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Department of Philosophy and Humanities/
International Research Center »Interweaving Performance Cultures«
The Research Center
CfP: »Alternative Dramaturgies of the New Millennium«
An International Conference
30 May – 2 June 2014
Tangier/Tétouan, Morocco
In 2014, the international forum »Performing Tangier« will celebrate its 10th Anniversary. The conference aims at reframing the discussion on new dramaturgies. It is a continuation of their previous debates, as well as an attempt to synthesize their overall deliberations over a decade.
Dramaturgy is an inclusive word that refers to the ›composition of a play‹, or its internal structure. However, the processes of analysis often called ›dramaturgical analysis are deeply rooted in the practice of dramaturgy. Ever since Hamburgische Dramaturgie by the German playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing the term dramaturgy has been broadly formalized in theatre circles. For Lessing, dramaturgy was framed according to a compositional logic based upon the supremacy of the verbal text. It was conceived of as »the technique (or poetics) of dramatic art, which seeks to establish principles of play construction« (Pavis 1998, 24). Contemporary theorists, on the other hand, seem to emphasize the non-literary composites of dramaturgy.
›Dramaturgy‹ could also be applicable to current performance structures that do not start from pre-existing play-texts; that develop as verbal texts or non-verbal forms, or verbal mixed with intermedial or choreographic structures from improvisational approaches. Since the 1960s, performances »have repeatedly disconnected individual theatrical tools from their larger contexts« (Erika Fischer-Lichte 2008, 140). The re-appearance of what Fischer-Lichte calls ›emergent phenomena‹ further undermines the production of meaning through theatrical representation. Thus, alternative dramaturgies might also suggest new ways of interrogating presence and negotiating our roles as spectators and critics; they tend to disintegrate neo-classical notions of character-dramaturgy and unity by disrupting their underlying manichaeism within performance.
Meanwhile, the advent of new media has profoundly changed dramaturgical practice in the last decades. Today, many theatrical performances are characterized by visual dramaturgy and digital workflows which can hardly be subordinated to the text. The process of remediation throws the audience into the abyss of la mise en abym, or what J. D. Bolter & R. Grusin describe as the »representation of one medium in another;« hierarchies and differences between live presence and recorded versions, spatial and temporal coordinates, original and the current critical emphasis on ›Intermediality‹ in contemporary theatre investigates theatre’s performative privileging of simulacra. Such phenomenon has become a generalized feature of the so called postmodern epoch of writing -as well as the postcolonial- since our Global Village now is not only a hyper space of ›mobile objects‹ but also one of ›reflexive subjects‹. The degree of the ability to reflect upon the social conditions of existence is also linked to the process of decolonization in the case of developing countries like most Arobo-Islamic ones. Many recent Arabo-Islamic performances are exercises in what D. E. George calls »restless semiosis« in which meaning emerges from interdependent relations and not by ascription to some objective referent. The tendency to privilege the turbulent reflection of liminal experience, where we are invited to become co-artists rather than passive consumers, becomes so apparent in the theatres and performances of Jaàfer Guesmi from Tunisia, Asmaa Houri and Youssef Rayhani from Morocco, Lina Saneh and Rabie Mroue from Lebanon, the renowned Al-Hanager and independent theatre movement of Egypt, the Lebanese-Canadian Wajdi Mouawad … (To state just a few from a long list that is growing every day).
The conference also seeks new discourses to explore the complex interrelationship within and across the boundaries of contemporary Arabo-Islamic theatre forms, and assumes the quality of personal quests and participation in the public contemplation of Arabo-Islamic changing identities. It is a call for more critical attention to an observable alternative dramaturgy that has become so visible also in Arabo-Islamic contexts. Inspired from previous discussions the conference proposes a double-edged dialogue, which is artist-driven and research-oriented. The moment of creation and the myriad locations where Arabo-Islamic theatre today is being made in postcolonial and postmodern ones are significant instances in a conference that seeks to de-freeze, or rather re-discover artistic experiences that persist on reassessing fluctuating boundaries between tradition and modernity.
Scholars from around the world are invited to join the debate and offer elements of reflection on the various problematics related to the following proposed panels:
What are the present alternative dramaturgies? And is the term ›alternative‹ adequate for these dramaturgies?
Mainstream or traditional dramaturgies & alternative dramaturgies: threads of commonalities and differences
Dramaturgy as a »weaving together of elements«
The practice of dramaturgy as analytical process
The dramaturge’s various roles & devised theatre practice
Alternative dramaturgies in Arabo-Islamic con-texts
The organising committee welcomes abstracts strictly on the above issues.
A 250-Word abstract, along with a one paragraph curriculum vitae, should be submitted electronically (preferably in Word or Rich Text format) by 31 January 2014 to performingtangier2014@gmail.com
Acceptance, however, unfortunately does not include any financial support – participants are responsible for their own funding (i.e. securing grants, etc.) to pay for travel and lodging expenses. Selected conference papers will be published in a special volume upon the approval of the scientific committee. Submitters of accepted proposals will be notified within two weeks of the above deadline and all decisions of the scientific committee are final.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 January 2014.
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 15 February 2014
Final Paper (10–15 pages) Submission Deadline: 15 April 2014
The conference theme was chosen with the expectation that it would be sharp enough to elicit diverse intellectual contributions from distinguished experts and colleagues from many parts of the world and in many areas of research. Besides academic panel sessions, the conference program will be nourished by a rich artistic public agenda with workshops, exhibitions, book launch, and diverse performances and artistic interventions relevant to ›alternative dramaturgies‹. Keynote speakers are Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. Patrice Pavis, and Dr. Christel Weiler.
New Scholars’ Panel: The conference is also a home for graduate students and new scholars from different parts of the world. The establishment of an emerging Scholars’ panel invites new voices to join the debate (provided that their contributions must be relevant to the theme of this year). Up to FIVE participants will be selected for this panel, and each panelist will have ten to fifteen minutes to deliver her/his paper. Graduate students whose papers are accepted will receive free conference registration, free admission to conference luncheon, and a one-year membership in ICPS. Who is eligible? Scholars who meet the definition of ‘new scholars’ are postgraduate students writing up their PhD dissertation or post-doctoral researchers whose PhDs have been completed less than three years.
For further information on the conference, registration process and fee, please contact Prof. Khalid Amine. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345084 |
__label__cc | 0.633509 | 0.366491 | Climate engineering operations continue to create winter weather chaos in parts of the US, Canada and Europe. Chemical ice nucleation elements are a core component of global geoengineering programs. Winter weather whiplash, freezing rain, freezing drizzle / fog, and “thunder snow” conditions, all are indicative of chemical ice nucleation materials being dispersed into available atmospheric moisture. Ice nucleating elements create an endothermic (energy absorbing) reaction that, in turn, produces a colder, heavier air mass. The heavy dense air then sinks to ground surface levels. This shallow layer of cold air lowers surface temperatures and thus produces the sensationalized headlines of cold weather that the climate engineers and the power structure corporate media are seeking. “Winter Storm Harper” recently took its toll on specific regions of the Eastern US. “Winter Storm Indra” is now winding down with less impact than than the climate engineers had originally hoped (or scheduled) to achieve. Naming “winter storms” adds to the sensationalizing of these completely engineered events.
Corporate media faithfully follows the scripts and talking points they are given in their coverage of the completely engineered “winter weather”, while completely omitting the unfolding planetary meltdowns occurring in so many other locations around the world. The scripted nature of mainstream meteorologist's narratives is not hard to see through. Corporate meteorologists are playing the part of cover-up for the climate engineering programs.
The temperatures and precipitation types (frozen or liquid) in the current condition and forecast screenshots below should be examined and considered. The scheduled weather in three locations were captured, Jamestown, NY, Binghamton, NY, and Nashville, TN.
Why is snow falling at 43 degrees? Why is it still raining at 28 degrees?
The next "forecast" capture was for Binghamton, NY.
Why is ice falling at 34 degrees? Then back to rain at 33 degrees? Then snow at 43 degrees?
The final "forecast" capture is for Nashville, TN.
This weather information screen for Nashville, TN, is also perplexing. The flow of rain over Nashville is coming right out of the Gulf of Mexico, thus the high temperatures of 56 degrees and rain. This same flow of warmer moisture somehow “turns over” to snow further north, with temperatures still being far above freezing. The “forecast” map above (scheduled weather) calls for an extremely anomalous temperature plunge of some 30 degrees with continuous rain. With a constant flow of warmer moisture out of the south, why would there be such a sudden 30 degree temperature drop? Generally, day to night temperatures only vary by a few degrees when a constant flow of precipitation is occurring. Why would it still be raining at 26 degrees?
The animation below reveals precipitation flow and wind patterns that were present during the peak of "Winter Storm Indra".
In this animation view of precipitation and wind, the source of moisture for “Winter Storm Indra” can clearly be seen. Warm Gulf of Mexico moisture and temperate wind from the south western Atlantic Ocean are primary components of "Winter Storm Indra". The same conditions were present for "Winter Storm Harper" and countless other "winter storms" in recent years. Are such extreme anomalies an act of nature? Or the result of climate engineering operations?
The next animation even more clearly reveals the very unlikely and questionable source of moisture for a "winter storm".
The flow of temperate moisture from the Gulf of Mexico (shown) was the primary fuel for “Winter Storm Indra”. Some regions in this animation can be seen flashing from liquid precipitation (rain), to frozen (ice storm or snow), and back again. Such a “change over” at above freezing temperatures can only occur when an unnatural ice nucleating factor is in the equation, that factor is chemical ice nucleation for weather modification elements. These are patented processes.
Engineered winter events, chemical ice nucleation, and its effects, can be viewed in a 16+ minute segment of the presentation below (from 1:22:54 to 1:38:00), the video is pre-set to start at the beginning of this section on engineering winter.
Below is the NOAA forecast (scheduled) departure from normal high temperature map for late January, 2019. The extreme opposites of temperatures from one side of the country to the other are historically unprecedented (though are now becoming the norm in recent years).
While the Eastern US is scheduled for yet more engineered cool-down scenarios, locations like Alaska have been kept warm and dry. Record shattering heat is persisting and accelerating in other parts of the world as well, Australia is only one example of many.
What is the global temperature perspective? The GISS departure from normal high temperature map below is for a recent 1 year period. This average temperature compilation map is extremely revealing and should be carefully considered. The only consistently anomalously cool-down zone on the planet is the eastern half of the North American continent. Is it just a coincidence that the country with by far the world's largest military and air force (and thus by far the largest climate engineering operations) has had the only consistent and extremely anomalous cool-downs over its most populated regions over extended spans of time? Again, is this just a coincidence? No.
Radically increasing winter weather whiplash is not an act of nature, it is a result of covert climate engineering operations. There can be no legitimate discussion of the climate without first and foremost addressing the climate engineering / geoengineering / solar radiation management issue. Further, there can be no legitimate discussion of geoengineering / climate engineering without addressing the engineered “winter weather” events that utilize jet stream manipulation and patented processes of chemical ice nucleation for weather modification.
The short video report below provides yet more in depth detail of the ongoing freeze / fry scenarios being created by climate engineering operations.
Are there US patents for chemical ice nucleation for weather modification? Yes, one example is below:
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/creating-snow-storms-the-knollenberg-patent/
More examples of GeoengineeringWatch.org articles covering engineered winter events and operations:
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-winter-weather-whiplash-with-patented-climate-engineering-processes/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-winter-the-deception-of-the-us-population/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/manufacturing-winter-with-geoengineering/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/category/geoengineering/results-of/ice-nucleated-snow/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-the-polar-regions-the-chemical-ice-nucleation-factor/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/the-engineered-winter-deception-chemical-ice-nucleation/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-winter-weather-whiplash/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-winter-engineered-drought/
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/climate-engineering-insanity-manufacturing-winter-weather-with-tropical-moisture/
Our planet's life support systems are being systematically decimated by the ongoing climate engineering insanity, it must be exposed and halted. Help us in this most critical battle to sound the alarm, share credible data from a credible source, make your voice heard.
May be freely reprinted, so long as the text is unaltered, all hyperlinks are left intact, and credit for the article is prominently given to geoengineeringwatch.org and the article’s author with a hyperlink back to the original story.
54 Responses to Geoengineered Winter, 2019
Greg Emerson says:
Just a few days ago, the so called forecast showed weather with rain and ice pellets at 12F!! Overnight!! This is an area known as Kirkland Lake Ontario. We definitely had rain here in the mid 20's and in less than 2 days saw 2 feet of snow melt, no exaggeration
GS Handley says:
I want to know if the towers just off Bear River Ridge Road about 10 miles south of Ferndale CA are weather control towers. I live in Eureka and have seen countless chemtrails, like crop dusting, with no apparent effort to disguise. Storm after storm gets broken up and dissipated before reaching shore. Perhaps unrelated, but I have been hearing a constant 24/7 low frequency hum that oscillates between two low frequencies, I measured 73hz and 146hz, a perfect octave. This has been present for the last 6.5 years.
DblOT says:
That damn oscillation really annoys me. It goes high and then low with no rhythmic pulse. That low frequency is like a sub low. I don't have a tv or radio so that's about all I hear, all day, all night. Earplugs don't help. It's in my head. I put on a fan at night to mask the "sound" so I can sleep.
Jjjohnny says:
I have witnessed these spray days for years now. The chemical process of burning jet fuel renders a known potential for water vapour formation per pound of fuel consumed. It is an impossibility for ANY aircraft engine of ANY design to produce what is sold to us as contrails. Keep that in mind when the sky fills with the "vapour".
There is a web site called flightradar24. I have visited this site often while in Wyoming. On heavy spray days there are some spray jets that do not appear on radar. FAA rule require all commercial aircraft to have an active transponder signal at all times…. Other times I notice that commercial jets are spraying and are identified. I am wondering if the military jets spray the most toxic formulas.
Anyone who has critical thinking skills and pays attention to the spray cycles knows there are many different "formulas" for the sprays. I love the "chain saw" spray… so obvious it falls down like a waterfall or teeth of a chain saw chain. I have seen perhaps seven different types of sprays.
I have had personal conversations with pilots and powerplant mechanics in aviation. South West pilots sitting with me in Steamboat Springs,CO soaking in the public hot springs pool while heavy spraying is in progress, with a straight face both tell me its contrails. Hmmmm… Major airline powerplant mechanics do not understand combustion, its chemical process or byproducts. Stating to anyone who thinks the lines in the sky are anything but water are tin foil hat folks. How about the retired Air Force colonel with over 10,000 flight hours looking me in the eye and telling me he never heard of chemtrails untill I brought it up? I am trained to spot deception. The colonel was the only person who displayed this trait. All the others seemed genuine. These folks represent the highly trained… were in trouble.
I have tried to educate and discuss GEOENGINEERINGwatch.org with dozens and perhaps hundreds of people. I am sad to report most everyone is too busy, aloof, apathetic, or IQ deficient to care. My math tells me over ninety percent of the people have no clue.
Mr. Burns would say "excellent ".
Keep supporting our public education as it works like magic to enslave us.
The key to freedom is in a well educated populace. The foundation of tyranny is its opposite.
There must be literally thousands or tens of thousands of people who have first hand knowledge of this/these programs… Pilots, mechanics, baggage handlers, airline ground crews, traffic controllers, airline executives, railroad owners, maufacturers of the sprays, Raytheon, virtually all meteorological weather stations, satellite operators, government scientists, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, ACLU, Governers, Mayors, Congress, Senate, the media for scrubbing and sanitizing most every comment section of articles clean of the mention of spraying and any other banned coversation/narrative.
Two years ago the USGS removed their lab results for mud samples taken from my local lakes and reservoirs here in Wyoming. Previously there were high concentrations of aluminum, barium, and strontium indicated. I must now assume the mud sample testing will forever be buried. The current google search states Missing: mudtesting
This fallout ends up on the crops that we eat, our oceans, forests, and the grasses that our livestock feed on.
Who has this right to inflict this omnicide onto the population of the world?
Has anyone else noticed that just a year or so ago the comment section of articles used to have more spirited and deep conversation? Now comments are sanitized or deleted by the TPTB into mostly superficial divisive comments about snowflake imagined problems. Futhermore the articles that push the liberal agenda almost never allow for a comment section period. Seems like a great way to administer the koolaid.
We finally had a taste of the current winter fakery here in Britain.
Whilst very much only a shadow of the brutal chemical attack ongoing in the USA, the British propaganda was quick to blanket the media with ridiculous headlines such as "Doomsday snow" or "apocalyptic winter" when only a few centimetres of the stuff actually fell.
Something piqued my curiosity earlier today – I was outside, fixing a gate which had been knocked askew, when I overheard a little girl say to her mother (with whom she was walking) "mummy, this snow tastes funny". Chemicals? Pretty sure it wasn't traffic exhaust as no vehicles had been up the lane for several hours before the *snow* started falling, and none during the day (as attested by the lack of tracks). She had picked it up off a wall, so it also couldn't have been contaminated by a passing canine! I couldn't help but think it was some intrinsic component of the *snow* itself – namely an artificially introduced substance ie a nucleating chemical?
Funny though, although there was only approximately a centimetre or so where I live, it took ALL day at well above freezing for most of it to melt. 24 hours later there is still some lying.
I wonder whether any of the precipitation we have, in whatever form it falls, is *natural* or if it all is to some degree poisoned and/or engineered.
Of late I have noticed days with unbroken skies. Skies which are free of the pernicious cross-hatching. However, the blue which permeates is a pale imitation (pun intended) of skies I remember from my childhood. Thinking these memories of really BLUE skies from youth might have been altered by the passage of time I proved otherwise to myself by searching through the attic for photographs from decades past. Sure enough, skies were blue, and not a sickly pastel.
I had a rep from a *smart meter* company call recently to ask if I was interested in "considerably lowering my energy bill". HA! no thanks! My tinnitus is had enough as is!
A small point of positivity – just the other day I had a previously obstinately blind associate approach me and say thank you for encouraging her to seek her own answers regarding geoengineering (I had in the past, to my chagrin, lectured and that just doesn't work). It maybe a bit premature to say she is *awoke* but I definitely see the interest gaining momentum there. It is hard for me not to shout at people "WTF is wrong with yous?! Open your eyes" etc but I try at every opportunity to plant seeds in folks (so to speak).
Walking the dog gives me an excellent excuse to encounter various other people – I am torn between stepping lightly regarding the issues of weather modification and, knowing that time is shortening rapidly, not just kind of going "ARRGHH".
Anyway, sorry to ramble on.
Best regards to all.
Here in South texas i’ve been keeping track of weather patterns myself and notice the following pattern
clear skies, no clouds
next day, clear skies, begin spraying
next day cloud cover
then clear skies and the pattern repeats.
Sarah Ellis says:
Same here on the Oregon coast.
Stina Ali says:
Exactly the same pattern I see !
Karen Stevens says:
Same here on Exmoor in England
same here in Nth G A
pilar gil says:
I live in inverness fl. It has been horrible with red tide, hot where you can not even breath and also freeze in the winter. This has to stop.
I watched that in Midland tx, West texas,2014/15.. always the same,weather quickly changing after the crossovers..always!
Barb E says:
Paul V – Thank you for the info regarding the rash on my hubbies face! We won't be using the Sovereign Silver. I do use a couple drops in my eyes to get rid of the redness – is this not good for me? I also give the dog a tablespoon per day. We just got back from the drugstore with a bottle of NAC 600 mg and organic 1% hydrocortisone cream (without petroleum & other crap) and will begin that regimen tonight along with Vitamin C that we already take. Hopefully this will work to get rid of the rash on his face. I bet it is from the UVB/C since his face is the only part exposed when he's walking the dog or cleaning the yard. Thanks again for the tips!
Garry Jackson says:
Barb E I must have missed something, but why did you quit using Sovereign Silver? My family and I have been using it for years and love the results. And yes, I have an eye dropper for my eyes as well.
We are being cooked in Australia, temps into the high 40's celsius. Fruit and vegies on the vine and the ground being cooked also, no water to water crops, millions of fish dying in the Murray-Darling water system, etc. Every time I see the strange clouds coming from the west that look like they've been zapped, I know we are in for strange weather.
ISeeThings says:
How come when I watch countless peoples' personal home video footage prior to 1999 I never see any geoengineering chemtrails or criss crossing patterns, but from observance, almost only clear blue sky?
Please tell the truth that the SAI program got ramped up sometime after the year 2000 where by 2005 or so, it became an almost every-other-day event. In fact, the amount of chemtrails sprayed parallels the number of countries the US has bombed since Oct 2001, when the US began major military operations in the 2nd Mid East War.
Hello, ISeeThings, yes, you are in fact correct, the climate engineering operations were ramped up after 1998, the warmest year ever recorded up to that point.
To: iseethings
Perhaps either you and family/friends own movies (VHS) and tv shows from the '70's, '80's and early '90's. If so, view them and then view the televised versions readily aired throughout cable programming. METV, etc. You'll discover TPTB have brushed in geo-engeered "trails" in order to support their narrative that these have always been there, you just didn't notice. This occurred well over 5 years ago. Amazing how many were edited. Of note, this was apparent last night on AMC's airing of "GHOST" in an early scene with NY sky background.
Dale K says:
Prior to 1999, I commonly spotted rainbows during or after rainstorms. Since that time, rainbow sightings have been few and far between here in Marin County. Moreover, I've noticed that every time there's been a significant lunar eclipse (like the one that happened recently), the skies above me are blanketed with an opaque cloud layer so that none of the celestial phenomenon is visible.
PatinSF says:
Well director Ron Howard is making a documentary about last year's devastating Camp Fire and the impacts of climate change. Ron how about a documentary on geo end engineering..?
I posted a tweet (🤔) to what looked like Ron Howard re this very question. I've taken the pictures (Butte County), I've been through some pretty amazing grief & devastation from exposure to this information, around August 2018. I am so grateful of meeting Mr Wigington in person last Oct 20th. A more sincere in heart handshake, I have never known. I understand the depth of his devastation and his great resolve and dedication. Is there a plan/organization effort for Mr Wigington/or representatives to attend the UN Climate Conference in Sept this year? Is there any references here for the skywatchers group based in Chico? I have started attending local council mtgs. I'm am newly retired and available for full time work. I really enjoy watching this site and appreciate all of the comments. So much information, so much research. I am working on Focus. Has anyone here interacted with Greta Thunberg, extinction rebellion (usa)? It looks like their messages are not mentioning specifically the active geoengineering climate change effects. Is this for lack of knowledge or fear of being labeled as not credible? Credible evidence from a credible source. This requires so much research and this site is such a wealth of information to jump out from. My kids are worried about me. I was shocked by the intensity of "crazy" this all sounds, but I am learning. I have a deeper understanding of the movie "Bird Box," and what it means for us/for me. Thank you all for being here. God be with us all.
This is to Barb E, Julie H, and others suffering from skin rashes after outdoor exposures. > Essential antioxidants and nutrients for EMF and aerosol chemical exposures:
Excerpted from: Cysteine – Wikipedia (Please read as N-Acetylcysteine)
"Cysteine (abbreviated as Cys or C)[3] is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2SH. It is a semi-essential amino acid, which means that it can be biosynthesized in humans.[4] It is encoded by the codons UGU and UGC. The thiol side chain in cysteine often participates in enzymatic reactions, serving as a nucleophile. The thiol is susceptible to oxidization to give the disulfide derivative cystine, which serves an important structural role in many proteins. When used as a food additive, it has the E number E920."
Biological functions
"The cysteine thiol group is nucleophilic and easily oxidized. The reactivity is enhanced when the thiol is ionized, and cysteine residues in proteins have pKa values close to neutrality, so are often in their reactive thiolate form in the cell.[12] Because of its high reactivity, the thiol group of cysteine has numerous biological functions.
Precursor to the antioxidant glutathione
Due to the ability of thiols to undergo redox reactions, cysteine has antioxidant properties. Cysteine's antioxidant properties are typically expressed in the tripeptide glutathione, which occurs in humans as well as other organisms. The systemic availability of oral glutathione (GSH) is negligible; so it must be biosynthesized from its constituent amino acids, cysteine, glycine, and glutamic acid. Glutamic acid and glycine are readily available in most Western diets, but the availability of cysteine can be the limiting substrate.[citation needed
Precursor to iron-sulfur clusters
Cysteine is an important source of sulfide in human metabolism. The sulfide in iron-sulfur clusters and in nitrogenase is extracted from cysteine, which is converted to alanine in the process.[13]
Metal ion binding
Beyond the iron-sulfur proteins, many other metal cofactors in enzymes are bound to the thiolate substituent of cysteinyl residues. Examples include zinc in zinc fingers and alcohol dehydrogenase, copper in the blue copper proteins, iron in cytochrome P450, and nickel in the [NiFe]-hydrogenases.[14] The thiol group also has a high affinity for heavy metals, so that proteins containing cysteine, such as metallothionein, will bind metals such as mercury, lead, and cadmium tightly.[15]"
"N-Acetyl-L-cysteine is a derivative of cysteine wherein an acetyl group is attached to the nitrogen atom. This compound is sold as a dietary supplement, and used as an antidote in cases of acetaminophen overdose,[26] and obsessive compulsive disorders such as trichotillomania"
Complete text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-cysteine
N-Acetyl-L-cysteine is available over the counter at most pharmacies, and isn't particularly rare or expensive. Start off with a low dose regimen and increase dose slowly over a few weeks.
I know it sounds lame, but these rashes will often respond to 1%Hydrocortisone Creams with no issues. Rinse skin with non-chlorinated water, then follow with a very light application of cream twice a day. Use non-petroleum based Hydrocortisone Creams. Avoid all petrolatum products and T laurel sulfate based soaps, conditioners, and skin emollients. Many of these skin rashes are normal reactions to UVB and UVC radiation exposure…
Tonight is the first time this winter that the temperature is 56°. Daytime highs 60-nights in the 30's. It was 56 when I went to sleep 6 pm and 56° now at 3 am. Just observing?
Here is Pa We hade exactly TWICE the amount of rain in 2018 as the average. I kept saying to people, "Does anyone else notice what's going on?" Its literally raining every day for months. I have a duaghter who plays tennis so I am very aware when I have to pay my monthly bill because she played indoors when it rains. One month it rained 26 days. Its insane. We are talking baout moving only because the darkness and cold is depressing.
Dan from Idaho says:
Yesterday morning a fog cloud rolled through my area and the whole time the temps. were 36 degrees or higher yet it left behind a thin layer of ice on the roads so slick people were crashing everywhere. No way this could happen without their ice nucleation bullcrap. One man lost his life. It made no sense to my coworkers but they still refuse to believe in climate engineering. How many scenarios like this do they need before they open their eyes? Unreal!
Tad says:
Serving "The Whole." A perfect battle cry for the planet. Thank you, Dane.
Dane, does the American Elements "company" have a name for their product they are spewing? If so maybe the legal team can approach this the same way others are doing in regards to RoundUp and Monsanto.
Hello, DbIOT, in regard to your question, check the video in the attached link for more information. FYI https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/has-the-primary-geoengineering-materials-supplier-been-identified/
I can confirm all the insane weather we have been having all winter in New England. As other posters in NH stated, we get extreme temperature shifts, after days of -30 degree F wind chills, we get a 45 degree rain storm.
Thank You, NewsGuard, for Celebrating My Wisdom on Climate Change
James Delingpole | Breitbart
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/24/delingpole-newsguard-attacks-my-climate-coverage-fails/
Thank you, thank you, thank you, NewsGuard, for treating all your new subscribers — both of them! — to one of the cleverest, truest things I ever wrote about climate change.
NewsGuard quotes me as saying (in the course of its danger warning to readers thinking of flirting with Breitbart News):
“When amateurs on a blog know more about science than the guys on multi-million dollar grants at U.S. academic institutions informing global energy and environment policy, you know that the time has come to drain the swamp,” Delingpole wrote.
And it presents it as though this were a bad thing to have written.
But I stand by every word. It’s the kind of thing that makes me go: “God, I wish I’d written that — No, wait. I did!”
Why? Because apart from being demonstrably true, it captures so perfectly the reason why I became something of a climate change specialist in the first place.
It wasn’t — let me assure you — because I found myself suddenly captivated by the how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin debate in certain scientific ghettos as to the extent to which tiny increases in the otherwise harmless trace gas we exhale every few seconds and that we use in greenhouses to help plants grow faster are warming the planet at a catastrophic and unprecedented rate.
No, much simpler than that, it appealed to my most basic journalistic instincts: here was a story which most of the mainstream media was covering extremely, embarrassingly badly; where the facts were almost diametrically opposite to the breast-beating, hysterical, junk science narrative presented at outlets like the BBC, CNN, and the New York Times; where there was so much low-hanging fruit, so many examples every day of greed, corruption, stupidity, mendacity, and incompetence on the most epic scale — all of it costing us taxpayers a fortune, making the world a more miserable place to live in and — the biggest joke of all — actually harming the planet in the process.
Jeff Z says:
In Connecticut we had a thunderstorm pass through 2 weeks ago that you only see in the summer. Prolonged steady thunder & lightning. Radar had the whole state covered in yellow & red. The WHOLE state. In Nov we had our biggest (and only real) snowstorm which was meant to defoliate the trees, I'm guessing. Well, it also shredded some pine trees of healthy needles. That was a first.
This recent storm dumped gallons of rain. We keep switching from mid 50s back to temps in the teens. Scared to see what Feb brings.
Gary Morrow says:
I remember talking to a friend in Austin Texas last winter, where it was snowing at 39 degrees. When the same system reached us here in western SC the next day, it was all rain at 36 degrees.
The forecasts were switched from lows to highs from day to day in the 3 places that could account for the variances in snow vs rain.
Looking at the news today, the artic blast coming appeared to have warm weather behind it?
People should take natural remedies into mind to get rid of the heavy metals like aluminum and barium. Also, use essential oils for the mold and mildew that is creating health issues, especially with the thymus glands. People are very ill in NC and are having trouble getting well due to Hurricane Florence and constant patterns of rain.
Interesting to note too, a connection between radon and earthquake probability. Have radon levels been increasing in certain areas?
mike nelson says:
In southern Ontario it was – 30 on Monday January 21 with 30 cm of "snow" (round pellets). On Wednesday January 23 it was close to +10 degrees. It's Friday January 25 today and were back down to – 17.
Just crazy. What's even crazier is all people were saying was "only in Canada this could happen" lol.
Using their weather-making toolkit, the Meteorological Magicians instantly manifest a category 1 cyclone off the coast of Western Australia that is expected to reach category 3 strength.
Rains hit Broome as Tropical Cyclone Riley forms overnight
Tom Zaunmayr | PerthNow
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/rains-hit-broome-as-tropical-cyclone-riley-forms-overnight-ng-b881083349z
Broome has copped a soaking from Tropical Cyclone Riley overnight, and the rain is set to continue today as the system moves south west.
The Kimberley town recorded 46.4mm of rain between 2pm and 6.30 am Thursday morning but has been spared any damaging wind gusts so far.
It comes after TC Riley formed overnight as a category one cyclone off the Dampier Peninsula.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting the system to reach category three by Australia Day, when it is expected to be well off the Pilbara coast.
Tropical Cyclone Riley continues to track parallel to the coast of northern WA but is still not expected to pose a significant threat to Pilbara communities
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/tropical-cyclone-riley-intensifies-off-wa
Tropical Cyclone Riley has intensified to a category two and is continuing to track parallel to the Pilbara coast in northern Western Australia.
The cyclone, which formed at 6am on Thursday, is about 425km north of Port Hedland, moving west at 6km/h, with estimated wind speeds of 95 km/h around its centre and gusts of up to 130km/h.
