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Dining & Wine|Culture, Staged on a Plate
Dining & Wine | Restaurants
Culture, Staged on a Plate
NYT Critic’s Pick
Italian, Seafood
240 Central Park South, Midtown
By SAM SIFTON OCT. 20, 2009
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Credit Michael Falco for The New York Times
THIS recession’s over. At least that’s the message the knights in white broadcloth are sending out at Marea, the elegant Italianate restaurant Chris Cannon and Michael White opened this spring in the space on Central Park South that used to be San Domenico. Cue the prosecco. Take a look at that Dover sole!
Here is Sumner Redstone scowling at shadows. There is Henry Kravis sitting like Dorian Gray. Everyone between them looks low-slung and comfortable in butter-soft chairs, 125 of them, with the M104 bus swinging by the plate-glass windows up front, street lights shifting into red against the distant darkness of Central Park. It is all very pleasant and warm: rosewood on the walls; silver-dipped conches and nautiluses on the window sills. That bar back is honey onyx.
Restaurants are culture as sure as music or paintings. They say something about who we are. So never mind the bold-faced names, those old familiar faces. Civilized people on the subway home from the Met talk about opera, not who has seats in the parterre box. Marea says, settle down. When the market was low, we spent like crazies and now look wise. You like to eat? Watch what is going to happen to you.
The very first item on the menu at Marea is ricci, a piece of warm toast slathered with sea urchin roe, blanketed in a thin sheet of lardo, and dotted with sea salt. It offers exactly the sensation as kissing an extremely attractive person for the first time — a bolt of surprise and pleasure combined. The salt and fat give way to primal sweetness and combine in deeply agreeable ways. The feeling lingers on the tongue and vibrates through the body. Not bad at $14 a throw — and there are two on each plate.
Mr. White arrived in New York in 2002 as the chef at Fiamma in SoHo, and showed himself to be an extraordinary practitioner of pasta. (At the unlovely Vento in the meatpacking district, he made a mean veal trotter.) Later, he teamed up with Mr. Cannon to make Alto a shrine to northern Italian food and L’Impero, now Convivio, a gallery for the best of that nation’s south. He cooks Italian food as if it were purely American: big and bold.
While Marea is a seafood restaurant, it is not one that seeks to place a divide between that which swims and that which walks. It is perhaps more accurate to call it a restaurant inspired by seafood — but by no means in thrall to it.
Halibut arrives with a little more lardo mixed in with its retinue of Manila clams, sweet corn and spigarelli (like a mild broccoli rabe), and a chili oil that might as well be fresh-squeezed sopressata. Fusilli come with a sauce made of octopus braised in red wine — and thickened by bone marrow. The marrow would be gild on a lily if it weren’t so flavorful, a more neutral demi-glace that is the perfect pairing for (who knew!) octopus.
And the restaurant’s one beef offering, a sirloin from the terrific Creekstone Farms outfit, dry-aged 50 days, grilled rare and served with more of that marrow cut into a bread salad, would do epic battle with the beef at any steakhouse in town.
But we get ahead of ourselves. The menu at Marea is divided into sections; diners may order a four-course meal for $89, plus perhaps a few add-ons for the table. That ricci, for instance, or a zeppole made of seaweed, shrimp and chickpeas that ought to be what people get when they order zeppole at street fairs.
There is as well a crudo menu — and a crudo bar along the restaurant’s east side, with seats for 20. It is not part of the prix fixe, but a geoduck clam with fresh chilies and lemon helps explain in one bite why men would dive amid huge swells to retrieve the things from the angry Pacific. You might also visit with the tuna and creamy (though creamless) oyster crema, with crisp bits of artichoke, or a hunk of striped bass acting as pack animal for a load of sturgeon caviar, drizzled in mussel vinaigrette.
Mr. White treats antipasti as character studies. Knuckles of lobster arrive commingled with torn hunks of burrata cheese, the creaminess of both (literal in the case of the cheese, figurative on the part of the lobster) melding into eggplant cooked down as if it were mushrooms, with a grassy hit of basil on top. Monkfish cheeks orbit a slow-poached egg with a loamy mushroom ragù.
Worthwhile pastas, in addition to the fusilli, include a rich spaghetti with crab, sea urchin and basil. There is sweet cavatelli with red shrimp, controne-bean purée and rosemary, a loose cotechino sausage cut into risotto, silky with melted cod belly. You may pass on the seppia and shrimp ragù, mysterious as it is; cuttlefish, also part of an unexciting grilled main course, are not up to the treatments Mr. White puts them through.
The main courses —secondi di pesce, the menu calls them — are the restaurant’s weakness. After the brilliance of the appetizer course and the winning flavors of those pastas, it is difficult to maintain focus on an architectural marvel involving porcini-dusted sea scallops. Adriatic seafood soup is laden with what might be the entire window display at Citarella. Too much.
Better to hit shore for the steak (or a crisp roast guinea hen with asparagus) or upgrade into the whole-fish treatments: a few simply grilled langoustines, for instance, paired with a salsa verde, or that Dover sole with lemon. You want a simple sentence after the complex ones.
Wine? You ought to have lots. Mr. Cannon has, with Francesco Grosso, conceived a fascinating, lengthy list. It may run unfamiliar to nonobsessives: lots of bracing whites heavy on coastal terroir, light reds good with fish. If you follow the Mark Bittman principle, which argues that the best way to order wine is to give the sommelier a price point and a challenge to match the bottle to the table’s order, you ought to do well. Service at the restaurant is superb: helpful, friendly and apron-clad rather than black-tied and imperious. (Also knowing: I was dining anonymously, but was recognized at the door.)
Heather Bertinetti is Marea’s pastry chef. She doesn’t fool around. Hers is a rich torrone gelato with black cocoa cake; she makes a mean crisp-polenta number with blackberry compote. Order the affogato, though, for maximum wow: a float of zabaglione gelato with small pours of espresso and amaro on top. This is iced coffee for the smart set, fantastic to eat and drink.
Marea is an ambitious restaurant, more so than any Mr. Cannon and Mr. White have opened. It is also in many ways a casual one, unfussy, as welcoming as a luxe clubhouse. It is not cheap nor meant to be. Art in Manhattan can be like that. Life is balance. You read the notices for “Bye Bye Birdie” on Broadway? Better dinner here than tickets there, plus what you’d spend at Sardi’s for cannelloni and vodka.
240 Central Park South (Broadway), Columbus Circle; (212) 582-5100, marea-nyc.com.
ATMOSPHERE A casually elegant room with quiet self-confidence features warm lighting, luxe materials, a gauzy view.
SOUND LEVEL The tinkle of silver on china, an occasional roar of laughter.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Ricci; lobster and burrata; slow-poached egg; fusilli; spaghetti; Dover sole; steak; langoustines.
WINE LIST A wide-ranging, diverse and sporadically affordable list of wines, many Italian, that match well with a menu that is largely seafood.
PRICE RANGE Appetizers, $8 to $21; pastas, $24 to $32; main courses, $35 to $47. Four-course prix fixe, $89.
HOURS Lunch, Monday to Friday, noon to 2:30 p.m. Dinner, Monday to Thursday, 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5 to 11:30 p.m.; Sunday, 5 to 10 p.m.
RESERVATIONS Recommended for the main dining room.
CREDIT CARDS All major cards.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Steps to dining room; wheelchair users can enter restaurant through a side door. The bar is on street level.
WHAT THE STARS MEAN Ratings range from zero to four stars and reflect the reviewer’s reaction to food, ambience and service, with price taken into consideration. Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
240 Central Park South
(Broadway)
marea-nyc.com
Sound The tinkle of silver on china, an occasional roar of laughter.
Menu singlepage.com/marea
Drinks and Wine A wide-ranging, diverse and sporadically affordable list of wines, many Italian, that match well with a menu that is largely seafood.
Price $$$$ (very expensive)
Open Lunch, Monday to Friday, noon to 2:30 p.m. Dinner, Monday to Thursday, 5:30 to 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday lrunch, 11:30-2:30, Dinner 5 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Reservations Accepted
Wheelchair Access Wheelchair Accessible
What the Stars Mean Ratings range from zero to four stars. Zero is poor, fair or satisfactory. One star, good. Two stars, very good. Three stars, excellent. Four stars, extraordinary.
This information was last updated: July 17, 2019
This restaurant is rated 3 stars.
A version of this review appears in print on October 21, 2009, on Page D6 of the New York edition with the headline: Culture, Staged on a Plate. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Inside Marea
The Morning After OCT. 21, 2009
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Fashion|The Agony of the Digital Tease
Command Z
The Agony of the Digital Tease
CreditCreditTom Bloom
By Jessica Bennett
There was the breadcrumb dropped on Valentine’s Day, by the ex-girlfriend of my friend. The two women hadn’t spoken in months, after a prolonged breakup, and the ex was now seeing somebody new.
Yet there she was, on the day of Hallmark-themed romance, “liking” my friend’s Instagram photo … from three weeks ago. Which meant she had to have been scrolling through her feed.
There was the friend, a digital strategist who, every few days, would receive a “sup” from a recruiter, except that the recruiter would never set up a time to meet. Once, my friend returned to his desk to find a “failed Google hangout” notification from this person, to which the recruiter later messaged to apologize for the “butt dial.” My friend Victor Pineiro asked: “Was this a new recruiting tactic? Or just specific to this guy?”
I’ve had my own share of breadcrumbers: the editor at the publication where I was vying for a job who repeatedly viewed my LinkedIn page (which I could see) but never messaged me; the guy I went out with a couple of times who continued to text me every few weeks to “check in” months after we stopped seeing each other.
Alicia Winokur, a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, said: “The worst type of breadcrumber is the one who resurfaces every six months, and like the Loch Ness monster, you almost can’t believe this creature has come back into your life. But there he is, saying, ‘Hey, I was just thinking about you.’”
“It’s like a meerkat poking its head up,” she added. “But not nearly as cute.”
For anyone who’s ever dated, or maintained any kind of relationship, in the digital age, you have probably known a breadcrumber. They communicate via sporadic noncommittal, but repeated messages — or breadcrumbs — that are just enough to keep you wondering but not enough to seal the deal (whatever that deal may be).
Breadcrumbers check in consistently with a romantic prospect, but never set up a date. They pique your interest, of that prospective job, perhaps, by reminding you repeatedly that it exists, but never set up the interview.
Breadcrumbers are one step shy of ghosters, who disappear without a trace, but are in more frequent contact than a person giving you the fade. On the hierarchy of digital communication, the breadcrumber is the lowest form.
“It really is a cousin of the ‘friend zone,’” said Rachel Simmons, an author and leadership coach at Smith College. “It’s about relegating a person to a particular dead end, but one that still keeps them hanging on in some way.”
One can presume that the term breadcrumbing came from the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, at least according to Urban Dictionary. In the tale, Hansel snags a slice of bread in order to leave a trail of breadcrumbs so he and his sister, Gretel, can find their way home. Hansel’s breadcrumbs were a bust (a bird ate them) but the term was adopted by early computer programmers to describe those little navigation tabs that lead you back to home.
The breadcrumbs we’re talking about do the opposite. They lead you astray.
Among the different types of breadcrumbers: link-baiters, who try to entice you with a text message of a URL, but without providing any context or setup; bitmojiers, or their cousins, snapchatters, who, rather than communicate with actual words, prefer to remain ambiguous with an exaggerated cartoon of themselves holding up a sign that says, “LOL.” (LOL to what, though?)
“God forbid you say ‘How are you?’” said Hilary Campbell, an illustrator in Brooklyn and the victim of a Bitmoji breadcrumber.
There are creepers, who peep your social media pages but never make contact, even when they know that you know they have viewed your page; there are zombies, who re-emerge from the dead, so to speak, after months of no correspondence; and there are text bubblers, or those who type a message, stop, begin typing again and then stop, creating a specific kind of digital hell.
“My brother breadcrumbs me constantly,” said Libby Leffler, a graduate student in Boston. “He’ll send me random links on Reddit and then disappear. Sometimes in response I am like, ‘Did you die?’ ‘Do I need to file a missing person’s report?’”
Like most of today’s torturous microcommunications, we have technology to thank for breadcrumbs. Sure, they may have existed a decade ago (a nod on the street, a “what’s up” in the hallway — these were technically breadcrumbs, right?) but they didn’t have quite the same “desperate wondering about what someone means,” Ms. Simmons said.
“These are connections, not conversations,” said Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T. who studies how technology shapes modern relationships. “They can have the paradoxical effect of making the person who receives them feel let down rather than gratified, but then, confused: Is one asking for too much? Should one feel satisfied with a smiley face or a series of exclamation marks or a string of emojis? What constitutes being recognized?”
In a dating context, this can be particularly complex. There’s breadcrumbing when you’ve broken up with someone but you don’t want to let them go; there’s breadcrumbing as a way of keeping a dating prospect on “hold” (what Ms. Turkle calls “activated but not active”). Or there’s breadcrumbing as a kind of game: when a person is “not interested in you, but interested in themselves staying relevant to you,” as Ms. Campbell said.
“I had a breadcrumber who I’m convinced deliberately tried to use as few characters as possible in his messages so as to not seem too interested,” said Jordana Narin, a rising college senior who wrote a Modern Love column about her generation’s inability to commit. “So a sample text from him would be ‘wht are ur plans tmro’ or ‘are u in city,’ abbreviating some words and writing others out fully. It was like a game of how little effort could he put into it.”
Rest assured, though, there are ways to beat breadcrumbers at their own game.
Sara Wilson, who works in social media marketing in Los Angeles, said she has developed a methodology for identifying a breadcrumber. It’s centered upon a few key phrases she calls “lazy to the power of 100,” which include:
“Fun night?”
“hey stranger”
“It’s like the digital equivalent of a sneeze,” she said.
Or, one may take the approach of Ms. Leffler. “Whenever people are breadcrumbish to me, I always reply to them with less words than they send me,” she said. “So if they were like, ‘sounds good,’ I would respond with ‘thumbs up.’”
Jessica Bennett’s first book, “Feminist Fight Club,” is to be published in September. Command Z appears monthly.
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A version of this article appears in print on , Section ST, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: The Agony of the Digital Tease. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Gore Historical Museum
Scrapbook, Herries Beattie
This is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings relating to the work of Gore anthropologist Herries Beattie. The clippings cover the following subjects: pre-European Southland, Southern Māori routes, Southern Māori mythology, early Otago and Southland Pākehā settlement, Pre-European Eastern Southland landscape, southern fauna and flora.
Beattie is responsible for recording, in detail, the history and early development of Otago and Southland.
Pākehā History:
Beattie was a social historian as well as a writer for the Mataura Ensign. This work led him to interviewing early settlers throughout Southland. He also corresponded with people from all over the world to capture the lives of settlers who died before he began his interviews. These interviews and correspondence informed history books published by the Gore Publishing Company, owners of the Ensign. Of note is the book ‘Southern Runs’, which details the allotment of land in Otago and Southland in the 1850s and 60s.
In 1962, Beattie, at the request of the Gore Centennial Committee, wrote a history of Gore and the wider district.
Māori History:
Beattie undertook a number of oral histories and engagement with southern Māori. In doing this, he created the most thorough written record of southern Māori history and mythology. These interviews and subsequent research also informed a number of books. These books and associated papers culminated in the 1994 extensive posthumous publication of Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Māori.
Beattie's work is archived at the Hocken Library in Dunedin.
Unknown maker
Maker Role
Oceania, New Zealand, South Island, Southland, Gore
processed material, paper
h 284 mm x w 194 mm x d 15 mm
Subject and Association Keywords
People and Families (including births, weddings, deaths)
GO.1979.Bk35
Attribution (cc)
Name Email Address Your comment
People and Families
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Long Player: Barbs well hidden in chart-topping 'Rumours'
By Jeff Harford
In the age of the single download, Jeff Harford rediscovers the album...
Throughout 1976, the five members of Fleetwood Mac each rode a wave of private turmoil for the greater good. Rancour, grief and splintering relationships just had to be worked around; breaking up the band was unthinkable.
Convening for the sessions that would produce chart-busting album Rumours (1977), the group was riding high professionally but on shaky ground personally.
The previous year the Fleetwood Mac album had hit No 1 on the United States charts, but with the marriage of singer-keyboardist Christine McVie and bassist John McVie now ended due to the latter's heavy drinking, drummer Mick Fleetwood reeling from his wife's affair with his best friend, and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks fighting through the death throes of their fiery liaison, potential disaster loomed.
But the Mac beat the odds, harnessing the songwriting potential in the highly-charged atmosphere and stringing together a Grammy-winning slice of album-oriented rock that went on to dominate the playlist of every FM and AM pop music station in the Western world for a full year.
Heartfelt lyrics were the key, with Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie each taking a different philosophical approach to the dysfunction.
Nicks penned Dreams as a cautionary ode to Buckingham, urging him to take stock of what he had and was about to lose; Buckingham's riposte was the cynical Go Your Own Way, in which he trivialised the concerns of Nicks by proclaiming "shacking up is all you want to do".
McVie, meanwhile, had taken up with the band's lighting director and told him You Make Loving Fun, also writing Don't Stop in a surge of optimism that surely had to sting her unhappy ex.
Ironically, the album's mass appeal lay in the harmonies created by these three distinct voices, and in the warm and comfortable sound production. The rhythm section was strident, tribal and to the fore yet somehow blunted. Rumours' poisonous barbs and hooks were cleverly disguised.
Long Player
First all-female band to top album charts
Occupying its own curious space
Exploring the awesomeness of 'Spiderland'
The concept album that lost its name
Partnership made in heaven produces gold
Johnston sold the dirt to feed the band
Powerful, unrestrained and unpolished
Otis refuses consignment to bargain bin
Spence picked a precarious musical path
More to Belafonte than calypso and sun
Instrumental icing on an already tasty cake
Lighting the fire in listeners' hearts
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The teachers of the Tulsa Ballet pour their hearts into introducing children in their community to dance.
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The BendFilm Festival in Oregon showcases some of the best independent films and meet-and-greet access to participating filmmakers.
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The Rogue Valley Symphony brings live classical music performances to Southern Oregon. The Symphony also provides free music classes and concerts to schools with no music programs.
Arts Across the Heartland: Community Arts Center
The Community Arts Center gives students the rare opportunity to put on professional live shows. Through its Student Summer Stock program, students work with experienced designers and directors on real productions.
Arts Across the Heartland: South Dakota Arts Council
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The South Dakota Arts Council brings the arts to the local community. The Council will grant more than $1.36 million to arts programs, arts organizations and individual artists throughout the state in 2018.
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The Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando initiative is designed to prepare gifted young students of diverse ethnic backgrounds to pursue music at the collegiate level and beyond.
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The Nashville Ballet strives to connect with every member of its audience. They present a wide range of performances from the widely recognized to those with local roots.
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PaleyLive LA Spring 2019
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PaleyImpact
2018 PaleyFest NY Post Album
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Media Rx: Access to Medicine through Entertainment
6:30 pm PT Reception; 7:00 pm Panel Discussion
Dr. Neal Baer, Co-Director, Global Media Center for Social Impact, UCLA; Writer & Producer, ER; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Under the Dome
Dr. Zoanne Clack, Writer & Co-Executive Producer, Grey's Anatomy
Els Torreele, Director, Access to Essential Medicines Initiative, Open Society Foundations
Melisa Wallack, Co-Writer, Dallas Buyers Club
Moderator: Ron Simon, Television & Radio Curator, The Paley Center for Media
Join us for a participatory dialogue with writers, creators, and health experts on the use of television and film to positively impact global health, with a focus on the underexplored topic of the high costs of life-saving medicine. In association with UCLA's Global Media Center for Social Impact, we will present data and examples of compelling story lines that have impacted specific health issues. We will also feature a public health expert who can share information about access to affordable medicine and treatment, in order to brief attendees on the key issues. There will be ample time for questions from and dialogue with the audience of writers and creators.
Clips from the vast Paley archive of programs will be used to catalyze conversation and provide context, and the Global Media Center will offer sustained outreach to the creative community as a free resource.
In association with UCLA's Global Media Center for Social Impact
For more information about this event, please contact Erin Gromen at 212.621.6870.
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Justice League: War
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The Academy Award–Nominated Documentary Features in Los Angeles
Free to Be … You and Me: A 40th Anniversary Screening
Twin Peaks Screening: A Damn Good Idea
The Complete Hitchcock: Television
The Goldbergs: Your TV Trip to the 1980s
Batman at 75: Screenings from the Paley Center Collection
Baby, If You've Ever Wondered: A WKRP in Cincinnati Reunion
An Evening with Key & Peele: In Conversation with Patton Oswalt
OJ: The Trial of the Century Twenty Years Later
On the Beat: The Evolution of the Crime Drama Heroine
The Bridge: Season Two Premiere Screening and Conversation
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Series Finale with David Suchet
Manhattan: Premiere Screening, Panel, and Reception
Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner & Friends Salute Sid Caesar
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Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
McHugh, S. (Ed), McKay, R. (Ed), Miller, J. (Ed)
Various academic disciplines can now be found in the process of executing an 'animal turn', questioning the ethical and philosophical grounds of human exceptionalism by taking seriously the nonhuman animal presences that haunt the margins of history, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and literary studies. Such work is characterised by a series of broad, cross-disciplinary questions. How might we rethink and problematise the separation of the human from other animals? What are the ethical and political stakes of our relationships with other species? How might we locate and understand the agency of animals in human cultures? This series publishes work that looks, specifically, at the implications of the 'animal turn' for the field of English Studies. Language is often thought of as the key marker of humanity's difference from other species; animals may have codes, calls or songs, but humans have a mode of communication of a wholly other order. The primary motivation is to muddy this assumption and to animalise the canons of English Literature by rethinking representations of animals and interspecies encounter. Whereas animals are conventionally read as objects of fable, allegory or metaphor (and as signs of specifically human concerns), this series significantly extends the new insights of interdisciplinary animal studies by tracing the engagement of such figuration with the material lives of animals. It examines textual cultures as variously embodying a debt to or an intimacy with animals and advances understanding of how the aesthetic engagements of literary arts have always done more than simply illustrate natural history. We publish studies of the representation of animals in literary texts from the Middle Ages to the present and with reference to the discipline's key thematic concerns, genres and critical methods. The series focuses on literary prose and poetry, while also accommodating related discussion of the full range of materials and texts and contexts (from theatre and film to fine art, journalism, the law, popular writing and other cultural ephemera) with which English studies now engages. Series Board: Karl Steel (Brooklyn College); Erica Fudge (Strathclyde); Kevin Hutchings (UNBC); Philip Armstrong (Canterbury); Carrie Rohman (Lafayette); Wendy Woodward (Western Cape)
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Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture
Quinn, E. (Ed), Westwood, B. (Ed) (2018)
This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars working in animal studies …
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PA-220 Datasheet
Palo Alto Networks PA-220 brings next-generation firewall capabilities to distributed enterprise branch offices and retail locations.
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Palo Alto Networks® PA-5200 Series of next-generation firewall appliances is comprised of the PA-5280, PA-5260, PA-5250 and PA-5220.
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Palo Alto Networks PA-800 Series next-generation firewall appliances, comprised of the PA-820 and PA-850, are designed to secure enterprise branch offices and midsized businesses.
Palo Alto Networks® PA-3200 Series of next-generation firewalls comprises the PA-3260, PA-3250 and PA-3220, all of which are targeted at high-speed internet gateway deployments. The PA-3200 Series secures all traffic, including encrypted traffic, using dedicated processing and memory for networking, security, threat prevention and management.
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Peonies require patience, but not much else
The flowers are striking, the plants can live for 100 years, and with four types, it's easy to find one that suits your gardening needs.
By Tom Atwell
The Bartzella Peony, at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, is an intersectional peony. Gordon Chibroski
When people ask me what plants I would recommend for a particular site, the answer more than half the time will be peonies.
Peonies have a lot to recommend them. They have large, striking and long-lasting flowers in a wide array of colors, attractive foliage even when they aren’t in bloom and – in some varieties – attractive seed pods that last until the frosts of late fall.
Kathleen Gagan of Peony’s Envy, a New Jersey nursery, gave the lowdown on peonies in a lecture at the Maine Flower Show in Portland last March.
Part of the reason peonies fit so many spots is that there are actually four types of peonies, each with different requirements for location, planting and care. Bloom time for peonies runs about two months, from late May through most of July.
The first peony to bloom, in late May in southern Maine, is the woodland peony, which is unusual in that it grows well in the floor of a deciduous forest, getting sun in the spring before the leaves emerge on trees, and shade for the rest of the growing season. The most common woodland peonies have large, white blossoms, which make excellent cut flowers. And they are among the easiest peonies to grow. “They are considered invasive in some places,” Gagan said.
In the fall, the woodland peony gets dramatic indigo or red seed pods that add to their attractiveness, and those seeds will produce new peonies.
Tree peonies are the second to blossom. Their blossoms can be huge, and are especially striking because the plants themselves can grow quite tall. Name aside, tree peonies aren’t trees. Rather, they are slow-growing woody shrubs that must be left standing at the end of the season. Given good conditions and enough time – they produce at most only six inches of new growth per year – tree peonies can get to be seven feet tall, Gagan said. In the fall, the foliage turns bronze or purple.
Tree peonies are more tender than the other types of peonies, and will sustain some damage after harsh winters in Zone 4, but should eventually recover, Gagan said. The tree peonies take a long time to get established and early flowers will be small. But if left alone, they will be worth it, she promised, and the plants will spread if the branches are left to root in any places where they touch the ground.
Herbaceous peonies bloom next; these are the ones that most people think of as peonies. They send up attractive red foliage early in the season, followed by buds, and will produce blossoms that can range, depending on the variety, from delicate single flowers to huge globes of bright petals.
I recommend herbaceous peonies to people whose shrubs near their driveways are ruined by snowplows and to gardeners addicted to lush color. Peony roots are usually too deep to be injured by plow blades but peony clumps will grow larger each year and make a nice border to your driveway.
Intersectional peonies are the last to blossom. They also were the last to come to market, created in 1948 when Toichi Itoh crossed a herbaceous peony with a tree peony. In doing so, he created plants that bloom over a longer time with more blossoms per plant.
Gagan stressed that peonies – all four types – require patience. Typically, they look bad for the first three years and many won’t look really good until they have been growing for seven years, she said.
Planting is when people create most of their problems with peonies, she said. Traditionally, gardeners plant a root that has been divided from a large plant. Peonies want a loose soil, with lots of organic matter, generally slightly alkaline.
For herbaceous and intersectional peonies, Gagan recommends digging a hole about a foot deep, and then refilling the hole so that the top of the root is about an inch below the soil line. Be sure to remove large rocks and add compost and/or dehydrated cow manure. One of the reasons peonies don’t bloom, Gagan emphasized, is that they are planted too deeply. These divisions can be planted either in the fall or the spring, she said, but plant them when you get them. You also can buy potted peonies in nurseries, which should also be planted soon after purchasing.
Tree peonies, on the other hand, want to be planted deeply. If the tree peony is grafted, the graft should be four to six inches below the ground.
Ideally, Gagan said, people should plant peonies once and leave them in that spot for a century or more. The plants are happiest that way. But people do like to divide them to get more for themselves and to give away or sell. Divide them in the fall, after the plant is dormant. Start a foot outside the farthest-out stem and a foot deep when you are digging up the plant, and then wash the soil from the roots – so you can see what you are doing. The dug-out plant will have a crown, with eyes on that crown. Cut the crown so that each piece has three to five buds on the top of the crown and one strong, tuberous root.
When you replant the divided peonies, place them at least three feet apart. And know that it will take three to seven years before they look their best again.
TOM ATWELL is a freelance writer gardening in Cape Elizabeth. He can be contacted at: [email protected]
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Home > Regattas > The Round Martinique regatta > The Round Martinique Regatta enjoys a great revival
The Round Martinique Regatta enjoys a great revival
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:46 PM
The unanimously expressed wish of the organizers and the partners to revive the Round Martinique Regatta Crédit Mutuel AG, known for being a fun and competitive event, which was cancelled last year, was fully and spectacularly achieved last weekend. 28 crews, nearly 130 sailors, thoroughly enjoyed the new race; a combination of close and competitive short courses and longer coastal and offshore courses made for some great racing. The competition, the adventure and pushing oneself, as well as the fun atmosphere has meant that sponsors have already signed up to support the next edition which will be held from the 14th to the 16th of February 2020.
The organising team made up sailing clubs and associations including the Yacht Club de Martinique, Yacht Club de Neptune, the Yacht Club du Marin and the Associations Ven Dan Vwèl 972 and Open The Bar, as well as the title sponsor Crédit Mutuel Antilles Guyane, the City of Fort de France and the Sailing League (Ligue de Voile), are already busy planning on making the next edition event better and the not to be missed event in the Caribbean in 2020.
An event open to all Classes ...
"It seems to me that this edition has put the Round Martinique Regatta among the events that matter in the Caribbean," said Claude Granel, in charge of the sponsorhip and communications. "The good feedback from the competitors, all exhausted but happy, we hope will spread the word throughout Caribbean and get even more and would welcome multihulls, classics and more classes. Our race format appealed. The tour of the island is a demanding, exhausting and requires determination and no one leaves untouched by stunning landscapes they get to see. This event is unique and we are proud to be part of it. We look forward to making it grow and building on the success this year to develop the rating system for more types of entries."
The festivities and entertainment a success to build on
For the first time, the Round Martinique Regatta had a village on the Malecon. This is only a beginning and the reception will be made bigger to accommodate further publish coming to see the boats and enjoy the shoreside activities. After long and tough races, relaxing ashore in the centre or on the beautiful beaches is always one of the most sought after activities. The race village was hugely popular and the aim is to enhance this further for next year.
Loyal partners
The Round Martinique Regatta enjoys the unwavering support of loyal partners who are support sailing and what Martinique has to offer; "Crédit Mutuel has been supporting us for 4 editions," says Claude Granel. “With the support of the Martinique Committee for Tourism, the Territorial Collective of Martinique and Sara Energies, we have been able to organise this fantastic event which is just beginning to grow and make an impact in the Caribbean."
Paul Constantin, President of the Yacht Club of Martinique
"The first day of inshore races were great for the competitors. Everyone was able to warm up, test their skills and whilst they finished tired, they were able to enjoy the hospitality in the Fort de France race village. The format has proven to be very popular. The Round Raid - a race around the island - is a challenge that sailors love to take up whilst the inshore windward leeward courses in the Bay proved to be popular with the public. The proximity of the boats with the public on Malécon was a novelty that we will develop, with the support of our partners. The Round Martinique Regatta Round was a beautiful showcase for the island, and we look forward to welcoming all in the Caribbean next season for a the next edition of the race."
Jean Michel Figueres, Race Director
"The three-day race format, with this tough Tour de la Martinique race for the keen sailor, was a good choice. All feedback has been positive, and the regatta, despite how tiring and tough it was, has left everyone delighted. We have found our uniqueness and mark with this long race. By slightly changing our date next year, from February 14th to 16th, we leave Antigua sailors more time to come and sail here. There are a lot of boats sailing between Grenada and Antigua. It's up to us to "entice" them thanks to our very spectacular race format, with exceptional weather conditions but also welcoming, all whilst ensuring to make it fun on shore too."
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This page explains the Etiquette and the Privacy Policy. You can access it under "Terms of Service" in the game description. You need to be at least 13 years old to play this game. If you are twelve years or younger, you must decline these Terms of Service.
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Sunny. High 93F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph..
Mainly clear. Low 67F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tabitha Meyer, RCH administrator
News from the administrator
by Tabitha Meyer, administrator, rim country health & rehabilitation
Rim Country Health & Rehabilitation is in tune with the change of seasons. I’m pleased to announce the new additions in the nursing department. Tami Fisher, Director of Nursing, is now supported by Chantel Daigle, Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) and Barbara Haugan, Quality Assurance Manager.
In the Rehabilitation Department, RCH has expanded the role of each of the therapists to include Myofascial Release Therapy (MFR) training based on the demand for MFR therapy.
Returning to RCH Rehab Therapy is Rich Staudt, physical therapist and MFR trainer/therapist, who started the Myofascial Release program at RCH. Rich will be doing evaluations and treatment on specific days.
RCH welcomes employment applications for all departments in 2019. Currently, we are seeking applicants in the following areas: Dietary Director, Occupational Therapist, CNAs, LPN/RNs, Dietary Aide and Activities Aide or CNA.
It’s also that time of the year when the ladies of Rim Country celebrate and learn more about health topics and laugh — a lot. RCH looks forward to seeing you at the Women’s Wellness Forum on April 27.
Our Myofascial Release therapists will be there for you to ask questions and experience a mini treatment.
Contact the reporter
tmcquerrey@payson.com
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Projects in Cameroon
Stories from Cameroon
Preparing to Volunteer
Every Peace Corps Volunteer has a story to tell. Read stories from Volunteers about what it's like to live and work in Cameroon.
Engaging the community in discussing gender-based violence
Jack Alperstein
Back in March, four of my and former post mate’s community counterparts facilitated a Gender Based Violence seminar at our local mayor’s Office.
It takes a whole community to make a change
Alex Schwartz
In my town, energy is sporadic. A great part of the community, including students in our school, get water from the electric pump. So when electricity goes off, so does water.
6 counterparts we're thankful for
When a Peace Corps Volunteer arrives in their host community, they’re paired with a counterpart.
Rewards, challenges and lessons learned through World Wise Schools
Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools
Adventures in STEAM and the World Languages Classroom
I teach French at Flintridge Preparatory School in Los Angeles.
Photo Essay: Community and school beekeeping clubs in Cameroon
Renée Bogda
While still in its infancy in Cameroon, beekeeping has proven to be an extremely worthwhile practice among early adopters.
Opening a public library to promote reading culture and learning in the community
Maiya Block
When a strike broke and schools were closed in the region where science teacher Maiya was posted, students no longer had access to libraries.
"The Peace Corps beekeeping training has empowered me to control my own work"
Situated in the hills of northwest Cameroon, Belo is a village made up of subsistence farmers primarily cultivating staple crops such as corn and beans.
If you truly understand it, you can teach it
Alexander Schwartz
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Rural Community Joins for First-Ever HIV Testing Campaign
Tuesday Rose Thornton
When I got to my village, a sleepy town of 500 nestled in the mountains of the Adamawa, I was shocked to find out that the HIV/AIDS prevalence in the health area was 9.1%.
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and Other Writings
By Thomas Paine
Edited by Gordon S. Wood
Introduction by Diana Gabaldon
Part of Modern Library Classics
Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period | Nonfiction Classics
Category: Colonial/Revolutionary Period
About Common Sense
Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine’s first examination of world events; as well as selections from The American Crises
In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America.
"No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language."–Thomas Jefferson
Also in Modern Library Classics
Also by Thomas Paine
See all books by Thomas Paine
About Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, in 1737, the son of a staymaker. He had little schooling and worked at a number of jobs, including tax collector, a position he lost for agitating for an increase in excisemen’s pay…. More about Thomas Paine
Paperback | $9.95
Published by Modern Library
Feb 11, 2003 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375760112
Published by Bantam Classics
Feb 03, 2004 | 112 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553214659
Published by Bantam
People Who Read Common Sense Also Read
“No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language.” —Thomas Jefferson
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Binti: The Complete Trilogy
By Nnedi Okorafor
Category: Space Opera
About Binti: The Complete Trilogy
Includes a brand-new Binti story!
Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl’s journey from her home to distant Oomza University.
In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family’s concerns, Binti’s talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey.
But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti’s spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination.
There is more to the history of the Medusae–and their war with the Khoush–than first meets the eye. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace.
Collected now for the first time in omnibus form, follow Binti’s story in this groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy.
Also by Nnedi Okorafor
See all books by Nnedi Okorafor
About Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents. She holds a PhD in English and was a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University. She has been the winner of many awards for… More about Nnedi Okorafor
Published by DAW
Feb 05, 2019 | 368 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780756415181
People Who Read Binti: The Complete Trilogy Also Read
Praise for the Binti trilogy:
“Okorafor’s writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy….What Binti: Home says, ultimately, is that traveling the galaxy is relatively easy compared to understanding ourselves and each other–and that this is crucial, necessary work.” —NPR
“[Binti: Home] opens up Binti’s tale in astonishing ways, while provocatively exploring questions of identity and kinship.” —Chicago Tribune
“Binti is a compact gem of adventure, bravery and other worlds. Nnedi Okorafor efficiently and effectively uses the short format to create a visual, suspenseful ride. And the heroine, Binti, invites us along to participate in her secret mission. From the start she is special and destined for greater things, but without knowing the tests that will challenge her resilience. As a result, her heroism and vulnerabilities grab our attention, holding tight until the end.” —USA Today
“Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. Prepare to fall in love with Binti.” —Neil Gaiman, New York Times bestselling author of American Gods
“Binti is a supreme read about a smart, edgy Afropolitan in space! It’s a wondrous combination of extra-terrestrial adventure and age-old African diplomacy. Unforgettable!” —Wanuri Kahiu, award-winning Kenyan film director of Punzi and From a Whisper
“Binti is like Ripley, having to deal with death and drama but in a really clever way that drinks from the pool of who she is. It’s a beautiful, heady, a bit scary, and ultimately fulfilling piece of fiction that made me cry in its last paragraph because of its hopeful, uplifting ending.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Binti’s powerful feelings of displacement, loss, grief, and joy make this entertaining narrative vivid, funny, and memorable.” —Publishers Weekly
“Equal parts thriller, adventure, and quest, this work also serves as a timely parable about the power of educating girls. In spite of every possible obstacle, Binti is a girl determined to succeed, whose acute intellect will save her world.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“The prose is vivid and unadorned, the pacing strong, and then developed as a whole deeply compelling.” —Locus
“Full of the author’s trademark inventiveness, Home follows Okorafor’s compelling protagonist through a series of events that strip Binti of her comforts, her safe spaces, and her familiar tools in order to prepare Binti for the next stage of her journey.” —SFRA
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Immersive/Interactive
Improv & Sketch
Samantha O'Brien
Splatter-Fest
It might be the goriest interpretation of Aristotle yet. As the narrator, Brother Blood, explains the healing power of performance through catharsis (“When done properly, art can be used like surgery to extract the cancer from our collective psyches”), he demonstrates his theory on a poor, seemingly lobotomized victim, pulling out organs and entrails in a flash of blood and wild smiles. The problem with The Blood Brothers Present: PULP, a series of three short plays interwoven with several vignettes, is that there are just too many surgeons around the operating table. With five directors and five playwrights who seem to have differing visions, the show is inconsistent and disorganized. Though it pays homage to 50’s horror comics, its vibe is more thrown-together than throwback.
The series’ flaw is that it fails to devote itself completely to this genre. It’s a shame because when it does dive headfirst into the pulp world, and brings the comic book pages to life, the effect is quite thrilling. The first and last plays, Mac Rogers’s Best Served Cold and James Comtois’s Listening to Reason do a good job, crafting interesting back stories so that there’s suspenseful drama mixed with the gory payoffs. In language, pace, and tone, each feels like a tale from an earlier time. Both, for instance, have a derisive narrator (Brother Blood) whose all-knowing background commentary gives the plays an old-fashioned radio hour feel.
Both stories focus on plausible horrors: a jilted lover who’s come to gun down a homewrecker in Best Served Cold and the inner monologue of a serial killer in Listening to Reason. They also contain the strongest performances, including Anna Kull’s furiously heartbroken avenger in the former and Jessi Gotta’s superbly subtle turn as a disabled victim in the latter.
In a recent interview on NYTHEATRECAST, the show’s creators said that these two pieces were actually adapted from pulp horror comics, while the middle play, Qui Nguyen’s Dead Things Kill Nicely, is an original work. This changeup is quite obvious, as it disrupts the tone and pace set so well by the story that precedes it. Dead Things not only skips the effective narration, but also has a far goofier quality that detracts from any semblance of scary.
Nguyen’s piece has some of the evening’s funniest lines (a debate about the existence of zombies is amusing, thanks to the Grandma Addams-esque Stephanie Cox-Williams) and a fantastically gruesome finish (multiple decapitations! Evil Dead-style chainsaw hands!). However, the play’s refusal to take itself seriously as a story leads to an inability to take itself seriously as a production: with British accents that are distractingly bad and dialogue that often feels like it’s merely filler between jokes or violence, the play is too sloppy to be successful.
On the other hand, PULP’s production team has obviously put a lot of effort into special effects, which they execute exquisitely. All of the stories share a common love of gore, and while the splatter-fest is not quite at the bring-a-poncho level, severed limbs and slit throats abound. Even the most ridiculous cases of slit bowels or skinned backs look impressively realistic.
Another enjoyable aspect of the production is its soundtrack, which includes wonderful original music by Larry Lees as well as surprising offerings from familiar names. From the evil carnival-sounding suite that opens the show, to two wordless vignettes set to perfectly appropriate songs, the music is a delight. One short piece, about a camper who transforms himself into an insect, is told through the comically creepy song “Bugs” by, as I was later amused to learn, Pearl Jam.
With Halloween around the corner, PULP is written for those who crave a good bloodbath each October. But if such audiences are really looking to satisfy their fright fix, they might have better luck finding catharsis at the nearest haunted house.
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Antique Maps of Florida
"Standard Guide" Map of the State of Florida Furnished by the Courtesy of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West System and East Coast ..., Railroad Companies by 1891
(Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(Florida Reefs from Key Biscayne to Pickels Reef), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(Florida), Johnson & Ward by 1863-64
(Florida), Rand, McNally & Co. by 1884
(Fort Caroline, on St. John's River), Bry by 1631
(Fort Caroline, on St. John's River), Bry by c.1590
(French reach the St. Johns River), Bry by 1591
(Legare Anchorage, Florida Reefs), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(Miami; Biscayne Bay; Ft. Lauderdale), NORRIS PETERS CO. by 1893
(Pensacola Bay, Entrance), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(Pensacola to Apalachicola), Des Barres by 1780
(Pensacola), U.S. Government by 1834
(St. Augustine), Bry by 1599
(St. Augustine), Bry by c.1599
(St. John's River, Florida, from Brown's Creek to ..., U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. John's River, Florida, from Entrance to Brown's Creek), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. John's River, Florida, from Jacksonville to Mill Cove), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. Mark's River), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. Mary's Bar & Fernandina Harbor, Comparative Chart), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. Mary's Bay & Fernandina Harbor), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(St. Mary's River & Fernandina Harbor), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
(Waccasassa Bay), U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
[Book with maps] A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida ..., ROMANS by 1775
[Book with maps] A Description of East-Florida, with a Journal Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist to his Majesty for the Floridas; upon a Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. Johns, as Far as the ..., STORK by 1769
[Book with maps] An Account of the First Discovery, and Natural History of Florida ..., ROBERTS by 1763
[Book with maps] Brevis Narratio Eorum quae in Florida Americae Provincia Gallis Acciderunt, Secunda in Allam Navigatione, Duce Renato de Laudonniere Classis ..., Bry by 1591
[Book with maps] Memoir of the Geography, and Natural, and Civil History of ..., Darby by 1821
[Book with maps] Sketches, Historical and Topographical of the Floridas; More Paticularly of East ..., FORBES by 1821
[Florida], Harper & Brothers by 1932
[Florida] Southern Railway System, Poole Brothers by 1915
[Fort Caroline], Aa by 1707
[Set of 11 - Florida Land Claims], U.S. Government by 1824
[St. Augustine], Bry by 1599
… Tampa [on sheet with] … St. Agustin [and] … Riviere St. Juan [and] … Riviere ..., Depot de la Marine by 1810 ca
A chart of the bay and harbour of Pensacola in the province of West Florida surveyed by George Gauld A. ..., Des Barres by 1780
A Chart of the Entrance into St. Mary's River Taken by Captn. W. Fuller in Nov. 1769 [on sheet with] Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida [and] A Chart of the Mouth of Nassau River ..., Jefferys by 1770
A Chart of the Gulf of Florida or New Bahama Channel, commonly called the Gulf Passage, between Florida, the Isle of Cuba, & the Bahama Islands: ..., Faden by 1794
A Chart of the Gulf of Florida or New Bahama Channel, Commonly Called the Gulf ..., Faden by 1794
A Chart of the West Indies from the latest Marine Journals and ..., Carey by 1814
A Chart of the Whole Gulf of Florida, with All the Shoals, Channels, Soundings, Islands, &c. Including the Coasts of Both the Floridas, as Far as the Mississippi, or the River of New Orleans, the Bahama Islands, Coasts of Cuba, ..., Sayer & Bennett by 1777
A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U.S. Navy Yard and All other ..., U.S. CIVIL WAR MAPS - INFREQUENT PUBLISHERS by c.1863
A Map of Part of West Florida from Pensacola to the Mouth of the Iberville River, with a View to shew the proper Spot for a Settlement on the ..., Lodge by 1772
A Map of the Coast of East Florida, from the River St. John, Southward to near Cape ..., Anonymous by 1800
A Map of the New Governments of East & West Florida, Gibson by 1763
A Map of the New Governments, of East & West Florida, Gentleman's Magazine by 1762
A Map of the New Governments, of East & West Florida, Gibson by 1763
A Map of the New Governments, of East & West Florida, Gibson by c.1760-80
A Map of the New Governments, of East and West Florida, Gibson by 1760
A Map of the Peninsula of Florida Shewing the Present Field of Surveying in the ..., U.S. Government by 1844
A Map of the Seat of War in Florida 1836, U.S. Government by 1836
A Map of the Seat of War in Florida 1836, U.S. War Department by 1836
A Map of the Seat of War in Florida 1836, U.S. Government by 1836-61
A Map of the Seat of War in Florida 1836 [and] Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Major Genl. W. Scott [and] Camp Izard on the Ouithlacoochee ..., U.S. Army by 1835-36
A Map of the Seat of War in Florida 1836 [in set with] Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Maj. Genl. W. Scott, U.S.A. Prepared by Lieut. J.E. Johnson 4th U.S. Arty. March 20, ..., U.S. War Department by 1836
A Map of Virginia formed from actual surveys, and the latest as well as the most accurate ..., Tanner by 1825
A Map of West Florida from Pensacola to the Mouth of the Iberville River with a View to Shew the Proper Spot for a Settlement on the ..., Lodge by 1782
A New and Accurate Map of ... Florida, Kitchin by c.1780
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida, Drawn from the Best ..., Baldwin by 1765
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida, Drawn from the Best ..., London Magazine by 1765
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida, Drawn from the Best ..., Prockter by 1765
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida, Drawn from the Best ..., Prockter by c.1765
A New Map of Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1853
A Perspective View of Pensacola, Hinton by 1764
A Perspective View of Pensacola, Universal Magazine by 1764
A Plan of Amelia Harbour and Bar, in East Florida, Surveyed by Jacob Blamey, Master of His Majesty's Schooner St. ..., Sayer & Bennett by 1777
A Plan of Amelia Harbour and Barr, in East Florida, Laurie & Whittle by 1794
A Plan of Amelia Harbour and Barr, in East Florida…, Sayer & Bennett by 1776
A Plan of the Entrances of Tampa Bay on the West Coast of East ..., Sayer & Bennett by 1794
A Plan of the Harbour of St. Augustin in the Province of Georgia Composed & Published from ..., Des Barres by 1780
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the State of ..., General Land Office by 1849
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the State of ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1849
A Plat Exhibiting The State of the Surveys in the State of Florida ..., General Land Office by 1853
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the State of Florida with ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1845
A Plat Exhibiting The State Of The Surveys In The State Of Florida With ..., General Land Office by 1853
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the Territory of ..., U.S. Government by 1837
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the Territory of ..., General Land Office by 1838
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the Territory of ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1838
A Plat Exhibiting the State of the Surveys in the Territory of Florida ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1837
A Plat of the Peninsula of Florida. Shewing the present field of Surveying in this ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1843
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20 ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp Before It June 20, ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20, 1740. by Thos ..., Gentleman's Magazine by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. 1740 by Thos ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. 1740. By Thos. ..., Gentleman's Magazine by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. 1740. By Thos. ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. 1740. By Thos. ..., Silver by c.1742
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20. 1740. By Thos. ..., Gentleman's Magazine by c.1760
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it, June 20 1740 by Thos. ..., Silver by 1740
A View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it…by Thos. ..., Gentleman's Magazine by 1740
Alabama, Georgia, Sud Carolina und Florida, Lange by 1854
Amer. Sep. No. 62 - Florides et Iles Lucayes, Vandermaelen by 1827
Amer. Sep. No. 62 Florides et Iles Lucayes, Vandermaelen by 1825
America Septentrional. Costa Este. Hoja I. Florida con los Canales de Bahama y Providencia, segun los trabajos mas fidedignos nacionales y ..., Direccion de Hidrografia by 1867
An Accurate Chart of the Coast of West Florida and the Coast of Louisiana ..., British Admiralty by c.1823-45
An Accurate Chart of the Tortugas and Florida Kays ..., British Admiralty by c.1835-47
An Accurate Chart of the Tortugas and Florida Kays or Martyrs Surveyed by George Gauld, A.M. in the Years 1773, 4 ..., Faden by 1790
An Accurate Chart of the Tortugas and Florida Kays or Martyrs, Surveyed by George Gauld ..., Gauld by 1790
Anclote River Florida from the Entrance to Tarpon Springs Surveyed to June ..., U.S. Government by 1898
Apalichicola Bay Showing Channel Dredged, U.S. Government by 1890
Apthorp's Standard Map of Florida, Constructed from the Latest United States Surveys and from Other Official and Local ..., APTHORP by 1878
Arcis Carolinae Delineatio, Bry by 1591
Arx Carolina, Ogilby by 1670
Arx Carolina, Montanus by 1671
Arx Carolina, Montanus by 1671 - 1673
Arx Carolina, Montanus by 1671-
Arx Carolina, Dapper by 1673
Arx Carolina Charles Fort sur Florida, Aa by c.1710
Arx Carolina. Charles Fort, sur Floride, Aa by 1710
Asher & Adams' Florida, Asher & Adams by 1871
Asher & Adams' Florida, Asher & Adams by 1874 c.
Atlantic Coast of the United States Mosquito Inlet to Key West ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1863
Bahia de Tampa, Direccion de Hidrografia by 1818
Bahia y Puerto de Sn. Agustin, Direccion de Hidrografia by 1818
Banc De La Floride, Pte O. . ., Depot de la Marine by 1856
Bar at the Northwest Entrance to Key West Harbor, Fla. ..., U.S. War Department by 1899
Barra y Puerto de Sn. Augustin, Direccion de Hidrografia by 1809
Bird's Eye View of Florida and Part of Georgia and Alabama, Magnus [& Co.] by 1861
Bird's Eye View of Orlando, Florida, County Seat of Orange Co. ..., Stoner by 1884
Bird's Eye View of Sanford, Florida, Orange Co. 1884, Stoner by 1884
Biscayne Bay, Florida, U.S. War Department by 1903
Boca Grande or Main Entrance Charlotte Harbor, Florida, U.S. Government by 1899
Boca y Barra del Rio Nasau, Direccion de Hidrografia by 1818
Camp Izard on the Ouithlacoochee River Feb. 29 1836, U.S. Government by 1836
Camp Izard on the Ouithlacoochee River Feb. 29 1836, U.S. Government by c.1836
Cap. St. Augustini, Aa by c.1680-1710
Cape Canaveral Shoals, East Coast Florida ... 1878, U.S. Government by 1895
Cape Florida Entrance to Biscayne Bay, Florida Surveyed ... ..., U.S. War Department by 1897
Cape Florida Entrance to Biscayne Bay, Florida Surveyed under Direction of Col. W. ..., U.S. Government by 1897
Carta Rappresentante la Penisola della Florida, Gazzettiere Americano by 1763
Carte de la Coste de la Floride depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu aux Cayes de St. ..., Bellin by 1764
Carte de la Coste de la Floride depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu'aux Cayes de St. ..., Bellin by 1747-64
Carte de la Coste de la Floride depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu'aux Cayes de St. ..., Bellin by 1754
Carte de la Floride Occidentale et Louisiana …, Le Rouge by 1777
Carte de la Floride Occidentale et Louisiane [in set with] La Peninsula et Golfe de la Floride ou Canal de Bahama avec les Isles de Bahama, Traduit de ..., Le Rouge by 1777
Carte des Costes de la Floride Francoise Suivant les Premieres Decouvertes ..., Charlevoix by 1744
Carte des Costes de la Floride Francoise…, Bellin by 1744
Carte du Canal de Bahama, Bellin by 1768
Carte du Courant qui Sort par le Canal de Bahama, Appele ..., DESMAREST by 1827
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Floride, Buchon by 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Floride, Buchon by 1825 ca.
