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Rep. Bill Pascrell told CNBC on Thursday he and fellow Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a bill in both the House and Senate earlier this week that would repeal the $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax, or SALT, deductions. The legislation is called the "Stop Attacking Local Taxpayers (SALT) Act...Read More
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Watch the Awesome Derek Jeter Commercial Everyone's Talking About
Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Jay Z all pay respect to the retiring Yankees captain
By Erin Weaver
Yesterday, Nike premiered a stirring, star-studded commercial paying homage to Derek Jeter, the retiring Yankees shortstop who will appear in his final All-Star Game tonight. In just one day, the clip has already racked up more than 2 million views.
In the spot, Yankees fans—along with grudging Red Sox diehards, fellow sports legends like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, and New York fixtures like Jay Z and Rudy Giuliani—all tip their caps to The Captain. Amid a montage of admirers is one young boy watching the batter from his bedroom TV, reminding us that Jeter embodies the baseball childhood hero we've all had.
The 14-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion has earned every accolade he's received. The Nike clip and tonight's inevitable All-Star celebration won't be the last of this season's goodbye tributes to the future Hall-of-Famer—for good reason.
Throughout his 19-year career, Jeter has been MLB's standout star in an era tainted by steroids. He'll leave the game with nary an arrest or PED scandal to his name—just a sterling stat-book that resulted from God-given talent, an unparalleled drive, and tons of hard work in the gym.
Though you might never be blessed with Jeter's sweet, inside-out swing, you can replicate The Captain's training regimen. Check out The Derek Jeter Workout to steal the shortstop's fitness secrets, and discover how to build a body worthy of all those hat tips.
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Scherzer pushed back to Sunday, Sipp good to go tonight
By: Mark Zuckerman
Max Scherzer insists he could start as planned Saturday, but the Nationals decided not to take any chances with their ace after he was struck by a comebacker in his last outing, so they’ve pushed him back to Sunday’s series finale against the Pirates.
Aníbal Sánchez will now start Saturday afternoon, though the veteran right-hander will be on normal rest thanks to the club’s off-day in between their just completed road trip and upcoming homestand.
“It didn’t affect anything,” manager Davey Martinez said, “because Sánchez will go on his regular days’ rest, (assuming) that we’re playing today.”
A sketchy weekend forecast could force the Nationals to change plans again. But for now they intend to send Patrick Corbin to the mound for tonight’s opener, then Sánchez on Saturday and Scherzer on Sunday.
Scherzer hoped all along to pitch as planned after taking a comebacker off his lower right leg Sunday in New York. But he was unable to throw his standard between-starts bullpen session Wednesday in Philadelphia, opting to throw on flat ground instead.
Scherzer said he did throw off a mound Thursday while the rest of the team was off, and he felt like it went well enough for him to start Saturday. But after conferring with Martinez, general manager Mike Rizzo and director of athletic training Paul Lessard, the club decided to push him back a day.
“If it wasn’t April 12, I think things would be a lot different,” Scherzer said. “And when you also consider the off-days we have here, I mean, literally it’s just (Sánchez) and I flipping days. No one else in the rotation gets moved. Everybody else stays on schedule. It really was for them an easy decision, because there wasn’t going to be any other moves that needed to be made.”
Scherzer, who was wearing a compression sock only on his right leg today, insisted he’s good for Sunday, so there doesn’t appear to be any concern about his recovery taking any more time. The Nationals do have the option to keep pushing him as far back as April 20, though, while still keeping every other member of the rotation on normal rest.
“If they needed me to pitch today, I could. I can,” Scherzer said. “But I understand. Hey, we’re early in the season. Be smart. You’re dealing with a leg injury. Leg injuries can turn into shoulder problems in a heartbeat. So I respect what I have here, and I understand where they’re coming from.”
Tony Sipp, meanwhile, is available to pitch tonight after departing Wednesday’s game only four pitches in with what he described as left shoulder stiffness.
Sipp continues to explain the stiffness as normal for him when he’s in spring training. And because he signed late this spring, he’s still building his arm up the way he previously would have done in March.
The lefty expressed no concerns about his arm today, though, and his manager concurred.
That said, the Nationals have been extra cautious early in the season when it comes to pitcher injuries.
“Especially early in the season, you want to make sure you take care of them,” Martinez said. “It’s kind of nice that we’ve had days off for our bullpen and for our starting pitchers, that we were able to push back Max and give him another day. ... It’s a long season, and they grind, the starting pitchers every five days and relievers every day. So you have to find spots to make sure you take care of them and make sure you give them a day off or something like that, so they are available for the next day.”
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Poised between the Aegean and Ionian Seas, the gloriously time-forgotten island of Kythira lies just 12km off the southern tip of the Peloponnese’s Lakonian Peninsula. Despite its distinctly Cycladic sugar-cube architecture, both historic and modern, Kythira is officially regarded as belonging to the Ionian Island group. With its population of less than 4000 spread between 40 villages, Kythira feels for much of the year like a ghost land; it's an unspoiled wilderness of lush valleys, abrupt overgrown gorges, and flower-speckled cliffs tumbling into the vivid blue sea. Apart from July and August, when Italians especially swoop in to enjoy the fine sandy beaches, tourism remains very low-key. Visiting outside these months, however, brings huge rewards, whether you fancy hiking to scenic wonders and intriguing ancient settlements, or simply relaxing in the old-style tavernas and kafeneia (coffee houses) that pepper its village squares. Crowning the rocky headland that soars at the southern end of Hora, this majestic 14th-century fortress was built by Kythira’s first Venetian governor. Within its ramparts the fort is now largely in ruins, but the site is stupendous, drenched in wildflowers and commanding stunning views down to Kapsali and out as far as Antikythira. Only the unenthralling Coat of Arms Collection, in a former powder magazine, charges an admission fee.
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Outreach to Private Sector Helps MCC Analyze Economic Constraints
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Nino Zambakhidze: From MCC Beneficiary to Agribusiness Entrepreneur
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Technical Vocational Education and Training Jump-Starts Georgia
MCC is funding Technical Education and Training centers in the country of Georgia to reduce poverty by boosting economic growth and incomes.
A New School Year and New Opportunities in the Republic of Georgia
At the Convocation Ceremony of the 2018-2019 school year, MCC and San Diego State University in Georgia welcomed 230 new students pursuing STEM degrees in Tbilisi.
MCC Partnerships Spur Progress in Georgia
In our Georgia compact, MCC is leveraging partnerships in the public and private sectors to increase the impact our programs can have to spur economic growth and reduce poverty.
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Shaping the Next Generation of Georgian and U.S. STEM Leaders
Through an innovative partnership with San Diego State University, MCC’s Georgia Compact is shaping the next generation of Georgian and U.S. science, technology, engineering and math leaders. Here, we meet three of these students.
Talking Education with Secretary Kerry in Georgia
On his trip to Georgia in July 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Kesi Katsitadze, a San Diego State University-Georgia biochemistry major and one of the beneficiaries of MCC’s $140 million Georgia Compact.
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New life: Wolverines proud to be a part of Hockeyville
Eddie O'Neill
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CALUMET — Over the last couple of weeks, Sundays have taken on a new meaning in Calumet. Two weeks ago, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the home of the Copper Kings and Wolverines would be dubbed “Hockeyville USA.” A week later, the local senior men’s hockey team, the Wolverines, defeated the Portage Lake Pioneers in Game Three to win the Gibson Cup for a second year in a row.
In short, the hockey “gods” have seemingly looked with favor upon this tight-knit, hockey-crazed community. All the stars have lined up.
“For us (Calumet) to win Hockeyville is just awesome,” said Calumet native and Wolverines coach Bruce Coppo. “Here we are at the end of the world and we are being recognized nationally. The money that will come into the Copper Country surrounding the NHL game will be tremendous.”
Coppo, who has coached the Wolverines for 25 years, explained the the timing of the Hockeyville voting and the playing of the Gibson Cup could not have been better. The two events fed off each other perfectly.
First came Hockeyville. When online voting opened up at 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 30, Coppo and his team were on the road in Mosinee, Wisc. for the Great Lakes Hockey League (GLHL) championship tournament. However that did not deter him and his team from voting early and voting often.
“We were voting like crazy,” said longtime Wolverine player Mike Babcock. “Everybody was tapping away on their devices in the hotel and even in the locker room before our games that day. We rallied our social-media fans and told them to get out the vote. We have around 2,500 followers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.”
While the Wolverines lost Saturday night in the GLHL semifinals, they returned home to the Upper Peninsula to learn that their hard work at the polls had paid off. Their home ice, the Calumet Colosseum, had just won the Hockeyville U.S.A. competition and had done so in grand style.
Coppo said that he had heard from the folks at Kraft (Hockeyville USA sponsor, along with the NHL) that the Calumet vote was off the charts in terms of numbers.
“They told me they’d never seen anything like it,” Coppo said. “In fact, it was the most votes that any arena or city had received since Hockeyville USA began several years ago.”
Then came the Gibson Cup – the season-ending rivalry series between Calumet and Portage Lake. The best-of-three series has been happening each spring since the late 1930s.
“The Gibson Cup is a big deal for our area,” said Wolverine captain Jeff Erkkila. “For those of us who grew up here, we watched our dads and uncles and older brothers talk about and play for the cup. We (as a team) all talked about how we needed to win the cup again this year so it will be here when all the activities are happening with the NHL game.”
Babcock recalled that before Game One at the Colosseum, Coppo pointed out in his pre-game locker room speech, that it would be an absolute shame if the team did not have the third oldest trophy in hockey available the weekend the NHL comes to town.
“It was definitely a motivator,” said Erkkila. “We wanted to make sure that the cup would be with us and that we had to win.”
Not only did the Wolverines get a pep talk from Coppo, but they also from the grandsons of John “Doc” Gibson, the Gibson Cup’s namesake. The brothers made the trek from Canada to enjoy the weekend tournament and shared some words of inspiration to both teams before Games One and Two.
All the fervor paid off as the Wolverines defeated the Pioneers 6-5 in Game Three on Sunday to keep the Gibson Cup in Hockeyville. It was Calumet’s second time in a row winning the trophy after losing in to the Pioneers for nine straight years previously.
Coppo and others also noted that winning Hockeyville just days earlier certainly made a difference in the atmosphere of the Colosseum a week later. The place was packed.
“We hadn’t seen that type of crowd for Wolverines hockey since the 1960s,” said Coppo who himself started playing for the Wolverines in the mid-1960s. “The news of Hockeyville just created a buzz in the Copper Country and everybody wanted to see what it was all about and the Gibson Cup coming the next week was perfect timing.”
With hockey season now over and the Gibson Cup in its rightful place, Babcock, Erkkila and Coppo all hope that a better buzz will take over the Calumet area. Their hope is that these two events will breath some life into the next generation of hockey players.
“Our numbers have dwindled a little bit over the years. Maybe this will create some activity that will get our kids back into hockey,” Coppo said. “When you have NHL teams coming into your neighborhood, it should generate some new interest.”
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Jaguar Mining insight: potential in Brazil
Jaguar Mining's Jon Hill on the state of play of Brazil's mining industry.
CITIC Metal completes $560 million strategic investment into Ivanhoe Mines
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By Dale Benton . Sep 21, 2018, 6:10AM
A Canadian mining company with three principle projects across Southern Africa has received a multi-million dollar strategic investment by a major Chinese metals company, as the company continues a strategic growth plan.
Ivanhoe Mines has announced this week that a C$723 million ($560 million) strategic equity investment by the China-based CITIC Metal has been completed.
Announced three months ago, the investment is described as an “integral part” of Ivanhoe’s long-term strategic corporation and investment agreement with CITIC Metal.
Through the issuing of around 196,602,037 common shares to CITIC Metal Africa, CITIC Metal Africa is now the largest single shareholder with approximately 19.5%.
“For more than 15 years, we have been mutually building the foundation for a long-lasting and trust-based relationship with CITIC,” said Robert Friedland, Founder and Executive Co-Chairman “We first formed a strategic alliance with CITIC in 2003 and since then have worked together to deepen our understandings of each other’s values, strategic priorities, and operating and financial capabilities.
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“After a period of extensive due diligence and multiple site visits, we are delighted to welcome CITIC Metal Africa as our new, largest shareholder. CITIC’s leaders have reviewed hundreds of mining projects around the world, helping them to fully appreciate the world-scale significance of our three tier-one projects, and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as we move forward with our ongoing mine developments and exploration programs.
“We are confident that the CITIC Metal Group has the experience, financial resources – and a shared commitment to our objectives – to greatly assist us as we advance our projects to production, creating value for Ivanhoe’s stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa, and our international shareholders.
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Fortescue Metals Group to sign eight MOUs with leading Chinese steel mills
Dale Benton .
Nov 13, 2018, 9:30AM
One of the world’s leading iron ore producers has significantly strengthened its Chinese relationships, singing a eight new partnerships this week alone.
Fortescue Metals Group announced in a statement this week that it is signing eight new Memoranda of Understanding (MMOUs) with major Chinese steel mills as it attends the
One of the world’s leading iron ore producers has significantly… Read more
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Barrick Gold enters into mutual $300 million investment agreement with Shandong Gold
Sep 26, 2018, 6:59AM
One of the world’s leading gold mining companies has bolstered its partnership with a Chinese state-owned company.
Barrick Gold has announced in a statement this week that it has entered into a mutual investment agreement with Shandong Gold Group. Through the agreement, Shandong will purchase up to $300mn of Barrick’s shares, with
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Nevsun Resources accepts $1.41 billion take-over bid from Zijin Mining
A leading Canadian mining company, embroiled in acquisition talks for the last few months, has finally accepted a takeover bid from one of the biggest mining companies in china.
Nevsun Resources announced this week that its board of directors “unanimously recommends” that the company’s shareholders accept a $1.41 billion
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Rapist Adam Downworth who cruised streets in works van looking for victims is jailed
During his ten-month reign of terror, police offered to give women home a lift home at night to avoid them becoming his next victim
Chris Osuh
Jailed: Adam Downworth (Image: Greater Manchester Police)
A sex beast who stalked women and brutally raped them has today been jailed for at least 15 years.
Adam Downworth, 32, cruised the streets in his works van and targeted innocent lone victims at random, taking "sadistic pleasure" from their suffering.
Downworth, of Brinnington, Stockport, Greater Manchester was convicted of charges including rape, attempted rape, assault by penetration and assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.
He was jailed for life and told by Judge Jeffrey Lewis at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court he would serve a minimum of 15 years.
During Downworth's ten-month reign of terror, police offered to give women home a lift home at night in patrol cars to avoid them becoming his next victim.
He carried out four attacks without being caught by wearing blue surgical gloves from his workplace to avoid his fingerprints being found.
But he was spotted fleeing the scene of his fifth attack, in which he subjected his victim to a 40-minute ordeal.
Police arrested him a mile away and his Berlingo works van was found parked nearby.
He was linked to the previous attacks by CCTV footage of his van, petrol receipts and tracking of his mobile phones.
Two mobile phones stolen from victims were also later found at his home.
Slightly built Downworth, who had no previous convictions, initially denied all the attacks but changed his story in the light of the overwhelming evidence against him.
He claimed that he was a street mugger who had not sexually assaulted any victims, and invented a fictitious accomplice who he blamed for the more serious sexual attacks.
But a jury saw through his lies and found him guilty of 13 charges after a trial lasting more than 13 weeks.
The court heard he would often lay hidden in waiting and used techniques he had gleaned from fighting books later found at his flat - some of which could have proved fatal.
In one book he highlighted a chapter entitled "Chokes and Strangles".
Other subject matters in his library were titles on forensic science, psychological profiling of criminals and narcissism.
Judge Lewis said he had no doubt that Downworth posed a considerable risk of causing future harm to the public.
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Description State Game Lands 156 is located in southern Lebanon County and northern Lancaster County, and consists of two separate tracts. Game Lands 156 is situated entirely in Wildlife Management Unit 5B. There are 9 maintained parking lots on SGL 156 and it is accessible primarily from PA Route 322 with two of the lots accessible from Boyd Street in Cornwall Borough and Rexmont Road. and the farthest point on SGL 156 by foot from a parking area or public road is approximately 0.7 mile. There are 15.4 miles of maintained administrative roads providing for public access to this area by foot. The gated roads and right‐of‐ways provide access for hunters and avenues for hiking, wildlife photography and bird‐watching. Seven miles of roads are currently open to handicapped hunters and snowmobilers during the allowed seasons. All other roads are closed year round to public motor vehicle traffic. There is one designated route for horseback riding ( the Horseshoe Trail) and mountain biking. The game lands is located directly adjacent to the PA Turnpike and is bisected by Route 322 west to east. It contains three reservoirs or ponds and is in the Hammer Creek drainage. Both big game and small game are hunted on SGL 156. Deer, turkey, grouse and squirrels are hunted here. There are also opportunities for muskrat and mink trapping around the Hammer Creek and along the small tributaries. Red and gray fox, and raccoons are actively trapped on the game lands. Coyote hunting is also becoming more popular in the area. The farmland portion, which includes 25 acres of cultivated fields, is stocked with ring‐necked pheasants. Approximately 3.8 miles of the Horseshoe Trail bisects the game lands east to west and is open to hiking and mountain biking. From 15 January 15th thru 31 March 31, 7 miles of trail are open to snowmobiling. Beginning at the upper parking lot adjacent to the Cornwall Lookout Tower, the trail runs westward on a Game Commission secondary road for approximately 2 miles. From this point
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The Last of Us 2, games, Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog
‘The Last Of Us 2’ Spoilers: Joel May Still Be Alive, As Neil Druckmann Hints On Duping Fans In Game’s Trailer
3 March 2017, 6:00 am EST By Lauren Duffy Mobile & Apps
"The Last of Us 2" unveiled its trailer in the previous months and while the short clip offered hints about the game sequel's themes, a flurry of theories about the plot emerged on the internet. One of the most popular theories surrounding Naughty Dog's new game is one involving the possible death of Joel. Find out what Neil Druckmann has to say about some of these theories.
This article contains spoilers. Continue reading if you wish to learn more about the story.
"The Last of Us 2" spoilers are teasing on the possibility that Joel may still be alive following the recent interview with Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann. In an earlier interview with the Official Playstation Magazine, Druckmann shared that they used to dupe fans about the game's plot through its trailer.
"We purposely deceived [players] with certain trailers," said Druckmann, according to Games Radar.
Druckmann cited an example from the previous game wherein Joel was seen on the floor and the scene made it look like he was infected, but in the end, it turns out this was only made for the trailer. This made a lot of fans wonder whether Naughty Dog may be doing the same for "The Last of Us 2."
There have been theories that Joel is the center of Ellie's revenge in "The Last of Us" sequel. However, there are also more interesting emerging theories out there as discussed on PlayStation Forums.
A user named TommyBrownShoes1 noted on the possibility that Ellie is pregnant after being raped in "The Last of Us 2." This theory emerged from the easter egg of "TLOU 2" in "Uncharted 4," which showed a red-haired woman who has some similarities as Ellie.
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Sudan military ruler Burhan vows to implement deal agreed with protesters
Protest campaign leaders cancel nationwide day of civil disobedience set for later this month
Grab from Sudan TV on Saturday shows General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowing to implement power-sharing agreement with protesters (AFP)
Published date: 6 July 2019 20:03 UTC | Last update: 1 week 3 days ago
Sudan's army ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed on Saturday to implement the power-sharing deal agreed with demonstrators, as the protest campaign cancelled a nationwide day of civil disobedience set for later this month.
The ruling military council and protest leaders agreed on Friday to form a joint civilian-military governing body aimed at ending the country's months-long political crisis, AFP said.
"We, as the military council, promise to protect what has been agreed upon and ensure that it is implemented," Burhan said in a statement broadcast live on state television. "We are going to work with our partners from the Alliance for Freedom and Change and other forces in close cooperation in order to realise the aspirations of the people," he said.
Last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people - by some estimates as many as one million - filled the streets of Sudan for the first time since a bloody crackdown on 3 June in a cry of anger against military dominance, the New York Times said. Western officials said that Sudan's generals were taken aback by the size and intensity of the crowd.
At least 11 people were killed, but the show of popular support demolished claims by the generals that the protests were waning or only appealed to a fraction of the population, the Times said.
U.S. welcomes Sudan power-sharing deal as 'important step forward' https://t.co/r8p1m8qEbh pic.twitter.com/QIE5RqUQjk
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 6, 2019
The United States on Saturday welcomed the provisional agreement to share power as an "important step forward", Reuters reported.
"We look forward to immediate resumption of access to the internet, establishment of the new legislature, accountability for the violent suppression of peaceful protests and progress toward free and fair elections," the US State Department said.
The deal reached on Friday followed two days of hard-won talks brokered by Ethiopian and African Union mediators after negotiations collapsed in May over who should lead the new body - a civilian or soldier.
Sudanese raise doubts over transition deal agreed with military
The agreement stipulates that the new governing body will be presided over by a military nominee for the first 21 months, and the last 18 months by a civilian.
It is expected to be ready for signing by the two sides early next week, although the draft has postponed the formation of a 300-seat transitional parliament that had been agreed upon in previous talks.
The breakthrough accord came amid a political deadlock that has gripped Sudan since the generals ousted leader Omar al-Bashir in a palace coup in April following months of mass protests nationwide.
Burhan's remarks came after the Alliance for Freedom and Change cancelled a nationwide day of civil disobedience that was set for 14 July.
The alliance released a new programme of events on social media, which makes no mention of the planned campaign.
Ahmed al-Rabie, a prominent leader from the movement, told AFP the decision was made "to give room for the agreement" to be implemented.
A mass protest scheduled for 13 July by the alliance has also been changed to a "commemoration" for protesters killed 40 days earlier in a raid by men in military fatigues on a sit-in outside army headquarters.
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Sudan opposition and military council reach power-sharing deal
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NSF Invests in STEM Infrastructure
Military.com | By National Science Foundation
Six jurisdictions have received Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 awards from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
The $20 million awards will bolster science and engineering academic research infrastructure in the U.S. Virgin Islands and five states: Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. Each five-year award will support fundamental research; science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development in areas relevant to the jurisdictions' economic and other vital interests.
"These projects exemplify the national imperative to engage in cutting edge research, provide educational opportunities for future generations of scientists, stimulate the economy and create jobs," said Denise Barnes, head of NSF's EPSCoR program. "Additionally, these projects are impressive in their complexity, state-wide scope and integration of individual researchers, institutions and organizations as well as in their role in developing the diverse, well-prepared, STEM-enabled workforce necessary to sustain research competitiveness and economic growth."
Each award targets technologically relevant strategic themes. The research, education and outreach activities also consider economic and environmental factors related to the consequences of climate disruption. Several jurisdictions are tackling the scientific underpinnings of sustaining crop yields for agricultural production (Missouri, South Dakota and North Dakota); two jurisdictions are focusing on coastal ecological challenges (Maine and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Energy and sustainable materials with a focus on economic drivers and end-users are central themes for two jurisdictions (Kentucky and North Dakota).
A summary of each award is provided below in alphabetical order by jurisdiction.
Kentucky--University of Kentucky Research Foundation, PI: Rodney Andrews
Kentucky faces significant challenges as the energy economy transitions from traditional coal mining to renewable resources. Kentucky's RII award, "Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future," will focus on bio-inspired nanocomposite membranes, biomass feedstocks and electrochemical energy storage. The project will drive and accelerate the growth of the emerging bioeconomy within Kentucky through statewide multi-institutional interdisciplinary collaborations that incorporate elements of chemistry, biology, physics and engineering. Strong ties between academic research and industry will confront the Green Grand Challenge, help train students and create jobs for an increasingly larger and diverse science, technology, engineering and mathematics educated workforce. The project provides a STEM-based educational framework that will encourage meaningful participation of under-represented and minority student populations in the emerging knowledge-based economy.
Maine--University of Maine, PI: Michael Eckardt
Maine's coastal communities and ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate disruption, sea-level variability, declining fish stocks, erosion of long standing traditions and shifts in socio-economic conditions. These concerns are shared by coastal communities throughout the world. Maine's RII award will explore critical benefits of coastal resources through establishing the Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET). SEANET focuses on the interdependencies and sustainability of coastal ecosystem services, urbanization, commercial fisheries, aquaculture developments and coastal recreation in the context of social-economic demographics. This award is a multi-institutional, public-private partnership that uses Maine's 8,000 kilometer (4,971 mile) coastline as a living laboratory to study physical oceanography, biophysical, biogeochemical, socio-economic and policy interactions that have local, bioregional, national and global implications. Educational and outreach activities will focus on providing research and field-based experiences that engage underrepresented groups in SEANET. Workforce development activities will be integrated with the research, education and outreach components of the award to promote interest in sustainable marine resource careers.
Missouri--University of Missouri-Columbia, PI: John C. Walker
The increasing incidence and severity of drought has serious consequences for agricultural sustainability. Missouri's RII award, "The Missouri Transect: Climate, Plants and Community," focuses on improving the capacity of plants and crops to adapt to climate variability. The award integrates high-resolution climate data, high-throughput genomics and phenomics with stakeholder engagement. Studies of plant responses to drought will be coupled with seasonal-range climate forecasts, computational analysis and modeling of metascale environmental sensing data to improve agricultural resilience to the weather and climate-induced stressors that affect water availability, soil moisture and crop yields. The multi-institutional award includes researchers and students from universities across the state of Missouri. The new knowledge about adaptation and resilience will be translated into learning tools and opportunities that inform Missouri citizens about climate variability and its predicted impact on agriculture and natural resources.
North Dakota--North Dakota State University, PI: Philip Boudjouk
Agriculture, energy and advanced manufacturing economies in North Dakota will be strengthened through research lead by "INnovative and Strategic Program Initiatives for Research and Education-North Dakota" (INSPIRE-ND). The award will focus on the effects of climate change on the nation's food and biofeedstocks and develop sustainable and economically viable materials. INSPIRE-ND participants will conduct fundamental and applied research on regional climate and sustainable materials sciences. Research activities are integrated with workforce development and STEM education. The award will enhance the scientific computing infrastructure in North Dakota. The multi-institutional award includes North Dakota's comprehensive research universities and undergraduate institutions, community colleges, tribal colleges and private industry partnerships.
South Dakota--South Dakota State University, PI: James Rice
The emerging knowledge economy in biosciences is the impetus for South Dakota's award, "Biochemical Spatiotemporal NeTwork Resource" (BioSNTR). BioSNTR will apply imaging and molecular biology to predict cell functions, signaling processes and growth-factors. BioSNTR's capacity to map biochemical molecular circuitry will advance the science and technology of high-yield crop production and cellular mechanisms that affect human and animal health. BioSNTR involves research universities, undergraduate institutions, tribal colleges and universities, independent research laboratories and businesses. This award will provide opportunities for students at the high school, undergraduate and graduate levels to engage in research, workforce development and scientific innovation. BioSNTR's transdisciplinary, multi-institutional bioscience research and education activities will promote collaborations among South Dakota's universities, undergraduate institutions, tribal colleges and private research organizations. Training of students at all levels (K-12, undergraduate, graduate and postdocs) will create a strong and diversified STEM workforce to advance innovation in the state.
U.S. Virgin Islands--University of the Virgin Islands, PI: Henry Smith
The U.S. Virgin Islands (VI) encompasses a group of small tropical islands located in the Caribbean Ocean, over 1,100 miles from the southeastern U.S. coastline. The Virgin Islands support an array of biodiverse ecosystems that are vulnerable to impacts from multiple environmental, weather, climate, social and economic perturbations. A key concern is the capacity for coral reefs to adapt to changing water quality. This award will develop, test and evaluate climate change mitigation strategies with a focus on coral reef ecosystems and the stewardship of natural resources. The VI Institute for STEM Education Research and Practice will develop best practices to meet formal and informal education needs relevant for developing workforce capacity in the territory and beyond.
About EPSCoR
EPSCoR is a program designed to fulfill NSF's mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide. Twenty-eight states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam are currently eligible to participate in elements of the program. Through this program, NSF establishes regional partnerships with government, higher education and industry that effect lasting improvements in a state's or territory's research infrastructure and research and development capacity, and hence, its academic competitiveness.
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John Lithgow's work as covered on Movie Habit
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Taconic Investment Partners
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Bloomberg panel discusses the Apple Pencil →
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I hate to say it, but Om sounds completely out of touch with his analysis. He argues that it's mere semantics to refer to the Pencil as anything but a stylus, lamenting the need to learn a whole new set of gestures after he's already gotten used to adapting to the current set. His argument is fundamentally flawed, however, and both Bajarin and Dediu rightly point out that the Pencil is an accessory available in addition to the iPad. The iPad Pro will function just as well as its predecesors even if you rely solely on your existing skill set. The Pencil is created for a very particular use case, a very particular type of customer (one who would benefit greatly from the capabilities the marriage of the two Apple gadgets provide). It is by no means a required implement, and does not negate existing gestures. In fact, it's not even created as a navigation tool, which is what Om's argument appears to imply.
The most upsetting thing is how Om trots out the tired notion when he tries to land a final jab: "That's not the Steve Jobs way." What uninspired horseshit, but I'll go ahead and bite.
No, Om, that wasn't the "Steve Jobs way" based upon the evidence he provided while he was alive. But two things:
Steve Jobs died and left Tim Cook in charge, telling him explicitly not to sit around asking, "What would Steve do?"
Steve Jobs was a man capable of changing his mind, and did so frequently. If there was a compelling case for an accessory such as the Pencil, then I don't doubt for a second that he would go for it.
If Om's worry is about witnessing a company becoming increasingly mediocre, he should look no further than the company that is afraid to step out from behind the lingering shadow of its deceased founder.
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Injunction sought against Calif. Medicaid rate cuts
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Liquid Air Energy Storage is being developed as a large scale (up to 200 MW/1.2 GWh, and above), long duration storage technology. According to Gareth Brett, CEO of Highview, “the hybrid LAES system promises the powerful combination of instant start and long duration storage and is an important step for Highview as it broadens the range of services which LAES can supply and will help enhance the economic case for its adoption.”
The hybrid will be implemented at Highview’s 5 MW/15 MWh Pre-Commercial Demonstration plant at project partner Viridor’s Pilsworth landfill gas plant in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK. The Pre- Commercial Demonstation plant is currently in commissioning and due on-line early in 2018, following delays due to “component issues”.
Highview describes LAES as “proven technology” after construction of a 350 kW/2.5 MWh pilot plant in 2011, which was connected to the grid at SSE’s biomass plant in Slough until 2014.
In terms of scale Highview says LAES can be compared to technologies such as pumped hydro or compressed air energy storage (CAES), but “it does not require specific geography and can be located at the point of demand making it a very compelling solution.”
The aim of the hybrid LAES project is to test performance and economics and it is expected to be operational by summer 2018. At the end of 2013 Highview signed a global licencing and technology collaboration agreement, with GE Oil & Gas, to develop the integration of Highview’s LAES technology into its peaker plant offering.
The technology works by taking off peak or excess electricity and using it to turn air into a liquid by refrigerating it to minus 196°C and storing it in insulated tanks at low pressure. When power is required, liquid air is drawn from the tanks and pumped to high pressure. Heat harnessed from the liquefaction process is applied to the liquid air via heat exchangers and an intermediate heat transfer fluid. This produces a high-pressure gas in the form of air that is then used to drive a turbine and create electricity.
Highview says its technology draws from established processes in the turbo-machinery, power generation and industrial gas sectors, with main components “readily sourced from large OEMs” with “proven operating life times and performances.”
Liquid air energy storage: Highview’s 5 MW/ 15 MWh Pre-Commercial Demonstration plant
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Libya - A Tribal Insurrection
The "western" media is reporting the crisis in Libya as something similar to what happened in Egypt and Tunisia. But this is not a modern youth movement protesting against a dictatorship, this is a developing civil war between tribal entities - not exactly a novelty in Libya.
A bigger version of the map can be found at the Public Intelligence Blog
From a 2002 piece on Tribal Rivalries in Libya which explains why some army units are now with the rebels:
Such rivalries are most pronounced in the armed forces. Each of the main tribes is represented in the military establishment and the various popular and revolutionary committees. For instance, Qadhafi's Qadhadfa tribe has an ongoing rivalry with the Magariha tribe of Abdel Sallam Jalloud, the man who was second-in-command in the country for decades until he fell out of favour.
The Warfalla tribe, which turned against Qadhafi during the coup attempt in 1993, is numerous and is closest to Jalloud's Magariha tribe. The Al Zintan tribe backed the Warfalla as well. The coup attempt was spearheaded by Warfalla officers in the Bani Walid region, 120 km south-east of Tripoli. The main reason for the coup attempt was that, despite its size, this tribe was poorly represented in the regime and only occupied second-echelon posts in the officers' corps.
Moreover, Warfalla tribal officers have been excluded from the air force. The air force is reserved almost exclusively to the Qadhadfa tribe, to which Qadhafi belongs. It was the air force which crushed the coup attempt in October 1993.
It is possible that it, again, will be the air force that will put down this insurrection. But that end may also depend on one major tribe which so far has not taken a definite position:
The leadership of the Magariha tribe acknowledges a debt of gratitude to Gaddafi and his regime for securing the return of one of the tribe's members, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, from prison in Britain after he was convicted of being behind the Lockerbie bombing. However sources also told Asharq Al-Awsat that this has not prevented a number of youths of the Magariha tribe from participating – with members from other tribes – in the demonstrations and protests against Gaddafi's rule, especially in cities in eastern and southern Libya.
Experts say that the Magariha tribe is in the best position to carry out a coup against the Libyan leader, as many members of this tribe are in sensitive and senior positions of the Libyan government and security services.
There is more on the allegiances of the major 30 tribes and clans in Libya in the above piece. Additional information is here.
The misrepresentation of this conflict in the media may well lead to military intervention by "western" forces. These would then have to fight those tribes which for whatever reason support Ghadaffi. With "western" intervention the situation on the ground would quickly deteriorate. This would cost a lot more lives than any situation in which the Libyan people fight this out by and for themselves.
Posted by b on March 7, 2011 at 15:19 UTC | Permalink
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Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 7 2011 15:23 utc | 1
thanks b. i'm curious what your take is on dan's link about the SAS captured in libya.
Posted by: annie | Mar 7 2011 16:01 utc | 2
@annie - the capture (and released) SAS. That was a supreme stupidity by the Cameron government in Britain. Giving Gaddafi the best propaganda material he could think of.
Posted by: b | Mar 7 2011 16:08 utc | 3
yeah, i heard they had been released. arriving by helicopter in the dead of night (or was it morning?) dressed is black combat gear w/explosives? hmmm. no US msm coverage. makes me wonder tho..they got caught but what if other teams are there?
interesting link r'giap.
But this is not a modern youth movement protesting against a dictatorship, this is a developing civil war between tribal entities - not exactly a novelty in Libya.
I must say, there is a creeping sense of cultural superiority in this argument - as if the Libyans are all just a bunch of noble savages who have been fighting tribal wars for thousand of years and are simply not capable of appreciating 'modern' representative government. An argument, I might add, that western powers have made for more than a century to justify the support of despotic governments all over the Middle East.
More importantly, your post completely ignores the real cause of the uprising both in Libya and elsewhere: namely, the depredations caused by globalist kleptocratic economic systems that beggar the populace while enriching the leaderships and their foreign clients.
On that score, Libya is by no means different than its neighbors.
The "western" media is reporting the crisis in Libya as something similar to what happened in Egypt and Tunisia.
Well, it started out kinda like the other demonstrations, until Q started using heavy weaponry on the protesters.
Or are you really arguing that Libya is in some hermetically sealed bubble of competing tribes that pays no attention to what is happening on both of its borders, and that the Libyan uprising happened sui generis with nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the leaders of both of its neighbors had recently been deposed?
The misrepresentation of this conflict in the media may well lead to military intervention by "western" forces.
There are a lot of reasons why intervention is being contemplated, some noble and some not so noble, but the most important argument in my view is that the Libyan Army reacted quite differently to the uprisings than did the armies of Tunisia or Egypt. There is no misrepresentation on that score.
This would cost a lot more lives than any situation in which the Libyan people fight this out by and for themselves.
Just because you say it, b, doesn't make it so. A rationale for why getting rid of Q later than sooner would cause less bloodshed would be helpful.
Posted by: Night Owl | Mar 7 2011 17:04 utc | 5
well, b, I enjoy your felicitous responses to the accumulating crises.
It seems to me you're stomping outside of your standard operating procedure. About Iraq, you steadfastly demanded that USuk manufactured sectarian/ethnic divisions. Divide and conquer! This was the felicitous response and condemnation of US occupation. Arabs are really that stupid.
Now, with respect to Libya, and because the country's rebellion must be preserved in your original formulation as the "dignity of the people" to maintain solidarity against the interests of US imperialism, perish the fucking thought that people in Libya have grown tired of totalitarian rule! No, this was an inevitable dwindling into tribal cave groupings. And although Libyans repeatedly shake their fists in the air demanding an end to autocratic rule, really they're just fighting an antiquated gang turf war. That's how stupid Arabs are.
Posted by: slothrop | Mar 7 2011 17:25 utc | 6
I posted above without first reading nightowl's perspicuous response to the cultural chauvinism here masquerading as critique always sensitive to the looming destructive essence of the US empire.
Look forward to r'giap's complicated defense of Q, with obscure historical annotations, and links to insipidly lachrymose ECM mood jazz.
@Night Owl I must say, there is a creeping sense of cultural superiority in this argument
Nonsense - Germany also still has its kind of tribes, especially in the south. It has nothuing to do with "cultural superiority".
Call the whatever you want, but their are certain groups of people bound by blood In Libya just as elsewhere and they have taken sides.
The split in army is a sign of this.
Libya crisis: what role do tribal loyalties play?
However, as his popularity diminished and as he began to fall out with his colleagues in the Free Unionist Officers corps - all but a handful of whom have now disappeared from public view - he relied increasingly on tribalism and tribal rivalry in order to consolidate his grip on power.
This has been most pronounced in the armed forces where each of the main tribes is represented.
Fostering rivalries among the various tribes in the army through selective patronage has not only strengthened his control over the military, but has also worked to draw attention away from Col Gaddafi and his regime.
Nowadays, tribal rivalries are evident within the armed forces, where Mr Gaddafi's own tribe, the Qadhadfa, are pitted against Magariha - the tribe of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi - which are close to the Warfalla tribe, said to number one million people.
In turn, the Warfalla are close to Al-Zintan who hail from the town of Zintan, 75 miles south of Tripoli - one of the first towns in western Libya to join the present revolt against Mr Gaddafi.
There are a lot of reasons why intervention is being contemplated, some noble and some not so noble, but the most important argument in my view is that the Libyan Army reacted quite differently to the uprisings than did the armies of Tunisia or Egypt.
Indeed it did act differently - it split along tribal/local lines and started to fight the other side.
Sure seems to be a lot of "Western media" reporting about the factiousness of the Libyan rebellion.
To be sure, if Libya had a history of gently rotating in the orbit of US imperial power, b's arguments would suddenly honor the ready-made condemnation that the US was dividing and conquering there.
It's all about ideology, not people.
Posted by: slothrop | Mar 7 2011 18:12 utc | 10
@5 I agree with some of your insights but there seem's to be some points worth revisiting in regards to western media's representation and political interests.
Although the uprising may have been influenced and share similar causes to that of Egypt and Tunisia it nevertheless has its own dynamics: it is happening in a tribalized society that under Q has created a Libyan state that shares power and privilige on tribal basis, the best illustration is the Sudan and of course post-collapse Somalia. The racialized tensions that exist between 'Arab' and 'African', again has echoes of similar cleavages that developed in Darfur, Sudan during the 1990s, is another cleavage that overlays the tribal structure, i.e. non-Arab Berber tribes are the most politically and economically marginalized, a situation that Q has used to his advantage but which benefited Southern tribes such as the Kal Tamasheq [even one's living in Algeria, Mali and Niger].
Unlike Egypt where class divisions within the military establishment and across society [workers, peasants allied to 'middle' class workers] bound by Egyptian nationalism made analytical sense of what was unfolding, this same 'formula' provides a highly superficial picture of Libya's uprising. Despite calls of unity [with 2 different flags] from both sides - elites on each side, Q and Rebels, have galvanized support on the basis of tribal support, which is the form of modern Libyan nationalism.
There is nothing 'hermetic' about Libya, in fact it has had one of the most dynamic and in some cases destabilizing foreign policies of African and MENA states. Yet, power in Libya is tribalized - much like in the Sudan but one could also see a similar system of power in Rwanda - not in a 'hermetically sealed' this-is-the-way-it-has-always-been way but as part of it's modern state making project.
b does well to point us towards the 'modern' dynamic tribal alliances that form the workings of the Libyan state and military. Who is in which camp is largely based on the benefits and grievances emerging from Q's Libya (including grievances from the recent neoliberal upsurge). The black and white representation of this uprising as Q 'bad' vs. Rebels 'good'/pro-democracy is far from reality. Q as an indvidual is a dictator but his regime has existed in a delicate alliance for over 40 years that has given it some legitimacy, so when one says the Q-regime is 'bad' and get a new one the question is 'who' are the actors that are going to build a post-Q regime and on what basis?
One of these [self-invited] actors does include the western powers. The uprising offers a prime opportunity to assist in establishing a regime that is in line with their own geopolitical interests, whether that brings democracy or not is not relevant for them, in fact I would suggest that a limited form of electoral democracy legitimizing a neoliberal regime (which is a form of authoritarianism) would actually be enthusiastically endorsed, see similar regimes in Algeria, Chad and Uganda. The issue of a No Fly Zone could actually assist the armed rebel movements drive to Tripoli and control of Libya's oil assets, but it also gives western powers leverage that, based on historical precedent, would certainly endanger the chances for a real popular democracy in Libya. It begs the question of those rebel movements calling for No Fly Zones - do they not care for popular democracy or do they have an inflated sense of autonomy and hunger for power?
I do agree that Libya's uprising and eventual resolution is an internal matter, despite many pretenders enthusiasm to jump in, and it is for that reason that b's focus on Libya's state [not just Q's biography], the politicization of tribal identity and how it works will help us see the unfolding events in a clearer light.
I have yet to see/hear what the armed rebel movements (consisting of tribal groups that cleaved off Q's military and political institutions forming new alliances of their own) actually want - no ten point program/clear demands? While there seem's to be some popular movements, with ad-hoc violent attacks against Q affiliated targets, there are also organized conservative and Q establishment rebel groups that knee deep in the uprising. There is much to be concerned about the Libyan actors - Q and rebels alike.
Finally, there is a difference between the principled stance rejecting Q as a dictator and policies of theft and economic pillage (ironically intimately tied to western democracies) that I share with some of you AND actually explaning what is currently happening.
Posted by: Minerva | Mar 7 2011 18:21 utc | 11
b does well to point us towards the 'modern' dynamic tribal alliances that form the workings of the Libyan state and military.
Orientalism. Because of course the same dynamic occurred in Iraq. But acknowledging sectarianism didn't fit in with the USuk narrative, at the time.
NightOwl,
Again, you took the words out of my mouth... I wish I had time to add more Maybe later.
Anyways, thanks for your persistence. I don't understand the general attitude about Libya here at MOA.
Posted by: Rick | Mar 7 2011 20:58 utc | 13
entretien mohamed hassan
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 7 2011 21:44 utc | 14
Lets not forget the reality of Libya:
No Tahrir in Benghazi: A Racist Pogrom Rages On against Black Africans in Libya
by Glen Ford
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/ford030311.html
'Libya is a deeply traditional society, plagued with some outmoded and bankrupt ideas that continue to surface to this day. In many ways, Qaddafi has had to struggle against the same reactionary aspects of Arab culture and tradition that the holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was struggling against in 7th century Arabia – Arab supremacy/racism, supremacy of family and tribe, historical feuding tribe against tribe and the marginalisation of women. Benghazi has always been at the heart of counter-revolution in Libya, fostering reactionary Islamic movements such as the Wahhabis and Salafists. It is these people who founded the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group based in Benghazi which allies itself with Al Qaeda and who have, over the years, been responsible for the assassination of leading members of the Libyan revolutionary committees.
http://blackagendareport.com/content/libya-getting-it-right-revolutionary-pan-african-perspective
and guess what:
Libya is not Egypt and all rebellions are not Revolutions!
Hands off Libya, Hands off Africa!
Statement from the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-is-not-egypt-and-all-rebellions.html
Posted by: brian | Mar 7 2011 21:47 utc | 15
'More importantly, your post completely ignores the real cause of the uprising both in Libya and elsewhere: namely, the depredations caused by globalist kleptocratic economic systems that beggar the populace while enriching the leaderships and their foreign clients.
On that score, Libya is by no means different than its neighbors.'
night owl is dead wrong:
'How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment.
Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.
People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
http://davidrothscum.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-cheers-as-cia-plunges-libya-into.html
brian i wish you would stop the repetitive posts, we are not dullards, after all - we get your drift
Stop avoiding the issue. Germany is a representative democracy of the type that you believe the Egyptians and Tunisians deserve but not the Libyans because of their 'tribal' makeup.