It is expected to continue to move in a generally west direction while slowly intensifying on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
Riley may become a category three by Saturday morning but will only pose a risk to Pilbara communities if it takes a more southerly track.
It would be interesting to know when actual low frequency weapons capability began, probably not until the 90s as I believe you'd have to have plasma technology in order to induce earthquake. No matter the cause, the big 7.8 quake in 1976 in Tangshan, China that killed at least 242,000 and likely many more, was called the largest natural disaster of the 20th century and brought to a close the insanity of the Mao era and it's dreadful Cultural Revolution: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-great-tangshan-earthquake-of-1976-195214
We had buckets of rain last Wednesday and rain off and on after that. Monday was about as beautiful as it used to be on a clear day, until the damnable jets started in funking up the skies over the Bay Area, then we were served tic-tac-toe chem-trail lattice-pie-in-the-sky all day yesterday. Trying to get to sleep while breathing the sh*t "THEY" spray all over us, behaving like a bunch of OC maniacs trying to kill a bunch of useless destructive bugs, is always such a fun adventure. My joints were aching and I was stiff and sore yesterday…imagine trying to practice your part for a symphony orchestra performance when you feel like you're the Tin Man after a rain storm and you've run out of oil…. Today it was actually hot out there. This seems to happen after rain storms now.. could this be the infamous "warm side" of the weather front–?
Susan Morgan says:
Thanks for your brave diligence in reporting these anomalies, Dane. The weather is now predictably unpredictable.
Oh boy are they wreaking havoc up here in New Hampshire. Harper was scheduled to dump 12-24" but it fizzled, instead we got about 6" but mostly in the form of tiny ice balls. Today we got hit with Indra at 51* it poured all day long. Coming off three days with wind chills down to 25 below zero, it's a shock to the system. Everything is flooding from the fake ice ball "snow" that won't melt, not even at 51* and 3" of rain. My other half walks the dog 3 times a day no matter what the weather and since we've had one "system" after the other his face has broken out in what looks like hives. They are only along his forehead and cheeks! I've never seen anything like it and since he's out in that chemical soup walking the dog and snow blowing I can only think it's an allergic reaction to the chemicals or chemical burns from the nucleating agents. We used Sovereign Silver on them and Nutiva organic coconut oil but neither has helped at all, in fact the red splotches are getting bigger. He made an appointment with his doctor for Monday and I wonder what drugs and shots he's going to do to him. I'm sure he won't test him for toxic chemicals. Does anyone else get this reaction that looks like hives? It doesn't itch but the more he's out in the weather the worse it's getting. Could it be some new concoction they're putting in the atmosphere?
Barb E, I live near Meredith, NH and have been observing stepped up spraying over the last few years and the clearly engineered weather. And what about the dead stillness we will get for days, no breeze at all, then like a switch has flipped, 25 to 40 mph winds for hours! We have had crazy wind events occurring out of the blue for 3 years now.
Hello Barb E: Please do not use colloidal silver products on open skin as they are proven to be genotoxic and destructive to biological cells. I know this goes against what "naturalists" and the public has been told, but mammalian cells have no process for elimination of nano-silver particulates once they cross the cell membrane. This is the reason bacterial cells are induced to die off from contact with metallic materials such as silver, lead, mercury, aluminum, and other electro conductive materials. This is only one of many studies:
Excerpts from: EPA final report "Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray (Final Report)
U.S. EPA. Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray (Final Report). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-10/081F, 2012.
DNA Damage and Mutation
"As described in Section 6.2 for biota, the antiseptic properties of nano-Ag are in part due to its ability to bind to and alter the cell membrane and for silver ions to alter the cell’s DNA, which in turn interrupts cell proliferation. Nano-Ag might cause DNA damage within mammalian cells by several modes of action. By affecting the mitochondria, nano-Ag can cause an increase in ROS (as described in 6-57 the previous section), which can interact with and damage proteins or DNA (Asharani et al., 2009). Additionally, silver ions have been observed in vitro to bind directly with DNA and RNA (Chi et al., 2009). Furthermore, DNA repair mechanisms, which operate in normal functioning of the cell, depend on ATP. Reduction in cellular ATP levels through interference with mitochondrial respiration could hamper the essential enzymes for DNA repair, leading to damage (Asharani et al., 2009). DNA damage or a reduction in ATP can interfere with the cell cycle, and thus cellular proliferation (Asharani et al., 2009; Sweet and Singh, 1995). Surface coating is one property of nanoparticles that can influence toxicity (see Section 6.1.1.3); the genotoxicity of nano-Ag coated with a detergent (such as might occur in an environmental exposure) was examined by Chi et al. (2009)."
Complete text: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/nano/recordisplay.cfm?deid=241665#Download
Julie H says:
I'm across the country in WA but my face has become splotchy too. I have dry sensitive skin, but I've never had problems like this with my face before…and like your husband, nothing seems to help it. I've tried kaolin clay masks and detox baths; coconut, rosehip, argan and marula oil. I wondered if it was from the spraying, which has been ramped up here again. Lately we've been having humidity in the 90%+ range but no rain. I need to walk daily for my health…but it's like walking in soup. Affects my eyes and sinuses too, with burning, watering, stuffiness. If you find something that helps please let us know.
Colloidal silver is not innocuous. It is a heavy metal that builds up in the body's tissues, just as aluminum does: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-779/colloidal-silver
Paul Vonharnish. Thanks for the info. I bought a colloidal silver generator based on info from a popular natural remedy site based in the US, for internal consumption. I made the stuff but didn't drink it.
Yes, it's truly wonderful to suffer from nanoparticulate metal exposure! But you can at least get temporary relief from the crap we're all being forced to breathe from the products named below:
For stuffy sinuses: Xlear nasal spray (no drugs, just saline, grapefruit seed extract and xylitol, works every time, no side effects). If lungs are dry, try eating pears, get a bottle of Mai Wei Di Huang Wan and drink Lohan Kuo tea.
For burning lungs, with or without dry cough: Yin Chao tablets
Burning, watering eyes: There must certainly exist a natural eye moistening remedy.
Linda..LS says:
I saw an old dermotologist about the face rashes a few years back. He said to use diluted Apple cider vinegar compresses (2 T to 1 cup water) twice a day and nothing else. It does help but needs to be continuously used til the skin clears. Cortisone is not meant to be used on facial tissue as it causes scaring.
Dennie. Re burning watery eyes, I get a newsletter by Dr Sam Berne, wholistic eye care, who recommends natural ingredients in his eye products. I make my own with saline and MSM crystals dissolved.
Rita Thomas says:
Been keeping a log of weather and related events on a daily basis. There is a definite pattern and correlation between the days before a 'winter event' and days of sprayed skies. Generally there is a noticeable up-tic in temperatures in the days leading up to the event, then the planes come in, put the dome on, and within a day, or sometimes sooner-the weather changes, we will get a 'wind event' that seems to come out of nowhere. Snow is now like salt, very fine, little to no moisture. Temps rebound very quickly and it is usually gone in a day. The air begins to smell industrial before, and during these storms. I have seen a change in the amount of time that is needed for the skies to be covered; it seems to happen much quicker.
Dan C says:
Thank you for the inspiration for us to act Dane.
I'm in Avon NY, near Jamestown, Rochester, etc. I have been taking snapshots of 10 day forecasts here off and on for about a year, and notice that weather.com shows precipitation values that are always high given what logic and physics would suggest despite what the weather forecast is. For example, even when it's in the single digits here for highs and negative temperatures for overnight lows, the average humidity values always hover around 60%. Rare that it's less than that. Coming up next week, it will again get in the single digits and humidity will be 60% daily.
How does the high humidity play into the nucleation process? Does one cause the other? Is moisture brought over this area through other means and then used for the nucleation process to cause constant clouding and rain/snow we've had for months now? We haven't had a sunny day here in about 4 months. And every day for the next 15 days shows completely cloudy on the weather channel predictions.
One other note I wanted to bring up is I will once in a while randomly choose 20 locations around the US mostly, and look at their current weather and 10 day forecasts. Every single location I chose today except Phoenix and Albuquerque were completely clouded over. And the 10 day forecasts show cloudy for pretty much every location I chose. It would be interesting to have some of us log daily random, or fixed, locational daily forecasts as well as 10 day forecasts for 20 or so locations to show how targeted we are here in the US.
Darrell E Benz says:
I pass on most of your information weekly , still hoping the masses will awaken ! Thanks Dane , don't stop fighting our corrupt government .
V. Susan Ferguson says:
H.R. 510 (115th): Rapid DNA Act of 2017
Rapid DNA is a new technique that can analyze DNA samples in about 90 minutes, instead of days or even weeks as it took previously. A bill that passed the Senate and House last week would expand the use of this technology.
What the bill does
The Rapid DNA Act establishes a system for Rapid DNA’s nationwide coordination among law enforcement departments, by connecting it to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System.
Labelled S. 139 in the Senate and H.R. 510 in the House, the legislation was introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI5).
Former FBI Director James Comey cited a real-life example of how the technology could be used effectively. “[It will] allow us, in booking stations around the country, if someone’s arrested, to know instantly — or near instantly — whether that person is the rapist who’s been on the loose in a particular community before they’re released on bail and get away or to clear somebody, to show that they’re not the person,” Comey said in testimony.
Rapid DNA was used for the first time ever in a criminal investigation in 2013, to nab burglars who stole more than $30,000 worth of items from an Air Force Member’s Florida home while they were serving in Afghanistan. Presumably more such cases would be solved and quickly with expanded use of rapid DNA.
… the FBI already has DNA samples from more than 3.5 percent of Americans, a number likely to grow thanks to a 2015 Supreme Court decision allowing DNA samples to be taken without a warrant.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation expressed doubts about the accuracy of Rapid DNA. “Rapid DNA has only been tested on single-source samples — like a swab taken directly from a person’s inner cheek,” the EFF writes. “And yet, Rapid DNA manufacturers are trying to convince law enforcement agencies to buy these machines to get through their backlog of rape kits and for low-level property crimes — situations where there’s a very good chance the DNA came from multiple people — some of whom may have had no connection to the crime at all.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr510/summary
I wonder if Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) or Representative. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI5) would allow us to take DNA samples from themselves and family members – just in case they're arrested for drunk driving or shoplifting tax dollars out of our wallets without a written consensual contract…
The Rutherford Institute :: Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects
“As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life. If we want to prevent a small elite from monopolising such godlike powers, and if we want to prevent humankind from splitting into biological castes, the key question is: who owns the data? Does the data about my DNA, my brain and my life belong to me, to the government, to a corporation, or to the human collective?”―Professor Yuval Noah Harari
Uncle Sam wants you.
Correction: Uncle Sam wants your DNA.
Actually, if the government gets its hands on your DNA, they as good as have you in their clutches.
Get ready, folks, because the government— helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget)—is embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.
As the New York Times reports:
“The science-fiction future, in which police can swiftly identify robbers and murderers from discarded soda cans and cigarette butts, has arrived. In 2017, President Trump signed into law the Rapid DNA Act, which, starting this year, will enable approved police booking stations in several states to connect their Rapid DNA machines to Codis, the national DNA database. Genetic fingerprinting is set to become as routine as the old-fashioned kind.”
Referred to as “magic boxes,” these Rapid DNA machines—portable, about the size of a desktop printer, highly unregulated, far from fool-proof, and so fast that they can produce DNA profiles in less than two hours—allow police to go on fishing expeditions for any hint of possible misconduct using DNA samples.
Journalist Heather Murphy explains: “As police agencies build out their local DNA databases, they are collecting DNA not only from people who have been charged with major crimes but also, increasingly, from people who are merely deemed suspicious, permanently linking their genetic identities to criminal databases.”
Suspect Society, meet the American police state.
Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful.
By tapping into your phone lines and cell phone communications, the government knows what you say.
By uploading all of your emails, opening your mail, and reading your Facebook posts and text messages, the government knows what you write.
By monitoring your movements with the use of license plate readers, surveillance cameras and other tracking devices, the government knows where you go.
By churning through all of the detritus of your life—what you read, where you go, what you say—the government can predict what you will do.
By mapping the synapses in your brain, scientists—and in turn, the government—will soon know what you remember.
And by accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your health history, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc.
Of course, none of these technologies are foolproof.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/uncle_sam_wants_your_dna_the_fbis_diabolical_plan_to_create_a_nation_of_suspects
Jen Skates says:
I noticed yesterday that the forecast for NE Nebraska today was 13 degrees and light rain!??
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by Gabriela Golumbovici May 3, 2018
written by Gabriela Golumbovici May 3, 2018
Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
The 2018 MLB Schedule is in full swing. As fans it is hard not to say what a crazy first month of baseball has presented us both on and off the field. From the crazy weather that haunted most of the Northern States delivering snow that forced games to be cancelled while other contests played in or below freezing temperatures. To the red hot start that saw the Boston Red Sox win 17 of their first 19 contests to start the season.
With all that said, the first month of baseball has delivered a ton of real excitement on the field as well. For us, it is hard to say who might win the MVP or which teams might make the playoffs this far ahead. Nonetheless, here is our look at which MLB players have the chance to take home top honors after their red hot starts.
American League Potential Award Winners
Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels – Trout is a year in and year out potential to take home multiple awards including the American League MVP Award. That will be the same this season as Trout has made a solid start to the season en route to leading all of Major League Baseball with 10 home runs through his first 25 games of the season.
Didi Gregorius, New York Yankees
Didi Gregorius, New York Yankees – Can this Yankee keep up his red hot start? That will be the big question, but when you are hitting in a lineup that features stars like Giancarlo Stanton, Aaaron Judge and Gary Sanchez, there is a good chance you will see good pitches to hit. Over his first 23 games, Gregorius ranks near the top in batting average (.347), home runs (8) and runs batted in (27).
Justin Verlander, Houston Astros – When you continue to dominate on the mound and you play on one of the top teams in baseball, the stats will show up. That is the case for Verlander who has been brilliant since his trade from the Detroit Tigers to the Houston Astros last year. Verlander has picked up four wins to start the season while pitching to a brilliant 1.36 earned run average.
Here are a few other top potential Award Winners in the American League: Gerrit Cole, Manny Machado & Mitch Haniger.
National League Potential Award Winners
Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals
Bryce Harper, Washington Nationals: Much like with Trout in the American League, Harper is a year in and year out potential to win the MVP Award in the National League, if he is healthy. To start the 2018 MLB Season, Harper has raced to the National League lead with eight home runs while ranking third with 19 runs batted in. The big question for Harper is will he stay healthy for the remainder of the season?
Nolan Arenado, Colorado Rockies: Despite missing five games after being suspended for charging the mound after being thrown at, Arenado continues to put up big numbers. This year Arenado has started off slow in the home run and runs batted in category but the All-Star third baseman is hitting .343 to start the season. The only concern with Arenado is that he will be looked past based on the fact he is hitting in one of the best hitters ball parks in all of baseball.
Patrick Corbin, Arizona Diamondbacks: The NL Cy Young race may be the race to watch all season with a long list of candidates who could pick up the award. Currently, the debate could be made for Johnny Cueto (.35 earned run average) or Max Scherzer (4 wins). That being said, the player that should continue to dominate while playing on a team that has the talent to win is Corbin. The Diamondbacks starter is tied with Scherzer with a Major League best four wins to start the season while pitching to a 1.89 earned run average.
Only time will tell who will walk away with the top Awards in all of Major League Baseball. For now though, we can all sit back and follow these stars as they make a race to take home the hardware.
Gabriela Golumbovici
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Alex Kidman
Aug 23, 2011, 11:00am
This smells like a bad idea. Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess... or would that now be Minecraft?
This is what cutting edge computing (and hair) looked like in 1983.
Has it finally moved beyond a cliché to say that Hollywood’s entirely and absolutely out of ideas? Deadline reports that MGM’s hired a scriptwriter to have a fresh crack at 1983’s WarGames, a film that should be near to the heart of geeks of a certain age. Yeah, I’m one of them.
WarGames has been reformatted a couple of times over the years — there was a moderately decent Playstation game, as well as a sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code. The less said about that, the better. But the original is rather solidly a product of its age, when the concept of hooking up a computer via a chunky accoustic coupler was seen as futuristic computer wizardry to a large part of its audience, and the spectre of nuclear war felt very real. In the Internet age, are we really all that scared of computers any more?
Now that I think about it, it can't have moved beyond a cliché, because then it'd wrap around the other side and become fresh and interesting. Call me jaded, but I don't think the word "fresh" applies here.
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Australian Musicians in Germany Fascination Berlin
Folk singer and songwriter Kaurna Cronin simultaneously playing harmonica and guitar in front of the Berlin Cathedral. | © Kaurna Cronin
Sydneysider Jeremy Rose is convinced: "Anything is possible in Berlin." For musicians, the German capital is still a playground of inspiration and creativity.
In recent years, Berlin has become a magnet for creative minds and extroverted artists, among them many Australians. According to the Federal Statistical Office, more than 12,000 Australians lived in Germany in 2015, almost 4,000 of them in Berlin – and their numbers are increasing.
Several aspects makes Berlin particularly attractive, such as its location in the heart of Europe or that living costs are still quite affordable compared to other major international cities. While a one-bedroom apartment in Sydney will set you back an average of 2,000 to 2,400 Australian Dollars, a 40-square-metre apartment in Berlin only costs about 600 Euros a month. Relevant factors for musicians who are seeking to make their name in Berlin's art scene and often have to get by on sporadic and rather moderate pay.
Berlin's Creative Energy
Germany's limited size and relatively dense population make the country attractive for musicians: Berlin and Munich aren't even as far apart as Canberra and Melbourne, yet while you'd traverse most of Germany in the process, in Australia you would only travel through a small part of the continent. However, these geographical aspects aside, it is Berlin's creative artistic energy that makes the capital famous beyond the country's borders. Musicians from all over the world are drawn to Berlin. According to Sydney jazz musician and saxophonist Jeremy Rose, in Germany you "feel much more like you're a part of history than in Sydney, where history and heritage are much less celebrated."
Saxophonist Jeremy Rose from Sydney has been travelling to Germany regularly for years to perform there. | © Mae Ashworth Photography Australian violinist Daniel Weltlinger, who has European roots and has lived in Berlin for years, similarly believes that apart from its turbulent history, Germany also has a personal meaning that is expressed through its language. "Language plays an important role when it comes to which identity you feel you belong to," Weltlinger says. The jazz musician speaks German and enjoys the fact that you'll hear many languages in the everyday hustle and bustle of the German capital. Australian Jeremy Rose only knows too well what it means to travel to Germany for a musical career. Every year, he makes the trip to Bremen to perform at the "Jazzahead!" festival: "Flights from Australia are expensive and the time difference is challenging. So travelling for the job is one of the sacrifices you make."
Daniel Weltlinger summarises life between Germany and Australia as "complicated". Nonetheless, many interesting contacts from all over the world beckon. They flock to Berlin in particular, where it's easy to spend time in a pub until dawn in good company and casually work out the details of your next music project or found a new band in the process.
Berlin: A Musical Experiment
Berlin is an integral part of the world map of creative hubs these days, Weltlinger says. He thinks the art metropolis acts like a magnet for creative people aiming to realise their dreams. As a result, a massive network of contacts very casually arises amidst bars and clubs where people full of creative potential lose track of time as they discuss their next creative venture.
Violinist Daniel Weltlinger performing with his band "The Asthmatix" at the "Venue 505" jazz club in Sydney, Australia. | © Rudolf Teibtner Berlin's lightly regulated nightlife gives rise to a world that makes it easy to connect with other musicians, combine music genres or even create a new, experimental musical style. "It's extremely easy to connect with people. I suspect Berlin is one of the most outgoing, sociable cities in the world," Daniel Weltlinger muses. He thinks that coming to a churning city like Berlin from a young nation like Australia has an effect on musicians: "It's very inspiring. There's a massive creative energy – an effect of the city itself."
Songwriter and folk singer Kaurna Cronin from Adelaide, who has lived in Berlin and tours Germany every year, also notes that "Berlin is a creative environment that goes beyond music and touches all forms of art. In addition," Kaurna says, "it's quite affordable!" For Australian musicians who need to pay for flights to travel to the closest major city in their home country and pay high rents in places like Sydney, this is yet another aspect that reinforces Berlin's appeal.
Recognition for Alternative Music
Touring musicians who want to reach a broad audience with their music and ideally raise their profile in the process, thus encounter a fundamentally different world when they move from Australia to Germany. "Because of the short distances, travelling from city to city makes touring easy," Kaurna Cronin observes. He has already performed more than 200 concerts, often in regional areas of Germany. For him, the recognition alternative music enjoys in Germany is striking. The young artist is delighted about the conditions: "There's support for non-classical music as well!"
But even if Berlin boasts many advantages, the city is ultimately far from home. And that has an effect on those who leave Australia behind for their artistic career. Daniel Weltlinger gives clear voice to this inner conflict: "When I'm in Europe, I think Australia is a dream, and when I'm in Australia, Europe feels like a dream."
Rudolf Teibtner was an intern at the Goethe-Institut Australien. He was fascinated by the draw the German captial still has for Australian musicians.
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by Robert Goddard
Publisher Bantam Press
Released January 1, 2014
Spring, 1919. James ‘Max’ Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World. He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference. But he was convinced there was more – much more – to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish. And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it.
Now, enlisted under false colours in Lemmer’s service but with his loyalty pledged to the British Secret Service, Max sets out on his first – and possibly last – mission for Lemmer. It takes him to the far north of Scotland – to the Orkney Isles, where the German High Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa Flow, its fate to be decided at the conference-table in Paris. Max has been sent to recover a document held aboard one of the German ships. What that document contains forces him to break cover sooner than he would have wished and to embark on a desperate race south, towards London, with information that could destroy Lemmer – if Max, as seems unlikely, lives to deliver it...
Book Condition & Notes
Near-fine first edition with very slight bruising to bottom of the spine. In a near-fine unclipped dust jacket with some bruising to top and bottom of spine.
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Astro-logical Forecast for Tuesday & Wednesday 8/23-24/2016: Down the Hatch with Mars, Saturn & Neptune
With the Moon now firmly planted in Taurus, go about your day with a mind to establishing material comfort and security. Comfort food and drink, music and a snuggle with your sweetie are some of the pleasures of the senses in which you may indulge. Tap in to the upside of tomorrow’s meet-up between action hero Mars and control freak Saturn: exercise discipline and dogged determination in your pie-in-the-sky, righteous pursuits. And let’s hope for the sake of all of us that you’re on the side of the angels.
Moon goes void tomorrow (WEDNESDAY) at 3:38PM ET. It enters Gemini at 7:40PM ET, shifting gears with its need to be the smartest kid in the room. Buzz, buzz, buzz…what will be the buzz on the Third Quarter Moon between the Virgo Sun and Gemini Moon at 11:41PM ET?
This just in from Avid Reader Wendy, who is also a consistent and cherished Supporter of this forecast:
Your blog has me wondering about what planetary patterns have brought about an increase in news around Music and scientific studies related to it. Encountered these two stories this week. First a new book out about effects of music on healing:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-08-17/new-use-of-music-in-medical-treatments
The author of the book “Waking the Spirit” discusses his experience playing live music to help patients recovering from surgery. Including this interesting quote about Bach’s music:
From neuromusicologist Dr. Arthur Harvey: “Of all the music we tested in medical school with patients, colleagues and others, Bach’s music consistently made the brain work in a balanced way better than any other genre.”
Also, a study of brain scans, taken of musician Sting while listening to music, to research how the brain of an expert associates music:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/17/neuroscientists-scanned-stings-brain-heres-what-they-learned/
Just thought this would be of interest because the of the links to the Hathor healing music you have included in your blog. Thank you for sharing them. I have listened to that music to help me fall asleep at night.
Thank you, Wendy! I’d argue that these stories reflect the potential for a practical application (Saturn) of the intangible (Neptune in Pisces), suggested by the current 90 degree arc (square) between them. It’s fascinating to note that Sting’s Saturn and Neptune are strongly placed in his horoscope. Saturn conjoins his Libra Sun; Neptune conjoins his Libra Moon and the whole lot of them are in a dynamic pattern (T-square) with genius Uranus and expansive Jupiter. The man has the potential for discipline and vision to rock the world, big time! His Mercury (the way he needs to think) is at 28 Virgo — about to be hit by transiting Jupiter. How interesting that the way he needs to think has just been published, which transiting Jupiter would suggest!
UPDATE: on Melania Trump. On August 8th, I noted, “transiting Mars will oppose Mrs. Trump’s natal Mars on August 15th. This suggests provocative action.” And when I wrote “provocative action,” I meant either on her part or on the part of someone else, in the form of an attack, action or outburst. That is what Mars symbolizes. I’m pleased to report that astrology continues to be amazing, as last week a British tabloid published an extremely provocative article. During yesterday’s Moon void “much ado about nothing,” a lawyer representing Mrs. Trump put that media outlet and others on notice, as the NYT reports:
In an email, the lawyer, Charles J. Harder, said Ms. Trump, the wife of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, “has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an ‘escort’ in the 1990s.”
“All such statements are 100 percent false, highly damaging to her reputation, and personally hurtful,” Mr. Harder added. “She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.”
UPDATE: on Rudy Giuliani, whose horoscope was last covered here on July 11th:
His bewildering 2015 Neptune-Sun transit is behind him, and now he has Solar Arc Midheaven and Ascendant in nearly exact contact with his natal rebel Uranus all year. This suggests opportunities and needs for taking the stage, shining in the spotlight and perhaps a dramatic new direction in his career/public status. Let’s watch.
On July 14th it was announced that Mr. Giuliani would be one of the speakers at the Republican Convention, where his speech set the house on fire. Since then, he’s been the warm-up act for the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, gleefully disrupting the status quo as one might expect with a double-whammy of electrifying Uranus active in a horoscope. I wish I’d bookmarked the Twitter responses from Distinguished Paid Pundits who marveled at the high energy and hand waving of Mr. Giuliani’s RNC speech, wondering why they hadn’t seen it when Mr. Giuliani last ran for office some years ago. Astrology, you Paid Pundits. Astrology!
There’s always room for improvement. Especially with so many planets in perfection-seeking Virgo. Thus, last week the NYT decided it was time to update its list of “15 Ways to Be a Better Person.”
Meanwhile, I see a reflection of this week’s Mars-Saturn-Neptune drama in Sagittarius (nature) and Pisces (refugees) in this headline: “As Homeless Find Refuge in Forest, ‘Anger is Palpable’ in Nearby Towns.” On the drug front (Neptune), there’s outrage at a pharmaceutical company — Mylan — which has steadily been raising the price of its life-saving Epipen from $100 (in 2007) to over $600 as of this May. These pens have a shelf life of one year and most allergy sufferers, including children, must carry two of them. Surely I can’t be the only one thinking, “What the hell is wrong with you, Mylan?!”
Elsewhere, Stanford University (Sagittarius refers to higher education) has taken a hard-line approach (Mars-Saturn) to sexual assaults on campus and banned hard liquor (Neptune) at campus parties. Overly idealistic (Neptune)? Or a pragmatic start (Saturn)? This edict arrives just in time for a newly-sober woman to pen this hardcore piece on “The Infuriating Truth About Why Women Drink.” And for this video arguing that the root cause of addiction is lack of connection. That’s a Saturn (separation) vs. Neptune (communion) challenge if ever there was one.
On an uplifting note, militant discipline (Mars-Saturn) has effected healing (Neptune) in a small town in England. In 10 years the village of Ashton Hayes has cut its carbon emissions by 24%. See how they did it. And file this one under the surreal spin Neptune can add to the militant discipline of Mars and Saturn: “Sir Nils Olav the Penguin Receives Military Promotion at Edinburgh Zoo.” If only every army in the world was commandeered by a penguin….
Last but not least, here is Beth Owlsdaughter’s wise and wonderful Tarot Card of the Week. Many Avid Readers have become Avid Fans of Beth’s work. Thus I am sad to report that she was dealt a challenging hand last week. In the wake of an utterly humorless Saturn-Venus square, she was diagnosed with breast cancer — details are posted here.
Beth is a fighter. True to this week’s fiercely disciplined Mars-Saturn alignment, she is determined to keep posting her weekly card pulls as she tackles this battle. Courage, blessings and much love to you, Beth. Courage and blessings and love to everyone fighting whatever challenges are on their respective plates. We are all fighting a unique battle on our personal hero’s quest. Trite, perhaps — but it’s true.
Thank you for reading this forecast.
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Astro-logical Forecast for Monday & Tuesday 7/11-12/2016: Sneak Peek at the Week; Rudy, Newt & Meanwhile, Across the Pond…
The work week begins with the Moon in Libra, where it has been since Sunday at 4:32AM ET. Its need for social graces, harmony and balance in relationship flowed without interference yesterday, save perhaps for a mental buzz or startling revelation suggested by Mercury in a supercharged connection with innovative Uranus and energetic Mars, exact Sunday night at 10PM ET and Monday at 3:29AM ET. What was the big brainstorm?
On Monday, the Libra Moon’s need to keep the peace is challenged by Pluto at 12:46PM ET and by the Sun at 8:52PM ET. The former suggests emotional intensity and power plays. The latter is the First Quarter Moon — suggesting a challenge to the New Moon agenda you set last Monday. Another upset is suggested on Tuesday at 5:30AM ET, when Moon opposes Uranus. But you’re used to these weekly clashes among the Pluto, Uranus and the Moon, right?
Moon goes void on Tuesday at 11:01AM ET, on a charged connection with Mercury, suggesting communications that may result in a much ado about nothing crisis during the long void. At 11AM ET tomorrow, Bernie Sanders is scheduled to formally endorse Hillary Clinton. Moon enters the next sign — Scorpio — at 4:52PM ET, seeking depth, substance, control and perhaps a bit of self-indulgent moodiness.
Planetary patterns of note this week include Venus (social expression) and Mercury (thought and communication) both leaving nurturing Cancer for drama queen Leo. For the next few weeks, it’s showtime! Venus enters Leo at 1:34AM ET on Tuesday; Mercury follows at 8:47PM ET on Wednesday. They both meet up with a rose-colored opinionated roar on Saturday at 6PM ET.
At 9:30AM ET on Saturday, the Cancer Sun will be challenged by rebel Uranus, possibly reflecting the other shoe dropping after the intense power plays of last Thursday’s opposition between the Sun and Pluto. Also on Saturday just before midnight ET (11:45PM), we’ll have an easy flow between the Sun and Mars, operating efficiently in Scorpio. May it be used for better, not for worse.
Your Moon voids for the week — natural breaks in the action when efforts to move forward in a straight line may be impacted by curious twists and flakes — are as follows: Tuesday 11:01AM ET – 4:52PM ET; Thursday 6:22PM ET – 5:14AM ET; Sunday 4:57AM ET – 3:33PM ET. Remember that crises that crop up during voids are often much ado about nothing. Stick to routine concerns and chill!
Since I’m writing this under the influence of Monday’s erratic Mercury-Uranus square, these items will be suitably provocative, brilliant and in no particular order.
Speaking of erratic, Rudy Giuliani. Why is he all over my newsfeed, where he hasn’t been since March of 2015, when he hijacked my forecast? Back then it was transiting Mars at the Aries Point, putting pressure on his Aries Point Midheaven and Ascendant. Yesterday it was transiting Mars again — at an exact square to his regal Leo Moon, prompting a blah blah blah about #BlackLivesMatter being “inherently racist” and that we really need “boots on the ground” to fight ISIS — presumably so long as those boots are not his own. Wow, that was so helpful, Mr. Giuliani. Thank you!