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Floride, Buchon by c.1825
Carte Reduite des Cotes et de l'Interieur de la Presqu'ile de la Floride, avec le Detroit de Cette Presqu'ile et le Canal de ..., Sartine by 1778-80
Carte Reduite des Cotes et de l'Interieur de la Presqu'ile de la Floride, avec le Detroit de cette Presqu'ile et le canal de ..., Depot de la Marine by 1780
Carte Reduite des Cotes et de l'Interieur de la Presqu'ile de la Floride, avec le Detroit de Cette Presqu'ile et le Canal de ..., Sartine by 1780
Cartes Particulieres des Concessions Faites par l'Angleterre a la France et a l’Espagne par la Traite de ..., Ponce & Godefroy by 1784
CAUSTENS BLUFF, U.S. Navy by 1835
Cedar Keys and Approaches, Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1854-5
Cedar Keys and Approaches, Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Cedar Keys, Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1861
Chart of Apalachicola Bay St. Vincent and St. Georges Sounds, U.S. Government by 1896
Chart of Apalachicola Bay St. Vincent and St. Georges Sounds Showing Location of Oyster ..., U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries by 1896
Chart of Key West ... 10 Sep. 1843, U.S. Coast Survey by 1843
City of Jacksonville, Duval Co., LE BARON by 1887
Coast Chart No. 68 - Florida Reefs from Long Key to Newfound Harbor ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1863
Coast Chart No.162 From Cape Canaveral Southward to Latitude 27¦ ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1892
Coast Chart No.164 Jupiter Inlet to Hillsboro Inlet, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1897
Coast Chart No.166. Florida Reefs from Key Biscayne to Carysfort ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1878
Coast Chart No.167 Florida Reefs, from the Elbow to Lower Matecumbe ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1878
Coast Chart No.170 Florida Reefs, Key West to Rebecca Shoal, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1892
Coast Chart No.171 Florida Reefs, Rebecca Shoal to Dry ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1882
Coast Chart No.174 Big Marco Pass to San Carlos Bay, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1890
Coast of Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1854
Colton's Florida, Colton by 1855
Colton's Florida, Colton [Family] by 1857
Colton's Florida, Johnson & Browning by 1865
Colton's Florida, Colton [& Co.] by 1868
Colton's Florida, Colton [Family] by 1868-84
Colton's Florida, Colton [& Co.] by c. 1868
Colton's Map of Florida, Colton [Family] by 1855 / 1860
Colton's Map of the State of Florida, Colton [Family] by 1882
Colton's New Sectional Map of Florida…, Colton [& Co.] by 1890
Colton's New Township Map of the Eastern Portion of Florida, Colton [& Co.] by 1883
Colton's New Township Map of the State of Florida ..., Colton [Family] by 1876
Colton’s New Township Map of the State of Florida …, Colton [& Co.] by 1875
Columnam a Praefecto Primo Navagatione Locatam Venerantur Floridenses [Plate ..., Bry by 1591
Comparative Chart of the Vicinity of Haulover Canal, Fla., U.S. War Department by 1882
Comparative Chart, St. John's River, Florida, 1853-57, U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Comprehensive Map of Coral Gables, America's Finest Suburb, REAL ESTATE & PROMOTIONAL MAPS by 1924
Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida, U.S. War Department by 1836
Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida [and] Camp Izard on the Ouithlacoochee River, Feb. 29, ..., U.S. Government by 1836
Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Maj. Genl. W. Scott, U.S.A. Prepared by Lieut. J.E. Johnson 4th U.S. Arty. March 20, ..., U.S. War Department by 1836
Copy Of A Map of the Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Major Gen'l W. Scott…Prepared by Lieut JE Johnson 4th US Arty: March 20th ..., U.S. Government Printing Office by 1836
Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Major Genl. W. Scott USA Prepared by Lieut. J.E. Johnson 4th US Arty. March 20 ..., U.S. War Department by 1836
Correct Map of Florida Showing the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West System and Connections [with book] The Tarpon or "Silver ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1889
Correct Map of Florida Showing the Tropical Trunk Line Leading from Jacksonville to the East Coast, the West Coast, the South ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1894
Correct Map of Florida Showing the Tropical Trunk Line Leading from Jacksonville to the East ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1894-95
Cote Est de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Floride. Riviere Ste. Marie et Port de ..., Depot de la Marine by 1868
County Map of Florida, Mitchell by 1860
County Map of Florida, Mitchell by 1867-69
County Map of Florida, Mitchell by 1870 / 1871
County Map of Florida, Bradley [& Bros.] by 1882
County Map of Florida, Bradley [& Bros.] by 1882 / 1884
County Map of Florida; County Map of North Carolina; Map of South ..., Mitchell by 1860
Cram's Rail Road and Township Map of Florida ..., Cram [& Co.] by 1879
Cram's Standard County Colored Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by c.1900
Das Landt Florida Floride, Manesson-Mallet by c.1686
Descriptive America. A Geographical and Industrial Monthly Magazine. Florida Dec. ..., ADAMS & SON by 1884
Diagram of St. Augustine Land District Shewing the Townships in which Swampland Exists ..., U.S. Government by 1856
Diagram of Tallahassee Land District Shewing Townshps in which Swamp Land Lists have been Examined ..., U.S. Government by 1855
Die Stadt dess H. Augustins in Florida, Manesson-Mallet by 1685
Drew's New Map of the State of Florida, Drew by 1867
Drew's New Map of the State of Florida Showing the Townships by the U.S. Surveys, the Completed & Projected Railroads, the Different Railroad Stations and Growing Railroad Towns, the New Towns on the Rivers and Interior ... up to the Year ..., Drew by 1884
East and Gulf Coasts- Cape Canaveral to Key West, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1945
East Florida from Surveys ..., Jefferys by 1769
Eastern United States, LETTS [Family] by 1883
Entrance to Pensacola Bay -- Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Entrance to Tampa Bay, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1895
Entrance to the Withlacoochee River Florida from a Survey Made .. 1897 ..., U.S. War Department by 1897
Eroberung der Statt S. Augustin in America Gelegen, Bry by 1600
Expugnatio Civitatis S. Augustini in America Sitae, Bry by 1599
Expugnatio Civitatis S. Augustini in America Sitae, Bry by c.1600
F Delfinum, Bry by c.1591
Ferdinandus Sotto Treibt Graffe Buteren in der Landtschasst ..., Bry by 1593 - 1624
Florida, Seller by 1676
Florida, Lucas by 1823
Florida, Melish by 1830
Florida, Finley by 1831
Florida, Hinton by 1832
Florida, Williams by 1832
Florida, TANNER [Family] by 1833-36
Florida, SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by 1834
Florida, Bradford by 1835
Florida, TANNER [Family] by 1836
Florida, Bradford by 1838-46
Florida, Tanner by 1839
Florida, U.S. Government by 1839
Florida, Tanner by 1839 / 1843
Florida, Goodrich by 1841
Florida, Morse & Breese by 1842
Florida, Morse by 1842
Florida, Morse & Breese by 1842, publ 1846
Florida, Meyer by 1845
Florida, Mitchell by 1846
Florida, Mitchell by 1846-48
Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850
Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850-54
Florida, Colton by 1855
Florida, Colton [Family] by 1855
Florida, Colton [Family] by 1855 / 1857
Florida, Morse & Gaston by 1856
Florida, Desilver by 1856-59
Florida, Colby by 1857
Florida, Desilver by 1859
Florida, Johnson [& Co.] by 1861
Florida, Johnson & Ward by 1863
Florida, Johnson [& Co.] by 1863-68
Florida, Colton [Family] by 1868-77
Florida, Gray by 1872
Florida, Gray & Son by 1879
Florida, Encyclopedia Britannica by 1879
Florida, Bradstreet Company by 1880
Florida, Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co. by 1880
FLORIDA, Gray by 1881 c
Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1882
Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1883
Florida, Bradley [& Bros.] by 1884
Florida, People's Publishing Co. by 1886
Florida, Gaskell by 1887
Florida, Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick by 1890
Florida, BALCH Brothers by 1891
Florida, Bien by 1892
Florida, Grant by 1892
Florida, Waite [Publishing Co.] by 1896
FLORIDA, Century Co. by 1902
FLORIDA, Century Co. by 1902 c
Florida, Miller by 1905
Florida, Hammond [& Co.] by 1908
Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1909-1912
Florida, American Automobile Assoc. by 1917
Florida, White by 1930
Florida, White by 1935 c.
Florida, Bradford by c.1835
Florida, Morse by c.1840
Florida, Bradford by c.1841-42
Florida, Morse & Gaston by c.1857
Florida, GRAY by c.1872
Florida, Cram [& Co.] by c.1887
Florida (Southern Part), Hammond Publishing Co. by 1936
Florida -- Cape Canaveral to Bethel Shoal, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1932-44
Florida -- Pensacola Bay and Approaches, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida -Georgia, Black by 1889
Florida . . ., Mitchell by 1848
Florida ..., Meyer [Family] by 1845
Florida [and] Georgia, Black by 1890
Florida East Coast Railway Key West Extension with Section and Views Illustrating ..., Railroad Companies by 1908
Florida East Coast Railway, Jacksonville via St. Augustine, Ormond, Palm Beach and Miami to Key West and ..., Railroad Companies by 1910
Florida Railroads, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1892
Florida Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map Tourists' and Shipper's ..., Rand, McNally & Co. by 1914
Florida Reefs -From Newfound Harbor Key to Boca Grande Key, U.S. Coast Survey by 1862
Florida Reefs from Key Biscayne to Pickles Reef, U.S. Coast Survey by 1856
Florida Reefs from Newfound Harbor Key to Boca Grande Key, ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1862
Florida Reefs from the Elbow to Lower Matecumbe Key, U.S. Coast Survey by 1863
Florida Reefs Showing the Approaches to Key West Harbor, U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Florida Reefs Showing the Approaches to Key West Harbor, U.S. Coast Survey by c.1857
Florida Strait, North Part, British Admiralty by 1880
Florida- Fernandina to Jacksonville, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida- Fowey Rocks to Alligator Reef, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida- Ponce De Leon Inlet to Cape Canaveral, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida- St. John's River, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida- Tampa Bay and St. Joseph Sound, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1945
Florida-Chatham River To Clam Pass, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1945
Florida-St. Andrew Bay, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Florida…, Meyer [Family] by 1845
General Reconnaissance of the Coast of Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1864
General Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1852
General Topographical Map, U.S. Government Printing Office by 1891
General Topographical Map Sheet XI, U.S. Union & Confederate Armies Atlas by 1891-95
General Topographical Map Sheet XI, U.S. Union & Confederate Armies Atlas by 1893
General Topographical Map Sheet XII, U.S. Union & Confederate Armies Atlas by 1892
Geographical, Statistical and Historical Map of Florida, Carey & Lea by 1822
Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Florida, Carey & Lea by 1822
Geographically Correct Indexed Township Map of Florida...Showing Complete System of Florida Central and Peninsular ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1896
Geographische-statistisch und historische Charte von Florida, Weiland by 1828
Geologic and Topographic Map of Florida, prepared by the United States Geological ..., U.S. Geographical Survey by 1909
Georgia, Florida - Fernandina Harbor, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1944
Gezigt van 't Spaansche Vlek Pensacola, aan de Baay van dien naam, in de Golf van ..., Tirion by 1769
Gezigt van 't Spaansche Vlek Pensacola, aan de Baay van dien Naam, in de Golf van Mexiko, Beoosten den Uitloop van de Rivier ..., Tirion by 1758
Gezigt van't Spaansche Vlek Pensacola, aan de Baay van dien naam, in de Golf van Mexiko, beoosten den uitloop van de Rivier ..., Tirion by 1769
Granville's Railroad and Township Map of Florida, GRANVILLE by 1887
Gray's Atlas Map of Florida, Gray by 1873
Gray's New Map of Florida, Gray by 1884
Harbour of St. Augustine. Harbour of Providence, Bowen by 1744
Improvement of St. John's River, Showing Sites of the North & South ..., U.S. Government by 1885
Improvements of St. John's River Florida under Direction of Col. W. ..., U.S. Government by 1896
Indexed Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1876
J.H. Colton's Map of Florida, Colton [Family] by 1865
Johnson's Florida, Johnson & Browning by 1860
Johnson's Florida, Johnson & Ward by 1862
Johnson's Florida, Johnson [& Co.] by 1863
Johnson's Florida, Johnson [& Co.] by 1863 / 1870
Johnson's Florida [2 maps], Johnson [& Co.] by 1863
Key West and its Approaches, U.S. Coast Survey by 1873
Key West Harbor and Approaches, U.S. Coast Survey by 1852
Key West Harbor and its Approaches, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Key West, as Surveyed Feb. 1829 by Wm. A. Whitehead, Esqr., Anonymous by 1836
La Baye de Spiritu Santo [on sheet with] S. Augustin Capitale ..., Le Rouge by 1778
La Ville, le Chateau et le Village de St. Augustin, en ..., Aa by 1729
Lagoon Harbor, Cape Canaveral, Fla., U.S. Geological Survey by 1892
Legare Anchorage, Florida Reefs, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Main Entrance to Charlott Harbor, Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1866
Map of a Portion of Biscayne Bay, Fla. and Entrance thereto ..., U.S. War Department by 1900
Map of Bay at Hudson, Pasco County, Fla., U.S. War Department by 1899
Map of Boca Grande, or Main Entrance, Charlotte Harbor, Florida ..., U.S. War Department by 1899
Map of Cedar Keys Fla., U.S. Government by 1889
Map of Crystal Bay, Florida, U.S. Government by 1899
Map of Crystal River Florida, from the Town of Crystal River to the Gulf of Mexico ..., U.S. War Department by 1899
Map of East Florida, Thayer & Co. by 1840
Map of East Florida, Reduced from the Map Compiled by Capt. John Mackay & Lieut. J.E. ..., DRAKE by 1840
Map of East Florida, Reduced from the Map compiled by Capt. John Mackay & Lieut. J.E. ..., Thayer & Co. by 1840
Map of Florida, Tanner by 1823
Map of Florida, TANNER [Family] by 1823
Map of Florida, WILLIAMS by 1837
Map of Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850
Map of Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850 - 1852
Map of Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850 / 1854
Map of Florida, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. by 1850-54
Map of Florida, Hardesty by 1884
Map of Florida, Appleton & Company by 1892
Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1892
Map of Florida, Johnson [& Co.] by 1896
Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1902
Map of Florida ..., Burr by 1839
Map of Florida [on sheet with] Southern Railway System, Railroad Companies by 1924
Map of Florida According to the Latest Authorities [on sheet with] Comparative Elevation of the Principal Mountains Cities &c. in North & South America ..., Mitchell by 1831
Map of Florida According to the Latest Authorities [on sheet with] Comparative Elevations of Mountains in North and South ..., Finley by 1826
Map of Florida According to the Latest Authorities [on sheet with] The West Indies from the Best ..., Finley by 1827
Map of Florida According to the Latest Authorities [on sheet with] The West Indies from the Best Authorities [and] Comparative Elevation of the Principal Mountains Cities &c. in North & South ..., Mitchell by 1831
Map of Florida and the West Indies Published by the Florida East Coast ..., Railroad Companies by 1899
Map of Florida Showing Routes and Railroad Connections, CLYDE STEAMSHIP CO. by 1903
Map of Florida West of Suwannee River Showing Land Granted to Pensacola & Atlantic Rialroad as Selected by E.B. Wombwell, ..., Railroad Companies by c.1890
Map of Hillsboro Bay, Fla., U.S. War Department by 1898
Map of Inside Passage from Punta Rassa to Charlotte Harbor, Pine Island Sound, ..., U.S. Army by 1899
Map of Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad, WELCKE by 1886
Map of Lemon Bay Florida, from New Pass to Red Lake, U.S. Government by 1899
Map of Manakee River, Fla., U.S. Government by 1888
Map of St. Augustine Harbor Fla., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1887
Map of the Country Embraced in the Preliminary Survey and Examination of the Peninsula of Florida with a View to the Construction of a Ship Canal from the St. Mary's River to the Gulf of ..., U.S. Corps of Engineers by 1879
Map of the Country with a View to Construction of a Ship Canal from St. Mary's River to the Gulf of Mexico Made in ..., U.S. Government by 1894
Map of the Inside Passage from Punta Rassa to Charlotte Harbor, Pine Island Sound, Florida ... Prepared ..., U.S. War Department by 1900
Map of the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile Railroad and its ..., Colton [Family] by 1870
Map of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway & ..., Railroad Companies by 1888
Map of the Orange Belt Railway and its Connections, Railroad Companies by 1888
Map of the Peninsula of Florida and Adjacent Islands, Matthews-Northrup Co by 1893
Map of the Peninsula of Florida and Adjacent Islands. Flagler East Coast Railway-Flagler ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by c.1898
Map of the Peninsula of Florida and Adjacent Islands. Florida East Coast ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1926
Map of the Peninsula of Florida and Adjacent Islands. Published by the Land Department, Florida East Coast ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by c.1896
Map of the Plant System of Railway, Steamer and Steamship Lines and ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1893
Map of the Province of West Florida, Kitchin by 1781
Map of the Seat of War in 1836, U.S. Government by c.1836
Map of the Seat of War in Florida Compiled by Order of Bvt. Brigr. Gen. Z. Taylor ... By Capt. John Mackay and Lieut. J. E. Blake, ..., U.S. War Department by 1839
Map of the Seat of War In Florida Compiled By Order Of Bvt. Brigr. Genl. A. ..., U.S. War Department by 1839
Map of the Seat of War in Florida Compiled by Order of Bvt. Brigr. Genl. Z. ..., U.S. Government by 1839
Map of the Seat of War in Florida compiled by order of Bvt. Brigr. Genl. Z. Taylor principally from the surveys and reconnaissances of the Officers of the U.S. ..., U.S. Army by 1839
Map of the Seat of War in Florida Compliled by Order of Bvt. Brigr. Genl. Z. Taylor, principally from the surveys and reconnaissances of the Officers of the U.S. Army, by Caot. John Mackay and Lieut. J.E. ..., U.S. War Department by 1839
Map of the St. Johns River from its Entrance to Jacksonville, ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1895
Map of the State of Florida, Hinton by 1832
Map of the State of Florida, Fenner, Sears & Company by 1832
Map of the State of Florida, U.S. State Surveys by 1856
Map of the State of Florida, Hinton by c.1829
Map of the State of Florida, Fenner, Sears & Company by c.1832
Map of the State of Florida Showing the Progress of the ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1856
Map of the State of Florida Showing the Progress of the Surveys . . ..., General Land Office by 1859
Map of the State of Florida Showing the Progress of the Surveys Accompanying Annual Report of the Commissioner Genl. Land Office.. . ..., General Land Office by 1866
Map of the State of Florida Showing the Progress of the Surveys Accompanying Annual Report of the Surveyor General for ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1859
Map of the State of Florida Showing the Progress of the Surveys Accompanying the Annual report to the Surveyor General for ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1856
Map of the State of Florida to Accompany a Descriptive Pamphlet of Florida Issued by the State Board of ..., Colton [& Co.] by 1882
Map of the State of Florida, Showing the Progress of the ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1857
Map of the State of Florida, Showing the Progress of the Surveys Accompanying the Annual Report to the Surveyor General for ..., U.S. State Surveys by 1856
Map of the Territory of Florida, Burr by 1834
Map of the Territory of Florida, Greenleaf by 1840
Map of the Territory of Florida, from Its Northern Boundary to 27°, 30'N., Connected with the Delta of the Mississippi. Annexed to the Report of the Board of Internal Improvement Dated Feby. ..., Swift by 1829
Map of the Territory of Florida, from its Northern Boundary to Lat: 27¦30' N. Connected with the Delta of the ..., Swift by 1829
Map of the Territory of Florida, from its Northern Boundary to Lat: 27¦30' N. Connected with the Delta of the ..., U.S. Government by 1829
Map Showing across Florida for a Canal between Espiritu Santo Bay and St. John's & Ocklawaha ..., U.S. Government by 1854
Map Showing Mouth of Miami River, Biscayne Bay. From the Survey to Nov. ..., U.S. Government by 1897
Map Showing Proposed Enlargement of the Harbor Canal, ..., U.S. Government by 1884
Map Showing the Different Lines of Survey across Florida for a Canal between Espirutu Santo Bay and St. ..., U.S. War Department by 1854
Map Showing the Lands & Waterway of the Florida Coast Line Canal & Transportation ..., Matthews-Northrup Co by 1889-93
Map Showing the Mouth of the Miami River Biscayne Bay, ..., U.S. War Department by 1897
Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida South of Tampa Bay Compiled from the Latest & Most Reliable Authorities by Lt. J. C. Ives T.E. ... by Order of Hon. Jefferson Davis Sec. of War. Apl. ..., U.S. War Department by 1911
Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida South of Tampa Bay Compiled from the Latest and Most Reliable ..., Ives by 1911
New Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1879
New Map of Florida, 1880, GOVERNMENT MAPS: LOCAL & STATE by 1880
New Sectional Map of the Eastern Portion of Florida, Colton [Family] by 1883
New Township Map of the State of Florida, Colton [Family] by 1876
North America Sheet XIV. Florida, SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by 1834
North America XIV Florida, SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by 1834
North America XIV Florida, SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by 1834 / 1844
North America XIV Florida, SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by c.1834
North America XIV Florida., SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by 1834
North America. East Coast. Sheet VIII. Cumberland Sound to the Florida ..., British Admiralty by 1847
North West Entrance, Key West Harbor, Fla. Surveyed ... 1896 ..., U.S. War Department by 1896
Northern Part of Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1864
Ocilla River, Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Official AAA Road Map Dade County Florida, American Automobile Assoc. by 1928
P.les de la Floride, Manesson-Mallet by 1686 c
Pagus Hispanorum in Florida, Montanus by 1671
Pagus Hispanorum in Florida, Ogilby by 1671
PAGUS HISPANORUM IN FLORIDA, Montanus/Ogilby by 1671
Pagus Hispanorum in Florida, Dapper by 1673
Pagus Hispanorum in Florida, Ogilby by c.1571
Palm Beach Florida from a Survey to Apl. 1896, U.S. Government by 1897
Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye View of Florida and Part of Georgia and ..., Bachmann by 1861
Part of the Florida and Providence Channels Shewing The Positions of the New LIght Houses on Gun Cay and on the South Point of Abaco ..., British Admiralty by 1836
Part of West Florida from Pensacola to ... Iberville River with a View to Shew the Proper Spot for a Settlement on the ..., Lodge by 1772
Pas Kaart van de Boght van Florida Met de Canaal Tusschen Florida en ..., KEULEN [Family] by 1682
Pas kaart van de Boght van Florida met de Canaal tusschen Florida en ..., Keulen by 1700
Pas Kaart van de Boght van Florida met de Canaal tusschen Florida en Cuba ..., KEULEN [Family] by 1684
Pas kaart Van de Boght van Florida Met de canaal tusschen Florida en Cuba door C. J. Vooght ..., Keulen by 1687
Pensacola, Anonymous by c.1760
Pensacola Harbor & Bar Surveyed in 1822 by Major James Kearney U.S.T.E. Assisted by Lts. Thomson, Turnbull & Butler. Reduced from the Original by Hood & ..., U.S. Government by 1835
Pensacola Harbor & Bar Surveyed in 1822 by Major Kearney U.S.T.E. assisted by Lieuts. Thompson, Turnbull and Butler 4th ..., U.S. Army by 1835
Pensacola Harbor & Bar Surveyed in 1822…, Kearney by 1835
Pensacola Harbor and Bar, Florida. Surveyed in 1822, U.S. Government by 1836
Pensacola Harbor and Bar. Florida. Surveyed in 1822, Kearney by 1822
Pensacola Harbor, Reduced from the Surveys of Maj. Kearney ..., BLUNT [Family] by 1827
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus. Didaco Mendezio Auctore [on sheet with] La Florida. Auctore Hieron. Chiaves [and] Guastecan ..., Ortelius by 1584
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus. Didaco Mendezio Auctore [on sheet with] La Florida. Auctore Hieron. Chiaves [and] Guastecan ..., Ortelius by 1584-1612
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus. Didaco Mendezio Auctore [on sheet with] La Florida. Auctore Hieron. Chiaves [and] Guastecan ..., Ortelius by 1608 ca
Piano del Porto, e degli Stabilimenti di Pensacola, Gazzettiere Americano by 1673
Piano del Porto, e degli Stabilimenti di Pensacola, Masi [e Compagni] by 1777
Piano della Citta, e Porto di Sant'. Agostino, Gazzettiere Americano by 1763
Piano della Citta, e Porto di Sant. Agostino, Masi [e Compagni] by 1763
Pine Island Sound, Florida, U.S. Government by 1899
Plan de l'Ile d'Amelia ... 1779, Depot de la Marine by 1780
Plan de l'Ile d'Amelia [on sheet with] Plan de la Barre et du Port ..., Sartine by 1779
Plan de l'Ile d'Amelia... [on sheet with] Plan de la Barre et du Port d'Amelia... [and] Plan de la Barre et de l'entree de la Riviere de ..., Depot de la Marine by 1779
Plan De La Baye de Pansacola, Bellin by 1744
Plan de la Baye de Pensacola dans la Floride, Bellin by 1757
Plan de la Ville et Port de St. Augustin, Bellin by 1768
Plan de la Ville et Port de St. Augustin, DEZAUCHE by c.1768
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride, Bellin by 1764
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride, Bellin by c.1757
Plan du Port de St. Augustin dans la Florida, Bellin by 1764
Plan du Port de St. Augustin dans la Floride, Bellin by 1764
Plan Du Port De St. Augustine dans la Floride, Bellin by 1764
Plan of a Part of the Front of the City of St. Augustine, Florida and of Fort Marion and the Sea ..., U.S. Government by 1861
Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida [and] A Chart of the Entrance into St. Mary’s River taken by Capt. W. Fuller in November 1769 [and] A Chart of the Mouth of Nassau River and the Soundings on it taken at Low Water by Captn. W. ..., Jefferys by 1770
Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida [on sheet with] A Chart of the Entrance into St. Mary's River ... November 1769 [and] A Chart of the Mouth of the Nassau River with the Bar and the Soundings on it Taken at Low Water ..., Jefferys by 1770
Plan of the Harbour and Settlement of Pensacola, Jefferys by 1760
Plan of the Harbour of Pensacola By B. Romans, Sayer & Bennett by 1794
Plan of the Town and Harbour of St. Augustin, in East ..., Lodge by 1783
Plan of the Town and Harbour of St. Augustin, in East ..., Political Magazine by 1783
Plan of the Town and Harbour of St. Augustine, Jefferys by 1762
Plan of the Town of St. Augustine the Capital of East Florida. Printed for W. Faden Charing Cross. T. Jefferys ..., Faden by c.1775
Plano del Porto e degli Stabilimenti di Pensacola, Gazzettiere Americano by 1777
Plano del Puerto de Cayo Hueso y sus Immediaciones en el Arricife de la Florida, Levantado en 1849 por varios officiales de marine de los Estados ..., Direccion de Hidrografia by 1863
Plate CXLVI [Parts of Florida], U.S. War Records Office by 1894
Port et Barre d'Amelia, de la Floride Orientale, Le Rouge by 1778
Port et Barre d'Amelia, de la Floride Orientale ... 1778, Le Rouge by 1778
Portion of Middle Florida, Shewing the Seat of Hostilities between Seminole Indians, and United ..., MARRYAT by 1839
Preliminary Chart of Cedar Keys and Approaches, Florida, Hydrography by Lt. O. Berryman ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1854
Preliminary Chart of Florida Reefs from Key Biscayne to Carysfort Reef ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Preliminary Chart of Florida Reefs Showing the Approaches to Key West Harbor ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Preliminary Chart of Key-West Harbor and Approaches ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1851
Preliminary Chart of Main Entrance to Charlotte Harbor Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1863
Preliminary Chart of St. Augustine Harbor, Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1862
Preliminary Chart of St. John's River, U.S. Coast Survey by 1856
Preliminary Chart of St. John's River Florida from Brown's Creek to ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1856
Preliminary Chart of St. Mary's Bay & Fernandina Harbor, ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1856
Preliminary Chart of the Entrance to Pensacola Bay Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Preliminary Chart of the Entrance to St. John's River, ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1853
Preliminary Chart of Western End of Florida Reefs Including the Tortuga ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1864
Preliminary Chart St. Andrew's Bay Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Preliminary Coast Chart No.71, Florida Reefs from Newfound Harbor Key to Boca Grande Key, ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1862
Preliminary Postal Route Map of the State of Florida, with Parts of Adjacent ..., Nicholson by 1881
Preliminary Survey of the Mouth of Apalachicola River ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1857
Progress Sketch Florida Reefs, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Progress Sketch, Section VI, U.S. Coast Survey by 1851
Progress Sketch, Section VII, U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Proposed Base at Cape Sable Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1850
Proposed Intercoastal Barge Canal Pensacola to Appalachee ..., U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey by 1894
Rail Road and County Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1889
Railroad & County Map of Florida, Grant by 1887
Railroad & County Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1890
Railroad and County Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by 1883
Railroad and County Map of Florida, Walker by 1895
Railroad and County Map of Florida, Cram [& Co.] by c.1890
Rand McNally & Co. New Sectional Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1927
Rand McNally & Co.'s Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1881
Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Business Atlas Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1898
Rand, McNally & Co.'s New Sectional Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1910
Reconnaissance & Progress Sketch, Section VII, Pensacola and Perdido ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1851
Reconnaissance of Channel No.IV Cedar Keys, Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1852
Reconnaissance of Florida Keys, Biscayne Bay & Cards Sound, U.S. Coast Survey by 1849
Reconnaissance of Mosquito Inlet Coast of Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1851
Reconnaissance of Tampa Bay Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1855
Reconnaissance of the Bar and Channel of St. Marks on the Western Coast of Florida ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1852
Reconnaissance of Vicinity of Cedar Keys, Florida, U.S. Coast Survey by 1851
Reconnoissance of Cape Canaveral Shoals of the Eastern Coast of ..., U.S. Coast Survey by 1850
Routes of the Army during the Seminole War, TANNER [Family] by 1839-44
Seat of War in Florida Forwarded to the War Department by Maj. Genl. W. ..., U.S. Government by 1836
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Standard Map of Florida, Rand, McNally & Co. by 1922
State of Florida, General Land Office by 1876
State of Florida, U.S. State Surveys by 1876
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Street Map of Miami Beach, Anthropomorphic & Cartoon Maps by 1950
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Big Brother Spoilers > Big Brother > Big Brother 17 > Austin “I just don’t know why she’s going rogue. I think its because she’s off her meds”
Austin “I just don’t know why she’s going rogue. I think its because she’s off her meds”
POV Holder: JohnnyMac Next POV July 11th
POV Used ? POV Ceremony July 13th
HOH Winner Team 1: Vanessa HOH Winner Team 2: Austin
Nominations 1 : James & Johnny Mac Nominations 2: Jason & Meg
Battle of the Block Winner Jason and Meg Next HOH/ Next BOB July 16th / July17th
Original Nominations: James & Johnny Mac
Current Nominations: ?
Have Nots No HAve nots this week
1:30am HOH room – Jeff comes up to the HOH room to talk to Vanessa. Jeff says I just wanted to see where your mind was at. Vanessa says that she is being bombarded with massive amount of information and I want to make the right decision and not persecute the wrong person. If Audrey does go home I am not 100% convinced that people haven’t been opportunistic. If she does go home I don’t know if I could live with myself. I’m not sure she has personally wronged me and I’m sure she’s not coming after me. I am on the brink of doing something that I am not sure I’m okay with. Jeff says honestly I’m a little unbiased because we have a deal this week. I feel like I can talk to you openly because I am obviously safe this week and we have a deal where I am going to make sure you and Austin are safe next week. Audrey and I had a deal since the beginning and she had a deal with a lot of people. Like final 2 type deal. She never had a final 2 deal with me but me, her, Clay and Shelli were supposedly supposed to work together since the beginning. I’m sure you know there was an alliance in the beginning with 8 people where they kicked out Clay and tried to bring me into it. Audrey has 100% made up numerous rumors that have affected me and others in the house. She is really good at speaking to people. She is highly manipulative. This isn’t a personal attack. I actually like her as a person. She has wronged people in this house. It might be more than that, she might be America’s Player. At the end of the day who else would you pick. Is there someone else you would be okay with sending home over her? Vanessa says yes. She brings up the time she knows that James lied to her about his reasoning for putting up Jace. Jeff says I wasn’t a part of that on day 2. I was brought into that later. Jeff tells Vanessa that America always votes on things and if they’re not voting on havenot food they’re voting on something. He says he thinks Audrey could be America’s Player. Vanessa says clearly theres a group working together that I’m not in. I really don’t know what the right thing to do is. Jeff says that sending Audrey home is your best bet. Jeff thinks it would be a unanimous vote. Vanessa disagrees and thinks she might not even go home.
James joins them and Vanessa asks to talk to him alone. Vanessa asks him was the plan always to evict Jace? James says yes. I asked you and you said absolutely not and said that it was Audrey that convinced you. Clearly you lied to me. James says yes. Vanessa says good. I am glad you aren’t lying to me now. It angered me that you lied to me then and threw Audrey under the bus. It concerns me deeply that people are willing to throw Audrey under the bus opportunistically. Vanessa says if I’m going to send someone home its going to be for a reason and reasons against you. Vanessa says I don’t know why you lied to me. I don’t know I was an enemy to you or why I was the only one to not know. I have a personal problem with you lying to me. James apologizes to Vanessa. There was a lot going on and a lot of people were saying things. James says do what you need to do. If it sends me home then.. Vanessa says I appreciate your honestly and I’m sure I’ll get some clarity on it. I am not mad at you and there is nothing else you can say.
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1:50am – 2:20am Havenot room – Jeff asks who is she (Vanessa) going against because its not Audrey. I told Vanessa if she goes against what the house wants, that’s not exactly a good decision. I think she is going to blindside James. I almost want to tell her to just put up Audrey and let the house decide. I swear if she tries to backdoor me or throw me up there.. I am going to be pissed!! Becky says even if she wants to go after James how would she even have the votes to do it. Jeff then heads to the storage room with Jason. Jeff and Jason patch things up. Jeff, Jason and Clay talk about Liz. Jeff says that the other Liz told me she was on to them questioning her and need to stop. Jason tells Clay that Vanessa might not put up Audrey. They head outside. Jeff says she could be after me. I don’t want you guys to loose your sights on one thing. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea with me hanging out with Austin. I was afraid he was going to get HOH. Jeff says I don’t think Austin even wanted to stay HOH. Jason says he’s stupid we all know he’s not just working out. Clay says I’m uncomfortable with Audrey still in this house. James joins them. She is upset with things I said in the beginning of the game. Austin joins them. Jeff asks Austin has Vanessa’s target shifted from Audrey? Austin says absolutely not. Austin says she is over thinking everything. James says she said she doesn’t want to send a transgender home. I have no problem sending home another gay person. This is not gay pride. James says I should have said I’m the first hill-billy asian. Jason says I am not afraid about that. Austin says how do you know she’s a transgender any ways. Austin heads inside. Jason tells Jeff that Austin was lying right there. When you said supposedly James is the target now. He already knew that. Shelli joins them. Jason tells James you need to not do what Day did. You need to relax. Jeff says that Vanessa believes that Audrey has the votes if she was up there. Jeff says if she put up me or Clay up, it would legit be a bloodbath. Jason says I don’t think she would put up Clay. Clay says she would probably want to split up Shelli and I. James says the only other person logically is Jeff. Jeff says she doesn’t want to send someone home from a protected group. Jason says I knew people would think that. She’s just another person in this game.
2:25am HOH room – Vanessa fills Austin in on the conversation she had with James. She tells him that James admitted to lying to her. He didn’t try to manipulate the situation. Austin tells Vanessa that Jeff is out there telling people we all need to go up to the HOH room and tell her (Vanessa) if she doesn’t put up Audrey you are done next week. Audrey joins them. She says that Jeff is down there revolting. Austin says that Jeff, James and Jason are out there leading it. If they come up here do you want me to call Jeff out. Vanessa says yes. Austin asks who is the target James or Jeff. Vanessa says still James for me. He told me to go with your gut. My gut tells me don’t put Audrey up, don’t trust James. Austin says that Jeff is the one down there flipping out. Audrey says that Jason is going to unravel.
2:50am Gronk Party music plays and he says lets get a limbo party going in the backyard! They grab the pool cue and all line up and limbo.
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2:50am – 3pm Cabana room – Austin and Jeff are talking. Austin says I told Vanessa to stop and just go to bed. We’ll talk tomorrow. Jeff asks did you tell her about the twins? Austin says no. Austin says I am going to try and talk to her (Vanessa) again when she’s had her meds again. I just don’t know why she is going rogue. I think its because she’s off her meds. Jeff says we need Vanessa. How are we going to work with her if she goes rogue. Austin says this throws my whole game off. Jeff says the house is so on board with getting Audrey out. Who does she want to put up? Austin says I don’t know because Audrey was up there and I couldn’t talk to her. If you try and do a house meeting up there it wouldn’t be good. She’s too volatile. Jeff says I’m not trying to start a house meeting, that was others out there. Austin says I don’t think she is thinking clearly. Jeff says why doesn’t she just put them both (Audrey up with James) up and let the house decide. I am just going to let her go with her gut. I’m not going to keep going up there and talking to her. Her and I have a deal so I’m not worried about it. Austin says okay, I’ll tell her all this. Austin says she might put up Jackie. Who do you think would go home in that situation. Jeff says probably Jackie. Austin asks what if Audrey is just here to cause discord. Jeff says I’m going to leave her alone and hope that I didn’t piss her off.
3:10am – 3:25am Cabana room – Jeff and Clay are talking. Jeff says Audrey has to go immediately. Clay says think about if you were HOH .. you don’t want people telling you what to do. We need to make her think that Audrey going home is a priority. Jeff says dude Audrey preys on the weak. She preys on the weak. Jeff says Johnny Mac is our secret weapon. Lets get Johnny Mac to go talk to her. No one would ever suspect us to be working with Johnny. Jeff says do not say a word about the Jackie thing. If they throw me up, dude we are going to have to go to war. Jeff says Audrey is a witch, she’s a witch! Jason says she needs to be burned at the stake. Clay says we’ll see where she stands tomorrow. Jeff says Vanessa is a very scary player because she is not a good player. Austin is sketching me out. I think there’s a 20 – 30% chance they’re going to vote me out. Jeff says why do I get the feeling she is going to put me up. Jason says I’m afraid she’s going to go for you. Clay says she won’t want to get more blood on her hands. Jeff say Austin is acting super sketchy. Jeff says we need to take her and her broomstick and send her a$$ out of here. They leave the room. Jeff asks Clay do you think worst case if I go up against James do you think I would stay? Clay says I think so.
3:30am Backyard – Shelli, Becky, James, Jeff and Jackie are talking. James says I think Austin is saying he wants to get Audrey out but he really wants me out. Jeff says this has to be completely no agenda pushing. Maybe no talking about Audrey. We need to use smoke and mirrors. We have to go back to sales tactics 101. Jason says I know you’re a lesbian and I’m a gay man but her being tansgender has nothing to do with anything. This isn’t a cast full of bigots.. no one cares. Jackie says she already makes it seem like we’re bullying her. Jeff asks who can we get put up?
3:30am – 4am HOH room – Vanessa tells Audrey that best case if Jeff throws a fit I know how to handle it. He will end up looking really bad if he tired to bully me. Vanessa asks what can you offer me if I help cover / redeem your name. Audrey says obviously loyalty. If I win HOH or Veto I am always going to talk. Right now I’ve got nothing besides trying to prove myself to you and our group. Vanessa says I think you’re going to go far in this game. My concern is that sleeper cell can go deep. More so than any other group of 5. We’ve got the best shot. Its no secret Shelli and Clay will have their back over anyone else. Audrey says to be honest I would be more loyal to you and Shelli. Vanessa says I think you’re going to go far. If I got to top two with you, you are a favourite. I’m okay with second. I’m not a money orientated person. If I was I would still be gambling. Vanessa asks would you have a conflict if we got down to final 4 would you take me over Shelli. Audrey says I don’t think so. Austin joins them. He says f**king Jeff. He went outside and Clay came and told me that I was acting weird. Vanessa says well call him out. Austin says I just told him I your boy, I’m your boy and then right after he goes out and does that. They talk about Austin calling out Jeff.
4:15am Austin joins Clay and Shelli in the cabana room to talk. He tells them that Vanessa wants me to go blow up Jeff right now but only if you want me to. Austin says I’ll only do it if you guys are down for it. Clay says I don’t want it to come back on us. Austin says if we don’t do this she won’t put Jeff up. I just want Jeff to go up, I don’t know what to do. Shelli says I don’t want you to say something about us. Clay says he just told me you have to go. He said I don’t trust Austin. If you go out there right now he is going to know it was me that told you. Austin leaves. Audrey comes in and Shelli tells her she can’t be in here with us right now it looks sketchy. Vanessa joins them. Shelli says they have no idea we are working with you. If you go out there and start something and throw us under the bus then they’ll know we’re working with you. Shelli says the goal is for them to not know we’re working with you so we can get information. During our HOH conversations
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I really hope Jeff goes up and James gets voted out. I really want to see a week of Jeff scrambling. I don’t care for Jeff, but I do want him to stay in the house for the chaos factor.
The sooner they figure out Clay power jumped the sooner this will get good.
The twist this week is shit
Uhhh
Eh, I’m fine with it. I don’t think we need a ginormous, game changing twist every week because then the season will end up just being a giant crap shoot. Look at BB Canada 3: yes, they got lucky and ended up with a good winner, but there were way too many twists and it became a big game of chance.
A few goofy, inconsequential takeovers here and there are fine. They keep with the season’s premise without taking from the integrity of the game.
dipperz
lucky? its because of the game changing twists that she ended up in the final 2.
Da was spot on. They are afraid to put her up because she is transgender.
playtone22
I agree. I didn’t think she was right at first, but now I do. Lame. Do they just want to hand Audrey $500k because she’s transgendered? That’s ridiculous.
6 people gave you the thumbs down even though Vanessa admitted it and Day did say it. These are facts but yet you get 6 thumbs down? LOL!!!
Figure out clay is the andy…please.
I want to see him on the spot..what will he do..turn all much or hissyfit
Jeff is not even shown on the TV version. Makes me think he’ll either dribble out
with the audience not caring at all OR he’ll go far
Simon and Dawg I just want to commend you guys on removing inappropriate comments. As per usual you guys do a great job and I imagine it must be difficult to keep with all the comments as well as doing the update. Donation to come soon.
Thanks Scallywag.
“I feel funny.. Nobody wants to hang out with me .. I don’t want to be a Jace” -Audrey
Vanessa “DUDE! I’m HOH right now?! ARE YOU TRIPPING!! You’re going to f**king say that right now!”
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The Dangers Of CFIT
It’s one of the most common probable causes of IFR accidents
By Bill Cox
Published December 2, 2014 Updated February 6, 2016
If you fly IFR long enough, you'll probably have the unpleasant experience of knowing someone who'll die in an IFR accident. So far, I've had half a dozen personal friends come to grief during IFR operations, but two stand out because they were both better than I'll ever be, and both were victims of CFIT (controlled flight into terrain). Plus, I know another pilot who had a narrow escape from a CFIT scenario and learned a valuable lesson.
Take away the personal loss, and most of us like to read about findings of probable cause, not because we have a ghoulish interest in those extremely rare instances when a pilot makes a critical error, but in hopes of learning a few things about how and why accidents happen, so the rest of us can avoid the same traps.
Both of the friends who crashed were professionals in the business of flying, selling or demonstrating general aviation airplanes. The first was a factory test pilot on a press tour with a new twin back in the late '70s. He flew out from Wichita to demonstrate the airplane to four aviation magazines in Southern California. Each of us got to spend a day with the airplane doing pretty much whatever we wanted with the company pilot in the right seat to make certain we didn't break anything.
On my appointed day, I flew an air-to-air formation session in the early morning. We came back to Long Beach, had lunch, then went up to do some airwork and single-engine practice.
We were finally done at about 4 p.m., and the company pilot loaded up some suitcases and had his wife take the right seat, then departed to visit friends in the San Diego area.
The weather was decent, but not great. There were scattered to broken low-level clouds on the short 90 nm run down the coast. The clouds partially obscured foothills of the coastal mountains, but it was clear above 5,000 feet. I said goodbye to my friend, watched him depart and went home to my typewriter. (Remember those?)
Later that evening, I heard the first news reports of the accident. A twin-engine aircraft had flown into a hill in the Ramona area. I was astonished when I learned the victims had been my friend and his wife.
Later that evening, I heard...news reports of the accidents. A twin-engine aircraft had flown into a hill in the Ramona area.
Post-crash investigation suggested the airplane was operating at normal cruise power, and had been straight and level at the moment of impact. A VFR flight plan had been filed, but the weather had been cloudy, and the accident had occurred just after sunset. This was long before the advent of GPS, so establishing an exact position wasn't as easy as it is today.
It took some time to wrap my head around the fact that a pilot I regarded as far superior to me had made what seemed like a bush-league mistake.
The second accident again involved seasoned pros at the controls, this time flying a new turboprop with every possible avionics advantage: Garmin radios, terrain, traffic, radar altimeter and every other possible option. It was late winter of 2006, and the two pilots were ferrying the airplane from Wichita to California.
They had refueled in Palm Springs, filed IFR, but never activated it and were headed through the Banning Pass for Van Nuys. Banning is a fairly wide valley 90 miles east of Los Angeles. The valley floor starts near sea level, but mountains on both sides reach above 10,000 feet.
Clouds were stacked up in the pass, and the pilots were trying to duck under well below the level of the peaks, doing their best to avoid the clouds and the uncharacteristic icing conditions above.
They were talking to L.A. Center, dodging the clouds and attempting to stay in the center of the pass. Center advised they were headed toward an area of high terrain, and one pilot replied, "We're maneuvering away from it right now." No further reply was received from the aircraft. The wreckage was found at the 6,000-foot level in steep terrain on the north side of the pass. The NTSB concluded the probable cause was continued flight into IMC and failure to maintain airspeed, resulting in a stall/spin scenario.
CFIT has been identified as a probable cause in hundreds of accidents in the last 60 years. According to Boeing, it's responsible for 9,000 deaths since the beginning of the jet age. Additionally, CFIT accidents comprise 25% of all Class A USAF mishaps between 1993 and 2002.
CFIT devolves from a simple problem—loss of situational awareness. The near-universal adoption of GPS in the last 20 years has helped reduce incidence of CFIT accidents, and recent introduction of TAWS technology has further improved the accident rate, but the syndrome remains one of the leading causes of IFR accidents. As demonstrated above, it strikes without regard to training or experience, and the consequences are usually severe.
The pilot of the near-CFIT incident mentioned above was delivering a new Piper Aerostar from California to Florida, again in the late 1970s. He had flown that route at least three dozen times, operating a succession of Aerostars on the 2,000 nm trip from Piper's Santa Maria factory to Lakeland where the airplanes would be tanked and flown overseas.
He knew from experience that if he left early enough and the winds were willing, he could make one quick-turn fuel stop in Waco, Texas, continue to Tampa, catch the last Continental jet back to Los Angeles and be home late the same day.
The weather was down for the first 800 nm, but looked good from Waco east. Our hero departed Santa Maria just before sunup in acceptable VFR conditions, but quickly found himself faced with icing conditions at about 13,000 feet and up. As a result, he asked for lower and was assigned 11,000. He was able to maintain altitude just below the ceiling and remain out of the ice.
The route took him across the southern terminus of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and again, because he had flown the trip many times, he assumed he'd be fine to cancel IFR, and stay between the rocks and the ice when the clouds began to slope downhill.
The plan began to come apart early on. Weather drove him farther north where the mountains rose higher toward Mt. Whitney. The gap between earth and frozen sky was beginning to narrow. He was occasionally scudding through the bottoms of clouds.
Eventually, long after he should have made the decision to reverse course or begin an immediate climb, he popped out of a cloud to see a solid granite wall straight ahead. He slammed the yoke full back and zoomed up into the clouds at 3,000 fpm.
A minute later, when he stopped holding his breath, he finally stabilized at 15,000 feet, immersed in cloud, but well above the highest terrain in the Lower 48 states. He promised himself he'd never make that same stupid mistake again, and he hasn't. He continues to find new ones.
And, by the way, in case you hadn't guessed, that cocky pilot from 40 years ago was me.
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UK Cinema Charts May 11 2018
Popcorn Cinema Show 16th May 2018
It’s that time of the week when we take a quick look at the top 10 box office films and find out which movies are doing well. Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War continues to dominate and remains at number one for a another week. These are the figures for UK Cinema Charts May 11 2018.
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UK Cinema Charts May 11 2018 (Box office results this weekend)
1 (1) Avengers: Infinity War Disney £5,706,170
2 New Sherlock Gnomes Paramount £2,522,342
3 (2) I Feel Pretty STX Entertainment £931,614
4 New Life of the Party Warner Bros £618,311
5 New Breaking In Universal £424,675
6 (3) A Quiet Place Paramount £361,029
7 (4) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society StudioCanal £305,925
8 (6) Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Secret Cinema 2018) Warner Bros £230,016
9 (5) Rampage Warner Bros £189,221
10 New Raazi Zee Studios £150,360
11 New Entebbe eOne Films £138,390
Staying with Avengers: Infinity War it managed box office takings of over £5.7 million resulting in gross to date figures of over $60.3 million. Elsewhere animated adventure Sherlock Gnomes takes the number two slot with cinema takings of over £2.5m.
Melissa McCarthy’s comedy Life of the Party enters the chart at four whilst thriller Breaking In lands at five. One new entry that fails to make the top ten is Entebbe which enters at number eleven.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut continues to do well under its Secret Cinema release remaining in the top ten for another week.
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It’s Time To Switch To Blu-ray
Now really is the perfect time to upgrade to Blu-ray for all film lovers / collectors with so many titles being restored many of which are only available on the format. Providing you have a HD television which the majority of people already have you can pick up a Blu-ray player for as little as £55-60. It’s time to experience vastly improved picture quality over DVD, once you have switched there really is no going back.
Some of the best deals around at the moment are listed below. The Sony Blu-ray BDP-S3700 can now be had for £84, whilst if your budget will stretch a little further your can pick up Panasonic’s DMP-UB300EBK 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Player for £129.99 compared to its list price of £249.99.
I’ll leave you with a couple movie trailers starting with Avengers: Infinity War
and Sherlock Gnomes.
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Missed Directions: The Boulevard
shathley Q
Scott Allie's incredibly atmospheric and deeply immersive Devil's Footprint hit the popular consciousness more or less contemporaneously with the premier season of an equally phenomenal piece of television drama, Six Feet Under.
At first brush, the two properties seemed entwined, even imbricated, as if sprung from the same imagination. Even upon deeper reading, the textual interplay between the comicbook and TV show remains at a high pitch.
Both are the story of two brothers (who may well love, but cannot necessarily tolerate each other) struggling with the shadow-legacy of a recently-deceased father. In both stories, the character carrying forward the family business seems more interesting from the stance of narrative. In both stories, the counterpoint brother weighing in against their father's legacy offers a credible opposition.
But while the HBO drama opted for a subtle strangeness that comes with the poetic tradition of magical realism, the Dark Horse comics created more sinister, and far eerier work but defining the family business as occult magick. While the Fishers of Six Feet Under had the ghoulish and grisly task of dressing the deceased for their funerals, the Waites of Devil's Footprint confronted actual demons out for their blood oath-defined recompense.
Rightly so, the marketing campaigns for the two properties were wholly divergent. Despite their deep similarities, the two works were at their core distinctly dissimilar. If in no other respect than format, Devil's Footprint told a very compact tale of a single engagement between the brothers and the consequences of their father's sorcerous legacy. Six Feet Under was a protracted vision of the evolution of a family as it struggled with, and sometimes wrestled free from, the intangible but ever-present legacy of their former patriarch.
And yet, the slightly more than passing similarities do not easily fade. Which begs the question, is there a "Missed Direction" here? Is there some benefit to be drawn from a marketing and branding strategy that acknowledges the similarities, rather than downplaying them?
Not to suggest that independent creativity be compromised. Scott Allie's work is clearly a unique offering, worthy of critical attention in its own right. Even in a world without Six Feet Under, Devil's Footprint is a rewarding experience long after the cover has been closed.
But after the fact, once the creative process has ended, and disparate works seem to converge towards intertextuality, isn't there an opportunity for acknowledging the similarity in pop cultural pieces?
The question at the core of this "Missed Direction" has very little to do with Dark Horse or Scott Allie, or even Devil's Footprint. Right at the heart of this "Missed Direction" is the role comics play in the mainstream of popular culture. While shows like South Park or The Daily Show comment on current affairs as a matter of content, comics has historically always positioned itself to imbibe the zeitgeist as a medium. The medium's central role in the daily popular imagination that has always allowed for this imbibing of the zeitgeist, has waned over time.
The Silver Age reboot of DC's Justice Society as the Justice League, was one such response to the popular imagination. The renaming of the superteam was due to the overwhelming popularity of baseball and its marketing as league sport.
With branding and other ancillary cultural processes, processes not directly related to the creative process of storytelling, that actively engage the pop cultural mainstream, comics might come to occupy that privileged place again. As Pericles, Mayor of Athens suggested, 'Everything good, should find its way into the boulevard'. With the recent resurgence of MAD and the topicality of such works as Marvel's "Dark Reign", comics might once more become such a boulevard for popular culture.
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Dominque Pruitt Searches for Glitz "High in the Valley" (premiere)
Photo: Ron Pruitt / Courtesy of artist
Dominque Pruitt confidently struts between the realms of Americana and vintage pop as she aims to make LA glamour in the windswept suburbs of the San Fernando Valley.
While the San Fernando Valley is just a 30-minute drive from the glitz and glam of Dominique Pruitt's Los Angeles dreams, the windswept suburbs can often feel like a lifetime away from that bustling metropolis. This sort of lamentation lies at the center of the singer-songwriter's first new single in just around five years, "High in the Valley". Washed by sun-drenched reverb and country-toned, jangling guitar and pedal steel, Pruitt confidently struts between the realms of Americana and vintage pop to deliver a tune that in itself strides between the high life of LA glamour and the supposedly parochial western landscapes of the valley. It's a feel-good rockabilly number possessed by an infectious amount of self-confidence, showcasing Pruitt as an indomitable artist primed for a comeback.