I guess for you all tribes are equal, but some tribes are more equal than others?
The army split because the head of the government ordered it to assault its own people, which as you know but are loathe to admit, is the true difference between the Libyan and other uprisings. Indeed, had the Egyptian or Tunisian armies received similar orders you would have seen similar mutinies.
Of course, once the lower echelon commanders were forced to choose between their leader and their people, the choice tended to (but not automatically) be influenced by tribal considerations. But whatever tribal split that has occurred is a byproduct of Q's heinous orders, not the cause.
Posted by: Night Owl | Mar 7 2011 22:52 utc | 18
Is a No-Fly Zone What Libyans Want
From the link above, a quote from the Guardian:
"Some Libyan rebels have called for a no-fly zone, but until now – and this may change – the mood of the Libyan uprising is that this is their fight and their fight alone ... The moral strength of the Libyan rebels and their political claim to represent the true voice of the people both rest partly on the fact that, <>like the Egyptians and the Tunisians, they have come this far alone.
Interestingly, a March 5 decree from a 'Interm National Transitional Council in Benghazi' states:
“we request from the international community to fulfil its obligations to protect the Libyan people from any further genocide and crimes against humanity without any direct military intervention on Libyan soil.”
The call for protection for civilians is clear in international law (its application a d/f matter) - but protection of armed groups in what looks like a civil war is a political act that becomes party to the conflict - on this reasoning what the f*ck is the 'international community', i.e. Security Council, doing about the civilian casualties and mass refugee crisis associated with electoral violence in Ivory Coast or even the literaly 1000X armed violence/rape against civilians esp. women by the RPF-Rwanda military and local proxy forces in the long suffering Congo-DRC? What about applying the same logic in French dominated Chad to get rid of its French-client dictator, why not help the rebels there?
Does calling Q's state violence and the rebels sporadic killings amount to genocide in Libya? Who is being targeted in whole/part? This reads way to much like the labeling of genocide in Darfur by some parties to justify military intervention and the demonization of the Sudanese government as a genocidal regime rather than the actual on-the-ground happenings as noted by UNHCR and other organizations. The 'interm' council sure sounds like their asking for military intervention from foreign powers.
It would appear that the Egyptian army received similar orders.
Robert Fisk: As Mubarak clings on... What now for Egypt? - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
But the critical moment came on the evening of 30 January when, it is now clear, Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters.
And refused.
Many of the senior tank commanders could be seen tearing off their headsets – over which they had received the fatal orders – to use their mobile phones. They were, it now transpires, calling their own military families for advice. Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they must never kill their own people.
Resulting in the army splitting off from the police that remained loyal to Mubarak, but not splitting internally. Different dynamic.
Posted by: a swedish kind of death | Mar 7 2011 23:31 utc | 20
the egyptian & the tunisian security forces killed many hundreds of people - the exact numbers are yet to be defined bit considering the massacres that took place in alexandria & in other towns & villages of egypt - the brute numbers would be similar
the numbers of dead in the arab revolts is far from clear & in libya it is the most unclear. night owl is deliberately misreading the sense of what b is saying
i have made my own position quite clear though i am thankful for minerva's postings - your own, nightowl, are seeming not a great deal different from that delivered by cnn
& personally i was hoping the arab revolts would show exactly how western 'democracy' is just as polluted, just as corrupt essentially as the tyrants in the middle east
the pollution of political culture in the west stinks to high heaven
nightowl is making it much more simple than it actually is - i do not support gaddafi by any measure but to say that an armed revolt was not already in preparation, is naÏve
being sister stations, i wonder why al jazeera arabic is talking of an offer by gaddafi to resign while there is no mention of it all all on aje
Point taken. And to the extent that the Egyptian military remained united under the circumstances is a testament to the type of professionalism and unit cohesiveness that Q deliberately undermined in is own military by playing tribal favorites.
As I've said before, any schisms that multicultural Libya may suffer from have been ruthlessly exploited by Q for his own nefarious ends. But to then turn around and claim, as b does, that the existence of these schisms somehow justifies a lack of political evolution is, in my mind, the worst form of blaming the victim.
Posted by: Night Owl | Mar 8 2011 0:31 utc | 24
Either way, how exactly is a NATO intervention, and let's face it a NFZ is an intervention, justifiable by the very forces you claim have helped inculcate this dissidence on the part of the Libyan people?
Posted by: Morocco Bama | Mar 8 2011 0:37 utc | 25
you know giap, for someone who spent the first few days of the revolt absurdly denying that there was any actual information to claim that the violence was even happening, you certainly appear now to hold some pretty clear conclusions about its causes.
Would that you were so circumspect about stating 'facts' that agree with your preconceived narrative as you are with those that don't.
more specious nonsense.
Libya has a population of roughly 6 million people. Egypt has over 80 million.
If the 'brute' numbers are indeed similar (an open question), it's only because there aren't more Libyans for Q to slaughter.
if bloggers and commentators want to be taken seriously, i suggest they improve their evidence standards, and abvoid obvious libelous sentimenst, at least to appear objective.
And this month's "Lack of Self Awareness Award" goes to....
Time for another media class compare and contrast assignment:
Benghazi 2011 and South Ossetia 2008
Also, interesting site: http://benghazipost.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Biklett | Mar 8 2011 5:13 utc | 29
Let's not be naive. Libya`s politics is driven by oil and oil only. And western secret services have been heavily involved always. And it is no nation state. Yes,b.the tribes theory is orientalist. Let's talk about Sykes-Picot. And yes, western colonialist default policy is to divide and conquer. And creating helpless mini-states. And yes, western colonialist policies now try riding the waves by toppling the regimes they do not like.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/nov/10/uk.davidshayler
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/07/libya-oil-idUSLDE7260SL20110307
Posted by: somebody | Mar 8 2011 6:35 utc | 30
Minerva,
Despite calls of unity [with 2 different flags] from both sides - elites on each side, Q and Rebels, have galvanized support on the basis of tribal support, which is the form of modern Libyan nationalism.
Your implication here seems to be that 'unity' and 'tribal' are somehow incompatible.
On the contrary. A confederation of various groups of like-minded individuals is the foundation of any real democratic system. Indeed, it's the very variety of these 'tribes' that makes a union stronger, not weaker. (Just ask the Germans. ;))
The black and white representation of this uprising as Q 'bad' vs. Rebels 'good'/pro-democracy is far from reality. Q as an indvidual is a dictator but his regime has existed in a delicate alliance for over 40 years that has given it some legitimacy, so when one says the Q-regime is 'bad' and get a new one the question is 'who' are the actors that are going to build a post-Q regime and on what basis?
Please go here (comment 124) for my view on your historical relativism argument.
One of these [self-invited] actors does include the western powers. The uprising offers a prime opportunity to assist in establishing a regime that is in line with their own geopolitical interests,
In case you were not aware, since at least 2004 the Q regime has been in line with the West's geopolitical interests. (see same link above)
Thanks for the nod.
I don't understand the general attitude about Libya here at MOA.
Misguided nostalgia seems to be a major factor.
@Night Owl - Stop avoiding the issue. Germany is a representative democracy of the type that you believe the Egyptians and Tunisians deserve but not the Libyans because of their 'tribal' makeup.
Where please do you read that I believe that Libyans do not deserve what the Egyptians and Tunisians deserve? I never wrote such a thing.
So please stop interpreting something into my words that I have never said or meant.
The only issue my above post was pointing out is that Libya does have a tribal background, is pretty much an informal confederation of tribes, and that this anthropological fact is relevant for analyzing the current situation. That is neither an orientalist interpretation nor does it have anything to do with any opinion on who deserves what.
Posted by: b | Mar 8 2011 10:24 utc | 33
FP interviews Benjamin Barber:
I've been arguing for some time that this is a tribal society. What you've got here is not Cairo, but the makings of a tribal war among two parts of Libya that before 1931 were distinct provinces (Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and among whom there's long been bad blood). Tripoli versus Benghazi is a very old story. I hope the new chapter leads to freedom and democracy, but there are no guarantees.
night owl, i am not a cheerleader as you seem to be for foreign intervention - simply on what facts we are able to possess i attempt to interrogate the dominant narrative, that is all, there is no affection historical or otherwise for gaddaff - also i do not see this revolt in libya in the way that you interpret it, which is roughly the same as cnn's
yes, & i am not in full possession of the facts but it is quite clear neither are you
Slothrop may be right, afterall, an intervention in Libya may not be just about oil......there are other factors to consider.
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html
The 1st of September marks the anniversary of the opening of the major stage of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects. The leader of the so-called advanced countries, the United States of America cannot bring itself to acknowledge Libya's Great Man-Made River. The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than four million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks......
The Great Man-Made River, as the largest water transport project ever undertaken, has been described as the "eighth wonder of the world". It carries more than five million cubic metres of water per day across the desert to coastal areas, vastly increasing the amount of arable land. The total cost of the huge project is expected to exceed $25 billion (US).
Consisting of a network of pipes buried underground to eliminate evaporation, four meters in diameter, the project extends for four thousand kilometres far deep into the desert. All material is locally engineered and manufactured. Underground water is pumped from 270 wells hundreds of meters deep into reservoirs that feed the network. The cost of one cubic meter of water equals 35 cents. The cubic meter of desalinized water is $3.75. Scientists estimate the amount of water to be equivalent to the flow of 200 years of water in the Nile River.
The goal of the Libyan Arab people, embodied in the Great Man-Made River project, is to make Libya a source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries. In short, the River is literally Libya's 'meal ticket' to self-sufficiency.
The Masters of the Universe do not like self-sufficiency. No one shall be allowed self-sufficiency....ever.
Posted by: Morocco Bama | Mar 8 2011 12:19 utc | 37
b, you may be interested in this for some light relief
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Mar 8 2011 13:09 utc | 38
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive
moa's resident pentagoon spokesman nightowl is on a roll to day hehehe
Posted by: denk | Mar 8 2011 16:32 utc | 39
You never wrote it, but I'm not the only one who thinks it was implied by your post.
That is neither an orientalist interpretation nor does it have anything to do with any opinion on who deserves what.
You are very good at stating what your opinion is not, but you are still fairly cagey about what it actually is. Perhaps a clearer statement about what you think the Libyan people do deserve might go a long way to clearing up any confusion?
Oh and BTW: I never used the term 'orientalist'. I actually think you are more of Q nostalgist.
Oh my, b. Benjamin Barber? Please.
Next thing, we'll have R'giap quoting George Will in support of non-intervention.
also i do not see this revolt in libya in the way that you interpret it, which is roughly the same as cnn's
Really giap? CNN? That's the best you can do? Geez, you're starting to sound like denk.
FYI: I haven't watch any US cable news for a long, long time, so maybe the format has changed, but I don't seem to recall CNN anchors featuring pieces on how the depredations of the globalist kleptocracy are an underlying cause the uprisings.
Benjamin Barber knows him just about as well as any Western intellectual. Barber -- president of the CivWorld think tank, distinguished senior fellow at the Demos think tank, and author of Strong Democracy and Jihad vs. McWorld -- was among a small group of democracy advocates and public intellectuals, including Joseph Nye, Anthony Giddens, Francis Fukuyama, and Robert Putnam, working under contract with the Monitor Group consulting firm to interact with Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi on issues of democracy and civil society and to help his son Saif implement democratic reforms and author a more representative constitution for Libya.
So a guy (who used to be?) on Q's payroll pushes the divided tribal Libya meme. Gee what a surprise.
The Gaddafi faction doesn't seem that strong, other than in the amount of hardware and money it has, but time is clearly on their side. Given enough time even an incompetent and reduced 'army' will level down AzZawiyah and Misrata in the west. They don't seem to have the numbers required to occupy and pacify even a small town so they will have to keep bombing and shooting until everyone there is dead or too afraid to fight back.
The fight on the east remains around the oil ports, Ras Lanouf and Brega, where the pipelines converge but in the same vein I doubt they have the numbers to move east. Both sides are on their limits on terms of supply line and I doubt that's going to change in weeks. There is enough weapons and fighters on the east to keep defending their cities from other than a large force and reasonable mounted campaign. Or a counter-revolt. The same officers, army units or 'tribes' that were part of the regime could change sides at any time. Of course the same can happen the other way around. What's matter is who seems to have the winning cards or the best incentives. It's also clear that the Gaddafi faction has people lying down on Benghazi (and around the east): today someone threw a small bomb on a hotel where journalist were staying.
There has been rumors about clashes in Sirte and there is shooting regularly around Tripoli but for now the Gaddafi faction doesn't seem to be weaker than after the first days. If anything the false information spread through Libyan TV about retaking all cities on Sunday seems to point that something big may had happen on that night (there was a lot of shooting).
So it means that it will last long or the outcome will be decided based on who has the best external backing. And I have my doubts that the western powers really want the anti-Gaddafi prevailing. If anything they may prefer a 'de facto' partition. The uncontrolled amounts of weapons and ammunition in the east ... who knows who could get access to those.
One way or another it doesn't especially enticing for the development of a new democracy of the Libyan people, whatever side they are on.
Posted by: ThePaper | Mar 8 2011 18:57 utc | 44
Very relevant article linked to by Morocco Bama about the Libyan Great River Project and some of the comments about this on the Poor Richard's blog site, if true, are just as enlightening. Here is one comment of interest:
victor ksiezopolski said...
I was a part of the project working as a Polish hydrogeologist on American-Polish-Egiptian join venture project in 1973 in the Misurata desert area and as a hydrogeologist-consultant for a Libyan Company on a contract in 1978-1983. I was supervising and documenting water wells drillied 50 km south of Jalo Oasis in Cireneica desert and in Ubari area. The project of Man Made River was well known and only sufficient amount of water wells was required to start it on. I was in the UN FAO roaster as an expert and only my immigration to Canada stopped my further services. We could reach 250 m3/h of groundwater from wells drilled in the desert at the depth of 250 meters. This was really a great project but done and proceeded by foreign specialists only. Mr. Khadafi put only his name and money to it. I wrote a book about that time.
Oh well, looks like all the "waring tribal groups" got along well enough back then that such a wide area project could be considered. (Sorry, couldn't help the sarcasm.)
What follows is some random ramblings so feel free to stop reading here or forever hold your restraint, especially on the many different spellings of Quadaffi.
Again, I don't understand the great horror about a No Fly Zone (NFZ). The idea is shunned as even a hypothetical discussion as how to be done properly. As both Night Owl and myself predicted, the “West” appears to be in no hurry to help the Libyan people. Defense Secretary Gates has said flat-out, a NFZ, or any military intervention is not in the cards right now. Of course you have the NeoLiberals and NeoCons clamoring for not only a NFZ, but even further intervention for probably less than noble reasons, but 'what else is new'?
On another note, I find so many articles/posts here and in the overall media comparing the Libyan revolution to other recent and even less recent revolutions...everything from Tunisia to the U.S. Civil War. (OK, I may be exaggerating a little here.) And so many comparisons (some specifically troubling from Gaddafi apologists) comparing Gadaffi's response to the Libyan rebels to past insurrections of other nations, or even hypothetical future military responses to revolutions yet to come in the “West”. All these comparisons are meaningless... now is now and Libya is Libya. But hey , I might as well venture a comparison also: How about comparing Gadiffi's attempt to stay in power to the US. attempts to remain/gain control of Iraq after 2003? Seems just as valid as anything else I have read lately at least in some respects. Both the U.S. and Gadaffi blame al-Qaeda, whatever that is. The only big difference is, at least for the people involved and contrary to the Libyan tribal warfare meme, is that pro-Gadaffi air pilots seem reluctant to drop bombs on their own people. In the videos I have seen, the bombs miss every time by a long shot – one can only assume the Libyan pilots are missing on purpose. American pilots weren't so nice. Oh sure, they had their original “Shock and Awe” moment that was designed to be a “humane” show of superior force, but after a few U.S. dead soldiers came back to America, U.S. pilots had no national identity to the Iraqis for restraint. It appears many here and in the U.S. Administration are waiting for any current restraints to wear off in Libya and let the death/destruction proceed full force. The latest news seems to point in this direction, that is, the airstrikes in Libya are becoming more frequent and more deadly. Currently, the ground action is similar to what happened in “America's Iraq”, that is, pro-Gaddifi forces come into a town, time and time again, kill/wound/terrorize a few, then leave. This sort of reminds me of the tactics of the U.S. patrols in Iraq, especially at night. It all makes me wonder how much “western training” occurred with Gadaffi forces. Combined with increasing air attacks, the end result is destruction and desolation/desertion of towns, and these are not all small villages, many in the tens of thousands of people. The high number of refugees from the fighting is similar to Iraq also. Yet the thinking by some here is more of the opposite point of view, that the West have incited, armed, and even trained these rebels. If so, the West did a very poor job and has not learned a thing from past mistakes, but again, 'what else is new'? Even so, are the videos of Libyan youth learning to use anti-aircraft weapons by “on the job training” false and just more of this supposed media propaganda? I doubt it.
There is another notion floating around in the background of these posts that is troubling. That is, that the people of a nation are always able to dislodge their chains from outright slavery or a bad dictator completely on their own. History has not shown this to be a fact as generations upon generations have lived in slavery. A baby can be born in slavery, live its entire life in slavery, and die in slavery, likely at a younger age than any of us would prefer. Now there can be a valid argument made that nations need to mind their own business. Unfortunately in these times, the word “business” means an awful lot. But to the point, why is it wrong to assist those in dire trouble, whether such assistance comes from an individual, a small group, or a nation? Of course, the arguments against assistance in this case are: Gadiffi is not so bad (ie., it is the media that is misleading us), or why support one tribe over another, or why support sectarianism over religious extremism, or the West is worse with its ulterior motives, so they should stay out completely. None of these arguments are positive whether or not one accepts them at face value, and specifically, none address a real need by innocent people. I see little to the positive on these posts here at MOA. Therefore, I appreciated Night Owl's contributions as something more positive. And what I say next is not mutually exclusive: Do not prejudge or underestimate the positive qualities and abilities of these people, both young and old, from east to west, who are seeking their Libyan revolution towards more freedom. And let us not think we know more of their situation, their background, their hopes and desires, than they. To put it crudely, they are not fish in a fishbowl.
For the conspiracy inspired. Other than Gaddafi and his petty navy (that who knows if it's still under his orders). Who could have used missiles, reaching from the coast, to destroy a large weapon depot in such a complete way?
1658: The BBC's Michael Buchanan in Benghazi has visited a weapons dump outside the city where there was a huge explosion earlier this week. It was thought to have been an accident, but a group of local shepherds told him they saw rockets fall on the area before the blast. They did not see planes, and speculated that the rockets could have been fired from the coast or offshore.
the dominant narrative is that a no fly zone be put in place with all that means - that is what i witness whether it is french italian or english speaking media including al jazeera & that is what you have suggested from the very beginning
you attempt to read a sympathy for gaddafi that i have made clear from the beginning - does not exist - i know exactly the relationship libya has had in recent years
surely, i do not have sympathy for the constituents of the revolt especially the libyan national salvation front & those who seem the most prepared & organised are salafists who have a very strong connection with fis/gia in algeria & with corrupt elements within the algerian state
you criticize b for not offering a clear position but it is a far from clear situation - i'm not ashamed of my own confusion - the situation is far more oblique than tunisia or egypt - other than offering a general support for the arab revolts - i can't see what you actually want him to say
b's work on georgia & iran have been vindicated by the real, the concrete situation, b's instincts, his geostrategic understanding is more highly developed than my own & i trust that instinct
my own concern was simply stated at the beginning - that whatever the situation was in libya, i hoped it did not threaten the momentum of the arab revolts & secondarily a weakened imperialism is capable of great great damage & i fear that they are working rapidlly to degrade the effect of these revolts, already evident in oman, bahrain & saudi arabia
i apologize for the jibe but i certainly do not read the situation as you do
@Cloned Poster - thanks! Unfortunately "The service is not available in your area"
Looks like I will need a British proxy to access that flick.
to put it bluntly - whatever he's for, i am against
sorry bout that but i think there must be a link to this article elsewhere by the criminal yoo
Diana Johnstone on Libya as the new Kosovo...excellent article
http://www.counterpunch.com/johnstone03072011.html
those out to attack gadafi may like to look at who they are supporting:
Meet the 'rebels'
Q being Q - he would want to take a stand, to fight..he even wanted to join the protestors, against himself! - as the perpetual revolutionary...Then, there is the standard dictum, which applies in his case: fight to negotiate a better deal in the end. Show strength, such as it is, be a nuisance, make a lot of noise, act tough, and thereby force your opponents to make concessions they would never have otherwise. (I am not making light of horrors of civil war.) He hopes to cut a favorable deal of some kind, and may very well succeed.
Tribes in Lybia? Not relevant now.
The West (US - uk - EU) will be contemplating,
a) a break up into statelets (Tripolitania, Berlusconi can go stay on old stomping grounds!) (yugoslavia model)
b) take over, occupation, new figure, puppet Gvmt, ‘democracy’ (iraq)
c) let it rot, leave it be, wait and see - let the lybians fight it out (sudan)
d) take out Q, but then what?
none of these being palatable, not to mention manageable, in any way.
The arguments about a no-fly zone are to be seen in light of longer term aims.
Posted by: Noirette | Mar 8 2011 20:56 utc | 52
what's the big deal about a no-fly zone?
"To establish a secure no-fly zone, we would have to bomb radar installations, anti-aircraft batteries, missile sites, and airfields, and destroy the Libyan air force on the ground, to keep the skies secure for U.S. pilots. These would be acts of war against a nation that has not attacked us. Where do we get the legal and moral right to do this?" -- Pat Buchanan, U.S. right-wing commentator, arguing against intervention
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2011/03/07/its-their-war-not-ours/
Posted by: mistah charley, ph.d. | Mar 8 2011 21:06 utc | 53
Those who want intervention in Libya should hop on a plane and offer their services to the side of their choice.
I am inclined to the view that the blood of tyrants should be used for irrigating the tree of liberty but I have no illusions about "my" government or "yours". They are neither of ours and the Imperial ruling class that they serve is, by its imperial nature, far more dangerous to the Libyan people than either side in their struggle.
Surely this is a fact that nobody can doubt?
Every instance of military intervention or robust sanctioning, as in No Fly Zones, by the "international community has been characterised by appalling massacres, enormous social and economic catastrophe and, in the end, the installation of a franchised kleptocracy. Under whose rule the only political freedom that individuals are left with is the freedom to be detained, tortured and executed by death squads.Or to do as they are told.
Such is and has been the experience of Iraq aince 1991. Similar fates have befallen Kossovo and every other recipient of the bounty from NATO's bomb bays.
Posted by: bevin | Mar 8 2011 21:20 utc | 54
if richard cheney, david addington, 'scooter' iibby, john yoo, paul wolfowitz, richard perle & donald rumsfield were placed in the docks - judged for their crimes at the icc then i would believe in 'justice' & then i might be able to understand why gaddafi should appear there but until that moment - the court is an instrument of ideology &its judgements, worthless, not worth the copious paper they have been written on
it appears gaddafi has offered to resign -conditional on guarantees, this is something as i noted aj arabic talks about but aji does not - it would seem there is no attempt at what the soi-disant 'international community' likes to call 'conflict resolution'
as each day passes the narrative gets a little more bizarre - meanwhile yemen kills protestors in the streets, bahrain applies its security apparatus on the orders of saudi arabia who themselves are tightening the screws on the opposition. so too in jordan
eanwhile hariri & his criminal gang are up to their normal tricks
the opposite view
*Again, I don't understand the great horror about a No Fly Zone *
in case u missed it
http://tinyurl.com/4gbg7r3
owl n u seem to have evaded lots of my questions
to think that copeland dude call brian n me *artful dodgers*, lol
to sum it up.....
general william loony on iraq nfz
+"If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot
of oil out there we need."
Posted by: denk | Mar 9 2011 1:43 utc | 58
Behind Libya Rifts, Tribal Politics
Many members of the new ruling class taking shape in eastern Libya are from long-privileged tribes that were relegated to second-class status under Col. Gadhafi.
Many of the leaders now emerging in eastern Libya hail from the Harabi tribe, including the head of the provisional government set up in Benghazi, Abdel Mustafa Jalil, and Abdel Fatah Younis, who assumed a key leadership role over the defected military ranks early in the uprising.
"If you scratch the surface, you'll find a lot of the new leaders, a lot of those who defected to the rebels early, are from old tribes and families who served the Senussi monarchy," said Jason Pack, a Libya scholar at Oxford University.
Posted by: Minerva | Mar 9 2011 1:43 utc | 59
Survival Depends on Tribal Solidarity
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How does this tribal structure affect Libyan politics?
Mattes: Moammar Gadhafi's assumption of power in 1969 resulted in members of the Gadhafi tribe (the "Qadhadhifa") and the allied Maqarha and Warfalla tribes taking over all key positions in the security arena, that is, in the armed forces, police and intelligence service, thereby guaranteeing their control. For this reason, it was never to be expected, in the event of open political opposition questioning the dominance of the three tribes, that the members of the tribes would renounce their own tribes and defect to the opposition. This sort of situation has only materialized now, because the Warfalla tribe was opposed to the Gadhafi's tribe's harsh treatment of the opposition and therefore distanced itself from the Gadhafi tribe. The Warfalla tribe can afford to change course, because it's a powerful tribe. Smaller tribes are less likely to have this choice.
Coup or Insurrection
Coup or insurrection? The more we learn about how the 'insurrection' in Libya unfolded the more it appears that behind the demonstrations a coup was being launched. Nothing else explains the overnight appearance of weapons including attacks on arms depots and military installations accompanied by well-timed rumours of atrocities being committed by Ghadafi's air force and 'African mercenaries'.
So what prompted such an apparently instantaneous revolt? This is where it gets murky.
The most likely explanation is some kind of power struggle within the ruling elite aided by elements of the military/security forces that capitalized on popular discontent to escalate the confrontation from day one. So for example, in the early days of the revolt it's not clear which side fired the first shots but clearly from the very beginning both sides were using arms.
The artful dodgers would rather lionize a clearly ruthless autocrat, praising him as shrewd, not insane; though insane he is, and has been, for some time. This demented leader carries on for days and days, proclaiming that there is peace in his land where all his people love him.
As for those not directly in this fight (as the Libyans are), the more ethical and coherent position would be to oppose the brutal autocracy AND the calls for imperial-style intervention. But the dodgers love Gadhafi; they believe in his kind of government, they admire the leader's disconnect with reality, and apparently think of it as high-styling.
The artful dodgers believe that history vindicates Gadhafi, or will vindicate him, no matter what happens. Come rain or shine, in office or in exile, deposed with outside help, or solely undone by the hands of Libyans, with his Amazon bevy of bodyguards or without them; he will still shine in their personal Pantheon as a river to his people and one hell of a Good Joe.
Posted by: Copeland | Mar 9 2011 3:47 utc | 62
Those that pointed out the differences between the Libyan violence and that of Egypt Tunisia and Bahrain etc back in late February were howled down by exactly the same posters who are hysterically denouncing any criticism of the Libyan 'protesters' now.
It is difficult to comprehend the motive to be anything other than some ego driven need to be correct, so that the patently ridiculous contention that the civil war in Libya is one-sidedly violent, is clung to as if it were a shattered spar in a throiling sea - the only possible way of staying afloat- no matter how tenuous or uncomfortable that may be.
The 'protests started with the arson of two police stations in Beyida eastern Libya on the 16th of February. Within a week the arson of government buildings especially police stations had spread to the much larger Benghazi. It was around that time AJE which had been reporting on Libya daily but not saturation, stepped up the coverage, neatly drowning out stories about Bahrain, Jordan & Qatar & others.
No post I have seen in here has defended Muammar Qaddafi, but it seems that as far as a couple of posters are concerned, even suggesting that the leaders of the insurrection may not be any better and may in fact be worse (being members of the two tribes most deeply implicated in the monarchical and Italian colonial administrations) than Qaddafi is tantamount to a war crime.
The ugly racist subtext of as-Senussi and Warfalla tribal leaders was alluded to by a poster in here over a week ago. A shame that those determined to believe that all North African and Arab 'revolutionary's are as pure as the driven snow haven't stopped to consider the true nature of the likely horror for the people of Libya that will result from going back to the bad old divide and rule days of colonial & royal Libya.
Qaddafi is a tyrant, but like Saddam Hussein he didn't really discriminate in who he oppressed. That is to say just as women were substantially better educated in Iraq than anywhere else in the ME under Saddam, people were promoted or sacked in Qaddafi's Libya without regard to their clan. But the Warfalla tribe plus one or two other clans originating within eastern Libya make up a narrow majority of the Libyan population. This is why clan leaders in the east have been at odds with the Qaddafi regime so constantly and ferociously since the early 1990's.
They can see a good chance of controlling all Libya if only they can remove Muammar.
Now about the resident zionists nagging on claiming there were parallels between the sectarian violence in Iraq which led to a civil war and that of Libya.
As far as it is possible to judge the tribal (note Libya is a tribal/clan division, not a sectarian/religious difference) conflict of Libya has been entirely driven by idiots within Libya. However as we should all know, in Iraq where the Saddam administration had endeavored to have an inclusive tyrannical regime, the US was implicated in 'false flag' attacks on mosques and other religious sites, culminating in the Al-Askari Mosque bombing in 2006. The destruction of the golden dome was the final match which lit up Iraq and caused the civil war. Watchmen had reported hearing english spoken by some of the mine laying team. The resulting slaughter absorbed the energies of Sunni and Shia opponents of the US invasion.
oafs who maintain the us doesn't do that need to check out the peculiar perambulations of a man called Ray Davies -he is unrelated to the founder of the kinks incidentally. R Davies is a US agent who entered Pakistan claiming to be a Xe contractor. However after he got arrested for murdering Pakistanis, the Shirley Temple administration decided that Davies was a diplomat entitled full diplomatic cover. Shirley told the world Davies was a CIA employee. The Lahore police discovered maps and cell phone records of known members of Tehreek-e-Taliban of Pakistan (TTP) and sectarian Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
It seems Davies was the organizer of those two groups' activities against Pakistani civilians. Keeping the Pakistan govt wrong footed, by using the alleged islamofascists, then calling in drone attacks on villages that were totally unrelated to the attacks. No wonder investigators found US links to the 2009 Mumbai attack.
The empire keeps the pot simmering, stirs up trouble either for direct political gain or to be a distraction from their real nastiness.
As above there is nothing to link the US to the slaughtering in Libya yet, but that cannot be used as some sort of proof to deny the US' deliberate strategy of creating sectarian conflict in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon to name a few.
The Iran ructions of a coupla years back must have left some delicate petals over-sensitive to the asinine claims of zionists and their ilk that those who expressed reservations at the true nature of the post election riots in Iran were hypocrites. The only truth in any of that stupidity is that those making that claim are either ignoramuses carelessly revealing their flawed thinking to the world, or conniving game players who are more interested in winning an argument than exposing the depravities humans squashed at the bottom of the imperial shit heap are forced to endure.
Posted by: UreKismet | Mar 9 2011 4:25 utc | 63
copeland is a not so artful dodger
in case u missed this
http://tinyurl.com/6j7xwe6
*'brian and denk are artful dodgers
brian and denk think Ghadhafi is the greatest thing since sliced bread*
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
i'm still waitin for ur evidence.
hey hey MoA
battle zones
but that's okay
when typing from the safety zones
proxy boxing
for some
is entertainment
(employment?)
who can say?
Posted by: lizard | Mar 9 2011 4:59 utc | 65
Shrewdness is not synonymous with insanity, especially in a political leader. The two dodgers remind me of people in my country who are beguiled by "a strong leader". Some people don't want to be ennobled, or protected, or have their own petty sense of power magnified by a tyrant.
People who know where the real battle is waged, and the real stakes for which it is waged, win. We just saw this happen in Egypt. Most folks who read at MoA have come to the conclusion that people don't become saints if they are forced to take up arms against tyranny. No one knows if the outcome of bloody civil war in Libya will mean a better government or not. And who are we to judge how pure or impure the people in the insurrection are?
copeland has no evidence
u are a liar mr
Muammar will be removed through some political process, because he's gone batty. Maybe he will finally face the facts and negotiate a departure from power; and this departure will not only preserve some dignity for him, but will possibly create conditions for an armistice, or at least a cease fire, that will permit Libyans to sit down and explore power sharing, before outside powers can push their way in, with the usual fomenting of chaos, and the age old divide and conquer routine.
Let me be clear. I am not for sending the man to the Hague. I am not for humiliating Gadhafi in any way. Unlike Bush and Obama, he is not a butcher who wears the smiling mask of civility.
Go carry Ghadhafi's slippers for him, denk. It's almost nighty-night.
i am calling copeland a bald faced liar
this pronoucement stands unless
he or anybody here can produce evidence that i've said anything to *lionise [sic] kadaffi n all that jazz
We just saw this happen in Egypt. Most folks who read at MoA have come to the conclusion that people don't become saints if they are forced to take up arms against tyranny. No one knows if the outcome of bloody civil war in Libya will mean a better government or not. And who are we to judge how pure or impure the people in the insurrection are?
I don't know about you, but I don't happen to recall too many people around here questioning the morality of the Egyptian protesters in such conspiratorial terms, or taking such heroic pains to diminish the legitimacy of their protests.
I guess the moral of the story is that semi-peaceful protests (those with a lot of rocks and some molotov cocktails) are brave and noble movements, but if the protesters end up getting gunned down in the streets, they must have had it coming.
*I guess the moral of the story is that semi-peaceful protests (those with a lot of rocks and some molotov cocktails) are brave and noble movements, but if the protesters end up getting gunned down in the streets, they must have had it coming*
*they had it coming*
really, who else but u say it owl ?
u keep trumpeting UNVERIFIED *atrocities* in libya
as per the rebel hq or the oh so honest msm
fool me once
yet u propose to let the perps of well documented crimes going back 200 yrs to intervene
like someone else has said, isnt it like asking a serial paedophile to run a childcare outlet ?
p.s. may be u should help copeland find his *evidence* , that poor dear ;-)
denk, you distorted the very effective irony of Night Owl's paragraph by pulling the phrase *they had it coming* out of context, and presenting it, as if it were a declarative sentence. Either you cannot read english effectively, in context; or like a troll, you are being deliberately dishonest.
But some of it may have to do with having fixed ideas. We have all have been guilty of that at times; but when I see a response like yours above (at #76), I can only think that you are trying to slap us silly with your ideas without any respect for our intelligence.
And when you write "who else but u say it owl" you both condescend and distort at the same time.
its owl who smear others posters who questions the unverified accusations of atrocities as kadaffi apologists who think that *the protesters had it coming to them* when no one had suggested anything remotely close
just like u repeatedly slanted me as ksdaffi apologist who *lionise the tyrant* but fail to substantiate it
i'd have thought that u'd feel a bit embarrassed after ur last performance....
yet u have the cheek to come back here for an *encore' hehehe
Video - The Battle for Zawiyah (long version)
The ant-Qadaffi forces have some pretty serious weapons ...
Posted by: b | Mar 9 2011 9:24 utc | 75
I read somewhere they are supposed to have planes in Benghazi or other bases in the east. But they likely lack pilots or are not in working condition.
Ivory Coast: rebellion, fighting, "genocide", rape. No fly zone? Carrier force? Intervention to promote democracy?Hahahahaha. Why not? NO OIL. West indifferent.
Burma recently. Same. NO OIL , so no "humane" intervention.
We gotta get that oil, so get rid of Gaddafi/Qaddafi/Khadaffi/etc
Posted by: hilerie | Mar 9 2011 11:45 utc | 77
Incredible. I post a link about why Libya may be seen as strategically important to the Western forces who appear to be on the verge of intervening, and nary a word. Instead, we get useless, and I mean useless, bickering about who the good and bad guys are.
Water is as important in this century as oil was in the last. Libya is sitting upon an underground gold mine of water.
Re Moroccobama 37:
Libya's Great Man-Made River Project. This incredibly huge and successful water scheme is virtually unknown in the West, yet it rivals and even surpasses all our greatest development projects.
Even in quoting Poorrichard, this issue is being misunderstood. This is a good idea, in its way. But you should understand that what it does is to pump water out of wells in the desert and send it by pipe to the coast for irrigating the agriculture of the coastal plain.
The main problem is that it is fossil water, never replaced by new rainfall. It is water that fell as rain during the last wet phase in the Sahara 25,000 years ago. My geography professor back in the 80s, who studied the project, said the water would last 30 years. Well, 30 years are nearly up. Maybe he was too pessimistic, but still.... The project evidently has no long term future in spite of all the money spent on it.
Posted by: Alexno | Mar 9 2011 12:48 utc | 79
is geography a requirement for a degree in any of the social sciences?
Posted by: rjj | Mar 9 2011 13:04 utc | 80
There were like 8000 UN troops in Ivory Coast with more being deployed after Gbago refused to step down after the presidential elections. When the civil war was happening there was a direct intervention by the French army. And other than the 'important' cocoa production (to be exported, processed and profited in western countries) there is oil.
You can hardly say there is no intervention there. It's a different matter if it's being reported in the Mass For Dummies Media. In fact the situation is very similar including the tribal undertones. So on your next attempt to troll use a better example.
Excuse me for saying so, but I think you're wrong in supposing Libya to be at heart a tribal insurrection, b.
It's more about division of resources, or the personality of Gaddafi.
Yes, of course, Libya is a tribal society. The remaining support of Gaddafi is his tribe, and the mercenaries - the private army of Khamis Gaddafi. They seem to be moderately well organised, but not very well so, considering the money they have. For the moment the opposition don't seem organised at all, though they do have some weapons (as you note, b).
It is more that Libya is a classic petroleum producing economy, at least of the Middle East kind. I haven't checked the figures, but am I wrong in thinking that more than 90% of GDP comes from oil sales? Classically, all this goes to the state, which then diffuses it or not into the economy. It takes a strong-willed leader not to put a large proportion into his own pocket, and I don't know of any leader yet who has resisted the temptation. It is one of the main reasons that autocracy survives so well in the Middle East.
What we are seeing now is Gaddafi, his family, his tribe, and whatever money can buy, versus the rest.
It is in fact a traditional scenario that was first described on a theoretical level, by the famous Maghrebi historian Ibn Khaldun in the 14th century, in the Muqaddima. Although he didn't know about oil, according to him, a tribal dynasty comes to power, acquires wealth, acquires foreign mercenaries as protection (thus presumably not trusting his own tribe 100%), and in the second generation weakens and is replaced by another. Real history is naturally not as cyclical as he supposed, but Gaddafi is certainly in the stage of acquiring foreign mercenaries (they were called Mamluks in medieval times).
The question may soon come: will he place more reliance on the mercenaries or on the tribe? It is a weak point; the ones less trusted may leave him.
For me, Libya is more the classic autocracy of the oil state, and the issue is the personality of Gaddafi, much as it was Mubarak in Egypt or Ben Ali in Tunisia. The consequence may be democracy, but the immediate aim is to get rid of the tyrant.
said the water would last 30 years.
30 years based off of the grand plans they had in store for it. From what I gathered, those plans have not yet come to fruition, and the water still largely remains in the ground....waiting for that rainy day. I may be wrong, but I wonder if there are any reliable resources we can find that state the case objectively.
Assuming the water angle is not an angle at all, Alexno, why do you believe Libya is of strategic interest to the West, aside from the obvious. In otherwords, why is the media building a case for possible intervention in Libya versus anywhere else we are seeing uprisings? What is it about Libya?
Morocco Bama @83 great questions. The uprising is a chance to secure a foothold in Libya through the rebel movements and retake the entire North African region.
US-NATO Prepare for War 'on' Libya
British efforts are part of multifaceted operation to construct a new Libyan regime that can suppress popular opposition and ensure that the major oil companies, banks and corporations have access to Libya’s resources [...] Italy has perhaps the closest economic and political ties with Libya of all the European countries. It gets a quarter of its crude oil and 10 percent of its natural gas from Libya. Italy is Libya’s largest trading partner and is the major EU exporter of arms to Libya. Its national oil company Eni has extensive investments in Libya, and Italian contractors are building a new coastal highway, railways and fibre optics networks.
The Libyan Investment Authority and other investors have stakes in some of Italy’s biggest companies. Last week, Italy suspended its 2008 Friendship Treaty with Libya. This means that Italy can now allow its military bases to be used for acts of aggression against the Gaddafi regime.
I'm note sure about the economic interests angel since Italy is on board and Britain has had lucrative oil/gas contracts.
Washington is seeking to exploit the mass opposition to Gaddafi to install a new client regime that will enable it to position its political and military assets to prop up reactionary regimes across North Africa and the Middle East—including Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Oman—that are being rocked by popular uprisings.
According to Time magazine, President Barack Obama is now refining the US response to the Libyan uprising and ensuring that the US has the full capacity to act very rapidly if necessary. Part of his strategy is to position military assets under the guise of mounting a humanitarian effort to transport refugees and provide aid to civilians. At the same time, Obama has formed a supreme intelligence committee consisting of Pentagon, National Security Council and CIA experts, which will attempt to bring together reports from US sources based among the opposition and Gaddafi’s forces.
When the west elite sees pictures like this, actions will follow. This is big in a psychological sense.
Sidre Oil Port
http://twitpic.com/47slaa
Meet the political face of the revolution
Interim Transitional National Council
A National Transitional Council was formed on 27 February 2011 to act as "the political face of the revolution" … chaired by former justice minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil, who quit the government a few days before.
On March 5, an Executive Team was set up to act as the executive arm of the council. The team consists of Omar Hariri as the head of the military, Ali al-Essawi as the head of foreign affairs, and Mahmoud Jebril as the head of the team (chairman)
Omar Hariri, a confederate in Qaddafi’s coup who broke with him and led a failed coup of his own in 1975, and two other men were named to head the local government.
Mohammed Abdul-Rahman Shalgham, the Libyan UN ambassador who defected from the Qaddafi regime in mid-February.
So we have ….
Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil, Qadaffi’s Justice Minister as Chariman
Ali al-Essawi, Qadaffi’s ambassador to India as Foreign ‘Minister’
Mohammed Abdul-Rahman Shalgham, Qadaffi’s ambassador to the UN doing the same thing except for the rebels
Omar Hariri, member of the Revolutionary Council that ousted King Idris in 1969 and a leader of a1975 coup against the new republican Libyan regime … appointed to lead the rebels army to, what else, bring a coup and oust Qadaffi
Alexno, why do you believe Libya is of strategic interest to the West, aside from the obvious.
I don't. And I don't believe the West will intervene. It would be a bad idea. They're anxious at the moment, it's understandable.
If they want to get rid of Gaddafi, they should supply the rebels covertly with arms. Robert Fisk had a story at the weekend in the Independent about the US negotiating with Saudi Arabia to do precisely that. The Angry Arab pissed on Fisk's story. No idea whether there was any truth in it. But it's the right idea.
But if Gaddafi wins, there will be negative long-term consequences. Libya will be destabilised until Gaddafi does finally disappear. There's no future in a Gaddafi win; Libya just goes on hold. Libyans won't accept a second-generation Gaddafi now, except by force. There'll be a continuing destabilising force to the ME oil production scene.
And it will be embarrassing for the US to be forced to watch an ugly massacre right in front of its television cameras (or rather those of al-Jazeera, and thus not watched), another proof of things that go on in the world quite outside of its control.
That Lybia water project was according to Q, the 8th wonder in the world. (Biggest water project / world.) It was carried out by foreign Cos. Brown and Root, etc.
Greening the desert, you bet. Feeding the ppl, yes.
The project was not favored by the West, in fact they were furious (but that was before Q went to rehab) and Q indeed borrowed no money. It was made possible by oil resources. I have read, without any real knowledge of my own, that the aquifer itself stretches underground to Egypt, Chad and Sudan (see wiki.) Poses all the problems of resources that are off-shore (Law of the Sea), up in the sky, or far under the ground.
Estimates as to when it will run out - run out it will - vary from 4,860 years (great precision, heh, Fawzi al-Sharief Saeid, Lybian director at some point, see link) and 30 years, some Western pundit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_System
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Wonder_or_folly_33-bln-dollar_Libyan_water_scheme_stirs_debate_999.html
What about the Nile?
Way back in time, aka in 2010, an agreement was signed by several countries to share Nile water more equitably. This agreement is supported by the UN, WB, IMF, FAO, US, “everyone”, as was set to be slowly enforced.
The older arrangements, inherited from the Brits, attributed the waters of the Nile to Egypt and the Sudan.
for basic info search, type: nile basin initiative wiki
Egypt was already facing water scarcity before 2010.
As I've said previously, I think Az Zawiya is the key to the whole conflict right now. Az Zawiya is the major oil and gas terminal for the entire west of the country. With his reversals in the east up to and including the oil facilities at Ras Lanuf, Q desperately needs the facilities at Az Zawiya if he wants any realistic hope of prolonging the war.
