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US promises nearly $17M for survivors of Las Vegas massacre
The money from the Justice Department will defray costs of counseling, therapy, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people affected by the massacre
By Ken Ritter
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. government is allocating nearly $17 million to help people affected by the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that became the deadliest in the nation's modern history, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Friday.
The money from the Justice Department will defray costs of counseling, therapy, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people affected by the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre, Whitaker said in Cincinnati.
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker speaks during a news conference, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Fifty-eight people died and more than 850 were injured when a gunman opened fire from a high-rise hotel into an open-air country music concert crowd of 22,000 people.
Whitaker termed the $16.7 million grant to help victims, family members, medical personnel, first responders, concert staff, vendors and witnesses as an effort to help Las Vegas heal.
"We have already provided $3 million to cover expenses for state and local law enforcement in Las Vegas and in Clark County following last October's horrific mass shooting," he said.
The Justice Department said the money will supplement and replenish a compensation fund managed by the Nevada Office for Victims of Crime .
A committee overseeing the state fund created a protocol to make payments on a scale to more than 530 people.
Relatives of those killed and people whose injuries left them with permanent brain damage or paralysis received the maximum $275,000.
Smaller sums were given to those who were hospitalized or received medical care on an emergency or outpatient basis in the days after the shooting.
Program coordinator Michelle Morgando said Friday that $3.2 million has been disbursed to date for claims arising from the Route 91 Harvest Festival tragedy.
A motive for the shooting has not been found. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo declared the Las Vegas police investigation complete and on Aug. 3 issued a report that said the shooter acted alone and the shooting was not part of a terrorist plot.
An FBI report incorporating a behavioral analysis of shooter Stephen Paddock is expected by year's end.
Las Vegas police are still making weekly releases of video clips from hundreds of officers who responded to the shooting under court order in an open records lawsuit filed by The Associated Press and several other media organizations.
Funds will also to the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center for services to survivors, family members and victims, said Stacey Welling, a Clark County spokeswoman.
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Wendy Williams: I AM Banging so Many Men Right Now!
The Hollywood Gossip May 14, 2019
As you very likely know by now, Wendy Williams is single.
And in case you were somehow unsure, the talk show host made it very clear this morning:
She is SO very ready to mingle!
Actually, to be more specific, to hear Williams herself tell it.... she's already way past mingling.
She's seemingly moved on to, well, you can go ahead and use your X-Rated imagination.
Explaining to viewers on Tuesday how she's "reclaiming her life" in the wake of her divorce from Kevin Hunter, Williams didn't sound a woman scorned or lonely these days.
Far from it, in fact.
"I go out a lot because I am a good time girl. I like to have fun," Williams said to raucous studio audience applause. "I am right now a young and pretty New York City girl."
Well, she's 54. But you're only as young as you feel, right?
After many years of putting up with Hunter allegedly cheating on her, Williams finally had enough last month.
She filed to legally break-up with Hunter after his mistress gave birth to the couple's child and Williams sadly relapsed in response; multiple outlets reported that Wendy was rushed to the hospital on the same day Hunter welcomed a baby with Sharina Hudson.
It's all been enough to turn even Wendy's most stridents critics sympathetic to her romantic plight.
But Williams doesn't want our sympathy.
She just wants us all to know she's still getting some, thank you very much!
The star noted on air today that she has "the ultimate bachelorette pad high atop everything" with a "really, really good view" -- and it sounds like she's putting it to good, scorching hot use.
"I don't have a boyfriend, but I must admit I am rediscovering my love of men," Williams told her viewers with a smile, adding:
"I do date and I date pretty often... the parade of men will continue because I need things lifted, put in position. I’m still unpacking boxes for God’s sakes.
"That’s all I’m saying.”
She may be saying more if one chooses to read between the lines. But we'll leave that to our loyal readers.
Williams has talked in broad or vague terms about her divorce in the several weeks since it was made official.
However, she grew rather personal and clearly bitter just a couple days ago, addressing women who cheat with married men and telling them they would burn in Hell.
If it sounds like Williams is therefore struggling in light of her spllit, she wants you to think again.
"I am working on my divorce pleasantly right now," she said very simply today, talking directly about the break-up for one of the first times and continuing:
"It's hard to say 'give privacy' because I don't give privacy when I'm doing the rest of the stories, so you do what you want - you always do."
Hunter and Williams got married in 1997 and have a son named Kevin together.
Her estranged husband also worked as a producer on Wendy's talk show ever since it premiered, mixing business with pleasure in an unhealthy manner.
But no longer.
Williams has not only kicked Hunter out of her bed, she's also kicked him off her program!
You continue to go, girl!
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Typhoon Texas Deal Ranks High For Pflugerville Corp In 2017
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Typhoon Texas deal ranks high for Pflugerville Corp. in 2017
If you ask Amy Madison, 2017 started with a big splash.
Just days into the new year, the executive director of the Pflugerville Community Development Corp. watched as the City Council approved a city agreement for Typhoon Texas to take over operations at Hawaiian Falls Water and Adventure Park.
“I don’t think anything tops that,” Madison said almost exactly a year after the agreement. “It was a challenge for any municipality to do that so quickly. It was just right-on-time delivery.”
The deal was a culmination of weeks of negotiations between Typhoon Texas, the city and the city corporation in seeking a new operator for the water park. City officials including Mayor Victor Gonzales had voiced concerns over Hawaiian Falls’ management of the water park and its ability to adhere to a city agreement.
Jim Swanzy, city corporation board president, said the deal with Typhoon Texas followed in March with the city corporation refinancing a loan for the water park. The new loan effectively increased the city’s bond rating, which city staff had said would likely result in savings for future bond projects.
“It was a big deal for both the city and the PCDC,” Swanzy said.
Those were just two of numerous dealings by the city corporation in 2017, which included brokering incentives agreements for business relocations to matching funds for beautification efforts.
In 2017, city corporation staff said it played a role in bringing 605 new jobs to the city. Madison said 70 of those jobs related to local business expansion, while 535 other jobs came from business recruitment through the city corporation offering financial incentives.
Those numbers are based on information given by companies that received services from Madison and her staff.
As the city’s economic arm, the city corporation receives funding through a half-cent city sales tax. That sales tax revenue has grown from $926,000 in fiscal year 2006 to $4.2 million in FYI 2017 — a 78-percent increase — since the city corporation’s inception.
In 2017, that funding allowed the city corporation to offer a combined $225,000 for both Accent Food Services and MW Builders to relocate headquarters to Pflugerville. Accent, which is moving from its South Austin location, broke ground in June for its new headquarters on A.W. Grimes Boulevard.
In November, the city corporation also provided $1.5 million in incentives for Costco to open a new warehouse retail store at the southeast corner of Texas 130 and Kelly Lane.
Each incentive package provided to businesses entails meeting certain criteria, such as providing a certain number of jobs or investing in local property. If those criteria are not met, the incentives are withdrawn.
Last year, the city corporation also ended a longstanding agreement with 130 Commerce Center LLC to lease commercial space at the business complex. That endeavor initially began with the city corporation buying 167 acres in 2008 and creating infrastructure readily available for businesses relocating to Pflugerville.
A bevy of companies, including an estimated $20 million facility for Flooring Services Southwest, have either closed on or leased commercial space at the business complex located on Texas 130 near East Pecan Street.
Swanzy said with all the previous board members having been reappointed at the end of 2017, the city will benefit from an experienced group.
“The board works really well together,” he said. “It doesn’t mean we don’t have disagreements, but we can resolve them in a gentlemanly fashion.”
PCDC activities in 2017
The Pflugerville Community Development Corp. continued its role last year in boosting the local economy and fostering community projects. Here is a short timeline of the corporation’s activities in 2017:
• PCDC, city approve agreement with Typhoon Texas to manage and lease the water park.
• PCDC refinances its $24 million loan for the water park. Language in the loan removes the city as a third party.
• PCDC brokers incentives agreements to relocate two business headquarters to Pflugerville. Per the agreement, Accent Food Services can receive up to $150,000 over five years from PCDC, while MW Builders can receive up to $75,000.
• PCDC receives strategic plan from Avalanche Consulting, offering a list of tangible goals.
• Accent Food Services breaks ground on its new headquarters on A.W. Grimes Boulevard.
• Flooring Services Southwest breaks ground on a $20 million facility planned for a 30-acre tract at 130 Commerce Center.
• PCDC provides matching funds for the Pflugerville Rotary Club to plant 40 trees at 1849 Park.
• The Highland Park North Homeowners Association holds a celebration for a new shaded community park and walking trail co-funded by PCDC.
• PCDC and the city approve an interlocal agreement with Costco to build a new retail warehouse at the southeast corner of Kelly Lane and Texas 130.
Mike Parker, Austin Community Newspaper, statesman.com, 1/9/2018
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Cheltenham on New Year's Day
I always like to start the new year off with a winner but, more often than not, I fail miserably. Still, I'm not going to let that small point of order prevent me from trying my luck in 2009. If Cheltenham manages to beat the predicted frost, I'll take a chance with Tartak against Kicks For Free in the Dipper Novices' Chase at 1.40. Tartak was beaten by Gone To Lunch last time out; that one franked the form by winning again at Newbury on Monday - the step back in trip here shouldn't prove too much of a problem for the selection. Although it's a small field, it would be unwise to see this as a two horse affair. You can expect Calgary Bay to improve following his first run of the season while Howard Johnson's Kealshore Boy is highly-regarded and comes from a stable that's in excellent form. This contest should give us some pointers for the future.
Likely favourite Franchoek has struggled a little this term and is worth taking on in the 3.20; I'll be doing so with the top-rated No Refuge who put up a decent performance on his seasonal debut behind Pettifour at Wetherby. Maidstone Mixture and Lough Derg should ensure there's some early pace in the race.
Alexanderthegreat is getting on a little these days but has been in decent form recently for the Venetia Williams operation; he could repay each-way support in the Cheltenham Annual Pony Club Raceday Handicap Chase at 1.05.
On New Year's Eve, congratulations go to Hayley Turner who became the first woman jockey to ride a hundred winners in Britain in the course of a year. For future reference, the name of the beast on which she reached the landmark was Mullitovermaurice. With that, may I take this opportunity to wish all readers of this humble blog a happy and prosperous new year.
Labels: cheltenham, new year, turner
Christmas review
Kauto Star's victory in a fast-run King George was most impressive; many of his rivals were taken clean off their feet. Paul Nicholls was clearly pumped up afterwards and used the post-race interviews to make a couple of points. We won't see Kauto out again before next March while Denman has Newbury's Aon Chase as his target.
I'm not certain how much store to put by Breedsbreeze's victory in the Feltham. The six novices put in some very dodgy jumping between them, the winner and favourite being the best of a poor bunch on the day. Market rival The Market Man made an absolute howler down the back straight that put an end to his chance. I'm not tempted by 10/1 this winner for the RSA Chase at Cheltenham as I wasn't totally convinced about him getting the three mile trip and his limited chasing experience to date has come in small fields. Gone To Lunch, who won today at Newbury, is priced at 16/1 for Cheltenham; he may not turn out to be the best horse in the field but his jumping should stand him in good stead.
On Saturday I thought two starts were worthy of comment. At Chepstow the starter let the runners go off any old how in the Future Champions Hurdle while in the Castleford Chase at Wetherby there were at least two or three jockeys riding speedy sorts who looked determined to get a 'flyer' and practically had their mounts galloping as the tapes went up; 7/2 favourite Calatagan was over twenty lengths off the pace at the first turn!
Diamond Harry won today's Challow Hurdle at Newbury without being extended; connections may take in one more race at Cheltenham towards the end of next month before going for the Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle at the Festival.
The prize awaiting the winner of the Weekender's Christmas crossword puzzle is dinner with Mick Fitzgerald. One thing is certain - should you win, you won't have to put in too much effort beforehand thinking about what you're going to talk about... Rumour has it second prize is a long weekend 'chez Fitz'.
Labels: challow hurdle, chepstow, fitzgerald, kauto star, king george, newbury, wetherby
Chepstow, Kempton and Wetherby
Precautionary inspections have been called tomorrow morning at both Chepstow and Wetherby. The Welsh National is usually a slog in the mud over three and three quarter miles and this year looks no different. Of the twenty to go to post, four are set to carry eleven stone or more while the bottom seven entries have to carry more than their allocated long handicap weight; I'd be surprised if any of the top four win. There are some nice horses carrying a racing weight including Nenuphar Collonges and Mon Mome; it not a surprise to see these two at the head of the market. Of the two I prefer Mon Mome as he's a bigger price and the jockey can claim a valuable three pounds. His tussle with Star De Mohaison just a fortnight ago at Cheltenham is something of a concern. I'll keep an eye on how Darkness runs in this - he was a good horse, suffered an injury that kept him off the course for two and a half years but made a decent comeback at Haydock five weeks ago.
The 2.40 is pretty hot with the protagonists likely to be Simarian, Pepite De Soleil and Walkon. In a recent stable tour trainer Evan Williams indicated tough customer Simarian was being aimed as this, so he gets the nod ahead of the other two.
At Kempton Twist Magic sets a poser in the Desert Orchid Chase at 3.15. He's the top-rated animal and looked a big danger to eventual winner Master Minded when coming down two out in the Tingle Creek. If he runs to that level he can win, but he has disappointed too often in the past.. McCoy rides - every horse has his price and on value grounds alone I'll be tempted to play if he's priced at 5/2 or bigger. Connections of Starluck appear to have dodged the serious opposition by opting to run here rather than in Chepstow's 2.40; Starluck is the one to beat in the opener.
At Wetherby Pop steps up in class in the trappy-looking 2.30; if the ground were better I'd consider a wager but on this occasion I'll watch from the sidelines. In the Castleford Handicap Chase Moon Over Miami is talented but not guaranteed to perform. In the past he has allowed the preliminaries in the paddock to affect his performance on the track. The Racing post report he has recently had a wind operation and quote him at 6/1 in their tissue. In a race that is likely to be run to suit this hold-up performer, 6/1 would be of interest, especially if it turns out the operation has worked.
Labels: chepstow, kempton, welsh national, wetherby
Boxing Day selection box
As always, the Boxing Day selections come with their customary health / wealth warning. It's Christmas Eve, I haven't had time to study much of the form, I've had one or two more sherberts than I should have, and Mrs Tips is bending my ear. If you're hoping to win the mortgage down your local track the day after tomorrow, that's not going to happen with these picks...
I've tried to come up with at least one selection at each of the jump meetings.
1.30 The Market Man
2.05 Either Pierrot Lunaire or Snap Tie as a play against Punjabi
2.40 Kauto Star win, Snoopy Loopy each way
1.45 Marginally prefer Standin Obligation to Cloudy Lane as a play against Tidal Bay
1.15 Pride Of Dulcote
12.20 Starburst Diamond
2.00 Victorias Groom
1.25 Rate Of Knots
3.40 Neil Harvey
2.25 Victory Gunner goes for his fourth consecutive win in the Lincolnshire National. I fear he may have a little too much weight this year but I'll be hoping he manages to pull it off.
12.15 River Shanakill
12.45 Kings Maiden
2.55 Justwhateverulike
Labels: huntingdon, kempton, king george, market rasen, sedgefield, towcester, wetherby, wincanton
Christmas dilemmas
A few thoughts after quickly looking at the Boxing Day ante-post markets...
For the King George, Voy Por Ustedes is short enough given we don't know for certain whether he'll stay. On better ground Air Force One would have won the Hennessy; he's likely to get his ground here but regular jockey Noel Fehily misses the ride after breaking his collar bone in a fall at Fontwell yesterday. Just one win from the last thirty runs will be something of a concern for those thinking about backing either David Pipe or Nigel Twiston-Davies trained horses. Exotic Dancer is quoted at fancy prices but has only been left in as a precaution - the Lexus Chase in Ireland is his target. On Betfair Chase form there's not much between Snoopy Loopy and Tamarinbleu. With better steering on the jockey's part, Snoopy Loopy would have beaten Monet's Garden last time out over two and a half miles. Prior to that Huntingdon effort, I was concerned that Snoopy would get done for toe if he ran here on this flat track; now I think he represents decent each-way value. He's as tough as old boots but has been busy over the past weeks - I just hope this isn't one race too many. The bookies quote 33/1 Albertas Run but the horse is trading shorter on Betfair.
I think the Christmas Hurdle is more competitive than the market would indicate. Punjabi is the short-priced favourite; Paul Nicholls has issued an unusually bullish update about Pierrot Lunaire. Richard Johnson holds Snap Tie in very high regard while Straw Bear is a previous winner who hasn't really taken to chasing this term.
The Market Man is entered in the Feltham and jumped exceptionally well at Newbury last time; he's not one to take on lightly.
Up at Wetherby connections have entered last season's Arkle winner Tidal Bay in the three mile one furlong Rowland Meyrick. Trading at around 6/4 he's worth opposing as he's not guaranteed to stay and his jumping hasn't been flawless in the past - I think the fences at Wetherby are amongst the stiffest in the country. State Of Play won the Charlie Hall here early in November but at the weights he was entitled to and he only just got home ahead of Ollie Magern. I've had burnt fingers with State Of Play before; at this stage I'm unsure. Two I'll look at in greater detail are Nozic and Cloudy Lane. Standin Obligation also enters calculations but he was inconsistent when with David Pipe - perhaps the change of stable has proved beneficial.
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Labels: christmas, kempton, king george, wetherby
Festive fare
The only thing that makes Christmas half-bearable is the racing on Boxing Day. Last night somebody who clearly has little regard for their own money asked me for an each-way outsider in the King George; I came up with 20/1 chance Snoopy Loopy. I figured if connections have stumped up £10k to supplement the horse, they must think it has some sort of chance. Previous King George winner and current favourite Kauto Star will generate plenty of press interest. However his stablemate and Gold Cup winner Denman has a surprise entry in the 2.55 hurdle race at Wincanton on the same day; teletext reports a decision regarding his participation will be taken on Tuesday. In the meantime, if you're in desperate need of rescue from the whole horror of Christmas, I recommend ploughing through the Boxing Day declarations to see if you can spot a cunning plot; should you happen to stumble upon one, please let me know.
Many will think that within the space of half an hour at Ascot on Saturday they saw the next Champion and World Hurdle winners in Binocular and Punchestowns. After winning on Binocular McCoy had a dig at the BBC's proposed coverage cuts with a quip that the only chance viewers would have to see the horse again would be on Top Gear.
A couple of midweek results caught my eye. Bannister Lane bounced back to form to win the three and three quarter mile handicap chase at Bangor on Wednesday while Ron Hodges' Dream Falcon was backed in from 20/1 to 7/1 before taking the two and a half mile novices' handicap chase at Ludlow on Thursday. At Ascot on Friday Medermit and Dee Ee Williams fought out a thrilling finish but perhaps the horse to note was Wendel who had every chance coming to the last; that form represents a big improvement on his previous two wins at Plumpton. Quoting Charlie Mann in the Weekender - "I have some very nice novice hurdlers this season and I think he could be the best of them." Earlier in the season Black Jacari was touted as a possible Triumph Hurdle hope but the horse has patently failed to deliver; he runs with first-time blinkers applied in a Class 4 juvenile novice hurdle at Hereford tomorrow.
It might be Christmas but the press still likes nothing better than a bad news story - they've been hinitng for a few weeks now that ten household High Street names are in danger of going to the wall in 2009. I wonder if William Hill is one of those ten names. And, finally, a phrase to strike fear into the heart of any sports administrator is 'suspicious betting patterns'. Last week snooker came under the spotlight...
Labels: ascot, bangor on dee, boxing day, hereford, king george, ludlow, snooker, william hill
Ascot on Saturday
Following the midweek decision to re-schedule the Boylesports International to a card that already boasts the Long Walk Hurdle and the Ladbroke, a spokesman was quoted as saying, in typically understated fashion, that this was 'probably the greatest day's hurdling ever seen'.
Your view on the Long Walk will depend on your interpretation of the Long Distance Hurdle ran at Newbury three weeks ago. To my mind, the race was run at a muddling pace and things looked to fall just right for Duke De Regniere; on the walk back to the winners' enclosure that day, McCoy practically said as much in a TV interview. McCoy retains the ride tomorrow and perhaps surprisingly the horse is pushing for favouritism. Those behind who are likely to fancy their chances tomorrow include Mobaasher, Pettifour, Blazing Bailey and Hills Of Aran. After looking through the form earlier in the week, I'm convinced Mobaasher isn't the easiest ride while the top-rated Blazing Bailey often throws in a poor jump - his effort at the penultimate flight at Newbury probably put paid to his chance. In addition there's some discussion as to whether blinkers have helped in the past - they're been left off here. Hills Of Aran is 66/1 in places which is big - the horse has an each-way squeak in my book. Both Serabad and Punchestowns, who won with any amount in hand last time at Cheltenham, may have difficulty with this trip. I prefer something I know will stay and so side with Twiston-Davies' charge Pettifour. I like this horse and the trainer has been quite bullish in the build-up. Whatever happens, we should have a race to remember.
Only five in the re-arranged International and it could turn into a tactical affair; Celestial Halo likes to race prominently. Using official handicap ratings as a guide, Katchit is the one they have to beat while there doesn't look much between Chomba Womba and Crack Away Jack. I would have preferred the race to have been at Cheltenham for Katchit but at around 9/2 the current champion hurdler looks value against the current champion hurdle favourite Binocular.
A token each-way selection at a price for the Ladbroke - Irish Legend has a racing weight and comes to this in good form.
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Friday at Ascot
The Mitie Kennel Gate Novices' Hurdle looks the best race of its type so far this season; I don't think I'll get involved but the outcome should prove useful for future reference. I like Dee Ee Williams - the yard is in good form at the moment - but Bergo has a seven pound pull at the weights for the half length beating last time. Since moving to Sheena West's the four year old Golan Way reamins unbeaten. He had some decent sorts behind at Cheltenham recently when making all - that's the way he likes to race but that may leave him vulnerable here. Howard Johnson's Door Boy has finished second to the smart Diamond Harry while Paul Nicholls' Shamari could be anything; this looks an enthralling race.
Deep Purple poses something of a conundrum in the novice chase at 2.30. He didn't jump too well on his debut over fences at Wetherby but made amends last time out at Taunton. Will he handle Ascot's tougher obstacles? Naiad du Misselot has smart form behind Palomar to his name but the percentage call looks to be Buck The Legend. The doubt is the stable form - Twiston-Davies emerged from a spell without a winner when Tricky Trickster obliged at Newbury yesterday (Wednesday).
Weekend washout
The Saturday cards at both Cheltenham and Lingfield were abandoned due to heavy overnight rain. Racing went ahead at Doncaster where the finale had been selected as the 'bonus' race for the two Scoop6 punters hoping to share over £1.6 million. Their chances looked to have increased significantly with the withdrawal of three runners on account of the going, leaving a field of just nine from which to make their two picks. Ray Stubbs and Lawrence Ireland chose Duke of Touraine (6/1) and Riguez Dancer (4/1). Up the home straight both horses were in a group of three that pulled away from the rest; Duke of Touraine looked to go half a length up on Charlie Crab (12/1) after the last but on the long run to the line the outsider fought back tenaciously next to the running rail to win by half a length. Both punters took it all very well really considering Channel Four insisted on repeatedly replaying the finish. The Tote estimate the bonus fund for Saturday December 27th will top £2 million; to be in with a chance of winning it, you just have to select six winners on Saturday...
Efforts were being made today to re-schedule the Boylesports International Hurdle to Ascot this weekend - at the moment it doesn't look as though those efforts have been successful. The unbeaten Diamond Harry, an entry in the cancelled Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle, now has the Challow Hurdle at Newbury as his target.
Today's Racing Post leads with an article that compares the BBC's commitment to racing a decade ago with its plans for the coming decade. Ten years ago 79 days of racing were scheduled to be covered; from 2010 the BBC intend to broadcast just 14 days. Of course, the other terrestrial broadcaster, Channel Four, is known to have serious financial problems and may be taken over by Channel Five.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2008 is Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy. I certainly enjoyed last night's programme; nonetheless it still remains a source of wonder to me how the racing year can be summarised in thirty seconds flat.
Comment on a Christmas card, recently received: 'Went to Chepstow last month; seen better horses on Blackpool beach.'
Finally, is anybody else having difficulty finding what they want on the new Racing Post website...?
Labels: bbc, cheltenham, racing post, scoop6
Cheltenham - Saturday's Boylesports meeting
Unsurprisingly Imperial Commander is favourite for the day's feature race, the Boylesports Gold Cup, on the back of his impressive victory in the Paddy Power Gold Cup over course and distance a month ago. The Twiston-Davies inmate is my idea of the winner but everybody else has the same idea with the result he's no real value in the market. Some commentators oppose with Silverburn but, as I've said before on this blog, I'm not particularly keen - he has disappointed on a number of occasions so, in search of some value, I'll chance Tom Taaffe's Finger Onthe Pulse who's priced up at around 7/1.
From a betting point of view the International at 3.05 is much more interesting. Current champion hurdle favourite Binocular heads this market but there are some classy opponents in the field including the current champion hurdler. In the past ten renewals the jolly has won five times but on the other occasions a relatively unfancied horse has taken the prize; I remember backing Geos at 14/1 to win this when it was known as the Bula. The game mare Chomba Womba beat Crack Away Jack last time out at Ascot and the pair reoppose on similar terms here; on balance I think Crack Away Jack will reverse the form and that view is taken by the bookies who make the chestnut gelding a 4/1 shot while the mare is 6/1. Those who have opposed Katchit this season have be on good terms with themselves but trainer Alan King issued an upbeat update during the week with the result that the champion's price for this has shortened to 9/2 in places. At the time of writing Hills still go 5/1 Katchit - at that price he has to be worth an interest.
Anyone who saw Punchestowns win here last month will know why the horse is set to be sent off a short-priced favourite for the Relkeel Hurdle at 1.20. Having said that, I'm going to take a chance with Peter Bowen's Serabad. This horse won at Aintree three weeks ago when thought to be in need of the run. The trainer reports his charge has made plenty of improvement since but, using official ratings as a guide, he will need every ounce of that improvement to be competitive against this favourite. The softer the ground, the better it will suit the selection.
On official ratings Starluck is the one to beat in the opener while the finale appears between Massasoit and Diamond Harry. Both horses have yet to race over three miles in public; Massasoit is top-rated and gets the vote.
Addendum - I've just noticed that Henry Daly runs Pop in the 12.30 at Doncaster. Last time out this horse was in the process of giving Shining Gale a run for his money in a beginners' chase at Ludlow when coming to grief four out. Since then Shining Gale has gone on to win a Class 2 novice chase at Cheltenham by over twenty lengths. If his price is in double figures tomorrow morning, I'll consider an each-way interest.
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Cheltenham - quick notes for Friday
In the opener I wouldn't want to take too short a price about Ballyfitz. Sir Alex Ferguson owns a share in What A Friend - I wonder if he'll be at the course.
Following Dix Villez's controversial three length defeat of Garde Champetre over course and distance last time out, the layout for the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase (1.20) has been modified. Garde Champetre aims for compensation here and is likely to be in the shake-up.
Simon looked as though he'd come on for the run on his seasonal debut here four weeks ago and should go well in the 1.55. The Sporting Life's early tissue prices him at 12/1 which represents reasonable each-way value. Having been found lame in his box on the morning of the Hennessy, Character Building comes to this a fresh horse and is bound to be popular.
Gloucester runs in the 3.05 and is one I like who appeared a little unfortunate last time out. Priced up at 33/1, he was brought down two out while making stealthy headway from the rear in the race won by Sunnyhillboy at the track last month - of course, the odds are likely to be considerably shorter tomorrow...
In the finale I'd consider a speculative each-way wager at a price on What A Buzz. His chance will improve with soft / testing ground and the McCain stable are currently in decent form.
Finally you have to take your hat off to Ruby Walsh who returns to the saddle tomorrow after having his spleen removed following a fall from Pride Of Dulcote four weeks ago, and Cheltenham are taking every precaution to ensure the meeting can beat the frost.
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The Peterborough Chase
Over recent years it's been a bit of a devil to know on which day of the week this two and a half mile chase will be run. I assume race organisers are pleased with the eleven lining up for tomorrow's renewal, as opposed to the two that lined up the year before (when the race was run on a Saturday). Many of this year's field have something to prove. On official handicap ratings confirmed stayer Snoopy Loopy is the top horse; ten years old, he has shown excellent improvement over recent weeks but the trip is likely to be too sharp. Alan King's My Way De Solzen would have a big chance if back to his best but he disappointed on a number of occasions last term for no apparent reason; on balance I'm not prepared to take the risk. Natal is a horse I've found difficult to catch right in the past although he warrants plenty of respect, especially at this trip. I'm siding with Monet's Garden. His seasonal debut at Aintree appeared below par but the very soft ground that day didn't help - if I remember correctly connections were toying with the idea of withdrawing. The better ground here will suit and I'm hoping the grey still retains all his ability.
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Sandown, Wetherby and Chepstow
I was on two minds whether to play today (Friday) with a couple of decent races at both Sandown and Exeter; in the event I'm glad I didn't. The victory of Barbers Shop over Sandown's stiff three miles stands out. This evening Paddy Power offer just 16/1 the horse for the Cheltenham Gold Cup; Hills go 33/1. Nicky Henderson can do little wrong at the moment - his 13/2 shot Doubly Guest looked set to spring a surprise in the 1.00 race at Exeter but a mistake at the last handed the initiative to Lupanar (7/1) who went on to score by half a length, with Franchoek a further one and a half lengths behind in third.
The feature at Sandown tomorrow is the Tingle Creek at 2.35. McCoy takes over from Sam Thomas to ride Master Minded, the highest rated horse in training; he'll be no price but is difficult to oppose. A number of commentators oppose with Tidal Bay; he's been backed during the week and represents a value play provided you're prepared to take on the favourite. At the back of my mind I have a picture of this horse jumping poorly at Doncaster before he went on to win the Arkle last season - having said that he had a nice pipe-opener at Carlisle five weeks ago. Twist Magic looked good winning this last year but things haven't really worked out since. The race doesn't make much appeal from a betting point of view. If eight had gone to post 50/1 shot Fiepes Shuffle would have had a sporting each-way chance of making the first three; I take Master Minded to win.
Only five runners in the Henry VIII Novices' Chase, but picking the winner isn't an easy matter. The two four year olds, Free World and Araldur, get a weight allowance from their opponents and the former is a course and distance winner. The railway fences in particular will provide a stiff test for a young novice but I'm going to take a chance on Araldur as a play against the Nicholls hotpot Free World. Cheating Chance would make more appeal if underfoot conditions were better; I'm sure I saw a comment earlier in the week from trainer Andy Turnell that implied the owners (rather than the trainer) were the ones who were keen to race here.
I consider Hernando Royal an each-way play in the 3.15 after his fourth behind Sunnyhillboy at Cheltenham; his featherweight will be an advantage in the prevailing conditions.
Provided there's no overnight frost the card at Wetherby should get the go-ahead. Nicky Henderson's Punjabi is expected to take the re-arranged 'Fighting Fifth' but he won't be a betting proposition.
In the One Man Novices' Chase Will Be Done is the top-rated animal; his beating of Nine De Sivola last time out reads well. Having said that, Silver By Nature was a close second to the highly-regarded Kealshore Boy at Newcastle. I'll chance Silver By Nature as he offers value, although I harbour some reservations about him quite seeing out this trip in testing conditions. Both these race prominently - I hope they don't get caught out taking each other on early doors.
Travelling back south, the going at Chepstow is soft. The markets think the man in the news, Sam Thomas, has a couple of steering jobs with Charity Lane and Inchidaly Rock; for those prepared to take a chance, Baren De Doc may repay each-way support in the opener.
If Ardaghey is priced up favourite for the 2.10 he'll be worth opposing as the trip looks on the short side for this dour stayer. Pauillac has disappointed too often for my liking while Presenting Copper isn't guaranteed to get the trip. In a trappy affair I'm tempted to side with Lysander; Michael Murphy takes off a valuable seven pounds.
Course and distance winner Wichita Lineman is the selection for the one o'clock race.
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Matthew Hendley | August 1, 2013 | 6:00am
Ian Kennedy, the supposed ace of the Arizona Diamondbacks, was traded yesterday to the San Diego Padres.
It was one of the few moves of a high-profile player before the MLB trade deadline, and in return, the Diamondbacks get left-handed reliever Joe Thatcher, a AA-level pitching prospect, and a draft pick.
Two seasons ago, Kennedy was a candidate for the Cy Young award, posting a 21-4 record with a 2.88 ERA. He'd never had a season like that before, and he's never had one since.
This year, his record is 3-8, with a 5.23 ERA.
The key piece the Diamondbacks get in return is Thatcher, a 31-year-old, left-handed reliever, who has a 2.10 ERA in 50 appearances this year.
The Diamondbacks have two lefties in the bullpen, Matt Reynolds and Tony Sipp, but Reynolds has been injured for weeks now, and Sipp has been awful.
With the Diamondbacks now 3 1/2 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, something has to change.
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Tesla Motors Releases Teaser Shots of Model S Sedan
You can't buy one until 2011, but Tesla Motors' Model S sedan looks so good on the road, we might just tack one of these shots to our bedroom wall
By Mike Spinelli
Tesla's new teaser photos may be the first ones showing the new Model S sedan in mid-flog, but don't expect to catch one along the coast highway just yet. Tesla says the first deliveries of the $57,400 all-electric sedan (with a $7,500 government rebate check in hand, the price will drop just below 50 large) will commence in 2011. The company says they've already taken more than 1,000 pre-orders, along with deposits of $5,000 a pop. Here's to you, early adopters.
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Silicon Valley's Tesla Motors released new photos this week of its upcoming Model S all-electric sedan. Tesla's chief designer, Franz Von Holzhausen, is behind the wheel.Tesla Motors
Tesla Model S, Full Frontal
Tesla says the 3,825-lbs Model S, which is powered by a similar all-electric powerplant as the roadster, will get from zero to 60 mph in 5.6 seconds, around the same as a BMW 535i.Tesla Motors
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Top speed of the Tesla Model S, formerly code-named White Star, will be limited to 120 mph. Three battery pack options will offer a range of 160, 230 or 300 miles on a charge, which can be handled in 3 to 5 hours by 120V or 240V outlets, or in 45 minutes by way of a 480V supply. Of course, Tesla points out, you could just swap out the battery in 5 minutes.Tesla Motors
Tesla Model S, Low Angle
Tesla officials said earlier this year the Model S will arrive in 2011 at a base price of $57,400, or $49,900 after $7,500 in government rebates.Tesla Motors
Tesla Model S, Front
Tesla unveiled the Model S prototype this past March at the company's design studio inside the SpaceX rocket factory, a space-exploration start-up founded by Tesla (and PayPal) founder Elon Musk, in Hawthorne, Calif.Tesla Motors
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Kartik Aarayan buys a new flat in Mumbai: ‘Journey from struggle to success’
By Power Corridors , 12-Jul-2019
Kartik Aarayan has made an extremely special purchase – by buying the same flat in which once he stayed as a paying guest
After Alia Bhatt and Tammanah Bhatia now the handsome hunk Kartik Aarayan has bought a new flat in Mumbai and which has a special backstory too. Kartik Aarayan has purchased this flat for Rs. 1.60 crore. Kartik is the most talked about young star these days. Not only this all, a young actresses has accepted of having a crush on him.
Apart from all this, Kartik is earning Big Bucks at the box office and he is all set for the future investments. According to the recent reports, this young actor has purchased a very special flat in Versova, Mumbai. The special thing for him related to this flat is that he once lived in the same flat as a paying guest earlier also when he was struggling.
When Kartik had shifted from Gwalior to Mumbai, the actor used to stay in this house with other 11 roommates. At that very time he did everything for himself from cooking to cleaning the house. And now he has made his name in this industry and is successful too. Thus, he had purchased the same flat for himself. The report stated that Kartik bought the flat for Rs 1.60 crore in Rajkiran Co-op Housing Society on Yari Road. The carpet area of the flat is 459 sqft (551 sqft) and is on the fifth floor of the building. The report further stated that Kartik signed the deal in May, earlier this year and paid Rs 9.60 lakh as stamp duty. The document also has Kartik's mother, Mala Tiwari's name on it.
On the work front, Kartik recently wrapped up the shoot of Imtiaz Ali's yet untitled film, also starring Sara Ali Khan and Randeep Hooda. He is currently busy shooting for Pati Patni Aur Woh alongside Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday. Apart from these two films, he will also be seen in Karan Johar's Dostana 2 alongside Janhvi Kapoor and reportedly, Vindu Dara Singh and actress Farah's son Fateh Randhawa. While the Imtiaz Ali untitled film will release on February 14, 2020, Pati Patni Aur Woh will release this year on December 6, 2019.
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Late gate initiative cuts secondary school tardiness in half
by Tamsin Gray
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Councillor Charles Buchan at Fraserburgh Academy.
A secondary school plagued by tardiness has encouraged pupils to turn over a new leaf after introducing a “late gate”.
Fraserburgh Academy started using the scheme in January in an effort to tackle chronic pupil lateness.
The school’s first bell of the day rings at 8.36am, followed by a second at 8.40am that signals the start of registration.
Any pupil who arrives at school after that second bell can now only enter the building through the main office – and has to sign in.
Last year it was found that, on average, a full 9% of pupils at the school were late on a daily basis.
That was reduced to 4.48% of pupils – equating to 50 students – during an eight-day trial in December.
The scheme was introduced as a permanent measure in January and since then the average number of pupils running late has halved from the original high – with an average of 4.5% of students late each day.
Local councillor Doreen Mair said that late gate had been “an excellent innovation by the school” and one that “has obviously had the desired effect”.
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“Persistent lateness is not only detrimental to the education of the pupil themselves but also a disruption to the teaching of the class as a whole,” she said.
“It has also proven that children can and will respond positively to such initiatives and accept responsibility for their attendance, which will hold them in good stead in any future career.”
Councillor Charles Buchan echoed those sentiments and, as a retired teacher of the school, added: “When pupils are late for the first lesson, they obviously have missed the introduction and the context of the work they have to do.
“It also disrupts the teacher’s planning, as he or she has to go over things again with the latecomer so I’m really glad the initiative has helped reduce late-coming.”
The number of pupils persistently late has decreased by 65% in the six months the late gate has been running – down from 54 pupils in December to 19 in May.
Councillor Brian Topping said there had been “encouraging improvement”.
He said: “As we are all aware, there can be situations that crop up from time-to-time that you have little or no control over, which can unfortunately make someone late, but pupils and parents should ensure they are punctual for school.”
The school has also reported an impact on pupil time management skills in general.
A spokeswoman for Fraserburgh Academy said: “Working in partnership with parents we operate a proactive solution for pupils who are late to school, which has had a very positive impact on lateness and punctuality.
“Lateness across the school has been reduced by 50%, with persistent lateness reduced even further.
“This, along with our breakfast club, creates a positive start to the day for all our learners.”
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Millimeter Spectrum Auctions Expected to Start This Year
Pai will propose 100 MHz license blocks for the 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands “so they can more easily be auctioned together"
Doug Irwin ⋅ Jul 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — The FCC is planning auctions for spectrum in the 24, 28, 37, 39 and 47 GHz bands this year and next.
In a recent blog post, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said a goal of the FCC’s Aug. 2 meeting is to finalize rules for an auction of 28 GHz and 24 GHz airwaves that’s set to begin on Nov. 14. Pai said during the upcoming August meeting that he’ll propose 100 MHz license blocks for the 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands “so they can more easily be auctioned together. These are important steps that will help solidify U.S. leadership in 5G.”
Pai also said the Commission aims to make the build-out of 5G networks easier. The Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee was formed to develop expert recommendations on removing barriers that raise the costs and slow the buildout of communications infrastructure.
“A key focus of the committee was easing access to utility poles, and one of its recommendations was streamlining the process to “make ready” those poles for new attachments. Instead of having multiple parties sequentially prepare poles for a new attacher, as is current practice, the process can be much quicker if a single construction crew does all the make-ready work at once,” Pai wrote. “By making it quicker and cheaper to attach to poles, we can accelerate network buildout and make it easier for new entrants to provide more broadband competition.“
In the US, AT&T and Verizon are both using millimeter wave frequencies to build commercial 5G services later this year. AT&T is promising a standards-based mobile service in 12 markets by year-end, while Verizon is planning to deploy fixed wireless access to provide residential broadband services in three to five markets by the end of 2018, according to rcrwireless.com.
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If any rail staff travel facilities are received for which you or anyone in your family is no longer eligible, you must return them to RST using signed for post as soon as possible. Allowing family members who are not eligible to retain rail staff travel facilities is deemed a travel irregularity and the primary cardholder and all of their dependants could lose their rail staff travel facilities permanently.
Use of any rail staff travel facilities is deemed acceptance of these Conditions of Issue and Use. Where rail staff travel facilities are issued to children under the age of 16, the primary cardholder must ensure that they aware of and abide by these Conditions of Issue and Use.
All rail staff travel facilities are issued for the sole use of the holder named on the rail staff travel facility. They are not transferable under any circumstances. The holder must not sell (or attempt to sell), copy, transfer, dispose of, lend or offer the benefit of the rail staff travel facilities to any other person. Any attempt to do so will be deemed a Travel Irregularity.
Rail staff travel facilities (e.g. cards, passes or coupons) must be shown on request, together with any Photo Identity Card or other supporting documents where these are required. They must be shown and/or handed over upon request to a member of staff, or agents, of any carrier on whose service a journey is undertaken using issued rail staff travel facilities. You must hold valid rail staff travel facilities throughout the entire journey and keep them available for inspection at all times.
All active employees and their eligible family members aged 16 or over must have a Photo Identity Card, which must be shown on demand in conjunction with any other cards or passes used for leisure or residential travel. A rail Photo Identity Card is obtainable free of charge from most national rail stations.
All retired employees and their eligible family members do not need a Photo Identity Card unless travelling with a season ticket.
All rail staff travel facilities can only be used in the class of travel for which they are issued.
When travelling using rail staff travel facilities, priority should be given to public fare paying passengers. Whenever possible, cardholders should travel on lightly loaded trains. If a train is crowded, cardholders should allow public fare paying passengers to take seats. If eligible for and travelling in 1st Class on former Inter-City services, cardholders may be asked by on board staff to vacate their seat for a public fare paying passenger and they are expected to do so. However, if the cardholder is a retired employee or widow(er) (or their eligible family members), then they should not be asked to surrender their seat in these circumstances.
Once eligibility for rail staff travel facilities ceases, all rail staff travel facility documents must be returned immediately to RST by signed for post.
All rail staff travel facilities may only be used by the holder for the extent of use, routes, validity and purpose (as appropriate) defined on the card, pass, coupon or other rail staff travel facilities document issued and subject to the relevant rules, regulations and conditions of issue and use under which they have been issued.
Any unauthorised use of rail staff travel facilities will be classed as a Travel Irregularity, and may result in the withdrawal of rail staff travel facilities, the dismissal of the employee, and/or legal proceedings against the employee, widow(er) and/or a family member and the user of the rail staff travel facility, as appropriate.
Loss, non-receipt, theft, or damage to any rail staff travel facilities must be reported immediately to RST - see below for more information.
If rail staff travel facilities are lost, stolen, damaged or defaced the primary cardholder must complete a Replacement Form. The form can be submitted online or you can phone RST and request one is posted or emailed to you. Even if you phone, you still need to complete a Replacement Form.
If rail staff travel facilities are lost, defaced, damaged or lost in the post and they were sent to you more than three months before you report the loss, you need to pay for the replacements. There is a charge for each card that needs to be replaced. The current charge is displayed on the useful Information page of this website. It is then your responsibility to phone RST so we can take payment and replace the card.
If any rail staff travel facilities are stolen the replacements will be issued free of charge once the Replacement Form is received and proof of theft from an appropriate police force is also received.
If any rail staff travel facilities are lost in the post and you let RST know within three months of them being sent, you be sent replacements for free once you have submitted a Replacement Form. If you only let RST know after three months has passed, then you will need to pay for the replacements.
If your current rail staff travel facility has been damaged, defaced, spoiled or altered in any way you must let RST know. We will usually issue a replacement if you return your current rail staff travel facility, complete a Replacement Form and pay the replacement fee. Only then can a replacement card or cards be issued.
RST may request that the primary cardholder pay for delivery of the rail staff travel facility by registered post where there has been more than one occurrence of loss of rail staff travel facilities in the post. If this is declined, then RST may refuse to send any replacements.
Where a rail staff travel facility allows instances of free travel:
any replacements issued due to the card being lost or stolen will not have the same amount of free travel issued
any replacements issued due to the card being damaged or defaced (and the rail staff travel facility is returned to RST where the number of instances can be determined), then the replacement will be issued with the same remaining instances as the damaged or defaced document
and the rail staff travel facility is an International Coupon, then under the FIP Regulations no replacements are permitted.
RST are not liable for any forms, letters, emails or any rail staff travel facilities that are lost, damaged or delayed or any emails that are not received by you or RST. This includes any delay in rail staff travel facilities being received in the post.
RST is not liable for any fares paid while waiting for forms to be processed or rail staff travel facilities to be received.
RST may refuse to issue a rail staff travel facility at its discretion. Usually this will be in cases where there is suspected or actual fraud, a Travel Irregularity, or where there is an issue with eligibility.
If you find a card or pass that you have reported as lost and received a replacement for, you cannot use the card or pass that has been reported as lost.
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to the Staff Travel Card.
A Staff Travel Card permits privilege rate and, in some cases, free, leisure only travel. It must not be used for residential, duty or business travel or for trading purposes. However, it may be used to purchase privilege rate tickets for travel between a temporary place of residence and place of employment for a period not exceeding 14 days.
The Staff Travel Card will have endorsement(s) number(s) printed on the front of it which identify which endorsements apply to the holder. The reverse of the Staff Travel Card has a key to the endorsements to indicate services and routes on which they may or may not be used by the holder
To obtain free leisure travel, the boxes printed on the Staff Travel Card are used as follows:
Before commencing a free journey, the date (day and month) of the journey must be entered in indelible ink in the first available box on the card (marked as “DAY” and “MTH”). The date must be entered using Arabic numerals, with zero in front of single digits, e.g. 07/08 for 7th August. The date must be completed in indelible ink; completing a box in erasable ink, erasable pen or pencil is prohibited.
Each dated box allows free travel from the time that the box was dated on the first day until midnight on the following day. For example, a box dated 07/08 allows journeys from the time that the box was completed on 7th August until 24.00hrs on 8th August.
In addition to this, free travel will be permitted on overnight journeys starting between 22.00 and 24.00 on the previous day to the date entered on the card. These exceptional circumstances apply only to sleeper services and where the journey finishes after 04.30 the next day.
During the period of free travel, the travel does not have to be continuous: any number of journeys may be undertaken.
Alterations to the date entered are not permitted under any circumstances and dates must also not be overwritten. If you make a mistake, that allocation of free travel is forfeited, the error must be blocked out, and the correct date entered in the next box.
If a Staff Travel Card is being used without a box being dated, Revenue Protection Staff will cancel the next available box and require the holder to date and use the following box.
If a card is being used with the wrong date entered, Revenue Protection Staff will cancel the next available box and require the holder to date and use the following box.
If there are no empty boxes left, any attempt to travel free will be classed as a Travel Irregularity.
Revenue Protection Staff may at any time retain possession of a Staff Travel Card if it has been, or they suspect that it has been, used in a manner that does not comply with the Conditions of Issue or Use.
The Staff Travel Card is valid for use between the dates printed on the face of the card. All eligibility for free and privilege rate travel ceases at midnight on the expiry date or valid until date. For the avoidance of doubt, the Staff Travel Card cannot be used for travel on the day after the expiry date even if a box has been dated on the expiry date, e.g. a Staff Travel Card expiring on 30th June and with a box dated 30/06 may only be used for travel on 30th June and not on 1st July.
Where ticket issuing facilities are available and in working order, privilege rate tickets must be purchased prior to travel.
If there are no ticket issuing facilities available prior to departure, then privilege rate tickets should be purchased at the first available opportunity on board (or at an interim or destination station).
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to the TOC Privilege Card.
The TOC Privilege Card is issued under the TOC New Entrant Leisure Travel Arrangement, which is subject to annual rolling review by the participating TOCs.
A TOC Privilege Card permits privilege rate leisure only travel. It must not be used for residential, duty or business travel or for trading purposes. However, it may be used to purchase privilege rate tickets for travel between a temporary place of residence and place of employment for a period not exceeding 14 days.
Revenue Protection Staff may at any time retain possession of a TOC Privilege Card if it has been, or they suspect that it has been, used in a manner that does not comply with the Conditions of Issue or Use.
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to the Privilege Season Ticket.
The Privilege Season Ticket allows the holder to travel on National Rail and may allow travel on London Underground services for Safeguarded staff only. Its use is, therefore, additionally subject to Transport for London conditions of carriage. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not include the services of Open Access Operators.