Directed by Dana Boulos and styled by Shana Anderson, Pruitt carries this empowered performance over into the song's visual, classically shot and designed in a way that evokes an earlier, vibrant era. On the music video, Pruitt tells PopMatters, "The day we shot the video (Friday, July 13th) I was fostering this sweet little angel dog named Joey (I named him that after the Concrete Blonde song of the same name, of course). Because we shot the video in my house, he was obviously with us the whole day. He was super attached to me and couldn't bear to be anywhere but RIGHT next to me. So in almost every single shot, he was with me, just out of frame!"
"He's literally laying on or by my feet in each shot where you can't see my legs. I have some funny behind the scenes photos. He was also super shy with everyone, but when the cameraman, Andrew Yuyi Truong, laid on the ground to shoot the scene where I'm bent over above the glass table, Joey laid down with him, and it melted all of our hearts. So, a special shout-out to Joey who was my emotional support dog on set for 'High in the Valley'!"
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Festival international du court métrage de Maurice
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Since 2012, Île Courts Festival invites a great independent filmmaker, hailing from Africa or Asia, to be the patron of the festival. After the Senegalese director Moussa Touré, it’s in 2014 the turn of one of the leaders of Indian independant cinema, Anurag Kashyap, to come share with us his vision of filmmaking.
With the support of the Culture & Avenir unit of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Location: L’Atelier littéraire . Port Louis
Date: Saturday 11 Octobre 2014 . 10:00-13:00
Seats are limited, please reserve
T. 465 38 26
Patron of the 7th edition of Île Courts Festival
The masterclass, is an opportunity for Mauritian directors and film buffs to challenge their ideas about cinemaby meeting a major filmmaker. The Indian scriptwriter, director and producer Anurag Kashyap’s fascination with cinema started from a very early age. He is the director of many critically-acclaimed films which have been praised for their bold visual style and innovative narrative structure. His films have turned him into a iconic figure of the new wave of Indian cinema around the world. In Mauritius, Anurag Kashyap hopes to share with us, in a most candid way, his own deeply personal vision of the seventh art.
Anurag Kashyap sets the foundation of his career by writing the script of Satya (1998), an unapologetically and brutally realistic gangster film directed by Gopal Varma. In 1999, he writes and directs a short film, Last Train to Mahakali, which earns itself the Special Jury Award at the at 8th Star Screen Awards.
It’s in 2000 that he makes his first steps into feature-length filmmaking with Paanch, which remains up to this day unreleased because of objections from the Indian Censor Board. He then directs Black Friday, a film inspired by the 1993 Mumbai bombings. It earns him the Grand Jury Prize of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2005 as well as a nomination for the Golden Leopard (for best international film) at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival in 2004.
In 2009, he writes and directs Dev. D, a modern reinterpretation of Sarat Chandra Chattaopadhyay’s classic novella Devdas. The film is heralded around the world, mainly because of its audaciously original visual style, experimental soundtrack and innovative narrative structure. It is internationally recognized as a revolutionary Indian film..
Anurag Kashyap next directs No Smoking (2007), Return of Hanuman (2007), Gulal (2009), That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011). In addition, he produces Udaan (2010), an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. Following this, he produces Shaitan in 2011 and co-produces Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna in 2012. His film Gangs of Wasseypur (I & II) is selected for the Director’s Fornight and his production Peddlers, first film of Vasan Bala, for the Semaine de la Critique of Cannes 2012. Peddlers is later honoured with the festival’s prestigious Caméra d’Or award.
In 2013, Anurag Kashyap has no less than five of his films, either directed or produced, selected at Cannes: Ugly for the Directors’ Fortnight, Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout, Bombay Talkies the collective work of a team of five Indian directors, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox (2013) and Ari Folman’s The Congress.
He is a jury member of the 66th Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and, more recently, of the Marrakech International Film Festival side by side with Martin Scorses, the president of the jury of the prize for the best feature film. Kashyap’s films have made him a leading figure of the new wave in Indian cinema at numerous prestigious events around the globe.
In 2013, he is made Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, in a ceremony held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
Listen to an interview from May 25, 2014 of Anurag Kashyap in French on France Inter’s show Cosmopolitaine.
1999 . Last Train To Mahakali (short film)
Non distribué . Paanch
2004 . Black Friday
2007 . No Smoking
2007 . Return of Hanuman
2009 . Dev. D
2009 . Gulaal
2011 . That Girl in Yellow Boots
2012 . Gangs of Wasseypur . 1
2013 . Bombay Talkies
2014 . Ugly
Upcoming . Bombay Velvet
2010 . Udaan . Vikramaditya Motwane
2011 . That Girl in Yellow Boots . Anurag Kashyap
2011 . Shaitan . Bejoy Nambiar
2011 . Trishna (co-producer) . Michael Winterbottom
2012 . Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana . Sameer Sharma
2012 . Aiyya . Sachin Kundalkar
2013 . The Lunchbox . Ritesh Batra
2013 . Lootera . Vikramaditya Motwane
2013 . Shahid . Hansal Mehta
Post production . Michael . Ribhu Dasgupta
Post production . Monsoon Shootout (co-producer) . Amit Kumar
Post production . Peddlers . Vasan Bala
Post production . Haraamkhor . Shlok Sharma
Post production . Vakratunda Mahakayaa . Punarvasu Naik
Post production . Tasher Desh . Q
Post production . White Lies . Danis Tanovic
Post production . The Congress (co-producer) . Ari Folman
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Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, USA
Lives and works in Miami and Detroit, USA
Hernan Bas’s expressionist and highly detailed figurative paintings are openly inspired by late-nineteenth-century decadent art and literature, as well as the concurrent symbolist and decorative style of the French group Les Nabis. While they are aesthetically grounded in the iconography of the male androgynous dandy, the young protagonists of his oneiric visions are usually portrayed alone or in small groups within descriptions of pure flânerie. Whether confined in the intimacy of a genre scene or lost in the vertigo of a dense, lush, romantic-like landscape, they inhabit a fantasized world of implicit eroticism and ambiguous sensuality. Always appearing as if suspended in time, between adolescence and adulthood, they embody the fragile in-between state that the artist refers to as “fag limbo.” With a flamboyant palette and a refined touch, Hernan Bas overall masterly revisits and reinterprets all the categories of classical painting from a seemingly melancholic yet often humorous and witty, homoerotic perspective.
1996 New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
- A Brief Intermission, Centro De Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain
- Hernan Bas: The Paper Crown Prince and Other Works, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
- Insects from Abroad, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
- Cambridge Living, Victoria Miro, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
- Bloomsbury Revisited, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
- Florida Living, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
- A Tropical Depression, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Bright Young Things, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- Fruits and Flowers, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted. Hernan Bas and the Natural World: Selections from the Rubell Collection, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL
- Haunted Objects, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX
- Case Studies, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
- Hernan Bas: Memphis Living, Victoria Miro, London, United Kingdom
- TIME, Hernan Bas: a queer and curious cabinet, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
- Deep in the Dark of Texas, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
- Boys in Peril?, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Thirty-six Unknown Poets, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- A brief suspension of disbelief, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Occult Contemporary, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- The other side, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany, cur. René Zechlin
- Delicate Creatures from America, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
- Perennial Affairs, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Forest for the Trees, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Considering Henry, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
- The Hallucinations of Poets, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Hernan Bas: A Fairy’s Tale, PKM Gallery/Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul, Korea
- In the land of make me believe, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice
- The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
- Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
- Ask the Sky, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
- The Unexplained, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Hernan Bas: works from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- Evening Amusements, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
- Saints and Secret Sects, Galleria IL Capricorno, Venice
- Saints and Secret Sects, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Mephistopheles at 17, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
- The Great Barrier Wreath, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
- A Silent Dirge, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy
- Dandies, Pansies and Prudes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
- Once Upon A Time…, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Hernan Bas: New Works on Paper, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
- In the Low Light, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Soap Operatic, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
- As if a Phantom Carres’d me, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
- Sometimes with One I Love, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
- We May Even See the Wind Together, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
- We May Even See the Wind Together, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Love in Vein, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
- It’s Super Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
- Hernan’s Merit & the Nouveau Sissies, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Slim Fast, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
- Through Painter's Eyes: Hernan Bas and Ioan Sbârciu, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- My Kids Could Do That, ProjectArt, Miami, FL
- Les Enfants du Paradis, Eldorado, Lille3000, MUba EUGÈNE LEROY, Tourcoing, France, cur. Jérôme Sans and
Jean-Max Colard
- Where is the Madness You Promised Me?, HVMocA, Peekskill, NY
- Works on Paper, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
- They Gaze, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
- Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Art Capsul, New York, NY
- Still Crazy 1977-2017, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Through Painters' Eyes, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- People, Places, Things, Dru Arstark Fine Art, New York, NY
- Nothing Pretty: A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of Paul Rickert, George Lawson Gallery, Emeryville, CA
- Engender, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Wild n Out, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
- On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Alien Nations, Lehman College Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- House Work, Victoria Miro, London, United Kingdom
- Hernan Bas & Teresita Fernandez, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
- A Sum of its Parts, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
- Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
- Go Figure!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Tempest, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
- Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- Love: The First of the 7 Virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, NY
- Seinfeld [a show about nothing], Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Horror Story: Eight Artists Engage with Mass Culture through Traumatic Imagery, Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA
- Suddenness + Certainty, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- Aquatopia: The imaginary of the ocean deep, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- 25 Years Galerie Perrotin, Tri Postal, Lille, France
- Cinematic Visions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Hernan Bas, Anne Chu, Klara Kristalova, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Les Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Nightfall: New tendencies in figurative painting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic, Prague
- Summer Show, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- From the Collection: Looking at Process, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
- Nightfall, MODEM Center for Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary
- Landscape, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
- I Followed You into the Water, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
- To Have a Voice, Makintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- The Cry, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain, cur. María Inés Rodriguez & Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
- Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, cur. Stacy Engman
- Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
- Hernan Bas & Artur Zmijewski, Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
- In the company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc., Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
- Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005-2010, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
- Five in Istanbul: A selection of artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik EVI, Istanbul, Turkey
- Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil, cur. Diego Singh
- Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lush Life 3: Fast Bird (A Few Butterflies), Invisible-Exports, New York, NY, cur. Franklin Evans & Omar Lopez-Chahoud
- Boy, Oh Boy!, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- The Collectors, 53rd Venice Biennale, Nordic and Danish Pavillions, Italy, cur. Elmgreen & Dragset
- Wunderland: Through the Looking Glass, KadE, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
- SMALL, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Dilettantes, Dandies and Divas, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL
- With You I Want to Live, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Exhibitions 21: Selections from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
- 6th Busan Biennale, Korea
-The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber, Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany, cur. Nicholas Weist
- Miami Comes to the Hamptons, Snitzer - Arregui Project, East Hamptons, New York
- (i-murj:d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
-The Boys of Summer, The Fireplace Project, East Hamptons, New York, cur. Shelly Fox Aarons and Edsel Williams
- Titled/Untitled: a collaborative exhibition featuring work from the Devonshire collection & Rubell collection, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
- Intimacy, Contemporary Art After Nine Eleven, Triennale DI Milano, Milan, Italy
- Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
- Size Matters (Part 1, XS-recent small-scale paintings), Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
- Paraisos Artificiales, Pillar Parra & Romero Galeria De Arte, Madrid, Spain
- Breathing Time: Works from the Debra & Dennis Scholl collection Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Girlpower and Boyhood, Talbot Rice Gallery (in conjuction with Kunsthallen Brandts), University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Panic Room: works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- Figuring the Landscape, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
- Think Warm: Miami Draws for You, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
- Recent Acquisitions, LA MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
- Triumph of Painting – Part III, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
- MoCA and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Little Odysseys, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- Ten, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
- Situational Prosthetics, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA, cur. Nate Lowman
- Galleon and Other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
- Miami Nice, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
- Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner, New York, NY
- Heavenly Creatures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropec, Salzburg, Austria
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- The Drawing Show, The Green Barn, Sagaponack
- Painting 2004, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Obituary, Placemaker, Miami, FL
- Lock Stock and Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA, traveling to Arthouse, Austin, TX, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
- Women Beware Women, Deitch Projects, New York, cur. David Rimanelli
- Summer Romance, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
- Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, traveled to Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MoCA, North Miami, FL
- Made in Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- New Art, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
- American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
- Drawing Conclusions, Buena Vista Building, Miami, FL, cur. Nina Arias
- In the Place of Revolution, The Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York, NY
- AOP002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
- Friends and Family, Lombard-Fried Fine Art, New York, NY
- Dangerous Beauty, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York, NY
- Champion, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
- Fast Forward Projects, the Nash Hotel Art Fair, Miami, FL
- Humid, Moore Space, Miami, FL, cur. Dominic Molon
- Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
- Making art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, cur. Bonnie Clearwater
- Robot, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Ob-la-di-Ob-la-da, Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL, cur. Gean Moreno
- Young Miami, Wooster Projects, New York, NY
-The Home Show, 890 NE 90th Street, Miami, FL
- Departing Perspectives, Espirito Santo Building, Miami, FL
- Wish You Were Here, Box Forum, Miami, FL
- TRANScontinENTal Galerie, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Superfantastic 7, The Dirt Room, Kansas City, MO
- The Fashion Issue: four simple steps towards younger looking skin, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Frank: an adj...Connoting Superfantastic, Baltimore, MD
- Group Show, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Saatchi Collection, London, GB
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, FR
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuso: Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
- Williams College, Williamstown, MA
- Rerna Hort Foundation Grant, New York, NY
- Deans Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Mc Cullogh Award for Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
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Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, Hernan Bas creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature.
Bas’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions around the world, including a major presentation at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, in 2007, which subsequently traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2008, and a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, in 2012. In 2013, Bas presented the multi-media installation, TIME, Hernan Bas: a queer and curious cabinet at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL and in 2014, Rizzoli published a monograph on the artist, the most comprehensive book of his work to date.
Bas has participated in a number of important group exhibitions, including “The Collectors,” curated by Elmgreen & Dragset for the Nordic and Danish Pavilions at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); Triumph of Painting: Part III, Saatchi Gallery, London, and Ideal Worlds – New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (both 2005); and the 2004 Whitney Biennale. His work is part of the permanent collections of New York’s Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; as well as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
The artist lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.
Hernan BAS, Jonathan LYNDON CHASE, Anthony CUDAHY, TM DAVY, Angela DUFRESNE, Louis FRATINO, Jenna GRIBBON, Paul HEYER, Sholem KRISHTALKA, Doron LANGBERG, Maia Cruz PALILEO, Ana SEGOVIA, Salman TOOR
130 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002
Hernan BAS
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan
Insects from Abroad
October 22 - December 19, 2015
76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France
Fruits and Flowers
September 8 - October 27, 2012
Thirty-six Unknown Poets (or, decorative objects for the homosexual home)
Takashi MURAKAMI, John ARMLEDER, Tauba AUERBACH, Hernan BAS, Matthew DAY JACKSON, Bernard FRIZE, Mark GROTJAHN, Andrew GUENTHER, Sergej JENSEN, Bharti KHER, Adam MCEWEN, Olivier MOSSET, R. H. QUAYTMAN, Claude RUTAULT, Lee UFAN, Piotr UKLANSKI, Martin WOHRL
Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc...
January 9 - March 13, 2010
Considering Henry
Daniel ARSHAM, Martin OPPEL, Naomi FISHER, Hernan BAS, Bhakti BAXTER, Natalia BENEDETTI, Robert CHAMBERS, John ESPINOSA, Luis GISPERT, Jiae HWANG, Beatriz MONTEAVARO
November 13 - December 23, 2004
20 rue Louise Weiss 75003 Paris
curated by George Lindemann
Hernan Bas “Fruits and Flowers", Galerie...
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Camera IconNancy Crampton-Brophy wrote a blog post called How to Murder Your Husband and is now charged with killing her husband.Picture: Supplied
How to Murder Your Husband author Nancy Crampton-Brophy arrested for allegedly killing hubby
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A US-BASED romance novelist, who once penned a blog called How to Murder Your Husband has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 68, was being held in Oregon on charges of murdering her husband, Daniel Brophy, and unlawful use of a weapon.
Camera IconNancy Crampton-Brophy’s The Wrong Husband.Picture: Supplied
Camera IconNancy Crampton-Brophy’s The Wrong Seal.Picture: Supplied
Police responded to an emergency call on June 2 at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where Brophy, 63, worked as a chef and found him bleeding in the kitchen. He died at the scene.
The Washington Post reports that Crampton-Brophy wrote a post in 2011 entitled How to Murder Your Husband.
Camera IconNancy Crampton-Brophy wrote How to Murder Your Husband and is now charged with killing her husband.Picture: Supplied
The since-deleted post offered advice like not using a hitman or a lover to do the deed as they are inclined to “rat you out to the police”.
She also advised against poison as it traceable.
Her other works also dealt with murder.
In The Wrong Husband, a woman tries to leave an abusive spouse by faking her death and in The Wrong Cop she wrote about a woman who “spent every day of her marriage fantasising about killing” her husband.
Crampton-Brophy wrote a Facebook post the day after her husband’s death, saying she was “overwhelmed” and “struggling to make sense of everything”.
Brophy’s mother declined to comment to the Post, other than to say “It’s a big shock”.
Originally published as ‘How to’ murder writer charged with murder
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City of Crows
Chris Womersley
A woman’s heart contains all things. Her heart is tender and loving, but it has other elements. It contains fire and intrigue and mighty storms. Shipwreck and all that has ever happened in the world. Murder, if need be…
1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child Nicolas from an outbreak of plague, Charlotte Picot flees her tiny village in the French countryside. But when Nicolas is abducted by a troop of slavers, Charlotte resorts to witchcraft and summons assistance in the shape of a malevolent man. She and her companion travel to Paris where they become further entwined in the underground of sorcerers and poisoners - and where each is forced to reassess their ideas of good and evil. Before Charlotte is finished she will wander hell’s halls, trade with a witch and accept a demon’s fealty. Meanwhile, a notorious criminal is unexpectedly released from the prison galleys where he has served a brutal sentence for sacrilege…
by Deborah Crabtree
It was during the reign of King Louis XIV that the Affair of the Poisons transpired, scandalising seventeenth-century France. Many members of the aristocracy were implicated, hundreds of people were arrested and more than 30 were executed. During this time, superstition, alchemy, and fortune-telling provided a way of comprehending the world. The plague had taken hold, fears of demons and devils were very real, and women were burnt at the stake for witchcraft. It’s against this backdrop, informed by thorough historical research, that Chris Womersley has set his latest novel, City of Crows. This is a departure in style for Womersley – and his take on the historic and gothic milieu is nothing short of dazzling.
The book poses a series of fascinating questions. What lengths will a mother go to, to rescue her child? What might a damned man do to save his soul? Lesage is the damned man… or is he devil-sent? He is certainly a desperate man. When the equally desperate Charlotte Picot encounters Lesage, while in search of the son stolen from her on the road to Lyon, she is armed with a black book, newly acquired abilities, and is clueless in the ways of the world. Bound to one another by their desperation, fears and superstitions, the two head to Paris to find Charlotte’s son.
The historical figure of Lesage, imprisoned during The Affair of the Poisons, has been given new (fictional) life in City of Crows and it is in the shared journey and interactions with Charlotte Picot that the story sparks and resonates. The characters are flawed and human. Womersley is an astute observer of human nature; his dialogue is sharp; his prose sings. His seventeenth-century Paris is a stinking cesspool of debauchery: Hieronymus Bosch in literary form. This book is fabulous.
Deborah Crabtree works as a bookseller at Readings Carlton.
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Minden Library hosts family fun
Local | April 5, 2018
Amy Roby
The Douglas County Public Library in Minden has a fun lineup of events planned for April.
Sponsored by The Friends of the Library, this month’s First Saturday Family Movie is “Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo.” The animated film is rated G and screens Saturday at 2 p.m. The movie is free and complimentary popcorn will be served.
April 14, the library’s Teen Advisory Board hosts a Children’s Book Swap as part of National Library Week. From 10 a.m.-3 p.m., children may bring in a gently used book and trade it for a different title. A wide variety of children’s books will be available.
During next weekend’s book swap, the “very literal literary character” Amelia Bedelia will make an appearance. She will arrive at 11 a.m. and amuse families with her well-intended-yet-questionable housekeeping skills. The library is delighted to have Carol Nageotte perform as the beloved Amelia Bedelia.
April 14 also marks the conclusion of the In-n-Out Burger Cover to Cover reading program. Participants should turn in their reading logs to redeem a certificate for either a hamburger or cheeseburger.
The Minden Branch is located at 1625 Library Lane.
For information about these and other events (including those at the Zephyr Cove branch and ongoing programs including Toddler Story Time and Reading PAWS), log onto http://douglas.lib.nv.us/.
CCMES annual Friendship Dinner tonight
Meneley Elementary invites the public to join them at their annual spaghetti Friendship Dinner tonight from 5-7 p.m.
Dinner includes pasta, salad, garlic bread, and fixings. Cost is $5 per adult, $3 per child, or $15 for a family of 4 or more. The evening’s proceeds benefit programs and needs at the school including field trips, book and technology purchases, classroom supplies, and equipment.
Attendees can participate in a raffle for a chance to win a variety of fun prizes, and silent auction items will also be available. School mascot Monty the Mountain Lion will emerge from his den and meander among the crowd throughout the evening.
Meneley Elementary is located at 1446 Muir Drive in the Gardnerville Ranchos. For questions, call 775-265-3154.
Amy Roby can be reached at ranchosroundup@hotmail.com.
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Cheltenham 2018 RUBY WALSH Gold Cup
Ruby Walsh: Might Bite could be one of the greatest horses we’ve ever seen
Ruby Walsh is yet to decide on his Gold Cup mount but is wary of deserting Djakadam
By Brian Sheerin UPDATED 8:34PM, MAR 8 2018
Ruby Walsh, the most successful jockey at the Cheltenham Festival, believes Gold Cup favourite Might Bite is “potentially one of the greatest horses we’ve ever seen”.
Walsh, who has been top jockey on 11 occasions at the festival and won the Gold Cup aboard Kauto Star in 2007 and 2009, reckons he has yet to see the best of the Nicky Henderson-trained chaser, who on Thursday was a general 3-1 chance for the Timico-backed showpiece on Friday week.
Recalling last year’s RSA Chase, in which he finished third behind Might Bite aboard Bellshill, after the winner almost threw the race away when veering violently right at the last, Walsh said: “He has an incredible way of going.
Might Bite (left) and Whisper fight out a dramatic finish to Cheltenham's RSA Chase, headed by a loose horse
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“To ride in last year’s RSA was unbelievable. I thought halfway down the back the first time that the horses in front couldn’t keep going the pace they were going.
“On the second circuit, I was thinking to myself ‘I’m going to win a distance here, as these lads are going way too quick.’ The rest of them up in front did stop but Might Bite didn’t.
He added: “When he turned in at the top of the hill, away he went again, further and further in front. When he went to run out after the last, and then got going again, to put it into human terms, if you stop on a treadmill or on a bike, it’s very hard to get going again never mind get back into top gear, but Might Bite did just that.”
The rider, who was speaking at a media event organised by Paddy Power on the eve of his eagerly awaited return to race-riding at Thurles, added: “If he didn’t have that kink in him he’d be 6-4 favourite for the Gold Cup and not 4-1.”
Might Bite's King George victory received mixed views with some observers suggesting the close proximity of the runner-up, Double Shuffle, rated 11lb inferior to him at the time, gave a hollow reading to the form.
Walsh doesn’t go along with that view and believes Might Bite was simply racing within his comfort zone in dispatching far inferior rivals.
He said: “Might Bite goes to the last in a King George and he jumps it like Milton in a showjumping class – he gave it three foot. I mean, how much does he have in the tank? I don’t know where the bottom of Might Bite is.
“He could be one of the greatest horses of all time as he always seems to have so much left in the tank by the time the race is over.”
Yet to decide
Ruby Walsh on Total Recall: "He's the improver but can he improve enough to win a Gold Cup? I don’t know"
David Keane
Walsh will be aiming to add to his 56 festival winners next week but has yet to decide who he will ride in the Friday feature.
Mulling over Willie Mullins’ Gold Cup contenders, Djakadam, Bachasson, Total Recall and Killultagh Vic, he said: “Total Recall is the improver but can he improve enough to win a Gold Cup? I don’t know.
“Killultagh Vic looked as though he was going to win the Irish Gold Cup but he fell at the last and he lacks experience, while Bachasson is in there as well.
“That leaves Djakadam, who I’ve always felt would win a Gold Cup. If I desert him, having ridden him in the last three renewals of the race, he’ll surely go and bite me in the ass and win it this year. He’ll be a hard horse to overlook.”
He concluded: “I think this year’s Gold Cup will be run at a ferocious gallop. They’ll be strung out over Cleeve Hill and they’ll be finishing in intervals, which could set it up for something coming from off the pace, like a Lord Windermere or something.
“I think, though, whatever gets by Might Bite will win.”
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I think this year’s Gold Cup will be run at a ferocious gallop. They’ll be strung out over Cleeve Hill and they’ll be finishing in intervals
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Do Evangelicals have a Spirituality?
March 31, 2017 March 28, 2017 by Ian Paul
Last week I was travelling with an evangelical clergy colleague to an event, and mentioned that I was writing something on evangelical spirituality. ‘That’s a bit of an oxymoron!’ came the immediate response, followed by laughter. Some years ago Michael Green, former Principal of St John’s College and Rector of St Aldate’s in Oxford, had a similar conversation. His response was simply ‘That will be short!’ There is a suspicion within the church that evangelicals don’t take spirituality seriously, and that for serious reflection on the spiritual life, you need to reach for other traditions. Derek Tidball expresses this perception well in his book Who Are the Evangelicals?:
Many would…question whether evangelicals have much to offer by way of spirituality. Evangelicalism appears to be such an activist faith that the essential characteristics of spirituality can too easily appear to be squeezed out.
Another perspective is offered by Gerard Hegarty:
Roman Catholic usage has come to associate ‘spirituality’ with the ‘inner life,’ or the ‘interior life,’ thus making the connection with the mystical tradition…It is not difficult to see how this sits ill at ease with the evangelical emphasis upon practical devotion having a direct influence on character and ‘good works.’
And yet, if evangelical leaders lose their vital connection with the life of God, the outward focus of evangelical activity becomes a hollow shell and loses the essential touch of grace.
Just over 20 years ago, Alister McGrath gave the St Antholin lecture on ‘Evangelical Spirituality: past glories, present hopes and future possibilities.’ He begins by recognising those evangelicals who have seen the importance of spirituality within the evangelical tradition, and quotes with approval a lecture by Jim Packer.
We cannot function well as counsellors, spiritual directors, and guides to birth, growth and maturity in Christ, unless we are clear as to what constitutes spiritual well-being as opposed to spiritual lassitude or exhaustion, and to stunted and deformed spiritual development. It appears that the study of spirituality is just as necessary for us to hope to minister in the gospel as is the study of physiology for the medical trainee. It is something we really cannot manage without.
But McGrath goes on to lament how little notice has been taken of Packer’s encouragement.
My concern is that evangelicals have not paid anything like the necessary attention to this major theme of Christian life and thought. As a result, evangelicalism has become impoverished, where it ought to be rich; it has depended on the insights of others, where it ought to be contributing to the life of the church. I wish to suggest that the time has come to throw off the cult of dependency, and move towards the development and rediscovery of spiritualities which will complement and nourish the great evangelical emphases upon the sufficiency of scripture, the centrality of the death of Christ, the need for personal conversion, and the evangelistic imperative. Evangelism gets us started in the Christian life; but spirituality keeps us going, and refreshes us along the way.
McGrath has noticed how often evangelical ordinands at Wycliffe Hall, where he was Principal, came with clear evangelical convictions, but as they were looking for patterns of life and discipleship which would sustain them, felt the need to move out of the evangelical tradition and step into more ‘catholic’ habits. He goes on to ask the challenging question: having won people for the gospel, can evangelicalism keep them?
That perceived lack of a credible, coherent and distinctive spirituality is one of the greatest weaknesses facing evangelicalism today.
(It is worth noting here the importance of the word ‘perceived’.) I wrote to Alister to ask whether he thought, more than 20 years later, the situation was any better.
There have been some good things – I think of Eugene Peterson and Dallas Willard, both of whom worked within an evangelical context, and found ways of developing approaches which would be well received within the evangelical community. Going further back, we had Jim Packer, whose Knowing God is still a classic. I know how many people have found these approaches helpful.
But I’m not sure that things are that improved here in the UK. There is still suspicion of “spirituality” as a concept within evangelical circles – for example, I have often heard it said that “spirituality is not a biblical term”. That’s true, of course, but then neither is “theology”. My own feeling is that there is still some way to go.
Part of the problem is that UK evangelicalism tends (though, happily, just “tends”) to be suspicious of anything that engages the imagination (as that suggests it is fictional) or the feelings (as that suggests it is “emotionalism”, which is a definite no-go area for male evangelicals raised in a certain tradition).
I personally value Jim Packer a lot. But I find that my own reading in spirituality tends to draw on non-evangelical sources, not because I am disinclined to read evangelicals on this topic, but because there aren’t that many evangelicals writing sensibly and pastorally in the field. They seem to assume that reading the Bible is unproblematic, and is in itself an adequate approach to spirituality. In fact, there aren’t that many evangelicals writing in the field – end of discussion. I think one of the issues here is that evangelicalism still hankers after the security of a bygone modernism, when the goal was propositional truth which nourished the mind, and hence – like most Enlightenment writers – suppressed the imagination and emotions. But things have moved on, and younger evangelicals are more alert to these matters, probably because they no longer inhabit a modernist mindset, and hence can read the Bible without having to filter it through this distorting and compromising mindet.
McGrath here cites some negative reasons why evangelicals have been less interested in spirituality than other traditions. But in his earlier lecture he mentions some more positive reasons.
They arise from a historical perspective. According to the historian Owen Chadwick, the whole notion of ‘spirituality’ as a discrete discipline originates with the French spiritual writings of the seventeenth century. In reaction to a concern with the material, these writers wanted to focus on the inner life of the soul. But this was predicated on a fundamental distinction between the material and the physical, between the soul and the body, and between the inner life of spiritual reality and the outer life of the everyday. Very often this has meant that spirituality has involved a withdrawal from the world. This kind of division and separation is one that evangelicals have rightly felt very uncomfortable with. And evangelical commitment to engage with the world by means of practical action has made the notion of withdrawal problematic.
I think there is another, perhaps even larger, reason underlying evangelical ambivalence about the practices of spirituality in other traditions. It is the focus on grace, of God’s initiative in offering unmerited forgiveness. The biblical text underlying this concern (often implicitly) is the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18.
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God.” (Luke 18.10–14)
The Pharisee here is drawing attention to his own spiritual disciplines—disciplines which of course Jesus commends. But the tax collector has his focus elsewhere—on the unmerited grace of God. This actual leads to a certain passivity in relation to spiritual disciplines, and a lack of self-consciousness. As the Pharisee illustrates, to spend too much time focussing on what I do is to miss the point: evangelicals constantly want to focus instead on what God has done. This might weaken self-awareness and reflection on actual spiritual practices. But it has the virtue of keeping the main thing the main thing. Is this enough?
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James Edmonds
I think that while what God has done is indeed the most important thing, that can never be a reason for passivity. Surely we are called to respond to this and live transformed lives as a result. Spirituality is incredibly important in growing our awareness and sensitivity to God and to others and so responding to God’s grace. A certain suspicion of notions of spirituality which imply that we are earning our own salvation is justified, but it would be a tragedy if that caused evangelicals to neglect or play down spirituality when done properly and with the right focus.
‘Spirituality’ is a slippery term, which is probably why most evangelicals don’t like it. What I mean by ‘spirituality’ might be very different by what someone else means. McGrath rightly points out that it is not a Biblical word. True enough, but I think the problem is deeper – it’s a word without an agreed definition (unlike, say, theology, or Trinity).
Don Carson wrote a piece on Spiritual Disciplines inThemelios. (He wrote a 1994 article on spirituality as well which is linked at the beginning of that article). To quote him:
“Spiritual” and “spirituality” have become notoriously fuzzy words. In common usage they almost always have positive overtones, but rarely does their meaning range within the sphere of biblical usage. People think of themselves as “spiritual” because they have certain aesthetic sensibilities, or because they feel some kind of mystical connection with nature, or because they espouse some highly privatized version of one of any number of religions (but “religion” tends to be a word with negative connotations while “spirituality” has positive overtones). Under the terms of the new covenant, however, the only “spiritual” person is the person who has the Holy Spirit, poured out on individuals in regeneration. The alternative, in Paul’s terminology, is to be “natural”—merely human—and not “spiritual” (1 Cor 2:14). For the Christian whose vocabulary and concepts on this topic are shaped by Scripture, only the Christian is spiritual.
I think the whole article is worth reading and I agree with it.
Tim Chesterton
I have two comments.
First, my dad led me to Christ when I was thirteen. A couple of weeks later he gave me a classic little booklet called ‘Seven Minutes with God’, about how to have a daily ‘quiet time’ of Bible reading and prayer; that booklet got me going on a daily prayer discipline which has stood me in good stead for the past forty-five years. It’s a simple spirituality, to be sure, but to say that it’s not a spirituality is simply narrow-minded. And this discipline of the daily quiet time is widespread in historic evangelical spirituality, from John Newton and Charles Simeon to John Stott and Scripture Union daily Bible reading notes, to Ole Hallesby (‘Prayer’) and Bill Hybels (‘Too Busy not to Pray’).
Second, I think one of the difficulties is that so much of the church’s tradition of ‘spirituality’ has been developed by monks and nuns for monks and nuns. More catholically minded Christians then take some of these practices (which depend on healthy doses of solitude and silence) and try to ‘make them over’ for Christians living gin families (with small children). But those practices weren’t developed for that setting and the fit tends not to be a good one. Mothers with small children don’t get up in the middle of the night to pray the night office, they get up to change diapers! Evangelicalism has tended to emphasize family life, so we’ve been rightly skeptical of spiritualities that don’t seem like a good fit in that setting. but our challenge is to find and develop approaches that do work in families.
deborah salmon
For myself my church history has been varied but predominantly charismatic, evangelical. Through out that time there was a definite sense of evangelical order and an assumption about life which I began to question and that questioning came through times of depression and despair as at that time there seemed no answers for me.( Hardship, depression and struggle was often put down to rebellion, disobedience and somehow being out of gods will and not a place where god can shape us and form us) I began praying and asking questions and amazingly got answers and so my spiritual growth began. It started with pain, struggle and disillusionment and lead me rather surprisingly to a book based on Benedictine discipline and prayer and I felt this fit me as a contemplative introvert. I remember a very well meaning person ( charismatic in churchmanship) saying that god did not want me to have depression and yet I was so conflicted as my own spiritual growth had come on leaps and bounds through it and my understanding of scripture was richer as a result. I think questioning what we hear but also having leaders that understand this is not an undermining of them but a part of someones growth is essential for healthy people and churches. Just my thoughts 🙂
Thank you Deborah for sharing this – as someone who has battled depression and many struggles and who remains within the charismatic-evangelical tradition I can only groan at the rotten advice you were given, it sounds all too familiar!. I entirely agree that our questioning is generally not undermining but understanding.
Re-OP, I think ‘spirituality’ is a catch all term to describe whatever nurtures my relationship with Jesus – and
questioning is key to that.
Sarah Hillman
Hi Deborah and Simon – good to share your experience. I am a chronic depressive who is ordained. I would not want anyone to experience what I have, but I also know I wouldn’t have the ministry I have had I not been through those experiences. Like Deborah I would call myself a contemplative introvert, and this is the route my personal prayer life tends towards though not exclusively. I have also had the insensitive comments – one in particular insisting that I was only depressed, because there was unconfessed sin in my life. In terms of church tradition, I don’t really define myself as I find helpful things in a variety of traditions. For me, if God is at the heart of it, then it is OK. I have found some Evangelical “spirituality” quite shallow though. I’m interested in McGrath’s questioning about having won people for Christ whether they can be kept in the Evangelical tradition. I guess that depends partly on how they are led in that tradition and how open to insights from others they are. I personally have wanted more. I’ve also found the level of biblical teaching in most Evangelical churches is not aimed at me, but at those with far less knowledge of Scripture and Christian faith, which is possibly why I find some of it shallow.
Thank you for sharing Deborah – what has been the most helpful thing for you in juggling your spiritual life, ministerial responsibilities and depressive illness?
I do not have many ministerial responsibilities as I am not ordained but am married to a vicar. I do have a job, family and attend various church things when I can. I think my time in prayer, hearing god for my life as he sees the whole of me and how that all balances out. I remember going away on retreat once and my husband had started his curacy with a big thriving church. I think I went away with possibly 20 things I could have got involved with ( all quite worthy and necessary) yet after that time away I came away with a list of three, my family being the first. God knows me better than I know myself and whilst it does not look too sexy on paper 🙂 it saves me from overstretching myself and becoming ill. This balancing act is always there and can also make you unpopular if you say no or I cant manage (life is very busy and that takes a.lot of courage)
Thanks so much for Deborah for sharing – my wife says the biggest difficulty for her is ‘expectation on her and intrusion of family’.
Sarah, would love to hear what helps you get through the dark-night and how you manage to minister when in the depression?
Thank you for sharing this xxx
Christopher Shell
There may well be a reason that ‘spirituality’ is such a recent word. Sometimes words that in many cultures never come into being at all are in some way self-contradictory or wrong-headed. Not only do the BIible writers not use this term, I do not think they would wish to do so (because it removes God from the centre, even potentially from the picture), just as they would not use ‘spiritual’ in the present sense (because there are many spirits which are sometimes going to be at enmity with one another so how can one generalise about them under one head?).
I thought that the excellent Alister McGrath’s book-title ‘Beyond The Quiet Time’ was precisely wrong: a quiet-time itself is precisely what all of us need (in the wake of Mott, Stott, Iwerne – and of course Jesus).
Gareth Dickens
It’s interesting to read some of Alister McGrath’s observations in the light of a conversation I had with an Australian Salvation Army officer, Christine Faragher, who is a specialist in spiritual direction and has written a book entitled “Other voices – exploring the contemplative in Salvationist spirituality”. Now to many the very idea in her title might seem a total oxymoron, to many Salvationists probably even more so (and I write as a Salvation Army Officer) but she argues powerfully for the need for depth of spirituality and points clearly as to how historically this has often been drawn into the Salvation Army from a variety of different and perhaps surprising sources. She cites among other things a survey carried out in 1893 (when arguably the SA was at its most evangelical) of senior Salvation Army Officers and the books they were reading and being nurtured by. Evangelical authors are present in number but so to are: The life of Madame Guyon, The Fathers of the Desert, Introduction to the devout Life (Francis de Sales), Life of StTheresa of (Cardinal Manning), A serious call to a devout and holy life (William Law), Imitation of Christ (Thomas a Kempis), Robert Barclay’s Apology. Perhaps this looking outside evangelical confines for depth of challenge and spiritual formation is by no means a new issue, but one which sadly is still the case and in itself a challenge to evangelical Christians of all traditions. Jesus after all did not call his disciples and then leave them simply to the reading of scripture; he taught them, challenged lazily accepted interpretation, engaged their imaginations and their emotions as they were formed and transformed into who he saw they could be.
Chris Seglenieks
I think that the issue of defining ‘spirituality’ is probably a significant part in negative responses by evangelicals to the term. It has a wide range of uses, including by those who describe themselves as ‘spiritual not religious’. Perhaps if a functional definition was settled upon, it might facilitate more engagement – something like “the lived experience of a personal relationship with God”.
Even with a biblical focus, ‘spirituality’ if conceived in this sort of way does not need to be limited to reading the bible alone. I too have come across a work on evangelical spirituality that argued that the only valid spirituality was reading the bible, and did not find this helpful. Yet the bible itself depicts Jesus practicing retreat and solitude, along with personal prayer. At the same time, such a ‘lived experience’ also includes acting with God in the world. And surely the Psalms give warrant for an emotional dimension as well.
Gill Kimber
I’m interested that there is a felt need to discover or uncover an ‘evangelical’ spirituality. I am not sure why it is thought to be ‘unevangelical’ to draw on other spiritualities in the Christian church. I too was given the discipline of a daily ‘quiet time’ and consider it vital to spiritual health: but in that QT I consider myself free to read and reflect on anything which leads me closer to Christ. Surely this isn’t about developing an ‘evangelical’ spirituality per se – it should be more about how we apply evangelical criteria to different spiritualities, eg ensuring that we draw on those which are faithful to biblical teaching. This opens up a huge variety of sources for us. And yes, we do need it: the lack of evangelical spirituality failed me utterly when I was a mission partner. It was only after returning home, and having resources to hand to help me explore, that I discovered what I find the most helpful approach, which is the Ignatian way of exploring scripture in imagination as well as in mind.
The fact that some evangelicals find this hugely suspect is because of an inadequate theology of the body. It is assumed that we are only saved in our minds. It took me some time to realise that Christ redeems and begins to transform all of our selves, including our creativity and imagination.
I think evangelicals do have a deep and rich spirituality – drawing on contemplation of Scripture, intercessory prayer, sung worship, experience of the Spirit, listening to God, passion for church revival & personal renewal, reading devotional material and especially autobiographies of their saints. But all these things are not evangelically distinctive and find shared experience with other christian traditions. I’m re-reading a brilliant study at the moment on the monumental Evangelical, Martyn Lloyd Jones by Tony Sargent. Lloyd Jones was largely responsible for bringing AW Tozer into the spiritual life of the evangelicals in Britain. AW Tozer was himself deeply schooled in the spirituality of the medieval mystics – and spent hours daily in contemplative prayer. Sargent suggests that it was Lloyd Jones’ rich spirituality drawn from the Puritans that gave him a soul-mate in Tozer – the Puritans disciplines and experience of God being much the same as the Mystics.
In reflecting on the diverse ‘flavours’ of spirituality which are on offer outside of the evangelical tradition, I do see value in some of them with the proviso that they are biblically grounded.
There something of New Age syncretism in the myriad of books and seminar circuits in which the exploration of the Christian cultural tradition of a specific region is vaunted as an exceptional route to accelerate spiritual development, e.g. Celtic, Afro-Caribbean, etc.
John Henry Newman was right when he wrote that mysticism ‘begins in mist, centres on ‘I’ and ends in schism.’
You are right to sound a note of scepticism about some of these explorations of spirituality and their value if not biblically grounded. However I think sometimes (particularly with Celtic Christianity, which I have had great deal of interest in for a number of years) that is as much because there is confusion surrounding what is actually being talked about. The term Celtic spirituality for instance is not synonymous with Celtic (or British to be more accurate) Christianity. Celtic spirituality encompasses a far broader range of religious ideas and thoughts, much of which is Victorian romantic invention adopted into “New Age” guises and which has no relation to Christian faith and practice. Celtic or British Christianity by contrast is about the early Church in these islands (not just Ireland & Scotland) and the way it developed, the spiritual disciplines it embraced and encouraged, largely pre-Augustine ( who did not first bring Christianity to Britain contrary to the claims). For instance in Wales there emerged a great tradition of praise poetry, soundly biblically based which many would not recognise as Celtic spirituality or Christianity though it is more authentically such than much which is peddled.
This Celtic or British church tradition actually owes much to the Desert fathers, it was very down to earth, practical bringing the presence of God into every day, ascetic and thoroughly rooted in Old Testament and the Gospels. Of course in recent years many (including evangelicals) have laid 20th & 21st century flummery on top to produce “New Celtic Christianity or spirituality” which is not always what it seems. How the church first grew and developed in these islands amongst a non-christian culture and people can be inspiring, can help us look at how we develop as disciples today, can challenge how we do church today but it’s not a quick fix or shortcut, and neither a lot of the time is it mysticism, but it is often evangelical.
Rev Dan Stork Banks
Ian, this is a really interesting article thank you. I’ve been thinking a lot about these things myself lately. It seems to me that there are two ways of approaching spirituality a Evangelicals. Firstly is the Lutheran which retains the patristic link between word and Sacrament. Secondly, there’s the Reformed tradition which places Word above sacrament. Lutheranism seems to me a better vehicle for developing spiritual practices of the patristics. Lutherans often describe their spirituality as being that of the first evangelicals. Indeed Gene Edward Veith has written a book on this title. Lutheran has a rich history of spiritual writers, particularly revolving around the spirituality of law and gospel. Lutheran spirituality, like Anglican, can often resemble Catholic spirituality but the difference in my view is that where is Catholic spirituality attempts to lead the believer to walk closer to God. Lutheran spirituality doesn’t believe that the believers I can walk towards God rather God always comes closer to us. All spiritual practices are not about climbing the stairs to God but about shaping us so that we are more receptive to reach out to the God who coming down the staircase to us through faith alone. Reformed writers seem to be working on more sacramental material recently. Eg Hans Boersma who has written on the Nouvelle Theologie. Thirdly, there is Steve Brown at Key Life or Anglicans such as Paul Zahl and the Mockingbird crew, both who seem to be blending the Radical Lutheranism of Gerhard Forde, with modern Reformed thinkers. Lastly I’d point to L’Abri and their community life which blends Benedictine ideas with Dutch Reformed theology of the Christian Worldview.
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Mold found in some rooms affected by moisture issues at Chambersburg Hospital
Summit Health said small amounts of mold were found in some rooms affected by moisture. However, some areas have reopened after being deemed safe.
Mold found in some rooms affected by moisture issues at Chambersburg Hospital Summit Health said small amounts of mold were found in some rooms affected by moisture. However, some areas have reopened after being deemed safe. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: https://ponews.co/2MwmqW0
Chambersburg Public Opinion Published 3:41 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2018 | Updated 4:35 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2018
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The King Street Addition at Chambersburg Hospital.(Photo: Submitted)
CHAMBERSBURG - Small spots of mold were discovered under dry wall in rooms where moisture issues were discovered in Chambersburg Hospital, Summit Health said Friday.
Remediation crews discovered "small quantities" of mold upon removing the dry wall in areas where moisture was suspected in the King Street Addition, a news release said. The affected areas are being cleaned and repaired, and will remain closed until air quality tests show they are safe.
More: Chambersburg Hospital transferring some patients due to ongoing moisture issue
More: Rainy summer causes moisture problems at Chambersburg Hospital
Chambersburg Hospital is working with a team of experts, including an environmental hygienist, to ensure issues are being treated appropriately, Summit Health said.
Mold is a health risk if inhaled, said Dr. Joseph Cocciardi, a certified industrial hygienist and registered sanitarian, who is consulting with the hospital.
The mold discovered in patient rooms was in small quantities and had mostly been contained in walls. All rooms suspected to have moisture were isolated immediately.
“Molds require moisture to grow. The rapid response of the facility to both initiate drying and separate and clean areas of concern was instrumental in preventing the growth and spread of mold in the facility. It now allows for a rapid re-occupancy under safe conditions,” Cocciardi said.
Some units that were closed last week upon discovery of moisture issues have reopened. These areas have reopened following extensive searches and air quality testing and guidance from the Department of Health, Summit Health said.
Extensive repair and remediation efforts continue, the hospital said. The problems with moisture entering the building after a rainy summer were announced a week ago, and patients were moved to other areas of the hospital or transferred to nearby facilities while the problems were evaluated and repairs begun.
The hospital is replacing insulation in some walls of its latest wing. The $100 million Norman B. Epstein King Street Addition opened six years ago. Flashing between the windows and exterior walls must be repaired. The air conditioning system was not impacted.
Repairs are expected to take several weeks. Wet weather is hampering some repairs.
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Qualcomm Introduces New Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series
New Series Designed to Allow Global OEMs to Deliver Premium Features, such as On-Device Artificial Intelligence, in High-Tier Smartphones and Meet Ever-Increasing Demands of the China Smartphone Ecosystem for More Premium Devices
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 700 Mobile Platform Series, designed to exceed what is expected from today’s high-tier mobile experiences, with features and performance previously only available in the premium Snapdragon 800 Mobile Platform Series. Advances to be expected in the 700 Series include on-device AI supported by the Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine, and improvements to camera, device performance and power, supported by the heterogeneous compute power of premium features including the Qualcomm Spectra™ ISP, Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector Processor and Qualcomm® Adreno™ Visual Processing subsystem.
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Downtown Rochester buildings from the South Avenue garage rooftop
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Highland Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and is the site of the annual Lilac Festival
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The Genesee River runs through Rochester and makes a beautiful spot at High Falls.
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Genesee Lighthouse, a 1822 stone octagonal, is listed on the National Register of Historical Places
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Our Charlotte Lighthouse is the oldest surviving lighthouse on Lake Ontario
Lighthouse at the Port of Rochester in the City District called Charlotte
The Frederick Douglas - Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge in downtown Rochester.
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church is located at 1124 Hudson Ave. They are very active in the community
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The very stately George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
Explore East Avenue
Ultimate Chocolate Cake at Mr. Dominic' s at the Lake
Concert by The Shore at Charlotte Beach featuring Brass Taxi
Terri Granger
The sunken garden behind Warner Castle filled with snow after a monster snowstorm
The Harbour Belle docked along the Genesee River
Stunning view from one of Rochester's great waterways!
Salvatore Salafia
Explore Corn Hill
White Lilacs in Highland Park are starting to bloom
Rochester's nice skyline turns magical at dusk with twinkling lights and flowing reflections
The Yacht Club of Rochester and power boats docked along the Genesee River
Maplewood Park has a huge collection of roses and hosts the annual Rose Festival
Explore Maplewood
High Falls in downtown Rochester. View from the brewery
Charlotte Pier at sunset on Lake Ontario.
Jeremias "JMan" Maneiro
Early February morning, taken from the Broad St Bridge showing the Court Street Bridge
Explore Central Business District
Former First Fedreal Plaza building with the revolving restaurant "Changing Scenes" at the top
Mural on side of a Park Avenue building
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Downtown Rochester from the Broad Street Bridge looking Northward
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Artisan Works
If you are looking for something different to do with an out of town guest or looking for a venue for an event may I suggest Artisan Works. They host tours every Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 pm. Our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable about the art, the artists and its history. What a great one of a kind place. You won't be disappointed.
Rochester's Festivals
Rochester is the number one summer festival city in the Country! Why you might ask?
Because starting with the Lilac Festival in May and running through the summer and into the fall, there is a festival every week in the greater Rochester area. Every spring, I send out a jumbo postcard to my clients listing the dates and locations of most of the festivals happening in the area. Last week we had Fairport Canal Days and coming this weekend is Juneteenth Festival at the Susan B. Anthony Park.
If you would like a list of all the festivals, please contact me and I will be happy to send you one.
Tina Mattia
The Rochester Lilac Festival at Highland Park
It's that time again! The world-famous Rochester Lilac Festival begins tomorrow! A free ten day experience for all the senses, in 155-acre Highland Park. The world's largest collection of lilac species all in bloom as a fragrant backdrop to relaxing fun. Always one of the year's most anticipated events with visitors from all over the globe.
Come out to Highland Park for music, food, shopping and events for every member of the family. And of course, those beautiful lilacs! This year's weather looks perfect to enjoy the festival among the Lilacs.
So many vendors and live musical performances, a running race, gardens of tulips, azaleas and more. Plenty of walking trails to enjoy the incredible scenery - one can't do it all, but I always get there for at least one whirlwind day of fun.
Check out www.lilacfestival.com for all festival events
Rochester Lilac Festival
Silvia Deutsch
Irondequoit Bay Is Perfect Spot for Water Sports Enthusiasts
One of the things I love most about living in upstate NY are our many fresh water resources. I live a short walk away from Irondequoit Bay, where it's still quiet this morning, but soon the sleeping beauties (boats) will be in the water. Spring and summer is very exciting time for boaters after a long winter.
Mary Jane Mahon
The Memorial Art Gallery here in Rochester is a hub of creativity and artistic expression. Not only do they hold over 12,000 works of art as part of the permanent collection, but often introduce new exhibitions and works. Visitors are not only invited to view the art but be a part of it with special social events and creative workshops. This art museum is a must-see in Rochester. Click the link below for more information!
Roxanne K Stavropoulos
By George!
At the end of WWI, the city of Rochester had built a tidy sum in their War Chest. Enter George Eastman, inventor of modern film, founder of Kodak and great philanthropist. His idea was to convert the funds from a War Chest to a Community Chest. Rochester was the first city to do so and became a model for all other cities to follow. Funds previously earmarked for the war effort would go to charitable organizations for the betterment of all. The Community Chest would find itself folded into what we now know as the United Way.
Geva Theatre - A Christmas Carol
Geva Theatre lies in the heart of Rochester and is widely popular for its high quality performances within a small theatre atmosphere. I have made a tradition out of going to see one of Geva's most popular shows, A Christmas Carol, each December. This show attracts people of all ages and tastes because it is a classic tale of love, family, and redemption. It is always superbly acted and the stage is beautifully set. See one of many shows playing this December through the 27th. There is an evening show on weeknights and two showings on Saturday and Sunday!
Click here for more information about A Christmas Carol!
Robert Miglioratti
Oak Orchard Fishing
Fishing in New York
My good friend, Carl Diliberto sent me a photo showing off his just caught 22 inch brown trout hooked less than 45 minutes from his Brighton NY home in Oak Orchard. He tells me he caught three more and landed another of a similar size.
New York State’s fishing waters can be found in every corner of the state. In western New York one will find the big lake, Ontario, which provides opportunity for Pacific Salmon, walleye, lake trout, black bass, brown trout and many others. Shoreline fishing is easily accessible as are the many piers and jetties. Professional guides offer charters of varying times and locations throughout the year for family outings, corporate outings or for just plain fun.
