The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty is the most powerful, most capable pickup in the segment, according to the manufacturer, with a towing capacity of 15,921 kg (35,100 lbs.) and a payload capacity of 3,484 kg (7,680 lb.). Driving it all is a never-before-seen torque rating of 1000 lb.-ft. from the Cummins 6.7-litre High Output Turbo Diesel engine. The new Ram Heavy Duty also sets benchmarks in ride and handling, luxury, materials, innovation, and technology extending well past any competitive offerings.
"Ram Heavy Duty owners constantly demand the highest levels of capability to tackle the biggest jobs and with 15,921-kg. (35,100-lbs.) of towing capacity, pulled by 1,000 lb.-ft. of torque from our Cummins engine, we now hold the most important titles within the segment," said Reid Bigland, Head of Ram Brand, FCA. "We've also surrounded owners in luxury and technology that, until now, was unavailable in a heavy-duty pickup. The highest quality interiors, active safety systems and of course our award-winning Uconnect technology contribute to the best Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks we have ever built."
With a long list of upgrades, the new Cummins 6.7-litre High Output Turbo Diesel delivers up to 1,000 lb.-ft. of torque @ 1,800 rpm and 400 horsepower @ 2,800 rpm. Changes begin at the core, with a cylinder block made from compacted graphite iron. Overall, the new Cummins Turbo Diesel weighs 27 kg (60 lbs.) less than the previous-generation engine, yet delivers more power and torque. A new cast-iron cylinder head builds on the new block with changes that include new exhaust valves and springs, and new rocker arms. Lighter and stronger pistons include new low-friction rings and connect to the crankshaft via newly design forged connecting rods and new bearings. An all-new exhaust manifold is the mounting point for an improved variable-geometry turbocharger with laminated heat shields, delivering boost pressure up to 33 psi.
The second variant of the Cummins Turbo Diesel also gets a performance boost with 370 horsepower @ 2,800 rpm and 850 lb.-ft. of torque @ 1,700 rpm.
The standard engine in the 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty is upgraded to the proven and potent 6.4-litre HEMI V8, delivering 410 gas horsepower @ 5,600 rpm and 429 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4,000 rpm to handle the payload and towing requirements of the heavy-duty truck user.
Ram 3500 Heavy Duty models equipped with the 1,000 lb.-ft. high output Cummins 6.7-litre Turbo Diesel are paired with the Aisin AS69RC electronically controlled six-speed automatic. This transmission is engineered to handle the colossal torque of the Turbo Diesel engine and increased vehicle weight ratings while delivering improved shift quality. Along with hardware upgrades, the Aisin AS69RC uses a new transmission controller with double the memory of the previous controller and a dual-core processor. This delivers faster, more precise shifts under all driving and loading conditions.
Ram Heavy Duty trucks powered by the standard output Cummins 6.7-litre Turbo Diesel are equipped with a significantly upgraded version of the 68RFE six-speed automatic transmission. Changes designed to improve the electronically controlled transmission's shift quality include new variable-force solenoid controls for the torque-converter clutch. A new reverse accumulator improves shift feel when placing the transmission into park from reverse. Drive-to-park shifts were also improved through refined hydraulic control.
In a first for the Ram Heavy Duty, the 6.4-litre HEMI V8 comes paired to the proven and smooth-shifting TorqueFlite 8HP75 eight-speed automatic. There are more than 40 individual shift maps to optimize shift points for fuel economy, performance and drivability. The transmissions use shift-by-wire technology, eliminating a mechanical linkage between the transmission and the gear selector. The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty uses an innovative rotary e-shift dial mounted on the left side of the instrument panel's centre stack - freeing up space traditionally occupied by a console- or column-mounted shift lever.
Four-wheel-drive versions of the 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty are equipped with a BorgWarner part-time transfer case. The 6.4-litre HEMI V8 and variant of the Cummins 6.7-litre Turbo Diesel drive power through either an electronic (BW 44-46) or manual shift (BW 44-47) transfer case, depending on model.
Ram Heavy Duty trucks with the high output version of the Cummins 6.7-litre Turbo Diesel are equipped with an all-new part-time BorgWarner transfer case (BW 44-48). This transfer case is designed to handle the higher input loads for maximum towing capability up to 15,921 kg. (35,100 lbs.).
New front and rear axles on the 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty have been engineered to improve durability, handle industry-leading payload and towing capabilities, and minimize NVH, as well as take advantage of opportunities to optimize weight. The Ram 3500 Heavy Duty is offered with an all-new, larger 12-inch AAM rear axle to handle the class-leading power and capability.
