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by John Coleat12:59 pm on March 13, 2011 . It has 68 Comments.
I know it is not the mature thing to do, but the events in Japan are so horrifying that I just don’t even want to watch the coverage of it any more. For me, the worst is thinking about all the people swept out to sea. I know it happened during the daytime, but surely there were people who were asleep, woke to the crashing of the earthquake and were pinned in the rubble, and then just lay there helpless, crushed by a building, waiting for the water to come in and drown them and carry them out to sea. The whole thing is just awful. The only worse death that I can think of is being burned at the stake or maybe being killed in a mudslide, suffocating on mud.
This post is in Open Threads.
The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik says:
Morning to you too, sunshine.
Richard S says:
Agreed – if there’s worse please don’t remind me.
Feh. Is moderation like this the norm for all name changes, if you use the same email?
This is the best post I have read about Japan.
MTiffany says:
There’s nothing immature about knowing one’s limits. If you’ve had your fill of trauma, carnage, and misery, take a break. Getting yourself worked up over a situation about which you can do nothing benefits no one.
The important thing, according to Larry Kudlow, the human toll is greater the economic damage.
HeartlandLiberal says:
We have two friends in Japan with whom my wife has been exchanging email.
We are not religious, and one of them knows that, she and her family practice a lose participation in Shinto.
But she emailed back to my wife at one point and pointedly asked ‘that we pray for her family’.
I think transcending any particular religion or non-religion.
Japan has suffered an unimaginable catastophe. Go find the YouTube video of the tsunami engulfing Sendai and the airport that was put under water. It is simply unbelievable.
I had exactly the same feeling watching 9/11 coverage, thinking about the people that jumped rather than face the fire. It’s just so fucking horrifying. Nothing wrong with a break.
Reader of the Most Depressing Blog Evah, Formerly known as Chad N Freude says:
@The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik: Apparently.
Cathie from Canada says:
I know, I had the same nightmares after Katrina.
And after the Towers fell.
I have read that its a kind of PTSD, unique to our televised world, that we reach the point where every time we close our eyes we visualize their experience.
@ John Cole
That is how I felt after sept 11, knowing there were people trapped and helpless under the rubble, with no hope, dying when they ran out of oxygen or dying from lack of water and food. That was a heavy weight that hung over me; I couldn’t shake it for weeks.
Loneoak says:
Actually, the people who were trapped in the burning houses swept out to sea might have it worst.
stuckinred says:
Iris DeMent FWIW
Now I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening news:
There’s a half a dozen tragedies from which to pick and choose.
The baby that was missing was found in a ditch today.
And there’s bombs a’flying and people dying not so far away.
And I’ll take a beer from the ‘fridgerator,
And go sit out in the yard and with a cold one in my hand,
I’m gonna bite down and swallow hard.
Because I’m older now: I’ve got no time to cry.
I’ve got no time to look back, I’ve got no time to see,
The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me.
And if the feeling starts to coming, I’ve learned to stop ’em fast.
`Cause I don’t know, if I let ’em go, they might not wanna pass.
And there’s just so many people trying to get me on the phone.
And there’s bills to pay, and songs to play,
And a house to make a home.
I guess I’m older now and I’ve got no time to cry.
soonergrunt says:
@John Cole
I know it is not the mature thing to do, but the events in Japan are so horrifying that I just don’t even want to watch the coverage of it any more.
That is perfectly normal and nothing to feel immature or ashamed about. This is a tragedy of mind-bending proportions, and a person can only take so much before needing a break.
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.
The Dangerman says:
Gotta focus on things that can be controlled; for example, a team of elite rescuers left LA County shortly after returning from New Zealand. Firemen, medics, dogs, equipment, logistics (they are self contained; all food, water, etc).
So, next time a Republican wants to cut the budget of these teams to balance out the tax cuts, give them a heartier than normal “Fuck you”. That’s under your control.
@Davis X. Machina: smile when you say that!
@Villago Delenda Est: Has that asshole said anything since then? Anything even remotely redeeming by any chance?
You need to think bigger John. Like TMI, this will cause more coal plants to get built while the DFH’s talk about sunshine energy, accelerate AGW, and result in hundreds of millions of deaths by starvation sooner.
Genine says:
There’s nothing wrong with knowing your limits, John. In this particular case, I’d say fuck maturity.
You have to be careful with that, though. It’s powerful. You go too far with it and you’ll regress into Tea Partyism.
Moderation is key.
@Genine:
At the rate things are going, John’ll probably end up tipping toward the other side of the scale like I have, into outright nihilism.
Jim, Foolish Literalist says:
Seems like the last ten years have been a constant grind, one brick after another dropping on our heads: 9/11, Iraq, the Tsunami, Katrina, financial wreckage, Haiti, now another earthquake tsunami with the potential for nuclear disaster, and that overlooks draughts, wildfires, civil wars, major acts of terrorism, political malfeasance foreign and domestic … it’s exhausting.
GregB says:
In an OT that won’t really make you feel any better.
State Dept. spokesman PJ Crowley is being forced out for pointing out that the US torture regimen is now being applied to members of the US military.
WarMunchkin says:
Places I had visited less than a week ago, I can now see pictures of burning. I was lucky to get out just a few hours before the earthquake, but the one thing I cannot stand is the entertainment nature of the news in general (The contrast is pretty easily seen having been abroad for a while and just got back). I can’t watch the coverage of it anymore. Luckily the people I worked with weren’t harmed.
eemom says:
I did see a report somewhere in the last few minutes that an elderly Japanese man who was swept out to sea clinging to the rubble of his house was rescued and is doing just fine.
The bright spots do not alleviate the darkness, but there they are.
John, I think I totally get what you’re saying here. For much the same reasons, I have watched NONE of the news channels or network coverage about the quake/tsunami, just a few amateur videos on Youtube.
I decided that past that, I was just gawking. Horrid, horrid things happen all over the world every day; if I choose to immerse myself in the horror and not keep my face toward the light most of the time I will spiral into a dark place I might not come back from.
BUT…I think a good corrective to the feeling of black hopelessness is to reach out and help somebody somewhere, even if just donating money, even if it is someone down the block instead of someone in Japan.
The quake/tsunami coverage is just a ratings booster for the msm anyway; I’d rather not be a part of the reason they make more money this quarter because of another disaster.
Meanwhile, of course, they are almost completely ignoring the carnage and suffering occuring daily in our two wars.
Your feelings make perfect sense, John, and your reaction is not immature.
I know humor is used to deflect the pain, but the Godzilla jokes are sticking in my craw something terrible.
JenJen says:
@GregB: Just saw that.
Cole totally called Crowley’s firing.
Hawes says:
Given how breathlessly inane the news channels are, all I can do is check the AP feed and see if we have a nuclear meltdown on our hands.
You’re right, there can be few worse deaths. I read about a mother who had her daughter pulled from her hands in the torrent. There can be few worse survivals.
bkny says:
@Loneoak: the image that has haunted me the most was one of the first of what looked like an entire neighborhood had been dislodged and were floating out to sea.
metalgirl says:
We’re having a lovely, sunny, mid-70s day in central NC and I’m not turning on the news or spending too much time looking at pictures of the destruction in Japan. One thing I can do (and did) is give some money to the Red Cross to help those effected in Japan. You can too: http://american.redcross.org/s.....G000000000
I’m spending the day pruning trees, prepping my raised beds for planting, and catching up on outside chores since the weather is going to turn cooler this week. If anyone finds out about other things we can do to help the Japanese, let us know.
BruceK says:
At least there’s some good news here and there. Know someone who’s been teaching English in the city of Kamaishi; word got to her family 2 days later that she was safe and sound. The pre-shocks in the several days before may have primed people to be ready to run; it couldn’t have hurt that the event happened in mid-afternoon.
And via the comments on Scalzi’s blog: the quake was apparently powerful enough to move the entire island of Honshu eight feet to the east. The miracle’s that so much is intact.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine says:
John – this guy probably experienced what you just described, but lived to tell to the tale.
YellowJournalism says:
Last night a relative started up the Nostradamus talk in relation to the losses in Japan. Personally, I have more respect for someone like Cole who says they have taken in all they can of the coverage than for those who start up the end-of-the-world talk like it’s speculation on the Super Bowl. Being more concerned with how this proves Nostradamus was a prophet than about the actual human, environmental, and economic (in that order, please) devastation is trite and insensitive, not to mention extremely idiotic.
ThresherK says:
I consider it to be very mature. My parents talked about hanging onto every dispatch from Murrow in London. My grandparents may well have paid attention to every cable about the Titanic. Back then we didn’t have the technology to overwhelm ourselves immediately about natural and man-made havoc.
But in this age the line between “coverage” and “total submersion” is easily crossed. Another three hours of watching it on TV will not necessarily make you better informed or understanding, so pushing your limits can well serve no purpose.
piratedan says:
http://www.blogforarizona.com/.....f1a970d-pi
kinda sums things up a bit
parsimon says:
@Tim:
I decided that past that, I was just gawking.
Agreed with everything you say. I’ve occasionally felt somehow irresponsible for not breathlessly following every step of the way, but no: really, it feels like gawking, for me personally. I can read news stories as readily as I can watch footage, and I’m already fully horrified and near to tears.
I wound up doing the same sort of mainstream news avoidance with Katrina and 9/11. There’s a sense in which, at least for me, watching too much has an anaesthetizing effect, which I want to avoid: it’s not a Hollywood disaster flick, however much the msm will default to that presentation.
FoxinSocks says:
It’s horrible and I haven’t watched the TV news at all. It’s just too stupid and despite the videos they keep throwing at us, I’m having trouble finding context. Have been going to this blog, BBC and Mother Jones for that. The difference is amazing.
I do try to keep my spirits up by reminding myself how amazing it is that more people weren’t killed. The death toll will be high, but in the past in Japan, lesser earthquakes have killed hundreds of thousands. The fact is, the Japanese have an Earthquake warning system (I didn’t even know those existed!), they got about 15 seconds warning before the shaking began that they were going to be hit with a major, major earthquake. In terms of ducking and covering, you can do a lot in 15 seconds.
Then they had some warning of the tsunami, it seems 15 minutes to an hour, though the timeline is still fuzzy to me. Again, not much, but that warning clearly did save thousands of lives.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal says:
i basically can’t deal with the onslaught of can-you-top-this devastation porn.
i realize there is genuine news about the tragedy, but my ability to act, is limited to donations, which i have made, along side my ongoing donations to haiti.
And while we’re open threading, let me root openly for the Delaware Blue Hens. They are playing for the CAA berth in the tournament against the Lady Dukes of JMU, who yesterday beat the Lady Rams of VCU.
A very partial list of odd afterthought womens’ nicknames counts at least Lady Knights, Lady Friars, Lady Peacocks, Lady Gamecocks, Lady Bulls, Lady Minutemen, Lady Cavaliers, Lady Pirates, Lady Spartans, Lady Vikings and Lady Titans.
Credit where it’s due for avoiding this to the USC Ladies of Troy and Okla State Cowgirls.
@ThresherK:
Hello Ruby in the dust
has your band begun to rust?
@Villago Delenda Est:
Your quote isn’t grammatically clear, VDE:
Did Kudlow mean to say that the “important thing” was that the human toll was greater (in which case he is right – and should be commended), or that the economic damage was more important (in which case he should be shipped to Japan ASAP and used as a plug for the reactor vessel at Fukushima Daiichi #3)?
Comrade Luke says:
It’s depressing, and while at first I soaked up the coverage from everywhere (I have a friend whose family and friends are in Japan), it got to the point that I was just numb from all the “information”. And I put information in quotes because so much of it is either repetitive or flat-out exaggeration that before too long you just have to turn off the spigot, take a breath and come back later when things are more sorted out.
The other thing that bothers me – though it shouldn’t, because it’s not a surprise – is that there have been so, so many things going on in the last few months around the world, and in every case the source of the best news was via a foreign news service. Be it BBC, NHK, Al Jazeera English or any of the others, the sad fact is that US news coverage amounts to little more than flying in Anderson Cooper and having him report from the scene in a nice jacket.
If you need real information, you have to go outside the US to get it.
Ruckus says:
@Comrade Luke:
Could that be because we don’t for the most part have information organizations but propaganda bureaus?
Uncle Clarence Thomas says:
Fortunately, President Obama decided to fund more U.S. nuclear power plants, so there is no danger that anything will go wrong.
John Emerson says:
“Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
Don’t stop her, she’s on a roll.
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: I wonder if you have any idea of how many more people, including me, who would actually read your comments if you got rid of the dots you use for styling. You might consider trying it.
@The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik:
My heart goes out to those suffering through this natural disaster. Hopefully everyone will pull through, this nuclear plant issue can be resolved in a good way and people can begin to heal.
On the home front, I know things seem bleak. But as Rob Brezsny says this is just the roar of old dinosaurs as they die.
@MTiffany: That’s how I feel. Horrified, and not wanting to read more about it. Nothing I do can help right now. I said a little prayer/shout out/what have you, and when someone tells me where the best place to send money is [Red Cross??] I’ll do that too. But I do not want to freak out over a nuclear holocaust or the apocalypse. That was already a sort of background hum to my whole childhood, and I’m not seeing how it helps.
That is terrible. I can’t get over all of those people who were in their cars and had nowhere to go. Awful. Just awful.
trollhattan says:
It get’s better and better. We always wondered what would be the outcome had the Alaska ’64 quake happened somewhere more populated. We have the answer.
A former adviser on radiation to the UK government, Dr Christopher Busby, has told the BBC the situation at the nuclear plants is extremely serious. “Particularly concerning is the [Fukushima] number three reactor which I understand is in trouble now, because… it runs on a different sort of fuel; it doesn’t run on uranium, it runs on a mixed uranium plutonium fuel, and plutonium is an extremely serious hazard so if this stuff comes out then it’s going to make what’s happened so far, in terms of the tsunami damage, look a little bit like an entrée to the real course.”
Didn’t know until looking at this map that Japan is part of North America.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.....en.svg.png
We get a hunk of Russia too, for which I have no Sarah Palin joke at the moment.
Rarely Posts says:
If these are the worst deaths that you can imagine, never study the medieval era or the crusades in detail. Humanity is capable of depths of cruelty that are almost unfathomable.
Which is not to diminish the horror of this situation, which is heartbreaking. It’s actually meant as advice to protect your peace of mind.
PeakVT says:
@trollhattan: Some scientists propose chopping the globe into more pieces, so Japan may (or may not) be on a separate plate.
When women’s athletics started at USC, there was an idea floated to name the women’s teams the Helens, but that was rejected because there was (and still is) a sorority-run community service organization called the Helenes. Thus, Women of Troy.
On the other hand, all of the teams at Pomona-Pitzer, men’s and women’s, are the Sagehens.
@burnspbesq: Is there a male gender equivalent to Sagehen? Sage Grouses? Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.
@PeakVT:
Guess they’ll have a lot more data to ponder after all these quakes. Think I read Honshu moved eight feet horizontally.
Sage rooster? Sage cock? Sage dressing?
@trollhattan:
Think I read Honshu moved eight feet horizontally.
I read thirteen feet, but yeah, it moved quite a bit in geological terms.
Sage dressing?
Now yer just bragging.
Arclite says:
My wife is very upset with the Japanese coverage, which she says is continually running sensationalistic clips of the tsunami destroying everything instead of focusing on the people and helping families reunite and the rescue effort.
I think I got the eight feet (2.4m) figure from USGS. More impressive than Honshu’s displacement is the Japan Plate moving 20 meters:
Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee estimates Friday’s devastating earthquake forced the tectonic plate on which Japan sits to spring eastward by about 20 meters.
Sixteen experts including professor emeritus of Tokyo University Katsuyuki Abe analyzed tectonic movements in the focal zone of the Friday quake, at the second ad hoc meeting at the Education and Science Ministry.
The committee also estimates the focal zone may span from waters off the northern Sanriku coast of Tohoku region to part of the Boso Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. The committee says the zone is about 400 kilometers long and 200 kilometers wide.
The researchers also say the quake caused some parts of Iwate through Fukushima prefectures to sink a maximum of about 75 centimeters.
The land remains submerged, even after the tsunami subsided.
@John Emerson: Coming in way late here, but: Emerson! Hello.
One thing my wife is commenting on in the Japanese coverage is the competence and professionalism of the US Navy in providing assistance to the stricken area. The USS Ronald Reagan is parked off the Miyagi prefecture coast. They are running constant sorties bringing supplies from the ships as well as using the helos to rescue and transport stranded groups of people. Also the destroyers in the task force are searching for people swept out to sea.
Mnemosyne (iPod Touch) says:
If you’re able to watch any video at all, you’re doing better than I am. I managed to hold it together on Friday just until I got home from work — I started crying right as I pulled in the garage.
John - A Motley Moose says:
I know I’m really late to this thread and that my comment will probably go unnoticed, but I couldn’t let this go without commenting.
You must have a really weak imagination if this is the worst death you can imagine. Try dying from a long debilitating disease, like Lou Gherig’s (ALS) or any other death that takes months or years to come to completion. I’d take a quick death like getting killed in a tsunami any day.
After I heard about the nuclear leaks I got the weird feeling that we were THIS close to Pat Robertson blaming Japan’s femnists and anime for this disaster. With his history of saying fucked up things, I know he won’t disappoint me.
Sharl says:
@BruceK:
the quake was apparently powerful enough to move the entire island of Honshu eight feet to the east.
…is incorrect, although the assessment is plenty dramatic as it was actually written:
Dr. Daniel McNamara, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told The Huffington Post that the disaster left a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted Japan’s coast by eight feet in some parts, though McNamara was quick to explain much of the coast likely didn’t move as far.
McNamara found the way in which the quake actually sank the elevation of the country’s terrain to be more troublesome than coastal shifting. “You see cities still underwater; the reason is subsidence,” he said. “The land actually dropped, so when the tsunami came in, it’s just staying.”
Then there’s the predictions that the earthquake shifted the earth’s “figure axis” (the axis around which the Earth is balanced by mass).
See? Things are plenty impressive as it is, without shifting entire big-ass islands by 8′.
Earthquake News Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh…
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WMC optimistic about life after Frees
Glenn P. GrahamTHE BALTIMORE SUN
WESTMINSTER -- The most common question directed to Western Maryland College head football coach Dale Sprague this preseason will undoubtedly regard life for the Green Terrors after All-America running back Eric Frees.
And while Sprague will tell you how much Frees meant to the program and the impact he had on Division III football (second place on the all-time Division III career rushing list with 5,281 yards), you can sense the seven-year mentor itching to talk about the 81 players who are in camp this year.
Itching to talk about the 19 starters back from last year's 5-5 squad, the return of tailback Rob Johnson after a one year absence and WMC's fine recruiting season.
It has left Sprague "wicked optimistic" about the upcoming season, set to start Sept. 13 at Albright.
"Our main focus this season will be taking them one at a time," Sprague said. "It starts with fundamentals, techniques, everyone learning the system and then it's Albright."
Offensively, Sprague plans to spread the wealth to offset the loss of Frees (1,545 yards rushing with 15 touchdowns in 1991) and wide receiver Andy Steckel (34 catches for 776 yards and eight TDs) -- the only two offensive starters not back this year.
The Green Terrors again will emphasize the running game, where Johnson and sophomore tailback Mark Vergalito will join junior quarterback Paul McCord in the backfield to run behind an experienced line anchored by co-captain senior offensive tackle Paul Picchierri.
"We're going to put more emphasis on the option and try to get outside a bit more," Sprague said.
"Tailback is the prime position with Johnson and Vergalito both back there. We'll spread the carries around a little more this season."
Johnson, a 5-foot-8, 165-pound junior, accumulated more than 2,100 all-purpose yards in the 1989 and 1990 seasons before leaving school for personal reasons after his sophomore year. After his one-year departure, he says he's hungry to get back in pads.
"I don't feel any pressure trying to replace Eric," the North Carroll grad said. "We have a great offen sive line, Paul [McCord] is a great QB and Mark also is a great runner. I just want to do whatever it takes to have a great season."
Vergalito carried the ball 60 times last year for 263 yards playing behind Frees. Freshman Gerry Gatelein could see some time at tailback as well.
Sprague is looking for McCord to come into his own this season.
The 6-foot-4, 212-pound University of Delaware transfer stepped into the starting lineup last year despite missing the first week of practice. He also had an ankle injury that slowed him during the season.
"We're looking for him to take a step up from last year," Sprague said. "Paul got better and better throughout the year and he has to be ready from the start this season."
The Green Terrors will employ a medium-range passing game with McCord throwing to a variety of receivers. Sophomores Alan Pietkiewicz and Butch Schaffer are among the four returning lettermen at wide receiver.
With 10 starters returning and 19 lettermen back on defense, it looks like opponents will have a tough time scoring points against the Green Terrors.
It all starts up front, where Sprague believes he has "as strong a line as any in the league."
Nose guard Adam Gregori was the only freshman to earn a spot on the Centennial Football Conference all-star team last season, making 71 tackles, including a team-high 20 for losses.
"He can't be single blocked, at least not all the time," Sprague said.
That should leave plenty of opportunity for returning linemen Seth Obetz (senior co-captain), and juniors Robert Rimmel and Tim Smith.
Junior Trevor Sellers will anchor the linebacking group, while junior Gary Carter leads the secondary at his free safety spot.
"Our goal is to allow 10 points or less this season," Gregori said.
"Last year, you could almost count on the offense to put up 20 to 25 points a game. With Eric Frees and Andy Steckel gone, we feel a little more pressure on the defense and we like the pressure."
The punting duties will belong to McCord, who last year averaged 38.3 yards a punt to earn him all-conference status. The place-kicking job remains up for grabs.
It all leaves Sprague and his team eager to get on the field.
"There's no one on our schedule we can't beat," Sprague said. "And if we don't play well, there isn't anyone out there who can't beat us."
"When you talk about the CFC, it all starts at Carlisle [Pa.] where Dickinson has a heck of a football team and has dominated the conference the past five years. I would say [Franklin & Marshall], Western Maryland and Hopkins are also in the picture and I wouldn't hesitate to throw in Gettysburg."
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Incident & Breach Response , Network Firewalls, Network Access Control , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development
Juniper Devices Are Under Attack
Crypto Backdoor Leaves Banks, Businesses, Government Agencies at Risk Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • December 28, 2015
Devices sold by Juniper Networks are being actively targeted by attackers using a hardcoded password in the technology giant's ScreenOS firmware that researchers publicly revealed on Dec. 20 (see Who Backdoored Juniper's Code?).
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The attacks follow Juniper first warning Dec. 17 that it had discovered "unauthorized code" that introduced two vulnerabilities into ScreenOS - a crypto flaw dating from 2012, and a hardcoded password dating from 2013. The firmware is used to run Juniper devices designed to provide firewalls and virtual public networks. And the vulnerabilities - patched Dec. 17 by Juniper - are a concern because numerous industries, including government agencies and the financial services sector, rely on Juniper devices for network defense.
Security experts recommend that any organization that uses affected Juniper devices drop everything and patch the vulnerable devices immediately. "The 'backdoor' password is now known, and exploitation is trivial at this point," says Johannes Ullrich, dean of research for the SANS Institute, in a blog post. "Addressing this issue today is critical."
Attackers are already gunning for the hardcoded password. "We do continue to see an increasing trend in login attempts to our [SSH] honeypot using the backdoor password," Ullrich says. "We do not know what the attackers are up to, but some of the attacks appear to be 'manual' in that we do see the attacker trying different commands."
Who Backdoored the Backdoor?
Juniper first warned Dec. 17 that an internal code review discovered "unauthorized code in ScreenOS that could allow a knowledgeable attacker to gain administrative access to NetScreen devices" via SSH or telnet. The vulnerability has been designated as CVE-2015-7755. And Juniper also warned that a separate flaw - CVE-2015-7756, which predates the first - could potentially "allow a knowledgeable attacker who can monitor VPN traffic to decrypt that traffic."
The backdoor-password flaw is straightforward: it can be used to give attackers access to vulnerable devices. But security experts and cryptographers are still attempting to unravel the implications of the VPN flaw, which Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg, says appears to have been the basis for a "backdoored backdoor."
By that, he means that one attacker appears to have added the VPN crypto vulnerability in the firmware. Subsequently, the hardcoded password appeared in the firmware, and could have been added by the same attack group, or a different one. In the latter - hypothetical - scenario, for example, the NSA could have added the VPN vulnerability, and a Russian intelligence agency might have added the backdoor password to make it easier to exploit the VPN flaw.
Can VPN Flaw Decrypt Historical Traffic?
Ullrich says it's not yet clear whether the VPN vulnerability must be exploited in real time, or if attackers could simply intercept and store the traffic - perhaps in the victim's own network - and decrypt it at a future date. "The reason that makes a difference is that an attacker may already have recorded traffic out of your network, that they exfiltrated years ago. They could now go back and decrypt that traffic," he says.
The Juniper software flaws could allow attackers to decrypt previously intercepted communications, warns Johannes Ullrich from the SANS Institute.
Danger: Weak Random-Number Generator
Analyzing the ScreenOS firmware, multiple cryptographers report that one problem with the VPN technology is that Juniper has been employing the random-number generator called Dual-EC. And they have been at a loss to explain why, since many security experts believe that the U.S. National Security Agency designed Dual-EC so that it could provide the agency with backdoor access, by generating numbers that weren't random enough.
"Pretty much every cryptographic system depends on a secure random number generator," John Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew Green says in a blog post. "These algorithms produce the unpredictable random bits that are consumed by cryptographic protocols. The key word in this description is unpredictable: if an attacker can predict the output of your RNG, then virtually everything you build on it will end up broken." That includes VPNs, which are designed to encrypt communications from one side of a VPN connection to another, for example between banks or government agencies.
"If an attacker can predict the output of the [pseudo random-number generator] then they can know the keys that one or both sides of a VPN connection will choose, and decrypt it," says Adam Langley, a Google senior staff software engineer, in a blog post.
Juniper is an Intelligence Target
Many security experts have noted that they have seen no evidence yet that documents who might have added the backdoors to Juniper's code. The NSA is an obvious potential culprit. Then again, anyone might have hacked into a Juniper developer's workstation and added code commits to the source code repository without their knowledge.
But many security experts do suspect that one or more intelligence agencies were involved. "The weakness in the VPN itself that enables passive decryption is only of benefit to a national surveillance agency like the British, the U.S., the Chinese, or the Israelis," Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, tells Wired.
While it's no smoking gun, the Intercept on Dec. 23 published a document - labeled "top secret" and dated February 2011 - revealing that Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency "has exploit capabilities against" 13 different Juniper NetScreen firewalls. GCHQ is Britain's sister agency to the NSA. Given that Juniper is a U.S.-based company, "any GCHQ efforts to exploit Juniper must begin with close coordination with NSA," the document warns, although details no related plans. It also advocates undertaking "an effort to ensure exploitation capability" against future Juniper devices and firmware versions.
The Intercept says the document was written by an NSA analyst who was working with a GCHQ team, and provided to it by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. GCHQ declined to comment on the story, while the NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The document apparently shows that GCHQ was interested in exploiting targets' Juniper firewalls and VPNs. But cryptographer Matt Blaze, director of the Distributed Systems Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, says the documented capabilities do not appear to relate to the ScreenOS backdoor that first appeared in the August 2012 release of Juniper's ScreenOS firmware. "My guess from reading this is that the capabilities discussed here involved exploiting bugs and maybe supply chain attacks, rather than this [recently discovered] backdoor," he tells the Intercept.
Why Crypto Backdoors Are Bad
One upside to the Juniper flaws is that they show why attempting to add backdoors to products can weaken security for everyone, says the operational security expert known as The Grugq.
Shout out to the unknown threat actor that demonstrated the problem with backdoors. You're the real hero!
� the grugq (@thegrugq) December 22, 2015
Green from Johns Hopkins says he hopes that message doesn't get lost on policymakers. "For the past several months I've been running around with various groups of technologists, doing everything I can to convince important people that ... the sky will fall if they act on some of the very bad, terrible ideas that are currently bouncing around Washington - namely, that our encryption systems should come equipped with 'backdoors' intended to allow law enforcement and national security agencies to access our communications," he says.
.@stewartbaker Backdoors are a beautiful target for attackers because they do most of the attacker's work for them. It will happen again.
� Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) December 22, 2015
The Juniper vulnerabilities have now demonstrated exactly how encryption backdoors could be subverted by people with malicious intent. "A backdoor intended for law enforcement could somehow become a backdoor for people who we don't trust to read our messages," he says. "Normally when we talk about this, we're concerned about failures in storage of things like escrow keys. What this Juniper vulnerability illustrates is that the danger is much broader and more serious than that."
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Ransomware
Teardown of 'NotPetya' Malware: Here's What We Know
Malicious Code Moves Laterally, Can Infect Fully Patched Windows PCs Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 28, 2017
NotPetya ransom note. (Source: @NITSec)
A cleverly built piece of malware, based in part on previously seen Petya ransomware, continues to spread globally in an outbreak rivaling last month's WannaCry campaign.
Security firms are referring to the malware tied to the global outbreak by various names: NotPetya, SortaPetya, Petna, ExPetr, GoldenEye and Nyetya.
Unfortunately, the malware appears to lack WannaCry's inadvertent kill switch. Plus, it has the ability to infect even fully patched Microsoft Windows systems.
"This one's more dangerous than WannaCry," says Rob Wainwright, head of EU law enforcement intelligence agency Europol, via Twitter (see Massive Petya Variant Outbreak: More Clever Than WannaCry).
But much about the malware - hereafter referred to as NotPetya - remains unclear. That includes the identity of the individual or group who launched the attack and their motivation, as well as the "patient zero" in the attacks and how long related infections might propagate before being brought under control.
Here is what is known so far:
Affected: 65+ Countries
Security experts say NotPetya first appeared Tuesday in Ukraine and quickly spread across Europe and beyond.
On Tuesday, Microsoft counted at least 12,500 infected systems across 65 countries. Those include Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Russia and the United States.
In the U.K., advertising firm WPP reported that it had been affected. Meanwhile, in the United States, two hospitals in Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania reported infections, as did pharmaceutical giant Merck.
Infections in Ukraine have been widespread. The country's central bank, multiple government agencies and Kiev's Boryspil Airport were affected. Also, radiation monitoring systems at the Chernobyl nuclear plant were reportedly switched to manual, out of an abundance of caution, although Ukraine's state news agency says all systems at the plant are functioning normally.
Multinationals See Lateral Movement
Multinational organizations, such as Copenhagen-based shipping giant Maersk, reported that the malware was able to move laterally through their networks across geographically dispersed operations. Maersk reported outages not only in Denmark, but also the United Kingdom, Ireland and beyond.
pic.twitter.com/h5qBqC4jU4
— Maersk Line (@MaerskLine) June 28, 2017
Reports of organizations warning employees to not power on their PCs quickly began to proliferate Tuesday, including at multinational law firm DLA Piper, which has operations in 30 countries. It confirmed Tuesday that it had detected infections. "Our IT team acted quickly to prevent the spread of the suspected malware and to protect our systems," according to a statement the firm released Wednesdsay.
"We immediately began our investigation and remediation efforts, working closely with leading external forensic experts and relevant authorities, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency," it says. "We are working to bring our systems safely back online."
A tipster sends along this photo taken outside DLA Piper's D.C. office around 10 a.m. #Petya pic.twitter.com/HWS4UFlvQR
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) June 27, 2017
Borrows from Petya
Microsoft says NotPetya uses similar code to Petya but is "more sophisticated."
Petya, which debuted in 2016, was one of the first types of ransomware to introduce full-disk encryption (see Crypto-Locking Ransomware Attacks Spike).
It's unclear why the malware was so named. Sean Sullivan, a security expert at Finnish security firm F-Secure, says the name Petya is Russian for "little Peter."
It's apparently "the common Russian diminutive for the male given name Piotr." https://t.co/ZiAHFlVgbA
— Sean Sullivan (@5ean5ullivan) June 28, 2017
But security researchers say little of NotPetya is based on Petya.
"Most likely someone ripped the boot loader code straight out of Petya and uses it for their own purposes," the U.K. security researcher Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech, who discovered the WannaCry kill switch, says in a blog post. "But they implemented their own ransomware, their own worm, their own dropper and pretty much everything else on top of it."
Some security researchers say NotPetya's apparent similarity to other ransomware may be a ruse because developers created only a single channel for remitting payments to attackers.
Matthieu Suiche, managing director of Dubai-based incident response firm Comae Technologies, says via Twitter that the malware may have been designed to function as a wiper - leaving systems unusable - rather than as a source of revenue.
"The code itself [looks] more like a wiper than an encoder," he says.
Leaked Equation Group Tools Used
The malware can spread by using two attack tools built by the "Equation Group" - likely the National Security Agency - and leaked by the Shadow Brokers. The tools generate packets that attempt to exploit an SMB flaw in prior versions of Windows.
"The new ransomware can spread using an exploit for the Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability CVE-2017-0144 (also known as EternalBlue), which was fixed in security update MS17-010 and was also exploited by WannaCrypt to spread to out-of-date machines," Microsoft says. "In addition, this ransomware also uses a second exploit for CVE-2017-0145 (also known as EternalRomance, and fixed by the same bulletin).
"Machines that are patched against these exploits (with security update MS17-010) or have disabled SMBv1 are not affected by this particular spreading mechanism."
Unfortunately, many internet-connected devices still run SMB, according to security firm Rapid7. It says SMB should never be exposed to the internet.
Map of internet-connected devices running SMB. (Source: Rapid7)
But NotPetya includes multiple spreading techniques, including "via a malicious document attached to a phishing email, requiring a victim to download and open it," Rapid7 says in a blog post.
"After that, it does indeed use the EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits to spread laterally," it says. "Unlike WannaCry, though, it is currently using these mechanisms to spread only on internal networks."
Multiple Propagation Methods
Once NotPetya infects a system, however, it can spread laterally, using other techniques, to other systems that touch the same networks. "It will begin to hijack local credentials from the Windows Local Security Authority (lsass.exe), then leverage those credentials via PsExec or WMI in an attempt to remotely compromise other systems on the local network," Kirk Soluk, manager of the ASERT threat intelligence and response team at Arbor Networks, says in a blog post.
Both PsExec (psexec.exe) and Windows Management Instrumentation (wmic.exe) are legitimate tools built into Windows. "In many enterprises, this activity will not be blocked and is likely to fly under the radar as typical remote administration activity," Soluk says. "If a widely used administrative credential is compromised, it could very quickly be game over for many systems regardless of whether the patch for MS17-010 has been applied or not."
Rapid7 says the malware uses an open-source tool to grab PsExec or WMI credentials. "We've confirmed that this ransomware uses a lightly modified version of mimikatz to extract credentials from memory for use in its PsExec and WMI vectors for spreading," Rapid7 says. "Mimikatz is a widely used open source security tool used primarily by security researchers to understand how credential handling is performed in Windows environments."
Eyewitness Infection Account
One eyewitness account of an infection, shared by Scotland-based Colin Scott , bears this out.
Scott says systems at his unnamed firm were mostly patched against MS17-01. Even so, he says it appears that one PC initially became infected, and the virus extracted credentials from this system before propagating across the network.
"Could have been a workstation admin's account, giving the virus admin rights to all PCs in the local area. Over time, it must have picked up Domain Admin rights as it spread, then hitting Domain Controllers and all other Windows servers with its PSEXEC/WMIC code. The rest is history," Scott writes. "We lost PCs that were encrypted with McAfee Disk Encryption due to corrupted MBR; PCs that were not encrypted with McAfee showed the ransom message."
Likely Patient Zero: MeDoc User
Multiple security firms report that at least some NotPetya infections are being spread via a widely used Ukrainian accountancy software program called MeDoc. "Microsoft now has evidence that a few active infections of the ransomware initially started from the legitimate MEDoc updater process," it says.
Security researchers say MeDoc may be the "patient zero" - the first victim to be infected with the malware.
The operational security expert known as the Grugq notes in a blog post: "Everyone that does business requiring them to pay taxes in Ukraine has to use MeDoc (one of only two approved accounting software packages)." So an attack launched from MeDoc would hit not only Ukraine's government, but many foreign investors and companies. It seems that Maersk was also using MeDoc."
Free Decryption Unlikely
In the past, crypto errors by developers or law enforcement efforts have allowed security researchers to sometimes crack the encryption used by attackers and release free decryption tools for victims (see Two New Ransomware Decryptors Give Victims a Free Out).
But whoever built NotPetya appears to have developed their code very carefully. "Unfortunately, the ransomware uses a standard, solid encryption scheme so [developing a decryption tool] appears unlikely unless a subtle implementation mistake has been made," according to a blog post from Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky notes that the malware securely generates a single AES-128 key for each system, which it uses to encrypt files. The key itself is encrypted with the attacker's own, public RSA-2048 key, and this encrypted AES key gets saved to a "readme.txt" file on the victim's PC.
Malware Targets MBR
After infecting a system, the malware attempts to encrypt the master boot record - the first code that hardware looks to when powering up and before loading the operating system - according to technical analyses of the malware.
If the MBR infection is successful, the malware will reboot the system at least 10 minutes later at a randomly determined time. After rebooting, the system displays this message:
(Source: Microsoft)
In reality, that is the malware encrypting many files on the system.
Subsequently, the malware displays its ransom message, demanding the equivalent of $300 in bitcoins for a decryption key. The malware also drops a "readme.txt" file onto the infected system that contains an encrypted version of the key that was used to crypto-lock files on the PC:
Guidance: Defenses
Responding to the NotPetya outbreak, the National Cyber Security Center - Britain's national incident response team - says that the guidance it promulgated in the wake of WannaCry still holds.
For enterprise IT administrators, recommendations include protecting any systems that run SMB version 1 that for whatever reason cannot be patched, and overall ensuring all legacy technology be isolated "as much as possible within your organization."
In addition, it says ensuring that anti-virus products remain active and updated remains essential.
In terms of this specific malware, Rapid7 recommends that organizations also "employ network and host-based firewalls to block TCP/445 traffic from untrusted systems," and also, "if possible, block 445 inbound to all internet-facing Windows systems."
As always, maintaining up-to-date backups - stored offline, so they can't be encrypted by ransomware that spreads via network shares - is essential. "Backups are the only full mitigation against data loss due to ransomware," Rapid7 says.
Block PSExec and WMIC from Executing
Attempts by NotPetya to use built-in Windows functionality to spread can be blocked. (Source: Guy Leach)
Many security experts further recommend organizations disable PsExec and wmic.exe, to better contain NotPetya outbreaks. Technologist Guy Leach, director of corporate strategy at Serco Group, has published guidance about how to use an Image File Execution Options registry key "to put a temporary, or permanent, block on these, or any other executables, so they cannot run." Even better, attempts to make them run can generate an error message, such as "call IT."
Leach says IT administrators can use Group Policy Preferences to rapidly roll this out.
Did Attackers Mess Up?
Besides rapid propagation by targeting SMB flaws, NotPetya also appears to resemble WannaCry in that its developers apparently bungled the mechanism via which victims might pay, if they are so inclined.
The ransomware has only a single email address via which victims might contact attackers. The German email service provider, Posteo, quickly suspended the account in question.
"Why do they use an email?????" asks cryptography expert Matthew D. Greene, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, via Twitter. "Would it be a societal good if someone just figured out how to do the payment UX [user interface], so people at least get their data back?"
Robert David Graham, head of offensive security research firm Errata Security, says that whoever cobbled together NotPetya may have failed to properly test their code.
Or simply, somebody messed up. I've seen other ransomware with lateral movement that didn't have their email shutdown.
— Rob Graham (@ErrataRob) June 28, 2017
Other theories, however, center on Ukraine as the initial infection vector, and question whether - geopolitically speaking - someone might be seeking to sow chaos in that country.
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Car Hacking 101: Here's what motorists should know [w/video]
A Quick Primer On The Past, Present, And Future Of Car Hacking
Feb 24th 2015 at 2:59PM
Cars are nothing more than computers on wheels. As such, they're vulnerable to hackers.
Most people who work within the auto industry have understood this for years, but for the broader American public not paying as close attention, three storylines emerged recently that underscored this new vehicular reality.
First, German researchers found a flaw in BMWs remote-services system that allowed them to access the telematics units in vehicles. Then, a 60 Minutes report demonstrated that researchers could remotely infiltrate a Chevy Impala and override critical functions, like acceleration and braking. Finally, a US Senator released a critical report (see video above) that found almost all automakers are unprepared to handle real-time hacks of their vehicles.
Those reports come on the heels of two previous instances in recent months when researchers demonstrated the capability to hack cars.
All this news can be disconcerting. If you're late to the concept of car-hacking and wondering how this is possible, we've got you covered. Here's your quick primer on what you need to know.
1. How Did My Car Become A Computer?
On the outside, cars haven't changed all that much over the past couple of decades years. On the inside, however, the amount of electronics and software has dramatically increased.
Most new cars contain more than 50 microprocessors known as electronic control units. These ECUs control everything from airbag deployment and navigation systems to throttle control and braking, and they're usually connected to each other on an internal network called the CAN bus.
2. What Exactly Is Car Hacking?
Depends who you ask. Automakers might consider anything that alters the car from its state of manufacture as a 'hack.' For example, if you're chipping the engine – re-calibrating those ECUs to increase your horsepower – some people might consider that a hack.
But in the context of the recent news reports, security experts are focused on unwanted, unauthorized cyber intrusions into a vehicle.
Once inside your car, prospective attacks could range from minor things like eavesdropping on conversations via an infotainment system and unlocking car doors to major concerns, like overriding driver inputs and controlling braking, steering and acceleration.
3. How Is This All Possible?
Any part of the car that communicates with the outside world, either via a remote or direct connection, is a potential entry point for hackers.
Diagnostic devices used by mechanics, dongles that plug into the OBD-II port, Bluetooth pairings and smartphone connections, even tire pressure monitoring systems have all been breached by researchers.
But the most vulnerable entry point may be the telematics unit, the computing power behind your infotainment features like smartphone integration, turn-by-turn directions, audio options and some real-time safety functions. Automakers are adding more connectivity powered by these units – see General Motors outfitting its OnStar telematics units with 4G LTE connections – which makes vehicular cyber security all the more complex.
4. What Has Happened So Far?
Researchers at the University of Washington and California-San Diego published landmark research in 2010 and 2011. In two separate studies, they demonstrated they could compromise an ordinary car, turning its engine on and off, manipulating critical systems and braking single wheels. Their work is considered the first warning sign.
In 2013, Dr. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated how they could manipulate critical car functions while attached to a Ford Escape and Toyota Prius. They published detailed code packets that demonstrated exactly how they exploited the cars, which angered some auto executives, but those details made the work hard to ignore.
Over the past three months, dongles that plug into a car's OBD-II port have been vulnerable. First, Israeli research firm Argus Cyber Security remotely exploited a device that provide driver feedback, and in January, researchers found a dongle that Progressive Insurance uses to collect usage-based insurance data had no security whatsoever.
Then came early February.
So far, researchers have focused on single-car attacks. Given the capability BMW showed to provide an entire fleet with over-the-air updates, that's one way a hacker could conceivably infect an entire fleet of cars with malicious software. But to be clear: that hasn't happened yet.
5. Is This Whole Car-Hacking Thing Overblown?
Well, yes. To date, there have been no known real-world incidents that have harmed unsuspecting drivers. Cyber-security experts who have hacked cars will say it's much more difficult than, say, infiltrating the likes of Target because the software is unique. And it's expensive. Break a computer while trying to exploit its software, and you're out a few hundred dollars. Break a car, and it's not easy to find a replacement. Bottom line, it would take months of time and significant money to exploit a vehicle.
And no. No matter how secure car companies and their suppliers make cars, a vehicle's security is only as strong as its weakest point. That point may be a device they have no control over – the smartphone or insurance device that you, the driver, bring into the car.
The number of connected cars is growing by the millions every year. As an earlier report from Sen. Ed Markey details, almost every automaker has no idea how it would handle a real-time infiltration. Car companies have been caught flat-footed, and now they need to catch up.
When cars start communicating with each other using the vehicle-to-vehicle communication system now being developed by the Department of Transportation, that's one more conceivable avenue a hacker could use to impact multiple cars at a given time. Bottom line, the problem is getting more complex, and the challenges presented by automotive cyber security are only in their infancy.
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Ford Ignition Switch Fires
Major and Historic Recalls 4,499 Views
On April 25, 1996, Ford Motor Company announced it would conduct one of the largest recalls for a safety-related defect in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The recall covered approximately 7,900,000 Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles in the U.S. from model year 1988 through 1993 for a defect in the ignition switch causing the cars to catch ablaze spontaneously (NHTSA recall number 96V-071). The recall occurred after years of concealment by Ford that saw parked Fords go up in flames across the country when the ignition switch developed an internal short circuit, overheated and caused the surrounding material to catch on fire. Some of the vehicles were parked in garages and burned houses when they ignited.
Ford was well aware of the ignition switch defect long before it reached the agreement with NHTSA under which it would recall the affected vehicles. In the late 1980’s fleets from around the country reported ignition switch caused fires. At an October 30, 1990 meeting attended by high-level engineers, Ford decided that the ignition switch responsible for the reported fires should be redesigned to eliminate future fires. A July 17, 1991 Ford briefing paper, “Light Truck Ignition Switch Concern,” cites a report by United Technologies Research Center that lists the “major cause” of the ignition switch fires as “electrical erosion due to inductive loads in circuits carried through the ignition switch.” The arcing caused by actuating the switch melts a minute amount of copper from the terminal. The stray copper than embeds itself in the minlon insulator and after many cycles, causes a direct B+ to ground short. The paper notes that, as a “corrective action,” the ignition switch was being redesigned in a manner that “does not permit the same type of failure mode.”
On at least three separate occasions, the government opened investigations in response to frequent reports of interior electrical fires in various models and years of Ford vehicles. The two times, Ford misled the government and got off without a recall. On August 3, 1992, NHTSA opened an investigation (PE92-092) into steering column fires in “all 1989 Ford Crown Victoria vehicles and any other vehicles manufactured by Ford that used the same ignition switch.” Ford immediately persuaded NHTSA to limit the investigation to “1989 Ford Crown Victoria vehicles and any other Crown Victoria vehicle manufactured by Ford that used the same ignition switch.” On November 30, 1992, NHTSA closed its investigation on the grounds that “the ignition switches … were simply worn out.”
On March 1, 1994 the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) petitioned NHTSA to investigate underdash electrical fires on 1986-88 Ford F-series trucks. Although NHTSA opened an investigation (PE94-034), the agency closed it on August 31, 1994 after Ford denied that it was unaware of any “pattern to suggest a common cause.” In response to whether there were any changes to the ignition switch. Ford replied it “did not identify any significant changes to relate to the alleged defect.” NHTSA’s closing memo for PE94-034 stated:
”[The] earlier evaluation (PE92-069) concerned steering column fires in 1989 through 1990 Crown Victoria vehicles and focused on allegations of ignition switch failures as being the causal factor. It was determined that the ignition switches were simply worn out. The brass contacts inside the switch were badly worn and internal arcing of electrical current caused the switch to overheat. The subject switch was used in the Crown Victoria model from 1983 through 1989. Although many of these vehicles have been on the road for nearly 10 years and have accumulated high mileage, only slightly over 2 per 100,000 vehicles have failed. The same identical switch was also used in 25,245,621 other Ford built vehicles from 1983 to 1992, including the 1986 through 1988 F-series trucks. The infrequent switch failures are usually preceded by erratic starting operation, warning the owner of the potential problem. It appears that the failures in PE92-069 were isolated incidents without a safety defect trend. Analysis of consumer complaints, service documents, etc. disclosed no information leading to identification of a certain circuit, wire or component as being a causal factor for under-dash fires. In very few instances was a particular item identified as being a causal factor and some of these implicated non-OEM equipment installed after vehicle purchase. Some that were claimed were: electrical problems ensued after installation of after-market truck lights, non-Ford accessory wired into fuse block, after-market radio installed, ignition switch burned due to wire short at fuel pump, wires pinched under dash, dash fire due to tail light shorted against exhaust, fuel change valve wire crushed under chassis, turn signal rubbed and grounded out, and finally after installation of a replacement engine, the ignition switch failed.”A defect trend has not been identified. Further expenditure of agency resources is not warranted.”