Within a very short drive from Rochester and its surrounding suburbs, fishing is good in many smaller venues: ponds, streams, and smaller lakes. All 11 Finger Lakes, dozens of creeks and rivers all offer good fishing including largemouth bass, rainbow trout, northern pike and pan fish the most popular target.
The easy commute to many of these sites will allow you to slip away for a couple of hours in an afternoon like my friend Carl did on a recent outing.
Check out all the sites available in New York. Review regulations and licensing laws by visiting the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation website: www.DEC.NY.Gov before you even buy the bait.
East End Locations
Rochester's East End neighborhood boasts some of the city's most vibrant nightlife. With bars, clubs, and restaurants to suit every taste, the weekends are especially busy. During the popular East End Music Festival, thousands of visitors flock to the neighborhood for an impressive musical lineup. The area is also known for its Food Truck Rodeo, where visitors can sample the best food on four wheels.
The Old Toad is one of the neighborhood's more colorful eateries. With traditional English fare like Fish and Chips, and Shepard's Pie, diners can get a real British pub experience. Even the accents are authentic, as much of the wait staff are British students participating in the restaurant's cultural exchange program.
The Little Theater is a Rochester institution, and one of the neighborhood's most popular destinations. The Little opened its doors in 1929 with the promise of eclectic and unusual cinema. Today, the Little Theater still delights viewers with independent and foreign films. The theater also houses a cafe where visitors can enjoy live music, and artwork by local artists.
The East End is also home to the Eastman Theater, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded by George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak fame, the RPO has delivered world class performances for over 80 years.
With so much recreation and culture to enjoy, it's easy to forget that the East End is also a great place to live and work. Many locally businesses make this neighborhood a comfortable, convenient place to reside. Hart's Local Grocers, a recent neighborhood addition, offers local foods, and gourmet options alongside everyday grocery needs.
Over the last 15 years or so, the area's housing stock has improved tremendously. New townhome developments, lofts, small and large condominiums, as well as new and refurbished apartments are scattered throughout. Major downtown developments which are one to three years from completion will add significantly to the available choices and all will be within easy walking distance to all the features of the East End to say nothing of the festivals....Rochester Jazz Fest, the East End Fest, and Park Avenue Art Festival to name a few. Drop in sometime and you'll understand why folks from students to seniors call the East End home.
Mayday Underground Crafts and Art
This weekend I attended the Mayday festival with over 50+ independent vendors at the Village Gate Atrium! There were many unique and creative crafts available for show and sale. There were homemade giveaways to the first 25 shoppers each morning. It was a great success and I was happy to support friends selling their wonderful crafts. Check out the links below to the shops of some gorgeous jewelry and funky crafts that I encountered this weekend and be sure to make a trip to the Mayday festival next year!
Laura Sherwood: Stitch and Anchor
https://www.etsy.com/shop/stitchandanchorshop
Ashley Landon: The Knotty Owl
http://theknottyowl.com
Click here for the main Mayday site!
Cobbs Hill Reservoir
Took a short stroll this Sunday morning around the Cobbs Hill Reservoir. The once around walk is only about a mile in length but has many awards. This morning there were more walkers than runners, more pets than walkers, including the older gentleman with three new greyhounds, adding to a long string of the quiet animals saved from poorly maintained conditions elsewhere. The fast fading fall seen in the Bristol Hills to the south, and on Pinnacle Hill and Highland Park to the west were nonetheless brilliant in this clear sunshine. And, of course, the big lake (Ontario) reminded me that this morning's refreshing chill wind would soon be the carrier of our famous and not so welcome lake effect snows.
Back home to French toast, hot chocolate and a few glowing logs.
Artisan Works: Creative at the Highest Order
I attended a business meeting and safety seminar this week at the Artisan Works. Although I have visited this sometimes strange but always inviting place, I often forget about it.
How does one describe this huge art space? Gallery, studio, museum, special events venue....well, it's all of that and so much more. The only other words that come to mind are eclectic, huge, inspired, creative at the highest order, and fun. There is a full size 1940s truck carved from wood, paintings, sculptures and stuffed wild animals! Everything is neatly on display and displays change somewhat frequently.
Their slogan is: "Where art lives!" Art has never lived like this before.
Looking for an event location? They have in-house coordinators, two talented chefs, and more rooms than you can imagine. Check out www.artisanworks.com or visit them at 565 Blossom Road. Don't be put off by the industrial setting.
Strong Museum of Play
Bring a kid, be a kid or, better yet.....be both! This is a must for your "check it out list".
This 100,000 square foot (that's 2 1/4 acres under roof!) structure houses toy collections not seen anywhere else in the world. There are interactive displays in virtually every corner. And the National Toy Hall of Fame resides here as well.
Parking is easy. www.museumofplay.org
A Rochester, New York original.
Mt. Hope Family Center
Mt. Hope Center helps build healthy families throughout the greater Rochester area and beyond. With both clinical and research initiatives, this wonderful organization helps to end maltreatment in the home. This internationally recognized agency works toward ending domestic violence, trauma, and neglect. The dedicated and hard-working team at Mt. Hope is something Rochester should be very proud of! For more information about the center and how to get involved click the link below!
Mount Hope Cemetery
I took a walk in the park the other day. I was within the city limits and within a Certified Wildlife Habitat.
Mount Hope Cemetery is a not some hidden gem just across the street from the Strong/UR campus. There are organized and guided tours held routinely by the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery and I just learned about Torch Light Tours which puts an interesting twist on an otherwise quiet walk through history. This is an urban park with hills, ponds, fountains, Victorian buildings, and monuments, incredible works of art, too many to count, marking the lives of families and individuals who contributed to what the City of Rochester has become. I don't know all the names but a few that I can recall include Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas, Frank Gannett, Margaret Woodbury Strong, and John Jacob Bausch are a few of recognizable family names buried here.
The website is www.fomh.org and it is a library of information and history. Be sure to check out the information on the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery to learn about events, tours, volunteer opportunities and so much more.
Most important....go visit, it's not creepy, but it is interesting and invigorating. And stroll over to the College Town complex for lunch or coffee afterwards. Parking is easy and free.
Rochester River Romance Weekend is October 3-5, 2014
Since a river runs through our city, it makes good sense that we celebrate with a festival that is all about the River. The weekend includes river cruises, guided tours, live entertainment, and for romance, couples are invited to renew their vows at High Falls!
The Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse will be open all three days from 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. for tours; including climbing up the tower and viewing the keeper’s house. There is a $3 admission charged.
The 2014 Head of the Genesee Regatta will take place at the Genesee Waterways Center behind the Genesee Valley Park Sports Complex. The two-day event is one of New York State’s premier rowing regattas and is expected to draw more than 350 racing entries. Viewing on the foot bridge over the Genesee River and along the east river bank is ideal for spectators. Races will take place both Saturday and Sunday, from 8 a.m. till 4:30 pm.
There will be a special ceremony Saturday at 11 a.m. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the O'Rorke Memorial Bridge. Spectators are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs for this event.
Tour the RG&E Hydroelectric facility located along middle falls, including the dam and spill gates operation, river intake/rack house and upper level of the gate control house. Learn about how renewable electric energy is produced along the Genesee River. Tours will start at the middle falls dam located at the southeast end of Lower Falls Park.
There is even a workshop scheduled Saturday at 10 am at Maplewood Rose Garden to learn how to grow better roses. For a complete list of activities, visit the city website or click the link below.
Rochester River Romance
Antonetta's Restaurant
Caught up with some old friends over a fabulous bowl of greens and beans with sausage at Antonetta's Restaurant. Just the right amount of garlic with a generous amount of homemade sausage in it. Antonetta's is nothing fancy. In fact it is in the least of fancy areas, but people from all over Rochester flock there for some good old fashion Italian food. Family owned and run for years, the walls are decorated with Frank Sinatra photos and the tables have red and white checkered table cloths. Make yourself at home and enjoy some great food.
Founded in 1823 by Heil Brockway, Brockport village is a canalside treasure. With quaint shops and restaurants, and a dedication to historic preservation, a walk along Brockport's Main Street feels like a step back in time.
Brockport may be the quintessential small town, but it's also home to the College at Brockport a SUNY school with an excellent reputation. Students enjoy the benefits of a world class education in a serene canal town setting. SUNY Brockport attracts students from all over the world with its well established foreign exchange program, adding a multicultural facet to the village.
Brockport's literary gem, Lift Bridge Book Shop, carries a wide selection of books, magazines, toys, and gifts. Movies more your style? Catch a flick at one of the oldest continuously operating movie theaters in the country. The Strand Theater sports an Art Moderne façade courtesy of architect, Michael J. DeAngelis.
Of the many historically significant buildings in the Village of Brockport, the crown jewel might be the Morgan Manning House. Built in 1854, the house was purchased by Dayton S. Morgan, a successful business owner. In 1964 Sara Morgan-Manning, the last of the Morgan children, perished in a fire at the age of 96. It was Sara's wish that the house "would stand forever as a monument to the fine old traditions that are so important to our heritage." Today, visitors can tour a fully restored estate, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Western Monroe Historical Society.
Boaters and visitors can access valuable information and resources from the new Welcome Center, part of Brockport's Canalfront Hospitality Program. The center, located just off Main Street, boasts a 100% volunteer staff. The Welcome Center also has a fleet of bikes to choose from. Borrow one free of charge for a towpath adventure.
www.brockportny.org
Red Wings Stadium at Frontier Field
The Rochester Red Wings add a great "big-city" aspect to the City of Rochester. Housed by beautiful Frontier Field, the Red Wings games are a popular event for all types of Rochesterians. The games are often followed by fireworks, but if that isn't enough to grab you, the acclaimed Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been known to perform the post-game show. Not to mention, the food options at the stadium are fantastic. Personal favorites include Red Osier and Simply Crepes. The Dip N' Dots stand and the huge ice cream sundaes served in a baseball cap dish are always a hit with the kids at the park. They have special days and nights for Rochester associations, clubs, schools, student groups, little leagues, and more. There are entertaining games and contests played on-field between innings, and there are always giveaways thrown into the stands. If you're looking for a fun-filled day or night out with friends and family come out to Frontier Field for a game!
Click here for the Rochester Red Wings 2014 Schedule
Electric Car Charging Stations Around Rochester
I've owned an electric car since 2011. People still stop me in the parking lot and ask about my car and how much I like it. My last tank of gas (7 gallons) lasted 1,928 miles. But the real reason I purchased the car was to reduce greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere and to support this important new technology.
The Rochester area now has 24 public charging stations, many of which are free of charge for the remainder of 2014. Within the city of Rochester, there are charging stations at Public Market, the Port of Rochester, City Hall and the following garages: Sister Cities, Washington Square, Court Street and East End. Outside the city, charging stations can be found at: Fairport Village Landing, the Town of Penfield Community Center and Library, at the Barn Owl on Penfield Road in Penfield as well as most car dealerships that cell electric cars.
I salute Rochester and the State of New York for providing these charging stations. Electric cars are not perfect, but I believe they are a big step in the right direction to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and cut pollution so that we might leave our children, grandchildren and future generations a much healthier environment.
Insights of Rochester - An Interesting Inventory
Wrapping up a recent backyard cookout we asked our guests, a couple visiting Rochester after being away for several years, a family who has lived in more than five states and are now back in Rochester, and a few others who always lived in the area: what are the best things about living in Rochester?
I could go on with a whole list of reasons listed why each really loves (or misses) Rochester and its suburbs but the simplest and least esoteric inventory came from the kids (all under 13 years old): four seasons, Sea Breeze and Darien Lake (amusement parks), water, the Finger Lakes (there are 11), a great canal and two Great Lakes, Abbott's Custard, Zweigle's hot dogs and burgers at Don and Bob, Wegmans, Martuscello bakery, tasty pizza, picking apples, strawberries and raspberries.
Yes, the list is somewhat food-centric, but these kids named not only some of the best and oldest but also the businesses that represent traditions and (obviously) bring the best memories of a comfortable community.
Food Truck Rodeo at the Market
My friend and I and our teenage daughters attended the Food Truck Rodeo at the Rochester Public Market. There were 40+ food trucks of all kinds. I am a self proclaimed foodie so it was right up my alley. The Market was busy with people of all ages and families enjoying the live music in the square and the wonderful selection of food. Bring a chair and your appetite and enjoy a nice evening!
Genesee River Boat Ride to Corn Hill Landing
The Genesee River is offering a great opportunity for water sports and wonderful views of downtown. Along the way you will encounter kayaking, crew boats, fishing and even small or larger motor boats. You can stop at Corn Hill Landing and visit one of the great restaurants with patios and great food.
Fairport: A vibrant community rich with history
Fairport Village, located in the town of Perinton, is one of Monroe country's most vibrant and energetic communities. The Erie Canal provides the centerpiece for a bustling Main Street, recreation for visitors and residents, and a rich local history.
Incorporated in 1867, the village was originally called Perrinsville. According to a 19th century legend, a traveler was overheard describing the town as a fair port. The next morning this same traveler reportedly grumbled loudly about poor accommodations, and left town never to return. The moniker stuck however, and Fairport Village has more than lived up to the name.
Main Street crosses the canal via Fairport's famous Lift Bridge. Built in 1914 by the Lackawanna Bridge Company of Buffalo, the bridge provides canal traffic with a clearance of 16.3 feet when raised. This unique structure is definitely worth investigating, but if you're looking for symmetry you won't find any. The Lift Bridge was constructed as an irregular decagon, or ten-sided structure. The bridge contains no square corners, and no two angles match.
If you're interested in seeing the canal up close, consider a boat tour on the Colonial Belle. Ride in comfort on the enclosed lower deck, or head upstairs to the open air upper deck for great views of the waterway. The Colonial Belle offers lunch and dinner cruises, as well as themed events like Murder Mystery, and Fall Foliage Tours. Have you own vessel? Dock it at the available public facilities. Some of the boats you will see are owned by residents, while others are just passing through on a canal adventure.
Early June brings Fairport Canal Days, one of the most popular arts festivals in the Rochester area. Enjoy artisanal crafts, delicious food, and great entertainment. Annual Canal Days events include a chicken BBQ, Canal Nights with live music, and a rubber duck race to benefit village art and beautification initiatives.
Canal Days may be the biggest, but it's certainly not the only festival Fairport has to offer. During autumn's Scarecrow Festival, businesses along Main Street create fun and fanciful scarecrow characters to adorn the sidewalks. Shop and dine while picking your favorite!
Ready to eat? Fairport has a lot to choose from. History lovers might enjoy a meal at the famous Green Lantern Inn. Built in 1874 by the influential Deland family, this French Chateau style building is an impressive and beloved local landmark and has welcomed a Rochester favorite; Mr. Dominic's as it's most recent tenant. Want something a bit more casual? Riki's Family Restaurant offers classic breakfast fair, while the Moonlight Creamery offers sweet ice cream treats.
If you're in town on a Saturday morning, be sure to stop by the open air farmer's market located in the Fairport Village Landing parking lot. From seasonal produce to locally made crafts and prepared foods, there's something for everyone at this popular market. The Fairport farmer's market is open May through November, and parking is ample.
On top of fine food, fun festivals, and a gorgeous Main Street, Fairport residents have one more thing to brag about. Since 1901, the Fairport Municipal Commission, has been providing low cost power to Fairport residents. As a publicly owned, not for profit company, Fairport Municipal Commission answers only to its customers. Not only do residents enjoy low rates, they also get some of the best service around. During 1955's Hurricane Hazel, Fairport lost total power for only 15 minutes. In 1966, when most of the Northeast was experiencing a complete black out, Fairport's power remained on. It's just one more reason to love Fairport Village.
Highland Park/Lamberton Conservatory, A Gem within a Gem
Situated within the boundaries of our highly regarded and award winning Highland Park is a favorite quiet place that my wife and I have enjoyed for 4+ decades. Monroe County's Lamberton Conservatory located at 171 Reservoir Avenue in the park near the corner of South Avenue allows one to get as close to nature's exotic plants and flowers at almost any time of the year.
Viewing desert cactus or rainforest orchids so close that you can touch them (even though you won't) does something you will find soothing. My favorite exhibit arrives in December each year and is a most amazing array of poinsettia plants. The dedicated staff changes the displays at least five ties each year so you can visit this little jewel often and enjoy a fresh, unadulterated palate of nature's spectrum each time. We particularly enjoy this spot for the quiet. There are no signs or rules, at least that I'm aware of but for some reason everyone seems to converse in a hushed sort of way. It's almost as if we don't want to disturb the flowers.
The Conservatory has a history dating back to the early 20th century but was completely and meticulously rebuilt in 2007. Highland Park has been a nationally known arboretum designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and thanks to the joint efforts of Monroe County Parks and Environmental Services Departments we'll be visiting here for a long time to come.
The park has many popular attractions and gatherings throughout the year with the annual Lilac Festival the most notable. I suggest you visit the Conservatory when you are in the area, the admission fee is $2 for adults....a very inexpensive way to see some of nature's best and to enjoy some quiet warmth no matter what else is going on in the world.
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(Haymarket Books, 2006)
In this novel, readers step into the daily reality of occupied Palestine through the life of 12-year-old Karim and his family. The story revolves around the "little piece of ground" that Karim and his friends clear out to use as a soccer field. The author skillfully portrays issues of family life, education, politics, and class in Palestine and presents differing views on how to challenge the occupation. Popular with middle and high school students in Britain and Canada, this book has just been released in the United States.
*10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military
Edited by Elizabeth
Weill-Greenberg
(New Press, 2006)
You could save a life with this pocket-sized book. Each chapter of the book shines light on the information young people won't hear from the recruiters who prowl the halls of high schools across the country. It offers detailed stories, solid evidence, and statistics.
*First Grade Takes a Test
By Miriam Cohen
Illustrated by Ronald Himler
(Star Bright Books, 1980, new edition 2006)
unpaginated. $15.95
This delightful and profound picture book shows what happens when one 1st-grade class takes a standardized multiple choice test: Students' imaginations are stifled, their personal experiences are ignored, students compare themselves to one another, new tensions emerge, and hierarchies begin to develop. Ultimately, students reclaim their lost community. "'It's good to be together again,' said the teacher. 'We don't need a test to tell us that!'" This is a book that could be used at all levels — with early elementary students as well as in teacher inservices.
*When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War
Poems by Eloise Greenfield Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
(Lee & Low Books, 2006)
40 pp. $17.95
This beautiful book's poetry and collages paint a dramatic picture of the horrors of wars throughout the centuries and of how children maintain hope in the midst of the violence. Billed by the publishers as a book about how children "cope" with war, its more valuable role is as a prompt to engage young children in a discussion about this unspeakable reality and why we should work for peace. Ages 5 to adult.
*The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Directed by Faith Morgan
(The Community Solution, 2006)
53 minutes. $20
While the United States continues to consume fossil fuels as if they grew on trees, Cuba has grappled with the reality that we will all face in the not-so-distant future. This film documents how Cuba adjusted to the challenges of feeding its population in a low-energy society. It's a resource that would be especially useful in global studies, biology, earth sciences, or health classes.
Sir! No, Sir!
Directed by David Zeiger
(Displaced Films, 2006)
84 minutes. $19.95
www.sirnosir.com
For years, history teachers who wanted to expose students to the vitality, determination, and courage of the anti-Vietnam War movement were hard-pressed. The War at Home described events in Madison, Wisconsin; Berkeley in the Sixties looked at a broad array of activism in the Bay Area; Hearts and Minds offered bits of anti-war activities in its provocative depiction of the war; and some teachers used Oliver Stone's film version of the Ron Kovics autobiography, Born on the Fourth of July. However, the new DVD Sir! No, Sir!, is the most effective resource in showing the leadership role that defiant soldiers and veterans played in the anti-war movement. This is a remarkable film that we highly recommend. Even though its focus is soldiers who resisted the war and not the entire anti-war movement, it captures the ethos of the movement. Sir! No Sir! is especially timely as increasing numbers of U.S. soldiers criticize and resist the war in Iraq.
Get~Togethers
Sunday Teacher Motivator
Drop-in, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Teachers Unite Institute for Labor and the Community
(between Avenues A and B)
Sunday can be an isolating day of paper grading and lesson planning for many teachers. In New York City, Teachers Unite, an organization set up to help public school teachers work for social justice, offers an alternative. Every Sunday, they provide a place for teachers to find community and support as they look ahead to the new week. Free wireless, free bagels, and a copy machine for small jobs. What a great idea. Rethinking Schools has contributed a collection of our books and back issues to the effort. See their website, www.teachersunite.net, for details.
All resources marked with an asterisk are available from Teaching for Change, www.teachingforchange.org.
Resources compiled by Bill Bigelow and Deborah Menkart.
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Australia election 2010(THD)
January 27, 2011 / 4:44 AM / 8 years ago
Nielsen, Demand Media IPOs soar in debuts
* Nielsen shares close 8.7 pct above $23 IPO price
* Demand Media shares 33.2 pct above $17 IPO price
(Adds executive and analysts’ comments, background, closing share prices)
By Jennifer Saba and Clare Baldwin
NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Nielsen Holdings, which measures television ratings, and Demand Media, which publishes articles online, rallied on Wednesday in their trading debuts, signaling that demand for media-related IPOs was building.
Nielsen’s (NLSN.N) shares rose 8.7 percent from its initial public offering price, and Demand Media’s DMD.N shares rose 33.2 percent.
Nielsen’s IPO, the biggest of the two, is the first of what is expected to be a rush of big private equity-backed IPOs in 2011. Nielsen raised $1.6 billion on Tuesday, nearly a tenth more than expected.
Private equity firms are looking to sell several large companies this year, including retailer Toys R Us [TOY.UL] and pipeline company Kinder Morgan.
Demand Media, an online company that relies on freelance writers to churn out articles and video designed to appear at the top of Internet searches, raised $151.3 million, more than a third above its target.
“The IPO market has continued to improve because the economy is growing,” said Nick Einhorn, a research analyst at Connecticut-based IPO research and investment firm Renaissance Capital. “The broader markets have done better, and investors are looking for places to put cash to work.”
Investors may not be diving into riskier IPOs, but they do seem to be tip-toeing into them. Bond yields have been low for years, giving portfolio managers an incentive to take more risk to generate higher returns. And the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday it would continue buying bonds to increase the money supply.
“The markets are ready to accept IPOs, and the fear factors have been mitigated to some extent,” said David Menlow, president of IPOfinancial.com, an independent research firm.
Companies appear to be taking note of rising investor demand.
Ally Financial is due to hold a meeting on Thursday to talk to bankers hoping to underwrite its IPO, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. [ID:nN26154260]
The board of hospital operator HCA, another private equity-backed flotation, was meeting on Wednesday to consider taking the company public in March, a source familiar with the situation said. [ID:nN26192549]
While the Nielsen deal’s positive reception looked like good news for financial sponsors eager to unload stakes in some of their long-held portfolio companies, the share sale was not a home run for the private equity firms that still own the company.
Nielsen was taken private in 2006 in a deal worth just over $10 billion by private equity firms Carlyle Group [CYL.UL], Blackstone Group LP (BX.N), Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co [KKR.UL], Thomas H. Lee Partners, AlpInvest Partners and Hellman & Friedman.
Proceeds from the IPO are paying down debt, while the private equity shareholders continue to hold all their Nielsen shares, which they will have to sell over time. The Nielsen deal shows how tricky it may be for private equity firms to sell out of their big investments in the coming months. [ID:nN14198734]
“The fact that the private equity firms weren’t selling in the IPO probably helped Nielsen. That’s often something that makes investors a little skeptical and makes them more willing to push for a pricing discount,” Einhorn said.
Underwriters on the Nielsen IPO were led by JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley led the underwriters on the Demand Media IPO.
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Nielsen sold 71.4 million shares, representing about 20 percent of the company. The stock’s midday price on Wednesday valued the company at just over $9 billion.
Nielsen’s TV ratings determine whether TV programs live or die and it also monitors online behavior and retail transactions. Its top 10 clients include Coca Cola Co (KO.N), Nestle SA NESN.VX, News Corporation (NWSA.O), Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N) and Unilever NV UNc.AS.
The company has been criticized by some media conglomerates that claim Nielsen’s methodology for tracking consumers’ viewing habits is outdated and the sample size is too small.
Nielsen uses “people meters”, a device connected to TVs, to capture viewing habits. Currently, these meters are installed in more than 20,000 households, said Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research at Horizon Media. There are about 116 million TV-viewing households in the United States, he said.
In November, NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker said Nielsen’s sample size was a problem, explaining that CNBC’s ratings fell after only three people were taken out of a 300-person Nielsen sample.
Nielsen declined to comment.
Technology has also changed media consumption and more people watch TV shows and movies on computers, tablet devices and smartphones. Nielsen is working on ways to monitor TV viewing habits that will take different devices into account.
The Demand Media IPO was seen as something of an icebreaker for more and larger Internet-related deals this year, like discount website Groupon, business network LinkedIn and social games company Zynga.
Demand Media is being closely watched as a test case for a way to inexpensively create content that surfaces high in search results. The company, based in Santa Monica, California, employs 13,000 freelancers whose articles and videos appear on websites like its own eHow and LiveStrong and Gannett Co’s (GCI.N) USAToday.com.
Twenty-eight percent of Demand Media’s revenue in the first nine months of 2010 came from Google. But last week, an engineer at Google wrote in a blog that Google was taking even stronger measures to combat “low quality” search results from places like “content farms.”
“We don’t fit the definition of content farms,” Demand Chief Executive Richard Rosenblatt said in an interview on Wednesday. He said articles and videos from Demand were written and edited by professionals.
Nielsen shares, which sold at $23 each in its IPO, closed at $25 on Wednesday. Demand Media shares, which sold at $17 each in its IPO, closed at $22.65.
(Reporting by Jennifer Saba and Clare Baldwin, editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Derek Caney and Matthew Lewis)
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Indonesia media exec says company talking to Disney; tycoon founder denies
FILE PHOTO: The entrance to Walt Disney studios is seen in Burbank, California, U.S. August 6, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The director of the investment arm of Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) <MNCN.JK > said on Tuesday the group was in talks with Walt Disney Co on a possible investment by the U.S. media conglomerate, but the group’s owner Hary Tanoesoedibjo denied talks were taking place.
MNC Investama Director Darma Putra said at an event organized by MNC that Disney was interested in investing in one of the group’s affiliates.
“Hopefully, we will get another (equity investor) soon. We are in talks with Disney. If it’s successful, it will earn $200 million in the next 10 years,” Putra told an audience that included reporters.
MNC Group founder and chairman Hary Tanoesoedibjo, a business partner of U.S. president Donald Trump, said no talks were taking place with Disney. MNC Group said last year it was building two luxury resorts in Indonesia that will be managed by a subsidiary of the Trump Organization.He told Reuters by telephone there were “clearly no talks with Disney”, adding he would know since he was the “number one guy at MNC”.
Tanoesoedibjo said that negotiations with Vivendi were ongoing and the French company as now looking to buy a stake through its subsidiary Canal Plus in MNC Vision Networks (MVN), an affiliate of MNC.
Tanoesoedibjo also said MVN was planning a public listing to attract investors.
The Indonesian tycoon is known for his flamboyant business style and has previously said he was inspired by Trump.
Disney and Vivendi did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Reporting by Cindy Silviana; Editing by Edmund Blair/Emelia Sithole-Matarise/Jane Merriman
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July 3, 2019 / 8:27 AM / 15 days ago
GSK's HIV drug receives EU marketing nod
FILE PHOTO: The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) logo is seen on top of GSK Asia House in Singapore, March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Loriene Perera/File Photo
(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline said its specialist HIV company had received marketing authorization from the European Commission for its drug to treat advanced stage HIV infections in adults and adolescents above the age of 12 and weighing at least 40 kg.
ViiV Healthcare, which is majority owned by GSK and with Pfizer Inc and Shionogi Ltd as shareholders, got the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment Dovato in April.
Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; editing by Gopakumar Warrier
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Chris Jericho Sticks Up For Will Ospreay In Twitter War with Seth Rollins
By Harry Kettle Last updated Jun 25, 2019
Chris Jericho vs The World feels like it would be a suitable title for Y2J’s next autobiography, because let’s face it, the guy is more than willing to ruffle some feathers on social media.
It always makes for an entertaining tidbit or two as the former multi-time world champion continues to poke fun at WWE, whilst also maintaining his heel persona over in All Elite Wrestling.
He seems to be more than capable of handling the challenge, even thought some folks are getting pretty tired of it. Either way, he’s got people talking, which can only be a good thing ahead of his AEW World Championship match against Hangman Page later this summer.
#BestWrestlingOnThePlanet https://t.co/CzTh8s0CjY
— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) June 25, 2019
Umm…. He’s actually taller and bigger than you. Just sayin. #devilsadvocate https://t.co/IMKdSwz8kM
If we were in the early stages of a boxing fight then WWE are on wobbly legs right now, and Jericho knows it. He is the biggest name associated with the AEW project, and he’s going to use that name value to keep promoting and hyping the brand in any which way he sees fit.
There’s nothing wrong with that tactic, but either way, it’s bound to make some noise behind the scenes at both companies. After all, we all know what Vince McMahon gets like when he’s got a little bit of competition to deal with.
It’s all fun and games when you really think about it, but we’re just excited to see how much further this goes. One thing is for a sure: an invasion angle, of some description, would be incredibly fun in the future.
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R. Mueller Stainless
Steve Phillipps
Steve Phillipps has been with the company since April 1978. Like the company founder, Steve was a cheesemaker working in area cheese plants. He began in the centrifuge portion of the business, eventually becoming the head of the department and owner of the company. In addition to his responsibility for overall management, Steve’s primary responsibility is Sales and Consulting. His ability for trouble-shooting operations is unmatched in the industry.
Contact Steve:
Tyler McMannes
Tyler McMannes started at R. Mueller in the summer of 2008 doing estimating and scheduling for the stainless shop. Recently returning to the team from a commercial building automation Sales Engineer position with Automation Components Inc. (Middleton, WI). As Operations Manager, he will be tasked with supporting our world class team of technicians and installation staff in addition to helping with day to day business operations.
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well” – Jeff Bezos
Contact Tyler:
800-989-8362 ext. 012 tyler@rmueller.com
Casey Phillipps
Casey Phillipps (son of Steve) has been with the company since June 1998. Prior to joining RMC, Casey worked at MTX in Winslow, Illinois. Casey is part of the service team that performs scheduled and emergency service for our customers.
Contact Casey:
800-989-8362 ext. 035 casey@rmueller.com
Justin Miller
Justin Miller has been with the company since January 2019. Prior to joining RMC, Justin worked at Schultz’s Inter-State Ag in Monroe. Justin is part of the service team that performs scheduled and emergency service for our customers.
Travis Jones
Travis Jones (nephew of Steve) has been with the company since October 2005. His responsibilities include maintaining parts inventory, purchasing and some service work. Prior to joining RMC, Travis worked at Ruda Chevrolet and Monroe Honda in the parts department.
Contact Travis:
800-989-8362 ext. 025 travis@rmueller.com
Russ Phillipps
PARTS ASSISTANT
Russ Phillipps (son of Steve) has been with the company since September 2014. His responsibilities include maintaining parts inventory and purchasing. Prior to joining RMC, Russ was a manager at Advance Auto Parts and Batteries Plus in Madison.
Contact Russ:
800-989-8362 ext. 014 russ@rmueller.com
Kelly Fiez
Kelly Fiez has been with the company since September 2012. Prior to joining RMC, Kelly worked at RR Donnelley & Sons as a customer service representative. She graduated from Blackhawk Technical College with an Executive Administrative Assistant Professional degree.
Contact Kelly:
800-989-8362 ext. 010 kelly@rmueller.com
Dennis Phillipps
WELDER/FABRICATOR
Dennis Phillipps (nephew of Steve) has been with the company since January 2004. His past work experience includes Knight Manufacturing as a welder. Dennis graduated from Blackhawk Technical College with a degree in welding. His responsibilities at R. Mueller Stainless include welding and fabricating.
Brad Anderson has been with the company since May 2009. His past work experience includes Davis Welding as a welder/fabricator. Brad graduated from Gateway Technical College with a degree in welding. His responsibilities at R. Mueller Stainless include welding and fabricating.
Nathan Lawrence
Nathan Lawrence has been with the company since January 2019. Nathan graduated from Blackhawk Technical College with a degree in welding. His responsibilities at R. Mueller Stainless include welding and fabricating.
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Mattis Lists Budget Priorities, Warns Against Another Stopgap
Another CR would hurt national security, almost everyone agrees at Tuesday hearing
Posted Feb 7, 2018 5:00 AM
Patrick Kelley
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Defense Secretary James Mattis says the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review were crafted on the “assumption that timely and efficient funding” would be delivered to the Pentagon. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
The Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal 2019 will ask Congress to fund a spate of new high-tech weaponry as well as more traditional military programs, Defense Secretary James Mattis told lawmakers Tuesday.
The proposal, which the Pentagon plans to send to Congress next week, will seek funds for space and cyber operations, nuclear deterrent forces, missile defense, advanced autonomous systems, artificial intelligence capabilities and professional military education.
The items in the request are in line with the Pentagon’s recently released National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture Review — two strategic documents that respectively outline how the U.S. should use its military and nuclear weapons.
Mattis’ remarks before the House Armed Services Committee on next year’s budget came as this year’s is still in flux. Hours later, the House voted for the fourth time on a fiscal 2018 defense spending bill, which was attached to a short-term agreement designed to fund other aspects of the federal government for the next six weeks. The continuing resolution was added as an amendment to an unrelated bill.
The defense bill, which appropriates $659.2 billion, blows past budget caps put in place by the Budget Control Act of 2011, but includes a provision that exempts it from those spending restrictions.
During the hearing, Mattis said the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review were crafted on the “assumption that timely and efficient funding” would be delivered to the Pentagon, noting that the Defense Department would have to adjust the strategies if Congress continues to fund the Pentagon through continuing resolutions.
While the House passed the defense spending legislation Tuesday night, the measure faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Democrats have repeatedly insisted on budget parity, with increases for the military budget matched by additions to domestic discretionary spending.
The committee’s ranking member, Adam Smith of Washington, said funding other federal agencies through continuing resolutions could hinder U.S. national security in the same way that defense hawks argue funding the Pentagon through short-term measures weakens national defense.
“If we pass this budget that the Republicans want to put before us today, the State Department will continue to be destroyed,” Smith said of the continuing resolution. “We are degrading diplomacy at an incredibly rapid level.”
Smith went on to note the numerous other agencies that contribute to national security that would be funded by a continuing resolution should the House proposal become law. Those include the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security “is part of the nondefense discretionary funding,” Smith said. “We’ll just leave it in the wind in the CR because defense takes a priority and nothing else.”
Both Mattis and House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry of Texas agreed about the importance of passing a full budget.
“I agree completely with what Adam said. We need a budget for the State Department and Homeland Security and for everyone else too,” Thornberry said. “They are not mutually exclusive. But we are five months into the fiscal year and it is having a particularly damaging effect on the [Defense] Department.”
In his opening statement, Mattis noted the damaging effects of continuing resolutions, particularly one that stretched the length of the fiscal year.
“Should you stumble into a year-long continuing resolution,” Mattis said, “your military will not be able to provide pay for our troops by the end of the fiscal year, not recruit the 15,000 Army soldiers and 4,000 Air Force airmen required to fill critical manning shortfalls, not maintain our ships at sea with the proper balance between operations and time in port for maintenance, ground aircraft due to a lack of maintenance and spare parts, deplete the ammunition, training, and manpower required to deter war, and delay contracts for vital acquisition programs necessary to modernize the force.”
Topics: defense Adam Smith Budget Continuing Resolution Defense democrats Education Homeland Security House Intelligence Mac Thornberry Nuclear Weapons Republicans Senate Texas Washington DEFN
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TV, Radio & Film
Kym Marsh quits Coronation Street after playing Michelle Connor for 13 years
It has not yet known how her character will leave the cobbles
Michelle Townsend
Kym Marsh has quit Coronation Street after 13 years.
The 42-year-old actress, who has played Michelle Connor on the ITV soap since 2006, said she is keen to try something new.
"It's been an incredibly difficult decision but it feels like the right time," she told The Sun.
Mirror UK report that Corrie boss Iain MacLeod was reportedly desperate to keep her, and executive producer John Whiston said they were "very sad" to see her leave.
Confirming her departure from the soap this evening, John thanked Kym for doing a "fantastic job" with the character.
"Kym has done a fantastic job on the show as Michelle Connor, bringing incredible heart and humanity to some hugely important stories," he said. "We will be really sad to lose her when she goes but totally understand that, after dedicating herself to the show for so long and so brilliantly, she now fancies trying something else for a while."
"We, and the audience, thank her and wish her well. "
Kym is currently preparing to become a grandmother for the first time aged 42.
Coronation Street's Kym Marsh reveals hearing grandson’s heartbeat got her through 10th anniversary of son Archie's death
The actress's 21-year-old daughter Emilie is expecting her first baby with her boyfriend of six months.
Both Kym and Emilie are really excited about welcoming the little one this year and the Coronation Street actress can't wait to be a "young grandmother".
Kym said: "I know what it's like to be young and pregnant - it's scary, but Emilie will be a great mum."
Speaking to OK! Magazine this week, Emilie explained: "I keep thinking, am I really going to be able to do this? For ages I couldn’t actually get the words ‘I’m pregnant’ out of my mouth because I didn’t know how people would react – I even made Mum tell my dad!
"Luckily I have the most supportive parents in the world and they’re both really excited."
Being a young mum is nothing new in their family. Kym's mum was 18 when she had her brother and her sister was 18 when she fell pregnant as well. Of course, Kym also welcomed baby number one at 18.
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She said: "I’ve warned her that it’s going to be hard work, but I’ve also said that there are a lot of positives to being a young mum, too.
"There were times when I struggled because your life changes so much when you have a child especially when you are young, but I wouldn’t change what I have now for the world. Me, Emilie and David are best friends and I think that’s because there isn’t a huge age gap between us."
The mum-to-be said that her boyfriend prefers to stay out of the spotlight, but he is very excited at becoming a Dad.
Emilie: "He’s a lovely guy, really supportive and he’s really excited about the baby arriving.
"I’m really lucky to have him."
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In Conversation with Artist Rani Jha
Visual and Material Arts, Practices and Rituals
wall paintings Ramayana Mahabharata Rama
· When did you start painting?
I have been painting for the past 35 years.
· How did you learn to paint?
In the beginning I used to paint at home as these paintings are made on every religious and social occasion in our community. Fortunately, my grandmother was a great painter and even though I never actually saw her, there was beautiful kohbar art made by her in our home. One of my aunts used to paint on the floor, which is called alpana, I used to sit by her while she painted and also tried my hand at it.
· Which specific rituals are these paintings connected with?
In Mithila we make paintings for each and every ritual, from birth to shradh (rites performed after death). When a woman becomes pregnant for the first time, paintings are made on the floor with rice powder paste and vermillion. Making a perfect alpana is a work of art. You start by drawing three lines with three fingers using the rice powder paste. According to our belief these three lines signify Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar. The alpana is incomplete without some vermillion as it is considered a symbol of power. However, vermillion is not used in the floor paintings made on the occasion of shradh, and these are made with only one finger. A circle is also made which according to Brahmatattwa, is a void. In total there are sixteen rituals but now we do not practice all of them. Today, only rituals like janm (birth), mundan (shaving the first hair growth of a newborn), janeu (tying of the sacred thread), shaadi (marriage) and shradh, are considered mandatory. For each of these occasions a different set of paintings is made.
Apart from this, paintings are also made during festivals. In the month of Chaitra during the puja of Junsital, alpana is made for the family deity. This features lotus flowers which we call kosa. For weddings during the month of Shravana, people perform a thirteen day ritual for which half of a room is decorated with paintings. Apart from that, paintings are also made during Ananth Chaturdashi.
The family deity is welcomed into the house either three or five times a year during Mahashtami, Kojagari Lakshmi puja, Garwa Sankranti, Diwali and Devthan. Each welcoming ceremony involves complex rituals for which houses are decorated with paintings. For Devthan, astadal, which is a special kind of painting, is made on the day of Ekadashi. Astadal has eight corners symbolizing eight hands. It is made both inside the house and in the courtyard. The one which is made inside the house comprise a pair of feet and is for the female deity and the one in the courtyard comprising kharams (sandals) is for the male deity. During this time, young girls get to learn this style of painting. For their training, each and every object from daily life is drawn in the courtyard. Astadal is made by the women themselves, while all the other objects are painted by the younger girls who are still learning.
· Could you tell us about the various kinds of painting styles in this region?
After the 1960s, with the rise in popularity of Mithila painting, a few other styles also began developing. One style, known as the godhna style of painting, came from the tattooing traditions of the region. A German anthropologist called Erica Smith, who came to Madhubani in 1976, was involved in the development of this art. When she arrived here, she saw that several women had unique tattoos made by women from the migrant community called Nat. Erica Smith visited the Nat community’s camp and requested them to make the tattoo designs on paper. There was some initial hesitation, but eventually a woman called Reshma came forward and made one design on paper. At that time the Nat community was camping at Jitwarpur and so Erica encouraged the women from the Dalit community there to learn Godhna painting. Chano Devi, who was a great artist, was the first one to adopt this style. She later received the President’s award and also trained other women in this art form. As for Erica Smith, she mainly wanted to help the Nat community generate a livelihood through this art form so that they could live in the area permanently. However, after a few days, Erica left for Germany and when she eventually returned, the Nat community had moved away to another location. Nevertheless, in the time that they had spent at Jitwarpur, Reshma had managed to teach other women in the area and thanks to that the godhna style of painting still lives on.
After the awareness spread that Mithila painting has become popular outside of the community, and that it can be a good source of income, women from the Dalit community started painting stories of their gods and goddesses. So in terms of style, there is Mithila painting, godhna painting, Harijan painting and then there is Tantrik painting. Erica Smith is also the one who is responsible for the Tantrik style of painting on paper. She used to visit the Tantriks and observe their rituals throughout the night. This style of painting is a bit difficult- there are measurements to be followed while drawing the figures and objects in these paintings. According to our beliefs, if someone makes a mistake in the proportions, it will bring misfortune. The first few artists that painted in this style were Batori Jha, Krishnath Jha, Batori Jah’s son, Vidyanath Jha. Now even though many more people are practicing this form the total number is still less as Tantra is complex and people are still scared to practice it.
· You mentioned that different castes originally had different styles of painting. What is the current situation?
· Painting is the medium through which caste barriers have been broken down. Now you can see Harijan themes being adopted by artists from the Brahmin community. Artists from the Harijan community are also making mainstream Mithila painting. Godhna painting is being made by women of all castes. Here, no one enquires about the caste of a painter anymore. Everyone is the same and the only identity anyone is concerned with is that they are all artists. Everyone gets the same respect. One can say that Mithila painting is like a movement which broke the caste barrier. We respect Chano Devi as much as Mahasundari Devi, Ganga Devi, Jagdambha Devi or Sita Devi.
· When did you join the Mithila Art Institute? Could you tell us a bit more about this institute?
The institute was started in 2002-03 and I has initially joined it for one year in 2004. After that, I left the institute for pursuing my PhD and then started teaching here in the year 2011 and have been working here ever since. This is a wonderful institution and I’m not just saying this because I am a teacher here! The institute has certain unique features which I believe make its presence in the community, a positive one. For example, earlier only the children of artists would get a chance to learn the art form, but here all kinds of students irrespective of background can enroll. We teach anyone who has a sense of art.
At the institute, we mainly teach the techniques of painting. Sita Devi was famous for her fine lines and I think only a few have the talent to draw with such finesse. We want the new generation of girls to bring in knowledge and imagination into their paintings without deviating from the traditional techniques. About sixty to seventy years earlier, the women of Mithila had a very narrow world-view. Even though they would tap into their inherent creativity, they still had only two worlds to decorate- their parent’s and in-law’s house.
A gentleman named Raymond Lee Owens came to Mithila in 1972. He really liked the paintings and collected many of them. He wanted to test how people around the world would react to this art form and soon enough after he helped in providing Mithila art exposure abroad, they were being appreciated by many people. Raymond realized that there was something special about these paintings. One of his main aims in promoting Mithila art was also to do something for the painters. Raymond passed away in 1999 and after that David Szanton, Joe Elder and P.N Jha founded the Mithila Art Institute in his memory.
This Institute has certain rules and its courses are pre-set just like at any other educational institute. There is an admission test through which we select thirty students annually and train them according to a proper syllabus. There is no tuition fee and we also provide the necessary materials free of cost. The syllabus is divided into three sections. In the beginning, we improve the students drawing skills by training them in the art of drawing a fine border. Then we ask them to paint small motifs such as fish, tortoise, birds or trees. Then they learn how to paint the smaller motifs and assimilate those in their paintings. We ask them to paint by combining our training with their vision. In the second phase, we train them in drawing human figures complete with various gestures, postures and anatomical details. In the third phase, we teach them how to tackle the more difficult themes such as kohbar, Ramayana, Mahabharat. After a year of training we select eight students for the advanced course and they are also offered a scholarship for this.
The students that come from far away often find it difficult to afford the fare of the journey from their home town to the institute. In such cases, our Institute covers the cost of travel so that the student is able to continue her training without any burden. My own daughter was also a student at this institution. In addition to this, when any painting gets sold through the institute, the artist gets all the money. First, a price that has been decided by the painter, is set. Then, for example, if the work gets sold abroad, they send all the money to the artist. Often, the artist herself is sometimes pleasantly surprised by the price her painting can command!
· Apart from traditional themes, artists are also experimenting with contemporary themes. Could you please tell us about that?
I myself have made paintings on several contemporary themes. If Mithila Art Institute did not exist, there would be no Rani Jha! I would have been just another artist making paintings on traditional themes. In our time our world was very small, we had limitations. Today’s girls grow up with some freedom and as a result their horizons have broadened. They have television and can stay up-to-date in terms of current affairs- for example they are aware that tragedies such as the destruction of the World Trade Centre or the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks have happened. In their works, they are trying to depict events such as these by using the traditional painting style. Keeping the traditional style and technique while they experiment with various themes, is a very positive thing, and is the heart and soul of the art form.
I personally believe in protecting our cultural heritage. I ask my students to paint on any themes they like using the traditional style. I ask them to paint about the problems they see in society and any solutions they can think of. There are many young artists like Shalini, Amrita, Monalisa, Supriya, Madhvi, Pinki, Archana and others who are making wonderful paintings with cotemporary themes.
On Mithila Painting
Madhubani, Bihar, November 2015
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Rush Limbaugh's advice for women
You'll have no equality, ladies, until Nancy Pelosi resigns. Plus: Why is Rush obsessed with anal poisoning?
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2009/05/15/limbaugh_pelosi/
Joan Walsh
May 16, 2009 12:52AM (UTC)
Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney’s favorite GOP leader, has some advice for women in politics: If they ever want to be equal, Nancy Pelosi has to resign as House speaker, over her statement that the CIA wasn’t honest with her in its 2002 briefing about interrogation techniques.
Listen up, ladies. Rush wants you to get ahead. Here’s what he said Friday: "We are going to learn soon, folks, if women are the equal of men. We are going to learn very soon if women can finally break the glass ceiling. And you know what the test is? Let me tell you what the test is. Will Nancy Pelosi resign as speaker of the House? That's the test." He went on to say “if women really want equal treatment," "there is no better benchmark" than Pelosi resigning as her disgraced predecessors Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich had to. (Thanks to Media Matters, whose folks listen to Rush so we don’t have to.)
We know that feminism is a key Limbaugh obsession, and another one also turned up on his show today: Anal poisoning. "Obama knows he's being followed around by a bunch of sycophants who are going to die of anal poisoning,” the big man intoned. If you’re keeping score at home, you might want to know that this is at least the fourth time Limbaugh referenced “anal poisoning” in two years -- he previously said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown would get it from "slobbering" over Obama, Sen. Lindsay Graham might catch it due to his closeness to Sen. John McCain, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe "will die of anal poisoning because he is so close to drilling Hillary [Clinton]."
I'm a grown woman and the mother of a college student, I think I'm pretty worldly, but I was honestly not familiar with the term or the condition of anal poisoning, so I used the Google. Scanning 24 pages, I found no reference to anal poisoning that didn’t reference Limbaugh. Apparently it’s a condition he named himself, perhaps after one of his sex tours to the Caribbean?
Sorry, back to Nancy Pelosi. Meanwhile, the other GOP hypocrite has-been, Newt Gingrich, insists “the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry” into whether Pelosi is lying about the CIA lying to her. "I don't think the speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters," Newt intoned. Let’s get this straight: Gingrich and cronies oppose an investigation into whether the Bush-Cheney administration broke the laws against torture and also lied about it, but they’re pushing an investigation into whether Pelosi lied about whether the CIA lied? I see.
I was on MSNBC today talking about Cheney and torture and I followed Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak mostly defending Pelosi. Sestak said he would be happy to hear Pelosi testify about all of this under oath -- if other parties to the torture scandal were likewise forced to testify under oath. Pelosi’s troubles are at least partly the result of President Obama’s refusal to investigate the torture matter completely. As I’ve said before, if Democrats were complicit in torture, I want to know (although Sen. Bob Graham, he of the OCD-like note-taking and diary-keeping, backs Pelosi 100 percent.)
When someone proves to me that Pelosi is anywhere near as corrupt as her disgraced forebears as speakers, Jim Wright and, yes, Newt himself, I will support her resignation, as a feminist and as an American. Until then, let’s tune out Rush Limbaugh until he gets help for whatever kind of poisoning has infected his brain.
Joan Walsh is the author of "What's the Matter With White People: Finding Our Way in the Next America."
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On "The New Yorker Radio Hour," the comic told David Remnick that Clinton was "smart" to avoid talking feminism
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Anna Silman
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Explaining that her comedy used to be focused more on just getting laughs, Schumer acknowledges that her style has changed over the years. “I used to play a character, really, kind of a deranged white rich party girl, maybe Republican. I don’t know. But I do have an agenda now,” she explains. "To make people laugh and feel better.”
When Remnick asked Schumer about people who don’t "get" her comedy, Schumer responds that she is impressed that so many people do get it. "If someone doesn’t get what I'm doing or misinterprets something ignorant... well, that’s not someone I would ever want to have a conversation with or have them be in their audience,” she explains. "If someone hears that I support Hillary Clinton and that makes them not want to come see me live — well good, then don't."
Schumer goes on to say that “loves” Clinton and plans to be involved in her campaign, and remains unfazed when Remnick points out that Clinton has historically shied away from making a big deal about feminism.
“Well, that's smart!" responds Schumer. “Because that scares off men and women alike, because they don’t know what that word means. But when she’s honest and she’s just firing stuff off, you’re like: 'Oh she’s a badass.'”
Schumer also weighs in on the effect that political correctness is having on comedy. Recently, comics like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock have lamented that PC culture is killing comedy, and Schumer somewhat agrees with these criticisms, adding that the minute she feels afraid to say something she thinks is funny, it’s like she's "dead in the water.”
Yet Schumer acknowledges that it is important to change with the times. Responding to criticisms that some of her comedy has racist undertones -- in particular, her controversial joke that "nothing works 100 percent of the time except Mexicans” -- she explains that the punchline wasn't meant to be racist, it was meant to be about her own character’s stupidity. Still, she says she wouldn’t do that bit anymore.
"I wouldn't do any of my old jokes now, because they feel stale and because I have a bigger audience now and people are lookng to me," she concludes. "And I have become in some ways a role model. So I have more responsibility. But I didn't then."
Listen to the full, fascinating interview over at WNYC.
Watch Amy Schumer tackle rape in a high school football town, sexual assault in the military and yes — the numerous rape and drugging accusations against Bill Cosby — in two minutes of sketch and stand-up comedy.
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July 13, 2018 / Scottish Arts Club
Cartonnage - Alison Cunningham is expert at this ancient Japanese/French art, and would like to offer to show members how to make their own Cartonnage. You create beautiful box- based items from card and decorative papers. Useful for presents or household. It will be free of charge except for any essential materials ( most recycled) - please sign up on the desk- the sheet will be there from Wednesday 19th July. The first session will be in September.
Photography- Eric Robinson will offer 4 Wednesday afternoon sessions, on the 12,19,26 Sept and 3 October. They will be: Introduction to camera controls; Still-life/botanical; portrait, and outdoor. Please sign up on the sheet which will be available from Wednesday 18th July onwards.
Congratulations to Eric Robinson, successful portrait photographer extraordinaire, and club member. Eric truly delighted to let us know that, after working to help the botanical artists group in the Club here, he submitted his own botanical photograph for the prestigious Edinburgh Photography Society Gallery exhibition - and had great success. The exhibition is open to visitors.
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Jim Haynes Graduation
June 28, 2018 / Scottish Arts Club
The graduation ceremony was very intimate. It took place in the chapel at Craiglockhart campus, the former hospital where Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfrid Owen. Their names were on the rooms and we were next to the library dedicated to the War Poets. The spirit of 1918 was all around us especially in this centenary year, and it was impossible not to think about war and its futility.
Then Jim came in, and brought with him the solution to all our problems. He walked slowly but with great dignity, and he carried a smile to lighten the darkest thoughts. Love is such an overused and misused word that we dismiss it as sentimental and mawkish. In that room however was a love that was tangible. Jim’s love for everyone there, and everyone’s love for Jim. It was so powerful that it spread amongst us and made what was already a very special occasion, into an extraordinary experience. Jim has, over 40 years, welcomed more than 200,000 people into his home: people of all shapes, sizes, colours, and opinions, and no-one left unmoved or untouched by Jim’s overwhelming and unconditional love.