A new braking system upgrades the calipers, booster and master cylinder. Combined with a larger-ratio pedal swing, the 2019 Ram Heavy Duty delivers a more confident and powerful execution with little effort from the driver.
The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty is the most powerful, most capable pickup in the segment, the manufacturer states, with a towing capacity of 15,921 kg (35,100 lbs) and payload capacity of 3,484 kg (7,680 lbs). But big capability is irrelevant if the truck fails to instill confidence to the driver. Ram redefines the phrase "you don't even know it's back there" when towing or hauling.
Ram Heavy Duty trucks feature all-new frames built with 98.5-percent high-strength steel, six separate crossmembers, hydroformed main rails and fully boxed rear rails for optimal strength and mass efficiency. Although the new Ram Heavy Duty is stronger and more capable, lightweight materials in the frame, powertrain and an aluminum hood reduce overall weight by up to 65 kg (143 lbs.). Two Active-Tuned Mass Modules (ATMM) mounted on the frame rails search out unfavourable vibrations and apply countermeasures to eliminate them.
Wide front frame rails enable front suspension springs to be positioned slightly outboard - an enabler for generating positive roll stiffness. In the rear portion of the new frame, the structure includes fully boxed rear rails. The rear-axle structural crossmember with provisions for fifth-wheel and gooseneck hitches, has been upgraded for 2019 to accommodate the increased towing capacity.
On vehicles equipped with the optional auxiliary camera prep package, the standard 4/7-pin bumper connector is replaced with a 12/7-pin connector to support the remote camera option (available Mopar accessory). A tailgate handle-mounted, rear high-definition camera backup system is standard with dynamic imaging on the 12-inch, 8.4-inch or 5-inch displays with turning guidelines. Also, the cargo-view camera located in the Centre High-Mounted Stop Light (CHMSL) provides a view of the bed for easier connection to fifth-wheel or gooseneck trailers, as well as monitoring bed loads.
Heavy Duty trucks generally have a suspension equipped for constant, heavy payloads. This leads to a harsher ride when unloaded. The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty includes Frequency Response Damping (FRD) shocks on all four corners. The valves of an FRD shock automatically adjust for the type of vertical wheel input, allowing the Ram Heavy Duty to have sports-car-like suspension for handling and a supple suspension on rough terrain. Engineers added progressive springs and upgraded bushings to the suspension system, including the exclusive five-link coil design on Ram 2500, providing better load-carrying characteristics and improved articulation over obstacles when compared to a leaf-spring system.
A class-exclusive Active-Level rear air suspension is available on both the Ram 2500 and Ram 3500 and includes a new Bed-lowering Mode to make the heaviest trailer hook-ups a breeze. The 2019 Ram 2500 uses two air bags to replace the coil springs. Load capacity is not sacrificed and the Ram 2500's ride and handling gets even better, crushing the competition with two doses of engineering innovation (five-link coil with an air suspension option). The Ram 3500 features a Hotchkiss rear leaf-spring system with optional air suspension. By adding supplemental air bags, Ram engineers were able to soften the heavy-load leaf springs, allowing for more unladen suspension movement.
In the front, a new, two-piece, front-suspension crossmember structure adds a longer welded interface and greater strength to the frame. The Ram Heavy Duty line features an advanced three-link front suspension to ensure roll stiffness.
A new braking system upgrades the calipers, booster and master cylinder. Combined with a larger-ratio pedal swing, the 2019 Ram Heavy Duty delivers a more confident and powerful execution with little effort from the driver. The reengineered system also offers shorter stopping distances and braking to match the highest capability.
Several body elements are upgraded from mild steel to high-strength steel on the 2019 Heavy Duty pickups. Additional light-weighting efforts consist of an aluminum hood, which contributes to an overall weight reduction of up to 65 kg (143 lbs).
Through wind-tunnel analyses and nearly five million kilometers of real-world durability tests, engineers have created the quietest Ram Heavy Duty ever with a segment-leading drag coefficient of .409. Upgrades to improve Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) include new C-pillar hydromounts, anti-vibration devices, new engine mounts, active noise cancelling and new exhaust-system attachments.
New Power Wagon Content
2019 Ram Power Wagon is the most capable production off-road truck in the industry. The Power Wagon features a unique suspension, factory suspension lift, locking front and rear differentials, disconnecting sway bar and a 5,443 kg (12,000 lb) winch. New to the Power Wagon is a 360 camera, which includes forward-view camera gridlines to help navigate obstacles. An all-new and integrated front-mounted WARN Zeon-12 winch features a unique fairlead and fairlead retainer with a new synthetic line that cannot kink, does not fray and is more manoeuverable. The new line also cuts weight by 13 kg (28 lbs). A Power Wagon content package continues to be available on Tradesman, which includes all the off-road equipment but keeps the Tradesman design elements.