If you are an Active or Retired Safeguarded Employee, then you (and any eligible Dependant) can get a discounted season ticket for use on National Rail and TfL (rail) services. If you are an Active Non-Safeguarded Employee, then you (and any eligible Dependant) can get a discounted season ticket for use on National Rail services only - see section 8.
A Privilege Season Ticket will only be authorised by RST if the primary cardholder has applied on the correct form (Residential Travel form) and it has been received by RST at least 15 days before the proposed start date of the season ticket.
Privilege Season Tickets may be purchased for eligible family members of primary cardholders solely for use for travel to and from an educational establishment as specified at the time of application. They must not be used for residential, duty or business travel or for trading purposes, e.g. commuting to work (except eligible child dependants that are earning under the income limit provided that the full cost of travel is paid by the primary cardholder).
RST, National Rail and Transport for London/London Underground reserve the right to refuse to issue or to renew, or cancel a Privilege Season Ticket.
The minimum period for a Privilege Season Ticket is one month, and the maximum period is one year. You can have a season ticket for any period between these times. However you will need to reapply every time you require a new ticket.
If the holder of a Privilege Season Ticket ceases, during the period of validity, to be eligible for rail staff travel facilities for any reason or it is not required for the purpose for which it was issued (e.g. as a result of change of residence, work location or duties, leaving service, or leaving education), the ticket must be surrendered immediately. A refund may be due to the primary cardholder. Please check at the issuing station.
If a Privilege Season Ticket is used in contravention of any of the clauses above, it will be classed as a Travel Irregularity. Additionally, a Penalty Fare may be issued, or the full ordinary fare for the class of carriage used for the particular journey (according to circumstances) will be charged, as if no payment had been made for the ticket.
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to the Reduced Rate Season Ticket.
The Reduced Rate Season Ticket allows the holder to travel on the services of the TOCs which participate in a reciprocal arrangement for this purpose. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not include the services of TfL, including through services, or Open Access Operators.
A Reduced Rate Season Ticket will only be authorised by RST if the primary cardholder has applied on the correct form (Residential Travel form) and it has been received by RST at least 15 days before the proposed start date of the season ticket.
Reduced Rate Season Tickets may be purchased for eligible family members of primary cardholders solely for use for travel to and from an educational establishment as specified at the time of application. They must not be used for residential, duty or business travel or for trading purposes, e.g. commuting to work (except eligible child dependants that are earning under the income limit provided that the full cost of travel is paid by the primary cardholder).
RST and National Rail reserve the right to refuse to issue or to renew, to cancel a Reduced Rate Season Ticket.
The minimum period for a Reduced Rate Season Ticket is one month, and the maximum period is one year. You can have a season ticket for any period between these times. However you will need to reapply every time you require a new ticket.
If the holder of a Reduced Rate Season Ticket ceases, during the period of validity, to be eligible for any reason or it is not required for the purpose for which it was issued (e.g. as a result of change of residence, work location or duties, leaving service, or leaving education), the ticket must be surrendered immediately. A refund may be due to the primary cardholder.
If a Reduced Rate Season Ticket is used in contravention of any of the clauses above, it will be classed as a Travel Irregularity. Additionally, a Penalty Fare, or the full ordinary fare for the class of carriage used for the particular journey (according to circumstances) will be charged, as if no payment had been made for the ticket.
The Reduced Rate Season Ticket is an additional benefit to the TOC New Entrant Leisure Travel Arrangement, which is subject to annual rolling review by the participating TOCs. There is no guarantee that it will continue from year to year and it can be withdrawn at any time.
TOCs may issue cards and passes for use on their own or their Group’s services. These are subject to any additional terms and conditions that the TOC or Group set when they are issued. Any misuse of these will be reported to the employing TOC as a Travel Irregularity.
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to the reciprocal arrangements for free, reduced rate and concessionary travel outside of Great Britain.
FIP stands for “Groupement pour les Facilites de Circulation Internationales due Personnel des Chemins de Fer”. It is a group of European transport undertakings and the rules under which they exchange travel facilities. We are part of this group.
The International Reduced Rate Card (known as FIP Card) is issued to eligible primary cardholders and their eligible family members for reciprocal reduced rate travel on the principal national railways of Europe, and for certain minor and/or private railways, that are members of the FIP, the staff travel division of the International Union of Railways (UIC) and that have agreed to provide reduced rate travel.
An International Coupon is issued to eligible primary cardholders and their eligible family members for reciprocal free travel on the principal national railways of Europe, and for certain minor and/or private railways, that are members of the FIP and that have agreed to provide quota-controlled free travel. The International Coupon is quota controlled on both a personal and family basis and will vary across FIP Undertakings and from calendar year to calendar year.
Non-FIP travel (both within and outside of Europe) is issued in various formats to eligible primary cardholders and their eligible family members for free or reduced rate travel on their services. There are restrictions relating to eligibility for both primary cardholders and family members (generally eligibility is for safeguarded staff only).
An International Coupon will only be authorised by RST if the primary cardholder has applied on the correct form (either International Coupons Application - Employee and Family Members or International Coupons Application - Employee only depending on whether travel is just for the cardholder or their dependants) and it has been received by RST at least 21 days before the proposed start date of the international journey.
If the holder of any International rail staff travel facility ceases, during the period of validity, to be eligible for any reason or it is not required, the rail staff travel facility must be surrendered immediately to RST. No refund is due to the primary cardholder for any tickets purchased or paid reservations made.
International Coupons are issued for a validity period of 3 months, except where the travel date is during December in which case the expiry date of the Coupon will be 31 March the following year.
If a primary cardholder has an unused quota for an FIP Undertaking at the end of a calendar year, then the unused quota for that FIP Undertaking can be used for travel in the first 3 months of the following year provided that:
the application for travel is received by RST by 31 December, and
the primary cardholder specifically requests that the expiring year's quota is used, and
the expiry date of the International Coupon is 31 March the following year
If an application is received after 31 December or the primary cardholder has not requested use of the expiring year's quota, then the quota applicable to the date of travel will be used.
Each International Coupon is valid for travel only in the country and on the services specified on the Coupon (subject to any restrictions).
If an International Coupon has been used on a railway adjoining or bordering the railway of issue, it may not be used again for any further journeys on this railway after the return journey has been made to the issuing railway (i.e. if you return to GB). For the avoidance of doubt, adjoining railways are those which are linked to GB by another FIP member, including ferries and Eurostar. Therefore, the adjoining railways are SNCF, SNCB, NS, NIR, CIE (France, Belgium, Holland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland) but not Denmark or Norway. Part used coupons for non-adjoining countries may therefore still be used.
It is the responsibility of the primary cardholder to identify and select the undertakings, administrations and countries for which travel is required.
To obtain free International leisure travel, the boxes printed on the International Coupon are used as follows:
Before commencing a free journey, the date (day and month) of the journey must be entered in indelible ink in the first available box on the coupon. The date must be entered using Arabic numerals, with zero in front of single digits, e.g. 07/08 for 7th August. The date must be completed in indelible ink; completing a box in erasable ink, erasable pen or pencil is prohibited.
Each dated box on the coupon allows free travel from the time that the box was dated on the first day until midnight on the following day. For example, a box dated 07/08 allows journeys from the time that the box was completed on 7th August until 24.00hrs on 8th August.
Alterations to the date entered are not permitted under any circumstances; and dates must also not be overwritten. If you make a mistake, that allocation of free travel is forfeited, the error must be blocked out, and the correct date entered in the next box.
If an International Coupon is being used without a box being dated, Revenue Protection Staff, ticket inspectors, or the local equivalent, will cancel the next available box, charge the full fare for the journey and require the holder to date and use the following box.
If an International Coupon is being used with the wrong date entered, Revenue Protection Staff, ticket inspectors, or the local equivalent, will cancel the next available box, charge the full fare for the journey and require the holder to date and use the following box.
International Coupons that have been lost, stolen or damaged in any way cannot be replaced under FIP Regulations.
International Duty Coupons are provided separately and are not subject to quota.
This section defines the key conditions of issue and use that are specific to all other rail staff travel facilities that have not been specified.
All rail staff travel facilities are subject to the standard terms and conditions of issue and use. These will be provided at the time of issue.
They are also subject to the appropriate conditions of issue and use related to that rail staff travel facility defined in sections 1, 2, 3 above.
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PRIME NEWS GHANA
Ghana Card : NIA still battling with challenges in less than a week to end exercise
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<>By Wendy Amarteifio
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The National Identification Authority, NIA is still battling with challenges that riddled the beginning of the mass registration for the Ghana Card with less than a week to the end of the exercise in the Greater Accra region.
Many of the machines remain dysfunctional, while those that are operational are without networks. The challenges are not different from what was captured at the beginning of the exercise in April.
In less than a week to end the Ghana card registration, reports indicate that applicants are frustrated and do not understand why the exercise is still characterized by challenges. They also questioned why the NIA finds it difficult to resolve the challenges that characterized the process at the beginning of the exercise hence feel disappointed and call on the NIA to quickly resolve the challenges to pave way for more people to register.
Speaking to Starr FM, applicants at some registration centres reacting to the process said :
Meanwhile, the Ghana Card registration is ending on July 6 2019. Also, the number of applicants for registration has dwindled as compared to the beginning of the exercise.
The Ashanti Regional Security Council has directed the police and military to maintain presence at the Asokore Mampong EC office four days after the NPP and NDC clashed over the limited voters' registration exercise which resulted in injuries and suspension of the exercise.
The parties have signed an undertaking of compliance and good behaviour. The Ashanti Regional Deputy Director of the EC, William Obeng Danquah said the situation demanded the attention of security
Limited voters' registration: 2 arrested for double registration
Limited voters' registration: Exercise is fraud with massive challenges - NDC
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Dravuni Island, Fiji
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Less than two miles in length from north to south, Dravuni Island lies in the Kadavu Island group of Fiji. Its volcanic peaks give way to a remote village of just 200 or so friendly villagers who live amongst the island's shady palms. These welcoming locals and their children often sing to arriving visitors.
Well-worn trails scattered with coconuts snake around the unspoiled beaches, the soft sands beckoning underwater adventurers towards the crystal-clear waters. Many visitors come to snorkel in the Great Astrolabe Reef, or to hike Dravuni Island's highest peak for magnificent once-in-a-lifetime views of the surrounding islands.
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December 6, 2017 / 12:02 PM / 2 years ago
RPT-Data workers prove a rare resource for Barrick, fellow miners
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By Susan Taylor
TORONTO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold, the world’s biggest gold miner, is staking new ground in a dogged push to overhaul its operations, seeking scarce artificial intelligence experts to oversee projects using technology for everything from exploration to robot-run mining.
But for an industry perceived as slow-moving and macho, attracting prized human resources can be as difficult as striking gold - particularly as technology titans like Facebook and Alphabet Inc.’s Google chase the same talent.
Though the mining sector is late to the so-called "digitization" party, Barrick and others are compelled to push productivity gains in the face of rising costs and depleting resources. For a graphic, click tmsnrt.rs/2BJQ85K
Miners are stepping up investments in technology that ranges from driverless trucks to computers that sift through and make sense of mountains of data from operations.
That shift could deliver global efficiency gains of $373 billion by 2025 for the industry and its stakeholders, estimates consulting giant McKinsey & Co.
“There’s so much value that can be created in mining, if we run our mines predictively, rather than reactively,” said Michelle Ash, Barrick Chief Innovation Officer.
At Barrick, artificial intelligence (AI) managers will oversee projects that use computers to study reams of data, from sensors tracking equipment and workers, to better understand mine geology, for example. Computers could analyze that information to predict where to mine the best ore, she said, or when equipment maintenance is needed, for example.
But the competition for the world’s top programmers, data scientists and AI researchers - who are critical to unlocking the value of high-tech mines - is fierce.
David McKay, chief executive of Canada’s biggest lender, Royal Bank of Canada, likens the pursuit of AI workers to “the primary battle ground” in an “arms race.”
While the mining industry pays better than some other sectors, such as media or retail, it may fall shy of a AI worker’s dream workplace, said Rachel O’Connor, who heads a consulting team at global recruiter Korn Ferry.
“Mining is not known for a lack of hierarchy, or a lot of freedom to innovate,” she said.
But that has not stopped Barrick, which is spending $100 million in a partnership with Cisco Systems, from trying to create the right environment.
Having already wired its underground Cortez mine in the Nevada desert, Barrick predicts digital mining will drive production costs down to $700 an ounce by 2021, from current levels of $740-$770.
As it scouts for AI project managers and data scientists for the first time, the miner is also sowing recruitment seeds early and broadly, while shifting its corporate image beyond big machines moving big rocks.
Barrick spotlights its global 'hackathons', the mining-industry-first virtual job fair it held in August, or the Hackergal hackergal.org/ school coding program it supports.
LATE ADOPTERS MAY NOT SURVIVE
“The need is greater than ever,” said Richard Sellschop, principal at McKinsey, adding that recruiting the right tech talent for mining is a pinch point.
“We’ve seen over the last bit-more-than-a decade that productivity in mining has been negative on a global basis,” he said.
From 2005 to 2015, mine productivity declined by 3.5 percent annually, on average, a McKinsey study showed.
While some miners struggle to find the best workers, the industry has seen success, like early adopter Dundee Precious Metals.
The small gold miner is now testing computer analytics to determine more efficient ways to grind and process rocks, for example, or predict when its trucks need repairs, before breaking down, said Chief Executive Rick Howes.
That project, which runs until 2019, could cut mine costs by 30 percent, he said. Dundee’s first digitization project doubled output and cut costs nearly 45 percent, from 2010 to 2013, by connecting workers and equipment over a wireless network at its underground Bulgarian mine.
“Late adopters, or those who struggle to make that transition, will probably have a difficult time surviving,” Howes said. “The risk is high.”
For self-proclaimed technology “evangelist” Jed Schneider, 41, working at a mine was never part of his career plan. He was developing high-tech health care tools for a Las Vegas start-up when Barrick came calling.
But Schneider saw a trailblazing opportunity and is now working on custom software programs for Barrick that track haul trucks, for example, automate work orders, and analyze data for better supply chain decisions.
“I am in a position where I am one of the first people in the door in an industry that has yet to have any kind of strategy behind the digital transformation,” he said. “We’re doing something that is really cool.”
Branding plays a key role in attracting data workers, said Barrick recruiter Richa Garg, but many are lured by the opportunity to see the end results of their hands-on work.
“Part of what we’re doing is looking to see how we can show why we’re not your grandfather’s mining company,” said President Kelvin Dushnisky.
Reporting by Susan Taylor; Editing by Denny Thomas and Edward Tobin
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2 rice producers among Arkansas Farm Family of the Year district winners
The eight district winners in the 72nd annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program have been selected, representing the diversity of Arkansas agriculture, the state’s largest industry.
The district winners will now be judged to determine a state winner, which will be announced Dec. 6 at the Farm Family of the Year luncheon at the Wyndham Hotel in North Little Rock.
The District Farm Families of the Year are:
► I.F. Anderson Farms Inc. of Lonoke (Lonoke County) in the East Central District. James Neal Anderson and his wife Kaye own and operate I.F. Anderson Fish Farms with their son James Neal Anderson Jr. They operate 3,300 water acres and raise baitfish such as golden shiners, fathead minnows and goldfish. James and Kaye also have a daughter, Katie.
► Rabbit Ridge Farms of Bee Branch (Van Buren County) in the North Central District. Alan and Angela Mahan own and operate Rabbit Ridge Farms where they raise cattle, hogs, chickens and sheep. At Rabbit Ridge Farms, they self-market all their products through wholesale distributors, retail, e-commerce, social media and through their agritourism business. They have four children, Zach Mahan, Maggie Mahan, Jacob Blankenship and Crafton Blakenship.
► Young’s Generation Three Partnership Farms of Tuckerman (Jackson County) in the Northeast District. Tommy and Amy Young, Blake and Holly Young, and James Norman III and Brandy Young are partners in the farm. They grown soybeans, corn, wheat and rice on more than 7,000 acres. This year is the 10th anniversary of the family’s partnership in the farm.
► Gene and Ruby Davidson of Kingston (Newton County) in the Northwest District. For the past 39 years, the Davidsons have raised turkeys, run a cow/calf operation and own a logging company that cuts select hardwoods. They have two adult children Dustin and Sam.
► Dewayne and Debra Goldmon of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) in the Southeast District. The Goldmons grow corn, rice and soybeans on 1,400 acres. Dewayne works full-time for Bayer Crop Sciences in technology development and research while also farming “part-time” for 22 years. The couple have two adult children, Camille and Dewayne Jr.
► Allen and Barbara Primm of Hampton (Calhoun County) in the Southwest District. The Primms have operated a cattle farm for nearly 50 years as well as a timber operation. Their latest venture is Blackstock Feed, Fertilize and Herbicide, a non-profit established with the intent to offer farm supplies at a wholesale to ensure farmers and ranchers are not overpaying for needed supplies. The Primms have three adult children, Scott, Allison and Jessica.
► Jerry and Kathy DuVall of Hattieville (Conway County) in the Western District. The DuValls operate 1,400 acres that consists of several commodities. They grow hay, timber, corn and soybeans while also raising cattle and poultry. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.
► The Greene Family of Umpire (Howard County) in the West Central District. Gregg and Shelly, along with their sons and daughters-in-law, Mason and Lindsay, and Marcus and Krystal raise poultry for Pilgrims with a total of 23 broiler houses. They also raise calves marketed at livestock auctions. Separately, Gregg and Shelly operate a hog production business where they have 700 sows.
“The contributions made by our state’s farm families are beyond measure,” says Randy Veach, president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau. “It is almost impossible to fully understand the impact our family farms have on the economy, our rural communities and to the character of our great state.”
The Farm Family of the Year program begins each year with selection of top the farm families in each county and culminates with the selection of the state Farm Family of the Year who will then go on to represent Arkansas at the Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year competition in Georgia.
This year, Chris and Judy Isbell of Humnoke, Arkansas, will represent Arkansas in the Southeastern Farmer of the Year contest in October. The Isbells have cultivated rice in Lonoke County for more than 70 years and currently grow 3,000 acres of the crop. Isbell Farms is a fifth-generation family operation and partners include Chris and Judy Isbell, their son Mark and wife Marda, their daughter Whitney and husband Jeremy Jones, and their nephew Shane Isbell and wife Lisa.
Arkansas has had two Southeastern Farmers of the Year, Brian Kirksey of Clark County in 2008 and Wildy Family Farms of Mississippi County in 2016. All winners are judged on their farm production, efficiency, management, family life and rural/community leadership.
“No other business sector has a larger economic impact in Arkansas than agriculture,” Veach says. “The men and women of agriculture, and their families, work diligently every day to maintain a business and a lifestyle that represents the very best our state has to offer.”
Sponsors of the Farm Family of the Year program are Arkansas Farm Bureau, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas and the three Farm Credit agencies that serve Arkansas: AgHeritage Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit of Western Arkansas and Midsouth Farm Credit. Additionally, support for the program is provided by the Arkansas Agriculture Department, Arkansas Department of Career Education, Arkansas Press Association, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Rural Development.
The Arkansas Farm Bureau contributed this article.
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Ford Turner formerly covered special projects and investigations for the Reading Eagle.
District courts of Xavios, Patton among leaders in no-collateral jailings in Pennsylvania
'It depends on the reason,' Reading District Judge Thomas H. Xavios said of whether defendants should be jailed for not having money.
Written by Ford Turner
Longtime Reading District Judge Thomas H. Xavios said multiple factors caused him to rank near the top among all judges in the state for cases in which offenders were sent to jail for not having money.
According to a Reading Eagle analysis of state data, only two other district judges among the approximately 500 others across Pennsylvania had more docketed cases in which low-level offenders went to jail for failure to post collateral. The judge with the largest figure was York County's James H. Morgan, with 575.
Offenders in Xavios' court were sent to jail in 377 cases during the two years ended Dec. 31.
From Berks, the late William N. Hall Jr. had 378 cases. District Judge Phyllis J. Kowalski had 338. District Judge Dean R. Patton had 334.
Each of their totals individually surpassed the combined total of no-collateral jailing cases for all district judges in 25 Pennsylvania counties, including the nearby, heavily populated Lehigh, Montgomery and Bucks counties.
Collateral is similar to bail imposed in more serious cases.
Xavios cited his court's handling of massive number of parking tickets and his many stints in night court as drivers of his large number of no-collateral cases.
For years, Xavios said, his court handled all cases of parking violations in Reading. At his busiest, he said, he was handling more than 20,000 summary cases a year.
Asked whether people should be sent to jail for being unable to pay, Xavios said: “It depends on the reason, and how many courts are involved. Is it willful neglect? Do they have the ability to pay?”
Attempts on Monday to reach Morgan, the York County district judge, were unsuccessful.
Patton said there are a multitude of factors that go into committing a person to jail for failure to post collateral.
Referring to the hundreds of judges in Pennsylvania that had only a handful of such cases or even no such cases in the last two years, Patton said he could not speak to their situations.
His own court, though, is just north of the Reading-Muhlenberg line, and Patton said that is a factor.
“Reading; we have such a transient thing here,” he said.
Many offenders have had many different addresses, he said, and many repeatedly do not show up for district court hearings.
When they do show up, Patton said, he tries to do everything he can to avoid committing them to jail.
“I don't want to put people in jail. I tell them that,” he said. “But I can't not put them in jail when they don't show up.”
Some of the offenders, he said, “just don't bother to help themselves.”
A frequent occurrence in summary cases in district courts is a payment determination hearing in which the judge weighs evidence to figure out a payment plan for the offender.
Patton estimated only 25 percent of the people scheduled for such hearings in his court actually show up.
Reading District Judge Alvin B. Robinson, who had 149 cases during the last two years in which an offender was jailed for lack of collateral, said judges have a system.
“We have a set of rules that we go by, and they are given the opportunity to give collateral,” Robinson said.
The Eagle obtained its data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
The newspaper reported that of the 11,513 docketed cases during 2017-18 in which low-level offenders were jailed for not posting collateral, 3,565, or nearly 31 percent, occurred in Berks.
The newspaper reported that many other counties rarely commit people to jail for lacking collateral or have moved away from the practice.
Previously, the newspaper reported that the five district courts in Reading generated more paid work for constables than courts in any other municipality in Pennsylvania.
Constables are paid to serve arrest warrants generated in district courts and to take those offenders to jail, among other things.
The latest analysis of AOPC data by the newspaper showed that 12 district courts in Berks County — including all five located in Reading — were among the top 25 in the state for no-collateral jailings.
Judges and jailings
State data show that during the last two years, Berks County had many district judges who ranked near the top of a list of their peers in cases in which offenders were jailed for not posting collateral. Here are the 88 judges with the largest 2017-18 totals, followed by all other judges in Berks with any such cases. There are about 500 district judges statewide, excluding Philadelphia:
NOTE: Philadelphia operates its own municipal court system and is not part of the statewide MDJS data system.
SOURCE: Reading Eagle analysis of Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts data
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Collaborating with remote teams and talent around the world [Sponsored]
Written by Megan Cater, Signiant
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If your studio works with remote creative talent, you already know that there are opportunities and challenges associated with distributed production and post production. Bridging the distance not only allows you to find the best talent for the job anywhere in the world, it creates the potential for a diverse and globally-minded workforce that boosts the creativity and vision of your entire company.
However, while standard web-based collaboration tools like Dropbox, Google Drive, SharePoint and Slack — function wonderfully in most industries, they lack the most basic technology necessary for most media projects: the ability to quickly and reliably transfer large files over the Internet. For that, you need file acceleration - along with other ”enterprise-level” capabilities to support the unique requirements of distributed work, such as flexible user administration, powerful reporting, super intuitive user interface design, storage options, metadata entry and pre-transfer file validation. And of course, defense-in-depth security. Let’s look at some of these in a bit more detail.
File Acceleration
File acceleration technology is an Internet protocol developed specifically for large file transfers over distance. Different companies have proprietary protocols that improve on standard TCP (transport layer protocol)-based transfers such as FTP (file transfer protocol) and HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol). When developed well, file acceleration can, and should, improve transfer speeds up to 200-fold by taking advantage of high-bandwidth networks while counteracting the impact of latency (delay caused by distance) and playing nicely with other network traffic.
Every day, it’s not unusual to see terabytes of dailies coming and going, and hundreds of gigabytes of individual files for VFX, sound and color editing. So file acceleration should be the core of any tool enabling remote talent. But that’s just the software engine: everything else wrapped around it should support your collaboration, not work against it.
Layers of Security
Cyber security is more important than ever,, yet it’s surprising how many companies still rely on FTP. A 2015 study conducted by the University of Michigan called “FTP: The Forgotten Cloud” revealed more than 13 million FTP servers in use, with 1 million configured to allow anonymous access, exposing sensitive files and network access. Just in 2017, HBO, Netflix and Disney dealt with security breaches that can likely be traced to hackers exploiting FTP used by third-party post-production companies.
Many across the industry are pushing for higher security standards. In Europe, the DPP is one example of a regulatory agency that is taking on the problem. And it’s more than just securing or replacing FTP. The most secure software employs defense-in-depth security practices that have layers of security in place as well as 24/7 monitoring and regular third-party audits.
Storage and Folder Access
Decisions about storage can seem mundane, but you need to ensure that it stays under your control - whether it’s on-premises, or in the cloud. Many companies have invested in on-premises storage systems, and have organized folder structures to allow secure access to certain folders by remote talent or other work associates. Others want to use cloud storage as an extension of on-premises drives for particular projects. File acceleration software that supports multiple storage choices and secure folder access by remote talent offers the best of both worlds.
Easy UI, Branding and Language Support
File acceleration software should ultimately provide a central hub for all of your media files, and should be simple, while supporting your most critical needs.
Browser-based portals simplify access and reduce training. They allow remote talent to start immediately, working productively from the start. And portals should allow localized customization, with new interfaces for each project, team or even language.
Lastly, branding is important.. Being able to provide cleanly branded interfaces for sending, sharing and submitting content for different projects and different teams can really set your business apart, not only impressing your remote talent but your clients as well.
Media Shuttle: The file transfer solution for today’s distributed workforce
From big broadcast companies to small post houses, the need to quickly and easily send large files is only ever going to increase.
Companies currently using FTP or standard web-based collaboration tools have two options:replace existing systems with a modern file transfer solution, or augment their systems with a solution that provides increased speed, reliability, ease of use and security for their largest and most critical assets. Signiant’s Media Shuttle can do both while providing all of the core capabilities described above and more.
With over 400,000 users in over 25,000 businesses moving petabytes of data every month, Signiant’s Media Shuttle has become the trusted solution across the global Media & Entertainment industry. A true cloud-native SaaS (Software as a Service) solution that is fully scalable and constantly updated with the latest releases. SaaS is a foundation for modern businesses, and Media Shuttle fits the needs of companies large and small. Learn more about Media Shuttle and Signiant’s Emmy award-winning technology here.
About Signiant
Signiant’s intelligent file movement software helps the world’s top content creators and distributors ensure fast, secure delivery of large files over public and private networks. Built on patented acceleration technology, the company’s on-premises software and cloud-native SaaS solutions allow businesses of every size to optimize mission-critical file transfers between users, data centers, and the cloud. For more information, please visit www.signiant.com.
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11 Hilarious April Fools' Day Pranks To Play On Your Wife, That Won't Banish You To The Couch
By Katie Malczyk
April Fools' Day is coming right up, and it's not too early to start planning. Pranks and practical jokes can run the gamut from simple to elaborate, and from cute to downright malicious. Since, for your special someone, you'll want to make sure you've got just the right balance, here's a list of fun April Fools' Day pranks you can play on your wife.
The origins of April Fools' Day are something of a mystery — no one is quite sure where it comes from. The most popular theory, according to Snopes, has to do with the introduction of the modern calendar in the 1500s. Before that, the new year had begun on March 25, and had been celebrated on April 1. The new calendar moved New Year's Day to January 1. But some people missed the memo, and still thought that April 1 was New Year's, thus earning themselves the nickname "April fools." Apparently French peasants got in the habit of stopping at their neighbors' homes on April 1 to try and trick them into thinking it was New Year's Day, and from that custom comes our modern penchant for pranking family and friends.
But whatever the reason for the tradition, it's a good one to keep up. So take some inspiration from these ideas.
1. Put her car up for sale
This idea from Somewhat Simple will have your wife screening phone calls and voicemails all day. Use Craigslist or Facebook (or both) to put her car up for sale, and make the price ridiculously low to ensure that there will be plenty of interest. Bonus points if you take the extra step of also writing the price on her car window.
2. Get a bad temporary tattoo
You'll need to be a decent actor and devise a bit of a backstory to make this one work, but if you can pull it off, it will be super effective. Go out sans spouse the night of March 31, and come back a bit later, and maybe a bit drunker, than usual. The next morning, show your wife your still-tender skin that now features a bad (temporary) tattoo. Bustle recommended picking one that she's sure to hate. Think: dumb cartoon, fake Chinese character, or a phrase with a typo in it. Once you've gotten the desired reaction, you can either reveal your trickery or continue to milk it for the rest of the day.
3. Switch her drawers around
Switch your wife's dresser drawers around so she doesn't know where to find her underwear, socks, and jeans in the morning, suggested Somewhat Simple. As pranks go, this one is pretty gentle, but it lets you get in a bit of a joke without too much stress.
4. Change her ringtone
No one does ringtones anymore — if a phone isn't set to vibrate-only, the most you'll ever hear is the "Old Phone" sound. So give your wife's phone a retro makeover by changing her ringtone and notification sounds to song snippets that would have been cool circa 2010, and turn that volume all the way up. Then, recommended Somewhat Simple, be sure to call her while she's out, and set alarms and alerts to go off all day.
5. Fill a donut box with veggies
With April Fools' Day falling on a Sunday this year, you'll have the perfect opportunity to run out a bit before breakfast and surprise your sweetie with a nice big box of Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kremes. But before presenting it to her, replace the donuts with a big spread of veggies and dip, suggested Design Dazzle.
(However, I strongly recommend not throwing the donuts away — just keep them stashed somewhere so you can enjoy a fat-laden feast once the joke's over.)
6. Give her a faux fender-bender
Leave a note on your wife's car windshield that says, "I'm so sorry I hit your car!" along with a random name and number, suggested Mother's Niche. Better yet, get a friend in on the joke and use a fake name with their number, and have them play along by describing all the damage they did to her car. Then watch as she spends forever looking for the dings and scratches.
7. Mess with her phone's auto-correct
Change the settings on your wife's phone so that whenever she types a common word like "and," "the," "no," or "hey," it auto-corrects to something else, suggested Somewhat Simple. Example replacement phrases: "April Fools'," "My husband is amazing," or any inside joke between the two of you.
8. Put a fake spider in her purse
While a drawer is a classic choice, as suggested by Bustle, the options for where to hide a fake spider (or any kind of fake insect or rodent) are limited only by your imagination. Her purse, her car seat, the shower, or the cereal cupboard are all guaranteed to elicit the desired reaction from your darling arachnophobe.
9. Pretend your baby has learned to talk
This one comes from my husband: Get recordings of a baby saying a simple word like "mama." Hide a bluetooth speaker somewhere near the baby. Then play the recording from your phone, but only when your wife isn't looking, and get really excited when it happens. Do this several times throughout the day, making it seem like only you are seeing the baby talk.
10. Sabotage the remote control
If you place Scotch tape over the remote control sensor, your TV can't pick up the signal, and your wife will have no idea why it isn't turning on. Parenting recommends this prank for both TV remotes and gaming console remotes, and it works on computer mice too.
11. Freeze her phone's home screen
Phones are the perfect target for an April Fools' prank because they take up so much of our attention. This idea from Buzzfeed requires a bit of effort on your part, but it will definitely pay off. Here's how it works: Take a screenshot of your wife's phone's home screen. Then move all her home screen apps onto a new screen. Then set that screenshot as the home screen wallpaper. Now when she tries to tap on her apps, nothing will happen.
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Massachusetts declares public health emergency over heroin overdoses and opioids addiction
Published time: 28 Mar, 2014 15:40 Edited time: 28 Mar, 2014 16:09
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared a public health emergency in the state concerning the rising numbers of heroin overdoses and opioid addiction – even moving to ban a controversial new painkiller.
In an announcement Thursday, Gov. Patrick directed the Department of Public Health to take several steps to lower the number of deadly incidents. According to the governor’s statement, the number of unintentional opioid overdoses increased 90 percent between 2000 and 2012, and at least 140 people have died from suspected heroin overdoses in the last few months.
"We have an epidemic of opiate abuse in Massachusetts, so we will treat it like the public health crisis it is," Patrick said in the statement.
Noting that painkillers often act as a route to heroin addiction, Patrick said he has temporarily banned the sale of the new drug Zohydro until it’s proven that the necessary safeguards are in place to prevent abuse.
As RT reported previously, the hydrocodone-only Zohydro was approved by the Food and Drug Administration against the recommendation of its own health advisory panel, and has been singled out by doctors for its potential ability to cause a spike in overdoses.
According to the Boston Globe, Patrick called Zohydro “a potentially lethal narcotic painkiller,” while the Associated Press noted the governor’s concern that since the pill can be easily crushed it’s likely to be abused.
The makers of the drug at Zogenix defended their product to the AP, saying Patrick’s decision will be to the detriment of patients who are hurting.
‘‘The simple fact is that any medication, including opioid pain relievers, presents a danger to the person misusing or abusing it,’’ the company said, though it also stated steps to protect against abuse have been taken.
Additionally, Patrick directed the health department to ensure that all first responders had access to naloxone, a quick-acting drug that reverses the effects of overdose and restores breathing. Naloxone will also be made available at pharmacies for people whose friends or relatives may be at risk of an overdose.
Edward Kelly, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts, told the Globe that expanding access to naxolone “should be a no-brainer; this should be something that should be on every firetruck.”
Finally, the governor set aside $20 million for treatment and recovery services intended to help the general public and those in jails across the state.
Patrick’s moves are largely in line with what Attorney General Eric Holder suggested earlier in March, when he called the spike in heroin and opioid abuse an “urgent public health crisis,” noting that deaths from heroin overdoses surged 45 percent between 2006 and 2010.
Attention to the dangers of heroin overdoses has increased in the US since the death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman thrust it back into the spotlight. Authorities found Hoffman dead in his apartment with a needle still in his arm, and autopsies showed he had a combination of heroin, cocaine and other drugs in his body.
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From tales about whales to enthralling scientific histories and the memoir of a frustrated astrophysicist, 2018 was a banner year for science books. Here are Science News’ picks for the titles that should be on any science lover’s bookshelf. Find detailed reviews of many of these books in the links below and in our Editor’s Pick: Favorite books of 2018.
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Explore the history of blood from vampires to the ‘Menstrual Man’
Nine PintsRose GeorgeMetropolitan Books, $30
The title of journalist Rose George’s new book, Nine Pints, quantifies how much blood George has flowing through her body. Her supply takes a temporary dip in the book’s opening chapter, when she donates about a pint (a story that continues on to recap the amazing accomplishment that is blood banking). This act of generosity is an...
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Got an environmental problem? Beavers could be the solution
EagerBen GoldfarbChelsea Green Publishing, $24.95
Most people probably don’t think of beavers until one has chewed through the trunk of a favorite tree or dammed up a nearby creek and flooded a yard or nearby road. Beavers are pests, in this view, on par with other members of the order Rodentia. But a growing number of scientists and citizens are recognizing the merits of these...
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‘The Poisoned City’ chronicles Flint’s water crisis
The Poisoned CityAnna ClarkMetropolitan Books, $30
America is built on lead. Networks of aging pipes made from the bluish-gray metal bring water into millions of U.S. homes. But when lead, a poison to the nervous system, gets into drinking water — as happened in Flint, Mich. — the heavy metal can cause irreparable harm (SN: 3/19/16, p. 8). In The Poisoned City, journalist Anna Clark...
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The study of human heredity got its start in insane asylums
Genetics in the MadhouseTheodore M. PorterPrinceton Univ., $35
England’s King George III descended into mental chaos, or what at the time was called madness, in 1789. Physicians could not say whether he would recover or if a replacement should assume the throne. That political crisis jump-started the study of human heredity.
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Elder reported that hippopotamuses find relief from overeating by piercing their skin in a hippo version of bloodletting. Eventually, scientists learned that the oozing red stuff Pliny described isn’t even blood but a secretion that may have antibacterial and sun-blocking properties. While...
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Shreveport bike group uses tune-ups to gain exposure
SBC Bike Social organizes community rides to raise awareness of their presence on the road
Shreveport bike group uses tune-ups to gain exposure SBC Bike Social organizes community rides to raise awareness of their presence on the road Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2014/09/21/shreveport-bike-group-uses-tune-ups-gain-exposure/15999301/
Adam Duvernay, aduvernay@gannett.com Published 12:24 a.m. CT Sept. 21, 2014 | Updated 1:24 p.m. CT Sept. 22, 2014
Stephen Pederson, organizer of SBC Bike Social, works on a bicycle during the group’s free tune-ups event Saturday afternoon at Great Raft Brewing, 1251 Dalzell St. in Shreveport. (Photo: Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times )Buy Photo
Jai Kirkes pedaled up to Great Raft Brewing in the heat at noon Saturday looking to lend a hand and maybe a wrench.
He'd met some members of SBC Bike Social just two nights before and decided to support their bicycle tune-up efforts at Great Raft Brewing. Kirkes only recently moved back home to Shreveport and found it lacking amenities for a new lifestyle he'd adopted.
"In Chattanooga, every major street had a bike lane. Every business had a bike rack," Kirkes said. "This city is in need. These people here are commuting on their bikes every day."
SBC Bike Social, River City Cycling and Great Raft partnered to tune up local cyclists' rides from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. On hand were many members of the local biking community, an increasingly visible element of Shreveport-Bossier City commuters.
"It's a really good way to get people out. It just seems to go together well — bikes and beers," said Stephen Pederson, SBC Bike Social organizer.
There was more to the event than just knocking the rust off bicycle chains.
Pederson and his friends were looking to get as many garage-stored bicycles back on the road and to remind people that flat tires and dusty frames aren't good enough reasons to neglect their bicycles.
Ethan Gullory works on a bicycle during SBC Bike Social’s free tune-ups Saturday afternoon at Great Raft Brewing, 1251 Dalzell St. in Shreveport. (Photo: Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times )
"Those excuses, I don't want anyone to have those anymore," Pederson said.
Caroline and Kelly Wiggins said they've been biking less than they used to but always have been leisure and exercise riders. The sisters rode their bicycles in Saturday and were smiling when they peddled away together soon after.
"We want to be part of the bike group in town. We love everything Shreveport," Kelly Wiggins said.
SBC Bike Social organizes community rides from place to place for the fellowship and exercise and to raise awareness of the group's presence on the road and desire for better amenities to cater to this particular mode of transportation.
Shreveport isn't such a bad place to ride, Pederson said, but there's a lot to be desired. "I've biked in a lot of cities, and Shreveport is one of the best. But it seems intimidating without bike lanes and the right signs. So you have to know where to ride."
The free tune-up events will continue, Pederson said, although the date for the next session isn't set. The meeting spaces in Shreveport are slated to rotate between Great Raft Brewing, 1251 Dalzell St.; Rhino Coffee, 721 Southfield Road; and Marilynn's Place, 4041 Fern Ave.; with Bear's, 1401 Fairfield Ave., potentially joining the mix.
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Christian Eriksen Confident He Can Win Trophies at Tottenham After Revealing Title Winning Ambitions
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Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Christian Eriksen has revealed he remains confident of winning trophies in north London, citing the club's recent progress under Mauricio Pochettino as reason to be optimistic for the future.
The 26-year old is enjoying another successful season individually, with his form reportedly making him a January target for Catalan giants Barcelona. The La Liga leaders opted to conclude a deal for Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho instead, though Eriksen remains adamant that he can fulfil his ambitions at Spurs.
"Yes, I think so." Eriksen replied, when asked by Danish outlet BT whether he can win big trophies at Tottenham. "If you think where Tottenham was when I came to where we are now. Now people are watching us as title candidates, and earlier we had to fight to get to the top four - and even at the top six.
"We may have to build and build ourselves against winning a trophy and we are on the way the right way. Then we have to see if there is anything for the end."
“We go into every game with the feeling we can win.” - @chriseriksen8 💪 #MondayMotivation #COYS
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The Danish international went on to reveal his ambition to emulate international colleague Kasper Schmeichel's title success with Leicester, claiming all players harbour dreams of winning the Premier League, Champions League or FA Cup.
"I think all footballers would like to win the Premier League or the Champions League or FA Cup. I think most people just want to win some trophies. You can try to ask Kasper (Schmeichel) how he had it after winning the Premier League.
"I think it was a good feeling. We have been close to in the last couple of seasons, but in this season we have not been around. Nevertheless, we still have an absolutely positive season so far. "
Eriksen scored twice at the weekend as Spurs sealed an FA Cup Semi-Final spot with a 3-0 win over Swansea, with the attacking midfielder's overall contribution of 11 goals in 38 appearances helping his side establish themselves firmly in this season's Premier League top four.
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Citizens lodge support for mural projects at Granby Board meeting
One of the murals of RKY MTN WALLS on the back of the Granby Visitor's Center.
Emma Trainor / etrainor@skyhinews.com
Every chair in the Granby Board chambers was filled Tuesday night, and an overflow crowd stood in the background as dozens of local citizens came out to show their support for Granby’s recently completed mural projects, part of the brand new street local art festival called Rky Mtn Walls.
Earlier this month, Granby Main Street Program, a Granby Chamber of Commerce program promoting Granby’s downtown business district, put on the first ever Rky Mtn Walls. Rky Mtn Walls is a Granby-based art festival focusing on street art. The festival resulted in the creation of eight unique murals on multiple buildings throughout Granby’s downtown business corridor.
Work on the murals kicked off roughly two weeks ago as local buildings underwent preparation work for the artwork. The artists began working on the projects last Wednesday, June 19. Work continued throughout the week and weekend as most of the artists added finishing touches.
On Monday, rumors began spreading on social media that town officials were unhappy with the murals and were planning to paint over the artwork. The resulting online debate led to a call for all citizens, who were interested in the discussion surrounding the murals, to appear at Tuesday night’s regularly scheduled Granby Board meeting to voice their opinions.
The subject of Granby’s murals and the recent art festival was not a formal agenda item on Tuesday night, however meeting attendees were able to address the board regarding the topic during the public comment period at the beginning of the meeting.
During the course of the meeting 17 individuals provided comments to the board regarding the topic. Of those 17 individuals, the majority, 12, voiced their support for the murals. Local citizen Liz McIntyre spoke eloquently about the controversies of art in history, rhetorically questioning why the statue of David was naked and asking what would have happened if the Pope demanded Michelangelo repaint the Sistine Chapel.
“Art is often meant to be provocative,” McIntyre said as she spoke in support of the murals. “I know there have been complaints, that it doesn’t fit with our mountain town, Western town, resort town. For me, I think it expands the space in Granby and allows room for those who want to be creative. Granby doesn’t have to be any one thing. I think the murals suggest Granby can be anything we imagine it to be.”
Three local citizens voiced displeasure with the murals. Some expressed their belief that the murals did not fit in with Granby’s traditional rustic Western themes. They also voiced complaints about the process by which the mural designs were developed — which did not include an opportunity for the public or property owners to review the murals designs prior to their creation.
Local Hopper Becker said he did not particularly care for the murals but stressed his appreciation for the creativity and artistry that went into their creation. Becker’s comments stressed the importance of local citizens respecting the property rights of any property owners who might seek to paint over the murals. He also decried a lack of civility that developed around the issue.
“I want to apologize for the amount of angry vitriol towards all of you,” Becker said, speaking to the board in reference to the heated rhetoric that on social media. “I hope we as a community can be a little more civil and get facts straight before we decide to pull each other into the streets.”
Two individuals also spoke during the meeting whose comments were neutral on the murals themselves. One woman voiced concerns that local artists were not included amongst those who did the work. Vanessa Benjamin-Rus, a local citizen advocate for mental health issues, expressed her displeasure that the topic of street art was removing focus from more pressing issues such as mental health.
“I am talking about priorities,” Benjamin-Rus said. “When murals are being bickered about when there are serious issues in this community, that is sad. There are serious problems going on and this isn’t going to help.”
A rundown of local property and business owners upon whose buildings the murals were painted reveals there are no plans in place to remove or repaint any of the pieces. Granby Mayor Paul Chavostie, who owns one of the buildings that received a mural, said he was not planning to repaint his property.
“I think the artwork is absolutely beautiful,” Chavousite said, before raising some complaints about the process. “But the Main Street organization should have had a process or held workshops where all public and local artist would have been included to add input and feedback.”
Chavousite said, on a personal level, the murals on Shear Design and LA Eatery were his favorites from the festival, and the pieces he felt were more psychedelic in nature were his least favorite works.
Sky-Hi News publisher Emma Trainor said the paper has no plans to repaint the mural on the apartments directly east of the paper’s office.
Representatives from Pearl Dragon also expressed their happiness with the mural on their building and said they had no plans to remove it. Lucas Edward Harville, owner of Lion Head Coffee, stated he “could not be happier” with the mural on his building and said he has no plans to change what was produced. Leonardo Valles, owner of LA Eatery, said the mural on his building would not be changing either.
During Tuesday’s public meeting Debra Brynoff, CEO of Grand County Board of Realtors, told the Granby Board that she believes the art is beautiful. She further confirmed there are no plans to remove the mural on the Board of Realtors’ building. Also voicing her vehement support for the murals Tuesday night was Rose Moeller-Jahn, owner of the property where Shear Designs and Spirits-N-Things is located, where two of the festival’s murals were produced. Moeller-Jahn is not planning to change the two murals on her property.
For her part, Granby Chamber Director Jessica Blair seemed taken aback by the furor that developed on social media over the murals.
“When we started off to do this, our only goal was to bring something unique to our town,” she said.
Blair sought to rebut some of the criticism that was leveled against Rky Mtn Walls regarding the process that went into deterring the murals and the funds used to pay for the festival. According to Blair, all but $5,000 of the $50,000 that went into making Rky Mtn Walls was derived from sponsorships and grants. Blair said the town of Granby had previously provided the Granby Main Street program with $5,000 to be applied to street art, all of which was applied to Rky Mtn Walls.
Blair also noted that the artists who performed the work at Rky Mtn Walls were paid $2,500 each; far below market rates for the work they performed. Blair noted more control over the artistic work of the artists who participated in Rky Mtn Walls would inherently require paying a higher fee for the specifically commissioned art.
“We wanted them (the artists) to have a creative part of this,” Blair said. “We wanted it tailored, but not micromanaged.”
Blair said she does not know exactly what the future holds for Rky Mtn Walls but was optimistic about its viability for years to come.
“I don’t think this is the last you will see of Rky Mtn Walls,” she said.Granby’s board took no formal action regarding the topic of Granby’s murals but did set the issue as a formal agenda item to be discussed during their next public meeting in early July.
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Citrix Troubleshooting 101: How to Resolve and Prevent Business-Impacting Citrix Problems
One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, session itself is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving these issues? A Citrix infrastructure has many tiers and dependencies. Where do you start looking, what do you analyze, and how do you triage?
Watch this webinar by George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, who shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting. You will find out how to:
• Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem
• Troubleshoot common Citrix problems like slow logons, slow app/desktop launch, disconnecting sessions, frozen sessions, etc.
• Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.)
• Optimize the Citrix environment for maximum performance
At the end, we discuss how automated monitoring can help accelerate performance troubleshooting.
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What is WEM and why is it different? Discuss how before you have Group Policies applying as a user logs on. Now you have WEM doing the same but only after logon.
Brief mention of architecture and Agent placed on VDA.
Mention of entitlement (Enterprise + CSS)
User perception is key, the quicker they see the desktop wallpaper and interact with the desktop the better.
Rather than cache a large file to the VDA, we can just have CPM create a symbolic link to it. This is pretty much like redirected folders at a file level.
Support for one active session at a time.
For keeping the XA/XD environment up to date, mention broker improvements in 7.11.
Just by upgrading to 7.11, you are getting some optimised code that makes improvements to SQL blocking queries. Look at the table, it shows the brokering requests per second between 7.11 and previous versions. Also the amount of time it takes to broker 10k users.
Zones is another way to group Delivery Controllers and VDAs together so that you have your resources closest together wherever they are in the world.
Session Prelaunch is for XenApp applications only and there is no licensing restrictions.
Users that use physical PCs don’t always launch their Citrix applications straight away. We can use this to our advantage.
Prelaunch is enabled by Delivery Group to all users or subset
If user does not launch application, session can be ended after ‘x’ mins/hrs/days
Receiver for Windows must be installed (SSON recommended) with EnablePreLaunch=True
Mention with a VDA freeze, the write cache may be filled.
Other tools such as Splunk, eG Enterprise
EDT is good on latent connections.
Stressed VDAs will result in a higher RTT.