With his natal Mars in Leo (where it may well get away with murder, as astrologer Grant Lewi once observed, placed so close to Pluto, we can appreciate his penchant for forceful, imperious action. Hillary Clinton also has Mars conjunct Pluto in Leo (and even more intricately involved in her persona). Oh, but there is more with Mr. Giuliani. His bewildering 2015 Neptune-Sun transit is behind him, and now he has Solar Arc Midheaven and Ascendant in nearly exact contact with his natal rebel Uranus all year. This suggests opportunities and needs for taking the stage, shining in the spotlight and perhaps a dramatic new direction in his career/public status. Let’s watch.
UPDATE: On July 14th it was announced that Mr. Giuliani will be one of the speakers at next week’s Republican Convention.
I am kicking myself for not posting this next one last night, when I started drafting it. You’d be kicking yourself too, if you were experiencing transiting Saturn square Pluto, but that’s another story. THIS story is about the fact that in the aftermath of last Thursday’s Sun-Mercury-Pluto power play, combined with the chick-friendly upset of Venus, challenged by rebel Uranus and give-me-a-place-at-the-table-or-I-will-tear-your-head-off Eris, Britain is absolutely, positively going to have a woman running the show as prime minister. Which one of two possible contenders was to be decided on in September….but…
With all of last week’s intensity, I stepped away from the headlines for a few days. Finally got around to following up on the birth data for the two women — Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May — last night. Didn’t read a single story about them — just looked at the charts, birth times unknown. First thought: wow, they are both so conservative…with Ms. Leadsom’s horoscope striking me as a bit more militant. And this confused me, because I momentarily forgot that the UK has a parliamentary system of government, which means the political party that is in power elects the prime minister. It’s not like in America, where candidates from different parties compete for the top slot in a general election. The party in power in the UK right now is the Conservative Party; ergo, we’d expect its members to have horoscopes reflecting this potential.
Theresa May (Oct 1, 1956 in Eastbourne UK), is having a Jupiter return, so I thought that gave her an edge over Andrea Leadsom (May 13, 1963 in Aylesbury UK) who true to her name, did have a lead as of last week. True, the make-it-happen needs of Ms. Leadsom’s Capricorn Moon might be supercharged by transiting Uranus or Pluto…or fired up by solar arcs from the Sun and Mars. Can’t tell without an exact time. Transiting Uranus has been intensifying Ms. Leadsom’s pioneering Venus at 23 Aries — and that will continue through the rest of the year. But Theresa May’s Jupiter return is happening right now at 17 Virgo…and transiting Jupiter will meet up with her Libra Sun in October. That looks good for expansion, don’t you think?
So this morning it was reported that Ms. Leadsom has suddenly (translation: transiting Uranus likely hit something in her horoscope) withdrawn her candidacy, and there was a kerfuffle over the weekend about Ms. Leadsom saying she was more qualified to serve as PM because she was a mother. Ms. Leadsom was against Brexit; then she supported it (more erratic rebel Uranus at play in the horoscope, likely). Ms. May, in contrast, favored staying in the EU. Ms. May, with her solar arc Neptune at the Aries Point, could be poised to blossom as a visionary over the next year or so. That would be a high-octave manifestation of the potential of Neptune.
UPDATE: There was no waiting until September. The third hit of Ms. May’s Jupiter return was July 6th. On July 13th, she was invited by the Queen to become Prime Minister and form a government. As expected, Theresa May accepted. Here is the photo of the new Prime Minister and the Queen.
Meanwhile, over the weekend the Moon was in Virgo — as noted in the last forecast — encouraging you to clean up your act at least through Saturday. The NYT facilitated your organizing efforts with a lengthy piece about Marie Kondo, whose Kon-Mari system of decluttering continues to take the world by storm.
Elsewhere, I’m delighted to report that Isabella Rossellini has been rehired by Lancome. Ms. Rossellini was fired twenty years ago because at 43, she was declared to be too old and thus of no monetary value — and that’s when I stopped buying Lancome products. Plenty of women between 45 and 60 are likely to treated as if they’re worthless in the workforce, says Ms. Rossellini. Her re-hire by Lancome is happening just as Jupiter (ruling her outspoken Sagittarius Ascendant) is meeting up with Uranus by solar arc. Here is her horoscope. We could expect a lucky break for her right about now. Welcome back, Ms. Rossellini!
A solar arc, for Avid Readers who are new to astrology, is one way astrologers use to measure the timing of opportunity and events in a horoscope. So whenever you see the words “solar arc,” just think, “Ah! An opportunity presents itself.” Got that? Same thing with the word “transit” or “transiting.” It means “this is an opportunity to work with the potential of whatever planets are making contact/transiting one another.” Clear?
Continuing to reflect last week’s powerful, dirt-exposing potential, especially on behalf of women who are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it any more (last week’s Venus square Uranus-Eris): after Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit accusing Fox News head Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, six more women told similar stories — going back decades — with more presumably to follow. In the NYT, a former trader weighed in with this expose, “How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down.” In other news, Bill Cosby was informed that a lawsuit charging him with sexual assault will go forward, true to patterns in his horoscope continually noted in this forecast, and despite multiple efforts on his part to delay the inevitable.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich is getting a lot of press for being a potential Republican VP nominee. I’ve written about Mr. Gingrich several times in the past — way back in 2012 when he announced his run for president. Even back then I noted how much he and Donald Trump have in common: they are both Geminis with Moon in righteously opinionated Sagittarius, with no small amount of visionary or simply fantastic pixie-dust to sell. This year, Mr. Gingrich’s horoscope — with its unconfirmed 11:45PM birthtime — is poised for zealous and formidable action, regardless of the time. How so?
First, consider a solar arc between Mr. Gingrich’s Sun and Uranus, exact at the end of June. This suggests an opportunity to shine as himself and be accepted. Second, consider patterns between Mars (action!) and Pluto (empowerment), as well as the Sun and Mars, suggesting the zealous and formidable action — needing to seek a broad public reach — noted above. These are patterns in effect through the rest of 2016. In 2017, if the 11:45PM birth time is correct — and this is a BIG if — we see a potential for recognition and reward that comes along rarely in a lifetime (solar arc Sun = Midheaven), combined with a definite windfall/big break potential suggested by transiting Uranus to his natal Jupiter. Definitely one to watch over the next year. Sun refers to life force/ego identity; Midheaven refers to career/status.
Much more to report, but after four hours of indulging my passion for astrology and my need to be of service with this careful research and writing, it’s time to wrap. If this forecast adds value to your life — in more ways than, say — the $7.99 you’ve been giving to Hulu every month for a subscription you never use, I invite you to cancel that Hulu subscription and invest that energy into something that brings you joy and a helpful perspective. I will thank you from the bottom of my heart. The big gold DONATE button is on the left-hand side of this page. Thank you for letting me know that this forecast is worthwhile.
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__label__cc | 0.640794 | 0.359206 | Background | 20 March, 2014 at 17:00
It only adds up to 1% of the world’s oceans, but the Mediterranean sea is one of the most international waters on our planet. Nineteen nations border it, more than 10,000 species live in it and millions of people get food, work and pleasure from...
Costa, we are watching you
Blog entry by Giorgia Monti | 15 July, 2014
As the wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is towed to its home port of Genoa, Greenpeace Italy and the Italian environmental group Legambiente will monitor for pollution and spills. We're particularly concerned about impacts...
Greenpeace maps out new..
Greenpeace maps out new vision for Mediterranean protection
Press release | 3 November, 2009 at 11:14
Greenpeace today outlined its vision to protect the entire Mediterranean ecosystem and safeguard the future for key species such as bluefin tuna.
The Mediterranean Sea -..
The Mediterranean Sea - Southern Balearics and the Sicilian Channel
Publication | 28 September, 2009 at 2:00
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__label__wiki | 0.537941 | 0.537941 | Resonance frequency measu… - Göteborgs universitet
Resonance frequency measu…
Resonance frequency measurements of implant stability in vivo. A cross-sectional and longitudinal study of resonance frequency measurements on implants in the edentulous and partially dentate maxilla.
N Meredith
K Book
Bertil Friberg
Torsten Jemt
Lars Sennerby
Clinical oral implants research
Nummer/häfte
Odontologiska institutionen
Institutionen för de kirurgiska disciplinerna, Avdelningen för biomaterialvetenskap
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Dental Abutments, Dental Implantation, Endosseous, Dental Implants, Dental Prosthesis Retention, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Osseointegration, Reproducibility of Results, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Transducers, Vibration
Kirurgisk forskning
The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the use of resonance frequency measurements in the clinical measurement of implant stability. Resonance frequency measurements are undertaken by measuring the response of a small transducer attached to an implant fixture or abutment. Two groups of patients were selected for study. Group A comprised 9 patients who had a total of 56 implants placed. Resonance frequency measurements were made at fixture installation and repeated 8 months later at abutment connection. The resonance frequency of the implant/transducer system increased for 50 out of the 56 implants from a mean value of 7473 Hz +/- 127 Hz (P < 0.05) to a mean of 7915 Hz +/- 112 Hz (P < 0.05). Two implants had failed to integrate and the resonance frequency of these had fallen. Group B comprised 9 patients who had been provided with fixed prostheses and had a total of 52 implants placed. They were examined 5 years after fixture placement and the prostheses removed. All implants were judged clinically to be osseointegrated. The level of the marginal bone around each implant was calculated by measuring the number of exposed threads on intraoral periapical radiographs and added to the length of each abutment to give a value termed the effective implant length (EIL). Measurements indicated a correlation (R = -0.78, P < 0.01) between EIL and resonance frequency. The results support the hypothesis that the resonance frequency of an implant/transducer system is related to the height of the implant not surrounded by bone and the stability of the implant/tissue interface as determined by the absence of clinical mobility. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345111 |
__label__wiki | 0.723596 | 0.723596 | Sporting Dog Rescue
M.J. Nelson - September 23, 2010
Giving cast-offs another chance.
By M.J. Nelson
Hunters have long had strong relationships with their dogs. Speaking from experience, I can attest that one of life's great simple pleasures is a warm dog sitting next to you on a frigid morning in a duck or goose blind. Watching a good dog hunt waterfowl or upland birds is frequently pure magic.
But sadly, for a number of sporting breeds (as well as many others), somewhere en route to this utopia something goes sour. The dog may not be winning enough or it becomes too old to hunt or is no longer capable of producing or siring pups, or it has a fatal flaw such as being gunshy, or it can't tolerate heavy-handed training techniques. In a society with a "disposable" mindset, these dogs become just so much trash to be tossed out with yesterday's newspaper.
In some cases the split between dog and dog owner is the result of economic difficulties--the owner lost his or her job and can no longer afford to keep the dog. Sometimes the owner develops physical infirmities that make dog ownership difficult or impossible.
But by far the most common reason for "divorce" in a dog/human relationship is that the human in the equation failed to know or understand the needs of the breed they were buying. They simply did not take the time to do the necessary research that would have told them that these breeds need lots of exercise and some sort of job to do.
Rescue Efforts
Many of these unwanted dogs wind up in overcrowded shelters where they are euthanized. The lucky ones are found and taken in by the various breed rescue organizations. Almost all of the dogs fortunate enough to be found by a rescue program go on to become someone's beloved companion and, considering their unfortunate background, a surprising number become successful hunting dogs.
Every sporting breed now has some sort of rescue organization, whether it is part of the national parent club, supported by regional clubs for the breed, or a separate entity. Most of these breed club rescue organizations provide foster care including shelter, food and training for these unwanted dogs.
"In the last five years, the English Springer Rescue Association has assisted more than 6,300 springers," said President Caryn Pola. "Volunteers sit on the board of the organization, open their homes as foster parents, transport springers to safety or new homes and raise funds when needed.
"This is part of our effort to find loving permanent homes," Pola added. "We assist all springers regardless of age or health. The only springers we won't take are dogs that have a known history of biting."
Jules, the pointer rescued by Illinois Birddog Rescue, simply needed her Lyme disease cured to become the fine bird dog she was always meant to be.
The American Chesapeake Club also has a national rescue program with three regional coordinators. Camille Druge, the western rescue coordinator for the ACC, said that while the rescue coordinators do their best to provide alternatives for owners to keep their dogs, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
"When it doesn't work, we assist the owner with placement. If they can't keep their Chesapeake until we find a new home for the dog, we will place the dog in foster care until we do," Druge said. "Dogs that are on 'death row' in shelters or have an owner who can no longer keep their dog at home are placed in foster care right away.
"We have found that the most common reasons for giving up or abandoning a dog are marriage, divorce or owners who failed to research the breed before they bought a Chesapeake and then discovered that the breed requires more socialization, attention and training than some other retriever breeds," Druge added.
"Dogs stay in foster care for a minimum of six weeks to two months. This allows us to evaluate the dog's behavior, temperament, social behavior with people and other pets before they are placed. But there are advantages to not being a popular breed. Only 10 to 20 Chesapeakes require rescue every year."
The English Cocker Spaniel Club of America also has a national rescue program. Marsha Wallace, the chair of the program, said, "The problem of unwanted dogs is greater than we would like to see. More and more we see nicely bred dogs ending up in shelters with no idea of their origin. Typically we take 30 to 40 dogs every year into foster care.
Arthur, the golden retriever rescued from a puppy mill, is on his way to his junior hunter title.
"We also help place dogs for private ownership, acting as 'matchmakers' and helping with screening. In 2008, private placements accounted for as many dogs as came into foster care. Many dogs we see have been bred overseas. The most common reasons we hear for giving up a dog is that people move and either can't find or don't bother to look for housing which can accommodate their dogs.
"We also have many other dogs that are shown the door because they can't or aren't given time to adjust to a new child. Others have behavior problems that were allowed to fester until the owner was overwhelmed. We also hear 'the dog grew up to be bigger than we thought' or is 'no longer suited the family's lifestyle.' Now, of course, we're seeing more dogs given up for financial reasons."
Grassroots Programs
The Golden Retriever Club of America does things a bit differently. While there is coordination and networking at the national level, direct rescue activities for golden retrievers are done by 92 independent, locally formed, locally managed rescue programs which make their own policies. But there are several minimum standards expected of these organizations.
"They have to accept legal ownership of the dog, the dogs have to be spayed or neutered before they are adopted, basic and routine veterinary care has to be provided, potential adopters have to be screened and the dog has to receive quality care while the dog is in the program," said Carol J. Allen, the national rescue chair.
"We rescue about 12,000 golden retrievers nationally every year and we consider this to be a very serious problem. The majority of these dogs are surrendered di
rectly to the rescue program and the most common reason, for many years, was 'lack of time.'
However, the last couple of years it has been 'lack of money to care for the dog.'
"As a result, goldens coming into our programs are considerably more neglected in terms of veterinary care now than was previously the case," Allen stated. "Interestingly, it has become increasingly rare for a golden to come into a rescue program with an AKC registration. Fifteen years ago, close to half were registered with AKC."
American Brittany Rescue takes in about a thousand dogs every year. "Since we aren't really a popular breed, I find this a shocking number," said Rhonda Carlson, the national coordinator for ABR. "Most owners who surrender their dogs got one without knowing the breed and just aren't Brittany people. They didn't understand that Brittanys are active, intelligent and really need attention.
"We have a lot of volunteers who take unwanted Brittanys and we provide support for these volunteers from a large network of people including trainers and behaviorists. We are also lucky that Brittanys are pretty stable mentally and it's hard to really 'ruin' one. Many of our rescued dogs hunt with their new owners."
There are also some private rescue organizations that are dedicated to saving certain breeds. One of these organizations is Illinois Birddog Rescue, which rescues field-bred pointers and English setters. "We take in an average of 80 to 100 pointers, setters and a few mutts every year as funds allow and depending upon foster car openings," said Lisa Spakowski, the president and founder of IBR.
"Our focus is on adopting working hunters into homes where they will be treated as family pets while still getting the opportunity to hunt. Most of the dogs and puppies in our foster care program were strays or owner surrenders that we've rescued from overcrowded shelters and humane societies all over the United States.
"Currently more than 80 percent of the dogs we rescue suffer from tick borne illnesses such as Lyme disease, anaplasma, ehrlichia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Most dogs that are infected with any of these terrible diseases have no focus or energy and in many cases their scenting abilities are dramatically affected as these diseases attack the central nervous system and can cause brain damage besides chronic pain and suffering.
Maggie, an English springer adopted by a family in Illinois, is now starting her career as a hunting dog.
"We are certain that these unfortunate dogs have been dumped by their owners and deemed useless because of their undiagnosed illnesses but our success rate in re-homing these dogs after antibiotic treatment, especially into working/hunting pet homes, has been quite good."
Field Successes
Can these rescued dogs be successful as hunting dogs? The answer to that is "yes" and there are a number of success stories.
"Many Chesapeakes have been adopted by waterfowl and upland hunters and others have been used for participation in AKC hunt tests," said Camille Druge. "I had one that came from Montana as a field-trial washout. He eventually became a conformation champion and earned both his junior and senior hunter titles. Just a few months ago, a rescue went to Alaska and his new owner plans to run him in hunt tests starting this year."
Sara Kuzenko adopted a golden retriever rescued from a puppy mill. "I originally intended for him to be my pet but I was interested in therapy work so decided to get him certified. Part of the certification is that the dog has to pass the AKC's Canine Good Citizen test and then I discovered the AKC's new program called Purebred Alternative Listing for non-registered purebred dogs, which allows the dog to compete in just about every program the AKC offers except conformation shows.
"That got me started in things like obedience and rally. Then I discovered hunt tests and started training Arthur to do the work he'd been bred to do and now he is working on his junior hunter title. Now, of all the things I do with my dogs, field work is my favorite. There's nothing better than having your best friend at your side with a bird in his mouth."
Jules came to IBR after she was rescued from an overcrowded shelter in Kentucky. "She had Lyme disease and needed lengthy treatment with antibiotics," said Lisa Spakowski.
"She also had the number '17' tattooed in her left ear, which meant she had been part of an assembly line of pointer pups that didn't cut it in the field, probably because of her illness.
"Finally, after several months of antibiotics, she started to show improvement in her temperament and personality. She started to lock on point on every tweetie bird and squirrel in the backyard. We began off-leash training with her and she showed she was a true field trial prodigy.
"She ran huge independent casts with great energy and enthusiasm. She also was 100 percent reliable on her recall. In April of 2009, she had progressed to the point where we registered her with AKC and ran her in a licensed field trial. She was adopted by a hunting family in Chicago and will be hunting for them in both Illinois and Missouri."
For more information on adopting a rescue, check with your favorite breed organization.
Most of them list their rescue operation on their websites. All of the national breed clubs are listed on the AKC's website under "Breeds" and the subhead "National Breed Clubs."
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__label__wiki | 0.934131 | 0.934131 | Colonel Gurkha Staff and Personnel Support – Brig P R Burns
Brigadier Paul Burns joined the Army in 1983, initially serving as a Military Clerk with 1 BW in Germany and Northern Ireland. He was commissioned into the RAPC in 1988 and after a short attachment with 38 Engr Regt, served as RAO 40 Regt RA in Germany and on Op GRANBY. After JCSC in 1993, he served as Adjt/SO3 J1 Rhine Area Support Unit before moving, on promotion, to the Manning and Records Office in Chester where he was responsible for AGC promotions, career courses, transfers and establishments.
In 1996 he attended ACSC 1 and was subsequently posted to HQ LONDIST as SO2 G3 Ops/O&D for his Black Bag tour. He then went to HQ 16 Air Assault Brigade as SO2 SPS and was posted, on promotion, to NATO Defence College in 2001 as a student on the senior course. Following this, he was posted as MA to the Senior British Officer in JCN (NATO) and in 2003, was appointed as CO Sheffield UOTC. In late 2005 he became Comd SPS 3 (UK) Div and subsequently moved to MOD, where he worked as the Army Focus in the Strategic Remuneration Review Team. He assumed the appointment as AD Current Ops DSPS(A) in early 2009 before taking over as AD Force Generation in July 2011. In January 2012 he was promoted to Brigadier and assumed the appointment Director of Staff and Personnel Support (Army). Brigadier Burns assumed the appointment of Colonel Gurkha Staff and Personnel Support from 1 August 2013.
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__label__wiki | 0.913229 | 0.913229 | Kia Picanto wins its third What Car? Award in three years
Kia e-Niro wins in its price category for Best Small Electric Car
Both cars available at GWR Kia
Starting the new year on a high, Kia picked up two What Car? Car of the Year awards at this year’s ceremony. The Kia Picanto scooped the Best Value Car award while the Kia e-Niro won Best Small Electric Car for more than £35,000. Both award-winning cars are available at GWR Kia.
The Picanto picked up its third award in three consecutive years, with Best Value Car. The smallest car in the Kia range had previously been awarded the Best City Car in 2017 and 2018. The winning Picanto ‘3’ grade has Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA), 7″ Touchscreen Satellite Navigation with DAB and Reversing Camera System with Dynamic Guidelines all available as standard.
John Rayment, Sales Manager at GWR Kia commented: “For two Kia models to win across two different categories is absolutely fantastic. Since its release, the Kia e-Niro has been hugely popular at our dealership, with a vast number of enquiries from customers. Come and visit GWR Kia today, for more information on the latest Kia range.”
The What Car? judging panel said: “The Kia Picanto has been our favourite city car since 2017 and continues to set the standard thanks to its mix of space, performance, comfort and value for money. Inside, there’s space for four 6ft-tall adults, while the 1.25-litre engine is gutsy enough for both motorway and town use. The accurate steering and well-damped ride also impress, and you get the reassurance of the longest warranty on the market.”
The e-Niro took home the Best Small Electric Car for more than £35,000 award in a now fiercely competitive category. The winner of last year’s overall What Car? Car of the Year award, the all-electric e-Niro is capable of 282 miles on a single charge and comes with Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist with pedestrian and cyclist detection as standard.
Commenting on the e-Niro, the judging panel said: “The Kia e-Niro was our overall car of the year in 2019, and it remains one of the best electric cars on sale. In our real range test, it managed a seriously impressive 253 miles, and it offers plenty of space for five people and their luggage. It also rides more comfortably than rivals, staying more composed through corners. Plus, acceleration off the line is serious and motorway journeys are made a breeze thanks to its 201bhp electric motor.”
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Medical Assistant Programs in Alabama
Medical assisting is a growing field in Alabama. The promise of a steady paycheck and a choice of work settings is part of the allure! So is the opportunity to help people — to project reassurance and competence to anxious patients. This, however, is part of the draw of other health professions as well. What is special about medical assisting? Some people feel that the work setting, duties, and job hours are just right. Medical assistants are more likely than LPNs to have regular 9 to 5 hours. They are more likely to be employed in doctors offices as opposed to care facilities or nursing homes. They often have a mixture of job duties, both clerical and clinical.
Medical assistants average $11.86 an hour in Alabama. ~ BLS
Prospective medical assistants should know that opportunities for advancement are more likely to come in billing and coding or office administration than in patient care. A person can certainly begin as a medical assistant and go on to become an RN, but if they know at the onset that is what they want to do, it is a less cost-efficient route than beginning as a LPN. For those who are wary of the stresses, irregular hours, or paperwork in a nurse’s life, an education in medical assisting may be just the ticket. The same holds true of the person who has a real talent for making others feel better, but isn’t so fond of math and science.
Medical assistants are more likely than LPNs to have regular 9 to 5 hours.
What is the first step to become a medical assistant in Alabama? To be most competitive for jobs, it is recommended that you start with a formal education. Explore the many medical assistant programs in Alabama to learn more.
Medical Assistant Certification in Alabama
It can be a advantage to have credentialing through AAMA or AMT. There is quite a bit of confusion about the requirements to sit for examinations in medical assisting. Both AMT and AAMA generally require completion of an accredited program. There are some exceptions. AMT will allow medical assistants who have not graduated from an accredited program to sit for board examinations if one of two conditions has been met: 1) The candidate has five or more years of experience in the field or 2) She has received training in medical assisting through the armed forces. It is important research the program to make sure it has an acceptable accreditation.
An accredited program includes instruction in both clinical and clerical duties. Clinical instruction covers common procedures, for instance, vital signs, blood draw, laboratory tests (immunology, hearing, vision, EKG, microbiology, blood sugar) and collecting and processing specimens.
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Medical assistants who wish to maintain certification need to do continuing education. There are opportunities online and also through state and regional branches of the national credentialing agencies. The Alabama branch of AAMA has five local chapters. The Alabama State Society of the American Medical Technologists meanwhile sponsors occasional events within the state and also works with the societies of Kentucky, Florida, and several other states. [Learn more about Medical Assistant Certification.]
Medical Assistant Salary and Job Outlook in Alabama
The job outlook for a medical assistant in Alabama is very favorable. In fact, the Employment Matrix projected 48% growth between 2006 and 2016, with 320 new positions anticipated each year.
Medical assistants average $11.86 an hour in Alabama. The Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area reports a higher average: $13.18. Montgomery, Mobile, and Huntsville all report salaries between $11.00 and $12.00 an hour. The Western nonmetroplitan areas are also in this range, while the Eastern ones report about a dollar an hour less, putting average salaries in the $10.00 to $11.00 an hour range.
Wages increase somewhat with years on the job. According to a survey by AAMA, medical assistants with three to five years of experience average about a dollar more per hour than those with two or fewer years of experience. Those with 16 or more years on the job, meanwhile, have an average hourly wage more than four dollars higher than that of entry level workers.
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__label__wiki | 0.638932 | 0.638932 | Prince William and Kate Middleton hire his former nanny to help care for Prince George
September 12, 2013 - 09:59 BST hellomagazine.com Prince William and Kate Middleton have decided to employ William's former nanny Jessie Webb to help them care for Prince George
When it came to the incredibly important job of caring for their firstborn, Prince William and Kate Middleton decided to turn to a familiar face. The royal couple have asked William's former nanny, Jessie Webb, to help them look after their ten-week-old son Prince George.
Jessie has been assisting William and Kate at their home in Anglesey, and this week was spotted with the new mum and her son for the first time. As the Duchess made a pit stop at a McDonalds car park to feed her little boy, enroute to Kensington Palace, Jessie was also seen emerging from the car to lend a helping hand.
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Jessie was an obvious choice for the position of royal nanny. She cared for both William and Harry when they were children, and was a great comfort to the boys as their parents' marriage broke down.
The Princes continue to feel great affection for the 71-year-old, who has no children of her own, and she was a guest at both William's 21st birthday party and his wedding to Kate in 2011.
Her last royal appointment was caring for Viscount Linley's two children, Patrick (born in 1999) and Margarita (born in 2002), before she retired to an apartment in Kennington, south London.
"She'll be like a safe pair of hands," Ingrid Seward, author of A Century of Royal Children, told People. "That's preferred rather than someone new to it all, someone who'd be terrified of it all."
While William and Kate were adamant they would care for Prince George themselves in those precious first few weeks, the time is right for them to seek some help.
On Thursday, the Duchess will make her highly-anticipated return to the spotlight, as she joins Prince William at the Tusk Conservation Awards; her first official royal engagement since giving birth.
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__label__cc | 0.658986 | 0.341014 | The happiest states in America
The happie...
What makes you happy? Maybe it's a coffee or a vacation to a beautiful beach. Or maybe it's something more internal, and contentment lies in the way you live your life.
But have you considered that where you live could also be a factor?
WalletHub, a personal-finance website, has released its findings for the happiest states in 2019. Their methodology was as follows: How did the emotional and physical well-being of each state rate? What was the work environment like in each state? And what was the community and overall environment like? Read on to find out if your home state made the cut for the top 15.
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15. New York
The Empire State is currently experiencing the lowest levels of unemployment in over 10 years. With job stability comes less stress and more social structure. These factors all contribute to lower anxiety levels.
14. Virginia
Studies often link nature with health, with individuals surrounded by more nature being healthier than those living away from nature. Virginia just happens to be sprawling with valleys, canyons, caverns and rivers.
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13. Nevada
Heavy storms are infrequent here and sunshine is abundant. Strong sunshine means higher levels of vitamin D, improved mood and lower blood pressure. Compared to the national average of 20%, 15.6% of Nevada adults reported depression in 2017. The state's goal by 2020 is to cut that number down to 14.5%. As for the younger population, the state received an A grade for students with emotional disturbances, with an average at 0.4% in 2017.
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12. North Dakota
Compared to coastal states where insufficient sleep is common, North Dakota ranks fifth overall for adequate sleep. The Midwestern state also tops the 2019 charts for highest rate of economic growth in the U.S. Though an income higher than $95,000 won't have a direct effect on happiness, the stability that comes with economic growth certainly might make North Dakota's residents feel more secure.
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Like North Dakota, Iowa ranks high for adequate sleep. It also has a low unemployment rate and a strong high school graduation rate. What else makes Iowans stand out among their peers in terms of happiness? Wallethub found that Iowa has one of the lowest long-term unemployment rates and the second-highest volunteering rate with 41.53% of residents donating their time to help others in 2018, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service. Because volunteering is a social and often physical activity, it can reduce stress and lower blood pressure - two signs of a happy heart and a healthy mind.
10. Connecticut
In the past five years, Connecticut has seen a decrease in excessive drinking as well as in levels of uninsured residents. It also has a low prevalence of smoking, according to the United Health Foundation. Arrests, property crimes and violent crimes all remain under the U.S. average, with the latter being one of the lowest rates for the state since 1974.
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9. Nebraska
Similar to Iowa, Nebraska high schoolers have a high graduation rate, and the state also boasts a high immunization rate. Nebraska also scores well in terms of mental and physical distress. Its low unemployment rate is a strong indicator of stable and happy residents as well.
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8. Maryland
In terms of emotional and physical well-being, Wallethub ranked Maryland among the top five states. Maryland communities seem to recognize that outdoor recreation has a direct role in increasing the quality of life. With mountains, seashores, creeks and coves, it's no wonder that a recent study found that 51% of the state's residents partake in outdoor activities.
Massachusetts is the state in which you are most likely to receive essential care for mental health - with 590.9 mental health providers per 100,000 people. This is compared to the U.S. average of 234.7 per 100,000. The Bay state is also ranked third for work environment and in the top 10 for emotional and physical well-being.
6. Idaho
Low divorce rates, high volunteerism, ideal weather and adequate leisure time all play into the Gem State ranking No. 1 for community and environment. Idaho's low levels of unemployment also reflect stability and happiness from steady economic growth.
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5. New Jersey
Second only to Hawaii in terms of emotional and physical well-being, New Jersey residents have some of the lowest rates of adult depression and divorce.
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Exercise can have long- and short-term effects on mental health - sometimes feelings of happiness can come just five minutes after a workout. This make sense considering Californians rank third nationally for the highest participation in sports and fourth overall for emotional and physical well-being. The West Coast state also has the fewest recorded work hours, leaving more time for leisure.
3. Minnesota
Like neighboring Iowa, Minnesota's residents gain a lot of happiness from volunteering. They also have low food insecurity, quality nursing homes and infrequent mental distress. Maybe all the blue space in the land of 10,000 lakes really does have an influence on improved mental health, as studies have suggested.
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Safest, lowest divorce rates, high volunteerism and fewer hours spent working - Utah residents have a lot to be happy about in their beautiful state. If experiential memories and adventure makes us happy, Utah has that in abundance with its hiking, biking, rock climbing, canyoneering, horseback riding and camping.
1. Hawaii
The people of these stunning islands seem to have it all: strong physical well-being, tight-knit communities, stable finances, suitable social lives and steady careers. Perhaps it's in the air - the chain of islands has low particle pollution and very few high ozone days, specifically in Honolulu. Whatever it is, it seems Hawaiians have found the secret to happiness, and you can find your own on one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world.
