Tomb Raider Movie Soundtrack Available On Vinyl
The original motion picture soundtrack for Tomb Raider is now available on vinyl! This exclusive record is limited to 1,500 copies worldwide and features an alluring clear & red colored vinyl, printed gatefold sleeve, 2 printed inner-sleeves, a poster, and a PVC sleeve to protect the whole package.
Scored by none other than Junkie XL, aka Tom Holkenborg, the soundtrack is absolutely mesmerizing and a real treat to listen to and when watching the film, fills every moment perfectly.
Get more info on this release and order your copy now!
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Special Editions & Pre-Order Details
Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be available in quite a few flavors with the reveal of all the special editions during last week's events. Take a look at the Maya inspired infographic above and you can begin to see what I mean. If trying to decode an ancient Maya calendar is a little confusing, don't worry. I will go into much further detail below. Also, there are a few things left out of the graphic.
Available both physically & digitally for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & digitally on Steam.
LIMITED STEELBOOK EDITION
Available physically for Xbox One & PlayStation 4.
Steelbook, Three Art Cards, & O-Ring
DIGITAL DELUXE EDITION
Available digitally on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & Steam
Additional Exclusive Outfit & Weapon
Digital Original Soundtrack
Xbox Live Avatar Outfit, PlayStation 4 Theme, or Steam Wallpaper
Additional Skills Booster Pack
48 Hour Early Access to the Game
CROFT EDITION
Available both physically and digitally on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, & digitally on Steam.
Three Additional Exclusive Outfits & Weapons
CROFT STEELBOOK EDITION
Available physically for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, & PC.
Xbox Live Avatar Outfit or PlayStation 4 Theme
Lara Statue, Axe Bottle Opener, & Flashlight
A new adventure every month.
7 Challenge Tombs with Narrative Side Missions
7 Outfits
7 Skills
Here are some other infographics that may help or hinder your journey in pre-ordering the game. Check all of your favorite retailers for their specific pre-order bonuses. For instance Amazon has a Prima Mini Digital Guide, GAME had a Currency Pack, GameStop has a Flashlight, Game Mania has an Artifact Edition that comes with a Lara Totaku Figure that hasn't been announced yet, T-Shirt bonuses and more!
I know that was a lot of information to take in, but there's more! There is a whole year of content to keep us entertained up to the game's release and long after! Check it out in another Maya calendar below!
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Flying Out Of Delhi: Be Ready For Long Queues, Peak-Hour Chaos At Delhi Airport's Terminal 3
You May Have To Face Long Queues At Security Checkpoints, Especially During The Morning Peak Hours Of 6 To 10 AM.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Pawas Kumar | Updated on: 20 Nov 2019, 03:35:32 PM
IndiGo, SpiceJet have shifted some flight operations to Delhi Airport's Terminal 3 (Photo Credit: PTI File)
If you are flying out of Delhi via IGI airport's T3 terminal, then it is better to reach early. You may have to face long queues at security checkpoints, especially during the morning peak hours of 6 to 10 AM, as there has been an increase in the number of flyers from T3. The increase in number of passengers at T3 is the result of IndiGo and SpiceJet moving some of their domestic flights to this terminal. Other airlines that operate from T3 also increased their connections.
The aviation ministry tweeted last Friday saying, "SpiceJet and IndiGo have taken over the slots vacated by Jet Airways at IGIA's T3. However, the number of flights they have shifted to T3 is far less than the number Jet earlier operated from T3. Issue of traffic jam on the ramp is due to heightened security alert."
A national daily quoting sources said, "CISF is now screening around 16,000 domestic passengers in morning peak hours of 6-10 am at T3, up from 12,000 in 2018. In fact, the struggle to avoid missing flight begins right from the base of the ramp leading to T3 departure with long, congested lines of vehicles slowly moving to drop passengers."
The airport claims that 95% of the passengers clear security in less than 10 minutes. However, it could still be problem during peak hour for domestic passengers. CISF has taken steps to handle the surge by adding frisking gates through means like shifting a security check gate from international to domestic side at T3 or by dedicating two separate channels for airline crew and staff to ensure at least pilots and cabin crew can reach aircraft in time to operate them, according to the report.
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Food pantries are an incredible community resource. That's why Phil Arbolino was passionate about supporting the Community Food Cupboard in his Manchester, Vermont community.
The LifeTime Asset Management team got to know Phil in 2016, when he retired from financial planning and merged his firm with LTAM. Afterward, Phil became a client and a friend.
When Phil passed unexpectedly in 2017, our firm joined his family and friends in mourning the loss of a kind, caring, hardworking man who gave back to his community.
Our firm is thankful for the chance to honor Phil's memory by supporting one of his beloved charities. We've gotten to know the Community Food Cupboard, a community food resource that has supported hundreds of families for nearly 30 years. We've learned more about hunger issues in the United States, including the harrowing statistic that as many as 1 in 8 people in America face hunger and food insecurity.
We also learned that, according to the USDA, North Carolina is one of 8 states that have statistically higher food insecurity rates than the US national average. Our firm is dedicated to following the example that Phil set in Vermont when he partnered with Community Food Cupboard; we are grateful for the chance to support CFC and will also look for opportunities to partner with organizations in our home state of North Carolina and in the other 29 states where our clients are located.
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Mixed Motives Insider Trading
Iowa Law Review, Vol. 106, 2020
UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 20-05
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Andrew Verstein
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Date Written: March 21, 2020
If you trade securities on the basis of careful research, then you are a brilliant and shrewd investor. If you trade on the basis of a hot tip from your brother-in-law, an investment banker, then you are a criminal. What if you trade for both reasons?
There is no single answer, thanks to a three-way circuit split. Some courts would forgive you according to your lawful trading motives, some would convict you in keeping with your bad motives, and some would hand the issue to the jury. Sometimes called the "awareness/use" debate or the "possession/use" debate, the proper treatment of mixed motive traders has occupied dozens of law review articles over the last thirty years.
This Article demonstrates that courts and scholars have so far followed the wrong reasons to the wrong answers. Instead, this Article takes trader motives seriously, drawing on insights and solutions from the broader jurisprudence of mixed motive. This analysis generates a new legal test and demonstrates the test's superiority.
Keywords: Insider Trading, Mixed Motives, Use, Possession, 10b-5, 10b5-1, Trading Plan
Verstein, Andrew, Mixed Motives Insider Trading (March 21, 2020). Iowa Law Review, Vol. 106, 2020, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 20-05, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3558540 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3558540
Andrew Verstein (Contact Author)
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Whit Tuesday
SAINT BARNABAS
Acts, Chapter 11, Verse 23-24
23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful* to the Lord in firmness of heart, 24 for he was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith. And a large number of people was added to the Lord.