So, first let us understand the Citrix Logon Process itself and what is involved there, as well as the implications of logon slowness.
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Show how eG Enterprise helps diagnose Citrix issues in each of the 3 categories:
User issue: High CPU in desktop or non-corporate app taking more bandwidth and slowing down Citrix session
Citrix issue: Logon GPO
Infra issue: VMware issue prove it’s not Citrix!
1. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Citrix Troubleshooting 101 How to Resolve and Prevent Business-Impacting Citrix Problems ─ An eG Innovations Webinar ─
2. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Know Your Speaker Vinod Mohan Sr. Product Marketing Manager eG Innovations Moderator George Spiers Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and EUC Architect Speakers Srinivas Ramanathan Founder and CEO eG Innovations Over 15 years of experience working with Citrix technologies. srinivas@eginnovations.com | www.eginnovations.com Citrix Certified Expert and Microsoft Solutions Expert. One of the 50 CTPs in the world. george@jgspiers.com | www.jgspiers.com
3. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Agenda • Understanding the Impact of Poor Citrix Performance • 3 Key Steps to Troubleshoot Citrix Problems ─ Determining the Scope, Magnitude, and Source of the Problem • Troubleshooting Tips from the Trenches ─ Citrix tiers, supporting infrastructure, client-side problems • Tips to Optimize your Citrix Deployment • How Automated Monitoring Aids in Troubleshooting
4. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Citrix is Performance Sensitive 48% 45% 7% The most performance sensitive service Similar in performance demands as other services Not that performance sensitive 93% believe that Citrix is one of the performance sensitive services in enterprise networks. Source: 2016 Citrix Performance Survey https://www.eginnovations.com/solutions/view-resources?whitepaper=36 • Many components are involved in Citrix delivery • Too many interdependencies between tiers • Any fault or failure cascades into a bigger problem that affects performance • Performance relies also on supporting infrastructure
5. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com What Happens When Users Complain that “Citrix is Slow”? Users start to complain that Citrix has suddenly become very slow Helpdesk starts getting user complaints Helpdesk alerts the Citrix administration team Citrix admins begin investigating the cause for slowness • Loss of productivity to users • Pressure on IT to fix the problem soon• Customer satisfaction is affected
6. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Slowness is Expensive! Loss of Productivity Application slowness for 3 hours; User productivity loss: $200/hr X 3 hours X 1000 users = $600,000 per incident Operations Cost Expert IT staff involved in troubleshooting costing $200/hr X 10 staff X 3hrs = $6,000 per incident
7. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Slowness is Expensive! Unforeseen Capital Expense Projection 50 users/ server Actual 25 users/ server Double the number of servers needed; $50,000 per server, 5 servers = $250,000 additional cost Failure of Transformation Project Performance slower than physical desktops Users unhappy; want physical desktops back; Cost increase: $600 per user * 1000 users = $600,000
8. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Performance Must Be Considered at Every Stage of the Citrix Deployment Lifecycle Design Test & Deploy Operate & Maintain Trouble- shoot Optimize Rectify Monitor Trouble- shoot
9. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Troubleshooting Tips from the Trenches Solve Top Citrix Problems
10. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Common Citrix Problems Logon is slow Application is slow to launch Keystrokes don’t show up on time Multimedia playback is choppy User ComplaintsPrinting doesn’t work Session gets disconnected Where to begin troubleshooting?
11. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com 3 Key Steps to Troubleshooting #1 Determine SCOPE of the problem #2 Determine MAGNITUDE of the problem #3 Determine SOURCE of the problem
12. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Determining The SCOPE of The Problem Troubleshooting must be problem specific • For e.g.: Citrix logon slowness will have different reasons and troubleshooting fixes from slow application access Is it just one task that the user is facing an issue with, or are all tasks slow? Logon Session Setup App Launch App Usage Remote Access Printing
13. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Determining The MAGNITUDE of the Problem One user is impacted Several users are impacted Less impact Moderate impact All users are impacted Critical impact • Which user? Where? When? • Is there a problem with the user's network? • What version of Citrix Workspace app does the user have? • Problem with a specific application or all applications? • Is there any commonality between these users? ─ Same server? ─ Same apps? ─ Same domain? ─ Same location? ─ Same Receiver version? • Is there DC network latency? • Is the Citrix Provisioning server or license server having an issue? • Are StoreFront and Citrix ADC working fine? • Is the virtual environment experiencing a bottleneck? • Is there a problem in the SAN environment?
14. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Determining The SOURCE of the Problem StoreFront Delivery Controller Citrix ADC Citrix End Users License Server Citrix Provisioning Active DirectorySQL Server Citrix Virtual Apps Server Hypervisor Internet/ WAN Storage Client Side Citrix Delivery Infrastructure Supporting Infrastructure Citrix End Users Firewall Corporate Network Client Network Corporate Network
15. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Best Practices for Troubleshooting Common Citrix Problems StoreFront Delivery Controller Citrix ADC Citrix End Users License Server Citrix Provisioning Active DirectorySQL Server Citrix Virtual Apps Server Hypervisor Internet/ WAN Storage Citrix Delivery Infrastructure Citrix End Users Firewall Corporate Network Client Network Slow Logon Slow App Launch Session Disconnects Frozen Sessions Session Latency
16. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Slow Logon is the #1 Problem for Citrix Admins Source: 2018 Citrix Migration Survey www.eginnovations.com/Citrix-Migration-Trends • In an environment that averages 500 user logons per business day, an average 10- second increase in logon times over a 5-day week period results in over 6 hours of lost productivity! • Slow logons are ranked the #1 problem for Citrix admins #1 Slow Logon
17. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Citrix Logon Slowness This will help isolate which part of the infrastructure to go look for issues Identify which step of the logon process is taking more time to execute #1 Slow Logon
18. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Monitoring Citrix Logons: No Longer a Science Logon Simulation #1 Slow Logon Simulated logon via Citrix Gateway Applications enumerated on the StoreFront console Launching application on StoreFront Citrix Director Real User Monitoring
19. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Logon Slowness • If using Citrix Profile Management, make sure your storage location is configured with high speed access to your desktops and applications • Make sure that you have enough resource available to cope with demand. Always size for peak load. • Optimise Group Policies. E.g., use Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) to map printers, drives and other actions after logon. • Make use of Citrix Profile Management policy settings such as: ─ Virtual Apps Optimization ─ Profile streaming ─ Large file handling ─ Logon exclusion check (keeps profile size minimised) • Optimise your images – Disable unneeded services, scheduled tasks, and tweak the OS for better performance #1 Slow Logon ─ https://www.jgspiers.com/windows-server-2012-r2-optimisation-script/ - for Windows Server 2012 R2 ─ https://www.jgspiers.com/windows-server-2016-optimisation-script/ - for Windows Server 2016 ─ https://www.jgspiers.com/windows-10-1709-optimisation-script/ - for Windows 10
20. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) With WEM Without WEM All the processing is done after logon Logon speed is improved All the processing steps happen before logon #1 Slow Logon
21. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Large File Handling • Large files can be created as symbolic links • Avoids synchronizing the file down to the VDA • Supported on Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.16+ #1 Slow Logon
22. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Slow Application Launch • Is the launch for only one application slow, or for all applications? • Is slowness affecting application launch on one server or all servers? • Check versions of applications in use: are they uniform? • Compare workloads of servers in use • Published apps may involve user session establishment. So brokering, GPOs etc. can cause slowness. • Look for add-ins/plugins (e.g., Outlook, Browser, etc.) that may be causing app launch slowness #2 Slow App/Desktop Launch
23. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Monitoring Slow Application Launch #2 Slow App/Desktop Launch eG Enterprise • Application availability and launch with simulation ─ App Probing using Director ─ Logon simulation tools • Monitor actual application launch times (using Windows APIs)
24. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Slow Application/Desktop Launch #2 Slow App/Desktop Launch • Optimise images • Make use of session prelaunch for published applications • Make sure VDAs are spec’d appropriately and not overloaded, especially during peak times • Make sure you have enough VDAs powered on and available to handle requests • Make sure you have enough DDCs to handle requests • Make sure you have enough StoreFront servers to deal with requests • Ensure your Citrix profile/3rd party profile solution is optimized & not a bottleneck • Keep your Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment up-to-date • Make use of Zones to broker users to desktops/applications closest to them if you have multiple-datacentres
25. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Implement Brokering Improvements (7.11+) Improvements to Latency and SQL Blocking Query Before XA/XD 7.11 (90ms latency) XA/XD 7.11+ (90ms latency) Brokering requests per sec 3.7 12.6 Time to launch 10k users 44m 55s 13m 10s Quicker brokering = quicker launch times! #2 Slow App/Desktop Launch
26. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Use Session Prelaunch (7.6+) • Session is pre-prepared when user logs on to StoreFront • When user clicks to launch application, the majority―if not entire―logon process would have already completed in background • Not always will a user launch a Virtual Apps application straight away, they may check emails. In the meantime, let Virtual Apps prepare the session in the background. • Keep in mind that licenses are used, so you can set a time limit to end pre-launched sessions if they are not used after a period of time. #2 Slow App/Desktop Launch
27. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating User Session Disconnects • Follow a process of elimination to determine if: ─ This happens to particular users, or all users ─ Happens when using specific desktops or published applications ─ Happens to users from particular offices and so on #3 User Session Disconnects • Check Event Logs on the VDAs around the time when disconnects happened • Check Citrix Receiver/Workspace app logs • Run network connectivity tests for affected users • Run tests on VDAs to make sure they are not losing network connection briefly • Check that firewalls and antivirus products are not interfering with ICA traffic
28. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid User Session Disconnects • Make sure your environment is on the latest updates/versions: ─ Citrix Receiver/Workspace app should be up to date ─ VDAs are always patched with the latest releases from Microsoft ─ Update Hypervisor tools such as VMware Tools ─ Ensure that Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is kept up to date • Ensure network monitoring is in place and the networking fabric is kept up to date to ensure optimal performance and stability • Keep a record of what has changed in the environment so you can roll-back easily if disconnects happen suddenly after a change #3 User Session Disconnects
29. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Enable Receiver Logging https://www.jgspiers.com/citrix-receiver-windows-logging/ General Receiver logging: Set ReceiverVerboseTracingEnabled to 1 under HKLMSOFTWARECitrix for 32-bit machines or HKLMSOFTWAREWOW6432NodeCitrix for 64-bit machines #3 User Session Disconnects
30. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Frozen Sessions • Are all users on the same VDA affected or just one? • Does exiting Receiver, re-launching and connecting back to the session work? • Can you force the user off via Director, or by killing processes via Task Manager on the VDA or Director? • Is a process thrashing CPU, memory, or disk on the VDA(s)? • Does the VDA need to be drained and rebooted to clear the frozen session? #4 Frozen Sessions
31. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Frozen Sessions • Make sure your environment is on the latest updates/versions: ─ Citrix Receiver/Workspace app should be up to date ─ VDAs are always patched with the latest releases from Microsoft ─ Update Hypervisor tools such as VMware Tools ─ Hypervisors should have latest patches ─ Ensure that Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is kept up to date • Make sure that VDAs are spec’d appropriately if the session froze due to CPU thrashing or lack of RAM. WEM can help here • If using Citrix Provisioning (PVS), make sure your Write Cache set to “Cache on device RAM with overflow to HDD” ─ Ensure the Write Cache for PVS and MCS is large enough to cope with writes • Follow Citrix recommendations for Antivirus exclusions: ─ https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127030 #4 Frozen Sessions
32. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Hide Citrix Sessions https://www.jgspiers.com/user-stuck-citrix-desktop-force-log-off/ Session frozen on VDA, but you cannot reboot immediately (Virtual Apps)? #4 Frozen Sessions
33. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Internal or External Session Latency • If only external users are facing issues, but not internal users: ─ Are the Citrix ADCs (NetScalers) under load? ─ Is latency caused by routing or issues in the DMZ? ─ Could user's WAN connection be a problem? #5 Session Latency • If both internal and external users are affected, check StoreFront, other Citrix components, and the datacentre network StoreFront Citrix ADC Internet/ WAN Firewall WAN Latency DC Latency Internal User External User
34. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Monitoring Session Latency • Use Citrix ADM (formerly NetScaler MAS) to get DC latency and WAN latency metrics obtained by analysing the traffic flowing through Citrix ADC #5 Session Latency Customers not on Citrix Gateway Premium licensing can rely on AppFlow monitoring tools from vendors (eG Innovations, others)
35. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Session Latency • Monitor resource usage on your VDAs ─ Detect users/applications taking up too much resources proactively • Monitor browser activity ─ Many monitoring tools can show URLs accessed by users ─ Limit browser access to web sites required for business activities • For remote access, make sure Citrix ADC/Gateway (formerly NetScaler) is configured with appropriate licenses that support throughput requirements • Make sure the internal network is performing as should ─ Unforeseen problems can occur – e.g., with network teaming #5 Session Latency
36. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Enable Citrix HDX Adaptive Transport (EDT Protocol) to Improve Latency and Throughput A copy of a 45MB file over a 200ms line is still an incredible 36 seconds faster than the 100ms TCP copy. #5 Session Latency
37. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com What Tools Citrix Offers for Troubleshooting Citrix Smart Tools • You can schedule a range of health checks against your environment for: – StoreFront health checks – Citrix Site health checks – Citrix Provisioning health checks – License server health checks Limitation: Does not provide in-depth visibility to diagnose issues. Does not help with problems outside the Citrix stack.
38. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com What Tools Citrix Offers for Troubleshooting Citrix Director • Web-based, helpdesk-focused tool that allows you to (based on licensing) • Manage active sessions (remote control, disconnect, logoff, stop processes) • View logon times to VDAs (average logon times across Delivery Groups, logon times per user) • View session establishment failures (why a session failed to connect and a reason) • Create alerts for long logon time averages, high session failure count and more • View historical data and run reports on sessions, connections, logon times and more Limitation: Functionality is restricted by Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops licensing. Does not help with problems outside the Citrix stack.
39. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Best Practices for Troubleshooting Problems Originating from the Client Side StoreFront Delivery Controller Citrix ADC Citrix End Users License Server Citrix Provisioning Active DirectorySQL Server Citrix Virtual Apps Server Hypervisor Internet/ WAN Storage Client Side Citrix End Users Firewall Corporate Network Client Network
40. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Issues on The Client Side • Is the client terminal running the latest version of Citrix Workspace app (Citrix Receiver)? • Is there anti-virus running on the client workstation that may be interfering with ICA traffic? • Is the browser that the user is using to access Citrix session slow? ─ Are there browser add-ons such as proxies or content filtering software that is blocking or preventing ICA from optimally performing? • Is there any user account lockout issue in the Active Directory? • Is the client workstation having any problems? ─ A background application/process taking too much resources Client-side Issues
41. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Issues on The Client Side • How is the network connectivity on the client side? ─ Is there any firewall setting on their workstation that’s affecting connectivity? ─ What is the network latency? Bandwidth? ─ Citrix APIs/counters provide latency and bandwidth information for virtual channels Client-side Issues
42. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Issues on the Client Side • Make sure to have the most recent version of Citrix Workspace app (Receiver) installed on the client terminal • Test network connection strength from the user terminal to Citrix Site ─ Citrix network connection quality indicator tool can be used (https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220774) • Check the user’s profile and see if there’s any issue, such as a large profile size • Check Active Directory to see if the user account is configured correctly and does not have any non-essential Group Policy settings applied or logon scripts • Check for memory, disk and storage issues on the client workstation • Make sure the browser used to access StoreFront or Citrix Gateway is of the latest version and is not having any issues Client-side Issues
43. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Best Practices for Troubleshooting Problems in the Infrastructure Supporting Citrix Deployments StoreFront Delivery Controller Citrix ADC Citrix End Users License Server Citrix Provisioning Active DirectorySQL Server Citrix Virtual Apps Server Hypervisor Internet/ WAN Storage Supporting Infrastructure Citrix End Users Firewall Corporate Network Client Network
44. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Investigating Issues with the Supporting Infra • Network ─ Don’t assume, monitor! May not just be your routers, switches. Network card issues can cause problems. ─ Speed negotiation problems, driver issues can also affect performance • Active Directory ─ Sites and Services may not be properly configured if you have multiple sites across your organisation ─ Logon scripts may be configured on user accounts through ADUC which can be bad for logon times ─ DNS if incorrectly configured could cause problems with applications and services ─ Kerberos authentication breaks if there is a five minute or more difference between the server and AD • Hypervisor ─ Monitor resource usage – look for bottlenecks; Follow vendor-specified best practices ─ VM ready time, memory ballooning and swapping, disk queueing and aborts ─ Monitor resources used by other VMs • Storage ─ Detect storage failures (failures remain hidden in RAID environments) ─ Monitor LUN-level I/O activity • Cloud ─ Ensure you are not reaching capacity limits ─ Look for bandwidth / connection problems to the cloud Infrastructure Issues
45. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Tips to Avoid Issues in the Supporting Infra Infrastructure Issues • Make sure Group Policy is configured to apply only relevant policies. You can move a lot of Group Policy settings off to WEM if you are entitled • Size your hypervisors to cope with peak load. That is, the maximum number of sessions you need to support concurrently with a 10-20% buffer. ─ Also factor in host failure or datacentre outage and how that will affect remaining healthy infrastructure • If using file servers for Citrix Profile Management or Folder Redirection, make sure enough disk capacity, RAM and CPU is assigned to these servers, and that high availability is in place • Keep the number of Organizational Units and Security Groups at a minimum. This will make management easier and speed up troubleshooting • Monitor and always regularly patch storage, networking and hypervisor infrastructure • Maintain tight change-control and always keep track of changes to the environment
46. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Optimizing the Citrix Environment For Maximum Performance
47. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Lifecycle of a Citrix Deployment Design Test & Deploy Operate & Maintain Trouble- shoot Optimize Rectify Monitor
48. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Achieve Persistency Even Across Non-Persistent Desktops • Citrix Profile Management and Citrix WEM allow profiles, mapped drives, printers, and other actions to roam with users regardless of which desktop they connect to, providing a persistent feel • Citrix App Layering (Elastic Layers) can solve niche cases where users need access to specific applications, providing them with a unique desktop experience even on non- persistent desktops ─ App Layering (User Layers) is now generally available, and will provide a storage location for a users profile, applications and settings, which will roam from desktop to desktop
49. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Achieve a Roaming OST for a Great Email Experience Office 365 User Layers captures the OST file in a VHDX container, which can roam between desktops. FSLogix Office 365 Containers provide the same solution, plus many additional advanced features. Cache Exchange Mode with Office 365 is desired, but how can that work effectively in a non-persistent environment?
50. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Achieve Successful Patching of Citrix Images • Review Citrix validated patching reports ─ https://support.citrix.com/pages/interop • Perform your own tests on patched images before rolling out to production • Carry out full change control procedures • Roll out patches to 10% of estate initially, before rolling out to entire Site • Use disk versioning to ensure successful rollback (Citrix Provisioning/PVS) • Keep previous MCS images or image versions to ensure rollback of Machine Catalogs • Use Citrix App Layering to reduce patching efforts
51. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Image Optimization with Citrix App Layering https://www.jgspiers.com/citrix-app-layering/
52. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com How to Keep on Top of Your Images & VDA Housekeeping Tips • Consult with HR/Active Directory teams to be notified when staff have left the company ─ Remove desktops or reassign to other staff • Review desktop count regularly and reduce pool if required, or increase it • Retire VDAs hosting applications that have since been migrated to newer VDAs, or moved to the cloud/SaaS • Use monitoring software that can alert you when VDAs have not been logged on to for a period of time • Take backups of images and then delete the live copies as part of decommission process Script to find unused VDAs: https://www.jgspiers.com/find-unused-vdas-script/
53. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Successfully Deploy New Desktops or Applications to Citrix • Consult with application vendors to understand h/w requirements to run their software, especially in a multi-user environment • Consult with application vendors to understand s/w requirements to run or work alongside the applications, such as Outlook/Excel/Word/Java/.NET/Internet Explorer • Deploy OS and s/w that both are in support by Microsoft, Citrix, and the application vendor(s) • Profile staff, learning which peripherals they will use with the application, what drive maps they need access to, what printers they need access to and so on • Design desktops and application servers according to requirements • Design Citrix and Group Policies appropriately according to requirements. Lifting restrictions on clipboard access, client drive mapping and so on may be required. • Run initial pilots to determine user acceptability, and gather resource consumption metrics to determine impact through scale. Move pilot into staged production
54. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Effectively Plan for Disaster Recovery • Document steps required to recover a site in the event of a disaster, i.e. datacentre outage. This allows staff to understand what they need to do • Ensure that the load of a datacentre can be hosted elsewhere, i.e. cloud or a recovery datacentre • Use N+1 method to deploy StoreFront and Delivery Controllers • SQL, Domain Controllers, hypervisors, and so on need to be redundant and cope under partial failure • Citrix ADC can help route traffic away from StoreFront etc. servers that are down • Test Local Host Cache and configure your DDCs to cope with extra registration requests, etc. • Regularly review disaster plan and annually or bi-annually perform disaster testing https://www.jgspiers.com/citrix-local-host-cache/
55. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com How Automated Monitoring Aids in Citrix Troubleshooting
57. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Synthetic and Real User Experience Citrix and Supporting Infrastructure End-to-End Performance Correlation Reports, Analytics, Machine Learning Monitor Every Layer, Every Tier Pinpoint Root Cause of Problems for Troubelshooting Right-size & Optimize for Maximum Performance Measure All Aspects of Citrix User Experience 1 2 3 4 End-to-End Monitoring with eG Enterprise
58. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com eG Enterprise Demo • Client-side issue – A non-corporate app taking up high CPU and slowing the Citrix session • Citrix issue – GPO processing affecting logon time • Infrastructure issue – VMware bottleneck in the hypervisor affecting Citrix sessions
59. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Dramatically simplify and accelerate application performance management. Deliver peak performance, user satisfaction and ROI. User Satisfaction IT Productivity Higher service uptime Simplicity Cost control & ROI Total Citrix Performance Management “ ” Benefits of Using eG Enterprise
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61. © eG Innovations, Inc. | www.eginnovations.com Thank You! For more information on Citrix monitoring, contact eG Innovations: www.eginnovations.com info@eginnovations.com For more information on Citrix troubleshooting, contact George Spiers: www.jgspiers.com george@jgspiers.com
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Australia faces deepening recycling crisis as India bans plastic waste imports
By Jewel Topsfield
March 28, 2019 — 11.31am
Australia’s waste crisis is set to escalate, with India this month completely banning plastic waste imports a year after China’s drastic restrictions sent shockwaves through the recycling industry.
India was the fourth-largest destination for Australia’s waste in December 2018, taking 13 per cent of its total waste exports.
An Indian worker sorts used plastic bottles before sending them to be recycled at an industrial area on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Credit:AP
The Australian Council of Recycling has warned that with Asian markets closing down and some councils already sending their kerbside recycling to landfill, recycling was "greatly under threat".
"We are back to where we started with the China crisis, but worse because we have fewer alternative markets," the council's chief executive Peter Shmigel said.
Australia’s waste exports to China declined by 41 per cent last financial year.
It led to the hazardous stockpiling of recyclable material, while rubbish collectors scrambled to find alternative overseas markets.
Countries including India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia offset the decline in waste exports to China by taking more of Australia’s recyclable rubbish.
Overall, Australia’s waste exports actually increased by 5 per cent last financial year.
A dangerous stockpile of recycling material at a site operated by SKM Services in Melbourne's north in February this year. Credit:Jason South
But an analysis of Australia’s waste exports commissioned by the Department of the Environment and Energy warned several other Asian countries were reviewing their policies.
It said Malaysia and Thailand had since announced a ban on plastic waste imports by 2021 and others were taking immediate action to tighten controls on imports.
"If Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand enacted waste import bans similar to China’s, Australia would need to find substitute domestic or export markets for approximately 1.29 million tonnes (or $530 million) of waste a year, based on 2017-18 export amounts," the analysis says.
A member of the Kuala Langat environment NGO picks up plastic waste at a shuttered illegal plastic recycling factory in Jenjarom. Credit:Amilia Rosa
India is the latest country to slam its doors on the world’s waste, with the country completely prohibiting the import of solid plastic waste on March 1.
Waste and recycling groups have called on state and federal governments to urgently invest in the recycling industry in Australia, rather than exporting waste overseas.
"We call for a meaningful proportion of the $1.5 billion that’s raised by state governments through hidden waste disposal levies, or currently allocated by the federal government to initiatives that don’t produce regional jobs like we do, to be spent on recycling infrastructure," Mr Shmigel said.
Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia CEO Gayle Sloan said there was no excuse for the lack of tangible government action more than 12 months after China's ban on poor-quality recycling material began, particularly given environment ministers had met twice.
The state and federal governments had been poised to release six national targets to reduce waste late last year as part of a new National Waste Policy.
But talks broke down with the states, which refused to endorse the targets because the policy failed to specify how they would be achieved.
China's ban on the importation of lower-grade waste has hit Australia hard. Credit:Robert Pearce
Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald it was disappointing the states did not agree to the targets considering the significant amount of work that had been undertaken.
However, she said officials had since met twice to draft "targets, actions and milestones" for a "national action plan" based on priorities such as reducing plastic pollution and increasing demand for recycled materials through procurement.
Illustration: Matt Golding Credit:
The department was also consulting with industry, she said.
Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson recently asked in a budget estimates hearing how much funding had been committed to implementing the national waste policy.
He was told the national action plan would guide decisions on future funding commitments.
"The federal government has spent nothing to implement the National Waste Policy," he said.
"The recycling industry is at a fork in the road. If we are to save the industry we have to reboot recycling and change the way we consume. But the federal government just won’t take the crisis seriously."
Jewel Topsfield
Jewel Topsfield is Melbourne Editor of The Age.
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The risks with overplaying fully franked dividends
28 September 2017 — 2 minute read
SMSF practitioners should be careful not to limit their clients’ investment universe to investments that pay only fully franked dividends at the expense of other opportunities.
While fully franked dividends may be nice to have, they are not an investment solution on their own.
We are not dismissive of the value of franked dividends, but it’s important to remember that it is the total return that matters and that an obsession in pursuing fully franked dividends is not necessarily going to lead to good outcomes.
Fully franked dividends are paid by companies who have paid tax in Australia on their Australian earnings, and the imputation system ensures that there is no double taxation as the tax paid by companies is attributed or imputed to investors. By extension this results in those companies with overseas earnings not normally paying fully franked dividends.
To highlight the actual value of a fully franked dividend in a SMSF trustee’s pocket we take a look at the 20-year average return from the ASX 300 Accumulation Index. The return to 30 June 2017 was 8.17 per cent per annum. This is an index return and does not include the value of franking.
For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume that the return consisted of a 4 per cent per annum dividend (fully franked) and 4.17 per cent per annum of capital appreciation. Also for simplicity, we are considering a SMSF in pension phase with zero tax on earnings.
The 4 per cent fully franked income will receive imputation credits back to the SMSF worth 1.71 per cent per annum. This means that the total after tax return to an SMSF with a zero tax rate would be 9.88 per cent per annum. In other words, the imputation credit from a 4 per cent fully franked dividend increases the total return by 1.71 per cent per annum. While this is significant, the value of the imputation credit slips into insignificance if other aspects of the investment falter — just ask Telstra shareholders.
SMSF trustees who only seek fully franked dividends deny themselves of the opportunity to invest in some of Australia’s best companies who derive income from offshore. CSL, Sonic Healthcare and Macquarie Bank come to mind.
They also limit their opportunity set to domestically facing businesses including banks, telecommunication providers and retailers, all of which are facing challenging headwinds.
SMSF practitioners should instead encourage clients to focus on the company’s earnings and the sustainability of those earnings, ahead of whether the dividend is fully franked or not. We would argue that it is better to invest in a company with a growing earnings stream with lower dividend, than it is to invest into a company with flat or falling earnings with a higher dividend, subject of course to investing at a sensible entry point. A growing earnings stream can also lead to future higher dividends.
Below we show earnings charts from fully franked dividend payers, Woolworths and Telstra, which show a flat earnings profile over the last 10 years, and the share price reflects this.
Source: Skaffold
On the flipside we provide earnings charts for two companies that pay partially franked dividends due to their offshore earnings, CSL and Sonic Healthcare.
Sonic Healthcare
SMSF Trustees should consider some of the following aspects of a company rather than simply focusing on a fully franked dividend:
Earnings history and forecasts
What is the company’s competitive advantage?
How is company management regarded by the investment community?
Gearing levels
Does the industry that the company operates in face a headwind or a tailwind?
By Mark Draper, adviser, GEM Capital Financial Advice
Last Updated: 28 September 2017 Published: 28 September 2017
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Ronnie Lott wants to help build a Raiders stadium in Oakland
Local // Matier and Ross
Matier & Ross May 23, 2016 Updated: May 23, 2016 6 a.m.
1of2Former San Francisco 49ers Ronnie Lott smiles on the field before the Legends of Candlestick flag football game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, July 12, 2014.Photo: Stephen Lam, Special to The Chronicle
2of2Ronnie Lott (left) tackles Marcus Allen of the Raiders during a 1990 game. Lott is now involved in helping to develop a new Oakland stadium for the Raiders.Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice
A group of predominantly African American investors led by NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott and retired quarterback Rodney Peete is making a bid to help build the Raiders a new stadium in Oakland.
In recent weeks, ex-49er Lott and Peete, both of whom played briefly for the Raiders, have met with team executives and Oakland officials to brief them on their proposal to be master developers of the 120-acre Coliseum site.
One key member of the team is Atlanta developer Egbert Perry, chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. He’s also CEO of the real estate and investment firm Integral, which is among the largest African American-owned businesses in the U.S.
Others joining the effort include Seth Hamalian, founder of the Mission Bay Development Group, and Walnut Creek sports agent Bill Duffy, whose client list includes Warriors players Klay Thompson and Festus Ezeli.
There was no immediate indication of just how much money the group, backed by a hedge fund, is willing to put into the deal — but we’re told that, in return, its members would like a minority share of ownership in the Raiders. The NFL remains the only major sport in the U.S. without African American ownership.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf told us Friday that she had met with the group some time ago, but wanted the city to work directly with the Raiders when it comes to plans for the Coliseum’s development.
“I will not meet with any developer for this project unless they are brought to me by the Raiders, and I have asked the City Council to do the same,” she said.
Neither Lott nor other members of his team returned our calls seeking comment.
More meetings are expected this week with members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which also would have to sign on to any deal.
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How real the play is remains to be seen, but time may be running short for Oakland to come up with a viable stadium plan.
The Raiders and the National Football League have been at loggerheads with Oakland and Alameda County for years over their refusal to commit public dollars to building a new stadium.
Raiders owner Mark Davis recently threw his support behind a plan by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, in partnership with California billionaire Ed Roski’s Majestic Realty, to build a stadium and convention center in Las Vegas — with the help of $750 million in tourism taxes.
“If (Davis) could get a deal done in Oakland, he would probably prefer it,’’ one football source said after the talks, who declined to speak for the record. “But there is nothing coming forward, and it looks like such an ominous task.”
Bottom line, said another source wired into the discussions: “If there is no deal by September (to keep the Raiders in Oakland), there will probably be a deal with the NFL to allow the team to relocate to Las Vegas.”
Coal war: With a showdown vote expected next month, developer Phil Tagami and backers of Oakland’s new bulk cargo terminal are intensifying their campaign to keep the City Council from blocking coal shipments from the waterfront.
Project loyalists have called a news conference for Monday at which they plan to highlight the thousands of jobs they say will be lost if the council hits the brakes on coal.
“It’s the tech, the marijuana or the port in terms of jobs, and we want to make sure Oakland delivers on its promises of jobs and equity for everyone to live here,” said Ron Muhammad, a West Oakland community organizer.
To underscore the point, a coalition of black ministers, community activists and construction trade representatives plans to attend the news conference at the terminal site on the old Oakland Army Base, where construction already has begun.
Tagami’s forces even plan to trot out at least one doctor to make the case that nearby residents’ health is more endangered by unemployment than any concerns about coal dust.
Mayor Libby Schaaf and council members initially trumpeted the Army base project, pledging $242 million in taxpayer money to kick-start it. But now they’re under pressure from the Sierra Club and other environmental activists worried about not just the health hazards to local residents but also the climate impacts of burning coal globally.
The council is now pondering regulations that could restrict coal from being shipped through the terminal. A vote is tentatively scheduled for June 27.
Tagami has warned that blocking coal could sink the entire project. He’s also hinted at possible lawsuits to recover the money invested in the project.
The fight highlights the growing rift that has been emerging nationwide between agenda-driven environmental activists and jobs-focused construction trades — traditionally two of the most loyal Democratic constituencies.
For her part, Schaaf, who opposes the coal shipments, said she’s “committed to adopting the strongest health and safety protections allowed by the law for the bulk terminal.”
“It’s a false choice to say that we can’t do both.”
Greeting party: Chinatown power broker Rose Pak is due back Monday after her months-long sojourn to China for a new kidney — and judging from the reception being planned, she’ll be welcomed home like a conquering hero.
More than 100 friends and supporters are chartering a bus convoy to take them from Chinatown to the airport to greet Pak. Then everyone will head back to the Far East Cafe on Grant Avenue for lunch and a lion dance.
Last year, Mayor Ed Lee had a bit of a falling-out with Pak after she supported Aaron Peskin in District Three over his hand-picked supervisor for the seat, Julie Christensen. But the two have since patched things up, and the mayor even stopped by to visit her in April during a visit to Asia.
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7 Day Focus on Ireland – Insight Vacations
Ireland tours compared
Day 1 In Dublin’s Fair City
Welcome to a land of legends, of misty mountains, lovely lakes and a warm friendly greeting wherever you go. At Dublin Airport, transfers leave for your hotel at 08:00, 11:00 & 13:30. Later, sightseeing of Dublin takes you past the Custom House, along O’Connell Street and through Phoenix Park. Travel along the River Liffey to see the Guinness Brewery and Dublin Castle before admiring the 18C buildings of the Georgian section of the city. A walk through the cobbled stones of Trinity College Dublin brings you back to the 18th century, when the magnificent Old Library was constructed. Inside, you’ll find the 9C Book of Kells; its delicate paintings remain one of the treasures of the Middle Ages. Venture upstairs to the magnificent barrel-vaulted Long Room, where 200,000 of the Library’s oldest books are housed in a procession of oak bookcases. Later, join your Tour Director for a warm and friendly Welcome Reception, with drinks and the opportunity to mingle and get to know each other over a pleasant evening of dinner and wine. (WR/D) Stay: Doubletree by Hilton – Burlington Road, Dublin
Day 2 To Galway, City Of The Tribes
Leave Dublin and set off through the ‘forty shades of green’ landscape of the Emerald Isle. Pass by the former fortress town of Athlone on the River Shannon, to reach historic Galway, ‘City of the Tribes’, at the mouth of the Corrib River. Join your Tour Director to see the infamous Lynch Memorial and the Church of St. Nicholas, where Christopher Columbus reputedly prayed before his discovery of America. Also see the aged Spanish Arch and Eyre Square, dedicated to the late US President, John F Kennedy. (FB) Stay: The Ardilaun Hotel, Galway
Day 3 Drive To Bunratty And Limerick, Then On To Killarney
Take the scenic route through the mysterious rocky limestone landscape of the Burren, riddled with underground caverns and streams and known for its rare flora. Stop at the Exhibition Centre at the 700-foot Cliffs of Moher with breathtaking views of the Clare Coast. Now on to Bunratty Folk Park where Ireland’s rural heritage comes to life. Walk through the cobbled streets lined with buildings from a bygone era. Nearby is the town of Limerick, famous for rhymes, lace and Georgian houses. See King John’s Castle, St. Mary’s Cathedral and the Treaty Stone. Continue via the village of Adare with its thatched roofed cottages, to Killarney. (BB/D) Stay: Killarney Towers, Killarney
Day 4 Ring Of Kerry Experience
After a good night’s sleep and a hearty Irish breakfast, take a leisurely excursion around the magnificent Ring of Kerry for breathtaking views over mountains and sea. Pass through the small towns of Killorglin, where the famous Puck Fair takes place, and Caherciveen, birthplace of the great patriot Daniel O’Connel. Follow the narrow road as it winds along the cliffs to the fishing town of Waterville. Continue through delightful villages like Sneem and cross the peat bogs of the Black Mountains to Moll’s Gap to admire Queen Victoria’s ‘Ladies View’. Back in Killarney, enjoy a memorable ride on a traditional horse-drawn jaunting car with the local ‘Jarvies’. The rest of the afternoon is at leisure. Maybe take the opportunity to hire a bicycle and enjoy one of the many scenic trails around the lake or through the National Park. This evening, enjoy an exclusive look at epicurean Ireland in the kitchens of master chef, John Sheehan. Join him and his wife Freda for drinks, canapes and a personal insight into classic Irish recipes so much loved throughout the world. Then settle down amid panoramic views over the lakes and mountains for an evening of great food and drink in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. (BB/HD) Stay: Killarney Towers, Killarney
Day 5 Travel To Cobh And Blarney Castle On The Way To Cork
Journey through the rugged Derrynasaggart Mountains to the pretty riverside village of Cobh, which was the last port of call for the Titanic. Walk through the Queenstown Story exhibition at the Heritage Centre which recounts the era of Irish emigration and the life of this once great passenger port. Then drive to visit the 15C Blarney Castle, home of the famous Stone of Eloquence, once kissed – never forgotten! Continue on to Cork for a visit to the bustling English Market. Meet a local market stall holder who introduces you to a taste of delicious farmhouse cheese. Continue, along spacious Grand Parade and South Mall, seeing the Court House and fine Georgian houses en route to your hotel. Raise your glasses this evening and revel in rich flavours at a lively Celebration Dinner. (BB/CD) Stay: Imperial Hotel, Cork
Day 6 Make Your Way To Waterford, Kildare And On To Dublin
An exciting day takes you along the coast via Youghal, where tradition says Sir Walter Raleigh planted the first potatoes in Ireland. Continue via Dungarvan to Waterford for a guided visit of the world famous crystal factory and to meet a master craftsman. See the 9th century Reginald’s Tower and the remains of the old city walls, then head north to visit the Irish National Stud at Kildare. Get a behind the scenes look at one of the country’s main racehorse breeding centres and visit the fabulous Japanese Gardens. Laid out by a Japanese landscape artist at the turn of last century, the thought-provoking garden celebrates a journey through life. Return to your Dublin hotel, located in the heart of Dublin’s leafy southside, just minutes from the city centre. (FB) Stay: Doubletree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road
Day 7 Depart Dublin
Your memorable tour comes to an end today. Departure transfers arrive at Dublin Airport at 07:30, 09:30 & 11:30. (FB)
Additional Included Highlights
Dublin: See the Custom House, Guinness Brewery, Phoenix Park, Dublin Castle and the Georgian townhouses.
York: See York Minster, city walls and medieval ‘Shambles”
Borders: Visit part of Hadrian’s Wall. See Jedburgh Abbey ruins
Limerick: See Treaty Stone, King John’s Castle and Cathedral
Adare: See the main street lined with thatched cottages.
Cork: Enjoy an orientation tour.
Highlight Hotels And Locations
Galway: The luxurious Ardilaun House in Galway is located perfectly between the city and the Connemara coast. This country house hotel offers excellent accommodation and exceptional service.
Signature Dining
Killarney: Join John and Freda Sheehan for an evening of culinary delights in a beautiful setting. Enjoy great food and drink in a relaxed atmosphere while the master chef explains the secrets behind some of Ireland’s best loved dishes.
Cork: Celebrate Irish style! Join in the ‘craic’ over dinner with fabulous local flavours and wine.
Welcome Reception (WD), 6 full Breakfasts (FB), 1 Highlight Dinner (HD), 1 three-course Evening Meal with choice, or buffets, plus tea or coffee (D) and 1 Celebration Dinner (CD).
Signature Experiences
Dublin: Breathe the air thickened by the musty tomes of Trinity College Library and admire the lavish Book of Kells, written and decorated by Celtic monks in the 9thC.
Cliffs of Moher: Stop by the Exhibition Centre and look out over the Wild Atlantic Way from these majestic cliffs.
Bunratty: Explore the Folk Park, a living museum which takes you back to the days of old Ireland.
Killarney: Venture into a world of towering cliffs, lakelands and remote villages as you tour the Ring of Kerry.
Killarney: See the hidden delights of Killarney on a famous jaunting car ride. Ramble along with your local ‘Jarvie’ who informs you of the history, legend and folklore of the area – with some Irish wit thrown in for good measure!
Cobh: The Queenstown Story at Cobh retraces the steps of Irish emigration from the famine of 1845 to the great ocean line era of the 1950’s. A must for those with Irish ancestors who crossed the Atlantic at this time.
Blarney: Dangle from the ramparts to kiss the Stone of Eloquence, and never be lost for words again!
Cork: Visit the English Market and meet a local market stallholder.
Waterford: A guided visit of the crystal factory.
Kildare: Join an equine professional for a behind the scenes look at the Irish National Stud and follow the ‘journey of life’ through the Japanese Gardens, starting from the ‘Cave of Birth’ to the ‘Gateway to Eternity’.
An expert Insight Tour Director – at the pinnacles of their careers, will smooth your way throughout your journey. They are your ‘travelling concierges’, expert guides, consummate organisers and friends in a foreign land.
Insight motorcoach – Enjoy the unique comfort of Insight’s luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with extended leg room and on-board restroom. It’s business class comfort.
Personal radio headsets – gives you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights without missing any of your local expert’s fascinating insights and commentaries.
Baggage handling everywhere – with seamless and prompt delivery to your door at every hotel.
Hotel and restaurant tips included – you’ll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. Plus we include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
Complimentary WiFi – the majority of Insight hotels have free WiFi access in lobby or bedroom areas. You will also find that WiFi is generally available on most touring coaches.
Insight Flourishes – from time to time, your Tour Director will enchant you with local tidbits, each representing authentic food or beverages unique to the destination.
Included airport transfers at scheduled times on arrival and departure days.
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Football (Moderators: Tallman, Flex, FF, E-man, asylumseeker) »
David John Williams Thread.
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Re: W Connection CEO to run for TTFA Presidency.
Quote from: ON DE BLOCK on October 12, 2015, 05:50:53 PM
Quote from: Deeks on October 12, 2015, 04:43:19 PM
SOCAWARRIORS.NET POSTERS PRESS RELEASE
We the posters of socawarriors.net forum hereby signal our intention that Head Coach Mr.Stephen Hart run for the Persidency of TTFA in the upcoming November AGM.
As it is now, Hart is free to throw his hat in the ring. If he was to win, can he still coach? Or who should be coach?
When timkee throw he hat in de ring, he give up being mayor or treasurer???
Bred, think again of what you asking Hart to do. This is not politics. Is either one or the other.
so the "one or the other" rule don't apply to timkee or CEO or W conn. but is either one or the other for Hart? who playing politics now??
Breds, in this day and age, a head coach job is a totally consuming job. And you want the coach to take on the admin. duties of running a football assoc., another time consuming job. You eh making sense.
as we speak a man has time to run the capital city as mayor an still run ttfa, plus other things, which brings us to this non paying post, Hart may not want it, but if he held the 'rubber stamp' in his hand more could done, the business community not buying what you selling...
Breds, I know you are stuck on your idea that Hart can do both jobs. I say, it is better he concentrate on the coaching. look at all the coaches in the top 20 countries. you see any of them holding admin. positions. The closest I have seen coaches hold another position, is at the manager's level in clubs. And that is a real balancing act. Can he be an effect administrator? Who knows. Maybe he will have access to the business community in a more favorable way than TK. But with WC coming up, I want no distractions. He has a good karma going. The players seen to like him. The forum seems overwhelmingly favorable to him. The homies appears to have him in high regards. Homies?!! All we need is to get the wagonists on board now.
Quote from: Controversial on October 11, 2015, 09:32:10 AM
Quote from: asylumseeker on October 11, 2015, 09:25:45 AM
Is it advisable that the president of the federation be a candidate with vested club self-interest? In my view, this question is a fundamental threshold question.
How does the TTFA constitution treat with this?
The constitution has nothing in it that addresses your point from what I read... The criteria is simple and straightforward how ever it doesn't take into account that area of concern...
Contro,
that was the first damn thing that enter my mind. WDH kind of country is this in 2015 that would open this potential conflict of interest from JW and he kids, to Sancho as MOS, now this??
You cannot own a club and be FA Pres and if it's not in the Regulations it sure as FOK should be.
This should not even be a conversation.
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Quote from: vb on October 13, 2015, 03:19:13 PM
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Flex interview with Williams's came off to me as very condescending imo
Contro, I honestly thought you had some people who were looking to vie for the position of TTFA president. So far is TK and John-Williams. We need more people to put their hats in the ring for this important election.
A Trini 4 Real.
John Williams is elected as New President of TTFA.
By Shaun Fuentes (TTFA).
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association has a new President in David John Williams following his defeat of Raymond Tim Kee for the position at the FA’s Internal Elections on Sunday at the VIP Lounge, Hasely Crawford Stadium.
In the second round of voting, John Williams received 25 votes to Tim Kee’s 19 while a third candidate Clynt Taylor received one vote. The elections went to a second round because no candidate had 50 percent or more of the votes. Forty five delegates were present for voting with North East Stars and Point Fortin Civic Centre both failing to show. And there were no representations from the Coaches or Players Association which are non-operational.
After Round one, John Williams was ahead with 18, followed by Tim Kee (13), Taylor (8.) and Ramesh Ramdhan and Selby Browne with three each. Both Browne and Ramdhan were eliminated after round one.
John Williams maintained a fair advantage to take the post in Round Two.
The three elected Vice Presidents are Ewing Davis, Joanne Salazar and Allan Warner, all members of John Williams’ slate.
The Board of Directors also elected following a lengthy voting process on Sunday night are Samuel Saunders (Central FA), Sherwyn Dyer (Eastern Counties Football Union), Karanjabari Williams (Northern FA), Richard Quan Chan (Southern FA), Anthony Moore (Tobago FA), Joseph Taylor (T&T Football Referees Association), Dexter Skeene (TT Pro League) and Sharon O’Brien (Women’s League Football).
FIFA representatives Primo Corvoro, FIFA Head of Member Associations and Luca Nicola, Manager Member Associations for FIFA, were both present as observers.
John Williams in the process, became the 25th President of the TTFA dating back to its inception in 1908.
In an immediate reaction, John Williams said : ” I will like to give thanks to the Almighty and thanks to the team that has supported me. I will give my best for Trinidad and Tobago football.
“Some of my immediate goals is to get a budget setting exercise as there are a couple of teams supposed to leave for competitions urgently. Setting up the sub-committees is very important and the technical committee also has to be set up very quickly as I think it is going to play a major role in Trinidad and Tobago football . All these committees need to be functioning as quickly as possible so that we can ensure there is good governance. The other project that is very important for us is the Copa America playoff in January. I will have to meet very quickly with Stephen Hart to see how best we can ensure the team is ready for this game.
“I am the president of the TTFA. I am the president of all of Trinidad and Tobago football and I am very mindful of that. I am going to serve well,” Williams added.
He continued., “I can’t change the passion and love that I have for W Connection. I just have to manage it but I have to be independent. And trust me, I know that Trinidad and Tobago will be scrutinizing me very, very much as far as W Connection is concerned. My daughter is going to take up the mantle (with W Connection).”
See John Williams’ Reactions to becoming TTFA President
The real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
andre samuel
"ah love it!!"
Re: David John Williams Thread.
I wish you the best and i hope that you get the support in effectively implementing all that you want to achieve in your comprehensive manifesto.
ah love it!!
Andre Samuel, who controls all the rights to the phrase "ah love it!!"
Jumbie
~~~ JUMBIE ~~~
Congrats Mr Williams and team.
Quote from: Flex on November 30, 2015, 07:32:51 AM
After more than 20-plus years under the same administration, central football has gotten a new executive. On Wednesday night, at the zone’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Election of Officers at Woodford Lodge, Chaguanas, businessman Shymdeo Gosine was elected unopposed as president of the Central Football Association (CFA) for a four-year term.
I thought Shymdeo Gosine won the CFA seat?
I guess Yaya not come back, because Sharon O’Brien is still here.
Congrats Mr Williams, I wish you a successful 4 year term.
I also hope to see you work with SWO and the fans a little more.
trini_stallion
soca in mih veins, soca in mih blood...
Best of luck Mr. Williams and congratulations on your new tenure as president of of the TTFA. As a fan I am optimistic and look forward to seeing a brighter better TTFA!
Soca in mih vein, Soca in meh blood
Soca in yuh vein, Soca in blood,
Soca in we vein, Soca in we blood,
It's a heart of love, can't deny soca, cuz its good fuh de soul...
Trinidad and Tobago jump up now!
All the best to our new TTFA President David John-Williams in his bid to take T&T football to the the top of the CONCACAF region where it is supposed to be during his term in charge.