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Review: Goldilocks, Jacksons Lane
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Hiccup Theatre's Goldilocks at Jackson's Lane
Warm-hearted, eco-friendly take on the classic fairytale has an inventive set and a touching note of forgiveness
There's more than a bowl of porridge at stake in this new environmentally conscious version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears tale by Hiccup and Derby Theatre - even if the porridge is probably gluten-free.
In this world, the bears live in a recycled haven of wondrous gadgets and inventions and Goldilocks is a thrill-seeking tomboy who breaks into their home after smashing a window with a ball.
The tale opens with a witty song to celebrate the enduring power of the value of three in storytelling.
The cast of three [of course] play their guitars and ukuleles [also appropriate - wait for it] as they set up the story that takes place in a 'deep forest made of teapots and… ukuleles.'
The set design is a major feature of this warm-hearted, witty production. Fashioned to resemble a cross-section of a fantasy Wendy house kitted out by a nutty professor, the bears have found every conceivable use for innumerable found objects inspired by the old adage 'one man's rubbish is another man's gold'.
Bicycle wheels power a shower made out of a bucket, metal bins are used as chairs and suitcases are beds that look invitingly cosy, despite the blankets being made out of crisp packets. Most charming of all is the tea dispenser with three teapots in decreasing sizes lined up on a plank of wood attached to a lever.
Goldilocks has no respect for the homely order of the bears' world. The irony of her dismissive lyrics in her big number, 'I want something electronic, supersonic, so long as it's not made of wood,' may not, hopefully, resonate yet with the young target audience but it certainly struck a chord with parents.
As you'd expect in a Christmas show there is plenty of physical comedy with lots of he's [Baby Bear] or she's [naughty Goldilocks] behind you action that had the little ones wriggling and giggling.
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__label__wiki | 0.54587 | 0.54587 | Dibaba N wins Friday night distaff at Yonkers
Favored Dibaba N (Eric Goodell, $4.30) gave nothing else a shot Friday night (Dec. 6th), winning Yonkers Raceway's brisk $42,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
It was a two-speed, two-wagering-choices number, with Dibaba N—from assigned post position No. 5—working around pole-sitter Itty Bitty (Dan Dube) before a :27.3 opening quarter-mile.
There wasn't much to it from there as Dibaba N found a :57.2 intermission. Down the backside and moving toward a 1:25.3 three-quarters, Clear Idea (Joe Bongiorno) gapped out of a three-hole, while Shellie De Vie (Greg Merton) tired after a weak, first-over bid.
Dibaba N and Itty Bitty had the stretch to the themselves, with the former opening a couple of lengths in and out of the final turn. Dibaba N prevailed by a length-and-a-half 1:52.4
Third—beaten more than eight lengths—was Kaitlyn N (Jason Bartlett), with Write Me a Song (George Brennan) and Clear Idea settling for the small envelopes.
For Dibaba N, a 5-year-old Down Under daughter of Shadow Play owned by Blindswitch Racing, J&T Silva, VIP Internet & Robert Cooper Stables and trained by Jose Godinez, it was her eighth win in 23 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $11, the triple returned $50 and the superfecta paid $170.50. | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345129 |
__label__cc | 0.575316 | 0.424684 | HollywoodNews.com > *NEWS > Looking At Potential Best Director Contenders
Thu, Aug 8 2019 | Published in *NEWS, AWARDS, CELEBS, HEADLINES, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV
Looking At Potential Best Director Contenders
By: Joey Magidson
My movie loving friends, as you all know from years past, as well as in my return article for this series a week or so ago, it’s one thing to read early Academy Award predictions at this point in the year in order to see what folks like myself think will happen six or so months from now, but it’s another thing entirely to actually know something about what will be in contention. To help out in that regard, I’m once again running down some of the major contenders in each Oscar category in order to prep you all for the season to come. Basically, the format will have me saying a few words about what/who I feel are the top tier contenders right now in said categories, along with a longer list afterwards of many of the other hopefuls that the Academy might take a shine to. Consider this a sort of awards season cheat sheet to have in your back pocket before the madness fully begins.
Today I’m continuing with what’s almost undeniably the second biggest one that’s out there…the Best Director category.
Here are the ten filmmakers that I have in play for Best Director, with the top five cracking the lineup at this point:
1. Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) – If the Academy Awards were held today, Tarantino would take home Best Director. The question is, can Once Upon a Time in Hollywood remain a top tier contender for wins, not just nominations? The season will have a lot to say, but at this very moment, he’s the prohibitive favorite. Whether he remains that way when votes are actually tabulated, that remains to be seen.
2. Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) – Looming large on the season is Scorsese, who will have Netflix looking to double down on their Roma wins last year and avenge their loss in Best Picture. To that end, getting the legendary filmmaker another Oscar in Best Director would be quite the feather in their cap. There’s no way they aren’t planning on going for the win, full stop. The Irishman is going to get a massive push at the end of the year, so expect this to be a race Scorsese is heavily involved in…
3. Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) – A huge X factor in the race, also due to Netflix, is Baumbach, who the streaming service is very high on. They love Marriage Story and expect it to be a big player, so sleep on him at your own risk. He could be the most likely of the first time nominees, at this stage in the game.
4. Sam Mendes (1917) – The recent Trailer for the war epic 1917 puts Mendes squarely into the field for Best Director. A former winner who hasn’t been invited back since then, this is the kind of citation that the Academy loves. If the film is as good as it looks, he might end up being a slam dunk nominee.
5. Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) – Representing one of the few feel good options, as well as the top tier right now of female filmmakers in the race, Heller has a real chance here. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood should make Oscar voters swoon, and when has that ever been a bad thing?
6. James Mangold (Ford v. Ferrari) – Mangold has yet to be nominated in Director, something he’s looking to rectify here. Ford v. Ferrari is definitely in the Academy’s wheelhouse, so if it becomes well regarded and a financial success, it could easily speed over to the Oscar race, no pun intended. Consider it a potential crowd pleaser in the lot.
7. Rian Johnson (Knives Out) – Depending on how much of a prestige flick as opposed to just popcorn entertainment this one turns out to be, Johnson may well be in the hunt. I’m slightly less optimistic about his chances than I was earlier in the year, but that has nothing to do with how good Knives Out looks, since it looks great. Just call it a hunch…
8. John Crowley (The Goldfinch) – There’s a chance this prestige adaptation of the literary sensation falls flat. If so, Crowley won’t even sniff Best Director. If that’s not the case, look for him to contend. It’s as simple as that. We just won’t know until The Goldfinch starts screening next month, so stay tuned!
9. James Gray (Ad Astra) – Ambitious science fiction has fared better with the Academy in recent times, so that gives Gray a leg up here. Ad Astra will be a tough sell, but not an impossible one, to be sure. Furthermore, Gray is well respected and has never truly been in the running before, so this massive project may be seen as his time to shine with voters. Perhaps we’re looking at a Lone Director type contender here?
10. Scott Z. Burns (The Report) – This last spot could have just as easily gone to someone like Noah Hawley for Lucy in the Sky or Edward Norton for Motherless Brooklyn, but Burns could certainly go all the way from Sundance to the Oscar lineup here. The Report may not be the sexiest choice, but it’s the sort of rock solid throwback picture that voters may flock to. We shall see…
Next in line I’d have these ten contenders (just sans commentary here) for Best Director:
11. Edward Norton (Motherless Brooklyn)
12. Noah Hawley (Lucy in the Sky)
13. Kasi Lemmons (Harriet)
14. Todd Haynes (Untitled Todd Haynes Project)
15. Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life)
16. Steven Soderbergh (The Laundromat)
17. Jay Roach (Untitled Roger Ailes Project)
18. Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
19. Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit)
20. Craig Brewer (Dolemite is My Name)
Finally, here are ten more to give us a top 30 to cull from, just sans commentary as well:
21. Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
22. Pedro Almodovar (Pain and Glory)
23. Todd Phillips (Joker)
24. Lulu Wang (The Farewell)
25. Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes)
26. Dexter Fletcher (Rocketman)
27. David Michod (The King)
28. Tom Hooper (Cats)
29. Gurinder Chadha (Blinded by the Light)
30. J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker)
That’s what this year’s Best Director race could very well be made up of folks. Stay tuned sometime during the next week or so for my look at the Best Actor race!
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__label__cc | 0.694341 | 0.305659 | Bioidentical Hormone Replacement for Women
Are you debilitated at a certain time of the month? Do you eat less and less but keep gaining weight? Does it seem like menopause is arriving ahead of schedule? These are all signs of hormonal imbalance, a growing problem that most doctors are not equipped to solve.
Birth control pills are one common trigger, even if it’s been years since you’ve taken them. Environmental pollutants are others, from chemicals in skin care products and plastics to fire retardants in furniture and pesticides in food. And a poor diet intensifies all these effects.
Without such triggers, the natural hormonal changes during a woman’s life aren’t likely to cause severe symptoms. But today, it’s virtually impossible to avoid disrupting toxins.
The Problem Isn’t in Your Head!
“It’s stress.” “You must be depressed.” “You’re getting older.” When women seek help, that’s what doctors typically say, as they scribble a prescription for anti-depressants. The drugs mask how a woman really feels. Yet the very real, physical causes of the problem are ignored.
Hormonal imbalances ― no matter what triggered them ― can be corrected with the right type of treatment: bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, or BHRT, available by prescription.
The word “bioidentical” means that a substance is biologically identical to one made by your body. For example, the molecules that make up bioidentical progesterone are shaped exactly like your own progesterone. In contrast, the progesterone in birth control pills is similar to, but not exactly like your own hormone.
Consider the different effects: Your own progesterone is essential to conceive a child, while the progesterone in birth control pills ― let’s call it “synthetic” ― prevents pregnancy. Not surprisingly, the synthetic progesterone disrupts the way your own hormones function.
Bioidentical progesterone is exactly the same as your own progesterone and can actually relieve side effects of birth control pills ― without reducing their effectiveness in preventing pregnancy.
Estrogen can also be a synthetic form that increases health risks. Some prescriptions, for example, are made from the urine of pregnant mares. However, bioidentical estrogen is exactly the same as your own estrogen. It relieves symptoms and reduces health risks.
What Symptoms are Relieved by BHRT?
Used correctly, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy restores balance and relieves symptoms such as these:
Vaginal dryness and painful intercourse
Sagging breasts
Memory lapses
Women using BHRT also experience fewer wrinkles and other visible signs of aging skin. Studies show that women who use BHRT look younger than their age, and women who do not use BHRT after menopause look older than their age.
Is Hormone Replacement Dangerous?
That depends on the type of hormones. Synthetic hormones increase risks, while bioidentical ones decrease risks.
A large study, the Women’s Health Initiative, found that synthetic estrogen and progesterone increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack, blood clots, and stroke. However, other research shows that a combination of bioidentical estrogen and progesterone does not increase risk and one bioidentical type of estrogen, estriol, protects against breast cancer.
Learn more about the safety and efficacy of BHRT in this interview with Dr. Holtorf.
What Health Risks are Reduced by BHRT?
We can’t see most health risks until something happens. For example, a bone breaks from a minor injury but long before that, osteoporosis was silently developing. These are some key risks that BHRT reduces:
50% less risk of stroke and heart attack
50% less risk of broken bones from osteoporosis
80% less risk of Alzheimer’s
40% less risk of osteoarthritis
40% less risk of periodontal disease and tooth loss
30% less risk of colon cancer
What Hormones Do I Need?
Although estrogen and progesterone are commonly viewed as the key female hormones, there are others that directly affect a woman’s health and well being. These include testosterone, DHEA (a precursor to other hormones), and growth hormone. And, thyroid hormone disorders are very common.
Each woman’s situation is unique. Individual needs must be determined by testing, considering symptoms, and prescribing to achieve balance.
Why Hasn’t my Doctor Helped Me?
Most doctors are trained to treat diseases, not to relieve non-optimum health situations. Sadly, that’s how our health care system is designed. Hormonal imbalances are not diseases and defy conventional diagnoses ― even if they ruin women’s lives.
And, there’s a financial reason why most physicians are unaware of the value of bioidentical hormones. Synthetic hormones are patented drugs that are highly profitable. Like other drugs, they are aggressively marketed to doctors.
In contrast, bioidentical hormones cannot be patented because they occur naturally in the human body. So, drug companies cannot make huge profits on bioidentical prescriptions and, as a result, do not market them to doctors.
At The Holtorf Medical Group, we respect each woman’s unique situation. We understand that your symptoms are manifestations of very real hormone imbalances, and we work with you to identify what needs to be corrected.
The process begins with an initial consultation and testing. We use bioidentical hormone prescriptions and nutritional supplements to address your personal concerns, and recommend dietary and lifestyle changes that will enhance your well being.
Our doctors are the most highly trained and experienced in this field. Call us today at 877-508-1177 and schedule an appointment.
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__label__wiki | 0.938406 | 0.938406 | Madonna baseball wins 3-of-4 in Bama
The Madonna University men’s baseball team stands 5-3 overall.
Madonna baseball wins 3-of-4 in Bama The Madonna University men’s baseball team stands 5-3 overall. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/sports/college/madonna-university/2015/02/22/mu-baseball-team-takes-bama/23861089/
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Piechota(Photo: MADONNA ATHLETICS)
Madonna University’s baseball team, originally scheduled to play over the weekend in Marian, Ill., went farther south to dodge the cold to take three of four games against Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) in Montgomery, Ala.
The Crusaders captured both ends of Saturday’s double-header at Paterson Field against the Blue Raiders, 2-0 and 10-9, and now stand 5-3 on the season.
Right-hander Evan Piechota (Livonia Stevenson) evened his record at 1-1 with a complete-game, four-hit shutout in opener. The junior struck out four and did not walk a batter in seven innings.
Scott Sebald (1-1) took the loss for Lindsey Wilson going all six innings allowing two earned runs on seven hits.
Taylor Grzelakowski went 2-for-3 with an RBI, whle Ryan Lambrecht drove in the other run for Madonna.
In the nightcap, MU scored four times in the first, two more in the third and three in the fifth to hold off the Blue Raiders as Lambrecht went 3-for-4 with two RBI.
Other top hitters for the Crusaders included Cole Rize (2-for-4, two RBI); John Lauro (2-for-3, two RBI); and Zack Byron (2-for-3, two runs).
Mike Kanitra (Stevenson), who got the start, was the first of five MU pitchers with Patrick Wierimaa (Redford Union) getting the win. The freshman threw 22/3 perfect inning, while fanning four.
Reliever Bobby St. Pierre survived a two-run seventh to pick up the save.
Alex Bautista homered and James Roll, who pitched all seven innings, took the loss for the 5-5 Blue Raiders.
MADONNA 7-0, LINDSEY WILSON (KY.) 3-11: On Friday, Cole Rize belted a 2-run homer and Shane Dokey went 3-for-4 with two runs scored as the Crusaders (3-3) earned a split by winning the opener, 7-3, against the Blue Raiders (5-3) at Paterson Field.
Taylor Grzelakowski knocked in three runs, while John Lauro also went 2-for-3 with two RBI in the MU victory.
Winning pitcher Adam Prasad (2-0) went the first 52/3 innings allowing two earned runs on seven hits. Todd Jones pitched the final 11/3.
In the nightcap, Edgar LeBron went 3-for-4, including a homer and three RBI, as Lindsey Wilson bounced back with an 11-0 victory.
Winning pitcher Ryan Hartman (2-0) went all seven innings striking out 10 while allowing just three hits and three walks.
MU starter Taylor Turner (Northville), the first of three pitchers, allowed six runs on four hits in four innings, but only two runs were earned in suffering the loss as the Crusaders committed a total of six errors.
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3/3 Photo: Simon Bottomley Photo
Kjeungskjær Lighthouse
One of Norway’s most distinctive lighthouses guides traffic in and out of the Trondheim Fjord (Trondheimsfjord)
Perched on a tiny skerry off Ørlandet, a deep red, octagonal lighthouse shines across a busy shipping lane at Bjungfjord. This distinctive seamark is the Kjeungskjær lighthouse, built in 1880. The 66-foot-high structure helps fishermen and sea travelers stay on course as they approach the point where the Trondheim Fjord (Trondheimsfjord) meets the North Sea.
PERIOD DETAILS
The Trøndelag region is known for its highly unpredictable weather. At Ørlandet, the sea can turn stormy before you even noticed it was calm. As such, the stone-built lighthouse and its cast-iron lantern room were built to withstand all conditions. A century later, the original, French-built Fresnel lenses that project the light from the lantern are still in operation.
Originally, the lighthouse was permanently manned, as rough weather made daily travel to the mainland impossible. The lighthouse keeper lived there, and in some cases, a private teacher also lived there to educate the keeper’s children. The last permanent lighthouse keeper left Kjeungskjær in 1987, when it was automated. Since then, the Kjeungen Lighthouse Association has taken over and restored the interior of the five-story building.
VISIT OR STAY FOR A WHILE
The lighthouse is open for guests to tour, enjoy its magical views, and get close to the abundant birdlife. Visitors who wish to stay longer can even rent the lighthouse keeper’s apartment, which has enough room to sleep several people.
Hurtigruten passes Kjeungskjær lighthouse on its way between the ports of call of Trondheim and Rørvik.
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__label__cc | 0.631806 | 0.368194 | Buckfastleigh Station is now the base of the Dart Valley Railway, which operates steam trains from Buckfastleigh to Totnes. A railway historical collection is housed at the station and includes locomotives, railway items from elsewhere. The original station building of circa 1872 survives.
SX76NW
Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76NW/71
RAILWAY STATION (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))
Timms, S., 06/06/1983, Untitled Source (Personal Comment). SDV349511.
Dudley, E. R., 1982, Locomotive (Worksheet). SDV348956.
Tiny [formerly at Newton Abbot Railway Station] is now at the Dart Valley Railway Station at Buckfastleigh. Other details: Worksheet in Wolborough Parish File..
Department of Environment, 1983, Buckfastleigh, Map Sheet 3 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV337043.
Local interest building.
SDV337043 List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest: Department of Environment. 1983. Buckfastleigh. Historic Houses Register. A4 Spiral Bound. Map Sheet 3.
SDV348956 Worksheet: Dudley, E. R.. 1982. Locomotive. Worksheet + Digital.
SDV349511 Personal Comment: Timms, S.. 06/06/1983. Not Applicable.
MDV20726 Related to: Ashburton Railway Station (Building)
MDV81098 Related to: Newton Abbot Railway Station (Building)
MDV7799 Related to: RAILWAY in the Parish of Ashburton (Monument)
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__label__wiki | 0.834571 | 0.834571 | Sigourney Weaver Joins Stephen Colbert for an ‘Alien’ Spoof on ‘The Late Show’ — Watch
In space, no one can hear you complain to customer service.
Michael Nordine
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If you’re excited at the prospect of even more “Alien” movies after next month’s “Alien: Covenant,” then you have something in common with Stephen Colbert. The “Late Show” host made mention of the enduring sci-fi/horror franchise last night, praising it for giving us hope that, “in the distant future, women might be allowed to be in charge of something.”
READ MORE: ‘Alien: Covenant’: Ridley Scott Introduces Terrifying New Sneak Peek in CinemaCon Video
And while he could neither confirm nor disconfirm the possibility that Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) would appear in any future installments, Colbert did have a clip of what such a scene might look like. It opens with him reading a copy of “Facehugger Fancy” while on duty at the Weyland-Yutani health clinic. In comes Ripley, who breathlessly explains that the dreaded xenomorphs have breached their containment facility — an obvious emergency to which Colbert responds like a vaguely Kafkaesque customer-service rep.
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After insisting that she’s “the woman who singlehandedly saved humanity every five-to-eight years for the last three decades,” Ripley is met with a dismissive reply from Colbert: “Oh my god, you’re Sarah Connor?” Watch the full bit below.
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__label__wiki | 0.632305 | 0.632305 | Brown County’s history beckons
In the spring and summer, Brown County beckons to those who are drawn by nature, pastoral scenes and unusual historic places.
Brown County’s history beckons In the spring and summer, Brown County beckons to those who are drawn by nature, pastoral scenes and unusual historic places. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1z0uE10
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Thousands of people visit Nashville, Brown County State Park and Bean Blossom in Brown County each year. They enjoy shopping for fine art, crafts, and a range of other interesting objects in the shops of Nashville. They also learn about the pioneer past at the Brown County History Center, eat at the town’s restaurants, and listen to musicians playing bluegrass and other forms of traditional music.
In the park, especially in the fall, visitors are awestruck at the rise and fall of the hills, the gorgeous colors, and the preservation of the forest and wildlife. In Bean Blossom, fans assemble for the annual Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festival and other musical events that have made the little community a magnet for bluegrass artists from all over the world.
In the spring and summer, Brown County also beckons to those who are drawn by nature, pastoral scenes and unusual historic places. In Hamblen Township, for instance, in the northwest corner, white one-room churches with belfries on the roofs and 19th century cemeteries mark the location of small towns that have largely disappeared.
One such church, the Sprunica Christian Church, constructed about 1870, has been restored by Vivian Wolff and other trustees to serve as a house of prayer. The adjacent cemetery contains the graves and headstones of pioneer families and their descendants, including several Civil War veterans.
On Bean Blossom Road, Syd and Mike Nickels operate the Farmhouse Café and Tea Room in a brick pre-Civil War house built by James C. Parmerlee. Next door the Nickels offer antiques in a former barn. A short distance to the south, the traveler finds Bear Wallow Hill Road, which ascends a steep hill and runs along the ridge top, with ravines and forest trees on either side. At the top of the hill, where bears used to wallow in the mud, stands the historic former home of Marcus Dickey, secretary and speaking agent for Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley. Nearby is the 550-acre Lilly-Dickey Woods, where Indiana University conducts botanical studies in a preserve of native trees.
In Van Buren Township, there are intriguing place names — Stoneshead, Pike’s Peak and Story. Story is a historic town, where the former general store is now a restaurant. Owner Rick Hofstetter serves visitors gourmet meals, and lodging is available in old houses nearby. Stoneshead takes its name from an iconic road marker at the intersection of two roads. The marker was carved in 1851 by an accomplished sculptor and farmer, Henry Cross. At the north edge of the township is Gnaw Bone Camp, operated since 1943 as a summer camp by the Lorenz family.
Washington Township contains one of the most important historic properties associated with Indiana art — the T.C. Steele State Historic Site. The house and studio, south of State Road 46 at Belmont, are time capsules in which the visitor is drawn into the lives led by the dean of Indiana artists and his wife, Selma. A large collection of Steele’s paintings are on display.
Glass is a historic preservation and heritage consultant. Email him at jglass@hphconsulting.com. Follow him on Twitter: @JamesAGlass.
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__label__wiki | 0.852978 | 0.852978 | Latest Florida Polls 2016: Presidential Swing State Could Shift The Race
Zachary Volkert
Just like 2000, the 2016 Florida polls could see the swing state deciding the presidential race. Also, once again, it’s difficult to say who will reign victorious there on Tuesday.
After nearly a year of assurances that Donald Trump could never become the 2016 GOP nominee much less the president, polls are indicating close competition for electoral votes across the nation. Some swing states previously thought to be battlegrounds — namely Ohio and Arizona — are now leaning Trump. Together, they make up 30 electoral votes.
According to RCP: @realDonaldTrump has made huge gains in the electoral college over the last 2 weeks. #KellyFile pic.twitter.com/dNbhCm4q5A
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 3, 2016
That’s not good news for Hillary Clinton, who has strongholds on the West Coast and in New England but could fail to reach the required 270 electoral votes if she loses some of the states where her lead is less commanding. Of these swing states, Florida is the biggest prize.
Because of that, attention is honing in on the Florida polls, the most searched of the last week before the presidential elections. There, Hillary is holding ahead narrowly in the majority of the latest surveys.
UPDATE: Clinton and Trump are now tied in Florida in two polls released on the Monday before Nov. 8. Both Quinnipiac and CBS News/YouGov released data using 884 and 1,188 likely voters, respectively.
Still, it’s worth pointing out that one of the largest of the polls has Trump coming out ahead by four percentage points. Conducted by the Remington Research Group, the poll surveyed 989 likely voters culled from the state’s voter registry. In that questionnaire, Clinton beat out Trump among African Americans, Hispanics, young people and women, but lost out to her opponent sharply with white men and voters over the age of 29. His lead was also outside of the poll’s margin of error: 3.1 percentage points.
However, both the Florida polls with the largest sample size and latest data put Clinton ahead in the state’s 2016 presidential race.
In Gravis’ numbers, conducted on Monday, Clinton was 2 percentage points ahead of Trump. Though the poll has a margin of error of 2.2. percentage points, it had a significant sample size of 1,195 registered voters.
The latest poll, conducted by Fox 13 and Opinion Savvy, gave Clinton an advantage of 4 percentage points. That survey had about half the number of participants with 603 respondents, and its margin or error also fell within Clinton’s lead — 4.0 percentage points.
The two other most relevant Florida polls also show a Clinton win — though it is by just one and two percentage points, respectively, in the numbers from CNN/ORC and Quinnipiac. In both sets of data, her lead out falls within the margin of error.
In Five Thirty Eight‘s accuracy ratings of these Florida polls, the highest marks went to Quinnipiac. The pollster has called 87 percent of its 169 predictions accurately. The lowest marks went to Opinion Savvy, which had only called 71 percent of 105 races correctly; it also had a sizable spread with final results of 7.8 percentage points.
Remington Research, the only poll which calls Trump winning Florida, was not rated by the election data aggregator. Considered a right-leaning pollster, it is headed by Axiom founder Jeff Roe, who previously led the Ted Cruz campaign. Roe indicated several times that Cruz would endorse Trump until the former GOP hopeful finally did and recently retweeted a video of the Republican presidential candidate praising his polling.
Donald J. Trump praises Axiom-Remington Research polling at his Iowa rally today. Have you seen the latest numbers? https://t.co/KRQjBa9kX5 pic.twitter.com/sf0vhRz26B
— Axiom Strategies (@AxiomStrategies) October 29, 2016
Nationally, most comparisons are still showing a win for Hillary with just over the 270 required electoral votes. That success hinges upon her taking all of the states leaning Democrat as well as those solidly in her favor. Using the same criteria, Trump would have to win big in all three swing states — Florida, New Hampshire, and Utah — to even reach 248, according to The Washington Post. The paper’s comparison does, however, call North Carolina as a Democrat-leaning state, even though Trump has actually come out ahead in multiple polls there.
JUST IN: CNN’s latest Electoral College map shows gains for Donald Trump https://t.co/WHGqE23jVk pic.twitter.com/D8yUsgYkaY
— CNN (@CNN) November 4, 2016
In the national popular vote, the race appears to be closer than ever. The largest poll — with a massive sample size of 5,360 — shows a 50-50 dead heat. The next largest poll, from LA Times, shows a 4-percentage point Trump victory — though this is within the 4.5 percentage point margin of error. On average in the seven polls aggregated by Real Clear Politics, Clinton was ahead by 1.6 percentage points.
Do you think the latest Florida polls foretell the swing state falling in favor of 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?
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__label__cc | 0.70454 | 0.29546 | Visiting Hospice Services
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Media Release: Hospice Simcoe Expands Services
Barrie, March 13, 2019 – In response to an ever-increasing demand, Hospice Simcoe is excited to announce that we have expanded to improve access to our Visiting Hospice and Bereavement based programs. We are committed to supporting more people who are dying and those who are bereaved in the Barrie area.
We have opened a second location at 130 Bell Farm Road.
“This space will allow our social worker and volunteer team to provide emotional, spiritual and psychosocial support to dying individuals and their families from the time of diagnosis through to bereavement.” Kelly Hubbard, Executive Director. Our 10-bedroom, 24-hour residential care facility will continue to operate at 336 Penetanguishene Road.
We will continue to offer our current community programs at the Bell Farm Road site and introduce some new programs, including how to help children understand grief, a pregnancy and infant loss support group, caregiver relief group and groups for adults between the ages of 25 and 40 who have experienced the loss of a parent or spouse. Unless otherwise specified, our community programs are available to all ages, whether or not you have had previous contact with Hospice Simcoe. Anyone wishing to take part in our programs are required to pre-register.
All programs and services delivered by Hospice Simcoe are provided at no cost to our residents, clients and their families. We are able to do so through the generous support of our community. Hospice Simcoe is a registered charity.
Our community programs have been operating since 1988 and our residence was opened in 2009.
For more information, please visit our website www.hospicesimcoe.ca or call 705-722-5995
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‘There are many central London sites sitting there that could be earning an income’
By Josephine Smit2019-11-20T06:00:00+00:00
Russell Pedley of Assael Architecture explains why his practice became a build-to-rent specialist – and how putting homes above a railway line is tricky yet lucrative
As a student, Russell Pedley wrote his thesis on single-person housing in the private rented sector (PRS). Little did he realise he would one day be director of a practice that has become something of a specialist in the burgeoning build-to-rent sector. Assael Architecture’s portfolio now includes two east London projects – Legal & General’s Blackhorse Mills in Walthamstow and Imperial Two in Bromley-by Bow – as well as Prosperity Capital Partners’ Old Brewery Gardens in Manchester.
The practice was early into the UK sector, thanks to a determination to diversify in a tough market, recalls Pedley. But his curiosity about the PRS was personal. “I was always interested in creating communities,” he says.
An aerial of the Imperial Two site in Bromley-by-Bow, east London
What kind of clients are you working for?
Our client base was entirely conventional housebuilders. Now it is around 50% housebuilders and 50% the new types of client, notably investors and PRS operators. There’s a move across Europe for investors and pension funds to move into housing.
We were working for many of the big housebuilders when the last recession came and that work dropped away. I went to the US to look at multi-family housing and ultimately was involved in the creation in 2014 of the Urban Land Institute best-practice guide Build to Rent.
What have you learned from working in build to rent?
Investors are looking for long-term returns. They want to deliver a fairly large scheme – 200 or more units – in a single phase in order to create a community. Clients are generally more open to innovation – and that openness combined with single-phase delivery can make offsite construction more attractive. Working with these clients is ultimately more rewarding for designers as they care about how a building works and are incredibly focused on minimising the turnover of renters.
A lot of the work being done by Ben Channon, our mental wellbeing ambassador, has come from client interest in health and wellbeing and sustainability. Blackhorse Mills is the first build-to-rent (BTR) scheme to achieve BRE’s Home Quality Mark rating. I’ve been surprised by the strength of the client focus on corporate social responsibility.
We also see some tensions between what our clients would like to be doing and London Housing Design Guide priorities, in areas such as circulation. Clients would like greater flexibility on lift and stair cores, for example, and that is possible in theory, but it is a matter of getting the message across to local authorities.
The practice is also working in over-rail development. What projects are in the pipeline?
A lot of design aspects of BTR are suited to over-rail development and there are many central London sites sitting there that could be earning an income.
We are working with Transport for London and Grainger on their BTR partnership, which is aiming to deliver more than 3,000 homes across seven sites in London. We are looking at development on top of Nine Elms Underground station, which has potential for up to 400 homes, and on Southall Sidings, a site next to Southall Station that has the capacity for a similar number of homes. For Nine Elms we are looking at providing apartments in three buildings above the station, with many of the planned homes having dual aspect.
Pontoon Dock, Assael’s design for the Thames Barrier Park car park alongside Pontoon Dock DLR station
How do you tackle the challenges of developing around or on top of rail infrastructure?