I hesitated about using the word, until I saw the card given to me by Jim’s son Jesper. Jesper’s card gives his address as @dontbeafraidtolove and I realized that, although it is an act of bravery to love a stranger, if we dare to do it, we will find that there are more genuinely loving and loveable people in the world. Than we ever expected.
Dear Jim, thank you for bringing your love to Scotland. Congratulations on your honorary doctorate and we hope to see you in Edinburgh again soon.
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Home Entertainment Kelby Love to headline Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale
Kelby Love to headline Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale
Feb 2nd, 2017 · by Scottsdale Independent · Comments:
Kelby Love with his sculptures (Submitted Photo by ARK Photoworks)
There are some similarities between artist Kelby Love and his great, great grandfather, an African-American cowboy, and folk hero, Nat Love.
They both are and were known for their sense of adventure, high-energy, and love of the land, a press release states. However, while Nat Love worked cattle drives in Arizona and had met lawmen Pat Garrett, Bat Masterson and even the outlaw, Billy the Kid, his descendant, Kelby Love, has made a name for himself by painting and sculpting wildlife from all over the world.
Kelby Love is one of the featured artists at the Arizona Fine Art Expo the 10-week fine art show in north Scottsdale featuring 110 patron-friendly working studios.
The show runs through Sunday, March 26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, rain or shine, under the “festive white tents” at 26540 N. Scottsdale Road next to MacDonald’s Ranch.
Kelby Love grew up in Elkhart, Ind., where his grandmother instilled a sense of adventure in him, a release states.
“She cleaned offices and when people threw out their calendars or other photos of foreign places, she stapled them together and created ‘Kelby’s Travel Book,’” Mr. Love said in a release. “I was very fortunate to grow up in a strong family unit, and she inspired me to see the world.”
He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and landed a job as an illustrator for Field & Stream and later National Geographic magazines.
Throughout the 1980s, he traveled extensively, painting everything from fish to tigers and elephants. A friendship with former New Orleans Saints football player Irv Smith prompted him to visit Arizona several times, and he moved to Scottsdale permanently eight years ago to be closer to his mother, who had retired to Arizona after his father’s passing.
A sports fan and outdoorsman, Mr. Love likens the Arizona Fine Art Expo to a championship game.
“This is our Art Super Bowl,” he said in a release. “Our ‘team’ is comprised of nationally-renowned artists from all over the country, and the show’s 10-week duration challenges us to create our best work each day for our patrons.”
Similar to a sports team, Mr. Love enjoys the camaraderie of working with the other Expo artists.
“We share and critique each other,” he explained in a release, adding he only began sculpting a year ago.
Now in his eighth year at Arizona Fine Art Expo, Mr. Love decided to try sculpting after the tragic passing of former Expo artist and Zimbabwean sculptor, Jonah Runyanga.
“Jonah was an outstanding stone sculptor and a friend. I had always admired his work, and wanted to try working in a different medium. I was very fortunate to have another talented sculptor, Dave Venell, give me some tips regarding scale and composition,” he said in a release.
He was immediately drawn to sculpting, comparing his new passion facetiously to “having an affair,” saying sculpting has helped him improve his painting.
“I can’t trick you with sculpture because it’s three-dimensional, whereas with a painting, I can hide a small imperfection with color,” he said in a release.
“Sculpting has made me step back from paintings, look deeper at them and really examine the anatomy of my subjects.”
In his spare time, Mr. Love donates his time to help special needs children, and he also loves to cook.
“We used to own a restaurant in Elkhart, so every weekend I love to cook my famous ‘Love Dim Ribs’ for the artists,” he said in a release.
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The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World
Love, Loss, and Other Catastrophes--through Italy, India, and Beyond
by Torre DeRoche
A funny and heartwarming story of one woman’s attempt to walk off a lifetime of fear–with a soulmate, bad shoes, and lots of wine.
Torre DeRoche is at rock bottom following a breakup and her father’s death when she crosses paths with the goofy and spirited Masha, who is pusuing her dream of walking the world. When Masha invites Torre to join her pilgrimage through Tuscany–drinking wine, foraging wild berries, and twirling on hillsides–Torre straps on a pair of flimsy street shoes and gets rambling.
But the magical hills of Italy are nothing like the dusty and merciless roads of India where the pair wind up, improvising a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Gandhi along his march to the seaside. Hoping to catch the nobleman’s fearlessness by osmosis and end the journey as wise, svelte, and kick-ass warriors, they are instead unravelled by worry that this might be one adventure too far. Coming face-to-face with their worst fears, they discover the power of friendship to save us from our darkest moments.
Genre: Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
On Sale: September 5th 2017
"Like so many of us, Torre DeRoche is wracked with fear, doubt, uncertainty, anxiety; unlike so many of us DeRoche figured she might as well walk 250 miles through India. Which she does, with humor, grace, insight and a fair amount of grit, too, in this lovely and wholly uplifting account of confronting our fears... Luckily (and always enviously) in The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World we get to tag along."
--- Carl Hoffman, bestselling author of Savage Harvest
"Torre's managed to write a witty and engrossing tale of loss, pain, and transformation that captivates the reader as magically as her first book. Like her previous work, I couldn't put it down! I highly recommend it!"
--- Matt Kepnes, New York Times Bestselling Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day
"A moving account of conquering fears while walking a pilgrim's path. Also funny as f@#k."
--- Janice MacLeod, author of New York Times bestseller Paris Letters
"Each journey provides valuable lessons about embracing the unexpected and releasing control. DeRoche's writing is conversational and her humor, in shades of black, is copious...a page-turning memoir."
"A pair of fearless female friends team up on a journey through India and Italy in a memoir about courage, loss and resilience."—The New York Post, Required Reading list
"Full of relatable, funny and moving advice for anyone who has longed to see the world but felt that niggling feeling that wants to hold them back. Best of all, it demonstrates that the best way to confront fear is to meet it head on, and to laugh at it along the journey."—BUST.com
A conversation with Torre DeRoche
On long walks, female friendship and the mysterious power of the three-second rule
Seal Press: The title of your memoir is irreverent, but it also reflects the zeitgeist in 2016 as you were writing, and in 2017 as the book is being published. Were you thinking about issues like politics and climate change while writing this book? Torre DeRoche: Absolutely. The word ‘worry’ means, in ancient English, “to […]
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Dodgy Donations flood into Tory party in Dumfries and Galloway
Posted on June 27, 2018 by admin Posted in SNP Dumfries and Galloway — No Comments ↓
Joan McAlpine MSP has backed calls for an investigation into the source of mysterious cash donations to the local Conservative Party.
It was revealed this week by Investigative Journalism platform ‘The Ferret’ that Conservative Party branches in Dumfries and Galloway have been the biggest beneficiaries of large donations from a mystery trust.
Sixteen donations from the Scottish Unionist Association Trust (SUAT) – a secret organisation without a fixed address or known current trustees – totalling £56,100 went to party branches in Dumfries and Galloway.
The House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee Chair Pete Wishart has now raised a complaint with The Electoral Commission, that regulates election spending – asking for an investigation. There are concerns that unincorporated organisations could “exploit loopholes in electoral law” and “shield political donors from scrutiny”.
The news comes after it was revealed by the BBC that another secret trust with strong links to a senior Scottish Tory funnelled large sums of money to the DUP ahead of the Brexit referendum.
South Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine commented:
“It is very concerning that a murky organisation which has been bankrolling the Tories across Scotland has donated the largest sum of money to branches in Dumfries and Galloway. Though given the mountain of electoral material dropped through local letter boxes, maybe not so surprising.
“Tory election spending in Scotland has more than trebled in five years – from £276, 000 in 2011 to over £978’000 in 2016. In the year before the 2016 Holyrood vote the SUAT contributed £28’000 to fund a Tory surge, alongside other secretive organisations.
“It’s difficult to know where that money comes from because these trusts refuse to reveal their trustees or donors.
“This latest revelation comes just days after the BBC uncovered a trail of illegal activity from Senior Scottish Tory Richard Cook – the man behind yet another shadowy trust known as the Constitutional Research Council. The CRC was responsible for a record £435,000 donation to the DUP in the lead up the EU Referendum.
“The Chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster, Pete Wishart, has intervened and asked the Electoral Commission to investigate. I too will be asking the Electoral Commission to look into the SUAT – given that constituencies across the south of Scotland are affected.”
Electoral Commission probes £319,000 dark money trust: https://theferret.scot/secretive-trust-scottish-tories-dark-money/
BBC Spotlight: Brexit, Dark Money and the DUP: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44624299
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Super Tweeters
Taking the Technology to the Next Level for Superior Sound Quality at Home
To the average person, the term “Super Tweeter” might just sound like a person who spends too much time on the popular social media website Twitter. But an audiophile sees it differently. Simply put, Super Tweeters are speaker drivers that produce ultra-high frequencies and better sound quality for home audio systems and are an essential part of any hi-fi speaker capable of playing High-Resolution Audio.
Sony’s Super Tweeters
Unique Approach to Better Home Audio Quality
To receive the best sound quality, most hi-fi speaker systems require that listeners sit directly in front of the speaker with their ears at the same height as the Tweeters.
But Sony engineer team Tomoya Kato, Kouji Miyata and Masanori Sugiyama realized that this is not how most people listen to music — they want to be able to enjoy quality audio as they move about their home.
The blue areas on the image indicate a conventional speaker’s sweet spot, while the yellow areas indicate the sweet spot of the SS-HA1/3.
With this concept in mind, Sony set out to develop a home audio system that would provide the widest possible range of indoor listening — the HA Speaker Series (SS-HA1 and SS-HA3).
What was the key to making this happen? Taking a unique approach with Super Tweeters.
Finding the “Sweet Spot” for the Tweeters
Tweeters come in all different shapes and sizes, all of which affect the sound quality. For starters, Sony chose compact, soft-dome tweeters for the front of the SS-HA1 and SS-HA3 because they reproduce sound with maximum clarity and information density. This means that the audio sounds as close as possible to the master analog file that comes directly from the music recording studio.
But Kato, Miyata and Sugiyama knew that these two Super Tweeters would not be enough to achieve the widespread dispersion of sound. Therefore, they mounted two more Super Tweeters at the top of the hi-fi speakers to supplement energy in the upper-diagonal directions, guaranteeing sound of consistent quality across the widest possible listening range.
The Sony engineer team found the best relative positions for these two Super Tweeters by creating a special tool that could adjust the positions of the two units by just millimeters (vertically, horizontally and depth-wise). They conducted countless music listening trials with different measurements and ultimately determined the best position by using a computer simulation program.
Overcoming Sound Quality Obstacles
Super Tweeters with Other Hi-Fi Speaker Elements
While the unhoused small Super Tweeters provided great sound quality during the testing stage, a problem arose when the Sony engineers properly housed the speakers — the effect of the Super Tweeters couldn’t be felt at all.
This occurred because the directivity of the small Super Tweeters was so good that the acoustics were reflected by the surface of the baffle. Also, diffraction occurred in the corners of the housing and severely impacted sound quality.
The image shows a speaker with diffraction (on the left) and a speaker without diffraction (on the right).
To combat this, the team made the area of the baffle as small as possible around the Super Tweeters to reduce reflections off the baffle.
They also discovered that a Tweeter with a 45-degree cutaway design achieves a better sound quality than one with a half-sphere design or with an incomplete round edge.
Therefore, they used a 45-degree cutaway design for the left and right side and upward direction of the baffle as well as the diagonally upward direction of the speaker.
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List of 7 frequently asked questions.
What is the Annual Fund?
The Annual Fund is a yearly appeal to the Shawnigan Community — parents, alumni, staff, family and friends — to support excellence in our programs and provide much-needed financial aid through scholarships and bursaries.
Shawnigan has a beautiful campus and fantastic facilities — why should I give?
We are indeed fortunate to have outstanding facilities, most of which have come as a result of generous gifts. As we strive to create opportunities for our students, the need for new facilities endures.
At the same time, more than 25 percent of our students could not enjoy these fine facilities without your support. Gifts directed toward financial aid ensure that the gates to the School remain open to deserving young people.
I already support the School through my child's fees. Are you really asking for more?
It is no secret that for many parents a Shawnigan education requires great financial sacrifice.
What you may not know is that the fees you pay do not cover the complete cost of a Shawnigan education. In fact, tuition accounts for only 80 percent of the true cost of a year of enrollment at the School. Gifts to Shawnigan are allocated to areas of need that enhance your child's experience at the School.
Donations also ensure that deserving students are able to attend Shawnigan regardless of their economic background. The numbers speak for themselves: one in every four students at Shawnigan receives some form of financial aid. Your gift can help support a young person whose family cannot afford the complete cost of our fees. You can make a powerful difference in a student's life.
What is the goal of the fund this year?
While there is no set monetary goal for the Annual Fund, the Advancement Office is committed to increasing both the number of gifts given, and the value of those gifts, on a yearly basis. To reach this goal we will need support both from large donors and a significant number of people whose gifts may seem small, but together make a significant difference.
Can I direct my gift?
You certainly can! Many people choose to contribute an unrestricted gift to the Headmaster's Fund that is used in the area of greatest need as directed by the Headmaster. A great number of people also choose to direct their gift to an area of the School that they feel passionately about.
I can't afford much — will my gift really help?
Absolutely! Large gifts are needed if we are to reach our goal, but the majority of gifts given are less than $500.
You can also give through pre-authorized charges to your credit card. In that way a small gift can grow over time. Consider a $25 per month gift on your credit card: in one year it would grow to a $300 gift — enough to purchase a needed piece of sporting equipment or support a student going on a school trip or tour.
If only ten people did this there would be enough money to offer a significant bursary to a day student.
If one hundred people did it, it would cover the full cost of tuition for a boarding student.
Your gift, whatever the size, also makes a powerful statement about your support for the School. If you or your children received financial support while at Shawnigan it would be a wonderful gift to share what you can afford with another student today as a way of “giving back.”
Do I get a tax receipt?
Tax receipts can be issued for gifts from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Of course, gifts from all over the world are still gratefully accepted.
Email: advancement@shawnigan.ca
Advancement Office
Rudy Massimo
Director of External Relations and Advancement
rmassimo@shawnigan.ca
Greg Stevenson
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Rhodri Samuel
Senior Master, External Relations, Admissions
rsamuel@shawnigan.ca
Kevin Cooper
Director of Hockey; Head Hockey Coach Prep, External Relations Associate
kcooper@shawnigan.ca
Hilary Abbott
Advancement Associate
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Jeannie Brown
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Home Uncategorized Facebook Messenger’s hidden Football Game is highly Addictive
Facebook Messenger’s hidden Football Game is highly Addictive
Facebook has recently organized a new football game inside the messenger app. It is assumed that game of soccer inside a messenger app is actually a tribute to the UEFA Euro 2016championship. The mini game is highly addictive and you can also have a mini tournament with your facebook friends.
Facebook in a post stated “have you taken the football #KeepyUpChallenge with your friends in Messenger yet? To be part of the action, send the
to any of your friends, and tap on it to start playing. The more times you tap the ball to “keep it in the air”, the more points you will get. Your high score will be shared with the friend or friends you’re playing within the Messenger conversation. Enjoy!”
As we already noticed, Facebook had launched the similar type of game in the month of March that was a Basketball game which got activated by just sharing the emoji of basketball. Therefore, to start this new football game all you need to do is just send a soccer ball emoji in any of your friend’s conversation and touch it with your fingers.
However, football lovers, don’t expect the game to be too innovative because the interface is simple, all you have to do in this game is trying to keep the football in the air as long as you can, the game will become difficult as the level progresses. To exit the game users just have to press the “Back” button and they will be back to the messenger. Unfortunately, there is no pause system in the game. You have to quit it.
Users have to update their Facebook Messenger app to the latest version in order to play the game. We had recently seen Facebook messenger for android announced SMS integration and we also saw Messenger recently introduced to 1,500 new emojis to the app. So Facebook messenger is going on an uprise in recent time.
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‘The Do-Over’ Trailer: Adam Sandler Is Kind of a Badass
Posted on Monday, May 23rd, 2016 by Ethan Anderton
Continuing the deal for Adam Sandler to make movies exclusively for Netflix, a new R-rated action comedy is coming to the streaming service this weekend. The Do-Over reunites Sandler with his Saturday Night Live buddy David Spade in a movie that feels straight out of the 1990s. Adam Sandler plays a bit of a badass who decides to help his old high school friend (Spade) out by fixing his boring life. The only problem is he does that by faking their deaths and giving them new identities that get them into some serious trouble.
Watch The Do-Over red band trailer after the jump.
Here’s the final trailer for The Do-Over straight from Netflix:
Honestly, this doesn’t look half-bad. Sure, it’s still generic as hell and not the funniest looking comedy this summer, but it looks infinitely better than the rest of the junk Sandler has been turning into movies over the past decade. The throwback nature of the action and story actually gives it a little charm.
In this new trailer, Kathryn Hahn shows up to threaten Spade and Sandler, and her presence always demands my attention. Plus it’s hard to go wrong with Paula Patton in the female lead role. Plus Luis Guzman, Michal Chiklis and Sean Astin will be appearing along with Catherine Bell (Bruce Almighty), Natasha Leggero (Neighbors), Nick Swardson (Just Go With It), Torsten Voges (Funny People), Renee Taylor (The Producers) and Matt Walsh (Ted). Maybe this will turn out to be good?
The only downside is that this movie is directed by Steven Brill, who directed Sandler’s lesser comedy fare Little Nicky and Mr. Deeds, both comedies that marked the beginning of the actor’s fall from comedy grace.
If you want to see more from The Do-Over, watch the previous red band trailer right here.
In The Do-Over, Adam Sandler plays “Max” and David Spade plays “Charlie,” old friends tired of their mundane lives who reunite at their 25th high school reunion for the ultimate mulligan: they decide to wipe the slate clean for a do-over. After faking their deaths and assuming new identities, could their lives be better the second time around?
The Do-Over hits Netflix exclusively beginning on May 27, but it’ll face some pretty stiff weekend competition with X-Men: Apocalypse hitting theaters. It should be a good escape for anyone who doesn’t want to leave their house for Memorial Day though.
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1. THE D I G I TA L CONSUMER FEBRUARY 2014 1 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
2. MEET T O D AY ’ S D I G I TA L CONSUMER For most American consumers, their everyday lives and their digital lives are now wholly intertwined. So much so that in 2013, the Oxford Dictionary officially codified the term digital detox – “a period of time during which a person refrains from using electronic devices such as smartphones or computers…” – by adding it and the definition to its online version (which, ironically, is accessible only via a digital device.) Today’s consumer is more connected than ever, with more access to and deeper engagement with content and brands, thanks to the proliferation of digital devices and platforms. Content that was once only available to consumers via specific methods of delivery (such as via print, radio and broadcast television) can now be sourced and delivered to consumers through their multiple connected devices. This is driving the media revolution and blurring traditional media definitions. 2 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
3. WHAT’S POWERING THE NEW DIGITAL REALIT Y? DEVICE OWNERSHIP = EMPOWERMENT To put it simply, today’s consumer has a lot of digital devices. A majority of U.S. households now own high-definition televisions (HDTVs), Internetconnected computers and smartphones, and they spend an average of 60 hours a week consuming content across multiple screens. In addition to more devices, consumers now have more choices for how and when they access content, such as broadband-only delivery of programming and DVRs for time-shifted viewing. In particular, the ownership of mobile devices is revolutionizing the consumer shopping experience. Increasingly, consumers are relying on mobile devices to research potential purchases and compare prices for goods and services. As U.S. consumers continue to take advantage of the convenience of anytime, anywhere browsing and shopping via their smartphones and tablets, there is a huge opportunity for retailers and brands to capture the full path-to-purchase. THE DIGITAL LIVING ROOM The rapid adoption of a second screen has transformed the traditional TV viewing experience. Consumers are using smartphones and tablets in ways that are natural extensions of the programming they watch, like looking up information about the characters and plot lines, or researching and purchasing products and services advertised just minutes before. Using social media to engage with other viewers has also transformed the live viewing experience for millions of consumers across the country. 3 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
4. ALL SOCIAL, ALL THE TIME Social media usage is now standard practice in our daily lives. Almost two-thirds (64%) of overall social media users say they use social media sites at least once a day via their computer, and almost half (47%) of smartphone owners visit social networks every day. With the rapid adoption of mobile devices, social media has a symbiotic relationship with the mobile consumer. And social has played a pivotal role, empowering consumers by providing a direct point of contact with the brands they use and the content they access. HISPANIC CONSUMERS ARE DIGITAL TRAILBL AZERS In the U.S., Hispanics make up the fastest growing population segment and Nielsen expects this group to contribute to 60 percent of the U.S. population growth in the next three years. They spend more time consuming digital video than the national U.S. average, and they are adopting smartphones at a much quicker rate. As an important and growing consumer segment, Hispanic digital consumers are poised to be even more inf luential in the coming years. CONNECTING THE DIGITAL DOTS GETS YOU CLOSER TO TOMORROW’S CONSUMER It has never been a more important time to know how consumers are behaving than in today’s fast evolving digital environment. More than ever we need a clear view of what is happening today and the implications for the coming years. Nielsen’s 2014 Digital Consumer Report provides insight into what is propelling the new multiscreen, always connected consumer lifestyle. In the following pages, you’ll get a detailed snapshot of the dynamic growth of mobile engagement, get familiar with the rapid uptake of device ownership and learn how this technology is changing the way consumers shop, access content and connect – so you can keep pace with today’s consumer and plan for tomorrow. 4 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
5. A LOOK AT THE MEDIA UNIVERSE Not only do consumers have more devices to choose from, but they own more devices than ever. In 2013, Americans on average own four digital devices and ownership of many digital, mobile and connected devices has reached critical mass. When looking at the average American household, HDTVs (83%), Internet-connected computers (80%) and smartphones (65%) are in a majority of households, with a near majority for digital video recorders (49%) and gaming consoles (46%). As a result of the explosion in digital and mobile device ownership, American consumers are connected with screens throughout the day and engage with media content for more than 60 hours per week. TV remains at the center of consumer media consumption. However, increases in time-shifted viewing and streaming video through a PC or smartphone show that consumers are increasingly comfortable accessing content whenever and wherever they want. 5 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
6. 2013 2011 DIGITAL CABLE 2009 54% 51% 44% PC W/ INTERNET 80% 79% 75% DVR 49% 42% 33% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% GAME CONSOLE 46% 45% 42% HDTV 83% 67% 41% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% % OF TV HOMES WHO OWN DEVICES DVD PLAYER 83% 86% 89% SMARTPHONE* 65% 44% 19% SMART TV 16% Source: Nielsen National People Meter Panel, September 2013. Percent of TV homes that own devices.*Nielsen Mobile Insights, SATELLITE 31% 31% 29% TABLET 29% 5% September 2013. Percent of mobile subscribers 18+ who own smartphones. 6 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
7. LOOKING F O R WA R D WHAT GADGETS WE PL AN TO UPGRADE IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS TOTAL U.S. POPUL ATION 1/4 OF AMERICANS SAID THEY PLAN TO BUY A SMARTPHONE 18-24 YEAR OLDS SMARTPHONES 30% 49% COMPUTERS 26% 32% GAME CONSOLES 11% 49% HALF (49%) AGED 18-24 PLAN TO UPGRADE A SMARTPHONE 26% TABLETS 8% 14% E-READERS 4% 5% 2X MEN ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BUY A GAME CONSOLE COMPARED TO WOMEN SMART TV 3% 6% Source: Nielsen U.S. Social Media Survey, 2013 7 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
8. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? Consumers today spend less time engaging with live content via traditional TV compared with the same time a year ago. However consumption of TV content has increased thanks to a signif icant rise in hours watching timeshifted TV. When looking at Q2, 2013 compared with the same quarter five years prior, computer-based video consumption is up 157 percent, mobile users are spending 59 percent more time watching video on their mobile devices. Indicating that consumers are embracing opportunities to engage with content when and where they want. DID YOU KNOW? SMARTPHONE OWNERS SPEND 86% OF THEIR TIME USING APPS VS. THE MOBILE WEB (14%) Source: Nielsen Cross Platform Report, Q2 2013 , Nielsen Mobile NetView, July 2013 8 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
9. HOW CONSUMERS SPEND MEDIA TIME (HH:MM) EACH MONTH + CHANGE SINCE 2012 [ -2:44 ] - CHANGE SINCE 2012 133 HRS 49 MIN ON LIVE TV 34 HRS 17 MINS USING BROWSERS/APPS ON A SMARTPHONE* [ -1:54 ] 13 HRS 12 MINS WATCHING TIME-SHIFTED TV 7 HRS 7 MINS USING A GAME CONSOLE 6 HRS 41 MINS WATCHING VIDEO ON INTERNET 5 HRS 48 MINS MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS WATCHING VIDEO ON A MOBILE PHONE 5 HRS 24 MINS USING A DVD/BLU-RAY DEVICE [ +9:52 ] 27 HRS 3 MINS USING THE INTERNET ON A COMPUTER [ +1:42 ] [ +0:29 ] [ +0:43 ] [ +0:23] [+0:07 ] Sources: Nielsen Cross Platform Report, Table 3 - Monthly Time Spent by Medium, Q3 2013. *Nielsen, Mobile NetView 3.0, Q3 2013. Average of total minutes per person each month using apps and mobile web on smartphones. 9 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
10. WHAT DO BROADBAND-ONLY HOUSEHOLDS LOOK LIKE? A small but growing group of consumers are opting for broadband connections and connected devices as their primary source for watching video at home. In particular, more than half (52%) of broadband-only homes skew towards younger demographics (18-34) compared to traditional TV households. 80% Compared to traditional TV households, broadband-only homes are twice as likely to own game consoles (80%) and own tablets (41%). While this group makes up less than one in 20 households, they have doubled in number over the last few years, marking these early adopters key to understanding how the living room will evolve in the future. OF BROADBAND-ONLY HOUSEHOLDS OWN GAME CONSOLES DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONS VIEWING TRADITIONAL TELEVISION HOUSEHOLD AGES 18-24 AGES 25-34 BROADBAND-ONLY HOUSEHOLD 23% 7% 11% 29% AGES 18-24 AGES 25-34 Source: NPOWER, Share of P2+ PUT, 9/28 – 10/20/13, Total Day 10 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
11. THE NEW STREAMING ENVIRONMENT How consumers watch video is changing with the adoption of new devices. Already, 38 percent of U.S. consumers say they subscribe or use Netf lix to stream video, up from 31 percent in 2012. Netflix users are streaming across new screens including Smart TV (17%), tablets (15%), and directly on their computer (44%). And streaming video is growing outside of the home as well, with 23 percent of Netf lix users saying they watch on mobile phones, up from just 11 percent in 2012. 34% 47% HOW ARE NETFLIX AND HULU USERS STREAMING? NETFLIX HULU PLUS COMPUTER MOBILE PHONE 17% CONTENT NETFLIX USERS WATCH 2013 34% 2012 MOVIES 23% SMART TV 17% 14% 47% 34% TV & MOVIES EQUALLY 44% 43% 47% 44% 35% 44% 35% 44% 22% 35% TV SHOWS 19% CONNECTED COMPUTER TO TV 16% 15% TABLET 15% 14% INTERNET CONNECTED BLU-RAY 15% 13% Wii 13% 21% PS3 10% 16% XBOX 360 12% 14% 22% Source: Nielsen Over-the-Top Video Analysis, July 2013 11 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
12. CONSUMER SPOTLIGHT HISPANICS ARE AHEAD OF THE DIGITAL CURVE Hispanic consumers have rapidly adopted multiple-screens into their daily video viewing routines and represent 47 million traditional TV viewers in the U.S. and growing. They spend more time viewing video on digital devices, with the average Latino spending more than eight hours watching online video each month, which is over 90 minutes longer than the U.S. average. Hispanics are adopting smartphones at a higher rate than any other demographic group: nearly three in four Latinos own smartphones (72%), close to 10 percent higher than average in the U.S.. It’s little surprise that 10 million watch video on their mobile phones for an average of more than six hours per month. 16% DATA USAGE IS 16% HIGHER AMONG HISPANICS COMPARED WITH THE NATIONAL AVERAGE 49% OF LATINO RESPONDENTS SAID THEY PLANNED TO REPLACE OR UPGRADE SMARTPHONES WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS 2X HISPANICS ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO UPGRADE THEIR TABLETS (15%) IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS Sources: Nielsen Cross Platform Report, Table 2 Overall Usage by Medium, Q3 2013. Nielsen Mobile Insights, Q3 2013. Nielsen Bill Panel, Q3 2013. Nielsen U.S. Social Media Survey, 2013. 12 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
13. 15 PERCENT OF AMERICA’S ADULT POPUL ATION ARE HISPANICS AND GROWING *... 12% OF MOBILE SHOPPERS ARE HISPANIC 1 IN 5 SOCIAL MEDIA USERS VIA MOBILE APPS ARE HISPANIC COMPARING MONTHLY TIME SPENT BY HISPANIC CONSUMERS VERSUS THE TOTAL U.S. POPUL ATION HISPANIC 2+ GENERAL U.S. POPUL ATION 2+ 7:52 7:07 USING A GAME CONSOLE (HH:MM) 7:52 7:07 7:52 7:07 8:21 WATCHING VIDEO ON INTERNET (HH:MM) 6:41 8:21 6:41 8:21 6:41 MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS WATCHING VIDEO ON A MOBILE PHONE (HH:MM) 6:22 5:48 6:22 5:48 6:22 5:48 * Source: 2013 U.S. Census Bureau Sources: Nielsen Mobile Shopping Report, Q3 2013; Nielsen Cross Platform Report, Table 3 - Monthly Time Spent by Medium, Q3 2013; Nielsen Mobile NetView, July 2013; 13 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
14. THE NEW TWO-SCREEN MINIMUM Connected devices such as smartphones and tablets have become constant companions to consumers on the go and in the home. Eightyfour percent of smartphone and tablet owners say they use their devices as second-screens while watching TV at the same time. When using connected devices simultaneously, opportunities exist to deepen consumer engagement with content on the primary screen. As shown on the following page, consumers are more likely to reach for a tablet than a mobile phone as the second screen, with the exception of email / texting friends about the program. Source: Nielsen Connected Devices Report, Q3 2013. 14 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
15. CONNECTED DEVICE OWNERS USAGE WHILE WATCHING TV TABLET 66% 49% SURFED THE WEB 41% 29% LOOK UP INFO ON ACTORS, PLOTLINES, ATHLETES, ETC SMARTPHONE 44% 24% SHOPPING 23% 29% EMAIL/TEXT FRIENDS ABOUT THE PROGRAM 29% 27% CHECKING SPORTS SCORES 18% 12% READ DISCUSSION ABOUT TV PROGRAM ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES 14% 12% 17% 7% 9% 10% BUY A PRODUCT/SERVICE BEING ADVERTISED VOTE OR SEND COMMENTS TO A LIVE PROGRAM WATCHED CERTAIN TV PROGRAM BECAUSE OF SOMETHING READ ON SOCIAL MEDIA Source: Nielsen Connected Devices Report, Q3 2013. 15 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
16. THE NEW SOCIAL NORM Social media usage continues to grow as the need to stay connected with social networks becomes ingrained into the daily lives of consumers. Almost two-thirds (64%) of social media users say they use social media sites at least once a day via their computer. But, increasingly, consumers are reaching for their smartphones over traditional computers to access social networks. Almost half (47%) of smartphone owners visited social networks every day and in the last year, and the unique audience for social media smartphone apps increased 37 percent. As digital consumers find their own mix of devices and platforms to access and engage with social media, they are building profiles and connections on multiple social networks as well. While Facebook remains the largest social network in both the Web and mobile, consumers are embracing other social platforms such as LinkedIn (up 37% among users), Pinterest (triple unique users on smartphone apps), and Instagram (nearly double the number of unique users in 2013). UNIQUE AUDIENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES AND APPS BY PL ATFORM JULY 2012 JULY 2013 -10% 148,028,000 163,589,000 PC/COMPUTER BROWSERS +37% 120,396,000 87,797,000 SMARTPHONE APP +26% 102,097,000 81,120,000 SMARTPHONE WEB BROWSERS Sources: Nielsen NetView, July 2013. Nielsen Mobile NetView, July 2013. 16 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
17. WHERE WE GET SOCIAL While the home remains the most prevalent location for logging onto social media sites, today’s constantly connected consumers are active on social media sites anywhere they go. Two in f ive (39%) Americans get digitally social while at work, and one in f ive (21%) have logged onto social sites while in the bathroom in the past 30 days. WHERE WE USE SOCIAL MEDIA ALSO DEPENDS ON WHO IS USING IT 1/2 48% IN THE CAR of moms with kids under 13 years-old are using social media in the car vs. 31 percent overall. IN THE OFFICE 2X 44% AT A RESTAURANT of young adults ages (25-34) social network around the restaurant table vs. 31 percent overall. Half of adults ages 25-34 use social media at work (56%), and wealthier households ($150k+) are the most likely to network in the office (57%), vs. only one-third (35%) overall. IN THE BATHROOM Young adults ages 18-24 are twice as likely (40%) to use social media in the bathroom compared to the average (21%). Source: Nielsen U.S. Social Media Survey, 2013. 17 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
18. WHAT SOCIAL NETWORKS DO WE USE? TOTAL FACEBOOK BLOGGER TOTAL LINKEDIN FACEBOOK TWITTER BLOGGER PINTEREST LINKEDIN - TOTAL TWITTER FACEBOOK PINTEREST BLOGGER LINKEDIN TWITTER PINTEREST - 148 M 132 M 46 M 148 M MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA UNIQUE AUDIENCE 39 M 132 M ON COMPUTERS (IN MILLIONS) 32 M 46 M 27 M 39 M YOY% 148 M 32 M -14% 132 M 27 M -22% 46 M 39 M +37% 32 M -14% -2% 27 M FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK GOOGLE+ INSTAGRAM PINTEREST TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK PINTEREST INSTAGRAM TWITTER GOOGLE+ PINTEREST 120 M ON SMARTPHONE APPS (IN MILLIONS) 109 M 35 M 120 M 31 M 109 M 21 M 35 M 16 M 31 M 120 M 21 M 109 M 16 M 35 M 31 M 21 M 16 M MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA UNIQUE AUDIENCE - YOY% +39% +79% +38% +117% +233% MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA UNIQUE AUDIENCE ON SMARTPHONE BROWSERS (IN MILLIONS) TOTAL - 102M FACEBOOK - 93 M 56 M TWITTER -- 102M TOTAL BLOGGER - 23 M FACEBOOK - 93 M LINKEDIN - 56 M 17 M TWITTER PINTEREST - 17 M 23 M BLOGGER -- 102M TOTAL LINKEDIN - 17 M FACEBOOK - 93 M PINTEREST - 56 M TWITTER - 17 M Sources: Nielsen NetView, July 2013. Nielsen Mobile NetView, July 2013. BLOGGER - 23 M LINKEDIN - 17 M 18 PINTEREST - 17 M YOY% +26% +32% +13% +80% +22% Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
19. MONTHLY TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKS (HH:MM) MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA TIME SPENT PER PERSON ON COMPUTERS (HH:MM) 6:24 FACEBOOK 0:36 TWITTER 0:36 PINTEREST 0:17 BLOGGER 0:18 LINKEDIN 1:39 PINTEREST 0:11 GOOGLE+ 0:04 LINKEDIN 0:03 PINTEREST MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA TIME SPENT PER PERSON ON SMARTPHONE APPS (HH:MM) 7:43 FACEBOOK 3:40 INSTAGRAM 3:07 TWITTER MONTHLY SOCIAL MEDIA TIME SPENT PER PERSON ON SMARTPHONE BROWSERS (HH:MM) 0:40 FACEBOOK 0:11 TWITTER 0:06 BLOGGER Sources: Nielsen NetView, July 2013. Nielsen Mobile NetView, July 2013. 19 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
20. TREND SPOTLIGHT: SOCIAL TV Regardless of which platform is used, social media is truly part of our lives and increasingly part of living room routines as we’re watching TV. On an average day, roughly one million Americans turn to Twitter to discuss TV, and those tweets are read 11 million unique users on Twitter. So what TV programs are generating the most social engagement? Here are the most social TV series on Twitter in Fall 2013. NIELSEN TWITTER TV RATINGS: TOP 10 SERIES PROGRAMS BY AVERAGE UNIQUE AUDIENCE* AVERAGE UNIQUE AUDIENCE NETWORK PROGRAM 1 AMC Breaking Bad 6.0M 2 AMC The Walking Dead FX American Horror Story: Coven ABC Scandal ABC Dancing With the Stars 2.2M 6 NBC The Voice 2.1M 7 FOX Glee 2.0M 8 FOX The X Factor 1.8M 9 MTV Catfish: The TV Show 1.8M 10 MTV Awkward. 1.5M OVER 10.2 MILLION PEOPLE VIEWED APPROXIMATELY 30 TWEETS ON AVERAGE EACH ABOUT THE 2013 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 2.3M 5 10.2M 2.9M 4 OVER 9.1 MILLION PEOPLE SAW ONE OR MORE OF THE 1.2 MILLION TWEETS SENT ABOUT THE BREAKING BAD SERIES FINALE 4.9M 3 9.1M MOST TWEETED PROGRAM TYPES, 2013 TWEETS 492M 338M 106M 42M 29M SPORTS EVENT SERIES SPECIAL FEATURE FILM OTHER ** Source: Nielsen SocialGuide (Data from 9/1/2013 - 11/30/2013) *The earliest date that Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings are available for is 9/1/13. Sports events are not included. ** Other includes: Sports non-event, TV Movie, Miniseries, Paid Programming, Short Film 20 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
21. TOP FIVE MOST TWEETED SERIES GENRES, 2013 TWEETS 110M 85M 43M 43M 33M REALIT Y DRAMA MUSIC COMEDY SITCOM TOP TWEETED EPISODES / EVENTS BY PROGRAM T YPE (TOTAL TWEETS) 26M 19M 1.9M 1.9M 26M 2/3/2013 SUPER BOWL XLVII NETWORK: CBS SPORTS EVENT 19M 8/25/2013 2013 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS .8M .8M 1.2M 1.2M 8/27/2013 PRETTY LITTLE LIARS 10/10/2013 GLEE 12/3/2013 THE VOICE NETWORK: ABC FAMILY NETWORK: FOX NETWORK: NBC COMEDY SERIES REALITY SERIES DRAMA SERIES NETWORK: MTV SPECIAL Source: Nielsen SocialGuide, 2013. 21 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
22. MOBILE TICKS ALL THE SHOPPING BOXES As U.S. consumers continue take advantage of the convenience of anytime, anywhere browsing and shopping via their smartphones and tablets, there is a huge opportunity for retailers and brands to capture the full path-to-purchase of the online shopping experience. Mobile retail is gaining momentum, with more than four in f ive (87%) smartphone and tablet owners using a mobile device for shopping activities. Mobile shopping gives marketers opportunities to reach out throughout the consumer’s purchase journey from start to finish. From consumers searching for more product information or price comparisons while in retail showrooms, to shopping directly on their device from the comfort of home, to sharing reviews and commenting on retail experiences and purchases through social media, mobile commerce is empowering consumers and providing brands with new consumer touchpoints. COMPARING ACTIVITIES AMONG MOBILE SHOPPERS TABLET 39% 76% USING STORE LOCATOR TO FIND STORE 14% 49% USING LISTS WHILE SHOPPING Source: Nielsen Mobile Shopping Report, Q3 2013 45% 39% 22 SMARTPHONE 51% 66% CHECKING PRICE 10% 49% USING MOBILE COUPON 27% 37% 65% 59% RESEARCHING ITEM BEFORE PURCHASE 55% 47% READING REVIEW OF RECENT/ FUTURE PURCHASE 40% 32% Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
23. COMPARING ACTIVITIES AMONG MOBILE SHOPPERS (CONTINUED) TABLET 45% 39% MAKING A DIGITAL PURCHASE 40% 32% 27% 37% USING A DEVICE FOR PAYMENT 27% 21% PURCHASE A SERVICE SMARTPHONE PURCHASING A PHYSICAL ITEM ON DEVICE 23% 14% 21% 26% WRITING A REVIEW OF A PURCHASE USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO COMMENT ON PURCHASE WHAT CHARACTERIZES THE MOBILE SHOPPER AMONG DIGITAL CONSUMERS? Men and women are equally active shoppers on smartphones and tablets More that one quarter (28%) earn more than $100k Locating a store is the most likely activity among mobile shoppers who use a smartphone Mobile shoppers skew younger with the majority under the age of 45 Reading reviews of recent / future purchases is the most likely activity for tablet owners Source: Nielsen Mobile Shopping Report, Q3 2013 23 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
24. GLOSSARY TV HOUSEHOLD: Nielsen defines a TV household as a home with at least one operable TV/monitor with the ability to deliver video via traditional means of antennae, cable STB or satellite receiver and /or with a broadband connection. TRADITIONAL TV: Watching live or time-shifted content on a television set. DIGITAL CABLE: Wired cable delivered through digital signals to your home. SATELLITE: A paid TV subscription where the signal is distributed to an orbiting satellite. The amplified signal is then re-transmitted to the home and received via a dish. (Sometimes, also referred to as “dish”). BROADBAND: A paid, high-speed Internet access delivered via DSL, Cable Internet through cable provider, Fiber-Optic Service, U-Verse, Satellite Internet, Data Card (aircard that connects to a cellular phone network) or PC tethered to cell phone (cellular phone network). COMPUTER: Desktop and laptop PC users who access the Web using browsers. SMARTPHONE: A mobile phone that with an operating system which allows users to install and upgrade software/apps, with or without touchscreen interfaces. TABLET: A touchscreen computer with internet connectivity, either via WiFi or high-speed 3G/4G wireless internet. TIME-SHIFTED VIEWING: Typically refers to recording of content to a storage device, like a digital video recorder for viewing at a later time, or video on demand. SMART TV: A television set with internet connection capabilities SOCIAL TV: A conversation that takes place on social networks (e.g., Twitter) related to and happening around linear television programming. 24 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
25. SOURCING & METHODOLOGY TELEVISION METHODOLOGY (Q3 2013) Television usage stats come from Nielsen’s national panel of TV homes. Traditional TV includes Live usage plus any playback viewing within the measurement period. Metrics for Using a DVD/Blu Ray Device and Using a Game Console are based on when these devices are in use for any purpose, not just for accessing media content. The data cited in the Cross-Platform Report was collected during Q3 2013. NIELSEN NETVIEW (JULY 2013) An online panel of who install software on their home and work computers to share their activity using the Internet. Panelists use this proprietary software at the aggregate level, which is then calibrated using a hybrid methodology to be representative for the entire U.S. population. There are 200k+ panelists ages 2+ in the U.S. that participate in the online panel for NetView. The data cited in this report comes from July 2013. NIELSEN VIDEOCENSUS (JULY 2013) Sharing to Nielsen’s online panel with NetView, this software is also installed on home and work computers to measure streaming video viewers in their web browser. Using a hybrid methodology, their streaming video activity is projected to be representative for the entire U.S. population. There are 200k+ panelists ages 2+ in the U.S. that participate in the online panel for VideoCensus. The data cited in this report comes from July 2013. NIELSEN MOBILE NETVIEW (JULY 2013) Nielsen’s on-device software, Mobile NetView, is installed with permission on panelist smartphones (Android and iOS handsets). Mobile app and web usage are electronically measured through this optin panel. There are ~5,000 panelists ages 18+ that participate in the U.S. panel nationally. The data cited in this report was collected in July 2013 in the U.S. 25 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
26. NIELSEN CROSS PLATFORM REPORT (Q3 2013) A quarterly report compiling measurement from across Nielsen products. Tables 2 and 3 of the report are based on users of each medium per month. Sources include: Traditional TV, Timeshifted TV, DVD, Game Consoles 07/01/13 - 09/29/13 via Nielsen NPOWER/NPM Panel, Online 07/01/13 - 09/30/13 via Nielsen Netview and Nielsen VideoCensus, Mobile 07/01/13 - 09/30/13 via Nielsen Mobile Video Report/Mobile Insights. NIELSEN U.S. SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY (2013) The Nielsen U.S. Social Media Survey 2012 is based on a representative sample of 2,020 adult (18+) social media users who were recruited from the Nielsen Online Panel to take an online survey. “Social media user” is defined as participating, talking, and networking online through various platforms to share information and resources. This includes Internet forums, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, video sharing, consumer rating and other social networking websites. The survey fielded from October 25 to November 2, 2013. NIELSEN NATIONAL PEOPLE METER PANEL (SEPTEMBER 2013) A panel of households in the U.S. who use Nielsen’s proprietary television metering hardware installed on their televisions to share their TV viewing habits at the program level. This panel of 20k+ households provides information about the TV programs they watch (at the aggregate level) and additional video sources connected to the TV. The data cited in this report was collected in September 2013. NIELSEN OVER-THE-TOP VIDEO ANALYSIS (JULY 2013) Survey-based data from the Nielsen Online Panel conducted as part of the Nielsen Over-the-Top Video Analysis. The survey was conducted in July 2013 with a sample of over 2000 consumers, including 1,000 Netflix users and 600 Hulu users. CONNECTED DEVICES REPORT (Q3 2013) The insights from Nielsen’s Mobile Connected Device Report were gathered from general population sample 13+ yrs and with 9,448 respondents who own a Tablet, e-Reader, Smartphone or Streaming Capable Device. Device owners were identified from general population sample as well as through Nielsen’s Mobile Insights syndicated tracking study. The respondents completed an online, self-administered survey at the start of September 2013. 26 Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company
27. NIELSEN SOCIALGUIDE (2013) Nielsen SocialGuide collects Tweets about TV programs across 250 U.S. TV networks in real-time. Using data from Twitter’s fire hose, SocialGuide ensures comprehensive, accurate collection through automated and dynamic classifier creation, a rich TV program metadata database, and human auditing. SocialGuide collects relevant Tweets from three hours before, during and three hours after an episode’s initial broadcast, local time. Unique Audience and Impressions of relevant Tweets are measured from when the Tweets are sent until the end of the broadcast day at 5am. NIELSEN MOBILE SHOPPING REPORT (Q3 2013) The insights from Nielsen’s Mobile Shopping Report were gathered from general population sample 18+ yrs and with 3,032 total respondents who own either a Tablet or a Smartphone and have done a mobile shopping activity in the past 30 days. A Mobile Shopper is defined as someone who has done a “mobile shopping” activity on a Smartphone or Tablet in the past 30 days. The respondents completed an online, self-administered survey in September 2013. NIELSEN CUSTOMER VALUE METRICS (Q2 2013) A bill-scraping platform that measures actual mobile charges and usage by passively collecting information from online bills. The sample consists of 30,000+ opt-in panelists and 65,000+ line-level bills each month using advanced e-bill scraping technology. The sample consists of postpaid, non-corporate liable consumers that belong to the top 4 carriers. Nielsen Customer Value Metrics data cited in this publication was collected during Q2 2013. ABOUT NIELSEN Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com. Copyright © 2014 The Nielsen Company. All rights reserved. Nielsen and the Nielsen logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of CZT/ACN Trademarks, L.L.C. Other product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. 14/7133 27 THE DIGITAL CONSUMER
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Voter-approved taxes that pay for new transit
1. Regional transit taxes
2. Car tab/Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
3. Property tax
4. Sales and use tax
Voter-approved funding sources
Motor vehicle excise taxes (car tabs), property taxes and sales taxes make up just over half of Sound Transit's total funding. The rest comes from federal grants, fares, interest earnings and miscellaneous revenue. In 1996, 2008 and 2016 voters within the Sound Transit District approved tax increases to build and operate the regional mass transit system. These taxes will help complete the voter-approved program to extend light rail to Tacoma, Everett, Redmond, Issaquah, Ballard, West Seattle and cities in between; extend Sounder commuter rail to DuPont while expanding capacity; provide bus rapid transit (BRT) service on I-405 and SR 522; and add parking and access improvements at station facilities.
Total Imposed/Levied
Car tab (MVET) 1.1% ($110 annually for each $10,000 of vehicle valuation)
Property tax $0.25 annually per $1,000 of assessed valuation ($100 annually on a $400,000 house)
Sales and use tax 1.4% ($0.14 on a $10 taxable purchase)
Rental car sales 0.8 percent ($0.80 on a $100 car rental)
When did taxes take effect and how long will they last?
With voter approval in November 2016, an additional 0.5 percent sales and use tax took effect April 1, 2017; an additional 0.8 percent MVET tax began March 1, 2017 with new and renewal vehicle registrations; and a new property tax of $0.25 per $1,000 of assessed valuation began Jan. 1, 2017.
An additional rental car increase of up to 1.372 percent ($1.37 on a $100 car rental) can be authorized by the Sound Transit Board in the future.
State law obligates the Sound Transit Board to roll back taxes to the level required for permanent operations and maintenance of the system following completion of transit capital projects unless a future ballot measure directs otherwise. Within seven years of the scheduled 2041 completion of the system authorized by voters in 2016, Sound Transit and an independent advisor, Piper Jaffray & Co., have calculated that the entire taxes authorized in 2016 could be eliminated, along with approximately 11 percent of the sales taxes authorized in 1996 and 2008. This or an alternate mix of tax reductions could cut total agency tax collections in half.
The 0.3 percent car tab tax approved by voters in 1996 will expire in 2028, reducing car tab taxes from 1.1 percent to the 0.8 percent level approved by voters in 2016.
How does Sound Transit assure that transit investments are regionally equitable?
Sound Transit's policy of subarea equity means tax dollars raised in each of the five geographic areas forming the Sound Transit District are used for the projects and services that benefit that area's residents. Subarea equity requirements are legally binding and regularly undergo independent audits. The five subareas are: Snohomish County, Seattle area, South King County, East King County and Pierce County.
Do you live in the Sound Transit district?
Sound Transit's taxing district includes the most populated areas of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. It appears on tax statements as RTA (Regional Transit Authority).
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Book review: Killing for Keeps by Mari Hannah
Killing for Keeps by Mari Hannah
When the going gets tough, the tough get going… the old saying packs a powerful punch in murder chief DCI Kate Daniels’ most disturbing case yet.
Stomach-turning torture, grisly murders and a brutal gangland war test the gutsy Tyneside cop to the limit, just as her high-pressure job is starting to take its toll.
Welcome back to Northumbria Police’s Murder Investigation Team and the dangerous world of one of crime fiction’s most exciting female detectives… a tenacious, straight-talking investigator with an appealing vulnerability and a fine line in blunt northern humour.
DCI Kate Daniels is the creation of award-winning author Mari Hannah, a former probation officer who has made authentic police procedural, action-packed plots and spine-tingling suspense her stock in trade.
This is the fifth outing for Kate who seems to have hit a low in both her work and private life so it’s bad timing when two brothers from the same criminal family die within hours of each other, only a few miles apart.
It’s a high-profile case… John and Terry Allen have both been tortured and murdered with a shocking level violence never before witnessed by Kate Daniels and her murder squad. One brother was found dumped from a van on the edge of a Newcastle industrial estate, the other abandoned on a trolley in the busy A&E department of a local hospital.
The men – gangsters with a reputation that is legendary in Northumbria – had suffered injuries so horrific that the police team is struggling to come to terms with the savagery… but there is something about the crimes that doesn’t add up for eagle-eyed Kate.
In the meantime, she must find out who wanted them dead, will they kill again and could the murders lead to a terrible gang war on her patch. Investigating the killings leads an exhausted and increasingly crotchety Kate to break some rules, putting her career as well as her life on the line.
And as the body count rises, the focus of the inquiry switches first to Glasgow and then to Alicante in Spain, leading Kate and her trusty sidekick DS Hank Gormley into a confrontation with a dangerous criminal hell-bent on revenge…
Killing for Keeps sees Hannah on blistering form in a chilling and eye-wateringly violent story as detective dynamo Kate, weighed down by her own emotional struggles, puts her job on the line to solve a dark, demanding and far-reaching case.
As always, the blustery North-East and its shadowy corners provide an atmospheric backdrop to a cleverly plotted, twisting-and-turning thriller which makes the whole gamut of police work and psychology appear breathtakingly real.
With a cast of credible characters, blood-curdling killings, some superb dialogue and a few romantic surprises along the way, Hannah serves up another terrific feast of murder and mystery.
(Macmillan, hardback, £16.99)
Dark Money - A terrific and timely piece of televison where there are only shades of grey
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SEED TIME & HARVEST PRODUCTIONS
Producing Thought Provoking and Inspirational Projects
One Day, Some Day
The Gardner Heist
Beat The Streets/UTI
Genre: 1 Hour Drama/Caper
Logline: A master thief looks for a sense of redemption from a lifetime of crime by helping enforce what he’s ran away from all of his life…the law
Synopsis: It's Oceans Eleven meets CSI. A breathtaking drama about a team of thieves led by master thief John Foley. After living a life of crime and paranoia, he is growing tired of the life he lives. He looks for a sense of redemption while a relentless FBI agent (Agent Mitchell) is stopping at nothing to put away John and his team. All the while, growing syndicates of the mob -- with their omnipresence and political influence -- threatens John’s team, the FBI, and the entire country as a whole. It initiates a war on crime in which the FBI is losing miserably.
John and his group of thieves -- desperate to stay clear of getting caught -- decide to help catch the people that the FBI wants more than them. But are there some hidden agendas on both sides? Why has this special agent of the FBI taken special interest in John’s team? Are these thieves going to continue to help the law while simultaneously being chased by the people they are helping? Why won’t they just continue to run and not get involved? With the FBI having to accept some of John and his team’s criminal tactics to take down their enemies, this builds a story of suspense, comedy, and drama, that’s all wrapped up in this entertaining story.