Would also like to say many thanks to the last TTFA President Raymond Tim Kee for doing a great job in helping to turn T&T football around over the last 2 & 1/2 years after they inherited the massive debts acquired during the Oliver Camps/Jack Warner led era. RTK's contribution to T&T football during his tenure should long be appreciated by all genuine T&T football fans. Tim Kee made a vital contribution in helping to turn things around for us at a very low time in our football history that came not too long after the glory of attending our very first World Cup Finals in 2006.
Of all the candidates who contested the TTFA Presidential elections DJW had by far the most comprehensive manifesto called IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE. See this link: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/a68d0dd8-2b2e-4f5a-b3c2-4cc02f8766ac
I was also very impressed with Clynt Talyor and hope that he would be used in some capacity by David John-Williams if he offers his services. Would really loved to see Clynt Talyor as one of our TTFA VP's seeing that he was unable to win.
Listen to new TTFA President David John-Williams give his vision for T&T football a few days before being elected as new TTFA President this Sunday (yesterday).
Scoreboard 24th November 2015 TTFA General Elections with David John-Williams
https://www.youtube.com/v/B8ibolDEj28
Below David John Williams addresses the media for the first time since being elected as President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association on Sunday November 29th, 2015.
Newly elected TTFA President David John Williams in his first address to the media
https://www.youtube.com/v/aS58wmLmDCs
Once again for those who are yet to examine it, you can read our new TTFA President David John-Williams Manifesto called IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE at this link: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/a68d0dd8-2b2e-4f5a-b3c2-4cc02f8766ac
« Last Edit: November 30, 2015, 12:18:11 PM by Socapro »
He is still biased in regards to w connection and will always be... He made it a point that his players from the youth level will play national...
Which we need to keep a close eye on...
He thank god first which is a good start, he understands the game which is good, when he speaks about expanding the pool, he better not expand it mainly to w connection players..
The jury is still out on him
Quote from: Controversial on November 30, 2015, 12:29:55 PM
DJW was pointing out that since there are already a high percentage of W Connection players already playing for T&T at U-23, U-20, U-17 and other levels that it is only natural that they would progress to play for T&T at senior level.
He did however say that he would expect folks like yourself to ignore that fact and still say that the TTFA President is biased towards W Connection players hence why there are so many W Connection players on the national teams.
Adam Lake
Full Warrior
FIFA Manager of Member Associations Luca Nicola congratulates David John Williams on his new post but also talks about a critical matter that he advises the TTFA to treat with seriously. According to Luca, Trinidad and Tobago could face suspension from the 2022 World Cup qualification if it does not pay outstanding salaries to former Women's Under 17 team head coach Even Pellerud based on a decision made by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnvwjE9j0w
Quote from: Adam Lake on November 30, 2015, 03:08:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/TYnvwjE9j0w
Police face and dog heart.
Congrats to David Williams.
Ah like yuh interview, very good talk.
Good luck to you.
Faster than a speeding pittbull
Stronger than a shot of ba-bash
Capable of storming any fete
No Scene Socapro... I hadda learn how to do that Video Thingy...
Real cool Adam. thanks. Well forumites, allyuh hear what he has to say. That was good talk. Let's see him walk the walk.
Big Magician
Congrats to DJW... BIG congrats to the TTFA for ACTUALLY HAVING an Election...
DJW...stick to the basics...do your best..be honest...
I think we should form a " WATCHDOG " group to expose any situations early...
Little Magician is King.......ask Jorge Campos
Congrats once again to new TTFA President David John Williams!
The final moments of the TTFA Presidential Elections on November 29th, 2015 - TTFA Media TV
John Williams is announced as new TTFA President
https://www.youtube.com/v/tNPXvTDOiBk
Skeene: TTPL board confident in David John-Williams’ commitment to football.
ttproleague.com.
Dexter Skeene, chief executive officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League (TTPL), is looking forward to continue working with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), which is now led by newly elected president David John-Williams, in improving the standard of local football with the focus on helping T&T qualify for World Cups on a regular basis.
“The TT Pro League has always maintained a cordial relationship with the TTFA and we expect it to continue,” Skeene stated.
“In fact, with the implementation of the new constitution, the Pro League as a member of the board would have the opportunity to make a direct contribution to the decision-making process. The interaction with the other associations would allow for efficient coordination of scheduling of different programmes.”
John-Williams, managing director of the family-owned John Williams construction company and owner of five-time Caribbean champions W Connection Football Club, got the nod of 25 votes, six more than the incumbent Raymond Tim Kee (19), who was seeking a second term, in the second round of voting at the VIP Lounge of the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain on Sunday.
John-Williams, who also held the post of vice-chairman of the Pro League, had also led the first round with 18 votes, ahead of Tim Kee (13) and Trinidad and Tobago Referees Association vice-president Clynt Taylor (8.). Ex-referee Ramesh Ramdhan and the Veteran Football Federation president Selby Browne were both eliminated after the first round with just three votes. Taylor received just one vote in the second round.
Skeene said, “On behalf of the TT Pro League, the Board of Directors wishes to congratulate Mr. David John-Williams on being elected as the president of the TTFA. The board wishes him every success in his term in office and looking forward to continue working with the TTFA to improve the standard of football and to help Trinidad and Tobago to qualify for a World Cup on a regular basis.
“The Board is aware of David’s commitment to the TT Pro League, W Connection and football in general over the years and we know that he would take that same enthusiasm and diligence into the TTFA’s office and his presidential position.”
On Sunday the TTFA elected its new president under its new constitution, which was formulated after 18 months of work by an Independent Reform Commission (IRC).
Key among the constitution changes implemented, is the tenure in which a president will serve. A president will now be allowed just two four-year terms, effectively ending the past era which saw former boss Oliver Camps reign for 19 years.
The new constitution also meant that major clubs have a better say with the “one club, one vote” system over the previous power of the six zonal associations. But although ten (10) Pro League clubs and eight representatives from the Super League each having a vote, the new system only accounts for 18 of the 47 voting delegates.
Pro League clubs North East Stars and Point Fortin Civic failed to show during Sunday’s election process while there were no representations for the Coaches and Players Associations which are non-operational.
The three elected vice-presidents are former Secondary Schools Football League president Ewing Davis, Phoenix Park Gas Processors vice-president Joanne Salazar and Tobago businessman Allan Warner, all members of John-Williams’ slate.
The TTFA Board of Directors also elected on Sunday are Samuel Saunders (Central FA), Sherwin Dyer (Eastern Counties Football Union), Karanjabari Williams (Northern FA), Richard Quan Chan (Southern FA), Anthony Moore (Tobago FA), Joseph Taylor (T&T Football Referees Association), Dexter Skeene (TT Pro League) and Sharon O’Brien (Women’s League Football).
“The League wishes to thank all those who contributed in the past,” added Skeene. “We wish to thank Mr. Raymond Tim Kee for implementing a democratic process for free and fair elections.”
Tim Kee’s plea: Don’t send football back 20 years.
By Walter Alibey (Guardian).
Outgoing president of the T&T Football Association (T&TFA) Raymond Tim Kee is pleading with his successor David John-Williams to not interfere with the new constitution which was approved and praised by the world governing body for football, FIFA.
His call comes a day after John-Williams, in his victory speech after his elevation to the top post on Sunday, said he will have to review the constitution and make some changes. This infuriated Tim Kee as he described this as a backward step that would send T&T football back some 20 years when one administration led for many years.
“I am begging for goodness sake, leave the constitution alone. I have fought very hard to make these changes and make this happen for the betterment of the sport, why do you want to change it now,” Tim Kee asked.
John-Williams triumphed 25-19 after the second round of voting to Tim Kee, after the first round saw Williams earn 18 votes, Tim Kee 13, Clynt Taylor 8 and the others two candidates Selby Browne and Ramesh Ramdhan eliminated by virtue of each receiving just three votes.
Tim Kee, who was seeking a second term in office, reminded John-Williams that it was the same constitutional changes for which he fought, that allowed him (John-Williams) the advantage of ten TT Pro League votes and eight Superleague votes to win.
“I was at a disadvantage but I accepted it because it was what the FIFA ordered. This is the system being used by all football nations around the world and to change it now could spell danger for T&T football,” Tim Kee explained. The Mayor of Port of Spain said he felt that John-Williams’ elevation was nothing but a misnomer, sentiments that he had expressed in a radio programme before the elections.
“He is a campaigner in the TT Pro League which is totally dependent on the Government’s subventions to stay alive but he is now saying that he can change things in the same league,” Tim Kee said.
Of major disappointment also for Tim Kee was the exclusion of Colin Murray, the Carib Brewery’s events manager and Trotters owner John Sabga. They both perished to the overwhelming support by John-Williams’ slate, losing out to Ewing Davis for the position of first vice president.
Davis received 15 votes while second vice president Joanne Salazar got 23 and Allan Warner collected 20 votes for the post of third vice president for John-Williams’ team.
“Colin Murray and John Sabga would have been able to attract corporate T&T which is critical to rebuilding football in T&T,” Tim Kee said.
Quote from: Flex on December 01, 2015, 03:01:16 AM
Unless I hear wrong, John-Williams said that he wanted to possibly add some things that he felt were missing, not necessarily make changes to what was already there. In any event, it would have to go through some approval process.
This is true, but de people choose who dey wanted.
« Last Edit: December 01, 2015, 06:32:53 AM by Tallman »
asylumseeker
Quote from: Tallman on December 01, 2015, 05:28:32 AM
Unless I hear wrong, John-Williams said that he wanted to possibly add some things that he felt were missing, not necesseraily make changes to what was already there. In any event, it would have to go through some approval process.
Correct! The word he used is "silent".
(It seems that during the very election there might have been items to which the 'silence' applied or at least became apparent).
https://www.complex.com/music/2019/06/10-artists-to-watch-from-trinidad-and-tobago/
Not only that, but wasn't Tim Kee president? why didn't he hired them then if he knew this?
I don't know much about Ewing Davis, Joanne Salazar and Allan Warner, however, David John Williams is no' fool. He knows who can help and, who can't.
Would have been nice to see Colin Murray, Clynt Taylor and Tony Sabga play some part for T&T football, a collective effort is always better. Maybe in the marketing department?
Either way, David John Williams has the ability to make a positive change.
Tim Kee couldnt hire them as it would be against said constitution. They would have to be voted in.
Don't mind he was firing people against the constitution eh
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
At the end of the day time will tell what this W Connection man do for T&T football. If he shit on T&T football we will bash him the same way. I am not one who will just fall for talk in interviews. So we shall see if he becomes an asset or a failure in due time.
Quote from: FF on December 01, 2015, 06:50:46 AM
True !!! and as I mentioned, in the marketing department??
A position Darren Mullien was hired for without constitution.
Wonder whats going to happen to the website they just spent over 10,000 US to build and the hiring of Tim Kee's son to build it?
King Deese
BlackKnights15
Somebody put a muzzle on Tiny Tim, he is talking too much. You lost shut up. By the way, why did you feel it was in your best interest to ignore Pellerud, didn't FIFA want you to pay the man?
I am the punishment of God...If you had not comitted great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
The larger point is that the Constitution must not be trifled with just to pursue fantasies entertained on the campaign trail. The present Constitution was the result of a very painstaking process mandated and supervised by FIFA, any changes can only come with the seal of approval by FIFA. To do otherwise would be to the FA's detriment, as it likely would invoke sanctions all the way up to suspension. It's a very naive statement, frankly.
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Macala pays respect to World Cup bound ‘roos
Bahrain coach Milan Macala has heaped praised on the Qantas Socceroos and offered congratulations to Pim Verbeek and his World Cup bound charges ahead of Wednesday’s qualifier at Stadium Australia.
SYDNEY: Bahrain coach Milan Macala has heaped praised on the Qantas Socceroos and offered congratulations to Pim Verbeek and his World Cup bound charges ahead of Wednesday-s qualifier at Stadium Australia.
Bahrain, unlucky to be beaten 1-0 by Australia at home in November last year, are one point away from having the chance to join Australia at next year-s showpiece in South Africa.
Should Bahrain secure that point against Australia on Wednesday, Macala will begin preparations for several months of sudden death playoffs, starting with a two-legged tie against Group B-s third placed team - certain to come from either DPR Korea, Saudi Arabia or Iran.
To do that, however, Bahrain will need to nullify an opponent that Macala rates as the ‘best team- from Group A and get past a goalkeeper, Mark Schwarzer, that Macala singled out as one of the best in Asia.
“We-re playing against the best team from our group and a team that hasn-t conceded one goal,” said Macala.
“They have one of the best goalkeepers in Asia, one of the best from England - Schwarzer from Fulham really is something extraordinary because during all qualification he did not concede one goal, which is good for the goalkeeper and good for the defence.
“For us it is an important game because Australian national team qualify to South Africa and from my position I would say congratulations to the players and the coach Pim Verbeek and also the supporters.”
It has been suggested that Verbeek may field a below-strength eleven on Wednesday night in light of Australia-s confirmed place in South Africa next year, with Lucas Neill one certainty to be absent after picking up his second caution of the current stage of qualifying in Doha at the weekend.
With the likes of David Carney, Scott McDonald and Luke Wilkshire - all regulars throughout the qualification process - non-starters in Doha, Verbeek could well be tempted to experiment with his starting eleven given the dead-rubber nature of the match from an Australian perspective.
However, Macala does not share the view that this will benefit Bahrain, instead suggesting that the Qantas Socceroos will be hungry to prove their quality in front of a large Stadium Australia attendance.
“I don-t know who will play because the Australian national team has qualified with many players that are playing in Europe, most of their competitions are over in Europe, but that are tired and they won this group, maybe coach will try other players,” said Macala.
“People might think that this is advantage but I don-t think so because many players are waiting for an opportunity to play and they want to show in front of a big crowd that they are good players.”
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A Bit of History of the IET/ICT/WebSym/Social Media Conferences
"This is a watershed moment in the history of higher education. In the coming years, the way we teach and learn will undergo a major transformation. MOOCs are going to shape the academic landscape of the future."
Organizing an annual education and training conference in Asia Pacific area was the brain-child of a small group of like-minded persons from across Asia and Pacific back in early 1990s:
Dr Ken Eustace represented the group to attend the first Int’l WWW conference in Geneva, May 1994. Philip Tsang subsequently served on the International WWW Conference Committee (IW3C2) from 1994 to 1996. The photos on the left showed the IW3C2 meeting in Chicago, October 1994. On behalf of the the Wagga Wagga Council (Australia), Philip presented the Wagga Wagga Council T-shirts to members of IW3C2.[See photos]
This small group of like-minded individuals include Prof. Philip Tsang, Dr Ken Eustace, Dr Sandy Tse & Geoff Fellows (J.P) of the Internet Special Projects Group of Charles Sturt University of Australia; Prof. Li Xing and Prof. Wu Jian-Ping of Tsing Hau University, Beijing , China; Sis Margaret Wong of St Paul's Convent School, Professor John Bacon-Shone & Angela Castro of The University of Hong Kong, Prof. Carmel McNaught of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr Tsui Chi Ying and Professor Kenneth Smith of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Nigel French of the University Grant Council.
The first Asia-Pacific Web conference was held in Sydney Darling Harbour with Tim Berner-Lee, Robert Cauilliau and NSCA's Joseph Hardin as keynotes. Philip Tsang also served as the conference president of the Darling Harbour Conference. The conference attracted over 1500 delegates and 10,000 visitors to the exhibition hall. The proceeding has also become the first WWW conference Google book.
Concurrently, Angela and John held the first Web conference on 25 June 1995 at the University of Hong Kong and Philip was invited as a keynote speaker to share his US and Australia Web based education vision and experiences. Shortly after John and Angela’s historical event in HK, John and Angela were invited by Legislative Councilor Emily Lau to demonstrate the Internet in the Council Chamber for her Information Policy Panel members. The Web Consortium also organised the 10th WWW World Conference in HK in 2001.
Following the success of the first IW3C2 endorsed conference, subsequent web education conferences have been held every year since 1995 by ISPG Group, HKWebSym , WCEF and other relevant partners (including, Tsing Hua University, University of Hong Kong, Sinagpore Management University, HK Polytechnic, Charles Sturt University (Australia),OUHK, ICMS, Central Queensland University, Education Bureau, University Grant Committee , Office of Government Chief Information Officer(OGCIO), UNESCO) . Some highlights here
25th ICT2016/SM2016/WebSym Part I (2016), 10-13 April 2016, University of Hong Kong and Cyberport
24th ICT/WebSym (2015), 8 Nov 2015 , Cyberport, Web Challenge Award and HealthCare Sym
21st- 23 rd ICT(2015)/Social Media 2015 (Part I), 10-12 April 2015; Cyberport ,HK & City University of Hong Kong (As part of HK Government's IT Fest 2015), (part II), July, CityU, (Part III), Shenzhen, China
20th IET/ICT(2014)/Social Media 2014 (Part II), 15 November 2014, Cyberport, Hong Kong
19th WebSym/IET/ICT (2014)/Social Media 201(Part I)4 15-17 April, 28 April - 2 May , (As part of HK Government's IT FEST 2014)
(Establishment of Peter Lyman Achievement Award)
18th WebSym / IET/ICT(2013)/Social Media 2013 -- 1-3 August 2013, Peninsula Hotel HK
(Establishment of F Castro Life Achievement Awards)
"I am very pleased that the Fred Castro award is being established. He was a fine person and a dedicated educator and it is very fitting that he be remembered in this way." Prof. Carmel McNaught, PhD, FAACE,Emeritus Professor of Learning Enhancement Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR),The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013
"I am very happy to see the award in honour of Fred" Professor John Bacon-Shone
Director, Social Sciences Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong
17th Web Sym - IET/ICT(2012). July 2012, Hong Kong
16th Web Sym – IET /ICT(2011) : 10-12 July 2011 , Hong Kong
Social Media Tools and Platforms published (Bebo White, Irwin King & Philip Tsang)
15th Web Sym – IET/ICT(2010): 30 June – 8 July 2010, Singapore
11st -14th WebSym- IET /ICT (2006 -2009), Hong Kong
10th Web Sym – IET /ICT (2003- 2005): Education Narratives & Reflections in the time of SARS, 19-31 May 2003
9th WebSym- IET/ICT (2003): St Paul’s Convent School, HK 8 June 2003
8th Web Sym – IET/ICT (2002) : OUHK, June 2002
7th WebSym – IET/ICT (2001): and 10th International WWW Conference, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 2-3 May 2001
6th Web Sym -IET/ICT (2000): City Uni of HK, 8-10 June 2000
5th Web Sym-IET/ICT (1999): HKU, 4-6 Oct 1999
3rd-4th Web Sym – IET /ICT(1997-1999): HKU, Hong Kong
2nd Web Sym- IET/ICT (1996): The University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University, HK and Beijing , 23-28, Aug
1st Web Sym -IET/ICT (1995b): The University of Hong Kong, HK 25-27 June
1st IET/ICT (1995a): Sydney Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre, Australian Unix Users Group and Charles Sturt University, May 1995, Conference Chair: Prof. Philip TSANG [online proceedings]
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Ground Investigation Division Helps CVB Lay the Groundwork for Thames Tideway Success
ESG - now SOCOTEC - has provided the construction group CVB JV with ground investigation services to support work on the Thames Tideway Tunnel project in East London.
Taking care of the Thames
Delivered by Tideway, the super sewer tunnel is 25 kilometres long and seven metres in diameter, and will be located 65 metres below the surface. The scheme is the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry and, when complete, will tackle the challenge of sewage pollution in the River Thames.
CVB - a joint venture of construction giants Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projects and Bachy Soletanche - was awarded the contract to carry out work on the eastern section of the tunnel, tunnelling between Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey and Abbey Mills in Stratford, as well as creating a further connection tunnel from Greenwich to Chambers Wharf. This entails undertaking construction of five deep shafts into the chalk, including two tunnel drive shafts at Chambers Wharf and Greenwich.
With its extensive expertise in geotechnical investigations, ESG was brought on board to assess five sites in the eastern section of the project prior to work being carried out. These included the site of one of the shafts at Chambers Wharf in the Borough of Southwark, where ESG supported CVB in identifying optimum construction solutions.
An expert team for a challenging site
The Chambers Wharf shaft is a key part of the Thames Tideway project. As well as providing a point of access to the excavation work for the main tunnel, works will also take place for the construction of a ventilation system, as well as a new river wall to replace the old flood defences. The site also requires temporary structures, including a cofferdam, to be built to protect the site from the tide during building work.
Partly located on recently cleared brownfield land, and partly on the adjacent river foreshore, the site is a complex one, potentially featuring a wide range of soil strata and surface deposit types, as well as buried structures.
To support CVB in understanding ground conditions prior to starting construction, ESG provided a team of ground investigation experts to the Chambers Wharf site. The ESG team provided high-quality, fast and accurate core drilling services, in-situ testing and laboratory analysis.
Tim Newman, geotechnical engineer at CVB, explained: “This was a truly complex site, and it was crucial that we had the right consultants working with us to get the job done to the precise standards required. The ESG team had an impressive wealth of experience carrying out ground investigations on challenging projects that made them the ideal choice for this project.”
A meticulous approach to testing
ESG’s ground investigation team carried out a number of tests to assess the nature of the site. Of particular importance to CVB was the drilling of 100m deep chalk boreholes. CVB was interested in identifying deep chalk fissures to inform its design for grouting of the chalk.
The chalk cores were drilled using ESG’s drilling rigs. The cores were logged on site, and their fissures studied for their size and number. Within the borehole, ESG also carried out high-pressure dilatometer (HPD) pressuremeter testing, packer testing and down-hole geophysical analysis to determine the strength and resilience of the rock in situ.
Hannah Dwane, assistant operations manager, Infrastructure Service ESG, added: “When building underground infrastructure, the strength of the bedrock or sediment, as well as the presence of fractures and fissures, all have an impact on the way the structure is designed. Offering detailed information about the state of the material that is due to be removed can help developers understand exactly what to expect during excavation, so they can fully plan the construction process.”
Throughout the project, ESG worked closely with both CVB and its designer, Mott MacDonald, to relay the findings of its core analysis in real time. In doing so, both organisations were able to work together to devise and undertake additional tests or deploy new testing methodologies to provide CVB with the required understanding about the nature of the ground beneath the site.
Drillers’ logs were recorded in ESG’s proprietary geotechnical data application, SILAS. This meant that results from the site could be relayed in real time to ESG’s off-site facilities for further analysis, where needed.
ESG’s analysis of the Chambers Wharf site is now complete and work on preparing the shaft is underway. Due to the organisation’s expertise in ground investigation and in-depth guidance, CVB now has the information it needs to carry out construction.
Speaking about the investigation, Matt Bellhouse, lead geologist at CVB, commented: “ESG worked closely with our team from the very beginning of the project, and its experts really impressed us with their hard work, care and attention to detail. The ESG team was integral in ensuring the smooth running of many parts of the project.
“It was great to see how well the logging of the site’s stratigraphy had been carried out, with the key fossils identified to support the team’s interpretations. We were really impressed by the team’s flexibility and versatility when developing additional tests to study newly-identified anomalies.”
Hannah Dwane concluded: “Collaborating with CVB and its partners, we were able to devise the most appropriate testing methodologies to provide accurate data on an extremely busy and cramped site, without impacting on the project schedule. As a result, CVB had the information it required to design a shaft capable of lasting throughout the projected lifetime of the Tideway, while ensuring the project was carried out efficiently and on time.”
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Drilling and Sampling
Light-Weight Deflectometer (LWD)
Daniel Perrett Wins Lead Driller of the Year Award
Sponsoring Glossop Lecture to Honour Geotechnical Founding Member
£25 million GI Framework Agreement Awarded by United Utilities
Infrastructure Offering Boosted with Two New Drilling Rigs
Helping Salmon Back to South Yorkshire
Attending the Yorkshire Geotechnical Group Summer Seminar
Structural and Ground Investigation Works for Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth
BDA Recognises SOCOTEC’s Innovation with Award at Annual Ceremony
SOCOTEC Supports Scottish Water with Marine Ground Investigation at Portobello
SOCOTEC Introduces Drill Rig Induction Scheme to Improve Safety Practices
Multi-Disciplinary Services Supporting Delegates at Brownfield Land, Scotland
SOCOTEC Appointed to South Wales Civil Engineering Framework
SOCOTEC’s Ground Investigation Team is Awarded FORS Silver Accreditation
Investment into Latest Drilling Parameter Recording (DPR) Equipment Enhances Ground Investigation Reporting
SOCOTEC Boosts Rig Fleet with Investment of New Rotary Drill Rig
Anthony Thorpe Wins the 2016 ESG Geotechnics and Geomechanics Prize at Brunel University London
Capacity for Geotechnical Testing of Contaminated Soil Doubled
MP Adds her Support to Marine Approval Campaign
Attending AGS Geotechnical Data Conference
SOCOTEC Attending AGS Members’ Day As Gold Sponsor
SOCOTEC Launches Integrated Solution for End-to-End Monitoring & Risk Control
New Contract Win: Euston Station IP Central, Works Package B2
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By Juliet Aykroyd
Somerset, UK
Juliet Aykroyd
(credit: Thea Lacey)
I like to believe that most people compose at least one poem at some time in their lives. Recently I found a ditty tucked away among my late mother's papers. It was written by me in kindergarten: four lines about Santa Claus. I remember proudly presenting this to my mother all those aeons ago. I also came across some horrible adolescent versicles which I binned instantly. Love, or the lack of it, is a favourite topic in most people's poems, we are told, along with death, animals and the weather.
When Seamus Heaney died last August, I found myself pondering on why so few people write poems that are celebrated during their lifetimes, poems which linger sometimes for years, sometimes forever; and why most people's poems are destined for time's trashcan. What makes a great poet great? Heaney is surely one of the great ones. He was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1939, into an agricultural family. He discovered poetry at an early age, and during his lifetime published thirteen major collections. From the first – Death of a Naturalist (1966) – to the last – Human Chain (2010) – his oeuvre received rapt attention and prestigious awards, culminating in the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel puts him in the company of an international galaxy of poets including Tomas Transtromer, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Derek Walcott, T.S.Eliot and another Irish poet to win the prize, in 1923: W.B.Yeats.
The making of poems was Heaney's vocation. He left a body of work that on one hand passionately responds to immediate experience, and on the other reaches out to universal human themes. He never gave up on a personal quest for fresh ways of weaving form and sound together. As he describes it in his Nobel Lecture, Crediting Poetry, he was always on "a journey into the wideness of language, a journey where each point of arrival – whether in one's poetry or one's life – turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination."
He was a prolific essayist too, a translator, a playwright and a teacher who generously shared his deep love and huge knowledge of poetry. People who knew him speak of his attentiveness to others, and his kindness, his aptness to embrace all kinds of people. His poems reflect this sociability. At one level he is the subject of academic dissertations; at another he can be understood by schoolchildren studying English Literature syllabuses. He is enjoyed by people who don't like poetry. The Irish poet Colette Bryce tells us: "When I was growing up in Derry, Heaney was the one poet whose books found a place in ordinary domestic life, and in homes where poetry was otherwise a rare visitor. I have a 1970s paperback of Door Into the Dark that seems to attest to this, covered as it is in crayon marks and doodles by various siblings."
Productivity. Dedication. Commitment to artistic progress. Accessibility. These are some of the requisites, in general terms, of lasting poetic fame, and Heaney embodies them all. But whoever expectantly opens one of his collections won't be concerned with the poet's immortality, but with what is written down on the page: the unique voice of this particular person. How to describe the voice and music that compose Seamus Heaney?
The Nobel committee's elegant one-line commendation is a starting place: he is cited for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." The first Glanmore sonnet, from Field Work (1979), instances some of these things:
"Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground.
The mildest February for twenty years
Is mist bands over furrows, a deep no sound
Vulnerable to distant gargling tractors.
Our road is steaming, the turned-up acres breathe.
Now the good life could be to cross a field
And art a paradigm of earth new from the lathe
Of ploughs. My lea is deeply tilled.
Old plough-socks gorge the subsoil of each sense
And I am quickened with a redolence
Of farmland as a dark unblown rose.
Wait then…breasting the mist, in sowers' aprons,
My ghosts come striding into their spring stations.
The dream grain whirls like freakish Easter snows."
Here we are shown with lyrical beauty the everyday miracle of very early spring at Glanmore in Southern Ireland, where Heaney lived for a while with his family, away from the troubles in the North. Everyday language brings the fresh countryside to our eyes and ears: "...The mildest February for twenty years…mist bands over furrows…Our road is steaming…Now the good life could be to cross a field…"
But we are alerted in the first line that this is not just a description of a rural scene. Into the fourth line slides a Heaney-esque onomatopoeic surprise: the everyday deep silence is about to be disturbed; we can hear how the disturbance will be, in the rumbling consonants of the line: "Vulnerable to distant gargling tractors." Tension is there, in vulnerable and gargling (which happens in the throat, a way of staving off infection) and links onward to breathe (lungs, throat, mouth) in the next line. By now we are connected bodily with the poem, and caught up in the excitement of it. He likens art (his writing) to the gleaming earth churned up by the ploughing of a field, and maybe there is an echo here of a line in The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins (whose work Heaney loved in his youth):
"Sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine…"
In one of Heaney's best-known early poems, Digging, he describes how in childhood he sees his father turn the soil for potato-planting, and recalls his grandfather digging for turf, and tells us he too will dig for inspiration in his own way, as a poet: "Between my finger and my thumb//The squat pen rests./I'll dig with it."By line seven of the Glanmore sonnet, he has let us into the secret: this early spring carries his hopes of creative renewal. The fields of his mind are waiting to be ploughed and tilled, as the fields of his rural childhood in County Derry were ploughed and tilled for sowing, growth, nourishment, new life. He is quickened with the anticipation of digging new earth with his pen.
The ninth line holds two more surprises: an old Celtic word: plough-sock, meaning a ploughshare, and the verb gorge used with its old Middle-English sense of swallow (another throat word). Heaney's adroit exhumation and absorption of early English and dialect language are among the many pleasures of reading his poetry.
Beauty is a word often used in connection with Heaney the person as well as with his poetry. The last three lines of this sonnet exemplify the Nobel judges' lyrical beauty. A wonderful new music plays us out of the fourteen-line experience. Wait then...he commands us. Be still. Patience. Look. Listen.So we wait, and then he magics out of the mist his ghosts of the past and present, energetic beings, "striding into their Spring stations," like figures in a mediaeval Book of Hours, tossing seeds from the pockets of their farmers' aprons into the new-ploughed land. We hear the dream grain hissing in the sibilance of the words. Then, at the very end, after all the vigour and the promise of fertility, there is the hint of chill, a whiteness, in the "freakish Easter snows." Nothing, not even the resurrection of new life, is certain.
Heaney's death – at the age of 74 – was not expected so soon, and there was an extraordinary outpouring of grief for the man and the poet, in the press and on the internet, especially in the United States where he worked for many years, and in Ireland where he was born, lived, died and was buried. Tributes came in from all over the world, from all kinds of people. No one had a bad word to say of him. At his funeral Paul Muldoon spoke of Heaney's "signal ability to make each of us feel connected not only to him but to one another." The poet Maurice Riordan declared: "It's the felling of a great oak".
Literary celebrity is fragile. After death there is a hagiological phase, and then a writer's reputation will tend to sag as the generation of readers which grew up with the work, and rejoiced in it, dies too. Then that work must stand up to the scrutiny of the next generation, for whom the resonances will be strange, and the immediacy not enmeshed into its own youthful consciousness. This is where the durability of a poet's lifework is tested: does it carry a sufficiency of universal concerns to override the topicality for example of its politics, or its social attitudes, or its vocabulary? For all his prizes and popularity, there's no knowing whether Heaney's work will be as venerated in 2113 as it is now.
There are some haunting lines in Tae the Fates by the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie:
"…but gin ah could mak whit's halie
an maist dear tae me – ane perfect poem
I'll welcome the cauld, the quate mirk."
[but if I could make what's holy
and most dear to me – one perfect poem
I'll welcome the cold, the quiet dark]
"…ane perfect poem…" Perfection – like beauty – is subjective, of course. It is in the eye of the viewer and the ear of the listener. For me, Seamus Heaney's poems hit the jackpot of perfection more often than those of any poet's in the last hundred years. In his Nobel lecture, he quoted one of his own best poems. It is called Exposure, and it is partly an apology for not taking any particular political side in the troubles of his country; in another way it wittily and self-deprecatingly celebrates what he believes in most: the certainties that are eternal, the diamond absolutes. Here is an extract:
"Rain comes down through the alders,
Its low conducive voices
Mutter about let-downs and erosions
And yet each drop recalls
The diamond absolutes.
I am neither internee nor informer;
An inner émigré, grown long-haired
And thoughtful; a wood-kerne
Escaped from the massacre,
Taking protective colouring
From bole and bark, feeling
Every wind that blows."
Juliet Aykroyd's Profile at Stay Thirsty Publishing
Juliet Aykroyd is a stage, screen and television actor, a teacher of acting and an award-winning playwright.
She is the author of Darwin & FitzRoy.
All opinions expressed by Juliet Aykroyd are solely her own and do not reflect the opinions of Stay Thirsty Media, Inc.
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2019 Reviews Index
Codex Hub
SG Blog: A Tale of Three Games
By Joe Robinson 12 Sep 2017 0
There's something potentially exciting happening in strategy gaming. Yesterday, we brought you a preview of the Early Access of Longsword: Table-Top Tactics. It's developer, Zero Sum Games, wants to create a fully digital table-top miniatures platform, with turn-based/hex combat fuelled by cards and digitally enhanced mechanics. I spoke to developer Daniel DiCicco back in June during his ill-fated Kickstater, and was impressed by the drive and the vision he had for a truly digital miniatures experience.
Longsword is only the latest title to be trying to do something interesting in this space though. Red Unit Studios' Warbands: Bushido is offering a more focused experience, creating a skirmish wargame based around around small group of Japanese-themed miniatures in ability driven combat. It has a wonderful aesthetic, with the minis themselves being expertly detailed with simple animations. The gameplay is quick, but allows for a lot of tactical depth, and the way the units slide and jump across the hex-map gives it a really immersive table-top vibe. Nick, a writer from Pocket Tactics, was also very impressed by what the team had done:
The thing that stands out to me the most about Warbands: Bushido is not the gameplay—lots of games offer an opportunity to bring sound strategy and tactical gameplay to bear against an opponent—but the second area of promise, the game's aesthetic. Red Unit Studios has done a great job recreating the look of a tabletop war game in digital form. The miniatures, dice, and diorama-style combat maps could all be straight out of a war game box. A cool touch is the ability to colour and customise your units, no magnifying glass required.
Warbands has been in Early Access since November 2016, but if this post is to be believed, it could be fully releasing very soon. Our own preview was done back in January, so there's half-a-year or more's worth of updates to catch up on, as well as the new Scenarios. You can be sure we'll bring you a full review as soon as we can.
Last but certainly not least, we have Wartile. This is turning the idea of table-top miniatures game on its head by making it a real-time affair, as opposed to turn-based. As I said in my own preview, at the moment it ends up being a bit more interesting in theory rather than in practice, but that's mainly down to balancing things like hit-chances, unit mobility and so own. The RNG especially seemed quite bad when I played it earlier in the year:
I'm glad Wartile exists. I've definitely enjoyed my time with it so far, and I definitely want to keep at it a while longer to master it's own special brand of strategy. Having said that, it very much remains to be seen if this “real-time miniatures” thing will work in the long-term. So far it's proven a lot of fun in multiplayer but I can see that mode taking a rather specific route, much like how competitive level Starcraft, Command & Conquer et al became very different games versus the solo/casual play style. As for the rest of it, my only real concern is the RNG – there is already a harder difficulty mode implemented to provide people with a real challenge, but for the rest of us who just want to have some fun with miniatures, perhaps it could be a tad more forgiving.
Wartile's experiment is a bold one, and it's still very much a "watch-and-wait" scenario to see if it really works. Rumour has it the game has, unfortunately, not being selling that well, but perhaps the recent 0.6 update will give it a new breath of life.
Between these three projects though, there's a potential for digital table-top-esque strategy games to really take off. Hearthstone, for all it's faults and unwieldiness, is a fascinating example of how the realities of software can enhance mechanics & combo driven experiences like card games. Wargames and strategy games alike are starting to benefit more and more from digital aids and companion apps, but a fully digital table-top game could be something very special indeed. I, for one, will be watching this space!
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Exploring Sources and Influences of Social Capital on Community College Students� First-Year Success: Does Age Make a Difference?
by Xueli Wang, Kelly Wickersham, Yen Lee & Hsun-Yu Chan - 2018
Background/Context: Although numerous studies have emerged shedding light on community college student success, the enduring role of social capital is often overlooked. Furthermore, when conceptualizing social capital in the community college context and its diverse student population, age represents a unique form of diversity in these institutions that warrants further exploration.
Purpose: This research identifies the sources of social capital and the relationships between different sources of social capital and community college success, taking into account how the identified sources and relationships may vary based on age through the following questions: First, what are the major sources of social capital among first-year community college students, and how do sources of social capital vary based on age of students? Second, how do different sources of social capital influence first-year community college success? Third, how do influences of social capital on first-year community college success vary based on the age of students?
Research Design: Our study drew on Coleman�s conceptualization of social capital, along with survey, administrative, and transcript data from three 2-year colleges in a midwestern state. We performed factor analysis with invariance tests to investigate the sources of social capital among community college students and how the identified factor structure may vary by age. We further conducted a logistic regression to examine the relationship between social capital and community college student success across age.
Findings: Our findings indicate that social capital needs to be conceptualized differently for community college students across age because they indeed drew on multiple forms of social capital differently, and the sources of social capital that emerged in turn were related to student success in varied ways. Students under the age of 24 relied on institutional agents and academic interaction as dominant forms of social capital, whereas those over the age of 24 relied on significant other�s support. Students under the age of 24 were more likely to succeed if they frequently visited advisors for academic reasons. A low or high level of support for schoolwork was related to a higher chance of success for students between 24 and 29 years of age. For the students who were over 30 years old, a moderate level of engagement in their learning network and discussions with academic advisors was related to the lowest level of dropping out.
Conclusions: This study extends the social capital model by illuminating the varying types of social capital that students of different age groups engage with, particularly in the community college context, and pushes the boundaries of the knowledge base on how social capital functions in relation to student success in postsecondary education. The findings also elucidate new directions for research, policy, and practice in regard to cultivating and maximizing networks and information for community college students of all ages.
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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 120 Number 10, 2018, p. 1-46
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Determinants of Intent to Transfer among Black Male Community College Students: A Multinomial, Multi-Level Investigation of Student Engagement
The Origins of Systemic Reform in American Higher Education, 1895�1920
Teacher Unions, Charter Schools, and the Public/Private Distinction in Education Law and Policy
Examining the Technology Integration Planning Cycle Model of Professional Development to Support Teachers� Instructional Practices
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Xueli Wang
University of Wisconsin�Madison
XUELI WANG is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin�Madison. Her research interests center on college student pathways and success, with a focus on community colleges and undergraduate STEM education. Her recent work includes �Toward a Holistic Theoretical Model of Momentum for Community College Student Success,� published in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, and a coauthored piece, �Does Active Learning Contribute to Transfer Intent Among 2-Year College Students Beginning in STEM?� published in The Journal of Higher Education.
Kelly Wickersham
KELLY WICKERSHAM is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin�Madison. Her research interests revolve around evolving community college student pathways and success, including student pathways in STEM. Her recent publications include coauthored pieces, �Turning Math Remediation Into �Homeroom�: Contextualization as a Motivational Environment for Community College Students in Remedial Math,� published in The Review of Higher Education, and �Math Requirement Fulfillment and Educational Success of Community College Students,� published in Community College Review.
Yen Lee
YEN LEE is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin�Madison. Her research interests focus on nonnormal data generation, Bayesian statistics, and machine learning. A recent publication is a coauthored piece, �Construct Validity of the Activities of Daily Living Rating Scale III in Patients with Schizophrenia,� published in PLoS One.
Hsun-Yu Chan
Texas A&M University�Commerce
HSUN-YU CHAN is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education at Texas A&M University�Commerce. His research interests center on adolescent development, including peer influence and parental interaction, as well as community college student self-efficacy and success, particularly in STEM fields of study. His recent publications include coauthored articles �A Nuanced Look at Women in STEM Fields at Two-Year Colleges: Factors That Shape Female Students' Transfer Intent,� published in Frontiers in Psychology, and �Optimizing Technical Education Pathways: Does Dual-Credit Course Completion Predict Students� College and Labor Market Success?� in the Journal of Career and Technical Education.
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Colin Kaepernick has new deal with Nike though he's not in NFL
By Rob Maaddi
Colin Kaepernick has a new deal with Nike, even without having a job in the NFL.
Kaepernick's attorney, Mark Geragos, made the announcement on Twitter, calling the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback an "All American Icon" and crediting attorney Ben Meiselas for getting the deal done. Kaepernick also posted a Nike ad featuring his face and wrote: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. (Hashtag) JustDoIt"
Kaepernick already had a deal with Nike that was set to expire, but it was renegotiated into a multi-year deal to make him one of the faces of Nike's 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign, according to a person familiar with the contract. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Nike hasn't officially announced the contract.
The source says Nike will feature Kaepernick on several platforms, including billboards, television commercials and online ads. Nike also will create an apparel line for Kaepernick and contribute to his Know Your Rights charity. The deal puts Kaepernick in the top bracket of NFL players with Nike.
The NFL and Nike extended their partnership in March to run through 2028. Nike provides all NFL teams with game-day uniforms and sideline apparel that bears the swoosh logo.
Last week, Kaepernick scored a legal victory in his grievance against the NFL and its 32 teams when an arbitrator denied the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests of social injustice.
Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018
Kaepernick contends the owners violated their collective bargaining agreement with players by conspiring to keep him off teams. His case hinges on whether owners worked together rather than decided individually to not sign Kaepernick.
A similar grievance is still pending by former 49ers teammate Eric Reid, a Pro Bowl safety who joined in the protests.
On Friday night, Kaepernick and Reid, also now out of the league, were each given huge ovations when they were introduced and shown on the big screen during a match between Serena and Venus Williams at the U.S. Open.
Kaepernick began a wave of protests by NFL players two seasons ago, kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. The protests have grown into one of the most polarizing issues in sports, with President Donald Trump loudly urging the league to suspend or fire players who demonstrate during the anthem.
Meanwhile, the league and players union still haven't resolved whether players will be punished this season if they choose to kneel or demonstrate during the national anthem. Owners approved a policy requiring players to stand if they are on the sideline during "The Star-Spangled Banner," allowing them to stay off the field if they wish.
But the league and union put that on hold after the Miami Dolphins faced backlash for classifying the protests as conduct potentially detrimental to the team — putting players at risk of fines or suspensions.
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Sunderland and Reading linked with move for Sheffield United defender Ben Heneghan
Sunderland in Portugal: Jack Ross names squad - with shock omission and potential injury boosts
'Brazen burglar' targeted 12 homes during morning crime spree
A burglar who tried to force his way into almost a dozen homes during a morning of targeting houses and vehicles.
By Fiona Thompson
Thursday, 11 July, 2019, 14:02
A CCTV image released by Northumbria Police following its investigation into the offences committed by Daniel Bates.
Daniel Bates prowled around the Rainton Meadows estate shortly before 8am on Wednesday, June 5.
The thief stole a red Carrera Vulcan mountain bike from a garage of a property on Syston Close, and also entered a house on Greenfield Way with the intention of burgling it.
The bike which was stolen and then recovered by Northumbria Police.
However, after he was disturbed by an occupant who was at home caring for a new-born baby, Bates fled – only to try the doors of a number of other houses and vehicles nearby.
Bates, of Morley Terrace, Fence Houses, was charged with two counts of burglary and nine counts of attempted burglary following his callous crime spree.
Now the 37-year-old has pleaded guilty to all 11 offences at Newcastle Crown Court.
The thief, branded a ‘brazen burglar’ by police, is due to be sentenced next month.
Detective Constable Stuart Havery, of Northumbria Police, said: “Daniel Bates’ actions on the morning in question were totally unacceptable.
“He frightened a number of occupants in a quiet residential area as he went door-to-door looking for a quick win.
“He tried to break into a number of addresses and vehicles with the intention of getting his hands on anything he could.
“He forced his way into one property on Greenfield Way and terrified the occupant who was at home with her young child, and then made away with a red mountain bike which he stole from a garage of a nearby address.
“However, as he rode away with the bike, he was spotted by a passing officer on patrol.
“Police were quickly made aware of Bates’ actions earlier that morning, and he was subsequently arrested.
“We make no apology for our zero-tolerance approach towards this kind of criminality.
“Burglary is such an intrusive crime and can have a lasting effect on victims and their families.
“Bates is the latest criminal to be taken off our streets, and our dedicated Southern burglary team based at Southwick Police Station will continue to analyse every incident reported to us, actively hunt perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
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Real Change, Lasting Change
September 5, 2017 Tanya Hanson
I used to think that the future me would be more capable at handling any and all situations with an abundance of grace, ease, joy and worthiness.
The ability to be comfortable with my self with a capital S was a pixie dust wish made over and over.
Real Change, Lasting Change, life is over as you know it change, comes from every step AWAY from the domestication of the shoulda, woulda, couldas; each step away from, what will 'they' say. Whoever the hell 'they' are and away from agreements made that no longer serve the highest good.
But what does this look like?
One step, a crucial step in making lasting change for yourself is to stop Shoulding on yourself! "Oh, I should have gotten that all done", "I shouldn't have said that", "I should have thought about that".
Shoulding on yourself is like a scolding from yourself AND everyone in your life who ever scolded you in the past. Can you feel the constricting of your Spirit? The shame of being a child who "should have known better"? Instead of following the habits of our mind, let's invite in a new voice. The voice of a kind mentor.
When I would should myself for all the things I should have gotten done, I reframed and rephrased it in a voice that was kind, nonjudgmental and compassionate. "Yes, there are more things on the list to do, but you accomplished many things and that was your best and enough".
It seemed that I was especially fond of beating myself up over things that I said. The inner critic was loud and eager to tell me what I should have said or shouldn't have said. The inner critic gets quieter though the more you practice letting the kind mentor have the stage.
The kind mentor is the voice that is calming, reassuring and settling. The voice that allows us to be enough. Know that this is a practice. A practice in quieting the inner critic, who wants things to stay the same and doesn't want a new obsolete role. A practice in letting the kind mentor have more and more space, volume and in turn you will be able to have more acceptance for yourself.
In Mentor Tags mentor, change
You Choose.
August 31, 2017 Tanya Hanson
We get to choose!
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Our time on this planet is fleeting. This does not dictate a necessity of great action, nor does it force the stopping of anything. But...
In Mindfulness, Choosing Tags death, time, now, life, choosing
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Temple Bright grows professionals practice as ‘adviser to the advisers’
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has continued to grow its South West construction practice through a raft of new appointments by architects, interior designers and planning consultants in Bristol.
The moves reflect a wider and developing focus of the firm as an adviser to other professional firms.
ECE Westworks, the South West arm of architecture and planning consultants ECE based in Colston Tower, appointed Temple Bright last autumn and has since used the firm on a broad range of matters, including preparing terms of business for Westworks and advising on documentation received from developer clients on projects.
The latter include four developments in Bristol with a large commercial developer and a substantial student accommodation scheme.
Interior design practice Studio Cwtch, based in Montpelier, has also appointed Temple Bright on a number of its client projects since last summer.
Planning consultancy Planning Ventures, a young Bristol firm established by working mothers who are innovating with flexible working practices, has recently appointed Temple Bright’s construction team to prepare its terms of business and advise on specific development documents for a number of projects in central Bristol.
Temple Bright construction partner Julia Davenport-Cooper said: “We are delighted to be acting for these dynamic professional firms, who are making waves in the construction space and getting involved in some really exciting projects.
“It is always a pleasure working alongside kindred spirits in other fields, but still more so when they become our clients, meaning we can directly add value to their business.
“Temple Bright is developing a promising niche as ‘adviser to the advisers’. Our strength here derives from our streamlined tech-driven business model with the promise of experienced lawyers and no delegation. We can offer a service which combines extensive experience with pragmatism and speed of response – just what construction professionals want.”
Temple Bright also acts for a growing number of professional firms in other sectors. Co-founder Tim Summers said: “We are flourishing in construction, as Julia’s recent appointments show, and also in financial services and other professions. In fact, we are especially popular as a sub-contractor to other solicitors’ firms, including some high-profile names in the South West and London.
“This can arise for different reasons. It may be our ability to offer a senior lawyer on a flexible basis, as cover during an extended absence for instance, but these days it is occurring more and more because of the sheer breadth of our practice.
“We now cover 16 commercial areas including several which are niche, ‘big firm’ type specialties. Smaller firms generally want to give their clients a seamless service, but they may not handle areas such as construction, banking, planning, tax, competition or insolvency, that often come up on deals and disputes.