Just two months later on November 4, 1994, NHTSA opened a third investigation (PE94-078) into ignition switch fires, this time prompted by steering columns fires in 1990 Escorts. Once again, Ford tried to mislead NHTSA and told the agency it had no knowledge of any “causal factor or trend of alleged fires” and that its analysis of these fires “did not identify a common location or cause.” This time, NHTSA did not buy off on Ford’s statements and upgraded the investigation to an Engineering Analysis (EA95-002) on February 3, 1995. Just one week earlier, an internal Ford memo, “1984-1993 [Ford] passenger cares and light-trucks, except Taurus/Sable,” from John Kunz to Ford Vice-President Helen O. Petrauskas on February 16, 1995 recommended Ford undertake studies to “define a defendable ‘fence’ around certain vehicles/model years” to limit any recall and clearly described the “casual factors” for such fires stating: “deterioration of the plastic bar (barrier) between the battery and ground terminals within the ignition switch can cause an internal short. Testing indicates that the potential for such deterioration is greatest when the air gap adjacent to the battery terminal is below specifications and excessive amounts of lubricating grease are used in the switch. In addition, other factors … may also have an effect on switch life.”
During the upgraded investigation, Ford continued its efforts to build a “defendable fence” around the population of vehicles to be recalled and continued to misled NHTSA. For example in a September 1, 1995 submission, Ford again denied knowledge of any “design or manufacturing defect” affecting the ignition switch. This denial was made despite Ford instructing United Technologies Association (UTA) to build 4 million redesigned switches on July 19, 1995 which clearly were intended for use in recalls. In November 1995, under pressure from Transport Canada, Ford announced a 248,000 vehicle recall in that country. Yet it was not until April 1996, after mounting media attention to the flaming Fords that Ford agreed to conduct a recall of nearly 8 million vehicles.
Despite the magnitude of this safety recall, the vehicles covered comprise only about one-third of the fleet with the ignition switch defect. Ford managed to negotiate a gerrymandered recall under which Ford offered red herring distinctions between 1988 and later vehicles and pre-1988 vehicles with the exact same ignition switch. NHTSA agreed to this arrangement in the face of mounting evidence that the pre-1988 Fords actually surpassed the vehicles subject to the recall in their rate of ignition switch fires. The result is that roughly 15 million vehicles prone to ignition switch fires remain on the rod without any hint as to the latent defect.
However, Ford was not yet out of the woods. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company brought to NHTSA’s attention the many documents that show Ford’s prior knowledge of the defect and its concealment of the documents during the various investigations. On March 11, 1999 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) entered into a settlement with Ford Motor Company for failing to do the ignition switch earlier and for failing to provide documents covered by information requests in the defect investigation into the switch. Ford agreed to pay a $425,000 fine which is the highest fine since NHTSA imposed a $500,000 fine on Firestone for selling Firestone 500 steel belted radial tires which the company knew to be defective because they failed to comply with the high speed requirements of FMVSS 109.
Class actions were also filed against Ford but were ultimately unsuccessful. In re Ford Motor Company Ignition Switch Products Liability Litigation, No. MDL 1112, 194 F.R.D. 484 (D.N.J. 2000).
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Home » News » Industry News » Honda two-wheelers inaugurates 4th plant in India
Honda two-wheelers inaugurates 4th plant in India
By Shivank Bhatt | on February 17, 2016
Honda two-wheeler's fourth production unit in India kick starts operations. The new facility is located in Gujrat and will be solely producing automatic scooters.
Honda two-wheelers has inaugurated its fourth manufacturing unit in India. Built under a record time of 13 months, the new facility is located at Vithalapur in Gujrat. According to Honda, the manufacturer has invested 1,100 crore in the new plant, while an additional 1,100 crore will be spent by the company’s part suppliers in setting up their respective manufacturing facilities in the area.
Production at the new plant will take place in two phases – the first production line will churn out 6 lakh units annually. The second phase will start sometime in the middle of 2016 with another production line kick-starting operations. It will also have an annual manufacturing capacity of 6 lakh units. Also, this plant will only be used to manufacture Honda's automatic scooters.
All combined, the new plant will make 12 lakh units yearly, taking Honda two-wheeler’s annual production to 58 lakh units in India! Honda motorcycle and scooter’s plants in Haryana, Rajasthan and Karnataka produce 16 lakh, 12 lakh, and 18 lakh two-wheelers in a year, respectively.
Honda claims that its Gujrat plant is globally the company’s first two-wheeler production facility that incorporates a fully automated press shop.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Noriaki Abe, Chief Operating Officer - Asia and Oceania Regional Operations, Honda said: “In case of two-wheelers, ASEAN countries contribute 13.8 million sales which is 80 per cent of Honda’s global unit sales with the production facility in 9 countries. India is the fastest growing economy in the world, and is one of the most important and fast growing markets for Honda. With this vision of growth, today we have achieved a new milestone for our business in India. We are inaugurating our 4th factory in Gujarat. This will make India to attain No. 1 position in all ASEAN countries.”
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Get Creative Festival 2019
The UK's biggest ever celebration of creative participation
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Get Creative Day - what's happening near you?
The Get Creative campaign has been running for just over one year and is the biggest ever joint campaign by the BBC and the UK’s Cultural Organisations.
On Saturday 2 April Get Creative Day will celebrate the country's abundant creativity with a nationwide day of free access to creative events across the country.
If you're a Get Creative champion that is hosting an event not listed here, please email getcreative@bbc.co.uk and we'll add it for you.
There are a huge number of events happening all across Wales - find them on the event finder map.
Voluntary Arts are hosting a Createathon in the Ulster Museum. Events will include:
Kate Smeltzer inviting people to get involved with her 10,000 origami doves project - anyone can create doves or drop off doves they've already made
NI Big Sock aiming to beat the current Guinness World Record for the largest patchwork Christmas stocking by December 2016
The Big Mythological Cartoon Colour In - led by local illustrator Peter Francis Fahy
A pop-up Minecraft Challenge
For the full schedule of events visit the Createathon page here.
Eastside Arts in Belfast are holding taster music sessions and showcasing music and dance.
Craft NI are opening their doors to the public, offering visitors a chance to see makers at work and have a go themselves.
Big Telly Theatre Company will be hitting the streets of Coleraine, Portrush and Portstewart and asking the general public to get creative and tell their stories as part of their Trade Secrets project.
The Traditional Music Forum at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh will showcase wall hangings created by people of different ages and cultures, plus an interactive, musical storytelling journey for springtime, making musical instruments from recycled materials.
England: North East
Art from the Lens Gallery in Tynemouth will turn over their space to showing printed images by local people. You'll also be able to view some of their original photographs dating from the 1850s onwards.
Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields will be offering visitors have-a-go Roman creative activities. Try to create textiles the Roman way with Nest the Weaver or try your hand at Roman style Face-pot painting.
Rocking Chair Crafts in Tynemouth are offering free jewellery making sessions: Easy Earrings & Beginners Bracelets.
The Sage Gateshead will be open as a Creativity Welcome Here space. There will be a stage for bands, buskers and poets from 11am-3:30pm.
Stockton Central Library are holding an open day, and have invited artists and craftspeople to demonstrate their work and encourage people to have a go. Activities include felting, knitting, crocheting, card making, wood turning, braiding, ceramics, book folding, folk art, colouring and even biscuit decorating!
England: North West
Action Factory Community Arts in Blackburn work in partnership with Blackburn and Darwen libraries and are putting on a range of events including singing, craft, seed potting, urba sketching, drumming and a dance flash mob.
Curious Minds in Preston are working with Blaze to open their doors for a workshop consulting young people on what they want to see happening to cultural education in Preston. They will be working with a comic book artist to pull all their ideas together in a creative way and this will be shared with the decision makers across Preston.
Manchester Craft & Design Centre is putting on a free ceramics taster workshop.
Stanley Grove Primary Academy in Manchester will have a programme of taster workshops including belly dancing with The Northern Belly Company, Samba drumming, print making, green screen film making, ukulele sessions and creative 'free-play'. A local business will be supplying lunch.
Hazlehurst Studios in Cheshire are opening their doors for fabric dyeing, cyanotype making and a few other things to do, as well as chatting with the resident artists and having a nosey in their studios.
The Comedy Trust in Liverpool are hosting a Well Funny Workshop.
Allerton Brass in Liverpool are holding open rehearsals and taster sessions for young musicians.
Alt Valley Community Trust in Liverpool are holding music and creative taster sessions with Peter Hooton and Steve Grimes from The Farm.
Impropriety in Liverpool are holding an improvisation workshop.
Liverpool Carnival Company are hosting a beginners' Samba dance class and carnival costume making workshop
Off the Wall at Bramall Hall, Stockport: a 14th Century Manor House and surrounding land hosting a series of community engagements events planning to give local people an opportunity to show what Bramall Hall means to them - sharing memories, discussing hopes for new facilities and engaging with professional artists and storytellers.
At Leeds College of Art the Young Creatives team will be offering a range of free taster sessions at the college. The sessions will be around the theme of 'Portable Art',
Children and young people aged 7-18 will have the opportunity to try a range of techniques and materials, experimenting with:
Bookbinding – making their own Concertina book, flipbook or travel journal from a range of materials.
Sculpture – creating paper sculptures and mixed-media 3D pieces that can fit into a box.
Drawing and mark-making – exploring colour, texture and pattern in exciting ways.
Space2Create are holding a printing workshop for all ages, a 'have a go' stone carving workshop and the opportunity to visit artists and creatives at work in their studios.
The Children's Art School at the Byram Arcade in Huddersfield are inviting you to come and make a 3D clay 'selfie'. They're aiming to create a crowd of clay selfies in the ground floor atrium of the arcade. This is a drop in event for children, families and adults. They will be encouraging participants to give their selfie a placard to make a statement and give a voice to their feelings, thoughts, wishes or dreams.
Bloomingart in Warrington are taking part in Children's World Book Day. They will be making little Emperors from Hans Christain Anderson's book, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' with materials on hand for you to make your own Emperor.
Mechanics at Home in Burnley will be running a series of activities based around the theme of reusing and upcycling. Print your own tote bag, make a creative journal to keep, write a poem and build a city out of scrap materials.
Road Studios in Liverpool are holding a free film screening of 'The Creative Process'. The film interviews fourteen Merseyside artists – painters and photographers, sketchers and sculptors, each with their own compelling stories – and investigates the highly subjective nature of their creativity.
BBC Radio Merseyside, with Cinema for All and Up for Arts, are holding drop in sessions. You can find out about setting up your own cinema group, discover how you can screen films, or if you just love the big screen, then come along and meet like-minded film fans too.
Blaze, in partnership with Curious Minds, are holding a graphic novel and comic book art workshop in Preston - with Ben Hunt of Vogarth Comics.
Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool are holding a sun photography workshop - create a unique sun photograph by placing any object on light sensitive paper and exposing in the sun, before rinsing with water to reveal a brilliant blue print!
Brighter Sound in Manchester are holding a Golden Voices Open Sing session - an open rehearsal for anyone who fancies a good sing, a cuppa and a chance to meet what must be the friendliest choir in Manchester. No previous experience is necessary!
The Factory in Kendal will be opening its doors with Get Creative Champion Space to Create. From 12 til 4pm resident Print Guru Kevin Hankey will be running free drop in printing sessions. All members of the family can call in and have a go at a wide range of printing techniques including balloon printing, mono printing, colourgraphs and dry point. As well as Space to Create, all the other studios will be open to see the artists and makers showing off their work and skills. Sculptor Danny Clahane in Unit 18B will be running have a go stone carving sessions and in Artspace 26A there’s an exhibition of work by all the artists at the Factory.
Gallery Oldham in Manchester: Explore drawing and painting a colourful textured landscape scene with artist Jack Doyle, with inspiration from new exhibition "The Fragile Moorland” by Margaret Uttley. Families can visit the exhibition and be inspired to create their own masterpieces and develop their own art techniques.
Stretford Sip Club in Manchester are organising a day around the theme 'Stretford Hidden Gems'. Sessions will include origami, photography, water colour painting, creative writing, knitting and crocheting.
FACT Liverpool are holding a 'do something' Saturday. Through a range of activities and games, you're invited to contribute to real scientific research around star activity, learn about the different things you might see in the night sky and even create your own star!
Writing on the Wall, Liverpool, will be preparing for Pulp Idol, their creative writing competition. They're offering the chance to join author John Donoghue (Death's Head Chess Club) for a creative session designed to help you develop your writing, your novel, and get you and your first chapter in tip-top shape.
At Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool you can learn how to make a small robot from recycled materials with local artist Mike Badger.
A taster Film & TV acting workshop is being given in Liverpool by UK & LA Casting Director Kerrie Mailey and actor Phil Perez - learn audition technique, improvisation and script work.
Community Compass will be at Jubilee Hall in Malpas, Cheshire from 10am-2pm. Try out free taster sessions of ‘Compass Clubs’ - local activity clubs designed to help people of all ages find a way out of loneliness. Taster sessions will include knitting, writing, poetry and more!
Meet the artists at ArtWork Studios & Gallery, Chester. Mixed media art and poetry exploring thought provoking themes of love and loss. Open studios featuring the work of nine resident artists.
At Liverpool ONE, children's storytellers from The Reader will be running group and one-to-one reading sessions for young children and their families.
DanceSyndrome will be at Blackburn Library holding a dance workshop.
England: Yorkshire and the Humber
Support to Recovery are running a Terrarium Workshop at Create Space in the Packhorse Shopping Centre in Huddersfield. It involves creating your own miniature indoor greenhouse, using plants, soil, gravel and repurposed glass jars as a way to improve well-being through creativity and nature.
TakeOver are holding a flash mob in York City Centre as a way to generate conversation about the arts, and members of the TakeOver team will be on hand with their programme of events and to discuss more ways of getting involved.
Cast in Doncaster will be a Creativity Welcome Here venue from 10am-1pm. Drop-ins include a children's arts and drawing table, a writer's corner, drama games and a tour of the theatre.
England: West Midlands
Derby QUAD are holding a day of digital drawing with local artists Laura Mossop and Tony Hall. Try your hand at Photoshop, iPad apps and 3D printed drawing. There will also be 30 minute life drawing sessions every hour.
Sharpe's Pottery Museum in Derbyshire is holding a hands-on craft workshop, suitable for all creative abilities.
mac birmingham will be a Creativity Welcome Here space, and is offering a free animation workshop – children will devise their own animation. There will be free arts and craft workshops throughout the day, which parents and children can enjoy.
Woodsetton Art Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent are inviting you to have a go at throwing a pot for free.
England: East of England
NORCA (Norwich & Norfolk Community Arts)and Norwich Council, in Norwich Arts Centre, are holding a Carnival Inspiration Day. The day will be convened by Pax Nindi, one of the UK's leading carnival experts, and will include presentations on other British carnivals, ideas for costume and float design, the history of the procession in Norwich and a panel discussion.
North Wymondham Community Centre in Norwich are holding a community arts event including: painting, adult colouring, food art, music, creative writing presentation, a crafts showcase and photography
OPEN Youth Trust in Norwich are holding comic drawing workshops and a drawing and doodling workshop
The Friends of Kett's Heights are holding an event where you're encourage to bring your sketching things or cameras and follow in the footsteps of the 18th and 19th century artists who were inspired by the landscape, walls of St Michael's Chapel and the panoramic view. You'll be invited to post your efforts on the Friends' website.
Aviva Leigh Creative Textiles invites you to an open weekend at Aviva's studio by the sea. Drop in and see her at work, see demonstrations of natural dyeing, weaving and spinning - and have a go and be inspired.
The Patio in Great Yarmouth will be a Creativity Welcome Here venue. A small bistro/tapas bar in Great Yarmouth, opposite St George's Theatre - much loved by musicians/painters and writers.
RIBA are holding a family fun day including a Meccano bridge building challenge, story dens and architectural challenges with leaning towers and worlds of water. Games will happen throughout the day.
Art4Space - Mindful Mosaics - create 2 mosaics. Take one home and leave one to support our Africa Fundraiser.
Young Vic Theatre are holding backstage tours on Friday 1st April.
At Sadler's Wells, the National Youth Dance Company members invite you to join them in the foyer for a group improvisation. You can dance along or simply travel with the dancers as they move throughout the theatre. The company will also offer the public the opportunity to learn a sequence from its new work, In- Nocentes, which they’ll be premiering at Sadler’s Wells on 7 April.
Razed Roof at the Gravelly Barn in Hertfordshire are going to open-up their annual "Twelve Inch Canvas" event. This event is a fund-raiser for local charities through the sales of the blank canvases, and then the sale of painted canvases in the exhibition. They are offering an 'all-in' day where the canvases and all the materials are available to all, plus artists will be there giving advice and guidance.
Zoe White of Zinfinity is running workshops at the Dugdale Centre in Enfield - teaching you how to make Punky 3D bird badges. With lots of colour, high quality materials and wool felt tops you can make your bird to your own imagination and even play hair dresser by giving your bird a style of a lifetime.
Battersea Arts Centre will be a Creativity Welcome Here venue and have their Homegrown Festival, with live music, performance and spoken word from young voices. Audiences can see a show, join a debate, and sign up for a workshop or open mic.
The Albany in Deptford are opening up a post-show jam: Are you a singer? Slam Poet? Play an instrument? Love to dance? Or just love performing - join the cast of the Broke n’ Beat Collective and local artists at our legendary post-show jam! Young artists are welcome to perform as individuals or groups.
Street stories workshop 4pm-6pm, for young people aged 13-25, led by award-winning 20 Stories High and Theatre-Rites.
Influenced by the techniques used to make The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective, this Hip- Hop Theatre workshop creates drama from voices and characters in your community.
Jackson's Lane in North London are holding their National Theatre Connections Project.
Turnstyles Creative Arts in Islington will be opening up their Saturday Creative Arts Academy for children aged 2-12 to join in with a free taster session, in Ballet, Street Dance and Drama lessons.
They will also be building they "Green and Yellow Brick Road" to get them to OZ in their summer show - come and make your footprint!
England: South East
Ideas Test in Sittingbourne, Kent have commissioned Wide Eyed Theatre to run storytelling workshops, inviting local people to bring along an object and develop a story about it. The results will be captured as audio and will be added to our Wandering Words site.
Aspex in Portsmouth are holding a fun-filled artistic day for the whole family. They will be delivering a variety of free creative activities, and responding to their exhibitions through photography and creative writing.
The Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury are opening their space up for the day. Participants will be given a guided tour of the current Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015 exhibition and then will have the opportunity to create a large scale collaborative collage, plus some smaller scale cut-out collages that can be taken away afterwards, with works inspired by Henri Matisse.
Arts@theCrypt in Seaford, East Sussex are holding taster sessions with local ceramicists. They will be coiling, slabbing and pinching.
Creative Junction are holding a Photo Treasure Hunt at Slough Library - learn tips and tricks from a professional photographer, get involved in a self guided hunt for photograph ‘treasure’ and upload your smart phone photo on the day to win a prize.
England: South West
Worcester Cathedral are hosting a right royal affair across the whole weekend. Join in a portrait drawing master class with 'King John' and take your turn at being the King John model. There will be a dressing up box with choice of crowns, robes, and royal throne to sit on. Drawing boards, a few easels, paper, and charcoal will be provided. Develop your “King John” drawings into paintings or prints to enter our King John portrait competition.
The Plough Arts Centre in Devon are holding a drama games workshop.
ICIA, University of Bath will open their doors for members of the public to take part in a range of free activities, including gallery exhibition spaces with frequent tours throughout the morning and several craft activities on offer in the Art Studio. Knit Soc will be doing free taster sessions, the student Latin and Ballroom Society will be demonstrating their skills and teaching some of the basic moves - and much more.
Go Sketch at Cabot's Circus in Bristol are hosting drop in art sessions all day
Barnoon Workshop in St. Ives, Cornwall, will be inviting the public to participate in making ceramic wall tiles to form part of a large outdoor mural.
Redwing Arts in Penzance will have Peter Fox, percussionist with Latin band Quijada, leading a hands-on Afro-Cuban music session. International performer, clown, director and playwriter Pep Mogas will be running a Physical Theatre workshop and the Redwing Guerrilla Art Studio will be available throughout the day for anyone to create a drawing or painting for the gallery.
Modern Art Oxford are inviting you to come into the gallery for a tour and discussion of what happens behind closed doors. Their guide will explain the processes of de-installing and installing exhibitions, and you can see the production team and curators hard at work.
Black Swan Arts in Frome, Somerset are holding free sessions including a wire workshop, demonstrations on how filigree jewellery is made and how 24ct gold leaf can be bonded to silver, making casts using silicon moulds and basic painting techniques.
The National Trust will be holding open sketching sessions in Leigh Woods near Bristol. After the free drawing sessions, participants are invited to stay for an extension session to review their progress and develop their work. To round everything off, participants can opt to show their work in a pop-up exhibition in Leigh Woods in July.
The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen are holding a creative 'Fish, Chips & Peas' event, giving you an insight into the varied skills of the Guilds craftsmen. Members will be demonstrating their skills, tools, procedures and techniques.
Superact's EXE-ARTS programme is hosting an Open Day at the Pottery Studio in the St. David's Community Centre Pottery studio in Exeter. Everyone can come and have a look and try something with clay.
The Children's Scrapstore in Bristol will be a Creativity Welcome Here hub and are holding an open day.
The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol are offering a morning of creative fun for children and adults, with a free Scribble and Sketch session.
The Architecture Centre in Bristol is holding a Super Streets family drop-in event: from hopscotch to street parades, pocket parks to scooter routes, come along to their creative afternoon with Playing Out.
Drop in taster events in Torbay - part of a new project to use the arts to improve wellbeing for men in Torbay. It is a collaboration between Torbay Culture Board and Public Health Torbay. Printmaker Simon Ripley and film maker Josh Gaunt will work with groups of men creatively to develop their own stories about their lives.
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath is a Creativity Welcome Here venue - a space to get creative, to explore, to make and create. They're also running a challenge: making sketchbooks from one piece of paper and then exploring them in 100 ways.
Boscastle Artists Cooperative in Cornwall: from midday, and throughout the afternoon, many of their artists will be painting and sketching outside on the forecourt....come and meet them, have a chat and even try something new for yourself.
Into Film have curated their top filmmaking tips: from the likes of Ron Howard and Aardman Animations, these clips will inspire young viewers to get making their own films. Each clip will be supported by a corresponding resource – free to download and offer more support on specific areas like sound in films and animation.
The Crafts Council are encouraging you to Get Creative with an Easter-themed origami bunny design by artist Mari Ono - find out how to make it here.
AccessArt have a range of free participatory projects, including drawing, making and sewing.
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Chichester church abuser 'allowed back into choir'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-40418476
Image caption Alesha Racine has waived her right of anonymity to speak to BBC South East
A woman who was sexually abused by a lay vicar in Sussex says she was "completely failed" by the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.
Alesha Racine wrote to Lord Carey in 1992 after discovering her abuser had returned to the church where she had been sexually assaulted.
On Monday Lord Carey announced his resignation as an honorary bishop.
A review by Dame Moira Gibb found he had failed to pass on information about abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball.
Ms Racine's abuser, Michael Walsh, was convicted of five indecent assault charges and confessed to sexual relationships with a further eight children.
He was sent to prison in 1990.
He had been a teacher, a lay vicar at Chichester Cathedral and also ran a choir at a church in Chichester.
Child abuse 'inevitable'
After his release in 1992, Walsh returned to the same church to be part of the choir.
Concerned for the safety of other girls, in July of that year Ms Racine wrote to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, requesting his help.
Image caption Alesha Racine says the church failed to reach out to her as a victim of sexual abuse
Speaking after Lord Carey's resignation, Ms Racine, 54, said: "I was very concerned that my abuser had just come out of prison and it appeared that he'd just gone straight back into the parish church where he'd originally worked, and was again in a position of authority in the choir there where young children - specifically girls - sang.
"I was really worried that these girls were at a huge risk. I felt it was inevitable that children would be abused."
Three months after writing her letter she was told Lord Carey had been unable to consider her concerns because he was "committed to a series of visits overseas, together with his summer break".
'Duty of forgiveness'
She was informed one month later that the "Archbishop had been assured that there was no question of Michael Walsh being reinstated in the choir," but nine months after raising her concerns she received a letter from the Archbishop's chief of staff confirming her abuser was back in the choir.
Lambeth Palace wrote to Ms Racine saying the parish authorities had taken "great care" in coming to their decision to allow Walsh's return to his position "weighing carefully the risk of re-offending against... the Christian duty of forgiveness".
Image caption Michael Walsh, seen here in the 1990s, was allowed to return to the same church choir after his release from prison
The letters revealed Lord Carey regretted the decision which allowed Alesha's abuser back into churches and offered her his sympathies.
Ms Racine said: "I thought his response was deeply hurtful, in that it had taken me a lot of courage to write to him at all.
"Most of what he said was in defence of the Church and the people in it, rather than try to reach out to me as a victim.
"I do feel it was a complete failure on his part."
A spokesman for the former Archbishop of Canterbury said the correspondence with Ms Racine had been conducted on Lord Carey's behalf by his chief of staff.
He said: "Lord Carey has absolutely no memory of this chain of correspondence or these events. He cannot therefore comment."
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Inheritance tax - a summary
Inheritance tax is often called a voluntary tax in that, with planning, the payment of inheritance can be avoided. It is a tax levied on a person's estate when they die and on certain gifts made during an individual's lifetime. If you live in the Cardiff area we, at bdhc Chartered Accountants, can provide taxation advice to help you minimise the potential charge to inheritance tax.
Inheritance tax (IHT) is levied on a person’s estate when they die, and certain gifts made during an individual’s lifetime.
Gifts between UK-domiciled spouses during their lifetime or on death are exempt from IHT. In this factsheet spouse includes married couples and registered civil partners. Most gifts made more than seven years before death will escape tax. Therefore, if you plan in advance, gifts can be made tax-free and result in a substantial tax saving.
We give guidance below on some of the main opportunities for minimising the impact of the tax.
It is however important for you to seek specific professional advice appropriate to your personal circumstances.
Summary of IHT
Scope of the tax
When a person dies IHT becomes due on their estate. IHT can also fall due on some lifetime gifts but most are ignored providing the donor survives for seven years after the gift.
The rate of tax on death is 40% and 20% on lifetime transfers where chargeable. For 2019/20 the first £325,000 chargeable to IHT is at 0% and this is known as the nil rate band.
Residence nil rate band
An additional nil rate band is introduced for deaths on or after 6 April 2017 where an interest in a qualifying residence passes to direct descendants. The amount of relief is being phased in over four years and is £150,000 for 2019/20 rising to £175,000 for 2020/21. For many married couples and registered civil partnerships (hereafter referred to as spouses in this factsheet) the relief is effectively doubled as each individual has a main nil rate band and each will also potentially benefit from the residence nil rate band.
The residence nil rate band can only be used in respect of one residential property which does not have to be the main family home but must at some point have been a residence of the deceased. Restrictions apply where estates (before reliefs) are in excess of £2 million.
Where a person died before 6 April 2017, their estate will not qualify for the relief. A surviving spouse may be entitled to an increase in the residence nil rate band if the spouse who died earlier has not used, or was not entitled to use, their full residence nil rate band. The calculations involved are potentially complex but the increase will often result in a doubling of the residence nil rate band for the surviving spouse.
The residence nil rate band may also be available when a person downsizes or ceases to own a home on or after 8 July 2015 where assets of an equivalent value, up to the value of the residence nil rate band, are passed on death to direct descendants.
A reduced rate of IHT applies where 10% or more of a deceased’s net estate (after deducting IHT exemptions, reliefs and the nil rate band) is left to charity. In those cases the 40% rate will be reduced to 36%.
IHT on lifetime gifts
Lifetime gifts fall into one of three categories:
a transfer to a company or a trust (except a disabled trust) is immediately chargeable
exempt gifts which will be ignored both when they are made and also on the subsequent death of the donor, eg gifts to charity
any other transfers will be potentially exempt transfers (PETs) and IHT is only due if the donor dies within seven years of making the gift. An alternative way of looking at this is that they are potentially chargeable until seven years has passed. The primary example of a PET is a gift to another individual.
IHT on death
The main IHT charge is likely to arise on death. IHT is charged on the value of the estate treated as beneficially owned by the deceased. This may include certain types of interest in trust property. Furthermore:
PETs made within seven years become chargeable
there may be an additional liability because of chargeable transfers (usually lifetime gifts to trusts) made within the previous seven years.
Much estate planning involves making lifetime transfers to utilise exemptions and reliefs or to benefit from a lower rate of tax on lifetime transfers.
However, careful consideration needs to be given to other factors. For example a gift that saves IHT may unnecessarily create a capital gains tax (CGT) liability. Furthermore the prospect of saving IHT should not be allowed to jeopardise the financial security of those involved.
Gifts to individuals during their lifetime
As these gifts are PETs rather than chargeable transfers when made, no tax at all is due if the donor survives for seven years. Even where a death occurs within seven years IHT may be saved as a result of the lifetime gifts because the charge is based on the value at the date of the gift and does not include any growth on value to date of death.
Nil rate band and seven year cumulation
Chargeable transfers (such as lifetime gifts to trusts) covered by the nil rate band can be made without incurring any IHT liability. Once seven years have elapsed between chargeable transfers an earlier transfer is no longer taken into account in determining IHT on subsequent transfers. Therefore every seven years a full nil rate band will be available to make lifetime chargeable transfers.
Transferable nil rate band
It is possible for spouses and civil partners to transfer the nil rate band unused on the first death to the surviving spouse for use on the death of the surviving spouse/partner. On that second death, their estate will be able to use their own nil rate band and in addition the same proportion of a second nil rate band that corresponds to the proportion unused on the first death. This allows the possibility of doubling the nil rate band available on the second death. This arrangement can apply where the second death happens after 9 October 2007 irrespective of the date of the first death.
Annual exemption
An amount of £3,000 per annum may be given by an individual without an IHT charge. An unused annual exemption may be carried forward, one year only, for use in the tax year that immediately follows.
Gifts between spouses
Gifts between spouses are generally exempt, if both are either UK or non UK domiciled. It may be desirable to use the spouse exemption to transfer assets to ensure that both spouses can make full use of lifetime exemptions, the nil rate band and PETs. Special rules apply where only one spouse has a UK domicile.
Gifts to individuals not exceeding £250 in total per tax year per recipient are exempt. The exemption cannot be used to cover part of a larger gift.
Normal expenditure out of income
Gifts which are made out of income which are typical and habitual and do not result in a fall in the standard of living of the donor are exempt. Payments under deed of covenant and the payment of annual premiums on life insurance policies would usually fall within this exemption.
Family maintenance
A gift for family maintenance does not give rise to an IHT charge. This would include the transfer of property made on divorce under a court order, gifts for the education of children or maintenance of a dependent relative.
Wedding presents
Gifts in consideration of marriage are exempt up to £5,000 if made by a parent with lower limits for other donors.
Gifts to registered charities are exempt provided that the gift becomes the property of the charity or is held for charitable purposes.
Business property relief (BPR)
When ‘business property’ is transferred there is a percentage reduction in the value of the transfer. Often this provides full relief. In cases where full relief is available there is little incentive, from a tax point of view, to transfer such assets in lifetime. Additionally no CGT will be payable where the asset is included in the estate on death. Professional advice should be sought to determine whether you have qualifying business property.
Agricultural property relief (APR)
APR is similar to BPR in that it reduces the value of the transfer but it may not give full relief on the value. It is available on the transfer of agricultural property so long as various conditions are met.
Use of trusts
Trusts can provide an effective means of transferring assets out of an estate whilst still allowing flexibility in the ultimate destination and/or permitting the donor to retain some control over the assets. Provided that the donor does not obtain any benefit or enjoyment from the trust, the property is removed from the estate.
We can advise you on whether a trust is suitable for your circumstances and the types of trust arrangements available.
Life assurance arrangements can be used as a means of removing value from an estate and also as a method of funding IHT liabilities.
A policy can also be arranged to cover IHT due on death. It is particularly useful in providing funds to meet an IHT liability where the assets are not easily realised, eg family company shares.
Complexity - is your Will up to date?
Individuals now have three nil rate bands to consider. The standard nil rate band has been available for many years. In 2007 the ability to utilise the unused nil rate band of a deceased spouse was introduced which may enable surviving spouses to have a nil rate band of up to £650,000.
From 6 April 2020 some surviving spouses will also have an additional £350,000 in respect of the residence nil rate band to arrive at a total nil rate band of £1 million. However this will only be achieved by careful planning and, in some cases, it may be better for the first deceased spouse to gift some assets to the next generation and use up some or all of the available nil rate bands.
For many individuals, the residence nil rate band will be important but individuals will need to revisit their wills to ensure that the relief will be available and efficiently utilised.
Whilst some general tips can be made about IHT planning it is always necessary to tailor the strategy to fit your situation.
Any plan must take account of your circumstances and aspirations. The need to ensure your financial security (and your family's) cannot be ignored. If you propose to make gifts the interaction of IHT with other taxes needs to be considered carefully.
However there can be scope for substantial savings which may be missed unless professional advice is sought as to the appropriate course of action. If you live in the Cardiff area we, at bdhc Chartered Accountants, would welcome the opportunity to assist you in formulating a strategy for inheritance tax suitable for your own requirements. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Revitalizing Nuclear Security in an Era of Uncertainty
Nickolas Roth
William H. Tobey
| January 2019
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Nuclear security around the world has improved dramatically over the last three decades—which demonstrates that with focused leadership, major progress is possible. But important weaknesses remain, and the evolution of the threat remains unpredictable. The danger that terrorists could get and use a nuclear bomb, or sabotage a major nuclear facility, or spread dangerous radioactive material in a “dirty bomb,” remains too high. The United States and countries around the world need to join together and provide the leadership and resources needed to put global nuclear security on a sustained path of continuous improvement, in the never-ending search for excellence in performance.
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Security Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-first Century
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In this chapter, Chuck Freilich presents the regional and global developments and the changes in the nature of the diplomatic and military threats Israel faces that have transformed its strategic environment in recent decades. At 70, Israel continues to face a daunting array of threats, as do few states in the world. Israel has, however, won the battle for its existence and is stronger militarily and more secure today than ever before. Furthermore, it has ties with more states than ever before, including a unique relationship with the United States, and a vibrant economy that has grown rapidly in recent decades, turning Israel into an international leader in high-tech.
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China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making
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THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America’s leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In analyzing threats to American security, “the most dangerous scenario,” he warned, would be “a grand coalition of China and Russia…united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.” This coalition “would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower.”
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Putin’s Remarks on Use of Nuclear Weapons Are Confusing, But Unlikely to Constitute a Shift in Nuclear Posture
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eschatological talk of nuclear Armageddon at this year’s Valdai forum has stirred up heated debates on how well his description of Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons matches the country’s official military doctrine. However, a close look at Putin’s Oct. 18 remarks and Russia’s 2014 military doctrine reveals that, while Putin deviated from the language in the doctrine, he did not lie on the first use issue. Nor did he seem to be hinting at a shift in Russia’s nuclear posture. More likely, he was signaling to Washington that the existing nuclear arms control treaties need to remain in place for the sake of ensuring strategic stability in the U.S.-Russian nuclear dyad and avoiding an accidental war between the two countries.
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Inadvertent Escalation and the Entanglement of Nuclear Command-and-Control Capabilities
James Acton
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The risks of nuclear escalation between the U.S. and China or Russia are greater than ever given the possibility of misinterpreted cyber espionage and military strikes against early warning systems. What can be done to reduce this risk?
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A Better Way to Confront Russia's Nuclear Menace
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Ongoing Russian violations of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty need to be effectively addressed because they defy a longstanding bilateral agreement and directly threaten our NATO allies. However, the Trump administration’s move to pull out of the treaty is misguided; instead, we should launch a major initiative to strengthen strategic stability between the United States and Russia, writes Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.
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Trump’s INF Announcement: Another Gift to Putin?
Martin B. Malin
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Pulling out of the INF Treaty would be a strategic blunder. It would free Russia to deploy currently prohibited missiles without constraint and further undermine U.S. credibility with our allies. The United States would shoulder the blame for the collapse of one of the two remaining U.S.-Russian agreements controlling nuclear weapons. U.S. withdrawal would remove valuable verification mechanisms and introduce additional U.S. and Russian uncertainty regarding the other’s nuclear forces and intentions.
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The elections in Indonesia could signal a new chapter in the history of the country, claims Derwin Pereira. But whether Joko Widodo or Prabowo Subianto win, the country's history of political and religious pluralism will preclude any sharp turns towards instability.
Trump, Stung by Midterms and Nervous About Mueller, Retreats From Traditional Presidential Duties
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For weeks this fall, an ebullient President Trump traveled relentlessly to hold raise-the-rafters campaign rallies — sometimes three a day — in states where his presence was likely to help Republicans on the ballot.
But his mood apparently has changed as he has taken measure of the electoral backlash that voters delivered Nov. 6. With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment, according to multiple administration sources.
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Identity Politics Comes to the Fore in Malaysia
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Malaysia's 14th General Election next month will attest to the longevity of democracy in the country. However, it will also reveal how identity politics is refashioning the electoral landscape of one of South-east Asia's economically most successful nations.
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Rethinking ‘McNamara’s War’
Fredrik Logevall
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On Nov. 29, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense, would leave his post to run the World Bank. “I do not know to this day whether I quit or was fired,” McNamara wrote decades later. “Maybe it was both."
Cyber, Drones, and Secrecy
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Although cyber weapons can usually be employed in a far less lethal manner than guided missiles shot from a drone, they have been deployed less frequently and under rules of engagement that are far less clear, at least to the public.
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International Security Journal Highlights
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A sampling of articles in the Spring 2016 issue of the Belfer Center's journal International Security.
Managing Risk in an Unstable World
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Dr. Ian Bremmer, expert in political risk and founder of the Eurasia Group, gave a seminar sponsored by the the Future of Diplomacy Project on Thursday, November 9 at the Harvard Kennedy School, titled “Managing Risk in an Unstable World."
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Putting the Populist Revolt in Its Place
| October 6, 2016
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In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites. The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican Party in the United States, and populist parties’ success in Germany and elsewhere strike many as heralding the end of an era. As Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens put it, “the present global order – the liberal rules-based system established in 1945 and expanded after the end of the Cold War – is under unprecedented strain. Globalization is in retreat.”
In fact, it may be premature to draw such broad conclusions.
Some economists attribute the current surge of populism to the “hyper-globalization” of the 1990s, with liberalization of international financial flows and the creation of the World Trade Organization – and particularly China’s WTO accession in 2001 – receiving the most attention. According to one study, Chinese imports eliminated nearly one million US manufacturing jobs from 1999 to 2011; including suppliers and related industries brings the losses to 2.4 million.
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Can a rebuked China manage its anger?
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China suffered a significant setback this month in its bid for dominance in the South China Sea, and its leaders are following a familiar script after such reversals: They’re making angry statements but taking little action while they assess the situation. David Ignatius, Senior Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project, dives into the backlash of the Permanent Court of Arbitration decision against China's dominance of the waters.
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India and the Nuclear Security Summit
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The fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit took place in Washington DC from March 31-April 01, 2016. Despite the initial apprehension about the summits in certain parts of the world, it has been a useful process. With more than 50 countries represented from across the world, the summits elevated the level of awareness of nuclear security. Leaders of established nuclear states began to think about nuclear security in a new way, reducing complacency about the risks of terrorism and sabotage. This thinking took shape in national and multilateral commitments in areas including nuclear security regulation, physical protection of nuclear materials, nuclear forensics, protection against nuclear smuggling, and insider threats and nuclear terrorism.
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Capital Choices: Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth
| July 2019
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Capital Choices analyzes the creation of different SWFs from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation. Juergen Braunstein focuses on the early formation period of SWFs, a critical but little understood area given the high levels of political sensitivity and lack of transparency that surround SWF creation. Braunstein’s novel analytical framework provides practical lessons for the business and finance organizations and policymakers of countries that have created, or are planning to create, SWFs.
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Power and Interdependence in the Trump Era
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President Donald Trump's manipulation of America's privileged international system will strengthen other countries' incentives to extricate themselves from US networks of interdependence in the long run. In the meantime, there will be costly damage to the international institutions that limit conflict and create global public goods.
A Financial Statecraft Strategy for the United States to Address the Rise of China
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Washington should adjust its coercive economic strategy to reflect a broader use of tools beyond sanctions. Given the degree of political interference in China’s banking system via formal state ownership and the indirect influence of opaque party committees, penalties imposed against the country’s banks are unlikely to produce a meaningful change in behavior.
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The Triangle in the Long Game
Fidel Sendagorta
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze how China’s new power is reaching Europe, the challenges that it poses, and the European responses to this new reality. This process has to be examined in the context of the current strategic competition between China and the U.S. and its reflection on the transatlantic relationship.
Crafting Tech Sanctions in an Era of Dollar Evasion
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Like with the Soviet Union, America once again finds itself in a global competition with Beijing today, albeit with many more consequences for Washington’s financial statecraft.
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It's Tempting for the Fed to Move Slowly. That Would Be a Grave Error.
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The Federal Reserve will over the next several months make monetary policy decisions that are as consequential as any it has made since the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007-2008. The temptation in a highly uncertain and politicized environment will be to move cautiously. Yet this would be a grave error in the current context, where a recession could be catastrophic and the odds of one beginning in the next year, while still less than 50-50, now appear significant and increasing.
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Dry bulk market
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Market fundamentals deteriorated further during 2012 as a result of another year with record high deliveries.
USD MILL. 2012 2011
Income 17.3 16.5
Operating result 2.0 5.7
Owned ships 3 3
Handysize dry cargo ships are between 10,000 and 40,000 dwt, supramax between 40,000 and 60,000 dwt. Panamax and post-panamax are between 60,000 and 100,000 dwt, while capesize is over 100,000 dwt. Most panamaxes today are over 75,000 dwt and are standard, non-specialized ships.
The world’s dry cargo fleet carries raw materials: coal, iron ore and other minerals, as well as grain and semi-finished products like steel, cement, fertilizers and timber. This means that the market is driven mainly by the demand for such raw materials, the world grain trade, and world economic growth in general.
Market fundamentals deteriorated further during 2012 as a result of another year with record high deliveries. Despite weaker global economic growth, tonnage demand increased at a decent rate thanks to China, which utilized the huge arbitration in iron ore and coal prices. China imported far more bulk commodities than the underlying demand for steel and energy would account for.
According to R. S. Platou the capesize sector saw a drop in earnings for 2012 as a whole from USD 15,200 to USD 9,400 per day, while panamax obtained USD 8,100 per day compared to a day rate of USD 14,600 the year before. Supramax earned USD 9,400 per day against USD 14,400 per day in 2011, while handysize day rates fell from USD 10,500 in 2011 to USD 7,600 per day in 2012.
Ship values fell steadily throughout the year, but the year ended with a significant increase in the transaction volume, especially for the larger sizes. This may be a signal that the fall in ship values have bottomed out. According to the Baltic Exchange a five-year old supramax now costs USD 18.3 million, down from USD 22.5 million in January 2012.
The M/S Belstar, M/S Belnor and M/S Belocean remained in 2012 on their long-term charter parties to Canpotex of Canada, a world-class marketing and logistics company that sells and delivers potash to international markets. All three ships have been operating satisfactorily without significant off-hire in 2012, although the operating costs were slightly above budgets.
The recent weakening of Japanese Yen has made Japanese shipyards more competitive and several new contracts were reported at the end of last year and early this year. Charterers want new buildings with “eco-design”, i.e. ships with low fuel consumption and low emissions, and in Japan it is now difficult to find available slots for 2015. The shipbuilding industry in China has ample available capacity, although here too ordering activity has picked up. Many believe that newbuilding prices have reached a low point in this cycle and pinpoint that shipyard margins are at an unsustainable low level. Growth in dry bulk fleet adjusted for scrapping is expected to be 7% in 2013 and to tail off further in 2014 after several years of double-digit fleet growth.
The dry bulk fleet has slack capacity due to slow steaming, but there is still a growing optimism based on an expected growth in China and a continued improvement for the US economy. Increased export capacity in Australia and Brazil for iron ore and coal will keep the international prices low. China has relatively high internal production costs for iron ore and coal, and will rely on continued import as long as this arbitration is profitable.
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Kaskade Goes Pop on Tinashe 'Flame' Remix: Listen
5/31/2017 by Kat Bein
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Kaskade photographed at Edge Studios in Los Angeles on Oct. 6, 2016.
Kaskade has always been a man of sweeping beauty, but he knows how to rock the biggest rooms in the business, and his remix of Tinashe's hit “Flame” is some bright lights, peak hour, high-energy dance.
While the original lacks no pop pizzaz, Kaskade manages to kick things up a few notches, quickening the bpm and balancing the hook's explosive, chipmunk-vocal moments with softer, piano-driven ballad vibes.
The “Flame” remix is out now on RCA Records, and you can listen to it below.
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Sabin Karki | Biography, Girlfriend, Age, Height, family
Biofamous — December 3, 2017 in Dancer 74 Likes 2K Views
Sabin Karki (Beest), is a successful dancer, choreographer, and YouTube vlogger. Beest has uploaded much comedy and music videos on Youtube and has received positive response.
Sabin Karki
Date of Birth 5-Jan-95
Nickname Beest
Family Name Karki
Profession Actor/ Dancer
Birth Place Nepal
Birth Sign Capricorn
Relationship Status Single
Residence Kathmandu, Nepal
Favourite Nepali Singer Sabin Rai
Favourite Indian Singer Lata Mangeshkar
Favourite Nepal Actor Anmol KC
Favourite Nepali Song Pitch Road SAMIR ACHARYA · 2018
Favourite International Singer Shawn Mendes
Favourite Nepali Actress Rekha Thapa
Favourite Color yellow
Hubbies dancing
Nationality Nepali
Best Movie Talakjung vs Tulke (2014) 133 min
Best Food Hamburger, Germany
Debut movie -
Jun ta lagyo tara ley
A post shared by Sabin Karki -Beest (@sabin_beest) on Apr 4, 2019 at 4:58am PDT
He uploads his YouTube videos on his official channel named Beest Official which he opened in the year 2009. The channel has one hundred and forty-four thousand subscribers. The channel has around three crores and 28 lakhs views as of today. Similarly, his second YouTube channel ‘Sabin Karki-Beest‘ also has around seventy thousands of subscribers and the video has four millions of total views as of today.
He is popular these days because of his most popular trending music video Viral Bhaidiyo. The video featured child artist Dikhshya Thakuri and the vocal were given by Manas Raj. His previous videos named ‘Date gone wrong’ also stayed in trending list for weeks on YouTube.
Childhood And Education
Born in a beautiful part of Kathmandu city, Sabin Karki spent his most of the childhood age with his classmates and family. He has never in his life joined any dance training classes. Whatever he has learned, he has learned from YouTube and dance related movies like Step Up, Stomp the Yard, The LXD etc. And, he was staying in Mumbai not for formal training classes but for film making workshop. This was conducted by New York Film Academy (NYFA) from the US. He spent nearly two and a half months there.
Sabin Karki Career
Also, about his career and development, his 1st crew was S.W.A.T. (Self Watchers And Trainers). It was a group of about 7-9 friends from his school. This was before Sabin started leading The Cartoonz Crew. The group called themselves S.W.A.T. because no one from the group including Sabin had ever taken any formal dance training classes. S.W.A.T. were among the 5 finalists (top 5) in the Step Up Dance Competition.
Sabin Karki’s Achievements
After the competition, Sabin’s level in terms of dancing and choreographic started to improve a lot. He was one of the main choreographers in S.W.A.T.
Struggling You Tuber
Sabin was the leader and one of the main choreographers of The Cartoonz Crew from 2012 – 2017 and not just a member of the group. In the past, almost all of the dance groups from Nepal were involved in underground dance battles and competitions only. Sabin, along with his team, played a major role in promoting hip-hop dance and b-buoying culture in Nepal by starting the trend of dance covers on YouTube.
Sabin bought a DSLR and all the other equipment needed and then learned editing as well as sound design from YouTube to make such videos happen though it was difficult for Sabin at the time to arrange the money needed for those items. At present, even though Sabin has already left the group, it is clear that he still loves all the members like his own brothers and sister as he has explained himself in numerous Television and YouTube channel interviews.
He still uploads short comedy videos related to present scenario of our country. Like his other previous videos, his recent video ‘date gone wrong’ was also on the trending list and has around three hundred thousand YouTube views.
He even stated that he makes his videos on his own and edits by himself. Thus with this capability, some popular music distributors in the town have started consulting him for the music videos. He uses recent phenomenon and simple dancing steps in his videos which is the most objective of him.
Sabin Karki Girlfriend
Sabin Karki is not single today. He is relationship status. But he do not love to disclose the relationship information.
Cartoonz-Crew Dancer
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Recession Forces Oscars To Cut Back On Parties
Hilary Lewis
When last year’s post-writer’s strike Oscars rolled around, there was a lot of talk about how it wasn’t appropriate to hold lavish parties. But Vanity Fair, which cancelled last year’s shindig but is throwing a smaller, cozier affair at Graydon Carter’s buddy’s restaurant, already indicated that a worldwide recession is no reason to keep from partying. Just do it tastefully.