Q has made the maximum effort there in recent days and, while reports have been sketchy, he appears to have come up short. In the process, he has lost a number of tanks and other equipment that he can't replace and now finds himself weaker and still without control of any of Libya's strategic oil assets.
In this context, it's not surprising that Q floated a second round of overtures to the opposition on a way out (the first coming from Chavez after Q's loss at Ras Lanuf).
Meanwhile to the west of Tripoli, Q has also been repelled at Misrata, which blocks his ability both to relieve Sirte and to concentrate his forces for a last ditch offensive to retake Ras Lanuf.
So long as Az Zawiya in the east and Misrata in the west both hold, Q's days appear to be numbered.
Az Zawiya in the east and Misrata in the west both hold
sorry, got my easts and wests mixed up there.
Night Owl,
I would think, and a retired Egyptian General mentioned this on AJ today, that any areas far from Tripoli Q will have a hard time to retake and hold because long supply lines needed. These are cities in the desert separated by long distances . b would be better to comment on this as he did an excellent job describing these problems in Afghanistan. I wonder if the coastal cities would be exempt from this tactical problem.
any areas far from Tripoli Q will have a hard time to retake and hold because long supply lines needed.
...which is another reason why Az Zawiya (only 50 km from Tripoli) is so critical for Q.
Supply to the east is feasible so long as there is a clear run from Tripoli to Sirte, but Misrata in rebel hands complicates matters significantly.
would be better to comment on this as he did an excellent job describing these problems in Afghanistan
Well, no, actually.
b's position was that supply routes over the Khyber would be effectively cut off by the taliban, which hasn't happened. Meanwhile, b said that Russia would never permit transit of matériel through Russia and the former southern republics would not acquiesce, which hasn't happened.
Az Zawiya has mostly fallen - had no chance at all - the eastern areas will fall too - yes, the supply lines are long for Qadaffi to send his military to the east - so what - he has the resources.
If you want to know the area and supply problems, read up on the Germans fighting there - they didn't have the resources the US/British forces had.
I believe your assessment is overly pessimistic, especially with regard to the situation in the east. But as always, time will tell.
As a student of those campaigns, I'm sure you're aware of the necessity of an unhindered flow of gasoline for any offensive to succeed.
Currently, Q is running solely on his reserves, so unless he can pacify Az Zawiya to the point where he can get the gas flowing from there again, I have a tough time seeing how he can sustain any offensive operations at all, let alone operations that could carry him to Benghazi.
The Chris Floyd article is a good one. As far as Gadhafi is concerned, it would be to his advantage to present his regime as opposing the imperial powers; it's what served him so well during the years when he was more in possession of his faculties. But early on in the revolt he was still complementing Obama, calling him a nice man and so on. Gadhafi is still reluctant to burn those bridges behind him, at least in his own mind. There is some kind of delusion at work when he claims al_Qaeda is behind the revolt, or suggests that the instigators are feeding the rebellious youth psychoactive drugs.
Milne's observations just expose the whole false facade American diplomacy. Obama for his part has just given the Guantanamo base he once promised to close, a perpetual lease on life, by signaling that the military tribunals can be empaneled to sit there, and judge prisoners who are left to rot in its legal limbo. And the example being made of Pfc. Bradley Manning has become even harsher; as his friends report that he was force to stand naked outside his cell for seven hours, where he is held in military custody in Virginia.
Posted by: Copeland | Mar 10 2011 1:28 utc | 97
he's lear to the end, copeland - i heard today he said he was the last line of defence for israel - this man who once sd he would lead the brigades into jerusalem
the whole situation is getting madder by the day - & if the oppositionists are those represented on al jazeera - they are even madder than him - all richard the lll's-in-waiting
& the pompous tool from the hoover institute foud adjani - a windbag en plus
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Mar 10 2011 2:00 utc | 98
why are my comments not being posted?
Posted by: brian | Mar 10 2011 7:26 utc | 99
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday Muammar Gaddafi was using “mercenaries and thugs” to suppress his own people and said the Libyan leader must step down immediately.
It's the hipocrisy of the West that gets me
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Tech & Sourcing @ Morgan Lewis
Just Released: New Version of Global Standard for Payment Card Data Security
TECHNOLOGY, OUTSOURCING, AND COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
NEWS FOR LAWYERS AND SOURCING PROFESSIONALS
By Edward J. Hansen and Christopher C. Archer
// May 09, 2016
On April 28, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (Council) announced the release of PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3.2 to replace version 3.1, which expires on October 31, 2016. The announcement states that “[c]ompanies that accept, process or receive payments should adopt [version 3.2] as soon as possible to prevent, detect and respond to cyberattacks that can lead to breaches.”
The Council pointed out that because PCI DSS is recognized as a “mature standard” by the payment industry, “the primary changes in version 3.2 are clarifications on requirements that help organizations confirm that critical data security controls remain in place throughout the year, and that they are effectively tested as part of the ongoing security monitoring process.”
One such change is to expand the use of multi-factor authentication to include all administrators who access cardholder data. This builds on the existing requirement of multi-factor authentication for all personnel with remote access to cardholder data.
Version 3.2 also includes a number of new requirements for organizations to follow, most of which apply only to service providers. To allow companies time to implement the new requirements, they will serve as best practices until January 31, 2018, after which they will become requirements.
Highlights of the new requirements include the following:
New requirement 3.5.1 — Service providers must maintain a documented description of cryptographic architecture (e.g., algorithms, protocols, and keys).
New requirement 6.4.6 — Organizations must ensure that security controls are implemented and documentation updated for all new or changed systems and networks. In other words, validation of security controls must be incorporated into change management processes.
New requirements 10.8 and 10.8.1 — Service providers must establish processes to timely detect, report, and respond to failures of critical security control systems (e.g., firewalls, anti-virus, and physical/logical access controls).
New requirement 11.3.4.1 — Service providers must perform penetration testing on segmentation controls (if used) every six months (formerly an annual requirement) and after any change to segmentation controls.
New requirement 12.4.1 — Executive management must establish responsibilities for the protection of cardholder data and implement a PCI DSS compliance program.
New requirements 12.11 and 12.11.1 — Service providers must perform reviews on at least a quarterly basis to confirm that personnel are following security policies and procedures, and maintain documentation of such quarterly review process.
The Council published a summary of changes in its document library that provides more detail on version 3.2, and the Council’s Chief Technology Officer, Troy Leach, discussed the key changes in an interview last week.
The Council expects to continue to release incremental revisions to the PCI DSS standard (like version 3.2) “to address evolving threats to the payment landscape, with a focus on helping companies use this standard as a good framework for everyday security and business best practice.”
With more incremental revisions to PCI DSS on the horizon and a constantly evolving threat landscape, companies that accept, process, or receive payments should ensure that security practices and controls remain current and adaptable to changing standards, whether such practices and controls are managed in-house or by a third party. For contracting purposes, strong PCI DSS compliance provisions are critical when a service provider accepts, processes, or receives payments on behalf of a customer. In addition, prior to engaging any such service provider, customers should validate that the solution includes robust PCI DSS practices.
Tags: Commercial Transactions, Cybersecurity, International, Privacy, Regulatory, Sourcing, Technology
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It's All Politics
Newt Gingrich's Freddie Mac Ties Could Be Poison In GOP Race
November 16, 2011 In about a week, we've gone from Newt Gingrich saying during a debate that he was paid $300,000 to tell Freddie Mac "as a historian" to his firm being paid nearly $2 million by the mortgage-financing giant as a former House speaker to provide strategic advice. There's no telling what added details another week might bring.
If you can get a mortgage, the rates are lower than ever.
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Average Rate On 30-Year Mortgages Falls Below 4 Percent For First Time
October 6, 2011 But though rates are at new lows, many who would like to take advantage of them can't because of too little equity or tight lending standards.
When Mortgage Borrowers Don't Pay, Should Taxpayers Be On The Hook?
May 12, 2011 A new bill would create private companies to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But the government would continue to guarantee mortgages.
What's Next: Life After Fannie And Freddie
March 30, 2011 There's widespread agreement that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished. But what will the mortgage market look like when they're gone?
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Bailout Of Fannie And Freddie
March 29, 2011 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac grew too big to fail. Then the mortgage giants followed the subprime lending industry into the abyss.
'Kill Them, Bury Them': The Rise Of Fannie And Freddie
March 28, 2011 How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used ferocious lobbying and implicit government backing to grow rich and powerful.
February 14th Show
February 14, 2011 Today on Talk of the Nation, guest host Rebecca Roberts talks with guests about the significance of developments in Egypt, the possible demise of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, How We Age and President Obama's 2012 budget.
White House: Not Everyone Should Own Home
February 11, 2011 The president and congressional Republicans agree: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should cease to exist. What will replace them is less clear.
Obama To Phase Out Fannie, Freddie
February 9, 2011 Obama will propose gradually ending the mortgage giants and replacing them with more modest support for the U.S. housing market.
Ex-Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Execs Get Legal Bills Paid By Taxpayers
January 24, 2011 Taxpayers paying more than $160 million in legal fees for ex Fannie Mae execs adds insult to injury. Taxpayers have already paid about $150 billion to bailout the two mortgage giants after they became insolvent in summer 2008.
Housing Guy Apologizes For Housing Bubble
October 22, 2010 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have worked for decades to help more Americans become homeowners. Now, a former employee wants to apologize for doing such a good job of fulfilling that mission.
Fannie Mae Needs Another $8.4 Billion
May 10, 2010 Also: The latest on Goldman Sachs, Moody's and stock-market circuit breakers.
America's Pet Platypus Needs Another $10.6 Billion
May 6, 2010 Toxie, Planet Money's pet toxic asset, may not have been the savviest investment. But at least our exposure is capped at $1,000.
Fannie Mae Is Still A Platypus
March 5, 2010 The weird status of Fannie and Freddie came up again today.
Neither fish nor fowl. Nicole Duplaix/Getty Images hide caption
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Why Fannie Mae Is Like A Platypus
February 25, 2010 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently compared Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to a platypus. Here's what he means, and why it may be cause for concern.
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#MeToo Bills Headed To The Governor's Desk
By Mary Cullen • Jun 6, 2018
State Sen. Melinda Bush, co-chair of the Senate Task Force on Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Awareness and Prevention.
Credit Illinois Senate Democrats
In addition to an overhaul of how the Illinois General Assembly deals with sexual harassment among its ranks, lawmakers approved several other measures meant to address concerns from the #MeToo movement.
This comes after a tumultuous session in which two legislators and an aide to House Speaker Michael Madigan were accused of misconduct.
State Sen. Melinda Bush, D-Grayslake, co-chairs the Senate Task Force on Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Awareness and Prevention and says there is more to come.
“With the whole Me-Too movement, women and certainly men, but women more so, are stepping up and saying this happened to me, it's not okay and something needs to be done about it,” said Bush. “So we're going to continue to work to change as many laws as we can. We take this work very seriously.”
Below is a round up of bills headed to the governor’s desk that answer concerns from the #MeToo movement.
Ethics Commission Overhaul
HB 138 - Last week the Illinois General Assembly passed a measure that would overhaul the power of legislative inspector general and the Legislative Ethics Commission, which investigates, among other things, cases of harassment or misconduct by lawmakers and their staff. Now, hiring power of the inspector general comes from the four party leaders. If Gov. Bruce Rauner signs the bill a search committee will recommend candidates to the Ethics Commission, who will then send applicants up for a vote from the General Assembly.
Sen. Tim Bivins voted for the bill, but expressed concerns about legislators sitting on the Ethics Commission. Bush, who sponsored the bill, said his concerns are valid, but this is merely a first step that had to be taken before session’s close.
Members of the task force expect to file several more bills on sexual harassment discrimination before their final report is published in December.
Survivor’s Bill of Rights
SB 3404 - Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, sponsored the Survivor’s Bill of Rights, which fills gaps in Illinois law to match federal guidelines. Should Rauner sign the bill, survivors of sexual assault would have the right to a copy of their police report. The bill would also provide a longer statute of limitations for rape kits to be tested and prevent law enforcement from filing charges against the survivor for the presence of alcohol or drugs as a result of the hospital exam.
The measure also allows for additional comfort to the victim, providing assault survivors with the right to shower at the hospital following their exam and the ability to have an advocate present for all parts of the examination.
Publishing Severance Agreements
HB 4242 - This measure would require taxing bodies to publish severance agreements they enter with employees found guilty of sexual assault or discrimination. This information would need to be made public within 72 hours of entering into the agreement and include the name of the guilty party, the amount of the payment and an explanation of what the employee was found guilty of.
Bill sponsor Rep. David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, said publicizing this information should discourage the use of severance agreements.
No Taxpayer Dollars Used In Sexual Harassment Payouts
HB 4243 - Another bill from Rep. McSweeney would prevent taxpayer dollars from being used in exchange for silence of a victim of sexual harassment by an elected official. Rather than appropriating these funds from Illinois tax dollars, the measure would require all payouts be funded from the guilty member’s office.
Though McSweeney had not heard of any instance of this happening in Illinois, he said this legislation would prevent it while also holding individuals in office accountable for their actions.
Increasing Sexual Assault Trained Nurses
HB 5245 - Aimed at how survivors of sexual assault are treated across the state, this measure would require hospitals to increase the number of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) by 2022. Specially trained nurses would have the proper experience to complete a rape kit thoroughly and accurately without added undue stress to the victim.
The measure was widely supported, however the Illinois Health and Hospitals Association expressed concerns with meeting the four-year deadline. The measure would require an additional 650 nurses to undergo the 40-hour training and clinical experience. The increase in nurses capable of completing the kits could also add to the state’s already existent backlog of rape kits needing testing.
Restructuring the Human Rights Commission
SB 20 - After the legislative inspector general position was found to have gone vacant for three years, the state hired interim Legislative Inspector General Julie Porter and began work tackling the backlog of misconduct claims.
Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, proposed this measure set to expedite the process of addressing these claims. The measure changes the Human Rights Commission from 13 part-time commissioners to seven full-time and implements a temporary three-person panel to address the backlog.
Requiring Sexual Harassment Policies
SB 405 - The measure would require all companies that do business with the State of Illinois to have a sexual harassment policy in place. Companies that also claim EDGE tax credits must send an annual sexual harassment report to the state.
SR 1561 - Also passed on the last day of session was a resolution urging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Department of Labor to investigate the apparent culture of harassment existing at Chicago’s two Ford Motor Company plants and provide support to victims. Employees of both locations provided testimonies on the existence of such a culture to the Senate Task Force in March.
This story will be updated with action from the governor.
Illinois Legislature OKs Bill To Address Sexual Harassment
Illinois Senate Democrats
The Illinois General Assembly is continuing its push to change what’s been criticized as a culture of sexual harassment. Lawmakers approved the first set of recommendations from a task force Thursday.
The measure would overhaul the power of the legislative inspector general — taking hiring and firing authority away from the legislative leaders and giving it to the Legislative Ethics Commission.
It would also allow the inspector general to investigate sexual harassment without getting permission from the commission.
Illinois Takes On Sexual Harassment
By Mary Cullen • Apr 5, 2018
Illustrator Pat Byrnes
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, state lawmakers have tried to address sexual harassment in a variety of ways. We explore what's been done and what some say may be ahead.
Madigan’s #MeToo Problem
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Will the pressure be too much for the long-standing speaker and state party chair?
Women Rising: The Push For Gender Parity In State Government
By Rachel Otwell • Feb 15, 2018
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The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, as well as the 2016 election, have sparked renewed passion for electing women to office in Illinois.
Illinois Senate Tackles Sexual Assault In Youth Sports
By Jaclyn Driscoll, Daisy Contreras & Mary Cullen • May 22, 2018
BlueRoom Stream
More than 260 girls and young women came forward to tell their stories of sexual assault by former USA Olympic doctor Larry Nassar, who is currently serving multiple prison sentences for the abuse. The trial resulted in more than a prison sentence and settlement money for victims. It shined a light on the mishandling of sexual assault reports by young athletes. And last week, Illinois took center stage in this national issue.
Campaign Workers In Illinois Push For Protections
By Mary Cullen • Mar 13, 2018
Accusations of harassment from a campaign worker against her supervisor and close aide to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Kevin Quinn, led to Quinn’s firing last month. Madigan is still struggling with the ripple effects from Alaina Hampton’s claims, with some observers predicting this could be the downfall for the powerful politician.
Hampton’s story has also brought attention to how political campaigns deal with sexual harassment.
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New Delhi |Friday, 2019 2:45:05 AM IST
The Congress may be veering towards Priyanka Gandhi becoming the new party President to end the current impasse, but there are no signs of leadership crisis ending anytime soon with Rahul Gandhi leav
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Leonardo DiCaprio wants to make a Captain Planet movie
CAPTAIN Planet could be heading to the big screen thanks to committed environmentalist and Hollywood heavyweight, Leonardo DiCaprio.
news.com.auOctober 18, 20161:38pm
Captain Planet theme song
Captain Planet could be coming to the big screen.Source:Supplied
The Oscar winner’s production company, Appian Way Productions, is currently in talks to secure the rights to Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jono Matt (who wrote the action-adventure reboot of Doctor Dolittle) and Scream Queens star Glen Powell are on the short list to write the script and bring the ‘90s cartoon back to life.
Sources told THR that the rough storyline is: “the story takes place years after the adventures of the show, with the Captain now a washed-up has-been who needs the kids more than they need him”.
The power is YOURS!Source:YouTube
Captain Planet and the Planeteers ran for six seasons in the early ‘90s and was about a group of teenagers with special powers who worked with the green-haired superhero to deal with ecological disasters.
Fun fact: Apparently Tom Cruise had originally agreed to voice Captain Planet back in the day but pulled out at the last second.
A number of other big name stars did appear on the show though, including Whoopi Goldberg (Gaia), Meg Ryan (Dr Blight), Martin Sheen (Sly Sludge), Tim Curry (MAL), Sting (Zarm) and Jeff Goldblum (Verminous Skumm).
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Northeast culinary tours
Taste of Northern Liberties Tour includes a visit to Darlings Cafe in Philadelphia, Pa., where guests can taste Best-of-Philly Bananas Foster Cheesecake and Chocolate Mouse Ganache with tour guide Jamie Larkin. (July 31, 2010) Photo Credit: Taste of Northern Liberties Tour
By Malerie Yolen-Cohen Special to Newsday Updated July 29, 2010 1:40 PM
A new batch of city walking-tour operators has learned what chefs and beloveds have known for centuries - the way to a person's heart is through his or her stomach.
Turns out, its also a way to present the history and culture of a particular ethnic group or neighborhood in a palatable and engaging way. It's no surprise that these walking tours with sustenance are becoming a hot ticket in every city.
The following are three worthwhile culinary walking tours run by an eclectic group of guides: a chef, a self-described trivia nut and a food columnist.
Culinary-oriented walking tours are relatively intimate affairs designed for small groups of people who can comfortably stay together while traipsing through the neighborhoods and squeeze inside small shops or cafes. Reservations are required to guarantee a spot and to ensure there's enough food samples to go around - tastings are included along the way.
You'll naturally want to wear comfortable shoes, and dress according to the weather - most tours are held rain or shine.
Give yourself extra time to hang around the neighborhood after the tour wraps up so you can return to your favorite pit stops for more leisurely browsing, shopping - and eating.
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WHERE Boston
WHEN 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Friday-Saturday; also 2-5 p.m. Wednesday and 3-6 p.m. Friday.
INFO 617-523-6032, foodtoursofboston.com
COST $50
THE GUIDE Jim Becker, former chef
ABOUT THE TOUR By the end of this enlightening and often-hilarious three-hour walking tour, you'll be stuffed with enough information about Boston's Italian-rich North End to hold court at any trattoria. The neighborhood has been a toehold for immigrants since the American Revolution. Becker, a former chef with an acerbic wit, favors "real deal" markets, bakeries and restaurants over the more "touristy" establishments on Hanover Street.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE Becker introduces groups of up to 13 people to lesser-known gems such as Maria's Pastry, with its marzipan candies, amoretti and flaky "lobster tail" goodies. He leads the tour down Salem Street and expounds on the charms of crammed-to- the-rafters markets such as Polcari's Coffee, which has barrels of rare salted capers and real licorice sticks.
You'll learn the difference between Italian cuisine and Italian-American cuisine, how to tell a male eggplant from a female eggplant, and the origin of bona-fide balsamic vinegar, among other things.
THE SAMPLES Baked goods, cheese, cold meats and wine.
GOOD TO KNOW Food Tours founder Michele Topor has created another excursion through Boston's Chinatown that lasts 31/2 hours and concludes with a dim sum lunch ($65).
Taste of Northern Liberties Tour
WHERE Philadelphia
WHEN 1:30-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
INFO 800-979-3370, cityfoodtours.com
THE GUIDE Jamie Larkin
ABOUT THE TOUR Groups of 15 people stroll through the artsy Northern Liberties area of Philadelphia, where contemporary steel and glass buildings coexist with original brick row houses drawing celebrities, artists and hipsters. The district recently has been reimagined as a place where people can live, work, shop and eat within a cozy few blocks, so it's no surprise that the neighborhood exudes a trendy vibe.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE Larkin takes patrons on an around-the-world feeding frenzy that begins in "Taiwan" at Euphoria Café with a refreshing Honeydew Bubble Tea, heads to "Italy" with a wonderful pasta-making demonstration and sampling at Apollinare, and ends with Best of Philly bananas Foster and chocolate mousse ganache cheesecakes at Darling's Cafe.
THE SAMPLES You'll also eat fried green tomatoes and hushpuppies at the soul-food restaurant A Full Plate Café and taste the somewhat watered-down brew (Schmidt's) that put Northern Liberties on the map at the Swift Half Pub.
GOOD TO KNOW City Foods also hosts a general Flavors of Philly culinary tour as well as others devoted to craft beer, with artisan cheese and global cuisine.
New Haven Culinary Tours
WHERE New Haven, Conn.
WHEN 10:45 a.m. Aug. 14, Sept. 25, Oct. 6
INFO 203-777-8550, stephenfries.com/culinary_walking_tour
THE GUIDE Stephen Fries, food writer
ABOUT THE TOUR New Haven as a culinary hot spot? Why, yes, actually. This home of Yale University is also said to be the birthplace of the American hamburger in 1900, at Louis' Lunch, which is still in operation. It is also the center of the universe for pizza aficionados, who claim Pepe's or Sally's (forever in dispute) as the most perfect pie on the planet. Neither of these establishments are on the New Haven Culinary Walking Tour, but New Haven Register food columnist Stephen Fries incorporates a revolving set of eateries - from upscale restaurants to neighborhood pubs to gourmet food carts.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE The three-hour tours begin at the Top of the Omni Hotel for a birds-eye overview of New Haven before heading over to The Wine Thief - a shop that could win awards for its name alone - for elucidation about vinos while you sip and swish. While you're in the imbibing mood, it's time for flights of craft beer at Bar, where you'll also try Fries' favorite mashed potato-and-bacon pizza.
THE SAMPLES Patrons will also get a caffeine fix at Willoughby's Coffee & Tea before nibbling on a selection of cheese at Caseus Fromagerie. The group advances to the sidewalk outside Atticus Bookstore, the granddaddy of the merging of cafe and books, where Fries steps in for a loaf of crusty bread. The carb-loading continues with dumplings at York St. Noodle House. If you can manage to stuff any more down your gullet, Fries escorts the group to the white-linen and crystal-topped tables at the Union League Cafe for samplings of sweets (and dessert wines) before bidding adieu at the art gallery-artesian chocolate shop, Wave.
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Home > Entertainment > Akshay Kumar installs sanitary pad vending machine in Mumbai and shows us why he truly is PADMAN
Akshay Kumar installs sanitary pad vending machine in Mumbai and shows us why he truly is PADMAN
by Newsera - February 16, 2018 February 19, 2018
Akshay Kumar has been making content backed movies that are making revolutionary changes, not just in India but worldwide. Not to mention, how Bill gates tweeted about his 2017 movie, Toilet: Ek Prem katha.
Akshay Kumar along with Shiv Sena leader, Aaditya Thackeray inaugurated sanitary pad vending machines that were installed at Mumbai Central ST Bus Depot, Mumbai.
Akshay Kumar was recently seen in PADMAN, based on the real life story of Arunachalam Muruganantham. In a country, where menstruation is a taboo to make an entire movie on it really deserves applause.
Akshay Kumar and Aaditya Thackeray plan to install many such machines all over Mumbai and entire Maharashtra.
Kudos to the duo for taking up such a great initiative. It is good to see Akshay Kumar contribute to this cause after the release of the film. It only goes on to show that he is more than a great actor.
Earlier, at the Miss. World Pageant Manushi Chhillar won the “Beauty with the purpose” award, which was also based on menstrual hygiene.
Placed a sanitary pad vending machine at Mumbai Central ST Bus Depot today, hoping to place more across the State and eventually hopefully the whole country. Thank you @AUThackeray for your support 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/MghqrEEK9Q
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) February 15, 2018
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Evening top 5: Footage of Derry riots released; Lyra McKee's legacy "will live on"; Gardaí defend Kells response time
Police release CCTV footage of moments leading to Lyra McKee murder
Police in Northern Ireland have released CCTV footage of the riots at a Derry housing estate that led to the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.
The 29-year-old was wounded after a single gunman opened fire in the residential area. She was taken to hospital and died a short time later.
Investigators believe more than one person was involved and are treating it as a terrorist incident. Officers think a group calling itself the New IRA may have been responsible.
In the video released this evening, Ms McKee can be seen standing beside an armoured police car and attempting to capture footage of the riots.
“Snuffed out by a single barbaric act” – Lyra McKee’s partner demands justice
The partner of a 29-year-old journalist who was shot dead during riots in Derry last night has said her legacy will “live on in the light that she has left behind.”
Vigils in memory of Lyra McKee are underway in Derry, Belfast and Dublin this afternoon.
Speaking at the vigil in Derry, Ms McKee’s partner Sara Canning said she had lost “the love of my life.”
"The senseless murder of Lyra McKee has left a family without a beloved daughter, a sister, an aunt and a great-aunt,” she said.
"It's left so many friends without their confidante, victims in the LGBTQIA society and community left without a tireless advocate and activist.
"It's left me without the love of my life; the woman I was planning to grow old with.
"We are all poorer for the loss of Lyra.
Gardaí defend response speed after two ATMs stolen in County Meath
Gardaí have insisted they responded immediately after they were alerted to the robbery of two ATM machines in County Meath overnight.
A stolen digger was used to rip the machines from Bank of Ireland and AIB on the main street in Kells in the early hours of this morning.
Two ATMs were also stolen in County Antrim.
Homemade spikes were laid outside Kells Garda Station and a tractor and trailer were used to block access to the banks.
However, Gardaí said they acted immediately when they were alerted at 4:20am – and have insisted the spikes did not affect their response time.
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The action is part of the international Extinction Rebellion movement that has seen protests across Europe in recent days.
Hundreds of people have been arrested for taking part in the protests in London in recent days – with further arrests this morning.
Extinction Rebellion Ireland said this afternoon’s action in Dublin aimed to highlight the Government’s “criminal inaction on the climate and ecological emergency."
‘House of Horrors’ parents sentenced to life in prison
Some of the 13 children who were starved and shackled to their beds by their parents in a so-called 'House of Horrors' near Los Angeles have spoken out at the couple’s sentencing hearing.
David Allen Turpin and his wife Louise Anna Turpin were arrested after their 17-year-old daughter escaped from their home and alerted police.
She was one of 13 siblings, aged between two and 29-years-old who had been abused at the property, later dubbed the ‘House of Horrors.’
The pair were this evening officially handed sentences of 25 years to life in prison.
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Gardaí should engage with isolated communities on social media, report says
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Brian Wang | September 28, 2018 |
The US could get so much more accomplished in space if they stop wasting money on the Space Launch System, Orion and the Lunar gateway. The US did waste money on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. The Space Shuttle was supposed to demonstrate fast reusability but had to have its heat shield reinspected and rebuilt after launches. The Space shuttle cost more than disposable rockets. The SLS will continue that tradition of costing more for no gain. SLS will cost $2-5 billion per launch versus about $20-100 million for SpaceX Falcon Heavy with 4 boosters or a SpaceX BFR.
NASA is planning a 2023 launch of a Block 1 configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The SLS will circle Earth twice while periodically firing its engines to build up enough speed to push it toward the Moon before looping back to Earth. The SLS will perform a loop around the moon.
NASA is targeting a test SLS and Orion together for the first time without crew for three weeks in 2020.
NASA Space Launch system is reusing and modifying Shuttle rockets and facilities. SLS and Orion will cost the United States more than $30 billion dollars before it has completed a single full launch. This will go over $40 billion by the time the system is ready to launch NASA astronauts.
$14 billion has been spent on the rockets between 2011 and 2018. This does not include billions more spent refurbishing and modifying aging Saturn and Shuttle-derived launch infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center.
Orion’s development has cost the U.S. about $16 billion since 2006. $4-6 billion more will be spent between now and 2023. This does not include the costs of production and operations once development is complete.
The Orion space capsule is NOT capable of landing on the Moon, much less Mars. The capsule can dock with an intermediate orbiting space station off-planet (the Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway). Operating on the moon or Mars with SLS will require a new lander. The Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway is an updated version of the International Space Station. The ISS cost $150 billion to build. The Lunar Orbital Gateway will have fewer modules but will easily cost $40 billion.
Boeing and Lockheed own United Launch Alliance. 20% of revenues for Boeing and Lockheed come from space projects.
SLS got $2.15 billion in the fiscal 2018 budget. The Orion crew capsule got $1.35 billion. A total of $3.5 billion in just 2018. Two more years of increasing funding to try to get to the first unmanned test launch in 2020.
In September 2011, the SLS program gave a development cost to the Senate of $18 billion through 2017, with $10 billion for the SLS rocket, $6 billion for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and $2 billion for upgrades to the launch pad and other facilities at Kennedy Space Center. The original plan was the first unmanned SLS launch in 2017.
The Space Review estimated the cost per launch at $5 billion, depending on the rate of launches.
SpaceX BFR is targeting 2023 for manned lunar orbiting tourist mission
SpaceX is close to completing a new Raptor engine. SpaceX is building parts of the fully reusable SpaceX BFR. Suborbital SpaceX BFR flights will start next year. Unmanned testing will be started before Space Launch System despite development of the BFR starting years after the start of SLS work.
Falcon Heavies could build a moon base in 4 years
Falcon Heavy had a successful flight in February, 2018.
Robert Zubrin detailed creating a moon base within 4 years using a few SpaceX Falcon Heavy missions.
10 kilometer power beaming is a key to creating lunar fuel.
Once we have lunar fuel production, we can use Falcon 9 to launch missions.
He wants to use a lunar vehicle with 6 kilometer per second which can explore most of the moon and directly return to earth orbit.
The Falcon Heavy can lift 60 tons to low Earth orbit (LEO). Starting from that point, a hydrogen/oxygen rocket-propelled cargo lander could deliver 12 tons of payload to the lunar surface.
We therefore proceed by sending two such landers to our planned base location. The best place for it would be at one of the poles, because there are spots at both lunar poles where sunlight is accessible all the time, as well as permanently shadowed craters nearby where water ice has accumulated. Such ice could be electrolyzed to make hydrogen-oxygen rocket propellant, to fuel both Earth-return vehicles as well as flying rocket vehicles that would provide the lunar base’s crew with exploratory access to most of the rest of the moon.
The first cargo lander carries a load of equipment, including a solar panel array, high-data-rate communications gear, a microwave power-beaming set up with a range of 100 kilometers, an electrolysis/refrigeration unit, two crew vehicles, a trailer, and a group of tele-operated robotic rovers. After landing, some of the rovers are used to set up the solar array and communications system, while others are used to scout out the landing area in detail, putting down radio beacons on the precise target locations for the landings to follow.
The second cargo lander brings out a 12-ton habitation module, loaded with food, spare spacesuits, scientific equipment, tools, and other supplies. This will serve as the astronauts’ house, laboratory, and workshop of the moon. Once it has landed, the rovers hook it up to the power supply and all systems are checked out. This done, the rovers are redeployed to do detailed photography of the base area and its surroundings. All this data is sent back to Earth, to aid mission planners and the science and engineering support teams, and ultimately forming the basis of a virtual reality program that will allow millions of members of the public to participate in the missions as well.
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Clashes between two communities forces Hindu family to flee from Saharanpur
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Hindu family fleeing a village in Saharanpur, fearing for their lives.
Alleging lack of action by the police and fearing harassment from goons, a Hindu family has fled their village, Banheda Khas, in Devbandh, Saharanpur. As per reports, an argument took place between one Amit and one Salim over the credit of supply of cold drink, which quickly turned violent. According to Amit, he is being pressured to withdraw his complaint against the culprits, failing which, they threatened him that he will be thrown out of the village.
As per reports, Amit Kumar supplied cold drinks in the village and Salim was his old debtor. On 15th June, Salim asked for more credit, to which Amit declined, which quickly took a violent turn. Amit alleged that the police, instead of filing a complaint, filed a non-cognizable report, following which Salim has been asking him to withdraw his report.
Fearing for their lives, the family which belongs to the Prajapati community has fled the village. The fear of getting attacked by Salim, they had stopped stepping out of the house, and now have decided to a safer village. Families of Sandeep, Amit, Sohanlal and others have moved from the village to Uttarakhand village.
Earlier, few days after the BJP lost the Kairana by-polls, a Hindu family migrated to Haryana, fearing for their lives from Nadim, their neighbour, who had been allegedly regularly beating them up. Earlier in 2016, a report by NHRC (National Human Rights Commission) reported exodus of over 250 Hindu families from Kairana. The inquiry was undertaken after a complaint was received of a woman belonging to Kashyap caste was abducted, gang-raped and killed.
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Three Perfect Days in Tallahassee
Despite its designation as Florida’s capital city, Tallahassee may be the last place on your mind when you envision a weekend getaway. Yet this vibrant city is merely waiting for curious travelers to arrive and unravel its web of surprises.
Where you expect a skyline teeming with high-rises, there’s quaint Southern charm and canopy lined roadways. City streets wrap around peaceful parks; Southern cuisine shines at foodie hotspots; and college campuses, city buildings, and art parks coexist in the lush landscape.
After three days exploring the city with Visit Tallahassee, I was pleasantly surprised when the capital city defied all my expectations. So, check your assumptions at the door and dive into this city for a perfect weekend of history, food, and adventure.
You could settle in at a posh downtown hotel or budget-friendly AirBnB, but do so and you’ll be missing out on the charm and history of The Park Avenue Inn.
This circa-1800s home has found new life as a charming bed and breakfast. Furnished with antiques (the bookcase houses an original series of Charles Darwin books and the dining room table is from the late 1800s), the rooms also feature modern touches. Yet still, you get the sense that you’re staying in a home with a story. And if you ask, the innkeeper, Kate, is happy to tell it.
The inn is conveniently located within walking distance of several downtown attractions, including the Florida State Capitol and Cascades Park. Right outside the front door, you’ll find Lewis Park, part of a chain of seven parks reminiscent of the picturesque squares found in Savannah, Georgia.
Enjoy a hearty breakfast, like baked eggs with bacon and a muffin, every morning with fellow guests.
True to bed & breakfast form, a hearty complimentary breakfast is served every morning around 8am. Baked eggs, bacon, a yogurt parfait, and strawberry cinnamon oatmeal are just a few of the delights Kate cooked up during my stay.
Rates begin at $139/night and free parking is available.
The Magnolia Room at The Park Avenue Inn
For City Adventurers
If you’re only in town for a few days, hopping on a Segway tour will give you a great snapshot of the city. Tallahassee Segway Tours offers a 2-hour guided exploration of the city on their popular Capitol/Gaines Street/FSU Tour, highlighting up and coming areas alongside the collegiate and historical. During the tour, you’ll weave through Anita Lake, Cascades Park, the Florida State University Campus, the Capitol building, hidden alleyways, Gaines Street, and more.
Having been born in Tallahassee, the owner, Tim Nettles, is incredibly knowledgeable about the city, and his love for it is palpable as he narrates the history and sights of the area. I admit, I was worried about looking nerdy, but by the end of the tour, I was addicted to zooming around effortlessly on my Segway.
The Segway tour will lead you through the FSU campus, downtown hotspots, and up and coming areas of the city.
It’d be a mistake to visit the capital city without traveling to the top of its highest building—the Florida State Capitol. It’s free to enter, and after riding the elevator to the 22nd floor you’ll arrive at the top where you can take in a 360-degree view of the city.
For Culture Lovers
If you’re eager to immerse yourself into Tallahassee’s local culture and art scene, make a beeline for Railroad Square. If your visit coincides with the first Friday of the month, make sure to stop by the First Friday Gallery hop which features live music, food, art, and more.
The art park is home to dozens of galleries, vintage shops, and Proof Brewing Company, a lively brewery with a killer outdoor beer garden. You’ll find a variety of brews on the menu (including some fantastic sours), but what unites them all is creativity, consistency, and a commitment to quality. Outside the art park, explore the array of eclectic shops, cafes, and eateries.
The spacious outdoor beer garden at Proof Brewing includes lawn games, picnic tables, string lights, and plenty of seating.
For History Buffs
For immersion of a different variety, the Tallahassee Museum is anything but ordinary. Inside you’ll find nature and wildlife walks, treetop adventure courses, and an 1880s homestead. Spot native Florida wildlife (most of the animals are rescues), challenge yourself to an adventure and zip line course (spoiler alert: the tightrope portion will test your bravery) between trees and explore a piece of our state’s history.
History aficionados will want to visit Mission San Luis, a National Historic Landmark and a gem hiding in plain sight. The mission, which housed Spaniards and Apalachee Indians, has been reconstructed, effectively creating a window into the past for visitors. Explore the grounds on the self-guided tour, and learn about life at the mission as historical interpreters in period clothing demonstrate skills and share daily life.
This is just a small portion of the huge Council House at Mission San Luis. This building was once the epicenter of daily life for the Apalachee Indians.
Historical interpreters at the blacksmith area demonstrate how to make nails.
After all the adventure and history, slow your pace with a visit to Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park. The gardens were once the grounds of Maclay’s winter home, and as such the gardens are in full bloom January-April. Walk the oak-lined paths to discover hidden gardens and a reflection pool, rent kayaks, and hike the state park’s nature trails.
Tallahassee’s close proximity to Georgia has resulted in Southern influence, and the food is no exception. Table 23 is a top-notch choice for dinner with several standout dishes, including the Shrimp & Grits made with smoked Gouda. The indulgent Southern Slate is perfect for sharing, complete with candied bacon, pimento cheese, deviled eggs, lavosh, and other various delights. The porch is an ideal setting to savor your meal amidst romantic string lights and patio chatter.
The Southern Slate: candied bacon, country ham, pimento cheese, deviled eggs, candied pecans, Sweet Grass Dairy’s “Green Hill” with fig preserves, toasted ciabatta, Lavosh, and cheese straws. A must-try at Table 23!
After you’ve gotten your fix of comfort food, treat yourself to a meal at Sage. The restaurant is an inventive mash-up of French, American, and farm-to-table cuisine. Chef Terry has made it his goal to continuously bring Tallahassee great food outside of the usual. That passion translates to savory plates like tempura fried oysters, too-good-to-be-true quiche, and a heavenly guava cheesecake dessert, drizzled with a tart passion fruit sauce and served with coconut brittle. While lunch is decidedly more casual, dinner is a ritzy affair perfect for date night.
Tempura fried gulf oysters with kimchee, sriracha aioli, and soy-chili mignonette.
I can’t visit a city without scoping out at least one great taco joint, and El Cocinero fits the bill for fellow taco lovers. No fewer than 18 taco varieties dot the menu. Choose from classics like carne asada to the crispy avocado taco, jam-packed with buttery avocado, plantains, pico de gallo, lime crema, and cilantro. The cocktail list features craft cocktails with a Mexican twist like the Spicy Paloma made with jalapeno-infused tequila.
From left to right (and from good, better, to best): shrimp, lamb, and avocado tacos.
Housed inside the first power plant/electric building in Tallahassee, The Edison is a must-visit for lunch. Interior details, from cheerful marquees to light bulbs on each table that have been converted into salt and pepper shakers, pay homage to the building’s roots. A quality craft cocktail is a perfect accompaniment to your meal; you’re on vacation after all!
The French 75 from The Edison is made with St. Augustine gin, lemon, sugar, champagne, and a lemon twist.
Other notable dining options include Food Glorious Food and a visit to Bradley’s Country Store. The former is a romantically lit space known for savory fare and decadent desserts, which the servers plate individually with their own flair. The latter is worth a visit (you’ll travel along beautiful tree-canopied roads to get there) after you’ve tasted Bradley’s country smoked sausage or grits at a local restaurant. The sausages are famous throughout Tallahassee and are a must-try.
The heavenly Turtle Truffle Torte, a dark chocolate brownie full of warm house-made caramel and pecans, topped off with chocolate ganache, from Food Glorious Food.
From Orlando, expect a straightforward 4-hour drive. Take 408 W to the turnpike, then follow I-75 N and I-10 W to US-90 W.
I’d be remiss not to mention the challenging one-way streets and construction downtown. I got caught in a seemingly endless loop of one-way streets before finally arriving at the hotel. If possible, use Uber or Lyft to get around the city.
For more information, visit www.visittallahassee.com.
Disclosure: Some but not all of aspects of this trip were provided on a complimentary basis to the writer.
While you’re in town, try Bradley’s country smoked sausage. You can find it on the many at many local restaurants, or visit the country store if you’d like to take some home.
About the Author/Photographer:
Stephanie Patterson is the managing editor of Orlando Date Night Guide. She’s a talented professional food and travel photographer and writer with a passion for creativity, the beach and great eats. When she’s not taking photos or writing, you can find her exploring the state for her Florida travel blog, Travel Taste Click. Find her online at www.spattersonphotography.com and www.traveltasteclick.com.
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Town of Paradise issues its first building permits
Butte Strong announces $1.5 million in grants to help with fees
Anne Vierra, left, shows Jason Buzzard(center) and his contractor Jon Hornback, right, where to sign their permit paperwoork as Meagann Buzzard watches at Paradise Town Hall on Thursday, March 28. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)
Jason Buzzard, center, and his contractor Jon Hornback, right, sign their permit paperwork as Meagann Buzzard(left) watches at Paradise Town Hall on Thursday, March 28. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)
Contractor Jon Hornback gets blueprints for the Buzzards’ new house from Anne Vierra at Paradise Town Hall on Thursday, March 28. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)
Jason and Meagann Buzzard speak to the media after signing their building permit papers at Paradise Town Hall on Thursday, March 28. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)
Paradise Mayor Jody Jones, left, celebrates the first post Camp Fire building permit given to Jason and Meagann Buzzard at Paradise Town Hall on Thursday, March 28. (Matt Bates — Enterprise Record)
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PUBLISHED: March 29, 2019 at 4:28 am | UPDATED: March 29, 2019 at 3:09 pm
Just less than five months after Camp Fire raged through the town of Paradise destroying more than 11,000 structures, chasing thousands from Paradise and killing 85 people in Butte County, the town issued its first rebuild permits.
In issuing the permit to Meagan and Jason Buzzard, the town also announced the Butte Strong Fund had approved a $1.5 million grant that will reduce building and other fees for those who want to rebuild.
“We always said that we were going to come back,” Jason Buzzard said. “This is where we both grew up, this is where our daughter was raised and I can’t imagine being anywhere else.”
Buzzard said the last five months have gone by pretty quickly, but that some days have felt longer than others.
“It’s not easy by any stretch; I would liken it to a full-time job,” he said. “This was a permit that was issued to us, but I hope people see it as a permit for themselves.”
The contractor Ridge Construction’s Jon Hornbeck noted that rain will complicate starting the Buzzard project, but he’s anxious to get going.
“We want to start as soon as we can,” he said. “We’d like to get some sticks in the air as soon as we can. I think it will fuel people in this town to see something happen.”
He estimated that with good weather, it would take about eight months to get the Buzzards into their new home — which makes it about November.
“Mother Nature hasn’t played fair,” he said. “We haven’t had a break since the fire. Since right after the fire, it hasn’t let up.”
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Hornbeck said he’s got five homes that he’s got people working on and 20 clients that are in different phases of their process.
He also pointed out that the town has lost builders since the fire.
“We’ve lost lots,” he said. “I don’t know them all, but I do know of about a half-dozen that have just left. So we are short on manpower. But we’ll take ’em as they come at us.”
The grant funding might help bring more work to the Ridge.
Of the $1.5 million in grants that Butte Strong and the town announced Thursday, $1 million will be for town homeowners who rebuild while the remaining $500,000 will be for county homeowners. In a press release handed out by David Little, the North Valley Community Foundation’s director of communication, it was noted that details are still being worked out.
“The county doesn’t yet have its program in place, but they hope to put it together soon as they work with the board of supervisors,” Little said. “But the town is raring to go, so we’re glad that you’re able to put it to use.”