“So instead of sending clients to a big firm that does everything, and risk losing such clients, they can appoint Temple Bright and in effect add one of our partners to their team. That means they can offer a one-stop shop and retain the client’s loyalty.”
Temple Bright was launched by three partners in Bristol in 2010, initially advising entrepreneurs and SMEs in the South West. In 2013 it opened a London office just north of the City in Shoreditch with an initial focus on technology work. The firm now has 65 partners handling a full range of commercial practice areas and a client list extending to listed companies, public sector bodies, schools and charities alongside a continuing large SME base.
This article appeared in the Bristol Business Newsletter on 22 March 2019.
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in Education, Women
This Unique Mumbai Library Is Reviving Babywearing Among Moms & Caregivers!
Parents and caregivers can rent carriers ranging from wraps, ring slings, meh dais, soft structured carriers (Full buckles), and onbuhimos as per their choice by coming down or requesting it by courier.
by Jovita Aranha January 17, 2018, 1:28 pm
Be it the immortalised image of the Queen of Jhansi or hundreds of daily wage women workers in tea-plantations and construction sites, mothers tying their infants to their bodies has been a long-standing tradition in India.
Sometimes due to abject poverty or necessity, but mostly to strengthen the bond a mother and child share.
Reviving this trend among urban parents, six women from Mumbai have set up a non-profit, brand-neutral sling library, called the ‘Mumbai Sling Library’. The group lends Indian, as well as international babywearing products, for trials and demos to mothers at the pop-up meets across the city.
Source: Mumbai Sling Library
MSL takes the MRP of the product as a deposit and charges a nominal fee as rent when the product is returned. Many leading babywear brands are supporting the initiative by donating their products.
How did MSL begin?
These MSL meetups were first conducted by Rashmee Bhatia Gajra, an architect and owner of Anmol baby carriers in July 2014. Being a new parent to a preterm baby herself, Rashmee used every opportunity she got to connect with new moms. The idea was to support new parents to learn to babywear well.
“Babywearing is best when support is available, just like breastfeeding. Ergonomic carriers are so easy to use if one has the right support, and MSL was formed to ensure all brands no matter what was welcome, and parents from no matter where were welcome to get support from the pop-up library. It was a huge sense of relief for me and wanted to make sure that I could form a community to ensure no mom felt helpless like I did,” she says.
Though she was doing everything single-handedly at the start, when five other mothers joined Rashmee, they were like a house on fire and helped revive MSL in 2016.
Women behind the Initiative
These mothers included architect and assistant professor at an architecture college, Yaman Banerji Korgaonkar, lactation counsellor Aloka Mehta Gambhir, marketing professional Prachi Shah Dedhia, engineer and business analyst Koshali Dalvi, an MBA in human resource management, Sharmila D’Souza.
“Between attending the MSL meetups, being active babywearers ourselves, and having experienced the benefits first hand, we were more than happy to do whatever it takes to share the love. This passion and willingness to share helped us revive the MSL in March 2016 with the support of many leading babywearing brands in India. Since then there has been no looking back!” says Prachi.
The MSL has conducted over 40 meetups in less than two years across the length and breadth of Mumbai and its suburbs, and has a stash of over 50 different babywearing products!
How does babywearing help?
Babywearing is an art practised since ancient times and continues to remain popular among parents and caregivers from tribes in India and abroad too. It ensures that you hold your baby close in an ergonomic, well-supported and safe way. It caters to the child’s primary needs of being held and cared for.
For many mothers with preterm babies, Kangaroo care is recommended under which babywearing can be one of the best ways to establish skin to skin contact.
It helps lactation in a new mother and most importantly keeps postpartum depression at bay.
Keeping the baby close, calm and safe releases happy hormones in the parent, making it a cherishable experience.
“As a working parent, the quintessential multitasking maa, the moments of snuggling up with my little girl, after a long day, was sheer bliss. The calm and joy are unmatched,” says Yaman.
Many mothers who have benefited from MSL claim babywearing has helped them deal with notorious evening colic, teething phases and growth spurts a lot better. Many of these women are often spotted taking walks with their group of babywearing Super Moms, supporting each other on their postpartum fitness journeys.
Read more: These 11 IIM Grads Gave up High-Paying Jobs to Transform Countless Lives
What are the common myths related to babywearing?
Milind Soman supporting MSL during Pinkathon. Source: Instagram
The six educators and consultants continuously deal with busting myths about babywearing that are practically endless!
Myths like ‘the child will get spoilt’, ‘they will never learn to walk’, ‘it’ll hurt the baby’s legs’, ‘the baby will be clingy or ‘you will harm your back forever’ are commons ones, the women encounter.
They attribute these beliefs to a lack of awareness and resistance among parents to accept something they don’t usually encounter around them.
Besides, many new mothers are questioned about their choices all the time, which adds to the resistance.
Pointing some of the most common mistakes new moms or caregivers make which selecting babywear products, they say, “One of the mistakes is plunging in and buying stuff from stores only because things are ‘branded’. We’d urge parents to make informed choices when it comes to their babies, and find ergonomic babywearing gear, which is safe for the baby and supportive to the user at the same time.”
They stress that parents and caregivers opt for age-appropriate carriers for their child, rather than an oversized one just to make it last longer. It is important to know that an oversized carrier can be dangerous because it can potentially harm the baby’s airway and is unsafe.
Many parents opt for babywear to ride a two-wheeler or car, due to its sheer convenience, without foreseeing the dangers it can pose to the child. “If the vehicle breaks suddenly while commuting, the entire weight of the adult wearing the carrier directly comes on the baby. As much as we advocate babywearing, we always stress on making sure it is done right,” they say.
Apart from educating the new mothers and helping them experience the joys of babywearing, MSL also runs some support groups primarily for mothers including breastfeeding, weaning, toddler meals, fitness, and promoting green options like sustainable menstruation and cloth diapering.
Today the growth and success of the entire community and network of moms and caregivers reflect on how some mothers have turned into entrepreneurs and launched their own babywearing brands! Many have also become certified babywearing consultants.
We wish the Mumbai Sling Library the very best!
Want to connect to the Mumbai Sling Library?
Follow them on:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/mumbaislinglibrary/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mumbaislinglibrary/?hl=en
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SHRM Names Three New Board Members for 2016
By John Zappe November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015
Three new faces will join the Society for Human Resource Management’s board of directors in January 2016, according to an announcement from SHRM.
Joining the 13-member SHRM board beginning Jan. 1, 2016 are:
Donna Morris
Sherri Enright
Steve Browne
Steve Browne, executive director of human resources at LaRosa’s, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sherri Enright, principal, HHS Consulting, Sanibel, Florida.
Donna Morris, senior vice president, global people and places, Adobe Systems, San Jose, California.
Browne, who has served on SHRM’s Membership Advisory Council (he also contributes the monthly HR Roundtable feature that appears here on TLNT), and Morris will serve two-year terms. Enright will serve a one-year term.
In addition, two HR executives were re-elected to the board. Jose Tomas, executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Anthem Inc., Indianapolis, was re-elected to a two-year term. David Windley, president, IQTalent Partners, Los Altos, Calif., was re-elected to a three-year term.
Coretha M. Rushing, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Equifax, Atlanta, was elected chair designate. She will become board chair in 2017.
Board chair for 2016 will continue to be Brian D. Silva, Chief HR Officer and senior vice president, administration, of Fresenius Medical Care North America.
John Zappe
John Zappe is the editor of TLNT.com and a contributing editor of ERE.net. John was a newspaper reporter and editor until his geek gene lead him to launch his first website in 1994. He developed and managed online newspaper employment sites and sold advertising services to recruiters and employers. Before joining ERE Media in 2006, John was a senior consultant and analyst with Advanced Interactive Media and previously was Vice President of Digital Media for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
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Developing an open agri-food innovation platform to connect and share data
By Lilian Schaer - Ag Innovation
Vast amounts of data are being collected on Canada's farms through the advent of precision agriculture technology and the Internet of Things (IOT).
Many types of tools, equipment and devices gather data on everything from crop yields to how many steps an animal takes in a day. However, much of that data is underutilized because it's collected by systems that don't or can't communicate with each other.
The need for better decision-making on farms through better data use resulted in Ontario Precision Agri-Food (OPAF), a partnership of agricultural organizations led by Ontario Agri-Food Technologies (OAFT) that's developing an open agri-food innovation platform to connect and share data.
The goal, according to lead director Dr. Karen Hand of Precision Strategic Solutions, is getting data, wherever it exists (both data repositories in industry or government and data generated by countless sensors) so it can be used to help advance important food production issues like food safety, traceability and plant and animal disease surveillance.
For example, information about the prevalence and control of insect pests like cutworms that damage soybean crops lies with many different people and organizations, including university and government researchers, crop advisors, input suppliers and farmers.
"There is no single spot where all of the information about a particular pest can be accessed in a robust, science-based system and used in decision-making and that's where OPAF's platform will help," Hand says.
Pilot projects are underway with Ontario's grain, dairy and poultry producers to identify their needs in areas like crop protection, sustainability and food safety and how OPAF can provide data-driven solutions to benefit farmers.
"We sit down with farmers, advisors, associations, government and researchers to find out what data they have, where they exist and if we were able to connect them, what value or benefit that would offer participants - either specific to the commodity they are producing or on larger food-related issues such as food safety or impact on trade," she explains.
And OPAF's efforts are gaining global recognition. Earlier this year, Internet of Food and Farm 2020, a large project in the European Union exploring the potential of IOT technologies of European food and farming, recognized OPAF as one of three global projects to collaborate with.
"This is going to be changing the face of data enablement in Canada and contributing globally," says Tyler Whale of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies (OAFT). "We are creating a platform that is the base of something new, and although we are piloting this in Ontario, it will be available nationwide to those who want to use it."
OPAF partners include OAFT, University of Guelph, University of Waterloo, Niagara College, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, Livestock Research Innovation Corporation, Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Farm Credit Canada, Ontario Agri-Business Association, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, and Golden Horseshoe Farm and Food Alliance.
This project was funded by Growing Forward 2, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The Agricultural Adaptation Council assists with GF2 delivery in Ontario.
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University of Colorado regents approve new policies to protect free speech
Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor •September 17, 2018
Under new policies, students in Colorado can now respectfully debate and disagree with their professors and classmates and expect to be treated with respect in return. And that’s great news for conservative students there who have sounded the alarm that their classroom comments have been silenced and mocked in the past.
The University of Colorado Board of Regents on Friday unanimously approved the new policies aimed at defending free speech and academic freedom on campuses.
“The revisions recognize for the first time that faculty and students have academic freedom and also balances their respective rights and responsibilities,” officials announced Friday in the wake of the vote. “…New provisions recognize that, while faculty members have the ability to direct the course of classroom discussions, students have the ability to raise questions and take reasoned exception to the views and data presented by others.”
The push for the new policies has been underway for some time, led by Republican regents. It was done as part of a larger review of board policies.
The Republican regents were spurred on in part by concerns voiced by conservative students that their opinions were not respected and protected in the classroom.
The new policies are in line with state law that requires “that free speech can occur in public spaces on campuses, prohibits universities from confining expression to ‘free speech zones’ and allows universities to enact viewpoint neutral rules to guard against disruptions to the learning environment,” according to officials’ statement.
The Daily Camera reports that “the changes for the first time codified academic freedom for students, as well as definitions of freedom of expression for university community members.”
CU Boulder launched a website to help answer questions about the new policies.
MORE: In Colorado, conservatives fight back against classroom bias
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Storm in a teacup? Dar, Kampala exporters seek to exit Mombasa auction
Monday October 15 2018
Tea quality and prices in the region have been falling. FOTOSEARCH
Tanzania said it was planning its own tea auction in Dar es Salaam.
Uganda had in March this year, said it was planning to market its own tea directly to buyers.
Kenyan industry players say another auction in Tanzania or Uganda is infeasible due to low volumes.
The Mombasa tea auction has more than 70 buyers worldwide, with Pakistan being the largest market, accounting for 40 per cent.
By WINNIE ATIENO
A push by Tanzania and Uganda to have their own tea auction could destabilise incomes, coming at a time that production and prices in the region have been falling.
Last week, Tanzania said it was planning its own tea auction in Dar es Salaam. Uganda had in March this year, said it was planning to market its own tea directly to buyers as it sought better prices, effectively pulling out of the Mombasa auction, the second largest in the world, after Colombo.
Kampala has since rescinded the decision.
Kenyan tea industry players, however, believe that the two countries’ push for another auction outside Mombasa, which serves the region, with offerings from at least 10 countries as far afield as Madagascar, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is infeasible due to low volumes from those two markets.
Uganda’s concerns emanate from what it says is loss of identity of its tea once it enters the Mombasa auction, as it is labelled as Kenyan.
“Once our tea is exported through Mombasa, it loses identity because it lacks the proper packaging. This means it inherits Kenya as the origin in the export market, losing its identity to the advantage of Kenya,” said Othieno Odoi a, senior planner in charge of trade at Uganda’s National Planning Authority.
In East Africa, Rwanda and Burundi tea quality is best
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Mr Odoi added that the country is yet to complete the feasibility study that would determine whether the market would be viable for a Kampala auction.
“We are also tied down by some challenges, including transportation. However as the country improves on the infrastructure front, it could address some of these constraints making a reality of the aspirations of having our own auction,” Mr Odoi said.
The chairman of the Tanzania Tea Board Steven Mloti said last week that the country’s push for an auction is driven by the need to lower the transport costs to Mombasa, and boost farmers’ earnings.
“We are establishing a warehouse in Dar es Salaam before launching our own auction,” he said. “This will boost business in the Dar es Salaam port too.”
Kenya's Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri (in blue shirt) at a tea auction at the Tea Trade Centre in Mombasa on June 12, 2018. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG
But East African Tea Traders Association (Eatta) managing director Edward Mudibo said he is yet to receive a complaint from the Ugandan tea traders, adding that Dar es Salaam cannot sustain an independent auction.
“We have not yet not received any information regarding Ugandan exporters complaining about the Mombasa auction. Most importantly, quantity makes a tea auction sustainable, which Kenya enjoys. The Mombasa auction is unique because it is the only one with 10 countries including Madagascar, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda,” said Mr Mudibo.
However, George Sekitoleko, the executive secretary Uganda Tea Association, said it was not currently feasible for Uganda to start a tea auction because of the small volumes and poor quality produced.
“As it is, this idea is not feasible now because we don’t have the volumes and the high quality to attract premium buyers,” said Mr Sekitokelo.
As at June this year, the Kenyan tea output was 198,000 tonnes, which sold at an average price of $2.6 per kilogramme, followed by Uganda’s 30,000 tonnes which fetched an average of $1.57 a kilo. Rwandan tea, which recorded the third highest volume of 10,000 tonnes fetched the highest price of $2.897 per kilo, while Tanzania’s 7,000 tonnes fetched $1.65 for a kilogramme of the leaf.
Burundi sold 5,000 tonnes of the product at an average $2.62 per kilo, while Mozambique sold 446 tonnes, each averaging $1.24 a kilo. The Ethiopian tea stood at 286 tonnes fetching $1.53 a kilo, while 15 tonnes of Madagascar tea was sold at the auction at an average price of $1.47 per kilogramme.
“This is what went through at the auction and the average prices. For Tanzania, the average price was $1.65 when Rwanda was fetching the highest at $2.97. From the economics, it will be difficult to compete with the lower quantity,” said Mr Mudibo, adding that there must be enough produce for another regional auction to thrive.
If Tanzania pulls out from Eatta, the Mombasa tea auction will lose about 12,000 tonnes annually. Kampala exports more than 60,000 tonnes of tea through the Mombasa Tea Auction, data from the Uganda Tea Association shows.
“But Uganda will also be impacted, since they are not likely to realise competitive prices because of limited buyers as compared with the current 70 at the Mombasa auction. What has made this auction thrive is the fact that we have tea from 10 countries and different varieties from 67 KTDA factories that gives you a big framework. Let us pride ourselves as African tea,” said Mr Mudibo.
Eatta says it is yet to receive any formal communication from Tanzanian authorities on the matter.
“The threshold is minimal for Tanzania. If they move out, it would not significantly change the trading at the auction floor: Their members bring their tea to Mombasa, so who is this purporting to talk on behalf of the investors and farmers? Who will put up the asset? They need an auction floor, where will that facility be? Who will run it? They need brokers and buyers,” Mr Mudibo said.
He added: “If you need an auction there must be uniqueness; it must be multi-origin; 10 countries offer their tea in Mombasa. A wise buyer or exporter would rather go to a one-stop shop than going to 10 destinations to buy tea.”
Malawi has a tea auction but it still trades at the Mombasa auction, showing the complexities of the tea trade.
“Limbe auction in Malawi is small. It takes about an hour due to the small volumes. There are only two brokers and six serious buyers but only four are active. There are producers in Malawi who still believe in the Mombasa auction and are ready to bear the transport costs because they still make a profit. So what is the statement there? The late President Idd Amin attempted to have an auction in Kampala and it failed due to dynamics,” said Mr Mudibo.
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Shy Glizzy And Bankroll PJ Pay Tribute To Bankroll Fresh In The “Bankroll” Video
The video recruits Boosie Badazz too.
By Will Bundy
Shy Glizzy has shared the video for "Bankroll," a somber, Zaytoven-produced cut from his Young Jefe 2 tape. The video takes a cue from the song's title by paying tribute to fallen Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh, who was gunned down in March of this year.
In doing so, Glizzy is joined by Fresh's nephew, six-year-old viral rap star Bankroll PJ and Boosie Badazz, who has a "Bank Roll" of his own. Glizzy raps along to the track in front a mural of Fresh and in a cemetery, and the clip ends with the slain rapper's voice, and PJ mouthing his uncle's words.
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Canada Watchdog review clears spy agency’s experiment with airport Wi-Fi data
Watchdog review clears spy agency’s experiment with airport Wi-Fi data
The new Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) complex is pictured in Ottawa on Tuesday, October 15, 2013.
JIM BRONSKILL
Published February 13, 2014 Updated May 11, 2018
The government's electronic eavesdropping agency did not track the online activities of Canadians during a controversial study of wireless communication at airports, a federal watchdog says.
The independent body that monitors the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) says the spy agency's metadata analysis effort was not about mass surveillance or monitoring Canadians.
The watchdog's assurances, however, left analysts with lingering questions about just what CSEC legally can — and should — do when it comes to sifting through digital communications that inevitably include Canadian content.
A CSEC document obtained last month by CBC — originally leaked by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden — suggested information was taken from an unidentified Canadian airport's free Wi-Fi system over a two-week period to conduct the trial.
In a new posting on its website, the CSEC watchdog says it has received a briefing from the spy agency, questioned employees involved in the project, and examined results of the data-crunching activity at issue.
"This activity is used by CSEC to understand global communications networks," said the watchdog's office, which is led by Quebec judge Jean-Pierre Plouffe. "We concluded that this CSEC activity does not involve 'mass surveillance' or tracking of Canadians or persons in Canada."
Ottawa-based CSEC has a mandate to monitor foreign computer, satellite, radio and telephone traffic of people, countries, organizations and terrorist groups for information of intelligence interest to Canada. It works closely with similar agencies in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
The CBC story prompted a storm of concern about invasion of Canadians' privacy, putting Defence Minister Rob Nicholson — who is responsible for the eavesdropping agency — on the ropes during the House of Commons question period.
Liberal MP Scott Brison said MPs spend a lot of time in Canadian airports during their travels, using their wireless Internet access to stay connected and send e-mails containing personal information about constituents.
"Will the government notify any members of Parliament or Canadians who have been caught up in this data sweep?" Mr. Brison asked. "Will the minister initiate his own investigation into CSEC's activities, to reassure Canadians that their privacy has not been violated?"
The watchdog says in the new posting that such surveillance did not occur, adding that if CSEC were tracking the movements or online activities of people at a Canadian airport, that would be illegal.
Justice Plouffe's statement that "no CSEC activity was directed at Canadians or persons in Canada" begs legal interpretation, said Craig Forcese, an associate law professor at the University of Ottawa.
These doubts should be assuaged with real law, he wrote on Thursday in a blog posting. "And so the government needs to show its legal cards. It is long past the time when a bare assertion of legality suffices, when that assertion is based on a legal theory that no one outside of government has seen."
Intelligence expert Wesley Wark, who also teaches at the University of Ottawa, said he was curious about how and why Justice Plouffe's office arrived at its conclusions, and whether the airport Wi-Fi exercise had appropriate levels of internal approval at CSEC.
Overall, Justice Plouffe must "get used to providing full public explanations for his findings," not brief summary judgments, if he is going to "satisfy skeptical Canadians that he is truly independent and truly capable of holding CSEC to account," Mr. Wark said.
The CSEC watchdog's comments echoed those of spy agency chief John Forster, who told a Senate committee shortly after the CBC story that CSEC was merely collecting electronic metadata — data trails about messages, essentially — and not the actual content of those messages and calls.
Mr. Forster said CSEC aimed to build a mathematical model to help determine a communication pattern at a public location, in this case an airport.
The May, 2012, CSEC presentation leaked to CBC says the project could help security officials locate a kidnapper making ransom calls.
CSEC is forbidden from targeting the private communications of Canadians such as e-mails and phone calls. However, metadata are not considered private communications for the spy service's purposes.
Some civil libertarians, privacy advocates and academics say CSEC's metadata monitoring is worrisome because even such seemingly innocuous routing codes and digital stamps can reveal much about someone, such as their location and who they are contacting.
Bill Robinson, who has kept a close eye on CSEC for years, wondered on Thursday how far the agency's metadata collection and use go.
"Is CSEC currently collecting a comprehensive, or near comprehensive, or any kind of ongoing database of metadata concerning communications-related activity in Canada?" he wrote on his blog.
"And is it analyzing those activities for information relevant to its foreign intelligence targets, such as visits to websites associated with suspect causes?"
Mr. Forster has denied CSEC uses metadata to build profiles of Canadians. Rather, it helps the agency screen out the content of Canadian messages, he told the senators.
In a recent court filing, CSEC says metadata also help it identify malicious foreign cyber-activity and better understand and discover foreign targets. "Metadata allows CSE, usually through automated tools, to filter information found on the global information infrastructure without looking at the content of any communications."
The watchdog's office says it is doing an in-depth review focused exclusively on metadata.
Mr. Wark said he suspects Canadians will not see the results of that review until summer or fall of next year.
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Columnist Sue Carroll dies of cancer
Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace leads tributes to writer, 58, who had cancer of the pancreas
Tara Conlan
Mon 26 Dec 2011 09.48 EST First published on Mon 26 Dec 2011 09.48 EST
Daily Mirror columnist Sue Carroll who has died of cancer. Photograph: Harry Page/The Daily Mirror/PA
Tributes have been paid to Daily Mirror columnist and The Alan Titchmarsh Show pundit Sue Carroll, who has died aged 58.
Mirror editor Richard Wallace called her "part of the heart and soul" of the tabloid, while associate editor Kevin Maguire said via Twitter that she was "the queen of columnists".
Carroll died on 25 December, 18 months after she was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas.
In March she wrote movingly in the Mirror in her typical forthright style about her illness and treatment.
With her characteristic humour she told readers: "You may be wondering why, in recent months, my appearances in this paper have been as infrequent as a smile on the face of Colonel Gaddafi. But I've been having my own battles to face."
Although an operation to remove two cancerous tumours failed, Carroll had chemotherapy and made a return to television earlier this year.
She also appeared in a video clip explaining her absence from the column she had written for 13 years and said how pleased she was to be returning to write it.
But she said: "I'm not hanging out the bunting. This bugger is far from beaten but at least it's behaving itself."
Wallace said: "Although we knew this moment would come, it is still a great shock. Sue had faced her long and painful illness with enviable fortitude.
"Until the final few days she was still doing what she loved the most: reading the papers and giving her inimitable thoughts on the world around us – with, of course, the odd no-nonsense rant thrown in.
"Sue was part of the heart and soul of the Daily Mirror and had a direct line to our readers."
Newcastle-born Carroll worked for magazines after she moved to London and for the News of the World and The Sun.
Former colleague Roy Greenslade said: "All my memories of working with Sue Carroll were happy ones. She never stopped laughing and telling funny stories and had this amazing self-deprecating humour. She was one of those journalists who managed to be loved by people she interviewed.
"I remember her at The Sun being one of the best columnists and she was one of those journalists who despite supposedly being famous was always worried about doing the next story, she never got above herself."
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White House ambitions on Iran deal face challenge from hawks in Congress
Hopes that US will announce short-team deal Iran nuclear plans could be frustrated by bid to impose new sanctions on Tehran
Spencer Ackerman in Washington
Fri 8 Nov 2013 17.16 EST First published on Fri 8 Nov 2013 17.16 EST
John Kerry attends the nuclear talks in Geneva. Photograph: Wang Siwei/Rex
As soon as the Obama administration reaches an anticipated deal with Iran over its nuclear program, it will face a new challenge that threatens to strangle the accord in its crib: the inevitable attempts on Capitol Hill to impose new economic sanctions on Tehran.
Expectations are high in Washington that John Kerry, the secretary of state, will announce a limited, short-term deal with Iran, following his unexpected arrival in Geneva on Friday to participate in negotiations.
Yet the White House was quick to say that it is resolved to “protecting the broader architecture of the sanctions program,” as deputy press secretary Josh Earnest put it on Friday.
Unless Kerry can persuade Tehran to freeze all its enrichment activity before an interim deal, nuclear experts say, bipartisan congressional opponents of Iran will rapidly push to expand the sanctions regime. Iran wants the sanctions removed, and may consider an expansion of them a sign of America’s bad faith in advance of the longer-term deal both sides say they want.
The Senate, filled with Iran hawks, has multiple opportunities to expand the sanctions regime as early as Monday. One is a package of new sanctions in the Senate banking committee that chairman Tim Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, said Thursday he will pursue after “the Geneva meeting is over with.”
Johnson told Reuters that Senate majority leader Harry Reid, one of President Obama’s most important legislative allies, signaled to Johnson to proceed with marking up the new sanctions bill.
Also, beginning next week, the Senate is anticipated to debate the next fiscal year’s defense authorization bill, which Republican senators say could provide an opportunity to put in place new sanctions.
Tennessee’s Bob Corker, the top Republican on the foreign relations committee Kerry used to chair, told the Daily Beast he crafted an amendment “to freeze the administration in, and make it so they are unable to reduce the sanctions unless certain things occur.”
The Republican-controlled House already passed an expansion of sanctions in July that awaits Senate action.
Congressional distaste for an Iran deal is likely to be fueled by the outright fury to it voiced by Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an influential figure on Capitol Hill. Obama telephoned Netanyahu on Friday to smooth things over.
"The president provided the prime minister with an update on negotiations in Geneva and underscored his strong commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which is the aim of the negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran," according to a White House description of the call. "The president and prime minister agreed to continue to stay in touch on this issue. "
The fight over new sanctions “is ongoing, and it’s probably going to get worse” for the administration, said Laicie Heeley of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
US presidents have broad authority over sanctions, but not absolute authorities. Congress not only passes sanctions bills, it can craft them to restrict so-called waiver authority that allows presidents to pause the implementation of sanctions deemed to be against the national interest.
“It would be their worst nightmare if Congress were to pass something that completely took away all the president’s waiver authority – because then all of our sanctions are completely useless, and passing them doesn’t mean anything, because we passed them to get Iran to the negotiating table to get a deal,” Heeley said. “If we can’t do anything to take them away, then they’re worthless.”
To stave off criticism of the deal before it was reached, the White House even publicly flirted with adding new sanctions.
Should the interim deal break down or a follow-on deal prove impossible in the coming months, “the moderate sanctions relief we’re talking about here would be reversible,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday, “and we would be in a situation where, acting with the international community, acting with Congress, we could reinstate all of the sanctions and consider ratcheting up sanctions to increase pressure.”
The fact that Carney discussed escalating punitive measures ahead of a deal that would, at the least, alleviate them, speaks to the depths of distrust in Washington at anything resembling a deal with Iran, short of up-front Iranian capitulation.
As Friday wore on, with foreign ministers shuttling to Geneva for the talks, conservative legislators and thinktanks lined up to denounce the deal before they knew what it contained.
The Republican chairman of the House armed services committee, Californian Buck McKeon, castigated it as an unmitigated disaster.
“Relieving sanctions without a guarantee that Iran will end its nuclear program is foolish,” McKeon said.
“For some reason, this administration has yet to meet a red line it won’t brush aside to accommodate our enemies. They must stop chasing the thrill of a deal at the expense of US national security, and the security of our allies.”
The Emergency Committee for Israel, an implacable administration foe, encouraged Congress on Friday to “take all appropriate measures to oppose [a deal] and ratchet up sanctions. And Congress should also make it clear that the United States will stand with our ally, Israel, if she judges it necessary to act to prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
But proponents of an accord with think the Obama administration holds a strong hand – in part thanks, ironically, to the multiplicity of Iran sanctions bills.
“It’s the clock, it’s the weight of multiple [legislative] vehicles but no agreement on the way forward, it’s the key leaders on the committees, and it’s the dynamic that will change in response to a discussion of something real” with Iran, said Joel Rubin of the Ploughshares Fund, a former State Department official and congressional aide.
“Members will think twice, and the administration’s outreach these last couple of weeks has been effective on the consequences of damaging a nuclear deal.”
But Mark Dubowitz, an Iran sanctions expert at the hawkish Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said the administration was setting itself up for a multi-front fight, especially for a follow-on agreement: against Iran at the negotiating table; with Congress over the contours of the deal; and with Israel and Saudi Arabia, who are terrified at the prospect of US-Iranian rapprochement.
“What people are forgetting is that there’s not going to be a final agreement with Iran unless Congress is treated as an equal partner in this. Congress can block the final-deal terms, because the Iranians want fundamental sanctions relief, and the fundamental sanctions relief that they want is sitting in congressional legislation,” Dubowitz said.
“I think the administration has set itself up for a very, very difficult six months,” Dubowitz said.
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Theme Park Insider - Staff Columns - Entry
The BLOGFlume—Golden
Amusement Today's 2005 Golden Tickets are announced.
Written by Russell Meyer
Published: August 28, 2005 at 8:56 PM
2005 Golden Tickets Announced
Amusement Today 8/27/05
The annual best-of list from Amusement Today, better known as the Golden Tickets, were just released, and in this edition of the BLOGFlume, I’m going to dissect the results. The results, as usual, are not terribly surprising, but there were a few changes from last year’s results. So let’s get to the winners…
1. Cedar Point 37%
2. Islands of Adventure 14%
3. Blackpool Pleasure Beach 9%
4. Europa Park 7%
4. Knoebel’s 7%
This list does not offer much of surprise, other than Cedar Point increasing its popularity from last year (35% in 2004 to 37% in 2005). Cedar Point is a great amusement park, but I don’t feel that it has gotten significantly better over the years. As with many other awards, the status quo continues to rule. Europa Park displaces Kennywood from the top five, but the others are repeats from last year.
Best Waterpark
1. Schlitterbahn 52%
2. Splashin’ Safari 17%
3. Blizzard Beach 7%
4. Noah’s Ark 5%
5. Typhoon Lagoon 3%
Schlitterbahn continues its dominance in the waterpark category with Disney’s two waterparks staying in the top five. Noah’s Ark in Wisconsin Dells displaced Boomerang Bay at Paramount’s Kings Island, but once again the status quo is maintained.
Best Children’s Park
1. Legoland 44%
2. Idlewild 12%
3. Kiddieland 9%
4. Sesame Place 8%
5. Dutch Wonderland 6%
Legoland maintains its top spot in this category as the best theme park for kids. As with the other categories, four of the top five are repeats from last year, with Chicago’s Kiddieland taking the place of Cleveland’s Memphis Kiddie Park in this year’s top five.
Friendliest Park Staff
1. Holiday World 47%
2. Dollywood 17%
3. Cedar Point 7%
5. Magic Kingdom 4%
Holiday World once again is tops in this category, with the next four repeats of last year’s top 4. A new entry this year, Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, breaks into the top five by knocking out Silver Dollar City.
Cleanest Park
2. Busch Gardens Williamsburg 10%
5. Disneyland 6%
All five of these repeat from last year with Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Cedar Point pushing Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom down two spots to #4.
Best Shows
1. Six Flags Fiesta Texas 30%
4. Silver Dollar City 6%
5. Disney/MGM Studios 5%
The status quo is once again maintained with the top five parks in this category. Disney/MGM Studios manages to sneak into a tie with Cedar Point in this category.
1. Knoebel’s 26%
2. EPCOT 13%
Once again four of the five in this categories are repeaters from last year with Dollywood cracking the top five and pushing Kennywood out. It seems that the simplistic fair-style food of Knoebel’s is more popular than the exotic and international cuisine of both EPCOT and Busch Gardens Williamsburg. However, the gap is beginning to close.
Best Landscaping
2. Efteling 18%
3. Bonfante Gardens 7%
5. Busch Gardens Tampa 3%
This category saw one of the biggest changes in the top five with two Disney parks, EPCOT and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, inexplicably dropping from the top five to be replaced by Europa Park and Busch Gardens Tampa. I’m not sure how a Disney park cannot be on this list, but I guess it’s just a major theme of these awards.
Best Outdoor Night Production
3. Disneyland 13%
4. Disney/MGM Studios 12%
In a departure from the general trend, the Amusement Today voters finally recognize a Disney park by giving the Golden ticket to Illuminations at EPCOT. This was the one major award that saw a change at the top from last years, as EPCOT’s show trumped last year’s winner, Six Flags Fiesta Texas. However, the entire top five was in last year’s top five.
So, as it would seem, the Amusement Today voters are pretty good at making photocopies of last year’s ballots, but the one award that could not repeat last year’s results showed a somewhat surprising result.
Best New Ride for 2005
1. Hades 45%
2. Kingda Ka 16%
3. Italian Job 8%
4. maXair 6%
4. Powder Keg 6%
4. SheiKra 6%
By an overwhelming majority, Hades at Mt. Olympus wins this Golden ticket over a ride that didn’t operate for half of the year. The one glaring omission from this list has to be Theme Park Insider’s best new attraction winner, Curse of DarKastle at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
Now lets move onto everyone’s favorite and most controversial lists, the top coaster lists…
Best Steel Roller Coaster
1. Millennium Force Cedar Point
2. Superman: Ride of Steel Six Flags New England
3. Magnum XL-200 Cedar Point
4. Apollo’s Chariot Busch Gardens Williamsburg
5. Nitro Six Flags Great Adventure
6. Expedition GeForce Holiday Park
7. Top Thrill Dragster Cedar Point
8. Phantom’s Revenge Kennywood
9. Raging Bull Six Flags Great America
10. Montu Busch Gardens Tampa
11. Raptor Card Point
12. X Six Flags Magic Mountain
13. Superman: Ride of Steel Six Flags Darien Lake
14. Steel Force Dorney Park
15. Dueling Dragons Islands of Adventure
16. Nemesis Alton Towers
17. Alpengeist Busch Gardens Williamsburg
18. Superman: Ride of Steel Six Flags America
19. Incredible Hulk Islands of Adventure
20. Goliath Six Flags Magic Mountain
The top three coasters remain unchanged, and I still cannot figure how Magnum is a top 10 roller coaster, while one of the best coasters on earth, Kraken at Sea World Orlando, was left on the outside of the top 20 at #26. I cannot complain about most of the coasters on this list, but I would probably have arranged them a little differently.
Best Wooden Roller Coaster
1. Thunderhead Dollywood
2. Boulder Dash Lake Compounce
3. Shivering Timbers Michigan’s Adventure
4. Phoenix Knoebel’s
5. Raven Holiday World
6. Hades Mt. Olympus
7. The Legend Holiday World
8. The Beast Paramount’s Kings Island
9. Lightning Racer Hersheypark
10. Ghostrider Knott’s Berry Farm
11. Avalanche Timber Falls
12. Texas Giant Six Flags Over Texas
13. Megafobia Oakwood Leisure Park
14. Cyclone Astroland (Coney Island)
15. Tremors Silverwood
16. Ozark Wildcat Celebration City
17. Rampage Visionland
18. Cornball Express Indiana Beach
19. Colossus Heide Park
20. Comet The Great Escape
There’s not much to complain about this list as the voters vault Dollywood’s Thunderhead to the top spot ahead of Boulder Dash. The high debut of Hades at #6 would suggest that it’s in line for #1 next year, since Thunderhead debuted on last year’s list at #7.
So that’s the major categories, and just like every year, parks change, but these awards seem to stay the same. While I agree with giving credit to a lot of the theme parks that are not owned by Disney, it’s really confusing to see Disney parks omitted from a number of these lists. I agree that Cedar Point is a great park, and that it has some great coasters, but these awards show quite a bit of bias towards the Sandusky, Ohio park. These awards also seem to ignore the work done by Disney to keep their parks as some of the most visited tourist attractions in the world. At any rate, there they are, and now it’s your turn to dissect them.
Readers' Opinions
From Jason Lester on August 28, 2005 at 9:05 PM
Not many surprises here. I'm a little bit shocked that DarkCastle was left out of the Best New Ride category. Oh well.
From Robert OGrosky on August 28, 2005 at 9:33 PM
Glad that 2 new wooden coasters in my neck of the woods, Hades at Mt. Olympus and Avalanche at Timer Falls in the Wisc. Dells scored as highly as they did. They are great rides and deserve there ranking!!
From Cameron Rust on August 28, 2005 at 9:52 PM
How many years has Busch won the Best Landscaping award?
I was shocked about DarKastle. Even more at it not getting mentioned in either of the two categories (Best new ride and best dark ride).
From Adriel Tjokrosaputro on August 29, 2005 at 1:46 AM
There's only one answer.It is absolutely not match with Theme Park Insider.But I think there's a big mistake.In our list,Kraken holds number one best attraction.How could it be at #26 only for the best roller coaster.The reason is because all of the member in Theme Park Insider maybe didn't vote for the better coaster?I don't know.What do you think?Who was right?TPI or Amusesement Today?
From Anthony Murphy on August 29, 2005 at 7:03 AM
This makes no sense, how could neither Disney nor Universal be closer to the top? How was this judged because I would not think that our overall views of the park would be that much different than these results. Also, I am very suprised in the family category. Yes, Lego Land is very good, but you are telling me Disney is not even second? I find something fishy here. Thanks for dissecting it though!
From Justin Bates on August 29, 2005 at 7:50 AM
I'm also very surprised about DarKastle not being in any category. I'm also surprised that BGW wasn't even in the top 5 for having the best shows. I mean one of the huge things they're known for is their great live entertainment. Oh well. I think that people give Cedar Point too much credit. I mean it is a great park, dont get me wrong, but I think its time people start to recognize some of the other parks and the things that they are doing.
From Robert Niles on August 29, 2005 at 9:05 AM
Well, I don't think it is much of a surprise that *Amusement* Today's awards skew toward amusement park-style attractions while *Theme* Park Insider's skew toward more highly themed attractions. Different readership's from different segments of the niche, that's all.
Personally, while I love Kraken, I think it is overrated on TPI right now. In general, I think we have too many roller coasters on the Top 25. (I'm sorry, but neither X nor any other ride that can't run on a regular basis belongs in the Top 25.) Where's Men in Black? DarKastle? Orlando's Mummy? Haunted Mansion? All belong on the Top 25 ahead of some of the one-note coasters up there now.
From Russell Meyer on August 29, 2005 at 10:05 AM
Actually Justin, BGW was third in the "Best Shows" category. However, it was not in the top five for best outdoor night show.
I would agree with Robert that these awards always seem to skew towards "amusement" parks, but the fact that they consistantly give awards to "theme" parks in many categories is hypocritical. If they are going to give awards to "amusement" parks, than "theme" parks should not be eligible to win any awards. What I think has happened is that the voters for the Golden Tickets are fans of the "amusement" industry, and just don't know how to recognize the efforts of "theme" parks. I think the voters also hadicap parks that get the massive attendance numbers like Disney and Universal because they don't want their awards turning into a public popularity contest. If that were the case, these awards would end up like Billboard, where the parks with the highest attendance would win everything.
I just wish the voters for these awards were forced to prove that they attended at least 10 different parks during the year to show that they have a somewhat objective outlook on the industry. What we end up with instead is a bunch of people who vote for a park that they may not have visited in a few years, or one they go to 10-15 times a year without knowing what any other parks are like, and just voting for what park won last year. It's almost become redundant to give these awards away, because they rarely ever change.
From Cameron Rust on August 29, 2005 at 10:08 AM
I heard somewhere that AT didn't like Disney or Universal, because of their "resort" status. Some people classify the whole resort as one theme park, and others each park. At least Disney won best nighttime outdoor show (really surprised Imaginique wasn't in this listing).
From Justin Bates on August 29, 2005 at 10:25 AM
oh sorry, i must have been thinking about the outdoor night show. but i still dont see how a six flags park beats them. i've never been to sfft so maybe they do have really good shows.
I don't think Imaginique really falls into the nighttime outdoor show category. At it's essence, it's a Cirque D'Soleil show. I think the category is more reserved for fireworks and laser shows. EPCOT deservingly won this year, but Six Flags Fiesta Texas, last year's winner, has an incredible show. Sadly when I was there earlier this spring, they weren't running it yet (it only runs in the summer), but I've heard nothing but great things about it. Since the park is located inside of a quarry, they use the walls of the quarry to project images that work in concert with the pyrotechnics and music to create a very impressive display. I was a little disappointed to see Cedar Point in that list ahead of some great shows like Mystify at Sea World and Wishes at Magic Kingdom, but it seems to be par for the course to recognize Cedar Point for just about everything.
Anthony, if you didn't know, Theme Park Insider also recognized Legoland as the #1 park for kids. The kids park category is supposed to be for parks specifically designed for kids, not "kids of all ages." Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Disneyland are great parks to take kids to, but they are designed with whole families in mind. Parks like Legoland, Dutch Wonderland, and Sesame Place are designed with just kids in mind.
I think putting X in any top category is a mistake. It's never running, has unbearble lines, and once you've ridden once, the novelty is completely gone. It has one trick to show you before it's just another coaster. I agree more dark rides should be in the top 25.
From Rhys Evans on August 29, 2005 at 6:10 PM
I'd sure like to see Tokyo Disney Sea get credit for their nighttime show BraviSEAmo...it's just as good as Fantasmic, if not better.
And the thing about Fiesta Texas having great shows AND being part of the Six Flags family is easily explained: they had great shows before they were Six Flags.
From Derek Potter on August 29, 2005 at 7:19 PM
I love it when these awards come out...the debates rage..especially on this site. This always raises the question about the difference between an amusement park and theme park. The only real difference between them is the way they build their rides....that and the amount of money they have. Whats the best attraction or park? It all depends on who you ask. Ask this site, and there is a definite lean towards theme parks. Disney, Universal, and to some extent Busch...bag all the awards here. Are some of them deserved? yes...but nowhere on the ballots will you see a little park like Knoebels Groves or Holiday. Heck even Cedar Point doesn't make it onto the list. The Golden Tickets on the other hand recognize mostly amusement park attractions. Is there a bit of a bias? I think so...no more of one than there is here though. TokyoDisneySea is the best park here? How many around here have made it to that one? How many made it outside of Orlando or SoCal this year? It all comes down to who you ask, and their preference. Do I think that Mummy and Haunted Mansion deserve to be there...possibly, but that doesn't totally discredit the Golden Tickets. True the winners don't change much, but neither do they here. That's because most parks don't change from year to year. There may be a ride addition or new show, but one ride usually doesn't push one park past the other in terms of totality. Don't get me wrong here, the Golden Tickets aren't flawless by any means....
Millennium Force is without doubt number one in the steel category, but I too think that Magnum is a bit on the overratted side nowadays. No doubt that it is still a great ride, but I don't think it's number 3 (I would have given 3 to Apollo's Chariot)....then again, how does one distinguish between all of the B&M coasters out there that are pretty much the same? Kraken bears a pretty close resemblance to Dominator at Geauga Lake, and Superman Krypton at Fiesta Texas. There are 4 B&M inverts on the list, all of which offer the same elements in a different sequence. Another strange thing, there are 3 clones on the list. Superman Ride of Steel is on the list 3 times. I do think that Kraken should have made it past at least 2 of them. I did notice that this list is pretty much owned by two manufacturers. Intamin and B&M. The wood coaster category has a little more validity to it. I love the fact that the Coney Island Cyclone, and the Comet from Great Escape still deservedly make this list, and the Beast from Kings Island remains in the top ten.
DarKastle was indeed conspicuous by it's absence. Four roller coasters and a Giant Frisbee made it over BG's new offering. Despite Golden Ticket's lean towards amusement attractions and a bit of favor towards Cedar Point, that still begs the question from me....is DarKastle that bad? Is it that forgettable that a Huss Giant Frisbee (and not the first one either) can slip in past it? I didn't make it to Williamsburg this year, so I'm just asking those who rode it.
Glad to see Cedar Point remains on top as well. They haven't been at the top of their game lately, and them being in the best show category is a bit out there, but I still think they deserve the recognition they get. It's a great place to go...better than any other amusement park, and most theme parks as well.
There will probably never be a totally objective poll and awards format given out...not unless somebody wants to pony up the dough for a few hundred random park enthusiasts to each go to 20 theme and amusement parks around the world. If someone does get that idea, don't forget to count me in.
From Anthony Murphy on August 29, 2005 at 7:25 PM
I like what Robert Niles said, it is more of an Amusement park think rather than Theme Parks. Though I will agree, most of the award winners are very good, but there is better in my opinion. Just think of it is a chance for somebody other than Disney, Universal, and Busch Gardens being reconized! I have heard good things about Disney Sea, would love to go there (and Japan) some time in the future!
O,yes!I think the best new ride for next year maybe Tower Of Terror at Tokyo DisneySea or Expedition Everest.
From J. Dana on August 30, 2005 at 3:31 PM
In my estimation, that whole Amusement Today list is just plain bunk and dog crap...and like Robert was alluding to, (in his nice diplomatic way) its voters are, for the most part, unsophisticated cretins. For best food, Amusement Today voters probably favored whichever park had the most Bud Lite booths (although they wisely chose Epcot, but look at the rest of that list)...and for landscaping, they favored whichever park provided the most low-rider parking spaces. And for best shows, yee-haw, they couldn't beat those good ole square dances.
Am I being elitist and mean? Yep. But I put as much stock in that list as I do a weight-loss book written by Rosie O'Donald. And to Derek Potter: Yeah, we here at THEME PARK insider would probably vote for THEME PARKS over amusement parks...we THEME PARK afficionados are kinda funny that way. (re: notice the name of the site)
Coasters are fun. And so are beer tents. But Amusement Today's list is just second rate by any standard. Let's flush it and get on to REAL evaluations by REAL theme park enthusiasts.
Um...Busch Gardens Williamsburg was one of the deserving winners of their landscaping award and are a theme park.
Just to recap, heres what J Dana wrote...
"Yeah, we here at THEME PARK insider would probably vote for THEME PARKS over amusement parks...we THEME PARK afficionados are kinda funny that way"
Just like those at AMUSEMENT BUSINESS MAGAZINE (see Golden Ticket voters genius) would lean toward amusement parks.
Don't piss and moan about someone elses poll being biased when you yourself have the same bias for the opposite side. Your entire closed minded post reeks of hypocrisy, so how can you possbly be a credible judge of who deserves to win best anything in a park? Obviously you can't, because in your eyes...Disney is God. Don't drink the haterade because some people prefer amusement parks over theme parks, and they happen to vote for awards.
From TH Creative on August 31, 2005 at 4:38 AM
Congratulations to team Schlitterbahn!
Didn't the company who owns Schlitterbahn also design and develop 'Crush 'n' Gusher' for Typhoon Lagoon?
It will be interesting to see how the new waterpark planned for Sea World in Orlando will do on this poll.
Now I love Disney, there is no doubt about that, but even I will admit, along with dana, that they are not perfect. However, I find it very strange that this article's results are, in a way, SO different from what is found here. Are the winners in the Golden Ticket thing good, yes, they are very nice, but they would not be choices that we would dream up. I am very suprised that Disney nor Universal really were represented and, in my opinion, not enough. I mean, children's park and friendliness staff? Disney is world famous for both of these. Also, in regards to best food, How could EPCOT not have it? It is the only park I know that has exclusive food from around the world. I mean, some of this stuff does not make sense! If somebody wants to stick it to Disney, give it to Universal. At least there you can make some kind of case! I really do not care who won because I take this site as being much better with the overall views of the parks, but thats their opinions, this is mine. Disney might not be a god, but it does deserve its dues along with Universal and Busch. Lets face it, these three rule Flordia!
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Saeed Niazi
Imran Khan not a ‘strategy guy’, says Asad Umar
LONDON: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) vice president Asad Umar has said the party chief Imran Khan is not a strategist, has never worked in an institution and doesn’t know how to work in an institutional setting.
The PTI’s vice president spoke to The Times on Sunday for a profile interview of Imran Khan in which Imran Khan mainly featured and Asad Umar was asked questions about Imran Khan’s claims on turning Pakistan into a “China model”.