Rail operations are king. The rail operator’s priority is to keep the trains running, rather than to aid development. If you want to do something as seemingly minor as move a fence, it can take an awful lot of time. There is a need for a pro-development interface or taskforce to help developers and investors realise the opportunities – and a need to get decisions made at a pace that keeps the development community interested.
The high Public Transport Accessibility Level scores for over-rail development enable high density, but it is challenging to make these homes a place of retreat and tranquillity. In terms of design, you need to be clever because the setting of a place to live can be compromised. Communal facilities can play an important part in providing a buffer between the station and homes.
Dual-aspect apartments can be a difficult typology to make work. You cannot rely on the railway aspect for acoustics, daylighting or balconies. If you are creating market-sale housing on a station site you have to apply all national standards on private amenity space, but BTR is a different offer and that’s why it is ideally suited to over-rail development. The customer rents the whole building, so communal facilities such as lounges or roof terraces can offset private amenity space such as balconies. That is why the Urban Land Institute has been pressing the Greater London Authority to relax the requirement for balconies in the London Housing Design Guide.
What challenges and changes are you seeing in business at the moment?
Funding – particularly from overseas – is being held back and delayed, so a lot of opportunities are awaiting the outcome of Brexit and the general election. But that is having more of an impact on market sale than BTR, where uncertainty presents opportunities to be seized before market sale comes back.
In BTR, there is an increasing interest in more suburban locations. Suburban BTR is not high-density apartment blocks, it’s about pavilion buildings or mansion blocks in landscaped settings. We’ve been looking at Italy, where you’ll find apartment buildings with corridors broken open to create decks that give a glimpse of the sky or a tree and bring you closer to your neighbours. Perhaps BTR will even bring back deck access. I could see that working in suburban schemes where you have low-rise blocks around a landscape.
We’re seeing more of our competitors moving into BTR and, at the same time, we’re seeing BTR itself evolve, with the emergence of co-living. Housing is becoming far more diverse.
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__label__wiki | 0.874769 | 0.874769 | Zotob’s day
By David Quainton on Oct 21, 2005 1:00PM
It was just another PnP hole until virus writers got hold of it. David Quainton follows the return of the network worm
He was probably working to deadline. Maybe he was rushing home to see his kids. Maybe, like so many other programmers, he just didn't consider the security of his code.
Whatever it was, the Microsoft worker who coded the Plug and Play vulnerability didn't know it was there.
Like a lot of vulnerabilities, this one lay dormant until researcher Neel Mehta passed on its details to Microsoft.
Motivated no doubt by Bill Gates's famous "trustworthy computing" memo of January 2002, and eager to help its customers, the firm put out a security bulletin. And then all hell broke loose.
It was Tuesday, August 9, when Microsoft told the world about the flaw. According to the company, the MS05-039 vulnerability in Plug and Play could "allow remote code execution and elevation of privilege" in Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and even some unpatched versions of XP. Alerted to the vulnerability, malware writers around the globe feverishly began trying to exploit it.
Just five days later, at around noon, the honeypots and email inboxes of the world's antivirus companies began to fill with a new virus.
It seemed to demonstrate that not only had the virus writers been successful in exploiting the vulnerability, they had done so with a pervasive and destructive virus. By Monday, August 15, Zotob had gone global.
The next 24 hours would be among the most challenging the antivirus industry, IT security professionals and even users had ever faced.
6 a.m. EST
A member of the University of Helsinki in Finland is working on a laptop plugged into his home network. Like many home users' laptops, this one runs on Windows 2000, does not have a firewall, and its antivirus has not been updated since it was installed. Within minutes, unknown to the user, Zotob slips silently onto the system.
In New York, journalists on World News Tonight are arriving at their desks.
Virus researcher Mikko Hypponen is hearing reports of minor infections exploiting the new Windows Plug and Play vulnerability. It's not unusual – every exploit affects someone.
9 a.m. (4 p.m. Helsinki local)
The laptop arrives with its owner at the University of Helsinki. At roughly the time it gets connected to the university network, SC posts an online story about the Zotob worm.
The University of Helsinki's infosec manager, Mauri Rosendahl, gets reports about strange application requests on a Win2K workstation. An executable app has been trying to connect to an address outside the university using port 18067. Rosendahl's team scans the application and sends F-Secure, their local antivirus firm, a copy for investigation.
F-Secure finds Rosendahl's application to be Zotob. Back at the university, the infection is spreading.
F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen is at home in Finland with his family. He receives a call from his team: the university is struggling to remove malware. Their antivirus is up to date and all the latest Microsoft patches have been applied, but it won't budge. The PCs don't have individual firewalls, and are rebooting constantly. Hypponen is curious. Why won't it go away?
Zotob is everywhere – around 500 university machines are infected.
Rosendahl's team takes the decision to take servers offline to update them. Complaints fly in from users. Rosendahl demands a cure from both his antivirus vendors, F-Secure and Symantec.
In New York, journalists on ABC's flagship news program World News Tonight are at their desks preparing for an evening's programming. But their PCs don't seem to be working...
F-Secure releases an antivirus update guarding against and disinfecting the new worm. Satisfied, Hypponen and his family attend a showing of the musical, Hairspray. Rosendahl tests a beta version of a Zotob removal tool. It works.
World News Tonight is at a standstill. The PCs are all rebooting. From somewhere comes the news that the New York Times is also infected. ABC's computers are getting hit on the East and West Coasts now. For the first time in World News Tonight history, journalists are forced to work on typewriters.
At the University of Helsinki the infection has stopped spreading. Rosendahl starts inspecting his machines. Although they had Microsoft's Software Update Service (SUS), none had rebooted. Every Win2K machine that has not been patched and rebooted is still vulnerable.
4 p.m. (9 p.m. Helsinki local)
Hypponen returns home. He sends a text to one of his colleagues. They reply: "Everything is fine."
ABC's World News Tonight and the New York Times are bombarded with media calls. Patches start to roll out and the clickety-clack of typewriters dies down.
Rosendahl arrives home in Helsinki, hoping his network is safe.
World News Tonight goes on air.
7 p.m. (1 a.m. Helsinki local)
Hypponen is awakened by a call from Microsoft. There is more P'n'P activity.
There are two new worms. The exploits are not yet dead. Hypponen receives news that CNN is infected too. He isn't sure they have time to test the patch.
A report reveals the Financial Times in the U.K. is also infected.
CNN goes down. A reporter from CNN calls Hypponen to ask him if he'll do a phone interview. He does the interview wearing his wife's pink sweater.
In Helsinki, all is quiet. Hypponen finally gets some sleep. Admins at CNN continue the long process of testing. They have hundreds of Win2K machines.
CNN is still having trouble. Its weather reports are affected.
1 a.m. (7 a.m. Helsinki local)
Hypponen and Rosendahl go back to work. Rosendahl gives his support team the extract tool and they start patching machines that are still vulnerable.
The virus is still spreading. Unpatched users are still being infected and variants are increasing in number.
3 a.m. (8 a.m. GMT)
Europeans open their newspapers to find stories on the virus.
F-Secure releases a diagram showing that new variants of the Plug and Play worm are competing, deleting each other and spreading to new machines.
Rosendahl and his team have patched the university's machines.
He encourages his users to patch, but: "This is a university and we cannot force people to act wisely."The majority of antivirus vendors have put fixes out.
A further 24 hours on...
Thursday: a mysterious virus hits the central U.S. customs database in Virginia. The Navy and Marine corps base in Okinawa gets infected by Zotob. At Disneyland in California, staff sell tickets manually when systems are taken down by an unexplained IT problem.
Friday: the 911 system in Jefferson County's, WA, is disrupted...
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School 'asks parents to help supply pens, pencils and toilet paper'
The school is said to have asked for help from parents. Photo: PA
A school has reportedly put together a “wish list” for parents to help purchase supplies including pens, pencils and toilet paper.
The Maidenhead Advertiser reported St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School on Altwood Road, sent a link to the list of 17 items to parents on Monday.
The school, in Theresa May’s constituency, also included requests for blu-tack, cellotape and A3 paper, with the list adding a “never-ending supply” of toilet paper was required.
The wishlist on Amazon. Credit: PA
Catherine del Campo wrote on Twitter: “In your constituency, @theresa_may, a school not just asking parents for extras, but basic essentials.
“As well as loo roll, I’ve sent some plasters.
“I thought about sending some to @DamianHinds too, but they didn’t have one big enough for the gaping hole in the education budget.”
The school told the paper that it had lost £70,000 after the Government decided to reduce the Education Services grant.
Announcing the new funding formula last July, then education secretary Justine Greening said the current system was “unfair”, adding: “The national funding formula will deliver higher per pupil funding in respect of every school, and in every local area.”
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: “Regrettably we are not surprised to hear that a school is asking parents to buy it toilet rolls.
“The state of school funding is putting heads in the invidious position of having to ask parents to fill their budget gaps.
“Schools should not have to be scrabbling around for basic resources or equipment or having to ask for donations for essential items or repairs.
“The Government urgently needs to address the £2.8 billion real-terms cuts to school funding to stop this situation escalating.”
It is not the first time a school in the Prime Minister’s constituency has asked parents for help with supplies.
Last November, the Robert Piggott Church of England primary school in Wargrave, Berkshire sent out a letter asking for a £1-a-day voluntary contribution to help pay for pens, pencils and books.
It said “national changes to school funding” meant they had to request voluntary donations to make up the shortfall.
During a surprise visit to a street in Sutton, south London, in January Mrs May had to reassure a resident about funding concerns after he told her his teacher daughter had to use her own money to buy things for school.
One in five teachers, polled in a survey of National Education Union members earlier this year, said their school has asked for money to help with funding.
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Lib Dems promise 20,000 more teachers in £10bn annual education boost
Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson aims to recruit 20,000 additional teachers. Credit: PA
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to spend an extra £10 billion a year on schools and recruit 20,000 more teachers if they gain power.
As the party launches its General Election manifesto on Wednesday, the Lib Dems are promising to reverse frontline school cuts imposed since 2015 with an "emergency cash injection" of £4.6 billion next year.
The Lib Dems insisted that by 2024/25, the party will spend £10.6 billion more on schools than in 2019/20.
The money will help boost teacher numbers by 20,000 over five years, the Lib Dems said.
The party said it would attract and retain teachers by increasing starting salaries to £30,000 and guaranteeing all teachers a pay rise of at least 3% a year over the next five years.
New teachers will be offered a starting salary of £30,000 under Lib Dem plans. Credit: PA
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The extra resources would also be used to boost support for children with special educational needs or a disability.
Some £7 billion would be spent on improving school buildings over the next five years, the party said.
The Lib Dems insisted £10 billion of what it claims would be a £50 billion economic bonus from staying in the EU would be used to increase school funding.
Party leader Jo Swinson said: "This is an investment in our children's future. Our schools should be world class, helping every child make the most of the challenges ahead.
"But instead, they are trailing behind. The Conservatives have cut school funding to the bone and children have paid the price, especially those with the most complex needs.
Education spending would be financed by a 'Brexit bonus', say the Lib Dems. Credit: PA
"It is disgraceful that some schools feel they have no choice but to ask parents to chip in for supplies, and are closing early on Friday to balance the books.
"Liberal Democrats will build a brighter future for every child. By stopping Brexit, we can spend £10 billion of our Remain bonus on reversing school cuts and hiring 20,000 more teachers - so that pupils can leave school happy, healthy and with the skills they need to succeed in life."
In Tuesday night's ITV Election Interviews programme, Ms Swinson also said they had plans for a "frequent flyer" tax.
She said: "We've got plans for a frequent flyer levy that would certainly be discouraging many flights but would be raising revenue from that, so it wouldn't be an outright ban or limit but would be an effective measure to change behaviour."
The party is due to unveils its full manifesto later on Wednesday.
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__label__cc | 0.728287 | 0.271713 | Dealing With YouTube’s Content ID Alerts And Penalties
March 24, 2014 By Jeff Turner 8 Comments
This weekend I uploaded my 1000th video to the “Jeff Turner” YouTube channel.
Only a few hundred are public. The rest are private or unlisted. Only my family or those I specifically share an unlisted link with can view them. I don’t attempt to make money off of them. I don’t seek to optimize them for SEO to attract more viewers. They are just for me, my family and close friends. They are purely personal videos.
I noticed the 1000 number because I was taken back to the video manager by a problem with a video I had uploaded overnight. It was a 19-minute video of clips from the afternoon my 14-year-old and I had spent watching the LA County Air Show in Lancaster, CA. The air show featured the Blue Angels and I wanted the rest of the family to be able to watch it in the morning. Unfortunately, when we went to view it on our big screen TV, the video wasn’t in the playlist.
It was certainly there in my video manager, but nothing looked unusual. There was a third party content warning, which I quickly acknowledged, since there was indeed music playing in the background of some of the air stunts. While I was conscious of the potential for YouTube copyright issues, I couldn’t imagine that the small segments of audio that could often barely be heard above the roar of the engines would present a problem. However, on closer inspection, in the “advanced” tab, I found that the video had been blocked from syndication to mobile and TV. YouTube’s Content ID system had once again reared it’s unpredictable head, and the whims of two publishers had made it impossible for the video to be played anywhere but in a browser.
I won’t bore you with the gory details of how I fixed the issue, but it involved duplicating engine noise and overlaying new music to preserve the feel of the shots. See the image from iMovie. It was silly to have to do it. But, if you upload any amount of video to YouTube, even if it only contains “royalty free” music you’ve purchased for personal use, then you’ve run into YouTube’s Content ID system. After 1000 videos of my own, I’m intimately familiar with it.
So how does Content ID work?
According the to good folks at Google, anyone who holds a copyright to content can “use Content ID to easily identify and manage their content on YouTube. Videos uploaded to YouTube are scanned against a database of files that have been submitted to us by content owners. When Content ID identifies a match between your video and a file in this database, it applies the policy chosen by the content owner.”
This doesn’t happen to me often, because I’ve gone to great lengths to make sure I don’t get Content ID warnings. Again, even music I’ve specifically purchased for personal use can render videos unwatchable or cause YouTube to turn off the sound. I’ve since identified which royalty free tracks don’t raise questions, but try uploading a video of your child at a dance sometime. It’s like playing Russian roulette. There is no way to predict which song might render the entire video unwatchable, or place your account in jeopardy.
Many confuse YouTube’s “Three Strikes Your Out” copyright policy with Content ID matches. They are not the same way. A copyright strike can put your account in jeopardy, Content ID matches are more of a nuisance. I have no desire to be impacted by either. I have too many precious family moments stored in YouTube’s cloud.
How do you insure your videos upload without any warnings or copyright issues?
Here are the steps I’ve taken (MAC only) to make sure the videos I create don’t get put into YouTub’s penalty box. You can call me crazy at the end of this if you like, but it has served me well.
Download All Of YouTube’s Audio Library. If you didn’t know it already, YouTube has an audio library that they make available for download for free. The library is organized by genre, mood and instrument. You will need to download each song individually. This is a bit of a pain, but doing so will allow you to organize the songs they way you like to make it easier to locate the right song for your video.
Edit the song’s metadata to make them easier to find. YouTube has improved this over time. The songs used to be void of specific metadata to identify the genre, for example, but you’ll still want to edit the title of the song. I’ll explain why in a moment. Editing the title one song at a time is a paint in the butt. If you’ve downloaded your songs into folders by genre or mood or instrument, you can edit the title of each group easily on the Mac using the Metadatics App. I’m sure you can do it on a PC as well, but I don’t use a PC. Never have. Never will. 🙂 I chose to organize my songs by genre, so all of my Ambient songs look like this: Ambient – Song Title.mp3. Why have I done this?
Upload your re-titled songs to iTunes. If you’re looking for song in iMove on your iPhone or iPad or inside of iMovie, the easiest way to find the appropriate song is to use the search option inside of those apps. If I’m looking for an Ambient song, I simply type into the search box “Ambient -” and all of those songs are there for easy selection. Loading them into iTunes also allows you to preview them when selecting. Simply having them on your hard drive won’t be enough. You can’t preview songs until they are either imported into iMovie or available in iTunes.
YouTube is constantly updating their Audio Library, adding new songs to each genre. And now that I’ve lived with my system for almost a year, I’m ready to do it again, this time saving each one by mood instead of genre. I believe it will speed up my music selection. I’ve also deleted any music from my phone that is NOT YouTube Content ID compliant. This was a simple decision for me once Spotify came along. Now, the only music available is music I know won’t cause me to have to remake the video after upload or deal with the YouTube content police. It makes it simple to create videos like this, right on the phone.
I hope this has been helpful. If you have things you’ve done to deal with YouTube’s Content ID system, let me know in the comments.
Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Content ID, copyright, music, youtube
Jeff Hester says
Awesome tips, Jeff. I didn’t know about YouTube’s audio library. I’ve downloaded and added to iTunes.
Incidentally, I didn’t have to rename anything. The tracks were categorized as part of a single “album” called “YouTube Audio Library” and all the genres were automagically applied.
Thanks, Jeff. Yes, they’ve updated their metadata, but on the iPhone, unless I’m mistaken, you can’t search via genre, only name of album or song. Without the genre or mood in the name, it becomes a guessing game on what song is in what category. Again, if they’ve fixed that on import… I’m a happy camper. 🙂
You’re right. While the iTunes app on the iPhone shows genre search, iMovie only gives you access to album, artist, song or playlist. I did create a Youtube Audio Library playlist — and it’s not so long that I can’t sort through it, but for sure renaming the titles would speed things up.
Yes, it’s unfortunate that iMovie doesn’t give you the same options. I’m likely to completely redo my library to name by the Mood instead of Genre.
Flavian Nzambi says
Just finished going through your words…the movies are good but they need high order thinking when watching. Cheers.
I hope you don’t mean my sunset or sunrise movies. 🙂
jsheehan200 says
Thanks Jeff. Very helpful and useful information. Exactly what I was looking for.
My pleasure, Joe.
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A 53-year-old male was uninjured after being a victim of an armed robbery.
Armed robbery reported in Brookfield; the victim was exiting his car A 53-year-old male was uninjured after being a victim of an armed robbery. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2iFw6Bi
Karen Pilarski, Now News Group Published 9:20 a.m. CT Nov. 22, 2017 | Updated 9:25 a.m. CT Nov. 22, 2017
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A 53-year-old male was a victim of an armed robbery in Brookfield. According to the City of Brookfield Police Department, the incident happened at 1:11 a.m. Nov. 22 on North Rosedale Drive.
The resident of Brookfield reported that while exiting his vehicle in his driveway a suspect pointed a small black handgun at him and demanded money. The suspect, described as male black man with light skin complexion, thin build and wearing a dark winter coat obtained cash and fled as a passenger in a dark-colored sedan.
Officers checked the area and Interstate 94, however, were unable to locate the suspect vehicle. The victim reported he just drove home from the south side of Milwaukee and believed he was followed. The investigation is ongoing and additional information may be released at a later time.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the CBPD at 262-787-3702.
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Sustainable Manufacturing Part 1: People, Technology and Collaboration
Idea posted: April 2017
Institutions: University of York The York Management School, Cranfield University School of Management
The first phase of a major project on sustainable manufacturing, a food-and-drink industry giant and a UK university sponsored a roundtable discussion on sustainable manufacturing by 24 manufacturing experts from industry, government and academia. The roundtable yielded six major themes — People, Big Data, Technology, Collaboration, Value and Resilience — that describe the key areas on which manufacturers must focus to build a sustainable future.
Sustainable Manufacturing Part 2: Five Pathways
A collaborative research project on sustainable manufacturing between a food and drink giant and a university uncovers five pathways to sustainable manufacturing in 2050 that leverage technology and collaboration to build environmentally conscious supply chains that support — and involve — society.
Managing the Multigenerational Workplace
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
There is an increasing demand in the workforce today to add multigenerational diversity to the mix. What exactly comprises a multigenerational team, and what are the unique characteristics and expectations each generation brings the fore? Read this Idea to learn more about how to ensure your organization makes the most of its multigenerational workforce.
Coaching Chemistry: Building a Collaborative Relationship
Institutions: Henley Business School
The best circumstances for successful coaching include a number of factors, from the skill, style, and experience of the coach, to the desire of the coachee to develop, to the actual process of coaching sessions. But none of these will work effectively if the relationship between the two is lacking. What can leaders do to get the best out of their teams, and the best out of themselves as coaches?
Family Business in India: Meeting 21st Century Challenges
Idea posted: October 2013
Institutions: Indian School of Business
With 75% of the Indian workforce employed by a family-owned business, how they are run and what challenges they face will be of interest both to organizations in the country and to those interested in doing business there. In this Idea, some of the key features of India’s family-owned businesses are looked into, and some advice is offered to such firms for their long-term success.
Identifying High-Potential Talent
Idea posted: September 2013
Organizations are struggling with how to effectively identify, attract and retain high-potential talent. This Idea — based on a Leadership Survey carried out by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School — proposes employing a formal and systematic approach, and outlines four steps to putting such an approach into practice.
Developing Talent to Manage Big Data
Idea posted: July 2013
The sudden and prominent appearance of big data in the business world means many organizations need to start thinking about investing in new staff specifically trained in big data analysis. How can HR executives stay ahead and ensure they find and retain the right people for this important role?
Big Data = Big Opportunities: If the CEO Takes the Lead
Institutions: EMC, Cranfield University School of Management
Big Data has recently gained lots of hype, prompting organizations to consider the best ways to utilize it. In this Idea, researchers suggest the responsibility lies not within IT departments, as is typically assumed; rather, CEOs need to take charge of understanding, exploring and exploiting the opportunities presented by Big Data.
Female Directors Create Corporate Sustainability
Idea posted: March 2013
Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
Recent research and management thinking often stresses that diversity, especially gender diversity, is a critical factor in improving the quality of a company’s leadership and decision-making. But could it also impact the overall financial, environmental, and social impact of an organization as well?
Attracting, Developing and Retaining Millennials
Idea posted: February 2013
The number of ‘Millennials’ entering the workforce is peaking, and there is now global interest in understanding how best to manage them. By some estimates, nearly 80 million Millennials (young adults born between the late 1970s to early 2000s) make up today’s global workforce. There is also evidence that they are fundamentally changing how business is conducted. Here are some steps to maximizing their effectiveness in your organization.
Lean Thinking – Increased Innovation
Institutions: Queen’s University School of Business
Being Lean should not impact an organization’s innovative environment. In fact, freeing up resources can actually increase innovation. Lean thinking should be instilled in a company through leaders; however, middle-managers can also apply simple strategies to simulate creativity at all levels of the organization.
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__label__wiki | 0.5739 | 0.5739 | Home Movie News Movie Reviews ‘Scare Package’ is a Fun and Fantastic Love Letter to Horror Anthology
‘Scare Package’ is a Fun and Fantastic Love Letter to Horror Anthology
I’m a huge fan of anthologies, and this year, I have had the opportunity to watch several of them. However, it was one wild-ass meta ride of an anthology titled Scare Package that became my favorite anthology of the last couple of years due to its playfulness, heart and pastiche of 80’s horror.
Scare Package has its tongue firmly placed in cheek with its opening story, ‘Cold Open,’ directed by Emily Hagins (Grow Up Tony Phillips). The story revolves around a dude that very much understands that his job in daily life is to offer a generic cold open day in and day out. Tired of the rigmarole, he decides to take steps to become more than a cold open character and someone that might have more a pivotal role in life. Of course this comes with hilarious and deadly consequences.
It’s a nice setup and sets a clear blueprint of the sort of horror-beholden shenanigans the audience is in store for. From Cold Open we are lead into the wrap-around portion of Scare Package and, man is it a fun one. It takes place in a video store owned by a Joe Bob Briggs obsessed dude named Rad Chad. Each of the following segments in the anthology are introduced through this particular group of video store employees. It gives the entire structure of the anthology a creative and unique approach to its core.
Scare Package does a nice job of delivering the goods with a completely eclectic selection of stories, that could have easily been akin to randomly selecting videos from your local video store on a Saturday night. In fact, the film speaks to that singularly special feeling of sharing random, bloody video store picks and enjoying them with friends over the weekend. That is of course back when video stores were a ubiquitous thing.
For example, One Time in the Woods is a perfectly goopy and hilarious ride that would have fit in very well with the school of Troma. In this one, a group of friends out attempting to camp in the woods is interrupted by a slime gloppola monster and a serial killer. There are some great comedy bits and gags, but the real MVP is the incredible practical makeup effects that ramp up throughout.
Noah Segan (Knives Out) writes, acts and directs in a straight up werewolf story titled M.I.S.T.E.R. I can definitely say that you have never seen any werewolf story like this werewolf story. It’s got the wolfouts and gore that you would hope for and all, but it’s message is really smart and entirely poignant for our current climate.
Horror Hypothesis is the big red bow on the entire run of Scare Package. Directed by Aaron Koontz (Camera Obscura), this entry takes the characters from the wrap around and places them into a seriously hilarious love letter to a bevy of slasher films. In this one, a group of folks have to escape The Devil’s Lake Impaler (think Jason Voorhees) while adhering closely to the unwritten rules of a slasher. It’s full of winks and nods to some memorable moments from horror history and a big fuckin surprise in the shape of bigger than life Joe Bob Briggs briefly dropping in to assist in battling The Impaler.
You can seriously feel the passionate reverence for horror throughout Scare Package. I know without question these select filmmakers were at the video store picking up as many horror films as they were allowed in a weekend during their youth. That sort of history and love for the genre is bleeding through the screen in unique ways in each of Scare Package’s segments. That sort of thing comes with a two-fisted approach of pure honesty and not holding anything back, and the film is all the better for it.
The most charming thing about horror anthologies is the ability to offer a cup of tea to everyone. Each story recalling youthful bedtime, or campfire stories; these scares feel like an old friend. Scare Package is a resolute, fun and meta take on horror anthologies as a whole. It offers the most meta wormhole that we may have ever traveled through as an audience of anthology fare. It also offers up a group of filmmakers that are made up of the same ilk that made magic possible in anthologies like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. Its overt honesty to the genre and the blast I had watching it will keep me coming back to re-watch and show as many like minded friends as possible.
'Scare Package' is a Fun and Fantastic Love Letter to Horror Anthology
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__label__wiki | 0.680774 | 0.680774 | Illinois Senate president backs bill merging police, fire pension funds
Brad Weisenstein
/ Pensions
by Brad Weisenstein
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is championing a bill to merge more than 640 local police and fire pension funds into two investment pools. With lawmakers returning to Springfield for veto session, action on the bill may be near.
Momentum may be building to consolidate Illinois’ more than 640 downstate and suburban police and fire pension systems’ investments now that Illinois Senate President John Cullerton introduced a bill to do just that.
Cullerton on Oct. 29 filed an amendment to Senate Bill 616 that would consolidate all local police and firefighter pension funds other than Chicago’s into two investment pools, one for firefighters and one for police. The measure follows recommendations made by a task force formed by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Police unions are “working hard against” the proposal, according to the Illinois Police Benevolent and Protective Association, which along with the Fraternal Order of Police and the Metropolitan Association of Police hopes to defeat the bill. The PBPA in a statement Oct. 28 questioned how long it would take pooled investment gains to recover municipalities’ consolidation start-up costs. Cullerton said the bill could change.
“I think that we would like to pass a bill that covers both [police and fire] but we may have to compromise in order to get the police on board,” Cullerton told The Center Square.
At least one statewide group representing Illinois firefighters supports the move, according to The Center Square.
Action on the bill could come as early as Nov. 12, when the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate resume veto session for three more days.
Police and fire pensions are demanding more and more from local property taxpayers. And despite a property tax burden that ranks second-highest in the nation, many of the 640-plus pension funds are in trouble.
Four Illinois cities so far have faced interception of state funding because of their debts owed to their police and fire pensions. State data from 2018 shows 1 out of 6 of the pension funds have 40% or less of the money they need. Pension experts consider a 40% funding ratio a “point of no return” from which plans may never be able to recover.
The task force urged action this fall because members estimated every day of delay in merging the plans could mean up to $1 million lost on potential investment returns. Merging the plans would give them greater investment strength and greater potential returns, but the task force’s estimate of between $160 million and $288 million is likely too optimistic, according to an Illinois Policy Institute analysis.
The low-end estimate of $160 million more a year is likely more realistic because the funds collectively contain only about 55% of what they need to meet their obligations to pension plan members. That smaller investment pool coupled with the need to minimize risk will hamper investment returns, as will the widely predicted recession.
While Cullerton’s proposal could be a good start, it could also be $21 million better: The bill would not merge administration of the 640-plus plans, which would save taxpayers $21 million a year. Pritzker’s task force said that question “requires further discussion with those who would be affected by such a change.” They recommended further research.
Other municipal retirements are ably administered by the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, or IMRF, which is 93% funded with 290,000 working and retired participants. So if that single plan is working for nearly all other employees at city hall, why does each police and fire department need its own plan? Why do taxpayers need to spend an extra $21 million per year to maintain more than 640 separate boards and administrators?
Most importantly, IMRF has more sustainable benefit levels such as a simple cost-of-living adjustment, rather than the 3% compounded post-retirement increases typical of other Illinois pension systems.
One danger that consolidation could present is the state declaring “mission accomplished” upon passage, and neglecting to address the core of the state’s pension crisis. While local public safety pensions need to be fixed, they are only a fraction of the problem. The suburban and downstate police and fire pensions represent about $11 billion in pension debt. That’s 5.5% of the state’s $200 billion total public pension problem.
Just the debt on the five statewide funds for teachers, state employees, judges, university workers and state lawmakers officially stands at nearly $137 billion. But Moody’s Investors Service recently pegged the debt at $241 billion for the five funds, using less rosy estimates of future investment returns. That means despite a healthy stock market, each Illinois resident is on the hook for $18,896 in state pension debt. That doesn’t include the debt taxpayers will eventually pay depending how far into the red their local public pension plans may be, and 3 out of 5 police and fire pensions rank as “deeply troubled.”
Consolidating police and firefighter pension investments is one small step on the quest for Illinois pension reform. The next leap forward should be to structurally reform the state’s pension systems to control the growth of future, unearned benefits so they are in line with what taxpayers can afford.
Reforming the rate of growth for future pension benefits through a constitutional amendment is the only way to ensure the retirement security of government workers, protect taxpayers and provide the public services Illinoisans value. Public servants who risk their lives to save the lives of others deserve no less than a secure retirement.
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__label__cc | 0.694725 | 0.305275 | So Embarrassing: See How Prostitutes Disgraced A University Student In Broad Daylight For Not Paying After Having S*x
A University student has been given the embarrassment of a lifetime after he refused to pay for s*x services.
Photos have emerged on the internet showing the moment a University student was embarrassed by s*x workers.
The man, a student of Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) in Zimbabwe, was humiliated by the s*x workers after allegedly failing to pay for five rounds of s*x in Chipadze suburb on Sunday.
The s*x workers dragged him about in broad daylight and demanded that he pay for the ‘service’ he had received.
Many residents trooped out to watch the drama as it unfolded. The man was later released after he paid up some money but not before his clothes were torn off him.
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Get Off The Gas, AB
Step back from Twitter. Step back from Instagram.
If there's anything more tired and lame than the New England Patriots calling themselves underdogs, it's the slo-motion divorce going down in Pittsburgh between the Steelers and Antonio Brown.
This brawl busted out of the locker room and hit the streets in Week 17. And since then, it's only gotten bigger, uglier, and way worse for all parties involved.
Earlier this week, new Tampa Bay Bucs head coach Bruce Arians was asked about Brown. BA coached AB for his first two years in the league. Arians had a front row seat and watched Brown go from a 6th rounder to a rookie with just 16 catches for 167 yards to a second-year stud who made the Pro Bowl with over 1,100 yards.