Paradise town Mayor Jody Jones said the grant funding will cover up to $3,500 in fees and will be retroactive, and that the Buzzard family will qualify.
The town emphasizes that residents can now submit their plans and permits can be issued once the lot is cleared and soil testing is certified to be clean by Butte County. The Town of Paradise, in anticipation of the increased workload, has hired additional Building Division staff through to help with the increased number of permit applications that will be received in the coming months.
“The town of Paradise has been great,” Hornbeck said. “They’re doing a good job, given what they got to work with. I think we’ll all come out better on the other end. We’re here.”
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Stanford needs another great defensive effort
Wake Forest brings a running game averaging 322 yards per game
Stanford defenders Thomas Keiser (left) and Johnson Bademosi (27) hope to shut down Wake Forest on Saturday night in Stanford Stadium, much like they did UCLA last weekend in the Rose Bowl. Photo by Don Feria/Stanfordphoto.com.
By Rick Eymer
Palo Alto Online Sports
Even the offensive players were gushing over how well the Stanford defense played in Saturday's 35-0 Pac-10 football victory over UCLA. They have plenty of experience working against them in practice, so they aren't just guessing.
The defense will be put to the test this week, when Wake Forest's explosive triple-option offense makes the scene at Stanford Stadium on Saturday in an 8:15 p.m. scheduled kickoff.
"Our defense has really grown a lot and the whole nation saw that Saturday," Cardinal senior wide receiver Ryan Whalen said.
The Stanford defense ranks among the country's top 10 in four defensive categories, including seventh in total defense and pass defense and eighth in efficiency defense.
Wake Forest, though, ranks fourth in rushing offense (322.0), third in scoring offense (53.50) and 11th in overall offense (504.4).
"You look at that offense and they are expert at it," Harbaugh said. "That coaching staff has been together for 10 years and the players are good at executing it. It's really impressive how good they are at it."
The Demon Deacons have carved their 2-0 record from the carcasses of Presbyterian College (currently on a 16-game losing streak) and Duke (losers of five of its last six games), who were a combined 5-18 last season.
Stanford (2-0) has elicited its mark out of Sacramento State and UCLA, a combined 12-12 and one bowl game appearance in 2009.
Yet Wake Forest owns the bragging rights over Stanford, scoring in the final seconds of their meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C. last year to secure a 24-17 victory.
"That was a tough loss on the road," Whalen said. "It's one of the games marked on our calendar."
It was one of the rare games in which Toby Gerhart did not reach 100 rushing yards. But Whalen and quarterback Andrew Luck each had big games. Luck was 23-of-34 for 276 yards and two touchdowns, both to Whalen, who caught nine passes for 123 yards.
"We remember that loss," Luck said. "We take that as extra motivation. Hopefully we can turn the tables on them."
Luck's passing statistics against UCLA were a little mundane but he made up for it with his legs, rushing for 63 yards on seven carries, including a 16-yard gain. He raced for a first down four times during an 18-play scoring drive in the third quarter that put the Cardinal in the driver's seat.
"We were a little off timing-wise, nothing huge," Whalen said. "We keep working to refine some of those things."
Luck, as usual, took the blame for completing fewer than 50 percent of his passes for the first time since last year's Big Game.
"I missed some throws I know I can make," he said. "The offense did a good job of slugging it out. At halftime I was thinking if the throwing thing is not working out, maybe my third option would be to run the ball. It bailed me out."
Luck is Stanford's leading returning rusher from last season, though it appears that sophomore Stepfan Taylor, with senior Jeremy Stewart sidelined with an undisclosed injury, started against the Bruins and is currently the team's leading rusher. He was third behind Gerhart and Luck last season.
While Luck is urged to run the ball when needed, it still doesn't make it any easier for Harbaugh whenever he tucks the ball down and goes; especially when he was looking to score and lowered his head to meet his assailants helmet to helmet.
"There's more a part of me that cringes," Harbaugh said. "He has this thing about the first hit and the first game. Now he's got to slide more often."
Luck understands his coaches' concern, but with the end zone so close he couldn't help it.
"I wanted to score," he said.
As for the 'first hit' thing, Luck said he doesn't feel like a football player until he absorbs his first contact. In a game last year, instead of running out of bounds untouched, Luck tried to turn it upfield and put a shoulder into his tackler.
"The quarterback doesn't get hit all spring or in fall training camp," Luck said. "It's nice to get hit. I need to get hit to feel like it's a football game."
The offensive line has allowed one sack this season, so his contact usually comes when he's trying to make a play with his legs.
NOTES: A Wake Forest sports forum has compiled "Stanford look-alikes" using mugshots to compare players to other characters. Brian Bulcke is compared to Mr. Incredible, for example, while Owen Marecic's double is Michael Bolton. Athletic trainer Rob Dalnoki bears a likeness with Wayne Knight's 'Neumann." The best, of course, was reserved for Harbaugh. Check it out . . . Demon Deacon injuries include backup quarterback Ted Stachitas (bone chip in left hand) and junior safety Josh Bush (hamstring). In addition to true freshman Tanner Price at quarterback, freshman A.J. Marshall may see his first start . . . Stanford is 4-8 all-time against teams currently in the ACC.
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You can't even get our team mascot right in your Notes section. 1 out of 2 ain't bad, but stil...Credibility FAIL.
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Shop Talk: Goodbye Selix Formal Wear, welcome back Papa Murphy's
Business openings, closings and more
Palo Alto's only tuxedo shop closes its doors, Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza returns to Palo Alto and Stanford University gets a "flexitarian" restaurant.
AW SHUCKS, NO TUX ... Palo Alto's only tuxedo shop closed its doors earlier this month. Selix Formal Wear, 164 University Ave., became the local victim when the Bay-Area tuxedo company announced bankruptcy and abruptly closed all six of its stores. A peek through the locked doors of the Palo Alto store last week showed a completely stocked showroom, tuxedos and all, with the register on the front counter still displaying a long roll of paper receipts from its last day of business. The timing of the tuxedo store's closure is unfortunate. Prom season begins in April for Palo Alto's two public high schools. "It's sad that Selix went out of business. They've been around for a long time," said Mario Cassara, who owns a store in Los Altos that rents tuxedos. "We've already seen an increase in our business here," he said. Cassara Brothers Clothiers, 981 N. San Antonio Road, opened in 1968, "and we plan on sticking around," Cassara said.
PAPA MURPHY'S PIZZA RETURNS TO PA ... Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza is planning to open in Barron Park next month at 3850 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. It is taking over a former Mexican restaurant, which began as a Taco Bell and later changed over to Chalateco. The site then stood vacant for several years until Papa Murphy's took over in late 2014. The pizza shop is currently putting on its finishing touches for an expected March opening, pending city inspections. Palo Altans may remember another Papa Murphy's, which had a long run in Midtown that ended in October 2012, when the restaurant chose not to renew its lease at 2730 Middlefield Road.
FLEXITARIAN CAFE ON STANFORD CAMPUS ... Forbes Family Cafe is the newest restaurant to hit the Stanford University campus. Calling its cuisine "flexitarian," it is located in the former site of Ike's Place, in the Science and Engineering Quad. Forbes opened in late December and has seen incredible success in its short time on campus. "We concentrate mainly on plant-based foods, but we also have some meat options. That's why this place is called flexitarian," said one of the cashiers during the lunchtime rush. It is also one of the few restaurants anywhere that offers a salad bar priced not by weight, but by the container it fills. "It's more efficient that way. We can move customers much faster in and out," said the cashier, who asked that his name not be used. The cafe also has an eye toward buying from local farmers and vendors; the constantly changing menu reflects that commitment. According to a blackboard posted in the restaurant, "Revenues generated go directly to supporting student room and board rates."
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Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy's Duchenne Patient Registry Reaches 10-Year Milestone
By Staff, Parent Herald May 04, 07:16 am
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Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), announced that The Duchenne Registry has reached a significant milestone collecting 10-years of patient-reported data. Formerly known as DuchenneConnect, The Duchenne Registry is widely considered the go-to patient registry for researchers and clinical investigators in the Duchenne space. With two drug approvals in the U.S. for Duchenne, The Duchenne Registry continues to provide important patient-entered data that informs clinical trial protocol and helps inform regulatory agencies.
To date, The Duchenne Registry has 4,200 registrants. This includes people living with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, as well as female carriers. Over 100 countries are represented. As a member of the TREAT-NMD International Neuromuscular Network, The Duchenne Registry shares several core data fields with the global Duchenne registry
According to PPMD Founding President and CEO, Pat Furlong, "Families affected by Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy do not always receive a proper diagnosis; fewer receive the most up-to-date treatments for these diseases. The Duchenne Registry has provided families access to top researchers and clinicians in the field, as well as notification about clinical trials that may help their child. Gathering the community into a registry with global partnerships provides crucial information to researchers and clinical investigators, and we believe has helped accelerate therapeutic discoveries. To see the seed of an idea from a group of passionate leaders in the Duchenne community blossom into a thriving online resource is truly phenomenal."
The Duchenne Registry currently has 17 industry partners and has helped recruit for approximately 60 clinical trials. Data from the Registry has been used in 7 publications and an additional 3 publications are pending. In addition, The Duchenne Registry was honored to be selected as one of the Patient-Powered Research Networks (PPRNs) in PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. The Duchenne Registry has been a PPRN within PCORnet for both Phase 1 and 2 of PCORnet, from 2014 - 2018.
Not only has data from The Duchenne Registry been used to improve care and enhance the development of potential therapies for Duchenne, but the experiences families share through this registry inform regulators. As more therapies advance in the clinical trial pipeline and interactions between the Duchenne community and federal regulatory agencies like the FDA increase, the importance of patient-reported data has never been more critical for decision makers.
New Name, New Features
To mark the 10th anniversary of The Duchenne Registry, PPMD has implemented new features and tools to help enhance the user experience.
New features include a more modern, streamlined homepage and website that is more fully integrated with the acclaimed PPMD patient advocacy website. In addition, once registrants log in to their registry account, they will experience a new, more interactive registry dashboard. A new feature on the dashboard is the medications module which will be critical in this new era of approved Duchenne therapies.
Participants in The Duchenne Registry will still find the same medical surveys to complete, and the same ability to upload medical records, add healthcare providers, track height and weight, and add family members. Registrants will also continue to have direct access to PPMD's board-certified genetic counselors who specialize in Duchenne.
As always, information entered into The Duchenne Registry is kept confidential and secure. Invitae, the company hosting the registry platform, complies with important research and privacy regulations for protecting patient data. However, de-identified data is shared with the community, including registrants, researchers, and clinicians.
The Duchenne Registry will continue to improve the user experience over the coming months.
New functionality planned for the Registry includes upgrading the "View Data" feature so registrants can view their data in a graphic-rich format and see how they compare to others in the community. PPMD greatly appreciates the time and effort spent by families inputting and updating their data in the Registry, and a new section on the Registry dashboard ("Your Data at Work") highlights the impact of this data. Efforts will also be made to make the inputting of data less burdensome to families.
In a post-approval landscape, The Duchenne Registry will also make several enhancements to the data collected so that industry partners can improve post-marketing surveillance of their products.
The History of the Registry
The Duchenne Registry (formerly DuchenneConnect) began in 2007, when a group of thought leaders in the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy community began discussing the need for a new kind of resource that would connect and serve the needs of the entire community. What they envisioned was a central hub that would bring together those living with Duchenne or Becker, along with their families and caregivers, to connect them with medical research, clinical care, clinical trials, and each other. At the same time, it would also be a resource for researchers and industries with an interest in Duchenne, allowing access to aggregate, de-identified data provided by patients and their families - information that could prove vital to advances in care and treatment. Today, the result of this endeavor is The Duchenne Registry, the largest, most comprehensive registry for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, as well as female carriers.
Ann Martin, Director of The Duchenne Registry, adds that the success of this platform is a direct result of community participation: "When families join and update their account in The Duchenne Registry, they are strengthening the power of a 10-year-old network of patient-powered data that will be used to improve care for people living with Duchenne and increase understanding of the disorder. Families become citizen scientists by contributing to real scientific research, without ever leaving their homes."
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MyDoom Variant Zaps Search Engines, E-Mail
UPDATED: The most recent version of the e-mail worm uses search engines to find new victims to infect and may be the cause of delays on Google, AltaVista and Yahoo.
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July 26, 2004 3:11PM EST
A new variant of the MyDoom worm that hit the Internet hard on Monday is causing massive e-mail slowdowns across the Web, and it may be to blame for problems plaguing several search engines.
Variously named MyDoom.M, MyDoom.M@mm or MyDoom.O, the new worm is little different from its predecessors in most of its behaviors and characteristics. But its one distinguishing feature is that it uses search engines to find new victims to infect. This may have been to blame for the delays that hit most of the popular search engines early Monday, including Google, AltaVista and Yahoo.
"The Google search engine experienced slowness for a short period of time early today because of the MyDoom virus, which flooded major search engines with automated searches," said Google spokesman...
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DSGi unveils new chairman
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DHL’s John Allan has been announced as the man who will take over as DSGi’s chairman when Sir John Collins retires in September, though an exact starting date is yet to be confirmed.
Allan is currently chief financial officer at the logistics giant, but is expected to retire at the end of June. It is believed he will become a non-executive member of the board around that time to help in the handover from Collins.
DSGi is yet to decide a formal starting date, but the retailer has promised to make the information public as soon as it has been decided.
Speaking about the appointment, senior non-executive director Andrew Lynchg said: "I am very pleased that John has agreed to join DSG international as our new Chairman. John is a highly-regarded executive with a strong track record.
"He brings to the Group a wealth of large multinational company experience from areas including marketing, service, and corporate management, and I know he will make a valuable contribution," added Lynch.
"I am delighted to be joining DSG international at this important time in its development," commented Allan. "The group has many challenges as well as significant opportunities under the renewal and transformation plan.
"I am looking forward to renewing my involvement in retail and being part of the business as it continues to execute this plan and improve its offering for customers."
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On behalf of Ormston List Frawley LLP posted in mergers & acquisitions on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Things don't always go as planned when one company links up with another. In recent mergers and acquisitions news in Canada, one of the nation's most well-known and respected insurance companies -- Desjardins -- acquired State Farm and things haven't been all smooth sailing. Employees and higher-ups in both companies soon realized it takes time to smooth out any rough spots.
Each company had its own set of values and different cultures according to a recent talk given by Desjardins' senior vice president. Both companies' values were similar, yet different with Desjardins putting emphasis on being pragmatic, while State Farm was fuelled by leadership and relationships. But most State Farm employees were on board with the merger since nearly all employees made the move with the company.
Desjardins paid particular attention on how to move forward having to deal with a company that also has a presence stateside. The company's operating system didn't have a separate Canadian identity, so Desjardins had to figure out how to disconnect from a U.S. entity to fashion a new operating system on this side of the border. The vice president said this merger actually forced Desjardins to communicate better with its employees to keep them abreast of how things are moving along in the five-year timeline to complete the transition.
To make sure any mergers and acquisitions go as smoothly as possible and adhere to business laws in Canada, a lawyer's acumen may be crucial. Having a lawyer on team from the get-go -- from decision-making to sealing the deal -- may help to alleviate the stress associated with two or more companies joining forces. Mergers and acquisitions aren't always the easiest business processes to go through and legal advice may smooth out any rough edges of the process.
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Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 8620 (2018) | Download Citation
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Diet may modify metabolomic profiles towards higher or lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. We aimed to identify metabolite profiles associated with high adherence to dietary recommendations - the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) - and the extent to which metabolites associated with AHEI also predict incident CVD. Relations between AHEI score and 80 circulating lipids and metabolites, quantified by nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics, were examined using linear regression models in the Whitehall II study (n = 4824, 55.9 ± 6.1 years, 28.0% women) and were replicated in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (n = 1716, 37.7 ± 5.0 years, 56.3% women). We used Cox models to study associations between metabolites and incident CVD over the 15.8-year follow-up in the Whitehall II study. After adjustment for confounders, higher AHEI score (indicating healthier diet) was associated with higher degree of unsaturation of fatty acids (FA) and higher ratios of polyunsaturated FA, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid relative to total FA in both Whitehall II and Young Finns studies. A concordance of associations of metabolites with higher AHEI score and lower CVD risk was observed in Whitehall II. Adherence to healthy diet seems to be associated with specific FA that reduce risk of CVD.
The benefits of healthy diet are supported by nutritional epidemiological studies on coronary heart diseases1, respiratory diseases2 and healthy old-age phenotypes3. Recent advancements of high-throughput metabolite profiling in large epidemiological studies allow the determination of metabolites predicting the risk for cardiometabolic diseases, providing insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying age-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD)4. It has been hypothesized that metabolites are very responsive to dietary exposure as diet is an important source of metabolite variation and also induces metabolic response.
Few studies have examined the association between overall diet and metabolites and a majority of investigations assessed metabolites via mass spectrometry methods. In the EPIC-Potsdam cohort study of 2380 adults, for example, dietary patterns were derived through reduced rank regression methods to explain the maximum variations of metabolites5 and a weak association between habitual diet and serum metabolites was observed. In a subsample of 1977 participants of the ARIC study, amongst the 336 metabolites assessed, dietary pattern “sugar-rich food and beverages” was associated with 7 unsaturated long-chain fatty acids, five 2-hydroxybutyrate–related metabolites, two sex steroids, five γ-glutamyl dipeptides, and four metabolites in other pathways6 and in the Women’s Health Initiative study, Prudent dietary pattern was associated with 85 metabolites (mostly lipids)7. Another study, carried out on 502 participants from the Prostate, Lung Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial, examined the correlations between 412 metabolites, food groups and the Healthy Eating Index score8. The authors reported that 39 metabolites were associated with 13 dietary groups and concluded that the metabolomic approach might be useful in identifying biomarkers reflecting the effect of nutrition intakes on human metabolism. In agreement with this, results from a study assessing lipoprotein particle subclasses profile via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in 663 adults showed associations between specific dietary patterns (“fish” and “junked food” pattern) and lipoprotein subclasses9. Identifying robust associations between dietary habits and metabolites may offer the possibility to better understand pathways by which overall diet mediates protection against chronic diseases, such as CVD, but none of these studies examined this issue.
In this study, we sought to identify metabolites associated with adherence to a healthy diet and to determine the extent to which these metabolites are also related to reduced risk of CVD. To do so, we assessed adherence to dietary guidelines in a large cohort of British middle-aged men and women from the Whitehall II study10 using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) – a dietary index whose high scores have been shown to be associated with reduced risk of CVD morbidity11 and mortality12. We examined associations of healthy diet with metabolites quantified using a serum NMR metabolomics and replicated the results in an independent cohort, the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study13. We then determined the extent to which metabolites associated with AHEI were also associated with the risk of developing CVD over 15.8 years of follow-up in the Whitehall II study.
Participant characteristics
A total of 4824 participants from the Whitehall II study were included in the discovery analysis. Characteristics are described in Table 1. Mean concentration of the 80 metabolites are detailed in Supplementary Material-Table A. The mean (±SD) score of AHEI was 50.7 ± 9.8 points. Compared to the 3034 participants who attended the 1997/99 examination but were not included in the present analysis, those included were more likely to be men, white, with high socio-economic status, to practice physical activity and to report higher total energy intake. Participants included were also less likely to be smoker, to use antihypertensive or lipids lowering drugs and showed lower concentrations of triglycerides and lower diastolic blood pressure. No significant difference in AHEI score was observed (Supplementary Material- Table B). Regarding participants included in the Young Finns Study (replication cohort), the latter were younger and showed lower means of AHEI compared to participants included in Whitehall II study (Table 1).
Table 1 Characteristics of Whitehall II participants and Young Finns Study participants.
Association between AHEI score and metabolites in the Whitehall II study
Results of the associations between AHEI z-score and 80 metabolites in Whitehall II study are shown in Fig. 1, (estimates and p values are available in Supplementary Material-Table C). Good adherence to healthy dietary recommendations, as assessed by higher AHEI score, was associated with lower circulating concentrations of specific amino acids (isoleucine, leucine and phenylalanine) and of metabolites related to gluconeogenesis (mainly glycerol) as well as lower chronic inflammation (assessed by glycoprotein acetyls) after accounting for Bonferroni correction for 80 tests. Adherence to healthy diet was also associated with a smaller average size of VLDL particles and larger average size of HDL particles. Regarding lipids in different lipoproteins subclasses, participants with higher AHEI score showed lower concentration of lipids in VLDL, IDL and LDL particles (from large to small) and with lipids in small HDL particles. AHEI score was also inversely associated with concentrations of cholesterol in VLDL, cholesterol not contained in HDL nor LDL (remnant cholesterol) and with free cholesterol. Higher AHEI score was associated with lower triglycerides concentrations in all lipid subfractions and lower circulating sphingomyelins.
Age-, sex- and energy intake-adjusted associations between AHEI z-score and metabolites in Whitehall II study. Results are expressed as regression coefficients accompanied with their 95% confidence interval for one standard deviation increment in AHEI diet score. To facilitate comparison, metabolites were square root transformed and standardized to z-scores (mean = 0, SD = 1). P ≥ 0.0006; P < 0.0006.
The strongest associations between metabolites and AHEI score were observed for fatty acid measures, especially for monounsaturated and conjugated linoleic acids for which linear regression coefficients were three times higher than for other metabolites on average (Supplementary Material-Table B). Regarding fatty acids, high AHEI score was associated with lower concentrations of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids. Conversely, participants with higher AHEI score displayed higher concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids, including omega-3 (docosahexaenoic acid especially) and omega-6 (linoleic acids) but lower concentrations of conjugated linoleic acids. Analyses for ratios of each fatty acids category relative to total fatty acid concentrations confirmed the association between AHEI score and fatty acids and tended to display even stronger associations. All analyses were repeated by replacing AHEI by AHEI 2010 and similar trends were observed. Results are detailed in Supplementary Material-Table D.
The metabolites associations were only modestly attenuated (30.7% on average) after further adjustment for ethnicity, physical activity, smoking habits and cardiovascular risk factors (including type 2 diabetes, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive drugs and use of lipid-lowering drugs). All but one remained statistically significant (Table 2). An additional model in which body mass index (BMI) was added as covariate was performed. Analyses, carried out on the 4175 participants with available data on BMI, showed similar results (Supplementary Material-Table E).
Table 2 Results of multivariable adjusted linear regression models of the association between AHEI z-score and the 42 selected metabolites in the Whitehall II study and in Young Finns Study.
Because both dietary changes and a modification of circulating metabolites are expected in participants with prevalent CVD, cancer or longstanding illness, we performed sensitivity analyses to assess the extent by which the AHEI-metabolites associations reported here might be explained by these diseases. Analyses repeated after excluding participants (1) reporting history of cardiovascular diseases (2) with a diagnosis of cancer and (3) reporting a longstanding illness indicate that the associations reported were not explained by these chronic diseases (Supplemental Material-Table F).
Replication analysis in the Young Finns study
Analyses of the associations between the 41 metabolites (those significantly associated with AHEI score in multivariate model performed in Whitehall II study) and AHEI z-score were repeated in the Young Finns Study whose sample effective was about the third of the Whitehall II effective. Mean concentration of these 41 metabolites in Young Finns are listed in Supplemental Material-Table G. The replication analyses and meta-analyses, displayed in Table 2 and Supplementary Material-Table H respectively and illustrated in Fig. 2 showed that 38 of the 41 diet-metabolites associations were directionally concordant. The only deviating measures are branched amino acids, glycerol and size of HDL particle.
Multivariable-adjusted associations between AHEI z-score and metabolites from meta-analysis of the Whitehall II Study and the Young Finns Study (YFS). Whitehall II study; YFS; Meta-analysis. Linear regression models were adjusted for age, sex, total energy intake, ethnicity, smoking habits, physical activity, type 2 diabetes, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive drugs and use of lipid-lowering drugs. Results are expressed as linear regression coefficients accompanied with their 95% confidence interval. To facilitate comparison, metabolites were first square root transformed and then standardized to z-scores (mean = 0, SD = 1).
Of the 41 metabolites assessed, AHEI score was significantly associated with two fatty acids and 5 fatty acids ratio (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Table H) confirming the strong associations between good adherence to healthy diet and higher concentrations of omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid, higher ratios of all polyunsaturated fatty acids ratio (including omega-3, omega-6) and lower ratios of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids relative to total fatty acids. Regarding the other metabolites, even if the direction of most of associations was similar as observed in Whitehall II, the associations were weaker and did not reach statistical significance in the Young Finns study with much smaller sample size than in Whitehall II.
Metabolites associated with AHEI and predicting cardiovascular disease
We assessed the extent to which each of the 41 metabolites associated with diet score also predicted CVD events. Of the 5481 Whitehall II participants, 697 developed CVD over the 15.8 years of follow-up. Results are presented in Table 3. Metabolites found to significantly predict CVD risk consisted of amino acids, glycoprotein acetyls, size of lipoprotein particule size, total lipids in lipoproteins (except those in IDL and in small HDL), total cholesterol in VLDL particles and triglycerides. Amongst fatty acids, significant association were found for saturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fatty acids. Degree of unsaturation was inversely associated with CVD risk. When ratio of fatty acids categories relative to total fatty acids concentration was considered, significant associations were observed for mono- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid, with higher ratio of monounsaturated fatty acids increasing the risk of CVD risk, and higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid decreasing CVD risk. Other fatty acids ratios were not found significantly associated with CVD risk.
Table 3 Association between baseline metabolites and incident cardiovascular disease over 15.8 years of follow-up in the Whitehall II study.
Figure 3 illustrates whether metabolites associated with poor adherence to healthy dietary guidelines were also related to higher CVD risk. Of the 41 diet-metabolites and metabolites-CVD risk associations assessed, only 5 were directionally discordant and concerned polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega 6 and linoleic acids whose higher blood concentrations were associated with higher CVD risk but without reaching statistical significance. Discordance in terms of direction of association was also observed for total lipids in small HDL and sphingomyelin (Fig. 3).
Comparison of diet-metabolites associations and metabolites-incident CVD risk associations in Whitehall II study. Associations directionally concordant. Associations directionally discordant. On the left hand size: Linear regression models estimating the associations between AHEI z-score and the 41 selected metabolites performed in 4824 participants and adjusted for age, sex, total energy intake, ethnicity, smoking habits, physical activity, type 2 diabetes, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive drugs and use of lipid-lowering drugs. Results are expressed as linear regression coefficients accompanied with their 95% confidence interval. To facilitate comparison, metabolites were first square root transformed and then standardized to z-scores (mean = 0, SD = 1). On the right hand size: Cox proportional hazards regression models estimating the association between the selected 41 metabolites and the risk of incident CVD over the 15.8 years of follow-up, performed in 5840 Whitehall II participant, adjusted for age, sex, total energy intake, ethnicity, smoking habits, physical activity, type 2 diabetes, diastolic and systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive medication. Results are expressed as Hazard Ratio accompanied with their 95% confidence interval. To facilitate comparison, metabolites were first square root transformed and then standardized to z-scores (mean = 0, SD = 1).
The present study based on metabolic profiling analyses identified and replicated metabolites associated with the adherence to dietary recommendations provided by the Alternative Healthy Eating Index after taking into account potential confounders and multiple testing in two population-based studies - the Whitehall II and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns. A key finding of these analyses concerns the metabolic profiles of fatty acids associated with diet score. Furthermore, our study highlights the concordance between metabolites profile associated with low adherence to healthy diet and the metabolites profile associated with 15.8-year risk of CVD in Whitehall II participants by showing that an increased risk of CVD onset was associated with high levels of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids and a decreased risk of CVD was associated with a higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid relative to total fatty acids concentrations (Fig. 4).
Metabolomic profiles associated with low adherence to healthy dietary guidelines and with the risk of incident cardiovascular diseases -. The metabolic profiling analyses identified 41 metabolites associated with the adherence to healthy diet in Whitehall II study. Replication analyses in the Young Finns Study showed that most of these diet-metabolites associations were directionally concordant. We then assessed the extent to which each of the 41 metabolites associated with diet score also predicted CVD events over the 15.8 years of Whitehall II Study follow-up. Results showed that most of metabolites associated with poor adherence to healthy dietary guidelines are also related to higher CVD risk and consisted of amino acids, glycoprotein acetyls, size of lipoprotein particule size, lipids in lipoproteins, cholesterol and triglycerides and fatty acids. These findings highlight a specific fatty acid patterns robustly associated with both adherence to healthy diet and reduced risk of CVD. These specific fatty acids pattern consisted of lower levels of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids and higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid relative to total fatty acids concentrations, possibly representing a molecular link between healthy diet and lower cardiovascular disease risk.
Our metabolic profiling analyses identified 41 metabolites associated with the adherence to healthy diet. The strongest associations between metabolites and AHEI score were observed for fatty acid measures. We reported a robust and positive association between AHEI scores and degree of unsaturation of fatty acids, ratio and concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids including omega-3 (docosahexaenoic acid in particular, brought by fatty fish intake but also oil supplements), omega-6 (linoleic acids found in nuts, fatty seeds and their derived vegetable oil). Conversely, a negative association was found between AHEI scores and ratio (and concentrations) of saturated (found in dairy products, fatty products, processed food and fatty meat intakes) and monounsaturated fatty acids (affected by vegetable oils, lean meat but also produced endogenously by the desaturation of dietary saturated fatty acids4,14) and conjugated linoleic acids (found in ruminant meat and dairy products15). This fatty acids pattern associated with AHEI score was directionally concordant with fatty acids pattern (except for omega-6) associated with incident CVD in Whitehall II study. Our results are also concordant with previous findings from observational studies suggesting associations of higher levels of omega-316 and linoleic acid17 with lower coronary heart disease events and an increased disease risk in relation to high levels of monounsaturated fatty acids4,18. The strong association found between fatty acids and diet in the Whitehall II and Young Finns studies and the fact that similar metabolic profile of fatty acids was associated with incident CVD suggest that these specific fatty acids are potential molecular mediators between unhealthy diet and increased CVD risk. Even if recent randomized trials19,20 did not indicate a beneficial impact of replacing dietary saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated ones on CVD risk, our work suggests that the better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the variability of these fatty acids may be helpful in explaining how overall diet might be linked to CVD development.
We identified detailed lipid profiles associated with a good adherence to AHEI recommendations. Using NMR spectroscopy, we were able to determine the lipoprotein subclasses distribution as well as their lipid composition. We found that participants with high score in AHEI had a lipid profile characterized by lower concentrations of lipids in chylomicrons and extremely large, very large and large VLDL, as well as small HDL compared to participants with low score in AHEI. Higher amounts of lipids packaged into chylomicrons may reflect higher ingestion of lipids through the diet and postprandial lipidemia, an established risk factor for CVD21,22. Since chylomicrons and VLDL are competitive substrates for triglyceride hydrolysis by lipoprotein lipase in adipose and muscle tissues, higher amounts of circulating chylomicrons are usually associated with predominance of oversized VLDL particles. This specific metabolic profile of lipids in participants with low AHEI scores has also been linked to an increased risk of artherosclerosis and premature CVD23,24,25. The predominance of large VLDL has also been linked to metabolically unhealthy individuals, regardless of BMI and metabolic health definition21.
Even if the NMR metabolomics platform featured here is not designed for novel biomarker discovery and includes less metabolites than mass spectrometry-based platforms, the panel of biomarkers covers a wide range of potential relevant biomarkers for diet-CVD associations, including amino acids, glycolysis related metabolites, inflammation, lipids and cholesterol, glycerides and other phospholipids, and fatty acids. The possibility to quantify these measures robustly in a single experiment26 is important to determine their relative importance for diet and CVD risk.
In contrast to other NMR methodologies of advanced lipoprotein profiling27, the platform used in this study provides quantification of many fatty-acid measures, some abundant proteins, and a broad range of low-molecular-weight metabolites together with very detailed lipoprotein subclasses profiling28. This simultaneous quantification of circulating biomarkers across multiple pathways provide a very detailed picture of a person’s metabolic state27; we found that in particular fatty acids and lipids components metabolites play a role in both overall unhealthy diet and incidence of CVD events.
Beyond the lipid and fatty acids components, we showed that amino acid components – phenylalanine, leucine and isoleucine - were also associated with both lower AHEI score and increased incident CVD risk. These amino acids have previously been associated with higher risks of developing type 2 diabetes29,30,31. Branched-chain and aromatic amino acid are affected by intakes of animal (pork, beef, chicken, eggs and dairy products) and plant (soy beans, rice, corn, wheat) protein32. However, our analyses did not allow to assess the associations of these amino acids in the diet-CVD association according to their plant or animal origins. Further analyses to examine this question would be relevant in a context where beneficial effects of plant protein on cardiometabolic diseases has been reported33.
Our study has both strengths and limitations. First, the assessment of dietary intake using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire covered only specific foods and is recognized to be less precise than dietary assessment by the food diary method. However, in a large sample size cohort study, the use of food frequency questionnaires is particularly adapted and a commonly used method. Second, we assessed healthy diet through using the AHEI score which is a summary measure of the degree to which an individual’s diet conforms to the serving recommendations of the US Department of Agriculture Food Guide Pyramid and the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans11. By being based on a set of specific and limited food groups, AHEI does not cover all aspects of “healthy” diet and may not be adapted to dietary habits in all populations. However, high scores on this index have been shown to be associated with reduced risk of CVD11, and type 2 diabetes34. The use of AHEI in the present analyses is particularly relevant, as previous findings from the Whitehall II study suggest that adherence to the AHEI may reduce the long-term risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality12 and to be related to an almost 2-fold higher odds of reversing the metabolic syndrome35, a condition known to predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality36. Third, AHEI provides an overall measure of the extent to which a person adheres healthy dietary guidelines in terms of the intake of vegetables, fruits, nuts and soy, white vs red meat, trans-fat, polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids, multivitamin, alcohol and cereal fiber. Fourth, to counteract the problem of multiple comparisons we applied a stringent Bonferroni correction which reduces the probability of false significant findings but might increase the probability of false negative results, since many of the examined metabolites and lipid components are strongly correlated with one another. Additionally, we adjusted our analyses for correlated measures such as blood pressure that may artificially reduce the associations’ estimates. Fifth, with an epidemiological observational framework, our observations may be partly explained by unmeasured confounders such as gut microbiota which can potentially influence metabolite variability as well as dietary behaviors. However, by carrying out our analyses on a larger sample size population study compared to previous studies on the same topic and by replicating our findings in another cohort study while previous reports were based on single cohort studies, bring strength to the validity of our observations. The NMR platform used has also limitations. The metabolic profile measured through this platform provided fasting steady-state levels of metabolites. The fact that metabolites related to carbohydrate and protein intakes might be less detectable in fasting state than lipids and fatty acids might explain why metabolites found to be associated with high quality diet were lipids and fatty acids while significant associations with branched amino acids, metabolites related to glycolysis were scarce and most of them were not confirmed in the replication analyses. Furthermore, as glycolysis related metabolites and some amino-acids, lipids and specific fatty acids are produced endogenously with different rates depending on issues, such as individual’s metabolic state, the NMR metabolite measures reflect both metabolites’ exogeneous intake and their endogenous synthesis; they cannot be viewed as markers of specific dietary intakes. A further limitation is that the NMR platform does not include many metabolites from vegetables, fruits, nuts and soy. Further research examining the association of dietary exposure to a wider range of metabolites is needed.
Our metabolic profiling study enabled us to identify and replicate a number of metabolites robustly associated with adherence to dietary recommendations provided by the Alternative Healthy Eating Index. A key finding of these analyses concerns the metabolic profiles of fatty acids (higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3, omega-6 and lower ratio of saturated, monounsaturated and conjugated fatty acids relative to total fatty acids) associated with AHEI score in Whitehall II Study and in Young Finns Study. Our report also highlights the high overlap in metabolites associated with low adherence to healthy dietary guidelines and those predicting long-term risk of CVD in Whitehall II. By showing that an increased risk of CVD onset was associated with high levels of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids and a decreased risk of CVD was associated with higher ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3 and docosahexaenoic acid relative to total fatty acids concentrations, our findings suggest that these specific fatty acids might be important molecular mediators linking overall unhealthy diet to increased CVD risk.
Study samples
Participants of the discovery cohort were drawn from the Whitehall II cohort study10, an on-going prospective cohort study of adults recruited from 20 London-based Civil Service departments in 198510. Of these, 10 308 (6,895 men and 3,413 women, aged 35 to 55) enrolled, a response proportion of 73%. The baseline medical examination (phase 1) took place during 1985/88, and subsequent phases including both clinical examination and self-administrated questionnaire have taken place approximately every 5 years. The subjects included in the metabolites-diet association analyses (n = 4824) was a sample of men (n = 3483) and women (n = 1341) who participated in the 1997/99 clinical examination, and whose serum sample was profiled using NMR metabolomics and had complete data on diet and covariates assessed in 1997/99. Participants gave full informed written consent to participate in the study and ethical approval was obtained from the University College London Hospital committee on the Ethics of Human Research. All research was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations.
Replication analyses were based on the 2001 survey of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study originally designed to study associations of childhood risk factors to disease in adulthood (youngfinnsstudy.utu.fi)13. The baseline study conducted in 1980 included n = 3596 children and adolescents aged 3–18. The 2283 individuals participating in 2001 survey (response rate 64%)13,37 were representative of the baseline cohort13. Among these, n = 2247 individuals provided an overnight fasting blood samples, and the resulting serum samples were stored at −80 °C prior to metabolic profiling by serum NMR metabolomics which was complete for 2161 participants. We further excluded from the present analyses participants with missing data on dietary variables, and main covariates including age sex, total energy intake, alcohol consumption, smoking status, physical activity index assessed by metabolic equivalent of task, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg), use of antihypertensive drugs and type 2 diabetes. Assessment of these variables have been described elsewhere13,38,39. All participants gave written informed consent, and the study was approved by the ethics committees of each of the five participating medical university sites in Finland.
The flow chart diagrams mapping the selection of Whitehall II and Young Finns Study participants are provided in Fig. 5.
Flow chart diagram mapping the inclusion of Whitehall II and Young Finns Study participants.
Assessment of clinical characteristics
In the Whitehall II study, socio-demographic, health behaviors and health status factors assessed in 1997/99 were considered. Socio-demographic factors included sex, age and ethnicity (white/South Asian/Black). Health behaviors consisted of smoking status (current/former/non smoker), total energy intake (in kcal per day, estimated from the food frequency questionnaire) and physical activity. Based on the physical activity questionnaire that consisted of 20 items on frequency and duration of participation in walking, cycling, sports, gardening, housework, and home maintenance, frequency and duration of each activity were combined to compute Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET) units/hours/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity40. Health status factors considered were those related to cardiovascular risk factors. They included measures of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive drugs; type 2 diabetes (diagnosed according to the WHO definition);and use of lipid-lowering drugs. In the Young Finns Study, corresponding assessment of socio-demographic, health behaviors and clinical characteristics was undertaken13,38.
Metabolite quantification
A high-throughput NMR metabolomics platform28 was used for the quantification of metabolites from serum samples4. We focused on 80 lipid and abundant metabolite measures listed in Supplemental Material-Table A. All metabolites were measured in a single experimental setup that allows for the simultaneous quantification of both routine lipids, total lipid concentrations of 14 lipoprotein subclasses, fatty acid composition such as MUFA and PUFA, various glycolysis precursors, ketone bodies, and amino acids in absolute concentration units. The NMR metabolomics platform has previously been used in various epidemiological studies4,41, details of the experimentation have been described4 and the method has recently been reviewed28,42,43.
Dietary intake was assessed using a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) including 127 food items as described previously12,44. The validity and reliability of the FFQ in terms of nutrients and food consumption have been documented in detail elsewhere44,45. The AHEI score11 - a score reflecting dietary guidelines adapted to the UK framework - was implemented in Whitehall II and Young Finns Study cohorts. It was based on the intake of 9 dietary components: (1) vegetables, (2) fruits, (3) nuts and soy, (4) the ratio of white (seafood and poultry) to red meat, (5) trans-fat, (6) the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids, (7) long-term multivitamin use (<5 or ≥5 y), (8) alcohol consumption and (9) cereal fiber. Each component had the potential to contribute 0 to 10 points to the total score, with the exception of multivitamin use, which contributed either 2.5 or 7.5 points. All the component scores were summed to obtain a total AHEI score ranging from 2.5 to 87.5 with higher scores denoting a healthier diet. Means of AHEI score and its components for both cohorts are detailed in Supplementary Material-Table I. AHEI was defined a priori based upon previous knowledge. In 2012, a new measure of the AHEI has been proposed – the AHEI 2010. This index has also been implemented, It includes 11 components, its distribution is detailed in Supplementary Material-Table J.
Ascertainment of incident cardiovascular disease
Whitehall II participants were linked to electronic medical records to ascertain cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease and stroke. Records for the first included hospitalisations from coronary heart disease as a primary or secondary diagnosis (defined using ICD-9 codes 410-414 and ICD-10 codes I20-I25 or procedures K40-K49, K50, K75, U19) and coronary deaths (defined using ICD-9 codes 410-414 and ICD-10 codes I20-I25 in death certificates). Data on stroke included records on hospitalizations due to stroke as a primary or secondary diagnosis and stroke deaths (defined using ICD-9 codes 430, 431, 434, 436 and ICD-10-codes I60, I61, I63, I64). The Young Finns Study participants were too young to have CVD events (less than 20 events during the 12 years follow-up).
All metabolite concentrations were squared root transformed prior to analyses to obtain approximately normal distribution. The metabolite measures were subsequently standardized using z-score (mean = 0, standard deviation = 1). The overall AHEI scores, normally distributed in the two cohorts, were analyzed as continuous variable using z-scores too. Associations between AHEI z-score and each metabolite were assessed by performing linear regression models first adjusted for age, sex and total energy intake. Metabolites found significantly associated with AHEI score at p < 0.0006 (Bonferroni correction of p < 0.05 accounting for 80 independent tests) were selected for further testing, including replication analysis and associations with CVD event risk. For the selected metabolites, linear regression models further adjusted for ethnicity, smoking habits, physical activity, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive drugs, type 2 diabetes and use of lipid-lowering drugs were performed. These analyses were repeated after taking into account BMI. In sensitivity analyses these multivariable adjusted models estimating the association between AHEI z-score and metabolites were repeated (1) in participants free of cardiovascular diseases in 1997/99 (i.e. clinically verified non-fatal myocardial infarction or definite angina), (2) in participants without prevalent cancer and (3) after excluding participants who self-reported longstanding illness.
To examine whether the findings of the associations between AHEI and metabolites in Whitehall II study were replicable, we used data from the Young Finns Study and applied similar multivariable linear regression models. As for analyses in Whitehall II, metabolites were square rooted and z-scores were computed and AHEI was treated as a z-score. The results from individual cohorts were then combined by using inverse variance fixed effect meta-analysis.
To assess the extent to which metabolites associated with diet score were also those predictive of CVD events, we conducted Cox proportional hazards regression models for each of the selected metabolites as predictors of incident CVD events (adjusted for similar risk factors as those considered in the above-mentioned analyses). To do so we selected the 5840 Whitehall II participants for whom quantification of metabolites and clinical characteristics were available in 1997/99 and a follow-up of cardiovascular diseases over the 16-year follow-up. Participants with prevalent CVD were excluded to concentrate on associations with first onset of CVD.