In the same piece, The Times quoted Asad Umar as saying that Imran Khan is not a “strategy guy”. The Times reporter said that Imran Khan keeps promising to “bring the China model to Pakistan” to fight poverty but “in the car he is unable to explain to me what this means beyond: We have a lot to learn from what they did with industry.”
The Times said that Imran Khan said he wants to give Pakistan “a sovereign foreign policy”, “an Islamic welfare state” and “the China model” but he glazed over his eyes when asked for details. The Times said Imran Khan’s aides admit “the boss is not great in this department”.
Asad Umar told the paper: “He (Imran Khan) is not a strategy guy, let’s put it that way. He has never been in an institution, and doesn’t know how to work in an institutional setting.” Imran Khan told The Times on Sunday that his party’s lawmaker Ayesha Gulalai has been paid to say that he has been sending inappropriate text messages to her. His prayer beads flick faster and faster at the mention of his accuser, Ayesha Gulalai Wazir, an MP from his own party, who alleges he sent her “inappropriate” text messages and has called for a parliamentary investigation, said the paper. Imran Khan rubbished her claims: “She’s been paid for that.”
The newspaper said that Imran Khan has emerged as a man both the Taliban and some powerful quarters “would like to see installed as the country’s next leader”. “People laughed at me,” Imran Khan said, adding: “But I always thought I’d win. Whatever happens, I’ll win. OK?”
The Times said that Imran Khan loathes Donald Trump but its “hard not to compare the two”.
“Khan, like Trump, emerged from the moneyed elite, riding high on a personality cult, purporting to be the voice of every forgotten man, railing against effete liberals and the corruption and nepotism of the political class. And just like Trump, this ageing, hair-obsessed star is accused of sexual harassment. Khan is the subject of a Pakistani #MeToo claim” by Ayesha Gulalai MNA.
According to the newspaper, Imran Khan had demolished his father's house in Zaman Park, Lahore. His father died in 2009. His father was not on speaking terms with his wife. Imran had also expelled his father from the board of Shaukat Khanum hospital.
The newspaper, citing people from former skipper’s family, Imran was not on speaking terms with his father. He (Imran) himself said his relation with his father were quite formal. Imran Khan criticised Pakistani liberals who support Nato’s war on the Taliban as “thirsty for blood”.
The PTI chief said: “They have absolutely no idea. They sit in the drawing room. They read the English-language newspapers, which bear very little resemblance to what is real Pakistan. I promise you, they would be lost in our villages.” The man who was once married to the daughter of a Jewish billionaire now accuses Israel of “controlling the United States” and American aid of “enslaving” Pakistan, said the paper.
Imran Khan blamed America for pushing Pakistan into the war on terror. “They pushed us into a hysteria of blood-letting. We ended up sending our army into our tribal areas at the request of the Americans. And our areas got devastated. We had, more or less, a civil-war situation there,” he snarls. “The aid was minuscule compared to the loss of billions and billions and the blood our country spilt.”
When asked about how Taliban came to request that he should represent them in talks with the government, Imran Khan said: “All terrorism is politics. All this nonsense of religious terrorism. There’s no such thing as religious terrorism. It’s politics behind it. The political injustice. Perceived injustice is why people pick up arms -- throughout history. My tradition is of a more Sufi style of Islam.”
He told the paper that he wouldn’t be in politics if he hadn’t turned towards spirituality. The Times noted that Imran Khan makes references to British politics all the time. The reporter added: “I am reminded of something the vice-president of his party told me -- that at these rallies he prays Khan won’t bang on about British politics. He’s so incredibly English. I don’t know anybody else in Pakistan who will go ‘gosh’. He’ll quote Shakespeare, the Magna Carta. He’ll talk about English politics at rallies in front of half a million people, 98% of whom don’t give a rat’s ass about what happens in England. I have to say, ‘For heaven’s sake, stop quoting what happens in England.’”
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EPH delivers best service on earth
SPONSORED CONTENT | Victorian-based earthmoving transport company Eastern Plant Hire has refreshed Its ‘Ambassador’ program as an innovative strategy to address a shortage of quality drivers needed to sustain its rapid growth fuelled by the national infrastructure investment boom
In business terms, growth is always considered good. Growth, however controlled it is, can also present its own challenges in this day and age – especially in trucking!
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Eastern Plant Hire (EPH) started out as a modest equipment agency business in 1997, run by brothers Michael and David Willson.
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As well as a tipper fleet, the company also has a small fleet of earthmoving equipment for hire including road sweepers and water carts.
EPH managing director Michael Willson says an infrastructure boom on the east coast is seeing unprecedented demand for drivers and subcontractors.
EPH was the primary haulage contractor for Melbourne’s $2.5 billion Eastlink toll-way project back in the early noughties; an iconic project that moved nearly as much dirt as the iconic Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric project.
Since then EPH has pursued more opportunities both in Victoria as well as New South Wales and Queensland.
EPH managing director Michael Willson says: "The eastern seaboard is currently seeing a massive infrastructure boom, and we’re an integral part of it".
Innovations like the development of an EPH app for clients and contractors have served to push the company into ground-breaking areas with increased connectivity, transparency and compliance as well as resulting in less paper work for employees, contractors and clients alike.
The business features on-site workshops for ease of servicing.
As with many transport companies, EPH has struggled to keep the pace of driver recruitment in line with the business’s growth.
"Like many trucking companies, it can be a challenge to find and retain drivers," says Willson. "So that’s why we started our Ambassador program.
"And we’re now looking for more owner drivers to become EPH Ambassadors."
An EPH Ambassador is an independent contractor. Prospective Ambassadors can buy an existing EPH fleet truck and then go to work for the company.
"We use the term Ambassador because that’s what they are, they’re brand ambassadors for our company," Willson says.
"The trucks carry our logo and they’re the face of our company.
"And service is something that we pride ourselves on, it’s the very basis of our business."
The EPH fleet is multi-branded, however, a large number of these trucks carry the Kenworth logo. Along with Western Star, there’s also a smattering of European brands in the fleet, mainly Mercedes-Benz and DAF.
"Some drivers will only drive our Kenworths, though we also have drivers that love the European comfort and manoeuvrability also offered by our cab-overs," Willson says.
The fleet is predominantly made of North American brands though EPH also operates some European makes.
The EPH tipper fleet runs under PBS to maximise productivity as well. However, Willson is keen to point out the advantages of being an EPH Ambassador. "They get to take advantage of our buying power for a start," he says.
"We have our own workshops and their trucks can be serviced on site, so this can be very cost effective."
And then there’s the convenience of being connected to both the company and the customer via the EPH app.
"Our EPH app means that there’s a lot less time taken up by paper work and they can see exactly how much they’ve earned and when they’re going to get paid," he says.
"Another advantage of being a part of the Ambassador fleet is consistency of work. We prioritise the Ambassador trucks when work is slow.
"We can’t control the weather, but we always support the Ambassadors over the company trucks to keep them earning."
Willson says the company is growing and has plenty of work coming.
Brett De Niese has been an EPH Ambassador/subcontractor for three years.
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London's May Fair Hotel Offers Royal Wedding Packages
Hotel & Resort March 14, 2011
London's May Fair Hotel, opened by King George in 1927, is inviting guests to celebrate the royal wedding, to be held on April 29, in its luxurious setting. The May Fair offers two pampering packages -- the Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea Package, offering a classic British afternoon tea and commemorative champagne flutes to toast the occasion, and an over-the-top Suite and Sapphire Package, including a stay in the hotel's signature Azure Suite and a sapphire engagement ring. The hotel also introduces a Royal Proposal Butler and "Proposal Menu" to help gentlemen pop the question like a prince.
The May Fair's Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea Package offers a long, relaxing weekend stay and includes a three-night stay in a king superior room; full English breakfast daily, Royal Afternoon tea, and a pair of Dartington Crystal Royal Wedding champagne flutes in a gift box to toast the newlyweds. It’s available April 28 through May 1. Package rates begin at £850 (about $1,377) per room for a three-night stay.
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The May Fair, first opened by King George V in 1927 and once owned by the filmmaking Danziger Brothers, is the official hotel for London Fashion Week and the BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, and The Raindance Festival. It has also been recognized for having "The Best Hotel Bar in London," by The Evening Standard.
The 406-room, West End hotel has hosted celebrities, heads of state, world leaders and cultural icons throughout its history. The hotel features 12 signature suites; a private VIP entrance; banquet facilities, including the largest private theater in London and the largest Baccarat chandelier in Europe; the May Fair Spa; rooftop penthouse with 360-degree views of London; and a staff attuned to the needs of the most discerning guest. For more information, call 888-201-1718 or visit www.themayfairhotel.co.uk.
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Review: Aquaman (Carson’s View)
January 5, 2019 Article, Movie Review
I have held off writing my review of Aquaman until I could fully grasp how I felt about the movie. The best that I could come up with is that it was “Good?”. I love comic book movies. I love Jason Momoa. I really want DC to turn things around and make can’t-miss movies like Marvel does. I keep hearing all the hype and praise around this movie and it makes me conflicted. On one side, it makes me happy that comic book movies are still being so well received so they will continue to make more. On the other side, it makes me upset that people are satisfied with what Aquaman gave us and that future movies will be made similarly.
Jason Momoa is awesome. The guy is a bad ass. He makes Aquaman cool. He carries this movie on his massive shoulders. They should have kept the orange costume off the posters and revealed it in the movie. That could have been an epic scene. Dolph was cast perfectly as King Nereus, although they did not give him much to work with. The effects looked good for what they were. They weren’t perfect, however, it is very hard to make a guy riding a seahorse underwater look real. It absolutely superseded the Justice League effects which is definitely a low bar, but moving in the right direction is a plus.
My main issue with Aquaman is the lazy, stale, unoriginal, 100% predictable, standard plotline. It feels like director James Wan spent his time on the action scenes and the effects and never cared about the dull screenplay he was given. Had Aquaman come out in 2002 side-by-side with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, it would have been legendary. But releasing in 2018 along side of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, you can’t hope that your action scenes will cover up your boring story. Comic book movie fans expect and deserve better.
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With Aquaman, what you saw in the trailer is what you get in the film. But Jason Momoa seems so damn cool that he can make almost anything worth sitting through.
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Home Trending Social Media and the Workplace: Bringing a Virtual Water Cooler to Telecommuters
Social Media and the Workplace: Bringing a Virtual Water Cooler to Telecommuters
By Sophia D. -
This is the fourth post in VC Daily’s telecommuting series. Read the first, second, and third posts.
If the boss knew how much time you spent checking social media during your working day you’d be in trouble, right?
The truth is, he or she probably already knows. It has been widely reported that the average person spends about two hours a day on social media, and being in the office doesn’t slow us down. But what if this social media use was seen as a positive? According to research, the most common reason employees have for going online is to take a mental break. However, almost 20% of workers say they use social media to get information that helps them do their job, or to learn about and build relationships with their colleagues.
If you’re a telecommuter working remotely outside the office, for instance, those kinds of social media uses could be very helpful in building team chemistry and developing a strong working culture within a company. In that light, social media and the workplace aren’t a bad combination. In fact, social media could add a stronger social element to the telecommuting work environment.
The Telecommuting Rollercoaster
Telecommuting has endured a bit of a rollercoaster ride of approval over the past decade or so. Buoyed by research that insisted remote or work-from-home employees were cheaper, more loyal, and more productive than in-office staff, the concept won enthusiastic support from companies as large as IBM.
Then, executives like former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer began to worry remote employees weren’t getting the benefit of random meetings with colleagues around the water cooler, and were thus missing out on valuable, spontaneous explosions of ideas. Mayer started to recall the company’s telecommuters, and within a week of her decision, other big names like Best Buy followed suit.
Those high-profile recalls, including IBM’s at the start of this year, got the headlines, but telecommuting continued to grow nonetheless. Telecommuting has increased by more than 100% in the last ten years, and In the years immediately following Mayer’s announcement in 2013, many more companies in this country made remote work available to employees.
If the recent backlash against telecommuting is partly due to the way it suppresses casual interaction, then some companies have found a cultural solution by embracing social media and the virtual water cooler.
Target’s Virtual Staff Room
Retail giant Target, which employs more than 400,000 people in the U.S., has long used its own in-house version of social media to maintain a conversation among employees scattered across the country. Since the turn of the last decade, the company has maintained a Facebook-like internal platform that lets employees post comments and follow and respond to each other. It also started an internal social media site called RedTalk that lets users gather in groups to share work- and non-work-related information.
Internet hosting service Github has developed a similar internal communication device, this one modeled on Pinterest. The company hosts a common page within its network where staff members around the world can write about their personal and professional achievements, and colleagues can post pictures of themselves toasting their peers’ success.
Both these initiatives were designed to bring together employees in the distributed offices of an enormous company, rather than to accommodate a remote workforce. But the concept of mimicking and internalizing social media to bond a disparate workforce can easily be adapted for virtual teams.
Social Media and the Workplace
The one element that should be added to the Target and Github examples is live video. Telecommuting largely depends on video calling to establish face-to-face communications between colleagues, so it’s only logical that the tech should be extended into the social realm. The most accessible staging ground for a video gathering is a group video chat room.
Most major companies will have the IT resources to develop their own internal chat rooms, perhaps borrowing from the DIY principles of browser-based video calling. This technology uses the built-in video calling tools of participating web browsers, such as Google Chrome, to create account-free WebRTC video chat rooms that an experienced web designer can put together with just a few lines of code.
Smaller companies might have to make do with existing video conferencing sites, but there’s been an explosion of them recently, resulting in plenty of choices. These apps can handle dozens of simultaneous video calls and act as a virtual staff room. Facebook Messenger, for example, can accommodate up to 50 callers and offers links across the spectrum of Facebook features.
By giving each employee access to a common group forum, whether they’re located on-site or remotely, even large groups can gather online and chew the fat. If the majority of workplace social media users are just looking for a mental break, encourage them to drop into the virtual forum and chat with their colleagues. If they’re looking for professional support, let them lean on their digital peers.
Rethinking our attitudes to social media in the workplace–and bending their connected networks to professional ends–can keep downtime at least a little work-related, and give telecommuting the more natural, random social dynamic that Marissa Mayer was after.
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Love & Mercy Lets Us Hear Brian Wilson Turn Pain Into Sound | Village Voice
Love & Mercy Lets Us Hear Brian Wilson Turn Pain Into Sound
by Stephanie Zacharek
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What does the world sound like when you’re Brian Wilson? When you’ve made a record that sounds like cirrus clouds look — as Wilson did with the Beach Boys’ small modern miracle of harmony, the 1966 Pet Sounds — all bets are off when it comes to the way ordinary aural signals are processed on their journey through ear canal to eardrum and beyond. The clatter of silverware on plates, the voices of people speaking in another room: When you’re Brian Wilson, are they music, or are they unbearable?
The beauty, and the horror, of Bill Pohlad’s exhilarating and inventive Love & Mercy — which traces the sine wave of Wilson’s troubled adult life using two actors, Paul Dano and John Cusack — is the sense it gives us of the world passing through Brian Wilson’s ears. When the older, circa-1980s Wilson, played by Cusack, explains to his new girlfriend Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) that he hears voices in his head, she asks, with great tenderness, how long it’s been happening. “Since 1963,” he says. Is it possible that the Beach Boys’ early hit “Surfer Girl,” one of the warmest and most youthfully wistful ballads of twentieth-century pop music, began with a whisper only Wilson could hear?
That’s not to suggest Love & Mercy leans on tired theories about the link between genius and madness: Pohlad’s approach, and that of his writing team, Oren Moverman and Michael A. Lerner, is much more delicate than that. But Love & Mercy — which was made with the cooperation of Wilson and his now-wife, Ledbetter — is surprisingly specific in exploring both the mystery and craftsmanship of song creation.
It’s also, in the barest terms, a suspenseful and heartrending story: Love & Mercy opens in the early 1960s, after the Beach Boys — founded by Wilson and his brothers Dennis and Carl, along with their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine — have become a Top 40 sensation. We see Wilson in his younger incarnation, played by Dano in a mock-turtleneck ringer, worrying in advance about maintaining whatever gifts he’s got: “What if I lose it and never get it back? What do I do then?” The image is grainy and muted, like fake documentary footage, a relic from a mythic, mystical past. Shortly thereafter, the action jumps to the 1980s, where Cusack, as the older Wilson, sits behind the wheel of a Cadillac that he doesn’t yet own. It’s still in the showroom, and the breezy blonde who’s in the process of selling it to him — Banks’s Ledbetter — listens carefully as he drops breadcrumb clues about the misery of his life. He’s forced to leave abruptly, but before he does, he sneaks a card onto the seat. Ledbetter picks it up and reads the words he’s scrawled to her: “Lonely Scared Frightened.”
In Love & Mercy, reflecting what happened in real life, Ledbetter becomes instrumental in extracting Wilson from the clutches of shyster psychologist Eugene Landy, who essentially imprisoned Wilson after (incorrectly) diagnosing him as a paranoid schizophrenic. Paul Giamatti plays Landy in an unnervingly perfect performance: His smile is one of those false, jarring ones, where lips and teeth seem unsure of their respective roles. The performances in Love & Mercy are key to its power: Dano can be a dispassionate, affected actor, but all his arty coolness slips away here. We see him singing, and his face glows with unmitigated joy. Later, though, as the band he and his brothers founded begins to splinter — or as he bows under the abuse of his father, played by Bill Camp — he conveys the extent of his anguish with just the smallest flicker of an eye.
Cusack shows us a slightly different but no less believable Wilson, guarded and fragile, though we can also see how he yearns to be open: He’s like a sadder, mirror-world version of Say Anything‘s Lloyd Dobler, holding a boombox aloft in a cry for help, only to realize no sound is coming out. And Banks is superb: This is the finest performance she’s given yet, an antidote to the tricky novelty of characters like the Hunger Games‘ Effie Trinket. When Giamatti’s Landy tries to manipulate her with serpentlike charm, she almost visibly recoils — as if she could not only see and feel his snake oil, but also smell it.
If you know anything about the story of Brian Wilson, you know that Love & Mercy has a relatively happy ending, one in which Wilson’s creativity and happiness are restored to him. But on his way there, Pohlad — who until now has been working mostly as a producer, with credits including 12 Years a Slave and Wild — gives us more than just the ups and downs of one strange genius’s life. In one of the movie’s most rapturous sequences, Dano’s Wilson gathers a bunch of crackerjack studio musicians — players who will later come to be known as the Wrecking Crew — to turn the sounds in his head into a reality. They ask questions about unlikely countermelodies; they make little mistakes that Wilson, delightedly, incorporates into the record that will eventually become Pet Sounds. Under his guidance, these musicians become friends and allies; they warm to his touch. He’s painting sounds with people. And perhaps that’s how a record that might have become over-orchestrated to the point of artificiality instead sounds wholly, believably human, an instance of the voices inside one man’s head engaging in easy conversation with the universe of sound around him.
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MAIN : Immunogenetics : Immune-Mediated Disease
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Genetic Basis of Immune-Mediated Disease
Michael J. Day, BSc, BVMS(Hons), PhD, DSc, DECVP, FASM, FRCPath, FRCVS
School of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol
The four major forms of immune-mediated disease are hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, immunodeficiency and immune system neoplasia.1 These are all examples of disturbance of normal immune system homeostasis. The various immune-mediated disorders are linked together and immunological disturbance may be manifest clinically as more than a single type of disease occurring concurrently in any one individual (e.g., concurrent IgA deficiency and autoimmunity). Immune-mediated diseases are multifactorial and their clinical expression depends upon the optimum interaction of a range of predisposing factors. One of the most important of these predisposing factors is genetic background, the discussion of which forms the subject of this presentation.
Genetic Basis for Immune Disease
Immune-mediated diseases have distinct predispositions in particular races of man, and are clearly inherited through families. A similar situation exists for breeds of dog--but in feline medicine such associations are rarely documented. Examples of familial canine autoimmunity, hypersensitivity and immunodeficiency are also documented, and there are anecdotal reports of pedigrees of dog in which lymphoma occurs frequently. One factor underlying this phenomenon is likely to be the degree of inbreeding which over the past two centuries has led to the development of many of the pure breeds of dog that we recognize today.2 Recent studies using microsatellite makers and investigation of specific gene polymorphisms have demonstrated the extent of inbreeding amongst some pedigrees.3 Such genetic influence might also underlie the apparent geographical prevalence of some immune-mediated diseases, for example canine autoimmunity appears to arise more commonly in Australia than in the UK which may reflect a 'founder effect' in some breeds.
Despite these observations, relatively little is understood of the precise genetic basis for immune-mediated disease with the exception of the characterisation of specific molecular defects underlying certain canine immunodeficiency diseases. Some gene clusters do have strong associations with immune-mediated disease, either because the protein products of the genes are integrally involved in the aberrant immune-response, or because the genes are 'markers' of poorly defined causative 'disease genes'. Examples of this are the associations between the gene cluster that encodes the type 2 cytokines (IL-4, IL-5, IL-13) and type I hypersensitivity disease, and the association between particular genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) and autoimmunity. There are now two versions of the canine genome and a partial version of the feline genome available for access. This information, together with modern genomic technology, has led to a reawakening of interest in comparative genomics and there is likely to be an explosion in knowledge of the genetic basis of canine disease in the near future.
The Genetic Basis for Canine Autoimmunity
It is now widely recognized that autoimmunity is multifactorial in aetiology. One of the most significant predisposing factors is genetic background, but human identical twin studies have repeatedly shown that this is not the sole determinant of the development of clinical autoimmune disease. In humans (but not dogs) there is a strong hormonal influence with a marked female predisposition. Lifestyle factors such as stress and diet also play a role. Additionally, a wide range of environmental influences play a part in triggering autoimmunity and these include: exposure to infectious agents, drugs, vaccines or UV light.
In humans, particular autoimmune diseases occur more frequently in certain races and are often familial in nature. Similarly, particular breeds of dog more often develop autoimmune diseases and these clearly run through pedigree groups. The genes most closely associated with genetic predisposition to autoimmune disease are those clustered on a single chromosome to form the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The class I, II and III genes of this complex are integral to immune function and are often termed 'immune response genes'. Moreover, these are the most polymorphic genes within the genome with several hundred alleles now documented at some human class I loci. The products of class I and class II genes are involved in the presentation of antigenic peptides by antigen presenting cells (APC) for the activation of T lymphocytes. It is likely that particular allotypic variants of these MHC molecules might be most effective at presentation of self-peptides for triggering of auto-reactive T cell populations.
In consequence of this knowledge, the science of MHC-disease association has been widely developed in human medicine where it is clear that the inheritance of particular combinations (haplotypes) of MHC alleles either predisposes to, or protects from, development of autoimmunity. Similar studies have been conducted in the dog. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, using relatively crude serological and cellular methodology, associations were shown between canine autoimmune disease and MHC gene type.4 Over the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in this field with the application of sophisticated molecular technology for determining the MHC genotype of an individual dog. In the UK, these studies have been undertaken by a consortium of the veterinary schools in collaboration with the major human reference laboratory at the University of Manchester. Currently, a major European initiative is seeking funds to establish an international collaboration in studies of the genetic basis of canine disease.
MHC-disease associations have now been clearly documented for canine immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia (IMHA),5 lymphocytic thyroiditis6, diabetes mellitus7 and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).8 Similar associations have been shown to underlie immunological susceptibility or resistance to infection by Leishmania. Both protective and susceptibility haplotypes for some of these diseases have been documented. Of greatest interest is the investigation into RA where it has been shown that there is structural similarity between the MHC class II molecule encoded by the gene most highly linked to the disease phenotype in both man and dog. This in turn suggests that a common peptide antigen might be involved in triggering the disease in both species. In the case of diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism, a common susceptibility haplotype suggests linkage in the mechanisms underlying autoimmune endocrinopathy.
The Genetic Basis for Canine Allergy
There are clear breed predispositions for the development of type I hypersensitivity diseases in the dog. The most widely recognized of these would be the susceptibility of West Highland White Terriers (WHWT), and Golden Retrievers or Labradors for atopic dermatitis. Husky dogs have a predisposition to the development of the putative allergic respiratory disease, canine eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy.9
There have been two major investigations of the heritability of atopic dermatitis in WHWT10 and Labrador Retrievers,11 but these have not clearly identified a distinct mode of inheritance. To date, there has not been extensive investigation of inheritance of canine allergy at the molecular level. However, as the immunopathogenesis of these diseases is now well-defined, there are numerous 'candidate gene' polymorphisms that might be studied. This may not necessarily provide a clear outcome--as extensive research in humans has failed to identify an 'allergy gene', although numerous candidates have been investigated and show varying degrees of linkage to clinical phenotype.12
The Genetic Basis for Canine Immunodeficiency
Primary, congenital immunodeficiency disease is most widely recognized in the dog, where approximately 20 distinct entities are documented. The majority of these remain 'putative' immunodeficiency disorders in which there has been relatively limited investigation of the nature of the underlying immune defect. By contrast, there is a small number of canine immunodeficiency diseases for which the inherited defect is well-characterized, and for which molecular diagnostic tests have been developed. These include: X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID) in the Bassett, Corgi and Jack Russell Terrier,13 cyclic neutropenia in the grey Collie,14 and canine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (CLAD) in the Irish Setter.15 These disorders are autosomal recessive with heterozygous carriers and homozygous affected animals. The most prevalent disease is CLAD, but active testing and controlled breeding programmes in several countries mean that this mutation is close to being eliminated.16
The Genetic Basis for Canine Immune System Neoplasia
There is clear clinical evidence that particular canine breeds are more susceptible to certain types of immune system neoplasia. For example dogs of the Boxer breed have elevated risk of developing lymphoma or mast cell tumour17 and the range of histiocytic neoplasms are well-documented in Bernese Mountain Dogs and Flat Coat Retrievers.18 These tumours are also known to arise within particular pedigrees of these breeds. Despite the clinical importance of these neoplasms, there has to date been no investigation of candidate genes that might predispose to malignant transformation.
1. Day MJ. 1999. Clinical Immunology of the Dog and Cat. Manson Publishing Ltd.
2. Ostrander EA, Galibert F, Patterson DF. Canine genetics comes of age. Trends Genetics 2000; 16:117-124.
3. Kennedy LJ, Carter SD, Barnes A, et al. Interbreed variation of DLA-DRB1, DQA1 alleles and haplotypes in the dog. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 1999; 69: 101-111.
4. Day MJ and Penhale WJ, 1987. A review of major histocompatibility disease associations in man and dog. Vet Res Comm 1987; 11: 119-132.
5. Kennedy LJ, Barnes A, Ollier WER, Day MJ. Association of a common DLA class II haplotype with canine primary immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia. Tissue Antigens 2006; 68, 502-506.
6. Kennedy LJ, Quarmby S, Happ GM et al. Association of canine hypothyroidism with a common major histocompatibility complex DLA class II allele. Tissue Antigens 2006; 68: 82-86.
7. Kennedy LJ, Davison LJ, Barnes A et al. Identification of susceptibility and protective major histocompatibility complex haplotypes in canine diabetes mellitus. Tissue Antigens 2006; 68: 467-476.
8. Ollier WER, Kennedy LJ, Thomson W et al. Dog MHC alleles containing the human RA shared epitope confer susceptibility to canine rheumatoid arthritis. Immunogenetics 2001; 53: 669-673.
9. Clercx C, Peeters D, Snaps F et al. Eosinophilic bronchopulmonary disease in dogs: a clinical analysis of 25 cases. J Vet Intern Med 2000; 14: 282-291.
10. DeBoer DJ, Hill PB. Serum immunoglobulin E concentrations in West Highland white terrier puppies do not predict development of atopic dermatitis. Vet Derm 1999; 10: 275-281.
11. Shaw SC, Wood JLN, Freeman J, Littlewood JD, Hannant D. Estimation of heritability of atopic dermatitis in Labrador and golden retrievers. Am J Vet Res 2004; 65: 1014-1020.
12. Holloway JW, Koppelman GH. Identifying novel genes contributing to asthma pathogenesis. Current Opinion Immunol 2007; 7: 69-74.
13. Perryman LE. Molecular pathology of severe combined immunodeficiency in mice, horses, and dogs. Vet Pathol 2004; 41: 95-100.
14. Benson KF, Li F-Q, Person RE et al. Mutations associated with neutropenia in dogs and humans disrupt intracellular transport of neutrophil elastase. Nature Genetics 2003; 35: 90-96.
15. Foureman P, Whiteley M and Giger U. Canine leukocyte adhesion deficiency: presence of the Cys36Ser β-2 integrin mutation in an affected US Irish setter cross-breed dog and in US Irish red and white setters. J Vet Intern Med 2002; 16: 518-523.
16. Jobling AJ, Ryan J and Augusteyn RC. The frequency of the canine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (CLAD) allele within the Irish Setter population of Australia. Aust Vet J 2003; 81: 763-765.
17. Modiano JF, Breen M, Burnett RC et al. Distinct B-cell and T-cell lymphoproliferative disease prevalence among dog breeds indicates heritable risk. Cancer Research 2006; 65: 5654-5661.
18. Affolter VK and Moore PF. Localized and disseminated histiocytic sarcoma of dendritic cell origin in dogs. Vet Pathol 2002; 39: 74-83.
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Matoaca High School Student charged after classmates eat ‘Pot Brownies’
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A student of Matoaca High School has been charged with lacing a batch of brownies with marijuana and giving portions to seven of her schoolmates earlier this year.
Notably, four of the seven students, who ranged in age from 14 -17, had experienced symptoms from the drug.
According to Chesterfield Police, the14-year-old student was charged with possession of marijuana and adulteration of food after lab results showed the brownies contained tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) - the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
"The lab was unable to tell us how much THC was in the brownies," a police spokesperson said.
It appeared the charges have been diverted by the court, according to police. That usually means the charge would be dismissed if the student met certain conditions.
Court uses diversion sometimes for first-time offenders which involve the juvenile being referred to counseling or attending an educational program with his or her parents offered through the court.
Police were called to Matoaca High back in January 31 after the student arrived at the school's clinic.
Out of seven, three students were picked up by their parents after experiencing symptoms of the drug and another student, 15, was taken to the hospital for a more severe reaction. That student had earlier gone to the school’s clinic with various symptoms after eating one of the brownies and, as a precaution, school officials called for an ambulance.
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A Radio Play Double Feature "The Maltese Falcon" & "The Lady Eve"
Friday, July 12 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
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Two beloved classics from the Golden Age of Radio recreated on our stage, complete with the original commercials—wonderful, often very funny representations of over-the-top branding from another time. Murder and dames, greed and guns, betrayal and a black bird keep Sam Spade hopping from bad to worse in the 1940s radio play of The Maltese Falcon. And The Lady Eve is a hilarious, screwball comedy. She’s a card shark, a femme fatale, and falling for Hopsy. Can she con him out of money, into love, and even into a sham marriage? Check back for casting updates!
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1. PET/CT for differentiating between tuberculous peritonitis and peritoneal carcinomatosis: The parietal peritoneum. (PubMed)
PET/CT for differentiating between tuberculous peritonitis and peritoneal carcinomatosis: The parietal peritoneum. Tuberculous peritonitis (TBP) mimics peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). We aimed to investigate the discriminative use of PET/CT findings in the parietal peritoneum.Parietal peritoneal PET/CT findings from 76 patients with TBP (n = 25) and PC (n = 51) were retrospectively reviewed. The lesion locations were noted as right subdiaphragmatic, left subdiaphragmatic, right paracolic (...) gutters, left paracolic gutters, and pelvic regions. The distribution characteristic consisted of a dominant distribution in the pelvic and/or right subdiaphragmatic region (susceptible area for peritoneal implantation, SAPI) (SAPI distribution), a dominant distribution in the remaining regions (less-susceptible area for peritoneal implantation, LSAPI) (LSAPI distribution), or a uniform distribution. PET morphological patterns were classified as F18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) uptake in a long beaded
2. Carbohydrate antigen 125 and carcinoembryonic antigen in the differentiation of tuberculous peritonitis and peritonitis carcinomatosa (PubMed)
Carbohydrate antigen 125 and carcinoembryonic antigen in the differentiation of tuberculous peritonitis and peritonitis carcinomatosa Tumor markers could increase in both tuberculous peritonitis and peritonitis carcinomatosa, confusing the differentiation of these diseases. This study aimed to better understand the extent of elevation and diagnostic efficacies of carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA 125), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and combinative use of them in tuberculous peritonitis (...) and peritonitis carcinomatosa. Of 2998 patients reviewed, 101, 120 and 71 patients were assigned to TBP group (tuberculous peritonitis), non-OCA group (non-ovarian carcinoma-related peritonitis carcinomatosa) and OCA group (ovarian carcinoma-related peritonitis carcinomatosa), respectively. The composite index was calculated by CA 125 multiplying CEA. Receiver operator characteristic curves for CA 125, CEA and composite index were acquired. As a result, CA 125 value in OCA group was higher than other two
2017 Oncotarget
3. Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome associated with tuberculous salpingitis and peritonitis: a case presentation and review of literature. (PubMed)
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome associated with tuberculous salpingitis and peritonitis: a case presentation and review of literature. Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome or acute perihepatitis is considered a rare complication of pelvic inflammatory disease, mostly associated with chlamydial or gonococcal salpingitis. Peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare site of extra-pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection usually occurs after reactivation of latent tuberculous foci in the peritoneum (...) and more seldom after contiguous spread from tuberculous salpingitis.We describe a case of a 21-year old female of Somalian origin diagnosed with Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome associated with tuberculous salpingitis and peritonitis, presenting with new onset ascites. Acid fast stained smear and polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis on ascitic fluid, endocervical culture and tuberculin skin test were all negative. Eventually, the diagnosis was made laparoscopically, showing multiple
2018 BMC Gastroenterology
4. Tuberculous peritonitis and pleurisy accompanied by pulmonary cryptococcosis: A case report (PubMed)
Tuberculous peritonitis and pleurisy accompanied by pulmonary cryptococcosis: A case report Although the infectious diseases tuberculosis (TB) and cryptococcosis both cause formation of single or multiple nodules in immunodeficient hosts, cases of co-infection of these diseases are rarely seen. We report a patient who was co-infected with TB and cryptococcosis. A male patient with no clinical evidence of immunodeficiency presented with a 3-week history of abdominal distension accompanied (...) by oedema of recurring lower extremities. The patient was diagnosed with tuberculous peritonitis and tuberculous pleurisy by an abdominal puncture biopsy. Several months after being treated for TB, the patient was diagnosed with Cryptococcus infection and received antifungal treatment. Computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging findings suggested that treatment was effective. This case illustrates the challenges encountered during assessment of neoplasms associated with TB and cryptococcosis
2018 The Journal of international medical research
5. Tuberculous peritonitis in children: Two case reports highlighting the important role of imaging (PubMed)
Tuberculous peritonitis in children: Two case reports highlighting the important role of imaging Tuberculous peritonitis is an uncommon extrapulmonary form of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, frequently presenting with nonspecific and insidious symptoms. Diagnosis is therefore difficult, unsuspected, and often delayed, especially in the pediatric patient without an obvious history of exposure to the pathogen. This report presents a 9-year-old Hispanic girl and a 3-year-old African American (...) boy presenting with nonspecific and insidious symptoms, such as abdominal pain, distention, and fever in whom computed tomography findings of peritoneal thickening and enhancement, high density ascites, lymphadenopathy, and bowel wall thickening acted as key components in establishing a final diagnosis of the condition. Computed tomography is an important clinical adjuvant in making this difficult diagnosis.
2018 Radiology Case Reports
6. A cancer-mimicking diagnosis of peritoneal carcinosis: report of a case of abdominal non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection (PubMed)
A cancer-mimicking diagnosis of peritoneal carcinosis: report of a case of abdominal non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection Abdominal non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection is a rare condition in healthy patients. When it occurs, it leads to the appearance of typical findings of peritoneal involvement, such as thickening of the peritoneal leaflets and the omentum, ascites and enlargement of lymph nodes and of mesenteric nodules. These findings may be misdiagnosed as tumour peritoneal implants (...) . In case of spontaneous regression of the peritoneal involvement and ascites, as well as in the absence of malignancy, the suspicion of infectious disease, including abdominal nontuberculous mycobacterial infection, should be considered.
2018 Ecancermedicalscience
7. Early stage ovarian carcinoma with symptoms mimicking tuberculous peritonitis in a postmenopausal woman: A case report. (PubMed)
Early stage ovarian carcinoma with symptoms mimicking tuberculous peritonitis in a postmenopausal woman: A case report. Ovarian cancer has the poorest prognosis of the gynecological cancers. Early diagnosis and treatment are important, but early-stage ovarian carcinoma has nonspecific symptoms. Ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and serum CA-125 levels can be helpful but may not elucidate cases of diffuse peritoneal diseases mimicking carcinomatosis.The patient (...) had intermittent abdominal discomfort and dysuria. Abdominal-pelvic computed tomography findings were suspicious for peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) and a small cystic mass in the left ovary. The CA-125 values were normal.She underwent laparoscopy for pathologic confirmation of tuberculous peritonitis and management of the ovary mass. Bilateral adnexectomy was performed. Histopathological examination of the surgical specimen revealed a serous ovarian carcinoma in her left ovary
8. Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt surgery for tuberculous meningitis: A systematic review. (PubMed)
Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt surgery for tuberculous meningitis: A systematic review. Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt surgery is one of the most commonly performed surgery for the management of tuberculous hydrocephalus. There is decreased clarity on issues regarding the indication as well as timing of cerebrospinal fluid diversion procedures in tuberculous meningitis. We systematically analysed published literature on this subject with an objective to assess the value of cerebrospinal fluid (...) diversion procedures in tuberculous meningitis.A systematic search of literature was performed using PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) for articles published till August 2016. All original studies, irrespective of their design, enrolling at least 10 patients with tuberculous meningitis and hydrocephalus, and in whom the outcome following ventriculo-peritoneal shunt was described, were included in this review. Data was extracted on a pre-formed data extraction
2017 Journal of the neurological sciences
9. Tuberculous peritonitis in the first trimester of pregnancy (PubMed)
Tuberculous peritonitis in the first trimester of pregnancy Tuberculous peritonitis in pregnancy is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that is not easily diagnosed. The clinical presentations of tuberculous peritonitis are usually non-specific and mimic those of other diseases, such as ovarian malignancy or chronic liver disease, and this non-specificity can cause diagnostic delays and complications. The authors report the case of a 31-year-old primigravida woman who presented (...) with uncontrolled fever, dyspnea, elevated liver enzymes, and mild abdominal distension at 13+2 weeks of gestation. At 14+2 weeks, a therapeutic abortion was conducted and tuberculous peritonitis was confirmed by laparoscopic excisional biopsy of peritoneal nodules and histopathologic examination. The patient recovered on antituberculosis therapy and abdomen and chest follow up radiographic findings have confirmed improvement.
2017 Obstetrics & gynecology science
10. Tuberculous Peritonitis
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tuberculous Peritonitis Toggle navigation Brain Head & Neck Chest Endocrine Abdomen Musculoskeletal Skin Infectious Disease Hematology & Oncology Cohorts Diagnostics Emergency Findings Procedures Prevention & Management Pharmacy Resuscitation Trauma Emergency Procedures Ultrasound Cardiovascular Emergencies Lung Emergencies Infectious Disease Pediatrics Neurologic Emergencies Skin Exposure Miscellaneous Abuse Cancer Administration 4 Tuberculous Peritonitis Tuberculous (...) Peritonitis Aka: Tuberculous Peritonitis , Peritonitis due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis II. Risk Factors Ambulatory III. Pathophysiology Results from peritoneal reactivation IV. Symptoms V. Signs VI. Laboratory: Peritoneal fluid Exudative: Serum to albumin <1.1 g/dl s >150/mm3 with predominance Send fluid for AFB smear and culture One liter is preferred to increase Measures with highest sensitivity and deaminase >33 U/L Peritoneal biopsy VII. Management See Images: Related links to external sites (from
2018 FP Notebook
11. A rapid and non-invasive 2-step algorithm for diagnosing tuberculous peritonitis using a T cell-based assay on peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells together with peritoneal fluid adenosine deaminase. (PubMed)
A rapid and non-invasive 2-step algorithm for diagnosing tuberculous peritonitis using a T cell-based assay on peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells together with peritoneal fluid adenosine deaminase. A recently developed RD-1 gene-based assay for diagnosing tuberculous peritonitis (TBP) has given promising results. We therefore created a clinical algorithm for differentiating TBP from other diagnoses using peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells (PBMC/PF-MC
2014 Journal of Infection
12. Mycobacterium wolinskyi Peritonitis after Peritoneal Catheter Embedment Surgery (PubMed)
Mycobacterium wolinskyi Peritonitis after Peritoneal Catheter Embedment Surgery Mycobacterium wolinskyi belongs to the Mycobacterium smegmatis group, which comprises rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. The number of case reports on M. wolinskyi infections associated with postoperative wounds has increased in recent years. We herein report a case of peritonitis due to M. wolinskyi after peritoneal catheter embedment surgery. Identification was achieved based on 16S ribosomal RNA
2017 Internal Medicine
13. IFN-gamma-releasing Assay Based Approach in Patients With Suspected Tuberculous Peritonitis
IFN-gamma-releasing Assay Based Approach in Patients With Suspected Tuberculous Peritonitis IFN-gamma-releasing Assay Based Approach in Patients With Suspected Tuberculous Peritonitis - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov Hide glossary Glossary Study record managers: refer to the if submitting registration or results information. Search for terms x × Study Record Detail Saved Studies Save this study Warning You have reached the maximum number of saved studies (100). Please remove one or more (...) studies before adding more. IFN-gamma-releasing Assay Based Approach in Patients With Suspected Tuberculous Peritonitis The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our for details. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02175134 Recruitment Status : Terminated (low enrollment rate) First Posted : June 26, 2014 Last Update Posted : August 29, 2018
14. Ancillary tests to improve the accuracy of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis (PubMed)
Ancillary tests to improve the accuracy of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis 24666461 2014 05 20 2018 11 13 1488-2310 57 2 2014 Apr Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie Can J Surg Ancillary tests to improve the accuracy of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis. E54 Wani Mumtazdin M Professor, Department of Surgery, Government Medical College, Srinagar, India. Mir Shabir Ahmad SA Department of Surgery, Government Medical College (...) , Srinagar, India. Bhat Jahangeer Ahmad JA Department of Radiodiagnosis, Government Medical College, Srinagar, India. Moheen Hakim Adil HA Kashmir University, Srinagar, India. eng Letter Canada Can J Surg 0372715 0008-428X IM Humans Laparoscopy Peritonitis, Tuberculous diagnosis Reproducibility of Results 2014 3 27 6 0 2014 3 29 6 0 2014 5 21 6 0 ppublish 24666461 10.1503/cjs.032713 PMC3968215 Lancet. 1979 Apr 21;1(8121):852-3 86096 J R Soc Med. 1986 Mar;79(3):149-53 3701750 Can J Surg. 2005 Apr;48(2
2014 Canadian Journal of Surgery
15. Perforated tuberculous appendicitis: a rare case report (PubMed)
Perforated tuberculous appendicitis: a rare case report Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (TB) accounts for 3% of extrapulmonary TB. Tuberculous appendicitis is a rare type of abdominal TB and is seen in only 0.1%-0.3% of cases. Diagnosis is usually made after histopathologic examination of the appendectomy specimen. In Ethiopia, there had been no previous report of perforated appendicular TB, and to our knowledge, this is the first case report of a patient with perforated tuberculous appendicitis (...) to be presented.A 22-year-old male patient presented with complaints of severe abdominal cramp, periumbilical pain, nausea, 2 episodes of nonbilious vomiting, as well as high-grade fever. Upon admission, abdominal examination revealed direct tenderness below the umbilicus bilaterally and rebound tenderness over the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. The peritoneal cavity was opened through a lower midline incision, and a perforated appendix at the base was found.From the resected appendix, a sample biopsy
2018 International medical case reports journal
16. The first Saudi Arabian national inventory study revealed the upcoming challenges of highly diverse non-tuberculous mycobacterial diseases (PubMed)
The first Saudi Arabian national inventory study revealed the upcoming challenges of highly diverse non-tuberculous mycobacterial diseases Incidences of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary diseases are reportedly increasing globally and the current epidemiologic situation in Saudi Arabia remains unclear. To study such trend, we carried out a nationwide systematic epidemiological study focusing on NTM diseases for the first time in the country.A nationwide (...) events such as mycobacteremia, cecum abscess, peritonitis and ascites caused by M.wolinskyi, M.holsaticum, M.duvalii and M.monacence respectively. Diabetes mellitus (P value-0.04) and previous history of tuberculosis (P value- 0.001) were identified as independent risk factors associated with NTM diseases.NTM disease spectrum and pathogen diversity is an emerging challenge to any nation, including Saudi Arabia. Therefore, more priorities will be given to NTM's with an immediate initiative to develop
2018 PLoS neglected tropical diseases
17. Inflammatory choroidal neovascular membrane after healed tuberculous choroidal granuloma (PubMed)
Inflammatory choroidal neovascular membrane after healed tuberculous choroidal granuloma Objective: To present a case of choroidal granuloma masquerading as intraocular tumor that healed on anti-tuberculous treatment but led to the development of inflammatory choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM). Method: A 42-year-old female patient with past history of hysterectomy presented with diminution of vision in the right eye. Fundus examination in the right eye showed a yellowish white choroidal mass (...) with associated bullous retinal detachment superotemporal to fovea. Left eye fundus was normal. Fundus flourescein angiography showed early and late hyperflourescence with late pooling in serous detachments. Complete systemic evaluation did not yield a clue to diagnosis. Positron emission tomography scan (PET scan) showed enlarged lymph nodes in cervical, mediastinal and peritoneal regions. Lymph node biopsy showed caseating granulomas. Results: The granuloma subsided and a scar formed 5 months after starting
2017 GMS Ophthalmology Cases
18. Diagnostic accuracy of adenosine deaminase for tuberculous peritonitis: a meta-analysis. (PubMed)
Diagnostic accuracy of adenosine deaminase for tuberculous peritonitis: a meta-analysis. Tuberculous peritonitis remains a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. Many studies have investigated the usefulness of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in ascites for the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis; however, the overall diagnostic accuracy of ADA for tuberculous peritonitis remains unclear. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to determine the overall accuracy of ADA measurements in the diagnosis (...) of tuberculous peritonitis.We performed a systematic search in PubMed and Embase to identify published studies that evaluated the diagnostic role of ADA for tuberculous peritonitis. Quality was assessed according to standardized Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies criteria. Sensitivity, specificity and other measures of accuracy of ADA assay in order to diagnose tuberculous peritonitis were pooled using random effects models. Summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC) was used
2013 Archives of medical science : AMS
19. Assessment by meta-analysis of interferon-gamma for the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis. (PubMed)
Assessment by meta-analysis of interferon-gamma for the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis. To investigate the performance and diagnostic accuracy of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) for tuberculous peritonitis (TBP) by meta-analysis.A systematic search of English language studies was performed. We searched the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, BIOSIS, LILACS and the Cochrane Library. The Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy initiative and Quality Assessment (...) for Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy tool were used to assess the methodological quality of the studies. Sensitivity, specificity, and other measures of the accuracy of IFN-γ concentration in the diagnosis of peritoneal effusion were pooled using random-effects models. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were applied to summarize overall test performance. Two reviewers independently judged study eligibility while screening the citations.Six studies met the inclusion criteria. The average inter
2013 World journal of gastroenterology : WJG
20. Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis by T cell-based assays on peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells. (PubMed)
Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis by T cell-based assays on peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid mononuclear cells. The utility of a newly-developed Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT) assay for diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis (TBP) has not been fully assessed.All patients with suspected TBP in a tertiary care hospital in an intermediate TB burden country were prospectively enrolled over a 30-month period. ELISPOT assays were performed (...) on peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMC) and mononuclear cells from peritoneal fluid (PF-MC).Sixty-four patients with suspected TBP were enrolled. Of these, 30 (47%) were classified as having TBP (27 confirmed and 3 probable cases), and 25 (39%) were classified as not having active tuberculosis. The remaining 9 (14%) with possible TBP were excluded from the final analysis. Five (8%) of the total 64 patients gave indeterminate PBMC ELISPOT results and 7 (18%) of 39 patients who underwent PF-MC ELISPOT assay
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Why States Prosper (or Decline)
Low taxes, opportunity, and warm weather attract migrants.
By Stephen Moore & Arthur B. Laffer
Finally, after being headquartered in Torrance, Calif., for half a century, Toyota has had enough of California’s anti-business, anti-growth policies and is packing its bags and moving to Plano, Texas, where the contrast couldn’t be greater. And Toyota is not alone in fleeing California.