The new Ram Heavy Duty uses a variety of high-strength steels in the frame, body panels and core structure to maximize impact performance and reduce overall weight, including the A-, B- and C-pillars, front structure and door beams.
The new 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty pickups include more than 100 available safety and security elements, including an array of active and passive systems to assist the driver and passengers —offered in all models.
Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), 360-degree camera display and selectable tire pressures are just some of the new, specialized technologies found in Ram's halo pickup trucks. Since the Ram Heavy Duty line is engineered around capability, it makes sense that many of the technologies would be enhanced from their use in passenger cars. For example, Tire Pressure Monitoring, which can monitor up to six tires on the pickup, now includes trailer tire pressure monitoring for up to 12 trailer tires. Although a back-up camera is a standard feature on most vehicles, the Ram Heavy Duty offers a second rear-view camera (cargo-view camera) to monitor payload in the bed. It also can be used to align fifth-wheel and gooseneck trailers, a common task of the Ram Heavy Duty pickup. As a segment-first, back-up sensors on the Ram 3500 include specifically designed sensors to cover the added width of dual rear wheels, giving a wider span of coverage when backing up with limited view.
The new Ram Heavy Duty uses a variety of high-strength steels in the frame, body panels and core structure to maximize impact performance and reduce overall weight, including the A-, B- and C-pillars, front structure and door beams. Increased resistance spot welds reduce the heat exposure to surrounding metal to maintain strength and long-term durability.
After hundreds of sketches, the new 2019 Ram Heavy Duty line of pickups came forward with the full force of modern capability. Interiors mirror the design expressed on the recently launched Ram 1500 with unmatched luxury, materials, innovation and technology extending well past any competitive offerings.
For 2019, all-new features, technology and premium materials help the redesigned Ram Heavy Duty continue its interior leadership with quality, technology and luxury. Each trim level is uniquely characterized to reflect individual identity.
The new instrument panel combines a strong, structurally interlocking appearance, pushing the central controls up and toward the driver, improving overall reachability of system controls. The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty features the Uconnect 4C NAV on a 12-inch fully configurable touchscreen, which can display one application, such as the navigation map, across the whole 12-inch screen, or can be divided in half, operating two different applications at once. Redundant HVAC controls and a new enhanced-ergonomic switch bank deliver improved feedback and appearance.
The new 2019 Ram Heavy Duty features an available 7-inch, full-colour, 3D animation-capable driver information display, with reconfigurable function that enables Ram truck drivers to personalize information inside the instrument cluster. The display is designed to visually communicate information, using graphics and text, quickly and easily.
Across all trim levels, the 2019 Ram Heavy Duty features push-button start and a redesigned rotary e-shifter dial (HEMI V8 only). The new shifter area also intelligently groups new feature buttons, including Hill Descent Control, axle lock and transfer case controls, when equipped.
An active noise cancellation system and acoustic glass reduce ambient cabin sounds by nearly 10 db - the quietest Ram Heavy Duty ever. The new HVAC system features 30 percent more air flow at lower noise levels, including larger front defroster vents for better performance. All-new in-duct electric heating elements on diesel models help speed cabin warmup on cold days, and larger system controls and new larger panel ducts work better with gloved hands.
With up to 258 litres of interior storage volume on the exclusive Mega Cab including two bins behind the rear seats, the 2019 Ram Heavy Duty offers more than 120-percent more storage capacity versus the closest competitor. A reimagined centre console is a usable, complex piece of art with more than 12 different storage combinations. Up from 19.7 to 22.6 litres, the console includes a wider docking area with optional wireless charging, which can hold a small tablet or smartphone. A three-position sliding cup-holder tray can be stowed under the centre armrest to reveal a deep storage tub designed to hold a 15-inch laptop
To keep devices charged, five USB ports assist in the centre console type-C ports for faster communication and charging. Up to three 115-volt household plugs are available (three-prong). One in the first row and one in the second row. All outlets now handle up to 400 watts to charge or power tools quickly.
Robust sections combined with "interlocking" design aesthetics also function to improve aerodynamics to surround segment-leading capability and technology. Every Ram Heavy Duty truck benefits from new content specifically designed to match each model's unique style. Rather than a traditional focus on styling elements individually, designers combined elements that influence each other's shape, resulting in a more integrated look that aligns with the mechanical capabilities of the truck. For example, the grille, hood and fenders share pieces of each other, as well as the instrument panel, cluster and centre console.