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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We thank all of the participating civil service departments and their welfare, personnel, and establishment officers; the British Occupational Health and Safety Agency; the British Council of Civil Service Unions; all participating civil servants in the Whitehall II study; and all members of the Whitehall II study team. The Whitehall II Study team comprises research scientists, statisticians, study coordinators, nurses, data managers, administrative assistants and data entry staff, who make the study possible. The Whitehall II study has been supported by grants from the UK Medical Research Council (K013351 and MR/R024227/1); the British Heart Foundation (PG/11/63/29011 and RG/13/2/30098); the British Health and Safety Executive; the British Department of Health; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL036310); the National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health (R01AG013196, R01 AG034454); the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/J023299/1). The Young Finns Study has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland: grants 286284 (T.L.), 134309, 126925, 121584, 124282, 129378 (Salve), 117787 (Gendi), and 41071 (Skidi); the Social Insurance Institution of Finland; Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospital Medical Funds (grant X51001 for T.L.); Juho Vainio Foundation; Paavo Nurmi Foundation; Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research; Finnish Cultural Foundation; Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation (T.L.); Emil Aaltonen Foundation (T.L.); Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (T.L.). and Signe ja Ane Gyllenberg’s Foundation (T.L). Tasnime Akbaraly is supported by the Medical Research Council (K013351). Peter Würtz is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Academy of Finland (294834). Martin Shipley is supported by the British Heart Foundation. Steven Humphries was supported by the BHF (PG08/008) and the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre. Rita Haapakoski was supported by the European Commission LIFEPATH project (Horizon 2020 grant 633666). Mika Ala-Korpela has been supported by the Sigrid Juselius Foundation and the Strategic Research Funding from the University of Oulu, Finland. He works in a unit that is supported by the University of Bristol and UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12013/1). The Baker Institute is supported in part by the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Mika Kivimaki is supported by the Medical Research Council (K013351 and MR/R024227/1), UK, NordForsk, the Nordic Programme on Health and Welfare, the Academy of Finland (311492) and a Helsinki Institute of Life Science fellowship. The funding organization or sponsor had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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Tasnime Akbaraly
& Catherine Desrumaux
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London, University College London, London, United Kingdom
, Archana Singh-Manoux
, Martin J. Shipley
, Rita Haapakoski
, Maili Lehto
& Mika Kivimäki
Department of Psychiatry & Autism Resources Centre, Hospital and University Research Center of Montpellier- CHRU-, Montpellier, F-34000, France
Computational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Peter Würtz
, Antti J. Kangas
, Pasi Soininen
& Mika Ala-Korpela
INSERM, U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
Archana Singh-Manoux
Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Mika Kähönen
& Olli Raitakari
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland
Terho Lehtimäki
Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Vera Mikkilä
Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Aroon Hingorani
& Steve E. Humphries
NMR Metabolomics Laboratory, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Pasi Soininen
Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Olli Raitakari
Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Mika Ala-Korpela
Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Systems Epidemiology, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, The Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Mika Kivimäki
University Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34000, France
EPHE, Paris, France
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T.A., P.W. and M.Ki. designed the research. T.A. analysed data and performed statistical analyses. M.Ki. supervised the study. T.A. wrote the first draft. A.J.K., P.S., and M.A.-K. designed and performed the metabolomics analyses. T.A., P.W., A.S.M., M.J.S., R.H., M.L., C.D., M.Ka., T.L., V.M., A.H., S.H.E., A.J.K., P.S., O.R., M.A.-K., and M.Ki. made a critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content and T.A. had primary responsibility for final content.
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, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
, Eric Boerwinkle
, Clary Clish
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, Paul Elliott
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, Chin Meng Khoo
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Child Hurt When Truck Veers Off Montgomery County Road, Crashes Over Swimming Pool
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Child Hurt After Truck Crashes Over Swimming Pool
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A boy had to be flown to a Lehigh Valley hospital for treatment after the pickup truck he was riding in veered off the road and into a backyard swimming area. (Published Friday, July 15, 2016)
A child was flown to the hospital by medical helicopter after the pickup truck he was riding in veered off a Montgomery County road and crashed over a swimming pool, police said.
The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday along the unit block of Ridge Road in Telford.
The work truck was traveling along Ridge Road when it suddenly turned onto the lawn of a home, crashed through a backyard fence and came to a rest over an in-ground swimming pool.
The truck's front passenger tire was left dangling over the pool and pieces of the wooden fence could be seen floating in the water.
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It's not yet clear what led to the crash. The child's injuries were not lifethreatening, police said. The driver was not hurt.
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Medicinal properties of Peganum harmala L. in traditional Iranian medicine and modern phytotherapy: a review.
Mina CN, Farzaei MH, Gholamreza A.
To review the pharmacological activities of Peganum harmala L. (P. harmala, Nitrariaceae) in traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) and modern phytotherapy.
Opinions of TIM and modern phytotherapy about safety and acceptable dosage of this plant are discussed. Various medical properties of P. harmala were collected from important TIM references and added to scientific reports derived from modern medical databases like PubMed, Scirus, ScienceDirect and Scopus.
The main medicinal part of the plant is the seed. In TIM resources, this plant possesses various Pharmacological activities such as carminative, galactagogue, diuretic, emmenagogue, antithrombotic and analgesic. In modern phytotherapy, P. harmala demonstrated numerous medicinal effects including cardiovascular, neurologic, antimicrobial, insecticidal, antineoplasmic, antiproliferative, gastrointestinal and antidiabetic effects. Adverse events such as neuro-sensorial symptoms, visual hallucination, bradycardia, hypotension, agitation, tremors, ataxia, abortion and vomiting cause people to use this plant cautiously. P. harmala is contraindicated during pregnancy, due to its abortive and mutagenic activities. Because of increasing the expression of CYP1A2, 2C19, and 3A4 and inhibition of monoamine oxidase, the pharmacokinetic parameters of drugs which are mainly metabolized by these enzymes may be affected by P. harmala.
The medicinal properties declared for this plant in TIM are compared with those showed in modern phytotherapy. Some of the TIM properties were confirmed in modern phytotherapy like emetic and analgesic activities and some have not been evaluated in modern phytotherapy such as its therapeutic effects on paralysis, epilepsy and numbness. Finally, the current review provides the evidence for other researchers to use TIM properties of P. harmala as an efficacious natural drug. Further preclinical and clinical studies for adequate evaluating safety and therapeutic efficacy are recommended.
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French leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon to face court over police raids
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Prosecutors have charged far-left French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon with rebellion, provocation and intimidation of judicial authorities during raids on his home and office last October, L'Express reported Thursday.
According to the paper, the France Unbowed founder and five other party members are due to face court in September for disrupting last year's search, which was part of an investigation into potential campaign finance fraud. Mélenchon shouted "I am the Republic!" in a police officer's face outside his office during the raid.
MEP Manuel Bompard, MPs Alexis Corbière and Bastien Lachaud, State Councillor Bernard Pignerol and press secretary Muriel Rozenfeld will also face court in September.
Mélenchon claimed the raids were part of a conspiracy directed by President Emmanuel Macron and embraced by the judiciary and media to undermine his political movement. He responded to Thursday's L'Express report on Twitter, saying "the police/justice/media cycle continues."
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Orioles 7, Red Sox 1: Long day ends with another L
Tim Britton
BALTIMORE -- In case you've just joined us, Tuesday provided a nice, condensed synopsis of what 2012 has been like for the Red Sox.
The hours before the game were filled with controversy, sparked by word of a July meeting between players and ownership to air grievances about Bobby Valentine. The game itself was filled with frustration, with missed chances on offense and misplays on defense. And the Sox went to bed on Tuesday one game worse than they started the day.
Lament all you want that these Red Sox are more known for their off-the-field turmoil rather than their on-field mediocrity. The fact is that, between the lines, Boston is uninteresting -- and darn near irrelevant.
Make no mistake: This is not the fault of any one specific group. The blame for Boston's 57-60 record bleeds through this organization like spilled milk through a notebook, leaving no part unstained.
The Sox lost again on Tuesday, dropping a 7-1 decision to the Orioles, one of the several teams they're chasing -- and perhaps the verb should be in ironic quotes -- for a postseason berth. Boston fell 6.5 behind Baltimore, who currently holds the last wild card spot in the American League. The O's have taken seven of 10 between the two teams in 2012.
"It's an uphill battle right now," said Carl Crawford. "We know that."
Occasionally in times of squalor, the playing field can be a sanctuary. No such luck for the Sox this day. Their bats were quieted by Wei-Yin Chen, and Josh Beckett could not survive the sixth.
That sixth inning was the decisive panel and a fitting sample of Red Sox baseball in 2012.
Trailing 2-1 in the top half of the inning, singles by Cody Ross and Crawford put runners at the corners with one out. Chen, however, struck out Mike Aviles for the third time on the night before inducing a lazy fly ball to center off the bat of Danny Valencia.
That threat averted, Baltimore built an insurmountable advantage in the bottom of the frame. A single and a walk put two on with one out, and each runner moved up on Beckett's wild pitch to Matt Wieters. Wieters then hit a high chopper straight back toward the mound. Beckett moved out of the way to allow the charging Aviles to make the play, but the shortstop whiffed on it as the run came across the plate.
Chris Davis followed with a ground-ball single up the middle to drive home another run. Beckett was relieved by Mark Melancon, whose first pitch was mashed into the left-field seats by Mark Reynolds to make it 7-1.
It was Reynolds' second home run of the night, following an opposite-field solo shot in the fifth. Four of the slugger's 11 homers this year have come against Boston. His last multi-homer game -- Sept. 2011 -- came against Beckett, as well.
"Sixth inning, all kinds of [stuff] happened," Beckett said.
Omar Quintanilla opened the scoring with a solo shot off Beckett in the third.
Beckett allowed six runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings -- the fifth time this season he's allowed at least six earned runs. He achieved that feat only twice last season -- in each of his last two starts against Baltimore.
At one point this season, Beckett's record did not reflect how well he had often pitched. Of late, though, the 5-10 mark he finds himself saddled with seems appropriate. He has allowed at least four earned runs in five of his last seven starts -- and in one of the exceptions, he departed in the third inning. Since the start of July, Beckett has allowed 32 earned runs on 47 hits in 37 innings.
"I thought he threw better than his line," said catcher Ryan Lavarnway.
As in his previous starts against the Red Sox, Chen was effective without ever appearing dominant. He allowed a baserunner in every inning he started, yielding nine hits in six-plus frames in all.
"We need to keep doing the little things right -- or start doing the little things right, I guess," Lavarnway said.
"We're playing pretty good," said Valentine. "We're just not getting the breaks. We'll get the breaks -- a whole bunch of them."
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CASD tax hike to cost average taxpayer $90 more
Chambersburg's school district gave final approval to a 2027-28 budget that will increase school property taxes 4 1/2 percent, or about $90 annually for the average taxpayer.
CASD tax hike to cost average taxpayer $90 more Chambersburg's school district gave final approval to a 2027-28 budget that will increase school property taxes 4 1/2 percent, or about $90 annually for the average taxpayer. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://ponews.co/2taXqLk
Vicky Taylor, vtaylor@publicopinionnews.com Published 2:41 p.m. ET June 16, 2017
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Chambersburg Area School District building(Photo: Markell_DeLoatch )
CHAMBERSBURG - School property taxes will rise about $90 annually for the average Chambersburg Area School District taxpayer as the result of a 4.5 percent tax increase approved by the school board Wednesday.
An almost $16 annual increase in the homestead and farmstead exemption would partially offset that tax increase, however.
The board gave final approval to a $136,711,457 budget with a $3 million deficit. The budget includes a $3 million capital reserve fund and a 4.562 mill increase in the tax rate.
That increase brings the new millage rate to 105.94 mills compared to a 101.368 rate in 2016-17. The new rate goes into effect July 1.
According to the Franklin County Assessors Office, the average -- or median -- assessed value of a residential property in the district is $19,650. An increase of 4.562 mills figures out to a $89.64 tax increase for the average homeowner.
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CASD's board approved its 2017-18 budget without information on the amount of federal and state funding it will get during the upcoming school year.
"We are sitting here tonight to approve a budget and tax increase and we have no idea what we will get from the federal (government) or the state," Board President Dana Baker said. "We have no control over that and won't know until after (the deadline) to pass this budget."
He said school boards in Pennsylvania have "a big target on their chests" because state law requires districts to have a new budget in place by June 30, while federal and state governments can and often do fail to meet their budget deadlines.
The board also approved a new spending moratorium, altered a little from those in place the last two fiscal years, but still requiring a hiring freeze for all but essential teaching personnel as well as a moratorium on new spending for "non-essential" projects.
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The board voted to eliminate Chambersburg Area Senior High School's gymnastics program in spite of an impassioned plea by one of its supporters, and questioned the need for a migrant summer school program.
They left the migrant program in place after being told by Assistant Superintendent Billy Hodges that it is funded by a federal educational grant and gives migrant students - who usually move from district to district as their parents follow agricultural crops during the school year - an educational boost.
Hodges said the program also has funding issues since the funding now goes to Erie instead of directly to local school districts, but it will come at little or no cost to the local district since the program will need only space in the district to run the program for about 70 students.
He said the request is only for "in-kind" funding for space for the program.
In spite of approving the budget and its tax increase Wednesday night, school board directors expressed concern that the district will be operating with a deficit in 2017-18.
Read: Uncertainty threatens impact of possible tax increase in CASD
Director Carl Barton insisted that although the district has a $3 million capital reserve fund, the budget was still a deficit budget.
"We are spending $3 million more than we are bringing in, and to the average taxpayer that sounds and looks like a deficit," he said.
Barton was explaining why he was opposed to adding another $15,000 to the budget for a gymnastics program that currently only has two members, even though Dr. Mark Schur, who represents the district's Region 2, urged the board to "give (the program) another year" so "success metrics" could be established for it.
Assistant Superintendent and Acting CASHS Principal Cathy Dusman pointed out that although cutting programs like the gymnastics team was "hard," it was also difficult to justify $15,000 for a a team that has only two members.
"If the gymnastic team grows and financial problems ease, we would love to bring it back (later)," she said.
The board also talked about the district's current earned income tax, which funds the homestead and farmstead property tax exemptions. An increase in earned income tax revenues in 2016-17 will enable the district to increase that exemption from $659.54 to $675.26 when new school tax bills come out this fall.
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The property must be the primary residence of the taxpayer in order to qualify for the exemption.
The board also announced it will look at eventually increasing the district's earned income tax in order to provide a larger homestead exemption for local homeowners.
That move would require a referendum on a general election ballot, something that can't be done until at least 2018.
In other business, the board approved the Franklin County Career and Technology Center's 2017-18 budget, which is required by all of the districts that send students to the Career Tech Center before that entity's Joint Operating Committee can approve its 2017-18 budget.
The board also changed the meeting dates for its meetings to Tuesday nights, beginning in July.
The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. July 25 in the CASD administrative building on Stanley Avenue.
Vicky Taylor, 717-881-5373
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Home India News General News Madras High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Graft Charges Against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami
Madras High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Graft Charges Against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami
Written By Press Trust Of India | Mumbai | Published: October 13, 2018 19:26 IST
The Madras High Court on Friday, October 12 ordered a CBI probe into allegations of corruption in the award of road contracts by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami
A D Jagadish Chandira gave the direction on a petition by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), after perusing the report filed by Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC)
The Madras High Court on Friday, October 12 ordered a CBI probe into allegations of corruption in the award of road contracts by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami. Justice A D Jagadish Chandira gave the direction on a petition by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), after perusing the report filed by Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC). The court said it was not satisfied with the report and the action taken by the DVAC on the complaint lodged by DMK organising secretary R S Bharathi.
The judge then directed the vigilance agency to hand over all relevant documents to the CBI within a week. The central agency has to conclude the preliminary investigation within three months, he said, adding if the prima facie case is made out it could proceed further.
The DMK has alleged irregularities and corruption in the award of road contracts. It has accused Palaniswami of abusing his power and allotting projects worth Rs 3,500 crore to his relatives and 'benamis'.
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Originally, the petitioner wanted the court to direct the DVAC to conduct a preliminary inquiry and register an FIR on its complaint submitted in June. Later, he had moved an additional plea seeking transfer of the probe to an independent investigating team saying the DVAC was technically under the chief minister.
The court had on September 12 directed the DVAC to file a report on the day-to-day preliminary investigation conducted by it against Palaniswami on the complaint. During the hearing on October 9, 2018 counsel for the petitioner said the party had lost confidence in the DVAC as the agency had been "supporting" the chief minister all along.
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Refuting the charge, the advocate general appearing for the DVAC said the state vigilance agency had conducted a preliminary inquiry as per the procedures laid down and its findings had been forwarded to the vigilance commissioner. He also said the highways department came under the chief minister while the DVAC was an independent authority under the administration of vigilance commissioner.
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Court halts Martin Marietta's bid for Vulcan
Tom Hals
(Reuters) - Martin Marietta Materials Inc (MLM.N) is barred for four months from pursuing its proxy contest and $5.3 billion hostile bid for construction materials maker Vulcan Materials Co (VMC.N), a Delaware judge ruled on Friday.
Delaware Judge Leo Strine found that Martin Marietta had violated a nondisclosure agreement with its larger rival and used confidential information in forming its bid and proxy fight.
Strine’s ruling prevents Martin Marietta from pursuing its tender offer for Vulcan’s stock for four months. The judge also blocked Martin Marietta from proposing candidates for Vulcan’s board for four months, essentially postponing any proxy contest until 2013.
“The granting of an injunction to at least temporarily halt Marietta’s hostile tender offer for Vulcan is unusual. Courts don’t often issue injunctions to halt hostile tender offers,” said Brian JM Quinn, assistant professor of law at Boston College Law School.
“With this ruling, Strine is sending a signal that if you don’t seriously stand by your contractual obligations to maintain and keep confidential information, it may come back to haunt you,” he added.
Vulcan’s annual general meeting is scheduled for June 1. Martin Marietta had proposed candidates for each of the four seats up for election to the 10-member board.
Strine said during closing arguments that he expected an appeal to Delaware’s Supreme Court.
Martin Marietta, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Birmingham, Alabama-based Vulcan did not immediately issue statements on the ruling, which was heard in Delaware by mutual agreement.
Martin Marietta made an unsolicited, all-stock bid for Vulcan in December, saying that creating the world’s largest producer of sand, gravel and other building materials would provide up to $250 million in cost savings to investors.
Vulcan rejected the bid and said Martin Marietta had violated confidentiality agreements in preparing the deal. It had asked the Chancery Court to enjoin its rival for at least four months.
“An examination of all the evidence here convinces me that Martin Marietta is not being held to any promise it did not make,” Strine said in a 139-page opinion.
The confidentiality agreements were signed when the two had entered serious deal talks in April 2010 and exchanged sensitive information.
Vulcan walked away from those talks in the middle of last year, partly because it felt cost savings were being overestimated and because it had concerns about regulatory hurdles.
“Martin Marietta confirmed that it is in receipt of the ruling issued today by the Delaware Court of Chancery. Martin Marietta is in the process of reviewing the ruling and considering its options,” the company said in a statement.
During a week-long trial, Martin Marietta presented itself as the more nimble, entrepreneurial company coming off several good years. It argued that Chief Executive Howard Nye, who took over in early 2010, could deliver cost savings by overhauling a flabby rival which had lost its way.
Vulcan has countered that Nye was seizing on a low-point in the industry’s cycle and feared that Vulcan would achieve cost savings on its own.
During the trial, Strine probed whether the Martin Marietta CEO was trying to combine the companies to ensure his tenure in the boardroom.
Once Martin Marietta went hostile in December, Vulcan argued that its rival had breached the confidentiality agreement to formulate its bid and proxy contest.
Martin Marietta has rejected that reading of the agreement, and argued that the information it used in making its bid was publicly available.
The case is Martin Marietta Inc v Vulcan Materials Inc, Delaware Chancery Court, case no. 7102.
Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Del.; Editing by Richard Chang and Matthew Lewis
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ÑIf you are operating as a sole trader, the benefits are that it is a simple form of ÑÑbusiness to establish and there are no formal legal restrictions. You can enjoy all the ÑÑprofits and there is no legal requirement to keep accounts other than to inform the tax ÑÑinspector of the tax liability of the business (which will in fact be your personal ÑÑincome tax liability). The Inland Revenue will require acceptable accounts and ÑÑtaxation computation, however, and this will usually mean that you have to pay an ÑÑaccountant to draw up the final accounts and audit the books in order to avoid paying ÑÑtoo much taxation and to satisfy the tax inspector at the Inland Revenue. As a sole ÑÑtrader there is nothing to stop you carrying out this work yourself if you have the ÑÑrequired skills.Ñ
ÑBeing a sole trader also brings problems - mainly your difficulty in finding the ÑÑnecessary capital to start the business and the requirement on you if you do borrow ÑÑfrom the bank, to put up some form of collateral such as your house and other ÑÑpersonal possessions. Furthermore, you have unlimited liability, which means that if ÑÑthe business goes into receivership you will not only lose all of the money you have ÑÑinvested in the business but could, if the business owes more than its asset value, ÑÑlose your own personal assets. A sole trader could be made personally bankrupt due ÑÑto the failure of the business. You will probably have to work very long, and in many ÑÑcases unsocial hours. If you become ill or want to go on holiday you will have to pay ÑÑsomeone to look after the business. Can you put trust in such hired help? Running ÑÑyour own business can be very stressful.Ñ
ÑAdvantages and disadvantages of sole tradersÑ
ÑAdvantagesÑ
Ñ ÑÑDisadvantages
Ñ They are easy to set up and ÑÑrequire little paperwork. ÑÑ One person takes all the decision-ÑÑmaking responsibility.
Ñ All profits accrue to the sole ÑÑtrader. ÑÑ One person is responsible for ÑÑproviding all the capital.
Ñ Decisions are made quickly. ÑÑ Working long hours is necessary.
Ñ Close contract is kept between ÑÑowner, employees and customers. ÑÑ Unlimited liability for debts.
ÑPartnershipsÑ
ÑA partnership is a way of sharing the risk, skills and the workload involved in ÑÑrunning a business. Many partnerships tend to be in the retail industries but there is ÑÑalso a high proportion of partnerships in agriculture, catering and the construction ÑÑindustry. Partnerships consist of between two and twenty partners but firms of ÑÑpartners within the various professions can be larger. Indeed, partnerships tend to be ÑÑmost common in the professional services where there is a legal barrier to most of ÑÑthem forming limited companies; examples include firms of solicitors, accountants, ÑÑstockbrokers, doctors and dentists.Ñ
ÑAlthough oral partnership agreements are legally binding it is necessary to draw up a ÑÑformal partnership agreement. This involves writing out a deed of partnership drawn ÑÑup with the help of a solicitor or an accountant. This document sets out the details of ÑÑthe partnership agreement and includes important items such as the amount each ÑÑpartner has to put into the business, the responsibilities of each partner and how ÑÑprofits and losses are to be distributed between them.Ñ
ÑPartnerships can trade under their own names or under a business name subject to the ÑÑsame restrictions as sole traders. If the partnership chooses a business name such as ÑÑthe Bradfor Estate Agency, all of the partners must be shown on all business ÑÑstationery.Ñ
ÑThere are two types of partnership : ordinary and limited. Under the ordinary ÑÑpartnership all partners must have unlimited liability and can take a full part in the ÑÑrunning of the business. Under a limited partnership the sleeping partner can enjoy ÑÑlimited liability but he must not take an active role in the running of the business - ÑÑhence, the name. The sleeping partner can provide the business with a valuable ÑÑinjection of capital, however. This can be particularly important when the business is ÑÑgrowing.Ñ
ÑThe benefits of running a partnership are that more capital is available than with a ÑÑsole trader and there are relatively few legal restrictions. The provisions of the ÑÑPartnership Act 1894 still apply, however. There is also the opportunity for ÑÑindividual partners to specialize and gain more expertise than would be possible under ÑÑa sole trader - one person cannot be an expert in everything. For example, individual ÑÑpartners in a firm of accountants could specialize in specific areas such as taxation, ÑÑinvestment advice, property, etc. the responsibilities and stress involved in running ÑÑthe business are shared among partners. There is a greater possibility of borrowing ÑÑmore money from the bank because each partner could put up some form of security ÑÑas collateral.Ñ
ÑThe main problems running a partnership are that each partner must be consulted and ÑÑthere is obvious scope for disagreement which can affect the smooth running of the ÑÑbusiness and can even close the business down. All profits are shared between ÑÑpartners according to their partnership agreement. One partner, however, may not be ÑÑas good or as hard working as the other partners yet receive a similar share of the ÑÑprofits. Even worse, one partner may be dishonest or negligent and cause problems ÑÑin the partnership and all the other partners will then have to share the resulting ÑÑliability. All partners (other than a sleeping partner) have unlimited liability so, if the ÑÑpartnership incurs debts, all partners are liable including their own personal assets.Ñ
ÑAdvantages and disadvantages of partnershipsÑ
Ñ The responsibilities are shared. ÑÑ
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The news this week that Caterpillar, often viewed as a bellwether industrial group, reported a sharp slow down in sales in China will have been widely noted in Germany, many of whose leading exporters will shortly be perusing their own results for the final quarter of last year. They’re not likely to make for pleasant reading.
Caterpillar, along with other leading groups like chipmaker Nvidia, Apple, Ford and Samsung, have been warning about the rapidly slowing Chinese economy for months. The looming trade war between Washington and Beijing won’t kill Caterpillar, whose China revenues represent less than 10% of its sales. But for Germany’s powerful exporters, this will have worrying consequences.
The problem with exporting capital equipment, which Germany does so well, is that a downturn in a major market can resemble falling off a cliff. Sales are steady until, all of a sudden, they’re not. When companies fear the immediate future, or they face a new tariff of 25%, they cancel that order for new machinery. Production in factories across Germany’s famed Mittelstand can suddenly grind to a halt, after ten years of operating at growing capacity.
Economists of all hues are now scrambling to revise their projections for Germany’s economic performance through 2019 and beyond. In all cases the new projections are sharply lower than the cautiously circumspect fore- casts of even a few weeks ago.
Germany just about escaped a technical recession in the last quarter, by the skin of its teeth. But all the indicators are pointing to tighter times ahead.
The stock market recognized this six months ago, with shares across the board falling heavily from September onwards, after a few earlier wobbles. Listed real estate stocks slid in sympathy, but since the start of the year have been recovering strongly. After all, if the European Central Bank has been scared into revising its forecasts so abruptly downwards, they’re unlikely to be raising interest rates in a hurry. That’s good for real estate investors, who can still point to the attractive spread between their modest returns and the miniscule or negative rewards on bonds or cash.
But while the real estate party in Germany is sobering up, the guests are far from leaving. There is still mileage in Europe’s strongest economy as long as that interest rate day of reckoning can be postponed. So far, it can.
And yet, at the edges, investors need to be scrutinizing their assumptions now more than ever. Politically, the tide is turning, to accommodate the strident de- mands of factions on the left and the right. While Germany’s headlines have been dominated by the AfD and its tolerance of unsavoury extreme right elements, on the streets the groundswell of support for official state intervention in the housing mar- ket is surging. Germany’s listed housing companies are beginning to feel the heat.
The fight that erupted last November between Deutsche Wohnen and residents of apartments on the old East Berlin’s famous Karl Marx Allee has resulted in the effective renationalisation of the apartments, after years of seemingly incessant privatisation of the city’s housing stock. The city’s mayor, Michael Müller, now has the bit between his teeth and claims the fight against property speculation has only just begun.
Tenants across the city are now clamouring for a referendum which would allow the city to claw back properties from companies that own more than 3,000 apartments in the capital. If they get 170,000 signatures by April, they will get their public vote. A straw poll taken by local newspaper Tagesspiegel shows that 54% of Berliners are in favour of the referendum. The hard-left Die Linke party, a member of the city-state’s ruling coalition government, has given its blessing to the expropriation initiative.
This could seriously rattle companies like Deutsche Wohnen, which owns 115,000 apartments in the city and surroundings, and others like Ado Properties, Vonovia, Akelius and Grand City Properties, who could fall foul of the city’s new-found zeal to dispossess them and pander to the activists. The market value of these apartments is put at about €33bn, although any compensation paid would be unlikely to be at market prices. Still, should anything like it occur, the bill to the city would be astronomical. And the message to investors unmistakeable.
By now, public unrest about the soaring level of rents and the shortage of affordable housing is reaching levels that no politician can ignore. Recent protest marches in Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt could morph into future “gilets-jaunes”-style demonstrations that could become nasty very quickly. Be- hind the scenes the movement is gathering political force, with Berlin’s demands for nationalisation of the state’s housing as- sets only the most vocal among many similarly discontented groupings. Where Berlin goes, others are following.
These groups are recognizing that existing measures designed to protect tenants, such as the Mietspiegel and Milieuschutzgebiet, which prevent predatory rent hikes by landlords, are simply not cutting the mustard. More radical steps are necessary, particularly to counter the effective lobbying for the real estate industry by the ZIA trade body and other influencers.
The growth of this organized resistance is gathering pace, as cells in different cities network together to force local governments’ hands. In Frankfurt a concrete plan for a new social housing subsidy of €113m for one company, funded by a new special increase in corporation taxes, raised 22,000 signatures and the support of more than 40 organisations. Similar initiatives are taking place across the country, with protesters using social media to coordinate physical demonstrations against the big housing groups. There is more trouble ahead.
Despite the newly-acquired conciliatory tones from the big groups’ managements, they are facing new and better organized resistance from opponents of their brand of capitalism – and are going to have to deal with it. It’s not going away.
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Thank you so much for coming to Barcelona to speak to us all. The content was just right and left us inspired but also questioning about the way forward and how to approach the future with our clients. I'm sure there will be further requests for your participation by some of the markets judging by the feedback I am getting.
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Thank you so much for joining us at our European Capital Markets Conference last week in Amsterdam. We have received extremely positive feedback from our clients and CBRE staff alike and I think you presentation hit the spot in challenging our guests to think about the impact of new media and technology. I am sure the sale of iPhone’s will have increased since last week as our clients begin to understand their true power!
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John Cena Allegedly Hooking Up With Total Divas Star
By H Jenkins Last updated May 7, 2018
We previously reported that it looks like John Cena is dating once again and a new report on this situation could really clear things up for us.
Brad Shepard of BodySlam.net reports that an anonymous Hollywood insider has stated to him that a newly single “entertainer/actor” is allegedly hooking up with a member of a reality television show which is believed to be a part of the Total Divas cast and that person is none other than John Cena.
When breaking down all of the possible candidates for Cena’s new supposed love interest there aren’t a lot of Total Divas cast members who aren’t already married or in a relationship. While infidelity isn’t out of the picture, one newly single cast member is Carmella which really makes us wonder if there is a connection between her recent push, the Tampa Florida bar that Cena was recently spotted at, and the fact that the SmackDown Women’s Champion also lives in Tampa. Only time will tell on that one though because this is just informed speculation.
While nothing has been confirmed just yet there are some pretty strong rumors out there that John Cena could be playing the field once again and he’s not straying from the WWE family to do so.
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First Looks: Soul Food Done Mostly Right at Tony G's
Posted By Jessica Elizarraras on Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:45 AM
Chris Conde
Tommy Moore’s may have closed in 2014 due to foreclosure, but soul food never truly left the Eastside. Tony G’s Soul Food, which relocated from its original location at St. Paul Square to the former home of Tommy Moore’s, is keeping soul alive.
The space received a deserved makeover — the carpets are gone, as are the transmissions that were left by previous tenants, according to one of our servers. In its place are stained concrete floors, a sleek new paint job, a bar and a new buffet line (we’ll get to this later).
A first visit after opening was shaky — we learned belatedly that an electric panel was out and our order of three lunch entrees took more than an hour to make. That said, the food was everything we needed after a stressful week covering shootings. The collards leaned on the bitter side during lunch, and the smothered pork chop (covered in a velvety brown gravy) fared better with a steak knife, rather than the butter knife we were given. Still the fried chicken is a must, as is the cornbread and grits (cheesy or chipotle, your choice). The grape Kool-Aid was an added plus.
Tony G’s was also known for its brunch, which they jumped back into this weekend in their new digs. Electrical woes must have been put to rest because brunch was bumpin’ by 10:30 a.m. A patio was added between opening day and Sunday brunch, though it went unused due to lingering rain. Still, the inside of the restaurant filled up as Wednesday Ball & Roger Tamez of The Show Band set up for the day. The never-empty buffet line, emblazoned simply “Soul Food” held brunch basics such as sausage, bacon and scrambled eggs on one side and then all the hits on the other such as biscuits and gravy, mac ‘n’ cheese, wings and waffles (honestly, more convenient than an entire leg, but the waffle was a tad too sweet), fried catfish, collards and tournedos (the end portion of beef tenderloin) with mushroom and gravy. Oh, and there’s a meat-carving station. That week called for roasted pork with baked apples.
At $22.95 for adults (drinks are extra) and $12.95 for children, the brunch is on par with others around town. Head here for the jovial and communal vibe that sets it apart.
Tony G's is open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
915 Hackberry St., (210) 451-1234.
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WHITNEY HAILS ADAPTABLE SADDLERS AFTER ‘FANTASTIC’ WIN
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Walsall grind out 1-0 win at Fleetwood...
Interim head coach Jon Whitney hailed his side’s ability to adapt to different formations after Walsall’s hard-fought 1-0 win at Fleetwood.
The Saddlers struggled to find their rhythm in a flat first-half, prompting Whitney to switch from a 3-5-2 to a 4-1-4-1 system.
And the visitors improved after the break, with top scorer Tom Bradshaw rifling home the winning goal on 49 minutes after latching onto Sam Mantom’s cute back-heel.
Walsall were indebted to goalkeeper Neil Etheridge for a string of impressive saves late on, but Whitney’s men held on to move level on points with the automatic promotion places.
And speaking afterwards, the 45-year-old was full of praise for his team’s battling qualities.
“I said to the lads that whenever I’ve been involved in promotion as a player and as staff, there are games you remember,” said Whitney.
“We knew this was going to be a tough, tough game. I thought Fleetwood were unlucky at Burton.
“They didn’t really create any clear chances in the first half but I just thought our shape really didn’t help us.
“But credit to our lads, we dug in, we made the change when it was needed and I think after the change they struggled to live with us a little bit.
“Again our lads have come out on top with a fantastic 1-0 away win.”
On the Saddlers’ ability to play different formations, Whitney added: “That’s our secret. We change things in training all the time.
“We challenge them, we out-number them and we want them to adapt. If things aren’t quite going to plan, change it – flip it yourself because you can do it with the same personnel.
“We’ve got the personnel to adapt who can put their foot on it and start to just get ourselves back in the game, which we did and I thought we deserved the win after the first 30 minutes.”
Whitney also praised Saddlers striker Bradshaw for his superbly-taken strike – his 17th goal of the season – and Etheridge for a fantastic match-winning save in added time.
“It was a great finish from Tom,” added Whitney.
“We’ve worked at trying to be unpredictable in the final third and doing something a bit different.
“And then, Etheridge has made a fantastic save at the end.
“They always score late on but it is credit to the lads that we’ve held on and it’s fantastic for us that we have an opportunity to make it nine out of nine points going into the Easter break.”
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What is life like for a 24/7 caregiver?
Round-the-clock caregiving requires stamina and dedication beyond measure. Ice cream helps.
By Pamela D. Wilson
Caring for aging parents or caring for a spouse on a 24/7 basis is highly stressful. Until one is in this situation is it difficult to imagine what life is like for a 24/7 caregiver.
Here are some 24/7 caregiving scenarios to gain an understanding of caregivers who devote their lives to caring for an aging parent or a spouse.
If you have children, think back to when the baby was first born. Remember the sleepless nights, the crying, changing diapers, and having very little time for yourself. Caring for an aging parent or spouse becomes similar when physical declines occur and care needs increase.
Managing incontinence can feel like a full-time job. Changing depends, helping with bathing, washing clothes and changing bedding—sometimes several times a day becomes the norm.
Isolation, loneliness, and depression are common. The caregiver can rarely leave the home unless a family member or a paid caregiver comes to sit with the loved one who needs care.
If the person needing care has a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or dementia, the stress is even greater. The patience of Job is needed to respond appropriately to repetitive behaviors, pacing, and in the most difficult situations physical threats to safety.
Bathing becomes an event. For persons who are physically weak or who have dementia, the act of bathing takes planning. Many loved ones with dementia refuse to bathe for days, weeks, or months.
Family members disappear when help is needed. Friends do the same. There is a discomfort having to see a family member or friend in declining health. When dementia is the diagnosis many family members ask the question, “why visit if they don’t remember who I am?”
A lack of planning exists for what happens when one spouse passes away. Who will then care for the surviving spouse who is likely to have experienced physical and emotional declines? Because we don’t talk about caregiving the unexpected surprises just keep coming.
24/7 caregivers need support but don’t know where to turn. Leaving home to attend an in-person support group can turn into a 5-hour event with having to find someone to care for a loved one and driving back and forth to the support group.
Research confirms that caregiving takes a toll on the caregiver for years after caregiving ends. Caregivers who wish to make caregiving easier are open to participation in online caregiving support groups and courses. The support offered helps caregivers gain confidence in their abilities and reduces the loneliness and isolation that results when one becomes a 24/7 caregiver.
This story was originally published on Expert Click.
Pamela D. Wilson, MS, BS/BA, NCG, CSA is a national caregiving expert with more than 20+ years of experience. Her mission is to support caregivers and aging adults in navigating all of the changes that result from needing care and becoming a caregiver. Caregiving is a family issue that is rarely discussed until the need. Online support groups and courses for caregivers and aging adults are available on her website.
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Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert and Lucy Sikes kiss after being wed at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church ahead of Tropical Storm Barry in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved the nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Barry.
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Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert and Lucy Sikes smile after being wed at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church ahead of Tropical Storm Barry in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved the nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Barry.
Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert kisses his new bride, Lucy Sikes, after getting married at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in New Orleans, before Tropical Storm Barry makes landfall in Louisiana, Friday, July 12, 2019. The wedding was scheduled for Saturday, but with the impending storm, the couple moved the nuptials to Friday evening.
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As the ring bearer walks by with an umbrella, newlyweds Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert, back left, and Lucy Sikes walk out of Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved their nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Tropical Storm Barry.
Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert looks for rain as he leaves Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church with his bride, Lucy Sikes, in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved the nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Tropical Storm Barry.
Before Tropical Storm Barry makes landfall, Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert, background left, watches his bride, Lucy Sikes, walk down the aisle at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved their nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Tropical Storm Barry.
Associated Press staff photographer Gerald Herbert, second from left, and Lucy Sikes head for the limousine after being wed at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church ahead of Tropical Storm Barry in New Orleans, Friday, July 12, 2019. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the couple moved the nuptials up a day to avoid the arrival of Barry.
As storm moved in, 1 couple moved up their wedding ceremony
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As New Orleans hunkered down ahead of Tropical Storm Barry Friday, news photographers from across the city could be found together in a church, witnessing the wedding of one of their own.
Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert and Lucy Sikes weren't supposed to get married Friday night. Invitations sent out months ago were for a Saturday night wedding at the Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church, followed by a reception at the art-deco-style restaurant at the city's Lakefront Airport.
The location was an homage to how Herbert had learned to fly so he could commute to Shreveport in northern Louisiana to visit his now-wife, an attorney. But the airport was also outside the city's floodwalls .
With Barry approaching the Louisiana coast , the restaurant called to say it would be closed Saturday. The storm also was making it difficult for other wedding vendors, Herbert said, and he and Sikes were worried about guests being able to travel Saturday.
After a little soul-searching, Herbert said, they decided to get married Friday night.
"We realized we had a marriage license, two rings ... and we didn't really want to wait any longer," he said.
So that's how Sikes, wearing an elegant white dress with silvery beading down the back, found herself walking down the aisle Friday evening toward Herbert, who wore a blue suit and a huge smile.
The Rev. Herbert Kiff Jr., who's known the groom for years, officiated. Looking out over the crowd of family and friends who had quickly gathered to celebrate, he said: "It goes to show how much you all love Gerald and Lucy."
New Orleans rhythm and blues musician Deacon John Moore had been scheduled to sing during the Saturday ceremony. He made it to Friday's ceremony, but the regular church musicians couldn't. He ended up bringing his brother to play guitar and another musician to play piano.
Sikes had worried her dress would get wet or her guests would be stuck in the rain. Neither happened, and she was happy everything came together.
"My friends rock!" she said. "They scrambled out at the last minute."
The church's wedding coordinator, Pam Eshleman, said that when the city flooded Wednesday she suspected that bad weather might end up affecting Saturday's plans. Sikes texted her Friday morning asking if they could hold the wedding at the church that evening. In the end, she said, it was "meant to happen today."
"I said, 'For whatever reason, God didn't want y'all to get married tomorrow,'" she said. "'He wanted you to all be here today, and this just all worked out so well.'"
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It was either feast or famine for country singles in 2016. As the rigged singles system that almost guarantees #1 songs for any releases from big-named artists metastasized at radio—creating an incredible volume of singles hitting #1 for a solitary week before immediately falling off a precipice—if a song happened to not fit into that rigged system…
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Every year we wonder if it can get any worse, and while there are positive signs for country music’s future all over the place, the bad stuff somehow continues to only get worse. The only saving grace is that many of the songs highlighted below have become commercial flops, whereas in previous years it would be a virtual Top 10 on the country charts.
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Tottenham Hotspur players spread Christmas cheer at Barnet Hospital
Four Tottenham Hotspur stars came to Barnet Hospital on Tuesday to give an early Christmas present to patients in the children and neonatal wards.
Spurs captain Younes Kaboul was joined by teammates Eric Dier and Michel Vorm, and Tottenham Ladies’ Leanne Mabey at Barnet Hospital where they handed out gifts, signed autographs and posed for selfies with patients, families and even some staff on the Galaxy children’s ward and the Starlight neonatal ward.
Lifelong Spurs fan Charlotte Cummings, who also played for the club’s under 9 and under 10 squads, had been meeting with her medical team when the players arrived, and almost had to make do with a photo of 6ft2in Younes Kaboul lying in her hospital bed next to a giant Teddy bear.
But thankfully the 15-year-old arrived back in the closing seconds of the players’ visit, just in time for a last-minute photo.
She said: “It was such an unexpected surprise to see them here but it was really nice.
“I think it is a really good thing to do. It would make anyone feel better, even if you’re not a Spurs fan.”
Arsenal fan Harry Flitterman was happy to see the players and pose for a photo, although he couldn’t resist the urge to hold up five and two fingers – a gentle reminder of the Gunners’ back-to-back 5-2 victories over Spurs in 2012.
During their visit the Tottenham players spent hours talking to patients and their families and were overwhelmed by the reception they received.
Eric said: "This is my first time visiting the local hospitals around Christmas time and it was great to meet the families and kids. Some of them are having a really tough time so it was nice to be able to come here and put smiles on their faces."
Galaxy ward play specialist Jill De Graag said: “The players were really good fun and they really made the effort to speak to every one of the patients.
“I think the patients absolutely loved it – even the ones who support Arsenal. One boy had been so down and it was just lovely to see him smile. His face just changed when they arrived.
“It’s brilliant that they do this. It really lifts the spirits in the ward.”
Images available on request.
Media contacts: Call Daniel O’Brien on 020 7317 7740 or email daniel.obrien1@nhs.net.
In July 2014 Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital became part of the Royal Free London.
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Shelf Awareness for Readers for Tuesday, February 10, 2015
From My Shelf
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With President's Day next Monday, we celebrate with a few of our favorite tales of the country's leaders.
Dear Mr. Washington by Lynn Cullen, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, imagines what the relationship between George Washington and his portrait artist's family might have looked like, in a playful mash-up of the "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" that Washington purportedly held dear. Gingerbread for Liberty! by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch, stars a baker who allegedly came to George Washington's rescue when his soldiers threatened defection due to the terrible food during the American Revolution.
Rutherford B., Who Was He? by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by John Hendrix, uses one poem to introduce each president, offering key facts and varying the mood to reflect the times (Rutherford B. Hayes, incidentally, signed into law a remembrance of Washington's birthday, the first incarnation of Presidents' Day, which now honors both Washington and Lincoln). In Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents by David Stabler, illustrated by Doogie Horner, the author organizes stories about the presidents' youth into sections such as "After-School Activities"--tales of them as pranksters--and "Hardly Working," about the various jobs taken by would-be presidents to earn spending money.
Two standout picture book biographies by Maira Kalman focus on revealing details for Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln in Looking at Lincoln. Kalman zooms in on the kinds of quirky trivia that kids will devour: vanilla cake was Lincoln's favorite, and he always had an apple on his desk--though "he was often too busy thinking to eat"--and with his hat on, Lincoln was seven feet tall. Older readers will devour Russell Freedman's Newbery-winning Lincoln: A Photobiography and The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming. Happy Birthday, George and Abe! --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness
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Sandra Newman: Creating the Dialect of Dystopia
photo: George Baier
Sandra Newman has taught writing and literature at Temple University, Chapman University and the University of Colorado. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Granta and London's Observer. Her debut novel, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her third novel is The Country of Ice Cream Star, 600 pages of linguistically creative prose told from the viewpoint of a 15-year-old orphan searching for safety and redemption in a politically fractured, dystopian America (reviewed below).
How did you create this dystopia?
It started with the simple idea of a future in which everyone died before they reached adulthood. Everyone is born with a disease which kills them when they're 18 to 19 years old. When I started trying to write the book, I immediately encountered a major problem. I started out writing it in Standard English in the first person from the point of view of my heroine, Ice Cream Star, trying only to imagine the voice of a 15-year-old. Since the book is set 100 years in the future, it struck me as unrealistic that she would use contemporary English. I couldn't make anything about it feel real. I decided, with some trepidation, to invent a future patois for the world I was creating, finding the inspiration for it in African-American English--[the source of] a lot of contemporary slang that would be comprehensible to most people. Once I had the basic ideas for the origins of the patois, it came very quickly; I wrote the first page in a half hour. I was thinking more seriously about the racial make-up of my future people. I'd assumed that they would be a typical American mix, but it now occurred to me that they could all be black. And this idea was immediately powerful to me. The whole society came to life, as if it had always existed and I was just stumbling upon it. Then it seemed obvious to me that Ice Cream's quest would be triggered by the appearance of an adult--a white adult--the sort of person Ice Cream has never seen before. Now she knows it's possible there's a cure for the disease everyone is dying from, and she has the rationale for her quest. Meanwhile, the reader knows from a thousand years of history that the sudden appearance of a white person is bad news.