This is something that has never been seen before and it is a very unique, fun, dramatic procedural about criminals who are stuck in a life they don’t want, and a future that won’t accept them because of their past.
Academy Award Nominee Billy Bob Thornton has praised the teleplay. We are currently shopping the script to networks and producers.
Copyright ©2015 Seed Time & Harvest Productions. All rights reserved.
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Region North East England
Hartlepool Marina
PROJECT ENG 121
SOLD OUT GUARANTEED
INCOME Hotel rooms in BestWestern Hartlepool
UNITED KINGDOM / DARLINGTON / Hartlepool Marina
Prices from £ 51 000
Total number of units by type:: 61
Number of available units by type:: 1
Location: United Kingdom, Region North East England, Darlington, Hartlepool Marina MAP
Development: Hotel investment
Unit types: Hotel rooms
Units available for sale:1
Unit sizes: 16 sq.m – 52 sq.m FLOOR PLANS
Unit prices: £ 51 000 – 63 500 PRICE LIST
Prices per sq.m.: 0 £/sq.m
Ownership: Leasehold 250 years
Rental return (p.a.): 8% guaranteed for 5 years
Capital appreciation (p.a.): 4% per year (estimated)
Sizes of units 16 sq.m - 52 sq.m
Airport 15 km to
Distance to beach resort 800 m
Railway station 500 m
Closest town - 21 km
Rental demand in the area High
Who will rent Tourists
Unit finishing in order to rent Fully-furnished
Annual rental income 8% guaranteed for 5 years
Finishing Excellent
Bathrooms Bathtub, Fully fitted bathroom, Shower box
Flooring in rooms Wall-to-wall carpet
Air-conditioning No air-conditioning system
Communal Garden, Information, Lobby, Non-smoking rooms, Outdoor parking lot, Reception desk, Daily maid service, Internet access in the rooms, Laundry and dry cleaning, Room service, Wi-Fi internet in the whole complex
Recreational Gambling hall
Commercial Bar, Restaurant
Expected price increase of the property* 4% per year (estimated)
Hotel rooms in BestWestern Hartlepool
Overview Location Gallery Floor Plans Price list Legal information FAQ Financial analysis Contacts
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Ref. No.: ENG #121
Commercial hotel in the centre of Hartlepool near sandy beaches and Marina
BestWestern - Winner of 'International Quality Award'
Successful business with established customer base
Acclaimed Indian restaurant & busy sports bar
115% buyback at year 5
Zero ownership fees
Income from Day 1
Hands-off venture
We offer an opportunity to purchase a hotel room in an internationally acclaimed hotel chain with more than 4,000 hotels in hundred countries worldwide. The hotel is a winner of “International Quality Award” and provides to customers assurance on quality, personal level of service and hospitality.
Purchasing a hotel room as a leaseholder you will be able to generate a secure 5 year fixed return via a developer buy-back equal to 115% of the original purchase price.
Leasehold owners of the hotel rooms shall benefit from a fixed income stream equal to 8% net of their purchase price. Income will be paid monthly in arrears as a net figure, no additional costs or fees shall be placed on the leaseholders.
"The total volume of hotel investment transactions in the UK increased by 90% in 2014, reaching an 8-year high of £4.3bn, according to Property Data". Knight Frank, January 2015.
The property is located in the centre of the historical town of Hartlepool, England, about a mile from the sandy beaches, Hartlepool Marina and 500 m from Hartlepool Railway Station, from here there is an express train that can take you to London in less than 3 hours.
Hartlepool is situated on the east coast of County Durham in the North East of England. Only 13 miles (21 km) from the A1(M), the main gateway to the North East.
Nearby towns:
Durham – 18 miles (29 km), 28 minutes
Stockton-on-Tees – 13 miles (21 km), 21 minutes
Middlesbrough – 15 miles (24 km), 31 minutes
Newcastle – 32 miles (51 km), 45 minutes
Sedgefield - 14 miles (23 km), 26 minutes
A1(M) Motorway – 13 miles (21 km), 28 minutes
Hartlepool Train Station - 500 metres
Newton Aycliffe Train Station - 6.5 miles (10 km)
Durham Train Station – 11 miles (18 km)
Teeside Airport - 9.5 miles (15 km)
Durham Tees Valley Airport, 22 miles (35 km)
The port city of Hartlepool boasts numerous attractions, including stunning coastline with a marina with a range of contemporary bars and restaurants, a shopping centre and a retail park.
Within easy reach to the hotel are Tweddle Childrens, Animal farm - 2 miles (3 km), Hartlepool Golf Club – 1200 m, Seaton Carew Beach - 2 miles (3 km), Angel of the North – 15 km, Sunderland – 16 km, Lumly Castle – 9 km, Whitworth Hall Country Park – 5 km as well as Preston Park Museum and Grounds, Sedgefield Race Course, Roseberry Topping place, Heugh Gun Batter Mueseum, etc.
The hotel features 5 floors (Basement, ground floor, first floor, second floor and third floor) and fully furnished hotel rooms.
The Sports Bar offers sporting memorabilia, pool table, dart bard, 13 TVs with 3 large screens that are popular among locals who want to see sport events such as Champions League matches. So it is a lively and busy place not so typical for such hotel bars.
The Indian restaurant is adjoined to the hotel. It features another entrance to non-hotel residents. The seating capacity of the restaurant is 200 places. The overall rating of the restaurant on trip advisor is 'Excellent'.
The restaurant offers Indian cuisine with reach menu of both traditional and original new dishes. The Head Chef has over 30 years' experience in cooking truely Indian food.
Business facilities. The property features a business centre with 3 function rooms accommodating from 35 up to 200 persons.
There is a traditional building perfect for special occasions such as parties and weddings, business meetings and conferences.
A successful management team is running all of the events.
The property provides additional facilities for business guests such as wonderful coastal location with good transport links and car parking.
On legal completion of the purchase the documents to be signed are:
The Main Lease (125 years)
Sub Lease (5 years)
Pre-emption Agreement
The Main Lease is for 125 years and details the investor’s legal ownership of their unit(s) which is registered at The UK Land Registry.
The Sub Lease is for a period of 5 years and provides the investor with an 8% net return per annum on the purchase price in the form of rental income.
The Put Option provides that at the end of year 5 the investor can serve notice on the developer to buy the unit(s) back for an amount equal to the original purchase price plus a 15% capital uplift (115%).
The Call Option provides that the developer can serve notice on the investor to buy the unit(s) back from them at any time during the first 5 years for an amount equal to the original purchase price plus a 15% capital uplift (115%).
Note: The Put Option relates to the investor and the Call Option relates to the Developer.
The parties enter into a Pre-emption Agreement which means that the developer has the first option (first refusal) over any sale of the unit(s) within the development.
25% of the purchase price is payable on exchange of contracts. These monies are held as stakeholder by the seller’s solicitor to protect the deposit and will only be released on completion of the purchase of the unit(s).
Is the hotel open?
Yes, the hotel is trading and operational.
Am I buying a freehold or leasehold?
You are buying a 125 year leasehold, with the room being registered in your name at the UK Land Registry.
Is the sale handled by a solicitor?
Yes, we have an experienced nominated solicitor in place who will advise and act for you throughout your purchase.
Can I re-sell my hotel room?
Yes, you can sell at any given time.
Can I rent my hotel room out myself?
No, your room is leased back to the hotel management company who control the day to day activities.
What are the ongoing costs?
There are no ongoing costs after completion.
What are my returns?
All units receive the same level of return which is equal to 8% of the purchase price.
How do I reserve a Unit?
All units are subject to availability, if you would like to reserve a unit we require a reservation deposit of £2,500 along with a signed reservation agreement which we will forward to you.
Are there floor plans available?
The ownership model is simple yet effective. Its hands-off format enables you to enjoy regular payments directly to your bank account every month. At the end of year 5 your capital shall be repaid in full, equating to a 40% net return on investment.
5 year projection
Initial Investment £56,000
Annual Rental Income £4,480
Monthly Income £373
Total 5 Year Income £22,400
Buyback Uplift £8,400
TOTAL RETURN £30,800
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Erik Karlsson, Wife Melinda on Losing Unborn Son: 'We Know We Will Hold Him Again One Day'
In a statement, the couple thanked everyone for the love and support they have received.
By Charlotte Carroll
Erik Karlsson and his wife Melinda released a statement Wednesday after losing their son one month before his due date.
At this extremely difficult time it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel but we know one day we’ll get there. We would like to thank everyone for the love and support we have received and also for respecting our privacy and the process we need to go through now. We feel very lucky to be Axels parents. Even though he was stillborn, we know we will hold him again one day under different circumstances and the joy he gave us will be with us forever.
A post shared by Erik Karlsson (@erikkarlsson65) on Mar 21, 2018 at 10:00am PDT
The Ottawa Senators captain sat out Tuesday's game with the team releasing a statement on the news.
“The collective thoughts and prayers of the Ottawa Senators organization, the city of Ottawa and entire hockey community rest with Erik and Melinda Karlsson following the loss of their son," the statement said. “We ask that you respect the family’s wishes for privacy during the grieving process.”
The two announced they were expecting in November. People reported the baby was due in mid-April.
The most exciting news we have ever received arrived earlier this year. Can’t wait to meet you.
A post shared by Erik Karlsson (@erikkarlsson65) on Nov 23, 2017 at 7:16am PST
They then celebrated having a baby boy with a hockey-themed gender reveal party, where Erik hit a puck that turned into blue dust.
You my boy blue.!!
A post shared by Erik Karlsson (@erikkarlsson65) on Dec 18, 2017 at 6:06am PST
Many teams and former players shared their condolences on social media as well.
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DA strengthens measures against African Swine Fever
Philippine Information Agency
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, June 19 (PIA) - An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) here said they will strengthen its coordination with their partner agencies and stakeholders to ensure that Philippines is African Swine Fever (ASF) free country.
Regional Technical Director for Operations Roberto Busania said there is a need for immediate action from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Health (DOH), local government units and the private sector to conduct inspection of canned processed meat products sold in groceries and outlets region-wide.
He said goods exported to the country since last year could be possible carrier of ASF.
In the Cagayan Valley Region alone, Busania said there are a total of 453,000 hogs that might get affected once ASF threat is ignored.
Although ASF do not have a direct impact to one's health, according to Dr. Manuel Galang of the Animal Health Welfare Unit here, it has an adverse effect in the hog industry and it can damage all hog stocks in the country like what happened in China, Mongolia, Vietnam and other countries.
Hog growers are advised to be vigilant and observant on the behavior and characteristics of their hogs especially when bleeding, reddish skin, high fever followed by dullness, difficulty in breathing , vomiting, coughing, nasal and ocular discharge are evident.
Any possible occurrence of said symptoms should be reported to the nearest agriculture or veterinary office for immediate action.
Coleen Ballinan, who has more than 20 sows with around 200 piglets said hog raising is a lucrative business.
"I am afraid of the possible entry of ASF in the country but I trust the efforts of the DA to combat this," she said.
Ricky Butay, also a hog raiser said he is optimistic that the efforts of the department will ensure that the country will not be affected by the ASF, partculary the Cagayan Valley Region. (MDCT/GVB/With reports from DA-Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Information Section/PIA 2-Cagayan)
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Stewards150aday
Signs Express (Harlow), along with 10 other local companies offered to sponsor local secondary school, Stewards Academy, in their first major challenge to raise funds for two charitable causes. The school will be the first school raising money for the Mo Farah Foundation, the charity founded by double Olympic champion Mo Farah, to provide a village in Somalia with a water well and also for the Stewards Academy Foundation supporting the less fortunate within Harlow. The challenge – to run from Cardiff to Harlow in just 50 hours!
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Signs Express undertook to give the two school minibuses that would be accompanying the runners, a new look by applying vinyl graphics and logos to advertise the Stewards150aday challenge and its sponsors.
By working around the existing school logo, Signs Express came up with an eye-catching design to attract members of the public who saw the runners, to have some idea why they were running to entice them to donate via text giving helping to reach the £10,000 goal of the challenge. Similarly a banner was designed and printed for display in Harlow.
So on Saturday 22nd June 2013, 12 staff members of Stewards Academy set off from the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to run back to their school in Harlow, Essex running 300km in less than 50 hours. They ran through 10 counties running through day and night arriving back in Harlow early on Monday 24th June. The last leg of the run, from the Park Inn Hotel, Harlow to the school in Parnell Road 12 students joined their teachers to be met at Stewards Academy with a rousing VIP welcome.
'It's been great to see the enthusiasm of the staff and pupils at Stewards Academy in preparing and completing this challenge for others less fortunate than themselves. Signs Express (Harlow) are proud to be involved in this local community project helping by promoting their cause through the media of vehicle graphics that we know, through experience, is a very effective way of advertising.' Commented Lynda Heywood, co-owner of Signs Express (Harlow).
For more details, or to make a donation click here stewards150kaday.co.uk/ Alternatively contact the school directly on 01279 421951
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Let’s Talk Coworking
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As the coworking scene in Luxembourg is really revving up, we decided to talk to some of the main players in the market. What happens when you bring together four competitors running four very different spaces? Find out here!
(Featured Image: Bamhaus, a creative agency and coworking space in industrial Dommeldange / Image Credit © Anna Katina)
(C.B.) Claudine Bettendroffer Country Leader of Silversquare Luxembourg
(M.G.) Martin Guérin CEO of the Luxembourg City Incubator (LCI) and accelerator, nyuko
(G.K.) Gosia Kramer CEO & Co-founder of The Office
(C.M.) Christian Muno Co-founder & Manager of Bamhaus
Great to have you all together in one space! The industry just keeps going from strength to strength. Why do you think there is such a strong need for coworking spaces?
C.M. Working from home can be tough. You’re not in a place where you can interact, exchange ideas or be challenged. Most freelancers just need a desk or a small office – somewhere they can work independently whilst being part of a creative community and have an impact on their environment. When we started out at Bamhaus we had a videographer, an artist and an audio specialist renting workspace. From one-man shows, they all grew, they all now have employees and they’re still there! This not only proves a coworking space was needed but that the concept actually works.
G.K. Yes! Coworking spaces are bridges for emerging entrepreneurs for quick go-to-market. Being surrounded by other entrepreneurs sharing hard-won advice can make all the difference between seeing a promising idea disappear, or come to life.
C.B. It’s so important for entrepreneurs to have a place where they can exchange. And what makes that happen? The diversity of a community. In a coworking space you have freelancers and companies at varying stages, from completely different sectors, cohabiting. They work separately on their individual projects but then who knows who they might end up chatting with at the coffee machine.
M.G. A good coworking space is not about the space, it’s about the people. That’s why we say CO-working. That spirit of working together was at the essence of nyuko (which stands for “new-you-co”, where “co” means “together”). Even though the nyuko coworking space has been transferred to the Luxembourg-City Incubator, that spirit remains.
Gosia Kramer, CEO & Co-founder of The Office © Anna Katina
How has Luxembourg taken to this coworking phenomenon?
G.K. We can’t deny that the mentality is not the same here as in Berlin and London, for instance. We’re here to influence the change.
C.M. Culturally speaking too. Luxembourg is pretty conservative in comparison.
G.K. It’s just the beginning though. I think the mentality will follow.
C.B. I agree. The startup ecosystem has evolved so much now that people are striving more and more to work in dynamic, inspiring, collective environments. There’s been a definite shift towards a new “mood” of working.
M.G. It’s true, things change. Indeed, the Luxembourgish startup ecosystem has changed more in the last two years than in the 10 before that! For example, a few months ago it became possible to create a SARL-S in Luxembourg with just one euro. More and more people are willing to start their own businesses. And they need flexible workplaces to start, with the ability to sustain their potential rapid growth.
Martin Guérin, CEO of the Luxembourg-City Incubator (LCI) and accelerator, nyuko © Anna Katina
So how can we promote coworking and startup culture in Luxembourg?
C.M. Education. Growing up in Luxembourg, I always got the same advice: get a stable job, ideally as a civil servant, and then you’ll never need to worry. It’s incredible that 39% of Luxembourgish people work for the municipality or the government. I think we need to teach people that it’s okay to take risks, to start something new. You might fail…but then you might also succeed!
M.G. It’s never “you tried”, it’s “you failed”, and this mindset needs to change! We have to work harder to activate the spirit of entrepreneurship. Taking risks is okay as long as you measure the risk. And if a venture doesn’t work then you can always go get a job later. What you can gain in terms of contacts and experience makes it worth it. I always say: start small. And the best way to start is by being a freelancer in a coworking space. Some people don’t consider freelancers to be startups and I am fighting against this. You have to start small to create bigger things. Freelancers and entrepreneurs are the same – just at different stages of maturity. We shouldn’t differentiate them.
C.M. Absolutely. It’s also so important to shine a spotlight on the champions out there…We don’t celebrate success nearly as much as we should!
G.K. That’s so true. Surviving the first year is a huge milestone. We should throw a party for every company who makes it through the first year! I think coworking and entrepreneurship are trends that are getting stronger by the day. People are inspired by success stories. People want to be independent. Just look at the millennial generation: It is estimated that 75% of them will not take on permanent jobs but head straight towards freelancing instead.
C.B. It’s a matter of time. Just five years ago the ecosystem was really small. Look at London and see how many years it’s taken to build the ecosystem. There are plenty of public and private initiatives driving this in Luxembourg. What would be fantastic would be to organize events connecting all the spaces. Like a table football tournament or co-networking parties! And there’s plenty of scope to expand on the coworking concept: co-living, coworking cafés, spaces with kindergartens and gyms. We need to promote work-life balance.
C.M. Totally. For me it’s about optimizing. As an entrepreneur your private life is your professional life, so balance is key.
Claudine Bettendroffer, Country Leader of Silversquare Luxembourg © Anna Katina
With so many new spaces popping up in a small city like Luxembourg, how can keep your current coworkers, and attract new ones?
M.G. The LCI, a public institution, is a whole different ball game compared to other privately-owned coworking spaces. We are a non-profit and run for the country. We are well-connected with the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Luxembourg networks so our members get lots of direct advice and connections to help them grow. If they need, they also have access to nyuko’s incubation programs and a team of in-house experts.
C.B. At Silversquare we don’t see ourselves as a competitor but rather as a complementary addition to the ecosystem. We don’t just focus on one specific type of coworker but a real mix of companies, freelancers and startups. Most spaces in Luxembourg are full so there’s definitely a need for new ones.
G.K. Totally agree. I often get asked if I’m worried about losing business. My response: There aren’t enough spaces! I compare membership to a coworking space with joining a gym. When someone in the City opens another gym, no one bats an eyelid. People choose gyms based on various criteria: location, cost, classes and the people they’d like to meet. The same goes for coworking spaces. People are striving for feel-good, collaborative workplaces – it’s becoming a part of their lifestyle.
C.B. Yes, it makes no sense to be aggressive in sales; clients should be able to choose where they want to go.
C.M. I completely agree, but I think private structures are one thing and public structures quite another. There are a lot of entrepreneurs who want to open coworking spaces, and then a publicly funded space with huge capacity often causes an interference in the private market.
G.K. We shouldn’t forget what public-funded places can do for startups who need proper incubation and help with their business plans. I think there’s something for everyone here.
M.G. All European capitals have public and private spaces for startups. Schools, universities and even big corporates are also opening their own incubators. Some of them are even free of use, just like most hotel lounges… I don’t think public structures cause interferences. At the LCI we set our prices at market level to avoid that. And look at Technoport who has just celebrated its 20th anniversary: it obviously didn’t ruin the market; on the contrary it helped it grow.
Christian Muno (sitting, right) Co-founder & Manager of Bamhaus © Anna Katina
Is there still quite a gap between the corporate and startup worlds in Luxembourg?
G.K. Unfortunately, yes. From what I’ve seen so far, established companies are reluctant to use startup services. There seems to be some kind of stigma around using freelancers.
C.M. I think it’s because they feel more comfortable using agencies where they can have several people working solely on a project.
G.K. But lack of manpower shouldn’t be a reason to exclude startup talent.
C.B. It could also have something to do with companies sticking with what they know and reluctance to try new things.
M.G. I must say that we don’t see that gap. On the contrary, we work a lot with corporates and have noticed more and more collaboration with startups, especially those who are part of the LOIC (Luxembourg Open Innovation Club).
You can have a day pass to any coworking space in the world. Where would you go?
C.M. De Ceuvel in Amsterdam. The area used to be a heavily polluted industrial site until it became a coworking living lab dedicated to sustainable architecture. It’s so inspiring as you can see how the pollution problem was tackled by creatives who made a very local impact.
C.B. That’s a difficult question. Every space has its own character so it’s hard to decide between, let’s say, the Factory in Berlin, a small coworking café in Barcelona or the coworking incubator at the university of Copenhagen.
G.K. Hubud in Bali. I haven’t been there yet, but it looks amazing. It has featured in Forbes’ “10 Best Coworking Spaces On Earth”.
M.G. The Family in Paris, London and Berlin. It’s for coworkers who have a startup project. There’s a real sense of family spirit – coworkers have fun together, they give constructive criticism on each other’s projects. It embodies everything you would want to find in a coworking space.
This article was first published in a special report included in the 9th issue of SILICON Luxembourg magazine.
Bamhaus, Christian Muno, claudine bettendroffer, Coworking, De Ceuvel, Entrepreneur, Factory, Gosia Kramer, Hubud, LOIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg City Incubator, Luxembourg Open Innovation Club, Martin Guérin, Nyuko, Silversquare, Startup, The Family, The Office
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Books » Books » A Feast for All Seasons: Traditional Native Peoples' Cuisine »
A Feast for All Seasons: Traditional Native Peoples' Cuisine
● Andrew George Jr. (Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Dene; Dakelh (Carrier); Wet’suwet’en;)
Text Content Territories: Indigenous Canadian;
Status: In Print
Grade Levels: 11; 12; University/College;
Other Categories: Books, Culinary, Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools 8 - 12 2011-2012, Culinary
Traditional North American Native peoples' cuisine has existed for centuries, but its central tenet of respecting nature and its bounty have never been as timely as they are now. Andrew George, of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in Canada, is a well-respected aboriginal chef and instructor who has spent the last twenty-five years promoting the traditions of First Nations food. In A Feast for All Seasons, written with Robert Gairns, he has compiled aboriginal recipes that feature ingredients from the land, sea, and sky, elements of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the environment and its creatures, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power that food can have in our lives. The 120 recipes include delectable, make-at home dishes such as Salmon and Fiddlehead Stirfry, Stuffed Wild Duck, Barbecued Oysters, Pan-fried Rabbit with Wild Cranberry Glaze, Clam Fritters, and Wild Blueberry Cookies. The book also features recipes with exotic ingredients that provide a fascinating glimpse into the history of Native cuisine: Moose Chili, Boiled Porcupine, Smoked Beaver Meat, and Braised Bear. This unique cookbook pays homage to an enduring food culture?grounded in tradition and the power of nature?that transcends the test of time.
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At least one person was killed after multiple shots were fired in a neighborhood south of downtown Ashland Wednesday. Ashland Police Chief Jim Gregoire told a Daily Press reporter that an officer was involved in the shooting at that one person wa...
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At least one person was killed after multiple shots were fired in a neighborhood south of downtown Ashland Wednesday.
Ashland Police Chief Jim Gregoire told a Daily Press reporter that an officer was involved in the shooting at that one person was dead, but he said he had no other information at about 6:45 p.m. He did not say what agency the officer involved represented or who fired the fatal shots, or when additional information might be released.
Officials had gathered at about 6:15 p.m. around the shirtless body of a man lying prone on the ground behind a home at 314 Eighth St. W. A Daily Press reporter at the scene said it appeared as though the officers and a coroner were examining the body and gathering evidence as another officer took photographs. Investigators from the state Division of Criminal Investigation, which typically handles shootings involving police, were at the scene.
Two homes in the 800 block of Fourth Avenue West, just around the corner from that house, had been surrounded by police for much of the afternoon after a series of rapidly fired gunshots rang through the neighborhood at about 3 p.m.
At about 5:15 p.m., officers had advanced on a home at 812 Fourth Ave. W. behind the cover of an armored vehicle, then rushed the home behind cover of a ballistic shield and with assault rifles drawn.
They threw a flash-bang grenade - intended to stun suspects - toward the house and then began yelling over a loudspeaker for someone inside to "come out with your hands up."
At about 5:30 p.m., officers entered the house and then threw another flash-bang grenade inside.
Police tape surrounded a neighboring home at 816 Fourth Ave. W. Police Wednesday evening had not commented on what prompted the incident or who fired several shots that witnesses reported earlier in the afternoon.
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WWE Superstar announces retirement after getting fired
WWE Superstar Rhyno has announced his retirement from in-ring competition following his loss to Heath Slater in a loser gets fired match in the latest episode of WWE Raw.
Earlier in the show, WWE Raw’s acting General Manager Baron Corbin addressed both Slater and Rhyno that he is looking to cut costs and one of them have to leave the company but both of them refused to leave which led Corbin announcing a match between both the members of the tag team and announced that the winner will stay on Raw while the loser will be fired.
Slater beat his tag team partner and retained his job while Rhyno was fired and was seen leaving the building after his loss. But, it is understood that Rhyno announced his retirement in front of the live crowd in attendance at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and thanked the fans for their support over the years when WWE television went for a commercial right after the match. However, Slater, after retaining his job by defeating Rhyno, was made a referee on the show by Corbin.
If the news of Rhyno’s retirement is not a part of any future storyline, his 24-year-old wrestling career has come to an end. Over the last two decades, the legendary ECW Superstar had had memorable runs in WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA. Some of his accomplishments in the business include the ECW World Heavyweight Championship and TV Championships, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship under TNA and the WWF Hardcore Championship, WCW United States Championship and recently, the WWE SmackDown Live Tag Team Championship with Heath Slater.
Post-retirement, one can expect Rhyno to be a part of few independent promotions and concentrate on his political career in full swing as he has already shown interests in becoming a politician and had contested general elections for the Republicans in the past.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so…
VLADIMIR: “All I know is that the hours are long, under these conditions, and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which –how shall I say– which may at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit. You may say it is to prevent our reason from foundering. No doubt. But has it not long been straying in the night without end of the abyssal depths? That’s what I sometimes wonder. You follow my reasoning?”
I’ve been working on a project.
I’m collecting together all the fanzines and newsletters I can find relating to Prefab Sprout, carefully transferring them to PDF format, and the intention is to make a little repository of them here. There may even be a DIY CD Fanzine kit to create facsimiles of the ROLLMO CD-R compilations. It’s a lovely project actually, I’m enjoying myself immensely. I love the idea that these little floating tissue papers of ephemera will be ordered and preserved, a sort of folk history I guess.
Yet when doing it, I’m reading the fanzines, and there is a curious realization: most of them were written in the fairly empty period between Jordan and Andromeda Heights. And whatever enthusiasm drove them at first, eventually it’s dulled and worn down by month after month of nothing new to report beyond: “Paddy is in the studio working on his new album”… The void is filled by lists of favourite songs, interview fragments, fan art, requests for live tapes, discographies, reviews, questions and answers, song lyrics, quizzes… And all the while: “Paddy is in the studio working on his new album”.
Obviously this site is following the same pattern. I’ve got a number of things up my sleeve: recordings, snippets of information, pictures of objects of desire, so there’s plenty of content to come. There’s a full discography, illustrated, to do. I have boundless enthusiasm for doing this just at the moment, it’s a hell of a lot of fun watching traffic build up, making discoveries via the people who come here and contact me. But you’re always faced with the same problem the fanzine authors had: you don’t control the output of your favoured artist. You can no more anticipate when something new will happen than Vladimir and Estragon knew when Godot would turn up, and ultimately all you’re really doing is shuffling a portfolio of yellowing relics, and showing them off to an increasingly disinterested world, who is after all waiting to catch a glimpse of a white-bearded other, not you.
There is somewhere in this some sort of lesson in the futility of activity, but given that the madness repeats from one generation of fan to the next, there must be some sense in it somewhere. Or perhaps not: maybe it just takes time to grow away from the lunacy we start with.
But whatever: Paddy is in the studio working on his new album, and by all accounts it’s very special indeed. And in next month’s “Sproutology” a quiz with an amazing prize… Well? shall we go?
Vladimir: “Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?”
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Rozonda says:
So very very true. As a fan from 1988, I know that “waiting for Godot” feeling so well. At least now it’s more bearable, thanks to the Internet and how agile and immediate the exchange and contact with other fans has become. In the time of fanzines, being a Sprout fan, specially outside the UK, was quite solitary and frustrating. It is still frustrating when it comes to Paddy, but thanks to fans like yourself,it’s lots more fun. 🙂
I always get the impression that Paddy, as much as i love his work does things in a way that there seems to be no drive to do anything until pushed: (something i think we are all guilty of i guess) but i have this mental image of Paddy just sat at home doing nothing creative, it’s a shame, he’s one of the best songwriters this country has ever produced and he just dosent seem to do that much, maybe less is more? maybe even if he didnt have the health problems he wouldn’t want to be doing Rewind festivals? Keep doing whatever you can for as long as you can do it, i love seeing the rarities in the postbag and the love and care you bring to this site is something to be admired.
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Sylvan Lake student crowned Miss Teenage Central Alberta
14-year-old Hope Cummins raised the most money for charity in her group leading up to the pageant
Kaylyn Whibbs
Hope Cummins (right) after being crowned Miss Teenage Central Alberta in Calgary Feb. 24. The pageant promoted charity work and public speaking. Photo Submitted.
This year’s Miss Teenage Central Alberta crown belongs to an Ecole H.J. Cody High School student.
Hope Cummins, 14, earned the title on Feb. 24 in Calgary after a six month process.
“It was just a really big rush of excitement… I just felt so happy,” said Cummins. “It was just really exciting because you feel like you earned that title.”
Cummins, who had never done a pageant before, said she signed up for the pageant in September 2018 and had her interview a month later.
After the interviews 30 girls from across Alberta were selected to participate in the pageant in Calgary.
At the pageant the top eight girls are selected to be finalists, with the top four getting a title.
She said her time on stage was “like a blur in five minutes.”
“It was nice, it was like a rushy nervous excitement,” Cummins said.
Leading up to the pageant in February, the contestants were asked to do charity work.
Cummins says she signed up for the pageant because it promoted charity work and giving back to the community, which she loves.
“I just kind of signed up for that and the pageant and the beauty stuff is always great,” said the model and actress.
She placed first in her grouping for most money raised for Free the Children and Cardiac Kids, the foundations chosen by the pageant.
Cummins raised the money mainly through bottle drives.
“I just went from door to door, business to business… and I just started fundraising for the charities,” added Cummins, who added she also placed first in the online voting portion.
The Grade 9 student also loves public speaking, another aspect of the pageant.
Cummins’ platform was responsible use of social media, anti-bullying, supporting other women and making them feel confident about themselves.
She says the experience boosted her confidence and gave her the opportunity to make new friends.
“They were just all positive and they were just so nice and then when I got back to school I saw stuff differently,” explained Cummins.
She said she has been the victim of bullying herself and this experience made her realize people are either “really nice or really mean.”
“I just wanted to stay on the nice side of things because I always try to be positive and lift others up,” said Cummins of how she carries herself.
Before entering the pageant, Cummins created an all female anti-bullying group at school called Working in Numbers (WIN).
With her crown she has been dong appearances and most recently helped the Girl Guides with a fashion show.
“I try to make them feel confident about themselves, I want to make sure [they know] that they are special and wanted,” explained Cummins of her message during these appearances.
She added she also promoted supporting other girls and not bringing each other down.
“I just like to make appearances and make people happy and feel good about themselves,” Cummins said.
Cummins is also a musician.
“I’m in love with music. I play piano, guitar and the drum kit,” said Cummins, adding she is a percussionist in her school band.
Miss Teenage Central Alberta 2019 is looking forward to representing her title at appearances throughout the year, but says she doesn’t see another pageant in her near future despite the great experience.
“I think I would wait until I’m 18 as an adult and just a bit more experienced, to get my braces off, just be like a better public speaker, but I’d definitely do it again,” said Cummins.
She says if anyone else in the community is interested in participating in the pageant next year she would be more than happy to guide them through the experience.
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Hatfield Man Charged With Murder of 4-year-old Toddler. Brother hospitalized after being strangled.
By MIKE BANNAN
Credits: Courtesy of Montco DA
Norristown, PA — Montgomery County Dist. Atty. Kevin R. Steel announced today that a Hatfield man, Marquis Thomas which charged with first-degree murder in the 2016 death of four-year-old, Kailee Bunrout. Thomas lived with the child, along with her mother and two other children.
Marquis Thomas, age 32 of Needham Circle in Hatfield was charged with first-degree murder and related charges in the death of Kailee Bunrout. Thomas was also arrested and charged on March 9, 2019, with multiple counts of aggravated assault, strangulation and endangering the welfare of a child and other charges relating to injuries sustained by the eight-year-old brother of Kailee who is identified as "D.B."
Thomas is being held in the Chester County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, PA, since the March 9 arrest as the defendant could not make bail. With the new murder charges, Thomas will not be eligible for bail and will stay in custody until the completion of both cases against him.
On October 18, 2016 police and EMS were dispatched to the report of an unresponsive four-year-old child at the Forge Gate Apartments in Towamencin Township. On arrival the police found Thomas performing CPR on Kailee Bunrout. The child was transported to the Abington Health Lansdale Hospital at 8:33 that morning and was pronounced dead. An autopsy was performed on the little girl the very next day, and the cause and manner of death for Kailee Bunrout was listed as undetermined.
Kailee's eight-year-old brother DB was admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on September 15, 2018, for bruising and hemorrhaging of the boy's eye socket area and eyelid specifically.
"An extensive medical evaluation determined the boy had suffered injuries consistent with non-accidental trauma, or physical child abuse," stated DA Steele. The CHOP records also indicated that two years prior, in September 2016. Kailee was treated for injuries similar to her brother 2018 injuries.
"When the boy was taken to CHOP by his mother with similar injuries as Kailee's, it raised a red flag with medical personnel and with detectives, leading to the reopening of the investigation," Said Steel. In these cases, when kids are abused by someone they know and trust. It is very difficult for them to disclose that someone they love has hurt them.
"Thankfully, the boy bravely shared that information and Marquise Thomas is now being held accountable for the death of four-year-old Kailee Bunrout and the physical abuse endured by her brother, " said the DA.
The Montgomery County Detective Bureau working with the Hatfield Police Department and the Towamencin Police Department recommended a joint investigation into the two physical abuse cases, in February 2019 the chief medical examiner for Philadelphia. Dr. Samuel P. Gulino, who is a forensic pathologist, received case files related to Kailee and her brother DB.
On February 9, 2019, D.B. during a forensic interview at Mission kids disclosed that Thomas had choked him on multiple occasions and he explained that Thomas placed his arm around his neck and made him lay with his face in the couch.
Dr. Gulino completed his review of Kailee Bunrout death on June 19, 2019, when he ruled that homicide by blunt impact trauma and strangulation was the manner of death.
Thomas was arraigned on charges of first-degree murder and related charges in the death of Kailee Bunrout before Magisterial District Judge Edward Levine. There is no bail available for the first-degree murder of luminary hearing is next scheduled for July 8 before Judge Levine.
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Study for ‘Returning to the Trenches’
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson 1889–1946
Charcoal and crayon on paper
Support: 146 x 206 mm
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Nevinson served in the Royal Army Medical Corp during the first world war. This is a sketch for a painting exhibited in London in 1915. Nevinson argued that Futurist Art was the only way to express the ‘brutality of the emotions seen and felt on the present battlefields of Europe’.
The Daily News said the painting showed that ‘victory will be the new theme’ of the war. It was shown again in London in September 1916, a few months after the first performance of Hubert Parry’s now famous setting of Blake’s Jerusalem. This originally spoke of a different kind of victory.
Gallery label, December 2004
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T00249 STUDY FOR RETURNING TO THE TRENCHES 1914–15
Not inscribed.
Charcoal and crayon, 5 3/4×8 1/8 (14·5×20·5).
Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1959.
Coll: Mrs Kathleen Nevinson; the Leicester Galleries.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, September–October 1916 (35).
Lit: Mervyn Levy, ‘C.R.W. Nevinson, Undertones of Peace’ in Studio, CLXII, 1961, p.51, repr. p.50.
Drawn on the back of part of a larger sketch for the same painting, ‘Returning to the Trenches’, which was exhibited with the London Group, March 1915 (89) and is now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (repr. Konody, 1917, pl.59). The painting had already been reproduced in the Daily Express for 25 February 1915 with a report of an interview with Nevinson: ‘I have tried to express the emotion produced by the apparent ugliness and dullness of modern warfare. Our Futurist technique is the only possible medium to express the crudeness, violence, and brutality of the emotions seen and felt on the present battlefields of Europe.... Modern art needs not beauty, or restraint, but vitality.’
There is another drawing of this composition in the V. & A. (8×9 1/2 in.) and a woodcut was reproduced in Blast, 11, July 1915, p.89. A finished gouache (5 1/2×8 in.) is in the Imperial War Museum.
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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TVT 2017
Lagging Behind: Guidelines Can’t Keep Up With Growing TAVR Evidence Base
Should the ACC/AHA adopt “rapid recommendations” to keep up with the accumulating evidence? One expert says it’s worth considering.
CHICAGO, IL—In a session devoted to the constantly evolving field of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for the treatment of aortic stenosis—a field that saw the first “proof-of-concept” procedure performed 15 years ago—experts in charge of drafting clinical guidelines are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly shifting evidence base.
Speaking at TVT 2017, Robert Bonow, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL), was asked whether guidelines, even the most recent focused update, lag behind the clinical trial data, not to mention what is currently happening in clinical practice.
“The answer to the question is very simple,” said Bonow, a member of the 2014 and 2017 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. “No, we’re not keeping up with clinical practice.”
Bonow stressed, though, that “guidelines are just guidelines, not handcuffs,” advising that the heart team should still use their clinical judgement when determining who might be a good candidate for TAVR.
Speaking during the session, Martin Leon, MD (NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY), said TAVR leaders have been committed to accumulating solid data supporting the therapy’s use since the beginning. In the last 10 years, there have been more than 15,000 US patients randomized in eight clinical trials with multiple TAVR systems. Worldwide, there are now 24 randomized clinical trials with nearly 25 different companies either manufacturing or developing TAVR systems.
“This is really an evidence-based avalanche,” said Leon.
What the Guidelines Currently Say
In patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at prohibitive surgical risk, TAVR is an uncontested class I indication.
This is really an evidence-based avalanche. Martin Leon
All the way back in 2014, though, the AHA/ACC guideline writing committee established TAVR as a class IIa indication for patients at high surgical risk and left surgical aortic valve replacement as a class I indication. In the intermediate-risk patients, surgical valve replacement, not TAVR, was recommended. “In 2014, we had one clinical trial, the PARTNER 1 trial,” said Bonow. “And since then, of course, there’ve been enormous advances, all rapidly occurring, in very good randomized trials and huge registries.”
Even in 2014, there were some rumblings that TAVR for patients at high surgical risk should have been a class I indication. And in fact, many physicians were already convinced that the procedure would also benefit intermediate-risk patients and wanted to see the guidelines reflect that. Even the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indications all appeared to move faster than the AHA/ACC guidelines. Last summer, Sapien XT and Sapien 3 (Edwards Lifesciences) were approved for intermediate-risk patients.
In March 2017, the AHA/ACC updated their guidelines, making TAVR a class I indication for patients at high surgical risk, but gave intermediate-risk patients a class IIa recommendation based on results from the PARTNER 2A trial.
“Within a week of us publishing those guidelines, based upon one clinical trial, SURTAVI comes out,” said Bonow. “Now we have two clinical trials. So how do we begin to move more rapidly within this space? Should we be saying that with SURTAVI we now have two randomized clinical trials and transform that class IIa indication to a class I? Probably.”
Even among low-risk patients, clinical trials are ongoing. In 2016, the FDA gave the greenlight to two studies comparing TAVR with aortic valve replacement surgery in low-risk patients: the Edward Lifesciences’ PARTNER 3 trial with Sapien 3 and Medtronic’s study with CoreValve Evolut R. In addition, the UK-TAVI registry is including low-risk patients and NOTION-2, a Scandinavian study assessing the safety and efficacy of TAVR in low-risk patients, is also ongoing.
Leon noted the EARLY TAVR trial, a study randomizing asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis and a normal stress test to TAVR or ongoing clinical surveillance, is also planned (although it is not yet enrolling patients).
Moving to Rapid Responses?
During his presentation, Bonow noted that the BMJ issues “rapid recommendations,” a new initiative that shortens the time it takes to revise guidelines so that important trial results can be incorporated quickly into clinical practice. As reported by TCTMD when they were published in 2016, the BMJ recommendations provide timely guidance for interventional physicians on how to manage intermediate- and low-risk patients.
How do we begin to move more rapidly within this space? Robert Bonow
For Bonow, the guidelines need to adapt faster to the available evidence, and he suggested the writing committee may want to consider issuing rapid updates not unlike the BMJ’s when newly available clinical trial data are available.
Leon, speaking to the future of TAVR, commented that there is a need to “continue the momentum and take this to another level.” To do so, guidelines need to do a better job keeping pace with an exploding field, where many populations remain underserved. Data from the TVT Registry showed that 94.0% of treated patients are Caucasian and just 3.8% are African-American and 1.1% are Asian. Leon added the global growth of TAVR is expected to increase by a factor of four, with approximately 290,000 cases predicted to be done in 2025.
Presentations at: TVT 2017. June 16, 2017. Chicago, IL.
Bonow reports no conflicts of interest.
Leon reports grant/research support from Abbott, Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic; consulting fees from Abbott and Boston Scientific, and shareholder/equity in Claret, GDS, Mitralign, and Valve Medical.
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Fatal Frame and the confusing fun of fear
By Emma Boyle 2017-10-20T13:00:45.292Z Gaming
When a game makes you cry you probably shouldn’t keep playing
Since we’re coming up to Halloween – and the next installment of this column will land in November by which time I’ll be aggressively wrapping tinsel around anything that stands still long enough – I thought it might be a good time to reminisce over a horror game.
Now, horror games aren’t really my thing. Neither are horror movies. I know I’m missing out on some really great things by eschewing large chunks of a highly influential genre but I just really don’t like being scared.
It’s pathetic but not all that unreasonable. And given that my capacity for discomfort would make the princess from The Princess and the Pea look positively Spartan it’s not all that surprising, either.
There is one horror game, though, that has stuck in my mind for around 16 years, for good and bad, and that’s Project Zero (or Fatal Frame if you're going to be all North American about it).
The only reason I ever played Project Zero in the first place is because it came with my PlayStation 2 console on a demo disc and I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into.
Trust me, if I’d known what Project Zero actually was I probably wouldn’t ever have played it in the first place. However, even though it scared me witless, I’m really glad I played it.
That’s because Project Zero is a genuinely great horror game and even though I don’t appreciate actually being scared, I can’t help but appreciate the effort that’s gone into scaring me.
When I first played it in 2001, Project Zero was visually outstanding and a great example of what the PlayStation 2 was graphically capable of. It was also completely new to me as a gaming experience.
Project Zero is a game that manages to make you feel simultaneously isolated and always watched. You play Miku, a young woman who is able to see supernatural events. As Miku, you enter an abandoned mansion to try and find your missing brother. What you uncover is that the mansion has a dark history and is haunted by hostile spirits. It's a typical Japanese horror story.
Atmospheric achievement
Your only defense against the hostile spirits is a device known as the Camera Obscura. By taking pictures of the ghosts you damage their health. Fail to deal with them quickly and you’ll find your own health drained.
Project Zero manages to do a lot with very little thanks to its fantastically crafted atmosphere and a clear understanding that something doesn’t have to be gory or explicit to be frightening. More often than not, giving the player’s imagination room to wander will result in a more impactful scare than overloading their senses.
The mansion you explore is suitably creepy and dilapidated. Even when there are no enemies present in a room you feel on edge because they could appear through a wall at any moment, arms murderously outstretched. It’s an incredibly stressful experience but it’s exhilarating and addictive.
In addition to using isolation and quiet to turn your own head against you, a big part of the reason Project Zero manages to be so frightening is that it makes excellent use of perspective change. While you’re exploring the mansion, the game is in the third person. When you use the Camera Obscura, however, your view switches quickly to first person.
This is simple but it really effectively forces immersion by pulling you closer despite the fact that you’ve probably been trying to edge as far from your television as possible.
Its effectiveness is, I think, really apparent when you compare it to a game like Alan Wake. Though I loved Alan Wake's flashlight mechanic, the game’s distant and unchanging third person perspective meant I didn’t have quite the same sense of helplessness as I did with Project Zero.
Fear quit
On my very first playthrough of Project Zero I was home alone and it was the middle of the afternoon but it managed to make me cry. I don’t think I even got 10 minutes into the demo before shutting my console off and running out of the room. I vividly remember being unable to sleep that night because I was absolutely sure I could hear ghosts coming to get me.
I was a kid that had nightmares about the 10000 volt ghost from Scooby Doo, okay? It’s frankly incredible that I voluntarily used a camera after playing this game.
Yet I was enthralled. I wanted to go further into the house and find out the story behind the camera and the ancient ritual. I wanted to be brave and face more ghosts. I try not to dwell on what it says about me that I returned so relentlessly to a game that made me cry.
Unfortunately, Project Zero’s visuals and sound haven’t aged particularly well (the voice acting was, sadly, never any good in the first place).
It’s not that the game looks bad now but it looks nowhere near as realistic as it did in my memory and I'm now sure I can hear someone playing a guiro every time a floorboard creaks.
Despite this, Project Zero is still one of the most tense and frightening games I’ve ever played and that’s because it’s a technical and atmospheric achievement. Part of me would really love to see the game and its camera mechanic cleverly utilized on the Nintendo Switch but it could also be a great match for the rapidly advancing AR technology.
Emma Boyle is taking a look back at games gone by (some of them older than she is.) Follow her time traveling adventures in her bi-weekly Retro Respawn column. Got any games you'd especially like to see her revisit? Let her know on Twitter @emmbo_
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The airborne fungus has hit grape yields and winemakers say they need emergency funding to take action
Esca was detected in mid-August on sauvignon vines in the Loire Valley Photo: Alamy
By David Chazan in Paris
7:04PM BST 22 Oct 2014
French winemakers have demanded emergency funding to deal with an "incurable" grape disease which they fear could become as devastating as a 19th-century plague that almost destroyed the nation's vineyards.
The fungal disease, esca, has infected 13 per cent of France's vines this year, costing the industry more than €1 billion (£790 million).
It is transmitted by airborne fungi and the only known treatment, sodium arsenite, is banned because it is carcinogenic.
Once it is detected, vines have to be ripped up and burned. It stunts their growth and can cause them to wither and die rapidly.
Vineyard owners, many of whom were already struggling to make ends meet, are facing catastrophic extra costs because their yields have fallen drastically and they have been forced to plant new vines.
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The resurgence of the disease, which dates from Roman times, was detected in mid-August on sauvignon vines in the Loire Valley. It has now spread elsewhere in France and has also been found in other European winemaking countries and California.
French wine industry leaders are urging the European Union and national governments to declare the fight against esca an international emergency and provide funding to step up research to find a cure or a preventive treatment.
"We're worried that it could spread like wildfire," said Guy Vasseur, head of the Permanent Assembly of France's Chambers of Agriculture.
Mr Vasseur called for action before the deadly fungus "becomes like phylloxera" – a tiny pest that ravaged vineyards across Europe and all but wiped out the French wine industry in what was known as the Great Wine Blight in the late 19th century.
"We've tried a lot of things but nothing has worked so far," he said.
"We haven't got a solution and all we can to is remove vines and plant new ones."
Some winemakers are so desperate that they have started playing music to their vines in the hope that it will make them resistant to the fungi that spread esca.
Scientists have suggested that "protein melodies", or "proteodies", may encourage growth and inhibit fungi. The idea is that as protein molecules form, they create a sound, and if that sound is replicated, plants will respond.
However, the practice has drawn comparisons with the folk remedies tried against phylloxera without success.
After pesticides and chemicals proved ineffective, growers resorted to burying toads under their vines to draw out the "poison". Some let their poultry roam free in the hope that they would eat the insects.
The epidemic was only curbed by grafting-on aphid-resistant American vines in a process known as "reconstitution" that had to be painstakingly applied to the majority of France's vineyards.
Mr Vasseur acknowledged that the EU was already funding some research and local authorities in France have been helping winegrowers finance replanting, but he said more needed to be done.
"We've got to work out how how to deal with this. It's potentially more serious than people seem to realise," he said.
But he added that French producers were determined not to pass on the costs to consumers to prevent wine-drinkers turning to Australian or South African wines instead.
"The 2014 sauvignon wines like Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé are very good and we will keep up supplies," Mr Vasseur said.
Michel Badier, the head of wine at the Loir-et-Cher chamber of agriculture, believes the disease will be contained and will probably not affect more than 15 per cent of vines. "But even that is relatively enormous," he said.
The French wine and spirits industry is worth more than €13 billion (£10.2 billion) a year.
Lifting the ban on sodium arsenite has been ruled out on health grounds. "The problem is that because sodium arsenite worked, there was no research for years on an alternative," Mr Badier said.
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The Case Against Tipping
John Hendel
Watch out, servers of New York—Foster Kamer will not tip you. Or if he does, he won't be happy. Tipping has become so commonplace as to lose meaning, the Village Voice writer argues in a new feature for the recently launched Gourmet Live application, a custom done more to avoid social shame than to show real appreciation for a server's work. He traces the history of tipping, the problems that tipping brings for both workers and consumers, and what we might do as a society to end our addiction to handing out extra dollars for show:
To understand how tipping got here, a little bit of history might be on the menu. The etymology of tipping is just as widely misunderstood as the practice itself. It's commonly accepted that the origin of "tipping" or "tip" comes from the British (who eschew tipping more than we do) in the early 19th century, who used to hang signs in pubs with the word "TIP" as an acronym of "To Insure Promptitude," when in fact, it actually first appeared as a verb in George Farquhar's 1707 The Beaux' Stratagem after being used in criminal circles as a word meant to imply the unnecessary and gratuitous gifting of something somewhat taboo, like a joke, or a sure bet, or illicit money exchanges. That feeling of being robbed by having to tip for bad service? Now you know: the word tipping came from criminals. ...
So, now that you know that tipping is racist, enforces anything but fairness and a meritocracy, preys on your guiltiest impulses, started as a criminal practice, continues as a criminal practice, and exploits people on every side of it, what's to be done? Can anything be done?
Surely it can. The majority of industrialized nations make a service charge obligatory in restaurants, with an option to tip after it. That'd be a start.
Read the full story at the new Gourmet Live.
John Hendel is a writer based in Washington, DC, and a former producer at The Atlantic.
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Betty Loren-Maltese apologized in court Monday for allowing corruption to occur while on her watch as the former town president of the Chicago suburb of Cicero. But a federal judge determined her apology did not go far enough and resentenced her on a racketeering conviction to eight years in prison, the same jail term he doled out three years ago.
Loren-Maltese, 56, and five co-defendants were convicted of racketeering in 2002 for using a bogus insurance company to bilk taxpayers out of more than $10 million from 1992 to 1996.
A federal appeals court in September ruled that Loren-Maltese and her co-defendants should be resentenced because U.S. District Judge John F. Grady, who presided over the three-month trial, made an error in imposing the original sentences.
The appeals court opinion said that after Grady determined the amount of money Loren-Maltese and the others swindled from Cicero taxpayers to be $10.6 million, the judge wrongly rounded down the number to less than $10 million.
Prosecutors have spent years investigating the small, blue-collar suburb just outside the Chicago city limits that has been known as a haven for corruption since the 1920s, when Al Capone made it the hub of his bootlegging empire.
Among the others convicted with Loren-Maltese were alleged Cicero mob boss Michael Spano Sr. and Emil Schullo, one-time head of the Cicero police department. Schullo was scheduled to be resentenced today.
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Loren-Maltese Conviction Will Not be Thrown Out by Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of the racketeering conviction of former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese, who is already scheduled to be resentenced later this month. Loren-Maltese is serving an eight-year prison term after she and her co-defendants were convicted of using a bogus insurance company to bilk Cicero taxpayers out of more than $10 million from 1992 to 1996. The high court, without comment, refused to consider Loren-Maltese's appeal of her 2002 conviction.
Amy Adelson, an attorney for Loren-Maltese, said she thought the Supreme Court would have taken the case to resolve differences in how lower courts have interpreted the "honest services" statute under which Loren-Maltese was convicted. "Obviously the Supreme Court takes very few of the cases presented to it," Adelson said. "We're not surprised, but we are disappointed."
Loren-Maltese is scheduled to be resentenced Jan. 23. A federal appeals court ruled in September that a federal judge made an error during the sentencing phase.
Randy Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, said the office would have no comment on the Supreme Court's decision. Prosecutors have spent years investigating the small, blue-collar suburb just outside the Chicago city limits that has been known as a haven for corruption since the 1920s, when Al Capone made it the hub of his bootlegging empire.
Among the others convicted with Loren-Maltese were alleged Cicero mob boss Michael Spano Sr. and Emil Schullo, one-time head of the Cicero police department. Last September, an appeals court ruled that Loren-Maltese and five others convicted in 2002 of corruption should be resentenced.