“You want to celebrate nominations but at the same time be respectful of the fact that a lot of people have lost jobs, and it’s a bad economic climate,” one studio exec involved with event planning told Variety. “You want to have an appropriate level of celebration without being ostentatious.
So, here’s this year’s list of Oscar parties, cobbled together from the above report in Variety, including who’s scaling back, who’s bowing out and who’s partying on.
Friday night is all about the agencies:
CAA’s Bryan Lourd is throwing his annual houseparty, which clients Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer will probably be attending.
endeavour’s holding a reception for its nominees at Ari Emanuel’s house.
WMA’s Ed Limato, who just signed Frost/Nixon nominee Frank Langella, will not having his party this year.
Saturday is a big party day:
There’s the Independent Spirit Awards and its IFC-hosted after-party at Shutters.
Universal/Focus and DreamWorks Animation will be hosting separate brunches for nominees.
Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg will be holding their annual luncheon honouring Graydon Carter.
The Motion Picture & Television Fund, which needs a benefit this year, is holding its seventh annual Night Before party on Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. But there will be no gift bags, and the Friday-night event has been axed.
Saturday night, Miramax and Disney will celebrate their nominations on the rooftop of the London Hotel.
Focus Features will have a party at BLT Steak.
Sony Pictures Classics will throw a bash at Cecconi’s.
Paramount and Warner Bros. are not having parties (even though we imagine Warner Bros has enough Dark Knight, Yes Man, Gran Torino, He’s Just Not That Into You and Friday the 13th money to do so).
The Weinstein Company is magnanimously throwing a party for all nominees at Andaz West Hollywood.
Oscar night, Sunday:
The “East Meets West”- (aka “Slumdog Millionaire wins”)-themed Governors ball is expected to host 1,500 guests.
Vanity Fair will be at the Sunset Tower for its viewing and after-party, at which roughly 800 guests are expected.
Elton John will have his viewing party to raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation at the Pacific Design centre. 650 guests are expected as is a performance by Raphael Saadiq.
Demi, Madonna and Guy Oseary will host their second-annual Oscar after-party at Oseary’s house. It’s a bit hard to get into, in person, at least, but will Demi and Ashton be twittering from inside?
InStyle will have its 10th annual viewing party at the new club, My House, and is expecting 250 guests.
Leeza Gibbons, Olivia Newton-John and David Foster are having a charity viewing and after-party at Mr. Chow.
Jennifer Love Hewitt will be hosting APLA’s charity viewing party at the Abbey.
And Prince is expected to have his uber-late house party at his Beverly Park estate.
And finally, Fox Searchlight will be partying at One Sunset after the show—better hope you win all the awards you’re expecting to get.
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BMW is going to introduce a very cool small motorcycle
Chris Cope,
RideApart
If you love scramblers, now is a great time to be alive. BMW has announced it will soon be offering its own take on the popular style, using its boxer-powered R nineT as a base. The even better news is that it is expected to cost less than a standard R nineT.
Like R nineT, Like Scrambler
The BMW Scrambler was announced at last week's EICMA event in Milan and will feature the same air-cooled flat twin engine as the R nineT, along with the same engine power figures of 110 hp and 86 lb. ft. of torque.
Differences between the two bikes will be mostly aesthetic. However, the Scrambler does offer a suspension with slightly more rear travel (5.5 inches, as opposed to the R nineT's 4.7 inches), and the ergonomics have been changed slightly to allow for a more relaxed stance.
A 19-inch front wheel will give the bike a look of something that can explore the occasional fire road. The bike's classic scrambler-style high exhaust certainly contributes to that look. Whereas shaft drive and ABS that can't be switched off suggest you shouldn't wander too far from the beaten path.
A Scrambler of Your Very Own
Primarily, it seems BMW is eager to see people using this Scrambler as a base for customization. And as such, some lower-spec parts have been used to keep the cost of the bike down. For instance, wheels are alloy instead of spoked, and the seat is a little less plush than that of the R nineT.
However, I would not expect the Scrambler to cost dramatically less...
A Nice Bike From a Nice Company
It was difficult to inspect the bike too closely at EICMA because BMW had perched a leggy Italian model atop the bike, and my good Texas upbringing won't allow me to brush a woman aside for the sake of inspecting a machine. But from what I could tell standing at a respectful distance, the fit and finish of the Scrambler is every bit as good as what you would expect from BMW.
The aforementioned ABS will be standard, with dual discs up front. At the rear, a single-disc brake ensures deceleration. Traction control will also be an option. And to encourage customization BMW will, of course, be offering a host of accessories for both bike and rider.
Think lots of anodized aluminum and leather, respectively.
There is, perhaps, opportunity to be cynical here, to say that BMW is jumping into an already crowded pool a little late, but the other way of seeing it is as an opportunity to get your hands on a less-expensive R nineT—a bike that just about everyone has swooned over.
You will have to wait, however. BMW says the Scrambler is technically a 2017 model and won't be available in dealerships until the latter half of next year. And although a BMW representative I spoke to confirmed a lower price than an R nineT, he was not able to offer any specifics as to how much lower.
Read the original article on RideApart. Copyright 2019. Follow RideApart on Twitter.
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Everything you need to know about the complex relationship between Ripple and cryptocurrency XRP
Oscar Williams-Grut
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The logo of blockchain company Ripple is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto.
Cryptocurrency XRP, also known as Ripple, is often confused with the company that created it, Ripple Labs.
Ripple Labs owns 60% of all XRP in circulation but insists the currency is independent.
Ripple uses XRP in one of its products but says investors shouldn't use the cryptocurrency as a proxy for the entire business.
Here's everything you need to know about how Ripple and XRP are linked.
LONDON — XRP, often known as Ripple, is the world's third-biggest cryptocurrency and worth over $30 billion.
XRP shares a logo, and the name Ripple, with Ripple Labs, a payments company using blockchain technology for cross-border transfers.
Both the currency and the company were founded by the same people and the company owns more than half of the currency.
But Ripple (the company) tries to stress that the two are not one and the same, an important distinction given that investors could fall into the trap of seeing XRP as a proxy for Ripple's performance.
What is XRP?
XRP is payment protocol and cryptocurrency that is "fine-tuned for transactions," according to Marcus Treacher, Ripple's Global Head of Strategic Accounts.
An early version of XRP dates back to 2004 when it was first created by web developer Ryan Fugger. The protocol in its current cryptocurrency form really began in 2012.
XRP allows people to send money digitally and is meant to be an upgrade on first generation cryptocurrency bitcoin, which suffers from high transaction cost volatility and slow settlement times. XRP promises to settle transactions in as little as four seconds and claims it can handle up 1,500 transactions per second, far more than the bitcoin network.
XRP averaged 37,935 transactions per hour as of Wednesday, according to BitInfoCharts.com. That compares to 28,437 for ethereum and 8,240 for bitcoin.
What is Ripple Labs?
Ripple Labs is a company founded in 2012 that helped develop XRP and the current Ripple protocol. Chris Larsen, the cofounder of E-loans and Prosper, set up a company called OpenCoin to develop the Fugger's Ripple network concept. 100 billion XRP tokens were issued to run on the protocol and power it.
Ripple's Chris Larsen
OpenCoin changed its name to Ripple Labs in 2015 and made the Ripple network code open source, meaning anyone could work on it. Ripple Labs remained the major contributor to the code.
While the people behind both XRP and Ripple are the same, the company insists that the open source nature of the network and the fact that XRP can be publicly bought and sold means that Ripple is not "behind" XRP — merely tangentially linked to it.
"It's one of our creations that we're proud of but it's separate from the company," Treacher told BI. "We are trying to reinforce the fact that there's Ripple the company and there's XRP the currency."
BI pointed out that it's confusing to have both the company and the asset have the same name, logo, and creators. Treacher said he doesn't accept that and said Ripple isn't considering changing its name to differentiate the company.
Who owns XRP?
Ripple owns 61 billion of the 100 billion outstanding XRP in circulation. The company's holding is valued at just under $50 billion. The rest of the currency is traded freely on the open market.
Ripple's domination of XRP has drawn criticism from some in the cryptocurrency community as many are attracted by crypto's promise of decentralization and the lack of a central authority controlling a currency.
In response, Ripple has placed 55 billion of its XRP holdings into escrow. Tom Channick, Head of Corporate Communications at Ripple, told BI: "1 billion XRP is released to Ripple each month to use at its discretion. Last month was the first contract expiration. Ripple spent less than $100 million worth of XRP last month, which means the remaining $900 million+ was placed back in a new escrow contract for month 56."
Mati Greenspan, an analyst with trading platform eToro, said of the 1 billion a month supply: "Still, that's a lot of supply coming in that they could potentially throw out at any given time."
What does Ripple use XRP for?
Ripple initially wanted businesses to use XRP on the Ripple network to send and receive global payments. But Treacher told Business Insider that the sheer size of the global payments industry and issues around data protection meant that XRP on its own wasn't appropriate.
"We then kind of rethought things about two years ago and decided what we'll do is we'll create an interconnection solution using the cryptography of blockchain," Treacher said.
Ripple's Marcus Treacher.
That solution is xCurrent. It is built on another open source platform developed by Ripple called Interledger. It allows different payment networks can plug into each other to allow people to send money all over the world quickly and securely.
xCurrent is "fine-tuned for an internet model, where banks can pay each other with adequate secrecy and not copy and paste it all over the world," Treacher said.
"We're creating a natural model that's worked before over the internet, overlaying with cryptography. The big difference is we can shift value over that internet model, which is impossible today."
xCurrent is one of three products offered by Ripple. The other two are xRapid, a liquidity solution, and xVia, which allows people to send payments with data like invoices attached.
xRapid uses XRP "as a method to make that liquidity much more efficient by placing liquidity in the target accounts just in time for the payments to be able to happen over the Interledger model," Treacher said.
"For example, if you're making a payment from the US to Argentina, with Ripple, with Interledger, payments will happen to your bank and the third party bank in Argentina in seconds.
"The account in Argentinian pesos, you really want that to be topped up when required very efficiently and not have a lot of money just sitting there in the account to cover the local payments as they are being made. XRP is used as a method of topping those accounts up."
Which businesses use XRP?
Five companies are currently piloting the xRapid technology, including Western Union and MoneyGram.
xCurrent is in production, according to Treacher, with millions of dollars moving across the network each day. But xRapid is currently at the pilot stage. Volumes are much smaller and firms are experimenting with it.
Treacher says the feedback from the pilots so far has been "very, very good so far." The idea is that once xRapid fully launches, Ripple will try to convince companies that are using xCurrent to use xRapid as their liquidity solution too — a classic cross-sell.
One potential hurdle for widespread adoption of XRP as a liquidity solution is the volatility of its price. XRP has fallen by 25% against the dollar over the last month, for example. Ripple argues that the fast settlement times over the XRP protocol mean companies will have minimal exposure on a per transaction basis.
Ripple's price graph against the dollar over the last year.
eToro's Greenspan said: "The minimum transaction fee for Ripple is o.oo01 XRP. It's fractions of a penny. It could go up by a hundred times. I don't think that the volatility of XRP is going to prevent any banks from necessarily using it."
Will Ripple always use XRP?
Given that Ripple and XRP are separate and trials involving XRP are still just at an early stage, it's not clear that Ripple will always offer a product that involves XRP. What if those trialing it decide not to take it up?
Treacher was circumspect when I asked whether Ripple will always use XRP in one form or another.
"It's very important to keep your true north," he said. "There will be communities that value different parts [of what Ripple does] and we get that. Clearly, our vision is the whole things coming together as a whole but if we find that certain groups or organisations are much more focused on the liquidity angle that XRP offers or focused on the Interledger, that's absolutely fine.
"The Interledger protocol that we use connects perfectly well to any blockchain and any asset, it doesn't only work with XRP, it's very open. If you're trying to create a solution for the global payment problem, you can't be closed."
He added: "We care about this currency, we care about the digital asset, it's part of our vision, we want it to do well. In doing so, we're careful to make sure it's freely accessible, it is community controlled."
Does Ripple influence XRP's price?
Treacher insists that Ripple's escrow arrangement means Ripple can't influence XRP's price directly.
However, Ripple's activities appear to indirectly affect the price of XRP as many investors view the cryptocurrency as a proxy for the company.
Greenspan said: "I've been doing battle with that perception for the better part of the last few months. A lot of newcomers are of the understanding that holding on to XRP tokens is somewhat similar to holding shares in Ripple Labs, which is completely false.
XRP rallied on news that Ripple had struck a deal with international money transfer business UAE Exchange, for example, despite the fact that the deal was for xCurrent rather than xRapid.
"A lot of the deals that they do and the payment channels that they set up, at the end of the day, are not going to use XRP tokens," Greenspan said.
Treacher said: "As we're successful, clearly a lot of people follow Ripple and I think we're doing some interesting, groundbreaking stuff. As that's happening, people are clearly watching what we're doing and then making decisions about how the world is playing out. We can't stop that. We want to be agnostic here. We don't want to be encouraging or discouraging, we just want to do our job and build out that network."
He added: "I can understand why people look at what we're doing, look at the currency, and make that connection. But we do try and make it very clear that there's Ripple the company and XRP the currency."
So how should I think about Ripple's relationship to XRP?
XRP is "bigger than Ripple," Treacher says. He argues that the cryptocurrency is a "transformational technology" that has "a range of uses."
One way to think of XRP is a little like a digital railway network. Ripple has laid down the gauges but now it has sold off most of them to anyone who wants them. Now, Ripple is focusing on making the best damn trains it can so it can make money from the network it has created.
"We're trying to build something that's very, very open and we succeed because we're very, very good at delivering into that open world that we have created," Treacher said.
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Roll call!
Why some Tennessee students skipped school for ‘A Day Without Immigrants’
By Caroline Bauman - February 16, 2017
PHOTO: Caroline Bauman
Students mill outside of Kingsbury High School in this 2016 photo. Kingsbury serves a significant number of immigrant students in Memphis, and many participated Thursday in nationwide protests to highlight what “A Day Without Immigrants" is like.
Daniel Casas said he stayed home from school Thursday to show Memphis what life would be like without immigrants.
A senior at Kingsbury High School, Casas was among hundreds of students across Tennessee who joined “A Day Without Immigrants,” a nationwide boycott organized in response to President Trump’s crackdown on immigration. His family and many of his friends participated too.
“We want to show that we make a difference,” said Casas, who was born in Mexico and has lived in Memphis for 17 years. “We contribute to society; we run stores and shops; we fill classrooms with students who want to work hard.”
Daniel Casas, right, with Kingsbury High School Principal Terry Ross
It’s uncertain how many students participated across Tennessee, as districts were still compiling their absentee reports on Thursday. But based on conversations with students and educators, the boycott was felt in numerous schools in Memphis and Nashville, which have growing populations of immigrant students.
At Kingsbury, there were reports that about half of the student body stayed home.
The protest was also felt at Aurora College Academy, where about 30 percent of the Memphis charter school’s 275 students were absent.
“We knew there were rumblings of this, but to be missing this many students is a surprise for us,” said Principal Grant Monda, whose school population is about half Hispanic. “We’re close to a 96 percent attendance rate for any given day.”
Knowledge Academies High School, located in Nashville’s Antioch community, recorded absences for about half of its 200 students, though the impact was felt more in some classes than others. “We have one science class that usually has 20 students, but today it only had five,” said Martel Graham, director of the charter school.
Across America, the boycott’s effect was also visible at construction companies, restaurants and other businesses.
Some educators said they began hearing earlier this week about #adaywithoutimmigrants and tried to prepare.
In Nashville, Chief of Schools Sito Narcisse emailed all principals on Wednesday to remind them of the district’s policy related to unexcused absences. The bottom line: While Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools understands the uncertainty and confusion being experienced by immigrant families, the best place for students to be is still in school. Absences due to the protests will not be excused.
“While we respect the democratic right to participate in peaceful protest, our responsibility as a school district is to ensure students are in school receiving a great education every day,” Narcisse wrote. “For that reason, all students and staff are expected to be in school throughout the day on Thursday so that teaching and learning can continue.”
Officials with Shelby County Schools declined to comment on communications to their schools or how the Memphis district was handling the absences.
Graham said Nashville’s Knowledge Academies sent emails and robocalls to staff and students’ families in advance of the protest.
“We told them we will be here to educate any students who come into the building. If you don’t come to school, it will be counted as an absence and students are expected to make up their work,” Graham said.
While the boycott was scheduled for a single day, the event will continue to be part of the conversation about what immigrant students are going through in America. At Aurora Collegiate in Memphis, the principal plans to use a school-wide staff meeting on Friday to “talk about the importance of what today represented for a significant portion of our student population.”
“We want to have conversations with our students that make them feel safe and assure them that we will keep learning here regardless of whatever policies are created on a state or federal level,” Monday said. “We want them to know they are safe here.”
Casas, 18, said he hopes his absence Thursday was noticed — and that his school and district will be more vocal in supporting immigrants as a result.
“I hope that what comes from today’s protests is that the schools realize they can’t take us for granted,” he said, “and that they will listen to our voices.”
By Caroline Bauman @CarolineBmn cbauman@chalkbeat.org
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County talks wildfire risk, prevention
When it comes to fire risk, the mountain area of Jefferson County tops the list. To protect the Front Range, fire chiefs and county officials agree it’s going to take a collaborative effort.
Morrison holding off on criminal ordinances
After going back and forth on the issue for several months, the Morrison Town Board decided to delay a decision on enacting ordinances that would have allowed the town’s police force to address minor criminal offenses.
Art, Elevated: Evergreen artist honors animals through recycled leather projects
The story came to him as if in a dream.
As Ron Isaacson sat in his mountain studio, the mystical birds appeared before him, imploring him to share their message of hope and rejuvenation with the world.
And thus, the Amazar Avians were born. The intricate, colorful birds, made from leather and other found objects, are the latest in a lifelong series of artistic endeavors for Isaacson, an Evergreen-based leather artist.
A day of remembrance
Veteran Mike Lynch began to choke up while remembering his fallen comrades and sharing a hug with family members of those lost.
Among those recognized were veterans Tonia Osborne and her son, Eric, who recently passed away. Two new bricks at the Commemorative Walk now pay tribute to the pair’s military service.
Heartbreaker: Evergreen soccer falls just short in state title game
COMMERCE CITY — Evergreen girls soccer had all the right weapons in its arsenal.
Throughout a storied season, the Cougars’ artillery on the pitch earned them a spot in the 4A state title game on May 22 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, their second appearance in just three years. But on that chilly Wednesday night, Cheyenne Mountain outgunned them in a heartbreaker, 2-1.
Evergreen finished its 14-4-2 season just short.
Evergreen, Conifer golfers give it their all at state
WINDSOR — The weather was anything but picture perfect on the golf course May 20 for the 4A girls state golf tournament.
Evergreen’s three golfers and Conifer’s lone ambassador made the best of what little course time they had and represented their schools well in spite of the rainy, 38 degree weather at the Pelican Lakes Golf Club. They just wish it didn’t snow the following day to cancel their scheduled second rounds.
Community voices: Chad Mott
Do one thing every day that scares you ... daunting advice from the brilliant First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Thank you, seniors, for inviting me to embrace that wisdom. Speaking at Red Rocks is a truly terrifying honor.
Forest Service briefs
South Platte Ranger District eyeing spots for shooting ranges
The South Platte Ranger District is considering spots in the Buffalo Creek and Harris Park areas for official outdoor shooting ranges on national forest land.
Recognizing that the issue is bigger than any one entity, district ranger Brian Banks said the ranger district formed the southern shooting partnership in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service, Jefferson County, Douglas County, Colorado Parks & Wildlife and more.
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Stronger Organizations, Grantmaking Strategy
Supporting Organizational Strengthening (SOS) Self-Assessment Quiz
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Grantmaking Strategy, Accelerator Updates
Looking Back on 2018 and Ahead to 2019
At the Social Sector Accelerator, we're heading into the new year like
2018 has been amazing year for our team, thanks in large part to our partnerships with many of you! As we kick off 2019, there are a couple things we’ve been thinking a lot about that I’d love your feedback on. First, in workshops we’ve run this year, we’ve introduced a module on “capacity building as a substitution for a market.” At the Accelerator, we believe strongly that grant funding is an important tool in helping us build a better world. That said, we also know that the grant model often suffers from a shortcoming that nonprofits must manage: those that fund our work are often not the same people as those we are trying to benefit. Too often, this skews the incentive structures for nonprofits, creating a breakdown in accountability when nonprofits focus more of their attention on pleasing a donor than on satisfying those they are meant to serve.
For a company, beneficiaries are customers, and companies that fail to meet customer demands either adapt to meet those demands or they go out of business. One way we can think about capacity building is that it is designed to fill a role ordinarily played by the market. We are trying to systematically identify obstacles to customer satisfaction, develop strategies for overcoming those, and build mechanisms for learning that ensure funding and impact are more closely linked.
The second concept we’ve been talking a lot about has been risk and return in capacity building. Where are limited funds for capacity building best placed within a community? Is it with the weakest organizations for whom the risk might be greatest but the payoff in the form of a stronger organization might similarly be greatest? Or are we better off channeling capacity building funds to organizations that are stronger and may be more able to make effective use of those resources, even if additionally, funding will be less catalytic for them? When should we throw a lifeline to a failing organization and when should we let it go? Is this typology even the right way to think about whether and when to make these investments? Where do questions of diversity, equity and inclusion lead us in the risk and return discussion? We continue to draw inspiration from the team at the Open Road Alliance who are digging deep into risks and philanthropy.
Both of these are concepts that we are still workshopping, and we’d love your feedback on them. You can always write Teresa or Hugh with thoughts or, better yet, join us for one of the workshops we’ll hold in 2019 to share in the learning with us and others there! Either way, we look forward to the conversation!
Some highlights from 2018
We worked with two Kenya-based organizations, Adeso and the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR). We supported NEAR to develop their Organizational Strengthening Strategy for their members based on their goals, needs of their members and past experience.
Back in the U.S., with support from Methodist Healthcare Ministries, we are supporting a coalition of Texas-based health providers to improve their impact and achieve their mission to improve health along the U.S.-Mexico border.
We’ve spent the year working with the team at the Resilience Initiative to better understand the types of grant maker support that help organizations improve both their organizational and staff resilience.
We built and launched a new approach to grantmaking for the CIVICUS network that lessens the burdens on grantees and improves communication between CIVICUS and its partners.
We continued to refine our thinking on results-based-financing, designing the world’s first development impact bond (DIB) for mangrove conservation.
For 2019, we are developing a peer learning and design workshop for domestic grantmakers looking to amplify the impact of their capacity building grantmaking. This workshop is primarily targeted at health foundations in the southern and central U.S., but the lessons we share there will be broadly applicable so don’t be shy! If you are interested in spending time with us in Austin, TX in 2019 let us know!
Looking further ahead, let us know if you are interested in co-designing a session or workshop with us on organizational strengthening and learning, impact measurement, strategy, etc. in your area. We need just 10 interested participants to make it work and are always happy to come to you or to host you in one of our two locations (Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon).
We are also looking forward to the GEO Learning Conference in Seattle where we will host a learning ‘speed geeking’ session, introducing a range of approaches to improving our understanding of how to support stronger, more capable nonprofits.
What we've been reading
Want effective capacity building? Get rid of the incubation mentality – Vu Le shares his thoughts on a new way of thinking of capacity and where it can come from
Monitoring organizational capacity development efforts - Our friends at USAID put together a short brief on how to link improved organizational performance to project outcomes
Reflecting on Innovations in Training Impact Assessment – RedR and the University of Sussex shared their results for improving understanding of how individuals learn and what impacts behavior change
Community Wealth Partners and Center for Effective Philanthropy both released research on what makes for a successful capacity building program. The CWP research on Five Elements for Success in Capacity Building findings mirror the early research from the Human Development Institute published back in 2000 . The CEP research on Foundation and Nonprofit Perspectives on Capacity Building echo some of the same issues.
Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) on Measuring the Value for Money of Acceleration. While this report is primarily about social enterprise startups, there are some interesting lessons here for how we think about acceleration/capacity building for nonprofits and how we measure the effectiveness of those efforts.
amplify ii, the latest report on INGOs and impact investing (look for a quote from Hugh about why the Accelerator has not launched a fund on page 60!)
And finally, for those who want to geek out on some amazing data drawn from 1800 grants and 120 interviews, an amazing report on What Facilitates [Nonprofit] Financial Sustainability from the team at LINC. We will be experimenting with regular rounds of small amounts of unrestricted funding with partners in Dominican Republic this year and discussing their efforts towards financial sustainability
We look forward to speaking with, working with, sharing with many of you in 2019.
Tagged: capacitybuilding, workshop
If Grant Making Needs to Change so too Does Capacity Building
Last week, both Vu Le and Kathy Reich wrote and shared articles with lessons for how to improve the way grant makers support nonprofits tackling issues of inequality and justice. This topic is one we think about constantly in our work at the Accelerator, and these are two thinkers whose insights we invariably find valuable.
Kathy Reich leads BUILD, the Ford Foundation’s 6-year, $1 billion investment in 300 nonprofit organizations in the United States and around the world. This investment is intended to help these nonprofits become stronger, more sustainable and more durable organizations.
Vu Le is the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps. Rainier Valley Corps promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.
In a report reflecting on a year of her work with BUILD, Kathy identifies 6 lessons they have learned thus far with BUILD. Last week on Vu Le’s blog, Nonprofit AF, he shared his perspective that conservative foundations have been more effective than progressive foundations in achieving their objectives. This perspective was reinforced in a recent Inside Philanthropy article, How Top Foundations Failed to Defend Their Values.
While Vu is drawing lessons that can be applied to grant making writ large Kathy is drawing lessons from grant making that supports organizational strengthening. Although written separately there is an intersection between the two that caused us to reflect on our own practice and the way we support nonprofits and grant makers.
Below I’ve lined up their lessons to highlight the overlap and why we should all pay attention.
Kathy’s Lessons
Vu’s Lessons
Lesson 2: Grants should be significant and unrestricted.
Lesson 3: Grants should be minimum 10-years in duration. Lesson 1: Nonprofits thrive with larger, longer, more flexible grants.
Lesson 9: Focus on the big picture and get out of the weeds
Lesson 2: Long-term, flexible grants work best when they closely align with strategy.
Lesson 1: The funding relationship must be grounded in trust and partnership.
Lesson 3: Grants like these can foster deeper relationships between grantmakers and the organizations they support—but money can’t buy trust. It takes work.
Lesson 5: At least 75% of all grant funding should go to organizations led by and serving communities of color and other marginalized communities, as reflected by their staff and board.
Lesson 6: Foundations must diversify their boards of trustees to reflect the community they serve; at least half of most foundation boards should be of color.
Lesson 4: Grants like these can work anywhere in the world.
Comment: While not an exact match between Vu and Kathy’s lessons, for grants such as those made by BUILD to work anywhere in the world what has to be in place? A diverse team? Contextual understanding? Organizations and staff with a particular set of experiences?
Lesson 8: Support leaders, movements, and institutions, not specific issue areas.
Lesson 10: Be engaged in policy and politics.
Lesson 5: Supporting institutions is critical—but so is catalyzing and supporting networks.
Comment: While Vu does not have an evaluation lesson in this post he wrote an extensive post this time last year, How the Concept of Effectiveness has Screwed Nonprofits, that bears rereading. Both patience and evaluation are important, So too is a discussion of what is being evaluated and by whom. Lesson 6: Patience is a virtue. So is rigorous evaluation.
During a time of social, political and economic upheaval there is an opportunity for those of us who work with leaders, organizations and networks in the social sector to create new ways of working that align with our values and help to create positive change. Unfortunately, there is also the opportunity for the lessons shared by Vu and Kathy to remain lessons observed but not learned. The lessons Vu describes are not new. He traces the roots of his lessons to an article written by Karen Paget almost exactly 20 years ago.
Failing to make the types of changes Vu and Kathy argue for is to perpetuate and reinforce systems that undermine the leaders and organizations doing the lion’s share of the work to eradicate inequality. Kathy’s belief that grant makers should award more general operating support is one we share. Unfortunately, grant makers seem to be trending away from general support grants. Kathy points to a Grantmakers for Effective Organizations report that finds, “The median percentage of grant dollars awarded as general operating support has actually decreased in the last several years, remaining at roughly the same rate since the 2008 recession.”
At the Accelerator, we follow both Vu and Kathy’s work closely as we support nonprofits and grant makers. How should the lessons Vu and Kathy point to influence grants aimed specifically at organizational strengthening? If grant making more broadly needs to change, don’t many of the same reasons why apply to ‘capacity building’ and the way ‘organizational strengthening’ support is provided?
To reinforce the changes in grant making, at the very least, organizational effectiveness support should be:
longer term, as a general rule;
more focused on supporting organizations to achieve their mission and less in the weeds;
co-designed with organizations and provided by a diverse set of technical assistance providers;
understanding of the larger context and networks in which organizations work, and;
designed in a way that fosters trust and deeper relationships between grantees and funders.
Thoughts on an Organizational Strengthening Program Taxonomy
Initial thoughts on a taxonomy of 6 approaches foundations and intermediaries are taking to supporting stronger and more resilient organizations.
How does a foundation or intermediary decide on one of these 6 approaches? Is it based on their past experience? On what they’ve seen others do? On their own spoken or unspoken foundation values or beliefs? On the best fit for their context and grantee partners needs? What do organizations have to say about the impacts of the different approaches?
Tagged: organizationalstrengthening, capacitybuilding
Choosing a Collaborative Grants Management System
In our last post - Defining a Collaborative Grants Management System, Laura outlined our vision for a “collaborative grants management system”, which would allow our two organizations-- the Social Sector Accelerator and CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation—to collaborate together, with grantees, and with the sector as a whole. In this post she describes the four-step process for how we moved from that vision to a decision as to which vendor would work best for us.
Tagged: grants administration, giving data, collaboration, civicus
Defining a Collaborative Grants Management System
In our post, Unlocking Investment in the Social Sector, we described the research we conducted with CIVICUS to better understand the infrastructure needed to unlock investment in the social sector. But we’re not just researching and strategizing. we’re working together to define and implement a grants management process and platform that will increase the amount of resources flowing to social sector organizations in the Global South. Who better to work with to support this work then Laura Quinn, the founding Director of Idealware. Idealware publishes the industry bible on grants management systems – Consumers Guide to Grant Management Systems. This post, written by Laura, describes the process we’ve undertaken together with the CIVICUS team.
Tagged: grants administration, Laura Quinn
Hugh O'Donnell
Evidence Based Approaches, Case Studies
Saving mangroves, one of the world’s most carbon rich habitats, requires evidence and market driven solutions
We launched the Social Sector Accelerator to seek out, design, and test market-driven and evidence-based solutions to the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. We’re excited to announce the launch of our Blue Forests Initiative, an effort to combine advances in behavioral science, innovative finance, and the conservation of one of the world’s most important habitats: mangroves.
Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?
What is the evidence base available on the impacts of capacity building on organizations? We believe that any measurement of the impact of investment in strong organizations should ultimately come back to demonstrating the additional impact organizations are able to achieve after receiving this kind of support. In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence:
Capacity Building Divorced from Results
The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment
Tools, Tools, and more Tools
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Revised, edited, copy-edited, two rounds of proofreading and tweaking. Not quite final so still subject to change.
Teversault, The Dukeries, Nottinghamshire, England
Stoke’s ability to strike terror into the hearts of mere mortals was a talent too useful not to keep in good order. Five steps into the Grand Falcon saloon, so named because of the eponymous birds carved into the molding, and a pocket of silence had formed around him. He stood motionless, searching for his brother because she would surely be with William. Though a hair over six feet tall, Stoke did not think of himself as tall on account of his brother being six feet three-and-a-half inches of lion-hearted masculinity. A credit to the Besett line.
None of the strangers here, and there were many, had so far guessed he was a Besett. The Besett. In respect of looks, Stoke was at the edge of unattractive, a fact of which he was acutely aware. Besetts, male or female, were either dark-eyed and hawkish or blue-eyed and leonine. He was of the hawkish Besett. William was of the leonine. William was beloved for his wit and humor and easy manners. Stoke was feared on all accounts.
There. At the other side of the room. As he headed for his brother, all but the least observant among his guests moved out of his way. This reaction had been the case for so long he no longer realized it was unusual. Nevertheless, the saloon was crowded enough that walking a straight line was not possible.
He walked forcefully, propelling his lean-muscled body through space as if a current of air carried him and no one else, a Besett hawk making his way past peacocks toward one Besett lion. He reached them in due course but halted some feet short of where William held court. The Hunter sisters stood on either side of his brother. The women were the younger siblings of a protégée of Stoke’s, presently in Paris and attached to the British Embassy there. He willed away the unwelcome thud of his pulse at the sight of Mrs. Lark. There was no point allowing it.
She had never been much in terror of him, but he’d been unable to close the distance between them, either. By habit, he was a man who observed from afar, who must see the eagle’s-eye view of a problem before plunging to grasp in metaphorical talons the required solution. He did not act until he was certain. William saw his quarry and pounced. Half a minute later, his prey would be a bosom friend.
Mrs. Lark was quick-witted, generous, and always believed the best of everyone. Like William, she threw herself into friendships with no hesitation. He’d spent too long observing her, understanding her. His caution and prudence, in the matter of the former Miss Hunter, had proved fatal to his hopes, for she’d blithely danced out of his view and into the arms of another man.
This was her first visit to Teversault in all the time since her family and his had become connected. He’d last seen her a year ago at one of the assemblies in Hopewell-on-Lyft, though he’d not danced with her despite her being out of mourning. They’d barely spoken, and why should they have? He had no ability to make himself into the sort of man who would suit her.
Grief no longer shadowed her eyes, and she’d regained some, though not enough in his opinion, of the weight she’d lost. She had always been a tidy woman who much resembled her elder brother, and so she remained. She was not tall enough for a man his height and certainly not for someone William’s size. There was no disguising the generous curve of her bosom, all the more apparent because she was quite small and slender everywhere else. Her hair was irredeemably orange, far too pale to be called red. Her alabaster skin made her freckles all the more obvious. The cleft in her chin was charming, but had the effect of making her mouth appear decadent. Though he could not see from where he stood, he knew her eyes were the color of cognac held to candlelight.
She was a decade younger than he, twenty-three. Married at twenty-one, widowed less than a year later. William, resplendent and too handsome for his own good—he was of the lion line, after all—rested a familiar and possessive hand on her shoulder.
“Revers,” William had just said, raising his voice to be heard over the noise. “These are the young ladies I’ve been telling you about.” Lord Revers bowed. “George, this is the Viscount Revers.”
She curtseyed. “My lord.”
The saloon was filled with guests, more than in any previous year for these series of summer parties across the estates that made up the Dukeries. This circumstance was the weight of tradition, alas. Balls, fˆtes, routs, picnics, the Dukeries Cup race on the serpentine, all to culminate in a grand ball which the Prince Regent himself was to attend. One was no one without possession of the right to say he, or she, had been a guest at one of the Dukeries parties.
“Revers, this is George.” William grinned. “Mrs. Lark.”
Revers looked bored but took her hand and bowed over it. As he did, his attention slid to the other sister. Just as well, as far as Stoke was concerned. “Delighted to meet you, Mrs. Lark.”
“George.” William thumped her shoulder. “Everyone calls her George.”
George. As if she were a man. As if it were proper for anyone to call her that except her most intimate friends. She’d only just met Revers. The man had no business addressing her as anything but Mrs. Lark.
“Lord William.” She tapped his arm with her closed fan. “Not everyone.” Then she smiled. “Likewise, my lord.”
She had no idea what transformation took place when she smiled. No idea at all. Revers did not release her hand. Instead, he cocked his head. When he spoke, his words and manners were smooth and liquid. “Lord William’s been talking for years about the delightful women of Uplyft Hall.” He put his free hand over his heart. “At last we meet.”
She drew her hand from his, by smile alone transformed from unexceptional to ravishing. A woman a man wanted under him in bed. God knew Revers was rogue enough to be thinking how to get her there. “At last, sir.”
“A pox on you for not introducing me sooner Lord William.” Revers had a reputation for liking the ladies too well. There had been indiscretions on his part. To George, Revers said, “I’ll make up for time lost, I promise you.”
Still with that smile, she laughed. Revers was fascinated. This was her gift, that when she smiled, one was convinced there was no finer, kinder, or more desirable woman than her.
“Miss Hunter.” William brought the young lady forward. He beamed as if he were introducing a beloved sister to a man he hoped would agree they’d be an excellent match. “Will you allow me to introduce Lord Revers?”
The young lady extended a hand with less poise than he would have expected from one of her beauty. Golden hair, blue eyes. An oval face without a single freckle. “Yes, please.”
“Kitty, this bold fellow here is Lord Revers.” The Lord only knew how long Revers would have stared had not William brought Miss Hunter closer yet. “Revers, this enchanting creature is Miss Kitty Hunter.”
Kitty blushed and put her hand on the palm Revers extended to her. The viscount bowed over her hand. “Delighted to meet you as well, Miss Hunter.” He looked her up and down. “Such beauty. I am enrapt. Enthralled by the perfection before me.”
George darted an assessing glance at Revers. He was handsome enough to present a danger to youthful virtue, which no doubt George well understood. He was also possessed of a title and a fortune, and one forgave too much in the face of that.
William kept his hand on George’s shoulder. “George, Kitty, you’ve met everyone who matters. You might as well retire for the day.” The remark was uttered in a breezy, thoughtless manner without consideration of there being anything forward about calling the women names that ought only be used by family and one’s most intimate friends. His brother glanced around the room but did not, for whatever reason, see him standing not five feet away. “Except for that dashed brother of mine, of course.”
“Are you sure he’s here?” George asked. Careless. Not particularly interested in the answer.
“Hiding in his room, I expect.” William glanced at the ceiling. “You know how he despises parties.”
“Yes,” she said. “I do recall.”
Stoke wended his way closer. As well make himself known to them before someone spoke ill of him. He put a hand on William’s shoulder and did not smile. “Here you are. I have been searching for you these ten minutes at least.”
“Stoke!” William shook his head of tawny hair that had not one single curl. “You’ve been searching for me? Well, I’ve been looking everywhere for you. Ten minutes, you say?” He drew George’s hand through his arm and placed his hand over hers. “You ought to have been here an hour ago.”
“Business detained me.”
George curtseyed with an elegance she had acquired during her marriage, for she’d not had that polish when he knew her before. Her eyes were as remarkable as in his memory. He’d not forgotten how clear they were. He could not help but admire them as if he had. She took a breath and held it for a moment—composing herself? Perhaps, for her smile faded. She extended her hand. “How lovely to see you again.”
He touched her fingers, nothing more. Orange hair. Freckles. That decadent mouth and lush bosom. “Mrs. Lark. Welcome to Teversault.”
“Thank you.” She smiled, more reserved with him than with William, whom she’d known for at least a decade. William and her brother were friends from their days at Eton and Oxford. William had been to Uplyft Hall a dozen times before the day Stoke had agreed, reluctantly, to drive William there on his way to Nottingham.
There was nothing extraordinary about her. Nothing at all. Yet the jolt of arousal at seeing her again was unwelcome and inappropriate.
He took Kitty’s hand and bent over it. “Charmed to see you again, Miss Hunter. Welcome, both of you, to Teversault. I hope you enjoy your visit.”
“Thank you, Your Grace.” Quite a pretty young woman now that she’d outgrown her schoolroom days.
“It’s more beautiful here than I imagined, and I assure you I imagined a great deal.” George threw one arm wide in a gesture that included the whole of Teversault. “Hugh and Lord William did not do it justice. Nor you, Your Grace.” Miss Hunter widened her eyes at her sister, and George moderated her enthusiasm. “I mean to say, this is a house of taste and elegance.”
He studied her, working out how she could be at once undistinguished and intensely appealing. The curve of her bosom, the shape of her lips, that cleft in her chin, the clear, pale brown of her eyes. Put all together, and he never failed to think of darkened rooms and bodies sliding along sheets. One day some rogue was going to decide that he wanted to know if she could be persuaded to put that mouth to corrupt uses.
She looked to his brother. “Lord William promised us a tour later.”
William put a hand over his heart. His handsome, charming brother must have had such thoughts about her. How could he not? The idea that George and William were suited made his stomach tighten in an unwelcome manner. “So you shall have one,” William said. “I keep my promises, George.”
William’s gaze connected with his, and it was appallingly apparent that his brother was in a fair way of fancying himself in love with George and that he was matchmaking for Revers and the younger girl. William fell in love with a different woman every fortnight, it seemed. So Stoke told himself. There was no cause for concern. He would be out of love before the prince arrived.
His greater worry was how determined Revers would be in pursuing Miss Hunter. The women were under his protection here. If Revers thought to seduce either of them, the viscount would find in him an implacable enemy.
Return to Dancing in The Duke’s Arms
Return to An Unsuitable Duchess
More about this book
About The Anthology
Chapter 1 of An Unsuitable Duchess
More Historical Romance
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What Your iPhone Doesn’t Tell Apple
by Brand | Sep 16, 2015 | Brandovative, Content Management, Information Architecture, Marketing Tactics, Social Media Engagement, Website Development
The new iOS 9 operating system for iPhones and iPads could ease privacy concerns, but is it smart enough to compete with Google?
Every tech company says it can make our gadgets smarter. Now Apple says it can do that with less snooping.
Is it really possible to have both?
Starting Wednesday, iPhones and iPads will gain the intelligence to proactively suggest whom you want to call and what you want to read. They’ll nudge you to hit the road early for your next appointment when there’s a lot of traffic and queue up your favorite podcast for the drive. This personalization is a big new feature in iOS 9, a free update available to every Apple device as far back as the iPhone 4S.
That’s the sort of intimate insight you expect from a spouse, a spy or, nowadays, an Internet company. But iOS 9 manages these tricks in a privacy-conscious manner, without hoovering up your email, photos or contacts into Apple’s vast cloud servers for mining and manipulation. Unlike rival Google, Apple says it figures most of it out on the phone itself, far away from the prying eyes of advertisers or potential hackers.
Apple, CEO Tim Cook says, “doesn’t want your data.” I love that he’s calling out the hidden trade-off to many seemingly free online services like Google and Facebook . With iOS 9, iPhones are encrypted by default and, at last, permit us to use Web ad blockers.
But test-driving iOS 9 also made me worry. Apple’s new intelligence features work well enough but are ho-hum compared with what the data jockeys are cooking up at Google, Facebook and Microsoft. In a world where more of what’s possible with technology happens by analyzing huge troves of information online, Apple’s privacy-first approach still has to prove it can keep up with the technology that makes our gadgets useful.
Apple doesn’t make most of its money through marketing, so it hasn’t needed to gather KGB-worthy dossiers on customers for better ad targeting. But make no mistake, Apple still relies on the Internet. It sells music and movies online, runs an app advertising network, touts services, such as the Siri voice assistant, and wants us to store files in its iCloud. (That service is how Apple got in trouble in 2014 when hackers stole passwords to the photo libraries of celebrities.)
What’s unusual is that the data that serves as the cornerstone of iOS 9’s newfound intelligence doesn’t have to leave the phone. The iPhone’s own computer combs through your email, contacts and calendar, as well as how you use apps, like an overeager secretary.
If you get an email with restaurant or flight reservations, the iPhone notices and creates a calendar entry. Unknown number calling? The iPhone checks your correspondence to see if you’ve got a matching name and number buried in email. Always check Twitter first when you wake up? The iPhone presents it as a suggested app on that new menu when you grab your phone.
In cases where Apple has to connect to the Internet to get useful information, it often takes measures to render you anonymous. For example, the iPhone can alert you to leave early for a calendar appointment if it notices traffic on the drive there. But when it checks in with Apple’s servers, it reports you as a random ID—a string of numbers it flushes as often as every 15 minutes.
A new, built-in News app tries to serve up stories you’ll find interesting, based on what you read. But instead of associating that information with your Apple ID, it uses another random identifier that you can clear. (Apple still allows advertisers to target interests based on your identifier, though you can opt out.)
Siri has the same amnesia—everything you ask and everything she learns about you is associated with, you guessed it, another random ID that gets wiped when you buy a new phone or reset your existing one.
Google, by contrast, seeks your name, phone number, gender, contacts, emails, calendar, searches, location—everything but the contents of your briefcase—when you sign in and use its services. Most of that information is tied to your account. Google says it doesn’t sell personal information, but it can use it to target ads. (It’s onerous, but you can sign out of apps that don’t require an account, including Maps, and hide some Chrome browser data from Google.)
And with all that data, Google can provide services that leave Apple’s in the dust.
Take Google’s new Photos app. Like Apple’s Photos, it can store a lifetime of shots in the cloud. But Google actually looks through your shots, automatically spotting faces and even identifying what’s pictured, making photos searchable. Type “food” and see every ramen bowl you’ve ever snapped. Apple’s privacy-centric Photos encrypts your shots and doesn’t look at them, and it can’t do that kind of auto-analysis on the phone itself. (It can only identify faces when you manage pictures on a more-powerful Mac.)
Every major tech company seems hellbent on building smart devices that know what you want before you do. Google Now beats the pants off Siri at presenting information you might find useful without your even asking, like news alerts, updates to sites you visit a lot or scores from your favorite teams.
On Sunday afternoon, my iPhone suggested that I might want recommendations for lunch in San Francisco. When I tapped a button, it proposed something called “Michael the Coconut Guy” and a random corner deli. Google Now, at that same moment, proactively recommended restaurants I would have suggested myself: a beloved bakery called Tartine and the restaurant Zuni Café.
Google’s higher IQ is extremely helpful in places like the car, where Android Auto can automatically pop up the address of your next appointment, or a business you just searched on your laptop. (Siri does a solid job riding shotgun with Apple’s CarPlay, but that point-of-interest problem is even more glaring on the road.)
It isn’t just Google. Microsoft’s Cortana, built into Windows 10, provides a “notebook” of what it knows about you across devices, which you can add to or edit. But there’s no way to see or edit what Apple’s Siri knows about you. She’s designed to not know it’s really you.
READ MORE AT… Wall Street Journal – By Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Luis Gutierrez: Dems Care More About Same-Sex Marriage than Latinos
Tony Lee
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) accused Democrats on Monday of caring more about same-sex marriage than Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Latinos after Democrats caved to end the three-day government shutdown.
Gutierrez blasted Democrats for acquiescing to a three-week spending bill in exchange for a DACA vote, adding that he did not see “how a vague promise from the Senate Majority Leader about a vague policy to be voted on in the future helps the Dreamers or maximizes leverage the Democrats and American people have over the Republicans right now.”
“If the Republicans said we are ending same-sex marriage, but we promise Democrats a vote later; or we approve of oil drilling in every national park, but you’ll have a vote later – do you think the Democrats would say yes?,” Gutierrez asked. “This shows me that when it comes to immigrants, Latinos and their families, Democrats are still not willing to go to the mat to allow people in my community to live in our country legally.”
Gutierrez said the three-week spending bill “simply kicks the can down the road with no assurance that we will protect Dreamers from deportation or fight Republican attempts to curtail or eliminate legal immigration.”
“I have said since September – when Trump killed DACA – that I will not vote for a long-term or short-term spending bill that fails to protect the Dreamers,” he said in the statement. “We will not fund their deportation and we will not exchange their safety for the deportation of others or for the prohibition of others to enter legally.”
Gutierrez said over the weekend that he was even willing to go down to the U.S.-Mexico border with bricks and mortar and help build the border wall himself in exchange for a permanent DACA fix.
He has also claimed that the government shutdown was really about the “first racist president” wanting to end legal immigration.
PoliticsDACADonald TrumpLuis Gutierrez
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Our vision is to inspire our community through rugby success. That’s why we’ve offered supporters one of the best value season card packages in the Gallagher Premiership during the advanced sales period.
Now, our best value adult ticket in the South Stand costs just £195, while the premium adult package in the central Lansdown costs £470.
IMPROVING MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE
The hugely popular £50 Under-12 season card – including a free shirt – will remain.
In addition to the announced prices, the club confirms the popular Family Area will stay in W17 as well as introducing a brand new supporter loyalty scheme, with details to follow.
As part of the new era for the club, we’re committed to improving your matchday experience in BS3. Find out how by clicking here.
Following the successful trial of Saturday fixtures this season, which saw an increase in attendances at Ashton Gate, Bristol have allocated 3pm kick-offs on a Saturday as the preferred fixture time in 2018/19. Please note, this is subject to change due to television scheduling and football fixtures.
The 2018/19 season card benefits include 10% discount in the concourse, sports bar and coffee shop, as well as free entry to home A-League fixtures and two mates rates tickets for £10 each to a game of the club’s choice. A complimentary ticket to a Bristol City FC game of the club’s choice will also be included.