Your novel has been compared with Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. Is this a fair assessment?
It's certainly a flattering assessment, though it's probably an inevitable one, since both books have a post-apocalyptic setting plus an invented dialect. Ultimately, the mood and structure of my book is very different. Riddley Walker is much more dystopian. In Ice Cream Star's world, everyone is doing pretty well in a relatively carefree world, even Edenic, until the white people appear. When they depart from that world, it turns into an adventure story rather than a voyage to the heart of darkness, full of people outwitting each other or engaging in trench warfare or having sex. It certainly has its thoughtful elements, but it's not nearly as meditative as Riddley Walker.
What other works and authors influenced you?
Riddley Walker and A Clockwork Orange are somewhere in the mix, because when I came to write Ice Cream Star, I already had the idea that a book in an invented dialect was possible. At the time I began The Country of Ice Cream Star, I was finishing a book on Western literature, and for the purposes of writing, I had to read, re-read or at least re-skim the entire Western canon. Generally, I find I often try to be influenced by books, but it doesn't have any effect that I can see. When I was writing Ice Cream Star, I read both Shakespeare and [Toni Morrison's] Song of Solomon with this in mind--I was thinking, this is what you should be influenced by.
The Sengles speak a kind of creole language, which you're able to carry through 600-plus pages in poetic, lyrical prose so it becomes second nature to the reader. Were there other languages besides Afro-American English that inspired you?
As I've mentioned, the main inspiration for the language was African-American English. There's also a peppering of French words--the Sengles are descended from Senegalese immigrants, so they have French in their background. Retrospectively, I can also see that some of the logic of it comes from Russian, though I wasn't conscious of this at the time.
Tell us how you created this "second" language.
If I'd had to build it consciously, I probably would have given up. I can't really explain this, except to say that it's very similar to the experience of writing a character whose voice just "comes" to you, even though you've never known anyone quite like that. You know the character is somehow cobbled together from people you've known, but very little of the process is conscious. My main concerns were that it should be beautiful, that it should feel real, and that it shouldn't be too hard to understand. In this way, it was a lot like any other writing. I'd constantly have to be inventing new words and idioms, which could be time-consuming, but the basic nature of the task was the same.
Do you have training in anthropology or linguistics?
I have a layman's interest in anthropology, and I love to read about other cultures. But I also have to admit, some of my study of other cultures comes from reading science fiction; in my mind, the boundary between reading about Amazonian cultures and Aldebaran cultures is not that sharp. It's all about the different configurations that human societies could fall into, and to me, a plausible fiction is just as interesting as an implausible fact. As far as linguistics goes, I did a BA in Russian, and since then, I've studied a lot of languages to some degree. Since I'm not using these languages for anything practical, I never learn them very well. I'm mainly fascinated by exotic grammatical structures, so once I've learned the peculiarities of the grammar and syntax, I tend to abandon the language altogether.
In the book, there is a subtext of cultism, particularly concerning the Catholics in the guise of the Marias, and also of ethnic division and subjugation. How much of the current racial and religious climate played into creating this world?
The treatment of religion and racism in the book obviously has overtones from the current racial and religious climate. These kinds of echoes are inevitable, and they're part of the pleasure of writing such a book. Specifically, the Mariano religion is clearly a bit of a parody of Catholicism, and of the Christ story in general. I was inventing beliefs which serve the purposes of the societies they exist in... to function like real religions. In the political realm, the devout often use their religion as an excuse for doing what they want to do, where religion is a way of gaining and cementing power, although that doesn't mean people are being consciously cynical. The book is mainly about power, and religion is just one of the ways people exercise power over each other.
In the America of the book, everyone is black, so there are no "race relations." When white people do appear, there's no context for it. Even in Marias city, where there's a mythical belief in the perniciousness of whites which obviously derives from the past, when Marianos are confronted with a real-life white man, he's weird and exotic. There's distaste or amazement at the white man's bizarre appearance, and a suspicion that he might not really be human. But the real hostility only comes when it turns out the white people are not just funny-looking, but up to no good.
What's next on the project horizon?
My next project is a sequel to The Country of Ice Cream Star, which begins exactly where the first book leaves off. She still hasn't conquered the world yet, so she needed another book. --Nancy Powell, freelance writer and technical consultant
by Sandra Newman
Imagine the U.S. as a cultural hegemony in which nobody survives beyond adolescence and where religion and social Darwinism dictate public policy. In The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman has created such a world, painting a bold, linguistically adventurous dystopia of a black, Christian America.
At the center of the novel is Ice Cream Fifteen Star, a 15-year-old girl who lives in the Massa woods of the Nighted States and travels with a nomadic, scavenging tribe of children known as the Sengles. They are ruled by Driver Eighteen Star, Ice Cream's older brother. During a scavenging trip in an abandoned "Sleeper" town, they encounter and capture a Russian soldier named Pasha Roo, the first white man they have ever encountered. Driver develops signs of the plague-like infection called the "Posies," the same epidemic that has obliterated the white race and kills others before they reach the age of 20. Ice Cream realizes that the 30-something Pasha has survived beyond adolescence and entertains hopes of finding a cure. With Pasha's cooperation, Ice Cream fights to protect her people and the neighboring bands against the raping and pillaging Nat Mass Armies. She also wrestles with her role as the redeemer "Maria" in Marias City (the former New York City) after being kidnapped and forced into the part by a rival group bent on using their vision of Catholicism for political gain. Ultimately, Ice Cream must find a way to unite the disparate factions while negotiating the struggles of her own love life to survive against the encroaching Russian Federation.
The Country of Ice Cream Star is a singular work of storytelling that manages to be historically and politically compelling in its view of a future haunted by disease and death. Yet Newman manages to imbue her heroine with a hope and resiliency that will surpass the ravages of a woebegone time. --Nancy Powell, freelance writer and technical consultant
Discover: A dystopian odyssey of a young girl coming of age in the tradition of Riddley Walker and A Clockwork Orange.
Ecco, $26.99, hardcover, 9780062227096
A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
Family life never grows old in the hands of Anne Tyler, a master of domestic fiction who returns to familiar terrain in her 20th novel, A Spool of Blue Thread. This time around, Tyler (The Beginner's Goodbye) focuses on the Whitshank family of Baltimore, Md., launching the story with a call from wayward son Denny, who, at age 19, drops an attention-getting announcement on his parents, Abby and Red. He then hangs up and disappears from their lives--and the lives of his three siblings--for years.
Tyler characterizes the Whitshanks as "one of those enviable families that radiate clannishness and togetherness and just... specialness," and Denny "trailed around their edges like some sort of charity case." Years later, when the entire family--including Denny--finally reunites in Baltimore, stories of the past are retold when Abby and Red's future living arrangements are called into question.
The common thread binding the generational tapestry of the Whitshanks is the family home built by Red's father in the 1930s; the warm, inviting nature of the house comes to represent the family. In flashbacks, Tyler delves into the history of Red's parents and how Abby and Red met and married in 1950s. The stories of those who inhabited the residence deepen the meaning of the present-day predicament: with Abby and Red growing older and more infirm, the four disparate siblings and their spouses urge the couple to give up their bedrock, their beloved home, and make alternate living arrangements.
Abby and Red's decision will not only affect their lives, but the lives of their children--particularly the two sons who struggle to reconcile their distinct places in the fold. Tension builds as Tyler stitches together an intricate, insightful story about family history, memories, rivalries and long-held secrets. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Discover: A multi-generational saga about a tight-knit Baltimore family faced with the prospect of selling and dismantling a beloved house.
Knopf, $25.95, hardcover, 9781101874271
Some Here Among Us
by Peter Walker
Centered in Wellington, New Zealand, and the surrounding countryside, Peter Walker's Some Here Among Us is a quiet contemplation on the friendships between diverse characters who come of age during the late 1960s. Race, Candy, Chadwick, FitzGerald and Morgan (the only Maori in the group) protest the Vietnam War, smoke pot and experiment with sex as their friendships coalesce.
When Morgan, the group's true intellectual, dies in a mysterious manner, the rest are affected in ways that become clear only as they continue to grow older and move through the 20th century without him. Employing the viewpoints of all the characters, including Morgan, Walker subtly intertwines historic moments with the experiences of ordinary people who face the normal highs and lows associated with life: passionate love affairs that fail, marriage, the birth of children, advancing age and the aches, pains and dementia associated with it.
Walker's novel is not full of fast-paced action or suspense, but it demands attention as the lives of the characters unfold, revealing hidden thoughts, desires, disappointments and feelings each person has about the other protagonists. It's also an intimate look into the race and class differences in modern New Zealand. Some Here Among Us is Walker's U.S. fiction debut and provides a welcome addition to the arena of good literary fiction by writers from outside the U.S. --Lee E. Cart, freelance writer and book reviewer
Discover: A minimalist look at friendships that paints a vivid picture of the bonds forged early in life.
Bloomsbury, $27, hardcover, 9781620408421
The Scapegoat
by Sophia Nikolaidou, trans. by Karen Emmerich
by Sophia Nikolaidou
In 1948, during the Communist insurrection in Greece, a U.S. journalist is found murdered. To keep foreign aid flowing, the right-wing government prosecutes an innocent Greek. In 2011, at the height of the economic and political crisis brought on by austerity measures, a highly intelligent, disaffected student attempts to make sense of the incident. Inspired by the still-unsolved murder of American journalist George Polk and the recent financial crisis, The Scapegoat explores these two tense and troubled times.
In this first English translation of her work, Sophia Nikolaidou creates a compelling cast of characters. Manolis Gris is the eponymous scapegoat, who scrambled to provide for his siblings and mother after the death of his father and is railroaded for the alleged benefit of Greek society, and Minas Georgiou is the student frustrated with the high-stakes Panhellenic exams that will determine his future in a time when there may not be a future worth striving for. Nikolaidou's strong secondary characters include Soukiouroglou, an instructor who failed to obtain a university appointment and now serves as an enlightened despot in the classroom; Evthalia, a retired philologist who carries with her the weight of Ancient Greece; and the chilling Tzitzilis, the head of the Salonica Security Police. Tzitzilis could have haunted a Graham Greene thriller; he is willing to do the dirty work he deems necessary to preserve his community, including torturing the families of suspected communists.
The varied perspectives of these characters create a snapshot of lives in turmoil in a place of deep history and even deeper conflict. --Evan M. Anderson, collection development librarian, kirkendall Public Library, Ankeny, Iowa
Discover: A character-rich exploration of two major social crises in modern Greek history.
Melville House, $24.95, hardcover, 9781612193847
The Lost Treasures of R&B
by Nelson George
Filmmaker, producer, director and pop-music wizard Nelson George has worked with Spike Lee, Chris Rock and Queen Latifah. As a journalist he has written for Billboard, the Village Voice and many blogs. His acclaimed nonfiction books include profiles of Michael Jackson and Motown Records. His fiction, however, is less well known. After his inaugural 2003 novel, Night Work, about a black pop star called Night, George launched a New York City noir series featuring D Hunter, Brooklyn bodyguard to rapper VIPs. The first two, Accidental Hunter and The Plot Against Hip Hop, swing to the sounds of urban patois against a background of George's extensive knowledge of the players, songs and labels of the "post-soul" era.
In his third D Hunter novel, The Lost Treasures of R&B, George shifts focus to the history of R&B. Hunter is hired to find a rumored rare vinyl recording supposedly taped when rival Stax and Motown hitmakers Otis Redding and Diana Ross scatted together in the Detroit Fox Theater. Living with HIV and without family after his brothers' murders, D is further down on his luck because his Manhattan security company went bust. In desperate pursuit of his finder's fee, he stumbles on a gun sale gone bad, a corrupt Brooklyn cop and a white realtor bent on gentrifying Hunter's old 'hood. If the plot is pretty much typical noir double-crossing and misdirection, the wonderful sing-song street slang dialogue and esoteric industry knowledge make The Lost Treasures of R&B a richly entertaining addition to George's evolving series. --Bruce Jacobs, founding partner Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, Kan.
Discover: The third in a Brooklyn noir series by the prolific black-culture musicologist Nelson George.
Akashic, $24.95, hardcover, 9781617753411
by Tom Cooper
Tom Cooper's The Marauders is a wild pirogue ride through the post-Katrina, post-oil spill bayous of Barataria, outside New Orleans. His characters are the soul of this first novel, a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking "swamp noir" gumbo with echoes of John Kennedy Toole, Larry Brown and Daniel Woodrell.
The nets of small town Jeanette, La., shrimpers yield nothing but a meager stunted catch that restaurants don't want out of fear of toxic pollution. Cooper captures all the earthy smells and feral sub-strata of the bayou--the "quagmires of mud, impassable brambles, murky lagoons... the jungly bracken, the susurrus of swamp life... the alligators rumored to be a hundred years old and big as sedans." But as Cooper's colorful swamp dopers, shrimpers, drifters and scavengers chase their own treasures and quick scores, 18-year-old Wes Trench slowly moves toward reconciliation with his demanding father and a recognition of the small pleasures in a hardscrabble life. Accepting his legacy, he painstakingly builds his own steel and cypress shrimp boat.
Crazy as his neighbors might be, harsh as his father might seem, unforgiving as the bayous are, Wes finds that Barataria is the home where "he felt the tug of the future... the gravity of the past." When he finally launches the Cajun Gem, he thinks of his dead mother and hopes for her approval: "knowing himself and knowing his father... she probably would have considered it enough." Cooper's The Marauders is as grounded in the simple truth as it is awash in the outlandishly eccentric. --Bruce Jacobs, founding partner Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, Kan.
Discover: A funny, sympathetic story of colorful bayou shrimpers and miscreants imperiled by storms, oil spills and their own stubborn follies.
Crown, $26, hardcover, 9780804140560
The Beige Man
by Helene Tursten, trans. by Marlaine Delargy
by Helene Tursten
A stolen BMW blazes past two Swedish policemen grabbing a bite to eat and sets in motion a bizarre chain of events. As the officers take off in pursuit of the car, they see it slam into a pedestrian without stopping. The hit-and-run victim is mangled beyond recognition. Then, when the burned-out BMW is later found and officers search the area for the car thieves, they find the body of a young girl in an abandoned cellar. She was clearly malnourished and bears signs of sexual trauma.
Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the rest of the Göteborg police force are overwhelmed by the complicated cases. Who were the car thieves? Who is the victim of the hit-and-run? Who is the dead girl? Are sex traffickers involved? The questions lead Huss all the way to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and the answers shock her to her very core.
The Beige Man is the seventh entry in the Inspector Huss series, and once again Helene Tursten (The Fire Dance) creates engaging characters, a vivid Swedish setting, an absorbing mystery and a likable protagonist. The rather grim nature of the cases nicely contrasts with Huss's happy home life; her chef husband and twin daughters are friendly and entertaining.
Fans of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbø are sure to enjoy this novel, and though it's not the first book in the series, readers new to Tursten's work can enjoy it without any difficulty. --Jessica Howard, blogger at Quirky Bookworm
Discover: Swedish police officers must simultaneously investigate a murder and a hit-and-run.
Soho Crime, $26.95, hardcover, 9781616954000
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Judd Trichter
Eliot Lazar has fallen in love with an android. His father and younger sister died long ago, his mother moved to a communal island offshore and now his 'droid lover, Iris, has been abducted, dismembered and sold for parts. To get her back, he must find every single piece (arms, legs, fingers, torso, eyeballs...) or she will not be the same after reassembly.
Eliot journeys through a dystopian future Los Angeles, an Orpheus in search of his Eurydice. Iris was a free-roaming android who chose to become a toymaker. She expressed her imperfections when making toys, which eventually got her fired and desperate for electrical power to stay alive--a perfect mark for exploitation by 'bot hunters.
Her boyfriend must travel to brothels, android cities and even into the den of the famed android revolutionary, Lorca. His initial steps bring him into contact with DJ Pink, a sociopathic celebrity who films his grisly dismemberment of androids. Eliot stops the brutal death of another young android woman while looking for Iris's parts and ends up killing Pink, a crime that puts Eliot in the sights of an old-school detective who's not long for the world but still believes in justice.
Judd Trichter's debut, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, is about love, certainly, but it also addresses humanity's propensity for selfishness and prejudice, traits it has passed along to its mechanical children. This lyrical, musing novel is an engaging blend of romance, suspense, science fiction, action and the meaning of life. --Rob LeFebvre, freelance writer and editor
Discover: This poetic, thoughtful and engaging sci-fi novel tells of love and obsession with a background of androids and machine uprisings.
Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, hardcover, 9781250036025
The Unexpected Consequences of Love
by Jill Mansell
Romantic entanglements are Jill Mansell's specialty, and in The Unexpected Consequences of Love, she cleverly knits together several story threads spun from St. Carys, a fictional seaside town in Cornwall, England. She focuses on commercial photographer Sophie Wells, a young woman who plies her craft in earnest in order to put a painful romantic past behind her. When Josh Strachan moves back to town after a stint as a Hollywood talent agent to help his Grandma Dot run Mariscombe House, the family hotel, he is instantly smitten with Sophie, who is doing a photo shoot at the inn. Having sworn off romance, Sophie doesn't look twice at Josh, but this only encourages him to work harder to win her affections--and solve the mystery about her past.
Then Sophie's free-spirited best friend, Tula, loses her job and moves to St. Carys. She is instantly attracted to Josh, but another local, Riley--a ne'er-do-well and flirt--has eyes for Tula. Riley's not sure what it'll take to turn Tula's head, and matters grow even more complicated when Tula lands a job at Mariscombe House.
Mansell (Don't Want to Miss a Thing) has written another lively, engaging romance where an ensemble of characters--including Grandma Dot--have had their hearts wounded by the past and secrets. Each member of the cast is faced with the prospect of loving again—and the conflicts therein. Amid obstacles that challenge happy endings, Mansell introduces poignancy, humor and unexpected grace. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Discover: An entertaining cast of characters struggle to overcome obstacles to romance.
Sourcebooks Landmark, $14, paperback, 9781492602088
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I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet
by Leora Tanenbaum
In I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet, Leora Tanenbaum returns to the subject of her 1999 book Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation, updating her research on slut-shaming and name-calling to reflect the changes in the social and digital landscape over the last 16 years. She explores the differences between slut-bashing and slut-shaming, the myriad ways teens and young adults use the Internet and social media to shame young women and the ever-evolving ways that gender norms shape our images of sex, sexuality and sexual assault.
The information that fuels I Am Not a Slut is based as much on the dozens of interviews that Tanenbaum conducted with women and girls across the country--ranging in age and race and sexuality--as it is on quantitative data and scientific studies. The resulting arguments are all the stronger for the anecdotal evidence that accompanies them. In many instances, however, Tanenbaum uses absolutes, making claims about "every woman," "all men" or things that happen "always," which weaken her otherwise thoughtful arguments. She is at her strongest when dealing with double standards of sex and sexuality (how, for example, men are expected to have many sexual partners while women are criticized for exactly the same thing) and how the prevalence of slut-shaming amplifies a culture of victim-blaming. --Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
Discover: A wealth of new research on the culture of slut-shaming in the age of the Internet.
Harper Perennial, $15.99, paperback, 9780062282590
Red: A Crayon's Story
by Michael Hall
Michael Hall's (Perfect Square) smart, insightful coming-of-age story for youngest readers stars Red, a mislabeled crayon, who discovers his true self.
An unseen narrator wielding a pencil introduces the hero--"He was red"--above a crayon clearly marked "Red" but showing a pointy blue tip under its red wrappings. "But he wasn't very good at it," the pencil continues, as the blue fellow marked "Red" draws a blue fire engine (readers can tell from its ladders and hoses). "Oh dear," remarks Olive, whose wrappings match her name. Red's teacher thinks he "needed more practice," but his strawberries come out blue ("Oh my! Let's try again," says Scarlet). When his grandparents believe he's "not warm enough," Silver hands the hero a red scarf, but his self-portrait still comes out blue. Red's classmates have their theories: Amber says, "Sometimes I wonder if he's really red at all," and Hazelnut answers, "Don't be silly. It says red on his label." Hall's clever use of crayons as metaphors allows children to explore examples of situations where people may have been labeled by categories: by religion, race, culture or gender. The other crayons aren't critical of Red, just close-minded in their tireless efforts to aid in his conformity.
Youngest children will find humor in Red's attempts to match his label (he draws a series of blue hearts, cherries and foxes), and be pleased when he meets "Berry," who asks the hero to make an ocean for his boat, and helps Red discover, "I'm blue!" --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness
Discover: A fable for modern times, in which a mislabeled crayon discovers his true identity.
Greenwillow/Harper, $17.99, hardcover, 40p., ages 4-8, 9780062252074
A Wonderful Year
by Nick Bruel
A spunky and imaginative heroine takes young readers from winter to fall in Nick Bruel's (Bad Kitty) picture book, with the pacing and energy of a comic book.
A yawning girl dressed in purple opens her front door to a snow-covered wonderland in "Part One: Winter Wear." Her mother advises, "You better wear your boots." Her father suggests earmuffs. Though her parents don't appear again, the remaining characters who suggest additional winter wear do: a dog ("You'd better wear your snowpants"), a cat, Louise the purple hippo, a tree and refrigerator. "Now go outside and have fun!" they all shout from the doorway. By the time she's fully attired, the snow has melted and the trees are in full leaf. In "Spring Splendor," the girl sings the season's praises, dressed in a tutu and wielding a magic wand. She and her dog make "a happy duo,/ A jolly pair are we!" But their high-octane chanting and pretending (portrayed in a series of vertical panels) brings out the Bad Kitty in the family cat, attempting to nap under a tree. One of the most original comics panel sequences involves the heroine melting in "Summer Sidewalks." Louise the purple hippo figures out how to save her (hint: it involves the freezer).
The finale, "Fall Foliage," steers toward metafiction, as the girl reads this very book to the tree (introduced in the opening). Its leaves turn brown, then fall like chocolate flakes in Bruel's collage illustrations. A celebration for all seasons. --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness
Discover: A spunky heroine moves from winter to fall, in a tale with the pacing and energy of a comic book.
Roaring Brook/Macmillan, $17.99, hardcover, 40p., ages 4-8, 9781596436114
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Thursday Afterschool Special: Father-Son Bonding
Sam Page | March 17th 2016, 12:58 pm
In the weirdest baseball story in recent memory, White Sox first baseman Adam LaRoche has retired after the team asked that his son, 14-year-old Drake, not always be in the clubhouse. The Chicago Tribune wrote a story last season about how Drake LaRoche was practically the team's 26th member, hanging around during both home and road games. He even had his own locker:
The LaRoche father-son locker setup in the Sox's clubhouse at the Cell last year: pic.twitter.com/lvyZV21YOk
— Danny Ecker (@DannyEcker) March 16, 2016
White Sox president Ken Williams doesn't think his organization is being unreasonable. He gave a statement to Fox's Ken Rosenthal:
"I don't think he should be here 100 percent of the time - and he has been here 100 percent, every day, in the clubhouse. I said that I don't even think he should be here 50 percent of the time. Figure it out, somewhere in between.
"We all think his kid is a great young man. I just felt it should not be every day, that's all. You tell me, where in this country can you bring your child to work every day?
Williams has a point. And before you ask: Drake's parents have a special arrangement with his school in Kansas that allows him to take his homework with him on trips.
He is 36 years old and coming off a rough year, but LaRoche forfeits a $13 million salary by retiring. His teammates apparently support his stand, so this story seems far from over.
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Just a reminder that as you're reading this, one or more NCAA basketball tournament games are probably about to tip off. Check the schedule here. Arkansas Little-Rock plays at 4:30 ET, and Kid Reporter Dylan Goldman has written the case for them as this year's big bracket buster.
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Sportsfolk don't get the picture
Sports columnist
March 8, 2019 — 5.55pm
You’d think professional sportspeople, of all people, would know about cameras.
Sportsfolk literally are the most exposed cohort in our society, partly by choice, partly because of obligation, but entirely with their eyes open. Everywhere they go, they are tracked: on smart phones, laptops, CCTV cameras, dash-cams, handi-cams, spider-cams. At home, at work, in cars, in blues, in bars. By amateurs and pros and drones and probably satellites, too.
Jim Pavlidis illustration. Credit:The Age
Cameras follow players to matches, into changerooms, onto the ground, leaving no angle unturned. A dozen cameras train on footballers at play, two dozen at the cricket. Cameron Bancroft now can tell you line-of-sight location of every one, and that’s before we get to the microphones. He’s Cam, after all. Cameras trail sportspeople off, to the locker-room, to the coach’s room, not yet to the showers, though it can only be a matter of time. Dick-cam anyone? You think I joke, but vulgar is the new black, low the new go.
They’re filmed at training, by their own club – in high-res, slow-mo – and the opposition, and media, and fans. They don’t sign autographs any more, they do selfies (and at the tennis, sign cameras). They’re filmed at the club and away from it, at work and at rest, on their days off, surfing or golfing or cooking. They pose for ads, for promos, for affectedly casual docos, for the hell of it. They’re filmed arthroscopically, down the esophagus, too.
Everywhere they look, there’s a camera, looking right back. Traffic lights, bike helmets, studios, security posts, all over every airport, fitting rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms, and if there’s not yet one in every sacristy, there should be.
Everyone’s a film-maker now, everyone a publisher. Big brother is watching, and everyone is big brother, and everyone is watching big brother. It’s gotten so that a footballer can barely snort an innocent line of coke or nuzzle into an amenable passing cleavage without it going straight to the internet. The internet is the new poolroom, where the trophies go.
You imagine that it all feels like a reality show, which is to say anything but real. I’m a sportsman: how did I get in here? Every turned corner is a new stage, everyone and thing on it a prop. Every mid-profile athlete is Truman, dimly aware that reality is not reality, but what is it? It can only be a media opp, another two-shot.
Everyone snaps sportspeople and puts them on social media. Sportspeople snap one another and put their snaps on social media. Clubs and managers once encouraged this, for brand’s sake, but less so now, seeing the monster they’ve created. You’d swear some footballers are contracted per tattooed square centimetre, others per post and tweet.
But as they create an image, they leave an impression, and it cannot be un-left. Once it’s out there on the net, it’s as immovable and non-biodegradable as a certain ancient footballer’s face. It’s cockroach durable. It’s nuclear-proof. It’s ... footage.
Sports people cannot but beware of this, because it is their whole consciousness. But maybe it’s become the wood obscured by the trees. How else to explain why some sportsmen, knowing what they know, insist on uploading footage of themselves having sex, humiliating women who were not asked and are mortified by this dissemination? Rugby league admits it has a problem. In the way of these things, AFL won’t be far behind. It’s only some, but even some is dumb. Do they think that everything is a show? Do they think?
Let’s be honest. Sex is hardly new, nor for some its digitalisation, nor an element of boasting. Once, the boast was enough, with the added benefit that you did not have to have done it. Now some do it for the camera’s benefit, and the virtual audience, in this 24/7 camera show. They do it and prove it.
Cameras celebrate, cameras incriminate. Evidently, still no warning flash penetrates their CTE-coated brain. They don’t know real from unreal. They don’t worry about it getting out, they wish for it to get out. They don’t distinguish between damage to themselves, which is merely stupid, and damage to innocent others, which is criminal. They don’t distinguish between International Womens Day and International Blow-up Doll Day. They don’t dwell that much on the difference between a sex partner and a selfie stick.
You’d think that in 2019, a sportsperson would think twice.
You’d think that once should be enough.
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Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age.
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More paedophilia tweets from Elon Musk - a libel suit is on the way
San Francisco: Another day, another Elon Musk Twitter kerfuffle.
The Tesla CEO has again made implications about a rescue diver who once criticised him.
Elon Musk returned to the controversial - and some would say, counterproductive - topic on Tuesday night, launching a new round of tweets implying that the cave rescuer he accused of being a paedophile might actually be one.
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk Credit:Bloomberg
On Wednesday, a lawyer said he had sent Musk a letter threatening legal action and that he's in the process of filing a libel suit against Musk on behalf of Vernon Unsworth, a diver instrumental in rescuing Thai children trapped in a cave in July.
"You published three different tweets to your twenty-two million followers that Mr Unsworth engages in the sexual exploitation of Thai children, and you did so at a time when he was working to save the lives of twelve Thai children," Unsworth attorney L. Lin Wood of Atlanta wrote in the letter.
The letter, which Wood said was sent to Musk's Bel-Air home, said the lawyer is "in the process of preparing a civil complaint for libel against you."
Musk has a reputation for going pugilistic on Twitter and investors have repeatedly asked him to cool it. The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating an August 7 tweet in which Musk claimed he had "funding secured" to take Tesla public; it turned out that he had not.
At least one Tesla investor - Ross Gerber of Santa Monica investment firm Gerber Kawasaki - said Wednesday that he's getting tired of Musk's antics.
"I'm pissed off," Gerber said in an email.
Musk called Unsworth "pedo guy" in a July tweet, after the diver criticised Musk's plan to rescue the children with a miniature submarine. On Tuesday, Musk responded to a Twitter user named Drew, who goes by @yoda.
"You don't think it's strange he hasn't sued me?" Musk tweeted back. "He was offered free legal services..."
"Did you investigate at all? I'm guessing the answer is no." Musk said in a continued back and forth.
Attorney Wood chimed in on the same thread Wednesday saying "@elonmusk should check his mail before tweeting."
Asked whether Musk had received Wood's letter, or whether the company had anything to say about Musk's habit of kicking up controversy on his Twitter account, a Tesla spokeswoman said by email, "No further comment on this..."
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America in Color:
How Henry Ford Went from Pacifist to Major Supplier of WWI
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Henry Ford spent the majority of the war as a pacifist. By 1917, however, his state-of-the-art assembly line was churning out vital engine parts to feed the war machine.
America is still a rural nation in 1910. Most homes don't have electricity, and less than one percent of the population owns a car. But that changes with the rise of Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison, who help foster the economic and technological booms of the early 20th century. Through colorized archival footage and personal home movies, explore the business relationships that transformed America and glimpse into powerful friendships that lasted a lifetime.
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Santa Monica Observer - Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
2016: Another Fatal Year for Elephants
No day goes by without dozens of elephants being killed by poachers
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2016 was another fatal year for elephants.
Elephants continued to be slaughtered for their ivory this year.
More than 18 tons of illegal ivory, plus 949 elephant tusks and more than 3,000 pieces were reportedly seized in 2016, with at least 15 large seizures in excess of 500 kilograms. Most large shipments were intercepted in Vietnam, although huge amounts were also found in Malaysia, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Spain, Austria and Germany.
"It is a sad fact that practically no day goes by without dozens of elephants being killed by poachers and every single week this year enforcers discovered illegal ivory somewhere in the world," said Rikkert Reijnen, Director of the Wildlife Trade Program for International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). "And this is just the tip of the iceberg as only a small fraction of the illegal ivory on the market is being intercepted."
A new study was published in August: the Great Elephant Census. It was the first-ever continent-wide survey of African savannah elephants that was conducted over two years. The results shocked conservationists worldwide, as it shows that elephants populations declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014 – this equals 144,000 elephants! The current rate of decline is 8 percent per year, primarily due to poaching. If the current trend continues, we could see the population down to 160,000 by 2025.
"Elephants have reached the tipping point and the next five years are critical if we want to turn this around," said Reijnen. "A lot has been done in 2016 to stop the crisis, but it is not enough, if we want future generations to see elephants roam the savannah rather than just read about them in books about species long gone."
This year has seen some important changes in wildlife-trade legislation. France, China and the USA announced stricter ivory trade regulations and the EU introduced an action plan against wildlife trafficking. During the CITES-conference (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) several decisions were taken to improve the protection of elephants from international trade.
IFAW is advocating for a complete ban on international ivory trade, the closure of domestic ivory markets and the destruction of ivory stockpiles.
IFAW is working with international organizations such as INTERPOL and law enforcement bodies to combat wildlife and environmental crime. In collaboration with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), IFAW started a pilot project in Kenya called tenBoma that uses the newest data technology to enable rangers and enforcers to stop poachers before they kill. In consumer countries like China, IFAW is raising awareness to stop people from buying wildlife products and conducting trainings to equip enforcers with the necessary expertise to detect illegal wildlife products.
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The Soap Factory is a laboratory for artistic experimentation and innovation, dedicated to supporting artists and engaging audiences through the production and presentation of contemporary art in a unique and historic environment.
Based in the historic National Purity Soap Factory in downtown Minneapolis, The Soap Factory is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The Soap Factory was founded in 1988 by a small group of artists as one of the first venues in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul devoted to emerging visual art.
Originally called No Name Gallery, then No Name Exhibitions, our nonprofit has filled a crucial niche in the vital regional arts community by providing a supportive exhibition environment for artists at the beginning of their careers. For 30 years, we’ve helped artists explore new genres of expression.
The Soap Factory supports the work of over 100 artists and more than 10,000 visitors attend opening nights, tour exhibitions, and participate in our events every year. Our programs are artist-centered yet accessible, and offer a visceral experience of art and the life of the artist.
The gallery is now located in the former National Purity Soap Company building, acquiring through an open RFP from Pillsbury in 1995. This historic 130-year-old, 52,000-square-foot wood and brick warehouse is located along the riverfront near the birthplace of Minneapolis. The Soap Factory is the largest independent contemporary art gallery in Minneapolis-St Paul, and one of the largest devoted to emerging practice in the USA. Our authentically “raw” space serves as a unique showcase for sculpture, installation, painting, performance, theater, dance, photography, film, and video.
With a focus on catalytic experimentation, artistic rigor and fearless programming, The Soap Factory seeks to authentically engage locally while fostering an artist-centric ecosystem that cultivates the creative process across global communities.
We strive to propel artists forward through funding, career development, global partnerships, working studios, and exhibition spaces that inspire large scale ideas and encourages interdisciplinary dialogue. In support of these efforts, we offer a skilled staff to help artists realize new work and bring it to a larger audience. We believe that our artists have something compelling to add to the conversation and deserve to be apart of a larger, global dialogue; and we believe our opportunities position artists to continue working beyond their Soap Factory exhibitions and residency experiences.
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University of the West Scotland deploys student analytics to drive student attainment.
Learning Analytics has been clearly identified by industry leading specialists such as Gartner, as a way for Institutions to improve Student Attaintment, Retention and Progression.
Students have more choice than ever when it comes to choosing where they attend University. Increasingly, students now consider campus and IT facilities, links with local companies and the likelihood of them securing employment post-graduation, before they select their preferred institution. It’s never been more important for universities to impress students and remain competitive.
As part of a major transformation, UWS chose StREAM to measure usage of campus resources and systems and really understand the factors which affect student success, all geared towards its strategy of “dreaming, believing, achieving”.
Delivered as both a desktop and mobile app, StREAM allows UWS’s students to understand how they are engaging with the university across an array of physical and virtual campus resources and systems. Success metrics have been correlated with activity data to determine what ‘good’ looks like which not only allows the student to take more control of their learning, but also enables tutors to more effectively guide and help students by intervening when a student might deviate from tested pathways. The university now gains valuable insight that helps them provide focused support to their students to drive attainment and reduce attrition.
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) at UWS comments, “Solutionpath were able to offer us a production ready system, which gives a rapid time to insight and in turn this will help us work more effectively with the data around student engagement. The system gives us real-time data which allows for real time action.”
The University will gain really valuable insights that will help them provide focused support to their students to drive attainment and reduce attrition.”
If you would like to hear more about how Solutionpath are helping universities make the most of their data, or would like a guided tour of the StREAM software, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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A Word from Mr Chippington
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The School occupies two sites, Byron House and Senior House, some 200 yards apart, across Grange Road from the extensive playing fields owned by and shared with St John's College. At Byron House, the Junior Department houses approximately 120 pupils (about 40 per year in two co-educational classes) aged 4-6. It is also home to about 120 pupils (in three co-educational classes per year) in the 7-8 age range. The Senior House site houses boys and girls aged 9 - 13 (approximately 220 pupils in all).
Byron House provides outstanding facilities for 4-9 year olds, including specialist Music, DT, ICT facilities, a Junior Library, Drama/Assembly Room, a Hall/Stage/Dining Room/Gymnasium, Individual and Small Group Teaching rooms. The interior spaces at Byron House have also been completely redesigned, offering bright, spacious classrooms and a new large learning space for child-initiated learning and digital learning.
Senior House contains specialist facilities such as the Chapel, Theatre, Gymnasium, Science Laboratories, Library, DT Room, Art Room, ICT Rooms, Swimming Pool and Music School. The whole school has been networked as part of an ICT development plan which has, for some years, placed St John’s at the forefront in this area. The Senior House site has been completely redeveloped. New classrooms, an outstanding library, a new DT and computer control and graphics facility, two new Science labs, a new Drama studio, new Music facilities, a new multi-sports court and excellent staff facilities are now in place.
A new boarding house is a short walk away from Senior House and accommodates up to 40 boys and girls, twenty of whom are the Choristers.
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Aviators hit six home runs, pound Bees 13-3
By The Salt Lake Tribune
The Las Vegas Aviators belted six home runs en route to a 13-3 rout of the visiting Salt Lake Bees on Thursday night.
Salt Lake starter JC Ramirez, who was making his seventh Major League rehab assignment start from the Angels, surrendered four of the home runs, including back-to-back homers in the first inning that gave Las Vegas a 3-0 lead.
The Bees pulled to within one run with a run in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Ty Kelly and a solo homer by Jose Rojas, his 18th of the season, in the third. The Aviators scored 10 runs from the fourth to the seventh to put the game out of reach. Salt Lake added a run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Kaleb Cowart.
Ramirez (1-2) went five innings and allowed seven runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and two walks. Salt Lake did have two sacrifice flies, but went 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position. Rojas led the Bees with two hits, including a home run, and one run batted in to extend his hitting streak to seven games, while Brennon Lund added two hits, one of which was a double.
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Scott Stapp - The Space Between The Shadows (CD)
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Third solo album from the Grammy winning songwriter and frontman for Creed [over 50 million albums sold worldwide]. Stapp previously released the platinum-certified The Great Divide [2005] and Proof of Life [2013] which included his first solo Billboard #1, “Slow Suicide.” His first album in six years, The Space Between The Shadows, will be released July 19, 2019 and is powered by Stapp’s introspective lyrics and the pitch-perfect delivery that has consistently brought anthems of gratitude and optimism to music’s darker side.
1. World I Used To Know
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3. Purpose for Pain
4. Heaven in Me
5. Survivor Side
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7. Face of the Sun Side
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#LongPlayLove: Celebrating 20 Years of Tricky’s ‘Maxinquaye’ [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
By Justin Chadwick | @justin_chadwick
Happy 20th Anniversary to Trickys debut album Maxinquaye, originally released February 20, 1995.
In the summer of 1998, I travelled to and fell madly in love with England for the first time. While I spent most of my time discovering as much of London as I could in an all-too-short weeks time, I also had the pleasure of roadtripping it to a handful of lovely towns beyond the capital. Bath, Brighton, and York were some of the more memorable cities I visited, and I even made it up to Edinburgh, Scotland, which I enjoyed very much. And while each of these places satisfied whatever touristy urges I was feeling at the time, one town I visited had particularly special appeal for me: Bristol.
Located roughly 120 miles due west of London, Bristol is a historically vital, economically prosperous seaport with an ethnically diverse population north of 400,000, making it Englands sixth largest city. More importantly, for me, Bristol is the creative and spiritual birthplace of one of the most thrilling music movements of the past 25 years: trip-hop. At the risk of genre oversimplification, trip-hop represents the musical style that developed in the early-to-mid 1990s, predicated upon the confluence of electronic, hip-hop, dub, bass, R&B, funk and jazz music, among other sonic inspirations. Trip-hop attained both critical and commercial success globally, due in large part to the dynamic trio of Bristol-bred artists that originally developed the aptly-named Bristol Sound: Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky. And the subject of todays post is the latter.
In the mid 1980s, aspiring rapper Adrian Tricky Thaws joined the now-legendary Bristol sound system collective The Wild Bunch, who would later morph into Massive Attack. Trickys association with the group would serve as his career launching pad, as they featured his signature raspy vocals and haunting lyrics on the title track of their landmark 1991 debut album Blue Lines, as well as two songs Karmacoma and Eurochild from their 1994 follow-up LP Protection. No longer content to perform as a secondary contributor within someone elses spotlight, Tricky ultimately abandoned his collaborative work with Massive Attack to devote his creative restlessness and passions toward crafting his debut solo album.
Maxinquaye a homage in name to Trickys late mother Maxine Quaye more than delivered upon the promise that had been manifest in his previous supporting roles, and heralded the proper arrival of a wickedly talented voice and musical visionary. A gritty, intoxicating, and inventive head-rush of an album, the Mercury Prize-nominated Maxinquaye confirms that Trickys musical imagination is more vivid than the vast majority of artists working today. While it is primarily indebted to hip-hop, the album blends multiple styles including ambient, dub, reggae, and rock, making it damn near impossible to pigeonhole, and thankfully so. The twelve songs are dominated by atmospheric, chilled-out fare that sound like the most beautifully dark and twisted lullabies youll ever dream of hearing. And a few propulsive, beat-driven compositions are incorporated throughout to ensure a more balanced, monotony-free listening experience, overall.
What ultimately makes Maxinquaye so unforgettable is that it is an album of marked contrasts that play off of each other to extraordinary effect. The most striking example of this is the intriguing juxtaposition of featured vocalist Martina Topley-Birds freshly alluring voice with Trickys substantially less polished, unabashedly raw wordplay. In theory, the combination of such antithetical vocal styles shouldnt engender such an enchanting sound. But it most certainly does here. Presumably well aware of the vocal gold he had to work with in recording the album, Tricky actually defers much of the spotlight to Topley-Bird, whose not-so-secret weapon of a voice features on the majority of the songs and very nearly steals the show, single-handedly. And though she contributes to just one song (Pumpkin,), Alison Goldfrapp also thoroughly dominates the proceeding with her vocal prowess, which would find universal acclaim in its own right five years later with the release of Goldfrapps debut LP Felt Mountain.
In addition to its seemingly incongruous vocal pairings, Maxinquayes duality is further manifested in its sonic inspirations. It sounds very much like a futuristic record, and remarkably so, considering that it borrows so heavily from the classic soul and hip-hop that predates it. Samples abound throughout the album, most notably on Brand New Youre Retro (Michael Jacksons Bad), Aftermath (Marvin Gayes Thats the Way Love Is), Feed Me (KRS-Ones Sound of Da Police), and Hell is Around the Corner (Isaac Hayes Ikes Rap II, which was also lifted by Portishead on their Glory Box single). The key to making this dichotomy between old and new work so effectively is Trickys commitment to constructing these songs as distinctively original compositions, as opposed to the lazily recycled rehashes of already-proven songs that producers of lesser ambition often lean on. Black Steel, a cover of Public Enemys classic prison-break anthem Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, is the prime example of Trickys originality. Aside from staying true to Chuck Ds lyrics (sung by Topley-Bird here), the songs mix of propulsive drums and guitars sounds nothing like PEs version, further affirming the albums pure ingenuity.
Tricky has recorded nine albums since Maxinquaye, and with each subsequent recording, he has gradually abandoned the more subdued approach of his debut, in favor of more rugged, harder-hitting sounds. So Maxinquaye represents a bit of an anomaly and a brilliant one when considering his catalog as a whole. Its a fantastic record that requires repeated, focused listens (headphones highly recommended) to fully understand and appreciate its genius. Along with Massive Attacks Blue Lines and Portisheads Dummy, Maxinquaye completes the triumvirate of quintessential trip-hop records, which collectively define the Bristol Sound that many would attempt and fail to replicate time and time again.
My Favorite Song: Aftermath
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Vineland Municipal Electric Utility enhances energy security, reliability and grid modernization with SourceOne’s expertise
VINELAND, N.J., Oct. 9, 2014 — SourceOne, a nationally recognized energy services firm managed by Veolia North America, is serving as Owner’s Representative for the design and implementation of a state-of-the-art Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for the Vineland Municipal Electric Utility (VMEU). As part of the SCADA project, SourceOne will help implement an improved control system enabling VMEU to more effectively monitor its critical energy infrastructure, improve overall system reliability and troubleshoot system errors remotely. The new SCADA system will also easily enable expansion of the energy system as Vineland’s needs and demands grow.
Energy Savings Performance Contract managed by SourceOne helps The Dimock Center generate an estimated $150,000 in annual savings while meeting heating needs
BOSTON, Sept. 25, 2014 — SourceOne, a nationally recognized energy management firm managed by Veolia North America, today announced the completion of a boiler decentralization project for The Dimock Center, a non-profit community health and human services organization located in Roxbury, Mass. As owner’s representative for this Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC), SourceOne managed the full design and construction phases for the replacement of the existing central steam plant with distributed boilers. The Dimock Center benefits from guaranteed savings valued at $150,000 per year, greater energy efficiencies and improved occupant comfort. SourceOne completed the project ahead of schedule and significantly under budget, achieving a 30 percent reduction in capital costs.