The church grows because of the grace of God, which established a principle that Christ accepts all whether gentile or Jew as long as they remain faithful to the beatitudes and the teachings of the church with a firmness of heart. Antioch and Syria were the seedbed of the saints and martyrs in this time as it is now.
Whit Tuesday[1]
Introit of the Mass is again a song of joy: "Receive the joy of your glory, alleluia; giving thanks to God, alleluia; Who hath called you to a heavenly kingdom. Attend, O My people, to My law, incline your ears to the words of My mouth."
Prayer. May the power of the Holy Ghost be with us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, which may mercifully purify our hearts and de fend them from all adversities.
EPISTLE. Acts viii. 14-17.
In those days: When the apostles who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God; they sent unto them Peter and John. Who, when they were come, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. For He was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
The Samaritans had been converted and baptized by Philip the Deacon. Peter and John administered to them, by the imposition of hands and prayer, the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Is Confirmation a sacrament? Yes, for Jesus Christ has promised the Holy Ghost not only to the apostles, but also to all the faithful, to confirm them fully in faith and charity.
What is the outward sign of this sacrament? The imposition of the bishop's hands, the anointing with the chrism, and the words of the bishop.
What grace is conveyed through this sacrament? Through holy Confirmation, God confirms and completes in the Christian the grace of Baptism, and strengthens him for the combat with his spiritual enemies. Confirmation, like Baptism, cannot be received more than once, because the grace received in these sacraments is always efficacious if we only cooperate with it; and because in these sacraments we receive also an indelible character, which forever distinguishes the souls of those who have been baptized and confirmed from those who have not.
GOSPEL. John x. 1-10.
At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: Amen, amen, I say to you: he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what He spoke to them. Jesus there fore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. I am the door. By Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.
How is this parable to be understood? The sheepfold is the Church, or congregation of the faithful; the door for the flock is Baptism; for the pastors, lawful vocation and mission from God, through their spiritual superiors; the chief pastor is Christ; the sheep are the faithful; the invisible door-keeper is the Holy Ghost, inasmuch as He prepares hearts for Jesus; the visible door-keeper is the bishop or his representatives. The thieves and robbers are the Pharisees and heretics of all ages, who lead astray the sheep of Christ, and destroy their spiritual life by false doctrines. If we would not become the prey of thieves and murderers, we must follow the doctrines of the teachers and pastors whom Christ has appointed for His Church.
Time after Pentecost[2]
The Time After Pentecost is the time that corresponds to this age. Just as Advent symbolizes life under the Old Law while the Christmas, Lenten, and Easter seasons recapitulate the thirty-three-year era of Jesus Christ's earthly sojourn, the Time after Pentecost corresponds to the penultimate chapter of the story of redemption, the chapter that is currently being written. That story, as we all know, has been written somewhat out of order. Thanks to the last book of the Bible, we have a vivid account of history's climax but not of what happens in between the Apostolic Age and the Final Judgment. In a sense we should all feel a certain affinity for the Time After Pentecost, since it is the only liturgical season of the year that corresponds to where we are now.
Where we are is the age of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Church because even though the Apostles were transformed by earlier events such as the institution of the Eucharist and priesthood on Maundy Thursday or their acquiring the power to forgive sins on Easter afternoon, they - and by extension, the Church - did not really come into their own until the Paraclete inspired them to burst out of their closed quarters and spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth. And just as Pentecost marks the birthday of the Church in the Holy Spirit, so too does the Time after Pentecost mark the life of the Church moving through the vicissitudes of history under the protection and guidance of that same Spirit. It is for this reason that the epistle readings from this season emphasize the Apostles' advice to the burgeoning churches of the day while its Gospel readings focus on the kingdom of heaven and its justice. It is also the reason why the corresponding lessons from the breviary draw heavily from the history of the Israelite monarchy in the Old Testament. All are somehow meant to teach us how to comport ourselves as citizens of the city of God as we pass through the kingdoms of this world.
St. Barnabas[3]
Strictly speaking, Barnabas was not an apostle, but the title has been bestowed upon him since very early times. His first name was Joseph; Barnabas (etymology: "son of consolation") was a surname. He belonged to the tribe of Levi. He was a Hellenist, that is, a Jew who lived outside of Palestine and spoke the Greek tongue. Born in Cyprus, he embraced the faith soon after the death of Christ, becoming a member of the original Jerusalem community. His first noteworthy deed was to sell his belongings and place the money at the feet of the apostles. It is to his lasting credit that he befriended the neo-convert Paul and introduced him to the apostles when everyone was still distrusting the former persecutor. More noteworthy still was his service to the universal Church by being the first to recognize Paul's potential for the cause of Christ; it was Barnabas who brought him from Tarsus to teach at Antioch. The first missionary journey (about 45-48 A.D.) the two made together, and Barnabas seems to have been the leader, at least at the beginning (Acts 13-14). Barnabas' appearance must have been dignified and impressive, otherwise the inhabitants of Lystra would not have regarded him as Jupiter. He was present with Paul at the Council of Jerusalem (ca. 50). While they were preparing for the second missionary journey, there arose a difference of opinion regarding Mark; as a result, each continued his labors separately. Barnabas went to Cyprus with Mark and thereafter is not referred to again in the Acts of the Apostles or in any other authentic source. From a remark in one of Paul's letters we know that he lived from the work of his own hands (1 Cor. 9:5-6). The time and place of his death have not been recorded. It is claimed that his body was found at Salamina in 488 A.D. His name is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass since ancient times.
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
Patron: Antioch; Cyprus; against hailstorms; invoked as peacemaker.
Read the passages from the Acts of the Apostles about St. Barnabas: Acts 4:36-37; 9:26-29; 11:27-30; 12:24-25; 13:1-12; 13:27-30; 13:44-52; 14:1-14; 14:21-23; 14:36-40.
Read the Catholic Encyclopedia's account of the life of St. Barnabas.
Today is my deceased sister Donna Marie's (Lady-Mistress of the Sea) birthday please pray for her intentions.
· Drops of Christ's Blood
· Offering to the sacred heart of Jesus
· 90 Days for our Nation, 54-day rosary-Day 30
* A person with fear of the Lord is filled with peace, faith, hope and love.
[1] Goffine's Devout Instructions, 1896.
[2] http://www.holytrinitygerman.org/PostPentecost.html
[3]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2019-06-11


National Park Service - Nomenclature of The National Park System
Nomenclature of The National Park System
The National Park Service uses over 20 different titles for the park units it manages, including national park and national monument.