For the 2018/19 season, disabled fans will be able to purchase a season card with a 15% discount off the advanced adult price.
Dolman wings will remain as unreserved seating for the 2018/19 campaign. The option to pay monthly is no longer available.
Season card members are automatically signed up to the new Bears Rewards scheme. Full details available here.
A range of VIP Club seat packages are now available with prices starting from £1,184+vat per person. For more information email hospitality@ashtongate.co.uk or 0117 963 0630.
New supporters will need to have or create a Supporter ID before purchasing a season card and can do both by clicking here.
Any supporters who have lost or forgotten their Supporter ID can retrieve it via the website or by emailing: supporterservices@bristol-sport.co.uk.
Season card holders who do not have access to the internet can call Supporter Services on 0117 963 0600 (option 1) to buy during the phone sales process, starting from Friday, June 22nd at 10am.****
Proof of age will be required for all concessionary purchases and can be sent to supporterservices@bristol-sport.co.uk.
*All prices are worked out across 14 home league and cup games, rounded to the nearest pound
**Compared to 2017/18 Premiership season card prices across the twelve clubs
**** £2 fee charged for all phone purchases, except for disabled supporters
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ITN is looking for Bristol people for new TV show - but you have to be 'slim'
The show’s creators say it will be a fascinating process, supported with the latest credible science and expert analysis
They are looking for Bristolians to star in a new documentary series
TV producers are looking for ordinary people to take part in a documentary which closely follows the behaviours and lifestyles of people - you only need one thing to qualify, a slim physique.
The show’s creators say the documentary will follow slim people trying to answer questions like ‘How do slim people avoid temptation?’ and ‘How much do they fidget?’
ITN Productions say they are making the new documentary for a major broadcaster.
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Producer David Kirkham said: “We are looking to closely follow the behaviours and lifestyles of people with slim physiques.
“We are keen to find out about their eating habits and activities that can explain the facts behind their weight.
“Could their behaviours and eating habits be the answer to Britain’s obesity crisis?
“We are keen to find people from Bristol to take part!”
The producers are keen to hear from anybody who fits the bill
The show, the Lives of Slim People, will employ a range of techniques to observe and track the habits, choices and lifestyles of those with a lean physique.
The show’s creators say it will be a fascinating process, supported with the latest credible science and expert analysis to explain the behaviours of the contributors.
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The show will also explore the genetic factors which impact our shape and size.
Mr Kirkham said: “We are looking for fun characters who would like the opportunity to take part in this unique experiment.
“Please note that we not looking for people who are fitness fanatics or diet crazy, just ordinary everyday people who happen to be slim.”
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If you’re over 18, naturally slim and like the sound of being the subject of a new documentary, you can email the show’s producers at slim@itnproductions.com . Please include your name, age and contact details before May 17.
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Documentary Club collaborates with Oxford Fashion Week for this week’s screening
Filmmaker Frederic Tcheng’s Dior and I will be shown on Thursday (20 October) as part of the Oxford Brookes Documentary Club’s season of thought-provoking screenings.
Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:34:01 GMT
Brookes rowers become British Champions
The Oxford Brookes University men’s rowing squad became British Champions at the British Rowing Senior Championships at Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire on Sunday (18 October).
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:18:58 GMT
Watch video of US Ambassador Barzun’s “inspiring” visit to Oxford
US Ambassador Matthew W. Barzun recently visited Oxford to meet with representatives of the city’s universities, Oxford City Council, social entrepreneurship leads and high-technology businesses.
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:14:57 GMT
Every Drawing Tells a Story: The Big Draw comes to the Glass Tank
The Big Draw is coming to Oxford Brookes University’s Glass Tank gallery as a new exhibition from next Monday (19 October).
Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:50:06 GMT
Brookes celebrates its Swindon students at college’s annual graduation ceremony
Students donned their gowns and mortar boards last Friday (9 October) and celebrated the culmination of years of hard work at Swindon College’s graduation ceremony.
Current law needs assessment to ensure equality at work, research finds
Research by Oxford Brookes University academics has reviewed equality legislation currently used in court to ensure people are treated with fairness and equality at work.
Parents of UTC students confident in their children’s job prospects
New research from the Baker Dearing Educational Trust, the charity that promotes University Technical Colleges (UTCs), reveals that parents who have children studying at UTCs feel more positive about their children’s prospects.
Rain Pavilion artwork is a sensory experience for the community
Visitors to Oxford Brookes’ Headington Campus will be met with an extraordinary new piece of public art.
Protecting patients through improved radiotherapy protection
Pioneering research undertaken at Oxford Brookes has helped add a new dimension to radiobiology, highlighting the importance of using lower dose radiation to better protect patient health.
Boxing John Clare: Literature professor in new film about the poet
A film about England’s most significant poet of the natural world, John Clare (1793-1864), featuring an Oxford Brookes academic, is released in cinemas this week.
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Stranger Things 3: Finale Discussion
Wow. That finale was an emotional roller coaster. I cringed, I laughed, I cheered, I even cried. What a finale that was. There were a lot of talking points considering it was about an hour and a half long. If you missed my previous post you can find it here.
The opening scene
That was so crazy that opening scene. First off I need to give a round of applause to the cast, especially Millie for that incredible performance. El was screaming in pain, and everyone else looked to be completely shocked and stunned when Jonathan carved into El's leg and then stuck his fingers in there to get the slime worm thing out. As far as shock and awe goes, that scene was probably the most intense scene of the entire season. And the way the scene ended? With Hopper squishing the slime goop under his heavy boot? I actually cheered when that happened. It was so cool.
Splitting up again
Just like last season's finale, the group are forced to split up to defeat the Mind Flayer. The adults head into the Russian base, Scoop Troop heads up to Dustin's Cerebro to maintain communication with the adults, while Jon and Nancy were charged with bringing the rest of the kids to Murray's bunker for protection. But of course, things don't go according to plan as Billy had sabotaged their car, forcing them back into the mall where the Mind Flayer drops in, giving us another horror genre experience.
The entire scene with the Mind Flayer looking for the kids as they hid at separate ends of the mall was a real horror genre moment, especially when El, Mike, and Max were hiding in GAP and the Mind Flayer sent his tentacle mouth things in to look for them, and when it was chasing the rest of the kids out of the mall down the road as they drove away. Oh yeah, huge respect to Steve for saving the day yet again by crashing his car into Billy's, saving Nancy from being crushed.
Dusty-bun and Suzie-poo!!
We finally got to see Suzie! She's real! Not that I ever doubted her existence, Dustin wouldn't have gone through all that trouble to build Cerebro if she didn't, but I'm glad we finally got to see her! Not only did she save the day by unknowingly relaying Planck's constant to Hopper, she gave us one of the absolute funniest moments of the entire season! Her performance with Dusty-bun was an absolute highlight of the season, possibly the entire franchise, and I loved it.
RIP Billy
Billy has been a douche ever since he joined the show, but he died a hero. El's brilliant move to connect with Billy using his memories of his mother worked, and you could see the Mind Flayer's corrupting veins slowly disappearing from Billy's face. He sacrificed himself to save El, possibly indicating that despite being flayed for most of the season, he was still aware of what he was doing and what was happening around him. I guess in Billy's case, one moment really can be a man's redemption.
RIP Hopper
This hit me hard. Hopper was one of the best characters on the show. He was supposed to go on a date with Joyce at Enzo's after this was all over. And his speech that El read at the end? That got me all teary eyed. What a way to end the season.
Bryers moving out
Looks like the Bryers will be moving away after all (with El), which is really sad. Jon and Nancy, Mike and El, Will and all his friends. So many tearful goodbyes. We'll probably see them again in all likelihood next season, but it was still a sad way to end the show.
But wait?!?! The Russians have an American in their custody? It has to be Hopper, doesn't it? Which other American could it be?? But how did he survive? Also, why are the Russians keeping a pet demogorgon? Are they planning on weaponising it?
The finale sets up the next season intriguingly, but who knows when that will come. In addition to the Russians, we must also wonder what's going to happen to El's powers. By the end of the episode which took place three months later, she still hasn't recovered her powers yet. Will she ever get them back? Who knows. And what about the Mind Flayer? Will he return? Presumably he will, but how? The Russians will probably have something to do with it. And what will bring the Bryers and El back to Hawkins? They're definitely coming back, and probably something huge will force them to return, but what? So many questions!
Thus ends my episode by episode recap of Stranger Things 3. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I think I still have one more post left in me, where I want to share my favourite things about the season, and maybe a few things I didn't really like. But that will probably come in a few days. I think I've posted enough Stranger Things for now. In the mean time, let me know what you guys thought of the episodes!
I've spoken a bit about the amazing cinematography recently, so I'd just like to share some of my favourite shots from this episode.
One of them was midway through Hopper and Russian terminator's battle in the Russian bunker. This shot was awesome. Reminds me a little of that Civil War shot between Captain America and Iron Man.
This was an amazing shot as well. Billy holding El down, fireworks raining down on the Mind Flayer. So good!
I love this recap!
I actually had a few things I was confused about from the finale (*again, take this with a grain of salt - I might re-watch the episode when it's not 2 AM in the morning and get a different takeaway that time)!
The leg-creature removed from El - shouldn't they have had to set it on fire to kill it? The Mind-Flayer seems exceptionally resilient in some scenes, but then squishable in others. In the previous episode or two when El mentally ripped the giant Mind-Flayer's "head" in half, it seemed to knit back up in just a few minutes... so being stepped on by Hopper shouldn't have been that bad, I'd assume it would bounce back and be squishing right along being evil right after. I feel like fire (which seems to be the only thing that the Mind-Flayer / Upside Down creatures don't like, besides El and heat) wasn't used enough to deter them - I'd have been waving flaming sticks around like Indiana Jones.
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Murray's frustration at the Bald Eagle nickname and walkie-talkie protocols from Dustin made me laugh out loud.
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I personally thought the Suzie / Dustin exchange was so tonally jarring from the rest of the episode that it threw me for a loop? But maybe I'll find it more enchanting upon rewatching. They had nice voices, but this is like, a crisis situation! I was empathizing with Murray.
I refuse to accept that Hopper is dead! Nooooo! But I'm thinking that the prisoner might be Murray.
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I really enjoyed Robin's character throughout this season, and it warms your heart to read how proud her dad is of her.
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Having worked at a video store myself (albeit a chain) in high school, I loved those final touches and how Robin's trying to help Steve get a job at the video store.
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2 final things: one is that Microsoft is putting together a Camp Know Where STRANGER THINGS activity at various stores for kids, and I think that's a super-cute idea.
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And secondly - did the Demagorgon in Russia look different than the previous seasons? More pale and elongated? Or was it just me? I'm wondering if there's been a different dimension unlocked...
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It was very out of place considering the urgency of the situation, but I still thought it was hilarious. Considering how good the show is, I think it deserves a pass.
I guess it could technically be Murray, since he is American, but I think we're all hoping it's Hopper, as unlikely that may be.
Actually if you watch this behind the scenes video with the kids, some eagle eyed viewers saw a drawing of what looks like Hopper in a prison outfit, so some people are holding on to the hop that he may still be alive.
Yup it did look different. It looked more smooth and leathery, also was it me or was it like blueish-green in colour, while the demogorgon in season one was more like brown, right?
Definitely thought that this latest Demagorgon was different. Maybe it's like the Black Goo in PROMETHEUS? Where each incarnation of the Demagorgon varies by what it comes in contact with along the way?
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The only missing thing is a huge TDK billboard.
Predictably, it sucked. The whole show is second-hand, but at least other episodes were shorter and less soapy. The finale was cheesy and long; it started as slapstick comedy, but somewhere midway turned to become boring as hell.
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The Microbiome Frontier
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Changing gut bacteria to improve treatment response may be the next frontier in immunotherapy.
June 17, 2019 • By Liz Highleyman
Experts increasingly recognize that the gut microbiome—the ecosystem of bacteria and other microorganisms in the intestines—plays a key role in health conditions ranging from allergies to Alzheimer’s. And cancer is no exception: A growing body of evidence links the microbiome to disease progression, treatment response and side effects.
The importance of the microbiome raises the possibility that altering intestinal bacteria—whether with a high-fiber diet, customized supplements or “poop capsules”—could help the immune system fight cancer and improve response to treatment. But beware: Recent research shows that off-the-shelf probiotic supplements containing live bacteria could actually make matters worse.
Humans and their microorganisms have evolved in symbiosis for millions of years, and the trillions of microbes in our gut play a role in many physiological processes, including metabolism and immune response. Gut bacteria interact with the immune system to affect not only localized conditions, like inflammatory bowel disease, but also immune responses throughout the body.
“The microbiome, by modulating immunity, can change tumor progression,” says Giorgio Trinchieri, MD, of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Giorgio Trinchieri, MDLiz Highleyman
One of the most exciting areas of research involves the influence of gut bacteria on immunotherapy, which helps the immune system recognize and attack cancer. At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in April, Trinchieri explained that the microbiome trains the immune cells that infiltrate tumors—a crucial aspect of response to immunotherapy.
Some beneficial microbes release metabolic by-products—such as short-chain fatty acids when fiber is broken down—that enhance immune cell activity and suppress inflammation. In contrast, dysbiosis, which occurs when harmful bacteria take over, can lead to microbes leaking out of the gut and triggering inflammation.
From the time of birth, various microbes cooperate or compete with one another for dominance. Many factors can affect the microbiome balance, including formula feeding instead of breast feeding, type of diet, use of antibiotics and even having a pet. In general, greater diversity of bacteria in the gut is associated with better health—and with better response to cancer treatment.
The Microbiome and Cancer Therapy
Recognition of the link between the microbiome and cancer treatment isn’t new. Several years ago, researchers first showed that among people undergoing stem cell transplants to treat blood cancers, those with less diverse gut bacteria had a higher risk of death and were more likely to develop graft-versus-host disease, a life-threatening complication in which the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body. Adoptive cell therapies using selected or engineered cancer-fighting immune cells also work better in those with a healthy microbiome.
In 2013, Trinchieri’s team reported that germ-free mice lacking a microbiome and those whose gut bacteria were killed off by antibiotics did not respond well to platinum-based chemotherapy. Similarly, a group led by Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD, of Gustave Roussy Cancer Center near Paris, showed that germ-free mice were resistant to the widely used chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide.
More recently, the focus has shifted to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy. CTLA-4 and PD-1 are immune checkpoints on T cells that tumors can exploit to turn off immune responses against them. Drugs that block CTLA-4, PD-1 or its binding partner, PD-L1, release the brakes and restore T-cell activity. This type of immunotherapy works very well for some individuals, but a majority do not benefit, and researchers are trying to determine why.
In 2015, Zitvogel’s team showed that mice with gut bacteria in the genus Bacteroides responded better to the CTLA-4 checkpoint blocker Yervoy (ipilimumab). When germ-free mice got stool transplants from patients who responded well to Yervoy, the mice began responding too.
Researchers at the University of Chicago, led by Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, likewise linked certain bacteria to improved effectiveness of PD-L1 checkpoint blockers. When mice with melanoma were given supplements of Bifidobacterium (beneficial bacteria in fermented foods), T cells migrated to tumors and the cancer regressed.
Two years later, three research teams extended this work to humans.
Jennifer Wargo, MD, and her team at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston found that people with metastatic melanoma who had more diverse bacteria responded better to PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Opdivo (nivolumab).
Jennifer Wargo, MD (center), and her team at MD Anderson Cancer Center, including Christine Spencer, PhD (back row, third from right).Courtesy of MD Anderson Cancer Center
In particular, Ruminococcaceae, Clostridiales and Faecalibacterium species were associated with better treatment response, while Bacteroidales species were linked to poorer response. People with a favorable gut microbiome had more active T cells in their tumors, which translated to longer progression-free survival. “Diversity of gut microbes matters, and composition also matters,” according to Wargo.
In another study of people with advanced melanoma, Gajewski’s team also saw an association between gut bacteria and response to PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors. But here, people who responded well had more Bifidobacterium—as the researchers previously saw in mice.
In the third study, Zitvogel’s group looked at the association between PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor response and gut microbes in people with advanced bladder, kidney or lung cancer. Stool analysis showed that responding patients had higher levels of Akkermansia muciniphila bacteria.
A study presented at this year’s International Liver Congress showed a similar relationship for liver cancer. Greater gut bacteria diversity was associated with better response to Opdivo in people with hepatocellular carcinoma. The dominant types of bacteria also differed, with responders having more Burkholderiales species while nonresponders had more Aeromonadaceae bacteria.
Together, these findings suggest that an individual’s microbe composition could potentially be used to predict who will respond to immunotherapy.
“Profiling the gut microbiome of patients going on immunotherapy might give us insight into the likelihood of response,” Wargo says. “Gut biomarkers could be really useful in the era of precision medicine.”
Feeding the Microbiome
If having too few types—or the wrong types—of bacteria in the gut is associated with cancer progression and poorer treatment response, one might think it would be easy to turn things around by fixing the microbiome. This potentially could be done by adding prebiotics (undigestible plant fiber that feeds good bacteria in the colon) or probiotics (foods or supplements that contain live beneficial bacteria) to the diet or by transplanting gut bacteria from responders.
But it turns out things aren’t so simple. Observational studies have yielded clues about how to—or how not to—alter the microbiome to improve treatment response, but many questions remain unanswered. “There’s been incredible progress in understanding the microbiome since 1683”—when symbiotic microbes were first described—“but still not much more is known about how to prevent or correct problems,” says Trinchieri.
Consider antibiotics, which can kill off both good and bad gut bacteria. Zitvogel’s team found that people who used antibiotics shortly before or during treatment did not respond as well to checkpoint inhibitors. Antibiotic recipients had both reduced progression-free survival and shorter overall survival.
At a recent immune oncology symposium, David Pinato, MD, PhD, of Imperial College London, confirmed the detrimental effect of antibiotics. In a study of nearly 200 people with various types of cancer, those who received antibiotics within 30 days of starting therapy had poorer response to checkpoint inhibitors, worse disease progression and shorter survival. “As oncologists, we’re used to doling out antibiotics like opioids, but we need to consider the microbiome,” Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, of Stanford University, said at the meeting.
These findings suggest that people treated with immunotherapy should be cautious about using antibiotics. But that doesn’t mean using off-the-shelf probiotics to counter their effects is a good idea.
For one thing, evidence to date doesn’t definitively answer the question of which microbes should be supplemented, as various research teams have found different bacteria to be associated with good response. “The different studies that have identified bacterial response signatures don’t have a lot of overlap,” says Wargo. “What is the secret sauce?”
At this year’s AACR meeting, Christine Spencer, PhD, formerly a member of Wargo’s team and now at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco, reported that melanoma patients who used probiotics—just over 40% of the study population—had lower gut bacteria diversity and were 70% less likely to respond to PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors.
The researchers suggested that probiotics could lessen bacterial diversity—and this diversity, more than specific strains, may be the key to good response. Many commercial products contain only one or a few bacteria species, which could reduce diversity. Some purveyors sell combination probiotics, but experts don’t yet know enough to say what’s the best mix.
“Over-the-counter probiotics could actually lower your microbiome diversity and lower response to immunotherapy,” says Jennifer McQuade, MD, of the MD Anderson team. “So outside of a clinical trial with targeted supplements, we are definitely recommending against routine probiotic use.”
Jennifer McQuade, MDCourtesy of MD Anderson Cancer Center
Instead of supplements, experts—including AACR and the American Cancer Society—advise eating a healthy diet with plenty of plant-based foods and less meat, processed products and added sugar.
In Spencer’s study, people who ate more whole grains, fruits and vegetables had more gut bacteria associated with favorable treatment response, while those who ate more sugar and processed meat had less beneficial bacteria. What’s more, people who ate a high-fiber diet were five times more likely to respond to checkpoint blockers than those who consumed little fiber.
“The gut microbiome plays a big role in moderating the immune system, so the idea that we could potentially change the microbiome to improve response to immunotherapy treatment is really exciting,” Spencer says. “It’s likely the overall diet and dietary patterns that matter here. So eat your high-fiber foods—lots of different kinds and lots of them.”
The Microbiome Future
Many studies are now under way to learn how to safely alter the microbiome to improve treatment response.
One approach is fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)—which is just what it sounds like, preparations made from the stool of healthy individuals administered via enema or oral capsules.
In the studies described above, fecal transplants from responding patients to germ-free or antibiotic-treated mice led to the migration of T cells into tumors and slower cancer growth. Research in people with cancer is still in its early stages, but recent results from Trinchieri’s team and another group in Israel showed that people who received donated stool from good responders along with checkpoint blockers had increased T-cell activity and experienced tumor regression.
Research now under way includes clinical trials in which participants receive standardized prepared meals or customized supplements. Both the MD Anderson and the University of Chicago groups are testing supplements containing selected bacteria linked to good response in their respective studies. And several companies are exploring this potentially lucrative field.
“If we really want to think of food as medicine, then we need rigorously controlled studies to see if we can change outcomes with dietary interventions,” says McQuade. “We can’t change our genetics, but we can change our microbiome.”
Healthy Eating Tips
While much remains to be learned about the optimal diet for people receiving treatment for cancer, experts offer the following advice.
Eat plenty of high-fiber foods, such as legumes (beans, lentils), vegetables (broccoli, kale), fruits (apples, berries, avocados), whole grains and nuts.
Limit consumption of red and processed meats and added sugar.
Don’t shy away from coffee and dark chocolate, which contain compounds that promote a diverse microbiome. Include moderate amounts of fermented foods—such as yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi and kombucha—that naturally contain beneficial bacteria.
Until the link between gut bacteria and immunotherapy is better understood, skip the probiotic supplements.
To learn more about eating well when you have cancer, visit dietitian Daniel Penick’s blog.
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Levit Comes to Town
by Sudeep Agarwala
February 10, 2017 February 10, 2017 by Sudeep Agarwala
Igor Levit launched his career in 2005 when, as the youngest competitor in the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, he won three prizes: Silver, Best Performer of Chamber Music; Audience Favorite; and Best Performer of Contemporary Music. Since then, he has grown in popularity among German and British audiences, and with debuts like this one Wednesday at Longy-Bard in the Celebrity Series, Levit is certain to expand his New York-originating following in this country. Though the 29-year-old pianist has made a reputation with his interpretation of Beethoven, particularly the late sonatas, which he has recorded for Sony Classical, his recent output has wandered more widely, as he has championed and collaborated with the Massachusetts native Frederic Rzewski and started recording J.S. Bach.
In the concert sponsored by David and Harriet Griesinger, all three of these composers were represented, if not in name, then in spirit. Levit performed Beethoven’s Op. Diabelli Variations, Rzewski’s North American Ballad No. 5, and three selections from Shostakovich’s Op. 87 Preludes and Fugues, a set of 24 pieces in the major and minor keys, modeled after the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Levit initially frustrated. The opening C-sharp-minor prelude seemed to keep Bach prominently in mind as fluid scales exchange between right and left hands. He appeared overzealous with the pedal, smearing the detailed scales. But this unusual choice made sense in the context of the fugue: the extended pedal transformed Shostakovich’s counterpoint into an austere soundscape resonating in an extended sonority that prepares the way for a dramatic and simple end to the fugue. The E-minor prelude, in comparison, is a minimal exchange among three voices (melody in the upper register, plodding bass line, and trancelike middle voice). It is in the fugue that these elements come to life, building to a satisfying climax that dramatically transforms the trudging bass into a recapitulation of the subject. Levit showcased his virtuosity in the final of these three selections: the G-sharp-minor Prelude consists of a passacaglia, with a persistent octave ostinato underscoring measured counterpoint in the upper ranges. He explicated the Fugue, a jagged, chromatic romp, with great aplomb.
Rzewski’s Ballad No. 5 comprises 24 variations on a Texas chain gang song, “It makes a long-time man feel bad.” They are divided into roughly three sections: the first nine fragment the tune into a bricolage of Americana—rag, jazz, and folk all inform the music, reclaimed in Rzewski’s unique tonal language. These lead to a pensive middle set that return to the original melody, augmented by improvisations and written-out cadenzas. Variations 19-24 haltingly return to the song in fragmented tonality. Rzewski’s technically challenging variations sometimes require the performer to beat a rhythm on the piano leg while playing, or to whistle a melody over the keyboard accompaniment; in the concluding variations, a chain is rhythmically picked up and dropped, in imitation of the labor. Needless to say, Rzewski’s Ballad is a stern work carrying a deep political message; less an homage to folk melody, these variations seem to vivisect the tune, fragment it into a demented Americana—at one point we hear snippets of “This land is your land”, before the shuffle of the chains drags the music to its conclusion. Levit blithely negotiated the unremitting demands of the score: his whistling along with the piano seemed casual and ordinary; scraping a chain in time to the music seemed to come naturally, and he remained unfazed even when he accidentally dropped it from the stool placed next to the keyboard (he continued seamlessly, stooping to scrape the chain whenever it was needed for the remainder). Although dramatic where appropriate, Levit’s executed with self-possession and poise. This levelheaded read perhaps dimmed Rzewski’s political message, but it highlighted his artistry.
Returning after intermission to familiar ground for both pianist and audience, we heard the variation commission from Antonio Diabelli expanded by Beethoven into 33, which stand at the pinnacle of the genre. The artist has recently recorded these too for Sony. Altogether at home in Beethoven, Levit is as fun to watch as to hear. He engaged deeply, expressing the unique character and idea behind each variation. HIs occasional slips came mostly in keeping up with Beethoven’s brisk tempo markings, yet slower movements seemed to languish, especially during the repeats. Regardless, the concert felt intimate and intelligently restrained.
Igor Levit (file photo)
Beethoven can frequently be read in extremes: passion and drama highlighted by the full orchestral force of the piano. Yet Levit clearly sees these variations as chamber music, and he fit the variations to that scale, resisting the urge to overwhelm the modestly sized space. Of the many fine moments, none felt as thoughtful as the final variation, hard-won after a labyrinthine Allegro fugue in the penultimate. In this closer, Levit spung out long lyrical lines and tenderly shaped melodies. The evening’s journey through the 33 concluded in quiet triumph.
The program will be repeated for New York audiences on Friday evening in Levit’s Carnegie Hall premiere, where it is certain to be another creature altogether, one more accommodating to a larger space and audience. Likely to be a success, it should be on a different scale from the triumphs of the intelligent, poised pianist who just debuted in Boston.
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Igor Levit’s New York recital tonight (Friday) is in Zankel Hall, a 599-seat space tucked underneath the main Isaac Stern Auditorium (2,801 seats) at Carnegie Hall. Although Zankel is bigger than Pickman Hall (281 seats), it is significantly smaller than Jordan Hall or Sanders Theatre. Zankel is a smallish venue for a concert grand piano played in big-hall style, and poses the same risk of sonic overload as I heard at times on Wednesday.
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NORTHFIELD, Ohio - The Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park will be getting a new name next year as part of the ownership switchover to MGM.
MGM and its affiliates had not publicly said if they would change the name since closing the deal in July to buy the property for $1 billion, and later announcing that MGM Resorts International would operate the property.
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This topic contains 12 replies, has 6 voices, and was last updated by Shinra Kuroki 3 years, 8 months ago.
August 7, 2015 at 6:18 pm #5105
V-Tundra
Good grief, there’s just no way to make a good Fantastic Four movie. The 2005 movie was a bomb, focusing more on a superhero’s fashion and private life instead of, you know, doing heroic things. The sequel wasn’t as bad since we get to see a bit more action but it falls boring and flat. And a new film has come out, a gritty reboot which was anticipated to bring back the “hero” factor to our tetra-wonders, but is it any better? Not on this life.
My first issues are the changes to the characters. Yes, I am aware this is an adaptation and there’s gonna be changes, BUT THEY HAVE TO BE CHANGES THAT MAKE SENSE. First of, the black human torch. Now, let me state, this issue isn’t a racial matter, but a character matter. Johnny Storm is the biological brother of Sue Storm, why change that? It just pisses people off (and being honest, there were a whole better casting actors for Johnny Storm), then there’s the young Reed Richards. Did these guy read the comics or something? First thing that pops up when someone says Reed Richards: Grey sidelines, father and brilliant. Qualities that the new Richards lacks. (Being super smart at birth may be convincing in a comedy like The Big Bang Theory, but not in a serious movie). And the thing… Without the iconic blue pants, it just looks like a living KFC chicken piece.
Now, for the benefit of the movie, I won’t have in mind the changes to the characters in the movie to decide if it’s bad. It’d be worse. The designs and sluggish, bland and unappealing; the writing is sloppy and generic, the pace of the movie is god awful and the worst thing in my opinion: the actors don’t represent any of the characters. There’s no chemistry, there’s very little bonding and character development, it doesn’t look like the fantastic 4, it looks like 3 guys and a walking KFC drumstick. There’s nothing that spells “Fantastic 4” at all.
If you want to see a good Fantastic 4 movie, good look because it looks like there’s none. The least worse I can recommend is Rise of the Silver Surfer. Don’t take my word for it. According to Rotten Tomatoes, here’s how good (or in this case, bad) each movie is:
-Fantastic Four (2005): 27%
-Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: 37%
-Fant4stic: 12%
My recommendation is get away as far as possible from this movie, but watch it at your own risk.
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V-Tundra wrote:
hen there’s the young Reed Richards. Did these guy read the comics or something? First thing that pops up when someone says Reed Richards: Grey sidelines, father and brilliant. Qualities that the new Richards lacks. (Being super smart at birth may be convincing in a comedy like The Big Bang Theory, but not in a serious movie).
I just noticed here I’ve made a mistake. By some rumor I’ve heard, the Reed Richards of the movie is based on The Ultimates Reed Richards. My mistake, but that doesn’t excuse a walking KFC 5 piece meal and a black human torch.
Not surprised considering FOX had too much control in the reboot while having absolutely no faith in Josh Trank (the reshoots and relationship with Trank and FOX are proof of that) and that Doom wasn’t even supposed to be in the film, it was goddamn Mole-Man.
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August 9, 2015 at 5:17 am #5114
My problem with the movie is that it tried to be a gritty and more “realistic” reboot of a franchise that isn’t really that gritty and doesn’t take itself too seriously. The whole “Gritty reboot” thing may work with Batman, but the Fantastic 4 really is more of an ensemble piece, and the franchise really focuses on the relationships and bond within the group, and so it really is a more light-hearted tale. If they took this more in the vein of The Avengers, then I think it would have done a lot better.
I mean, there’s a whole lot more that’s wrong with the movie than that, but that was my main gripe with the movie. They’re the Fantastic Four, but they had no chemistry or meaningful relationships with one another, and it really felt more like they were all complete strangers that had been lumped together than a group of friends that all went through a life changing accident that left them changed in some way or another. I really wish they’d have focused on making the movie fun and interesting like other ensemble superhero films (like the aforementioned Avengers, or even The Incredibles) instead of another boring “gritty” action movie reboot.
There’s my two cents thrown into the pile 😛
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August 9, 2015 at 11:27 am #5115
Also, just to add to what Mr. K said, I present to you this tweet:
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Probably would have been better if they stuck to the original storyline from the comics: 4 friends who have their whole existence altered by an accident and now have to deal with their changes and use them for good. Seems sweet and simple to me.
Good grief, there’s just no way to make a good Fantastic Four movie
Ironically, Red Letter Media ranked the German Fantastic Four 1993 film better than the 2000’s films. Their justification was although the effects are cheesy/outdated and was solely created by a company to keep the rights to the IP, the filmmakers and actors put a lot of heart into the project even though it would not be released to the public.
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August 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm #5131
KahunaDrake wrote:
VenatorTundra wrote:
You mean the infamous Roger Corman adaptation of Fantastic 4? I remember watching the trailer for it and it was downright hilarious. Yet, it is far better than the reboot.
Dukect
I honestly think you can make a good Fantastic 4 movie but you need people who not only know the source material well but also give a damn
Nat wrote:
I rest my case *drops mic*. Seriously though, I hate it when executives has to bother directors and writers for meaningless shit and thus, having their projects screwed over by bullshit decisions after bullshit decisions when the final product is released. Worst, the majority of the reviewers are completely ignorant to the obvious “corporate changes” when a certain film gets butchered to death. Kingdom of Heaven, Thief and the Cobbler, Strange Magic and so forth are all obvious victims to development hell histories and often changes to appeal to certain demographics, which fail miserably on paper and execution, yet reviewers and critics either review the film with no idea what they’re talking about or my favorite, “jumping on the hate wagon and point fingers to blame someone” club (AKA The worst of the bunch).
Dukect wrote:
Of course, I did have faith in Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank cause they did have a cool idea for a Fantastic 4 film and plus, they knew all about the source material but sadly, FOX executives ordered some shitty reshoots and alas, the film falls flat on it’s ass. Hell, the Mole Man was supposed to be the villain of the reboot, not Doom (Doom was to appear as an end credits scene that leads up to Doom creating Lavteria and Fantastic Four 2).
August 13, 2015 at 9:45 am #5145
It keeps getting better!
http://www.movieweb.com/fantastic-four-movie-2015-behind-scenes-trouble-director/
Only a bad director blames his team for his own failures. Granted, there could be the chance the movie might have been “ruined” by an exterior influence of the studio, but this “My movies are pure genius, and it’s the others that are bringing them down” comment reminds of a certain Sauerkraut who’s dedicated his life to making the worst movies in existence, calling them true masterpieces and blaming the fan community of the original source material for the horrible quality his movies have. (If you haven’t guessed yet, I’m comparing Trank with Uwe Boll)
Trank may be a good director, but what kind of director lets his ego run his mouth? It creates a very bad image of him, and it’s these kind of things that make movie directors getting rejected by studios.
Either you accept you failed with your movie and learn from your mistakes or blame others and fall in the same pitfall again, your decision, Trank.
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I don’t read comic books (probably will start to as soon as I find the money to do so), but I know a lot of comic book lore from friends, wiki, TV shows, movies, internet video series, video games, and other sources. As an outsider, I really don’t know what makes the Fantastic Four a good team or remotely interesting. X-men deal with the whole powers that come with deformities that The Thing deals with. Also, it seems Doctor Doom has out grown the Fantastic Four in other forms of media, making him seem too weak or stupid in the movies. Doctor Doom seems to be far too under handed to ever show up in a first movie, he seems to be more of a guy behind the curtains to me. Also the whole 4 v 1 does seem to be all that interesting. I don’t see how their powers make for a good team battle either.
I just really wonder what a good Fantastic Four movie would even look like? What problems, besides the big bad needing to be stopped, do they have? What villain do they have in their rouges gallery that would be good for an origin story?
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* after animals with whose heads deities are represented - the Chaturanga Elephant (Alfil);
* after types of mythical creature - the Elf, Gryphon, Simurgh, and Unicorn;
* after religious titles - the Cohen, Druid, Guru, Levite, Magus, Pontiff, Rabbi, and Sadhu;
* after real creatures related to the area continuously through changes in religion - the Camel and Peacock.
The innovation is two further piece types aside, motivated by my extensive use of religious titles as piece names. Many such titles are Christian and are used accordingly in the series, but others such as Guru are more exotic. To include them I added to the two distinguishable pairs of identical sets a fifth set distinguishable from all, with each of its FIDE armies split to represent extra members of two variant armies. The large number of this set's Pawns allows a doubling in the most-bound pieces. This use of pieces gives a case for saying which pairs of armies should use opposite armies of the same sets. Thus the European and Jewish armies should use one psair of sets, here termed Set 1, and the Indian and Persian ones of another pair, here termed Set 2. The set used by all four armies I term Set 3, not unnaturally.
The board is similar to AOF2 but enlarged to 6 levels to make more sense of the increased most-bound pieces and extra piece types. I retain the King's Partner priniciple of one piece aside, able to reach all levels, and a Pawn promotee for everyone - with one substitution of an unbound piece for a bound one. A minor difference is that with so many piece names sharing initials I have expanded to two-letter abbreviations in the array diagram.
The board has 6 numbered levels. Their basic shape is a triangle of side 10, making 55 cells per level, but some have 6 cells removed from one or two corners. Each letter represents a series of 10 columns, either in a single plane (a and k) or split between two (the rest). A column has its coordinates specified in reverse alphabetical order. Columns can be grouped into the Drum, the central hexagonal block of side 4 that has cells on all levels; and the Subcamps, the three 6-column triangular blocks with cells only on the levels of the relevant armies' camps. If anyone can better these terms I would be grateful. Boundaries of these groups are marked in brown. Each cell is bicoloured - the interior for its Elephant binding, the exterior for its Unicorn/Rabbi one.
Level 1, King level for the Jewish army, has pieces from that army only. It has no cells in the Indian and Persian Subcamps, which therefore cannot be reached by a direct step or leap from this level.
Level 2, Partner level for the Jewish and Indian armies, has pieces from those armies and the Persian one. It has cells on all columns.
Level 3, King level for the Indian army, has pieces from that army and the Persian one. It has no cells in the Jewish/European Subcamp, which therefore cannot be reached by a direct step or leap from that level.
Level 4, King level for the Persian army, has pieces from that army and the Indian one. It has no cells in the Jewish/European Subcamp, which therefore cannot be reached by a direct step or leap from that level.
Level 5, Partner level for the Persian and European armies, has pieces from those armies and the Indian one. It has cells on all columns.
Level 6, King level for the European army, has pieces from that army only. It has no cells in the Indian and Persian Subcamps, which therefore cannot be reached by a direct step or leap from this level.
Pieces constant in the Occidental game and so represented by themselves from Sets 1 and 2:
The KING (K) moves one step in any of the 6 horizontal orthogonal (one column but on the same level), 2 vertical orthogonal (one level but on the same column), and 12 root-2 diagonal (one level and one column) directions. When moving diagonally it must do so between opposite corners of a vertical block of 2x2 cells, whose other 2 cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. It must be kept out of Check. There is 1 King aside. A Checkmating player's King is promoted to an EMPEROR, which can also make one step along any of the 6 hex diagonals. It must still be kept out of Check itself from any remaining players. Both the reduction in players and the increased mobility should however make this easier.
The ROOK (RK) moves any distance through empty intermediate cells in any of the 6 horizontal, and 2 vertical, orthogonal directions. There are 4 Rooks aside, as inverting one is no longer required for Kings' Partners.
The KNIGHT (N) makes 2:1 leaps, that is, between opposite corners of any vertical block of 3x2 cells whose other 4 cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. It can move 2 levels and 1 column or 2 columns and 1 level, but cannot move within a level. Unlike on 2d and cubic boards a Knight can return to a cell in an odd number of moves (e.g. ed3-gd2-fd4-ec2-eb4-ed2). There are 4 Knights aside. Each Jewish or European Knight's first move must be to the level containing the other half of its camp.
The PAWN (PN) moves rather like in Raumschach. Its noncapturing move is one step along either horizontal orthogonal away from its own King column. Its capturing move is one step in any root-2 diagonal with coordinates in one of its noncapturing directions and either vertical direction. When moving diagonally it must do so between opposite corners of a vertical block of 2x2 cells, whose other 2 cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. A Pawn reaching a gap in a Subcamp still has half its original move. There are 16 Pawns aside. At just over a third of each army it is the most numerous piece, befitting its lowly status.
Kings' Partners:
The FERZ (FZ) moves one step along any root-2 diagonal, (one level and one column), between opposite corners of any vertical block of 2x2 cells, whose other 2 cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. Unlike on 2d and cubic boards a Ferz is unbound (e.g. ed2-fd3-fe2 brings it to an adjacent cell), although as it always switches between odd and even ranks it still cannot return to a cell in an odd number of moves. Initially there is one Ferz, as Indian King's Partner, represented by a Set 3 King, but other players can acquire Ferzes by Pawn promotion. The Ferz was chosen as it has the same r?for both players in Chaturanga. Also notable is its rider the Bishop, not a piece in itself in this game but a component of many. The Bishop makes any number of Ferz steps through empty cells in the same direction, although the board prevents it moving more than 5 steps here. Only the vertical block swept out by each step need be complete, the entire move need not. It always changes level, but may change by an odd or even number of levels.
The FORTNIGHT (FO) makes r13:1 leaps. This defintion works on both cubic and hex-prism boards, but on a cubic board the r13 coordinate is a Zebra one further expressible as 3:2, whereas here it is an Aurochs one. This means that while a cubic Fortnight can actually triangulate, a hex-prism one always switches between odd and even levels and so cannot return to a cell in an odd number of moves. Again unlike the cubic one, a hex-prism Fortnight is unbound. The cells immediately below the higher, and above the lower, ends of its move may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. Initially there is one Fortnight, as Jewish King's Partner, represented by a Set 3 Queen, whose first move must be to Level 1 (cell fa1, gc1, ie1, or kg1), but other players can acquire Fortnights by Pawn promotion. The name is after a period of two 7-day weeks (see the Jewish-specific Sennight below). Its use for root-14 leapers puns on 14 and the more familiar Knight piece.
The GRYPHON (GY) makes one step as the Ferz above (including the need for a complete 2x2 block of cells) but then turns 45? and continues horizontally or vertically as a Rook (requiring only cells along the line to not be missing - or occupied). On this board the whole move must be within a single vertical plane. Initially there is one Gryphon, as European King's Partner, represented by a Set 3 Queen, whose first move must be to Level 5 (cells hb5-cb5 or jd5-ji5), but other players can acquire Gryphons by Pawn promotion. The name is after a creature in European mythology, part bird and part beast, and is long established. The piece played the same r?for both players in Grande Acedrex.
The WAZIR (W) moves one step along any orthogonal, is unbound, and in hex geommetries can triangulate. Initially there is one Wazir, as Persian King's Partner, represented by a Set 3 King, but other players can acquire Wazirs by Pawn promotion. This piece has been widely used in early variants as the Chess concept spread north and west to countries such as Persia, leaving ancient India through territories now in Pakistan such as Waziristan.
European-specific pieces:
The DRUID (D) is the Bishop's compound with the Rumbaba, adding to the Bishop move a single-step move along any hybrid diagonal (one level and and hex-diagonal step). The cells below the upper, and above the lower, ends of the Rumbaba step may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. Like its components it cannot move within a single level. There are 2 Druids, represented by Set 3 Bishops. The name means a priest of an ancient religion of NW Europe.
The ELF (EF) is a simple root-11 leaper. While this definition on a cubic board equates to a 3:1:1 leaper, here it equates to the r7:2 leaper - its destination is 2 levels above or below the Sennight's. Both ends of the Sennight moves on both levels must exist. This piece is bound to alternate levels, and cannot reach the Jewish/European Subcamp. As it always moves exactly 2 levels it cannot return to a cell in an odd number of moves. There are 2 Elves, one for odd and one for even levels, represented by Set 1 Queens. The name is of course after a creature in European mythology. Its use for root-11 leapers puns on the modern German for 11.
The PONTIFF (PF) is the Bishop's compound with the Dicorn, adding to the Bishop move a move of any distance through empty cells along any hybrid diagonal. The need for other cells applies only to each step of the Dicorn move. Like its components it cannot move within a single level. There are 2 Pontiffs, reprtesented by Set 1 Bishops. The name means the chief priest of the established religion of the Roman Empire - a non-Christian one at the time when AOF2 is set.
The UNICORN (U) moves any distance through empty intermediate cells in any of the 6 hex-diagonal directions. Each Unicorn is bound to a third of Level 5 or 6, and can reach no other level. There are 6 Unicorns, to cover all 3 bindings within each level, represented by Set 3 Pawns. The name is of course after a creature in European mythology. My use of it on hex and hex-prism boards extrapolates from the linepiece of the same move lengths on cubic boards.
Indian-specific pieces:
The ELEPHANT (ET) moves exactly two cells in any of the 12 root-2 diagonal directions. The intermediate cell may be empty, in which case each step of the move must be between opposite ends of a full square of 4 cells, or occupied, in which case the entire move must be between opposite ends of a full square of 9 cells. Each Elephant is bound to one in four cells of all even levels, except in the Jewish/European Subcamp which they cannot reach. As it always moves exactly 2 levels it cannot return to a cell in an odd number of moves. There are 4 Elephants, represented by Set 2 Bishops, to cover all 4 bindings within those levels. It primarily represents elephant-headed deity Ganesh in what was and remains India's largest religion, Hinduism, but elephants are also considered auspicious in, for example, Jainism, another Indian religion surviving from the era.
The GURU (GU) is a triangulating leaper (like the Gnu). Its components are the 4:1 Giraffe and 5:3 Gimel. It can move 4 levels and 1 column, 4 columns and 1 level, 5 columns and 3 levels, or 5 levels and 3 columns. All are possible within the Drum, and all but the last to or from the Indian and Persian Subcamps, but only the second is available to or from the European/Jewish Subcamp. In all cases it moves between opposite corners of a vertical block, whose other cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. It is unbound. There are 2 Gurus, represented by Set 2 Queens. The name is after a kind of holy teacher in various Indian religions. Its use for this piece combines the G and R of Giraffe with a final U for a triangulating compound (e.g. ed2-id1-jd5-ed2 on this board) by analogy with Gnu.
The HARVESTER (H) is the compound of the Bishop and the Anchorite. It makes a Bishop move preceded by an optional orthogonal step and 45? turn. There are 2 Harvesters, represented by Set 3 Knights. The name was coined by Ralph Betza for his Tripunch Chess. As a Bishop compound with a secular name it is used here because I used Hindu titles solely for oblique triangulators.
The SADHU (SU) is a triangulating leaper (like the Gnu). Its components are the 5:2 Satyr and 7:3 Samel. It can move 5 levels and 2 columns, 5 columns and 2 levels, or 7 columns and 3 levels. All are possible within the Drum, but only the second is available to or from the Indian and Persian Subcamps. In all cases it moves between opposite corners of a vertical block, whose other cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. It is unbound except that it cannot reach the European and Jewish Subcamps. There are 2 Sadhus, represented by Set 3 Rooks. The name is after another Indian holy man. Its use for this piece combines the S and A of Satyr with a final U for a triangulating compound by analogy with Gnu.
Jewish-specific pieces:
The COHEN (CO) moves up to 5 steps along orthogonals or hex diagonals, but never both in the same move, through empty cells, turning either 60° left at each intermediate cell or 60° right at each intermediate cell. As with the Rose inspiring this kind of piece, a move never mixes left and right turns. If there are no 60° turns to make, in this case with a move starting with a vertical step, the move must consist of just that step. There are 2 Cohens, represented by Set 1 Bishops. Its name is a rank in the historic Jewish priesthood. The former spelling is the more familar, but the latter is sometimes used for the ancient priest to distinguish from the surname widespread in modern Jewish society. For knowledge of the ancient meaning I am indebted to Leo Rosten's books on language.
The LEVITE (LV) is the Bishop's compound with the European-specific Elf - whether in this geometry or in the cubic one. Like its components it cannot move within a single level. There are 2 Levites, represented by Set 3 Bishops. Its name is after a lesser Jewish priest than the Cohen. Its use for this piece is because it shares the first consonant and vowel of Elf, with the intention of extrapolation.
The RABBI (RA) makes up to 4 steps along hex diagonals through empty cells, turning either 60° left at each intermediate cell or 60° right at each intermediate cell. As with the Rose inspiring this kind of piece, a move never mixes left and right turns. Each Rabbi is bound to a third of Level 1 or 2, and can reach no other level. There are 6 Rabbis, to cover all 3 bindings within each level, represented by Set 3 Pawns. The name is after the most widely-known Jewish religious title. The name has a fairly precise meaning nowadays but was vaguer in the era on which this page is themed. Jewish-Christian ecumenists from both directions sometimes describe Jesus' work of his later life as rabbinical.
The SENNIGHT (SN) is the root-7 oblique leaper. It moves to the closest cells on the same level that cannot be reached from the same start in a single Rook or Rabbi move, and having reached such a cell goes no further. It cannot be blocked. It is bound to all of Level 1 or 2 and like all pure-hex leapers can triangulate. There are 2 Sennights, one for each level, represented by Set 1 Queens. The name means a seven-day week, which Jews were first to give a major religious significance. Until Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion, ethnic Jews were the main group observing such a week in Europe. Its use for a root-7 leaper puns on the 7 and the more familiar Knight piece.
Persian-specific pieces:
The CAMEL (CM) makes 3:1 leaps, that is, between corners of any vertical block of 4x2 cells, whose other 6 cells may be empty or occupied but must not be missing. Unlike on 2d and cubic boards a Camel is unbound (e.g. ed2-fd5-fe2 brings it to an adjacent cell), and as on 2d boards but unlike on cubic ones it cannot return to a cell in an odd number of moves, as it always switches between odd and even levels. There are 2 Camels, represented by Set 3 Knights. It has little to do with the religion of the time, but foreshadows Persia embracing Islam in later history, as a component of my Caliph piece.
The MAGUS (M) is the compound of the Bishop and the Stargazer. It makes a Bishop move preceded by an optional hybrid-diagonal step and 18? turn. There are 2 Magi, represented by Set 3 Rooks. The name is a title in Persian religions, most famously known through the 3 magi said to have been guided to a stable in Roman-era Bethlehem.