A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that U.S. District Judge John F. Grady, who presided over the three-month trial, made an error in imposing the sentences. The opinion said that after Grady calculated the amount of the loss at $10.6 million he wrongly rounded the number down to below $10 million.
Under federal sentencing guidelines, the greater the loss, the harsher the sentence. Grady's decision cut 10 months or more off the sentences. Grady said he rounded the number down by $600,001 because it was merely an estimate and could be unreliable. But the appeals court said unless Grady thought the estimate biased, he had no basis for rounding down or rounding up.
At the Jan. 23 resentencing, Adelson said defense attorneys will be asking for a reduction in Loren-Maltese's sentence. In court papers, they have argued Loren-Maltese should be reunited with her young daughter - currently being cared for by Loren-Maltese's elderly mother - and say that after nearly three years in prison, she's a changed woman.
Adelson said defense attorneys will also argue that the sentence involved an upward departure from guidelines, resulting in a "quite severe" sentence. Federal prosecutors, however, want to extend Loren-Maltese's sentence by three years to more than 11 years. In court papers, they noted Grady said at the original sentencing he considered putting Loren-Maltese away for longer.
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Most Famous Dinosaur Fossil Locations in China
Dinosaur is a kind of reptile which lived on earth between about 235million years to 65million years ago. It had ruled the planet for over 160million years. All dinosaurs extinct, but the dinosaur offspring - birds survival, and grew so far. Since the fossils of dinosaurs were excavated, we begin to know more and more about this extinct species. And study the fossils are the only direct way to reveal the mysterious veil of dinosaurs. Here we list five most famous dinosaur localities in china, if you are a dinosaur fans or you want to know more about dinosaur, these locations are must see attractions that you should not miss.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China and Mongolia are important localities of dinosaur fossils between the early to the late Cretaceous period. Some archaeologists believe that there may be the largest dinosaur kingdom in the Cretaceous period. In China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the dinosaur fossil excavations make a great achievement. And Inner Mongolia is considered as the largest “Dinosaur Town” in China. The species of dinosaur’s fossils are mainly Ceratopsian and Ankylosaurus. The remarkable thing is that there have dinosaur’s fossils from infant dinosaurs to adult dinosaurs.
Lufeng, Yunnan Province
Lufeng County is located in the middle part of Yunnan Province, 58km away from Kunming City, the Capital of Yunnan. It was well-known for dinosaurs’ fossils in 1930s. To date, since the first piece of dinosaur’s fossil was unearthed in 1938, there are more than 110 dinosaurs’ fossils in twenty-four families and thirty-four species has been excavated. Lufeng owns the largest numbered dinosaurs’ fossils in the most integral bodies with the richest in species. Therefore, it is reputed as the hometown of dinosaurs.
Lying in the basin of the Yunnan Central Plateau, the altitude of the county is 1,600m and the weather here is subtropical plateau monsoon climate. Since 1995, in which year a famer found the dinosaur fossil, the following excavation discovered fossils of tortoises and dinosaurs and then large scale’s aquatic animals’ fossils were unearthed. And strangely found that the heads of the 4 dinosaurs were all facing toward east, which is the unprecedented discovery in the history of dinosaur excavating.
The dinosaurs fossils discovered in Lufeng fill the gap about dinosaur fossils in the mid Jurassic Period in China. Lufeng is the only locality that found dinosaurs fossils belong to 2 geological ages at the same fault.
Zigong, Sichuan Province
Zigong County is located at the south part of Sichuan Province. Sichuan Basin is an important locality of dinosaurs’ fossils in the Jurassic period of Mesozoic era, between 195million to 137 million years ago. Zigong in Sichuan Province is a hometown of dinosaurs. The stores of dinosaur fossils in Zigong features by large quantity, various classifications, concentrated storage and well preservation, which are rarely seen in other place of the world. With a excavated and cleaned area of less tan 3000 square meters, Zigong has unearthed so many fossils which reached hundreds of tons. Therefore, Zigong gets the reputation as "the cemetery of dinosaurs" and "former residence of dinosaurs".
There own integral skeletons of nearly all the known species of dinosaurs, particularly numbers of well preserved dinosaurian skull fossils. Around the world, only 1/5 fossils of dinosaurs excavated the fossils excavated are derived from the late Jurassic period, and the early and middle satges of the Jurassic period is in the absence. But in Zigong, the dinosaurs fossils explored are mainly of in proof-absent stages which can fill up the weak link in dinosaurs’ studies.
In 1986, Zigong Dinosaur Museum which enjoys equal fame with USA Jurassic period and Canada Dinosaur Park got the reputation of” Top 3 biggest dinosaur museums" in the world.
Nanyang, Henan Province
Nanyang City is located at the southwest part of Henan Province. In 1920s, local peasants found some strange stones and called them "stone gallbladder", "stone eggs", "stone pills" or "stone balls". Nanyang is one of the earliest areas in which dinosaur egg fossils were found in China. The dinosaur eggs in Nanyang distribute in large area and are concentrating in buried storage. Up to now, thousand of fossilized eggs’ pieces have been unearthed in Nanyang, and the whole reserve reaches about tens of thousands. It is really a great quantity all over the world. The fossils’ sizes aver various. Some are as small as hen eggs and some are large as rice bowls. The shapes of these eggs are mainly oblate and some of them in rugby shape. The dinosaur eggs fossils are preserved perfectly. Most egg fossils were preserved integrally as original.
The discovery of abundant oryctocoenoses of dinosaur eggs in Nanyang is reputed as the "ninth wonder in the world" and "of epoch-making significance".
Western Liaoning District
Western Liaoning district unearthed abundant perfectly preserved fossils of plants, invertebrate and vertebrate living in the early stage of the Cretaceous period, reputed as the “The park of the Cretaceous period”. Among these fossils, the discovery of the fossils of Sinosauropteryx, Beipiaosaurus, caudipteryx, archaeopteryx and some other species’ dinosaur made the district a hot spot for dinosaur excavation and research.
Paleontologists had believed that the Archaeopteryx is the prototypical "intermediate form" between dinosaurs and birds for most of the 20th Century. In 1996, at a quarry in Liaoning Chinese researchers excavated the exquisitely preserved fossil of a small theropod, which later been named Sinosauropteryx. And Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur which has had primitive feathers. Since then, Liaoning unearthed abundant fossils of "dino-birds” in dozens of genera.
Western Liaoning District seems to be a peaceful lake in the early stage of Cretaceous times so that it could support a complex ecosystem of dinosaurs, birds, fish and mammal. Many of the fossils found in Liaoning appear that these creatures were buried by sudden, deadly rains of volcanic ash.
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Located in Barangay Silang in Calatagan, Batangas, Puesto Del Sol is about three hours away from Metro Manila via the Tagaytay Service Route. For commuting guests, the hotel is accessible via regular public transport routes be it provincial buses or ... Located in Barangay Silang in Calatagan, Batangas, Puesto Del Sol is about three hours away from Metro Manila via the Tagaytay Service Route. For commuting guests, the hotel is accessible via regular public transport routes be it provincial buses or private transfers, while those coming in via private cars are given free parking spaces onsite.
A fine resort in Calatagan
Calatagan is a peninsula that is home to many beaches, which are just a stone's throw away from Puesto Del Sol. Additionally, the Cape Santiago Lighthouse stands nearby, which has a breathtaking view at the top. Visit the Museo Enrique Zobel and immerse yourself in local culture or indulge in other water sporting activities such as kayaking and snorkeling.
Tropical hideout
There is nothing like going away for a weekend to get away from the busy work life and the hustle and bustle of the big and crowded city. For those who are looking for a pristine private beach or resort, Batangas is full to the brim with fantastic choices, with Puesto Del Sol being one of the highlights located in Calatagan.
Puesto Del Sol has three private casas and small villas called casitas. Nestled on top of a seaside hill, this private resort uses a chic tropical aesthetic that emphasizes a stunning view of the West Philippine Sea. Because of its marvelous view, the resort is ideal for couples who are looking a romantic tropical getaway that is not so far from Manila. Puesto Del Sol is surrounded by lush greenery and lots of tall palm trees which bring out the paradise ambiance that the resort is aiming for. It is also great for families who want to have a memorable bonding experience amidst a scenic serene envir¬¬¬onment. All three of the villas at Puesto Del Sol feature a mix of “modern meets rustic design elements” that elevate the already tropical and laidback ambiance of the resort. The villas are stylish and up to date, making every stay memorable and highly recommended for all types of tourists.
Private resort getaway
There are three private casas that are perfect for vacations and each can hold a multitude of people. Casa Cecilia is the smallest of the three and is good for two to four people. A stay is already inclusive of breakfast, and the accommodation is close to the pool and features top notch amenities. It is perfect for couples and lovers as the bathroom and most of the casa is filled with scented candles and polished with stone finish for a spa-like ambiance.
Casa Isabel is the mid-sized casa, which can house from four to six stayers. It is also near the swimming pool and boasts its own private dining area. It also has a lanai where guests can relax and enjoy the stunning view of the West Philippine Sea as well as bask in the comforting hilltop breeze of Calatagan. For a more affordable option, a small group can opt for the casitas. These are air-conditioned deluxe villas that offer a much more basic accommodation compared to the casas, but still remain comfortable and modern. They are made of bamboo and present a unique and distinctive native feel. You can also enjoy a remarkable view as the casitas overlook the serenity pool.
The biggest of the three casas is Casa Cristina which is good for a maximum of 20 people. This accommodation is ideal for big barkadas, family reunions, and company outings. It is also provided with the much-needed amenities for a comfortable stay.
Each villa at Puesto Del Sol is fully air conditioned and comes equipped with a TV. The suite’s toilet and bathroom has a shower complete with hot and cold water. Basic bath essentials such as towels and toiletries are also provided for in each room. Additionally, WiFi internet is also accessible from within the resort's villas. All booked rooms come with breakfast, and there is basic corkage fee of PHP 250.00 per person if guests wish to bring in food and drinks from the outside.
Great amenities and great escape
Puesto Del Sol has practical facilities, amenities, and services that will make your stay comfortable and convenient. The resort features a swimming pool, a Jacuzzi, a garden, and other recreational facilities perfect for a fun and enjoyable vacation. The Viewing Deck provides a stunning view of the sea, which is perfect for taking photographs of the rising or setting sun. The resort also has a well-equipped cooking facility and free WiFi access in public areas within the premises besides that of the ones in the villas and casas.
Puesto Del Sol is a recommended Batangas resort for anyone looking to get out of the city for a nice tropical getaway. With private villas giving each guest their own uniquely self-contained vacation spot, this is a definite must-visit vacation destination for any traveler. (Show More) (Show Less)
Earn as much as 1000 points.
Rooms for this property are subject to confirmation.
STARDUST BEACH HOTEL
Matabungkay, ... , Lian, Batangas (Show Map)
Matabungkay is a barangay of the municipality of Lian, Batangas, the Philippines. It is known for its white sand beach which is reasonably accessible from Manila (about 120 kilometres (75 mi)). It was originally 'discovered' to be a great weekend or ... Matabungkay is a barangay of the municipality of Lian, Batangas, the Philippines. It is known for its white sand beach which is reasonably accessible from Manila (about 120 kilometres (75 mi)). It was originally 'discovered' to be a great weekend or daytrip destination in the early 1950s, allegedly by sun starved German residents of Manila. In fact the German Club had a cottage there then. It was soon a popular target for holiday lovers and permanent cottages (even deluxe beach houses) were built along the beach line (and some into the beach) in the early 1960s for rich Manila folk. It has a small coral reef about 50 meters from the low tide mark in the center of the cove which diverts the incoming waves beautifully and creates some that on good days you could body surf on. At present it is a top destination during the Philippine summer season (April to June) and gets very crowded. Aside from cottages and houses, there are small sheds of bamboo construction one could rent for a day built in some places almost to the high tide mark. (Show More) (Show Less)
Earn as much as 224 points.
Family Room (With Breakfast)
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Triodos Bank applies
the GRI G4 guidelines
at a comprehensive level.
Triodos Bank has used the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) since 2001.
GRI was established in 1997 by the United Nations and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics (CERES). GRI wants to organise reporting on sustainability in a consistent manner and, in this way, make performance objective and comparison easier. Triodos Bank is an organisational stakeholder of GRI.
During 2013, GRI launched new G4 guidelines designed to make reporting both more relevant to the sustainability impact of the institution and more meaningful for its stakeholders. The main way this happens is by focusing on the issues that we and our stakeholders think are most important, or most ‘material’ to our work. We took this approach for the first time in 2013 and have developed it further, adopting the G4 guidelines in full in this report.
This year, for the first time, we have requested limited assurance on the Executive Board chapter, which includes 2014 impact data. KPMG Accountants N.V. also audited the Financial statements. For more information, please see the (PDF:) combined independent auditor’s and assurance report.
General Standard Disclosures
Strategy and analysis
Standard Disclosure Title
Answer/links
G4-1
Provide a statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organisation (such as CEO, chair, or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organisation and the organisation’s strategy for addressing sustainability.
Executive Board report
Provide a description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities.
(PDF:) Risk Management
Organisational profile
Report the name of the organisation.
Triodos Bank N.V.
Report the primary brands, products, and services.
Report the location of the organisation’s headquarters.
Report the number of countries where the organisation operates, and names of countries where either the organisation has significant operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability topics covered in the report.
Report the nature of ownership and legal form.
Report the markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers and beneficiaries).
Report the scale of the organisation.
Report the total number of employees by employment contract and gender.
Co-worker figures
Report the total number of permanent employees by employment type and gender.
Report the total workforce by employees and supervised workers and by gender.
Report the total workforce by region and gender.
Report whether a substantial portion of the organisation’s work is performed by workers who are legally recognized as self-employed, or by individuals other than employees or supervised workers, including employees and supervised employees of contractors.
Less than 5% of Triodos Banks' work is performed by workers who are legally recognized as self-employed, or by individuals other than employees or supervised workers, including employees and supervised employees of contractors.
Report any significant variations in employment numbers (such as seasonal variations in employment in the tourism or agricultural industries).
Triodos Bank does not have significant variations in employment numbers
Report the percentage of total employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Describe the organisation’s supply chain.
Triodos Bank Business model: creating value
Report any significant changes during the reporting period regarding the organisation’s size, structure, ownership, or its supply chain.
Report whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organisation.
List externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organisation subscribes or which it endorses.
Overview networks and partners
List memberships of associations (such as industry associations) and national or international advocacy organisations.
Identified material aspects and boundaries
List all entities included in the organisation’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents.
Report whether any entity included in the organisation’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents is not covered by the report.
Explain the process for defining the report content and the Aspect Boundaries.
Explain how the organisation has implemented the Reporting Principles for Defining Report Content.
List all the material Aspects identified in the process for defining report content.
For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary within the organisation.
For each material Aspect, report the Aspect Boundary outside the organisation.
Report the effect of any restatements of information provided in previous reports, and the reasons for such restatements.
Report significant changes from previous reporting periods in the Scope and Aspect Boundaries.
Provide a list of stakeholder groups engaged by the organisation.
Report the basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage.
Report the organisation’s approach to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group, and an indication of whether any of the engagement was undertaken specifically as part of the report preparation process.
Report key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organisation has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting. Report the stakeholder groups that raised each of the key topics and concerns.
Reporting period (such as fiscal or calendar year) for information provided.
1 January 2014 – 31 December 2014
Date of most recent previous report (if any).
Reporting cycle (such as annual, biennial).
Provide the contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.
Report the ‘in accordance’ option the organisation has chosen.
Triodos reports according to the 'in accordance' option comprehensive
Report the GRI Content Index for the chosen option.
GRI Content Index online
Report the reference to the External Assurance Report, if the report has been externally assured. GRI recommends the use of external assurance but it is not a requirement to be ‘in accordance’ with the Guidelines.
Independent assurance report
Report the organisation’s policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report.
If not included in the assurance report accompanying the sustainability report, report the scope and basis of any external assurance provided.
Report the relationship between the organisation and the assurance providers.
Report whether the highest governance body or senior executives are involved in seeking assurance for the organisation’s sustainability report.
Report the governance structure of the organisation, including committees of the highest governance body. Identify any committees responsible for decision-making on economic, environmental and social impacts.
Triodos Bank has a dual board structure. The daily management of Triodos Bank lies with the Executive Board. The supervisory function is entrusted with the Supervisory Board. The Executive Board is amongst others responisble for decisionmaking on economic, environmental and social impacts.
See: Corporate Governance
Report the process for delegating authority for economic, environmental and social topics from the highest governance body to senior executives and other employees.
Through Triodos Bank's mission statement and Business Principles environmental and social issues are deeply ingrained in all layers of the organisation. Due to the relative modest size of Triodos Bank, there are no separate process for delegating authority for economic, environmental and social issues.
Report whether the organisation has appointed an executive-level position or positions with responsibility for economic, environmental and social topics, and whether post holders report directly to the highest governance body.
Through Triodos Bank's mission statement and Business Principles environmental and social issues are deeply ingrained in all layers of the organisation. Due to the relative modest size of Triodos Bank, there are no separate process for delegating authority for economic, environmental and social issues. Due to the relative modest size of Triodos Bank, there are no separate executive-level positions for economic, environmental and social topics
Report processes for consultation between stakeholders and the highest governance body on economic, environmental and social topics. If consultation is delegated, describe to whom and any feedback processes to the highest governance body.
The various stakeholders of Triodos Bank are consulted on a regular basis. For example: each Monday the “Monday morning meeting” for all co-workers is organised; each year a shareholders (and depository receipts) meeting is organised. Meetings with clients of Triodos Bank take place on a regular bases. Senior management is consulted quarterly in IMC meetings. According to its mission statement, Triodos Bank aims to help create a society that protects and promotes quality of life and considers human dignity to be of paramount importance. In its communication with stakeholders, the needs of society and the role that Triodos Bank can play in that respect (from an economic, environmental and social perspective) are on the agenda.
Report the composition of the highest governance body and its committees.
Report whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer (and, if so, his or her function within the organisation’s management and the reasons for this arrangement).
Report the nomination and selection processes for the highest governance body and its committees, and the criteria used for nominating and selecting highest governance body members.
The composition, functioning, appointment and succession of the Supervisory Board are described in the Supervisory Board Rules and the competence matrix for the Supervisory Board.
The composition of the Executive Board is such that the competences, knowledge and skills of its members guarantee the proper fulfilment of Triodos Bank’s management function. More information in respect of SB can be found in SB rules (on our website).
Report processes for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided and managed. Report whether conflicts of interest are disclosed to stakeholders.
Supervisory Board Principles (to be downloaded on our website)
Report the highest governance body’s and senior executives’ roles in the development, approval, and updating of the organisation’s purpose, value or mission statements, strategies, policies, and goals related to economic, environmental and social impacts.
According to its mission statement (as described in the objects of the Articles of Association) Triodos Bank aims to help create a society that protects and promotes quality of life and considers human dignity to be of paramount importance. In its operations, the needs of society and the role that Triodos Bank can play in that respect (from an economic, environmental and social perspective) are constantly weighed. This has been elaborated in the business principles, a copy of which is available on our website. More details on the role of Supervisory Board and Executive Board can be found in the Articles of Association of Triodos Bank and the SB Rules, also available on the website of Triodos Bank.
Report the measures taken to develop and enhance the highest governance body’s collective knowledge of economic, environmental and social topics.
Every year meetings between the Boards and external experts are organised with the objective of keeping up to date with developments in society and the sectors that have an impact on the operations of Triodos Bank. Both Members of the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board take part in these meetings. The issues addressed focus on current developments and relate to – amongst others – economic, environmental and social topics, as well as the misiion and values of Triodos Bank.
Report the processes for evaluation of the highest governance body’s performance with respect to governance of economic, environmental and social topics. Report whether such evaluation is independent or not, and its frequency. Report whether such evaluation is a self-assessment.
Report actions taken in response to evaluation of the highest governance body’s performance with respect to governance of economic, environmental and social topics, including, as a minimum, changes in membership and organisational practice.
Each year The Supervisory Board discusses its own functioning and composition, the functioning of its committees, its individual members, and the conclusions that must be drawn on the basis thereof. Every other year this self evaluation is carried out under independent supervision. The involvement of each member of the Supervisory Board, the culture within the Supervisory Board and the relationship between the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board is part of this evaluation.
Report the highest governance body’s role in the identification and management of economic, environmental and social impacts, risks, and opportunities. Include the highest governance body’s role in the implementation of due diligence processes.
Report whether stakeholder consultation is used to support the highest governance body’s identification and management of economic, environmental and social impacts, risks, and opportunities.
Identification of business opportunities and management of risks is part of the daily management task of the Executive Board. Opportunities with significant impact on Triodos Bank are discussed with Supervisory Board.
Report the highest governance body’s role in reviewing the effectiveness of the organisation’s risk management processes for economic, environmental and social topics.
Under the responsibility of the CFO, there is a risk management organisation that is responsible for timely identification of material risks. Based on a holistic ERM Framework, the Head of Risk Management reports a holistic risk view to the Executive Board. The (quarterly) ERM reports are shared with the Supervisory Board. Important decisions are made by the Executive Board.
Report the frequency of the highest governance body’s review of economic, environmental and social impacts, risks, and opportunities.
In principle, the Executive Board meets every week and the Supervisory Board 6 times per year. Environmental and social impacts of its decisions are integral part of its deliberations, due to the mission and values of Triodos Bank.
Report the highest committee or position that formally reviews and approves the organisation’s sustainability report and ensures that all material Aspects are covered.
Triodos Bank has no separate sustainability report. The Integrated Annual Report (which includes a materiality analysis) is approved by the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board.
Report the process for communicating critical concerns to the highest governance body.
The Triodos Group Whistleblower Policy (“Klokkenluidersregeling”) describes the procedures co-workers may use to anonymously or otherwise report alleged abuse within the organisation, and defines the rules and procedures for the proper handling of such allegations. A copy of the Triodos Group Whistleblower Policy is available on our website.
Report the nature and total number of critical concerns that were communicated to the highest governance body and the mechanism(s) used to address and resolve them.
Report the remuneration policies for the highest governance body and senior executives.
Report how performance criteria in the remuneration policy relate to the highest governance body’s and senior executives’ economic, environmental and social objectives.
Rules on remuneration are included in the International Remuneration Policy. This policy is approved by the Supervisory Board and the Dutch Central Bank and is fully compliant with Dutch and European legislation. An important element of Triodos Bank's remuneration policy is that it does not offer bonus or share option schemes to either its Board members or co-workers. Financial incentives are not considered an appropriate way to motivate and reward co-workers in a values-based bank. In addition, sustainability is by its very nature the result of a combined effort by team members aimed at both the short and long term.
Report the process for determining remuneration. Report whether remuneration consultants are involved in determining remuneration and whether they are independent of management. Report any other relationships which the remuneration consultants have with the organisation.
The process for determining the remuneration is described in the International Remuneration Policy. An extract of this policy is avaiable on our website.
a. Report how stakeholders’ views are sought and taken into account regarding remuneration, including the results of votes on remuneration policies and proposals, if applicable.
No stakeholder consultation involved.
Report the ratio of the annual total compensation for the organisation’s highest-paid individual in each country of significant operations to the median annual total compensation for all employees (excluding the highest-paid individual) in the same country.
Report the ratio of percentage increase in annual total compensation for the organisation’s highest-paid individual in each country of significant operations to the median percentage increase in annual total compensation for all employees (excluding the highest-paid individual) in the same country.
Describe the organisation’s values, principles, standards and norms of behavior such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics.
According to its mission statement, Triodos Bank aims to help create a society that protects and promotes quality of life and considers human dignity to be of paramount importance. In its operations, the needs of society and the role that Triodos Bank can play in that respect (from an economic, environmental and social perspective) are constantly weighed. This has been elaborated in the business principles, a copy of which is available on our website.
Report the internal and external mechanisms for seeking advice on ethical and lawful behavior, and matters related to organisational integrity, such as helplines or advice lines.
Triodos Bank employees can consult a counselor and a complaints procedure is in place.
Report the internal and external mechanisms for reporting concerns about unethical or unlawful behavior, and matters related to organisational integrity, such as escalation through line management, whistleblowing mechanisms or hotlines.
The Triodos Group Whistleblower Policy (“Klokkenluidersregeling”) gives co-workers the opportunity to anonymously or otherwise report alleged abuse within the organisation, and defines the rules and procedures for the proper handling of such allegations. A copy of the Triodos Group Whistleblower Policy is available on our website.
Specific standard disclosures
Category: Economic
Aspect: Economic Performance
G4-DMA
Generic Disclosures on Management Approach
G4-EC1
Direct economic value generated and distributed
Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation's activities due to climate change
Triodos Investment Management Report
Coverage of the organisation's defined benefit plan obligations
(PDF:) Pension expenses and policy
Financial assistance received from government
Triodos does not receive government funding
Aspect: Indirect Economic Impacts
Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services supported
Significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts
Category: Environmental
Material Aspect: Energy
G4-EN3
Energy consumption within the organisation
Energy consumption outside of the organisation
Energy intensity
Reduction of energy consumption
Reductions in energy requirements of products and services
Material Aspect: Emissions
Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 1)
Energy indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 2)
Other indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scope 3)
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity
Reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS)
NOX, SOX, and other significant air emissions
Material Aspect: Products and Services
G4-EN27
Extent of impact mitigation of environmental impacts of products and services
Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category
Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations
Percentage of new suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria
Sustainable Procurement Guidelines
Suppliers manual
Significant actual and potential negative environmental impacts in the supply chain and actions taken
Category: Social
Sub-Category: Labor Practices and Decent Work
Aspect: Employment
G4-LA1
Total number and rates of new employee hires and employee turnover by age group, gender and region
Triodos Bank monitors the turnover of its co-workers closely, but does not report on the details of this percentage. We intended to report on employment type, employment contract and gender in 2014, but this has not been implemented yet. We intend to in 2015.
Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by significant locations of operation
Terms and conditions of employment are the same for all co-workers in line with national legislation.
Return to work and retention rates after parental leave, by gender
Triodos Bank monitors 'return to work and retention', but does not report on the details of this percentage. We intend to report on the details as well in 2015.
Aspect: Labor/Management Relations
Minimum notice periods regarding operational changes, including whether these are specified in collective agreements
Organisational changes have minimum impact due to the size of the organisation.
Aspect: Occupational Health and Safety
Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management-worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and saftey programs
Almost all of Triodos Bank offices have a Health and Safety committee present in their office. Triodos Bank does not measure the percentage of co-workers represented in health and safety programmes.
Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region and by gender
The mentioned issues are not substantial within Triodos Bank. However work-related stress (absenteeism) could be. Triodos monitors this closely, but does not report on the details of this percentage. We intend to in 2015.
Workers with high incidence or high risk of diseases related to their occupation
The mentioned issues are not substantial within Triodos Bank.
Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions
Aspect: Training and Education
Average hours of training per year per employee by gender, and by employee category
Triodos Bank reports on training expenses per co-worker per year.
G4-LA10
Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings
Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews, by gender and by employee category
All employees receive regular performance and career development reviews, like the so called mid- and end year reviews.
Aspect: Diversity and Equal Opportunity
Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per employee category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity
Aspect: Equal Remuneration for Women and Men
Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men by employee category, by significant locations of operation
Triodos Bank applies the same salary scales for men and for women.
Aspect: Supplier Assessment for Labor Practices
Triodos Bank Business Principles (to be downloaded on our website)
Percentage of new suppliers that were screened using labor practices criteria
Environmental Report: Outsourcing and Procurement
Triodos Bank's Lending and Investment Criteria:
Triodos Bank Lending Criteria
Triodos Bank Investment Strategy
Significant actual and potential negative impacts for labor practices in the supply chain and actions taken
Not material
Sub-Category: Human Rights
Aspect: Investment
G4-HR1
Total number and percentage of significant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening
Our Investment Criteria apply to all our investments. See our investment strategy and our Human Rights position paper to be downloaded on our website.
Total hours of employee training on human rights policies or procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained
Respecting human rights is one of Triodos Bank's core business principles. The values of the organisation are adressed on numerous occassions. Triodos Bank does not actively measure the number of hours of training but reports on the average training expenses per co-worker.
Aspect: Non-Discrimination
Total number of incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken
No incidents of discrimination have taken place
Aspect: Supplier Human Rights Assessment
Triodos Business Principles (to be downloaded on our website)
Lending and Investment Criteria:
G4-HR10
Percentage of new suppliers that were screened using human rights criteria
Significant actual and potential negative human rights impacts in the supply chain and actions taken
There were no negative impacts
Sub-Category: Society
Aspect: Local Communities
G4-SO1
Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs
Impact chapter
Operations with significant actual and potential negative impacts on local communities
Aspect: Anti-Corruption
Triodos Bank Investment Criteria
Total number and percentage of operations asessed for risks related to corruption and the significant risks identified
Our Risk Assesment and Policy deals with risks related to corruption. It is applicable to all business units of Triodos Bank.
Also see: Executive Board Report: Compliance and Integrity
Communication and training on anti-corruption policies and procedures
Triodos Bank has internal policies, rules and procedures to guarantee that management complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding customers and business partners. In addition, the compliance department independently monitors the extent to which Triodos Bank complies with its rules and procedures. It does not monitor the percentage of employees trained in organisation's anti-corruption policies and procedures.
Confirmed incidents of corruption and actions taken
No incidents of corruption
Aspect: Compliance
Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with laws and regulations
No significant fines and non-monetary sanctions
Sub-Category: Product Responsibility
Aspect: Customer Health and Safety
G4-PR1
Percentage of significant product and service categories for which health and safety impacts are assessed for improvement
Triodos Bank is an internet based financial institution and due to these activities the impact of it's life cycle stages are minimal.
Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning the health and safety impacts of products and services during their life cycle, by type of outcomes
There were no significant incidents in 2014
Aspect: Product and Service Labeling
Type of product and service information required by the organisation's procedures for product and service information and labeling, and percentage of significant product and service categories subject to such information requirements
All our products and services are designed to deliver a specific social/environmental impact. Please see our
and our Lending and Investement criteria
for more information on compliance with procedures relating to sustainability.
Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning product and service information and labeling, by type of outcomes
Results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction
Stakeholder Dialogue and customer statisfaction plays an important role in Triodos Bank's activities. Triodos Bank maintains strong relationships with its stakeholders. Statisfaction of customers is occasionally measured through survey's but Triodos Bank does not specifically report on its outcomes.
Aspect: Marketing Communications
Sale of banned or disputed products
Not relevant for Triodos Bank
Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, by type of outcomes
Aspect: Customer Privacy
Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data
Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services
There were no significant fines in 2014
Specific sector disclosures
Financial Services Sector Disclosures
Policies with specific environmental and social components applied to business lines.
All our products and services are designed to be sustainable.
Procedures for assessing and screening environmental and social risks in business lines.
Processes for monitoring clients’ implementation of and compliance with environmental and social requirements included in agreements.
Processes for improving staff competency to implement environmental and social.
Interactions with clients/investees/business partners regarding environmental and social risks and opportunities.
Our engagements efforts
Percentage of the portfolio for business lines by specific region, size and sector.
Monetary value of products and services designed to deliver a specific social benefit.
All our products and services are designed to deliver a specific social/environmental impact.
Monetary value of products and services designed to deliver a specific environmental benefit.
Coverage and frequency of audits to assess implementation of environmental and social policies and risk assessment procedures.
All our products and services are designed to be sustainable. The regular audit principle is applicable, see
Percentage and number of companies held in the institution’s portfolio with which the organisation has interacted on environmental or social issues.
Interaction on environmental and social issues are relevant to all of the companies we engage with. This is direct in dealing with organisations we finance and suppliers and managed through our Research department in relation to some investment funds, see the section of the website on our engagement activities:
Active engagement
Percentage of assets subject to positive and negative environmental or social screening.
All our assets are subject to screening on positive and negative sustainability criteria. See our
Voting policies applied to environmental or social issues for shares over which the reporting organization holds the right to vote shares or advises on voting.
Proxy voting policy
Company financial statements other information
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mm2 Asia
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This brings the group’s full year earnings to a total of $19.1 million, representing a 14.7% decline from $22.4 million in FY18.
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UnUsUaL reports 32% higher FY19 earnings of $13.2 mil on improved revenue & margins
SINGAPORE (May 27): UnUsUaL Limited has reported $13.2 million in net profit for the FY19 ended March, representing a 32% increase from FY18 net profit of $10 million due to higher revenue and improved margins.
Revenue for the full year rose 22.6% to $56.9 million compared to $46.4 million a year ago.
The topline growth was mainly attributed to higher revenue contributions from the company’s Promotion and Others segments.
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mm2 Asia cut to 'hold' by Maybank despite latest box office showing
SINGAPORE (Mar 26): Maybank Kim Eng would rather wait for mm2 Asia’s cinema division to make disclosures in its fiscal-year-end reporting before changing its forecasts.
Good showing at the box office by mm2’s latest movie “More Than Blue” has led to another tie-up with Fox Networks Group Asia which has likely driven the stock’s recent re-rating.
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Can mm2 Asia overcome its cinema disappointment?
SINGAPORE (Mar 1): In a few short years since going public, mm2 Asia now owns a chain of cinemas, a concert organiser, a visual effects studio and an online video platform.
But some investors have lost faith in mm2 ever since the company failed to buy a 50% stake in the local cinema business of Golden Village.
Instead of Golden Village, the largest cinema chain in Singapore with a 39% market share, mm2 had to settle for the acquisition of the Singapore operations of Cathay Cineplexes, which had a 27% market share.
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mm2 Asia remains a 'buy' for Maybank despite reduced forecasts on non-operational leakage
SINGAPORE (Feb 21): Maybank Kim Eng is maintaining its “buy” call on mm2 Asia while lowering its target price on the stock to 34 cents from 57 cents previously, after cutting 2019-21E core profit forecasts by 48%, 12% and 9%, respectively.
This comes after the group’s 9M19 core profit came in below expectations at 34% of Maybank’s FY19 estimates, and 67% of previous consensus forecasts.
See: mm2 Asia posts 59% drop in 3Q earnings to $2 mil on higher expenses
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mm2 Asia posts 59% drop in 3Q earnings to $2 mil on higher expenses
SINGAPORE (Feb 12): Film production company mm2 Asia has reported earnings of $2.0 million for the 3Q19 ended December, 59% lower than earnings of $4.8 million a year ago.
The decline was mainly due to higher administrative and finance expenses during the quarter.
3Q19 revenue jumped 41.3% to $74.1 million, led by contributions from its cinema business which was acquired in 3Q18.
The increase in revenue was also contributed by its core business and event production and concert promotion business.
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UnUsUaL reports 21.7% higher 3Q earnings of $3.1 mil despite margin decline
SINGAPORE (Feb 11): UnUsUaL Limited, the Catalist-listed subsidiary of mm2 Asia, reported a 21.7% y-o-y rise in 3Q earnings to $3.1 million compared to $2.5 million a year ago.
The bottomline growth was mainly due to higher revenue for the quarter, which rose 50% to $15.9 million from $10.6 million in 3Q18 due to increased contributions from the Promotion, Production and Other business segments.
Cost of sales rose 78.3% to $10.9 million for the quarter, from $6.1 million a year ago.
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FOX Chinese movie channel to invest in mm2 Asia's slate of 4 feature films
SINGAPORE (Dec 10): FOX Networks Group Asia (FNG Asia) flagship Chinese movies channel, SCM will be investing and co-producing a slate of four feature films developed by mm2 Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of mm2 Asia.
In a media release issued on Friday, FNG says, “FNG’s investment springs from its longstanding commitment to make bold investments in premium original productions, as well as quality acquired content, to ignite imaginations in Asia.”
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mm2 Asia kept at 'add' by CGS-CIMB on rising demand for Asian content
SINGAPORE (Nov 20): CGS-CIMB Securities is maintaining mm2 Asia at “add” as it is seen as a proxy for higher content consumption in the region.
mm2 recently announced its maiden co-production with Netflix with the movie “Triad Princess”.
In a recent report, analyst Ngoh Yi Sin says while productions under the B2B model tend to command lower margins vs B2C ones which are meant for the big screen, their payment terms are better as full funding is usually provided upfront.
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Review: The Big Short – A light-hearted lesson
Posted on 16th February 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor
The Big Short is the newest offering from director Adam McKay, containing an all-star cast featuring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt. It follows the stories of separate characters who managed to predict the credit and housing crisis of the mid-2000s, then used this information to attempt to swindle the big banks. As one might expect, its full of confusing financial jargon which at times detracts from the ideas its trying to get across – but it still succeeds in making the audience laugh and squirm with its final take-home message. The film’s recent best picture win at the recent Producers Guild Awards has helped it on its way to potential awards glory and it can now be counted amongst the favorites for the big prize at the 2016 Oscars.
Above all, this movie is witty, fast and funny. Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd helms the camera very well, his fluid movements helping to create a sense of urgency and suspense. McKay’s comedic roots also come to the fore in impressive ways, with quick cuts and quips that not only keep the story moving along but also add comedic elements to a film that without them could verge on the bad side of dull.
Also superb is the acting, with an Oscar-nomination standout performance from Christian Bale a highlight – in typical fashion, Bale is completely transformed as eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry, and creates a character that is the polar opposite of his turn as perfectionist Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Steve Carell is another standout among greats, his Mark Baum a character who most of us would probably dislike in real life but who you can grow fond of and get behind as a character in this movie. Against those characters were Gosling and Pitt, whose performances were serviceable but lacked emotional depth, disappointing for two of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
Other parts of the film were also a let down, the opening half an hour feeling bloated by too much technical jargon, and even the humorous explanations of the main points tending to pull us out of the story. The score, by Nicholas Britell, is also largely absent, and only really noticeable on one or two occasions when loud drums kick in disruptively.
The Big Short is entertaining but often confusing. Nonetheless, its hard-hitting message will make you think.
James Berman
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'Ditch plastic straws' – experts and campaigners on how to cut plastic waste
From Lily Cole to Dame Ellen MacArthur – experts and campaigners on what more needs to be done to reduce plastic waste
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Lily Cole, Ellen MacArthur, Hannah Lownsbrough, Ilana Taub, Hugo Tagholm, Madeleine Berg, Lizzie Carr
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Lily Cole helps launch charity T-shirts made using recycled plastic to draw attention to the 15m plastic water bottles used each day in the UK. Photograph: Dave M. Benett
Marks & Spencer has redesigned and repackaged more than 140 best-selling products to cut plastic use, saving 75 tonnes of packaging a year in the process.
But are retailers and manufacturers doing enough? What more could and should they be doing? We asked a range of packaging experts and campaigners. Here’s what they said.
Lily Cole: ‘Ditch single-use plastic water bottles’
Companies should be proactively designing solutions to reduce plastic waste. Single-use plastic water bottles are perhaps the most damning culprit when there are so many alternatives readily available. I recently supported Brita’s #SwapForGood campaign, committing to avoiding single-use plastic water bottles and carrying around a reusable bottle instead.
Brita’s #swapforgood campaign with Lily Cole and Henry Holland.
In researching the SwapForGood campaign, Brita found that 71% of people in the UK felt embarrassed asking for tap water when not buying something else. In order for us to create a real cultural shift, we need to lose the stigma around asking for tap water, and we need companies (cafes, restaurants and even shops) to proactively welcome people to use their tap water sources for free, just as we might use their toilets.
Lily Cole is an actor, co-founder of Impossible.com and patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation.
Dame Ellen MacArthur: ‘Change the way we make and use plastic’
Demand for plastics is expected to double in the next 20 years, yet our plastics system is not fit for purpose. Most plastic packaging items are used only once before being discarded, and globally only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling. The remainder gets incinerated, landfilled or worse, with more than 30% leaking out into the environment. If nothing changes, there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
A turtle suffocates on an ingested plastic bag in Hawaii. Photograph: FLPA/Rex
This problem cannot be fixed in isolation. It is only through systemic change – bringing together the entire industry to fundamentally rethink the way we make and use plastics – that we can prevent plastic from becoming waste in the first place.
The $2m New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize aims to accelerate innovations that keep plastics in the economy but out of the ocean. The prize is made up of two challenges: the Circular Design Challenge looks at how to get products to people without generating plastic waste – tackling small items such as shampoo sachets, straws or coffee cup lids – while the Circular Materials Challenge addresses how to make all plastic packaging material recyclable.
Dame Ellen MacArthur is founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Hannah Lownsbrough: ‘McDonald’s must take the lead on straws’
When did plastic straws become ubiquitous? Far too often, before you’ve said: “No straw please”, there it is, already on its way to becoming waste – usually completely unnecessarily.
It’s estimated Americans alone use 500m plastic straws every day. Used for a few minutes then discarded, once in the environment plastic never degrades but breaks into ever smaller pieces. Straws are a particular hazard. Small and light, they can end up lodged in the nostrils of sea turtles and perforating the stomachs of penguins.
Simply telling consumers to carry reusable straws around is not the answer. It’s up to corporations to take responsibility and reduce the plastic waste they create. They have a variety of options at their disposal, including only handing out straws on request, moving to drink-through lids, or using a sustainable, recyclable alternative.
That’s why we’re asking McDonald’s, which hands out free plastic straws to many of the 3.5 million people who visit its UK restaurants each day, to take the lead and ditch them. A giant like McDonald’s has the resources to create a shift in the fast food industry’s obsession with plastic straws, before it’s too late.
Hannah Lownsbrough is executive director of SumOfUs, a global consumer group.
Ilana Taub: ‘Take the risk of trying a new material’
One pence. That’s the difference in pricing between a traditional plastic bag and a genuinely compostable one. Do we really care so little about our planet that we’re not willing to encourage our manufacturers to pay an extra £0.01, or pass on the cost to us?
We’re starting to see alternatives, like the compostable film we use to pack our snacks, but few companies are willing to take on the risk of trying a new material and the associated cost, even if the difference is miniscule.
Snact’s compostable packaging. Photograph: PR
Packaging manufacturers are slow to develop alternative materials that can genuinely compete with traditional plastics because there’s no real market for it. And there’s no market for it because there is not enough demand from consumers. It’s mind-blowing that as a society involving people, government and businesses we’re not able to solve a problem that involves an additional few pence.
Ilana Taub is the co-founder of Snact, which creates snacks from surplus fruit and uses home compostable packaging to reduce plastic waste.
Hugo Tagholm: ‘We need a nationwide deposit return system’
It’s vital that manufacturers support much more effective recycling solutions for the packaging they produce. We use a staggering 38.5m plastic bottles in the UK every day and only manage to recycle just over half of these.
A nationwide deposit return system would be a brilliant next step in stopping plastic bottle pollution on our beaches and help manufacturers get much higher quality recyclate to enable the production of new bottles, creating a more circular economy.
Just as we’ve seen the small charge on plastic bags have a big impact, with billions fewer given out, evidence shows a deposit-return scheme could dramatically reduce the number of plastic bottles littering our streets and marine environments.
Hugo Tagholm is the CEO of Surfers Against Sewage.
Madeleine Berg: ‘Stop selling plastic cotton bud sticks’
In 2016, cotton bud sticks were the sixth most common item of marine litter found on UK beaches. These buds are the epitome of “single use” – applied and immediately discarded. Worse still, consumers often litter unwittingly by flushing buds down the toilet, where our sewage system is unable to prevent them from ending up at sea.
Plastic cotton bud sticks: ‘Sadly a familiar sight on beaches’. Photograph: David Jones
Retailers and manufacturers can take immediate action to reduce this source of marine litter by replacing plastic stems with fully biodegradable alternatives like rolled paper. Though they should still never be flushed, paper buds are likely to disintegrate and settle out in sewage, never reaching the sea.
Last year, a number of companies including the UK’s two largest supermarket chains, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, committed to ban the sale of plastic-stemmed cotton buds by the end of 2017. In doing so, they joined front-runners such as Marks & Spencer and The Body Shop, which have been selling paper-stemmed buds for a number of years.
However, we are yet to see an industry-wide shift. France will be banning plastic stems by 2020 – is this the only way to completely prevent this source of plastic pollution?
Dr Madeleine Berg manages The Cotton Bud Project at Fidra, an environmental charity based in Scotland.
Lizzie Carr: ‘Boycott single-use plastic’
A lot of companies are doing very little to challenge the culture of throwaway single-use plastic and consumers are often left with next to no alternative than buying products wrapped unnecessarily in plastic packaging.
Coca-Cola’s recent pledge that all its UK bottles will be made from 50% recycled plastic by 2020 is a positive step and my hope is other big players will follow suit, but there’s a long way to go. Most manufacturers are still largely irresponsible, both in terms of volume of plastic placed in products and the recycling process.
As consumers we have power to drive meaningful change. Phasing out single-use plastics – where possible – in our day-to-day lives by taking a zero-tolerance approach to items such as plastic bottles, straws and bags is a simple first step. Every individual effort to boycott single-use plastic is a small victory but, collectively, we have an opportunity to create friction that will ultimately force companies to adapt and provide more environmentally friendly alternatives.
Lizzie Carr (@LizzieOutside)
I went on #PlasticPatrol across our canals, collecting 1000 plastic bottles in just 7 hours. This needs to STOP. https://t.co/2K28QOcnc4 pic.twitter.com/Ijz4kh9aix
Lizzie Carr is an adventurer, environmentalist and founder of #PlasticPatrol, a UK-wide campaign to rid waterways of plastic pollution.
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Same-sex birth certificate case stalls at 7th Circuit, putting families in limbo
Marilyn Odendahl
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Both Jackie Phillips-Stackman and her wife, Lisa, carry copies of their daughter’s birth certificate with them wherever they go as they wait for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an opinion that they fear could upend their family.
The Phillips-Stackmans are part of a lawsuit brought by married female couples against the state of Indiana for not allowing both women’s names to be listed on their children’s birth certificate. After the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted summary judgment to the women in 2016, the Indiana Attorney General filed an appeal to the 7th Circuit.
Oral arguments in Henderson v. Adams, 17-1141, were presented May 22, 2017 to the panel of Judges Joel Flaum, Frank Easterbrook and Diane Sykes. Since then, the case has sat in Chicago, where it is now one of the oldest cases on the 7th Circuit’s docket.
The delay is keeping the Phillips-Stackman family and other married lesbian couples in limbo. While Indiana has been permitting both women in same-sex marriages to be identified as the parents on their offsprings’ birth certificates, the couples wonder what would happen if the appellate court reverses the lower court.
Some worry the state would remove the non-birth mother’s name from the birth certificates already issued to married lesbian couples. Such a step could negate the non-birth mothers’ legal parental rights to their children.
Jackie Phillips-Stackman described the situation as “very unnerving.”
Collins Fitzpatrick, circuit executive for the 7th Circuit, confirmed Henderson is one of the oldest cases at the Chicago court still awaiting a ruling. He said the judges are not required to render an opinion, but the tradition of the 7th Circuit has been to issue a decision in every case.
Fitzpatrick alluded that the slowdown might be caused by the vacancies that were not filled until recently, as well as the process the judges engage in when crafting their rulings.
The appellate court had at least one open seat dating back to August 2011. By September 2017, the vacancies had ballooned to four. Beginning in October 2017, the 7th Circuit welcomed the first of four new judges, bringing the court to its full complement of 11. The first new judge to join the Chicago court was Notre Dame Law School professor Amy Coney Barrett, who filled the Indiana seat vacated when Judge John Tinder retired in the summer of 2015.
Also, Fitzpatrick said, the judges on a panel can have a lot of back-and-forth after the oral arguments. In writing the opinions, the panel will discuss and pass the drafts amongst themselves, which can lengthen the time needed to reach a decision.
However, little more than a month after the Henderson oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision on a similar birth certificate case from Arkansas. In Pavan v. Smith, 582 U.S.___ (2017), the court ruled the state could not prohibit female married couples who conceive children through artificial insemination from putting both mothers’ names on the birth certificate.
The basis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pavan was its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015). In that case, the majority held the Constitution entitled same-sex couples to civil marriage on “the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples.”
During the Henderson oral argument, the women’s legal team likewise pointed to Obergefell and made a similar assertion. The panel was skeptical, repeatedly contending Indiana’s parenthood statute was based on biology, which same-sex couples cannot overcome.
In June 2018, the women’s attorneys filed a motion for additional briefing in light of Pavan. The lawyers asked for permission to submit further briefing not to exceed 3,000 words, but the 7th Circuit never responded.
The Phillips-Stackman family brings an unusual twist to the case and demonstrates how science is testing, if not outpacing, the law. Jackie Phillips-Stackman is the biological mother, but her embryos were implanted in her wife, making Lisa the birth mother. Prior to the birth of their daughter in October 2015, Phillips-Stackman called the health department to see if she could also be listed on the birth certificate and was advised she should consider formally adopting what is, in fact, her biological baby.
Even though Indiana now recognizes both women as parents, Phillips-Stackman and her wife keep their daughter’s birth certificate handy in case they have to prove their parenthood.
Phillips-Stackman knows well the fear that can come with being in limbo. Her daughter was born with a rare chromosomal deletion and had to spend time in intensive care. Even though Phillips-Stackman was legally married to the birth mother, she was not seen as legally the baby’s parent, which put her at risk of, among other things, having her insurance company deny coverage to the infant.
Those who are fighting married female couples on the birth certificate issue are not trying to preserve families, Phillips-Stackman said. They are “really just trying to tear families apart.”
Fitzpatrick said attorneys on either side could file a motion for an expedited decision although, he added, “such a motion would be extremely rare.”
The attorneys representing the women are Karen Celestino-Horseman, of counsel, Austin & Jones PC; Raymond Faust of Norris Choplin & Schroeder LLP; Richard Mann and Megan Gehring, both of Richard A. Mann, PC; and William Groth of Fillenwarth Dennerline Groth & Towe LLP.
Celestino-Horseman said her clients are holding their breath and wondering what could happen if the 7th Circuit does not affirm the district court’s ruling.
The case has been waiting for an opinion from the appellate court longer than it was litigated in the Southern Indiana District Court. With the original complaint filed in February 2015, the dispute has been in contention for more than four years. Celestino-Horseman anticipates that if the 7th Circuit issues a reversal, she and her colleagues will get a “flood of calls” from women wanting to know what to do.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s office declined to answer questions about the Henderson case. Indiana Lawyer asked what the Attorney General’s office is doing to ensure married lesbian couples are being listed as parents on their children’s birth certificates and whether it would revoke those birth certificates if the 7th Circuit ruled against the women, but the state’s top lawyer directed the inquiries to the Indiana State Department of Health.
The health department said the birth certificates are listing as parents both women who are married to each other at the time their child is born. Also, the long form has two fields labeled with the generic “parent’s name” rather than “mother” and “father.”
To Jackie Phillips-Stackman, the biggest frustration of this case is the issue of fairness. She pointed out, heterosexual couples who undergo in vitro fertilization are listed as the parents with no questions asked, even when neither the man nor the woman is biologically related to the child.
“I think, if anything, our family is just as important as anyone else’s,” she said.
Marilyn Odendahl covers the Indiana General Assembly as well as law schools and bar associations across the state for the Indiana Lawyer. Prior to joining the Indiana Lawyer, she was a reporter for nearly eight years at The Elkhart Truth, in Elkhart, Ind., where she primarily covered business. She holds degrees from Ball State University and the University of Louisville.
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Chiller Theatre: April 28, 2018
On April 28, 2018, my friend and Master's Minion, Freddie, and I returned to the best convention on God's green Earth, Chiller Theatre! The last time we had gone was a year ago last April (meaning we sadly missed last October's edition), but we were back baby! And, man did we ever have a blast!
The first celebrity that I up was the absolutely beautiful Kim Director. I have been a huge fan of this stunning and talented beauty since I first saw her in the underrated Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. As such, I was so excited to see her name added to the Chiller guest list! We talked about the awesome HBO show, The Duece, which she is on. And, how friend, from Brooklyn, had told me that they were shooting scenes of it in her neighborhood. Kim was super sweet and friendly, and, to be honest, absolutely breathtaking in her beauty! She seemed pleasantly surprised that what I wanted signed by her was my DVD copy of the Blair Witch 2.
The next star I went up to was the person I was most excited to meet all weekend, the gorgeous and very talented Scout Taylor-Compton! She is, of course, best known for playing Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie's Halloween remake. I am a huge fan of said movie, and think it is the second best entry in the entire franchise. I told her all of this, as she signed my Blu-ray copy of said movie. She also told me that she wanted to have the baseball shirt that I was wearing, which is Fright Rag's awesome tee of Rob Zombie's Halloween. She is on the shirt, as Michael Myers holds her. But, she missed getting it, as it is sold out! Damn it! Anyway, Scout is not only even more beautiful in person, but she also so very sweet, bubbly, and down-to-earth, that she truly made my day extra awesome!
After this, we waited for Jason X's absolutely gorgeous Kristi Angus. She is best known as the beautiful blonde scientist who gets her face frozen, then smashed to bits by Jason in the aforementioned tenth entry of the long running Friday the 13th franchise. I told her that hers is one of my favorite kills in the entire series. And, that I quite enjoy the movie, and, in fact, like it more than a couple of the other sequels in the series. A big reason for that is that it is fun and tries something new with the Jason movies. All I can add is that she is extremely sweet and impossibly beautiful. Also, you can see in the pic below, that Adrienne King, the final girl of the first and, still, best entry in the series, Friday the 13th, photobombed us, making this one of my favorite Chiller pics, ever!
Speaking of Ms. King, she had the boots that she wore on that classic film with her. You can see them in the pic below.
The last celeb, I got to meet was Keir Dullea, star of classic movies like Black Christmas and 2001: A Space Odyssey. My friend Freddie and I got a pic with him.