Classification as of 2003
National Military Park, National Battlefield Park, National Battlefield Site, and National Battlefield 25 71,502.49 acres (289 km2) 8,360,261
National Historical Park, National Historic Site, and International Historic Site 125 228,260.60 acres (924 km2) 34,407,217
National Lakeshore 4 228,995.14 acres (927 km2) 3,728,821
National Memorial 27 10,588.45 acres (43 km2) 30,559258
National Monument 76 2,027,864.58 acres (8,206 km2) 22,646,428
National Park 58 52,095,045.71 acres (210,821 km2) 62,950,968
National Parkway 4 177,339.69 acres (718 km2) 29,948,911
National Preserve and National Reserve 20 24,191,311.63 acres (97,899 km2) 2,956,325
National Recreation Area 18 3,700,277.20 acres (14,974 km2) 50,645,414
National River and National Wild and Scenic River and Riverway 15 746,262.99 acres (3,020 km2) 5,999,161
National Scenic Trail 3 239,659.27 acres (970 km2) not available
National Seashore 10 595,013.55 acres (2,408 km2) 17,920,507
Other Designations (White House, National Mall, etc.) 13 36,826.96 acres (149 km2) 11,156,670
Totals 398 84,331,948.26 acres (341,279 km2) 320,309,151
National parks of the United States
Congaree
Cuyahoga Valley
Gates of the Arctic
Guadalupe Mountains
Haleakalā
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes
Katmai
Kenai Fjords
Lake Clark
Wrangell–St. Elias
List of national parks of the United States (by elevation)
National Monuments preserve a single unique cultural or natural feature. Devils Tower National Monument was the first in 1906.
National Historic Sites protect a significant cultural resource that is not a complicated site. Examples of these types of parks include Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and William Howard Taft National Historic Site.
National Historical Parks are larger areas with more complex subjects. Appomattox Court House National Historical Park was created in 1940. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park was dedicated in 1936. Historic sites may also be protected in national parks, monuments, seashores, and lakeshores.
National Historical Parks of the United States
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
Appomattox Court House
Cane River Creole
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Dayton Aviation Heritage
George Rogers Clark
Hopewell Culture
Kaloko-Honokōhau
Keweenaw
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
New Bedford Whaling
Palo Alto Battlefield
Paterson Great Falls
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau
Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front
Salt River Bay
San Francisco Maritime
San Juan Island
Tumacácori
Full Alphabetical List
National Military Parks, Battlefield Parks, Battlefield Sites, and Battlefields preserve areas associated with military history. The different designations reflect the complexity of the event and the site. Many of the sites preserve important Revolutionary War battles and Civil War battlefields. Military parks are the sites of larger actions, such as Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Vicksburg National Military Park, Gettysburg National Military Park, and Shiloh National Military Park—the original four from 1890. Examples of battlefield parks, battlefield sites, and national battlefields include Richmond National Battlefield Park, Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, and Antietam National Battlefield.
National Seashores and National Lakeshores offer preservation of the national coast line, while supporting water–based recreation. Cape Hatteras National Seashore was created in 1937. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, created in 1966, were the first national lakeshores.
United States National Lakeshores and National Seashores
National Lakeshores
Apostle Islands
Indiana Dunes
Pictured Rocks
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Thursday Bolts: 11.30.17
Erik Horne recaps last night's brutal loss in Orlando: "Russell Westbrook was hunched over at the knees as his teammates walked by. Instead of walking out with them, he sat on the sidelines of the Amway Center a little longer. Before a 13-0 Magic fourth-quarter run that blasted the Thunder's reserves out of the Amway Center in a 121-108 Thunder loss Wednesday, Westbrook knew the Thunder lost the game well before that. Westbrook finished with a team-best 37 points and 11 rebounds, but 20 of those points came in a desperation fourth quarter in which the Thunder dug itself a hole well before its ninth road loss of the season was complete."
Dan Devine (Yahoo) on Russell Westbrook sitting dejected on the bench after the loss: "After the loss, Westbrook stopped on his way off the court and sat down on the bench, seemingly overcome with disappointment and frustration at the Thunder having lost their third straight game, and their fifth in six tries, to fall to 8-12 on the season."
Antonio Daniels tore into the team on last night's Thunder Live: "There has to be some energy and passion that comes from someone in timeouts, after games, whether it's you going in the locker room and coaches are throwing stuff because frustration brings these sort of things. This is your job, this is your livelihood, and as an athlete when you are going through times like this you are representing your community, you are representing your city, you are representing your organization and it's embarrassing."
Fred Katz on OKC again leaning on poor decision making: "Once again, the Thunder lost big to a team they should have beaten. Once again, they got away from ball movement as the game developed. Once again, they have their previously ingrained basketball habits to thank for it. It's something the now 8-12 Thunder have tried to improve on over the first quarter of the season. They haven't — because decision making is a skill, not a choice."
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Jan 2, 2019 | Business Ethics, Leadership
by Gael O'Brien
What makes a leader is a question without an expiration date. I confess, I'm obsessed with the question.
W. Michael Hoffman
Never more so than the last few weeks since the sudden death of a treasured pioneer W. Michael Hoffman. With quiet humility, he did more than anyone has to shape and advance the field of business ethics globally, bringing along faculty members, academic administrators, business executives, government officials, foundation executives and so many others. When someone who has had such a deep impact on the work of thousands of people in his 40-some-year career suddenly isn't there anymore, the legacy of his leadership offers some comfort. Whether you knew him or didn't, how he accomplished what he did in service of both business and ethics might inspire more leaders to shape their own possibility.
It is a legacy that provides a roadmap to leadership that matters. In 2016, I wrote a column here on the 40th anniversary of the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics (HCBE) at Bentley University. I loved the story Mike told that night about how the National Endowment for the Humanities turned down his grant application in 1975 to start the center, telling him — when he pressed for information — that they hadn't heard of business ethics. After meeting with endowment officials to discuss the relevance of integrating business with ethics, the center received a grant to launch in 1976. As Mike evolved the center and figured out with his team the most successful approaches to developing curriculum, involving the business community and creating an infrastructure to support all the constituencies, he shared what he was doing so others could adapt or adopt ideas to succeed in their environments.
What makes a leader is so much more than a resume of credentials. It is the heart and soul that creates enduring relationships, inspires and brings out the best in others. Mike embodied the attributes of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills) decades before psychologist Daniel Goleman identified them in his famous 1995 article on leadership. To go deeper into what makes a leader, I asked an ethics center head, a former ethics officer and a public sector executive turned academic for their thoughts on how they experienced Mike's leadership.