BA isn't a guy to mince words. And in a podcast conversation with Adam Schefter he said what a lot of people are saying: He said Brown was acting like a "diva" and said, "This isn't the Antonio that was drafted in 2010."
Then there's former teammate Emmanuel Sanders. Sanders was getting some reps as an analyst on the NFL Network when he was asked about AB. And the answer he gave was firm, fair, and from a position of knowledge: "When Art Rooney came out and said that, it was pretty much he's gone. Being around the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, Art Rooney doesn't say much, but when he says something he means it. This situation has really, really gotten out of hand. And it's crazy, because I don't like to see it. But I feel like Antonio brought it on himself. You cannot turn your back on your brothers and the Pitt Steelers organization who gave you an opportunity to make you who you are as a football player. For you to leave on a Wednesday and have your agent call on a Sunday, is the ultimate disrespect to the Pittsburgh Steelers organization. That's why Art Rooney feels the way he feels...
Again, that's a completely fair statement by a guy who knows the parties involved. Hell, Emmanuel Sanders handled that response like a boss. He didn't play both sides, he didn't wobble. That was as good of an answer as you are gonna get, from another guy who knows what he's talking about.
But that didn't stop AB from hopping on Twitter and going after both Arians and Sanders.
@AB84 tweeted: (Arians) didn’t draft me, he drafted Emmanuel Sanders. Same guy who missed rehab to go on networks to talk about me on situation he have zero clue! Arians now wears (kangol) hats n glasses (crying face emoji) but i'm a diva! Done seen it all then they say we friends. Stop (lying).
I'll be honest, when I saw that tweet, I wished immediately that I didn't.
AB, STOP MAN. Step back from Twitter. Step back from Instagram. Hell, step back from teasing some big interview that's coming. I think a half a million Steelers fans started following James Harrison on the gram and all they've gotten since then are some pointers on how to dumbbell press a dump-truck and a Bruce Lee quote.
Because Sanders clapped back on Twitter and served his second dose of reality this week:
Four Crying Face emoji's followed by: You know damn well I didn’t travel to LA to talk about you fam. You trippin, yo. I went to be a analyst in which you acting foolish was the topic and I gave my analytical opinion. Get off the gas, yo. You did it to yourself.
"GET OFF THE GAS, YO. YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF."
Look, every day that passes makes this breakup more inevitable. Art Rooney II got in front of the local media yesterday and he didn't back pedal off his comments from last week, where he said it was "hard to envision" AB being with the team next year. He basically doubled down.
And while I can't even imagine a scenario where Brown OR the Steelers are better off without each other, this brawl isn't dying out, it's picking up. Former Steelers coaches and players now throwing haymakers -- and landing them. The brand and business AB has built both on and off the field over the last 9 years is taking on water by the minute.
I've said it before and I’ll say it again. This is an AB house. He's one of the most electric playmakers I’ve ever seen. And his off-the-field game is almost as good. I like AB. But I hate this scenario. So for the sake of this dude and this team, let me say this:
"AB, GET OFF THE GAS, YO. YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF." | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345214 |
__label__wiki | 0.763255 | 0.763255 | Managing construction workers in unfamiliar cultures
As construction companies and supply chains become more globalised, with staff working in countries which have very different cultural practices from their own, new and often unexpected risks are emerging.
In 2016, consultancy Sweett Group’s prosecution under the Bribery Act and GBP 2.25 million fine sent out a warning to all construction companies operating in countries where cultures may be unfamiliar.
Following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into its activities in the United Arab Emirates, Sweett Group pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to prevent an act of bribery intended to secure a Dubai hotel contract, contrary to UK bribery legislation.
Given that similar legislation is prevalent around the world, the case was a lesson for many businesses.
While some business practices, such as ‘facilitation payments’ in advance of a contract award, are considered commonplace and acceptable in certain countries, a company can still be prosecuted for these actions in their home jurisdiction, even when an agent or subsidiary is acting on their behalf.
Bribery and corruption in construction
Bribery and corruption is just one example of the risks facing multinational construction companies when they move into new territories.
More sinister are instances of worker exploitation and slavery in supply chains.
Practices that can occur include long working hours, squalid accommodation, erratic or reduced payment of wages, passport confiscation, debt bondage, and pay levels below those agreed when workers were recruited.
Typically, they involve migrant workers.
The UK based Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) addressed many of these practices in its 2016 report, Building a Fairer System: Tackling Modern Slavery in Construction Supply Chains.
“The construction industry is susceptible to cases of forced labour as the use of migrant workers has become a key element for many companies, particularly when bidding for or working in large infrastructure projects abroad,” explains the report’s author Emma Crates.
“Without attracting skilled and unskilled talent from other regions, many organisations would struggle to complete these building schemes.”
Tier one contractors are particularly at risk from worker exploitation in their supply chains, which are typically large and challenging to manage.
Where the country is unfamiliar, the supply chain is likely to include companies the contractor has not worked with before.
Several major international contractors have been subject to media investigations into their treatment of workers on projects in the Gulf region, with the attention centring on labour agencies used by the companies to supply their sites.
The right tools to tackle global supply chain risk
The CIOB has launched a ‘toolkit’ to help construction companies tackle the issue of forced labour and modern slavery in its global supply chains, providing guidelines, training and best practice.
The guidance is backed by pan-industry organisation Stronger Together, set up after the UK implemented the Modern Slavery Act in 2015, and can be regarded as an important risk management tool for any globalised construction company.
“Firms that take up and implement this toolkit demonstrate their commitment to ending modern slavery,” says CIOB Chief Executive Chris Blythe.
“The toolkit is there to help raise awareness of modern slavery, identify exploitation and then provide the support for businesses to deal with it responsibly through guidance and good practice.”
Major companies who have signed up for the toolkit include contractor Willmott Dixon, product manufacturer Saint-Gobain and developer Westfield.
Rick Willmott, Chief Executive at Willmott Dixon, says: “Sustainability is at the heart of our business and that includes showing leadership in sustainable procurement.
“We take our responsibility for tackling modern slavery very seriously.”
Other firms have already taken positive action. Paving supplier Marshalls sources its stone products from quarries and manufacturing plants in countries such as India, China and Vietnam.
Group Marketing Director Chris Harrop was shocked at the levels of exploitation he witnessed after visiting suppliers in Rajasthan, western India. “What struck me was that it was so blatant,” he says.
Ethical trading to combat exploitation in construction
Marshalls has joined the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), an international alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs, and adopted the ETI Base Code of Labour Practice, which covers areas such as child and bonded labour, living wages, health and safety, discrimination and inhumane treatment.
Consultancy CH2M, which has acted as a technical consultant for the 2022 World Cup, worked with ethical labour expert Verité to develop a global policy on worker welfare.
It covers issues including fair worker recruitment and payment practices, accommodation and living standards.
Last year, nearly 20,000 employees took CH2M’s online ethics programme, which included a segment on the new worker welfare policy.
“Introducing worker welfare into our standard training packages, rather than treating it as a stand-alone topic, is a good way of keeping this issue live within the company, and building it into everything we do,” says Senior Vice President Theresa Loar.
The risks from operating in foreign territories and unfamiliar cultures are clear. Sweett Group is perhaps the most extreme example of the risk involved.
Since the Dubai bribery scandal, its name has disappeared from the industry – the company was taken over in 2016 by rival Currie & Brown, which has dispensed with its brand completely.
So, construction companies that do not rigorously monitor business activities across their whole supply chain can leave themselves open to serious reputational damage.
For further information please contact Richard Gurney, CEO of JLT Construction on +44 20 7558 3880 or email richard_gurney@jltgroup.com | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345215 |
__label__wiki | 0.80489 | 0.80489 | Woman pleads guilty to murdering fiance in 2012 Anchorage fire
Tuesday, April 23rd 2019, 11:04 PM AKDT
Wednesday, April 24th 2019, 11:21 AM AKDT
Gina Virgilio appears in court on murder charges in the 2012 death of fiance Michael Gonzales, during a McCarrey Street apartment fire police say she set. (Courtesy Associated Press)
A 32-year-old Anchorage woman has formally pleaded guilty to fatally burning her fiance in a 2012 fire, years after she allegedly confessed to the crime.
Gina Virgilio’s murder and arson trial in the June 8, 2012 death of Michael Gonzales was about to begin Tuesday, according to the state Department of Law, when her plea agreement was announced.
“It was announced prior to jury selection that Virgilio would accept an agreement with the state where she would plead guilty to murder in the first degree with sentencing to be decided by the judge,” state officials wrote.
Anchorage police said in a statement at the time that other people were also injured in the early-morning fire, which occurred in an apartment building at 201 McCarrey St.
“The fire also completely destroyed the apartment in which the couple lives and forced the evacuation of approximately 18 other apartments,” police wrote in 2012. “Some of the evacuated persons required medical attention at local hospitals for smoke inhalation.”
According to the Department of Law, Virgilio wasn’t at the apartment at the time of the fire. She originally told police that Gonzales had started the blaze that killed him.
Investigators later learned that Virgilio had given a different account to staff at Providence Alaska Medical Center’s emergency room of the moments leading up to the blaze. Her mother Michelle Virgilio, who described her as a heroin and methamphetamine addict, then asked to speak with detectives.
“Michelle told investigators that when Gina had returned home, she had confronted her,” state officials wrote. “Michelle reported that Gina confessed that she had gone to the [gas] station and obtained gas. Gina walked back to the apartment where Mr. Gonzales was asleep on the couch. Gina then poured gas on and around the couch where Mr. Gonzales was sleeping. Gina was at the front door when she lit some paper on fire and tossed it into the apartment.”
Gina Virgilio remained just long enough to see the gas ignite and Gonzales awaken, prosecutors said, before she closed the apartment’s door and left.
Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton is scheduled to determine a sentence on Oct. 4, according to prosecutors. The plea agreement lists a range between 30 and 70 years as active time to serve, the statement reads.
According to state officials, all other terms will be left up to the judge.
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__label__wiki | 0.669626 | 0.669626 | DHS plans to close offices
State workers are concerned about citizen access to services.
DHS plans to close offices State workers are concerned about citizen access to services. Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: http://on.lsj.com/1aiNVjj
Justin A. Hinkley, Lansing State Journal Published 10:23 a.m. ET April 1, 2015
The Grand Tower, headquarters of the Michigan Department of Human Services, in downtown Lansing.(Photo: Lansing State Journal archives)Buy Photo
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Human Services’ plan to save $5.3 million next budget year by closing and consolidating offices is raising concern among state workers about access to services for some of the state’s most vulnerable residents.
DHS spokesman Bob Wheaton said in an email to the State Journal no plans have been finalized about which offices would be closed, but the agency is in talks with lawmakers and employees about “targeted office closures/placement of DHS employees in community partner facilities.” He said the agency will protect accessibility.
“Workers will still have a presence in local communities — it’s just that they will be at different locations,” Wheaton said.
State workers are not opposed to efficiencies, “but we’re at a point now where there needs to be some serious reflection on what they’re going to be doing,” said Ray Holman, legislative liaison for the United Auto Workers Local 6000, which represents most DHS employees. “Especially in certain parts of the state, you’re really putting citizens in a bad position when you close offices.”
Census figures show about 8 percent of Michigan households have no vehicle available, including nearly 9 percent of households in Ingham County, 5.5 percent in Eaton County, and more than 3 percent in Clinton County.
On April 10, DHS will merge with the state Department of Community Health as part of Gov. Rick Snyder’s River of Opportunity initiative driven by a “people, not programs” mantra. In the new Department of Health & Human Services, Snyder hopes to scale up a Pathways to Potential program that currently has DHS caseworkers embedded in 208 schools around the state.
“Making sure that customers have access to services is an important priority under the River of Opportunity plans for providing better, more coordinated services to customers that address people’s individual needs rather than focusing on programs,” Wheaton said.
Lawmakers in the state House and Senate hope to settle on a budget by the end of May.
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__label__cc | 0.58299 | 0.41701 | Heavier, Taller Children Likely to Develop Kidney Cancer as Adults: Study
Health & Wellness ANI| Apr 29, 2019 04:58 PM IST
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Washington DC, April 29: Heavier and taller children are at greater risk than their average-sized peers, of developing renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as adults, latest findings suggest. RCC is the most common form of kidney cancer found in adults. Although it often occurs in men between the ages of 50 and 70, cancer can be diagnosed throughout adulthood. Medical experts don't know the exact causes of RCC.
"We know that overweight in adulthood is associated with an increased risk of RCC. We also know that cancers take many years to develop. We, therefore, had a theory that already being overweight in childhood would increase the risk of RCC later in life," explains lead author Britt Wang Jensen. Complete Cancer Cure to be Available within a Year: Israeli Scientists Say So.
To tease out the relationships between childhood body size and the risk of RCC in adulthood, the team of researchers used data from the Copenhagen School Health Records Register (CSHRR). The CSHRR is an electronic database of health examination information with data from 372,636 children born in Copenhagen in the years 1930 to 1989 (and aged 30 to 89 years now).
It contains serial measurements of height and weight as well as birth weight from 1942 onwards reported by the parents.In their study the researchers included 301,422 individuals (152,573 men) from the CSHRR, born from 1930 to1985. The weights and heights were measured at annual school health examinations at the ages 7-13 years, and body mass index (BMI) was used to categorise the children as normal-weight or overweight, based on age- and sex-specific cut-offs suggested by the International Obesity Task Force.
Cases of RCC were identified by linkage to the Danish Cancer Registry.To analyse the data, the researchers used a statistical technique known as Cox proportional hazards regression. The procedure relates several factors or exposures -- considered simultaneously -- to measure the risk of an outcome, in this case, the risk of developing RCC. During a median of 32 years of observation, 1,010 individuals (680 men) were diagnosed with RCC.Among men and women significant and positive associations were observed between childhood BMI and height, respectively, and RCC risk.
When comparing two 13-year old children with one z-score difference in BMI (equivalent to 5.9 kg for boys and 6.8 kg for girls), but with similar height, the heaviest boy or girl had, in each case, a 14% higher risk of RCC than the leaner child.For height, one z-score difference in two 13-year old children (equivalent to 8.0 cm for boys and 6.9 cm for girls) was associated with a 12% increased risk of RCC later in life for the taller boy or girl.
Compared to children with a normal-weight at 7 and 13 years, children with overweight at both ages did not have increased risks of RCC, whereas children with normal-weight at 7 years and overweight at 13 years had a 67% greater risk of developing this cancer. Compared to children with an average height at 7 and 13 years, children who were 0.5 z-score taller than average at age 7 years (equivalent to 2.6 cm for boys and girls) and remain taller than average until age 13 years have a 6% increased risk of RCC.
Children who grew from average to above average height (0.5 z-score change is equivalent to 4.0 cm additional growth in height for boys and 3.5 cm for girls) had an 8% increased risk of RCC. "We have found in other studies that childhood height is positively associated with several cancer forms. Therefore, we did expect to find that tall children have a higher risk of RCC than average-sized children," authors of the study asserted. According to them, the findings open the door to new ways to explore the causes of kidney cancer.
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As per MET, the powerful tropical cyclone Fani has approached landfall in the north-eastern part of India. The cyclone Fani before landfall infrared image has been captured by NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration have been providing several infrared, microwave and visible imagery of Tropical Cyclone Fani. The cyclone Fani commenced its landfall process towards Odisha coast, resulting heavy rainfall in Puri and several other places in the state. The live visuals of the cyclone Fani can be tracked on the browser here.
Categorised at grade 5 hurricane, the cyclone Fani is reportedly carrying winds with up to 200 kmph of speed. According to India Meteorological Department forecast, the Fani cyclone was supposed to make landfall within 12 to 24 hours, later weaken swiftly and dissipate over northeastern part of India and Bangladesh. NASA's Aqua and Terra satellite captured images of cyclone Fani as it continued to strengthen and move towards north through eastern coast of the country, particularly on April 30 and May 1, 2019. NASA Satellites Aqua and Terra Track Cyclone Fani Along India's Coastline.
We previously reported that the cyclone will be affecting total of 19 districts in the states of Odisha, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. According to the India Meteorological Department, the impact of Fani is expected to slow down today post 4PM IST. Cyclone Fani Live News Updates: Landfall in Process, Winds Blowing at 240-245 Km/Hr in Puri; Heavy Rainfall Along Odisha Coast.
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Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of WI is currently looking for an individual with a Clinical Master’s degree or Psychologist to provide mental health counseling. This person must have their 3000-hours completed for third-party billing. The positions available are part-time, but can move to full-time for the right person. Fax resume to 414-536-8348.
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Lutheran Counseling and Family Services History of Care
1896 – Orphanages in the Milwaukee area were so overcrowded that there were many homeless and dependent children who were not properly cared for, putting them at risk for bodily and spiritual harm. Pastors and laymen in the Milwaukee area saw the need for orphaned, neglected and dependent children to be cared for by Christian families instead of institutions. On June 8, 1896 the Evangelical Lutheran Kinderfreund Society of Wisconsin was created to help these children.
1924 – A new Children’s Receiving Home was constructed at 8138 Harwood Avenue in Wauwatosa and a west wing was added in 1926.
1941 – The name changed to Lutheran Children’s Friends Society of Wisconsin to better reflect the advancement of the organization. Some of the changes included providing casework service and oversight of private foster homes for orphaned children.
1946 – In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the agency acknowledged that over 4500 children had been cared for through foster care, adoption or supervision.
1959 – A Residential Treatment Center opened in Wauwatosa capable of housing 32 emotionally disturbed boys aged 6-12.
1973 – A Counseling Center providing day treatment, was established by the agency to include an additional six boys.
1973 – Expansion of services of the Lutheran Children’s Friends Society included: 32 boys living full time at the Center and six receiving day treatment, counseling for unwed pregnant women, providing foster homes and care for infant, adoption services for physically disabled children, mixed racial children, children over the age of five and international adoptions, marriage and pre-marriage counseling, and group therapy sessions.
1976 – The Residential Treatment Center was closed, allowing the agency to focus primarily on day treatment services. Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) services were added, in large part to assist veterans dealing with addiction issues. This program rapidly grew to include civilians as well.
1987 – To better reflect the broad spectrum of care provided by the agency, the Board of Directors agreed that a name change was in order. The name was officially changed to Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin.
PRESENT – Today we continue to offer Christian counseling for children, individuals and families, alcohol and drug abuse counseling for teens and adults, in-school counseling for at-risk students, reintegration assistance for military veterans and a broad array of adoption services.
In other words, after over 120 years LCFS is still responding to meet the most crucial needs of Wisconsin society. Read a complete history of the Lutheran Children’s Friend Society of Wisconsin in an article by Anthony Brinkman. You can download it by clicking the article at the bottom of this page.
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Was MtGox demise an inside job? So says Tokyo Police
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Almost a year has passed since the high-profile demise of Japanese digital currency exchange MtGox, in which the future of Bitcoin was called into question as a result of $370 million in customer funds having gone missing due to what was widely regarded as a security issue which allowed Bitcoins to be stolen.
This week, Tokyo Police have stated that according to their investigations, only 7000 Bitcoins, representing 1% of the total, had been lost as a result of cyber attacks from outside the company, whereas 640,000 Bitcoins are suspected by Police to have been lost as a result of unauthorized operation of the exchange’s systems from within the company.
According to a report by Japanese website Yomiuri.co.jp which is the online portal for the Japanese news source Yoimuri Shinbun, the investigation officials within the Tokyo Police department have discovered that there is no evidence of cyber attack with regard to 99% of the Bitcoins which were lost, but there is evidence of cyber attack with regard to approximately 7,000 Bitcoins.
This finding conflicts with the explanation provided by Mt. Gox, which blamed a bug in the Bitcoin system when it filed for bankruptcy on February 28 2014.
The evidence noted by Police during the investigation shows that unauthorized transactions were made by an individual or entity that did not correspond to customer accounts. Currently there is no indication of the entity or individual that is responsible, however former CEO Mark Karpeles has recently explained to PC World via email that he would continue investigating the circumstances in order to establish what actually happened.
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With the 5th annual Little St. Simons Island Shark Days event just around the corner, here’s a note on Georgia’s coastal sharks, much of which is borrowed from an article I originally published in our newsletter in the summer of 2017.
As summer makes its way to Georgia coast, as it does so reliably, and the waters become warmer, many of our cartilaginous friends are taking their first swim right here in the waters surrounding Little St. Simons Island. That’s right, Georgia’s coast serves as shark nursery habitat to several species. Some of them are even here year-round. Others heed the cue of rising water temperatures and move in during late Spring and early Summer to drop off their progeny. The appeal of this area, like that of many coastlines, is a combination of the abundant resources available to newborn and young sharks and the protection offered by shallow waters, where larger predators are less likely to be encountered.
Some areas around the island are currently being revealed as likely nursery habitat for the Lemon Shark (Negaprion brevirostris) by former naturalist and master’s student Andrew Lyons and a team of researchers, who will all be here during Shark Days. This is important and new information on the migration and life history patterns of this species and will be useful for protecting them. The completion of Andrew’s thesis work will provide a clearer picture of the connection between this species and Little St. Simons Island, so next time you visit, don’t forget to ask about the latest updates.
A note on fear:
Yes, they are here, but that doesn’t necessarily warrant one being afraid of them. It is far more important to fear a Georgia coast without them! As apex predators, residing at the top of the food web, sharks play an important role in maintaining overall ecosystem health and stability. Plus, a quick Google search will provide you with some reassuring statistics on things that are more likely to kill you than a shark attack, such as: coconuts, hotdogs, tripping, vending machines, and dogs… our best friends!
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TransPennine Express has today, 06 January 2020, announced a customer compensation scheme that cancels out the annual regulated fare increase for season ticket holders.
On 13 January 2020 we will launch for customers of TransPennine Express our Season Ticket Compensation scheme as an apology for the recent disruption across our network. This compensation will cancel the 2.8% regulated fare increase this year for eligible Season Ticket holders.
TransPennine Express customers who held a weekly, monthly or annual rail season ticket between 01 October and 31 December 2019 will be eligible for a 3% rebate of the annualised cost of their season ticket, more than covering the 2.8% average increase on regulated fares.
The compensation scheme will go live on Monday 13 January until Saturday 29 February 2020 – further information is available via the following link on our website: https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/travel-updates/seasonticket-compensation
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This article is from the November 2016 issue of Lonely Planet Magazine India.
Sydney's beautiful harbour, with the iconic Opera House
Photographer: Catherine Sutherland
It’s known for its glorious harbour and opera house, but this Australian city is also full of diverse experiences, from surfing at Bondi Beach to camping among wild animals and drinking cocktails in a former Chinese gambling den. We try 15 of the best
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PHOTOGRAPHS: CATHERINE SUTHERLAND
1. CLIMB THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE
“It’s much more than just a bridge,” says Graham Watson as he leads a group of climbers up a set of metal stairs, framed by a lattice-like network of studded girders. “It’s a symbol of the city and something we’re all proud of.”
We are climbing one of the world’s most iconic structures – the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or ‘The Coathanger’, as it’s affectionately known in these parts. From the inside, it is a maze of steel. As Graham navigates it, Sydney is revealed below. Skyscrapers seem to crowd the water’s edge at Circular Quay, which sweeps around to the jutting lip of land where the Sydney Opera House stands.
Eventually, Graham emerges at the top, the crest of the arch. From here, Sydney is a 360° panorama of coves, cliffs, beaches and jetties, set around the broad, sparkling waters of the harbour. “I do this climb up to 12 times a week,” Graham says. “And there’s always something different to see. Who could get tired of this?”
2. GET ON STAGE AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Just after dawn, the soaring, cream roof sections of the Sydney Opera House take on a rosy hue, and all is calm – on the outside, at least. Inside, however, the building rings with shouts and clatters as sets are moved and props hoisted.
“It’s go, go, go, 24 hours a day here,” says Adam Sébire. He first entered the Opera House as a trombonist 23 years ago and now leads visitors through the hidden corners of this vast building. Adam makes his way through corridors filled with orderly jumbles of instruments and props, giant gilded Buddhas and flourishing fake plants. Beyond the Green Room – a lounge for performers, where superstition dictates that nothing is, in fact, coloured green – he emerges in a low-ceilinged bunker. This is the orchestra pit of the Joan Sutherland Theatre – a tiny space under the stage where dozens of musicians are crammed each day.
“It’s not always easy to perform in here,” he says, “especially when the fog from the dry ice on stage settles down in the pit, creating a real pea souper. But it’s every musician’s dream to perform at the Opera House.”
3. CATCH A SHOW AT THE ‘HOUSE OF DRAG’
At first glance, The Imperial Hotel could be any traditional Australian pub – pool tables, bar bristling with Antipodean beer taps, and carpet that’s gently sticky underfoot. Then, the entertainment arrives and everything changes.
Ménage A’Trois, dressed in spandex trousers and a blonde wig, steps onto the stage with a smile on her heavily-painted face, to the cheers of the crowd. Tonight, she lip-synchs high-energy rock song Sugar Daddy, punctuated with high kicks and groin thrusts.
Sydney’s drag scene is mainstream, not niche, and, whether you yearn for ABBA, Liza or Kylie, The Imperial is the queen.
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__label__cc | 0.517702 | 0.482298 | By Chris Wood, March 26, 2016 | More in Drums
Simmons 1981 prototype “batwing kit” – electronic drums helped put Roger Taylor (Duran Duran), Rick Allen (Def Leppard), and Bill Bruford on the charts.
The term hybrid is hot right now. Everything is a hybrid of some kind. As drummers, we have always looked for ways to bridge gaps of sound – from adding of cymbals to the drum kit., to adding percussion and adding electronic elements.
Electronic drums are nothing new. We have been using them for decades now, but how they have morphed into the modern day drum kit is quite unique. So, let’s take a trip back in time to the wonderful experimental time of the 1980s. That is when the real genesis of hybrid drumming began.
Drummers like Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Bill Bruford of Yes - they had taken the sound to the masses. The Simmons electric pad was the choice of weapon that put all of these guys on the charts. We all know "that sound," heard on "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me". It is iconic. That is hybrid drumming to the general public.
What kind of set up was used? Well, Rick Allen was all electric drum pads, mixed with real cymbals. Roger Taylor used what is most popular today: a mixture of real drums and cymbals, with electronic drum pads. As a drummer who was heavily influenced by these legends, I had a great interest in hybrid drumming. My journey started in 2005 with my first electronic drum kit. What an incredible feeling it was to finally hear all those cool drum sounds: Simmons sounds, 808 sounds, all types of percussion right at my finger tips! That started a fire which has burned ever since.
There is not enough space to tell how many frustrating, then exhilarating moments I have had bridging the acoustic/electric gap. What I will tell you is, you have to just try new things. It will keep you fresh as a drummer. Hybrid drumming adds so much versatility to your set up. Bands love hearing cool authentic parts from songs being played. It brings a song to life
Start small. Right now is the best the gear has ever been - and the least expensive! Add a sample pad to your kit. Trigger your bass drum. These little steps will take your playing and your band to a whole new level.
Gear to Get You Started on Your Hybrid Drumming Journey
Roland BT-1 Bar Trigger Pad
With a curved shape that mounts on the side of a V-Pad or acoustic drum, it provides convenient playing access without disturbing your existing kit layout.
Roland RT-30HR Dual Drum Trigger
Ideal for use on snare drums, this trigger supports independent head and rim triggering for playing two different sounds from the same drum.
Roland RT-30K Kick Drum Trigger
Developed specifically for use on bass drum, the RT-30K provides fast and accurate triggering in a robust unit that’s simple to install.
Roland TM-2 Trigger Module
Ready-to-play pro sounds are optimized for augmenting live acoustic drums and extending the percussion capabilities of any kit.
Yamaha DTXM12 Multipad
Features 12 trigger pads in a compact split-level configuration and includes 1,277 drum, percussion and effects sounds.
Chris Wood has been playing drums for over 20 years. He currently plays in a cover band, Copy Cat. He also does drum tech work for recording sessions and live concerts. Chris works at the Long&McQuade location in Charlottetown.
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LØST CULTURE MEETS – Rax + New EP ‘Just 4 You’
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Rax is an aspiring rapper and a UK native, ready to build his name in the game. With successful projects like The PickPocket , Rax is back giving us the EP Just4You. We got the chance to have a chat about Rax as an artist , as well as the music he is making.
How old were you when you first decided that music is what you wanted to do? Was there a moment , an album or a song?
“Yes there was a moment, there was a song. I was 16 and I made a song called ‘Wonder Woman’ and it wasn’t my best song or nothing but I realized my capabilities with the microphone. The songs good, I might release that one day because it’s not even out right now. It was at that point I sat and I listened and realized I’m better at this than I am at football. That was the choice I had , was it football or was it music? And then music just kind of stuck , it was a very pivotal moment.”
Artists your parents were listening to when you were growing up? Music you were surrounded by , are they big factors in creating Rax?
“ Ye, I think a big influence for me growing up was the fact that there were a lot of different genres , different artists but I think the one thing that was concurrent throughout was the emotion that you get from making music. The emotion you get from when you’re in a playground and you’ve been on your own thought of something intelligent, current and witty to say and then you see how it connects with people. Once you see that and you’re like hey , that was easy, I could do something a bit better. You draw influences from wherever life takes you. Again my friends , my family , The Clan that’s my team always have been a big inspiration on the choices and decisions and even the words I say.”
I only say that because The Pickpocket , big fan of the project by the way , was certainly a culmination of different varieties of music, jazz being integral to the sound of the project. You’ve taken that forward into the new EP, I know that every song on the new EP is individual but you can see different types of music. ‘I will’ was one of my favorite songs on that project. So for someone that hasn’t listened to Rax would Pickpocket be the reference or are you more concerned with Rax now?
“Yes, it was true to me at that point in time and it is true to where I am today. TBCP was a lot of people’s favorite project because of how in your face the project was. There was one video every two weeks for six months , I didn’t miss it , we shot the music videos together. Some of the things we did you wouldn’t even conceive. If I did literally tell you something , a video looks like a glidecam , at the time we didn’t even know what a glidecam was. A friend happened to have a bicycle and we were with five people so we had someone sitting on the bicycle backwards so that the handle bars are behind them , they’re holding the glidecam and two people are pulling the handlebars walking through Liverpool street. That’s not going to happen again, I have the ability to not have to do that but there’s such a beautiful thing about being resourceful. Wherever you decide to listen, tune in to JUST4YOU and what comes after…”
I’ve listened to the whole EP and you have a lot of good features on the project such as Bonkaz , Josh Osho , Dee Pee etc. A song that really stuck out for me and felt really honest was ‘Think Big‘. Is there a story behind this song?
“I had the beat for a year and a half before I made the song. It was meant to be for an album project but I was going through some family stuff at the time. I just wanted to be more than a voice to my brother instead of being like you need to be doing this or doing that. When you put it in music , he knows I’m being truly serious and I know there’s a lot of my friends and people who are out there who are trying to steer their family members in the right direction. When you’re young you think you know it all right? When you get older you get a rude awakening , everyone has a price. Before you follow anyone else and find out their price , get yourself sorted so when you find out their price , it doesn’t hurt you. It’s my favorite song on the project , because it represents me and my perception a lot more than the other songs do because it’s a real and very personal description. I’m really glad that you tuned into that.”
Are you positive about the UK right now?