The PEACOCK (PK) moves one step in 14 radial directions: the 4 orthogonals straight up/down/sideways; the 4 root-2 diagonals up-sideways and down-sideways; the 2 hex diagonals straight forward/backward; and the 2 hybrid diagonals combining up/down with forward/backward. Like the King it can triangulate. Peacocks can reach any level but are bound to their player's odd or even ranks. There are four Peacocks, 2 for odd and 2 for even ranks, represented by Set 2 Bishops. Peacocks have a long association with Persian culture, spreading to related religions even beyond the birds' natural habitat - as with the Kurdish "Peacock Angel". Many an ancient Persian stately garden of the kind giving us the word "paradise" would have them as ornamental birds, and Persia's rulers were said to sit on the "Peacock Throne" right up until the name reverted to Iran. It first appears as a piece name as part of a family of mixed-radial hex pieces in my Lengthleaper Hex Chess.
The SIMURGH (SM) makes one step along a hex diagonal but then turns 30° (but not 90°) and continues as a horizontal Rook. It is bound to all of Level 3 or 4, and cannot reach any other level. There are only 2 Simurghs, represented by Set 2 Queens, even though this is its army's most-bound piece as it is relatively strong and 4 would be give this army too big an advantage. The name is after a creature in Persian mythology, combining a man's head and bird's body, for knowledge of which I must credit 20th-century Dutch artist Maurits Escher. Its use for this piece (and a cubic version) is analogous to the European-specific Gryphon.
Play proceeds in alphabetic order (EIJP).
Indian and Persian Pawns have an optional double-step noncapturing move along either horizontal orthogonal (but not one of each) from the starting cell of any Pawn of the same army (including its own). Enemy Pawns of all enemy armies (but no other piece) can capture them En Passant as if they had made only the single step. European and Jewish Pawns have no initial double-step move as they start nearer their promotion cells.
There is no Castling.
A Pawn ending a move on a cell whence it has no unpromoted move must be promoted. Promotion on an enemy piece's starting cell is to the same piece type (but without changing army) as that enemy's King's Partner. Promotion of an Indian or Persian Pawn on an initially empty cell is to one's own King's Partner. Promotion of a European or Jewish Pawn on an initially empty cell is to whichever of Gryphon and Fortnight the player chooses.
A player is Checkmated when their King or Emperor is threatened by the player about to move. That player's pieces are removed from the game and the remaining players then alternate moves starting with the Checkmating one. The Checkmating player's King is promoted to Emperor. The player delivering the third Checkmate wins.
This variant is not intended to suggest any shortcoming in AOF2 as part of a series. It would not have made sense to have Bishop compounds appear in the array prior in the series to the Bishop itself doing so. Proto Prelates remains an offshoot using a wider range of pieces than AOF2 but still within the theme. No other AOF variant is quite so suited to such an offshoot.
Although I use the Sennight and hex-prism Fortnight in the same army, it is actually the cubic Fortnight that is the Sennight's dual - that is, its move relates to Ferz steps as the Sennight's does to Wazir moves. Each x+y:x:y cubic piece is the dual of a pure-hex piece.
This 'user submitted' page is a collaboration between the posting user and the Chess Variant Pages. Registered contributors to the Chess Variant Pages have the ability to post their own works, subject to review and editing by the Chess Variant Pages Editorial Staff.
By Charles Gilman.
Web page created: 2009-08-08. Web page last updated: 2009-08-08
Proto Prelates. An Armies of Faith offshoot adding Bishop compounds named after pre-Christian religious titles. (10x10x6, Cells: 294)
https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/proto-prelates
First Created: Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/how-aldermen-maintain-segregation-in-chicago/)
How aldermen maintain segregation in Chicago
By Kate Walz and Patricia Fron | July 17, 2018
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The power of aldermen to control their wards and shape neighborhoods is quintessentially Chicago , perhaps even more so than our famous hot dogs or brawny accents. This “aldermanic prerogative” is so ingrained In Chicago, so rooted in history, that many Chicagoans would be surprised to know that the extent of control aldermen have over their wards is unique among major American cities.
The Chicago City Council’s influence over the location of affordable housing and control over neighborhood racial boundaries has been central to the city’s operation since at least the 1930s. This engineering of neighborhoods was carried out to appease fears of black integration into white areas of the city and, whether we like to acknowledge it or not, continues to influence community development. Although the discriminatory motivations driving local aldermen to block public housing were exposed in the 1966 federal lawsuit, Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, little has changed today. Aldermen, particularly in predominantly white areas of Chicago, wield their power to maintain racial and economic demographics without constraint and with impunity.
Chicagoans have seen this play out on the Northwest Side recently as neighborhood residents have divided on the issue of affordable housing. Ald. Anthony Napolitano of the 41st Ward gets at the heart of the opposition to affordable housing by explaining that his residents do not want it. “People cherish where they live, and they want to safeguard it … They have every right to do that, and I’ll protect their right to do that, as long as I’m representing them,” he said. “You have a lot of people here who work for the city, and when they come back home, they want it to be their sanctuary.” This begs the question—what are opponents of affordable housing seeking sanctuary from? As long as aldermen control if and where affordable housing will be built, those who seek refuge from it will continue to erect barriers and divide the city by race and class.
Our new report, A City Fragmented: How Race, Power, and Aldermanic Prerogative Shape Chicago’s Neighborhoods, documents the tools aldermen use to exercise this privilege and the consequences of decades of misuse. First and foremost, aldermen, either on their own or through ward-level zoning advisory councils, ultimately decide the fate of residential development by utilizing multiple levers to control zoning, including a practice called “downzoning,” which limits the number of dwelling units allowed on a site. Zoning advisory councils, or constituent committees formed to advise an alderman on zoning and land-use decisions, also regularly condition their approval of a zoning change request on a promise by the developer not to build family units or even rental units. Formal zoning advisory councils are active in 10 wards, eight of which are on the city’s North or Northwest sides.
Over the past 50 years, predominantly white areas have constructed just 2 percent the city’s new affordable multifamily housing while containing 25 percent of the city’s multifamily zoned land.
This patchwork of zoning control has negatively altered the landscape of the city by diminishing land area available for multifamily development or developments containing multiple housing units. By reducing allowable density, housing supply is constricted, raising not only housing cost—particularly rents—but land value as well, much to the detriment of affordable housing development. Since 1970, the developable density of over 5,000 acres of Chicago’s land has been reduced by downzoning or landmarking. And today, just 20 percent of the city’s land is currently zoned for multifamily housing, and it is concentrated outside of predominantly white areas, with 75 percent of multifamily zoned land located outside of majority white wards.
These conditions force housing developers to navigate varied and complex ward-level systems, and on the North and Northwest sides of the city often mean that housing proposals that include affordable units, family units, and rental units will not get the green light. Without aldermanic approval, housing proposals are effectively dead because aldermen wield veto power over access to city funds. Applications for the city’s multifamily loan program must be accompanied by a letter of aldermanic support. If there is no chance they will receive an alderman’s blessing, many developers report not bothering to apply for financing from the city.
Unconstrained control over zoning, combined with the ability to influence and approve of individual housing developments, has resulted in haphazard and imbalanced affordable housing development. Over the past 50 years, predominantly white areas have constructed just 2 percent the city’s new affordable multifamily housing while containing 25 percent of the city’s multifamily zoned land.
Aldermanic prerogative is one Chicago quirk that belongs in the history books. Unless and until this system is dismantled, housing developers will face needless geographical constraints, aldermen will be deterred from sound decision-making, the city will fail to meet its civil rights obligations, and everyday Chicagoans will continue to lose access to the city they call home. Aldermen may be accustomed to this longstanding tradition, but ultimately the city’s delegation of power creates conditions that allow City Hall to evade blame and avoid comprehensive planning.
Chicago needs to balance the power dynamics involved in community planning, create a centralized system for approving affordable housing, and a comprehensive plan for community investment that is grounded in achieving racial equity. Without it, the city will remain segregated and will risk extinguishing its vibrancy, its very core and constitution.
About Kate Walz
Kate Walz is the director of Housing Justice at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. Follow her on Twitter @katewalz2.
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United Express Plane Damages Nose Gear During Landing
The nose gear of a United Express airplane collapsed, forcing it to unexpectedly land at the San Antonio International Airport last Sunday, December 4. However, authorities said everyone on the plane was evacuated safely.
San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Woody Woodward said 55 people were safely evacuated using the plane’s emergency slides. He said only one passenger sustained injuries. A woman hurt her ankle, but she refused medical attention because she was adamant about making her connecting flight. Woodward said no fire erupted during the crash. The airplane involved was identified as Skywest Flight 5588, operating as United Express, which was headed to Monterrey, Mexico from Houston and got diverted to San Antonio.
It is expected for personal injury accident victims to feel rattled by debilitating physical disabilities, especially if they are burdened by expensive medical bills. None of this is fair, so if you become the victim of a personal injury accident due to the negligent actions of others in San Antonio or another area of Texas, do not hesitate to seek the legal help of our attorneys at the Chris Mayo Law Firm by calling our offices at (210) 899-5440.
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Can Banks Ask Churches for Donor Records?
When members struggle financially, financial institutions may come knocking.
Michelle Dowell
A national bank recently subpoenaed an Iowa church's financial records, seeking information about donations made by a man whose business defaulted on a $650,000 loan.
The financial institution wants to know about cash and property given to the church by the man and his wife since 2005, according to The Des Moines Register newspaper. The man's lawyer says the bank intends to try to collect money he gave by investigating to see if those gifts qualify as fraudulent transfers.
The amount the bank can receive from the church may depend on whether or not the man files for bankruptcy.
"So long as [this man] doesn't file bankruptcy, there is a viable argument under state law that any contribution could be a fraudulent conveyance," said Patrick Bauer, a University of Iowa law professor, according to The Des Moines Register.
At the time of the article, the man declined to file for bankruptcy. If he does file, the church will benefit from the Religious Liberty and Charitable Donation Protection Act that, according to Richard Hammar in Pastor, Church & Law, Volume Four: Liability & Church and State Issues, "provides significant protection to churches as well as to church members who file for bankruptcy."
"Bankruptcy trustees are prohibited by the Act from recovering contributions made by bankrupt debtors to a church or other charity prior to declaring bankruptcy, unless the contributions were made with an intent to defraud creditors," Hammar said in the book, "In addition, the Act bars bankruptcy courts from rejecting a bankruptcy plan because it allows the debtor to continue making contributions to a church or charity."
Bauer told the newspaper that churches have been the target of creditors as well as bankruptcy trustees in the past because of claims that the contributions could be seen as a way to avoid paying debts.
The church declined to comment to the newspaper regarding the matter.
For more detailed information on how the bankruptcy code relates to churches and church members, see section nine of chapter nine in Pastor, Church & Law, Volume Four: Liability & Church and State Issues. This free Weekly Lesson for church business administrators on ChurchLawAndTax.com by Hammar also provides additional guidance.
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The Valetta Baroque Festival
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Valetta, View from Marsamxett Harbour
Friday 10 - Wednesday 15 January 2020 (6 Days)
Glorianne Mizzi
Enjoy one of Europe's highly regarded Baroque Music Festivals
Discover Malta’s extraordinary history ranging over a remarkable six thousand year period
Encounter the Knights of Malta in all their magnificence
See one of Caravaggio’s greatest paintings, ‘The Beheading of St John the Baptist’
Includes a day spent on Gozo
We stay in arguably Valletta’s best hotel, The Phoenicia
Sitting in the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta’s small scale belies the number and range of truly fascinating sites, monuments and artistic treasures to be found on the island. The Malta Tourism Authority has long been active in promoting cultural visits and it recently devised a truly innovative Winter Festival based in Valletta, devoted to Baroque Music across two centuries. Now growing into maturity, the Festival has established itself as a serious ‘player’ on the international music scene and singers, musicians and orchestras of the highest calibre are regular participants. Performances take place in a series of splendid seventeenth and eighteenth century historic buildings including the Manoel Theatre and some of the city’s finest churches. Thus, we have no hesitation in recommending this visit to all those who would like to combine truly remarkable music with some gently paced visits – all in the soft light and winter warmth of the southern Mediterranean.
Full details of each concert and recital will be available shortly. Transfers to and from all the performances will be provided for participants. In support of this musical feast, we shall also include a number of gently paced visits designed to introduce you to Malta’s history. Its antiquity should not be doubted as the island has Europe’s most remarkable group of monuments from the pre-classical world, many of them literally awe-inspiring. The Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans all knew Malta and appreciated its logistical worth. This strategic importance continued throughout medieval times as both Christianity and Islam developed a keen interest in keeping Malta within their respective spheres of influence.
The Habsburg Emperor, Charles V, gave Malta to the homeless Knights of St John as a permanent base, hoping they would secure the island against Ottoman attack and this military role became the island’s principal function. Napoleon expelled the Knights and following his defeat, the British took control. Thus the island once again became an important staging post as more recent “Imperial” strategies developed. This helps explain the long and friendly links between Malta and Britain, leavened by Malta’s geographical proximity both to North Africa and to Italy. Indeed, this mixing of Mediterranean cultures with British norms makes Malta particularly attractive.
We shall spend five nights in Valletta at the very comfortable 5* Phoenicia. It is perfectly placed for our explorations of this historic walled city and the wider island.
Glorianne was outstanding with zest and humour as well as encyclopaedic knowledge
Mrs H P, London
Price: £TBC per person
Single Supplement: £ (Double Room for Sole Use)
Tour Manager: James Hill
5 nights with breakfast at the 5* Hotel Phoenicia
Upgrades Harbour View
Outward: KM101 Depart London Heathrow (T4) 1050, arrive Malta 1500
Return: KM102 Depart Malta 1705, arrive London Heathrow (T4) 1930
2 dinners & 6 lunches with wine, water & coffee, all local transfers, entry fees & gratuities, services of Glorianne Mizzi & Tour Manager James Hill
Travel to/from Heathrow, 4 dinners
Weather Conditions for Malta in January are:
Average Temperature between: 9oC - 16oC / 48.2oF - 60.8oF
Rainfall: 95mm / 3.7inches
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The Gnome Alone Trailer With Becky G Is Cute And Colorful
Adam Holmes
At their best, lawn ornaments can colorfully decorate your yard, and garden gnomes are among the most popular of these decorations. But what if your garden gnomes didn't just silently watch over the front of your house, but also protected your entire property from unusual threats? The upcoming animated movie, Gnome Alone, explores such a scenario, and you can get your first taste of what this energetic and adorable tale will look like in the teaser trailer below.
Starring singer Becky G, who appeared as Trini, a.k.a. the Yellow Ranger, in the Power Rangers reboot earlier this year, Gnome Alone follows a young girl named Chloe who has just moved to a new city with her mother. Their new house would fit right into a classic horror movie, but as any of us would, Chloe immediately questions why there are so many garden gnomes (a.k.a. tiny Santas) on the property, specifically in the house itself. Well it turns out these gnomes aren't of the usual variety you'd buy at your local gardening shop. They're sentient guardians here to keep the world safe from small, vicious purple aliens from another dimension. That sounds about right.
With the help of her timid neighbor Liam (voiced by Josh Peck), Chloe and these garden gnomes (whose leader is voiced by George Lopez) will need to take out these freaky aliens with their green goo guns, tiny hammers and sharp hats before the creatures can escape the house and lay waste to the entire world. As they get rid of these little buggers, Chloe will discover the hero within herself and become the champion Earth needs in this dire, but amusingly absurd, invasion.
Cloak & Dagger's Olivia Holt is also part of the Gnome Alone cast, while Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump scored the movie as his first feature. And for all you pun fans out there, you can take comfort that this trailer takes full advantage of twisting the word "gnome" to its advantage beyond just the title itself in the midst of the comical action. Gnome Alone will be released in October on the same weekend as Mother!, Happy Death Day, Goodbye Christopher Robin and Marshall, so if the kiddies are especially eager to hit the theater that weekend, this will be the movie that the whole family can enjoy.
Directed by Peter Lepeniotis of The Nut Job fame, Gnome Alone arrives on October 13. You can also browse through our 2017 movie schedule to find out other cinematic offerings are hitting theaters later this year.
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Hat trick: Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke at a Texas town hall in January. Eric Gay/AP
In Purple Texas, the Last Conservative City Falls
Despite a narrow defeat to Ted Cruz in the midterms, Beto O’Rourke conquered the state’s last major conservative urban area, and helped Democrats statewide.
Fort Worth was always going to be a battleground for Texas.
“Fort Worth is one of the largest conservatively led cities around,” Mayor Betsy Price told me earlier this year. It’s true: Not only is she President Donald Trump’s favorite mayor, Price is one of just a handful of GOP leaders who presides over a large urban center, along with the mayors of Jacksonville and Oklahoma City.
As the biggest city in the state that still voted red before this election, Fort Worth’s Tarrant County loomed as a bellwether even before the midterm. Nearly 433,000 people cast ballots during early voting there, with about 626,000 voting in the Senate race—record-shattering figures for a midterm and counts that fell just short of momentous vote totals in the 2016 presidential election.
Both incumbent Senator Ted Cruz and challenger Robert “Beto” O’Rourke needed passionate voters to turn out in huge numbers in Tarrant County to settle one of the country’s most divisive races. In the end, O’Rourke failed to unseat Cruz. But the contest was far too close for comfort for the GOP in Texas, and Beto won Tarrant County—where voters haven’t sent a Democrat to Congress in decades.
So did Democrat Beverly Powell, who picked up the state Senate seat for the Fort Worth area. Closer to the ground, Devan Allen, a Democratic candidate for the Tarrant County Commission, managed to upend Republican incumbent Andy Nguyen in a close contest. Texas didn’t witness a blue wave, exactly. But liberal voters have stormed the last conservative urban stronghold in Texas.
Urban centers in Texas now provide safe havens for the Democratic Party. Over the last few years, the share of people who voted for the Democratic candidate in the top election contest—so O’Rourke in 2018, Clinton in 2016, and so on—has improved. In Houston, San Antonio, and El Paso, these figures held steady from the presidential election to the midterms. In Dallas and Tarrant Counties, the Democratic share of the electorate actually shot up between 2016 and 2018.
Tarrant County, home of Forth Worth, has joined urban Texas counties Harris (Houston), El Paso, Dallas, and Bexar (San Antonio) in voting Democratic.
The GOP share of the vote in Texas cities has eroded. That’s a dog-bites-man story from the perspective of any coastal elite. But only a few years ago, voters in the biggest Texas cities were evenly split everywhere but Austin. Since 2014, Democrats have opened up a turnout lead over Republicans in Dallas and Houston, and to a lesser extent, San Antonio. Now, liberals have closed the gap in Tarrant County. In terms of turnout, Republicans lost ground in all those cities. But Republican voter turnout also declined in the smallest counties, too.
O’Rourke may have failed in his bid to unseat Ted Cruz, but thanks in part to his strong showing, Democrats made pick-ups in the House. Colin Allred upset the powerful Republican incumbent Rep. Pete Sessions, while first-time candidate Lizzie Pannill Fletcher took out the longtime GOP incumbent Rep. John Colberson. While Pete Olson held on in Texas-22, at press time, it appeared that Gina Ortiz Jones would squeak out a narrow win against Rep. Will Hurd. Women and people of color managed to mount strong insurgent campaigns in a bastion of power for established, older white men: a microcosm for the national mood.
One of the least-appreciated aspects of Beto O'Rourke's overperformance/Cruz's underperformance in TX-SEN last night: the entire GOP bench of judges was wiped off the map wholesale in Dallas and Houston. The legal topography of the state just changed overnight.
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) November 7, 2018
Meanwhile, Lone Star Republicans who won did so by margins that would shame their GOP ancestors. Cruz held his Senate seat by just 3 points. (In 2012, he coasted to victory by 16 points.) Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller all won by less than 5 points. Given that Texas Governor Greg Abbott won reelection in a landslide, that suggests widespread defections among Republican voters or disaffection from independents.
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For a variety of reasons, Democrats may not have a better shot at the open Senate seat in Texas in 2020; Beto's burgeoning national celebrityhood did boost the party’s fortunes. But no Texas Republican should feel safe: Democrats closed the margin in races that weren’t supposed to be contests, and in places that weren’t supposed to be contested. The historically flailing Texas Democratic Party may have finally found the roadmap for electoral victory going forward.
Texas cities top any list of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. That’s one reason why they’re so solidly blue now. Today they provide safe cover for Democratic statewide candidates and the once-anemic state Democratic Party as a whole. Republicans, looking on from safe rural districts that are bleeding population—or from typically conservative suburbs that helped to deliver the House for Democrats this time—ignore Texas cities at their peril. Fort Worth may have been the GOP’s last red redoubt, but it’s purple now. Just like Texas.
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Kriston Capps is a staff writer for CityLab covering housing, architecture, and politics. He previously worked as a senior editor for Architect magazine.
We Were Promised Moon Cities
It’s been 50 years since Apollo 11 put humans on the surface of the moon. Why didn’t we stay and build a more permanent lunar base? Lots of reasons.
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Dudley: Man arrested following woman's death
She suffered serious head injuries
Alison Stacey
Police arrested a man following the death of a woman in Dudley .
Emergency services were called to the scene in Lodge Crescent, Netherton, just after 4.30pm on Friday following reports of trouble.
The 54-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries and was pronounced dead a short time later.
A 56-year-old local man was arrested at the scene and was helping police with their enquiries on Saturday evening.
A post-mortem examination will take place to establish the cause of death.
Det Insp Justin Spanner, of Force CID at West Midlands Police , said: “At this stage police are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.
“Investigations are on-going.”
Anyone who was in the Lodge Crescent area between noon and 4.30pm on Friday and heard or saw any signs of a disturbance should call police on 101.
Aston Villa FCDean Smith makes Aston Villa transfer promise as Liverpool star looks for the exit - Premier League rumoursA look at the latest Aston Villa transfer news and what else is happening around the Premier League
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19-3051 Urban and Regional Planners
Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
37,840 1.6 % $36.65 $76,240 0.5 %
Annual Wage (2) $45,180 $56,970 $73,050 $92,180 $114,170
Local Government, excluding schools and hospitals (OES Designation) 26,920 0.49 $35.82 $74,500
Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services 4,290 0.30 $40.83 $84,920
State Government, excluding schools and hospitals (OES Designation) 3,370 0.15 $34.83 $72,440
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services 1,070 0.07 $36.75 $76,430
Land Subdivision 60 0.16 $50.07 $104,150
Legal Services 70 0.01 $44.25 $92,030
Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution 60 0.01 $42.57 $88,560
Management of Companies and Enterprises 60 (7) $42.32 $88,030
California 7,950 0.47 1.79 $45.09 $93,790
Florida 2,350 0.27 1.05 $35.05 $72,910
Washington 2,110 0.65 2.48 $39.06 $81,250
North Carolina 1,420 0.32 1.24 $32.04 $66,650
Hawaii 470 0.74 2.82 $36.65 $76,230
New Mexico 560 0.69 2.63 $28.84 $59,980
South Dakota 230 0.55 2.11 $27.30 $56,780
Vermont 170 0.54 2.08 $29.22 $60,780
District of Columbia 230 0.33 1.25 $52.93 $110,100
Oregon 910 0.48 1.85 $39.23 $81,590
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 1,500 0.62 2.36 $48.53 $100,940
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 1,260 0.13 0.51 $38.43 $79,930
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 860 0.44 1.69 $35.93 $74,730
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA 710 0.48 1.85 $43.37 $90,210
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA 700 0.72 2.74 $42.20 $87,780
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL 650 0.25 0.96 $36.76 $76,450
Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in this occupation:
Olympia-Tumwater, WA 420 3.71 14.20 $36.42 $75,750
Yuba City, CA 100 2.15 8.23 $39.24 $81,620
Redding, CA 120 1.85 7.08 $39.49 $82,130
Dover, DE 110 1.71 6.53 $28.94 $60,190
Santa Fe, NM 90 1.53 5.84 $28.11 $58,470
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA 130 1.09 4.19 $36.11 $75,110
Montgomery, AL 140 0.87 3.31 $27.47 $57,140
Coeur d'Alene, ID 50 0.83 3.17 $29.93 $62,260
Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 70 0.82 3.12 $37.19 $77,350
Urban Honolulu, HI 380 0.81 3.11 $36.46 $75,840
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shop4support Accessibility Statement
shop4support strives to make our services available to everyone.
Statement of Commitment
The main aim of shop4support is to enable people who have a disability, are getting older and/or need support to take control of their own lives. To this end, all decisions made as to the copy, content, design, and functionality of shop4support must consider this core aim and unless it can be shown to be technically or practically impossible, all content must be made accessible.
An accessible alternative to any potentially inaccessible content must be made available, unless this can be proven to be technically or practically impossible
Large paragraphs of information should be broken into manageable, short paragraphs
The full name of each abbreviation or acronym should be featured where it first occurs in a document
The below features should be employed in order to make copy more succinct:
Relevant headlines
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Descriptive links
Where possible text rather than images should be used to convey the main meaning of a feature
Any accessible alternative content should be uploaded at the same time as the original content
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Plain language should be used and jargon avoided
Text of more than two lines should be aligned to the left
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Where appropriate, any direction or 'call to action' given to users should be accompanied by icons
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Items on screen must not flicker.
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Audio and video content must not auto play unless users know this is going to happen
All video footage must be accompanied by a downloadable transcript for use by individuals with hearing impairments
All links must be accompanied by a description of the item the link connects to.
The option for the user to choose from four font sizes must appear at the top right hand side of every page. Options are: 12px/14px/18px/22px for paragraph text
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Useful Information about Screen Readers
What is a screen reader?
A screen reader is a computer programme that reads out the text on a computer screen. Screen readers can be used to help people with visual impairments and dyslexia access computer based documents and websites.
What types of screen reader are there?
There are two types of screen reader:
A screen reader that has been 'embedded', or is already part of a website.
A 'client side' screen reader, that can be added to an individual's computer
How do I choose a screen reader?
It is important to try out a screen reader before you buy it, to check that it has the features you want and that it will work with the software that you need to use. You can usually ask a supplier for a demonstration version. If you don't have your own computer, it's worth asking a local voluntary IT centre, library or college if you can use theirs.
There are now a number of different screen readers available. Below are just a few of them:
This screen reader has support for Braille displays and will support other languages using the Orpheus speech synthesizer. The professional version enables users to create map files which can improve access to applications where there is not full keyboard access.
Developed by Dolphin, also available from various suppliers including RNIB, HumanWare and Optelec.
Jaws for Windows
Jaws includes a scripting language which allows users to improve access to applications where there is not full keyboard access. It also has support for braille displays.
Available from various suppliers including Sight and Sound Technology and RNIB.
Has a novice mode for the beginner and a system of musical tones to assist with screen navigation. It can be configured using Visual Basic programming.
Available from Choice Technology.
ProTalk 32
Will support some braille displays and certain sound cards.
Available from Professional Vision Services.
Window-Eyes
Has support for braille displays and a number of configuration options which can be set via a menu to define functionality to specific areas of the screen.
Available from Humanware.
Free screen reader software
Thunder is available to download from Screenreader.net It works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 computers.
This information is an introduction to the subject of screen readers. It is not a complete list of all products and services available, nor are any of the products and services featured recommended or endorsed by shop4support.
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Arthritis Research UK
Arthritis Research UK approached us requesting strategy, proposition, and creative in order to revitalise their legacy campaign. Our challenge was to encourage both existing and potential supporters to leave a gift to the charity in their will. Our main objective was to enable the charity to speak confidently and practically about a subject that it is often perceived to be delicate and complex.
We established an overarching positive, uplifting proposition and messaging for the new campaign, which focused on turning the negatives of arthritis into positives – and restrictions into possibilities. Using enabling language built around fighting the disease, we highlighted the power and importance of the charity’s research efforts, and the part gifts in will play in funding this research.
A bold and engaging look and feel ensured the materials were distinctive, inspiring and interesting. A key piece, the guide to leaving a gift in your will, contained case studies and research evidence. This provided supporters with practical advice, whilst being clear, compelling and emotive.
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Dwarf Couple Says They Were Burned by ‘The Soup’ on E!
February 17, 2011 Reuben Kramer
PHILADELPHIA (CN) – An attorney for a dwarf couple from New Jersey says E! Entertainment Television and TV funnyman Joel McHale, host of E!’s “The Soup,” defamed his clients by including a photograph of them in a reality show montage.
In an interview with Courthouse News, Herman Weinrich with Timoney Knox said the final product created the “really disgusting,” false implication that the plaintiffs are irresponsible parents who would tattoo their children.
Cara and Gibson Reynolds filed a praecipe for writ of summons against Comcast, E! Entertainment, McHale and the Associated Press in Philadelphia County’s Court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania litigants typically file summons praecipes to initiate legal actions and set the stage for the pre-complaint discovery process.
The photograph at issue was taken from an Associated Press article about “creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects,” including dwarfism, Weinrich said.
The AP article quotes Cara Reynolds saying that she plans to adopt a dwarf baby – not create one.
Weinrich said the AP article was evenhanded, examining the ethical questions surrounding the practice of designing babies who may share their parents’ characteristics, such as “deafness or dwarfism.”
Weinrich said Cara Reynolds has not engaged in the practice, but spoke out against critics of it in the article.
The AP reported her as saying: “‘You cannot tell me that I cannot have a child who’s going to look like me,’ Reynolds said. ‘It’s just unbelievably presumptuous and they’re playing God.'”
Reynolds and her husband are depicted in the AP article, sitting on a porch and smiling.
Weinrich said he’s in the process of determining whether E! lifted the photo from the AP without permission.
He said that if he determined that the photo was downloaded unlawfully, he may drop the wire service as a defendant.
The Reynolds “were never asked if their likeness could be used” in the television clip, Weinrich said.
He added that the video clip was “particularly painful” because the Reynolds had lost a child and were trying to adopt a Chinese baby, also a dwarf, at the time the clip aired.
The Reynolds, who declined to comment and referred questions to their attorney, were concerned that the clip could be misconstrued and prevent them from completing the adoption, Weinrich said.
A spokeswoman for E! Entertainment Television said the company does not comment on ongoing legal actions.
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High Court Revives Suit Alleging Unfair Rail Tax
(CN) – A railroad can sue the Alabama government for discriminating against rail carriers by imposing a diesel fuel tax on certain companies while exempting their competitors, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Tuesday.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the majority, found that such excise taxes are barred by the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976.
CSX Transportation, which operates and pays taxes in Alabama, faces sales and use taxes of 4 percent each for diesel fuel in the state, while truckers and water carriers are exempt. The District Court dismissed the suit, and the 11th Circuit affirmed, citing a similar case it heard over a railroad’s challenge to an allegedly discriminatory property tax.
The 11th Circuit had relied on a 1994 decision from the Supreme Court, Department of Revenue of Oregon v. ACF Industries. In reversing the lower court’s decision, Kagan wrote that excise tax exemptions do not merit the same analysis and that a ruling to the contrary would not create “inconsistent or anomalous results.”
“We stand foursquare behind our decision in ACF Industries, but we will not extend it in the way the state wishes,” Kagan wrote, adding that the 11th Circuit may have “misread that decision.”
Although the distinction on exemptions for property and other taxes may not make “a whit of sense,” the majority said it must uphold that “sharp line” drawn by Congress.
“Neither CSX nor the United States as amicus curiae has offered a satisfying reason for why Congress drew this line,” Kagan noted. “Even if Congress had a good reason for distinguishing between property and non-property tax exemptions, we acknowledge that it eludes us.”
The court disagreed with Alabama’s argument that it should adopt a similar approach to excise taxes as property taxes.
“Alabama’s preference for symmetry cannot trump an asymmetrical statute,” Kagan wrote. “And its preference for the greatest possible latitude to levy taxes cannot trump Congress’s decision to restrict discriminatory taxation of rail carriers.”
In oral arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that a broad interpretation of discrimination could find unfair treatment if the state gave widows older than 85 an exemption not available to railroads.
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, dissented from the majority. The opinion states that while the Alabama sales and use taxes could violate the act, “a tax exemption scheme must target or single out railroads by comparison to general commercial and industrial taxpayers.”
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Criminal Government International Politics
Suspects in France’s Explosives Lab Probe Linked to Syria
September 7, 2017 September 14, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bombing, France, Inter2, Paris, Syria
By PHILIPPE SOTTO and LORI HINNANT
PARIS (AP) — French investigators believe that three suspects linked to an explosives lab found in an apartment in a Paris suburb had talked about wanting to target a bank and had made phone calls to unidentified contacts in Syria, authorities said Thursday.
Two men were detained Wednesday and the third man on Thursday. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the men are between 36 and 47 years old but provided no further information.
After finding the explosive TATP in the apartment in the town of Villejuif, investigators discovered more explosive components in a nearby cache. TATP, a peroxide-based explosive, has been employed by Islamic extremists.
A judicial official said Thursday that more products that can be used to make explosives were found in a lock-up garage rented by one of the three suspects detained in the case. A police official confirmed the new discovery that was made in Thiais, a suburban city close to Villejuif.
The two officials with knowledge of the probe spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Francetvinfo that the suspects apparently wanted to set off explosives in a bank to steal money and had spoken by phone with people in Syria.
The investigation started after a tip provided by a repairman who was doing a job in the Villejuif building and informed authorities after noticing suspicious products in an apartment, Collomb has said.
A counterterrorism investigation was opened under potential charges of “criminal terrorist association” and production, possession and transportation of explosive substances “in relation with a terrorist action by an organized gang.”
Angela Charlton contributed to this report.
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Petition calls on Adobe to open-source Fireworks
By Creative Bloq Staff 2013-05-07T15:43:28.126Z
Adobe won't be developing its Fireworks tool any further, so fans are asking for it to be released to the community instead.
You may not have heard of Fireworks, Adobe's 'other' image editing program, but it has a small but passionate (and vocal) following, particularly among web designers, who find it especially useful for wireframing and UI design.
Sadly for that community, though, Fireworks has been the loser in a day of new Adobe announcements. While its closest equivalents, Photoshop and Illustrator, have both got new versions with exciting new features, Fireworks is no longer going to be developed. So although Adobe promises to provide support and bug fixes, Fireworks looks like becoming a footnote in design history.
Web designers are never ones to hide their views, though, and so a petition has been created calling for Adobe to open-source Fireworks so that volunteer programmers can continue to develop and enhance it. As John Olson of Las Vegas says on the site: "Fireworks is still better for doing a lot of things that Photoshop and Illustrator can't do yet. It's not a perfect tool, but its extremely valuable. Give it over to someone to cares about it."
Adobe hasn't responded to the petition yet. However, intriguingly, the official Fireworks Facebook page has posted a link to Project FW, an "openSource alternative of Fireworks for Windows, OSX and Linux".
What do you think of Fireworks? Does it need saving? Share your views in the comments below...
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Jamie Hewlett's first major monograph celebrates his work on Tank Girl, Gorillaz and more
Billy Fury, 2017. Album artwork for Gorillaz' Humanz | © Jamie Hewlett
From co-creating Tank Girl to defining the visual identity of the cartoon band Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett is one of the most active pop culture figures of the past two decades.
Launching soon will be Hewlett's first major monograph, gathering over 400 of his artworks from strips to sketches, to celebrate a polymath artist who refuses to be pigeonholed in a particular practice.
With influences ranging from hip-hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the unique cartoon band Gorillaz, a virtual pop group of animated characters, who have recorded five albums and mounted breathtaking live spectacles.
Since then, Hewlett has continued to collaborate with Albarn on projects including an elaborate staging of the Chinese novel Monkey: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, complete with circus acrobats, Shaolin monks, and Chinese singers. In 2006, he was named "Designer of the Year" by the Design Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn won a BAFTA for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. More recently, The Suggestionists, an exhibition of prints at the Saatchi Gallery in London, demonstrated an exciting new direction in Hewlett’s practice.
To learn more about the comic book artist and designer, and enjoy seeing his work, pick up a copy of Jamie Hewlett, published by TASCHEN.
All images courtesy of TASCHEN. Main image: Billy Fury, 2017. Album artwork for Gorillaz' Humanz | © Jamie Hewlett
The Cock Rocket, 2015. Cover artwork for 21st Century Tank Girl | © Jamie Hewlett
Gorillaz: Russel and Noodle at the old studio 13, 2005 Press image for Demon Dayz | © Jamie Hewlett
The Young Fool and the Sea, 2010 Album artwork for Gorillaz' Plastic Beach | © Jamie Hewlett
Original poster for the contemporary opera Monkey. Journey to the West, a translation of Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West to the stage, a collaboration of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn with Chinese theatre director Chen Shi-Zheng. 2004 | © Jamie Hewlett
Cover Jamie Hewlett Jamie Hewlett, Julius Wiedemann Hardcover | © Jamie Hewlett
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We Tell Human-Centered Stories That Engage, Inspire and Move People to Action.
We are a full service production company and creative agency founded by award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser. We harness empathy and storytelling to craft relatable, emotionally engaging stories. Passionate about storytelling as a force for good, we conceptualize, direct, produce and deliver content across all platforms that captures our shared humanity, moves people and spurs them to action.
We also inspire and guide people and companies on how to tell moving, human-centered stories through consulting, workshops and public speaking.
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Creative Ideation, Directing, Producing & Post Production
We apply our human-centered storytelling tactics and production expertise to direct and produce projects from ideation through delivery. We build and lead talented teams, collaborating closely with clients. Cheryl Miller Houser is also available as a Director, Executive Producer and Consultant on projects that Creative Breed doesn’t produce.
We have produced and Cheryl has directed feature documentaries, mini-docs, commercials, brand launch videos, web series, Presidential campaign videos, social media campaigns and corporate social responsibility campaigns. We deploy our tactics of human-centered storytelling across all platforms and industries and love applying our expertise to innovative, inter-disciplinary forms of marketing.
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Through speaking engagements, workshops and consulting, Cheryl shares the methodology she developed as a documentary filmmaker on how to capture genuine moments with people and bring audiences on a relatable emotional journey through them.
Using engaging case studies, she explores how to conceptualize, cast, craft, direct, produce and distribute projects, providing guidance and inspiration on these topics:
Storytelling and Empathy in a Purpose-Driven Economy: how to tell stories that convey your values, drive engagement and spur positive action
The Empathy Effect: Impact through Storytelling: how to use storytelling to drive social impact
Show Don’t Tell: how to apply storytelling tactics to create advertising that entertains, engages people in an immersive experience and forms emotional bonds with them
Cheryl Miller Houser, Founder & CEO
Director, Producer, Inspirational Speaker, Workshop Creator, Consultant
What Drives Me:
I am passionate about storytelling as a force for good and am driven to tell stories that capture our shared humanity, move people and spur them to action. I’ve been telling stories like this for three decades as a writer, producer and director, starting with award winning feature films, documentaries and hundreds of hours of TV. Eager to help businesses tap into the power of emotionally engaging, well-crafted stories, I launched Creative Breed to apply my storytelling expertise to marketing. I do this through conceptualizing, producing and directing campaigns and spots and also through public speaking, workshops and consulting.
My work as Director & Producer at Creative Breed:
As a creator, I conceptualize, direct and produce projects across all platforms, building and leading talented teams and collaborating closely with clients. Some of these projects have included: Co-Director and Producer of feature documentary GENERATION STARTUP, funded by PwC Charitable Foundation and UBS, and ancillary content across multiple platforms. I also built and guided teams to execute the film’s successful branding, marketing, distribution and social media. Presidential candidate Andrew Yang engaged me to direct and produce his campaign launch video and moving mini-docs that convey his campaign slogan “Humanity First.” I produced and directed hit web series Mad Genuis Tips for Food & Wine Magazine, with 40+ million views, book extension and James Beard Award nomination. Fashion brand Chico’s hired me to produce, direct and capture uplifting, relatable moments with real women for their “Style My Way” campaign. I also produced and directed the book launch video for HarperCollins’ Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral and Getting It Done about two female tech phenoms, produced an e-learning product launch video for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and created a range of innovative programming for Elizabeth Arden’s video wall in Union Square. As varied as these projects are, they all share my signature ability to capture the emotional core of people, craft engaging stories and move viewers.
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As a public speaker, I share my expertise and inspiration about how to use storytelling and empathy to engage an audience, including two highly popular talks at SXSW: Storytelling and Empathy in a Purpose-Driven Economy to a packed audience of 950+ people (2019) and The Empathy Effect: Impact Through Storytelling (2018) about how to harness storytelling for social impact. I have done scores of speaking engagements about filmmaking and entrepreneurship at GENERATION STARTUP premieres, film festivals and event screenings at companies, universities and other venues throughout the US and around the world. I also conduct workshops and consult with companies about how to craft, cast and produce authentic, relatable content that engages and moves people.
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I started my career developing and producing feature films, including David O. Russell’s first movie SPANKING THE MONKEY, winner of the Sundance Audience Award. I’ve also produced Award-winning social issue documentaries including CHILDREN OF DARKNESS (PBS) about children with mental illness that was nominated for an Academy Award and TRUST ME (Showtime) about an interfaith camp in rural North Carolina founded the summer after 9/11. I have also created, written and produced hundreds of hours of TV for the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, A+E, Lifetime and other leading cable channels, including 80+ hours of DR G: MEDICAL EXAMINER, the top-rated show on Discovery Health Channel. I am bilingual and welcome producing and directing in Spanish.
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Encounter With A Rain-Forest Indian Culture
To earn needed cash income, a small village in Ecuador lets ecotourists share jungle life
By David Holmstrom
CAPIRONA, ECUADOR
UNDER a full rain-forest moon as big and bright as a light bulb, the thatched roofs of Capirona are coated in white silver. Running by the little village, the swift but shallow rapids of the Rio Puni are the only sounds in this warm jungle night.
Sacha mama hermosa. Beautiful mother jungle.
About three years ago, an oil company, helicopters, and chain saws were headed this way. Unlike most other scattered inhabitants who form communities in the jungles of Ecuador's Amazon basin, the Quichua Indians here resisted. The result is new life for Capirona, an enterprising village that took the initiative to create an opportunity for an ecotourist encounter with a rain-forest culture.
In essence, the Quichuas are sharing their culture in order to save it. Their effort is one of the few tourism projects initiated and operated by Indians in the Ecuadorean rain forest.
"The only thing we have is the rain forest to leave our children," says Tarquino Tapuy, a Capirona community leader. "It is our life and culture."
Over the past 20 years, oil, lumber, and gold exploitation of the Ecuadorean rain forests has led to widespread pollution and destruction. Tens of thousands of rain-forest acres continue to be deforested each year. Cattle pastures on cleared forest lands have expanded by nearly 30 percent in the past decade.
Pacified by gifts and promises, few Indian communities resisted the initial incursions into their territories. Government encouragement of the exploitation, and of new settlers, slowly awakened Indian tribes to action.
Today, the cry is for a moratorium on oil exploration and for alternative uses of the rain forest.
"Sustainable development is what we want," says Valerio Grefa, president of COICA (Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin).
Capirona's version of this started when the community began to realize that their strength was in their unity. When oil-company helicopters came unannounced several times to make clearings along the river to do the seismic experiments that precede drilling, the community became concerned.
"They arrived without permission," Mr. Tapuy says, "and said they would pay us. But we are like insects to them. We said we didn't want them here. They offered us a volleyball and a net."
On the third visit, a handful of soldiers jumped out of one of the helicopters and fired machine guns in the air.
"We didn't know what to do," Tapuy says, "but about 15 of the women from the community, with machetes raised, went to the soldiers and said, `Who gave you permission?' The military backed up. Another helicopter came, and when one of the soldiers stumbled as he got out, he dropped his rifle. One of the women grabbed it and threw it in the river. All the guns pointed at the woman. She said, `Go ahead and shoot.' But they backed away."
Even political pressure from a local legislator failed to deter the Indians. "The legislator told us we had to negotiate and ask for things," Tapuy says. "He said we had to let the oil company go through. Not here, we said. We won't give our habitat away." The oil company did not return.
When a lumber company sought to expand its operations near the lands of community members, many did not agree to sell the trees. "The consciousness has been raised," Tapuy says. "We have one border now and will defend it."
But through all this, the economic base of the community, growing corn, was providing diminishing profits. "It's a six-month process from [seed to harvest]," Tapuy says, "and when the 40 or so people finish [the cycle], there is little left over after debts are paid. Agriculture was not sustaining us."
Tapuy and others had been aware that a guide from another town was bringing tour groups into the rain forest. "He'd grab someone from the community and pay him a little money to walk them into the rain forest," Tapuy says. "The guide got all the money, and the community was arguing over it."
With Tapuy's urging, the community decided to create a small cultural center at Capirona, providing modest overnight accommodations for adventurous visitors. Besides earning money, the villagers share their knowledge of the jungle, local foods, cultural traditions, and everyday life.
"Our first year, we had two tourist groups," says Cesario Andy Aguinda, one of the Capirona guides, seated near the large meeting house, "and the community was disheartened. But now we are doing much better."
Situated on an embankment above the Rio Puni, the village is a cluster of wooden, thatched-roof, raised buildings with bamboo siding.
Tourist sleeping accommodations are dormitory style for about 20 people. Meals are cooked by village women. "We don't want to develop much more to become rich," says Cesar Vargas, the coordinator at the village. "We just want to keep our health and work together."
Much of the money earned is used to improve facilities. The guides and cooks are paid. Western-style showers and toilets are being built, but the remoteness of the site precludes any electricity. Two outboard motors were bought to help transport harvested corn in dugouts down the river.
Getting to Capirona requires a strenuous two-to-four-hour hike through the hot, humid jungle wearing a backpack and knee-high rubber boots. Along the way, the guide shares his jungle knowledge with details about the vibrantly colored butterflies, ant mounds, animal trails, big ants with big pinchers, and parasite leaves that grow on tree trunks in overlapping fashion and eventually smother the tree.
"We still plant and harvest corn," Mr. Vargas says, "but the people are not as worried as before. They know there is money here in an emergency, and they can pay it back. We also want to improve the children's school."
The Research Expeditions Program of the University of California, Berkeley, is helping the village with a management plan, as well as creating bilingual brochures and a trail guide.
During a three-to-five-day stay, visitors participate in a minga, a community work day. At night, they join in community dancing and share songs or dances from their culture.
"You are curious about us," Mr. Aguinda says, "and we are curious about you. People come here and get to know the rain forest through us. Yes, we are undergoing change as Indians, but we want people to know the truth about us and how we live."
* To contact Capirona, write: Senor Tarquino Tapuy, FOIN, Calle Augusto Rueda, C.P. 271, Tena-Napo-Ecuador. Jean Colvin, Director, U.C. Research Expeditions Program, U. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel.: 510-642-6586.
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Apple Lisa documentary will tell the story of Cupertino’s most important ‘flop’
By Luke Dormehl • 5:30 am, May 10, 2019
In retrospect, the Lisa was pretty darn important for Apple.
Photo: CNBC
A new documentary called Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa promises to tell the story of one of Apple’s most important flops.
Directed by computer historian (and Apple collector) David Greelish, the movie will feature interviews with key players in the machine’s development. It also will place the Lisa in its proper context — as one of the most influential computers of all time.
“Apple’s Lisa workstation followed closely after another infamous market failure, the Apple III,” Greelish told Cult of Mac. “Though the Apple III did influence Apple internally, with its superior file system, it generally failed all-around. The Lisa however, though failing commercially, has inspired all of personal computing since. Both inside of Apple with the creation of the Macintosh, and then outside the company, most notably with Microsoft Windows.”
The Lisa was Apple’s first attempt at a computer with a WIMP (windows, icons, mouse pointer) interface. While we associate many of these innovations with 1984’s Mac, the Lisa actually introduced them to a general audience.
Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa
This was true. Kinda.
Photo: Apple
Until recently, most Apple-centric documentaries focused solely on Steve Jobs.
That changed in the last year or so, though, as we’ve seen movies about everything from the Newton MessagePad to General Magic, the startup co-founded by members of the original Mac team.
Now Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa is getting ready to join the list of Apple documentaries.
Director Greelish is no newcomer to the Lisa. He owned one back in 1989, when he purchased it from a company in Logan, Utah.
“My Lisa was essentially upgraded to run like the then-current Macintosh Plus,” he said. “For all practical considerations, it was my first Mac. Professionally, this computer was the foundation for my launch into the world of desktop publishing and pre-press. But I was so fascinated by it, that it also launched my interest into computer history.”
The documentary should come in around 100 minutes long, divided into three parts. The first will tell the story of the Lisa at Apple, focusing on the computer’s development, launch and untimely demise. The second part of the doc will then cover its life after Apple. The third segment will focus on Lisa enthusiasts who keep the computer’s legacy alive today.