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Vote for your April DeVines Player of the Month
Cast your vote for Blues' Player of the Month for April
Southend United are asking supporters to vote for their DeVines Player of the Month for April.
The nominations are:
• Dan Bentley
• Ryan Leonard
• Adam Barrett
First up for consideration is keeper, Dan Bentley. The keeper made a string of fine saves in the month of April and arguably gave one of his best performances in a Blues shirt in the game against Walsall; most notably a triple save at the end of the first half.
Ryan Leonard is next up for nomination, and the Southend midfielder has slotted back into the team well since recovering from a medial knee ligament injury. Leonard made his first start since February in the draw against Fleetwood Town and hasn’t looked back since.
Adam Barrett has been at the centre of the Blues back-line for all of April. The defender has captained the side throughout the month, and helped begin the Fleetwood fightback with a well-guided header.
To vote for your Player of the Month, please visit Southend United’s official Twitter account @SUFCRootsHall
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Water Escapes a Warm Planet — Will Earth Become Like Mars?
2015-07-02T05:51:47Z Search for Life
Sunlight falls on Earth's oceans.
(Image: © Discovery)
This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
We already knew about Venus. We had our suspicions about Mars. Now we’re sure.
Our two closest solar system neighbors once had oceans – planet-encircling, globe-girdling, Earth-like oceans. But waterbearing planets are fragile. Venus didn’t have the right stuff and lost her oceans to space. We have the smoking gun. And now we know that Mars, also, poor Mars, couldn’t hold on. Mars has lost to space at least 80% of all the water it once had.
Et tu, Earth? What about you? More to the point, what about us? Despite water’s apparent abundance, what does the future hold for the most precious material on our planet? Will we find a way to mistreat our reserve of irreplaceable water and turn our planet into a planetary desert, like our neighbors Venus and Mars? Kick the temperature up a few more notches, thanks to a runaway greenhouse effect, and the ultimate consequence of global warming could be ejecting the water from our planet.
Water on the atomic level
Let’s try our hand at interplanetary forensics. First, let me introduce you to the atomic constituents of that substance chemists call H2O, which most of us more commonly know as water. The H represents the atom hydrogen. The O represents the atom oxygen. The number two after the letter H tells us that a single molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
In order to enter the world of CSI: Solar System, we need to understand the structure of atoms in a bit more detail. Hydrogen is hydrogen because its nucleus has one positively charged proton, which is orbited by one negatively charged electron. The nucleus, however, can also include one neutron, which lacks a charge. Even with one neutron, the atom still has a positive charge in the nucleus of +1. It’s therefore still hydrogen, but with one critical difference: it is much heavier, about twice as heavy, in fact, thanks to the additional neutron.
Chemists call this kind of heavy hydrogen deuterium. Deuterium behaves identically in chemical reactions to regular hydrogen; it’s just heavier. Remember that H2O molecule? When made with a deuterium atom, it’s an HDO molecule. It would taste the same, and it would provide the same sustenance to your flowers and gerbils, but it would weigh more.
That extra weight makes all the difference, because Isaac Newton’s and Albert Einstein’s unavoidable law of gravity says that deuterium is pulled downward toward the surface of a planet much more strongly than is regular hydrogen. When deuterium and regular hydrogen are both free to bounce around in a planet’s atmosphere, the regular hydrogen will bounce much higher. And if the planet’s gravity is weak enough – which is the case for Earth, Venus and Mars – regular hydrogen can bounce so high that it can escape into space, whereas the deuterium remains forever bound by gravity to the planet.
Galileo’s probe lasted less than an hour before being destroyed by Jupiter’s atmosphere.
(Image credit: NASA, CC BY)
A base-level ratio for the solar system
In 1995, NASA’s Galileo probe measured the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium in the atmosphere of the giant planet Jupiter and found that ratio to be about 40,000-to-1.
Jupiter is such a massive planet that neither hydrogen nor deuterium can escape. Consequently, planetary scientists are quite certain that all the materials involved in the mixture of gases and dust that formed the sun and all the planets in our solar system formed with the same ratio of hydrogen to deuterium as the Galileo probe found for Jupiter’s atmosphere. We take it as a given that all the water originally deposited on Venus, on Earth, and on Mars also had that same ratio of hydrogen to deuterium.
Now let’s do some chemistry. If I wanted to make 20,000 water molecules, I would need a total of 40,000 hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) atoms (of which 39,999 would be H and 1 would be D), plus, of course, 20,000 oxygen (O) atoms. In my mixture of 20,000 water molecules, I would be able to make 19,999 H2O molecules and one HDO molecule, given my initial ratio of hydrogen to deuterium atoms.
The real H-to-D ratios
In a cup of water scooped from any part of any of Earth’s oceans, in any local freshwater pond from any continent, in any cup of tea in any city, in an Alpine glacier or a hot spring in Yellowstone, the hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio is 6,250-to-1, not 40,000-to-1.
Why so low? The evidence suggests that early in Earth’s history, our planet lost a great deal of hydrogen (but not deuterium). As the hydrogen atoms escaped to space, the H-to-D ratio would have dropped from 40,000-to-1 to only 6,250-to-1. In fact, the Earth may have lost as much as 80% of its original population of hydrogen atoms, and since, on Earth, most hydrogen atoms are bound into water molecules, the loss of hydrogen atoms is likely equivalent to the loss of water.
An atmospheric probe descends through the Venusian cloud deck.
(Image credit: Ames Research Center and Hughes Aircraft Company, CC BY)
NASA’s Pioneer Venus spacecraft, way back in 1978, dropped a probe that parachuted into and measured the properties of Venus’ atmosphere. One of its shocking discoveries was that the hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio on Venus is only 62-to-1, fully 100 times smaller than the ratio on Earth.
The clear implication of this discovery is that Venus was once wet but is now bone-dry. Venus, as we now know, has a surface temperature of 867 Fahrenheit (463 Celsius). Venus once had oceans, but Venus warmed up and the oceans boiled off the surface. Then ultraviolet light from the sun split the water molecules apart into their constituent atoms. As a result, the lighter hydrogen atoms bubbled up to the top of the atmosphere and escaped into space, while the heavier deuterium atoms were trapped by Venus’ gravitational pull. The hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio in Venus' atmosphere is the crucial clue that provides the evidence for what happened a billion or more years ago on Venus.
Mars looks pretty dry now, but mineral veins were deposited by fluids moving through rock.
Now, in research just published in Science this spring, a team of scientists led by G L Villanueva of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has used powerful telescopes on Earth to map water (H2O) and its deuterated form (HDO) across the surface of Mars. They’ve confirmed the results obtained by NASA’s Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory in 2013 that the hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio on Mars is smaller by a factor of about 7 compared to that on Earth. This measurement tells us that Mars, like Venus, has lost lots of hydrogen, which means Mars, like Venus, has lost lots of its water.
The total amount of water identified in all currently existing water reservoirs on Mars (the ice caps – which have some water but are mostly frozen carbon dioxide; atmospheric water; ice-rich regolith layer; near-surface deposits) would generate a global ocean about 21 meters (68 feet) deep. The deuterium measurements tell us that Mars once had about seven times more water, enough water to create an ocean that would have covered the entire planet to a depth of at least 137 meters (445 feet). The evidence is now clear: Mars has lost at least 85% of the water it once had. (And that estimate assumes the Earth has not lost any of its water; if the Earth also has lost 80% of its original water reservoir, then Mars has lost 97% of its original water reservoir.)
Is Venus' present Earth’s future?
(Image credit: Magellan Project, JPL, NASA, CC BY)
Whither goest Venus and Mars….
Venus and Mars. Mars and Venus. Planetary scientists know that both planets were wet and Earth-like in the beginning; they also know that neither Venus nor Mars could hold onto their water for long enough to nurture advanced life forms until they could flourish. The lessons from Venus and Mars are clear and simple: water worlds are delicate and fragile. Water worlds that can survive the ravages of aging, whether natural or inflicted by their inhabitants – and can nurture and sustain life over the long term – are rare and precious.
If we allow the temperature of our planet to rise a degree or two, we may survive it as a minor environmental catastrophe. But beyond a few degrees, do we know the point at which global warming sends our atmosphere into a runaway death spiral, turning Earth into Venus? We know what the endgame looks like.
David A Weintraub is Professor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University.
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Universal Orlando Tickets Review
Posted: May 8th, 2019
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UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT REVEALS ITS MOST LIFE-LIKE ANIMATED FIGURE EVER, HAGRID, FEATURED IN ALL-NEW EXPERIENCE, HAGRID’S MAGICAL CREATURES MOTORBIKE ADVENTURE
Guests Will Encounter One of the Most Beloved Characters From the Harry Potter Film Series in a Whole New Way as Part of the Epic New Addition to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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Orlando, Fla. (May 6, 2019) – Universal Orlando Resort has created its most life-like animated figure for the most highly themed, immersive coaster experience yet, Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure – opening June 13. And it’s none other than Hogwarts gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures professor himself – Hagrid.
Guests will come face-to-face with Hagrid during their journey as his hyper-realistic animated figure tries to contain his beloved Blast-Ended Skrewt. The gentle half-giant will guide guests through their adventure into the Forbidden Forest as they encounter some of the wizarding world’s rarest magical creatures.
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure and Hagrid’s animated figure are being brought to life by Universal Creative, the team responsible for creating Universal’s iconic rides and attractions. The team spent thousands of hours creating Hagrid’s animated figure with a level of detail that has never been done before, working alongside actor Robbie Coltrane - who portrays Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series – to develop the most advanced and realistic animated figure of its kind.
No details were spared when precisely replicating Hagrid for this new experience. Every detail about Hagrid is authentic to what has been featured in the Harry Potter film series – all the way down to his iconic pink umbrella.
The animated figure features an extensive motion profile of 24 different body movements and facial expressions, mimicking Robbie Coltrane’s exact motions as Hagrid from the Harry Potter film series
A digital scan of Robbie Coltrane’s mouth was used to create Hagrid’s teeth
Hagrid’s entire face was meticulously sculpted by hand
Hagrid’s costume was designed by the same team that created his on-screen wardrobe
Robbie Coltrane recorded a custom script for Hagrid in this new adventure
And the height of the animated figure is 7 feet 6 inches tall – exactly proportional to Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
“Hagrid is such an iconic character and an integral part of the Harry Potter franchise, so we were excited to develop a truly innovative and authentic animated figure to bring him to life for this experience,” said Thierry Coup, Senior Vice President of Universal Creative. “We worked tirelessly to make sure Hagrid’s full essence was captured with the utmost attention to detail for our guests to feel completely immersed in this all-new adventure.”
When it opens on June 13, 2019, Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will join the lineup of award-winning entertainment experiences in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort and bring an all-new adventure inspired by J.K. Rowling’s beloved stories to life. Guests will fly deep into the Forbidden Forest aboard magical motorbikes to brave the mysteries and thrills beyond the grounds of Hogwarts castle. Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will be located in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. For more information on this new experience, visit www.UniversalOrlando.com.
About Wizarding World
More than two decades ago, a young Harry Potter was whisked onto Platform 93⁄4 at King’s Cross Station, and readers everywhere were swept along with him into a magical universe, created by J.K. Rowling. In the years since, the seven Harry Potter bestsellers have inspired eight blockbuster movies, an award-winning stage play, and, more recently, the start of the Fantastic Beasts five-film series. People of all ages have been enthralled by these extraordinary adventures, set within an expanding universe, inspired by the vision of J.K. Rowling.
For today’s growing worldwide fan community, and for generations to come, the Wizarding World welcomes everyone to explore more of this magical universe — past, present and future. The Wizarding World also provides fans with an instant, trusted kite-mark of quality and authenticity.
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Universal Orlando Resort is a unique vacation destination that is part of the NBCUniversal Comcast family. For more than 25 years, Universal Orlando has been creating epic vacations for the entire family – incredible experiences that place guests in the heart of powerful stories and adventures.
Universal Orlando’s three theme parks, Universal Studios Florida, Universal’s Islands of Adventure and Universal’s Volcano Bay, are home to some of the world’s most exciting and innovative theme park experiences – including The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley. Universal Orlando’s hotels are destinations unto themselves and include Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, the Hard Rock Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort, Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort, and Universal’s Aventura Hotel. Its entertainment complex, Universal CityWalk, offers immersive dining and entertainment for every member of the family.
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A Taste of Apulia (Guided Tour)
Take a chauffeur driven tour of Puglia and Basilicata, steeped in Etruscan and Greek sites. You will have the expert guidance of official guides in Lecce and Matera (nominated as the Capital of Culture for 2019) and experience some of the most interesting historic towns and villages in Puglia including Alberobello Locorotondo, Cisternino, Ostuni and Lecce.
Arrive at Bari airport, meet and greet by your personal driver and transfer to your hotel in Alberobello.
Alberobello is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to a dense concentration of Trulli limestone cottages with cone-shaped roofs built between the mid 15th and late 18th centuries. It is one of the best preserved urban areas of its type in Europe. Overnight stay at Grand Hotel Olimpo, Alberobello.
Overnight at the Grand Hotel Olimpo.
Trulli houses, Alberollo
Day 2 - Matera (Half Day)
After breakfast, pick up from your hotel and depart for Matera (c.70 minutes’ drive / 70.3km), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town centre, the oldest part of town, was built on the edge of a bare plateau where a high rocky mount looms over the spot where a valley descends to the long deep river-ravine. This is where you will find the cathedral and the typical Italian town centre. As time passed, the rocky valley slopes below the town were dug out to create caves, used for housing, storage and stabling. These cave areas, where the poorest local peasants lived, fill a narrow valley and run along the side of the gorge itself. Matera was used as a film location for Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of Christ’. Afternoon at leisure. Overnight stay at Grand Hotel Olimpo, Alberobello.
Day 3 - Itria Valley (Full Day)
After breakfast, you will be chauffer driven through the Itria Valley, to the picturesque Locorotondo – known as one of the most beautiful villages in Italy; Cisternino, a medieval walled city where you can stroll back through time on worn, stone-paved lanes between ancient palaces, towers, shops and homes that are mostly still in use today; Ostuni, the old citadel is built on top of a hill surrounded by ancient walls and is commonly referred to as the White Town (Città Bianca) for its white walls and white-painted architecture; and the baroque Martina Franca, the pearl of Valle d’Itria, a hilltop town whose historical centre is surrounded by stone walls, with prominent baroque gates that lead to piazzas and narrow medieval streets. Lunch (included) will be at a farmhouse where the region’s celebrated olive oil and wine will accompany your meal. Overnight stay at Patria Palace Hotel, Lecce.
Overnight at the Patria Palace Hotel.
Cisternino, Puglia
Day 4 - Lecce (Half Day)
Today you will have a half day guided walking tour of Lecce. Affectionately known as the ‘Florence of the South’ due to its many Baroque buildings, Lecce has a Roman amphitheatre, more than a hundred churches and palaces and several designer boutiques. The city’s heyday was when it was part of Spain in the 17th century and the noblemen, merchants and religious orders of the city competed with each other as to who could build the most palaces. Carved from the local golden sandstone, the exuberant architecture looks like a sumptuous theatrical set. Lunch included. Afternoon at leisure. Overnight stay at Patria Palace Hotel, Lecce.
Transfer to Bari airport for your flight back to the UK.
Grand Hotel Olimpo - Night 1 to 2
The Grand Hotel Olimpo is located in the UNESCO World heritage town of Alberobello, famed for its ‘Trulli houses’ – ancient, whitewashed dwellings with a distinct cone-shaped roof.
The Grand Hotel Olimpo is located in the UNESCO World heritage town of Alberobello, famed for its ‘Trulli houses’ – ancient, whitewashed dwellings with a distinct cone-shaped roof. This well-situated property provides an ideal base for visiting the region from Bari to the Murge and the Salento landscapes with their charming hamlets, fortified cities, beautiful coastal towns, landscapes of olive groves, orchards and vineyards and rolling hills of rare beauty. The comfortable guest rooms, elegant suites, refined restaurant and roof garden make for an unforgettable stay.
31 rooms including standard rooms, superior rooms and suites
All rooms have a bathroom (shower), hairdryer, telephone, complimentary WiFi, satellite TV, safe deposit box and minibar
Standard rooms will accommodate an extra bed for a child
Superior rooms will accommodate extra beds for one adult or two children
The two suites, one modern and one classic in design, both have a double bedroom and separate living room. The Eden suite has a small pool with a view and the Palace suite has a private terrace and Jacuzzi.
Some standard rooms interconnect
All rooms on the first and second floor (standard, superior and suite) have a private balcony
Bar and lounge
Restaurant serving local Pugliese cuisine
1 lift
5 minutes’ walk to the historic centre with a good selection of restaurants
Places of interest close-by: Locorotondo 9km, Putignano 15km, Martina Franca 16km, Grotte di Castellana 17km, Polignano a Mare 32km, Ostuni 33km and Matera 58km
Patria Palace Hotel - Night 3 to 4
The Patria Palace is a prestigious hotel housed in a fabulous 17th century palazzo in the heart of Lecce – dubbed the ‘Florence of the South’.
The Patria Palace is a prestigious hotel housed in a fabulous 17th century palazzo in the heart of Lecce – dubbed the ‘Florence of the South’. This historical building, overlooking the fabulously ornate Baroque façade of the Basilica of Santa Croce, is located in a small square close to all the important monuments of the city.
The buildings, mostly Baroque in style, flourished in the city due to the abundant supply of local stone ‘pietra di Lecce’, a pliable, white material which artisans could easily carve. The hotel still retains some of its original features including vaulted ceilings and carved balconies. The bedrooms, each with original decorative paintings, offer comfortable lodgings with modern facilities.
67 air-conditioned rooms including standard rooms, deluxe rooms, a superior room and junior suites
All rooms have a bathroom (bath and shower), hairdryer, telephone, satellite TV, complimentary WiFi, safe deposit box, minibar and tea and coffee making facilities
Deluxe rooms and the junior suite have a view of the Basilica
The superior room, on the 3rd floor, has a private terrace and view of the Basilica
Some rooms have a balcony or terrace
All rooms will accommodate an extra bed for an adult or child, except for the superior rooms.
‘Danny’s’ bar and lounge
‘Atenze’ restaurant serving Mediterranean cuisine
Valet parking (15 Euros per day payable locally)
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Meet the four teams bidding to be crowned U17s girls national age group champions
10/04/2019 News and Blogs
Sixteen teams will be bidding to be win the Swim England Water Polo National Age Group Championship as the U17s and U19s boys and girls finals are staged at the Liverpool Aquatics Centre.
In the build-up to finals weekend on 13-14 April, we focus on the sides who will be battling it out for the prestigious title.
Here are the four U17s girls teams who are in the running to become national age group champions.
With a team spread between the ages of 14 and 16, Cheltenham will hope their mix of youth and experience combines perfectly in Liverpool.
The club’s U17s team finished in fourth place at last year’s finals, but the current group hope to have found form at the right time as they look to upset some of the more fancied sides.
Cheltenham booked their place in the semi-finals with dominant back-to-back wins over Newton Abbot and Watford, having lost to City of Liverpool in their opening game of the qualifiers.
They will need a big change in fortune when they take on City of Sheffield in the first semi-final.
Sheffield won 9-0 when the two sides met in the preliminaries earlier in the year.
Squad list
Alice Tubby, Charlie Rye, Charlotte Martin (Vice Captain), Evie Handley, Freya Webster, Gigi Boskett-Williams, Katy Daley, Mara Totolici, Mary Bradley, Michela Totolici, Matilda Dugdale (Captain), Priya Kennedy, Sofia Fountain, Tisa Maunder-Bushell. Coach: Rich Middleton.
City of Liverpool
Liverpool also have a relatively young team, with only three players at the top of the age group.
They take on Otter in the second semi-final and will be confident of building on a successful qualifying campaign.
Liverpool beat Cheltenham 11-5 and Watford 19-7, before a 14-14 draw with Newton Abbot guaranteed they finished top of Group A.
Chief coach Gordon Dacre said: “Getting through to the finals without losing a game is a major achievement.”
Amelie Cornell, Charlotte Bett, Darcey Lawrenson, Emily Atkinson, Eva Howarth, Hannah Pyper, Holly Rooney, Holly Toone, Isobelle Robb, Kelsy Evans, Lucy White, Matilda Connolly, Rachel Tibke, Roisin O’Connor.
City of Sheffield
Sheffield’s progression to the National Age Group Championships finals has been described as ‘scintillating’.
With three wins from three in the prelims – including a gritty 7-6 win over defending U17 girls champions Newton Abbot – they progressed as winners of their league.
Sheffield maintained their winning streak through the qualifiers, scoring 34 goals across their three games to reach the semi-finals.
The squad thrives on their strong team ethic and experience, with nine players in the National Water Polo Academy and 11 having played BWPL senior water polo this season.
Eight players have made the quick step up after winning the U15 National Age Group Championships title last October, while the core of this team won silver at U15 level in 2017.
Coach Chris Motley said: “This group of girls have played a lot of water polo together in different teams over the past couple of years.
“There is a good balance of speed and strength throughout the squad, enabling us to hopefully be dangerous on the counter, but also from set plays around the pit.
“No team can be successful without a strong defence and the team bases its play on giving as little away as possible at the back.
“Two of the girls have already represented England above their own age group.”
Aderyn Lane, Anna Motley, Asia Law, Emily Crossley, Emma Jackson, Grace Kaye, Hannah Cashman, Kiah Dyas, Laura Skelton, Lydia Ralston, Maddie Harrison, Poppy Stephenson, Sarah Craig. Coach: Chris Motley.
Defence was the key to Otter booking their place in the semi-finals.
With one win, one draw and one loss from their qualifying games, they were level on three points with Kirkintilloch.
But their goal difference of minus one proved enough to seal second spot in Group B – a four-goal loss to City of Sheffield and the 11 goals scored in a win over Worthing ultimately aiding their charge to the National Age Group Championships finals.
Otter had to settle for silver at last year’s U17 finals, losing 9-6 to Newton Abbot in the final.
Abbie Tinkler-Davies, Alexandra Bridge, Faye Poole, Grace Turner, Hanna Sherwood-Rogers, Lucy Bullock, Lucy-Mai Helliwell, Margaret O’Malia, Sarah Ellis-Keeler, Sarah Mdaoukhi.
Semi-final 1: City of Sheffield v Cheltenham, 10.40am on 13 April
Semi-final 2: City of Liverpool v Otter, 11.50am on 13 April
Bronze medal match: 9am on 14 April
U17s Girls Final: 10.10am on 14 April
Plate competition
Nova Centurion, Iceni and Otter Futura will all be competing to win the U17s girls plate competition.
All the games will take place on Saturday 13 April.
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Gadget guru: T3's tech sage solves all your problems
Tech enlightenment from the one they call Gagu
By T3 Magazine 2015-10-12T12:05:00.284Z
How can I make camping more bearable? Are there any, erm, adult-friendly toys? What's the best way to cool myself down? Which sunglasses should I consider? Can you give me some good vaping options? What's the best teeth-cleaning tech?
Your questions answered by the mysterious T3 tech sage...
Meet the barbecue that fits in a backpack
Q. I'm going camping. Please help me survive this hell!
- Hannah Philips, Cirencester
A. Guru generally likes to make like Bear Grylls, wiping his arse with leaves (and not even smooth leaves; really coarse ones – stinging nettles if available), warming up by doing naked push-ups in the snow, then sitting down to a nice lunch of raw rat's spleen.
If you're some kind of panty-waist who prefers to use a tent, GaGu would currently recommend the old-school Robens Klondike at £500. This retro, canvas (well, polyester and alloy) mini-hut looks like it should be full of Boy Scouts eating Spangles and furtively smoking Woodbines when Akela is away, but will actually sleep six contemporary people in something not a million miles from comfort. There's room to cook, thanks to a stovepipe port, and the whole thing weighs about as much as a chicken's testicle.
Speaking of cooking, Gadget Guru recommends you purchase a BioLite (£140). That's not only a brilliant stove, it also happens to run on twigs and fir cones, AND it will generate electricity to charge up your gadgets. Handy.
Or how about a pop-up? GaGu well remembers when these first became popular about six years ago; he'd survey the landscape at the end of music festivals (the East Cheam Jazz and Death Metal Fest 2009 was especially heavy), and there'd be abandoned sproing-o-tents as far as the eye could see, left behind by people too wasted to figure out how to force them back into their bags.
Today, Eurohike makes some great two-man pop-ups for around 30 quid; or, if you're a larger group of lazy people, Coleman's Instant Tent Tourer 4 does exactly what its name suggests.
Heimplanet, meanwhile, makes crazy inflatable tents that are somewhere between a bouncy castle and a sci-fi prop. From the €450 (£288) Wedge to the ludicrous, space-age geodesic dome that is the €5,000 (£3,200) Mavericks, these things are the most fun you can have with inflation this side of a blow-up 'affection companion'.
Q. I want to get my child a toy I'll enjoy playing with too. Have you got any suggestions?
- Jason Cormer, Nottinghamshire
A. Are you kidding? Children these days have toys so awesome, they make GaGu's childhood seem Dickensian. Actually, it was quite a hard time: Guru's dad once gave him two knackered Matchbox cars nailed to a piece of bark, and claimed it was a Scalextric set.
By far the most awesomest thing GaGu has seen this month is Anki Overdrive. This isn't out till September, so you've got time to save up – and you'll need to. The starter kit is $150, but by the time you've bought all the add-on cars and track sections – and you WILL have to buy all the add-on cars and track sections – you'll have spent Junior's college fund. Oh well.
Overdrive is essentially Scalextric with artificial intelligence, guns, control via a mobile device, and cars designed by the man who made the vehicles in Tron: Legacy and Minority Report.
You lay the magnetic track sections in any order you like, including having them weave over and under each other. The cars then go round your track once, 'mapping' it before enabling you to race against your kids and also AI opponents of crippling toughness.
Via your mobile, you accelerate, brake and steer the cars, fire weapons and activate tractor beams – it's completely bonkers. The brains behind it include people who've worked on everything from robotics to autonomous (full-size) cars, and to see that tech expertise applied to a 'toy' is quite something.
Also out this month are Parrot's latest wave of Minidrones, with 'Evolution' devices to rule the skies, the ground and even the water.
The new Hydrofoil drone has been burning up GaGu's local duck pond at 10kph, with, it must be said, a certain amount of duck collateral damage.
The problem with these things won't be so much wanting to play with them with your kids, as finding the munificence to allow your kids to have a go on them. Roll on, Christmas Day!
Q. It's getting hot in here. Shall I take off all my clothes?
- Alan Hanley, Wiltshire
A. That won't be necessary, Alan, as comfortable as GaGu is with the human form.
Instead, don an AeroChill, a miracle vest that you dunk in water. Yes, that sounds very much like GaGu is advising you to put on a wet T-shirt, but the AeroChill doesn't feel wet (even though it is), and the cooling effect is much greater than what you'd get with a normal wet T-shirt. Plus, it won't emphasise your moobs as much.
Indoors, try Dyson's Humidifier.
This puts out cold, moistened air, which is good for allergies and your skin and blah blah blah. It's meant to sit in the corner, moistening your whole room, but GaGu's research has shown that it feels most pleasing when sat on a desk, pointed directly at his face. Mmm-mm.
Finally, mop your fetid brow with the Mission Enduracool Towel. Here, “the unique radiator-like fibre construction circulates water molecules and regulates evaporation to create a prolonged cooling effect”. In other words, it's like the AeroChill vest but in towelette form. Isn't that better?
Q. Sunglasses: which do you rate, Guru?
- Tony Brown, Amersham
A. GaGu has stood by four sunnies brands for as long as he can remember (three minutes on a good day).
For luxury, Maui Jim's construction and UV/glare-beating lens tech are easily up there with Ray-Ban, but without the ubiquitousness of that admittedly fine brand. For style and innovation, ic! berlin is the don. Its screwless hinge is as iconic as hinges get, while its 'looks' range from 'classic with a twist' to 'you'll need a lot of balls to wear that'. Finally, for the occasions that GaGu wants to dress like a top footballer, there's Police – fans should check out its Neymar range.
Lenses? Brown or very black, or clear-to-dark-in-a-trice Transitions lenses for that '1970s sex pest' vibe.
Q. Do you vape, Gadget guru? I'm trying to quit smoking.
- Harrison Meale, Manchester
A. Vaping is a crazy, crazy world, where people willingly walk around sucking on what looks like an instrument from the Mos Eisley cantina band, and get ever so cross if their pastime is criticised or described as in any way unhealthy online.
On the other hand, it does appear to be better than smoking actual cigarettes.
GaGu wouldn't recommend anyone take it up, but if you're looking to quit real smokes, Blu e-cigarettes seem like a good way to go. They look like real fags, as opposed to space flutes, they charge via USB, and users assure me they have “good flavour”.
Q. How can I make my teeth better with tech?
- Dean Loris, Sutton Coldfield
A. GaGu has more electric toothbrushes than he has teeth, and despite sterling efforts from Colgate and Panasonic, the choice always comes down to Philips or Oral-B – the Godzilla and King Ghidorah of oral hygiene.
Right now, he narrowly favours Philips, as its brushes look nicer and appear to clean just as well as Oral-B's; though he does admit a big soft spot for the latter's Bluetooth “How well have you brushed?” app, and the little 'mouth satnav' it throws in with its brushes. After that, it's got to be Philips's Airfloss, which is, so they say, “as good as flossing (with actual floss)”.
Finally, try the Luster Pro Light. This involves painting gel on your yellowing teeth, blasting them with blue light from a mouth-shaped torch, then enjoying the super-white fangs of Tom Cruise, all for 30 quid. Erm… You first.
Gadget Guru's Magic Box
Guru is determined to get fit, and helping him out this month is Moov Now ($60, UK pricing TBC).
A mix of fitness band and Jabra-style audio coach, this promises to track multiple activities, from cycling to boxing, while feeding motivational words to your earphones – “Put some effort into it! Nobody will ever love you unless you lose weight!” That sort of thing, GaGu imagines.
OMG, what a grill. GaGu is never less than impressed with Sage by Heston Blumenthal's super-butch kitchen accoutrements, but it's surpassed itself with The Smart Grill Pro (£300). Like a George Foreman gone luxe, this uses external and internal temperature probes to ensure perfect cooking, with presets for beef, lamb, pork, poultry and fish. It can be opened out to use as a combined flat-top and griddle, essentially making it an indoor BBQ, and the cooking plates come off for dishwashing. Yes!
Want to wear the same socks for three weeks? Look for the hand-shaped Polygiene logo on clothes from Patagonia, Dynafit and many others. Polygiene's guy made the bullish “three weeks” claim to GaGu at an event this month – apparently, silver chloride molecules in the fabric prevent bacteria from forming, which means no odours. The uses for sporty types and gentlemen of the road are clear.
Always wanted to control the lights of your hotel room with your Watch? Well, now you can, as Premier Inn's mobile app has been extended to Apple's piece. You can't just use it in your bog-standard Premier, though – head to London's Hub by Premier Inn (pricing and saver rates on its website). This is the brand's boutique, artisan branch, with a high-tech, Japan-via-Shoreditch vibe. GaGu spent a night there and was so captivated by the ability to turn the air con on and off, change the light settings and operate the TV from his wrist, he spent his entire stay doing so.
After some low-cost, high-quality hi-fi speakers? Monitor Audio's Bronze range (right) starts at £230 and is up there with the Wharfdale Diamond range in terms of audiophile bang for your buck.
Need to Know: Sleep tracking
Gagu, you've got to help me. I can't sleep!
Guru feels your pain. It's the guilt, right? Whatever the cause, tech can help you… to an extent.
Yes, I've heard talk of 'sleep tracking'. can it really aid my restfulness?
Here's Guru's view on sleep tracking: until recently, it was a near total waste of time, dogged by inaccuracy, unlikely claims and uselessness. Now, it's, erm… slightly less so.
Built into a good fitness tracker (GaGu recommends the Charge HR or Jawbone UP3) with heart-rate monitoring, and interpreted by a decent algorithm, sleep tracking can give you some useful info. It uses the motion sensors and HR tracker of your band to discern whether you're in deep (near-zero movement, lowered heart rate), light or REM sleep (more movement). Or, indeed, if you're awake. The aim is to get eight hours, with a solid slice of deep sleep. There's some evidence that REM sleep aids creative thinking, so that's desirable too.
How much of each is ideal?
This is where it gets less scientific: different people require different amounts. As with tracking fitness, perhaps the most useful thing is to look at whether the amount of deep sleep is going up over time.
What can I do if my tracker shows I'm getting only light, interrupted sleep?
Bad news: there are all sorts of reasons for poor sleep, and you'll just have to try addressing each in turn. In order of potential expense, this could include: going to bed earlier, giving up booze and caffeine, using a lighter or heavier duvet, getting blackout blinds, changing your mattress, installing soundproofing, moving to a quieter area or getting your partner to whack you with a hammer, nightly.
ZZZZZZZZZZZ…
I don't know why I bother.
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Lower Merion Police: Man sleeping at Ardmore Bar Arrested
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Man sleeping at a bar with a glass in hand and outstretched arm. Man is wearing a blue and white collared shirt with long sleeves partially up Man sleeping at a bar with a glass in hand and outstretched arm. Man is wearing a blue and white ... Credits: Courtesy of Shutterstock
Ardmore, Lower Merion Township, PA — Township Police responded to the John Henry’s Pub at 98 Cricket Avenue in Ardmore on Sunday, July 7 at 2:00 AM. A man had fallen asleep at the bar.
Abdullah Mohammed Aaljebaly, age 24 of the unit block of West Montgomery Avenue in Ardmore was taken into custody for Public Drunkenness.
When police pulled up to the bar they found a man in standing the street wearing dark clothing. The man had been a patron of the Pub. When questioned by the Officers the man answered;
Officer: What’s going on?
Man: They denied me another drink, I want one more.
Officer: Well that is not going to happen.
Officer: How much have you had to drink?
Man: Too much
The police reported that the man had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath when they took him into custody.
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These students are learning how to ferret out fake news | Anthony Westbury
Fifth-graders in St. Lucie schools looking to verify news, opinion
These students are learning how to ferret out fake news | Anthony Westbury Fifth-graders in St. Lucie schools looking to verify news, opinion Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/anthony-westbury/2018/02/02/these-students-learning-how-ferret-out-fake-news-anthony-westbury/1087825001/
Anthony Westbury, anthony.westbury@tcpalm.com Published 2:47 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018 | Updated 9:32 a.m. ET Feb. 5, 2018
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In this post-internet world we're bombarded every second with incalculable amounts of information. Some of it is vital, much is dross, the ephemera of a bored society.
It's enough to make you permanently dizzy.
On a daily basis we have instant access — via the computers in our pockets — to more facts than any prior generation has had in the history of mankind.
How are we handling this information overload? It depends where you look.
At the adult level, not so well. We were duped into believing false information during the 2016 presidential election, possibly by a foreign power. Our president has railed about "fake news" he disagrees with on the pages of some of the leading lights of America's free press.
A number of opinion polls suggest large numbers of Americans agree with Donald Trump, an opinion that seems based more on gut reaction than cold, hard logic. We just don't know what to believe.
TCPalm columnist Anthony Westbury addressed 108 fifth-grade students about opinion writing Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 at Northport K-8 school in Port St. Lucie. The students will be taking a state test on critical thinking in writing in March. (Photo: ANTHONY WESTBURY/TCPALM)
On Thursday I took part in a more encouraging exercise. I had been invited to speak to 108 fifth-grade students at Northport K-8 school in Port St. Lucie about writing, specifically opinion writing. I have been known to do a little of that from time to time.
We talked about fake news and how to spot it, using a collection of short stories from National Geographic for Kids. Parents may find them as entertaining as the kids and I did, especially if they're as fascinated by poop as most 11-year-olds seem to be.
On March 6, fifth-grade students across the St. Lucie County school district will be taking a two-hour language arts writing test. My presentation was part of an effort to help the kids parse written articles to decipher basic arguments and opinions contained within them.
Teaching such analytical skills to 11-year-olds is a far cry from the same state test of four or five years ago. Back then, teachers were required to concentrate on narrative — stories and their structure.
Today's students have a tougher assignment. The test requires them to write several paragraphs of a "persuasive essay" that breaks down a provided text into arguments and opinions. Students must identify the arguments used by the author and cite examples to bolster their own opinion/argument.
By chance, a few days before I spoke at Northport, a new survey of U.S. students' writing and reasoning skills dropped into my in-box.
Isaac Scalabrin attended TCPalm columnist Anthony Westbury's address to 108 fifth-grade students about opinion writing Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 at Northport K-8 school in Port St. Lucie. (Photo: ANTHONY WESTBURY/TCPALM)
The "Top 10 Writing Errors of 2017 from U.S. and Florida students" was prepared by an online teaching service, NoRedInk.
NoRedInk (the teacher's favorite color correcting tool, you'll recall) analyzed responses from 3 million students.
Florida ranked 11th overall in the country, and 82 percent of students here could correctly identify whether a statement is fact or opinion. However, only 57 percent of them could detect whether those opinions were indefensible, indisputable or worthy of debate.
NoRedInk was founded by former Chicago high school English teacher Jeff Scheur. The online teaching system he developed has been used in half of all U.S. school districts. It is not used in St. Lucie County.
After grading more than 15,000 papers over eight years, Scheur came to the conclusion a lot of his students needed help in thinking through their ideas and challenging their assumptions to improve the quality and substance of their ideas.
"Sixty to 70 percent of feedback (from teachers to students) is superficial — worrying about a lack of punctuation and so on. That's important, but teachers' primary job should be teaching critical thinking," Scheur told me in a phone interview.
Laci Ford attended TCPalm columnist Anthony Westbury's address to 108 fifth-grade students about opinion writing Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 at Northport K-8 school in Port St. Lucie. (Photo: ANTHONY WESTBURY/TCPALM)
Janet Church, a language arts teacher at Northport, had invited me to speak to the students. She believes the state test teaches kids skills they'll need for the rest of their lives, even if they never become writers.
"We're trying to get students college- or job-ready," Church explained. "They learn to understand what it is they're reading. That includes understanding important documents like car sales agreements or mortgages before they sign them."
"'Don't guess,' I tell them, 'go find an answer.' They are learning how to find evidence, learning how to research and to think deeper," Church said.
After I finished speaking I got to meet a handful of budding writers. Almost instantly, one of the boys told me he was much more interested in science than writing. I gently reminded him even scientists need to write clear reports about their research, so writing is a tool we all need.
Zoya Karmali told me she writes stories, Isaac Scalabrin said he's a songwriter, while Degan LaFury loves comics.
It doesn't matter (within reason) what they're reading and writing. It's much more important that they are doing those things and learning from them.
Our grade-school students seem to be on the right track in seeing through some of the mental goo we encounter on the internet.
Now if their time-challenged parents could think as critically — especially on social media — we might be in better shape as a society.
Anthony Westbury is a columnist for TCPalm. This column reflects his opinion. Contact him at 772-221-4220, anthony.westbury@tcpalm.com or follow him @TCPalmWestbury on Twitter.
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voxeljet to debut new VJET X 3D printer for serial production of complex sand cores
by Laura Griffiths
Mock up of voxeljet's new VJET X 3D printer.
Binder jet 3D printing specialist, voxeljet is set to debut new additive manufacturing hardware next week.
Described as a new technology for “additive mass manufacturing”, the VJET X is designed for the cost-efficient serial production of complex sand cores for metal components and will be shown publicly for the first time during the GIFA casting technology show in Germany.
VJET X systems can be integrated into conventional casting lines and are already being lined up for commercialisation with a premium German car manufacturer. Possible applications include the 3D printing of complex water jacket cores in metal casting applications which are used for the precise temperature management in internal combustion engines, electric motors, inverters and battery systems to improve overall vehicle performance.
The machines use an inorganic binder system for emission-free core printing and are said to be up to ten times faster than previous models with a layer speed of less than five seconds thanks to a new process unit which combines multiple printing and recoating units. The VJET X can also be integrated into fully automated handling systems for pre- and post-process steps including loading and unloading, cleaning of the printed parts via robotic systems, and transport of sand cores to casting lines.
The news appears to build on an announcement made last summer where voxeljet teased a new VJet X-IOB machine believed to be up to ten times faster than its current hardware offering. At the time, the company stated it was taking steps to engineer the "world’s first fully automated 3D production solution capable of replacing conventional manufacturing in serial production."
Together with its industrial partners, voxeljet will be hosting live demonstrations of the VJET X along with its VX1000-S printers at the GIFA show on 25-29 June in Duesseldorf.
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‘Banana’ Phone – The KaiOS Nokia 8110 4G With 4G VoLTE Launched in India
by Geethu Oct 12, 2018
written by Geethu Oct 12, 2018
Nokia has launched their most awaited handset, the Nokia 8110 4G ‘Banana’ phone in Indian market. The main highlight of the phone is it runs KaiOS that is now present in Jio Phone. It comes with a revambed snake game and also supports “slide to answer” and “slide to cancel” functions. The price in India is set at Rs. 5,999 and will be available in Banana Yellow and Traditional Black colour options. The company is going to start the sale via offline and online through its retail shops from October 24.
(Also see: Nokia 5.1 Plus With 5.86-inch Full-HD+ Display Launched in India)
As per the specifications, the Nokia 8110 4G supports dual-SIM that accepts both Micro and Nano sim card. The mobile runs on KaiOS and features a 2.45-inch QVGA curved screen display with a resolution of 240*320 pixels. It also supports IP52 drip protection. The handset is powered by a 1.1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 205 processor paired with 512MB of LPDDR3 RAM and 4GB of inbuilt storage.
Coming to the camera options, the mobile comes with a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash. There is no front camera. Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE with hotspot, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.1, GPS/A-GPS, FM Radio, Micro-USB Port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Nokia 8110 4G is powered by 1,500mAh battery.
(Also see: Nokia 6.1 Plus With Notch Display Launched in India at Rs.15,999)
The Nokia 8110 4G Specifications
Resolution: 240×320 pixels
Front Camera: No
Processor 1.1GHz dual-core
Storage: 4GB
OS: KaiOS
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Geethu is a technical professional who is a teacher by profession and loves to write articles related to technology, mobiles, gadgets etc. She do reviews on various products too.
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You are here: Home / Features / Andy Murray Nets Record Fifth Queen’s Club Title on First “Father’s Day”
Andy Murray Nets Record Fifth Queen’s Club Title on First “Father’s Day”
(June 19, 2016) LONDON – Was Sunday’s match Andy Murray versus Milos Raonic or John McEnroe vs Ivan Lendl? There was a moment…
Leading a set and serving at 3-1 in the second set, Raonic blasted (yet another) first serve and followed it in to the net, where he hit a perfectly formed classical backhand volley deep to Murray’s sideline. Murray immediately raised his arm and Hawkeye was consulted. It was out, by a centimeter or two. A few seconds and a couple of passing shots later, Murray was serving at 2-3 and holding for 3-3, and not long after that it was set-all.
Old-timers were ready with the historical analogy: it was just such a volley that cost McEnroe his only career chance at the French Open title! And he was playing Lendl! And leading by two sets and a break!
All week, Queen’s Club has been playing up the historical potential of this year’s tournament. Eight players have won the title four times: Ritchie, Wilding, Emerson, McEnroe, Becker, Roddick, and…Murray. If Murray wins this year, he’ll break the record. The press areas are adorned with posters of each of the eight players, lest we forget.
Where it seems clear Raonic can use McEnroe’s help is on covering the net. He has, of course, tremendously long arms (sleeve-watchers noted that he’d skipped the one-arm compression sleeve for this match, but it was notable that if he didn’t win the point on the first volley Murray was often readily able to pass him.
Murray broke again in the first game of the third set and held that advantage to 5-3. Raonic saved two championship points with fine serves, and then Murray fashioned a third with another of those passing shots. On the final point, Raonic came in – and couldn’t get his attempted volley over the net.
So Murray has his record-breaking fifth title and a nation hoping that Lendl’s reappearance in the player’s box bodes good things for a few weeks hence. Raonic, in congratulating him, wished him something he felt was more important: his first happy Father’s Day.
By Wendy M. Grossman
Filed Under: Features, Front Page News, tournament coverage, tournaments Tagged With: AEGON Championships, Andy Murray, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Milos Raonic, tennis, tennis news, Tennis Panorama News, The Queen's Club, Wendy M. Grossman
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Sun blasts out its biggest flare in years
Yesterday morning, the sun unleashed a massive flare, its most powerful in nearly five years.
At 3:48 am EDT, it blasted out an X6.9 flare, aimed at the Earth. According to NASA, it’s big enough to potentially cause some radio communication blackouts.
It’s also produced an increase in solar energetic proton radiation – enough to affect humans in space if they don’t protect themselves.
There have already been some reports of disruption to VLF and HF radio systems in Asia.