“ Yes, this is the best point I’ve been in the scene, I don’t know what it was like for the guys doing Sidewinder and that but that was a big point in the scene to when So Solid came in and we turned to grime. We got Wiley etc this is not saying this is bigger than that , it’s just right now, since I’ve ever been making music it’s the best time. It’s beautiful man its potent , its selfish when it needs to be , it’s got the right components now for people to sustain a lifestyle of it. You used to see good MCs touring and working a job, that’s unfair. People are consuming your mind, everything you’ve seen, they’re taking from you.”
It’s like surviving and not living as you say in your lyrics on Think Big. But should the UK do more lyrically? We saw it on Kano’s new track Endz , he slows the 140 right down and we see what lyrical talent that man has.
“Sometimes I get confused when you know there’s a lot of class. But right now this is what is making our industry sick right now and I wouldn’t change it because it is what is making it good right now. Someone can be more lyrically more able but it doesn’t really matter. As long as people are engaging, people don’t care what’s happening as long as it is happening. People are making music to describe their cultures and represent them in their entirety. Where I’m from trap music is real life, if you say you’re trapping and you’re not trapping. Tomorrow you’re going to get verified…Obviously when we compare the struggle in the UK to that of America they have a lot more to talk about and why they’re potentially more lyrical. That’s not to say the UK doesn’t have a struggle but it is so much more real in America. Grime is a method of defining our culture though, that’s why its so powerful.”
We then talked about the song ‘Four Seasons‘ one of the lead songs off the EP. Rax described the deep connection him and Josh Osho have and this is evident on the track. The song, produced by Necho was supposed to have featured another artist, it was a now or never moment and Josh Osho came through. The track really shines with his Kwes like vocals. Being Independent, was another topic that came up throughout the conversation with Rax in no hurry to sign up to a label, unless the offer is right.
It was a really good interview , with an even more humbling guy. Whilst tracks like ‘Money Bee’ will stick out on face value , it’s when we get introspective Rax on ‘Think Big” where this record really comes through. The freestyle at the end is also a nice touch with Rax showing his rapping ability to the fullest extent. Rax described how he is beginning to find his own sound and his lane , confident that he’s going to deliver us this on the next project to come out.
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Comparing the effect of a leaflet and a movie in preventing tick bites and Lyme disease in The Netherlands
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Desirée Jacqueline Mathieu Angélique BeaujeanEmail author, Rik Crutzen, Fedor Gassner, Caroline Ameling, Albert Wong, James Everard van Steenbergen and Dirk Ruwaard
BMC Public Health BMC series – open, inclusive and trusted 2016 16:495
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3146-2 © Beaujean et al. 2016
Received: 14 July 2015, Accepted: 12 May 2016, Published: 10 June 2016
Lyme disease (LD) has become the most common vector borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Prevention relies predominantly on fostering protective behaviors (e.g., avoiding tick areas, using protective clothing and repellent, and doing routine tick checks post-exposure). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of knowledge, perceived severity and susceptibility, self-efficacy, response efficacy, intention, and behavior over time) and appreciation of a leaflet and a movie as tools for informing the public in the Netherlands about ticks and LD protective behaviors.
Participants (1,677 at t1 and 361 extra at t2) were members of a representative Internet panel (adults aged 18 years and above). A four group randomized controlled design was used to test the effect of an information leaflet and a movie (two intervention groups), compared to a control group and a follow-up only control group. Data were collected over two periods: July 15–29, 2013 (t1) and at follow-up 4 weeks later, August 16–31, 2013 (t2).
Post-intervention results show all respondents in all groups possess good general basic knowledge of ticks and LD. Respondents in both the leaflet and movie groups knew more than respondents in the control group, and had greater awareness of best practices after a tick bite. Intention to perform protective behavior in future was stronger among respondents in the intervention groups. While respondents generally appreciated both the movie and the leaflet, they found the movie ran too long. Follow-up revealed no lasting positive effects from either the leaflet or the movie.
Our results suggest that both the movie and the leaflet are valued and effective intervention tools for improving knowledge about tick bites and strengthening self-efficacy and intentions to perform protective behavior against ticks and LD . Achieving lasting effects, however, calls for more action.
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At an appearance earlier this week at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), USPTO director Michelle Lee said there needs to be more clarity and guidance in the post-Alice world
Lee was responding to a question Todd Dickinson of Novak Druce, who was in the audience and expressed frustration about the patentability of software and business method patents after the Supreme Court’s Alice decision. Dickinson pointed out that of the last approximately 20 cases decided by the Federal Circuit on Section 101 grounds, all but one found the patent at hand ineligible. Similarly, he said there have been twice as many patents rejected on 101 grounds since Alice and that all covered business method reviews with a final written decision have resulted in invalidation.
Lee agreed that there are still many unanswered questions about Section 101 jurisprudence post-Alice. She stressed that the Supreme Court made a point of saying that software and business method patents were not per se patent ineligible, and that the USPTO, like practitioners and the courts, are looking for clarity.
“The USPTO is at the front lines of this - we’re issuing guidance, we’ve gotten a lot of input from the public, but we all hope for greater clarity on an issue that is extremely complicated,” she said. “I think we’ll see a lot of developments, and I hope to see a lot of developments, in the foreseeable future in this area because there’s still quite a bit of ambiguity.”
Continuing the AIA’s work
Lee also spoke about the patent reform measures working their way through Congress. She spoke out in support of provisions to cut down on forum shopping, limit discovery in certain instances to prevent driving up costs and fee-shifting. On the last issue, she suggested that reform critics were overstating the effect fee-shifting rules, such as those in the Innovation Act, would have on patent holders with reasonable claims, even if those claims do not necessarily pan out in court.
“I don’t like to refer to it as a ‘loser pays’ system, I like to refer it as an ‘abuser pays’ system,” she said. Rather than fundamentally changing a part of the US legal system as some have argued, fee shifting proposals such as those in HR 9 [The Innovation Act in the House of Representatives] merely institute a level of “financial discipline” on both sides to prevent abuse. Lee stressed that the fee shifting provision will apply to a defendant as well if it unreasonably defends a case for longer than it should.
Perhaps in response to critics who argue that further calls for changes to the patent law are premature given that the effects of the AIA are still being discovered, Lee said that reform bills such as the Innovation Act deal with more with litigation, rather than the substantive patent law. In this sense then, patent reform efforts are continuing what the AIA started. She argued that many of the abuses are a result of quirks in the American litigation system and its high costs, rather than loopholes in the patent laws.
“In the AIA we made a lot of good progress, we harmonised with the rest of the world going from first to invent to a first to file system…we got the PTO the ability to set its own fees and we got a whole set of post grant proceedings which have been pretty effective as a quality check,” she explained. “But the litigation-related concerns didn’t get addressed in the AIA and I think that’s an area that we’re all focused on.”
“I think what you’re seeing in the legislation currently before Congress is a lot in there dealing with streamlining discovery and requiring greater notice and greater specificity in the pleadings… and I think it’s right for Congress at this point to be focusing on litigation-related concerns.”
Video for the event, which included a panel discussion with Lee, Victoria Espinel of the Business Software Association, Michael Waring of the University of Michigan and moderator James Lewis of the CSIS can be found here.
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Sitting down with ComicBook.com for a lengthy interview, Lana talks about her movie aspirations while trying to keep her WWE character’s story alive. One movie role she’s particularly interested in is Sonya Blade in the new Mortal Kombat. “I felt like there’s a lot of elements of Sonya Blade that I could relate to.” She reveals that she played Midway’s fighting franchise as a kid and relishes the opportunity. “I mean, I feel like I look the part. It’s that type of thing that’s a dream role to do. To be a part of that type of franchise and to kick ass on screen.”
Transitioning back to WWE, Lana talked about the death threats she and Bobby have received because of her current storyline with Rusev. She admits that she’s been contacted multiple times by WWE officials and the FBI, and it really gave her some perspective. “I mean, people are mean, mean, mean. They’re bullies. Today, I open my email account and I had this death threat on my email and you know, you can go see it on into my Instagram story, but it was just like the names that people call are just absolutely appalling.”
Lana continued by reflecting on why people bully others of all stripes, saying that she’s strong enough to handle it, but others aren’t.
This is the thing. Life is difficult, life is hard, life is not a walk in the park. It’s like the tide, sometimes it’s gonna be great and then it’s gonna be cold back and you know that’s life. I hate to say it but at the end of this life we die, we get older. That’s just how it goes, so how can we live our best life in this world that is broken and not perfect and I can tell you one way to live it is not judging and being so mean to people that you don’t support. You see this in religion you see this in politics, it’s just you know, you see this in just in general and people don’t support your life that people are so mean.
For more, including talk of her upcoming movie role alongside her “ex-husband”, you can check out the full interview embedded below:
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Blackpool-born artist Rae Morris signed to Atlantic Records aged just seventeen and sensibly took her time, honing her craft and developing her sound through a string of EP releases. Following her appearance in the BBC Sound Of 2015, Rae released her debut album ‘Unguarded’ in January 2015 to critical acclaim. Since then she has found time to lend her unmistakable vocals to collaborations with Clean Bandit, Bombay Bicycle Club, Fakear, Kaytranada and Rejjie Snow amongst others. We chat to Rae ahead of the release of her second album, ‘Someone Out There’ next Spring.
Q. What are you up to?
A. I’m about to get going and start touring again, after 18 months of writing and recording, so I’m in full preparation mode!
Q. Tell me about Reborn.
A. Reborn was the first piece of music released from the new album, which was such a joy to make. The writing started happening really quickly, really naturally. I was making most of the music with Fryars (Benjamin Garrett), and it just was suddenly very exciting. I’d grown up a lot since recording the first album, so naturally there a progression and a change. Especially with Reborn, it felt like we were doing something very different.
Q. Who did you collaborate with?
A. Well, I wasn’t originally into collaborating, but working with Ben really showed me how the push and pull should work. We spent a lot of time in deep discussions, really considering what’s important about the record, rather than just putting it down. My first record was all about instinct, whereas this was more meaningful, more thought out — like a game of chess.
Q. What were your influences?
A. I was taking a lot more time exploring London, letting not just music but colour, art and films to seep into the writing process. And I was so much more excited about the production, the electronic sound, rather than sitting down at a piano and putting together a ballad. But also I’m loving finding peace in the quiet, not filling my mind with other artists or sounds, but just letting the song come together.
Q. Tell me a little about the writing process.
A. When I’m writing on my own, it’s just me at the piano working on the melody but collaborating became about filling a room and creating the ideal environment to explore my own voice and let the songs take themselves into directions and areas I’ve never explored before. We went to Los Angeles for a few months and just took ourselves away from the distractions of home during the year of writing. We found ourselves in Laurel Canyon, surrounded by creative people, living the dream, and another spell in Beachwood Canyon — really reclusive, tucked away from it all. We did one trip where we went to see the Eames house, but apart from that we just knuckled down.
We could feel the natural presence, and energy – it’s so quiet and beautiful. You feel like the people who are in a similar mindset. It was really just two people, really focussed, away from distractions, the perfect conditions for writing.
Q. What was your idea of love before you fell in love?
A. I guess my parents in love was my first image of love. Two people living in harmony, contributing equally, bickering occasionally but even that was OK, because they knew what was important. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t feel love.
Q. Are you in love now?
A. I am! It feels like I’ve found who I am, through being with someone who knows me completely. I think as any artist, when so much is out there and in public, it’s very special to have someone who you only share some things with. That’s amazing.
Rae’s new single ‘Do It’ is out now.
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Yearly physicals, hospitalization, and . . . acupuncture?
By Cassie Shortsleeve
Health insurance is practically synonymous with headaches: deductibles, co-pays, out-of-network doctors, explanation of benefits, the Obamacare website.
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But it’s not all agony and Advil. Turns out, your healthcare may cover a lot more than just physicals and hospitalization. Here are six benefits you might not realize your plan includes.
Mental Health Coverage
“Across the board, people now have better access to mental health,” says Dylan Roby, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health and a researcher at UCLA.
Think: things like psychotherapy and counseling, inpatient services, substance abuse and alcohol misuse treatment, depression screening, and preventative services.
That’s because under the Affordable Care Act (AHA), non-grandfathered plans are required to cover some major essential health benefits (EHBs), like mental health treatment. (You can find all 10 EHBs here.)
And most of these plans have to provide parity when it comes to mental health.
That means if your plan covers three primary care visits a year, you’re also entitled to three covered mental health appointments. If you have a $20 co-pay for a prescription for diabetes, you should pay no more than that for an antipsychotic, Roby explains.
Did you know that 19 states consider infertility treatment an EHB?
While the details of that treatment vary from state to state—and are usually far from complete in terms of covering expensive costs—Roby says that benefits could lessen the blow on everything from screening and tests to Vitro Fertilization (IVF) costs if you’re trying to get pregnant.
And that’s huge, considering IVF, which has a 40 percent success rate, can cost upward $20,000 for each attempt to have a child.
Eighty to 90 percent of Americans will suffer from back pain in their lifetime. Luckily, 45 states in the U.S. cover chiropractic care.
Of course, Roby notes that each state and each plan decides—based on state law—what the requirements are for coverage.
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For example, in some states, you might be able to self-refer to a chiropractor for alignment or therapy and they will bill your insurance company; in other states, your doctor might have to refer you, he says.
If you live in Alaska, California, Maryland, New Mexico, or Washington, and holistic healing is your thing, you’re in luck: These states cover the costs of the ancient practice as an EHB.
Related: 5 Health Problems Acupuncture Can Fix
Even more: Some plans at big-name health insurance companies like Harvard Pilgrim and Blue Cross Blue Shield also cover the service through specific plans in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.
“We are seeing a movement toward more and more plans offering gym memberships as a way to facilitate better health for employees,” says David Jones, an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University’s School of Public Health.
The idea goes back to something you already know: Exercise not only increases your physical health, but improves your mood and helps you manage stress more effectively.
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The setups vary from plan to plan. Plans could subsidize the monthly fee, pay for three months of the membership, or give you a credit toward your monthly premium if you join a fitness center.
In Maryland, Roby says that all state employees have the option to fill out a questionnaire, go to their doctor for a physical, and send the results to their insurance company.
If you do that, you get a discount on your premium and free co-pays for your primary care appointments for the next year. Even more: The AHA generally allows employers to discount premiums for people who work out, says Roby.
Weight Loss Programs and Nutritional Counseling
One in three Americans is obese—and faces health challenges because of it.
Now, health insurance is catching up to help out: Forty-five percent of states in America cover bariatric surgery for weight loss if medically necessarily; and five—Washington DC, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, and New Mexico—cover weight loss programs.
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What’s more common, though, is nutritional counseling, which is available in 25 states. While this usually doesn’t mean a free Weight Watchers membership, it could mean you can be referred to a nutritionist from your doctor or that you can be assigned one through a hospital if you’re being treated for a condition like diabetes, says Roby.
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Hill-Murray preview: Pioneers have unfinished business
Asurgical 5-1 dismantling of arch rival White Bear Lake in the Section 4AA final gave Hill-Murray plenty of lead time in putting together its state tournament preparations.
Which isn’t to say the Pioneers were looking past the Bears while still playing them, but they needed only a few minutes – just enough time to gather their sticks and gloves and leave the State Fairgrounds Coliseum ice surface – to switch into state tournament mode.
“Now it’s time to move on,” Hill-Murray coach Bill Lechner said. “This team had very high goals. Win the conference, this was the sectional one, and obviously everybody knows what we all want with the third goal.”
Hill-Murray, which won the state Class AA title in 2009, is making its fifth straight state tournament appearance. Other than Minnetonka, no team enters the the state tournament with fewer losses than the Pioneers (25-2-1).
Hill-Murray, ranked fourth in the Hockey Hub’s final state Class AA poll, received a No. 4 seed behind Minnetonka, Edina and Blaine, respectively. The Pioneers’ two losses came against Blaine during the Schwan Cup and Class A powerhouse St. Thomas Academy late in the season.
After beating White Bear Lake and before the state tournament seeds were announced, Lechner said he wasn’t too concerned where the Pioneers were slotted.
“Not really, the only thing is that whoever gets the (No. 2) spot plays at 11 o’clock in the morning,” he said. “I’m not in love with that.
“We’ve done well and we’ve struggled through the years, it’s
not like one avenue has been the right way. We’ve been the four seed and won and we’ve been a higher seed and we haven’t won. It’s fine.”
The Pioneers have a deep and balanced lineup of scorers, led by Willie Faust’s 22 goals and 44 points. Seven Hill-Murray players have scored 10 or more goals, including standout defenseman Chris Casto (13 goals, 18 assists), a Minnesota-Duluth recruit. Kevin Becker led Hill-Murray during the playoffs in goals (four) and points (eight), and Tim Shaughnessy has allowed just one goal in his last 10 periods, dating back to the regular season.
Coach: Bill Lechner
Section: 4AA
Conference: Classic Suburban (first place)
Record: 25-2-1
Nickname: Pioneers
Colors: Green, White, Black
Assistant Coaches: Pat Schafhauser, Tony Ciro
Home Ice: Aldrich Arena, Maplewood
State Titles: 3 (1983; 1991; 2008, Class AA)
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We asked her what she'd wear to school, and she said, "A pencil skirt with a top that would be more form-fitting to my body. I still wasn't showing too much cleavage. It was almost like a tease, like 'Haha, can't touch this school teacher,' but make them think they want to. Set up the fantasies for later in life."
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Sheryl Paul, M.A., has guided thousands of people worldwide through her private practice, her best-selling books, her e-courses, and her website. She has her master's in Psychology Counseling from the Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is the author of The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal.
Empty. Numb. Disconnected. Bored. These are among the most common complaints that permeate people in modern culture, and which I hear every day among my clients and course members. And they all have one thing in common: they're symptoms of being disconnected internally from your innate sense of aliveness.
So how do you feel more alive? Our culture says to do more, buy more, achieve more, succeed more, make more money, buy a bigger house, get out more, find a hobby, find a different job, live your passion. While there may be some truth to a few of these directives, the bottom line is that a full external life will not create internal fullness.
We all know people — perhaps you're one of them — who fall into the cultural trap of more and keep climbing the social, work, and health ladders, hoping that when they reach the top they'll finally feel alive. But it's a grand illusion, because there is no top: there's just another ladder offering another illusion of happiness. They've fallen into the "I'll be happy when ..." trap and, once in the trap, it's hard to find their way out.
What the culture fails to teach is that the road to aliveness is the other way around: when you're filled up internally you will naturally create a full external life. Just like meditation teaches that authentic and inspired doing arises from a still place of being, so the picture we paint on the canvas of life will feel alive when it's an expression of the fullness within.
There are many ways to fill your inner well. The following seven are just a few:
1. Lovingly attend to your physical health.
We start from the bottom up to address our physical health: food, drink, exercise, sleep, and hormones. Each of these has many subcategories, of course, but as a basic starting point ask yourself how lovingly you're attending to each of these areas. Just like a child doesn't feel balanced if he hasn't had enough sleep or is eating too much sugar, so you will have a hard time accessing your vitality if your physical body isn't getting what it needs.
2. Don't be afraid of moving through old grief and pain.
Many people squash down the pain they felt early in life to the point where what's left is numbness. In order to unleash the river of aliveness that is directly connected to your ability to feel the full range of your feelings, you have to be willing to pull the cork off your heart and allow old, unshed grief to surface and move through. I can write about this easily in two sentences, but for many people this is the work of a lifetime and requires the skilled guidance of a loving therapist to hold the space and lead the way.
3. Seek out nourishing, intelligent sources of information.
Sadly, we're sold a bill of goods when it comes to forming beliefs around love, sexuality, attraction, health, partnership, friendship, spirituality and death. These cognitive distortions often lead to anxiety, which then leads to emotional shutdown and deadness. One of the pathways back to aliveness includes replacing these falsehoods with the truth, which often means stepping away from Google, mainstream movies, and pop psychology and reading solid, well-researched books instead.
4. Maintain, or reconnect to, a sense of spirituality.
When we don't have a connection to something bigger than ourselves — whether that's nature, a higher power, or our own highest self — we tend to feel empty, alone and scared inside. Cultures from the beginning of time have created myths and rituals to help people anchor into a sense of meaning and purpose, as without them it's frightfully easy to feel like a speck of dust floating adrift in a vast universe. Full aliveness includes finding a spiritual path that feels right for you.
5. Develop a healthy concept of your sexuality.
Healthy sexuality begins with you as an individual. Most people carry unhealthy blueprints about their sexuality that include shame and unworthiness, and then they attempt to use sexuality as a way to feel alive and validate their worth. Two empty people trying to fill up through sex actually creates more emptiness. The healing work is to learn to love your own body first, and from that place of aliveness to share sacred sexuality with a loving partner.
6. Rest and play.
There can be no doubt that we live in a work-obsessed society. Unlike many South American cultures that include a siesta in the middle of their workday and follow the dictum of work to live, in America we live to work. This mentality is not really living, and it doesn't create aliveness. We need rest and play. We need to have fun. We need to get away from screens and into fresh air and real life. We need to tumble in the grass and swing across a river on a rope. We need to stop in the middle of the day just to be, instead of filling up every available time slot with things to do. This is what makes us feel alive.
7. Get out into nature.
There are few faster medicines to connect us to a sense of aliveness than to spend time in nature. Nature is the great elixir, the untouched, wild realm that reminds us of our own essential goodness. If you could spend an hour a day in true nature, walking barefoot in grass or lying on a bed of leaves staring at the clouds, you would effortlessly start to feel more alive.
Sound like hard work? Yes, it's not easy finding balance and aliveness as a human being. But take it slow and be gentle with yourself. Even addressing one of these areas will help bring life to the numb places inside of you and set you on a path toward the aliveness that is your birthright.
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Three generations of family contribute to success of butcher shop in southwest Detroit
The Carniceria Guadalajara family (from left to right): Salvador, Emily Hernandez, Adriana Hernandez, and Martin HernandezNick Hagen
Salvador Enriquez, stocking shelvesNick Hagen
Making tacos at Carniceria GuadalajaraNick Hagen
Making beef tongue and green salsaNick Hagen
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This article is the third in a series exploring the joys and challenges of running a family-owned business. Read the first two entries on Danto Furniture and Detroit Green Carrot.
A few years ago, Salvador Enriquez nearly closed down his family business. It took his daughter's entrepreneurial eye to see the potential for growth and convince the Mexican immigrant to instead expand his butcher shop, Carniceria Guadalajara.
After watching her father operate a successful butchery within a taqueria, Adriana Hernandez saw an opportunity, and together the family opened a full-service meat market of their own.
"I tried to close," Enriquez says. "But my daughter said, 'No — teach me.'"
So that's what he did.
Enriquez moved to Detroit in 1999 from Los Angeles, where he had immigrated after leaving his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico. When he arrived in Michigan, he realized his new Springwells neighborhood lacked a traditional meat market, so he decided to remedy that.
Salvador Enriquez
Carniceria Guadalajara began as counter space, but skills Salvador Enriquez picked up from his abuela’s cooking soon saw his butcher shop become a neighborhood darling.
It wasn't until his daughter (a ProsperUS Detroit graduate) encouraged him to expand, however, that the business really came into its own. Carniceria Guadalajara received a Motor City Match grant in 2016 and their 2,900-square-foot market space on Lawndale Street opened in March this year.
Hernandez helps with bookkeeping, customer service, and butchering. "I am very proud of her," Enriquez says. "Adriana is the only one of my children who is interested in continuing the business."
Now, both generations are looking to the future, with Adriana's two daughters involved in the shop. Vanessa Hernandez, 21, works at the store and Emily Hernandez, 11, is learning about cashier duties. For Enriquez, this is a family legacy. He would like to see Vanessa support Adriana one day, as Adriana supports him now.
But there's a hitch: Taking on the family business is not what Vanessa wants for her future.
"I want to study psychology and criminal justice," she says.
While this may seem like a deal-breaker for most family businesses, the Enriquez/Hernandez clan have found ways of still supporting each other. While Vanessa Hernandez is saving for courses at Henry Ford, and then hopes to go on to the University of Michigan, she sees no reason she can't still be there for her mother.
"It's nice knowing and learning about the business world, so I can help her in the future."
For now, that’s exactly what Vanessa Hernandez is doing, gaining experience in the day-to-day running of Carniceria Guadalajara. She sees the value of what their shop contributes to their community and knows what the business means to nearby residents.
"There are a lot of people who can't get what they need anywhere else."
Exterior of Carniceria Guadalajara
The Carniceria Guadalajara family (from left to right): Salvador, Emily Hernandez, Adriana Hernandez, and Martin Hernandez
Working for her grandfather and mother has also taught her life lessons that she will take into any profession she pursues. Their tenacity and perseverance is something she deeply admires, despite sometimes butting heads with her grandfather.
"They both never give up," she says. "I think that's something amazing that not all parents pass onto their children."
Matthew Bihun, senior loan officer at Prosper US Detroit, says one of the biggest challenges to family-run businesses can be balancing the family dynamic. His advice to families going into business is to be realistic and plan for disagreements.
"Because it's family, you're in it for life," he says. "Having to make both big and small decisions, without disruption, can be challenging."
It's this element, however, that Bihun argues can also be an advantage for businesses like Enriquez's.
"At Guadalajara, they've done a really good job of carving out very defined roles for each member of the family," he says.
Enriquez cuts beef tongue
It hasn't all been smooth sailing since the family went out on its own. Enriquez admits having an independent store is a challenge, and that the recent freeway closures nearby have hurt business. Winter will be a slower time, too.
"A lot of our customers work in construction," he says. "And now, with winter, that season's done."
But Vanessa Hernandez has some ideas to help down the line.
"There's an outdoor space that we could expand in the summertime and have parties that we could cater," she says. "We may do that next year."
Whichever path she chooses, it's clear she will always be invested in, and a proud supporter of, the family business.
This article is part of Michigan Nightlight, a series of stories about the programs and people that positively impact the lives of Michigan kids. It is made possible with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Read more in the series here.
Photos by Nick Hagen.
Read more articles by Kate Roff.
Kate Roff is a freelance writer and editor based out of Detroit. Contact her at [email protected].
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A coffee break in the United States and elsewhere is a short mid-morning rest period granted to employees in business and industry. An afternoon coffee break, or afternoon tea, often occurs as well.
The coffee break originated in the late 19th century in Stoughton, Wisconsin, with the wives of Norwegian immigrants. The city celebrates this every year with the Stoughton Coffee Break Festival. In 1951, Time noted that
“Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts”
The term subsequently became popular through a Pan-American Coffee Bureau ad campaign of 1952 which urged consumers, “Give yourself a Coffee-Break – and Get What Coffee Gives to You” John B. Watson, a behavioral psychologist who worked with Maxwell House later in his career, helped to popularize coffee breaks within the American culture.
Coffee breaks usually last from 10 to 20 minutes and frequently occur at the end of the first third of the work shift.
In some companies and some civil service, the coffee break may be observed formally at a set hour. In some places, a cart with hot and cold beverages and cakes, breads and pastries arrives at the same time morning and afternoon, an employer may contract with an outside caterer for daily service, or coffee breaks may take place away from the actual work-area in a designated cafeteria or tea room.
More generally, the phrase “coffee break” has also come to denote any break from work. Coffee was initially used for spiritual reasons. At least 1,100 years ago, traders brought coffee across the Red Sea.
At first, the Arabians made wine from the pulp of the fermented coffee berries. This beverage was known as qishr (kisher in modern usage) and was used during religious ceremonies.
Coffee drinking was prohibited by jurists and scholars meeting in Mecca in 1511, but the subject of whether it was intoxicating was hotly debated over the next 30 years until the ban was finally overturned in the mid-16th century. Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to coffee’s being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.
Coffee, regarded as a Muslim drink, was prohibited by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians until as late as 1889; it is now considered a national drink of Ethiopia for people of all faiths. Its early association in Europe with rebellious political activities led to Charles II outlawing coffeehouses from January 1676. Frederick the Great banned it in Prussia in 1777 for nationalistic and economic reasons.
“concerned about the price of import, he sought to force the public back to consuming beer”
Quite a number of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church also avoid caffeinated drinks. In its teachings, the Church encourages members to avoid tea, coffee, and other stimulants.
Abstinence from coffee, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near-unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of coffee drinking, free from confounding factors.
One study was able to show a weak but statistically significant association between coffee consumption and mortality from ischemic heart disease, other cardiovascular disease, all cardiovascular diseases combined, and all causes of death. For a time, there had been controversy in the Jewish community.
Whether the coffee seed was a legume and therefore prohibited for Passover. Upon petition from coffeemaker Maxwell House, the coffee seed was classified in 1923 as a berry rather than a seed by orthodox Jewish rabbi Hersch Kohn, and therefore kosher for Passover.
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Michigan Technological University is committed to providing a work environment that is supportive of employees' work and personal life obligations. The purpose of the Parental Leave Benefit is to give parents additional flexibility and time to bond with their new child, adjust to their new family situation, and balance their professional and home obligations. This benefit supports goal 1.2 of the University's Strategic Plan —"enhance work-life blending for all members of our community". The associated cost for eligible persons on parental leave will be covered by Michigan Tech as outlined in the Parental Leave Benefit information located on the Human Resources website.
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03/06/2017 - Annual Review: To reflect current practice changed "Maternal" to "Parental". removed " Michigan Tech recognizes the need to support employees as they balance career, childbirth, and family obligations. Eligibility Applies to employees eligible for full benefits. Policy is intended to provide paid time off after the birth of a baby. If medical conditions arise prior to the birth, maternity leave may be taken before the birth. Policy includes an adoption (primary caregiver) for children under 7 years old not attending school full-time. Employee must certify that they are the primary caregiver. Maternity leave should be taken within 12 months from the birth of the baby. Leave with pay will run concurrent with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Full benefits will continue during leave of absence. Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty. Will receive one semester at full pay while being relieved from teaching duties for the duration of the leave of absence but continuing to perform their other duties at 50% in a research capacity including graduate student supervision. Can choose to be relieved of all duties while on leave of absence; however, leave of absence with pay will follow the parameters given to staff (full pay for up to 6 weeks; see below). Can only receive leave with pay for semesters normally paid (summer excluded). Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, Research Faculty, and Staff. Will receive full pay for up to 6 weeks; any additional time will be without pay (employee can use earned sick/vacation time (if eligible). Staff may work out a part-time return to work that equates to the full 6 weeks paid. This arrangement must be approved by the employee's supervisor. Lecturers can choose a leave of absence for one semester at 1/2 pay while being relieved from all duties. Application Process. For tenured/tenure-track faculty, as far as it is possible, the commencement of a maternity leave shall coincide with the beginning of a semester. The faculty member shall submit a written request to her Department Chair (the Dean in case of schools). The chair and/or dean shall attach the memo request to a status change form (gold) and forward to the Dean and Provost as far in advance as possible but at least 30 days prior to the beginning of the semester during which the leave is to be taken. Professional staff shall submit written notice to their supervisor who shall then attach request to a completed status change form (gold) and forward to the Director and appropriate Executive Team Member. The completed gold form shall then be forwarded to the Benefits office for review and approval. Funding The associated costs for eligible persons on maternity leave will be covered by Michigan Tech's retirement and insurance fund."
02/22/2017 - Annual Review: To reflect current numbering system, renamed from "6.2.3.5 Paid Maternity Leave" to "6.2.3.4 Paid Maternity Leave."
12/08/2016 - Annual Review: No changes made to content.
01/28/2015 - Annual Review: To reflect current practice, the email address for questions is now policy@mtu.edu. No changes made to content.