As usual there was all the cosplay fun and, later on, party time that we fans have come to expect from the awesomeness that is Chiller!
This little kid dressed as Jason Voorhees in "Friday the 13th Part 2" is parenting done right!
Seeing this furry made me think of "Battle Beasts"!
The Test band kicking ass at the Chiller party!
The Blues Brothers partying at Chiller. The dude to my left totally looks John Belushi!
My movies that I got signed at Chiller:
And, finally these are the Blu-rays that I bought:
Chiller ruled and always will! We can't wait till the next one in Oct!
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RACHEL STARR And MICHAEL VEGAS Headline Director STORMY DANIELS' Wicked Passions Romance 'Timing Is Everything'
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LOS ANGELES, CA – (April 25, 2018) – Wicked Pictures is pleased to announce the adult romance Timing Is Everything is now in stores on DVD and available online at wicked.com. Starring Rachel Starr and Michael Vegas, and directed by Stormy Daniels for the Wicked Passions line of sensual erotica for women and men, this all-new love story for adults follows the same successful blueprint that earned Daniels' It's Complicated the 2018 XBIZ Award for Best Sex Scene - Couples-Themed Release (Ryan Driller & Gracie Glam).
As Daniels' captivating tale begins, viewers meet Marissa (Starr) and Kevin (Vegas). Attractive and successful, the two have been friends for a long time, and everyone thinks they would make the perfect couple - except they work together, don't want to risk ruining their friendship, and are both dating other people. But everything changes one night when Marissa is the victim of a crime and Kevin is in the right place at the right time. Has fate given these potential lovers the push they need to realize their true feelings for each other...or will their chance at happiness pass them by?
Replete with rich and varied sex scenes which enhance the story, Timing Is Everything traces the arc of Elizabeth's emotional journey with raw honesty, thanks in large part to Starr's largely intuitive performance. There’s no hint of artifice or theatricality, just heartfelt conviction as her character becomes self-actualized in the face of dramatic change.
The same observation goes for Vegas' work as Kevin. A 2018 AVN Best Supporting Actor nominee for his performance in Daniels' hit Unbridled, he makes his character palpably "real" - he's someone who gets annoyed, even depressed, but when fate intervenes, he becomes increasingly inventive and confident. Supporting Vegas and Starr are Melissa Moore, Ryan Driller, Alexa Grace, Alana Cruise, and Tyler Knight. The movie's safe for work trailer is online at Wicked's business-to-business web portal and may be viewed by visiting https://www.wickedb2b.com/movies/timing-is-everything?rating=supersoft&trailer=1080.mp4.
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Highlights from Kotobukiya at Toy Fair 2018
Kotobukiya had some awesome upcoming statues for collectors, that they displayed at Toy Fair 2018. Here a few of my favorites:
As a horror fan, these upcoming Bishoujo (statues that showcase sexy, female versions of modern horror icons) were jaw-droppingly cool and beautiuful:
Ash Williams is already available for pre-order, here: https://www.kotous.com/retailstore/evil-dead-2-dead-by-dawn-ash-williams-bishoujo-statue.html
And, coming soon sexy Pinhead!
If you like your horror characters looking more traditional and less sexy, this amazing Freddy will surely please you!
Genre fans into horror games check out these Resident Evil statues:
My fellow Star Wars take heed of these amazing statues!!!
And, finally let's end with some gorgeous statues sure to please us Marvel fans:
At the start of this article, you can see a close-up of this beautiful Jessica Jones statue!
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From the Depths They Came to Mate: "HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP"!
When it comes to the Roger Corman produced cult classic Humanoids from the Deep (1980), the above poster and it's tagline:
They're not human.
But they hunt human woman.
Not for Killing.
For mating.
tells you a lot about what you need to know about it. A favorite of mine since I first saw it, there maybe movies with bit and pieces like it. But, as a whole it really does stand on its own, in particular as far as what happens on screen.
Tensions are rising in a fishing village in California, between the local racist and fisherman, Slattery (Vic Morrow) and his boys and Johnny Eagle (Anthony Pena), who is against their hatchery. These only escalate when they blame each for the deaths of their dogs. Slattery and his guys gang up on Eagle, as they fist fight. Jim Hill (Doug McCloure), all around good guy and fisherman, and his brother Tommy (Breck Costin) join in to give Eagle and even chance.
What they don't know is that the culprits of these brutal dog killings, and other attacks, are really a group of monsters from the depths. Mutated thanks to a process to grow fish faster, they are also horny, on top of being bloodthirsty and violent. They kill men, but the nubile women they rape(!). The sexy Dr. Susan Drake (Ann Turkel) already knows this, though, and soon she joins and helps our heroes to spot the rapey and hideous monsters, who are heading to crash the village's annual festival.
Humaniods from the Deep is directed by Barbara Peeters, but when the movie was finished producer Roger Corman felt that it lacked the sufficient amount of exploitative material. He hired an uncredited Jimmy Murakami to add more skin and make the monster rape on women much more explicit. He also tacked on the awesome ending, which gives it one final kick in the ass. The result picture is pure exploitation, one that only could have come from the mind of Corman, who always knew what it took to make money in the B-movie world.
It is to movie's testament that despite its righteously exploitative nature, it manages to throw in important and thoughtful socio-political ideas. On top of that old sci-fi/ horror adage of how one shouldn't use science to fuck with nature, it also touches on racism and the environment. These are themes that are as relevant as ever today, helping to give the movie a timeless and much deeper feel that one might think a movie like this would have.
"Hey, guys I'm over here! What's up?"
It also helps that the cast is rounded off with a talented group of actors. Everyone is great in their roles, in particular our leads. McCloure makes for a very likable in hero in Jim. While Pena is equally likable as Eagle, a man who is victim to much of the town's racism, and whose desire to protect the environment makes him a hero that we can further cheer. Slattery is played with believable villainy by Murrow. While, the gorgeous Ms. Turkel's Dr. Drake is smart and sexy, the perfect character to explain to our heroes, and us, what the fuck it is that is going on. It should also be noted that the chilling score is handled by James Horner, who would go to bigger budget terrors in the classic Aliens.
It is safe to say that had Universal continued with their Dark Universe, NOTHING remotely like this would have happened in their "Creature from the Black Lagoon" remake...
But, the movie is first and foremost a true exploitation horror movie. Thanks to talents to those behind the scenes, it knows what the audience wants and delivers in strides. It wastes no time in showing us the monsters in full detail. They come in different sizes and with different arm lengths, but are all frightening. Well lighted and shot with building tension by director Peeters, they are further complimented by their shrill and horrific screeching. This is excellent sound design which in the awesome Shout Factory Blu-ray are particularly nerve-shredding (more on that later). They also look great thanks to the flawless make-up of Rob (Robocop, Total Recall) Bottin. Done, before his ground breaking work on classics like The Thing and The Howling, this was a clear representation of the genius work that we would be seeing from him in the years to come.
As mentioned before, Corman added the more graphic rape scenes, saying "fuck that" to whole leave it to one's imagination thing. The creatures attack the movie's beautiful and naked actresses with violent and graphic abandonment. On top of that a kid and the aforementioned dogs are killed, pretty much not caring about what a movie should or not show or do, for that matter. The doggy deaths are the only part I wince at, but then anytime a dog dies onscreen that is my reaction. The gore is graphic and bloody as the monsters rip and tear into male human flesh, including a jaw dropping scene where a dude's head is pulled off (found in the European cut and in the above mentioned Shout Factory release). The monsters, themselves, are shot, immolated, stabbed, hacked at, and impaled.
"Hey dude, can you give me hand here?"
I first saw Humanoids from the Deep, when I blind bought the old DVD. Having read beloved horror/ gorehound critic Chas. Balun's glowing reviews of it for years, I had been meaning to see it forever. When, I did, I was blown away! The combination of a solid plot, great acting, strong directing, excellent FX and music with gore, monsters, and babes, made it a movie that was definitely right up my alley. I actually bought the DVD over to my friend's house, when they were having a B-movie movie marathon. Needless to say he and our friends jaws dropped as the monsters began their rapey ways.
I recently got around to finally picking up the aforementioned Shout Factory Blu-ray. This is an unrated cut that was previous, to this release, only seen in Europe. Titled over there the highly uninspired moniker Monster, it features that above referenced decapitation which is a real winner. The disc also look phenomenal with a kick ass sounds that brings the horrific screeching of the Humanoids and killer soundtrack along with the victim screams and explosions to furious and unnerving sonic life. There are new interviews, as well interviews and extras ported over from the old DVD. It should be noted that this was before the days of Shout's Scream Factory subsidiary, so it is under the Shout line.
Their is a 2006 remake of it produced by Corman's company themselves. It was part of a series of Corman produced remake of Corman produced movies for Showtime. I actually skipped this one, and from what I have heard I made the right move...
Humaniods from the Deep remains a wild experience. Unfettered in its desire to be pure exploitation, yet accompanied by socio-political messaging, there really is few if anything like it. Well made and well done, this exercise in monsters, blood, and boobs fucking rocks. If last year's Shape of Water asked the question, "What if the Creature from the Black Lagoon's Gill-Man had the girl he fell for love him back?"; then this one asks, "What if there were a bunch of Gill-Men, all made my man's experimentation with nature, sexually violating hot, human women?". If you have never sat through this classic, and love well made exploitation movies, monsters, and a good amount of blood and boobs, I ask you, "What the fuck are you waiting for?!"
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SWEETHEART VIDEO’S ACCLAIMED FEATURE ‘BECOMING ELSA’ ARRIVES ON DVD
All pics courtesy of Mile High Media and Sweetheart Video:
I been excited for this release, since I reported on it, back in February. And, now it is out!
From the Mile High Media press release:
Porn Sweetheart Elsa Jean Headlines an All-Star Cast in Director Ricky Greenwood’s Lesbian Coming-of-Age Film.
MONTREAL, Quebec (April 18, 2018) – Sweetheart Video’s erotic coming-of-age story “Becoming Elsa” arrives on DVD with much fan-fare and critical acclaim. Adult superstar Elsa Jean headlines the erotic ingénue tale, earning high praise along with her all-star cast. The movie is now available as a two-disc DVD set, offering exclusive bonus scenes and never-before-seen footage.
“A must-see for fans of Elsa Jean. And if you’re not a fan yet, you will be after seeing this languid, beautifully shot movie,” says Sharan Street, Editor of AVN magazine.
Elsa Jean, along with Charlotte Stokely, Ana Foxx, Cherie DeVille, Abella Danger, Jade Kush and India Summer star in “Becoming Elsa,” written and directed by Ricky Greenwood.
Early praise for the lesbian feature promises a strong contender for this year Adult awards, with much attention drawn to the sexual and acting performances of the star-packed cast.
AdultDVDTalk’s Captain Jack raved saying, “This was a very good release from Sweetheart Video and directed by Ricky Greenwood. Elsa has really evolved as both an actress and an adult performer since her debut and it’s great to see. Her acting was good throughout this production and she did a great job…India and Charlotte were the other girls who really carried the story along and they did a great job as well. As far as the sex, each of the women in this production are known as good girl/girl performers and they lived up to the billing. This release will be up for some awards at years end and it will be well deserved!”
Xcritc’s Patrick Parker recommends the feature commenting, “Becoming Elsa is an all-girl coming-of-age story featuring four romantic sex scenes, a solid story and a Shyamalan-worthy plot twist! The whole thing is shot beautifully and fans of big-production pornos will be impressed.”
Parker adds, “India Summer and Cherie Deville’s scene stands out in the sex department, and Summer sparkles in all of her non-sex roles (not to mention the threesome at the end!). Becoming Elsa delivers a solid plot with a twist and I Recommend this film for fans of girl-girl porn.”
“Becoming Elsa,” tells the story of young and inexperienced Elsa Jean who arrives in Los Angeles, seeking a place she can be her true self as she starts college. Welcomed by her new landlord, gorgeous older woman India Summer, and two very devious roommates (Abella Danger and Jade Kush). Elsa is soon on a wild path of self-discovery with a sexy and elusive sidekick (Charlotte Stokely) that pulls her into new experiences and awakens her secret desire for women. Experience her powerful firsts while Becoming Elsa.
The two-disc DVD set features 5 bonus sex scenes, exclusive interviews with the cast, a photo gallery, movie trailers and much more.
For box art, cast list and more information on “Becoming Elsa” visit http://www.milehighonline.com/product/movie/4226.
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Khmer Rouge leader dismisses allegations in court
CAMBODIA: A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial for genocide and other atrocities during the brutal 1970s regime told Cambodia's war crimes court on Tuesday that accusations against him were false.
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 04:57PM
"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea during a Trial Chamber hearing on January 31 this year.
"Whatever has been indicated in the opening statements is not true. My position in the revolution was to serve the interest of the nation and the people," said Nuon Chea, seen as the regime's chief ideologue.
Opening statements began Monday in the long-awaited trial in Phnom Penh of "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, along with former head of state Khieu Samphan and ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary.
All deny charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over the deaths of up to two million people during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 reign of terror.
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the communist regime emptied cities, abolished money and religion and wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.
International co-prosecutor Andrew Cayley earlier told the court that Nuon Chea and his two co-defendants were "thieves of time" and "common murderers" of a whole generation of Cambodians.
"No one in this country is left unhurt or unaffected by what these three elderly men have done," Cayley said.
Nuon Chea showed no emotion as he was confronted with a dramatic short video clip, filmed within the last decade, in which he defended the regime's bloody purges and called the victims "traitors".
Prosecutors showed the packed court the footage of Nuon Chea, taken from the 2009 documentary "Enemies of the People", to support their claim that the movement had a policy of killing enemies and those it regarded as disloyal.
"If these traitors were alive, the Khmers as a people would have been finished so I dare to suggest our decision was the right one," Nuon Chea calmly tells a Cambodian journalist in the clip.
"If we had shown mercy to the people, the nation would have been lost."
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Lawyer-client privilege no bar to surveillance, say Lords
Yes sir, I can bug you
By OUT-LAW.COM 24 Mar 2009 at 10:21
The state is allowed to bug communication between lawyers and their clients, the House of Lords has said. The UK's highest court ruled that spy law the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) allows lawyers' conversations to be bugged.
Lawyers are allowed to withhold the details of communication with their clients from the police, prosecutors or courts. This long-established right is designed to allow a client to receive full and proper legal advice. Under legal professional privilege they can tell their lawyer the full facts of a situation without fear of the communications ending up as evidence against them.
RIPA is the law which governs secret surveillance, outlining what the state can and cannot do to obtain information.
Solicitor Manmohan Sandhu was charged at Antrim Magistrates' Court with incitement to murder and intending to pervert the course of justice. The evidence against Sandhu consisted of recordings of conversations he had with clients in a room in Antrim police station.
Sandhu claimed that it was against the law for police to record his discussions with his clients because of legal professional privilege. A Divisional Court backed his claim, but the case was appealed to the House of Lords.
Lord Carswell in the House of Lords said that RIPA does allow for the surveillance of privileged communications.
"In its natural and ordinary sense [RIPA] is capable of applying to privileged consultations and there is nothing in its wording which would operate to exclude them," he wrote in his ruling. "It seems to me unlikely that the possibility of RIPA applying to privileged consultations could have passed unnoticed [in Parliament]. On the contrary, it is an obvious application of the Act, yet no provision was put in to exclude them."
Lord Carswell said that legal professional privilege cannot be absolute, that it has to have exceptions. "If it were not possible to exercise covert surveillance of legal consultations where it is suspected on sufficiently strong grounds that the privilege was being abused, the law would confer an unjustified immunity on dishonest lawyers," he wrote.
"There may be other situations where it would be lawful to monitor privileged consultations, for example, if it is necessary to obtain information of an impending terrorist attack or to prevent the threatened killing of a child," said Lord Carswell. "The limits of such possible exceptions have not been defined and I shall not attempt to do so, but they could not exist if the rule against surveillance of privileged consultations were absolute."
Lord Carswell also said that the Code explaining RIPA suggests that the law does cover privileged communication.
"The Code makes detailed provision for obtaining authorisation for monitoring consultations covered by legal professional privilege," he said. "It was laid before and approved by Parliament, but no point appears to have been taken that RIPA did not cover such consultations. It would be surprising at least that no objection was made to the inclusion of those provisions in the Code if it was thought that Parliament had not intended that the consultations be covered by RIPA."
"Parliament intended that the covert surveillance provisions of RIPA should extend to the type of lawyer/client and doctor/patient consultations which are ordinarily protected by legal professional privilege," he said.
Because of the Divisional Court's initial finding that RIPA could not justify such surveillance, though, two of the Lords expressed concern that the Government had carried on regardless.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said that the court "made a finding of law against the Secretary of State. She chose not to appeal against that finding. In those circumstances it was not open to her to consider as a matter of policy whether to "take the steps necessary to remedy the concern identified by the Divisional Court". The position was simply that unless and until she took the appropriate steps she could not lawfully continue to carry out surveillance on legal consultations in prisons or police stations".
Lord Neuberger of Abbostbury also said that he was concerned at the apparently illegal survillance.
"Having decided not to appeal the Divisional Court's decision that surveillance of privileged and private consultations under the present regime is unlawful, the Secretary of State should have ensured that such surveillance did not take place or she should have promptly changed the regime so as to comply with the Divisional Court's decision," he said. "Unless no surveillance of privileged and private consultations has been going on for the past year in the United Kingdom (which appears most unlikely), this strongly suggests that the Government has been knowingly sanctioning illegal surveillance for more than a year. If that is indeed so, to describe such a state of affairs as "regrettable" strikes me as an understatement."
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House of Lords to probe AI data slurping
Who owns all that valuable training info?
Brit Lords start peer-to-peer wrangling over regulating the internet
Topical inquiry launched by committee in UK’s upper house
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Lords cite 'irresponsible rhetoric' and communication as factors. Sound familiar?
UK's lords want more details on adult website check plans
Need to give it a good, proper scrutinising, don't you?
UK spying law delayed while Lords demand Leveson amendments
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How your AFL team will fare in 2016: Sydney
Steven Paice
Roar Guru
23rd February, 2016
Isaac Heeney is one of many young guns impressing for the Sydney Swans. (AAP Image/Julian Smith)
We have reached the top eight, and start with a team that has consistently been around the mark over the last few years and should see September action yet again.
The Sydney Swans do very little wrong year in, year out, and their top-end talent ensures they won’t slip too far, despite the top four looking beyond them.
Sydney Swans – eighth
B: Nick Smith, Ted Richards, Michael Talia
HB: Dane Rampe, Heath Grundy, Jarrad McVeigh
C: Tom Mitchell, Luke Parker, Kieran Jack
HF: Gary Rohan, Kurt Tippett, Isaac Heeney
F: Brandon Jack, Lance Franklin, Jake Lloyd
FOLL: Callum Sinclair, Josh Kennedy, Dan Hannebery
I/C: Sam Reid, Harry Cunningham, Callum Mills, Ben McGlynn
Forward line
Lance Franklin faced a number of personal issues in 2015 and took some time away, but looks refreshed and reinvigorated as he enters the third year of his outlandish ten-year contract.
When physically and mentally fit he remains among the very best players in the league, and the Swans will be hoping Kurt Tippett finds the consistency that his career has lacked. Tippett looks set to play a key role as the second tall forward and backup ruckman, but may just as easily be called upon to be the first choice in either position.
Isaac Heeney was a revelation in his debut season, ranking among the league leaders for the rookies in almost every statistical category. More impressive than that was his ability to seize the moment and look far more assured than his 19 years. He faced an interrupted pre-season with knee issues and may have to bide his time before breaking into the powerful Swans midfield, but figures to be a significant and dangerous asset up forward.
It figures to be a huge year for Gary Rohan, the injury-prone former first-round draft pick who has yet to deliver on his considerable potential. Having passed 20 disposals just once in his career is a damning statistic, and he will be hoping to develop from flashy outside runner to something more substantial in 2016.
Forward line – 6/10
The backline remains among the most miserly in the competition, with relative no-names at every turn. Conceding the fourth-least points per game, the fifth-least inside 50s conceded and second-least marks inside 50 they rely on a tight defensive formation to provide the likes of Dane Rampe with the ability to generate attack from the backline. Rampe had a fantastic 2015, rating sixth in the AFL in rebounds 50s and will be looking to improve even more in his fourth season.
Jarrad McVeigh provides poise from half-back and thrived when given space to operate; he ranked 16th in uncontested possessions and was an unquestionable barometer for the Swans in 2015. Case in point – he averaged 20.1 possessions in Sydney losses, with a high total of 23 possessions; contrast that to the 16 Sydney wins McVeigh averaged 23.3 possessions and exceeded 25 possession on eight occasions.
Backline rating – 7/10
The top-end talent is elite. Josh Kennedy is an absolute bull, dominating on the inside second in contested possessions per game and fifth in clearances per game, while also ranking highly in tackles and effective disposals per game. At 28, Kennedy figures to still be in his prime and is the perfect complement to Dan Hannebery. The soon-to-be 25-year-old had a breakout 2015, ranking in the top ten in uncontested possessions and disposals per game; his game is predicated on more than just volume though as he ranked fourth in the AFL in effective disposals per game.
Beyond the two stars there is still plenty of quality. The injury Luke Parker suffered late in 2015 was a telling blow to the Swans’ flags hopes, as he had exploded in stellar fashion, ranking in the top 20 for both contested possessions and total possessions per game. Meanwhile, Kieran Jack’s tough, relentless style and ability to play both in the midfield and as a small forward saw him rate 10th in tackles per game and 14th in goal assists per game.
Add ball magnet Tom Mitchell to the mix and you have a mix of quality midfielders capable of going toe-to-toe with any handful in the league.
The quality drops away beyond this group, and the decision to sign career backup Callum Sinclair to replace premiership ruckman Mike Pyke looks risky.
Midfield rating – 7/10
Double-ups against North Melbourne, Hawthorn and Richmond feature in a reasonable fixture, but the Swans will be happy with only having to travel to Perth once, and having three of the four games following their bye in the comfort of the SCG.
South Melbourne fans will be thrilled to be able to see ‘The Bloods’ in action on six occasions, while the Swans get a reasonable deal in regards to the number of six-day breaks. They have six of them, including three in consecutive weeks from Rounds 15-17, as they take on the Bulldogs, Cats and Hawks.
Fixture rating – 6/10
John Longmire is a premiership coach whose career record stacks up favourably against most other coaches. The Swans have made the finals in every year under his tutelage, and have advanced to at least the second week each time.
His ability to maintain a strong, effective backline and generally be successful in dictating a tempo and style of play that suits the Swans has been a strength. Sydney have gone from 13th to second in uncontested possessions from 2013 to 2015; they slipped to sixth in contested possessions in 2015 having ranked first in this categories from 2012-2014.
He is faced with having lost over 900 games of experience as Adam Goodes, Rhyce Shaw, Mike Pyke and Lewis Jetta walked out the door, and he needs to inject youth into the team post haste.
Coaching rating – 7/10
While Sydney haven’t always won in the most aesthetically pleasing manner, they are effective with a strong defensive focus; while they have moved towards a more attacking style that ranked sixth in the league in scoring in 2016 and can lean on Franklin.
Selecting Sydney to finish eighth is not controversial, however the teams ranked above them seem more likely to push for the 15-plus wins needed to feature in the top four.
If the likes of Heeney, Rampe, Brandon Jack and Mills take the opportunity and continue to develop then the top four is definitely attainable, but the midfield depth is questionable should they face an injury similar to those suffered by Parker or K. Jack late in 2015.
Predicted finish – eighth
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Desert Hills' Ashton Davison wins 4A golf title
Desert Hills finishes in second as a team.
Desert Hills' Ashton Davison wins 4A golf title Desert Hills finishes in second as a team. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: https://www.thespectrum.com/story/sports/high-school/2018/10/02/desert-hills-ashton-davison-wins-4-golf-title/1504048002/
Ryan Miller, St. George Spectrum & Daily News Published 4:45 p.m. MT Oct. 2, 2018 | Updated 6:51 p.m. MT Oct. 2, 2018
The 4A state golf championships wrapped up Oct. 2, 2018.(Photo: kevron2001, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Desert Hills' Ashton Davison was forced to play an extra hole during the final day of the 4A state golf championships on Tuesday at Birch Creek Golf Course in Smithville. That extra hole made him a champion.
Davison won a playoff against Park City’s Dean Tsandes, giving him state medalist honors and the title of state champion.
Tsandes’ Park City team took home the team title — the Miners' 11th consecutive state championship — by defeating second-place Desert Hills by 12 strokes.
Davison and Tsandes both finished with 143s after the two-day tournament, each shooting a 72 on Monday and following that up with 71 on Tuesday, and had to decide things with a two-man playoff. Davison won the first playoff hole, winning him the championship.
Pine View’s Lucas Schone made a strong push up the leaderboard on Tuesday. After a disappointing 76 on Monday, Schone shot the low round of the tournament on Tuesday, firing a 68 to finish in a tie for third place with a 144 and just missing out on the championship playoff.
Desert Hills entered Tuesday’s final round in third place behind Park City and Sky View. The Thunder trailed Sky View by two strokes and Park City by only five. The Miners put any doubt of their reign coming to an end by shooting 292 as a team on Tuesday to pull away from the pack.
The Thunder, however, made their own charge. Led by Davison’s 71, Desert Hills shot a 299 to overtake Sky View for the state runner-up trophy. Merick Johnson shot a 74, Curtis Matheson shot a 76 and Kyson Plant scored a 78 on Tuesday to help the Thunder to the second-place finish.
1. Park City, 591; 2. Desert Hills, 603; 3. Sky View, 605; 4. Spanish Fork, 610; 5. Tooele, 613; 6. Pine View, 616; 10. Dixie, 652
1. Ashton Davison, Desert Hills, 143
2. Dean Tsandes, Park City, 143
T3. Lucas Schone, Pine View, 144
T3. Ryan Seamon, Sky View, 144
T3. Bridger Holmes, Tooele, 144
T6. Hayden Kleven, Sky View, 145
T6. Dewey Panter, Green Canyon, 145
8. Newell Remington, Spanish Fork, 146
9. Eli Kimche, Park City, 149
T10. Griffin Ward, Park City, 150
T10. Tyler Clayson, Spanish Fork, 150
T10 Peyton Thevenot, Tooele, 150
T13. Merick Johnson, Desert Hills, 151
T15. Cooper Milne, Pine View 152
T17. Curtis Matheson, Desert Hills, 153
T17. Jackson Miller, Cedar, 153
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Pandas are popular around the world, but in Japan they can cause media feeding frenzies. Xiang Xiang is the first panda cub to go on show at Japan’s oldest zoo in nearly 30 years and has been such a sensation that Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens has had to choose visitors by lottery. When Xiang Xiang underwent a dental exam at three months old, Yahoo! Japan faced a challenge: getting video of the cub to its audience as soon as possible.
Yahoo! is Japan’s largest online portal, with 75.7 billion page views per month. It reaches 81% of all internet users in Japan, with Yahoo! News content going to over 368,000 followers on Twitter and 400,000 followers on Facebook.
You might think that an organization with that kind of reach solved content management long ago. But like many large newsrooms, the staff at Yahoo! News were still dealing with cumbersome licensing agreements that slowed down their editorial process. So they tried Reuters Connect and quickly had a Reuters video of Xiang Xiang on Yahoo! News’ Facebook page.
“This panda cub was very popular among Japanese audiences and we could easily get footage through Reuters Connect,” says Fumitaka Tanaka, an editor in Yahoo’s News and Sport Division. “Before that, we were buying from TV stations.”
Yahoo! News counts on social media feeds to track the success of Reuters Connect videos; on Facebook, the Xiang Xiang footage received over 3,000 likes and hundreds of shares.
How Yahoo! Japan uses @ReutersConnect to quickly get videos from around the world and distribute them on social media.
12 million images
Founded in 1996, Yahoo! Japan is a diversified digital content company, with its Yahoo! Shopping e-commerce platform, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Auction, Yahoo! Knowledge Search, Yahoo! Weather & Disaster, and Yahoo! Transit Information among many services run by some 6,000 staff.
But like all digital newsrooms today, Yahoo! faces the seemingly impossible task of staying on top of the torrent of news generated around the world. The Washington Post, for example, publishes an average of 1,200 news articles, graphics and videos every day, of which 500 are generated by its staff. The rest come from wires and other sources.
As everyone with a smartphone is now a potential publisher and broadcaster, editors face the increasingly challenging task of staying on top of managing videos.
The Reuters Connect dashboard showing its video feeds.
In 2017, Reuters launched Reuters Connect, a web-based platform that features all their multimedia content, as well as feeds from other leading providers. Users can access real-time breaking news articles from 200 Reuters bureaus around the world, with feeds covering business to sports to politics and entertainment, as well as photos, live and recorded videos, and infographics.
Reuters archival multimedia content includes over 12 million images and a video archive going all the way back to 1896, with additional historic footage from Vis News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont British, Empire News Bulletin, British Paramount, Universal Newsreels, and BBC. Partner content available on Reuters Connect comes from outlets such as BBC, USA TODAY Sports, Variety, Hollywood TV, AccuWeather, Africa24 and Red Bull Media House.
Producers at Yahoo! Japan use Reuters Connect to quickly select videos to run.
Reuters Connect is aimed at accelerating the content-creation process, offering a breadth of content as well as flexibility. It’s a subscription-based service but customers use quarterly allocations of points across a cast range of visual assets. The service is helping Yahoo! News cover not only its own home turf of Japan but overseas news as well.
“Reuters Connect allows us to quickly get videos from around the world and distribute them on our social media such as Facebook and Twitter,” says Tanaka. “These videos can have a huge impact in terms of audience engagement compared to sending an article alone with no video.”
Reuters Connect is a single destination for all your content needs
Whatever the news agenda, whatever your focus, Reuters Connect gives you access to the quality multimedia content you need, when you need it.
Immediacy and flexibility
Simple searches in Reuters Connect can instantly call up dozens of videos, including ones that already have Japanese subtitles.
Yahoo! News editorial staff download the footage into Adobe Premiere, make any necessary edits, and then post them to the Yahoo feeds. Of course, speed matters. Tanaka points to the example of Hurricane Irma, which hit the southern U.S. in September, causing dozens of fatalities and over $50 billion in damages.
“It isn’t easy to convey what’s going on overseas to Japanese audiences,” says Tanaka. “Reuters was the fastest in providing video of the storm and the on-the-spot footage had a powerful impact in terms of viewer engagement. We were able to convey how devastating the storm was.”
“The platform offers immediacy and flexibility,” says Kosuke Takahashi, another editor in Yahoo’s News and Sport Division who handles downloads from Reuters Connect and uploads to social platforms. “Using Reuters Connect content is quicker than going through Japanese media outlets. You can also do real-time chats with Reuters Connect staff to resolve any needs you have.”
Yahoo! News started using the platform in August 2017. The platform allocates 100 Reuters Points per month and leftover points can be used for up to three months. Prior to using Reuters Connect, Yahoo! News was relying on individual feed contracts with various media outlets.
“Reuters Connect gives us a one-stop platform for third-party partner content,” says Yumika Matsuda, an official with Yahoo! News. “Previously we had to have contracts with every provider but now we can download and use content from providers we don’t have contractual relationships with. From a business point of view, that’s the No. 1 merit of this service.”
For more information about Reuters Connect, go here.
Tim Hornyak is a freelance journalist based in Tokyo. He is the author of Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots. Follow Tim Hornyak on Twitter.
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The Guide to Colorado Edibles
Back in the day, the only kind of 420 edibles you could get your hands on were brownies or cookies imprecisely dosed. These days, the cannabis edibles market is expansive. If you think of a food item there’s almost certainly a cannabis-infused version for sale on a dispensary shelf. Potato chips, trail mix, cookies, gummies, throat lozenges and even cold brewed coffee are all types of Colorado edibles available for you to try.
At The Spot 420, our selection of Colorado edibles brings in all sorts of customers. So the budtenders at our recreational dispensaries in Pueblo, Colorado and our Trinidad, Colorado dispensary field questions about edibles all the time. We decided to put all the information you need on Colorado edibles in one place!
Types of 420 Edibles & How They Differ
Infused Baked Goods, Food Items & Capsules
These are by far the most popular and readily available types of edibles. Think of all the classic weed brownies, cookies, rice krispy treats that you’re used to seeing and some of the newer products on the market, like THC pills.
These types of 420 edibles are digested through the gastrointestinal tract. This form of absorption takes the longest, so you’ll have to wait longer for the effects to kick in. On the bright side, the wait is worth it because the high tends to last longer too (up to eight hours or more).
Tinctures & Hard Candies
This category of edible is really gaining steam. While tinctures have been used for hundreds of years, they are really coming back into vogue. That might be because tinctures and candies or lollipops that are meant to be sucked on hit your system much faster.
These edibles are absorbed into the system via a process called “oral uptake”. That means a few drops of tincture under the tongue make their way straight into the bloodstream and to the brain, completely bypassing the digestive system so you quickly feel the effects. On the other hand, the effects of tinctures and candies tend to only last two to three hours.
Cannabis-Infused Drinks
Cannabis-infused drinks came on the scene a couple years ago and have skyrocketed in popularity. From sodas to cold brew coffee, people are really into these. Perhaps it’s because these are the best of both worlds.
Just like an infused baked good, gummy or pill, marijuana-infused drinks also have to pass through the digestive system. But because it’s a liquid, these canna-drinks move through the system much quicker. That means the effects hit you nearly as fast as a cannabis tincture, but last longer.
Colorado Marijuana Edibles Prices
The price of Colorado edibles can vary pretty significantly. At our recreational dispensaries in Pueblo, Colorado and our Trinidad dispensary, you can purchase a single serving edible for $5-$10, a large pack of gummies for $30-$50, or a chocolate bar for somewhere in between.
Cannabis Edible Dosage
In Colorado, state law requires each dose of cannabis edible to be no more than 10 mg. But feel free to start with an even smaller dose! For beginners, 1-5 mg is a good start. For casual/infrequent consumers, try 5-10 mg. And for experienced consumers, try 10-15 mg.
What Colorado Edible is Best for Beginners?
We’ve all heard the edible horror stories. Someone tries an edible, doesn’t immediately feel the effects so they double down on dose. Don’t be that person! All beginners should start with a microdose and work their way up slowly.
There are plenty of products that are made for microdosing with 2-5 mg per serving instead of 10 mg. These Dixie Relaxing and Awakening Mints have just 5 mg of THC per piece.
In reality, any edible can be made into a microdose. All you have to do is break one serving down into an even smaller piece. The only downside here is it’s hard to know exactly how many milligrams you’re taking.
Cannabis Edibles Side Effects: What to Expect
Depending on the cannabis edible dosage and type, side effects can vary. But you can almost certainly count on more of a body high than the cerebral high you get from smoking cannabis.
But how long do edibles last in your system? And how long will the effects last?
When the body absorbs cannabis through the digestive system (including the stomach and liver) the THC is synthesized into 11-hydroxy-THC. This is much more potent than the delta-9-THC our brains receive when smoking cannabis.
It also takes longer to move through the system, so you’ll feel effects for much longer than if you were smoking. Wait at least thirty minutes for effects to fully set in and expect those effects to last for anywhere from two to eight hours, or even longer if you’ve taken a large dose.
When it comes to how long edibles will stay in your system for drug tests, that can vary based on the dose and frequency with which you eat them. You can read our full blog on the topic here.
What to Do If You’re Too High From Edibles
Firstly, take a deep breath. No one has ever died from a cannabis overdose and you won’t either! But we know that’s like telling your angry girlfriend or boyfriend to calm down during a fight — not exactly helpful. So here’s what you can do.
It might sound counterintuitive, but CBD can help reduce the side effects of too much THC. Keep a 100% CBD tincture or edible nearby in case you need an emergency dose. Then try to sleep it off if you can.
There’s also the peppercorn trick. It’s actually what it sounds like, actually chewing on black peppercorns. Honestly, munching on black peppercorns while too high sounds like a horrible experience. But if you’re desperate, it apparently really works!
If you aren’t sure what kind of Colorado edibles are best for you, The Spot 420 is happy to help. Stop by our Pueblo, Colorado recreational dispensaries or our Trinidad dispensary. We’ll answer all of your questions and show you the best marijuana edibles for sale in Colorado.
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By Sy Safransky
It’s been hard to get a good night’s sleep this week. If it isn’t my beloved’s snoring that wakes me, it’s my need to pee in the middle of the night, or a dream about my dead parents or my ex-wives or the man I was half a lifetime ago: gone, gone beyond, gone beyond beyond, as the Buddhists say. Last night it was too much coffee. Then the frogs started croaking at two in the morning. If this is their mating call, I thought, no wonder they’re still frogs and not princes. I turned on the lamp and read manuscripts. I would have preferred waking Norma and opening the book of love, but I suspected she’d be less than wildly enthusiastic about reading one of our favorite chapters just then. Finally I turned off the light and tried to sleep. Moments later I heard two cats hissing and yowling. I ran outside to see our cat Franny squaring off with the neighbor’s cat in a battle that was mercifully brief: no bombs dropped, no gunfire exchanged, no collateral damage except my loss of sleep. Back in bed, with Franny curled up beside me, I drifted off to the sound of her purring. I dreamt she’d been invited to appear on Oprah to discuss her new bestseller, The Power of Meow.
After Barack Obama had delivered his electrifying keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention, I turned to Norma in amazement. With synapses firing like Roman candles at a Fourth of July party, I said, “That man is going to be president one day.” I never imagined my prediction might come true in a mere four years. Then again, with John McCain pulling Sarah Palin out of his hat, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson ready to announce that Monopoly money will soon be legal tender, I feel anything but prescient about the outcome of the race. Say what you will about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, his much-ridiculed observation in a 2002 news briefing that there are “known knowns,” “known unknowns,” and “unknown unknowns” is sound epistemology for this election. (Imagine how much more gravitas his words would have had if uttered in broken English by a Zen roshi with a shaved head.)
Some of my friends worry that this presidential election is our last chance for redemption; that if Obama doesn’t win, the world will end. But maybe the end of the world has come and gone, and instead of acknowledging it and bearing the pain, we distract ourselves with thoughts about the future. For how many people did the world end in the holds of slave ships? In the ovens at Auschwitz? At ground zero in Hiroshima? In the jungles of Vietnam? For how many people did the world end when the doctor told them nothing could be done to save their child? The world ended for the 150,000 people who died yesterday, and the day before that. The world ended for those who breathed their last breath certain they were seeing Jesus, and the world ended for those who died searching for a glimpse of mercy in the eyes of their executioner. Henry Miller: “The world is always ending, and the skeleton gets up and walks.”
I wonder whether we’ll soon have just two seasons: Hot and Very Hot. Or maybe Hot, Very Hot, and You’ve Got to Be Kidding. Still, didn’t I vow to stop complaining about global warming? If I knew this was my last day on earth, would I spend time condemning my brothers and sisters for the mistakes we’ve made — or deriding myself for being just another greedy American who uses a disproportionate share of the world’s resources? Maybe there was once a golden age in which humans lived in energy-efficient harmony, women doing half the hunting and men half the gathering, the sex always sacred, no carbon footprint because we flew only in our dreams. But I have no idea how to get back to the Garden. So I just want to say: Forgive us for letting the Industrial Revolution get out of hand. Forgive us for swapping the wooden hoe for the horse-drawn plow, then trading in the horse for a John Deere. Forgive me for driving to work instead of bicycling — in an old Volvo instead of a hybrid — and for being less concerned with nature than with human nature. I admit it: the environmental movement hasn’t aroused as much passion in me as the antiwar movement or the civil-rights movement. Forgive me for not making the planet more of a priority, the way getting The Sun to the printer on time is a priority, or, let’s face it, surfing the Internet and polishing the chrome on my to-do list is a priority.
No matter who’s elected president, daffodils will bloom in the spring. Men and women will fall in love and, sadly, out of love. Inconsolable grief will still be inconsolable. A broken heart will nonetheless keep beating one hundred thousand times a day. No matter who’s elected president, writers will write. Painters will paint. Three in the morning will still be three in the morning. The door in our psyche we don’t want to walk through will still be just down the hall. No matter who’s elected president, life will hand us the invisible thread that connects us all; love will hand us the needle.
As the election draws closer, I don’t know whether we’re heading for a crowning moment in American political history — a gold-leafed invitation for dancing in the streets — or an opportunity to discover how much lower the United States can sink. Even if Barack Obama is elected president, he may be unable to reverse America’s slow and steady decline. Still, wouldn’t it be something if he had the chance? We know what can happen on election day: not enough voting machines in predominantly African American districts; improper purging of voter lists; votes not counted or vote counts tampered with. Maybe the terrorism threat level will be raised to red the day before we vote. Maybe the dog will eat the ballots. Still, wouldn’t it be something if the angelic host shines down on this young and foolish country? Wouldn’t it be something if this fragile and wayward democracy is set right again?
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Bogdanovic + White + Hussain = greatness
By Matthew Syed
MAGAZINE articles endlessly fantasise about the perfect woman, combining, for instance, the face of Liz Hurley, the body of Cindy Crawford and the brain of Carol Vorderman. But how about a composite sportsman comprised of Alex Bogdanovic, Jimmy White and Nasser Hussain? An odd combination, perhaps, but each of these British sportsmen has displayed attributes in recent weeks that, put together, have the makings of greatness. A word of caution, though: combine their flaws and you would create a sporting monster more horrifying than Frankenstein.
Bogdanovic, virtually unknown before Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski ruled themselves out of last week’s Davis Cup tie against Australia because of injury, demonstrated an unexpected and invigorating mixture of courage and audacity in his match against Lleyton Hewitt. When…
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Gibson asks for Jewish forgiveness, but TV show axed
So LA: Hollywood, yaks and Gibson
By Jenny Booth and agencies
Mel Gibson has issued a lengthy apology to the Jewish community today asking for forgiveness over his anti-Semitic tirade during a drink driving episode and requesting a meeting with Jewish leaders “to discern the appropriate path for healing.”
In a statement, which is now his second apology over the affair, the star says he is not a bigot, and hatred of any kind goes against his faith.
“There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge,” the statement read.
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Article: AEG takes over historic Agora Theatre on Friday
Wait - what? How did I miss this??
"Of course, the biggest impact will be the influx of AEG, the world's second-largest concert promoter, into a city alongside Live Nation, the world's largest concert promoter.
'We're excited about joining a market where we've not had a presence to date,'' said Trell, a native of Columbus who is intimately familiar with the legacy begun by LoConti in 1966, which included a Columbus Agora. 'We view it as an important market.''
'Hank [was] a guy who was revered in the industry,'' said Trell. 'His passing'' - LoConti died almost exactly four years ago after a battle with lymphoma - 'was very said.
'We're not looking to do anything to detract from the history or the legacy of the venue,'' said Trell.
Trell and Zitterbart both pointed out that the power of AEG means an opportunity to tap new and better bands for the venue. Almost like LoConti's storied 'Agora Circuit,'' where artists and bands played Agoras in various cities during the institution's heyday, AEG can use its multiple venues as a sort of circuit as well, making it easier to book artists for entire tours at AEG clubs and theaters."
(Via AEG takes over historic Agora Theatre on Friday | cleveland.com.)
I wish I could get excited about this…
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Home Politics Restructuring for National Cohesion and Good Governance
Restructuring for National Cohesion and Good Governance
I have spoken a few times over a long period of time about the need to restructure our federation in order to make it stronger.
Our founding political leaders agreed on and erected a federal system of government. They believed, quite rightly in my view, that such a structure was the only guarantee of national cohesion in view of our diversity, varying resource endowments, varying levels of development, and the centrifugal forces threatening our unity. Over the years that structure which we inherited has been changed towards greater centralization of power and concentration of resources at the centre at the expense of the federating units. This has had enormous consequences, including a culture of fiscal dependency of the federating units on the centre, an over-extended federal government dominating virtually every aspect of our national life. Others are the cries of marginalization by virtually all segments of our country at different times, rising dins of demands for restructuring, fiscal federalism and even violent extremism. There have also been voices opposed to those demands and agitations.
Restructuring, to me, therefore, means effecting changes to our current federal structure to bring it closer to what our founding leaders erected in order to address the very issues and challenges that led them to opt for a less centralized system. It means devolution of more powers to the federating units with the accompanying resources, and it would involve greater control by the federating unitsof the resources in their areas. It would mean, by implication, the reduction of the powers and roles of the federal government so that it focuses only on those matters best handled by the centre such as defence, immigration, customs and excise, foreign policy, aviation as well as setting and enforcing national standards on such matters as education, health and safety.
Good governance, in a democratic setting, would mean that the government effectively and efficiently delivers on its constitutional duties and promises to the electorate in a fair and equitable manner. It also includes meeting other challenges that emerge in the society during the government’s tenure. And it includes government being accountable to the people and recognizing and effectuating the people’s right to know. Thus transparency is at the core of good governance. Good governance is a requirement for a country’s development which, to me, means improving the society’s productive capacity, improving the people’s welfare and enhancing their freedoms. As we know, governments do not often voluntarily offer transparency, which is why a viable opposition and a vibrant and independent news media are essential ingredients of good governance. Above all, perhaps, good governance requires a vigilant and demanding electorate.
In contemporary Nigeria, good governance would involve addressing the country’s economic stagnation and crisis, including transitioning the economy to a post-oil/commodities trajectory, ensuring security, fighting corruption and restructuring the polity, including the structure of the federation and government institutions.
National cohesion refers to a sense of unity and oneness by citizens of a country to the extent that, despite their diversity, they see themselves as forming a nation. That sense of solidarity encourages them to invest economically, socially, politically and emotionally in the wellbeing of the nation-country. National cohesion does not mean the absence of disagreements but those disagreements play out and are resolved within the parameters laid out by the country’s laws and regulations and in a manner that preserves that sense of oneness.
The organizers of this event wanted me to answer the question of whether Restructuring is the Panacea for National Cohesion and Good Governance.
Well I do not believe that any one single thing is the panacea for national cohesion and good governance in Nigeria, but I have no doubt that effecting necessary changes to our existing federal structure will help to promote national cohesion and good governance. Some have argued that what our country needs is just good governance, not restructuring. That is misleading.In fact you may have good governance without necessarily having national cohesion, and vice versa. Yes people want good governance, but often they also want to feel part of the governance process. They like to have a sense of belonging. They do not just want to see good governance; they also want fair and equitable governance. And they want to be respected as bona fide members of the society. People like to see themselves represented in those doing the governing. Let’s not forget that some of the most efficient and effective governments in history were also exclusionary brutal dictatorships which maintained national cohesion until those regimes collapsed. Equally important is that while restructuring our federal system would help ensure good governance, the latter does not depend on restructuring alone. People and communities at every level must continually demand good governance from their elected officials.
About a week before the last Ramadan, a small business owner in Yola complained to me about how poor power supply was hurting her restaurant business. She wondered why the power situation remains very bad and pleaded with me to do something about it. I explained to her that our country’s generation and distribution capacities are not anywhere near enough and that even the little that is generated is sometimes sabotaged by attacks on the pipelines that supply gas to the power plants in the Niger Delta. “Why should we in Yola rely on power from the Niger Delta?, she wondered aloud. “Why can’t we have our own power plants in Yola or Adamawa State? Am I supposed to go the Niger Delta to complain?â€, she fumed.
I am aware that the current government is working hard to improve the power situation in the country but this woman’s questions and statements capture the pitfalls of the excessive centralization that has been foisted on our country over the years. It must be reversed if we are to set ourselves on a path of sustainable development, peaceful coexistence, and national cohesion.
Ever since the creation of this country out of diverse peoples, cultures, histories and geographies, we have had our differences and conflicts, and early in our history we tried to resolve those differences through negotiations and compromises. Our resolutions were never perfect but they didn’t have to be. Human relationships evolve; they change as they seek perfection. Our diversity encouraged our founding leaders to opt for a federal system of the government which they hoped would allow the federating regions the space to control their resources and to develop at their own paces according to their peculiar situations. At a point in our history those negotiations and compromises broke down and we had a military take-over of power and subsequently fought a civil war.
Military rule and the civil war led to the steady erosion of our federal structure. The increasing centralization of power and concentration of resources at the federal level, in the context of rising oil revenues and neglect of other revenue sources, weakened and relatively impoverished the states. As Vice President and Chairman of the National Privatization Council, I saw firsthand what an overly centralized federal government can do wrong. Having confiscated the bulk of national revenues, the federal government proceeded to insert itself in a dominant manner in virtually every aspect of our national life, including the economy where it became an investor in all manner of businesses rather than facilitating the emergence of a vibrant and thriving private sector.
Although we have succeeded in privatizing many public enterprises, we still engage in what I call institutional escapism and duplication/ multiplication. Rather than fix existing challenges in existing ministries and departments we create new ones to carry out the same functions as the existing ones. If the Federal Ministry of Works is not functioning well, we create FERMA. If the police is not doing well with respect to traffic management, we create Federal Road Safety Corps. Again we create a Civil Defence Corps in response to police shortcomings in providing security rather than decentralizing the police among other reforms. The list goes on and on. We claim that state governments would abuse state police, yet we hypocritically accept their donations of equipment and funds to the police commands in their states, pretending we don’t know that those donations have relational consequences.
As you deliberate, there are three things I suggest you pay serious attention to.
1. People have a Constitutional Right to Peacefully Agitate for Restructuring, so focus on Identifying the Reasons for the Agitations
We are now in a democracy and democratic freedoms allow people to express themselves freely, including questioning the political and economic structures of the country and their place in it. We should try to understand the basis for the agitations and calls for a new compact rather than vilify the agitators. It is disingenuous to accuse everyone who calls for restructuring as trying to break up the county. History tells us that that kind of cheap blackmail will not work as long as the underlying reasons for the agitations persist.
2. It is Ok to have Different Positions on Restructuring
Yes restructuring may mean different things to different people. Like all things with political and economic implications, those calling for restructuring have varying positions, which is not a bad thing. But we won’t really find out how close our positions are to those of others until we sit down with them and start to talk and negotiate. The biggest challenge seems to be that we seem to be allowing moderate voices on this issue to be drowned out by the reckless utterances of a few rabble rousers on all sides who may be tools in the hands of those who do not wish this country well. These are some of the people who arrogate to themselves the toga of spokespersons of our diverse groups.
3. Restructuring will Contribute to National Cohesion and Good Governance.
I have no doubt that restructuring our federal system would contribute the following among other things:
a. Devolving more powers to the federating units and transferring more resources to them will help to decongest the centre and enhance greater manageability, efficiency and accountability. There will be more clarity in the division of powers and responsibilities between the centre and the federating units, and there will be a reduction in the attention paid to the center. In my view, there should be no federal roads, therefore states will be responsible for road construction and maintenance and people will know that. The same would go for schools and hospitals. State police (for states that so desire) will help improve security. States that do not want their own police forces will work out arrangements with the federal authorities over cost-sharing for policing in their jurisdictions.The key thing is that federating units will have greater resources, authority and capacity to tackle localized problems with national impact, including education, health care, roads and insecurity such as the herdsmen-farmers clashes, armed robbery, kidnapping, militancy and other forms of insecurity that may manifest themselves as cultism or other anti-social behaviors. That would be good governance.And the incentive for states in a region or zone to pool together to provide services will be stronger when we pull the federal government out of direct involvement in these. And there’s nothing that says we must maintain a 36 state structure. We obviously can’t go back to the former regions because of minority rights concerns. So we should explore the option of using the geo-political zones as federating units. With devolved powers and resources they will be more viable than the existing states. And their current make-up is more suited to addressing minority concerns.
b. Restructuring will ensure greater accountability. People are more likely to hold their state and local governments to account once those governments are no longer able to convincingly blame the central government for their shortcomings.
c. Restructuring will promote healthy competition among our federating units, which will encourage them to diversify their revenue sources.
d. Restructuring will ensure greater fairness and a perception of same among our constituent parts.
e. Beyond these, there is also another huge economic imperative for us to restructure: oil, which underlined and underwrote our excessive centralization and fragmentation into numerous unviable states, and which has been at the centre of much of our squabbles, seems to have reached its peak as source of revenues for our country. In fact, long-term, it seems to be on a downward trajectory. And even if its contribution to our revenues were to remain at current levels in the long term, it still spells trouble for our economy and the unsustainable structure which it has supported for nearly 50 years. The states or zones of the country that are most dependent on oil revenues have a greater urgency to decouple themselves from that dependency now that there is still some oil revenue to assist them in the transition. That window may not remain open for a long time, which may then make the inevitable transition much more painful and chaotic.
New technologies of oil production have hugely increased oil output, especially in the US. This, as well as the massive investments in alternative energy sources around the world, has depressed oil prices. And things are going to get worse for oil dependent economies. Norway has announced a ban on the sale of fossil fuel powered cars from 2025. France will ban the sale of such vehicles from 2040. And Volvo has just announced that every new model of car that it would produce from 2019 – in just two years’ time – will be either wholly electric or hybrid. Tesla, the American maker of electric vehicles, just started the production of its soon-to-be mass-produced Model 3 just as other vehicle manufacturers are joining the bandwagon.
We must be open-minded as we debate issues of restructuring and as we approach negotiations on it. Sponsoring so-called youth groups to issue provocative statements and cause trouble is not a substitute for reasoned arguments as to the better path to the future. This country was built originally out of negotiations by sectional groups and leaders. I believe that our generation is capable of negotiations and compromises for the greater good of our country and our peoples.
Being excerpts of speech by Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the 3rd Policy Monitoring Dialogue Series on National Unity, Integration, and Devolution of Power/Restructuring,†organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, at Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja.
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