Jane Roeder, Interim Director of the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership at California State University Long Beach said in a phone conversation that the Ukleja Center turned to the HCBE as a global benchmark. "Mike Hoffman was like the John Wooden of business ethics," she said. "His vision, integrity and passion for bringing out the best in people and business sparked the creation of university centers globally."
Mike created an infrastructure to support HCBE's mission (inspire ethical leadership, promote ethical collaboration, enrich ethical knowledge and connect ethical thought and action) by inventing what didn't then exist. He co-founded the Ethics Officer Association (now the Ethics & Compliance Initiative) and the Society for Business Ethics, as well as created networks to develop and share information (international conferences, workshops, CEO lecture series, research forums, visiting scholars programs and an executive fellows program which brings corporate ethics officers and practitioners into the life of the center).
Leon Goldman, chairman of HCBE's Kallman Executive Fellows, wrote in an email exchange that Mike's "career was devoted not only to telling students and business leaders that living a values-based life can be done, but to showing them by his actions and the work of the center that such a business career is both possible and highly successful." Goldman, formerly Associate Medical Director and Privacy Officer at Kyruus, a data management company, continued: "Through the Verizon- and Raytheon-sponsored lecture series, he exposed students, faculty and thousands of business leaders and members of the public to examples of highly successful leaders whose business life was guided by values and commitment to an ethical business culture."
I asked Arthur Shacklock from Queensland Australia, who'd known Mike for the past 20 years, how he'd describe Mike's impact. "The influence of Mike Hoffman's leadership will continue in his absence," wrote Shacklock, "because his values, inspiration, optimism, drive, enthusiasm and dedication have been so well embedded into the psyche of those of us who share his vision." Shacklock is a former senior public sector executive, academic and now adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. "Mike inspired us to greater achievements" Shacklock continued, by the standards he set for himself, his warmth, humility, empathy and the deep respect he accorded others." Shacklock added: "…. Mike's leadership lessons will endure to inspire others now and into the future."
For all the strides made in integrating ethics into business education and business decisions that can be attributed to Mike, and to so many others in universities and companies, there is a very long road ahead.
And the enduring question that Mike Hoffman's life and legacy inspire gets to the heart of what makes a leader: what will we require of ourselves and be willing to help develop in others to create leadership that truly matters?
Gael O'Brien, a Business Ethics Magazine columnist, is an executive coach and presenter focused on building leadership, trust, and reputation. She publishes The Week in Ethics, is a Kallman Executive Fellow, Hoffman Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University and Senior Fellow for Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute, Babson College.
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According to a senior executive at the company, Airtel chose to raise prices in these areas first to gauge user reaction and, more importantly, the reaction of its rivals. We go over the specifics.
Bharti Airtel has increased its entry-level tariff by as much as 57% in two circles—Haryana and Odisha—in an effort to boost the amount of user revenue it receives. The telco's action may encourage other providers, particularly cash-strapped Vodafone Idea, to implement comparable tariff increases.
Airtel has chosen to discontinue its cheapest Rs 99 plan in the Haryana and Odisha circles, which included talk time and 200 MB of 2G mobile data over a 28-day period. The cheapest plan in these new circles now starts at Rs 155 and includes unlimited voice calling, 1 GB of mobile data, and 300 SMSes for 24 days. This is due to the plan's withdrawal.
Why is Airtel's action important?
According to a senior executive at the company, Airtel chose to raise prices in these areas first to gauge user reaction and, more importantly, the reaction of its rivals. "It would be great for the current industry as a whole if we saw the other players take hikes.
We may consider raising plan prices nationwide if the competitors raise their prices in these areas as well, an executive said. In the first quarter of FY2023, the combined contributions from the Haryana and Odisha circles totaled 4.4% of Airtel's Adjusted Gross Revenues (AGR).
For a very long time, Bharti Airtel has advocated that for the industry to be sustainable, the average revenue per user (ARPU) should initially be around Rs 200 per month and eventually increase to Rs 300. Airtel's ARPU increased by 3.8% quarter over quarter during the July to September period, reaching Rs 190, surpassing Jio's Rs 177.2 and Vodafone Idea's Rs 131.
Reliance Jio's comparable 28-day plan has also unlimited voice calls for Rs91, while Vodafone India's comparable Rs 99 plan is available to its subscribers.
According to experts in the field, Vodafone Idea (Vi), which currently has the lowest ARPU among the three telcos, will benefit from Airtel's move. "The industry continues to have the lowest tariffs in the entire world.
Jio and Vi may implement a similar tariff increase in the coming weeks or months if any operator decides to raise the base rate, according to Prashant Singhal, leader of EY's global TMT emerging markets practice.
The three telcos last increased their rates by about 25% in November 2021. Since then, they have purchased a spectrum totaling Rs. 1.49 lakh crore in the 5G spectrum auction that took place earlier this year.
In a research note, ICICI Securities stated that if the competition follows, it will lead to a faster deleveraging of balance sheets and an increase in the production of free cash flow, both of which are crucial for telcos given the significant amount of money they are currently spending to roll out 5G networks.
How might Airtel's action affect the business?
In addition to enabling other telcos to raise rates, Airtel's increase is not anticipated to mainly have an impact on its 4G customers because the plan it canceled only provided 2G internet speeds. According to ICICI Securities, "Airtel has ensured that its peers cannot take advantage of the current situation to poach its 4G customers by limiting the effective tariff hike to only 2G customers."
According to Citigroup, Bharti Airtel's mobile revenue could increase by between 2.5 and 3% if it is successful in implementing this change across all of its service areas.
Bharti Airtel Ltd.'s pilot program to increase baseline rates for prepaid customers in two main circles of Haryana and Odisha from 99 to 155 will not only be a test for the No. 2 telco but also for the industry as a mere whole, according to industry observers, as its success could mean much higher levels of rate increase than seen in previous years.
The bottom of their user base could be moved up to the 155 plan from the 99 plan, and the top end of prepaid tariffs could be raised by another 10–20%, as is anticipated along the lines of the most recent tariff increase in November 2021.
According to analysts, encouraging entry-level customers to purchase a higher value pack will result in an immediate 57% increase in tariffs, which will boost Airtel's mobile revenue by about 2.5–3%.
The average revenue per user (Arpu), a crucial indicator of telco profitability, would rise even further if customers on the other end of the prepaid segment were asked to pay more for the current plans.
According to Prashant Singhal, global TMT emerging markets leader at EY, "Raising the baseline level of tariffs and increasing headline tariffs, as is expected, together will lead to a big upside for telcos' Ebitda levels which would in turn benefit the financial health of the entire industry."
Analysts at Citi Research noted that another round of tariff hikes, if successfully implemented, could be a key positive catalyst and driver of investor sentiment amid an anticipated increase in 5G CAPEX. They added that all other things being equal, a 5% increase in mobile ARPU can result in approximately a 4% upside to the estimated FY24 Ebitda.