The 2019 Heavy Duty creates a bold and unique appearance that Heavy Duty customers can call their own. Interlocked with the new, lighter aluminum hood, a much larger and more aggressive front grille opening leads with confidence and strength. The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty is available in six different grille styles with a complete departure from the historic crosshairs. The new front bumper is cut with larger openings, providing greater airflow to the largest turbo intercooler Ram has ever adapted to its pickups. More than 20 sensors surrounding the new Ram Heavy Duty are seamlessly integrated to make them less visible. A removable air dam helps mold the most aerodynamic Heavy Duty Ram has ever offered.
Three headlamp variations are available delivering the best lighting in the segment: Halogen, full LED/reflector and full LED/projector with Adaptive Front-lighting System (AFS) for up to 15 degrees of movement in the expected direction of travel.
The side of the truck flows with trademark Ram style. A drawn body-side character line ties together the front fender and cab doors. An all-new interlocking side-step design incorporates deep tread patterns and a R-A-M logo.
The new Ram Heavy Duty continues to offer the best lockable bed storage in the segment with RamBox. The industry-first RamBox Cargo Management System includes versatile, weatherproof, lockable, illuminated and drainable storage bins built into the bed rails. New for 2019, RamBox features a 115-volt outlet with up to 400-watts of power.
Surrounding the largest cab in the segment, the interior design team brought unique colours and premium materials to each trim level of the 2019 Ram Heavy Duty. Each model makes its own unique "Hero" statement with paint colours, badging, wheels, grilles and other features.
Designed to be the most technologically advanced heavy-duty pickup ever, the new Ram 2500 and 3500 are loaded with an array of innovative and state-of-the-art features. The award-winning fourth-generation Uconnect system offers new convenience and connected services, and keeps Ram truck customers connected, engaged and informed all while keeping their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.
Uconnect 4C NAV with 12-inch display
The 2019 Ram Heavy Duty features a 12-inch reconfigurable touchscreen with tailor-made graphics for various Ram models and state-of-the-art connectivity. Personalization is made easy with the new split screen, allowing two different applications for desired configuration, such as Apple CarPlay and HVAC controls, or one application, such as navigation across the entire 12-inch touchscreen.
The new 2019 Ram Heavy Duty offers four audio systems to immerse passengers in the ultimate sound experience, including a 750-watt Harman Kardon Audio System with 17 speakers, including an 8-inch subwoofer.
The class-exclusive Uconnect 4C with 12-inch display also features the next level of audio entertainment with SiriusXM with 360L. The new service enables Ram truck drivers and passengers to discover more of what SiriusXM offers based on their listening preferences, including exclusive SiriusXM on-demand programming never before available in the dash. Benefits of the new SiriusXM with 360L include more channels (now 200+), access to thousands of hours of recorded on-demand programming and enhanced sports play-by-play offerings. Smart content recommendations enable listeners to discover more of what they love, based on listening habits. Individual listener profiles allow multiple drivers and passengers to customize and maintain their own presets, select preferences and pick up where they left off in the car.
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Figure Skating - Team - Medallists in figure skating team event
(L-R) (L-R) Silver medalists Patrick Chan, Kaetlyn Osmond, Kevin Reynolds, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Dylan Moscovitch, Meagan Duhamel, Eric Radford, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, Gold medalists Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitri Soloviev, Tatiana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilinykh, Nikita Katsalapov and Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia, and Bronze medalists the United States figure skating team (L-R) Maria Castelli, Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner, Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Jeremy Abbott, Jason Brown and Simon Shnapir pose on the podium
Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:30 PM | Photo
Figure Skating - Russia Team - Gold Medallists in figure skating team event
(L-R) Gold medalists Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitri Soloviev, Tatiana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilinykh, Nikita Katsalapov and Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia celebrate during the flower ceremony for the Team Figure Skating Overall
Sunday, February 9, 2014 1:30 PM | Photo
Figure Skating - Men's Figure – Russia team - Evgeny Plyuschenko - Gold medallists in figure skating team event
Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia competes in the Men's Figure Skating Men's Free Skate during day two of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics
Figure Skating - Mixed NOC Team MIXED - Gold Medallists
Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgeny Plyushchenko, Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Tatiana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitri Soloviev, Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia celebrate during the medal ceremony for the Team Figure Skating
Monday, February 10, 2014 4:00 PM | Photo
Gold Medallists Yulia Lipnitskaya (L) and Evgeny Plyushchenko of Russia celebrate during the medal ceremony for the Team Figure Skating Overall
Swimming - Men's 200m Backstroke Final
Evgeny Rylov of Russian Federation competes in the Men's 200m Backstroke Final on Day 6 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 10:00 PM | Photo
(L-R) Silver medalist Mitch Larkin of Australia, gold medalist Ryan Murphy of the United States and bronze medalist Evgeny Rylov of Russian Federation celebrate on the podium after the Men's 200m Backstroke Final on Day 6 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Boxing - 91kg Heavy weight Men
Evgeny Tishchenko of the Russian Federation with the gold, Vassiliy Levit of Kazakhstan with silver, Rustam Tulaganov of Uzbekistan with bronze and Erislandy Savon of Cuba with the bronze medal after the Men's Boxing Heavy Weight (up to 91kg) at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Riocentro on August 15, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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UCL: Wanderers make it four games without defeat
Action from the United Counties League Premier Division clash between Whitworth and Rugby Town. Picture by Martin Pulley
Published: 07:00 Monday 04 March 2019
Burton Park Wanderers’ recent revival continued as they made it four matches without defeat to move clear of the bottom two in Division One of the Future Lions United Counties League with a 4-0 victory over Long Buckby.