You can tell a lot about the hot spots in America by tracking where Americans are moving to and where they are running from. Every year, about 3 million Americans move from one state to another; the combined adjusted gross incomes (AGI) of these movers and shakers is over $140 billion. Last week, the IRS released its latest data for tax year 2010 (filing year 2011) on the migration patterns of Americans and how much income they bring into and out of each state. The new report is an eye-opener, and we only hope those who are talking wistfully about 80 percent tax rates will pay attention. It has been true for a long time that taxes redistribute people, not wealth — and it’s never been truer than it is today.
One thing we can discern from these data is that Americans are still highly attracted to warm weather and sunshine: Florida, South Carolina, and Arizona were the three biggest winners in terms of net increase in income from new arrivals. But a 70-degree temperature and blue skies aren’t the only factors moving people around. In percentage terms, states like Wyoming, South Dakota, and Idaho were big winners too.
The policy conclusion that leaps off the pages from these interstate-migration patterns is that Americans are voting with their feet against liberalism — high taxes and debt, heavy regulation, and union domination. Look at the ten states that lost the most adjusted gross income on net (meaning the AGI of leavers minus the AGI of new entrants, divided by the AGI of the state’s non-migrants):
States with the Largest Loss of AGI Due to Domestic Migration as a Share of Total State AGI, Tax Year 2010 / Filing Year 2011
Rank State 1-year
Change in
AGI due to
50 New York –0.64%
49 New Jersey –0.64%
48 Illinois –0.63%
47 Rhode Island –0.57%
46 Ohio –0.53%
45 Alaska –0.53%
44 Michigan –0.52%
43 Kansas –0.35%
42 Missouri –0.32%
41 Iowa –0.32%
These numbers may look small, but they’re actually substantial losses: Once a person has left a state, he usually stays gone for quite a while. While the numbers reported are for only one year, if these trends hold up over a decade, these states could surrender between 5 and 10 percent of their total income to other states.
What do these losers have in common? Well, the four biggest losers are about the most politically liberal states in the nation, and the sixth biggest — Alaska — is ridiculously cold and dark.
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Top 20 Biggest Fails in March Madness History
by Gabe
– on Mar 08, 2016
in College Basketball
Each year, March Madness brings a brand new opportunity for someone to win millions of dollars off name brand websites like ESPN. Everyone participating individually picks the result of every single game. It's a time for college basketball teams to get a chance to beat the best teams in the nation.
March Madness or "The NCAA Tournament" is well known for it's wide variety of upsets each year. Top seeded teams come up short, while often, the teams people didn't predict to win shock the world.
Sometimes, it doesn't happen like this. Some years, the best team takes care of business and takes home a national championship for their college. Historically, March is when fans of all sports, even not of college basketball, enjoy watching the tournament unfold in its unpredictable ways.
This article outlines the Top 20 Biggest Fails in March Madness History, the teams that choked under pressure, usually beginning with major expectations, in terms of how far they will go in the bracket.
By the first day of the tournament, the majority of America has already picked the incorrect teams. But the few that predicted these victories are pure genius, or at least in the eyes of sports fans. Here are the Biggest Fails, period.
20 Arizona vs. Santa Clara - 1993 First Round
via bleacherreport.com
In the 1993 first round, #15 seeded Santa Clara took down #2 seeded Arizona 64-61. Santa Clara was losing by 13 in the second half, and Arizona managed to still lose the game. Arizona was favored to go to the Final Four, and maybe even win a national championship too.
Arizona shot an absurd 25% from the field in the second half of the game. Arizona was winning 46-33 in with around 15 minutes remaining. The Wildcats went nearly 13 minutes without scoring a basket, and eventually lost by three points.
This was the second case in history of a #15 seed beating a #2 seed, and it only makes sense Steve Nash helped Santa Clara to do so over an exaggerated Arizona team.
19 Memphis vs. Kansas - 2008 National Championship
via ellingtoncms.com
Memphis was a favorite to win the national championship with an outstanding team led by Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas Roberts. Roberts was averaging 23.6 PPG going into the game, and Drose was already favored to be the #1 pick in the NBA draft.
Both of these players failed to make vital free throws in this particular game, the biggest game of their lives to date. Memphis was leading by 9 points with only 2:12 remaining in the game. Roberts missed three free throws with around a minute remaining, and Rose was 1 for 2 with 10 seconds remaining. Kansas guard Mario Chalmers hit a three pointer to send the game to overtime, and Kansas went on to win the game and become national champions.
I guess John Calipari didn't teach his two star players how to shoot a proper free throw. This cost them a national championship..
18 North Carolina vs. Utah - 1998 Final Four
In the 1998 Final Four, UNC was highly confident that they would win it all. They completely overlooked an athletic Utah team in the final four.
With Andre Miller at point guard, Utah beat the Antawn Jamison led team 65-59. North Carolina struggled to defend Miller who scored 16 points and 14 rebounds. The UNC players were trashing the Utes team before the game, calling their defense "junk".
It was so "junk" that Utah stunned UNC, and everyone watching the game by playing smart, and athletic basketball.
17 No.1 Seeded Kentucky Leaves Tournament - 1954
via kentucky.com
It appears not much has changed for the Kentucky basketball program. In 1954, coach Adolph Rupp pulled his entire team from the tournament, before it began.
After a successful 25-0 undefeated season it was discovered Kentucky's roster was majorly guys who already graduated, and had a diploma already. Half of their team wasn't even illegible to play college basketball. Maybe that's why they didn't lose a game in the regular season.
Maybe the current Kentucky team is doing this.. who knows what John Calipari is up to.
16 Indiana State vs. Michigan State - 1979 National Championship
Bob Heaton made a bold move in trying to block Magic Johnson. Instead, he got toppled to the ground, as Magic dunked it. Heaton was probably trying to steal some of Larry Bird's shine, but instead he looked really dumb, and just got pummeled by one of the league's greats. We all know where Magic Johnson would go from here. As for the game, Johnson would go on to lead the Spartans to victory.
15 Gonzaga vs. UCLA: Adam Morrison Cry Baby - 2006
via vancouverbasketball.ca
Gonzaga was leading with 10 seconds left. Before this, they blew a 13 point lead, so they deserved to lose.
As Gonzaga inbounded the ball, a UCLA player steals it and scores. UCLA takes the lead, and wins. All of the sudden on the camera is Adam Morrison, crying loudly on the court. Morrison looks pathetic as he looks like a youth basketball player after losing the recreational league championship. You gotta feel for the guy too though, right?
14 Kentucky vs. North Carolina - 1995 Southeast Regional Final
via SI.com
In the 1995 tournament, things got a little out of hand with Rasheed Wallace and Kentucky's Andre Riddick. Riddick violently grabs Wallace's throat, and Sheed, along with the entire UNC team retaliated by pulling the wildcats jerseys. A fight broke out, and referees and coaches were forced to hold back players.
Both coaches, and the refs were speaking for at least 10 minutes, while both teams cursed at each other.
An awful sportsmanship model by both teams.
13 Butler vs. Connecticut - 2011 National Championship
via usaftw.com
Butler was the Cinderella team of the tournament, making their way to the finals to face a good UConn team. They played horrid, and shot nearly 19% from the field.
They basically made everyone forget about their success, with the crappiest performance some people have ever seen. The game was boring, and UConn easily took home a national championship.
For a national championship game, this was a fail, because Butler played horrible, and UConn got lucky because they didn't have to face a powerhouse team. This reminds me nothing of when Gordon Hayward almost took Butler to win against Duke with his "almost half court shot".
12 South Carolina vs. Coppin State - 1997 First Round
via sportsmajors.com
First of all, what kind of name for a school is "coppin state"? It sounds like this team somehow made the tournament then changed their name to something cool.
In 1997, South Carolina was favored by 30 points over State. Coppin was a #15 seed, and took down SC in the first round. They were up by nine with less than two minutes to go, and just rode it through and won.
South Carolina was favored by one of the biggest numbers in history, and failed. To make it even worse, Coppin State was without their best player, so they expected to get destroyed.
11 Kentucky vs. Duke - The Shot
via firstandmonday.com
Probably the most overplayed clip in sports history, and we all have seen it hundreds of times. Grant Hill passes the ball to Laettner, and Laettner makes a shot to win against UK.
What isn't looked at is that when Grant Hill throws the ball, Kentucky is no where near in his face defending. Grant Hill easily throws the ball to Laettner, and then Christian makes a tough shot under pressure.
Kentucky defense, or probably Pitino's, left Hill wide open, and he threw a bullet across the court to his teammate. This cost them a chance to win a national championship.
This amazing shot wouldn't have occurred if Kentucky just played a little defense on Hill. It was a ridiculous shot, but every time it appears on ESPN, I'm like "enough already"!
10 Arizona vs. Illinois - 2005 Elite Eight
Jay Drowns/The Sporting News
In 2005, Arizona was leading Illinois by 15 points with nearly 4 minutes remaining. The Fighting Illini hit a handful of threes, notably by Luther Head and Deron Williams. Somehow Illinois cut the lead to five points with under a minute to go in the contest.
The score was 80-77, and Deron Williams made a three point shot to tie the game. The Fighting Illini won the game in overtime. What is most recalled by people, is the sluggish Arizona team, who allowed a major comeback. Although this is true, I applaud Illinois for a crazy comeback against an athletic Arizona team in the elite eight.
9 Kansas vs. Syracuse - 2003 National Championship
via lightgalleries.net
The Jayhawks shot horrendously from the free throw line, making only 12 of 30 attempts.
12 of 30 attempts.
Played in Louisiana, #3 seeded Syracuse beat #2 seeded Kansas to win it all. Cuse was dominant in the first half, leading by 11 points. If Kansas connected on their free throws, they would have won the game. No doubt. The game ended 80-78, and people still wonder if the Jayhawks had only made a couple more free throws, if they would have taken the national championship. This was the year Carmelo Anthony won, and he was named MVP of the finals.
Regardless, Kansas could have won this one, it's atrocious that they couldn't make more than 12 free throw attempts out of 30.
8 Syracuse vs. Indiana - 1987 National Championship
via bballchannel.fr
Syracuse player Derrick Coleman choked, big time. Coleman had a chance to put Syracuse up three points, and he missed free throws. Shortly after this, Syracuse was down by one point with little time remaining. Coleman waited three extra seconds, then called a timeout.
Similar to Chris Webber, Coleman failed miserably, but so did the Syracuse coaching staff who should have known better than to let time tick off the clock before burning a timeout.
This was Indiana's Bobby Knight's 16th season coaching. Here's what he said:
"The greatness in this team, may be the greatness no other team here has had, to the degree that this one did - almost a total resolve not to recognize or be a part of defeat. This team played the last five minutes of critical games as well as I've ever seen a team play."
Although this is true, Syracuse pulled a Chris Webber, big time.
7 Bo Schembechler vs. Bill Frieder
via cbssports.com
Prior to the 1989 NCAA tournament, Michigan coach Bill Frieder announced he was to leave Ann Arbor and coach at Arizona State. Bo Schembechler, the Michigan football coach and director of sports, was angry at Frieder, and fired him regardless, because of his rash decision.
Schembechler said this about Frieder: "A Michigan man will coach Michigan, not an Arizona State man."
At Arizona State, Frieder wasn't successful, and only had 2 NCAA tournament appearances in eight seasons.
6 Butler vs. Pittsburgh - 2011 Sweet Sixteen
via nytimes.com
In the 2011 Sweet Sixteen, Butler upset Pittsburgh, in the most ridiculous ending I have ever witnessed. With 2 seconds remaining, Butler made a layup. While inbounding the ball, Butler guard Shelvin Mack hit a Pitt player, and sent him to the free throw line.
Gilbert Robinson made the first free throw, and missed the second. While the ball was coming down from the hoop, Pitt guard Nasir Robinson hit Matt Howard on the board. Butler went to the free throw line, and won with .2 seconds remaining.
One of the craziest endings I ever witnessed live, Pitt's Nasir Robinson choked like none other, but Shelvin Mack shouldn't have ever fouled a pitt player beforehand. This is one of those endings that you just scratch your head for a while, but will not get an answer. What a crazy ending...
5 Memphis vs. Louisville - 2005 C-USA Tournament Final
via ftw.com
In 2005, a freshman guard for Memphis was at the free throw line, shooting three shots. Darius Washington made the first shot. If he made both, Memphis was going to the NCAA tournament, if he missed the game would go to overtime. Washington did neither, and missing both free throws, and Memphis would lose.
He walked off the court crying in despair. If he just made ONE free throw, Memphis would at least have had a chance. He comes all this way, makes the first shot, then misses the next two. GAME OVER.
Darius can be seen not playing on any team nowadays, as he is a free agent.
4 Tennessee Tech vs. Loyola - 1963 First Round
via cbschicago.com
In 1963, both of these teams were actually good basketball teams. Now they can be seen in the Division III tournament losing in the first round.
To date, this game was the biggest blowout in NCAA tournament history.
Did you read the number? Yes, 69 points. Loyola destroyed Tech 111-42. Tech shot 18 of 82 from the field. Let me repeat that in bolder words.
18 of 82 from the field.
I guess now we know why Tennessee Tech doesn't have an average basketball program. That's horrendous, basically no words can describe that deficit. At the college level, to lose by that much, you have to wonder who were the players on the court..
This is a historic game in March Madness history, a first round abomination.
3 Kentucky vs. Texas Western - 1966 NCAA Championship: Racism in the South
via bigbluehistory.net
Texas Western played five black starters for the only time in Championship history. Kentucky had yet to have an integrated program, in fact their whole team was white. The whole week leading up to the game, Kentucky was ready for a win, supposing they would be national champions, primarily because the program and the school was racist.
Texas Western won the game 72-65 and shut up a racist Kentucky program.
Kentucky eventually had an integrated program in 1970, which was six years after the civil rights act.
2 North Carolina vs. Georgetown - 1982 National Championship
via thesportsfanjournal.com
We all remember this as the year MJ hit a three pointer, to beat Georgetown. The Hoyas Fred Brown passed the ball to opposing North Carolina player James Worthy, which would cost them a championship. Brown messed up on one of the biggest stages in all of north american sports.
UNC would win the game, and take home the national championship. Two years later, Fred Brown helped Georgetown win a championship, which was his redemption.
Regardless of the "next championship" Brown ruined his teams chance at success, by giving the ball away to the other team. There's no worse way to lose a game, then literally giving the other team the game.
1 Chris Webber's Timeout - 1993 NCAA Championship
via telegram.com
Next to the Christian Laettner shot, everyone reading this article either recalls this play, or has read about it numerous times.
With nearly 11 seconds on the clock, Michigan player Chris Webber had the ball in his hands, and signaled for a timeout. Not knowing that the Wolverines actually didn't have a timeout, the refs called traveling. UNC won the game.
There is much debate as to if one of Webber's teammates encouraged him to call the timeout, but there's no definitive answer.
To this day, Chris Webber has not talked about this play, nor does he want to. It was the most embarrassing moment of his career.
The Fab Five will still go down as one of the greatest groups to ever play together. The group consisted of Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson.
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Raptors fan stir-fries and eats iPhone after losing bet
By Michael YangStaff Reporter
Tues., May 24, 2016timer2 min. read
Not many people believed in the Raptors at the start of their Eastern Conference finals series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
After tying the series up at two wins apiece, Toronto’s got the doubters eating their words – literally, for one basketball fan.
“If the Raptors win two games I will throw my cellphone in some teriyaki stir fry and eat it,” tweeted Kazeem Famuyide, founder and editor-in-chief of Stashed magazine, last Sunday.
It was an easy bet to make. The Cavaliers had just blazed through their first two series of the playoffs, sweeping both, while the Raptors fought tooth-and-nail through two seven-game series.
“Me and my friends have a little tradition of putting fun bets on really outlandish things,” said Famuyide. Think Usain Bolt losing to an amateur in a race, or Yao Ming winning a three-point contest.
“That’s what we thought of the Raptors of beating the Cavs,” he admitted.
And after the first two games, Fumayide was feeling pretty good about the bet.
“It looked like it was going to be the same old story, with another walk in the park to the finals for Lebron and the Cavs,” said Famuyide. “Then Bismack decided to turn into Bill Russell, Love looked like he’s playing injured, and DeRozan had himself a game.”
Sure enough, the Internet did not forget about the wager and on Monday, it was time to pay up.
Fumayide, who’s a fan of the New York Knicks, documented the entire episode on his Twitter.
“I was about to toss in my iPhone 6 but I realized I couldn’t document the whole thing if I did, and there was a little loophole I could use,” he said. He never specified that it had to be his current phone, so an old iPhone 4 lying around did the trick.
“The teriyaki tasted like integrity and justice,” he chuckled. “The iPhone really brought the dish together.”
As to his predictions for the rest of series?
“It’s definitely a series now, though I still think Cavs will take it in seven games. But I’ve learned my lesson…I’m not betting against the Raptors anymore.”
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•The body of Ralph A. Thompson, a sailor on the steamer Spokane, was found in the hold of the barge Magnetic at the Reid drydock this morning by one of the workmen. Thompson was last seen on Thursday afternoon when he left the steamer to make a trip uptown.
•Dr. A.L. Callery, City Health Director and Acting County Health Director, today warned parents to be on guard against complaints of illness by children as diphtheria cases in the city mounted to 16. Two cases were reported during the weekend.
•UBLY – It was all an error in geography. A student pilot on a cross country solo flight Thursday landed his light plane on the strip of Ubly Dragway, a mile south of here, thinking it was the Huron County Memorial Airport, about 10 miles to the northwest.
•Charles Stevens didn’t know what sort of sensation to expect Saturday from the culmination of a musical creation. “It’s like giving birth – or maybe I should say passing a kidney stone,” he said. Stevens was preparing for the premiere of his “International Symphonic Overture” to start the season for the International Symphony Orchestra.
Compiled by Bob Gross from Times Herald files.
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The Tampa House
For the first time, This Old House traveled outside Massachusetts to focus on the renovation of a concrete-block-and-stucco tract house in Tampa, Florida.
By Caitlin O'Neil
For the first time, This Old House left its Boston area home to work its special magic on a tract house in Tampa, Florida, a city that came of age in the 1880s when tycoon Henry Plant built a railroad linking the city to the rest of the country. The project house was typical of the tract houses built across Florida in the 1950s and 1960s: a modest two-bedroom stucco over concrete block structure that sat close to the street. While the house's lot was narrow, the back yard was enormous—240 feet deep—which allowed homeowners Paul and Amelia plenty of room for improvements.
The renovation plan called for floor-to-ceiling windows on the house's façade to open up the front of house. The attached garage, too small for a car, became a playroom with double-hung windows capped by a radial window overlooking the front yard and sliding glass doors opening onto the back. The pristine 1950s kitchen, complete with a cast iron sink, gold-flecked linoleum counters and birch cabinets, was updated with fresh paint, new countertops and floor tile. A new screened-in porch was added just off the dining room. The house's modified Florida room—its windows smaller and sparser than the traditional open retreat designed to take advantage of the state's sunny climate—was transformed into the real McCoy, with French doors opening on to an extensive redwood deck constructed along the back of the house.
Work began when the footings for the new addition were laid—three courses of concrete blocks topped by wooden floor joists. The crew punched a hole in the house's back wall to establish the joists' height and match them on the new construction. Framing went quickly but workers ran into a problem in the dining room where the floor was pitched down 5/8". To ensure that the old and new construction blended seamlessly, they built the new floor to the old floors' lowest point and then sanded down any high points, leveling the entire surface.
Built when energy prices were low, the house needed retrofitting to conserve on cooling costs. The crew collaborated with contractor Bob Diaz on modern and traditional energy conservation methods to create a comfortable, cost-effective system. An ancient attic fan, the house's original cooling system, was replaced by a heat pump that could both heat or cool the building as needed. Rigid ductwork supplied the conditioned air to every room in the house.
While Florida's climate is a boon for outdoor living, the balmy temps bring with them two downsides: heat and bugs. To combat these comfort-busters, the homeowners installed dense screens to block both sun and bugs while letting in light and breezes. Heat-shield windows, which block UVA and UVB rays as well as heat from the sun, also cut down on the house's energy loss and help cool it more efficiently.
Termites are another common problem in the Sunbelt, so This Old House called in a pest control expert to take a look at the house's attic, basement, joists and sill, keeping an eye out for bugs, tunnels and affected wood. There was no trace of infestation so prevention was the order of the day. Our expert recommended that homeowners keep their house as dry as possible because termites love moisture, and then pretreated the areas of new construction with a pesticide sprayed at the base of the foundation.
When the time came for the TOH crew to fly home, Paul and Amelia's house was graced with new landscaping, a rambling redwood deck and spacious new indoor and outdoor living spaces that would provide both a respite from the heat and a place to enjoy the Florida sun.
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Heidi and Spencer Pratt welcome their first child
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3rd Oct 2017
Jessica Arrowsmith
And we know his birth stone, too.
Our favourite The Hills cast member duo – Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt – has become a trio, having welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Gunner Stone over the weekend.
Montag, 30, shared with US Weekly, “We are so blessed to have a beautiful healthy baby boy. It was the hardest and most rewarding experience.” Pratt, 33, further shared it was “Officially the most lit day of my life.” Need we say more?
Pratt further shared with US Weekly in their pregnancy announcement interview earlier this year, “Heidi has wanted to be a mom since the day I met her. She has planned for this and thought about this.”
It seems it’s the perfect time for the two to take on parental duties, with Heidi sharing, “I’m actually really thankful we waited. I thought I was ready in my 20s, but with everything we had going on, it just wouldn’t have been a good situation for us.”
By the looks of things, it may not be the last time we’ll be blessed with a decorative Speidi pregnancy shoot. Heidi says, “I’ve always wanted a boy first,” with Pratt sharing, “Notice she says first!”
Welcome to the world little Gunner.
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Complex: DNA mismatch repair MutSbeta complex
Macromolecular complex annotations are imported from the Complex Portal. These annotations have been derived from physical molecular interaction evidence extracted from the literature and cross-referenced in the entry, or by curator inference from information on homologs in closely related species or by inference from scientific background.
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Complex Diagram
This diagram displays the protein subunits (blue) of the complex and how they interact with each other. Interactions with other relevant participants such as small molecules (purple), sub-complexes (yellow), and other subunits (red) are also shown. If a participant appears in the diagram with no lines connected to it, then its specific interactions with other participants are currently unknown.
Subunits
This table lists all participants of the complex (proteins, small molecules, nucleic acids, etc.) and their respective stoichiometry. A brief description is also provided for each participant in the table.
Increase the total number of rows showing on this page by using the pull-down located below the table, or use the page scroll at the table's top right to browse through its pages; use the arrows to the right of a column header to sort by that column; filter the table using the "Filter" box at the top of the table.
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Gene Ontology (GO) terms that describe the function of a complex, the biological process in which it participates, or its cellular location. Click on a term for its definition and other objects annotated to that term.
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Shared Annotations
This diagram displays Gene Ontology terms (green) and subunits (blue) that are shared between the given macromolecular complex (black) and other yeast complexes (yellow). The shared GO terms or subunits can be visualized separately using the radio button at the bottom of the graph. Note: No diagram is shown ("No shared annotations") if there are less than 2 shared annotations (either GO terms or subunits of other complexes) between this complex and any other complexes.
List of references used specifically to curate the information on this page.
Kow YW, et al. (2007) Oligonucleotide transformation of yeast reveals mismatch repair complexes to be differentially active on DNA replication strands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(27):11352-7 PMID: 17592146
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Langston LD and Symington LS (2005) Opposing roles for DNA structure-specific proteins Rad1, Msh2, Msh3, and Sgs1 in yeast gene targeting. EMBO J 24(12):2214-23 PMID: 15920474
Harfe BD and Jinks-Robertson S (2000) Mismatch repair proteins and mitotic genome stability. Mutat Res 451(1-2):151-67 PMID: 10915870
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Asma Khalid
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Asma Khalid is a political correspondent covering the 2020 presidential campaign.
Before joining NPR's political team, Asma helped launch a new team for Boston's NPR station WBUR where she reported on biz/tech and the Future of Work.
She's reported on a range of stories over the years — including the 2016 presidential campaign, the Boston Marathon bombings and the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger.
Asma got her start in journalism in her home state of Indiana, but was introduced to radio through an internship at BBC Newshour in London during grad school.
Why Progressives Think Joe Biden Is Not 'Electable'
By Asma Khalid • 5 hours ago
Justin Krebs, a campaign director with MoveOn, isn't interested in hearing pundits debate which 2020 Democratic candidate is the most "electable."
"Because exactly four years ago right now there was a messy, crowded primary, with too many candidates, people who were totally unelectable, and Donald Trump was one of them and ended up winning," he pointed out.
And in the same vein, many Democrats thought Barack Obama was unelectable until he started winning primaries in 2008.
Progressive Activists Gather, Hoping To Seize Their Moment In 2020 Campaign
By Asma Khalid • Jul 12, 2019
Progressive activists feel like this is their moment.
Their values are no longer seen as fringe ideas in the Democratic Party. Multiple presidential candidates are talking about "Medicare-for-all," reparations for slavery and bold action on climate change. And their ideas are driving the action on debate stages.
Now, as they gather in Philadelphia for the largest progressive convention of the year, Netroots Nation, they feel empowered as if this is their time to take over the party, push traditional Democrats aside and hold candidates accountable.
2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Support Marijuana Legalization Bill
By Asma Khalid • Feb 28, 2019
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of half a dozen Democratic senators running for the White House, is reintroducing a bill on Thursday that would fundamentally end the federal government's prohibition on marijuana.
Sen. Bernie Sanders Announces Another Run For The White House
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Democrats Used To Talk About 'Criminal Immigrants,' So What Changed The Party?
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Initial Democratic Primary Debates Will Accommodate Up To 20 Candidates
Given the historically large number of Democrats expected to run for president in 2020, the Democratic National Committee is preparing to host the first two primary debates, with each debate split into two consecutive nights to accommodate up to a maximum of 20 candidates.
The DNC announced details Thursday for the first two primary debates of the season.
The first debate, scheduled for this June, will be broadcast on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo. The second debate, slated for July, will be broadcast on CNN.
Warren Apologizes To Cherokee Nation For DNA Test
By Asma Khalid • Feb 1, 2019
More than three months after the widely criticized decision to release the results of a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is exploring a run for the presidency, has apologized to the Cherokee Nation, according to Julie Hubbard, a spokesperson with the Cherokee Nation.
'Does It Have To Be Him?': N.H. Progressives Split By Another Sanders Bid
By Asma Khalid • Jan 30, 2019
In the spring of 2015, before Bernie Sanders had a campaign office in New Hampshire, Elizabeth Ropp, an acupuncturist, was making homemade signs for the Vermont senator.
"Bernie inspired me because as somebody who's lived without health insurance for most of my adult life, I want there to be a single-payer health care system," she said.
She was disappointed Sanders wasn't the nominee and is convinced that if he had been, Donald Trump would not be president.
"I want to see Bernie run again in 2020," said Ropp. "We need Bernie to run even if the field is crowded."
For 2020 Democrats, The Race Is On To Win Over Black Voters
Updated at 9:24 a.m. ET
When Elizabeth Warren announced her exploratory committee for president at the end of last month, the Massachusetts senator didn't only talk about a crumbling middle class - her signature policy issue - but she acknowledged the impact of race and racism on the economy, saying that "families of color" face a rockier path "made even harder by the impact of generations of discrimination."
Women's March Divisions Offer Lessons For Democrats On Managing A Big Tent
Angie Beem used to be a woman who, at most, would read the voter pamphlet before Election Day, cast a vote, and consider her duty done. She didn't pay attention to politics much because she didn't think it affected her life.
But that all changed ahead of the 2016 presidential election when she noticed Facebook posts that deeply troubled her.
"My family were starting to be racist and saying horrible things," said Beem. "I didn't recognize them."
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro Announces 2020 Democratic Presidential Bid
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
This weekend, another Democrat jumped into the 2020 presidential campaign. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro made his big announcement yesterday in San Antonio, Texas.
What Iowa Democrats Want In A 2020 Candidate: Someone Who Can Beat Trump
By Asma Khalid • Jan 7, 2019
Marilynn Leggio, 71, brought her teenage granddaughter with her to an Elizabeth Warren rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, last Friday evening.
Leggio says she has "no doubt" the Massachusetts senator would do a "good job" as president, but given Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016, she's not sure whether the country will take a chance on another woman in 2020.
"I think there's a lot of men out there that would never vote for a woman," said Leggio. "I hate to say that, but I think that. Especially a woman that's strong, very opinionated. I think a lot of men think she's pushy."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Announces 2020 Exploratory Committee
By Asma Khalid & Noel King • Dec 31, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Released From Hospital
By Asma Khalid • Dec 26, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital on Christmas Day following surgery for early stage lung cancer, according to a Supreme Court spokesperson.
Ginsburg is now "recuperating at home," after doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York performed surgery on Ginsburg to remove cancerous growths found on her left lung.
Democrats Can't Avoid Identity Politics In 2020
When Democratic politicians talk about race, they sound fundamentally more liberal than their party did a decade ago. That isn't limited to black leaders who've become rising stars in the party, like California Sen. Kamala Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
GOP Insists It Doesn't Engage In Identity Politics. Researchers Disagree
A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control
By Asma Khalid • Nov 13, 2018
The deadly mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., last week came less than a day after dozens of Democrats who campaigned on promises to strengthen gun laws were elected to the House of Representatives. Across the country, candidates from Virginia, Georgia, Texas and Washington state bluntly called for more gun safety, seemingly emboldened to take on the National Rifle Association.
How To Make Sense Of Exit Polls On Election Night
By Asma Khalid • Nov 5, 2018
As results roll in on election night, pundits and political junkies will carefully be watching the exit polls for a glimpse into who voted for which candidate and why.
But exit polls are complicated, and sometimes misleading, as they were in 2016.
For one thing, be careful about reading too much into exit polls early in the night. As more data comes in, they can be more useful later in the evening to explain what's happening — more so than predicting results before the polls have closed.
The Republicans Who Could Keep A Hold On Blue States This Year
By Asma Khalid & Brakkton Booker • Nov 3, 2018
It's a political puzzle that frustrates Democrats — in two states where Donald Trump is deeply unpopular, two incumbent GOP governors have remained consistently popular.
Maryland and Massachusetts are places where Trump has his lowest approval ratings in the country — 35 percent. Yet, the Republican governors in those states have approval ratings near 70 percent.
How Massachusetts' Republican Governor Has Remained So Resilient In A Blue State
As More Democrats Embrace 'Progressive' Label, It May Not Mean What It Used To
By Asma Khalid • Oct 29, 2018
Democrats Andrew Gillum and Tony Evers are both carrying the progressive banner in tight races for governor, but their differing ideologies and strategies show how the label has broadened appeal and less definition in 2018.
Gillum is the charismatic 39-year-old mayor of Tallahassee barnstorming the state of Florida in his bid to become the state's first black governor. His progressive agenda, embraced by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, combined with identity politics is intended to bring together a coalition.
In Florida's Closely Watched Senate Race, Latino Votes May Be Key
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Married Women May Be Moving Away From The GOP
By Asma Khalid • Oct 2, 2018
Christine Garcia, a 37-year-old stay-at-home mom, doesn't consider herself a particularly political person. But like a lot of women, she has strong opinions about President Trump.
"Maybe on the business side ... the money is better as far as I understand," Garcia said. "But a lot of the other things are very worrisome," she added with a laugh, as she pushed her daughter on a swing in a park in Birmingham, Mich., an affluent suburb of Detroit.
Garcia considers herself a fiscal conservative but a social liberal.
Election Laws May Discourage Some From Voting, Even If They Are Allowed
By Asma Khalid • Sep 13, 2018
Jagada Chambers was sent to prison for attempted second-degree murder in 2000. The story, as he tells it, was that he was on spring break with friends during college and got into a physical altercation with an acquaintance.
He was released four years later, in August 2004, and his understanding was that his voting rights were gone forever.
On The Sidelines Of Democracy: Exploring Why So Many Americans Don't Vote
Just in the past few months, elections in the U.S. have been decided by hundreds of votes.
The 2016 presidential election tilted to Donald Trump with fewer than 80,000 votes across three states, with a dramatic impact on the country. Yet, only about 6 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots in 2016.
Black Campaign School Seeks To Build Black Political Power
By Asma Khalid • Aug 6, 2018
Quentin James was tired of the Democratic Party taking black votes for granted without investing in building black political power. So, in 2016, he started the Collective PAC to fund progressive black politicians. The following year, James, a veteran of the Obama campaign, established a boot camp — the Black Campaign School — to train those candidates.
Race, Gender And Age In Democratic Party Politics
GOP Enthusiasm Fueled By Trump Could Undercut Democrats' Midterm Hopes
By Asma Khalid • Jul 8, 2018
Mike Davis didn't think Donald Trump could get elected.
Davis is the kind of Republican who backed Ohio governor John Kasich in the 2016 primaries, the kind of Republican who subscribes to the Wall Street Journal. Davis, 64, is the former mayor of Dunwoody, Ga., a small city in the state's 6th Congressional District, one of the most highly-educated districts in the country.
Political 'Counterculture': Young Republicans Hold Unique Space In The Trump Era
By Asma Khalid • Jun 24, 2018
Robert Lee, Chelsea Magee and Colt Chambers are political activists who all sound pretty typical for their generation when it comes to issues like immigration and same-sex marriage.
Trump's Tariffs Worry A Small Steel City In Pennsylvania
By Asma Khalid • Jun 8, 2018
Dan Moore, a 58-year-old steel mill worker, gives the president an A+ on everything from tax cuts to foreign policy, but he is not so sure about tariffs.
"We need tariffs, but when it starts to impact the company where you work ... you're thinking, well wait a minute, time out!" he said.
Moore is worried the tariffs might cost him his job. The mill where he works, NLMK Pennsylvania, in the town of Farrell, not far from the border with Ohio, employs 750 workers and is a subsidiary of Novolipetsk Steel, or NLMK, Russia's top steelmaker.
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Islamabad - December 11th to 15th 2016
7 January 2017 18 January 2017 Marine 4
Islamabad… I have to admit the name of this city inspired a feeling of apprehension in my mind, and I did not know why… And after leaving our friend Tajammul and the peaceful life in Gilgit, our trip to Islamabad happened to be quite tiring. First, even if Islamabad is only about 600 km away from Gilgit, the trip takes 16 hours! And even if it goes along the Karakoram Highway, the road is in very bad condition, bumpy as hell. Then we had to go through several police checkpoints where only Alex and I would get off the bus to be interrogated by the police on the purpose of our trip. Actually, in the bus there was a guard at the front with a bullet proof vest and a gun and he was the one going with us to the checkpoint office. After two checkpoints, he realized we had several copies of our passports so he took them and said that for the next checkpoints he could go without us and give the copies to the police. Thanks to his help, we spent the rest of the trip not worrying about every stop.
At 8pm, after 10 hours driving, we made a stop at PTCD Motel (motels managed by a governmental tourism organisation) and we thought it was the night stop so that we could sleep and go back on the bus the next day. One man told us that this was time for the dinner, offered by the bus company, and that we would get back in the bus after 30 minutes. When we asked about sleeping, he told us that the bus was not stopping for the night and that we would arrive in Islamabad at 3am!!! What a surprise! Usually buses stop for the night but some, like the one we were in, do not! Too bad, we expected to finally get some rest after a day jumping on our seats, but we would spend a night in the bus. And when we arrived at 3am, Islamabad was there, full of unfriendly atmosphere, or was it in my mind? The bus dropped us in Rawalpindi in the South of Islamabad in a kind of bazaar where taxi drivers started to harass us and where hotels offered rooms with no shower, even shared (and we really needed one!). We searched on the internet and found a guesthouse in Islamabad. Hopefully a driver accepted to drive us there in the middle of the night for a reasonable price. We crossed several police checkpoints and drove through a ghost city, but which looked more modern than what we expected. The driver left us in a residential area with comfortable houses where our guesthouse appeared to be a beautiful and modern house with hot shower and a clean room, all that we needed!
Our wake up in the middle of sunny Islamabad was quite surprising. In the capital of Pakistan, we discovered a green city, not dense at all, with lots of green roads and rich houses. Not the dusty, unsafe city we expected. We realized the power of our medias, conveying an unjustified tension and the fake image of this city. For instance, the fourth season of Homeland we had watched a few months back features lots of scenes in a chaotic Islamabad and conversations stating that Pakistani intelligence helps the Talibans. In a Western world where the word “Islam” often inspires fear because of the “Islamic State”, surely Islamabad, “the city of Islam” should be the scariest city ever. I have to admit that at this time I am so ashamed that I did not know that “Islam” actually means “Peace” and that Islamabad is actually “the city of peace”. A word to the wise…
In the opening credits of each episode of Homeland, the power of seeing the name Pakistan and Islamabad automatically associated with Ben Laden
Islamabad in episode 3 of Homeland
The true Islamabad
At night, we met with our host Faysal who directly brought us to an Afghan restaurant where we had delicious kebabs. Then he brought us to have some drinks in Margalla Hills, beautiful hills overlooking the city.
Faysal lives in Rawalpindi which is actually the twin sister of Islamabad, just South to it, and an older city. Islamabad is very modern because it has been built from nothing in the 1960s when the location was selected to be the place of the new capital, replacing Karachi. Islamabad is built on a grid pattern, where each neighborhood is a perfect square and has at its centre a public area surrounded by shops and restaurants. There is one square called the Minister’s enclave, dedicated to government departments, and one called the Diplomatic enclave which is for all the embassies and the houses of diplomats (and to enter in this neighborhood you need a special authorization).
Map of Islamabad
On the contrary, Rawalpindi is dense and more lively with its popular bazaar. It is also where the headquarters of the Pakistani army and the airport are located.
Rawalpindi centre
Our second day in Islamabad was holy day because of the celebration of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed (Mawlid). So Faysal brought us in the centre of Rawalpindi to see the processions of people who were gathering in different parts of the city to pray and sing. We arrived in the middle of a public place where hundreds of people had gathered in front of a big stage. At this moment, I remembered reading on the French government website that tourists should avoid gatherings in Pakistan… but anyway we were already there. There were a few men sitting on the stage, and another man with a microphone was singing and leading the crowd. Faysal asked me if I wanted to go up on the stage to take a picture so we went up there, and when we turned around to face the crowd, I saw the leader pointing at us as he spoke to the crowd. We were asked to come at the front of the stage. The leader talked to the crowd in what looked like a welcoming message for us, Faysal said a few words explaining who we were, French tourists visiting and enjoying Pakistan. Two men arrived from nowhere to put garlands around our necks. Then Faysal started to sing a beautiful spiritual song on the stage and they brought him a big golden trophy. Everything was going super fast. A woman suddenly grabbed my hand so hard and gave me a big hug! The crowd and the leader started to sing loudly and moving arms above their heads. The leader approached me with a scarf he waved in his hands and put it as a veil on my head. Faysal told me afterwards that it is a ceremonial of the Prophet who respected women and used to put scarfs on their heads like the leader did with me. After this, we went down the stage and some men set aside the crowd so we get out. People followed us, taking pictures with us. Men shook hands with Alex when women brought the children to take my hand. People offered us food. It was incredible.
After all these emotions, we went to Islamabad, where we visited Faisal Mosque, a magnificent huge mosque, beautifully built next to Margalla Hills.
Then we went to the big Centaurus mall, a modern mall full of Western boutiques. We also discovered nice places to hang out with friends, and restaurants with terraces to enjoy the nice weather.
Faysal also brought us to eat a delicious Chicken Rice (Pakistani style, not Singaporean!) at Savours Food, yummy!
The next day’s mission was to sell Faysal’s car. We spent the day going to different places with the buyer to put things in order. Our aim in Islamabad was also to get a visa extension… Indeed we had already consumed half of our stay, and we wanted more of Pakistan! We went to the Ministry of Interior to get a letter that we would then be able to submit to the Passport and visa office in another building 6 km away. We have to say that the Ministry of Interior is full of paperwork and lots of people looking like they do nothing. The best way to sum up the situation of bureaucracy in Pakistan is that we crossed long corridors where the name “Secretary” was declined on all doors. You have the first secretary, the deputy secretary, the chief secretary, the second secretary, the assistant secretary… We had a fun time though. We were offered some tea, we helped one secretary to print a complicated table on Microsoft Word, and we left with the need to come back the day after to collect our letter.
The next day we went back to the Ministry, got another tea, got the letter. Then we went to the Passport and visa office, to present our letter and ask for the visa extension. But we needed to pay something to the bank and it was too late in the afternoon so the bank was already closed.
The next day was Thursday and it was the day we would go to the wedding of Faysal’s friend. Faysal had invited us to join him and we were excited to attend to our first Pakistani wedding. But before going to the wedding, we had to deposit our passport for our visa extension, after having been to the bank to pay the extension fees. Great news, we would get our passports back on Monday with our 6 month extension and a re-entry, meaning we have the possibility to come back again to Pakistan a second time before the end of May (maybe we will need it if we cannot leave India by sea!)
Then we figured out we were going back again to the Ministry of Interior. Because Faysal had realized we needed an authorization letter (NOC) to go to the area where the wedding was held, Dera Ismail Khan. Actually, some areas in Pakistan are still restricted for foreigners and they need a special authorization to go there and so that they get protection. However, geographically speaking, the area of Dera Ismail Khan is still far from Balochistan, the only region in Pakistan which has the reputation to be dangerous. So we were not afraid of going there. But we started to be a little worried that we would not arrive on time at the wedding, eight hours drive away from Islamabad. When we finally left for the wedding it was already very late and we arrived at night when the ceremony was over. Hopefully, weddings in Pakistan last several days and we missed only the first one!!
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18 January 2017 at 14 h 04 min
Superbe article ! Toujours bien écrit, décrit! On a l impression d être avec vous! Une nouvelle expérience de vie, plein d émotions et de frissons j imagine! En tout cas chaque matin j espère trouver un article, ca me fait ma journée! Merci ! Caro
Marine says:
Merci Caroline pour ton gentil message ! En effet, on découvre tous les jours de nouvelles choses, c’est intense ! J’espère que tout va bien de votre côté !
Pascal B says:
How lucky you are, blessed by a crowd in ‘Pindi !
Take good care, be humble and learn.
This is lessons for life, and the stakes are high.
Now I see what made you happy today.
You made my day too.
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A Canadensis
Shad Shad (sh[a^]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species. [Written also chad.] Note: The name is loosely applied, also, to several other fishes, as the gizzard shad (see under Gizzard), called also mud shad, white-eyed shad, and winter shad. Hardboaded, or Yellow-tailed, shad, the menhaden. Hickory, or Tailor, shad, the mattowacca. Long-boned shad, one of several species of important food fishes of the Bermudas and the West Indies, of the genus Gerres. Shad bush (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs or small trees of the rosaceous genus Amelanchier (A. Canadensis, and A. alnifolia) Their white racemose blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or July, whence they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called service tree, and Juneberry. Shad frog, an American spotted frog (Rana halecina); -- so called because it usually appears at the time when the shad begin to run in the rivers. Trout shad, the squeteague. White shad, the common shad.
Columbine Col"um*bine, n. [LL. columbina, L. columbinus dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called from the beaklike spurs of its flowers.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America. 2. The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes. --Brewer.
Abies or Tsuga Canadensis
Hemlock Hem"lock, n. [OE. hemeluc, humloc, AS. hemlic, hymlic.] 1. (Bot.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium. Note: The potion of hemlock administered to Socrates is by some thought to have been a decoction of Cicuta virosa, or water hemlock, by others, of Conium maculatum. 2. (Bot.) An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. --Longfellow. 3. The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.
Anarcharis or Elodea Canadensis
Pondweed Pond"weed`, n. (Bot.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers. Choke pondweed, an American water weed (Anarcharis, or Elodea, Canadensis.) See Anacharis. Horned pondweed, the Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.
Arabis Canadensis
Sickle Sic"kle, n. [OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument.] 1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. --Shak. 2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress (Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.
C Canadensis
Judas Ju"das, n. The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. -- a. Treacherous; betraying. Judas hole, a peephole or secret opening for spying. Judas kiss, a deceitful and treacherous kiss. Judas tree (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus Cercis, with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (C. Siliquastrum). C. Canadensis and C. occidentalis are the American species, and are called also redbud.
Cornel Cor"nel (-n?l), n. [OF. cornille, cornoille, F. cornouille, cornel berry, LL. cornolium cornel tree, fr. L. cornus, fr. cornu horn, in allusion to the hardness of the wood. See Horn.] 1. (Bot.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries. 2. Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
Cervus Canadensis
Wapiti Wap"i*ti, n. [Probably the Iroquois name. Bartlett.] (Zo["o]l.) The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. Note: By some writers it is thought to be a variety of the red deer, but it is considered a distinct species by others. It is noted for the large, branching antlers of the male.
Elk Elk, n. [Icel. elgr; akin to Sw. elg, AS. eolh, OHG. elaho, MHG. elch, cf. L. alces; perh. akin to E. eland.] (Zo["o]l.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with widely spreading antlers. Its remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also Illustration of Antler. Cape elk (Zo["o]l.), the eland.
Collinsonia Canadensis
Stoneroot Stone"root`, n. (Bot.) A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
Cornus Canadensis
Bunchberry Bunch"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
D Canadensis
Grouse Grouse, n. sing. & pl. [Prob. after the analogy of mouse, mice, fr. the earlier grice, OF. griesche meor hen: cf. F. piegri[`e]che shrike.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonid[ae], and subfamily Tetraonin[ae], inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet. Note: Among the European species are the red grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) and the hazel grouse (Bonasa betulina). See Capercaidzie, Ptarmigan, and Heath grouse. Among the most important American species are the ruffed grouse, or New England partridge (Bonasa umbellus); the sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioc[ae]tes phasianellus) of the West; the dusky blue, or pine grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) of the Rocky Mountains; the Canada grouse, or spruce partridge (D. Canadensis). See also Prairie hen, and Sage cock. The Old World sand grouse (Pterocles, etc.) belong to a very different family. See Pterocletes, and Sand grouse.
Dendragapus Canadensis
Spruce Spruce, n. [OE. Spruce or Pruse, Prussia, Prussian. So named because it was first known as a native of Prussia, or because its sprouts were used for making, spruce beer. Cf. Spruce beer, below, Spruce, a.] 1. (Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. Douglas spruce (Bot.), a valuable timber tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America. Essence of spruce, a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. Hemlock spruce (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather. Spruce beer. [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See Sprout, n., Beer, and cf. Spruce, n.] A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction. Spruce grouse. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zo["o]l.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.
E Canadensis
Lyme grass Lyme" grass` (Bot.) A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.
Epochra Canadensis
Currant Cur"rant (k?r"rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.] 1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. 2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. 3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. Currant borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth ([AE]geria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). Currant worm (Zo["o]l.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm (Eupithecia). Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (R. aureum), having showy yellow flowers.
Erigeron Canadensis
Horseweed Horse"weed`, n. (Bot.) A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.
F Canadensis
Note: Among the well-known species are the European lynx (Felis borealis); the Canada lynx or loup-cervier (F. Canadensis); the bay lynx of America (F. rufa), and its western spotted variety (var. maculata); and the pardine lynx (F. pardina) of Southern Europe. 2. (Astron.) One of the northern constellations.
Glyceria Canadensis
Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media and B. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).
Gymnocladus Canadensis
Kentucky Ken*tuck"y, n. One of the United States. Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass. Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee. The timber is very valuable.
Hidrastis Canadensis
Orangeroot Or"ange*root`, n. (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
Hydrastis Canadensis
Xanthopuccine Xan`tho*puc"cine, n. [Xantho- + puccoon + -ine.] (Chem.) One of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon (Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline substance, and resembles berberine.
Hydrastine Hy*dras"tine, n. (Chem.) An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
L Canadensis
Otter Ot"ter, n. [OE. oter, AS. otor; akin to D. & G. otter, Icel. otr, Dan. odder, Sw. utter, Lith. udra, Russ, vuidra, Gr. "y`dra water serpent, hydra, Skr. udra otter, and also to E. water. [root]137, 215. See Water, and cf. Hydra.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines. Otter hound, Otter dog (Zo["o]l.), a small breed of hounds, used in England for hunting otters. Otter sheep. See Ancon sheep, under Ancon. Otter shell (Zo["o]l.), very large bivalve mollusk (Schizoth[ae]rus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excellent food, and is extensively used by the Indians. Sea otter. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
Laportea Canadensis
Nettle Net"tle, n. [AS. netele; akin to D. netel, G. nessel, OHG. nezz["i]la, nazza, Dan. nelde, n["a]lde, Sw. n["a]ssla; cf, Lith. notere.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. cham[ae]dryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England. Note: The term nettle has been given to many plants related to, or to some way resembling, the true nettle; as: Australian nettle, a stinging tree or shrub of the genus Laportea (as L. gigas and L. moroides); -- also called nettle tree. Bee nettle, Hemp nettle, a species of Galeopsis. See under Hemp. Blind nettle, Dead nettle, a harmless species of Lamium. False nettle (B[ae]hmeria cylindrica), a plant common in the United States, and related to the true nettles. Hedge nettle, a species of Stachys. See under Hedge. Horse nettle (Solanum Carolinense). See under Horse. nettle tree. (a) Same as Hackberry. (b) See Australian nettle (above). Spurge nettle, a stinging American herb of the Spurge family (Jatropha urens). Wood nettle, a plant (Laportea Canadensis) which stings severely, and is related to the true nettles. Nettle cloth, a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes. Nettle rash (Med.), an eruptive disease resembling the effects of whipping with nettles. Sea nettle (Zo["o]l.), a medusa.