"Vodafone Idea, which has been attempting to raise money for some time, may benefit from this as well. Rising Arpu may be viewed by investors as a sign that the company's financial situation is improving, a sector expert said on the condition of anonymity.
After the previous round of tariff increases in 2021, prepaid recharge pack sellers Airtel and Vodafone Idea have requested another round.
They have reiterated the necessity of average revenue per user (Arpus) becoming sustainable in order to enhance the sector's financial health. India has some of the lowest telecom rates in the world, and according to Airtel and Vodafone Idea, Arpus needs to increase to 200 and then gradually to 300 over the next few years.
Analysts predicted that consumer acceptance of the new plan, which offers unlimited data and calling as opposed to the metered calls, messages, and data usage in the 99 plan, will be crucial to this industry shift. If struggling carrier Vodafone Idea follows suit with changes to its tariff base on similarly priced plans, this could prove to be a huge benefit for the company.
The 99 recharge pack is reportedly used by close to 100 million consumers, according to market estimates. Airtel and Vodafone Idea are currently offering the package in all circles.
The pack in two circles is no longer available from Airtel. If Bharti's calculated risk is successful, it will increase the risk of increased competition and new market entrants. This should also significantly boost VIL's prospects, according to analysts at ICICI Securities. However, analysts at Morgan Stanley pointed out that reducing customer churn, or stopping the loss of customers, is a key challenge because it increased to 4.3% in the September quarter from 3.5% the previous quarter.
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Disney's Mulan Is an Extravagant Mediocrity
The studio's decision to thank repressive Chinese government authorities, meanwhile, makes it something far darker.
Peter Suderman | 9.9.2020 1:14 PM
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As a movie, at least, there is nothing particularly wrong with Mulan, Disney's latest and most explicit play for Chinese moviegoers, but there is nothing particularly right about it either. It's skillfully crafted, as high-gloss modern blockbusters tend to be, and it moves efficiently through an entirely predictable set of narrative beats. But there are no surprises, no moments of real awe or wonder, no scenes or ideas that stand out; even the genuinely extravagant production work seems designed less to wow and more to hit a particular focus-grouped spec. The movie's most notable trait is its bland consistency. It is lavishly perfunctory, spectacularly just fine. Mulan takes "pretty good" to a whole new level.
That's par for the course for Disney, which has recently specialized in paint-by-numbers luxury epics constructed out of recognizable intellectual property, whether in the form of purchased brands like Marvel or Star Wars or in live-action remakes of animated classics from the studio's vault. Like recent adaptations of The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, Mulan falls into the last category: It's based on the studio's 1998 animated hit, which was itself a retelling of a centuries-old Chinese legend about a young woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place as a warrior.
But this version has not only been remade in the image of its predecessor; it has been refashioned in the image of Disney's other contemporary properties, most notably the recent entries in the Star Wars franchise. While the animated original was a G-rated family film with a wisecracking dragon sidekick played by Eddie Murphy, the live-action reboot is a dutiful PG-13 action spectacle built around a powerful female hero.
Mulan isn't the disaster that Disney's most recent Star Wars entry, The Rise of Skywalker, turned out to be. In both story and character terms, it's a more polished final product, which is to say that it basically makes sense and does not make a mockery of its source material.
But it clearly draws from the same well as the J.J. Abrams–era Star Wars films. There are no lightsabers to be found, but there's a family sword, an imperial power struggle, a band of raiders led by a man in black, and a mystical energy source that gives the movie's titular heroine great power and special aptitude as a warrior. Disney was apparently hoping that a box-office force would once again awaken.
Alas, just weeks before Mulan was set to be released, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters in the United States, putting the film's theatrical release on hold. Instead, nearly six months later, it has been released to much of the world as a premium add-on to its parent company's streaming service, Disney+.
For about $30, you can finally have the theatrical experience at home. The problem is that it is not the theatrical experience. Even with a big-screen television and surround sound, you're still watching in your living room, with your dog snoring nearby and the delivery guy ringing your doorbell. The experience is less summer blockbuster and more Blockbuster Video.
Mulan also shares with the Abrams-verse a timid and studied thematic emptiness, an avoidance of any specific ideas or questions that might upset anyone, anywhere, at all. Mulan fights for honor, for family, for finding herself and owning her power, which is to say she fights for vague and inoffensive banalities that could not possibly stir up any political or cultural controversy. The movie reads as an extended attempt to dodge saying anything about anything in any way, except that nice things are nice and good things are good. Who could argue with that?
The real world, however, did not cooperate with Disney's plan to avoid ruffling feathers: Parts of the movie were shot near China's Uighur concentration camps, and the credits thank Chinese authorities who help administer those brutal facilities, where as many as three million people are reportedly held against their will in buildings ringed with razor wire, patrolled by guards armed with cattle prods.
The expansion of global trade has greatly benefited both American and Chinese citizens, and large corporations can sometimes serve as cultural ambassadors, even in countries with repressive governments. But Disney increasingly relies on the box office power of Chinese audiences. Its cooperation with China's Communist Party regime, which restricts the number of foreign films that can be shown each year and implicitly censors American studio content, is one reason for the careful blandness that permeates so many Disney products.
What this means, however, is that a film like Mulan is inherently tied up in the ugliness of governments and politics—indeed, in some of the ugliest political repression on the planet. Judged strictly as a film, Mulan is merely an extravagant mediocrity. But as a cultural proposition, it embodies something far, far darker.
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At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang nebula is the coldest known object in the universe — colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, the explosive event that created the cosmos.
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"This ultra-cold object is extremely intriguing and we're learning much more about its true nature with ALMA," said Raghvendra Sahai, a researcher and principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. "What seemed like a double lobe, or boomerang shape, from Earth-based optical telescopes, is actually a much broader structure that is expanding rapidly into space."
As originally observed with ground-based telescopes, this nebula appeared lopsided, which is how it got its name. Later observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed a bow-tie-like structure. The new ALMA data, however, reveal that the Hubble image tells only part of the story, and the twin lobes seen in that image may actually be a trick of light as seen at visible wavelengths.
The researchers discovered a dense lane of millimeter-sized dust grains surrounding the star, which explains why its outer cloud has an hourglass shape in visible light. These minute dust grains have created a mask that shades a portion of the central star and allows its light to leak out only in narrow but opposite directions into the cloud, giving it an hourglass appearance.
"This is important for the understanding of how stars die and become planetary nebulas," said Sahai. "Using ALMA, we were quite literally, and figuratively, able to shed new light on the death throes of a sun-like star."