Ryan Bell and Stuart McMichael both scored twice to secure the points for Daren Young’s side.
Raunds Town were unable to follow up their fine win at Anstey Nomads as they were beaten 5-2 by another of the title-chasing teams Lutterworth Town at Kiln Park.
But bottom side Thrapston Town picked up a useful point on the road as they drew 1-1 at Bourne Town.
Elsewhere, Rushden & Higham United went down 1-0 at Anstey and Irchester United drew 3-3 at Sileby Rangers with James Ball, Nathan Heycock and Laurence Taylor on target for the Romans.
It was a bad day for the local clubs in the Premier Division.
Rock-bottom Whitworth gave high-flying Rugby Town a real run for their money at London Road and took the lead before eventually losing 2-1.
And Rothwell Corinthians’ survival hopes suffered a setback as they were beaten 2-1 by fellow strugglers Kirby Muxloe at Sergeants Lawn.
Wellingborough Town and Desborough Town, meanwhile, both suffered losses on the road to top-five opponents.
The Doughboys went down 1-0 at Pinchbeck United and Ar Tarn lost by the same scoreline at Holbeach United.
UCL: Wanderers and Shopmates continue the fightback
UCL: Hard work has been the key to Shopmates’ upturn in fortunes
Opening date and surprise for Kettering's dino restaurant revealed
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Barnstaple police warn troublemakers: 'we'll be firm but fair'
POLICE in Barnstaple say they are ready and looking forward policing this years fair and carnival, taking place in the town later this month. Extra officers from the town s Neighbourhood Beat Team will be on patrol between Wednesday, September 16 and Satu
POLICE in Barnstaple say they are ready and looking forward policing this years fair and carnival, taking place in the town later this month.
Extra officers from the town's Neighbourhood Beat Team will be on patrol between Wednesday, September 16 and Saturday 19 to ensure the fun isn't ruined by troublemakers.
And following talks with North Devon District Council, Police and PCSOs have been issued with powers to disperse offending groups from the Seven Brethren fair ground, as well as Rock Park and the town centre, for up to 24 hours.
Under the Section 30 Dispersal Order - anti social behaviour legislation enabled for the four days the fair is in operation - offenders are likely to be arrested if the order is breached.
Neighbourhood team leader, Sergeant Paul Jones, said "Barnstaple Fair is an immensely popular event attracting people from all across North Devon. The police will be pleased to play our part in welcoming people to Barnstaple so they can enjoy all on offer."
Sgt Jones said that police were well prepared and that policing of the fair would be "firm but sensible".
"My staff and I will be on high visibility patrols working hard to ensure that a tiny minority of trouble makers do not spoil this community event for the many thousands of people of all ages who attend.
"Make no mistake, the police will be taking a firm no nonsense approach to alcohol this year particularly within the fair ground itself. There will be a zero tolerance approach to both underage drinking, and antisocial behaviour.
"If offenders do not heed our advice, we will be using our powers to exclude offenders from the fairground and town centre to prevent problems escalating."
Kate Morne, of Safer North Devon, was instrumental in obtaining the Section 30 power. She said: "A similar Section 30 dispersal order was extremely successful last year in preventing problems.
"It sends out a clear message from the police and council that bad inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated. I know this measure has the support of the vast majority of public."
The Section 30 area is similar to the previous year and will include the fair ground, Rock Park and the town centre.
"We have included this area to send the message that if you cause problems on any evening during fair week, the police will effectively be ending your night, there will be nowhere left to go, added Kate Morne.
"We are doing all we can think of to make this a safe and memorable event for all who attend.
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