Greelish said the film will include more than a dozen interviews, including one with former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Back the Apple Lisa documentary on Kickstarter
To complete the documentary, Greelish took to Kickstarter to raise funds. A $25 pledge will earn you a digital copy of the finished film, while higher pledges include additional rewards. The project is planned for completion in November 2019. While it’s worth being aware of the risks inherent in crowdfunding campaigns, if you’re interested in getting involved, head over to the Kickstarter page.
Oh, and if you’re doubting Greelish’s Lisa cred, check out the below video of him way back in 1992:
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Swarms of daddy long legs set to invade Scotland as experts discover millions of grubs underground
Millions of the insects are set to hatch, peaking in June and July
Nick Drainey
If you're afraid of insects, it may be better to stay inside this summer (Image: Getty)
Turn off the lights and close the windows… because scientists say this is the year of the daddy long legs.
Hordes of crane flies are about to take flight across Scotland after experts discovered hundreds of millions of the grubs they grow out of are living underground.
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) found the insects prospered during the wet autumn and winter and are now waiting to hatch.
Their numbers were once controlled with special pesticides which are now banned – meaning real concern for people scared of them and farmers with crops in the ground.
On average, at least a million of the leatherjackets, or larvae, of daddy long legs are living in each hectare of land surveyed by SRUC. That equates to 250 on an area the size of an average family dining table with space for four.
Crane fly larva, also known as a Leatherjacket, are buried underground until they are ready to hatch (Image: Getty)
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Leatherjackets are also a risk to lawns as they eat the roots of grass.
Millions of the insects are set to hatch, peaking in June and July.
Although not harmful, Davy McCracken, professor of agricultural ecology at SRUC, who co-authored the study, agreed that many people are scared of the insects.
He said: “It is partly their size and partly the way they fly – they are just hanging there, drifting around with their legs dangling.
“They’ll be trying to come to the lights and getting in through a window.
“A lot of people have a phobia but they are completely harmless.”
A wet autumn meant the larvae did not dry – the main natural reason they die off.
And Prof McCracken said climate change in the last 20 years had seen the average yearly number of leatherjackets double because of wetter weather in Scotland.
Davy McCracken from Scotland’s Rural College made the discovery that numbers are set to go up
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Pesticides had been able to kill many of them off. But three years ago products containing chlorpyrifos were banned in the UK.
And with no other way of ridding the ground of the grubs, it means they are able to thrive on the roots of spring crops or grass being grown for silage. Farmers are becoming concerned as they wait to see how much impact there will be.
The SRUC have advised farmers to establish which parts of their land have a high density of leatherjackets and use them for grazing instead of growing crops.
But birds will enjoy eating the grubs in the ground.
McCracken added: “In a year like this, I would be saying it is a good year for birds.”
Dr Mark Salter, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said “specific phobias” such as those of daddy long legs or other flying insects are an evolutionary condition or “a throwback to our earlier life”.
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He added: “Inside your brain, there are whole chunks of DNA sequence tucked away that equips you to make a quick, sudden snap decision when you are confronted by something that is harmful to you.
“It can be dogs, heights or it can be ancient things that posed a threat to
our ancestors.
“Those things are sitting away in our genes and seem to predispose us in this modern day and age to an intense reaction, for reasons we don’t fully understand. It may be due to previous exposure to the sight of insects or a terrifying film about insects.”
But Dr Salter said phobias can be cured 80 per cent of the time through therapy.
He added: “You expose people to an innocuous thing like a big furry woolly animal. Bit by bit, you go along and expose them to images on a computer or a book and contact with the insects comes at the end.”
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<img src="/sites/datacenterknowledge.com/files/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibm-watson.jpg" width="470" height="326" /> IBM's supercomputer "Watson" will compete on the game show "Jeopardy!" in the latest contest pitting man vs. machine. Here's a look at the challenges and research benefits of adapting an advanced computer to understand and answer questions in natural language.
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"What is a supercomputer, Alex?"
In the television game show Jeopardy! - where the answers are phrased as questions - contestants are usually the flesh-and-blood kind. This fall, the show will give a silicon-and-metal challenger a chance to compete against humans.
The computer scientists at IBM Blue Gene Research project, which is dedicated to pushing the boundaries in supercomputing, will probably hold their collective breath as a computing system of their design competes on the game show, test-driving several years of intensive work on national television.
The scientists believe the computing system DeepQA, nicknamed “Watson” after the IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, will be able to understand complex questions and answer with enough precision and speed to compete effectively. Internet users can match their wits against the machine in the Watson Trivia Challenge.
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“The essence of making decisions is recognizing patterns in vast amounts of data, sorting through choices and options, and responding quickly and accurately,” said Samuel Palmisano, IBM Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Watson is a compelling example of how the planet – companies, industries, cities – is becoming smarter. With advanced computing power and deep analytics, we can infuse business and societal systems with intelligence.”
Unlike conventional computing technologies designed to return documents containing the user’s keywords or semantic entities, Watson is expected to leap ahead to interpret the user’s query as a true question and to determine precisely what the user is asking for. Watson uses massively parallel processing to simultaneously and instantly understand complex questions – questions that require the system to consider huge volumes and varieties of natural language text to gather and then deeply analyze and score supporting or refuting evidence. The system then decides how confident it is in the answer.
This approach marries advanced machine learning and statistical techniques with the latest in natural language processing to result in human-like precision and speed, huge breadth and accurate confidence determination.
Inherent Challenges in Playing Jeopardy!
Competing on Jeopardy! poses an intense challenge for a computing system due to the variety of subject matter required; Jeopardy! demands knowledge of a broad range of topics including history, literature, politics, film, pop culture and science. Additionally, both the speed at which contestants must provide accurate responses, and because the clues given to contestants involve analyzing subtle meaning, irony, riddles, and other complexities at which humans excel and computers traditionally do not, creates an enormous challenge for a computing system. Just like human competitors, Watson will not be connected to the Internet or be able to access any other outside assistance.
In the video below IBM discusses natural language processing and Watson, their contestant.
History of Human-Machine Competition
In 1997, an IBM computer called "Deep Blue" defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a famous battle of human versus machine. To compete at chess, IBM built an extremely fast computer that could calculate 200 million chess moves per second based on a fixed problem. IBM’s Watson system, on the other hand, is seeking to solve an open-ended problem that requires an entirely new approach – mainly through dynamic, intelligent software – to even come close to competing with the human mind. Despite their massive computational capabilities, today’s computers cannot consistently analyze and comprehend sentences, much less understand cryptic clues and find answers in the same way the human brain can.
"The challenge is to build a system that, unlike systems before it, can rival the human mind’s ability to determine precise answers to natural language questions and to compute accurate confidences in the answers,” said Dr. David Ferrucci, leader of the IBM Watson project team. "This confidence processing ability is key. It greatly distinguishes the IBM approach from conventional search, and is critical to implementing useful business applications of Question Answering."
"Progress on the underlying QA technologies enabling Watson will be important in the quest to understand and build ‘intelligent computing systems’ capable of cooperating with humans in language-related tasks previously out of reach for computers," added Ferrucci.
In 2008, IBM and Carnegie Mellon University, working with other universities, pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering (OAQA) initiative. OAQA aims to provide an architectural and methodological foundation for accelerating research collaboration in automatic question answering. IBM intends to invite universities to collaborate on Watson and other driving challenge problems to help demonstrate how a wide range of independently developed algorithms can be integrated and generalized.
For more information, visit the project's page on the IBM website.
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Firearms safety classes in schools will prevent accidents and save lives
Gun-rights advocate writes that school safety classes will reduce accidental injuries.
Firearms safety classes in schools will prevent accidents and save lives Gun-rights advocate writes that school safety classes will reduce accidental injuries. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2018/12/27/firearms-safety-classes-schools-prevent-accidents-save-lives/2412036002/
Barry B. Snell, Iowa View contributor Published 10:28 a.m. CT Dec. 27, 2018
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Guest column: Don't believe 'anti-gunner' data on firearm violence
Abby Sandvick, 14, of Toledo, Iowa, shoots during a Tama County Young Guns class at the Izaak Walton Shooting Facility in Toledo, Iowa, on April 14, 2016. After three accidental shootings involving minors in Tama County, two of them fatal, residents say they are not about to change their way of life and the importance they place on gun ownership. Membership in this 4-H Club group that promotes gun safety and marksmanship has gone up since the shootings.(Photo: Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)
Following an announcement by two northern Iowa school districts that they would be offering optional firearms safety classes, Register columnist Rekha Basu launched into misinformed melodramatics. She chose a dubious source of information on the issue, the misleadingly named Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Quoting one of their vice presidents, Basu wrote that we need some “objective reality.” I agree completely, so allow me to provide it.
Yes, too many children are killed with a firearm. When trying to figure out what to do about it though, it is critical not just to look at the correct data but look at the data correctly. I can’t begin to guess what alchemy the Brady Bunch used to arrive at some of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) "statistics” quoted in Basu’s column, given that anti-gunners’ favorite pastime is manipulating data.
For example, they love to use the “30,000 annual deaths by firearm” statistic. That’s a real number, but the latest FBI report says 10,982 of them were murders, mostly committed during another felony; the vast majority are suicides, with a relative few accidental deaths. But admitting that diminishes the fear induced by the “gun violence epidemic” narrative and doesn’t raise as much money for their PACs.
Criminal homicide, suicide, and accidental shootings are unique problems requiring unique solutions. The point of youth gun safety programs is not to teach kids to shoot, nor stop gang crime, mass shootings or prevent suicides. The point is to prevent accidental shootings, like kids playing with their parents' gun when nobody is around.
The CDC’s actual accidental death and injury data shows that 104 people under 18 were accidentally killed with firearms in 2016, and the number injured in unintentional shootings is so small it doesn’t register on the CDC’s top causes of injury. One hundred and three kids killed unintentionally is a tremendous tragedy to be sure, but it’s also a far cry from the numbers the anti-gunners use to scare everyone.
There are half a billion privately owned firearms in America, in one-quarter to one-half of American homes, making it very likely a child will encounter a firearm before they’re old enough to vote. Thanks to pop culture, guns enter the consciousnesses of our children at an early age so by the time they encounter that first gun, they will have already developed some awareness of them.
For these reasons, gun safety education — like health education, first aid education, sex education, or driver's education — is important. Who better to educate our kids about firearms safety? Action movies and video games? Or a certified instructor in a safe, officially sanctioned school setting?
Anti-gunners claim young people are too psychologically undeveloped to handle the responsibility of firearms. Well, kids safely hunt each year, and they frequently brought guns to school until the 1980s, and they weren’t banned from school grounds in Iowa until 1995. Gun safety classes were common at time too, and for kids in schools without them, they still had parents who cared more about them than maintaining ideological purity. Unsurprisingly, there were far fewer tragedies back then.
Today, 11-year-olds routinely take the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' hunter’s safety class. The school districts’ plan uses a similar program, using dummy ammunition and firearms rendered unable to fire, under close supervision by professional instructors, to teach kids how to be safe if they encounter a gun. It will literally be safer in those classrooms than in the homes of parents who pretend kids aren’t curious and capable, and that hiding guns from them makes the problem go away.
It is disingenuous to think kids can’t handle honest-to-God safety education or that it wouldn’t do them any good. We educate our kids to prepare them for so many other things that can have dire consequences when abused, and there is no rational reason why gun safety instruction shouldn’t be an option in Iowa’s schools.
Because as they say, if it saves just one life…
Barry B. Snell is the former executive director of the Iowa Firearms Coalition.
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BRAVA BERGANZA!
A birthday tribute to Teresa Berganza
Bizet · de Falla · Mozart · Penella
Puccini · Rossini · Stravinsky
Italian Baroque Arias
Canciones españolas
Berganza · Domingo · Prey · Abbado
Böhm · Navarro · Ozawa
Roa · Sinopoli · Yepes a.o.
Teresa Berganza is of one of the most accomplished and versatile, as well as unquestionably one of the most individual, singers of the 20th century.
CD 1: Brava Berganza
Manuel de Falla Matheu (1876 - 1946)
El sombrero de tres picos
Text: Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Danza della molinera
Teresa Berganza, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
El Amor Brujo
Ballet by G. Martinez Sierra
Canción del amor dolido
Canción del fuego fátuo
Danza del juego de amor
Final. Las campanas del amanecer
Teresa Berganza, London Symphony Orchestra, García Navarro
La vida breve
¡Ah¡ ¡Ah! / ¡Ande La Tarea, Que Hay Que Trabajar!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
¡Mi Querer Es Como El Hierro!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Alicia Nafé, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
Abuela, ¡No Viene!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Teresa Berganza, Alicia Nafé, Lucero Tena
Ah! ... Ah! ... Ande la tarea ...
Vivan los que rien!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Teresa Berganza, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
"¡Salud!", "¿Qué Pasa?"
"Paco! Paco!" / "Mi Salud!"
"¡Paco!" "¡Mi Chavala!"
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Teresa Berganza, José Carreras, Lucero Tena
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Lucero Tena
"Olé! Olé ya!" / "Ay! Yo canto por soleares!"
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Manuel Mairena, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
¡Allí Está!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Teresa Berganza, Manuel Mairena, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
¿No Te Dije?
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Teresa Berganza, José Carreras, Ramon Contreras, Alicia Nafé, Palomo Perez Inigo, Juan Pons, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, Lucero Tena
(Intermedio)
¡Carmela Mía!
Narciso Yepes, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio García Navarro, José Carreras, Ramon Contreras, Palomo Perez Inigo, Juan Pons, Lucero Tena
Qué gracia! Qué buscan ustedes aquí?
Manuel Moreno Penella (1880 - 1939)
El gato montés
Rev. Miguel Roa
Salú p'a la gente güena! - Excerpt
Teresa Berganza, Veronica Villarroel, Plácido Domingo, Mabel Perelstein, Carlos Alvarez, Carlos Chausson, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Miguel Roa, 6 Ninos De La Escolania De Senora Del Recuerdo, Cesar Sanchez, Coro Titular del Teatro Lírico Nacional LA ZARZUELA, Ignacio Rodríguez
Total Playing Time 1:17:50
Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
Carmen, WD 31
"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise)
Teresa Berganza, The Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Chanson et Duo: "Près des remparts de Séville"
Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Les tringles des sistres tintaient (Carmen, Mercédès, Frasquita)
Teresa Berganza, Alicia Nafé, Yvonne Kenny, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ed. Alberto Zedda (1928-)
Una voce poco fa
Teresa Berganza, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
No.7 Duetto: "Dunque io son... tu non m'inganni?"
Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
No.11 Aria: "Contro un cor che accende amore"
Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
La clemenza di Tito, K. 621
"Parto, ma tu ben mio"
"Deh per questo istante solo"
Teresa Berganza, Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm
La Cenerentola
"Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto"
Teresa Berganza, Renato Capecchi, Paolo Montarsolo, Margherita Guglielmi, Laura Zannini, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio
Mirella Freni, Teresa Berganza, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Chi sia?
Teresa Berganza, Juan Pons, José Carreras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Io so che alle pene - Excerpt
Juan Pons, José Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Revised Version of 1947
7. Allegretto "Contento forse vivere"
10. Largo (Trio) "Sento dire no'ncè pace" - Allegro "Chi disse cà la femmena" - Presto (Duetto) "Ncè sta quaccuna po'"/"Una te fa la nzemprece" - Larghetto
Teresa Berganza, Ryland Davies, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Suite populaire Espagnole
1. El Paño moruno
7. Seguidilla murciana
5. Asturiana
6. Jota
3. Cancion
4. Polo
Narciso Yepes, Teresa Berganza
Francesco Pietro Cavalli (1602 - 1676)
La Didone
Arranged by Raimond Leppard
Lamento di Cassandra: L'alma fiacca svanì
Son ancor pargoletta (Arranged by Arne Oddvar Dorumsgaard)
Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674)
No, non si speri (Arranged by Arne Oddvar Dorumsgaard)
Vittoria, mio core! (Arranged by Luigi Dallapiccola)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
Se Florindo è fedele (from "La donna ancora è fedele")
Ed. A. Parisotti
Se delitto è l'adorati (from Il Pompeo) (Arranged by Alessandro Parisotti)
Il Flavio
Chi vuole innamorarsi (Arranged by: Felix Lavilla)
Le violette (Arranged by Alessandro Parisotti)
Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736)
Selve amiche (Arranged by Luigi Dallapiccola)
Come raggio di sol (Arranged by Alessandro Parisotti)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
L'Atenaide, RV702
Un certo non so che (Arranged by Alessandro Parisotti)
"Piango, gemo sospiro" - Cantata (Arranged by Felix Lavilla)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
Se tu m'ami, se sospiri (Arranged by: Alessandro Parisotti)
Confusa, smarrita (spurious, attrib. L.Vinci) (Arranged by: Max Spicker)
Teresa Berganza, Ricardo Requejo
Alfonso X El Sabio (1221 - 1284)
Rosa das rosas
Miguel de Fuenllana (1500 - )
Pérdida de Antequera
Dindirindin
Triste estaua el rey David
Francesco de la Torre (1470 - 1520)
Dime, triste corazón
Enriquez de Valderrábano (1500 - 1557)
De dónde venis, amore?
Luys Don Milan (1500 - 1562)
Toda mi vida os amé
Juan de Triana
Dínos, madre del donsel
Si me llaman a mí
Juan del Encina (1468 - 1530)
Romerico
Juan Vazquez
Vos me matastes
Claros y frescos ríos
Ysabel, perdiste la tu faxa
Luys de Narváez (1490 - 1547)
Con qué la lavaré
En la fuente del rosel
Teresa Berganza, Narciso Yepes
Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
Trece canciones espanolas antiguas
Anda, jaleo
Los cuatro muleros
Las tres hojas
Los mozos de Monleón
Las morillas de Jaén
Sevillanas del siglo XVIII
El café de Chinitas
Nana de Sevilla
Los pelegrinitos
Zorongo
Romance de Don Boyso
Los reyes de la baraja
La Tarara
Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916)
La Maja dolorosa
1. Oh! muerte cruel
2. Ay! majo de mi vida
3. De aquel majo amante
El majo discreto
El tra la la y el Punteado
El majo timido
Joaquín Pérez Turina (1882 - 1949)
Saeta en forme de Salve a la Virgen de la Esperanza
Jesus Guridi Bidaola (1886 - 1961)
Seis canzones castellanas
3. Llámale con el panuelo
4. No quiero tus avellanas
5. Cómo quieres que adivine
Bassols Javier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002)
Canciones negras
Cuba dentro de un piano
Punto de Habanera
Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito
Canto negro
Teresa Berganza, Felix Lavilla
This four-CD set, issued to coincide with Teresa Berganza's 70th birthday, is a mostly satisfying and joyful celebration of her long career, as well as her association with DG.
Record Review / Patrick O'Connor, Rafael Banús, Gramophone (London) / 01. May 2005
This wide-ranging selection of recordings demonstrates the versatility and high standards of this great Spanish mezzo.
Record Review / BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01. July 2005
Beloved Berganza! In any mental snapshot I conjure up of the voice, the first memory--images are, naturally enough, of its unique beauty ¿ its dark lustre, fine focus and sheer 'class'. An awesome array of 'negative positives' has characterized its working mechanism across the full length of a career now astonishingly long in duration: absence of wobble, flutter, surface impurities, line deformations, and an absolute avoidance of vulgarity, sucking up to an audience, appliqué effects. Equally significant are the 'positive positives' promoting in the listener an inimitable glow of happiness: the steadiness of vocal flow, the amazing flexibility and ease in florid music . . .
Record Review / Max Loppert, Opera (London) / 01. September 2005
"Carmen":
Gerade die Abwesenheit vordergründiger Effekte und Extravaganzen macht dieses Porträt der verhängnisbringenden Zigeunerin zu einem zeitlosen, auch heute noch genießbaren Hörererlebnis, während manche andere, zu ihrer Zeit spektakuläre Einspielung heute längst ihren Reiz verloren hat.
Um solche Ergebnisse zu erzielen, braucht man freilich mehr als nur eine unprätentiöse Grundhaltung, mehr auch als jene unerschütterliche Gewissenhaftigkeit, mit der sich Teresa Berganza auf ihre Partien vorzubereiten pflegte (was im Fall der Carmen mehrere Jahre in Anspruch nahm). Erforderlich ist vor allem eine über die Maßen schöne und perfekt gepflegte Stimme -- womit Berganza wahrlich aufwarten kann: Pures Gold etwa ihre berühmten Aufnahmen spanischer Canciones und Lieder mit Narciso Yepes bzw. ihrem Mann, dem Pianisten Félix Lavilla; sie wandelt in diesem Repertoire auf den Spuren der kürzlich verstorbenen Victoria de los Angeles, die Kantilenen dieser heimatlich vertrauten Musik ebenso geschmeidig und verhalten-expressiv ausgestaltend wie ihre ältere Kollegin.
Record Review / Michael Wersin, Rondo (Munich) / 19. March 2005
Un très grand merci à DG pour l'épatant recueil de 4 CD fêtant les 70 ans de notre bien-aimée Berganza . . . La Vida Breve et des extraits d'El Amor brujo et du Tricorne, irrésistibles: le vrai feu sombre et léger, le ton ardent d'une immense et unique chanteuse dans son propre arbre généalogique. On y rattacherait Carmen (trois airs avec Abbado), tant l'intégration, l'assimilation sont réussies, définitives . . . Merveilleux cadeau, indispensable.
Record Review / Classica - Repertoire (Paris) / 01. May 2005
Ni qué decir tiene el valor de estos dos regalos [un recital de arias barrocas italianas y otro de canciones españolas de la Edad Media y del Renacimiento], en los que la cantante está pletórica de medios vocales, cantando con una dicción exquisita y con un control absoluto de todos los elementos que definen su expresividad. ¿ Un esfuerzo que es puro disfrute y que, además, está llamado a convertirse en guía para estudiantes de canto.
Record Review / Pablo Meléndez-Haddad, Ópera actual (Barcelona) / 01. March 2005
Teresa Berganzain conversation with Rafael Banús
RB: Your earliest recordings for Deutsche Grammophon were La Cenerentola and Il barbiere di Siviglia. It was the first time Rossini was performed as intended, with the musical texts purged of all the traditional bad habits.
TB: Yes, and yet it was the same Rossini that I'd always sung; I didn't have to change anything. I continued to sing it exactly the way I'd learned to do with my teacher, Lola Rodríguez de Aragón, when I was 19. I sang what was written in the Ricordi score. Alberto Zedda's revisions were mainly in the orchestra, where there must have been many errors. He and Claudio Abbado kept me from singing some high notes that weren't written. Later, when everyone was still doing what they wanted with Rossini, putting in a high note where the score had a low note or a low note where there was a high one I had already begun my own "purification treatment".
RB: A bit later you made the film of the Barber of Seville with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.
TB: First we did the performances and the recording at La Scala; then the film was shot in Salzburg and Munich. It was marvellous, even though Ponnelle worked us to death. But we did it with no sense of being on a schedule. We got to the Scala at ten in the morning, and sometimes we didn't leave until midnight. And Abbado was at every single rehearsal. The production was full of humour and fantasy, but without resorting to the usual nonsense, to easy laughs. I remember that in the storm scene there really was rain falling; I slipped and skidded all the way across the stage. Everyone broke out laughing because they thought it was planned; I thought I was going to kill myself. Ponnelle was very refined, with that good taste that's so French, and enormously gracious. In La Cenerentola he had me sing the final Rondò in that marvellous white dress. Everybody applauded so much that I couldn't tell if it was because I'd sung well or because Jean-Pierre had made me look so splendid. In any case, he knew how to impart great personality to the character of Angelina, which otherwise could seem a little prudish. The whole production was conceived as her dream.
RB: In 1979 you recorded La clemenza di Tito for the second time - with Karl Böhm.
TB: It was totally different from my first recording with István Kertész. This was the first time I'd sung with Karl Böhm, and his tempi were broader, a bit slower. But working with him was incredible. He made me record this highly dramatic role - right up to the first act finale when Sesto ends up setting the Capitol on fire ("Deh conservate, o dei, a Roma il suo splendor") - at ten in the morning, not really a suitable time for a singer. There was no other available moment. Fortunately it went well, because you never know how your voice is going to respond in that situation. But there's a photograph in which we're sitting together at a table and I'm aiming a finger at him as though I was going to murder him. He told me not to show it to anyone because they'd think he was a scoundrel. Böhm had a good sense of humour and he made a big fuss over me. There were also some fantastic singers like Julia Varady. I think the recording turned out very well.
RB: Now let's talk about Carmen...
TB: ... for which I prepared for several years. The director of the Edinburgh Festival, Peter Diamand, came to see me one day when I was singing in London and said: "Look, Teresina," - he always called me that, as well as piccolina and ragazzina, even though I was already a married woman with children - "I think we've reached the moment for you to do Carmen. It's now or never, because you're absolutely in your prime." I started in with my usual doubts, with my fear of making a mistake, but he gave me a list of conductors, stage directors and singers to choose from - even though he already had almost everything settled. I told him that of course we'd want Claudio Abbado and Plácido Domingo, who for me was the best Don José. For director I thought of Piero Faggioni, who started out as an actor and had an incredible technical command of stagecraft. When he offered me all of that, I said yes. I went off to Granada and stayed in the Sacromonte to learn about today's gypsies - to see if they were like the gypsies of the past. Some of the women, including young ones, were dressed in black and wore shawls, in Eastern fashion; they didn't show any cleavage. I soaked all that up, then read Mérimée, underlining everything to do with Carmen's character traits. Then I went to Paris to work with Janine Reiss, who is a fantastic opera coach. Carmen involved a personal change in my character, in my personality. Until then I'd always played "nice" roles, with none of the sheer force of this one. And making the recording was superb. One day when Plácido didn't have to sing, he came to the rehearsal anyway and stayed beside me, touching me, embracing me, in order to help me get more into the part.
RB: Then came Salud in La vida breve.
TB: We recorded it in London, and it was also a wonderful time. I had always sung Salud's arias in concert but had been afraid of doing the rest of the opera, because the score clearly indicates that it's for soprano, especially the duet. But I prepared the role intensively, working the high register of my voice, taking away some of the weight in the middle range. The result was this Vida breve, which seems to me quite splendid, with García Navarro's extremely passionate conducting. The role of Salud is filled with passion, tears, sadness and tenderness, but above all with love. This woman dies of love, like Dido. I'm delighted that the recording is being included in this album.
RB: El amor brujo was recorded at the same time.
TB: This is a very problematic piece. If a flamenco singer does it she won't be able to sing everything that's written; if a lyric singer does it she won't have the necessary flamenco touch, because you have to "tear" the voice, which is what I did when I sang it in Paris with Ataúlfo Argenta. I was only 20 then and didn't worry about vocal damage. But I think the recording with García Navarro has the gypsy style that Falla was after, the complete opposite of La vida breve. It's lovely to have the two works together, requiring two such different voices, one soprano, the other contralto. García Navarro was a very passionate man who greatly loved and cared for singers.
RB: Speaking of another of Falla's works, the Seven Popular Songs, it must be hard to give them both a folk and a cultivated touch at the same time.
TB: The markings in "Polo", for example, indicate that it's to be sung "freely, in flamenco style". "Ay" is a jipío, the lamenting cry that introduces a flamenco song, and it's very hard to capture it in musical notation. You have to know how the flamencos sing, that they don't use chest voice but instead aim the sound higher, in the nose or "mask", especially in pure flamenco. The "Nana" is a completely gypsy lullaby. All the Falla canciones are classics, but classics that have to be sung in the folk style. Of course they're originally with piano but have been very effectively orchestrated, particularly by Ernesto Halffter, Falla's closest disciple. I had the good fortune of recording them with Narciso Yepes. They come closer to folk music with the guitar than they do with orchestra.
RB: Madama Butterfly is a rarity in your repertoire.
TB: Karajan offered me the role of Suzuki in his recording and film of Butterfly. At the time I was singing all over the world and thought, mistakenly, that I couldn't give up my engagements. But when I saw Ponnelle's film, which was so beautiful, I regretted my decision enormously. So when Sinopoli called me I said to myself: this time I'm not going to miss out. And it was a lovely experience, because it gave me the chance to work in another musical style, and alongside one of the finest voices of all, that of my friend Mirella Freni, who for me quite simply is Cio-Cio-San. Our duet is a delight, because it's sung in Puccinian style, of course, but in a very pure, clean manner.
RB: Let's talk now about those discs of Spanish songs which have become absolute classics.
TB: We made the first record with Narciso Yepes in Madrid in 1974 (CD 3, Tracks 15-30). The programme is especially interesting because it includes almost all the songs with guitar accompaniment known at that time: still undiscovered were the ones by Manuel García, Sor and Martín y Soler, which I sang and recorded later. And, as a contrast, there are the songs by García Lorca, which are modern but with a folk flavour. Working with Narciso, who was always such an exceptional artist and friend, was fantastic, though also very delicate because a guitar and a voice together in front of a microphone can be treacherous. As for Félix Lavilla, we were together artistically for 20 years, and also privately - we have three children. He was always such an extreme perfectionist that whenever I sang over the groundwork he prepared for me so conscientiously it was as if he was carrying me in his arms. I think we performed the whole history of Spanish song together, and here in this set we have a good representation of that.
RB: For example the Canciones negras by Montsalvatge.
TB: Yes. I think it's a very good interpretation. Once when I was singing in Barcelona I met the composer and had him inscribe the score. He wrote - I don't know if I can say this - "to the best interpreter of my Canciones negras".
RB: There is another recording included in this album, one of Italian Baroque arias with Ricardo Requejo, a pianist less well known than he deserves to be.
TB: Every singer has had arie antiche as their basis. When I began singing I performed Monteverdi and Bach. You have to start out with the foundations, and those are the foundations of bel canto. The collaboration with Ricardo Requejo was also very interesting. We worked together for a long time.
RB: And, finally, El gato montés.
TB: It's just a brief part but a very beautiful one, the Gypsy's song. This was my last recording for Deutsche Grammophon, which had been like a family to me. Its recording engineers and technicians were every bit as fine musicians as the artists themselves, and they knew my voice almost better than I did. I am very happy that this album is being issued, because it represents one of the most beautiful and fulfilling periods of my life.
The Art of Teresa Berganza
Teresa Berganza Vargas was born in Madrid on 16 March 1935, at house number 13 in the street bearing the name of the city's patron saint, San Isidro Labrador, in a working-class neighbourhood, near the church of the Virgen de la Paloma. She grew up during the terrible Civil War years and postwar period (her father was imprisoned for ideological reasons). In spite of that, she had a happy childhood and very quickly showed evidence of her exceptional musical gifts. At the Madrid Conservatory she studied piano, organ, harmony, composition and conducting. Her teachers there included Gerardo Gombau and Jesús Guridi and, for singing, Lola Rodríguez de Aragón, an Elisabeth Schumann pupil who kindled in Berganza a passion for the Lied as well as an extreme self-discipline, which would become one of the distinguishing features of her artistic path.
Her first recordings, chiefly of zarzuela, were made with the most brilliant conductor ever produced by Spain, Ataúlfo Argenta. In 1957 she appeared at Madrid's Ateneo with a programme displaying her special interests, including Schumann's cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the Nursery songs by Mussorgsky. That same year, she married the Basque pianist Félix Lavilla and had her first international engagements: at RAI in Turin, where she was an adorable Dulcinea in Massenet's Don Quichotte, opposite Boris Christoff, and a seductive Isabella in a hilarious filmed production of L'italiana in Algeri, where she demonstrated her class as a Rossini singer. But her real breakthrough came shortly after that as Dorabella in Così fan tutte under the musical direction of Hans Rosbaud at Aix-en-Provence. There, during the festival's golden age, she established herself as an outstanding Mozartian.
At the Piccola Scala in Milan, Berganza sang in a variety of productions (Rossini's Comte Ory, Cesti's Orontea, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas), and in 1958 she made her Glyndebourne Festival début as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, alongside her compatriot and friend Pilar Lorengar. The stylishness and musicality of her Mozart, to which she brought a distinctive Latin temperament and Mediterranean colouring, opened doors to Berganza at all the great temples of the Salzburg master's art. Meanwhile she was making a major contribution to the renaissance of Rossini's works (La Cenerentola in Naples, the Barber in Tel Aviv, Italiana in Dallas - where she also sang in Cherubini's Medea with Callas). In 1959 she made her Vienna State Opera début in Figaro, conducted by Herbert von Karajan and produced by Günther Rennert. Other milestones in her opera career include the Holland Festival (in Figaro and the Barber with Giulini), Covent Garden (Figaro with Solti), the Chicago Lyric Opera (the Barber and Ravel's L'Heure espagnole with another compatriot she greatly admired, Alfredo Kraus), the Rome Opera (the Barber with Giulini, Cenerentola with Vittorio Gui), Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires (Così, Clemenza di Tito and Figaro with Maag), the Metropolitan of New York (Figaro with Lorengar and Freni), RAI of Rome (Figaro with Mehta), San Francisco (the Barber and Cenerentola with Mackerras and in Ponnelle's production of Così).
In the 1970s she starred in legendary productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and La Scala of the Rossini triptych comprising Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola and L'italiana in Algeri, conducted by Abbado and produced by Ponnelle. A few years later, her Carmen would mark a major turning point in her career: following her début in the role at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival, collaborating with Abbado again and with director Piero Faggioni, she assumed the part in seminal productions of Bizet's opera by Ponnelle and Pier Luigi Pizzi, and that led to further dramatic roles, such as Charlotte in Werther and Salud in La vida breve.
At least as important as her operatic career has been Teresa Berganza's dedication with body and soul to the world of song. In this realm she has cultivated not only Spanish music but also the German Lied, the Italian aria da camera and the French mélodie, in such venues as the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Vienna Musikverein, to name but two.
An Idyllic Relationship
Teresa Berganza's association with Deutsche Grammophon extended over two fruitful decades and represents practically all of her finest creations. It began in 1971 with La Cenerentola, soon followed by Il barbiere di Siviglia, both with Claudio Abbado: recordings whose elegance has made them permanent touchstones in the Rossini discography. The Madrid-born mezzo-soprano brings superbly stylish singing to two of the composer's most delightful portraits; the young, pensive Angelina and the cunning intriguer Rosina.
Another cornerstone of the opera catalogue is her Carmen recording, in which the singer is again partnered by Claudio Abbado, bringing all his refinement and theatrical experience to Bizet's score. Berganza revolutionized the image of the character and made it her own with a sensuality and a fatalism that avoid any hint of vulgarity. She also drew a certain connection between the immortal tobacco worker from Seville and Salud in La vida breve, recording the Falla with one of the finest Spanish conductors, García Navarro, who galvanized his London musicians to the point of making them sound Hispanic. Berganza brings an unusual heart-rending quality to the part of Salud. The chapter in her career devoted to Falla also includes a no less intense version of El amor brujo and a brief but pithy contribution to the radiant recording of El sombrero de tres picos conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Berganza's voice is featured in another extraordinary ballet, Stravinsky's Pulcinella, in the magnificent recording by Claudio Abbado. The conductor brings out all the score's irresistible rhythm and modernity, with constant winks at the past, while the singer fills it with Neapolitan passion. From this vibrant, delightful Stravinsky we move to Madama Butterfly, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, who offered a new and personal vision of Puccini's score, luxuriously cast. Teresa Berganza succeeds in making the role of Suzuki into a confident, amorous presence, expressing in every single phrase the profound sadness of the geisha's tragedy.
In collaboration with the distinguished Mozartian Karl Böhm (in one of the Austrian conductor's last recordings), Berganza committed to disc for the second time her celebrated interpretation of the role of Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, a work unfairly regarded as one of Mozart's minor achievements until she helped restore its reputation. And no less indispensable is her precious contribution to the world of song, from the Italian Baroque Arias with Ricardo Requejo - an exquisite collection here being made available internationally on CD for the first time - to the Spanish songs recorded in her absolute prime with Félix Lavilla and Narciso Yepes. They round off this portrait of one of the most accomplished and versatile, as well as unquestionably one of the most individual, singers of the 20th century.
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ROSSINI Il barbiere... / Abbado
PENELLA El Gato Montés Roa
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 / Argerich
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PUCCINI Madama Butterfly - Highlights / Sinopoli
MOZART Nozze di Figaro Highlights Böhm
VERDI Il Trovatore / Netrebko, Barenboim
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Trump citizenship plan will face logistical, legal hurdles
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Washington, Jul 12 (AP) After failing to get his citizenship question on the census, President Donald Trump now says his fallback plan will provide an even more accurate count — determining the citizenship of 90 percent of the population "or more." But his plan will likely be limited by logistical hurdles and legal restrictions.
Trump wants to distill a massive trove of data across seven government agencies — and possibly across 50 states. It's far from clear how such varying systems can be mined, combined and compared. He directed the Commerce Department, which manages the census, to form a working group.
"The logistical barriers are significant, if not insurmountable," said Paul Light, a senior fellow of Governance Studies at New York University with a long history of research in government reform. "The federal government does not invest, and hasn't been investing for a long time, in the kind of data systems and recruitment of experts that this kind of database construction would require."
Trump says he aims to answer how many people are here illegally, though there already are recent estimates , and possibly use such information to divvy up congressional seats based on citizenship. It's also a way for Trump to show his base that he's not backing down (even as he's had to back down) from a battle over the question on his signature topic, immigration.
The administration faced major challenges last year when it was tasked by a federal judge with creating a system to track migrant families that had been separated by immigration officials. They found agency systems weren't compatible. "Information-sharing is not a habit of federal agencies," Light said.
Trump's plan is aimed at yet-again circumventing legal challenges on an immigration related matter, as courts have barred him from inquiring about citizenship on the 2020 census. But it could spark further legal action, depending on what his administration intends to do with the citizenship information.
His executive order announced Thursday requires highly detailed information, including national-level files of all lawful permanent residents, Customs and Border arrival and departure data and Social Security Administration master beneficiary records. Plus information on Medicaid and children's health systems and refugee and asylum visas.
The order states that "generating accurate data concerning the total number of citizens, non-citizens and illegal aliens in the country has nothing to do with enforcing immigration laws against particular individuals," and that information would be used "solely to produce statistics" and would not be used to "bring immigration enforcement actions against particular individuals." Dale Ho, the director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project who argued the citizenship question case at the Supreme Court, said the main privacy concern now would be disclosure of individuals' citizenship status.
Federal law bars the Census Bureau from disclosing an individual's responses to the census. But Ho said that if the bureau can produce citizenship information in small geographical bites, it could inadvertently expose a person's citizenship status.
The bureau has methods in place that are designed to prevent such disclosures, but "we don't know enough yet to know the answers," Ho said. In March, the Associated Press reported that even before the outcome of the census question litigation, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which maintains some of the requested data, had been working on a data-sharing agreement that would give census access to names, addresses, birth dates and places, as well as Social Security numbers and alien registration numbers.
The possibilities worried immigrant rights advocates, especially given Trump's hardline stance on immigration. Samantha Artiga, a Medicaid expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, said she is concerned that Trump's directive will discourage some immigrants from applying for health benefits they'd be entitled to.
"It is likely that this policy will further enhance already heightened fears among families about applying for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program for lawfully present immigrants or citizen children in immigrant families, potentially leading to fall-offs in coverage," she said. But to some degree, Trump's directive reflects what was already being put into place before the controversy about a citizenship question on the census.
The Census Bureau had stressed that it could produce better citizenship data without adding the question and had recommended combining information from the annual American Community Survey with records held by other federal agencies that already include citizenship records. The survey polls 3.5 million US households and includes questions about citizenship.
"It's a retreat back to what he should have done from the beginning," said Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director. Prewitt said government records tend to be highly accurate for some purposes and less so for others.
It's essential for the Social Security Administration, for instance, to know the age of Americans accurately, but it isn't as concerned with addresses. According to a 2018 report, the Census Bureau already has access to data from the IRS, Social Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Postal Service, the Selective Service System, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Indian Health Service.
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Holiday horror show - the day the sea ran red in Devon with 1,000 people injured
It happened 20 years ago this week during the annual holiday regatta
Guy HendersonChief Reporter
Police evacuated Paignton beach and declared a state of 'total emergency'
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the day the sea ran red on a Devon beach.
It was the height of the holiday season, and temperatures hit 80 degrees as the sun beat down from a cloudless sky.
Paignton Regatta was in full swing and the seafront was packed.
Then holidaymakers and locals started fleeing the beach screaming, with blood streaming from their feet.
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Police called bathers out of the sea and a fleet of ambulances raced to the seafront. The new Devon Air Ambulance landed on the Green.
Almost 1,000 people suffered injuries, 30 of them so badly hurt that they had to be taken to Torbay Hospital.
Torbay Council declared a ‘total emergency’ as paramedics, coastguards, police and first-aiders treated the injured.
It happened on August 8, 1998, and the combination of hot weather and extremely low tides were to blame.
800 people were slashed as they paddled in the sea.
All the injured suffered cuts to their feet after standing on the shells of razor fish which were buried in the sand. The low tides meant people were paddling in areas that were not usually accessible.
The chaotic scenes made national headlines.
Brian Pearce, beach manager for Torbay Council at the time, told the Independent newspaper that hundreds of bathers had been streaming out of the sea with lacerations to their feet.
He said: “The majority had small cuts, but a few had bad ones which were treated in hospital. I have never seen anything like it. I hope I do not see it again.”
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Lawrence Parker, reception manager at the Inn on the Green, said: “It was chaos. The beach was packed one minute and abandoned the next.”
The drama began at around 1pm when the first casualties began turning up at the council’s first aid centre on Paignton Green saying they had cut their feet on something sharp in the water.
And as more and more paddled in the warm shallows of an exceptionally low tide, so more and more began turning up with injuries.
Casualties lined up waiting for treatment at Torbay Hospital
Within a few minutes it was clear that the feeding razor fish had sparked a major incident.
Ambulances began arriving, picking their way through crowds thronging Paignton Green, and Torbay Hospital’s casualty department was placed on full alert.
Similar reports of injuries also began pouring in from nearby Preston Beach, and from neighbouring Broadsands and Hollicombe.
Ambulance sirens could be heard from all directions, drowning out the loud karaoke singing from one of the seafront pubs, and the emergency services were soon at full stretch.
New ambulances had to be called to bring in fresh supplies of dressings and saline fluid for cleaning wounds, and the Devon Air Ambulance helicopter landed on the green – halting a regatta rounders tournament – to deliver new supplies.
Ambulance chief Chris Coles with a razor-fish after more than 1,000 people were treated for cuts and gashes to their feet.
Ambulance group station officer Chris Coles was among the first to arrive. He said: “We knew straight away we were dealing with multiple casualties.”
Red Cross volunteers, taking part in a display at Brixham, were summoned to the scene, along with colleagues from the St John Ambulance service.
In the middle of Paignton Green, where moments before there had been families picnicking and eating ice-cream, police taped off an area which became an impromptu field hospital.
Paramedics finished dressing one victim’s wounds, looked up and shouted “Next!”.
Police chief Inspector Peter Dale assessed the situation and asked his officers to walk the beach near the waterline, calling bathers out of the water and sending them back to the safer areas away from the razor fish beds.
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He said: “Police and coastguards have been making attempts to walk the beach from Broadsands to Preston.
“A lot of people are coming off the beaches. They can see that injuries are being caused, but not everybody has chosen to take our advice.
“We can’t force them to come off the beach if they don’t want to.”
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Torbay Council staff – most of them trained in first aid – were working flat out to treat people limping off the sands. Mr Pearce said: “Today on this beach alone we must have treated 1,000 people – all in a matter of a couple of hours.”
Back on the beach holidaymakers and locals were making their way back to dry land.
Eleven-year-old Lana McAreavey from Princes Street in Paignton stepped on one of the shells and had to have a wound on her foot bound up by a paramedic.
She said “It does hurt a bit, and I can’t put my shoe on.”
Another holidaymaker said: “I was just walking through the shallow water when I felt something with my foot. It was so sharp that I didn’t realise I was cut until I looked down and saw the blood.”
One victim was 15-year-old Ryan Ashington, who had to go to hospital to have stitches in his left foot.
His mother Debbie said: “The tide was out and just beginning to turn when he ran into the shallows and hurt his foot.
“The cut was about an inch long and very deep and it was pouring with blood.
“I had never seen anything like it in 20 years. People were picking their kids out of the water, and some of the little ones were crying.”
Mum Susan Beech, 23, of Birmingham, told the Mirror: “At first we just heard a few squeals and screams. Word spread like wildfire that there was something in the water. At first we all thought it was broken glass. Then the police and ambulances started turning up.”
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Holidaymaker Sarah Richards from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, needed three stitches to her wound. Sarah, 10, said: “I was walking with my mum and I trod on something. Then I started screaming.”
Ten-year-old Charlotte Mills, on the beach with her dad Tim Brown, had two stitches in her cut foot. Charlotte said: “I was in the water and something cut my foot. I thought it was a crab at first. Then I saw a massive cut on my foot and my friend gave me a piggyback up the beach.”
Charlotte and her dad were taken to Torbay Hospital by one of the many ambulances ferrying victims from the beach.
Torbay’s then-MP Adrian Sanders, who was on the beach with wife Alison when the panic started, said: “It was like a scene from Jaws as the police cleared the sea of people.”
Torbay Hospital staff spent more than two hours treating casualties. Thirty patients, mostly children, were taken for treatment and part of the hospital’s A&E department was specially set aside for them.
A hospital spokesman explained: “I have never seen anything like it before and people who have lived here for years have never heard of this kind of thing happening.’‘
Torbay Council quickly placed warning signs on the beaches. Hundreds of leaflets were handed out and loudhailer warnings given.
Local traders quickly sold out of flip-flops and plastic ‘jelly’ shoes.
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David Shrigley's inflatable Swan-things collapse and spring to life in 12-minute cycles
Natashah Hitti | 12 October 2018 Leave a comment
British artist David Shrigley has filled a gallery in Stockholm's Spritmuseum with giant inflatable swans, which inflate and deflate in cycles of 12 minutes.
Shrigley created the Swan-things for the Spritmuseum, after the gallery gave the artist free reign to do whatever he wanted in their exhibition space.
"I wanted to fill the space with one piece, which is something I'm not allowed to do very often," Shrigley told Dezeen. "The first job of the artist is to fill the space, whether a piece of paper, or a wall or a gallery space."
The invitation resulted in the Exhibition of Giant Inflatable Swan-things, which sees Shrigley's signature caricature-like sketches brought into the three-dimensional world.
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Instead of depicting the swan's signature elegant neck curvature, Shrigley has applied his satirical style by giving his inflatable birds straight, erect necks, and replacing a head and beak with a simple cartoon-like smiley face.
"Nothing is quite as it seems in Shrigley's universe. The laws of physics are suspended and the everyday world is distorted, revealing a rare and mordant sense of humour," said the museum. "Welcome down the rabbit-hole!"
The series of 12 whimsical blow-up swans fill the gallery space, each inflating and deflating in succession over the course of 12 minutes. The swans are inflated and stand tall for at least four minutes before slowly collapsing over a period of eight minutes, repeating the process on a loop.
"There's a certain poetry or profundity to it. You're watching air move around, but there's more to it," said Shrigley. "I really liked the deflation more than I liked the inflation. Watching something deflated in a gallery, it's almost something stupid like inviting someone to watch paint dry."
"I think it has the right level of comedy to it, but theres something interesting and odd about it," he continued.
The idea for the exhibition was born from a series of limited edition series of hand-held swan statuettes that Shrigley made in 2000, which were cast in polyurethane resin.
These ornaments were soon transformed into "Ridiculous Inflatable Swan-thing" swimming pool floaters by Australian company Third Drawer Down, which seemed to poke fun at the popular pool inflatables often seen on millennials' Instagram accounts in the form of swans and flamingos.
Shrigley has now taken these spoof floaters, enlarged them, and used them to fill the gallery space in Sweden. "There's a chain of creative decision that led to the piece and one of the creative decisions wasn't mine, which I quite like," he said.
He described the decision to make an artwork that's based on someone else's interpretation of another artwork he has made as "transgressive".
The installation was also loosely informed by Shrigley's giant thumbs-up sculpture Really Good, which stood in London's Trafalgar Square for 18 months from 29 September 2016.
A contemporary Japanese museum wanted to exhibit the seven-metre high statue, but when this was not possible, Shrigley created an inflatable substitute version for the museum instead.
"Design is about form and art is more about ideas" says David Shrigley
This led to the artist experimenting with more inflatable art, and eventually creating the 12 giant swan-things now on display at the Spritmuseum.
The exhibition, which was Shrigley's first show in Sweden, opened on the 27 September 2018, and will run until 31 March 2019.
The British artist also recently drew his attention towards the UK's general election, making a plea to the Conservative government to champion the country's diversity and abolish laws that attack human rights with a series of illustrations for a campaign named Keep Britain Kind.