The Boomerang nebula, located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is a relatively young example of an object known as a planetary nebula. Planetary nebulas, contrary to their name, are actually the end-of-life phases of stars like our sun that have sloughed off their outer layers. What remains at their centers are white dwarf stars, which emit intense ultraviolet radiation that causes the gas in the nebulae to glow and emit light in brilliant colors.
Read the full ALMA release at https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/alma-reveals-coldest-place-in-the-universe. Additional authors on this paper include Wouter Vlemmings, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala, Sweden; Patrick Huggins, New York University, New York; Lars-Ake Nyman, Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago de Chile; and Yiannis Gonidakis, CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility.
ALMA, an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by European Southern Observatory, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
This article appeared in the January 2014 issue of RocketSTEM.
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Homosexuals and the Pedophile Connection
Minnesota Family Council / Minnesota Family Institute ^ | 3/10/2003 | Joe Field
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If your child was attending a private, religious school would it concern you if the child´s teacher/counselor suddenly admitted that he was gay?
Lutheran High School of Greater Minneapolis found itself in such a situation with Roger Franzen, a gay pastor/teacher who taught religion at the school. Discussions ensued following this discovery and Franzen agreed to resign at the end of the 2000 school year while remaining "closeted and celibate."
Less than two years later, attorneys came out of the woodwork to help Franzen sue the school and denomination for discrimination and invasion of privacy.
Minnesota's Human Rights Act, particularly as amended by the infamous 1994 gay rights amendment, seems to specifically afford religious institutions these discretions. The Franzen case should get nowhere fast.
But the issue of gays and public schools was recently highlighted in a U.S. District Court decision involving the New York City public school system. There the court ruled that the school system did not interfere with a teacher´s First Amendment rights when it fired him after discovering his active participation in the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). NAMBLA supports repealing the age of consent and child pornography laws as well as openly endorsing men and boys involved in underage sexual relationships.
But should such a ruling extend to homosexuals without such obvious connections to NAMBLA? The answer lies in whether there is a significant correlation between homosexuals and pedophile activity.
Gay activists have strenuously argued that there is no connection between homosexuality and the sexual abuse of children. They point out that the majority of child molestation cases are by heterosexuals. But they neglect a pivotal fact: Homosexuals comprise only a small percentage of the population, yet account for an extraordinarily high percentage of offenses against children.
A recent study in Demography estimated the number of exclusive male homosexuals in the general population at 2.5 percent, and the number of exclusive lesbians at 1.4 percent. The study took into account three large data sets, including the all-encompassing U.S. Census.
Now consider a report from the Journal of Sex Research which noted that homosexual pedophiles commit about one-third of the total number of child sex offenses, even though they are outnumbered by heterosexuals 20 to one. Less than four percent of the population commits one-third of the offenses against children!
In The Gay Report, homosexual researchers report data showing that better than 7 out of 10 homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19.
Or consider a study in Archives of Sexual Behavior, which found that of 229 convicted child molesters surveyed, "85 percent of offenders against males described themselves as homosexual or bisexual."
The evidence is clear. Homosexuals have an overwhelming propensity towards child molestation. This is not to say that all homosexuals act out with pedophile tendencies. But the percentage of those who do is so disproportionately high it would be irresponsible and costly to ignore. Just ask the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church´s coffers are being drained by the millions to defend and settle an array of alleged child sex offenses by a number of priests. But the Catholic Church appears to have left itself open to further lawsuits when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted a Charter for the protection of children and young people. Included is the declaration that "for even a single act of sexual abuse of a minor — past, present, or future — the offending priest will be permanently removed from the ministry." This "one strike, you´re out" policy for priests is a common sense start — but not enough.
The Bishops´ Charter is silent on the likeliest cause of the abuse problem — the existence of a large number of homosexuals in the priesthood. The Conference would benefit by heeding the words of Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vall, who declared that "people with these inclinations just cannot be ordained. That does not imply a final judgment of people with homosexuality. But you cannot be in this field." Instead the Conference, in apparent kowtowing to the gay lobby and political correctness, adopted a Charter that mandates the implementation of "adequate screening and evaluative techniques in deciding the fitness of candidates for ordination, as well as a "focus on the question of human formation for celibate and chastity."
No matter the screening, even if there is no history of prior child molestation, placing homosexuals in settings with children — such as schools — is akin to putting heterosexual male sex offenders in a sorority house instead of a halfway house.
With the abnormally high percentage of homosexuals accounting for pedophile activity, children in all school settings — private or public — need protection. To neglect this is to continue to place our children knowingly in harm´s way.
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1 posted on 03/15/2003 1:37:36 PM PST by Willie Green
To: Willie Green
Since my child is a girl, I'm more worried about this type:
A 40-year-old is under arrest, charged with soliciting sex from a minor over the Internet.
Ross Strumlauf was arrested by offices of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in the parking lot of Regency Square, where police say he thought he was going to meet a 13-year-old girl. Police say Strumlauf, believing he was communicating with the teen, exposed himself and offered to pay her for sex.
Officers regularly pose as young girls in Internet chat rooms looking for sexual predators.
Strumlauf also is charged with transmission of harmful materials to a minor over the Internet.
2 posted on 03/15/2003 1:42:07 PM PST by george wythe
This is a violation of the fairy's rights and subjects him to unnecessary personal danger. He became a teaching tinkerbell so he wouldn't have to gamble with the diseased fairies in the general population but would have unlimited accesss to the clean, fresh young meat in his classroom. These selfish children have put the faggot at risk and it just isn't right. The democrats will fix this!!!
3 posted on 03/15/2003 1:44:09 PM PST by Tacis
To: scripter; Remedy
ping!
4 posted on 03/15/2003 1:47:12 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
To: Emmylou; FF578; Remedy; scripter; pram; I_Love_My_Husband; EdReform; Dataman; BibChr; yendu bwam; ..
Homosexual Agenda Ping
This article reveals the true nature of the Gay Gestapo. They are determined to destroy Christianity.
5 posted on 03/15/2003 1:48:46 PM PST by Kuksool
To: Tacis
This is a violation of the fairy's rights and subjects him to unnecessary personal danger. He became a teaching tinkerbell so he wouldn't have to gamble with the diseased fairies in the general population but would have unlimited accesss to the clean, fresh young meat in his classroom. These selfish children have put the faggot at risk and it just isn't right. The democrats will fix this!!! - Yea we must be tolerant and respect and celebrate his lifestyle choice and anyone who says otherwise is committing a hate crime! - This is all Bush's fault!
6 posted on 03/15/2003 1:53:13 PM PST by Free_at_last_-2001 (is bill [not allowed to practice law] clinton in jail yet?)