Mustela Canadensis
Fisher Fish"er, n. [AS. fiscere.] 1. One who fishes. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the ``black cat.'
Pedicularis Canadensis
Wood Wood, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi?r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.] 1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. --Shak. 2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. ``To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.' --Milton. 3. (Bot.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid, Wood vinegar (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called pyroligneous acid. Wood anemone (Bot.), a delicate flower (Anemone nemorosa) of early spring; -- also called windflower. See Illust. of Anemone. Wood ant (Zo["o]l.), a large ant (Formica rufa) which lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests. Wood apple (Bot.). See Elephant apple, under Elephant. Wood baboon (Zo["o]l.), the drill. Wood betony. (Bot.) (a) Same as Betony. (b) The common American lousewort (Pedicularis Canadensis), a low perennial herb with yellowish or purplish flowers. Wood borer. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Pine weevil, under Pine. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under Peach), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See Tremex. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the Limnoria, and the boring amphipod (Chelura terebrans). Wood carpet, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. --Knight. Wood cell (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of woody fiber. Wood choir, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic] --Coleridge. Wood coal, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal. Wood cricket (Zo["o]l.), a small European cricket (Nemobius sylvestris). Wood culver (Zo["o]l.), the wood pigeon. Wood cut, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving. Wood dove (Zo["o]l.), the stockdove. Wood drink, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods. Wood duck (Zo["o]l.) (a) A very beautiful American duck (Aix sponsa). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees, whence the name. Called also bridal duck, summer duck, and wood widgeon. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose (Chlamydochen jubata). Wood echo, an echo from the wood. Wood engraver. (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zo["o]l.) Any of several species of small beetles whose larv[ae] bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling coarse engravings; especially, Xyleborus xylographus. Wood engraving. (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. Wood fern. (Bot.) See Shield fern, under Shield. Wood fiber. (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass. Wood fretter (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of beetles whose larv[ae] bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees. Wood frog (Zo["o]l.), a common North American frog (Rana sylvatica) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head. Wood germander. (Bot.) See under Germander. Wood god, a fabled sylvan deity. Wood grass. (Bot.) See under Grass. Wood grouse. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce. Wood guest (Zo["o]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] Wood hen. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species. (b) The American woodcock. Wood hoopoe (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Old World arboreal birds belonging to Irrisor and allied genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail. Wood ibis (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of large, long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus Tantalus. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida. Wood lark (Zo["o]l.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees. Wood laurel (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub (Daphne Laureola). Wood leopard (Zo["o]l.), a European spotted moth (Zeuzera [ae]sculi) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. Wood lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley. Wood lock (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. Wood louse (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family Psocid[ae], which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also book lice, and deathticks, or deathwatches. Wood mite (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous small mites of the family Oribatid[ae]. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones. Wood mote. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The court of attachment. Wood nettle. (Bot.) See under Nettle. Wood nightshade (Bot.), woody nightshade. Wood nut (Bot.), the filbert. Wood nymph. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. ``The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim.' --Milton. (b) (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus Eudryas. The larv[ae] are bright-colored, and some of the species, as Eudryas grata, and E. unio, feed on the leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh. x. 34. Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus, having properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See Gurjun. Wood opal (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood. Wood paper, paper made of wood pulp. See Wood pulp, below. Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher (Contopus virens). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller. Wood pie (Zo["o]l.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker. Wood pigeon. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to Palumbus and allied genera of the family Columbid[ae]. (b) The ringdove. Wood puceron (Zo["o]l.), a plant louse. Wood pulp (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. Wood quail (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus and allied genera, as the red-crested wood quail (R. roulroul), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers. Wood rabbit (Zo["o]l.), the cottontail. Wood rat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern United States; -- called also bush rat. The Florida wood rat (Neotoma Floridana) is the best-known species. Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall grass (Cinna arundinacea) growing in moist woods. Wood reeve, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.] Wood rush (Bot.), any plant of the genus Luzula, differing from the true rushes of the genus Juncus chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule. Wood sage (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus Teucrium. See Germander. Wood screw, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood. Wood sheldrake (Zo["o]l.), the hooded merganser. Wood shock (Zo["o]l.), the fisher. See Fisher, 2. Wood shrike (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to Grallina, Collyricincla, Prionops, and allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries. Wood snipe. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe (Gallinago nemoricola). Wood soot, soot from burnt wood. Wood sore. (Zo["o]l.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. Wood sorrel (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis (Oxalis Acetosella), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock. Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl. Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. Wood star (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the genus Calothorax. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors. Wood sucker (Zo["o]l.), the yaffle. Wood swallow (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World passerine birds belonging to the genus Artamus and allied genera of the family Artamid[ae]. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white beneath. Wood tapper (Zo["o]l.), any woodpecker. Wood tar. See under Tar. Wood thrush, (Zo["o]l.) (a) An American thrush (Turdus mustelinus) noted for the sweetness of its song. See under Thrush. (b) The missel thrush. Wood tick. See in Vocabulary. Wood tin. (Min.). See Cassiterite. Wood titmouse (Zo["o]l.), the goldcgest. Wood tortoise (Zo["o]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See under Sculptured. Wood vine (Bot.), the white bryony. Wood vinegar. See Wood acid, above. Wood warbler. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of the genus Dendroica. See Warbler. (b) A European warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix); -- called also green wren, wood wren, and yellow wren. Wood worm (Zo["o]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer. Wood wren. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler.
Perisoreus Canadensis
Jay Jay, n. [F. geai, OF. gai, jaj, perh. fr. OHG. g[=a]hi. Cf. Gay.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest. Note: The European jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a large and handsomely colored species, having the body pale reddish brown, lighter beneath; tail and wing quills blackish; the primary coverts barred with bright blue and black; throat, tail coverts, and a large spot on the wings, white. Called also jay pie, Jenny jay, and k[ae]. The common blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata.), and the related species, are brilliantly colored, and have a large erectile crest. The California jay (Aphelocoma Californica), the Florida jay (A. Floridana), and the green jay (Xanthoura luxuosa), of Texas and Mexico, are large, handsome, crested species. The Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis), and several allied species, are much plainer and have no crest. See Blue jay, and Whisky jack. Jay thrush (Zo["o]l.), any one several species of Asiatic singing birds, of the genera Garrulax, Grammatoptila, and related genera of the family Crateropodid[ae]; as, the white-throated jay thrush (G. albogularis), of India.
Whisky Whis"ky, Whiskey Whis"key, n. [Ir. or Gael. uisge water (perhaps akin to E. wash, water) in uisgebeatha whiskey, properly, water of life. Cf. Usquebaugh.] An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. Whisky Jack (Zo["o]l.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis). It is noted for its fearless and familiar habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the winter season. Its color is dull grayish blue, lighter beneath. Called also moose bird.
Poterium Canadensis
Burnet Bur"net, n. [OE. burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. being named from its color), fr. F. brunet, dim. of brun brown; cf. OF. brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zo["o]l.), in England, a handsome moth (Zyg[ae]na filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.
R canadensis
Dewberry Dew"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. c[ae]sius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries. (b) The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots and dewberries. --Shak.
Meaning of Canadensis from wikipedia
- Castor canadensis, common names American beaver, Canadian beaver, or North American beaver Cervus canadensis, common name elk or wapiti Lontra canadensis, common...
- Roosevelt (C. canadensis roosevelti), Tule (C. canadensis nannodes), Manitoban (C. canadensis manitobensis) and Rocky Mountain (C. canadensis nelsoni). The...
- the nominotypical subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually....
- The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white ch****s, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native...
- years ago). Thus, the three subspecies of O. canadensis are: Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (O. c. canadensis) – occupying the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mountains...
- Erigeron canadensis (synonym Conyza canadensis) is an annual plant native throughout most of North America and Central America. It is also widely naturalized...
- name was Lutra canadensis. The species epithet canadensis means "of Canada". In a new cl****ification, the species is called Lontra canadensis, where the genus...
- The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) is a lynx species native to North America. It ranges across Canada and Alaska extending into the Rocky Mountains and...
- The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species. It is native to North America and introduced to Patagonia in South America...
- title=Cercis_canadensis&action=edit§ion=5c. 380-88-6 Cercis canadensis images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu NCRS: USDA Plants Profile: Cercis canadensis...
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Password Day: A reminder to think about security
By: Andy Choi, The Now
While it fell on Cinco de Mayo this year, in the tech world, every first Thursday in May is set aside to recognize World Password Day — a day to think about beefing up your personal cyber security.
Experts say if you can't remember the last time you changed your password, it's probably time.
"You should really change your password every 60 to 90 days," said Ashley Pritchard with cyber security firm Level 3 Communications, who says "password" and "123456" remain the two most commonly used passwords.
"We encourage people not to use their name, names of children, their pets." said Pritchard, who suggests instead of remembering passwords, think of a passphrase with a dash of encryption.
"I use the phrase, 'Once upon a time,' as an example. You can replace all the O's with zeroes, all the threes with E's, and maybe add a symbol like an exclamation point at the end." said Pritchard.
A recent study found three out of four people use the same password for multiple accounts, and nearly half haven't changed their passwords in more than five years.
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Justify wins sloppy Kentucky Derby, Baffert takes 5th title
By: Beth Harris, AP Sports Writer
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<p>LOUISVILLE, KY - MAY 05: Justify #7, ridden by jockey Mike Smith, crosses the finish line to win the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 5, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)</p>
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Justify splashed through the slop to win the Kentucky Derby by 2 1/2 lengths on Saturday, becoming the first colt in 136 years to wear the roses after not racing as a 2-year-old.
The chestnut colt that began his career in February improved to 4-0 -- winning his races by a combined 21 1/2 lengths -- and gave Bob Baffert his fifth Derby victory. It snapped a tie and left the 65-year-old trainer trailing only Ben Jones with six.
Apollo in 1882 was the last colt to win without racing as a juvenile.
Mike Smith earned his second Derby victory. The 52-year-old jockey crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs with only a few specks of mud on his white and green silks in the rainiest Derby in the race's 144-year history. Nearly 3 inches fell on the crowd of 157,813 throughout the day.
"Amazing horse," Smith said. "He's got that `it' factor. He is so above average, he's got unbelievable talent and he's got a mind to go with it. He was loving this stuff."
Smith's silks were nearly spotless after he kept Justify near the lead throughout the race. He gunned Justify out of the No. 7 spot in the starting gate -- something Baffert said had to happen -- and the colt's early speed helped hook leader Promises Fulfilled from the start.
"When he got away clean, then I thought we had a chance," Baffert said. "We had to get away. Then Mike took his time."
They set a blistering pace through the muck, going a half-mile in 45.77 seconds.
Entering the final turn, Justify took the lead and kept on going to the finish under Smith's left-handed whip.
Justify, the 5-2 favorite in the field of 20, ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:04.20. He paid $7.80, $6 and $4.40.
Good Magic returned $9.20 and $6.60, while Audible was another head back in third and paid $5.80 to show.
Good Magic was the only horse to have a serious shot at Justify turning for home. Good Magic, under Jose Ortiz, drifted out while Justify and Smith kept a clear and straight inside path.
Now, Baffert is in position to make another run at the Triple Crown. Three years ago, he trained American Pharoah to the first sweep of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 37 years.
Instilled Regard, an 85-1 shot, was fourth, followed by My Boy Jack, Bravazo and Hofburg. Lone Sailor was eighth, followed by Vino Rosso, Solomini, Firenze Fire, Bolt d'Oro, Flameaway, Enticed, Promises Fulfilled, Free Drop Billy, Noble Indy, Combatant and Magnum Moon. Mendelssohn, trying to become the first Europe-based horse to win the Derby, finished last, beaten by 73 1/4 lengths.
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To make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the City,
considering such factors as land use, transportation, public facilities and utilities, and recreation and open space; to plan for the redevelopment of blighted areas; to prepare and update as needed a zoning plan; to review development proposals, including rezoning, special uses, subdivision plats and site plans.
Whenever the Planning Commission has adopted a master plan for the city or any
part thereof, no street, square, park or other public way, playground or open space, or public building or streets, shall be constructed or authorized in the City until the location, character and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Commission; provided that, in the case of disapproval, the City Council may overrule such disapproval by recorded vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership. The Planning Commission also functions as the City Zoning Commission to originate, review and make recommendations to the City Council relative to proposed zoning text and map changes. The Commission approves site plans and special uses. The Commission, along the City Council, approves subdivision plants.
The Commission members should reflect a sincere interest in the planned and
orderly development of the City. Knowledge of city planning and zoning is not mandatory, as city staff expertise is available. However, continued growth in such knowledge is expected, to ensure adequate understanding of the development proposals. Commissioners should review the display materials and staff recommendations on agenda items, plus conduct individual field surveys prior to the related Commission meeting.
Third Tuesday of each month; occasional special meetings.
City Hall, 1155 - 28th Street SW, Wyoming, MI 49509
Nine, representative in so far as possible of different professions or occupations. They shall hold no other City office.
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TenneT posts €100m loss
21 March 2013 by Erin Gill
TSO's debt up 37% as it invests in German offshore grid
Spiralling debt and interest charges are hitting TenneT, which describes itself as the single biggest investor in Germany’s energy transition in its 2012 annual report.
Operating in the Netherlands and northern Germany, the Dutch-owned transmission system operator (TSO) is one of Europe's largest. Last year, its debtload rose by 36.9%, to €3.5bn. Worryingly, the cost of financing this debt grew at a faster rate, by 57.5%, reaching €115m.
But TenneT’s revenue grew as well, by 16%, reaching €1.8bn last year. Thanks to its substantial investment programme, the value of TenneT’s assets also increased,by 40.4%, to €6.6bn.
Intense pressure
A key factor behind TenneT’s deteriorating financial position last year was its responsibility for building a comprehensive offshore network in the German North Sea. The network will link offshore wind farms to Germany’s onshore grid.
Throughout 2012, TenneT was under intense pressure to build the offshore network as quickly as possible. Perceptions of slow progress attracted fierce criticism and prompted several offshore wind developers to place projects on hold.
It galvanised Germany’s energy regulator into developing a more coherent plan for grid connecting offshore wind farms. The federal government also fast-tracked legislation that limits TenneT’s liability in the face of cable delays and malfunction due to negligence. TenneT welcomed both moves.
"The ultimate success of [the new cable liability legislation] still needs to be proven," notes TenneT in its annual report. But the TSO is generally pleased with the act. It is keen to reassure investors that the new law limits its liability "in the event of delayed connection or unavailability during operations, to €17.5m per connection per event in case of simple negligence and to €110m per year in total".
Six offshore converter platforms are currently under construction in three countries – the Netherlands, Germany and the United Arab Emirates – notes TenneT’s annual report. It is building seven offshore wind cable clusters "in a responsible manner", it asserts.
Investment forecast
The company forecasts a total investment requirement over the coming decade of €13bn, with €8bn of this earmarked for Germany. Its partnership with Mitsubishi for the construction of up to four export cables is a recent positive move. Further such partnerships with others will be essential.
Other noteworthy details in TenneT’s 2012 accounts refer to a €15m increase in expenses, directly due to "increased offshore activities" and a €22m increase in staff expenses, primarily arising from its offshore network construction programme.
In the Netherlands, TenneT’s offshore wind-related activities focus on ensuring grid connection for the Noordoostpolder wind farm, part of which (144MW) will be located offshore.
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Focused on affordability, Regents approve financial aid boost
Board also unanimously approves $6.35 billion annual budget
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – With college affordability a top priority, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a UW System proposal recommending increased state funding for financial aid at its meeting today at UW-Milwaukee.
The UW System is requesting an increase of $3.25 million in 2018-19 for the Wisconsin Grant-University of Wisconsin (UW) program, which is the state’s largest financial aid program for students attending UW institutions. This would return the average award to the 2009-10 level, providing a biennial increase of $6.50 million. The program is administered by the state’s Higher Educational Aids Board (HEAB).
“Affordability is a top priority, and this proposal reflects our commitment to UW System students, their families and a stronger future for Wisconsin,” said UW System President Ray Cross. “Higher education is so critical to the success of both individuals and our society. We need to keep the doors in the UW System open to any students seeking a college degree while helping limit their debt loads.”
One in four resident UW System undergraduates – more than 30,000 students – received a Wisconsin Grant in 2016-17. The average grant was $2,022.
“There is legitimate concern about the rising levels of student debt. The amount of state and federal support a student receives plays a significant part in keeping the net cost of college down. It is incumbent on us to advocate for the support necessary for our students,” said Regent President John Robert Behling.
Overall, almost seven out of 10 UW System students received $1.3 billion in some form of financial aid in 2016-17.
The Regent-approved financial aid request will now be forwarded to HEAB for inclusion in that agency’s biennial budget submission to the Department of Administration.
Annual budget approved
The Regents also voted to approve a $6.35 billion annual budget for 2018-19.
“The broader benefits that all of Wisconsin derives from having an educated workforce and citizenry are critically important,” President Cross said. “We want to ensure UW institutions continue to serve as a powerful economic engine for the state.”
Five key takeaways of the budget include:
State funding increased by 5.6 percent ($59.7 million)
Resident undergraduate tuition is frozen for sixth consecutive year
Segregated fee increases are limited
Program revenue balances are projected to further decline
Average cost of attendance for resident freshmen increases by 1 percent
“At first I was uneasy about increases in seg fees and room and board,” said Student Regent Ryan Ring. He added that he recognized the seg fee increases are largely attributed to student-initiated initiatives as well as a mandated pay plan, and room and board changes will ultimately benefit students. He voted to support the proposed budget.
“This budget is the best I’ve seen since I’ve been on the Board. It drives high quality affordable education and I’m proud to support it,” said Regent Bryan Steil.
Other budget highlights:
In accordance with the state’s biennial budget, the university’s annual operating budget includes a freeze on tuition for resident undergraduates at 2012-13 levels. Non-resident, international and graduate tuition increases approved by the Board in December 2016 will produce $34.7 million in anticipated new revenue.
Total allocable and non-allocable segregated fees will see an average $33 increase (2.6%) at four-year institutions. Much of that increase is due to major projects previously approved by the Board of Regents and the State as well as student-supported projects.
Room and board rates at the four-year institutions will increase by an average $118 (1.6%) with those increases primarily due to new and renovated residence halls, facility maintenance projects, and rising food costs.
Heather LaRoi UW System 608-265-3195 hlaroi@uwsa.edu
Aaron Seligman named Director of UW System’s Office of Educational Opportunity
UW System promotes student success, drives Wisconsin economy
Regent President Petersen calls for campaign to showcase UW System value (day 2 news summary)
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Court rules Sandy Hook families can sue gunmaker over rifle used in shooting
by: Wes Cooper
Posted: Mar 15, 2019 / 12:26 PM UTC / Updated: Mar 15, 2019 / 12:27 PM UTC
Gun-maker Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, a divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Gun control advocates touted the ruling as providing a possible roadmap for victims of other mass shootings to circumvent a long-criticized federal law that shields gun manufacturers from liability in most cases when their products are used in crimes. Gun rights supporters bashed the decision as judicial activism and overreach.
In a 4-3 decision, justices reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and overturned the ruling of a lower court judge, who said the entire lawsuit was prohibited by the 2005 federal law. The majority said that while most of the lawsuit’s claims were barred by the federal law, Remington could still be sued for alleged wrongful marketing under Connecticut law.
“The regulation of advertising that threatens the public’s health, safety, and morals has long been considered a core exercise of the states’ police powers,” Justice Richard Palmer wrote for the majority, adding he didn’t believe Congress envisioned complete immunity for gun-makers.
Several lawsuits over mass shootings in other states have been rejected because of the federal law.
The plaintiffs in Connecticut include a survivor and relatives of nine people killed in the massacre. They argue the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used by Newtown shooter Adam Lanza is too dangerous for the public and Remington glorified the weapon in marketing it to young people, including those with mental illness.
Remington, based in Madison, North Carolina, has denied wrongdoing and previously insisted it can’t be sued because of the 2005 law, called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. A Remington spokesman said Thursday the company had no comment on the court ruling.
“We have no timeline for any comments to be made on the subject,” spokesman Eric Suarez wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
James Vogts, a lawyer for Remington, has cited the 2005 federal law and previously said the Bushmaster rifle is a legal firearm used by millions of people for hunting, self-defense and target shooting.
Lanza, 20, shot his way into the locked school in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012, and killed 20 first-graders and six educators with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, similar to an AR-15. He shot his mother to death in their Newtown home beforehand and killed himself as police arrived at the school.
Connecticut’s child advocate said Lanza’s severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother’s legal weapons “proved a recipe for mass murder.”
Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan died in the shooting, said Thursday that a main goal of the lawsuit is to stop Remington and other gun makers from gearing their advertising toward troubled young men.
“We have always said our case is about reckless sales and marketing to disturbed youth,” Hockley said. “We wanted our day in court. This is a step forward to ensure that manufacturers like Remington are not allowed to keep targeting people who are at risk.”
A gun industry group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which happens to be based in Newtown, said the state Supreme Court ruling was an “overly broad interpretation” of an exception to the 2005 federal law.
“The majority’s decision today is at odds with all other state and federal appellate courts that have interpreted the scope of the exception,” the group said in a statement, adding it “respectfully disagrees with and is disappointed by the court’s majority decision.”
Connecticut Chief Justice Richard Robinson focused much of the dissenting opinion on the intent of Congress to limit gun-makers’ liability.
“Because the distastefulness of a federal law does not diminish its preemptive effect, I would affirm the judgment of the trial court striking the plaintiff’s complaint in its entirety,” Robinson wrote.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, called the ruling a victory for gun violence victims that gives momentum to an effort by him and other federal legislators to repeal the 2005 law.
“It’s a wow moment in American legal history,” he said. “It will change the legal landscape for this industry, potentially all across the country.”
Blumenthal said the ruling reminded him of early court victories against tobacco companies that led them to disclose damaging internal documents and later agree to billions of dollars in legal settlements over sickened smokers.
Joshua Koskoff, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, has said the Bushmaster rifle and other AR-15-style rifles were designed as military killing machines and should never have been sold to the public. He accuses Remington of targeting younger, at-risk males through “militaristic marketing and astute product placement in violent first-person shooter games.”
“The families’ goal has always been to shed light on Remington’s calculated and profit-driven strategy to expand the AR-15 market and court high-risk users, all at the expense of Americans’ safety,” Koskoff said Thursday. “Today’s decision is a critical step toward achieving that goal.”
The lawsuit seeks undisclosed damages.
Military-style rifles have been used in many other mass shootings, including in Las Vegas in October 2017 when 58 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
The case was watched by gun-rights supporters and gun control advocates across the country as one that could affect other cases accusing gun-makers of being responsible for mass shootings. Several groups, ranging from the NRA to emergency room doctors, submitted briefs to the court.
The 2005 federal law has been cited by other courts that rejected lawsuits against gun makers and dealers in other high-profile shooting attacks, including the 2012 Colorado movie theater shooting and the Washington, D.C., sniper shootings in 2002.
Robert J. Spitzer, chairman of political science at the State University of New York at Cortland and an expert on guns and the Second Amendment, said the Connecticut ruling runs counter to the 2005 federal law. Even though the court allowed the case to proceed, he said, there still be a very high bar for successfully suing Remington.
“The likelihood they’ll succeed is small,” he said.
Still, allowing the lawsuit to move forward means that there will be an opportunity for discovery that would unearth company documents that could be embarrassing for Remington. Since gunmakers have in recent history been shielded from litigation, company officials may have felt emboldened to openly discuss tactics, marketing strategies and other revealing details about business dealings.
Remington filed for bankruptcy reorganization last year amid years of slumping sales and legal and financial pressure over the Sandy Hook school massacre.
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China celebrate their return to international 15s rugby by winning the Asia Rugby Women's Championship Division I title on a day when India won their first ever test match.
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China have made a triumphant return to test rugby by winning the Asia Rugby Women's Championship Division I title with an emphatic 68-0 victory over their hosts the Philippines in the final, but India also had cause to celebrate after recording their first ever test victory, 21-19 over Singapore.
China, playing their first internationals since 2011 in this competition, will now progress to a play-off with Kazakhstan in the coming months, which will double as a Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 qualifier with the winner promoted to the Asia Rugby Women's Championship in 2020. That competition next year will see one team qualify directly for WRWC 2021 in New Zealand.
Chen Yuqian opened the scoring in the final, only days after scoring a hat-trick in their 59-17 win over Singapore earlier in the week as China returned to international 15s in style.
YuanYua Lu then showed excellent speed and power for their second before Yan Zhou and Weiyan Wang added further tries as China took a healthy lead into the break.
China kept the scoreboard ticking over in the second half as their bench impressed with replacement Zhaoxue Zhai crossing twice to ensure the title for her side.
World Rugby Council Member and Philippines hooker Ada Milby was proud of her side despite the defeat.
“China were a really strong side, and I wish them well on the pathway to Women’s Rugby World Cup” explained Milby. “I am proud of our girls, though, we fought right until the end. I am also proud of the fans who stuck with us throughout.
“It was not the result we wanted but it was a great tournament to be a part of. I also want to congratulate India on their first win.”
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India, playing only their fourth test match, bounced back from the disappointment of a narrow 32-27 loss to the Philippines in the semi-finals to beat Singapore at Southern Plains Stadium.
In an enthralling match, India scrum-half Sumitra Nayak kicked a penalty to claim the narrow victory in the dying minutes.
With Singapore knocking on with less than three minutes to go, India eventually ran the ball into touch to spark emotional celebrations on the sidelines as they finished third in the Asia Rugby Women’s Championship Division I.
Sweety Kumari continued her fine form in the tournament, scoring two first-half tries to set India on the way to victory after her two tries in their defeat to the Philippines.
Singapore hit back, however, with two tries of their own, but a third from India left the scores at 15-12.
India’s captain Vahbiz Bharucha then opted for a penalty which was successfully converted by Nayak before Annabel Woo Xui Ni scored her second try of the match to give Singapore the lead for the first time.
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Developers rejoice: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla are putting all their web API docs in one place
Browser makers have agreed to make Mozilla's MDN Web Docs the prime repository for information about web APIs.
By Liam Tung | October 19, 2017 -- 11:14 GMT (04:14 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
Three big browser makers have agreed to put their cross-browser documentation on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) wiki.
Mozilla's MDN Web Docs will now be home to documentation about web APIs and information on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox rather than its historic role as a resource for just Firefox. The site contains information and help for web developers covering JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and various web APIs.
Having a single repository should make it simpler for developers to access cross-browser documentation.
Representatives from Mozilla, Google, the W3C, and Samsung are now on a new MDN Product Advisory Board that aims to ensure MDN will have browser-agnostic documentation.
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In preparation for the shared repository, Mozilla in July renamed MDN to MDN Web Docs to de-emphasize "Mozilla" and reflect the site's wider relevance than its products, such as Firefox, Gecko and Add-ons. As part of the effort to make it a browser-neutral space, Mozilla separated product documentation from web documentation.
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Microsoft commits to 10-year support lifecycle for Windows 10
It's been a bad week for conspiracy theorists. As the Windows 10 launch nears, Microsoft is clearing up loose ends. Today's announcement of a 10-year support commitment for Windows 10 should remove one persistent bit of FUD from the discussion.
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Earlier this week, Microsoft published its license terms for Windows 10. Today, the company updated its support lifecycle policy for the new OS. In the process, they've cleared up the confusion over a phrase that defines the new Windows 10 servicing model.
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For Windows 10, Microsoft will continue its traditional 10-year support lifecycle. The five-year mainstream support phase begins with the release of Windows 10 on July 29, 2015, and a second five-year extended support phase begins in 2020 and extends until October 2025. (That's a few months later than July 29, 2025, because of the way Microsoft calculates support dates.)
A note to that policy qualifies the support commitment to devices where the OEM continues to support Windows 10 on that device.
Back in January, Windows boss Terry Myerson announced the new "Windows as a service" plan, using this language:
This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device - at no additional charge.
Today's announcement clears up the "supported lifetime of the device" controversy.
Here's the full text of the footnote:
** Updates are cumulative, with each update built upon all of the updates that preceded it. A device needs to install the latest update to remain supported. Updates may include new features, fixes (security and/or non-security), or a combination of both. Not all features in an update will work on all devices. A device may not be able to receive updates if the device hardware is incompatible, lacking current drivers, or otherwise outside of the Original Equipment Manufacturer's ("OEM") support period. Update availability may vary, for example by country, region, network connectivity, mobile operator (e.g., for cellular-capable devices), or hardware capabilities (including, e.g., free disk space).
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You can upgrade to Windows 10 today even on devices where the OEM does not officially support Windows 10 and has no plans to do so. If an OEM sells a device running Windows 10 today and stops delivering driver and firmware updates for it, the device will continue working and it won't stop receiving updates.
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One clue about what happens next is in that updated support lifecycle page. All other client operating systems are listed by their major version number: Windows 7, Windows 8, and so on. The new entry reads, "Windows 10, released in July 2015."
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Turbolinux to expand across Asia
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Far-east Linux distributor Turbolinux is looking to target the Indian market after achieving profitability in Japan and China.
Mitsunobu Okada, the chief financial officer of Turbolinux, told IDG that it plans to send a number of employees to India this year. The Linux distribution is already available in India via a local distributor, but there is an issue with the provision of support, Okada said.
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Southeastern Minnesota to add Veterans Court
WINONA COUNTY, Minn. (WXOW) – Many people admire the sacrifices made by those who serve in the military, but the scars left from the battles can be difficult for veterans to overcome. This leads some to a life of crime.
However, a program new to southeastern Minnesota aims to get these veterans back to the path of success.
After serving for six and a half years with the marine corps, Assistant Winona County Attorney Preston Selleck came back with a mental health disability, but he knows first hand some that had it worse, like a corporal he knew.
“[When] he would be drinking and would think people around him were Iraqi insurgents,” Selleck said. “He would attack.”
For those in similar situations in the third judicial district, the newly developed veterans court would get veterans the help and resources they need as an alternative to jail. They’d also be paired up with a veteran as a mentor.
“They are more familiar with in terms of ‘OK, there’s somebody there who is supporting me, who’s served in the military and knows what I’m going through’,” Winona County Attorney Karin Sonneman said.
That doesn’t mean it’s easy. Those in the program will have a number of drug tests as well as individual treatment plans to help fit their needs.
Advocates say some can turn to crime because of the changing of structure from the military and civilian life.
“Because they’re having that kind of issues, they start getting depressed,” Winona County Veterans Service Officer Jerry Obieglo said. “They don’t have the same sense of worth they had in the military.”
While the veterans court is being developed thanks to a grant, the impacts could have lasting effects for taxpayers.
“It will actually reduce the cost to the criminal justice system. It will reduce the costs in our local mental health system,” Sonneman explained.
The district conducted a soft launch of the program on March 1 and Selleck says it’s already making changes for one veteran.
“I talked to his probation officer after I saw him. His probation officer said he’s got a job now and tested clean,” Selleck added.
The official roll out of the program is set for October 1, 2019. The district is seeking two grants and expects both of those to be granted and received at that time.
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NDP MPs must stop being ‘friends’ with Israel
Is it appropriate for NDP Members of Parliament to be working for “greater friendship” with a country that is killing and maiming thousands of non-violent protestors?
Would it have been appropriate for any elected member of the party to be a “friend” with South Africa’s government during the apartheid era?
Victoria area MPs Randall Garrison (left) and Murray Rankin are members of the Canada Israel Interparliamentary Group (previously named Canada-Israel Friendship Group).
Garrison is vice-chair of a group designed to promote “greater friendship” and “cooperation” between the two countries’ parliaments.
The chair of the group is York Centre MP Michael Levitt, a former board member of the explicitly racist Jewish National Fund, who issued a statement blaming “Hamas incitement” for Israeli forces shooting thousands of peaceful protesters, including Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani.
The Interparliamentary Group is one of many pro-Israel lobbying organizations in Canada. In conjunction with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee, the Interparliamentary Group has hosted wine and cheese lobbying events on Parliament Hill. Three hundred parliamentarians and parliamentary staff attended their 2014 “Israeli Wine Meets Canadian Cheese” gathering in the East Block courtyard.
The group regularly meets the Israeli Ambassador and that country’s other diplomats. Representatives of the Group also regularly visit Israel on sponsored trips. For their part, Garrison and Rankin both participated in CIJA-organized trips to Israel in 2016.
The Interparliamentary Group works with its Israeli counterpart the Israel-Canada Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2016 the Group sent a delegation to the Israeli Knesset and last year they organized a joint teleconference with Israel-Canada Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group co-chairs Yoel Hasson and Anat Berko.
Last month Hasson responded to Meretz party Chairwoman Tamar Zandberg’s call for an investigation into the Israel Defense Forces’ killing of non-violent Palestinian protesters by tweeting, “there was nothing to investigate, the IDF is doing what’s necessary to defend the Gaza border.”
Chairman of the Zionist Union Knesset faction, Hasson opposed the UN resolution on a Palestinian state. When the Knesset voted to strip Arab MK Hanin Zoabi of parliamentary privileges for participating in the 2010 Gaza flotilla Hasson and MK Carmel Shama “nearly came to blows” with Zoabi and her fellow Balad party MK Jamal Zahalka. Hasson later called Zoabi a “terrorist”.
Berko is even more openly racist and anti-Palestinian. A Lieutenant-Colonel in the IDF reserves prior to her election with Likud, Berko openly disparaged African refugees. In February Israel National News reported, “Berko said that the MKs should see the suffering that African migrants have caused South Tel Aviv residents before jetting off to Rwanda” to oppose an effort to deport mostly Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to the small East African nation.
In January Berko co-sponsored a bill to bypass a High Court ruling that Israeli forces cannot use the bodies of dead Palestinian protesters as bargaining chips. The aim of the bill was to make it harder for the bodies to be given over for burial, which should happen as soon as possible under Muslim ritual, in the hopes of preventing high profile funerals. In a 2016 Knesset debate Berko make the ridiculous claim that the absence of the letter “P” in the Arabic alphabet meant Palestine did not exist since “no people would give itself a name it couldn’t pronounce.”
In response Richard Silverstein noted, “Apparently, the fact that the word is spelled and pronounced with an ‘F’ (Falastin) in Arabic seems to have escaped her. It’s worth noting, too, that according to her logic, Israeli Jews do not exist either, since there is no letter ‘J’ in Hebrew.”
Garrison and Rankin must immediately withdraw from the Canada–Israel Interparliamentary Group. If the NDP MPs refuse to disassociate themselves from the pro-Israel lobby organization, party leader Jagmeet Singh should replace them as (respectively) NDP defence and justice critics.
Israel’s slaughter in Gaza should lead to an end of the NDP’s anti-Palestinian past.
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Stories, poems, lyrics, articles & reviews.
by silverpop » Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:42 am
well besides me does anyone else have a favorite book or books?
my favorite book is Juana spanish girl in central texas signed by Pearl andrus the lady who wrote the book, she gave the signed book to my father as a gift and when he died the book came to me
15 yrs unoffically
silverpop
Location: abilene tx
Re: favorite books?
by Librtyhead » Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:15 pm
JUANA JOSEFINA CAVASOS BARNARD (1822-1906)
From the Texas Handbook Online
. Juana Cavasos Barnard, Indian captive, slaveowner, and pioneer in the area of present Somervell County, was born in Mexico to María Josefina Cavasos and was reportedly of Spanish and Italian lineage and a descendent of the Canary Islanders.qv Her family lived in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Her grandfather, Narciso Cavasos, had received the largest Spanish land grant in Texas. In 1848 she married Charles E. Barnardqv of Connecticut, considered the first permanent non-Indian settler in the area of present Somervell County. They had fourteen children, six of whom survived into adulthood. She had twenty-five grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.
On August 15, 1844, Comanche Indians raided South Texas near the Rio Grande and captured Juana, who was then eighteen. One account reports that she was held captive for seven months, while another reports three years, but Juana's own testimony suggests she may have been captive less than a month. The Comanches visited the Tehuacana Creek Trading House operated by George Barnardqv in north central Texas. Barnard traded $300 in horses and merchandise for Juana. Shortly afterwards she married George's brother Charles. Charles Barnard has been recognized as having cordial relations with various Indian tribes. Juana noted that she lived in the Somervell County area for many months without seeing a white woman.
The Barnards accumulated some wealth through landholdings, trade, and income from a gristmill. In 1849 Charles and George established a trading post to trade with Indians. Juana may have helped operate the trading post, since she stated that they kept their trading house for the Indians for fifteen or twenty years. Charles bought out George's share in 1859. That year the United States government moved the Indians from the Fort Belknap reservation to Oklahoma, and thus the Barnards' customers decreased.
Using slave labor Barnard had a mill built in 1859-60, the first building at the site of present Glen Rose. Around 1860 he was considered an extensive slave owner. Juana apparently had one or several slaves in her household, since she noted they had "plenty of Negro slaves." In 1860 their real estate was valued at $50,000 and their personal estate at $60,400. In the early 1870s Charles sold the mill for $65,000. Charles and Juana's wealth declined in the 1890s. In their last years they resided in a small log house. When Charles died in 1900, Juana sold 200 acres to her children, but the bill of sale was not to take effect until her death, probably because she would have been homeless otherwise.
Juana and Charles were considered social leaders. Juana acted as a midwife and had some skill with medicinal herbs. She was reportedly an excellent horsewoman, and at the ripe age of seventy-eight she still maintained a garden. She was one of the few Spanish-Mexican women known to be an Indian captive, and she gave oral testimony to her granddaughter Verdie Barnard Alison in 1900, entitled "My Life with the Indians." In it she discussed the day of her capture and described the violent deaths she witnessed. She noted that she was captured for purposes of trade. Juana is the subject of Juana, A Spanish Girl in Central Texas by Pearl Andrus, a fictional account based on interviews with descendants and research. Juana Cavasos Barnard died of natural causes on February 1, 1906.
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by silverpop » Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:36 pm
yes that is the girl that the book is about
by Millennium » Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:50 pm
Right now I'm reading "The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc" by Douglas Brinkley. It's about US Army Rangers and D-Day.
and my latest is "Liberty and Tyranny" from Mark Levin....He sent it to me personally, autographed and all.
Save America, IMPEACH OBAMA! And continue tossing out the deadbeat Democrats that are currently in office.
by Brian » Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:44 pm
I'm also a fan of The Fountainhead
"I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Makes you talk a little lower
About the things you could not show her."
-- Counting Crows, "A Long December"
by Librtyhead » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:14 pm
[quote="Brian"]The Catcher in the Rye
Fun book!
" I just broke a nail, getting out of a cab" she said. She looked up at me and sort of smiled.
She had a terrifically nice smile. She really did. most people have hardly any smile at all, or a lousy one. "Ernest's father and I sometimes worry about him," she said. "we sometimes feel that he is not a terribly good mixer."
"How do you mean?"
"Well. he's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys. Perhaps he takes things a little more seriously than he should at his age."
Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat.
Salinger
by ademrock » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:56 am
My favorite books are Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, Lolita, he Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Hamlet and The Great Gatsby.
ademrock
by MADNOTBAD » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:18 pm
http://white-history.com/
Authur, Historian, Arthur Kemp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvEBS26p78
MADNOTBAD
by Saint » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:58 pm
Favorite book? MINE!!!
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LOL. I probably just busted about ten board rules right there. But oh well! Seriously try these books:
"Papillon" by Henri Charierre (It's fantastically more complex and better than the movie.)
"This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin - The Day of the Dolpin guy writes the best computer-run brave new world book ever.
"Earth Abides" by Stewart - This is the end all, be all of end of the world disaster books. Makes "The Stand" seem like pretentious Sesame Street babble.
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July 18, 2012 The Adams County Record
Page 2 Our leaders Dear Editor, GOP Successes: -Voted in block against Democrat proposals. None were of value to Americans. Check.* -Voted in block against Presidential appoint- ments. None were quali- fied. Check. -Threatened to filibuster any Democratic bills in Senate to prevent passage. Check. -Embarrass the President on every occa- sion, in every way. Check. -Continue to insist that Barack Obama is not an American. Check. -Continue to appeal for money, because Obama has more? Check. -Continue to insist Barack Obama is a Muslim. Check. -Insure Barack Obama is not reelected. Pending. *Item number one must be qualified. A trans- portation bill and a bill to help college students was voted for by most Republicans, because they affect crucial voting "Obamacare" is Dear Editor, It's interesting that the editor doesn't know that this guest opinion is not the first letter proclaim- ing the liberal slant by any means. I find it fascinat- ing that people on the left continue to twist the facts on Obamacare to suit their fantasy. It is in fact the biggest tax increase in history thanks to the con- voluted opinion of Chief Justice Roberts who stated "the shared responsibility payment merely imposes a tax citizens may lawfully Choose to pay in lieu of buying health insurance http:/ /www.forbes.com/ sites/gracemarieturn- er/2012/07/12/seeking- to-preserve-obamacare- chief-justice-roberts-evis- Wednesday, July 18, 2012 gd42o.'s HaXUm00 should represent all the people groups. Looking over these Republican accomplish- ments has me thinking about the President of the United States. Do we want a Republican President or a Democratic President, or perish the thought, an American President? The President of this nation should represent all the people, not just millionaires, or blacks, or Christians. This is an incredibly dif- ficult task because of our political system. What is expected of Mitt Romney by the people who have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his election campaign? What is expected of Barack Obama? The answer to the lat- ter two questions are sim- ple. People want some- thing -- lower taxes for the wealthy, elimination or more health care for the poor and middle class. Others want this nation to become a Christian or Islamic nation where a sin is a crime. Others want this nation to become more Socialist with the government acting as a parent. What will a President do or try to do? Very complex question. First he must repay his sup- porters with appoint- ments, and positions of power. Then he will try to fulfill his campaign promises, which anyone looking at our political- , divided nation knows / nearly impossible. So what will he actually do? Probably he will try to compromise which is in itself difficult to accom- plish. 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MAPK12
Gene Name: mitogen-activated protein kinase 12
Aliases: ERK-6, ERK3, ERK6, MAPK 12, P38GAMMA, PRKM12, SAPK-3, SAPK3
Gene Score:
This gene was originally identified as an ASD candidate gene based on its enrichment in an autism-associated protein interaction module; sequencing of post-mortem brain tissue from 25 ASD cases resulted in the identification of significant non-synonymous variants in this gene with an expected false-positive rate at 0.1, confirming the involvement of this module with autism (Li et al., 2014).
Serine/threonine kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway and plays a role in myoblast differentiation.
Integrated systems analysis reveals a molecular network underlying autism spectrum disorders.
p.His231Tyr
Gene Aliases: ERK3; ERK6; SAPK3; PRKM12; SAPK-3; P38GAMMA
Total Interactions: 6
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GTF2I general transcription factor IIi 2969 P78347 Y2H
Wang J , et al. 2011
MAPK13 mitogen-activated protein kinase 13 5603 O15264 IP; LC-MS/MS
MYLK3 Myosin light chain kinase 3 91807 Q32MK0 IP; LC-MS/MS
PARP11 poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase family, member 11 57097 Q9NR21 IP; LC-MS/MS
SIAH1 seven in absentia homolog 1 (Drosophila) 6477 Q8IUQ4 Y2H; bimolecular fluorescence complementation assay
Rolland T , et al. 2014
Mir200c microRNA 200c 723944 RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP)/microarray; Luciferase reporter assay; Ectopic expression/qRT-PCR
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Exhibition at S.M.A.K. includes about 200 works from the collection
Verlust der Mitte. Curated by Christoph Büchel, S.M.A.K. The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium, 2017 Photo: Dirk Pauwels, S.M.A.K. 2017.
GHENT.- On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, S.M.A.K. is presenting The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future. This exhibition includes about 200 works from the collection and, like the opening in 1999, it will occupy the whole museum. In this exhibition, S.M.A.K. wants to look mainly at the present and the future.
The exhibition is intended to make use of art history and the DNA of the S.M.A.K. collection as an undercurrent in gauging how the museum and art position themselves in todays social reality and art scene. The works are not displayed chronologically and are not shown only for their possible iconic significance. Well-known classics, outstanding newer works and also recent additions to the collection are to be used to show the position of the museum and of art in contemporary reality and to make new links with other, sometimes surprising and less well-known works in the collection.
The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future starts out expressly from the present-day conclusion that it is currently impossible to capture the social reality and the art world in one overarching linear storyline or concept. Inspired partly by the architecture of the S.M.A.K. building, the exhibition has been divided into seven sub-presentations, each of which spotlights a number of current trends in society and/or the art world and illustrates them with works from the museum collection.
In addition to these proposed guidelines, the exhibition is intended in the first place to be a generous hand extended to the visitor. Visitors are warmly invited to immerse themselves in the labyrinth of contemporary art and to discover for themselves possible connections between the various artworks from the museums collection.
Under the title MSK & S.M.A.K., Back & forth, three key works from the S.M.A.K. collection are temporarily returned to the place for which they were created or first exhibited: the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK). This is part of a long-term initiative, launched in 2017, whereby S.M.A.K. and the MSK join forces to highlight and renew the historical interconnectedness of the two museums. Panamarenkos The Aeromodeller will be shown in the hemicycle of the MSK, where it was presented in 1980 as part of the seminal exhibition Art in Europe after 68. Wirtschaftswerte returns to the gallery for which Joseph Beuys originally conceived the work, also as part of the aforementioned exhibition. Le Décor et son double by Daniel Buren will be shown where it was first exhibited during Chambres dAmis in 1986. On the first Thursday of every month, both S.M.A.K. and the MSK will hold a joint museum nocturne and stay open late. The private part of Burens Le Décor et son double, which belongs to the Herbert Foundation collection, will be open to the public one Thursday a month during the exhibition.
Lastly, the underlying dimension of The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future is as the title suggests the need to create a proper building for contemporary art in Ghent so that the collection can be permanently displayed and housed under the best circumstances both in the museum and the reserves. In this sense, this exhibition in the present museum building is a bridge between the past with the presentation of three works in the MSK and the future; a new, full-fledged accommodation for these highlights of the S.M.A.K. collection both old and new.
With works by Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Harold Ancart, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Salam Atta Sabri, Kader Attia, Sven Augustijnen, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, John Baldessari, Miroslaw Balka, Artur Barrio, Massimo Bartolini, Gaston Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Guillaume Bijl, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Pierre Bismuth, Marinus Boezem, Michaël Borremans, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Ricardo Brey, Marcel Broodthaers, stanley brouwn, Daniel Buren, Kathe Burkhart, Nina Canell, Chuck Close, Leo Copers, N. Dash, Franky D.C, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Thierry De Cordier, Raoul De Keyser, Johan De Wilde, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Luc Deleu, Wim Delvoye, Nikolaas Demoen, Jim Dine, Peter Downsbrough, Rein Dufait, Lili Dujourie, Marlene Dumas, Sam Durant, Joana Escoval, Jan Fabre, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Christoph Fink, Mekhitar Garabedian, Tatjana Gerhard, Jef Geys, Vincent Geyskens, Joris Ghekiere, Adrian Ghenie, Robert Gober, Zvi Goldstein, Raymond Hains, András Halász, Hamza Halloubi, David Hammons, Karin Hanssen, Heide Hinrichs, David Hockney, Ann Veronica Janssens, Joachim Koester, Surasi Kusolwong, Annika Larsson, Louise Lawler, Lee Kit, Jac Leirner, Bernd Lohaus, Jorge Macchi, Mark Manders, Werner Mannaers, Danny Matthys, Bjarne Melgaard, Henri Michaux, François Morellet, Oscar Murillo, Bruce Nauman, Carsten Nicolai, Sophie Nys, Oswald Oberhuber, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Henrik Olesen, Meret Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Manfred Pernice, Urs Pfannenmüller, Nicolas Provost, Royden Rabinowitch, Jean Pierre Raynaud, Gerhard Richter, Meggy Rustamova, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Michael E. Smith, Nedko Solakov, Bart Stolle, Tove Storch, Walter Swennen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Javier Téllez, Robert Therrien, Sven 't Jolle, Narcisse Tordoir & Vincent Geyskens, Luc Tuymans, Adam Vackar, Englebert Van Anderlecht, Rinus Van de Velde, Koen van den Broek, Jan Van Imschoot, Herman Van Ingelgem, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Philippe Van Snick, Richard Venlet, Verlust der Mitte, Henk Visch, Wolf Vostell, Lois Weinberger, James Welling, Jordan Wolfson, Zhang Peili and Gilberto Zorio.
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