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Zardari, Bilawal & the future of PPP
Arifa NoorUpdated December 25, 2018
The writer is a journalist.
IS it the PPP’s moment of reckoning or Asif Ali Zardari’s? The answer depends on whether you believe that Zardari is part and parcel of the party or simply an accidental chairman whose time is over. Many would agree with the second assessment including some pipliyas themselves who are vociferously defending him these days in press conferences and on talk shows.
Indeed, the second-tier leadership has bravely defended the indefensible — from the fake accounts case to the lands bought near Islamabad to the apartment in Manhattan, New York City. When the last came to light in the previous week, the confused PPP leaders could only retaliate through whataboutery and ask the aggressive anchors to wait for the lawyers who were checking the details. Finally, by Saturday the party’s legal eagles had gone through the papers and found out that the property had been sold 20 years ago, according to a report in Dawn.
Regardless of how satisfactory this explanation is, only the most optimistic feel that Zardari will be able to escape scot-free in all three cases. The talk of arrest may just be talk at the moment but it seems plausible.
What will this mean for the PPP? The answer to this question is not simple — the future of Zardari, the reaction of the PPP to the arrest (if it happens) as well as the future of the party the leadership of which is theoretically shared by Zardari and son. And the last, in turn, leads to the questions about the party’s ability to revive itself under Bilawal Bhutto beyond Sindh, which is said to be impossible under the father.
The talk of arrest may just be talk at the moment, but it seems plausible.
Will the party react harshly? Some feel so. Sindh will be on fire; the PPP activists will react harshly and so on. There is no shortage of doomsday scenarios to warn the powers that be of their follies. While those in control should be rightly cautioned for many reasons, the fear of agitation or protest by the supporters of PPP is hardly one of them.
Indeed, there is little protest or agitation left in any of the mainstream political parties including the PPP — power tames anger like little else.
But beyond that, too, the notion of the party reacting aggressively beggars belief for the simple reason that beyond Sindh, the party has little support left in Punjab or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In other words, the only province in which the party can carry out protests is the one it rules. And protests in that province would be reminiscent of the jalsas of Nawaz Sharif when the party led by him ruled in Islamabad and Lahore. Remember the moment when Sharif junior appeared in front of the crowd and refused to speak?
The party can’t afford to destabilise its own government by carrying out prolonged protests. In fact, the PPP will perhaps feel the need to shore up its government in the wake of the arrest. Sindh is the reason it remains relevant to politics and even to the establishment so it will try to assert its control instead of allowing protests or violence to spiral out of control. Hence, it is hard to imagine that Zardari’s arrest or detention will cause much disturbance.
Protests aside, there are also the ramifications for the party which continues to see Zardari as a liability since Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the ‘true’ heir, has returned to Pakistan and appears keen on politics. This view is held vocally by those outside the party as well as many within (though the latter simply whisper it quietly).
Zardari, with his reputation for alleged corruption and aversion (or lack of comprehension) for populist politics, is seen as a liability for Bhutto’s party. The assumption is that if Zardari would step aside for Bilawal (forcibly through his impending arrest as he doesn’t seem to be in the mood to volunteer), the party would not just revive its fortunes in Punjab and elsewhere, the indelible link between corruption and the PPP would also be broken.
But neither of these assumptions is entirely correct.
Take Punjab. The PPP’s fortunes have been going down in the province steadily since the 1990s. Back in 1997 too, the party was completely wiped out from the province in terms of seats. It recovered in 2002 and 2008 but this was no longer the party which once dominated Punjab. The PML-N wiped it out in central Punjab and by now the main contender to the PML-N in the province is the PTI.
Had Bilawal’s presence and dynastic presence been enough to revive the party, the 2018 election would have shown some positive results after his widely acclaimed election campaign. But the PPP won few seats — and even fewer of those were attributed to Bilawal and not local politics. In other words, it will take more than just his presence to kick-start a revival. (In fact, the party needs to think about why Imran Khan was able to garner more support in Punjab post-2013 than the PPP.)
In Sindh, of course, the Bhutto name still can and does weave magic. The vote bank is growing but the party continues to be synonymous with misgovernance and corruption, and optimists hope Bilawal’s presence at the helm and Zardari’s removal will change all this overnight.
If even some of the allegations of corruption are correct (as reported by the leaks from the fake accounts JIT or the earlier cases when Asim Hussain, Sharjeel Memon and Manzoor Kaka were on the radar), it seems as if bribery and extortion are now part and parcel of the setup in Sindh. (For a bird’s eye view, read Corrupt to the Core in the June 2016 issue of Newsline magazine).
It is hard to believe that just by replacing his father, Bilawal will be able to clean the Augean stables. This is akin to those who believe that an incorruptible Imran Khan will be able to fix Pakistan. Those who are sceptical of Khan’s ability to repair a system shouldn’t pin their hopes on a young heir either.
Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2018
JA-Australia
Who is Bilawal Bhutto?
Is the article referring to Bilawal B. Zardari, son of Asif Ali Zardari?
HonorBright
Punjab might not be over-enthusiastically welcoming to Bilawal but I am sure PPP has a serious chance at revival in the province if the Party can hope for a few disguised blessings of which some might already have happened. Punjab waits for PPP to show its true character.
Bilal is also going to jail.
moeazi
This is Naya Pakistan and if the PPP tried something stupid to hurt the country, they will be put down with an iron hand. They should understand that corruption accountability is in the interest of the greater Pakistan at large and their desire to play dirty politics or violence in Sindh will seriously backfire.
Dynastic not good. No Opposition no good.
Excellent analysis of political upheavals in progress. Past performance of a ruling party provides some indication for things to happen in future. Its true that party leader sets the tone, but it is a challenging undertaking to change the party culture. For the political party discussed in this write up, regardless who is at the helm, it will take extensive overhaul to change things around. Sincerely working to address peoples problem would definitely help.
from Karachi
Excellent analysis. Bravo! The following sentence hits the nail in the coffin. "The party (PPP) can’t afford to destabilize its own government by carrying out prolonged protests."
@JA-Australia, Yes.
f k y
The indelible blot on ppp leadership would not make it possible to revive.Bilawal would defend the indefensible
Criminality and politics should not be allowed to mix if the nation is to prosper.
Abbasshah
Bilawal with command on speech with knowledge &respect for a common man has great potential to turn the politics in his favour s.(with some dynamic advisers &reliefs for masses).
Shahzad Kazi
Most Pakistanis do not care about corruption and believe that it is a given. Voting is done on the basis of obtaining patronage and protection. Most people vote on the basis of perception and want to vote for winning candidates.
@JA-Australia, : Have you been sleeping all these years?
Syed Chishti
The political party PPP was started by Mr. Z. A. Bhutto. Neither he could sustain it for long due to political debacles he had faced.
The daughter Ms.Benazir Bhutto-Zardari took the baton&raced to stardom of Prime Ministership.Not once but a couple of time.
Even AAZ made a President.The PPP&it’s followers are carrying on under it’s present leadership the PPP’s agenda for political survival.
How much they can achieve is limited to the support that Mr. Z. A. Bhutto&his charismatic personality had mustered due to blind faith of a common man.That kind is not visible in present day’s young leadership of PPP at the level that Mr. Z. A. Bhutto had enjoyed due to the need of the 1970’s Pakistani political environment.
Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari may have a spark that has not shined at Country level as of yet. It will take a lot for him to muster that needed support that Mr. Z. A. Bhutto enjoyed for many other factors that are missing in this era.
PPP’s future is not clear as of yet?
What are rangers more interested in political corruptions and not their own?
@Shahzad Kazi, Don't kid yourself but as the saying goes "People did not know any better". This is the first time in the history of Pakistan that the government is serious and courts, the JIT is washing politicians dirty laundry in the open. The enormity of corruption, the methods employed to hide illegal wealth are just too slick for ordinary folks to understand. And this only the beginning and not the end.
Jalaluddin S. Hussain
Following lines make a lot of sense:
"It is hard to believe that just by replacing his father, Bilawal will be able to clean the Augean stables. This is akin to those who believe that an incorruptible Imran Khan will be able to fix Pakistan. Those who are sceptical of Khan’s ability to repair a system shouldn’t pin their hopes on a young heir either."
@HonorBright, From the very birth of PPP, deep down has been a (Sindhi) feudal party and became utterly dynastic and disruptive in its policies and this man just does not have the political acumen and in the situation Pakistan is in does not need another Zardari or Nawaz Shariff to take Pakistan back into oblivion.
LAHORI KID
Lets see what Bilawal Bhutto Zardai has accomplished in politics, NOTHING. The only reason he is relevant, is because Bilawal being Banizer Bhutto's son, not Zardari's. Bilawal will not change anything overnight, if he could, he still would have, even having his father around. Fact is, PPP has be talked about when it comes to corruption even when Banizer bhutto was alive, she too was under investigation for corruption, money hidden in Switzerland, remember? If Bilawal takes full charge of PPP, it will take years before PPP could see support in Punjab, but don't forget, PTI won't sit idle either, they still have almost 5 years to show positive turn around, what will PTI accomplish is anyones guess at this point in time
Changez Khan
Everyone in PPP is hoping Zardari goes to jail for life. So if you minus Zardari from PPP his son Bilwal has no chance to run this party and he will leave Pakistan for good. The PPP itself will be broken into pieces and form several new baby PPP's. You can apply the same logic to PML-N party. Imran Khan's party PTI will become the only strongest party and rule Pakistan for a very long time. Yes this is the future.
Bye Bye PPP and PML-N with so much corruption in theiir bags! Its time to promote PTI and create a new opposition party for conducting healthy elections,
Meesaq Zaidi
Ali Raza Abidi’s murder in Karachi is a repeat of Qasuri murder tale in 70s.
A realistic analysis. Whatever votes left in the interior of Sindh, are to the photos of ZAB and BB - which Asif Zardari had been using (misusing) to muster votes. Now that game will also be over. Even prominent PPP stalwarts like Barrister Aitezaz Ahsan have snubbed the leadership out of dislike/disapproval.
From the looks of it, the entire Bhutto-Zardari dynasty is going down sooner than later.
@My mind, PPP in the year 2100 will be led by Chairman Sarfraz Bhutto-Zardari-Jatoi-Rehman-Khosa-Sharif-Askari-Lotia-Chaiwala-Riaz
Emotional fools will still vote for him as Chairman Sarfraz Bhutto
The fact that a guy who lived his whole life abroad and can hardly speak the national language can come and become a leader of a major party shows you the state of the mindset of some of these people. What's more shocking is how some anchors now take Bilawal seriously instead of bursting out in laughter after his every attempt to speak urdu.
PkPatriot
It's sad to see what PPP has become. When you see veteran politicians of PPP - some who stood next to Bhutto himself and then Benazir now standing behind Bilawal on stage while he tries to sound like someone who knows what he is talking about.. it is embarrassing to say the least. If PPP really wants to play a role in Pakistan's future, they should give up the Autocratic system where Bilawal "Bhutto" automatically gets to be the leader without ever proving himself. PPP should implement a system based on Merit where a "Non-Bhutto" could also become the leader of the party if he or she is fit for the job.
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Leader of the nation of Markovia, Gregor Markov has defended his country alongside his brother Geo-Force and his team of heroes, the Outsiders.
Gregor Markov
Aliases: King Gregor Markov of Markovia
First Appearance: BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #1, 1983
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Ruler of the tiny European nation of Markovia, King Gregor Markov saw much turmoil in his homeland during his lifetime, and his reign was not an easy one. When Gregor's father King Viktor was killed during a coup started by the villainous Baron Bedlam, Gregor took his place on the throne and became the new King. With his country facing enemies like Baron Bedlam, leading Markovian scientist Helga Jace offered to develop earth based super powers for King Gregor, but he dismissed the idea as impossible. Instead, Jace gave similar powers to Gregor's younger brother Prince Brion, who would become a founding member of the Outsiders, and his half-sister Tara, who would become the Teen Titan called Terra.
Baron Bedlam would again attempt to take the throne of Markovia for himself, but the super team the Outsiders, on which his brother served, kept defeating him. Eventually, King Gregor made the Outsiders the official state sponsored Super Hero team of Markovia, although that relationship was not known to the general public. After marrying the Princess Ilona and making her his queen, Dr. Helga Jace, the scientist who gave Gregor's siblings their powers, assassinated him using poison gas. Although his wife Ilona was carrying Gregor's heir when he died and will one day rule, until that time, Brion Markov has succeeded Gregor as the sovereign of Markovia.
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New Mobility: VW Meets Generation Y
By Andreas Techel / February 7, 2018
What moves Generation Y, and more importantly, how are they moving? VW Group Board Member Jürgen Stackmann takes great interest in this field. Via a chat app, he meets with a group of students that are also involved in the industry.
The students of the Ostfalia University and Prof. Dr. Antje Helpup meet board member Jürgen Stackmann via chat. Photo: Roman Brodel
Jürgen Stackmann has a high degree of responsibility when it comes to digital transformation. In his position as VW brand board member, he is also responsible for marketing and sales. A flash of expectation and joyful anticipation crosses his face as he opens the chat group with the students.
The students chatting with Jürgen Stackmann. Photo: ETM
Katharina Steube, Miriam Wohlgemuth, Alexander Vogel and Marvin Leicht, all between 22 and 25, are pleasantly surprised at how easy-going Stackmann interacts with them, and quickly let their curiosity run free. As business and economic scientists based in Wolfsburg, they have enough knowledge of the industry to pose trickier questions, and don’t hold back questioning the future of the automobile as we know it. “I have no problem with that,” says Stackmann. “I myself have four children, each of which has a different view of the motorcar. One son isn’t interested in owning a car, the other cherishes his Golf GTI. One daughter cannot wait to get her driver’s license, the other sees cars as nothing more than a mode of transport.”
Photos: Roman Brodel
What is attractive about the car?
The students also query the attractiveness of car ownership in the future. They are accustomed to using public transport to travel to university, and often read or answer a few emails on the way. This is a good basis for Stackmann, as self-driving cars will present this option, with the added bonus of individuality. “The freedom to move independently, wherever and whenever you want, is a freedom that no-one will want to relinquish in the future,” he claims.
Having grown up with the advantages of e-commerce, the quartet also question the traditional sales structure of the automotive giants. “Do we actually still need car dealerships?” Alexander Vogel wants to know. The 23-year old wishes to pursue a career in automotive sales. Stackmann has already been waiting for this question to arise, and grins at the display of his tablet. He refers to the relevance that configuration tools and virtual viewers on websites have already amassed. But for Stackmann, the dealer is and will remain the cornerstone: “Only there can you physically touch and test drive the car. And then there are all the services provided afterwards.”
Who is shaping mobility?
“Will it not be the Googles and Apples of this world that define the future of mobility?” Stackmann understands the question, as the day-to-day involvement of these companies in our lives is already enormous. He declares himself open to cooperation with the IT giants, and refers to his company’s current cooperation with IBM and their artificial intelligence system, Watson. “It helps us to provide people the right offers at the right time and in the right place.” By “offers,” he also means tailored mobility solutions.
It is unavoidable that his chat companions also probe the innovative force of the automotive giant. The passenger car too will host artificial intelligence, enabling it to better support the user, perhaps by comparing driving destinations from the calendar with the range of the car’s drive energy, and making recommendations based on this information. 2.6 Million VW drivers are already using the brand’s own Car Net. This will involve spoken language more and more in future. It will be as natural as using assistants such as Siri, or Alexa.
Jürgen Stackmann has been the member of the board of management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand since November 2015. Photo: Roland Niepaul
In order to drive VW Group to the forefront of new mobility, the board member wants to organize the entire brand more competitively. Accordingly, the operating margin should climb to six percent by 2025, at which point VW should also be aspiring to the e-mobility market leadership.
The students absorb all this with interest, as the corporation is a very interesting employer. Indeed, graduate Miriam Wohlgemuth has already joined the firm. She is practicing her dream job of Manager of Happiness in VW Group’s Digital Lab. She ensures the happiness and motivation of the team. A long-established position in Silicon Valley, the job title often attracts confused looks in other areas. It appears that cars and their sales structure are not the only areas in flux; the jobs around them are also undergoing change.
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The Automotive Trend Forum (ATF) provides a platform for exchange between the managers and a new, dedicated generation of employees in the industry. This international scientific and economic summit tackles current trends in automotive sales and marketing. The one-day event takes place in Wolfsburg’s CongressPark. In attendance are approximately 600 international representatives from the worlds of business and science. High-caliber experts from around the world present current studies, best practice examples and demonstrate problem-solving approaches to a variety of challenges. In addition to many managers from the Volkswagen Group, delegates from other the automotive manufacturers, OEM industry, car trade and mid-sized business attend the ATF. The majority of the scientific representatives are professors, research associates and students from Ostfalia University and its international partner institutions.
In attendance of the forum are about 600 international representatives from the worlds of business and science. Photo: Kurt Ringlebe
For more information on the conference: www.atf-wolfsburg.de/en
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Were vehicle manufacturers and original equipment suppliers legally able to do what they already can technologically, our roads would already be teeming with self-driving trucks and buses. But before this becomes reality, manufacturers must completely master each level of automation.
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Transport giants in shipping, a train weighing just under one hundred thousand tons, or traffic routes made of ice and snow: the logistics industry shines with spectacular innovations.
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Corporation Service Co. changes name to CSC
Corporation Service Co. has changed its name to CSC
Corporation Service Co. changes name to CSC Corporation Service Co. has changed its name to CSC Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/delawareinc/2017/05/26/corporation-service-co-changes-name-csc/348785001/
Jeff Mordock, The News Journal Published 11:12 a.m. ET May 26, 2017 | Updated 11:28 a.m. ET May 26, 2017
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Rod Ward, president and CEO of Corporation Service Company.(Photo: ANDREW RENNEISE/THE NEWS JOURNAL)Buy Photo
Corporation Service Co., one of the oldest and largest legal-service businesses in the nation, has changed its name to CSC.
The Greenville-based company with roots in Delaware since 1899, will retain the Corporation Service Co. moniker as its legal trade name, but will use CSC on promotional and commercial materials.
In conjunction with the name change, CSC has adopted a new logo. The new logo uses the letters CSC to form the symbol for infinity.
The company has also changed its slogan to "We are the business behind business."
Rod Ward, president and CEO of CSC, said the change symbolizes how the company has grown over the past few years. It is the first substantial change to CSC's logo and brand strategy since the company was founded.
"In the past 10 years we've doubled our size, made strategic acquisition and expanded our footprint to 17 countries," Ward said. "Our distinctive new look reflects the interconnected, evolving relationship we have with our clients."
CSC recently completed construction on a $100 million global headquarters on a 17-acre campus in the Commons at Little Falls.
Ward said CSC's new identity extends beyond a new name, logo and tagline.
"It also harnesses the same innovation and creativity with which CSC gets business done around the world," he said.
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Phillies-Brewers starting lineups for Wednesday's game
Find out who the starting nine for the Phillies and Brewers are for Wednesday's game.
Phillies-Brewers starting lineups for Wednesday's game Find out who the starting nine for the Phillies and Brewers are for Wednesday's game. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/2019/05/15/phillies-brewers-starting-lineups-wednesdays-game/3678779002/
Tom McGurk, Cherry Hill Courier-Post Published 3:09 p.m. ET May 15, 2019 | Updated 4:10 p.m. ET May 15, 2019
May 10, 2019; Kansas City, MO, USA; Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Jake Arrieta (49) delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken/USA TODAY Sports (Photo: Peter Aiken, Peter G. Aiken)
PHILADELPHIA - Maikel Franco is out of the starting lineup as the Phillies get ready to host the Milwaukee Brewers in the third of a four-game set at Citizens Bank Park.
Odubel Herrera is also absent from the starting nine.
Sean Rodriguez and Phil Gosselin are starting at third and left field, respectively.
First pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m.
1. Andrew McCutchen, CF
2. Jean Segura, SS
3. Bryce Harper, RF
4. Rhys Hoskins, 1B
5. J.T. Realmuto, C
6. Cesar Hernandez, 2B
7. Sean Rodriguez, 3B
8. Phil Gosselin, LF
9. Jake Arrieta, P
1. Lorenzo Cain, CF
2. Christian Yelich, RF
3. Ryan Braun, LF
4. Mike Moustakas, 3B
5. Jesus Aguilar, 1B
6. Keston Hiura, 2B
7. Manny Pina, C
8. Orlando Arcia, SS
9. Gio Gonzalez, P
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The Elon Musk Fan Thread
By Hellbent, February 11 in Everything Else
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Posted February 11 (edited)
Discuss your fandom of Elon Musk here (or distaste; who doesn't love a good flame war)?
I'll start things off:
On 2/8/2019 at 1:40 AM, ReaperAA said:
The world will come to an end really soon.
didn't know being a forum staple was a bad thing
Proof that you can be crazy and work for a company if you're a CEO. I think he's just working on his own celebrity, which I suppose helps the car company. My filthy rich friends who can easily afford his cars don't want to support a company run by him.
holaareola
I think the guy's vision and business ideas are great, even he seems glib and spotlight hungry as a character.
The electric car future is something I look forward to dearly, so anyone trying to bring that forward is good by me -- imagine big cities without all the fumes and engine noise. Sometimes when I've been out in London for a day, I find my snot has gone blackish at the end of it, it's fucking disgusting. I was more hopeful when it looked like Tesla was going to be an energy company too, but it seems to all be about the cars at the moment. I'm not sure they'll be able to compete with China long term. Their main advantage for now is data, to my mind. They have a headstart of billions of miles of data to train their systems on, and there's no shortcut to that.
SpaceX as well. What if we could re-use the rockets? A very simple idea and that's what's genius about it for me.
GuyMcBrofist
He's an oddball when it comes to innovation. It's good to have a few of those.
Guy is a genius. He's like a god among men. "Hmm... this earth sure is shitty and no one is doing a terribly good job about setting it right. Here, let's implement some fun solutions to earth's problems." And voila, he is upstaging entire industries with decades of experience. I tend to agree with him in regards to his concerns with AI. It is troubling that no one seems concerned. Elon Musk has had some interesting insights on this topic (I'll post pertinent youtube video at some point).
Grain of Salt
Girl of Satan
He is an idiot.
Mr. Freeze
MaxTrevors
He does a lot of bad shit and a lot of good shit. Like McDonalds. Or something.
fraggle
The Kevin Bacon of Doom
I won't lie, with Tesla and SpaceX it seemed for a while like he was doing some genuinely good stuff.
But as time goes on he seems increasingly like a shithead, and after the Tham Luang cave rescue and the way he behaved I've lost all respect for him.
44 minutes ago, fraggle said:
After the Tham Luang cave rescue and the way he behaved though I've lost all respect for him.
I'm also addressing Mr. Freeze and Grain of Salt.
I completely understand how you feel. The media gives a very fair and unbiased portrait of Elon Musk, as it does most issues. It is very careful to give an accurate picture of every issue it reports on where Elon Musk is involved, so when you came away with the conclusion that Elon Musk's behavior warrants "losing all respect for him", that makes perfect sense. I, too, have very high regard for the media and its agenda-free reporting. In fact, I don't know why I started this thread. Elon musk is such a rude, egomaniacal idiot!
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-full-story-behind-Elon-Musks-involvement-with-the-Thai-cave-rescue-effort
Now the real question we should all be asking is, why is the media so hellbent on attacking Elon Musk over and over and over again? A person who is doing so much to better the world? Honestly, I am so perplexed by this. Utterly perplexed, saddened and sickened.
Why didn't the media go after this ungrateful twit?
I would have been a lot less restrained than Elon Musk was after going through all the trouble to design a solution and ship it all the way to Thailand, and then be to told to shove my solution up my ass. :confused:
Khorus
Strife!
I think he latched onto that story like a lamprey and did what he could to get headlines. Just as many of his ideas are designed to do (underground tunnels spring straight to mind).
And you call someone that was actually there as part of a rescue an "ungrateful twit" for going after your idol?..
Jthom
He seemed okay imo before the whole twitter fight. After that my opinion of him changed as he began to fight with the media. He really came off weird and inappropriate with his twitter comments. Dont have much respect for him now.
He fights with the media because they act like its their full time job to tear him down. I'd get pretty tired of it, too. I thought people had learned by now that the media is biased and controlled and full of shit?
Marcaek
chug that koolaid hellbent, you're way too woke for the general population
16 hours ago, Hellbent said:
It didn't solve the problem. The very video that you linked to makes this quite clear. I trust the actual cave rescuer - the hero who rescued those kids - far more than Elon Musk. Why don't you?
The whole incident points to an arrogant, Silicon Valley-type attitude of "I'm smart so I can solve any problem and I know better than the experts". In Musk's case he has money to waste on building and shipping his useless "solution" to the site, but we see this kind of thing all the time in microcosm. Too much stuff in the tech industry nowadays is like this - things built recklessly without truly understanding the problem space, and the result is either useless (because it's something nobody wanted) or harmful (because the potential consequences weren't considered).
Maybe it was a PR stunt or maybe it wasn't. I personally lean more towards "opportunity for an arrogant billionaire to stroke his own ego in public", though maybe the difference between that and a PR stunt is kind of academic. Either way, there's something deeply tasteless about him trying to turn a situation where kids' lives are in danger into The Elon Musk Show. I don't blame Mr. Unsworth for telling Musk to stick his "submarine" where it hurts.
But I notice you avoided mentioning the whole "pedo" thing - the real cherry on the shit cake that tells me everything I need to know about Musk's character. I hope Unsworth wins his defamation suit.
Badministrator
Guy is a genius. He's like a god among men.
Troll better next time.
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Zander learned teamwork in pool, perfecting it in the office
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The Olympic Games is the pinnacle of sporting events, and getting there requires determination, perseverance, teamwork and thousands of hours of practice. Not every athlete makes it to the games or even the Olympic Trials, but their thirst for sport, competition and the time spent aiming toward that finish line is never lost. In fact, it enhances other areas of their lives. In this new series, Goizueta alumni and students share their athletic passion, favorite Olympian, and what they’ve learned along the way.
David Zander 15BBA learned to swim competitively while racing against his twin sister before joining Emory’s nationally ranked swim team and competing in the NCAAs. Now an analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Barclays, he finds a number of parallels between his athletic and business careers, namely the importance of time management and a willingness to push beyond his comfort zone.
EB: When did your passion for swimming begin?
It started with watching my older brother compete in the pool when I was 8 years old. He swam with our local club team and my mom would bring my twin sister and me to practices where we’d watch him every day. Then my sister and I began swimming. Everything was a competition between us, and it wasn’t long before we were racing each other in the pool as well. We kept pushing each other in practice every day until my sister went off to college for basketball and I went for swimming.
EB: Did you ever want to participate in the Olympics?
Absolutely, I think everyone who swims has imagined themselves on those blocks at some point in their career and considered how it would feel. While my focus shifted over time, it was an incredible experience getting to train with people who had the drive and passion to make that dream a reality.
EB: Did you qualify for the Olympics?
I never did, but I have nothing but the utmost respect for those who have. It takes an incredible amount of sacrifice to compete at that level. Many of these athletes have trained four to eight hours a day for more than a decade to get where they are, and for most, that’s just the baseline to even consider participating in the Olympic Trials.
EB: Who is your favorite Olympian – past or present? Why?
My favorite to watch was Matt Grevers, who is 6’8” and a six-time Olympic medalist. I’m 6’9” myself and I’m used to being the tallest guy on any pool deck by nearly a half foot. Watching a swimmer as tall as Grevers excel gave me an awesome feeling—like I could relate a bit to someone who was competing at that level. Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give Caeleb Dressel a shout-out for what he’s accomplished this year. We shared a lane for a couple years in high school, and it’s awesome to see such a talented and down-to-earth guy have all his effort pay off with two gold medals in Rio.
EB: What elements of sports and business have you found to be the most useful? Why?
In my experience so far, the greatest assets you can take from the pool to the office are determination and the ability to perform as part of team.
EB: Tell us a bit about your current work role?
I’m currently working at Barclays as an analyst in their Leveraged Finance group where I focus on helping companies raise money in debt capital markets. It’s been an exciting challenge that has taken me further outside my comfort zone than I ever would have imagined, and I’ve developed a lot as a result. Plus, I’m fortunate enough to work with a great team, which has made the experience all the more rewarding.
EB: What’s your favorite memory from your time at Goizueta?
My first reaction is to nominate Thursday Kegs, but I’ll go further and say that some of my favorite experiences were competitions like HackATL and the Emory Pitch Summit. These events were a lot of fun, especially coming up with a business idea then becoming more passionate about it as you think through the logistics and potential flaws until you have something you’re proud of. Emory has made great strides in encouraging students to pursue their entrepreneurial spirit through events like those and I’m excited to see how it continues to develop.
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Our top scientific institutions, the U.S. military, NASA, NOAA, and nearly all credible experts say pollution is causing our planet to get warmer. Still, false information designed to discredit climate science is actively promoted by organizations with ties to fossil fuels. Many leaders in Congress are also spreading disinformation and confusion about the climate. While fossil fuel companies are generating enormous profits, we ultimately will bear the costs associated with extreme weather and rising sea levels. Representatives for Virginia in the United States Congress have an important role in supporting efforts to solve the issue. We've researched every district and made it easy for you to lookup your representatives' positions on climate. Enter an address in the form below to find your House representative.
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Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner represent Virginia as senators. Both senators are in favor of working towards solutions on climate change. Both senators also criticized Trump's poor decision to leave the Paris agreement on climate.
District 1: Rob Wittman represents district 1 in Virginia. He spreads misinformation on climate science and is against efforts in Congress to address climate change. Several challengers are lining up for the 2018 race. Send us candidate positions and we will update as the election approaches.
We must recognize that these climactic cycles of heating and cooling have been going on well before man appeared on earth. - Rob Wittman, misinformation on climate science
District 2: Scott Taylor represents district 2. He's acknowledged climate change is impacting his district, but he supported Trump's move to exit the Paris agreement on climate. He does not list climate change as an issue in his campaign website, and is generally opposed to legislation designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He says he wants to deal with consequences like sea level rise, but on dealing with the climate change issue, he is within his party lines, saying "I don't think we're there, in a bipartisan way, for comprehensive action." Several candidates are lining up to oppose Taylor in 2018.
District 3: Bobby Scott represents Virginia's 3rd district. He is in favor of efforts in Congress aimed at addressing climate change.
Congressman Scott believes that human activity has contributed to climate change and has been a consistent advocate of efforts to mitigate global warming. Scott has co-sponsored legislation in the House of Representatives that would promote investment in renewable energy, as well as legislation that incentivizes energy efficiency. - Bobby Scott's House website
District 4: Donald McEachin represents district 4. He supports efforts to address climate change and issued statements against Trump's poor decision to exit the Paris agreement on climate.
District 5: Tom Garrett represents district 5 in Virginia. He is against efforts in Congress to address climate change.
We know there's climate change. There is debate as to whether it's man-caused climate change. - misinformation from Tom Garrett
District 6: Bob Goodlatte, a denier of climate science, is retiring this seat. Several candidates are lining up for the race. Send us your candidate positions on climate, and we will update soon.
District 7: Dave Brat represents district 7 in Virginia. He dismisses climate change, and is opposed to efforts in Congress aimed at addressing the climate change problem. Several challengers are lining up for the 2018 race.
District 8: Don Beyer represents district 8 in Virginia. He is a supporter of efforts to address climate change.
District 9: Morgan Griffith represents district 9 in Virginia. He is one of those super-deniers of climate change, having spouted some of the most disingenuous, misinformed, and utterly ridiculous claims about climate science.
I was reading one report here that indicates that by 2020 we will reach a new peak on Sun spot activity, and this report actually suggests that the Earth's temperature may be raised by .5 degrees Centigrade as a result of the Sun spot activity. - misinformation from Morgan Griffith
why 40 years ago, when I was in elementary and middle school, were we taught that an increase in greenhouse gas effect was going to lead to a new Ice Age? - more falsehoods from Morgan Griffith
District 10: Barbara Comstock represents district 10 in Virginia with an anti-environment vote. She may have made some progress as a Republican that acknowledges that humans are causing climate change, but has not supported any action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. She voted to end the EPA's Clean Power Plan. Several challengers are lining up in 2018. Send us your candidates' positions and we will update as the election approaches.
District 11: Gerry Connolly represents district 11 in Virginia. He advocates for U.S. leadership on climate change and was against Trump's poor decision to exit the Paris climate agreement.
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Navy prosecutor is dismissed from war crimes…
Navy prosecutor is dismissed from war crimes case against decorated SEAL Edward ‘Eddie’ Gallagher
Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher leaves a military courtroom on Naval Base San Diego with his wife, Andrea Gallagher, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in San Diego. The decorated Navy SEAL facing a murder trial in the death of an Islamic State prisoner was freed Thursday from custody after a military judge cited interference by prosecutors. (AP Photo/ Julie Watson)
By Erika I. Ritchie |
PUBLISHED: June 3, 2019 at 7:29 pm | UPDATED: June 4, 2019 at 4:36 pm
Navy Judge Aaron Rugh has removed Cmdr. Chris Czaplak as prosecutor in the case of Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, a Navy SEAL accused of a series of war crimes including killing a teen ISIS fighter in 2017.
Rugh announced his decision Monday, June 3, in an email to the parties involved.
Tim Parlatore, Gallagher’s lead attorney, had requested the move, accusing prosecutors of a “rogue, relentless, and unlawful cyber campaign” that was used to find the source of news leaks discovered in January. He said that behavior may have violated attorney-client privilege and would hurt Gallagher’s chance for a fair trial.
Gallagher’s defense team also has made motions to consider whether there has been undue command influence in the case from officials in Washington, D.C.; and, ultimately, to dismiss the case.
“He only decided on the removal of the prosecutor related to his activities spying on the defense,” Parlatore said of Rugh. “It’s a step forward but not the ultimate goal. I will not stop until Eddie Gallagher is completely free.”
Parlatore said Rugh is expected to rule on the other motions on Wednesday.
“The judge ruled that the threat of investigation into alleged prosecutorial misconduct against Cmdr. Chris Czaplak could be seen as a conflict of interest,” Navy officials said.
Navy spokesman Brian O’Rourke, Monday evening, said the Navy is complying with the judge’s order.
“The senior trial counsel will be replaced by a qualified military attorney,” O’Rourke said. “Chief Petty Officer Gallagher is entitled to a fair trial and the Navy is committed to that principle.”
O’Rourke previously said if the prosecutor were removed from the case it would delay Gallagher’s court-martial. The trial is set to start June 10.
Rugh’s decision Monday is the latest in a series of twists in the case. Most recently, the judge freed Gallagher from custody, on Thursday, May 30, citing interference by prosecutors.
Parlatore and Marc Mukasey, a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, discovered evidence in recent weeks that showed Czaplak had attached tracking devices to emails that were sent to at least 13 attorneys and the editor of the Navy Times. Czaplak admitted to the tracking but downplayed the technology’s capabilities. In court, Navy prosecutors said the email “auditing tools” they used were designed to detect the flow of emails without revealing their content.
“They’re calling it an audit tool when it is really a beacon,” Parlatore said previously. “It tracks IP addresses, sees when you open it, who you’re forwarding it to.”
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Gallagher, a Special Warfare Operations Chief, was arrested Sept. 11 while being treated at Camp Pendleton’s Intrepid Spirit Center. The 19-year Navy veteran is accused of premeditated murder in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old ISIS fighter. At the time, he was serving as a medic with Naval Special Warfare Group One based out of San Diego.
Two other charges — one accusing Gallagher of posing with the corpse of the teen while filming an enlistment video and one accusing him of flying a drone over the teen’s corpse — were thrown out during a Feb. 4 hearing.
Gallagher is also charged with shooting a man in June 2017 and a woman in July of that year, both civilians classified as “noncombatants,” according to charge sheets.
On Jan. 4, Gallagher was arraigned on charges of premeditated murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He pleaded “not guilty” to all war crimes he is accused of committing during his 2017 deployment in Iraq.
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Royal family worked to protect Prince Andrew in Jeffrey Epstein scandal, alleged victim’s attorney says
San Leandro police release images, video of fatal shooting
Police released a 'community briefing' video that included some recordings as well as officer-worn body-camera footage of a confrontation that led an officer to fatally shoot a man outside a home last month.
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Business advice and news
Regus Celebrates 15 years at Bath Road, Slough.
17 June 2013 admin Business advice and news, General Articles
Regus has been making the headlines recently with its highly publicised takeover of former rival MWB as in recent times it has looked to build its impressive UK portfolio by acquisitions. It’s easy to forget just how long the company has been providing Serviced Office Space Solutions to Companies of all sizes in the UK but a reminder could be found in the Thames Valley as the company’s Bath Rd location in Slough celebrated its 15 year anniversary.
Steve Purdy, UK managing director at Regus, said: “Regus Slough Bath Road has consistently been one of our most popular centres in the Thames Valley, due to its central location and proximity to transport connections.”
“The refurbishment earlier this year further enhanced its appeal and the high-tech look has received very positive feedback from customers.”
Slough has been home to a broad spectrum of companies in recent years and several still have a base there including Telefonica 02 UK Limited, Yellow Pages Sales Ltd, Amazon.co.uk Limited and Mars Chocolate UK Ltd.
If you’d like to know more about the options then click this link for our Slough Serviced Offices or give us a call directly to chat through the options.
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"I Wonder" Questions: Harnessing the Power of Inquiry
By encouraging students' wonder and recording their "I Wonder" questions, teachers can view those questions holistically and use them to develop lessons and projects that will harness student curiosity.
Harness Student Curiosity
Students always have questions. When's the homework due? How does Siri understand what I'm saying? Why is the sky blue? Student questions can be funny, insightful, and at times wildly off-topic. Rather than fielding these questions one-by-one when they come up, the teachers at Crellin Elementary record student "I wonder" questions so that they can view them holistically, and use what they find to develop lessons and projects that will harness student curiosity.
What Are "I Wonders"?
"I Wonders" is the categorical name that teachers at Crellin Elementary use to describe the individual questions that students ask about their learning. The teachers encourage their students to wonder out loud in the middle of a lesson.
Dana McCauley, Crellin Elementary principal, describes how the process works:
It's when you are immersed in a lesson, and the kids are beginning to make those connections, and they start saying them out loud: "How are magnets related to electricity? Why is that in this unit? That doesn't make sense to me." Or "Why is it that whenever we go to the stream, I'm seeing that green algae-looking stuff on there, when I thought you said we cleaned it up?" Or "I'm wondering why is it that the salt melts the ice out there? Like why do we put that out there?"
"I Wonders" are whatever the kids are wondering about -- whatever connections are happening in their heads as they learn, they're saying these thoughts out loud.
Encouraging and Harvesting Student Wonders
Teachers at Crellin have different methods for recording students' "I Wonder" questions. Some have them write their questions before assignments during writing prompts, some simply write the questions on the board, and others may use posters or sticky notes.
"Some of them are irrelevant to what we're doing at the moment," says McCauley, "and you say, 'Write that down; we'll get to it later. Put it on a Post-it note.'"
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TIP: Have students capture their questions in "I Wonder" journals, and use these questions to plan future lessons.
Fifth-grade students began using notebooks called "I Wonder Journals" after a regular learning partner, Dr. Dave Miller, realized that the students had far more questions than he could answer during his limited time in the classroom. He provided each student with a notebook and asked them all to write down everything they ever wonder about. Now he uses the journals to plan experiments for the students during his time in the classroom.
Regardless of the collection method, students are always encouraged to question, wonder, and share their wonderings with their teacher and classmates.
Channeling the Wonder
Every few weeks, teachers go through all the wonderings that have been collected but never addressed because they were off-topic during the current lesson or more appropriate for a later unit. Looking at student questions as a whole, teachers can divine information about where the kids want to go, as well as where they have just been.
"They can be a clue to the teacher in making sure that no misconceptions are being created," says McCauley. "You need to make sure that it's flowing and that it's making sense to them . . . Is there a misconception in their understanding? Or is it sometimes that they are making a connection at a different level that you never even thought of? So it’s a way for us to reflect . . . about how we’re laying out lessons."
Teachers can also use "I Wonders" to see themes and subject areas about which students are really curious, such as when fifth-grade teacher Brittany German noticed that she was getting a lot of "I Wonder" questions about outer space. She then decided to use space in part of her next unit.
As teachers go through the "I Wonder" questions, they ask themselves questions like:
Where could I go with this?
How can I tie some of these together?
How can I make this meaningful for my students?
What can I teach from this?
And while "I Wonder" questions can definitely affect lesson plans, sometimes teachers use them in smaller, more individualized ways.
"Sometimes they're not full-blown lesson plans," says McCauley. "Sometimes it's a project for one child to look at. Sometimes it's more of a question that they need to research. Other times it turns into being a whole new project for the class or a group of kids."
Leaving Some Questions Unanswered
Students can have dozens and dozens of questions, and the thought of answering all of them could be overwhelming to some. But Crellin teachers say that they don't feel obligated to answer every question asked. They aim to fold in what they can, encourage students to take ownership and seek answers on their own, and most of all, encourage students to continue asking questions. Principal McCauley believes that continued wondering is the ultimate goal:
If they don't wonder, "How would we ever survive on the moon?" then that's never going to be explored. You want to encourage it enough that they continue to ask with the understanding that not all will be answered. But that doesn't mean they should stop wondering, because wonderings lead to thinking outside the box, which makes them critical thinkers. As they try to figure it out, and reflect on what they're doing, that's where it all ties together for them. That's where all that learning occurs -- where all the connections start being made.
Rubric for Discipline-Based and Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry Studies (Galileo Educational Network)
Excerpt: "Teaching for Meaningful Learning: A Review of Research on Inquiry-Based and Cooperative Learning" (Teaching for Meaningful Learning)
4 Phases of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide for Teachers (Teach Thought)
Teaching History by Encouraging Curiosity (Edweek)
The Case for Curiosity (Curiosity Now)
Fostering Curiosity in Your Students (Education Oasis)
Plant Growth Experiments (Crellin Elementary)
School Snapshot
Crellin Elementary School
Grades PK-5 | Oakland, MD
109 | Public, Rural
Per Pupil Expenditures
$14,251 District
Free / Reduced Lunch
DEMOGRAPHICS:
99% White
1% Asian
Demographic data is from the 2014-15 academic year. Fiscal data is from the 2013-14 academic year.
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Man City veteran Fabian Delph on brink of signing for Everton
Manchester City veteran Fabian Delph is on the brink of signing for Everton.
The Manchester Evening News says City have already agreed a deal, worth up to £10million with add ons, with the Merseyside club and are now just awaiting a formal announcement.
The club were willing to let the 29-year-old leave after he struggled for game time last season and with Rodri's arrival from Atletico Madrid providing more competition for Delph in midfield and Angelino at left-back he has decided to pursue other options.
City have agreed a deal with Everton for Delph over an initial fee of £8.5million.
The England international signed for City from Aston Villa in 2015 for a similar fee and has one year left on his current deal at the Etihad.
For more news relating to Manchester City, visit our sister site MCFC Live.
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Jesse Joyce
Jesse Joyce is an actor. Jesse Joyce's recent filmography includes the movies Comedy Central Roast of James Franco (2013) and Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (2011). Jesse Joyce's recent TV appearances include @midnight With Chris Hardwick and Comedy Underground With Dave Attell. On Spotify, Jesse Joyce keeps a low profile with only around 1,400 followers and a popularity score of 27 out of 100 as of 2018. His most popular track on Spotify is "Ireland" from the album Joyce To The World.
Jesse Joyce Movies
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump
Stags
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As of 2018, Jesse Joyce has contributed to about 3 movies. Some of the most recent Jesse Joyce movies include Comedy Central Roast of James Franco, Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump, and Stags. Comedy Central Roast of James Franco was released in 2013. Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump was released in 2011. Jesse Joyce appeared as Price in Stags, also released in 2011.
Jesse Joyce TV Shows
@midnight With Chris Hardwick
Comedy Underground With Dave Attell
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There are about 2 TV shows that have featured Jesse Joyce as of 2018. Some of the most recent Jesse Joyce TV appearances include @midnight With Chris Hardwick and Comedy Underground With Dave Attell. Jesse Joyce appeared on and was a panelist on @midnight With Chris Hardwick in 2017. In 2014, he performed on Comedy Underground With Dave Attell.
Jesse Joyce Popular Songs
Joyce To The World
The Squirley Coke Eyes
Cigarettes Kill Babies
Pro Joyce
Recovering Alcoholic
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As of 2018, Jesse Joyce has 1,400 followers and a popularity score of 27 on Spotify. Joyce To The World and Pro Joyce are some of the more popular Jesse Joyce albums. Notable tracks from these albums include Ireland, The Squirley Coke Eyes, and Cigarettes Kill Babies. Ireland is the most popular track from Jesse Joyce, scoring 32 out of 100 on the popularity scale. The Squirley Coke Eyes and Cigarettes Kill Babies have popularity scores of 8 and 8, respectively. The Spotify popularity score is on a scale from 0 to 100 and reflects the number of times the song has been played and how recently it has been played.
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Jurassic World: Fallen Franchise
Fandor reviews the latest movie from the theme park that wouldn't quit.
By Levi Hill | June 26, 2018
Where to start with the mess that is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom?
How does one enjoy a film when the main component to keeping the plot moving is the characters (good and bad) making increasingly dumb decisions? Sure, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a spectacle-driven summer blockbuster, but do we really need to suspend our disbelief so far as to believe that the main antagonist is dumb enough to pry teeth out of the mouths of tranquilized dinosaurs for a necklace he’s making? With this in mind, is it really a spoiler to say that his decisions ultimately lead to his own gruesome death?
But I'm jumping ahead.
The events of the movie are put into motion when our heroes are hired to conduct a mission to retrieve a selection of dinosaurs before a volcano explodes on Isla Nublar. However, the people who tasked Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) with this mission have no interest in really saving the dinosaurs. Instead they intend to auction off the dinosaurs to the highest bidders, and to use the well-trained and compliant velociraptor, Blue, to create a highly intelligent militaristic “Indomraptor” — part Indominus Rex from Jurassic World and part Blue.
Yet, in spite of the poor script, J.A. Bayona’s direction, as well as the visual effects and cinematography, are the best of the series since the original Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park. There’s a moment in the film that recalls the iconic shot from the first movie, of when audiences and Dr. Alan Grant first laid eyes on a brontosaurus. They, (and audiences) were awe-struck. We knew we were watching something new and fantastic. Bayona purposefully subverts this moment by showing a brontosaurus meeting a tragic end when a volcano destroys Isla Nublar. Like the characters in Fallen Kingdom, I found myself getting choked up.
Then the preposterous writing of Colin Trevorrow (director of the first Jurassic World) and his co-writer, Derek Connelly, broke the spell and reminded me how asinine the script and plot are. The film attempts to do for the franchise what The Last Jedi did for Star Wars. It attempts to cast off the tropes of the past movies and shift the franchise towards a more ambiguous and open future — not one just driven by corporate-mandated nostalgia. Because of this, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has significantly more interesting ideas than its predecessor.
Nonetheless, in his writing Treverrow never fully commits to these concepts, and thus, the film feels half-baked. For every gothic horror influenced scare Bayona and his cinematographer, Oscar Faura, conjure up, especially as the Indomraptor silently hunts the heroes and villains in the Lockwood Estate, the haphazard script betrays the film at every turn with laughable dialogue and underdeveloped ideas. In fact, the film ends on such a ludicrous note, it’s impossible to conceive what exactly is going to happen next — and you know what? I don’t really care.
The final nail in the coffin comes in the form of a late “twist” — can I call something a “twist” if it’s straight up absurd? — that is meant to point to the dangers of cloning (which is essentially the message of all the prior films), but really only serves as the shallow set-up for future entries into the series. Speaking of which, after the climax, the audience is left with no clue as to where the series is going. If this was the intention of Treverrow and Bayona then okay, sure, they succeeded.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has removed all the awe, all the fear, and all the wonder that Spielberg accomplished twenty-five years ago with Jurassic Park. It’s hard to make dinosaurs boring, yet the latest in this franchise has managed just that.
We at Fandor think it’s best if the Jurassic Park franchise goes extinct. Read up on why Steven Spielberg’s original film remains the series’ best entry, and check out our thoughts on Spielberg’s latest work, Ready Player One. It's summer blockbuster season! Catch up on the big movies dropping in theaters now with Fandor's review of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Essay: Great Depression and Censoring Disorder
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Depression and Censoring
The American of the 1930s was a dual decade; first of the slashing of the American Dream for many Americans, regardless of race or nationality; and then a drastic reworking of the Federal and State governmental system to change and improve things. In the United States, unemployment rose to over 25% and in some countries as high as 33%. Cities that depended on heavy industry were hit hard, construction virtually stopped in many areas. Farming and rural areas suffered between a combination of falling crop prices and poor weather (and, in the United States, the dustbowl issues coming from years of poor agricultural practices). For children, the 1920s and 1930s were particularly painful, but by 1939 and the advent of America's entry into World War II, there had been significant improvements in education, social welfare, and an understanding and vocalization of the problems of childhood and adolescence as advocated by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
History is important to help students understand the past, but not only as singular dates and events, but because we live in the present but have evolved because of the past. History helps us understand ourselves, people, other societies, and events that shape our world. Instead of relying on names and dates -- rote memorization and the bottom level of Bloom's taxonomy, the trend in studying social history brings the story of the common person, the everyman, and the untold millions who have not had their stories told, but have had a tremendous impact on culture and life in both the past and the present.