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... In The Gay Report, homosexual researchers report data showing that better than 7 out of 10 homosexuals surveyed had at some time had sex with boys 16 to 19 ...
Was that when they were older, or when they themselves were 16 to 19 ? If it was when they themselves were that age, then the same percentage holds for heterosexuals. If so, then the later statement that the "great majority of homosexuals have a propensity towards child molestation" is false.
Do you (or anyone else out there) have another study that clarifies this ?
8 posted on 03/15/2003 1:58:02 PM PST by Camber-G
I've got two words for parents who are put in this situation: home school.
9 posted on 03/15/2003 1:59:06 PM PST by Commander8
To: Discussted
Normal people aren't gay.
10 posted on 03/15/2003 2:08:45 PM PST by ALS
To: I_Love_My_Husband
{Lutheran High School of Greater Minneapolis found itself in such a situation with Roger Franzen, a gay pastor/teacher who taught religion at the school. Discussions ensued following this discovery and Franzen agreed to resign at the end of the 2000 school year while remaining "closeted and celibate."
Minnesota's Human Rights Act, particularly as amended by the infamous 1994 gay rights amendment, seems to specifically afford religious institutions these discretions. The Franzen case should get nowhere fast.}
All Bible-believing schools ought to require pastors & teachers to sign statements affirming their allegiance to Biblical principles. There are too many churches that have been taken over by False Prophets.
11 posted on 03/15/2003 2:14:50 PM PST by Kuksool
To: Kuksool; I_Love_My_Husband; *Homosexual Agenda; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; ...
Thanks for the ping you two. Here's a ping of my own after trying to remove those who have already been pinged.
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12 posted on 03/15/2003 2:17:22 PM PST by scripter
To: ALS; Discussted
<< Normal people aren't gay. >>
Normal people are gay -- as in "happy and gay!"
Deviant sodomists, on the other hand, are GAY, as in the anacromyn.
Got AIDS* Yet?
[*Anus Invaders Death Syndrome]
13 posted on 03/15/2003 2:17:57 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
Why would you defend someone like this?
14 posted on 03/15/2003 2:18:29 PM PST by Dataman
A homosexual is not a role model for ANT child. And yes there is a connection between homosexuals and pedahilia.
15 posted on 03/15/2003 2:20:11 PM PST by nmh
To: ALS
Agreed. The statistics cited above are not speculation. They are facts. Just like the fact that the average male homosexual has a life span of 41 years of age.
Let me ask you a question: if the average homosexual male were required to let his health insurance company know about his sexual status in the same way that smokers must inform their health insurance company about their habit, could the average gay man afford health insurance?
Answer: of course not. We are paying for the consequences of their sodomitical lifestyles. They are mooching off us. Homosexuals cannot survive without the stability provided by the surrounding heterosexual community, nor can they get "fresh meat" without it either. They are predators. The "gay rights" movement is nothing but special pleading from a bunch of sex perverts who want to socialize the consequences of their depraved lifestyles. Homosexuality is disgusting and utterly destructive to society.
16 posted on 03/15/2003 2:21:20 PM PST by HumanaeVitae
Hells bells, my daughter is not allowed near a Catholic church, much less a Catholic school. The risks outweight any benefit.
Junk science? It gets no junkier than the "science" claiming gayness is a natural, inherited trait.
Why, tell me, can someone prey on teen boys for sex, claim to be heterosexual, and be taken seriously? At minimum, if it's same-sex adult/child sex then it's homosexual and vice versa. Gay groups with ulterior motives try to redefine the premises of studies in order to guarantee a favorable outcome. If kids are going to be protected, we need to be interested in truth only. When one group claims that sex between two men or two women is biologically normal, truth is already a casualty of the debate.
18 posted on 03/15/2003 2:33:53 PM PST by RAT Patrol
America has only what it tolerates.
19 posted on 03/15/2003 2:38:16 PM PST by NetValue (Only God can forgive the UN.)
Someone who is 18 or 19 is old enough to vote, serve in the armed fores, and get married. A man of that age is not a child.
20 posted on 03/15/2003 2:43:58 PM PST by Celtjew Libertarian


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A Dance of Shadows and Fires: Conceptual and Practical Challenges of Intergenerational Healing after Mass Atrocity
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The legacy of mass atrocity—including colonialism, slavery or specific manifestations such as apartheid—continue long after their demise. Applying a temporal intergenerational lens adds complications. We argue that mass atrocity creates for subsequent generations a deep psychological rupture akin to witnessing past atrocities. This creates a moral liability in the present. Healing is a process dependent on the authenticity (evident in discourse and action) with which we address contemporary problems. A further overriding task is to open social and political space for divergent voices. Acknowledgement of mass atrocity requires more than one-off events or institutional responses (the grand apology, the truth commission). Rather, acknowledgement has to become a lived social, cultural and political reality. Without this acknowledgement, healing, either collectively or individually, is stymied. Healing after mass atrocity is as much about political action (addressing inequalities and racism) as an act of re-imaging created through constant and contested re-writing.
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Brazil's JBS has named Gilberto Tomazoni as its new global CEO, marking the first time that someone outside the Batista family takes the helm. Tomazoni joined JBS in 2013, after working as CEO of the BRF subsidiary Sadia and vice president at Bunge. He became the head of the JBS' global operations in 2015 and COO in 2017. He takes over from José Batista Sobrinho, who founded the company in 1953. Batista stepped in as CEO in September 2017, after his son Joesely and Wesley admitted to bribing


HSBC selects five finalists
By Karen Chapman
CONGRATULATIONS to the five teams who have made it to the third and final round of the HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards 2003! They are: Palmaris, Kafelnikov, PTC, Just Startup and Epsilon.
The teams impressed the panel of judges with their creativity, innovativeness and project viability. The chief judge, HT Consulting (Asia) Sdn Bhd group CEO Harres Tan, said the panel decided on the top five teams after much deliberation.
''The judges were given all 28 business plans to read. So when we came today, it was to discuss the entries,'' he said on Thursday.
Originally, 30 teams out of 333 were shortlisted for the second round. However, one team dropped out while another was disqualified.
The business plans were judged for innovation and creative thinking, commercial viability and potential, application of IT knowledge and skills.
VIABLE VIBES: The judges looking for well-researched and feasible business plans.
Said Tan: ''Top marks go to teams for their creativity and innovativeness. We were looking for something practical, not something that can only be applied in the future. Perhaps what was lacking was the financial side as the students may not have been exposed to it yet.''
Some of the business plans stood out from the rest and it was obvious how much work and research had gone into them, said Tan.