The effects could have been greater. There was also a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the flare – which sends solar particles into space and can affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth. However, the CME isn’t traveling toward Earth on this occasion.
The flare is the largest yet during the sun’s current 11-year cycle, expected to last until around 2020. Over the next three to five years, we can expect to see more similar events.
“This flare had a GOES X-ray magnitude of X6.9, meaning it was more than 3 times larger than the previous largest flare of this solar cycle — the X2.2 that occurred on Feb 15, 2011,” says NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
According to the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, though, we’re now in for a quiet few days. Over the next three days, it says, solar activity is likely to be low to moderate, decreasing as Region 1263 – the source of the flare – rotates away from us.
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Longbeard Lessons
10 tips to remember as you chase the gobble this turkey season
Outdoor Forum Editor
If a boss hen is in the mix, she might lead gobblers away from your position if your initial calls are too aggressive. However, if she engages or challenges you, it’s go time. If that happens, match her call for call in an attempt to draw her toward you with her gobbler friends in tow. Photo by Thinkstock
Midday magic happened for the author last spring when these two gobblers strolled into range just before noon during a hunt in southern Kansas. The surrounding woods had been quiet for more than two hours before these two finally broke the silence. Photo by Andrew Johnson
By Andrew Johnson
Most people who don’t hunt wild turkeys think it’s probably pretty easy to lure in and kill an animal with a marble-sized brain. However, if you’ve spent enough time in the woods or on prairie ridges where turkeys roam, you probably understand how difficult, frustrating and satisfying it is to lure a spring gobbler in close enough to kill with your shotgun or bow.
There’s little doubt that wild turkeys are probably the most paranoid birds on the planet, which means to kill one, you’ve got to do your turkey-hunting homework. So, if you’re like me and can’t wait to get out this spring, here are 10 tips that will hopefully help you fill your tag.
1. Learn the Language
One of the draws of chasing turkeys compared to other hunting ventures is that you can often carry on a dialogue with a gobbler or even a boss hen that’s leading a flock of turkeys around on a leash. Sure, you can call other types of wild game such as deer and waterfowl, but turkey hunting is unique in that you can have a call-and-answer, one-on-one conversation with a wild bird.
If you don’t know the sounds and calls turkeys make and, more importantly, what they mean, then even the most expensive turkey call in the world won’t help you in the field. Take the time to research and learn the two-note cadence and rhythm of a hen turkey’s yelp, the difference between a “putt” and a “cluck,” or what attitude a hen uses when she starts cutting.
There are plenty of online resources available that have sound libraries of authentic turkey calls. Some of them, such as the National Wild Turkey Federation’s website, nwtf.org, even do a good job breaking down the different sounds and offer insight behind why turkeys make them.
Before you head out this spring, either learn or take a refresher course on turkeys and the major sounds they make before you decide to hammer away with that fancy new box call you got for Christmas.
2. Embrace Mistakes
Remember, you don’t have to be a great caller to successfully call in a spring longbeard — I’m living proof of that. The old saying that a real turkey wouldn’t win a turkey-calling competition rings true, so don’t be discouraged if your calls are not perfect.
Many hunters new to the sport try to immediately cover up a squeak, squawk or some other kind of slip by hammering away with loud, aggressive calls. Real turkey voices crack, break and are garbled quite often, but real turkeys never clear their throat after making a mistake.
A mature response to a calling mishap is to resist the urge to cover up bad or abnormal calls with even more bad calling. Instead, take plenty of time to regroup and start over. Have some patience with your calling abilities, and remember that mistakes are more the norm than the exception.
3. Practice Outside
A good friend of mine, who is a veteran turkey hunter, took me on my first spring turkey hunt years ago. After setting up and letting things quiet down, he broke out a slate call and scratched out a few notes — a few awful-sounding hiccups, actually.
“It’s amazing how much better this call sounded in my basement,” my friend said.
While calling mistakes are common, you still have to sound somewhat like a turkey, and the lesson here is simple: calls sound much different outside than they do in the store, your vehicle or your home. This is especially true with friction calls such as pot calls and box calls.
A number of environmental factors come into play here, but the primary culprit is moisture. Early spring mornings are often damp and cool, and the porous nature of some slate, glass and wood surfaces will grab and hold that moisture, changing the dynamics of your call. Rain can make some calls useless.
Practice with your calls in varying temps and weather conditions before hitting the woods. Take note of which calls are consistent, and which ones might require extra care such as a baggie or a small Tupperware container to protect them from the elements, even when you’re not hunting in rain or drizzle.
4. Shock ’Em Once
A common way to locate gobblers is to induce a shock gobble from them. During the spring mating season, a gobbler is all juiced up on testosterone and is a rather jumpy fellow, and a shock gobble is really nothing more than a reflexive response tom turkeys make that can give their exact location away.
Coyote, hawk, crow, owl and even peacock calls are all common shock-gobble calls. The trick, however, is after a gobbler sounds off once, put the locator calls away and get on your horse to get after that bird. After all, anything loud or scary enough to elicit a shock gobble probably shouldn’t be used more than once.
Also, don’t forget unnecessary sounds can give away your location. If you’re using a predator call, such as coyote yips, it’s highly unlikely the turkey that shock gobbled is going to wait around for the coyote to show up. More than likely, they’ll move away from the source of the sounds.
5. Use Nonverbal Communication
Turkeys are big animals. If you’ve never heard one swoop down off its roost or take off from the ground when it’s spooked, the sound is pretty incredible. In addition, any kind of animal that can weigh 15 pounds or more is going to make some noise as it roots around, scratching and feeding throughout the day.
Take advantage of the fact that turkeys are noisy creatures by adding nonverbal calls to your arsenal. Use your cap to imitate wing beats by slapping it against some brush or a cedar tree. Take a stick and kick some dirt or leaves around. Complementing actual turkey calls with other forms of nonverbal communication can sometimes be just the ticket to sealing the deal on a call-wary gobbler.
6. Know When to Hold ’Em
A big mistake too many turkey hunters make is actually calling too much or too aggressively. A few years ago I was on a hunt with legendary turkey caller Eddie Salter where we had five strutters hang up about 20 yards beyond shotgun range. They were all working hard to win the attraction of a single hen, who seemed content to mill around and peck away at some bugs in a river-bottom clearing.
The birds were hot, and as a thunderstorm brewed in the distance, they would shock gobble in unison with every crack of thunder. Initially, Salter had them all responding to his calls, but once the lone hen in the group quit calling, Salter went silent, too.
We had a hen decoy placed in front of our setup, and after 45 minutes of Salter’s silence, curiosity got the best of two of the gobblers as they finally paraded into range. While we were taking pictures of the big Eastern we killed that day, I asked Salter why he didn’t call.
“That hen would have dragged all those toms with her in the opposite direction if I went after her too much,” he told me. “She wasn’t talking, so that told me she didn’t want to get in a war of words. Sometimes it’s best to just wait them out.”
While it’s hard to beat the heart-pounding action of a gobbler hammering its way to your setup, it’s important to remember that calling too much can have an adverse reaction. Calling is important — and it’s true that great callers kill more birds — but the real trick is knowing when silence can be more effective.
If you run into a situation where a gobbler hangs up and won’t commit, try the silent approach and play hard to get. See if curiosity wins him over. It takes some patience, but waiting a gobbler out to see if he breaks can be just as fun as calling him in.
7. Close the Distance
There are times, however, when it’s best to make things happen. I can sit all day, but what I’ve found is more challenging and rewarding is to make a stalk on a bird, almost as if it were a mature whitetail buck. Plus, if a gobbler hangs up and won’t commit after an hours-long standoff, then you can either close the distance or go home empty-handed.
While many TV shows and DVDs dedicated to turkey hunting don’t showcase hunters crawling after birds all that often, I believe crawling, stalking or otherwise getting after a bird is just as important as calling.
Now, if the terrain is to your advantage, the obvious choice is to use it and maneuver closer to your target. However, out here in the plains, terrain is a relative term, and if there’s nothing but prairie between you and your bird, it’s time to take the fight straight to the bird and crawl directly at him.
Whenever I set up, I make sure my turkey vest and other gear is unhitched so I can easily slide out of it in case I need to hit the dirt. Also, I wear camo pullover shirts with no buttons or zippers that can get caught in grass, sticks or other unwanted debris. Ditching the buttons means you can slide on your belly easier, and it also reduces the chance you can snag something that might pop or break, giving away your location and alerting your target that danger is nearby.
8. Break up the Flock
It’s not uncommon to encounter a herd of turkeys in the Dakotas, especially early in the season. But that presents a problem, as most gobblers aren’t likely to leave their harem of hens, regardless of your calling skill level.
If you’re on a big wad of birds that’s out of range and your calls are falling on deaf turkey ears, take a trick from the fall turkey hunting handbook and scatter the flock — and by scatter, I mean sending them helter skelter in every direction. Simply easing up and spooking the birds in one direction is a no go. For this approach to work, you have to commit fully and charge in like the cavalry.
If you successfully break up the flock, you can then target individual gobblers as they try to regroup. Separating a gobbler from his harem can suddenly make your calls more effective, as turkeys — both hens and gobblers — have an inherent and incessant need to return not only to their flock, but also to their daily routine, including all the locations and travel patterns they prefer.
Scatter the flock, then set up and call softly and lightly, coaxing those lonely gobblers back into their comfort zone.
9. Wait for Midday Magic
Every morning turkeys go through a daily ritual of sorting out the pecking order, and it’s also the time when gobblers are the most vocal as they try their best to collect a hen or two for the day. In fact, 80 to 90 percent of the gobbles you hear in a day might occur right at flydown. As midmorning rolls around, it’s not uncommon for once-vocal gobblers to clam up for the day.
Once the gobbling dies off, it’s easy to pack it in and head for breakfast. However, it’s important to remember that turkeys, while they may be silent, still stay active all day long, which means you should, too.
This is where being mobile comes into play. Prospecting for spring turkeys is a midday game, so try the run-and-gun ground game, using yelps and shock-gobble calls to strike a willing gobbler. After you hear a gobble, move in as tight as possible to that turkey’s position. He should be more excited to answer your call if he knows his gobble brought you in close.
10. Turn Failure into Success
I know a lot of great turkey hunters, but I don’t know a single one that kills a bird every time out. What I’ve learned is that the really great ones take notes — lots of them — each time they head out and then use that intel on future hunts.
Turn unsuccessful trips into recon missions. Take note of turkey travel patterns, what fields they prefer, what calls they liked, what calls they didn’t and also take in the lay of the land on the ground you hunt. Date, weather, time of day and more should also be logged for future reference. All of these subtle details will aid your effort the next time out, possibly keeping you one step ahead of the birds and that much closer to success.
About the Author: Andrew Johnson is editor of Outdoor Forum. Contact him with new ideas and questions at [email protected] Or, follow him on Twitter @OutdoorForumMag.
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An easygoing enclave worth discovering
With “Lake and Beach” in its name, it’s a sure bet that Lake Worth Beach offers all the water-soaked fun you’re after on a Florida vacation. This seven-square-mile city is wedged between some of the most action-packed waterways in The Palm Beaches, and its revitalized downtown has its own distinct charms worth discovering.
The palm-dotted streets of downtown Lake Worth Beach are lined with eclectic boutiques, art galleries, antiques stores and restaurants with plenty of local flavor. Quaint bed-and-breakfasts are tucked into quiet side streets, and there’s even a historic playhouse that hosts everything from ballet to Broadway. Colorful events pack the streets throughout the year, from the Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival to Palm Beach Pride, one of the biggest LGBTQ celebrations in the region.
Just across Lake Worth Lagoon – a boater’s playground that stretches all the way to West Palm Beach – are postcard-perfect shores, a new fishing pier and restaurants on the beach that afford endless views of the sparkling Atlantic Ocean.
To the west, see a local side of Florida at Lake Osborne. You can fish this well-stocked freshwater lake, with boat launching ramps and fishing piers at John Prince Memorial Park. Or, settle in and stay awhile: there’s a lovely campground complete with volleyball and tennis courts, grills and just about everything else you need to rough it in Palm Beaches style.
Golf lovers can also sink a birdie at one of Lake Worth’s golf courses. The Lake Worth Beach Golf Club, which tops out at 85 feet in elevation and offers superb views of the surrounding area.
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“It’s Ok To Be White” White Person Tells Other White People In Parliament Run By White People
By The Shovel on October 16, 2018
A leader of a political party has told her parliamentary colleagues to imagine the sort of influence white people could have if they weren’t held back by their skin colour.
“The discrimination is becoming more and more obvious. Just look around you,” the woman told the group of assembled white people who hold almost all of the nation’s political positions.
“It’s increasingly becoming an impediment. I mean, when was the last time you saw a white person in a position of power in this country?” she said, to cries of ‘hear hear’.
A vote to pass the motion was narrowly defeated, leaving the white people present uncertain whether they’ll ever be able to get ahead in life.
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Premier League Week Three Predictions
0 0 Nisar Khan Saturday, 22 August 2015 Edit this post
BY MIKEY, NISAR AND SEAN
Image: Liverpool Echo
Manchester City made the most profound of statements last week when they dismantled Chelsea to really get the Premier League going—a side who replicated that result away at Southampton stands in their way this time round as in one of two of the weekend's huge games.
Arsenal host Liverpool on Monday night, and there's plenty of action elsewhere too.
There are three writers involved in the weekly predictions: Mikey, Sean and Nisar.
For each fixture that they predict, there will be three points on offer. One point will be awarded for choosing the correct outcome of the game, such as predicting the winning team or predicting a draw. The two other points will be based on the scoreline, one for each side, so if someone gets half of the scoreline correct, they are awarded one point, and if they get the whole scoreline correct, they are awarded two points, along with the third point for getting the outcome of the match correct.
Each week the points will be updated and the winner is obvious: Whoever gets the most points at the end of the season is the winner.
Sean is looking to pull away as he earns 12 points with predictions in week two including a perfect prediction of Swansea's 2-0 win. The other perfect prediction was Mikey forecasting Manchester City to defeat Chelsea 3-0, while no points were scored for Everton's win over Southampton which appeared to take everyone by surprise. Mikey scored 10 points and Nisar 9 in the weekend. After two weeks here is the standings...
1) Sean (23 points)
2) Nisar (19 points)
2) Mikey (19 points)
How will those change in week three? Our predictions...
Manchester United vs. Newcastle United
Saturday 22 August 2015, 12:45pm BST
The Red Devils get the weekend's action going once again as they host Newcastle United who are coming off a home 2-0 loss to Swansea. The hosts still boast a perfect record, with Sergio Romero keeping a clean sheet in both games to start the season. As United begin to flex their muscle further, could United demolish the visitors or will the Magpies prove bad luck?
Mikey: Manchester United 2-0 Newcastle United
Nisar: Manchester United 1-0 Newcastle United
Manchester United are still a work in progress so it will still take a lot to really bulldoze a Newcastle side who are still doing a little bit of soul searching. I believe they'll win narrowly to continue the perfect record.
Sean: Manchester United 2-0 Newcastle United
The Red Devils look much more assured with Schweinsteiger/Schneiderlin pulling the strings, there's much more conviction in their passing. That's the pivot manager Louis Van Gaal opted for against The Toon, and I think United will defeat Steve McClaren's side rather comfortably to maintain their perfect start to the 2015/16 season.
West Bromwich Albion vs. Chelsea
Mikey: West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Chelsea
Nisar: West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Chelsea
Sean: West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Chelsea
"The 3-0 is completely fake, out of context," exclaimed Jose Mourinho after last Sunday's heavy defeat to Manchester City. The Special One wasn't just summarizing Chelsea's defeat at the Cityzens, he was unintentionally playing clairvoyant. His side was bullied all over the pitch, and City looked imperious; it was as though they were the Champions and Chelsea the plucky rival that couldn't compeer Manuel Pellegrini's side. League tables mean little at this stage of the campaign, but Chelsea currently sit in 16th place, and Mourinho certainly won't be happy. To improve the gaffer's mood and install some vitally-needed impetus within the side, it's vital Chelsea take all three points. They'll do just that.
Everton vs. Manchester City
Mikey: Everton 1-2 Manchesteer City
Nisar: Everton 0-3 Manchester City
Sean: Everton 0-1 Manchester City
If Chelsea lose at the Hawthorns, and table-toppers Manchester City overcome Everton subsequently—they'll open up an eight-point cushion! I'm assured they'll defeat Roberto Martinez's men, but only narrowly. They're a tactically disciplined side, The Toffees, with some talented individuals (Lukaku, Barkley and Chelsea target John Stones in particular) adding a bit of flair to make the difference. The Everton group have momentum following an emphatic 3-0 victory at Southampton last weekend, and they'll make it hard for City, but the visitors might just have too much firepower in the end.
Arsenal vs. Liverpool
Mikey: Arsenal 0-1 Liverpool
Nisar: Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool
Sean: Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
The standout fixture of the weekend sees Arsenal host early-season flyers Liverpool, as both sides seek to puff their chest out at the very start of the term. The illustrious hosts sashayed to a 4-1 victory in this fixture last season and after their Week 2 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace, should enter this game with momentum finally behind The Gunners. The visitors, Liverpool, will face the unenviable task of shutting down the magisterial Mesut Ozil, who misplaced just one pass out of 56 against The Eagles on Sunday afternoon. Indeed, while this reshaped Liverpool side have stuttered in both Premier League openers against Stoke City and AFC Bournemouth respectively--both 1-0 victories--in an attacking perspective, from a defensive standpoint they have showed signs of added grit in the early stages of the season. But expect Wenger's renowned side to play with incision and vibrancy against a quality opponent, eventually emerging as victors in a close contest.
3pm kickoffs and a non-televised fixture for the rest of the predictions...
Crystal Palace 1-1 Aston Villa
Norwich 0-1 Stoke
Sunderland 1-3 Swansea
West Ham 1-2 Bournemouth
Leicester City 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Watford 0-1 Southampton
Nisar
Norwich 0-2 Stoke City
Sunderland 1-1 Swansea City
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European Benchmarks Slip As Caution Returns
Ex-dividends weighed in London while risk stocks pulled back more broadly in the wake of Wednesday's Fed meeting minutes
Updated Apr 6, 2017 4:36 AM EDT
European benchmarks sank in early trading as caution hung in the air following Wednesday's Federal Reverse meeting minutes, ex-dividend stocks weighed and investors braced for a potentially acrimonious meeting between the leaders of the world's two largest economies.
The FTSE 100 slipped by around 0.80% in London after the opening bell. The CAC 40 dropped 0.60% in Paris and the DAX fell 0.70% in Frankfurt.
Benchmarks in southern Europe were also weaker, with the FTSE MIB in Milan down by more than 1% and the IBEX in Madrid slipping nearly 0.50%.
A renewed sense of caution swept through markets overnight and hung in the air at the opening of the European session after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes, released Wednesday, suggested that the Fed may begin to shrink its balance sheet by selling bonds later in the year.
Ex-dividend stocks were an added weight on markets, with education publisher Pearson (PSO) , Lloyds Banking Group (LYG) , Aviva (AVVIY) and Paddy Power Betfair (PDYPF) , all ex-dividend this Thursday, topping the list of fallers in London with losses ranging between 3% and 7.9%.
Adding further to tensions across markets was a key meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which is scheduled to get underway Thursday, in which the leaders of the world's two largest economies are expected to discuss the pair's relationship.
Trade will be top of the agenda, with President Trump having made clear via his Twitter feed that the meeting will be difficult. Investors are watching closely for a renewed escalation of protectionist rhetoric.
A dovish tone struck by European Central Bank head Mario Draghi in speech on Thursday morning, where he indicated that European monetary policy will remain loose for longer, proved unable to lift markets out of their decline. Although it did send the euro reeling against the U.S. dollar and pound sterling.
Top fallers in Frankfurt were Deutsche Lufthansa (DLAKY) , Volkswagen (VLKAY) , Commerzbank (CRZBY) and BMW (BMWYY) , all with losses of 1.5% or more.
In Paris, Peugeot (PEUGF) , Renault (RNSDF) and Credit Agricole (CRARY) were all found swimming deep in the red, with losses of 1.5% or more.
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Walking Around In The Heart
Coleman Barks On Rumi, Sensuality, And The Path With No Name
By Andrew Lawler
I’ve always loved that moment when I feel the language coming. Nobody knows what the source of the flow of language is, that inspiring eloquence, but we know it when we feel it. Artists of any kind get addicted to that: “Why can’t I be this way all the time?” We destroy ourselves with ways of faking it, of manufacturing inspiration. Writers are so impatient.
My Accidental Jihad
By Krista Bremer
For the next month, nothing will touch my husband’s mouth between sunup and sundown: Not food. Not water. Not my lips. A chart posted on our refrigerator tells him the precise minute when his fast must begin and end each day. I will find him in front of this chart again this evening, staring at his watch, waiting for it to tell him he may eat.
By Varley O’Connor
I want to tell you about a cat — a sublime creature entrusted to me in my youth — that I allowed to die. There were extenuating circumstances, but there always are. I forgive myself nothing. She loved me, and I let her down. I committed a terrible crime.
By Thomas Boyd
For someone who’s been to New Jersey only a handful of times, I have a long history with the Garden State. I’m visiting it now because my Aunt Velma is dying. The cancer’s giving us just enough time to say goodbye.
What Is Left
By Evan Shopper
I spent twelve years in the state penitentiary for crimes imagined by children and believed by adults. For those twelve years, my body became my enemy and my commodity — I let the inmates hurt me so I could live. Besides the common abuses, they also broke my fingers and thumbs and sometimes the little bones in my hands. Once, they shattered a wrist.
Song Of The Swordsmith
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Telephoning The Dead
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Library books, a stage production of Cheaper by the Dozen, bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches
Sy Safransky's Notebook
If I sit here waiting for the perfect sentence to show up, I’ve got a long wait ahead of me. Maybe the perfect sentence doesn’t want me to wait. Maybe the perfect sentence is tired of one-night stands with writers who fall in love too easily, who can’t be trusted to stick around when the perfect sentence turns out to be not so perfect after all.
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth that we profess, and the thoroughgoing disregard for it that we practice.
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#BuryYourGays: 27 LGBT TV Characters Killed Off in 2016, From ‘Empire’ to ‘Game of Thrones’ (Photos)
Gay and lesbian characters had a seriously high mortality rate on the small screen this year (spoilers ahead!)
Thom Geier | December 21, 2016 @ 11:00 AM Last Updated: December 21, 2016 @ 11:02 AM
Gay and lesbian characters had a seriously high mortality rate on the small screen this year.
Denise Cloyd (Merritt Wever), "The Walking Dead" A medic for the Alexandria Safe-Zone, she planted a kiss on Tara’s lips at one point. But she becomes the first victim of Negan’s group when he seeks retaliation for the Alexandria assault. Because on TV, LGBT characters seem to always die first.
Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones), "Game of Thrones" Imprisoned by the Faith Militant for buggery, Loras winds up dying -- along with his sister, Margaery, when Cercei blows up the Great Sept with a dragon-fire bomb.
Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley), "Orange Is the New Black" A former Army brat who first fell for a German commander’s daughter when her father was stationed overseas, Poussey is accidentally suffocated by rookie correctional officer Baxter Bayley during a demonstration in the Litchfield prison cafeteria.
Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey), "The 100" The commander of the 12 Clans, who sparks a relationship with Clarke (Eliza Taylor), dies after being accidentally shot in the stomach by rival Titus.
Edward Meechum (Nathan Darrow), "House of Cards" Frank Underwood’s bodyguard was promoted to Secret Service when he became president, had a three-way with first couple Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) and died taking a bullet for the president.
Bethany Mayfair (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), "Blindspot" The assistant director of the FBI’s New York office was fatally shot by Oscar while confronting tatted heroine Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander) about who had framed her for murder. If you're going to kill off a series regular, make sure it's the lesbian.
Root (Amy Acker), "Person of Interest" A computer hacker in love with former Army intelligence operative Sameen (Sarah Shahi), Root winds up taking a sniper’s bullet intended for Finch (Michael Emerson). And thus ended a character who'd been on the show since season 1 (and in more episodes than any other woman).
Donnie (Michael Esper), "Shades of Blue" A NYPD internal affairs lieutenant -- and ex of Ray Liotta's crooked precinct commander -- was killed by another cop apparently in self-defense.
Mary Louise and Nora (Teressa Liane and Scarlett Byrne), "The Vampire Diaries" Undead Heretic members who are tired of a life on the run after imprisonment in the Armory, these lovers of more than a century decide to blow themselves up in a fiery car crash.
Camilla Marks and Mimi Whiteman (Naomi Campbell and Marisa Tomei), "Empire" This (secretly) married couple schemed to oust Lucious from control off Empire Entertainment but then turned on each other, with Camilla killing Mimi and then herself (after Lucious tried to blackmail her by catching the murder on videotape).
Jack Downey (Tanner Buchanan), "The Fosters" An awkward bespectacled foster teen who befriends Callie and Jude -- and shares a kiss with Jude -- before his foster dad murders him. Because of course he does.
Charlotte DeLaurentis (Vanessa Ray), "Pretty Little Liars" Charlotte, revealed to be a transgender villain for much of the show, dies mysteriously in a fall from a bell tower -- only hours after being released from a mental hospital to the care of her sister. As with all things "PLL," though, there's a chance she's not really dead.
Sara Harvey (Dre Davis), "Pretty Little Liars" Sara, a love interest of jock Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell), became the third LGBT character to die on the series -- this time in the shower, to an as-yet unidentified assailant.
Thomas Abigail (Dougray Scott), "Fear the Walking Dead" No sooner does Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) reunite with his boyfriend after the zombie apocalypse separates them than he learns that Thomas has been bitten. Thomas soon dies and Victor shoots him in the head.
Pamela Claybourne and Ella Johnson (Gloria Reuben and Vanessa Bell Calloway), "Saints & Sinners" Pamela and Ella, the mayor and councilwoman of the town of Cypress, are having an illicit affair -- which leads to the murder of Ella's husband. The killer turns out to be Pamela's husband, who mistakenly thought his wife was having an affair with the deceased -- and then shoots both Pamela and Ella when he learns the truth. Killing two lesbians with one stone.
Gina (Emmanuelle Chriqui), "Shut Eye" First, husband-wife psychic entrepreneurs Charlie and Linda try to hire hypnotist Gina, then they torture her, then Linda sleeps with Gina. And then Gina gets murdered by the series villain. Which is modern TV's version of comeuppance.
Edward Philippe Mott (Evan Peters), "American Horror Story: Roanoke" Edward, the gay aristocratic owner of a mansion in 18th-century Roanoke, N.C., meets a mysterious and violent end at the hands of colonial spirits.
Helen (Sarah Silverman), "Masters of Sex" Helen dies in childbirth -- and worse, her parents deny any parental rights to her longtime girlfriend, Betty (Annaleigh Ashford). A typically '50s unhappy ending -- though at least she isn't murdered.
Susan Jackson (Hilary Jardine), "Van Helsing" A bisexual former vampire who cuddles up with vampire-hunting lead Vanessa Van Helsing (Kelly Overton) but ultimately is strangled to death by a serial killer.
Roz Walters and Molly Ryan (Simona Brown and Rebekah Wainwright), "Guilt" Freeform's one-season mystery drama about three young women sharing a London flat had a doozy of a finale. We learn that two of the roommates (Roz and Molly) were secretly having an affair, that a jealous Roz hired the third roommate's boyfriend to kill Molly and that the third roommate kills Roz when this all comes to light.
Major Corky Lance Corcoran (Tom Hollander), "The Night Manager" A henchman of a wealthy but secretive arms dealer, the fey Corky is beaten to death by British intelligence recruit Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) to prevent his exposure.
Felicity (Shivani Ghai), "The Catch" Felicity is introduced as the bisexual girlfriend of Sonya Walger's con artist character, Margot -- but is shot dead by Margot's own brother after he learns Felicity has slept with both siblings.
Bridey Cruz (Floriana Lima), "The Family" The lesbian lifestyle blogger gets offed after getting a little too close to uncovering the ABC drama's central mystery -- but the culprit was intended to be revealed in a second season that will now never happen. Signs point to her lover, Willa (Allison Pill), who managed her mom's campaign for governor of Maine.
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Israel’s tech ambassadors head to Barcelona
Entrepreneurs abroad have the opportunity to promote company and country, say organizers of Tzav 8
By David Shamah 21 February 2014, 11:21 am 0 Edit
(L. to R.) Sweden's Ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus, Tzav 8 co-founder Yael Shany, and Ireland's Ambassador to Israel Eamonn McKee take a 'high-tech selfie' at the Tzav 8 event in Netanya. (photo credit: Courtesy)
When they go abroad on vacation — or in the case of the upcoming Mobile World Congress, on business — Israelis prefer to leave politics behind. The “big questions,” like Israel’s treatment of Arabs or Palestinians and the settlements, hover constantly over Israelis at home.
Somehow, though, those issues tend to follow them wherever they go. On the theory that Israeli entrepreneurs and developers are going to be faced with questions about Israeli politics, society, and life, Yael Shany and Rami Kalish organized the Tzav 8 to Barcelona program, to train Israeli business people in hasbara, presenting Israel in a positive light.
It’s not about painting a false picture of the country, said Shany; the problems are there, and ignoring them won’t make them go away. Tzav 8’s brand of hasbara has more to do with Israel’s image as a tech power, and how the talents and skills used by entrepreneurs to build international business empires are also used to improve civil society, both in Israel and around the world. Tzav 8 “ambassadors” show the side of Israel that few abroad are aware of, such as the positive contributions of the high-tech community to ensuring that Israeli Arabs can participate in Israel’s technology industry, or the ways technology is being used to help save lives in emergency situations.
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“The purpose of Tzav 8 is to provide Israeli business people with positive messages about how Israel is using its high-tech capabilities to improve the situation of others around the world,” said Shany, who has been organizing and running the event since 2009. “Israeli business people going out to Barcelona are Israel’s best diplomats, because they can talk about the country’s positive tech contributions, the ones that people don’t hear about abroad.”
About 2,000 Israelis are set to depart for Barcelona to attend the Mobile World Congress, which will take place between February 24 and 27. More than 2,000 Israelis representing over 190 companies will be presenting their mobile apps, network technologies, and hardware and software solutions to more than 70,000 visitors over the course of the event. Israel always has a strong presence at MWC, and this year, more Israeli companies will be attending than ever.
The Tzav 8 event — the term refers to the emergency call-up orders issued to IDF soldiers when the country is attacked — was attended this year by about 150 people, including CEOs of start-ups, investors, and representatives of companies, both Israeli and multinational, who will be traveling to Barcelona to make deals. The event, which was held at Cisco Israel headquarters in Netanya, featured panels on how tech companies were using their resources to provide equal opportunity for all in Israel, and how Israeli companies were working with foreign governments to provide innovation to help the underprivileged abroad.
The conference was opened by Rami Kalish, co-founder of Tzav 8 with Shany and a founding partner of Pitango Venture Capital fund. “2013 was an excellent year for Israeli tech, with some very impressive exits of start-ups and veteran companies, along with a steady stream of new start-ups developing promising technologies. Israel is seen as a high-tech superpower,” and as such, he said, the country’s tech community has an obligation to continue providing help where it could to those in need, to “help boost the economy in all ways and contribute to the image of Israel.”
Shany said that Israel was perceived around the world as an innovator, but other countries were making great efforts to innovate themselves. “We can’t rely on just the success of a few companies to generate a positive picture for Israel’s high-tech industry,” she said. “We have to make sure that we ‘spread the wealth’ and help companies from all sectors and levels of society to succeed.” Particularly, she said, tech needed to marshal its resources to help two groups — Arab women and haredi men — get into the workplace.
Panel members and speakers included Prof. Yossi Matias, head of Google’s Israel R&D center, Eyal Waldman, co-founder and CEO of Mellanox, Boaz Maoz, head of Cisco Israel, along with a panel of ambassadors, including Carl Magnus, the ambassador of Sweden to Israel, Andreas Michaelis, Germany’s ambassador to Israel, and Eamonn McKee, Ireland’s envoy to Israel. Speaking in a panel discussion, McKee said that Israelis were an inspiration to high-tech entrepreneurs all over the world, including his country.
“Because it is so large and influential, the telecom community here is a key factor in presenting Israel’s image in the world, and is representative of the country’s high-tech accomplishments,” said Shany. “On our travels, whether to Barcelona or elsewhere, we can promote the image of Israel as a tech power when we promote our companies. We also have the opportunity to promote the image of the country we live in and are proud of, and we should take that opportunity.”
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He also said that boys and girls will not be sharing bathrooms.
District 6 Trustee Ann Sutherland told people gathered in the high school auditorium that she didn’t support the guidelines when they were discussed by the board in closed session.
The guidelines were put together by administrators to help the school staff implement a broader student welfare policy intended to protect students from bullying and discrimination.
Sutherland said she supports repealing the guidelines, also known as administrative regulations. “I will not waver on this,” Sutherland told the audience.
Twenty-one people spoke Thursday night. That brought the total of speakers at six forums to 147.
The tenor of Thursday’s forum was similar to the others. Teens and adults took to the microphone. Some quoted Bible verses; others alluded to the civil rights movement.
Transition is the process people go through to live as the gender they identify, according to the Human Rights Campaign. This may or may not include hormone therapy, sex reassignment surgery or other procedures.
The controversy erupted in early May when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton questioned the legality of the Fort Worth guidelines. Texas and other states subsequently sued the federal government over guidelines that allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
District 5 Trustee Judy Needham said she hopes community fears have been diminished by the forums.
“People are getting more understanding,” Needham said.
At Arlington Heights High School earlier this week, critics said they worried that the district is involved in “social engineering” and is shutting parents out of an important aspect of a child’s life.
Zeb Pent, a spokesman for a group known as Stand for Fort Worth, attended the six forums. He has called the forums “the district’s propaganda tour” because administrators and trustees didn’t indicate that the guidelines could be revisited when the forums were first announced.
Pent said the federal directive is not law and that transgender guidelines will be struck down in court.
“More lawsuits will be filed against the district and the board,” he said.
Pent said distrust in leaders and process remains. He asked how the committee members would be chosen and said the board should vote on the revised guidelines.
Some parents called the guidelines illegal and blasted the school board for leaving them out of the process. They are also critical about a part that states: “In most cases, transitioning is a very private matter. Students may choose whether or not to have their parents participate in this process. In fact, notifying a parent or guardian carries risks for the student in some cases. School personnel must consider the health, well-being and safety of the transitioning student.”
Other people supported the guidelines and said they backed Scribner. They included transgender people and teachers who told audiences personal stories of the challenges faced by transgender students — from bullying to isolation to family acceptance.
Stacey Monroe, a 22-year-old transgender activist, attended five of the forums. She said she wished there had been similiar guidelines in place when she was in high school in Irving.
“There was no one there speaking for me,” said Monroe, who is documenting the Fort Worth debate on social media.
85percent of Texas respondents to a National Transgender Discrimination Survey, published in 2011, reported harassment while in grades kindergarten through 12.
“These are students who are suffering,” said Zachary Collins, English teacher at Arlington Heights and co-sponsor of the campus Gay Straight Alliance [GSA]. “I have worked with students who have no place left to go.”
Collins said educators work with parents on many issues, but when students are being abused by families, teachers must report it to state and local law enforcement. He said that applies to students who are transgender, gay or lesbian. He said he had one student who suffered cigarette burns from a relative because he was gay.
46percent of Texas respondents to the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, published in 2011, reported physical assault in grades kindergarten through 12.
Collins said the student was told by a family member: “It is better to burn now on Earth than to burn in Hell.”
This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.
Diane A. Smith: 817-390-7675, @dianeasmith1
School Trustee Ann Sutherland speaks at the last of six public forums on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at South Hills High School. Bob Haynes Special to the Star-Telegram
Mike Turner, right, speaks against the transgender guidelines. Listening from left are Assistant Superintendent Michael Steinert, South Hills Principal Dorothy Gomez, school Trustee Ann Sutherland and Superintendent Kent Scribner. Thursday, June 9, 2016, at South Hills High School. Bob Haynes Special to the Star-Telegram
Zeb Pent, right, speaks against the Fort Worth school district’s guidelines on transgender students. At left is Shannon O’Shea, a transgender woman. They attended the forum on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at South Hills High School. Bob Haynes Special to the Star-Telegram
Fort Worth school Superintendent Kent Scribner speaks at the forum at South Hills High School on Thursday, June 9, 2016. The meeting is the last of six public forums to discuss the policy on transgender students and access to restrooms. Bob Haynes Special to the Star-Telegram
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Why the radical protestors are not the problem
The radicals on campus are not the problem — those who congregate around them, post videos on snapchat and openly scream and argue against them are.
Photo by Johanna Huckeba and Johanna Huckeba and Johanna Huckeba | The State Press Preachers on the Tempe campus on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.
By Morgan DiFelice | 02/10/16 2:31am
ASU students are no strangers to radical protesters on campus. We have all seen the mobs and swarms of students gathered around protesters who call gay people sinners and women whores. Yes, these accusations are offensive and immoral, but the accusations are not all that is wrong with what’s happening at our campus and other campuses around the nation.
The problem is that people are listening.
Yes, there is a problem with people openly criticizing others for their actions that have nothing to do with them. I’m not saying I agree or think that radical protestation is right, I’m just saying they're not going anywhere, so it’s time for us, as students, to do something about it in a peaceful manner.
I once read a George R.R. Martin quote that said, “Power resides only where men believe it resides. ... A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” Someone or something only has power if they are given that power. By students stopping to listen while these speakers spew hate and profanities, we are giving them exactly what they want: ears.
Think you are making a difference by posting it on Snapchat and making fun of it? No. Think you are making a difference by standing up next to the protesters and making funny faces? Nope. Do you think you are making a difference by crying and screaming your lungs out in opposition? You are not. You are giving them a purpose to be there by acknowledging their prejudice and detest for others.
Listening, laughing, recording and onlooking fuels their hate-fire and brings relevance to their actions.
People could argue that doing nothing is just as bad as doing something, but the only thing that keeps these people coming back is the fact that they are getting attention. It’s as simple as that.
I challenge you: Next time you see a mob of people surrounding these ludicrous protesters, leave them alone. Walk right past those people like they are as insignificant as their abhorrence against others. Hitting them, pouring drinks on them, screaming at them, arguing with them is not solving the problem of slander and hatred — it’s just making everyone involved look foolish. How silly would they look if they came and no one acknowledged their hate? Don’t give them the power they so desperately desire.
Remember: Haters are going to hate no matter what, but if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, shot to international fame when David Cameron presented one of his works to President Obama as a gift on his first official state visit, but is arguably more famous for ‘Alphabet Street’ – the shutters and murals he painted in his trademark colours and typography in Middlesex Street, London – described by The Times as ”a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House”
Born 1970. London, England.
Ben Eine is one of London’s most prolific and original street artists who specialises in the central element of all graffiti – the form of letters.
Originally a ‘writer’ he started his career over twenty five years ago as a vandal leaving his first tag all over London before eventually developing a distinct typographic style
Eine specialises in producing huge letters on shop fronts, his bright, colourful letters have transformed streets around the world in cities including LA, San Francisco, Mexico City, Miami, Paris, Dublin, Tokyo, Stockholm as well as his home city of London.
Eine’s most recent gallery solo exhibition at White Walls gallery in San Francisco sold out prior to opening. He was also included in the World’s biggest exhibition of st art so far ”Art in the Streets” at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles.
In 2011 Eine was invited by Amnesty International to design their 50th anniversary poster, joining other artists such as Picasso and Miro in supporting the charity through art.
Eine’s letters and words transgress the usual stylised image devised to depict form and emotion and through a combination of colour, placement and size they become abstract and unique works of art in their own right.
In June 2012 Eine created his largest indoor installation to date, titled ‘Communicate’. An 82 metre long statement ‘To Express Thoughts or Feelings Easily and Effectively’ panted in The Lowry Museum in Manchester.
From single letters to complex and wry statements Eine has left his mark worldwide, his stunning words and letters can be found on shop front shutters and walls as well as in museums and galleries in a style Eine has made striking, effective and his own.
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The Enchanted Rose Of England
By: amarticles-linda
The country England is in north-west Europe. It is the largest and most populous of the United Kingdom. Inhabitants accounts for eight three percent of the total population. It is bordered by the North Sea, Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean and English Channel.
The country England ranks as one of the most influential and far-reaching centres of cultural development in the world. It is the place of origin for the English Language and the church of England. Currency is English pound. The moronic is Queen ElizabethII. The patron Saint is St George. The country England does not have an official designated national anthem as the United Kingdom as a whole has God Save The Queen as its national anthem.
In May 1707 the United Kingdom was an independent state when the Acts of Union resulted in a political union. It was the birth place of the Industrial Revolution. The Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science. Until recently England was generally thought of as a gentle fabled land freeze-framed sometime in the 1930s home of the post office country pub and vicarage. Its now better known for vibrant cities with great night life and attractions contrasted with green and pleasant countryside.
Places to visit include the coast, the national parks in London, popular towns like Oxford, Bath and York have to be seen to be believed.
The weather in terms of climate is mild. The least hospitable months for visitors are November to February. The days are cold and short. March to October are marginal there more daylight but still pretty chilly. Best months to visit are April to September.
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The Rise of the Anti-Valentine’s Ad
Behold, commercials that satirize the idea that love—and women—can be bought.
Megan Garber
In a Dairy Queen ad: "Baby ... it's perfect!"Dairy Queen / YouTube
Dairy Queen recently came out with … a Valentine’s Day ad. The spot features the typical stuff of commercialized romance: an attractive couple, cuddled before a roaring fire; sighs of satisfaction; a general atmosphere of quiet contentment. And then the guy pulls out a long, red box, and the girl gasps with joy, and … well, see for yourself:
So: LOL, Valentine’s Day. (Really, LOL: The ad doubles as very good satire.) And while Dairy Queen’s ad might be a particularly intricate specimen of the genre, it isn’t alone in parodying the schmaltz and smarm of the ultimate Hallmark holiday. Hooter’s has been doing something similar (with its #shredyourex campaign, perhaps the most creative way the ad world has yet devised to combine office equipment and chicken wings). Doritos has, too. So has IKEA. So has Virgin Mobile. And McDonald’s. And Pizza Hut. Golden Corral, this week, has been running TV spots that feature Jeff Foxworthy offering guys the chance to “give her the gift she’s really gonna love.” (Spoiler: That gift is “ENDLESS PRIME RIB, BABY!”)
The ads are a twist on the more classic ironic-Valentine’s Day spot, which get their humor—not always, but very, very often—from not-terribly-subtle sex jokes. (Forks and spoons, in-flagrante-ed; strategically configured car seats; plays on the visual similarities between hearts and body parts; etc.)
But the satire ad (the LOLentine? the haha-lentine?) is different. In the guise of doing what an ad will always do—try to sell stuff—it pokes fun at the stale, often sexist conventions of the commercialized Valentine’s Day.
The V-Day parodies make fun of a long but not terribly proud history of ads that treat women as the objects of gift-giving and adoration and men as the givers of those things; that equate the spending of money with the having of sex; that blend commercialism and romance with a blitheness that will surely make future generations cringe and laugh and side-eye.
Ads, for example, like this:
What Dairy Queen is also making fun of, though, is a subtler kind of sexism. The ads that suggest that buying a woman a Valentine’s Day present will make her “swoon,” and let her guard down, and otherwise capitulate to the gift-giver’s—ostensibly her boyfriend’s or husband’s or date’s—desires. The logic is gross for obvious reasons, but it’s the most common message of Valentine’s Day advertising. And it’s definitely not relegated to a Mad Men-ian past. A recent Valentine’s-themed email from Virgin America and Teleflora came with the subject line “Make Her Swoon.” The toll-free number for the diamond importer Mervis is “1-800-HERLOVE.”
The messages contained in those marketing ploys are common to the point of banality. They reflect bits of logic that have become so fully dissolved into the culture at large that they have become largely invisible. (Every kiss begins with Kay.) But if ads are able to reflect the collective psyche the way few other things can, then these silly specimens are, in their way, revealing. They suggest a culture that proffers competing messages when it comes to that most enduring and confusing and human of things: romance. They suggest that love—beautiful, ineffable, ephemeral—can’t be bought, and also that it totally can. They suggest that love is transcendent, and also totally transactional.
And now! They suggest a culture that is arguing with itself, fighting back against all the mixed messages. With the help, yes, of Dairy Queen! And also Golden Corral! And also Hooters! Which are, definitely, restaurants that are trying to capitalize on Valentine’s Day even though they have no jewelry or flowers or lingerie to sell. But which are, on the other hand, deciding that there’s market value in making fun of the Valentine’s Industrial Complex. They’ve had it with the gross messages, and the mixed ones. They’re sick of ads that suggest that love can be bought and sold. They think the rest of us are, too. They may well be correct. Here’s a thing I never thought I’d write, but: yaaas Dairy Queen.
Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture.
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