One such example comes from reading letters and primary accounts of segments of the population that are not always taught in textbooks. For instance, most texts talk about the Great Depression through economic and political paradigms -- how the economy, unemployment, and government changed to adapt to the conditions of the 1930s, and how Franklin Roosevelt's many ideas changed the way people looked at the government and the government responded to the needs of the citizens. We are still impacted by some of those decisions, Social Security for instance. However, the letters that children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt took the issues of unemployment, hunger, abject poverty, and the lack of medical care from the 30,000-foot view to the personal micro viewpoint. One child, for instance, needed $7.50 to go to the doctor; another wanted $35 to go to college to better themselves. Taken individually, these are requests from real people who have real issues that can reach out through the years and touch the lives of current students.
This type of history is relevant to the classroom because it brings issues of history to life -- it shows modern students that while times have changed, people really have not. It shows them that history is not simply famous people, but made up of everyday people with everyday concerns. Moreover, many scholars believe that one of the reasons that young people do not wish to study history or social studies is that it lacks resonance for them. In particular, the emphasis on the memorization of dates has almost no correlation in learning at the and actually fails to activate a child's temporal understanding of the past, much less their interest. However, when students read primary accounts like letters, documents that show economic facts about arms buildup, government spending, letters from soldiers (Civil War, for example), they see that history is really alive, they find that the stories are relevant and exciting, and the most certainly are able to find commonality with those in the past. Uncovering these ideas, vetting sources, analyzing bias, placing events in chronological order, and understanding causality all contribute to a more historiographical manner of thinking -- both about the past, and the future. This is very important if we wish our young people to become global citizens; and is more of a mindset than a simple set of facts.
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A successful rescue mission in fierce weather that captivated the world on 23 March 2019. This is the story of the Viking Sky: a cruise ship with 1373 people on board which lost power off the coast of Norway. The strong winds and high waves made the rescue operation even more dramatic. A second ship in the vicinity running into trouble, added to the already highly challenging situation.
The world watched with distress the images that emerged from the cruise ship and followed on (social) media the awe-inspiring hoisting operation as it unfolded throughout the afternoon and the entire night. By 10:30 am the next day 479 out of the 1373 passengers were successfully evacuated by helicopter. This makes it the largest passenger ship rescue operation to date. The question for the Viking Sky ship owners will undoubtedly be “What went wrong?”. But the rescue mission is one which deserve the exact opposite “What went right?” Here’s a first-person account from Capt. Jim Nielsen and the crew of Rescue 9 highlighting the importance of the impeccable organisation behind the mission, the competence, skills, the benefit of training and a well-rested crew.
Crew of Rescue 9:
Captain - Jim H Nielsen
Copilot - Stian Nagelsen
Hoist Operator - Ivar Lobrot
Rescue Man - Erlend Birkeland
Medic - Alte Skrede
We, the crew on SAR 9, had been onshore and were preparing to fly back offshore to Statfjord B, where CHC provides Search and Rescue service for Equinor (note editor: energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway). We were relaxed and had jokingly sent our rescue man and medic out for some food so they could uphold their readiness. The payback was that they came back still eating ice-cream while we packed the rest before flight. We were all in the helicopter, just waiting for our medic, who was looking very intensely at his phone while walking to the helicopter. Minutes later – after our check was complete and we started taxiing – he would tell us about the breaking news: a cruise ship in trouble at Hustadvik. It was all over the news!
We lined up on the runway and took off. When passing 500’, the tower came up on the radio.
“SAR 9 – you are requested to proceed directly to the cruise ship”
– there was a brief moment of silence, then we replied
“Rodger – continuing right turn directly, and canceling IFR”
The tower gave us the latest coordinates and renamed us “Rescue 9” which is the callsign that indicates that we have priority. It was unspoken, but we all knew that this would be a serious matter and we all went from our relaxed mode into what we could call preparing mode. The cabin started to plan how many could be in the seats, on the floor, what they could expect in terms on injuries, number of patients, etcetera. In the cockpit, we started to calculate the time to the cruise ship, expected available people we could take onboard, endurance in the area, refueling areas and so forth. The weather was showery and wind of around 50kts, so we set course VFR along the coast and had about 1 hour and 30 minutes before arriving. We scanned the maritime emergency frequency (CH16) and our airborne frequencies. Due to the terrain we where relatively close before we could hear what was actually going on in the area. When we saw the ship for the first time, I remember the silence in the helicopter. Just like for a split second we had to digest what we actually saw.
When we saw the ship for the first time, I remember the silence in the helicopter.
Rescue 5, the CHC SAR helicopter normally stationed on Heidrun responded, and quickly gave us the layout of the situation: drop off zone for the passengers, refueling spot, and a landing area for waiting. We acknowledged and lined up behind Rescue 8, another CHC SAR helicopter normally stationed at Florø. Recue 40 from the national rescue service had just landed for refueling. At this point we were lined up and could see the movements of Viking Sky and the scope of everything.
We had just had a training flight the day before in 8,5-meter waves and 50kts of wind. Not very different from these conditions. So, the tasks separately weren’t much different than what we trained for. The big challenge was the scale of this: the Viking Sky mission included 59 hoist cycles with older passengers, and the fact that we ended up having 2 ships in distress in the same area.
We quickly briefed each other and got ready for a long night. I was flying pilot on the hoist operations, and the pilot next to me had to keep track of passengers that came onboard, check fuel, and at the same time keep an ear on the radio. He did all that and still had capacity to tell me every time the ship rolled, pitched or fishtailed in advance to give me a heads up before the ship actually moved. I was focused on the hoist operator’s guidance, keeping us safe from the ship, and keeping the people we had in the wire safe at all time. At the same time, I listened to the air to air channel to keep my situational awareness up to date, and CH 16 to stay updated on the ship’s needs. The medic was the organizer in the cabin. He had to carry some of the older passengers back in the cabin, and he started to get tired, so on the last lift we only took 15 passengers before returning to set them off.
© CHC
The workload was continuously high, and the circumstances challenging, but we managed the stress and never felt unsafe.
The ship’s movements were also different from a ship in normal forward movement. The waves this close to shore were both coming from the sea and were reflected from shore, and the ships anchors were also out which all contributed to the unfamiliar movements.
When we started the first lift, we quickly got into good routine and our teamwork worked perfectly. In just 30 minutes we had 22 persons onboard and returned to the sports hall where local emergency staff had established a reception center. When we landed and I saw all the people that came out of the helicopter and were taken care of, I was really impressed with the level of commitment.
After the first lift, we still had fuel for about 1 hour and 40 minutes and one of the other helicopters needed refueling more urgent than us, so we returned to the established waiting area and landed. ATC had taken over a more active role as “on scene coordinator”. They were able to give an estimate of when we could expect to be ready for the next lift, and they quickly established a circuit for us.
Mayday-mayday-mayday, this is Hagland Captain, we are capsizing
On our way out to the second lift at Viking Sky, we heard a second MayDay call on CH16
“Mayday-mayday-mayday, this is Hagland Captain, we are capsizing”.
In the cockpit we looked at each other with disbelief, and the first comment was a short “really?” … like is this really happening? The active role by ATC was very important in this situation as our situational awareness was split between two very special cases in such a small area with that many assets both in the air and in the water.
We could see the vessel so we rerouted and were hovering next to the second ship within minutes. Hagland Captain wanted to manually lower the anchor to avoid running onshore. They had no power and no lights, so we were on standby next to the ship until we where low on fuel. During this time, we had radio communications with ATC so they could have another helicopter ready when we left Hagland Captain.
A refueling spot had been established at a nearby school ground. This was very efficient and a factor that gave us comfort so we could focus on the hoist operation. The initial uncertainties and challenges became routine surprisingly fast. That was an advantage since it was dark now, and the weather with strong winds and showers of rain and hail made hoisting very challenging. We completed 2 more lifts. Between them we contacted our Operations center on sat phone to get an update on our replacement crew. The team at the operations center had a long night as well, and gave us the support we needed to be able to concentrate on the mission.
© Norges Røde Kors
The relief crew were planned to arrive around midnight in Kristiansund. We made the third lift, refueled and returned to Kristiansund to have the helicopter ready for the next crew. After we landed, we made all the preparations for the next crew, so they could have the best possible transit into the operation.
So, all in all, we did what we do when we train. We just did it a lot more, a lot longer and all at the same time with real people that needed our help. It pays off to “train hard and fight easy”.
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Carvana opens used car vending machine in Atlanta
By Gary Gastelu, | Fox News
(Carvana)
Better start saving your quarters now.
Online used car dealer Carvana has opened a 24-hour automobile “vending machine” in Atlanta, the first of several it plans to launch in the coming months.
The three-bay location allows customers either to pick up [SB1] cars they’ve purchased using the company’s website, or to buy one of the vehicles in stock at the location without having to deal with a car salesman.
Informational representatives are available on site, but all transactions take place via computer.
Launched earlier this year, Carvana currently maintains a fleet of cars in Winder, Ga., and sells them at a no-haggle price that company president Ernie Garcia told FoxNews.com is $1,500 cheaper on average than traditional dealers can offer.
Financing is available and local delivery is free, while buyers outside of a 75-mile radius of Atlanta pay a fee, which is $199 for up to 250 miles and can run up to about $1,000 for a coast-to-coast shipment, Garcia said.
All cars come standard with a 100-day warranty and 7-day money-back guarantee, less return shipping costs. Longer-term warranties are available at an additional cost.
Backed by the DriveTime Automobile Group, which operates over 100 conventional used car dealerships across the country, Carvana could tap into that network to expand its locations nationwide, bringing free delivery and vending machines to new markets, Garcia said.
Unfortunately, there is no actual coin-slot at the vending machine. But at five pounds per $100 in quarters, that’s probably not a bad thing.
Gary Gastelu is FoxNews.com's Automotive Editor. Follow him @garygastelu
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ExoMars 2016 en route to Mars
Publié le mercredi 16 mars 2016 , Partager
The ExoMars programme takes its name from the field of exobiology, the science that seeks to detect traces of extraterrestrial lifeforms. It will comprise two missions, the first of which was launched yesterday. The second will depart in 2018. ExoMars 2016 will insert a satellite into Mars orbit to study the planet’s atmosphere and evolution, while also providing a platform to relay telecommunications to Earth for later surface operations. Called Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), this satellite is carrying European and Russian instruments to detect any trace gases like methane or other hydrocarbons in Mars’ atmosphere. Just before its insertion into Mars orbit, TGO will release an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (EDM) that will descend by parachute to the surface. ESA has named this module Schiaparelli after the Italian astronomer who famously mapped Mars’ surface features in the 19th century. The module is equipped with sensors that will be turned on during its descent and landing. It will operate a suite of sensors on the surface to collect environmental data for four Earth days before its batteries run out, as it has no solar panels. As part of the DREAMS experiment (Dust characterization, Risk assessment and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface), the MicroARES instrument developed in France will provide the first measurements of electric fields on the surface of Mars.
ExoMars 2018 will land a Russian platform and a European rover on Mars. The platform will carry European and Russian instruments that will acquire measurements of the planet’s environment for one Mars year (687 Earth days), while the 310-kg rover will have nine scientific instruments to study the soil and subsoil. Able to drill down to a depth of two metres, this rover will collect and analyse samples that have not been exposed to the radiation and oxidizers that would otherwise destroy organic materials. CNES and French research laboratories are building two instruments on the European rover : MicroOmega, a spectrometer capable of imaging in the visible and infrared to study samples’ mineral composition ; and WISDOM, a radar to study and characterize the structure of the subsoil. France is also contributing to three other instruments—MOMA, RLS and CLUPI—being developed by other ESA member nations. CNES is also working with ESA on entry and descent studies for the 2016 lander module, is supplying visual navigation software for the 2018 rover and conducting navigation tests on the Mars test ground at its Toulouse Space Centre.
On the announcement of the successful completion of initial orbital manoeuvres, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall commented : “Mars is generating growing interest from scientists and the public. With ExoMars 2016 now on its way to Mars, Europe is showing once again that it is the vanguard of space exploration. France, CNES and our scientists and industry are proud to be playing a key role in this new adventure.”
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Australian linked to fake ‘Black Lives Matter’ Facebook page
A women holds up a placard with the slogan “Black Lives Matter” as people march in Brixton, south London to protest against police brutality in the US after two recent incidents where black men have been shot and killed by police officers (AFP pic)
SYDNEY: A high-level Australian union official was suspended Tuesday amid claims he was involved in a fake “Black Lives Matter” Facebook page that raked in thousands of dollars in donations.
Broadcaster CNN reported that the fake page had almost 700,000 followers — more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page — before it was suspended.
It allegedly ran fundraising campaigns earning more than US$100,000, purportedly for Black Lives Matters causes in the United States.
CNN claimed that some of the money was transferred to Australian bank accounts, raising new questions about the integrity of Facebook’s platform and the content hosted there.
A senior Australia’s National Union of Workers figure — who is white — was linked to the fake page and other black rights websites by the broadcaster.
The union, which represents workers across various industries, said two people had been suspended.
“The NUW has launched an investigation into claims made by a CNN report and has suspended the relevant officials pending the outcome of an investigation,” National Secretary Tim Kennedy said in a statement.
“The NUW is not involved in and has not authorised any activities with reference to claims made in CNN’s story.”
Black Lives Matter is an activist organisation set up in the United States to campaign against violence and racism against black people.
A co-founder of the movement, Patrisse Cullors, tweeted that she had complained to Facebook and Twitter about numerous fake accounts.
“These fake BLM accounts and fake BLM people literally stealing money off of Black Death is so stomach churning I can’t even begin to explain,” she said.
“We told fb over and over again to shut that shit down. And it wouldn’t. Glad it’s down now.”
The revelations come with Facebook — used by two billion people — under huge pressure globally for massive lapses in protecting personal data.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was testifying this week before the US Congress to explain how user privacy was compromised at the world’s biggest social network and how he intends to fix it.
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The Butterfly Effect (2012)
They Are The Last (2013)
Real Life Ukrainian Barbie (2013)
Fida (2004)
Monster Roll (2012)
LIQUIFY (2017)
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Mac'n'Cheese (2011)
Short film Mac'n'Cheese deals with the panic. When you find yourself running scared and running out of energy, there’s only a few options left to outrun your opponent through the southern desert. Stopping at nothing, watch these two guys wear each other out and rip through boundaries hitherto unbroken. Enjoy the ride! This two minute animation took about five months to make!
Short film Mac'n'Cheese (2011) - Stylish and Technically Stunning Movie
Somehow somebody has managed to write a plot summary for this film's IMDb page which spills over into 3 or 4 lines, which even puts windbag like me to shame since there is barely enough plot here to even get a few words together. Basically a very skinny guy is being chased by a massive brute of a guy and their chase takes them over the roofs of vehicles, through tunnels and all manner of obstacles as their superhuman pursuit takes place. See – no real plot to speak of and the film throws us right into the middle of this chase. It is very cartoony in tone since the characters are indestructible and, with the aid of a poorly judged moment of drug use in the film, they have superhuman speed too. There is an aspect of the narrative that works well right at the end, where you get some understanding of what is going on – I found this amusing and perfectly fine, but really this is all that there is in terms of plot. It really doesn't matter though because most of the film is really about the animation – and not just the technical aspect of 'look what we can do, professor' but also the really impressive style and delivery of it. The delivery of the two characters is done with great technical resources but the style in which they are shown is what won me over – with good movement but also nice touches of style in how they are shown. It ends with a nice little joke that continues into the credits and I thought was a nice touch, but ultimately this is a film to show off animation ability and style, and in that regard it works well. - bob the moo
Winner of UPC Animation Prize at the Netherlands Online Film Festival 2011 (NOFF), Best National Student Award at Playgrounds Festival 2011 and Best Chase Scene Award at Couchfest 2011.
Directed by Tom Hankins, Gijs van Kooten, Guido Puijk and Roy Nieterau (Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands)
The Chase (2012)
Kara: An Unofficial Star Wars Film (2016)
X-Story (2016)
Dji. Death Fails (2012)
Plastic Bag (2009)
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TogetherintheUK presents - The Challenges of Migration
Migration Museum at The Workshop
26 Lambeth High Street
SE1 7AG
The Challenges of Migration,
Please join TogetherintheUK at the Migration Museum on July 10th from 6-8 pm for a discussion on the challenges of making a new life in the UK.
6.00 Drinks and nibbles
6.20 Introduction to the event by Teresa Norman
6.30 Keynote speaker. Dr. Clare Gerada on insights into immigration
7.00 Panel discussion: Nazek Ramadan (Founder and Executive Director of Migrant Voice), Richard Williams (asylum and migration specialist), Charly Ngouh (author of ‘How I Won My War’), Carol Komuhangi (Innovation Manager, and D&I mentor), Karen Ang (author of Moving Matters; The Challenges and Solutions for making a new life in the UK).
8.00 Close
Address: The Migration Museum, 26 Lambeth High Street LONDON SE17AG
Nearest Tube: Vauxhall Station
explore The MIgration Museum's current Exhibition; Room to Breathe: An immersive exhibition inviting you to discover stories from generations of new arrivals to Britain. Journey through a series of rooms in which the struggles, joys, creativity and resilience of living in a new land are brought to life through audio, films, photographs and personal objects
buy ‘How I Won My War’ by Charly Ngouh and TogetherintheUK merchandise at the event.
Any questions, email: tgiuk@togetherintheUk.co.uk.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Clare Gerada’s father emigrated to the UK in the 1960s , enticed to come to help in the already struggling NHS. He served the NHS for 4 decades as a general practitioner in the East of England. Nearly 60 years later our health and social care systems rely on immigrants who help fill gaps, deliver essential services and care for patients. She will reflect on how, spurred by the divides created by Brexit, that we undervalue the enormous contribution made by immigrants to our country. She will talk from a personal perspective of her experience of working in the health service and the contribution made by our International colleagues.
Nazek Ramadan is the founder and Executive Director of Migrant Voice. She has 30 years experience running services for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, and supporting migrants to advocate for their rights. She has particular expertise in migrant-led media work including establishing the Migrant Voice newspaper and the New Londoners, the first refugee newspaper in London.
Richard Williams is a freelance asylum and migration specialist, and a Director of MigrationWork CIC, a not-for-profit consultancy. Previous roles include EU Representative for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles between 2004 and 2007. As a consultant, Williams has worked on a wide range of issues, including refused asylum seekers, the Dublin system, border monitoring and city-to-city learning about integration. Richard is an adviser to the Oxford University publication Forced Migration Review and volunteers in his home town of Brighton as Chair of the local City of Sanctuary group, Sanctuary on Sea and Trustee of the Hummingbird Refugee Project, which supports young refugees.
Charly Ngouh is a Cameroonian author, who served as a Foreign and Commonwealth soldier in the Iraq War. He was born in Cameroon in 1980 and moved to the UK in 2001 to study law. His book How I Won My War documents both family challenges, and the challenges of being an immigrant creating a new life in British society.
Carol Komuhangi is a huge contributor to TGIUK’s content, sourcing stories from a unique point of view through artists, poets and playwrights and creating video interviews with migrants about their experience of life in the UK. Burundian born, her and her family fled the genocide and settled in Uganda before moving to the UK in 2004. Passionate about equal opportunity, she spent her early career supporting international development charities as well as homegrown social enterprises in the UK. She is now an Innovation Manager in the Tech industry but continues to advocate for humanity in tech and diversity and inclusion within the workplace through mentoring underrepresented start-up founders.
Karen Ang is a social researcher who has over the last six months conducted in-depth research for TogetherintheUK. Understanding people’s beliefs and experiences is at the heart of Karen’s work. She works directly with people to create award-winning programmes based on their insights. Her report ‘Moving Matters: the challenges and solutions to creating a life the UK’ summarises insights from the literature, social listening, a focus group and in-depth interviews with migrants.
Please note that the venue has stairs and is not wheelchair accessible
For more information on TGIUK - who we are and what we do - head over to: https://www.togetherintheuk.co.uk/
TogetherintheUK presents - The Challenges of Migration at Migration Museum at The Workshop
26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG, United Kingdom
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Four Local Grand Rapids Musicians Worth Traveling For
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:00 PM by Quinn Mathews
As the station manager of Grand Rapids’ local community radio station, WYCE 88.1FM local community radio, I’m always thrilled with all the work we get to do with the local music community. At WYCE we are “A World of Music” and we have a “World” of music right here in Grand Rapids.
Here are a few local musicians that are worth traveling to Grand Rapids to check out:
Jesse Ray & the Carolina Catfish
Photo Credit: Vague Photography
Duos are always impressive, providing a full-band sound and entertainment with just two people. It’s even more impressive when the band is made up of just guitar and drums. Singer and guitarist, Jesse Ray, sounds like if Buddy Holly were alive today and just jumped on stage after downing three shots of whiskey. The duo’s music goes back to the basics of old-school rock and roll with a strong rockabilly influence and a dash of punk rock attitude. They put on a high-energy show in town often, so there’s no excuse to miss out.
The Great Ones
Photo Credit: Anna Silk
(Jeff JROB Robinson and Lady Ace Boogie)
The Grand Rapids-based hip hop group, The Great Ones, is aptly named. Both JROB and Lady Ace Boogie are accomplished solo artists, and together they take it to the next level. Their live performances are a particularly special experience. You will always hear The Great Ones with DJ Dean Martian, but they also bring along a live drummer, which adds to the intensity of the beat. If you don’t think you are not a fan of hip hop, go see this duo. You will become a fan.
Robin Connell
Photo Credit: Tori Thomas
West Michigan Jazz Society recently awarded Dr. Robin Connell with the 2017 West Michigan Jazz Musician of the Year Award, and no one deserves it more than her. Her extremely impressive career could fill this entire blog, but if you take one thing away from this, it should be how often she plays around town. I don’t know how she does it, but she keeps herself very busy by playing all over West Michigan. You have probably heard her play before while you were out on the town, and when you did, I bet you didn’t want to leave until her set was over.
The Bootstrap Boys
Photo Credit: Derek Ketchum
Bootstrap Boys
The Bootstrap Boys will take you back to Nashville in 1972. It’s old-school with this group, but not the “Patsy Cline” kind of old-school. It’s outlaw old-school. The Bootstrap Boys’ setlist will make you think of the greats - Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Johnny Cash. Go to the Tip Top Deluxe on the West Side, crack open a PBR, and get transported back in time. Who knew we could have the Deep South this far north?
Local musicians play all over town each night. Find out where to catch your favorites with Experience Grand Rapids event calendar and the WYCE concert calendar, or explore Grand Rapids' live music scene by downloading the Grand Rapids Music Trail.
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Quinn Mathews
A North Carolina Native, Quinn Mathews has spent the last two years based in Grand Rapids after spending the last nine years based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been involved with WYCE over the past year hosting a show on Mondays from 3pm to 6pm, and developing the show GR Live. Quinn is thrilled to bring his experience in music to help encourage music lovers to go out and see live performances and promote Grand Rapids as a music destination. "If my interview with a band can bring out a few more people to their concert– I'll consider it a success."
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6 data management revelations from the world of online travel in 2015
As data becomes more accessible and commoditized, more travel brands can join the fun but they will have to work harder too
Big data is no longer a buzzword, it’s hit the mainstream and in 2016 everybody will have an opportunity to join in the fun.
6. Technology is helping big data to become a commodity
“Big data analyses will become a commodity,” says Carlos Sánchez, Sr. Manager Big Data Analytics, Product Innovation at Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
This is down to improved analysis tools so that even the non-experts will be able to deliver key insights from the data.
Big data analyses will become a commodity
- Carlos Sánchez, Sr. Manager Big Data Analytics, Product Innovation, Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Take Tom Spagnola, CheapOair’s SVP of Supplier Relations. By analysing CheapOair’s year-over-year data, taking into consideration factors like economy, current events and so on he has been able to formulate a number of trends and predictions for 2016 including:
A 10% increase in revenue from online travel bookings from $483bn this year
Ancillary revenues that are expected to exceed $59.2 billion in 2016
Double-digit growth in the sales of bundled vacation packages
5. Collaboration is the new king
In 2015 Sánchez was happy to see further collaboration between IT and big data teams.
“By combining this expertise and creating a central data repository that meets all the security and performance requirements, it’s now possible to successfully run data analysis,” Sánchez says.
This is important, says Tim Gunstone, EyeforTravel MD, because data and exactly what travel brands do with it is going to be the single biggest competitive edge in 2016.
4. Goodbye firewalls: data must become more accessible
Going forward, Sánchez hopes that data will continue to become more accessible.
“To make the most of our insights and deliver the products and services travellers expect, we need to make sure it’s not hidden behind firewalls that make it difficult to extract,” he says.
3. The right data streams matter
Increasingly companies are recognising that it’s not necessarily about ‘big’ data, but instead using all the ‘right’ available data streams to produce results in good time.
“Those who use big data to solve specific business problems, and who embed it across their organisation so all departments benefit, will begin to reap the rewards of their data analysis efforts,” says Sánchez.
These companies will be the one’s to shape the future of travel, while others will fall behind their competitors; they could even disappear.
2. Data is the key to customer satisfaction
Says Kate Williams, Director, Global Communications at KAYAK: “Travellers are hungry for information and insights that will help them make the best travel decisions.”
Travellers are hungry for information and insights that will help them make the best travel decisions
Kate Williams, Director, Global Communications, KAYAK
This is one of the reasons for Kayak’s recent partnership with Routehappy, which, says Williams “gives users another layer of helpful data as they are searching for flights and making their travel plans”.
Routehappy’s Scores & Amenities data means consumers can understand exactly what is being offered on a flight before booking. The ability to choose a flight based on the type of aircraft, seat, Wifi, entertainment, in-seat power outlets, and fresh food will mean airlines will have to work harder to impress – something that’s been lacking in the airline space!
1.Data privacy isn’t going away
With the Apple store privacy breach in October, which revealed that hundreds of apps were capable of collecting user’s data, the privacy issue is here to stay. Regulation due to come into force in Europe in early 2016 will strengthen the rights of consumers and require organisations to work harder to justify how they use customer data. So there is growing pressure, says Alastair Barter, a Senior Policy Officer at the UK Information Commissioner's Officefor firms to reassess their data and privacy policies.
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Howard Croft column: Not convinced car safety feature is right approach
Pedestrian warning light similar to the feature fitted on BMW cars.
Published: 18:30 Saturday 15 July 2017
We are a two car family. I have a 1969 Morris Traveller in British racing green, much admired in my locality, but with little in the way of driver support systems. A fuel gauge that gives vague and unreliable readings and a red light that when lit indicates trouble ahead, also vague. That is it.
Mrs Croft’s car is a different animal: a sleek triumph of German engineering boasting a cockpit information system – visual and audio – that baffles as much as it reassures and still, after more than two years, surprises, as it did this week. An intrusive alarm sounded and onto the display screen there appeared the following warning: “Pedestrian warning system fault! Do not open bonnet! Drive at moderate speed! Drive to the nearest BMW service!” Accompanying this was a primitive graphic of a stick figure about to disappear under the wheels of a car, presumably Mrs Croft’s. Off we went at a brisk pace to the dealership.
We were at once assured that we were in no immediate danger or not much at least; a sensor located low down at the front of the car had failed and should be replaced. It seems that this safety feature is intended to protect the occupants of the car in the event of a collision with a pedestrian. In such an incident it is common for the unfortunate fellow to be thrown through the car windscreen causing distress and possible injury to the driver. To avoid this, the sensor alerts the bonnet catch which instantly disengages, the bonnet lifts and scoops up the pedestrian and flicks him (or her – see below) up over the top of the car, well clear of the windscreen. And all is well.
But all is not well for the pedestrian who presumably lands in front of the immediately following vehicle where a grim fate awaits him. Unless, that is, it’s another high-ticket BMW similarly equipped, in which case the process is repeated. I am aware of how much injury can be caused by even a medium-sized creature being hurled through a car windscreen, a badger say, or a turkey. Imagine, then, the risk presented by a little old lady, who might weigh eight stone or more, coming at you in that way.
Now I don’t know how you feel about this, but I am not entirely convinced that this is the right approach, although I accept that my reservations may be coloured by fond memories of my grandmothers. Would it not be fairer if the bonnet were designed instead to make a lateral movement and flick granny aside onto the grass verge? The fact that the car we are talking about is of German manufacture is neither here nor there – I dare say that French car manufacturers incorporate similar safety features that reflect their national priorities – and nor am I making a BREXIT point. But it does make you think.
Still on matters of traffic, I noticed the other day a waste collection vehicle (dust carts we used to call them) with the now familiar warning on the front “Operatives Working at Rear”, but on the back another warning read “Caution: Workmen”. What is going on? Is there some ideological battle going on in the council responsible for this dust cart, between those that want to call a spade a spade and not a shovel, or between those who disapprove of adjectives becoming nouns and those who like nothing better? Although I do think that the grammar purists have lost that battle as far as “operative” is concerned, the noun definition being given now in some up-to-date dictionaries, but confined to those with special skills. Special, of course being the operative word. I am not saying that there is no skill involved in pulling a lever to cause a wheelie bin to be hoisted and tipped, but not special I would have thought. I mean, I could do that
These trendy uses and abuses of language do seem to originate in the offices of local government and Human Resources Directorates, (previously known as Personnel Departments) where novelty is prized more highly than competence, and I think that they should be required to be clear about their policies. Or is that too big an ask?
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(PS4) Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (R2/ENG)
Infinity Ward, the award-winning studio that helped create the Call of Duty® franchise, reaches new heights with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Infinite Warfare returns to the roots of the franchise with large-scale war, epic battles, and cinematic, immersive military storytelling and takes players on a journey from Earth to beyond our atmosphere.
Release Date: 4 November 2016
Genre: First Person Shooter
Publisher: Activision
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Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare delivers something for every Call of Duty fan with three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies. Delivering a rich and engaging narrative in a setting unlike anything to date in a Call of Duty game, the campaign is a return to the franchise’s gritty, military roots throughout new environments never before seen in the franchise. The player will embark on a classic war story about grand scale warfare; all set in a grounded future where human conflict has spread throughout our solar system. Multiplayer brings ground-breaking gameplay innovations to deliver the deepest and most engaging Call of Duty experience to date. The title introduces stunning, never before seen, multi-planetary environments, new weaponry, and all-new player abilities to Call of Duty. In addition, the new cooperative zombies experience will thrill players with an original direction featuring fun and unique gameplay, all wrapped into an entertaining narrative sure to excite fans.
RETURN TO CLASSIC, LARGE-SCALE WAR
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will take players on an unforgettable journey as they engage in battles from Earth to beyond our atmosphere against a relentless, enemy faction that threatens our very way of life. It’s grand scale war and hallmark Call of Duty action with memorable characters, rich emotional arcs, and stunning new environments, all within an epic new setting.
A CALL OF DUTY CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare puts storytelling front and center, in a deeply engaging narrative. It features jaw-dropping set-pieces and blockbuster cinematic moments, while also delivering a gripping portrayal of war that harkens back to the roots of the franchise. Infinity Ward also breaks new ground by thrusting the player into wartime leadership as Captain Reyes, a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot, who takes the helm of the Retribution, one of Earth’s last remaining warships. In a time of unthinkable hardships, Reyes must lead the remnants of coalition forces against a relentless foe in a war that spans our solar system.
FIGHTING A FANATICAL ENEMY
The Settlement Defense Front (SetDef) represents a splinter group of insurgents that broke away from the United Nations Space Alliance during a war of secession, years ago. In the world of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, our planet has been stripped of its natural assets through population growth and industrial expansion. The people of Earth now rely upon colonies throughout the solar system to mine planets and asteroids for necessary fuel and other resources. The SetDef is a fascist power, comprised of brutal and militant radicals, toughened by the extreme conditions of offworld environments. They seek to control those outposts and their wealth, putting a stranglehold on the countries of Earth. After years of uneasy stalemate, diplomatic relations are strained, and it will take only the slightest nudge to lead to full-scale war.
GEAR UP FOR INTENSE MULTIPLAYER
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer combines a fluid momentum based movement system, player focused map design, deep customization, and a brand new combat system to create an intense gameplay experience where every second counts. It’s an incredibly deep experience where everything – including weapons, equipment, lethals and tacticals – has been built around various, distinct types of play styles, and where players have the power to combine them however they want. Infinite Warfare also introduces the most advanced tools of war: Combat Rigs, high-tech equipment, and unique prototype weapons.
COMBAT RIGS
Combat Rigs (Rigs) are the ultimate combat systems. Each Rig is a cutting-edge, tactical combat suit worn by the player and is built for totally different styles of play. Designed as the cornerstone to a player’s loadout and play style, Rigs allow for a high level of power and customization through their selectable ‘Payload’ and ‘Trait.’ A Payload is either a high power weapon, or ability that opens up new strategic gameplay. Traits are persistent abilities which reinforce and complement each playstyle. Each Rig is outfitted with 3 distinct Payloads and 3 unique Traits to choose from before entering combat. Choosing a Rig provides strategic options for players, as Rigs provide a customized suite of tactical options for every engagement.
ZOMBIES IN SPACELAND
Zombies in Spaceland transports you back in time to a 1980s amusement park complete with wild attractions, an awesome arcade, and a funky, functioning rollercoaster. In this all-new zombies co-op experience, new gameplay bring brand-new team mechanics, the After Life Arcade, and Fate & Fortune Cards into the mix. And, of course, there's a rad 80s soundtrack. Fan-favorite features return, including hidden Easter eggs, awesome power ups, crazy perks, and radical weapons.
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The Call Of Duty®: Infinite Warfare - Jackal Assault VR Experience immerses fans in the cockpit and puts them in control of a Jackal, the personal multi-role fighter jet in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Exhilarating and action-packed, players quickly jump into combat when attacked during a routine training mission.
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Federal judge keeps sex assault lawsuit against Michigan State alive
In the lawsuit a woman outlined her gang rape by Michigan State University basketball players and said MSU counselors told her not to report it.
Federal judge keeps sex assault lawsuit against Michigan State alive In the lawsuit a woman outlined her gang rape by Michigan State University basketball players and said MSU counselors told her not to report it. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2018/11/14/michigan-state-sexual-assault-lawsuit/2000819002/
David Jesse, Detroit Free Press Published 1:13 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2018 | Updated 5:11 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2018
Students walk past the statue of John A. Hannah, MSU’s 12th president, on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing in 2015. (Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo
A federal judge has tossed an attempt by Michigan State University to get a sexual assault lawsuit thrown out.
In the suit, a female student alleged she was gang-raped by MSU basketball players and then told by members of MSU's counseling center not to report it.
Judge Paul Maloney issued the ruling Wednesday, one day after a hearing in federal court in Kalamazoo.
The judge also ordered the woman to file an amended complaint against MSU. That would allow the woman's attorney to clarify her argument that MSU was negligent.
"The Court once again emphasizes that Plaintiff must plead specific factual allegations to raise a plausible claim that Michigan State University had a custom or practice violative of Title IX, and that the policy bore a causal connection to the harm alleged as required under the pertinent case law," the judge wrote.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in April, claims three Michigan State basketball players raped a student off-campus in 2015 one week after the Final Four loss to Duke, and the university's counseling center coerced the woman not to report it to authorities.
The woman never reported the alleged sexual assault to police, said Karen Truszkowski, the woman’s attorney. But according to the lawsuit, the woman did report the incident to a counselor at the Michigan State University Counseling Center, which she claims failed to properly advise her and even implied it would not be in her "best interest to report the incident to law enforcement."
In response to the suit, MSU issued a public statement detailing the woman's visits to the counseling center. After the Detroit Free Press published an article pointing out the statement likely violated federal privacy laws, MSU apologized for it.
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In previous court filings, MSU argued it can't be held responsible for the rape.
"Plaintiff’s allegations against John Does 1-3, if true, constitute outrageous criminal conduct. But while Plaintiff’s assault was tragic, MSU did not cause it. MSU is simply not liable for the effects of an assault committed by someone else, on property not owned by MSU, and in circumstances that were not under MSU’s control," MSU lawyers wrote.
The lawyers also argued MSU's counseling center acted appropriately.
"Here, Plaintiff made the report to MSU’s Counseling Center and Sexual Assault Program, which are confidential reporting resources with an obligation not to disclose information about Plaintiff’s assault. Further, even if MSU had actual notice of the alleged assault, Plaintiff does not allege that she ever requested that MSU take any action that it did not take, so its response was not clearly unreasonable. She also did not experience any further harassment after the initial assault, so she cannot show that MSU subjected her to harassment."
The woman alleges she was at Harper’s Bar when the Spartans’ basketball team arrived after midnight. One of the players offered to buy her a drink and asked whether she would like to meet “other guys” from the team. The woman, who was a sports journalism major, alleges one of the players then invited her to a party at an apartment and one player “lied” and told the woman her roommate was on her way to the party.
The lawsuit says the woman was having a difficult time holding her glass, though she said she did not have a lot to drink. She then accepted a ride to the party from two players — the party was at one of their off-campus apartments — and there was no party and her roommate was not there.
The lawsuit alleges the woman “was feeling discombobulated” and tried to send a text but could not control her thumbs and believed she may have been drugged. Then the first player allegedly pulled her into a bedroom and told her, “You are mine for the night.”
According to the lawsuit, the woman said she was forcefully thrown facedown onto the bed and held so she could not move while the second player raped her from behind. The woman was crying and could not speak, her lawsuit claims, and she did not consent to the activity.
The lawsuit alleges the first player and a third player then took turns raping her after the second player finished. The woman claims she does not remember anything until waking up on a couch a few hours later, then she called a taxi back to her dorm. There, her roommate told her she did not know about a party.
The woman reported the rape to a counselor at the Michigan State University Counseling Center on April 20, 2015, and completed an initial intake and assessment. When she disclosed to the counselor that the three men who allegedly raped her were MSU basketball players, the female counselor’s demeanor reportedly changed and she told the alleged victim she needed another person in the room with them. According to the lawsuit, it was not clear who the additional person was or why the person was being brought into the room.
According to the lawsuit, the MSU Counseling Center staffers then “made it clear to Plaintiff that if she chose to notify the police, she faced an uphill battle that would create anxiety and unwanted media attention and publicity as had happened with many other female students who were sexually assaulted by well-known athletes.” The staff members, per the court filing, then advised the woman they had seen a lot of these cases with “guys with big names” and the best thing to do is to “just get yourself better,” implying to the woman it would not be in her best interest to report the incident to law enforcement.
The woman’s suit claims she was not advised to have a physical exam, seek medical treatment or have STD or pregnancy tests. It also alleges she was not notified of her federal Title IX rights, protections, and accommodations.
“Plaintiff was expressly told by MSUCC staff that ‘if you pursue this, you are going to be swimming with some really big fish,’ ” the lawsuit alleges.
Contact David Jesse: 313-222-8851 or djesse@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter: @reporterdavidj
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Temperature-dependent respiration-growth relations in ancestral maize cultivars
Shoots from 4- to 6-day old seedlings of seven ancestral or old cultivars of Zea mays L. were placed in a calorimeter. Dark metabolic heat rate (q) and CO2 production rate (RCO2) were measured at nine temperatures (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and 45 °C). Temperature dependencies of q and RCO2 were used to model response of both growth and substrate carbon conversion...
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wildland shrubs, genetics, biodiversity, disturbance, ecophysiology, community ecology
In: McArthur, E. Durant; Fairbanks, Daniel J., comps. Shrubland ecosystem genetics and biodiversity: proceedings; 2000 June 13-15; Provo, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-21. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 276-279.
Respiratory and physiological characteristics in subpopulations of Great Basin cheatgrass
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is a dominant weed that has increased the frequency of wildfire in the Great Basin since its introduction approximately 106 years ago. Characteristics of respiratory metabolism were examined in eleven subpopulations from different habitats. Seeds from each subpopulation were germinated (4mm radicle) and metabolic heat rates (q) and...
V. Wallace McCarlie; Lee D. Hansen; Bruce N. Smith
Responses of plant growth and metabolism to environmental variables predicted from laboratory measurements
The Arrhenius activation energies, and therefore temperature coefficients, for rates of catabolic production of ATP and for anabolic use of ATP differ. Because the intracellular concentration of ATP and the phosphorylation potential must be controlled within a narrow range for cell survival, a mechanism must exist to balance these rates during temperature variation in...
Lee D. Hansen; Bruce N. Smith; Richard S. Criddle; J. N. Church
Effects of salinity and temperature on respiratory metabolism of Salicornia utahensis from a Great Basin playa
Plants that live in the desert playas of the Great Basin must simultaneously tolerate very high concentrations of salt and high temperature. This study characterizes the respiratory metabolism of one species growing in this environment. An isothermal calorimetric method was used to measure the dark metabolic heat rate (q) and CO2 production rate (RCO2) of stem tissue...
Lyneen C. Harris; M. Ajmal Khan; Jiping Zou; Bruce N. Smith; Lee D. Hansen
Microcalorimetric studies on metabolic and germination response to temperature for three populations of winterfat (Eurotia lanata)
Eurotia lanata (Pursh) Moq. (winterfat) is a boreal cold-desert subshrub, seldom more than 2 feet tall, that thrives in dry climates at cool temperatures. Diaspore collections from Matador, Saskatchewan, Canada; Pine Bluffs, Wyoming; and Sterling, Colorado, were cleaned and placed on moistened filter paper in petri dishes maintained at 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 °C to study...
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Sixty years of management on a small longleaf pine forest
A management demonstration in a 40-acre tract of second-growth longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) had its 60th anniversary in 2008. A demonstration was initiated by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948 on the Escambia Experimental Forest in south Alabama. At the time, the management goal for this Farm Forty was to produce high-quality poles and logs on...
Rebecca J. Barlow; John S. Kush; William D. Boyer
In: Guldin, James M., ed. 2013. Proceedings of the 15th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-175. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 163-165.
Restoring a legacy: longleaf pine research at the Forest Service Escambia Experimental Forest
Longleaf pine ecosystems are a distinct part of the forest landscape in the southeastern USA. These biologically diverse ecosystems, the native habitat of numerous federally listed species, once dominated more than 36.4 million ha but now occupy only 1.4 million ha of forested land in the region. The Escambia Experimental Forest was established in 1947 through a 99-...
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Escambia Experimental Forest, Alabama, longleaf pine, long-term studies
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This smartphone app may help treat anorexia
A smartphone app-based therapy can help anorexic people restore their eating habits and regain normal body weight, scientists say.
PTI | Jun 15, 2019, 12:15AM IST
London, Jun 14: A smartphone app-based therapy can help anorexic people restore their eating habits and regain normal body weight, scientists say. The approach is based on the theory that slow eating and excessive physical exertion, both hallmarks of anorexia, are evolutionarily conserved responses to short food supply that can be triggered by dieting -- and reversed by practicing normal eating.
Researchers from Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggest that eating disorders should not be considered as mental disorders.
"Anorexic patients can normalise their eating rate by adjusting food intake to feedback from a smartphone app," said Per Sodersten, lead author of the research in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
"And in contrast to failing standard treatments, most regain a normal body weight, their health improves, and few relapse," said Sodersten.
Attempts to treat anorexia as a mental illness have largely failed, researchers said. "The standard treatment worldwide, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), targets cognitive processes thought to maintain the disorder," they said.
The rate of remission from eating disorders is at most 25 per cent one year after CBT, with unknown outcomes in the long-term. Psychoactive drugs have proven even less effective.
According to Sodersten, we need to flip the perspective: to target eating behaviours that maintain dysfunctional cognitive processes.
"In striking similarity to human anorexics, rats and mice given food only once a day begin to increase their running activity and decrease their food intake further to the point at which they lose a great deal of body weight and can eventually die," said Sodersten.
More recently, the theory has been elaborated and validated by studies of brain function.
"We find that chemical signalling in the starved brain supports the search for food, rather than eating itself," said Sodersten.
To prove that the evolutionary perspective works in practice, the control of eating behaviour is outsourced to a machine that provides feedback on how quickly to eat.
"Subjects eat food from a plate that sits on a scale connected to their smartphone. The scale records the weight loss of the plate during the meal, and via an app creates a curve of food intake, meal duration and rate of eating," said Sodersten.
"At regular intervals, a rating scale appears on the screen and the subject is asked to rate their feeling of fullness," he said.
"A reference curve for eating rate and a reference curve for the feeling of fullness are also displayed on the screen of the smartphone. The subject can thus adapt their own curves in real time to the reference curves, which are based on eating behaviour recorded in healthy controls," he added.
Through this feedback, patients learn to visualise what normal portions of food look like and how to eat at a normal rate.
The method has now been used to treat over 1,500 patients to remission by practicing eating.
"The rate of remission is 75 per cent in on average one year of treatment, the rate of relapse is 10 per cent over five years of follow-up and no patient has died," Sodersten said.
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Home › Gilbert + Tobin assists Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Natixis in AirTrunk debt financing
Gilbert + Tobin assists Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Natixis in AirTrunk debt financing
Gilbert + Tobin (G+T) has assisted global financial institutions Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Natixis in the S$450 million syndicated debt financing to AirTrunk – a leading provider of hyperscale data centres in the Asia-Pacific region – to fund its expansion across Asia and to build the largest neutral data centre in Singapore (at 60 megawatts).
This is the second major transaction G+T has been involved in for AirTrunk; G+T advised a lending syndicate in August 2018 that raised A$850 million to fund AirTrunk’s major expansion in Australia.
G+T acted for Natixis, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, for the Singapore financing. The G+T team assisted the banks in a competitive tender process and consisted of Banking + Infrastructure partners John Schembri, Adela Smith and Robert Trowbridge, supported by lawyers James Frixou, Brent Thompson, and consultants Lisa Hamilton and Mark Nichol.
Partner Adela Smith said, “We are proud to have been involved in this milestone transaction for AirTrunk and its financiers, which involved complex structuring on a tight timetable. We were able to assist the lenders in delivering a unique financing package which allows AirTrunk to continue to grow its operations across the Asia-Pacific region.”
Other counsel for the lenders involved on the transaction included Linklaters (Singapore), Lee & Lee (Singapore) and Conyers Dill & Pearman (Cayman Islands) who advised on the Singaporean and Cayman law aspects of the transaction, respectively. Norton Rose Fulbright, Rajah & Tann and Grant Samuel acted for AirTrunk.
This deal cements G+T’s place as a leader in advising on the most complex cross-border finance transactions in Australia and the Asia Pacific, and the team’s deep understanding of infrastructure assets. G+T’s deal team proved that such financings can be run seamlessly across jurisdictions, providing value and efficiency for sponsors aiming to reduce the amount of lead time required for execution.
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GMH denies retaliation against Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro
The hospital denied allegations the doctor made at a legislative public hearing.
GMH denies retaliation against Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro The hospital denied allegations the doctor made at a legislative public hearing. Check out this story on guampdn.com: https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2018/06/12/gmh-says-actions-against-dr-shimabukuro-arent-retaliation/693342002/
Pacific Daily News Published 2:46 p.m. ChT June 12, 2018 | Updated 3:48 p.m. ChT June 12, 2018
Dr. Kozue Shimubukuro, right, reads her written statement alleging mismanagement, corruption and politicking at Guam Memorial Hospital, while Dr. Jerone Landstrom, left, looks on, during Monday's public hearing on a bill seeking to repeal a 2 percent sales tax law before it takes into effect on Oct. 1. The sales tax would have given GMH about $30 million a year in dedicated funding source to address its perennial operational shortfall.(Photo: Haidee Eugenio/PDN)
Guam Memorial Hospital held a press conference Tuesday afternoon in response to allegations of financial mismanagement and retaliation.
Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro made the allegations at a legislative public hearing Monday.
Shimabukuro said at the hearing that GMH is losing millions of dollars because of mismanagement and corruption, and is being used as a political pawn. Shimabukuro was among those who testified on Sen. Mike San Nicolas' bill to repeal the recently approved 2 percent sales tax, a portion of which — about $30 million a year — is supposed to subsidize the hospital.
Shimabukuro gave a lengthy testimony that included what she described as ultimate retaliation by removing her administrative duties, and GMH officials lying under oath to senators on May 2 about her removal from her office.
"I can assure you, it was absolutely not a personnel matter," she said.
Watch GMH's management rebut her allegations in this recorded livestream.
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