''As an example, the Epsilon team came up with the idea of a 24-hour karaoke satellite broadcasting channel. This works along the lines of pay-per-view movies, except that in this case, it is a monthly payment for karaoke songs.
''The Palmaris team also have a good idea in using PDAs in the practice of medicine as it is a growing trend,'' he said.
The panel of judges included HSBC Bank Malaysia chief information officer Chu Hong Keong, Sunway Technology CEO Mok Sew Wah and The Star In.Tech editor A. Asohan.
Fellow judge Mok was just as impressed with the plans. ''Considering that the participants are students, some of the plans submitted were obviously very well researched. It was clear that much effort had been put into them,'' he said.
Asohan said the top five stood out as the ideas were not just good, the teams showed their ability to think things through. ''Although some of the ideas may not be commercially viable, the teams scored well because of this,'' he added.
Chu, who was chief judge in the first round, said the judges were looking for viable plans.
''We were not looking for something from Star Trek. Sometimes, it is the simple idea which people don't think about which stands out."
Concurring with Tan, Chu said the idea from the Epsilon team is viable as existing technology can support it.
Organised by HSBC Bank Malaysia, this challenging competition is running for the second consecutive year. It is open to full-time undergraduate degree or diploma students at public or private universities and colleges.
Congratulating the five teams, Chu said the next step is a presentation skills workshop on Jan 27. ''The five teams will then compete for the championship by making a formal presentation of their business plan before a panel of judges on March 6,'' he added.
The hard work is almost over. The winning team will not only win trophies, but also earn RM15,000 and a trip to Seattle, in the United States. In Seattle, the team can look forward to an exciting itinerary, including the opportunity to observe and learn about the latest IT and media developments and meet successful young entrepreneurs.
Team members will also get a taste of life as university students in the United States as they will be living on the University of Washington campus. Highlights of the trip include visits to Microsoft, the Seattle Times (an online newspaper) as well as Boeing's Flight Museum. But it's not all serious stuff as the winners will get to do some sightseeing in Seattle too.
For all their hard work, the other finalists will also receive prizes. The second and third place winners will get Silver and Bronze awards respectively.
The other teams in the second round which in the judges' opinion produced an excellent performance, will receive RM2,000 and a certificate of excellence. They are Team Flea (Mantissa Institute), TRI (Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology) Geneo Generation-E (Inti College), Team H.O.T (Monash University) and Team RMS (Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn).
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Suspect in auto shop standoff indicted on 20 charges
Robert Connelly fled from police and barricaded himself in an auto shop. A hostage, customer Miguel Sanchez, eventually convinced Connelly to surrender.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The suspect in a standoff with police at a Portland auto repair shop last week has been indicted on 20 charges, according to a news release from the office of District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
Robert Connelly, 49, faces three counts of attempted aggravated murder with a firearm, three counts of first degree attempted assault, three counts of unlawful use of a weapon with a firearm, three counts of menacing, one count of first degree escape, one count of second degree escape, one count of third degree escape, one count of first degree kidnapping, two counts of first degree burglary with a criminal, one count of first degree mischief and one count of first degree felon in possession of a criminal.
The charges all stem from a confrontation with police and subsequent standoff at the repair shop on Aug. 16.
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Officers located Connelly near Southeast 82nd Avenue and attempted to arrest him on existing warrants for a federal drug charge, a felon in possession of a different charge and a charge for failure to register as a sex offender in Washington.
Connelly saw the officers and ran toward the auto repair shop, according to the news release. The officers followed and Connelly pointed a gun at them, prompting them to fire at him, although they did not hit him. He then went into the shop and barricaded himself inside.
Shop owner Alonso Rodriguez and a friend were able to escape, but a third person in the building, customer Miguel Sanchez, became trapped in the shop with Connelly.
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Sanchez later told KGW that he initially hid under a counter and believed he would be forced to kill Connelly or else Connelly would kill him, but when they met, Connelly said he wouldn't hurt him.
They talked for several hours, according to Sanchez, while police crisis negotiators and a police tactical team responded outside. Eventually, he was able to convince Connelly to leave the building and surrender to police. Police said no one was injured during the incident.
Connelly's prior criminal record includes a rape conviction in Columbia County and a robbery conviction in Cowlitz County, according to the news release.


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Brazilian fans reacts as the Brazillian national team collapses in front of the German national team in the Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Germany went on to win the World Cup for the fourth time after defeating Argentina in the final, and became the first European nation to win the World Cup in South America.
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An unidentified German celebrates. The Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 at the Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was the first semi-final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Germany's win marked the largest margin of victory in a FIFA World Cup semi-final. The game also saw Germany score the most goals in World Cup tournament history, their 223 overtaking Brazil's 221.
Germany's second goal, scored by Miroslav Klose, was his 16th in World Cup play, overtaking Brazil's own Ronaldo as the tournament's all-time record goalscorer.
Brazil's loss broke their 62-match home unbeaten streak in competitive matches going back to 1975, when they lost 1–3 to Peru in that year's Copa América, and equalled their biggest margin of defeat, a 6–0 loss to Uruguay in 1920, causing the match to be described as a national humiliation.
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Brazil's loss broke their 62-match home unbeaten streak in competitive matches going back to 1975, when they lost 1–3 to Peru in that year's Copa América.
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D-backs agree to terms with 25 Draft picks
By Steve Gilbert
ANAHEIM -- The D-backs have agreed to terms with 25 of the 40 players they selected in last week's Draft, including third-round pick Taylor Clarke, a right-hander out of College of Charleston.
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The D-backs' first two picks in the Draft, Vanderbilt's Dansby Swanson (No. 1 overall) and TCU's Alex Young (43) are still competing in the College World Series and are not eligible to sign yet.
The players that agreed to terms along with Clarke are: right-hander Breckin Williams (fourth round), right-hander Ryan Burr (fifth), infielder Kal Simmons (eighth), right-hander Pierce Romero (ninth), outfielder Joey Armstrong (10th), outfielder Jason Morozowski (13th), catcher Luke Lowery (14th), outfielder Zach Nehrir (16th), right-hander Austin Mason (17th), right fielder Jacy Cave (19th), left-hander Will Lowman (20th), catcher Alexis Olmeda (21st), outfielder Logan Soole (23rd), left-hander Bryant Holtmann (24th), outfielder Stephen Dezzi (25th), left-hander Kirby Bellow (26th), right-hander Cameron Gann (27th), right-hander Keegan Long (29th), infielder Jeff Smith (30th), outfielder Luis Silverio (33rd), outfielder Jake Peevyhouse (34th), outfielder Quinnton Mack (35th), left-hander Cameron Smith (36th) and infielder Josh Anderson (38th).
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.
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