02/20/2014 - Annual Review: Updated Michigan Tech and Handbook banners. Deleted the following sentences in the first paragraph: "This document outlines parameters for a maternity leave to be applied within our current policy 6.2.3.1 Approved Absences with Pay which allows the President to approve a leave of absence with pay for specific occasions." Under Eligibility, in the fourth item, the sentence read: "Maternity leave should be taken ....", now reads "Maternity leave will be taken ....." In the Application Process paragraph, the sentence read: "... and appropriate Executive/CFO/CIO.... " and now reads ".... and appropriate Executive Team Member ...."; the last sentence in the paragraph read: "The completed gold form shall then be forwarded to the Benefits office for review and subsequent approval by the president" now reads: "The completed gold form shall then be forwarded to the Benefits office for review and approval." Deleted: "Per 6.2.3.1, Approved Absences with Pay requires the approval of the president."
06/13/2012 - Revised entire policy to reflect current practice.
06/21/2011 - Annual Review: To reflect current University titles and practice, the email address for questions is now hbwebmaster.
02/09/2011 - New policy.
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Acura’s Advanced Sedan Concept debuts in L.A.
Siddarth Raja November 30, 2006 Comment Now!
Acura has unveiled probably one of the ugliest concept cars at the Los Angeles Auto Show today. The creation of the company’s Los Angeles-based advanced design team, the Advanced Sedan Concept illustrates Acura's commitment to modern design and cutting-edge style. The primary goal of this design study was to create a sophisticated, refined sedan with a mysterious presence.
The car rides on huge 22in custom billet-machined, polished aluminum wheels at the front, with even larger 23 inchers at the back. Powerful brake discs and calipers accent the wheels and large ducts direct cooling air to the components. Bold wheel arches and flares add to the concept's muscular appearance.
The front of the car features pronounced character lines that flow onto the five sided grille, which is constructed of polished aluminum and features a cut crystal Acura emblem. Acura has designed and developed several models in the US and will increase its North American capabilities with the addition of a dedicated Acura Design Center that will open next year in Torrance, Ca.
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Acura "Advanced Sedan Concept" Debuts at Los Angeles Auto Show
LOS ANGELES, Calif. November 29, 2006 – The Acura "Advanced Sedan Concept" made its world debut today at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show. Created by Acura's Los Angeles-based advanced design team, the concept features a modern, powerful exterior while retaining an ultra luxurious feel.
"The Advanced Sedan Concept illustrates Acura's commitment to modern design and cutting-edge style," said John Mendel, senior vice president, auto operations. "With our advanced design team taking a significant role in shaping future vehicle design, we can expect upcoming products to reflect this progressive, forward-thinking styling."
The Advanced Sedan Concept is the purest expression of advanced design, performance and luxury, highlighted by its powerful, wide stance and deeply sculpted surfaces. The primary goal of this design study was to create a sophisticated, refined sedan with a mysterious presence.
The concept's generous exterior proportions suggest that a large, powerful engine lurks beneath the surface. The exterior lines reveal a sheer, sculpted lower body contrasted with a taut, architectural cabin. Although ultra-modern in its design, the concept retains the classic silhouette associated with a flagship sedan.
Low to the ground, the concept is anchored by large 22 inch front and 23 inch rear tires which are mounted to custom billet-machined, polished aluminum wheels. Powerful brake discs and calipers accent the wheels and large ducts direct cooling air to the components. Bold wheel arches and flares add to the concept's muscular appearance.
The sleek, compact cockpit nestles atop the sculpted body and flows from hood to trunk. For a unique panoramic view, the roof is constructed entirely of tinted glass that shades the occupants while still connecting them to the outside world.
"We wanted to capture the essence of an ultra luxurious sedan but give it a striking, mysterious presence to create a vehicle with a dual personality," said Dave Marek, chief designer, Honda R&D Americas, Inc. "The concept echoes this quality with its clean exterior lines, a wide, stance, high performance cues and key luxury accents."
The hood is accented with pronounced character lines that culminate in the aggressive five-sided grille, which contributes to the sedan's bold presence. The commanding grille is constructed of polished aluminum and features a cut crystal Acura emblem. The narrow headlights also double as air intakes and are positioned low on the bumper, further enhancing the sedan's already commanding 79.5 inch width.
"The front of the sedan communicates power and luxury," explains Marek. "The pronounced hood and large grille communicate performance, while the jewel-like Acura emblem captures the essence of pure luxury."
In the rear, the Advanced Sedan Concept has a flush mounted rear bumper with the high-mounted stop lamp integrated into the center break of the trunk. The jeweled taillights are pushed to the outer edge of the bumper to further enhance the vehicle's wide and low appearance, while integrated dual exhaust outlets complement the sedan's performance-oriented style.
During the past decade, several Acura vehicles have been designed and developed in the U.S. including the award winning MDX luxury SUV, the innovative TL performance luxury sedan and the all-new RDX turbocharged crossover SUV. Acura will continue the expansion of its U.S. design capabilities with the addition of a dedicated Acura Design Center that will open next year in Torrance, Ca.
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Chemistry 2 0.35
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma has a luminal-papillary T-cell depleted contexture and activated FGFR3 signaling
Ribosome biogenesis during cell cycle arrest fuels EMT in development and disease
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Ansary Stem Cell Institute, Cornell University
Burke Neurological Institute (BNI), Cornell University
Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), Cornell University
Center Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), Cornell University
Center for Global Health, Cornell University
Center for Neurogenetics, Cornell University
Center for Vascular Biology, Cornell University
Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center, Cornell University
Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University
Department of Anesthesiology, Cornell University
Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cornell University
Neuberger Berman Lung Cancer Research Center, Cornell University
Department of Dermatology, Cornell University
Department of Genetic Medicine, Cornell University
Department of Healthcare Policy and Research (HPR), Cornell University
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cornell University
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University
Department of Neurology, Cornell University
Center for Sleep Medicine, Cornell University
Department of Neuroscience, Cornell University
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cornell University
Department of Ophtalmology, Cornell University
Margaret M. Dyson Vision Research Institute, Cornell University
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cornell University
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cornell University
Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University
Division of Child Neurology, Cornell University
Department of Pharmacology, Cornell University
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University
Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cornell University
Department of Radiology, Cornell University
Molecular Imaging Innovations Institute (MI3), Cornell University
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Cornell University
Department of Surgery, Cornell University
Department of Urology, Cornell University
Institute for Pediatric Urology, Cornell University
Institute of Prostate Cancer, Cornell University
LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery, Cornell University
Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI), Cornell University
Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation, Cornell University
Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Cornell University
Genomics Resources Core Facility (GRCF), Cornell University
Heath Care Policy and Research, Cornell University
Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute, Cornell University
Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Cornell University
Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Cornell University
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Center for Metabolic Health, Cornell University
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Cornell University
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cornell University
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cornell University
Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Cornell University
Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cornell University
Division of Infectious Diseases, Cornell University
Division of Regenerative Medicine, Cornell University
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Cornell University
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Cornell University
The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB), Cornell University
The Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine (CRM), Cornell University
Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center, Cornell University
Department of Neurological Surgery, Cornell University
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI), Cornell University
Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University
Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE), Cornell University
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Cornell University
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), Cornell University
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE), Cornell University
Department of Communication, Cornell University
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS), Cornell University
Department of Entomology, Cornell University
Department of Food Science, Cornell University
Department of Information Science, Cornell University
Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
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Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Cornell University
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School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS), Cornell University
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Plant Breeding and Genetics Section, Cornell University
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Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
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ILR School, Cornell University
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College of Engineering (ECE), Cornell University
Cornell Energy Institute, Cornell University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Cornell University
Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Cornell University
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School of Applied and Engineering Physics (AEP), Cornell University
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Cornell University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), Cornell University
Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FSAD), Cornell University
Department of Human Development, Cornell University
Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Global Health, and Technology (INSiGHT), Cornell University
Human Neuroscience Institute (HNI), Cornell University
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Cornell University
College of Veterinary Medicine (VET), Cornell University
Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC), Cornell University
Virology Section, Cornell University
Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University
Center for Vertebrate Genomics (CVG), Cornell University
Cornell Center for Reproductive Genomics (CRG), Cornell University
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University
Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University
VET Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University
Computational Physiology Laboratory, Cornell University
Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University
Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics (3CPG), Cornell University
Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), Cornell University
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA), Cornell University
Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease (CIHMID), Cornell University
Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE), Cornell University
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University
Cornell Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility (CMRIF), Cornell University
Cornell Neurotech, Cornell University
Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit (CSCU), Cornell University
Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory, Cornell University
Cornell Undergraduate Biology, Cornell University
Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC)
Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS), Cornell University
Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), Cornell University
Graduate Field of Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology (BMCB), Cornell University
Graduate Field of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), Cornell University
Graduate Field of Computational Biology, Cornell University
Graduate Field of Genetics, Genomics and Development (GG&D), Cornell University
Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University
Biotechnology Resource Center (BRC), Cornell University
Bioinformatics Facility, Cornell University
Genomics Facility, Cornell University
Institute for Genomic Diversity (IGD), Cornell University
KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy and Sustainability, Cornell University
Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science (KIC), Cornell University
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition (LBC), Cornell University
McGovern Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences, Cornell University
Office of Undergraduate Biology, Cornell University
Riley-Robb Hall Biofuels Research Laboratory, Cornell University
SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), Cornell University
Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology (WICMB), Cornell University
High-tech imaging could stop TB spread
University of Cape Town (UCT)
Fishing for stem cells with nanoneedles
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT)
Finding new metallic glasses faster
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__label__wiki | 0.831885 | 0.831885 | Bears Name Former Chiefs Offensive Coordinator Matt Nagy as New Head Coach
Published at 11:05 am on January 8, 2018
The Chicago Bears have named Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy their new head coach, the team announced.
Nagy replaces John Fox, who was fired on New Year's Day following three seasons with the team.
The news was first reported by Adam Jahns of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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The Chiefs’ offense had a strong year, with running back Kareem Hunt rushing for over 1300 yards and quarterback Alex Smith throwing for over 4000.
Smith led the NFL with a career-high 104.7 passer rating under Nagy, who has spent 10 seasons coaching under Andy Reid and has generated interest league-wide.
Sunday's meeting with Nagy marked the sixth interview the Bears conducted since firing John Fox on Jan. 1. Fox had a 14-34 record in three years with the Bears and a .292 winning percentage that ranks as the second-lowest in franchise history.
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__label__wiki | 0.690358 | 0.690358 | Chick-fil-A Northridge Turns Into Tent City for Free Chicken
Chicken lovers settle in for a long, cold night in Northridge
By Olsen Ebright • Published at 10:43 am on November 9, 2011
"Occupy Northridge" isn't about ending wars or taxing the rich. This encampment is patiently waiting for free chicken.
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant is scheduled to open Thursday in Northridge, and 36 tents are already set up outside 8875 Tampa Ave. The chain celebrates each new opening with a free year's supply of Chick-fil-A food for the first 100 customers in line.
"The economy is bad so it's kind of cool," says Rob Ibelle, who camped out for free chicken. "It's a neat thing that Chick-fil-A does."
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"These vouchers, the box is worth like $350, with the tax and everything," said Dennis Malone from Costa Mesa who has waited for the deal 18 times. ""It's just fantastic."
At 6 a.m., Chick-fil-A reps handed out 110 wristbands, purposefully overbooking the contest, with the assumption at least 10 people won't make it through the night. Overnight lows will be in the high 40s.
Campers need to stay on the property until 6 a.m. Thursday when the restaurant opens.
To prevent occupiers from scoring a wristband and then returning just in time for free chicken, restaurant officials do random wristband checks throughout the day. Also, to ensure everyone is a happy camper, the restaurant is giving away free lunch and dinner.
Ages at the encampment range from 18 to 72 years old. For one Northridge camper, this is his 20th grand opening.
The last LA location to open, located at the corner of Highland Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, saw a similar tent city.
Loyal customers often come equipped with couches, TVs and other gear, according to the chain. During the Hollywood opening, patient chicken fans passed the time with playing cards, games and of course, dancing.
At Northridge, chicken lovers were jumping rope and practicing yoga. Starting at 5 p.m., a DJ will perform at the encampment.
Chick-fil-A currently operates 44 locations in California, although entry to Los Angeles has been recent. The downtown location opened last year. The Hollywood location opened in September.
"Love camping out, I will never give it up," vows Monique Hampton, " and no, we're not crazy. We're just raving fans."
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__label__cc | 0.533266 | 0.466734 | Snow Expected During Evening Commute for Some
Temperatures Friday top out in the 30s, but fall back to freezing in the snow
By Tim Kelley • Published December 6, 2019 • Updated at 12:58 pm on December 6, 2019
We have snow in the forecast on Friday.
The system bringing the snow has a fancy name, an Alberta Clipper. It's an old expression based on low pressure that forms over Alberta Canada and moves swiftly, like a clipper ship, in a generally straight motion from northwest to southeast to the Atlantic Ocean.
They are usually not strong events but can ramp up when they get close to the Atlantic Ocean and use the warmer water as fuel. We would classify today as a moderate strength clipper.
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Snow Coating New England Overnight Saturday
Snow racing across New York Friday morning will arrive in western New England before lunchtime and spread quickly to the east coast early in the afternoon.
It's a narrow band of snow along and north of Interstate 90 up to about a line from Rutland, Vermont to Portland, Maine. We may get a burst of moderately heavy snow for an hour or two. That’s sort of a high-end expectation, as most of us will see just a burst of snow that may be briefly heavy, but will linger as lighter snow for a couple of hours.
Either way, this should add up to an inch or two of accumulation on untreated colder surfaces, especially along in north of Route 2 in Massachusetts.
For the Hartford-Springfield area, the precipitation should shut down before the evening commute. But for Worcester to Manchester, New Hampshire to Boston, it may snow for most of the evening commute.
Although we believe treated main roads and highways will be just wet, there will be significant spray with poor visibility, and possible icy side roads and sidewalks.
Temperatures Friday top out in the 30s, but fall back to freezing in the snow, except for at the south coast, where we may have a few raindrops and temperatures close to 43 degrees. Toward the Canadian border, we should stay dry with a high temperature in the 20s.
Skies will clear rapidly Friday night with the gusty winds from the northwest importing new colder air from Canada. Low temperatures will be in the 10s north and 20s south.
High pressure moves to the middle Atlantic states during the day Saturday, providing plenty of sunshine and diminishing wind during the afternoon. High temperature will be in the 20s north to 30s south.
Strong high pressure with a clear sky and light wind Saturday night means radiational cooling, low temperature likely the coldest of the season for many of us. It will be near 0 degrees central, colder north, and less cold toward the south coast.
Sunday features a cold, dry start with sunshine fading behind clouds. Wind will increase during the afternoon and become gusty by evening, with a high temperature in the 30s.
The Patriots game should be dry with a temperature near 37 degrees.
Powerful low-pressure then moves into Canada on Monday and Tuesday with the warmer southwest wind coming back to New England. Periods of rain could be heavy at times both days, with a high temperature in the 50s to near 60 degrees by Tuesday afternoon.
There even be a thunderstorm, then a major wind shift occurs Tuesday night and we are on the polar side of the front Wednesday and Thursday, with sunshine returning in a high temperature in the 20s and 30s.
The next action likely occurs next weekend and it could go from wintry mix to rain. We will have to do fine tune as we get closer here in our First Alert 10-Day Forecast.
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__label__wiki | 0.670785 | 0.670785 | BlackBerry CEO predicts demise of tablets within five years
By Andy Weir Senior News Editor Neowin @gcaweir · Apr 30, 2013 10:11 EDT · Hot! with 51 comments
By any account, the BlackBerry PlayBook - the company's first attempt at creating a mainstream tablet - was a disaster. It launched to mediocre reviews, was widely panned for launching with glaring omissions such as a native email client (relying instead on accessing email via a tethered BlackBerry handset), and sold in such tiny numbers (before 'fire sale' offers that, in some cases, saw devices being literally given away) that the company was forced to write down a $485m one-off charge to resolve the thorny issue of unsold inventory of the device.
It's perhaps unsurprising that BlackBerry isn't in any rush to get back into the tablet game. But what may raise an eyebrow or two are comments made by the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, with regards to the future of the tablet market as a whole.
Who needs a tablet when you've got a BlackBerry phone for all of your "mobile computing"?
Speaking at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles yesterday, Heins asserted his belief that the days of the tablet are numbered, implying that devices such as Apple's phenomenally successful iPad and other rivals like Samsung's Galaxy Tab range will soon be a thing of the past. "In five years, I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," he told conference delegates. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model."
As Bloomberg reports, Heins reiterated his ambitions for BlackBerry in the mobile space, as the company continues the rollout of its two BlackBerry 10 launch phones. "In five years, I see BlackBerry to be the absolute leader in mobile computing - that's what we're aiming for. I want to gain as much market share as I can, but not by being a copycat."
Whether BlackBerry can achieve superiority in "mobile computing" with only smartphone handsets remains to be seen, but this isn't the first time that we've heard Heins make comments with reference to that term. A few weeks ago, he revealed that the company had thought long and hard about adopting Windows Phone and Android for future BlackBerry products, but decided against them because they are "not mobile computing platforms". BlackBerry's vision in that regard, according to Heins, is to support users in being able to carry out all of the same tasks on their phone as they would on a PC.
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__label__wiki | 0.565451 | 0.565451 | Home News Martha’s donates bikes for little tykes
Martha’s donates bikes for little tykes
Store makes 'gently used' bikes available for Boys & Girls Club.
Martha’s Bike donates 100 barely used bikes to the. Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club so that each child gets to take home a bike for free. — Caroline Brehman
Angelina Campbell decides which bike she wants to choose as Nick Kleidon of Martha’s Bike helps with sizing. — Caroline Brehman
Ayden Silva tries on one of the bike helmets donated by Martha’s Bike to figure out the best fit. — Caroline Brehman
Brooklynn Petersen smiles while sitting on her new bike donated by Martha’s Bike. — Caroline Brehman
Mary Meyers, Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Program Assistant, hugs Brooklynn Petersen telling her how happy she is they all get free bikes. — Caroline Brehman
Brooklynn Petersen, a third-grade student, was one of the first to get her new bike. She chose a candy-apple red model. Even though Brooklynn never learned to ride a bike, she said she is now intent on learning. “I’m gonna learn how to ride so fast,” she said.
Then she turned to her friend, Karla Robadel, a fourth grader who also just got a new bike (she chose teal), to ask if she would teach her how to ride. “I can teach you no problem,” said Karla.
Excitement was in the air at the Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club in Edgartown Wednesday as the 29-year-old bike rental shop Martha’s Bike donated 100 “gently used” bicycles to children at the Boys & Girls Club.
The bikes were lined up in a neat row in the gymnasium, and each child receiving a bike went in individually to choose his or her favorite color and get fitted for size.
Stephanie Burke, vice president of the club’s board of directors, said that by bringing the students in one by one, it makes the event more significant and meaningful.
“Each kid comes in and says, ‘Wow, a bike just for me,’ and that is absolutely priceless,” she said. Burke said instead of having all the kids run in at once, it was better for them to each have a tailor-fitted experience just for them.
Nick Kleidon, manager of Martha’s Bike in Vineyard Haven, said he is happy for the opportunity to give children the gift of a new bike. “Most of these kids don’t own bikes, or they don’t have a nice new bike like these,” said Kleidon. The Gamma bikes they presented to the children were only one year old, and were in perfect condition. “As cyclists, bikes have become our lives at the shop. It’s great we get to give these kids the chance to feel that way also,” Kleidon said.
Burke said she has never seen the kids so happy. “Just think back to getting your first bike. I can remember mine, it was a Raleigh,” said Burke. “It is just so wonderful to see kids who either don’t know how to ride a bike or can’t afford one, climbing onto a brand-new bike of their choosing.”
The children were also given helmets and bike locks.
“My helmet is gray and black,” Karla said, as she grinned and watched other children get their bikes. “And my bike has polka dots on it.”
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Drive through the Trappentreutunnel and over the Donnersbergerbrücke.
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At the Romanplatz drive on to the Arnulfstraße. Follow the Arnulfstraße for about 2 kilometres until you have reached the Mittlerer Ring, which is called Landshuter Allee here.
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Britain Left ‘Sombre’ By Tower Inferno – Queen
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Queen Elizabeth II said Saturday that Britain had been plunged into a sombre mood after the deadly London tower block inferno, as public anger swelled and dozens were still reported missing.
Furious residents heckled Prime Minister Theresa May and stormed the local authority headquarters on Friday, demanding justice for the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster which left at least 30 people dead.
There were angry scenes at the offices of the Kensington and Chelsea council, which was responsible for managing the 1970s social housing block in a working-class enclave of one of Britain’s richest areas.
“It was a death trap and they knew it,” one person shouted as demonstrators stormed inside the offices.
Some 19 patients are still being treated in hospital, of whom 10 are in a critical condition, the National Health Service said Saturday. The emergency services expect to find no more survivors.
More than 70 people reportedly remain unaccounted for and the area surrounding the tower has been plastered by distraught relatives with pictures of the missing, from grandparents to young children.
Resolve in adversity
Queen Elizabeth and her grandson Prince William visited a community centre Friday where some of the survivors are being housed, and where volunteers have been inundated with donations of clothes and food.
The head of state said a saddened country was showing resolve in the face of adversity and a determination to rebuild wrecked lives.
She stood for a minute’s silence at the start of her birthday parade on Saturday.
“It is difficult to escape a very sombre national mood,” she said in a message marking the event.
“In recent months, the country has witnessed a succession of terrible tragedies,” the monarch said, referring to the fire and the recent terrorist attacks in Manchester and London.
“I have been profoundly struck by the immediate inclination of people throughout the country to offer comfort and support to those in desperate need.
“United in our sadness, we are equally determined, without fear or favour, to support all those rebuilding lives so horribly affected by injury and loss.”
Anger at May
But besides the drive to help survivors, the sense of anger was palpable on the streets.
May was criticised for avoiding locals when she visited the burnt-out shell of the 24-storey tower on Thursday and faced cries of “Shame on you” and “coward” when she returned the following day.
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Seven Moroccans are among the dead, the north African country’s foreign affairs ministry said.
Police have said the recovery process could take weeks, and warned some of the bodies may be too burned to be identified.
Pope Francis sent a message of “heartfelt condolences”, in which he invoked God’s blessings of “strength and peace” on the local community.
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Posted on September 16, 2016 by Yves Smith
Wowsers. Jamie Dimon had a bit of a hissy fit back in the day over the proposed settlement of JP Morgan’s mortgage liabilities. And while the settlement did come in lower, it wasn’t ginormously lower. By contrast, Deutsche Bank has gone out aggressively after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice was seeking a $14 billion settlement for crisis-related mortgage liabilities versus the German bank’s position that $3 billion was a reasonable figure. Note that Deutsche Bank has €5.5 billion set aside in litigation reserves and seems to think it can hold the damage to this level.
As we’ve pointed out, the gap between the headline figure for these mortgage settlements and the actual economic value has always been large. So it would not appear to be wise to defy the DoJ by engaging in a media war, particularly since Deutsche is widely seen to be a garbage barge and its CEO is not Obama’s favorite banker. But the bank’s stock has taken a drubbing in the wake of the Wall Street Journal story and desperation may be overruling prudence.
Deutsche Bank AG slumped after receiving a $14 billion claim from the U.S. Justice Department to settle an investigation into the firm’s sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, a figure the German lender said it’s not willing to pay.
“Deutsche Bank has no intent to settle these potential civil claims anywhere near the number cited,” the company said in a statement early Friday in Frankfurt. “The negotiations are only just beginning. The bank expects that they will lead to an outcome similar to those of peer banks which have settled at materially lower amounts.”
Given that settlements involve not just dollar amounts but can also involve behavioral issues, if CEO John Cryan is willing to admit to bad conduct, fire some executives or claw back pay, the DoJ might be quite willing to trade a lot of settlement dollars against the sort of things that US bank reformers have demanded but have not gotten to any meaningful degree in other settlements.
But absent that, Cryan’s argument that Deutsche’s settlement should be lower based on a simple comparison to other banks headline figures isn’t sound. A $14 billion ask in in range. Whether that is fair or not depends on the severity of the bank’s misconduct and also how cooperative it was during the investigation. Deutsche has been the target of a raft of private and government actions for price fixing in foreign exchange, precious metals, and Libor markets. So it’s unlikely to be getting good actor points in the settlement.
However, as we noted in our earlier post, the senior staff at the DoJ may feel time pressure to wrap up the settlement before the election-determined regime change. If so, that considerably weakens their bargaining position, and may explain why Deutsche has decided to take the unusual approach of being frontal. But the last time a big banks tried that, which was Barclays with the Bank of England over Libor price fixing, and later Standard Chartered’s CEO Peter Sands versus the New York’s Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawksy, both came out losers in a big way. The three top executives of Barclays were forced to resign. Peter Sands backed down and ate a lot of crow, and when his bank defied the regulators again (he claimed by negligence rather than design), he was defenestrated.
Now this is an argument over price, rather than a more fundamental fight over government authority, so even in a worse case scenario, any battle of wills between Deutsche and the DoJ is very unlikely to go as far as it did with financial regulators versus Barclays and Standard Chartered. But the question remains: will the DoJ flex its muscles or will careerist considerations (the need to notch up the Deutsche Bank settlement relatively soon) prevail? Stay tuned.
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Richard Davet September 16, 2016 at 8:26 am
The tough guy image by Deutsche will be dropped in short order and they will pay up per the script.
After all, others moaned and groaned but paid up because after all it is a small price to pay to be a player/partner in the GSE Business Model (“fatally flawed”). The Model allows them to go back to the troth today and suck up more funds subsidized by the US Taxpayers.
This is all bad theater with the intention of making it appear that they are all doing something.
Harry September 16, 2016 at 8:51 am
DB has been close to the wall recently. And they may be counting on some close support from the German government. If you think about it the EU and US have slave to trade. Apple vs DB for example. But with TPP going bad is easy to see how this can all go wrong.
That said, the US looks very much like it had been favoring is own in the great “let’s beat up on banks” game. I can see why euro-thieves might feel a little indignant at US double dipping.
flora September 16, 2016 at 9:36 am
“favoring its own”
Well, no post-govt job with 7 figure salary (revolving door) at DB for US DoJ employees. ;)
Carla September 16, 2016 at 9:39 am
+ 100.
This is the 8th anniversary of Lehman’s collapse.
“After much research, I have come to believe that at the highest levels of government, the financial industry managed to convince prosecutors that it was against societal interests to bust bankers. The revolving door between government and the private sector, between regulators and regulated, figures in this. If you’re a prosecutor, but you might like a big payday from business, do you really want to go hard on the companies that might offer you a job one day?”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-15/the-lehman-moment-still-is-with-us
Bottom Gun September 16, 2016 at 9:04 am
If you invite contempt, ultimately someone is going to take you up on the invitation.
Also, Deutsche is a client of Covington & Burling, and perhaps of Eric Holder’s personally. Just sayin’.
steelhead23 September 16, 2016 at 11:04 am
Oooh, that’s a juicy tid-bit. I’m sure DB thought they had purchased a ‘Get outta jail free’ card.
Yves Smith Post author September 17, 2016 at 6:08 am
*Sigh*. No, Covington has lots of clients and DB as a foreign firm is not going to have enough matters to be top of their list. The top bank lawyer in the US is Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell, by far. He represents everyone and manages to get away with it.
weinerdog43 September 16, 2016 at 9:13 am
“…any battle of wills between Deutsche and the DoJ is very unlikely to go as far as it did with financial regulators versus Barclays and Standard Chartered.”
I tend to agree with this.
It has been my experience when I’m negotiating a particularly large settlement, the bigger it is, the more potential you have for one party to just say, “screw it”, it’s just too much. We’ll let the jury decide. When it gets to that phase, you start to wonder if your opponent is bluffing, or if he or she is really willing to blow up the entire settlement.
In this case, we know already that DB has admitted it is a market manipulator. The question I’m wondering is whether they know that if the DOJ presses too hard, they are going to name some names that will be very painful for not only Obama, but potentially for the Repubs as well. Not to mention JP Morgan and Citi.
In other words, if DB goes down, we’re taking everyone with us.
After 8 years of watching the DoJ let the US TBTF banks skate away, maybe it’s time for a ‘Sampson pulling down the pillars’ event.
readerOfTeaLeaves September 16, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Normally, I’m partial to manageable, sustainable, shifts and changes.
But if DB wants to ‘name names” and take everyone with it as it goes down, I want to be sure that I have an ample supply of popcorn handy.
These guys are bankers, not Forces of Nature. Mistaking one for the other is always a fatal conceit.
If the DoJ can’t distinguish between the two, then they need to resign or retire.
Dave D'Rave September 21, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Agree. More popcorn!
Stupendous Man - Defender of Liberty, Foe of Tyranny September 16, 2016 at 9:36 am
Some years back William K. Black suggested that if President Obama, and AG Eric Holder, weren’t willing and able to “man up” and prosecute wall street violators for their … er, um, … violations they should at least have the integrity to change the name of the Department of Justice.
“Deutsche has been the target of a raft of private and government actions for price fixing in foreign exchange, precious metals, and Libor markets.” Yes, that has been covered/reported by many sources, including nakedcap, going back a number of years. How is it regulators in the US have allowed them to continue marauding across the country? (maraud, v. i. 1. to rove in quest of plunder)
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” This is usually attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal, and translates as “Who will guard the guards themselves?”
I submit that with Deutsche Banks established patterns and practices of wanton, flagrant, disregard of any and all “rules” any response, and certainly any appropriate response, must include the termination of its privileges to operate within our borders. That must be extended to also prohibit any other entities operating within our borders from conducting any business with Deutsche Bank.
Too costly, or too difficult, you say? Poppycock!!
“Fiat iustitia ruat caelum.”
tonycat September 16, 2016 at 11:51 am
Considering their Libor rate fixing surely caused many homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages to have accelerating interest rates and not be able to pay their mortgages, and then to be foreclosed upon by Deutsche (as it was in my own case, with foreclosure by Deutsche who was a “holder” in our great (NOT! Or at least not anymore!) state of North Carolina through using the sub-servicer SPS Select Portfolio Servicing), seems to me any foreclosures by Deutsche should be invalidated or reversed, and any subsequent sales the same way. Have DeutscheBank pay everyone their damages, lawyer fees, etc. (INSTEAD of fines to the government!). Make DeutscheBank give any new purchaser of the foreclosed houses for value some time to get out, reimburse what the purchaser paid for the house plus some extra for moving fees/the purchaser’s damages, and then give our houses back to their rightful American homeowners who were manipulated into foreclosure. Our government seems to instead be going along aiding and abetting the crime of house theft from homeowners. How about doing the right thing for once? Where the banks screwed up through greed or negligence, then by God, the banks SHOULD be the ones to suffer and lose – not the innocent homeowner. Then shut DeutscheBank out of operating within the USA at all. That is what should happen if any justice is to occur.
flora September 16, 2016 at 2:29 pm
” Our government seems to instead be going along aiding and abetting the crime of house theft from homeowners.”
from Wallstreetonparade:
‘The FCIC released thousands of documents in March of this year, showing that it had made multiple criminal referrals to the DOJ. [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren wrote in her letter:
‘ “A review of these documents conducted by my staff has identified 11 separate FCIC referrals of individuals or corporations to DOJ in cases where the FCIC found ‘serious indications of violations[s]’ of federal securities or other laws. Nine individuals were implicated in these referrals (two were implicated twice). The DOJ has not filed any criminal prosecutions against any of the nine individuals. Not one of the nine has gone to prison or been convicted of a criminal offense. Not a single one has even been indicted or brought to trial. Only one individual was fined, in the amount of $100,000, and that was to settle a civil case brought by the SEC.”
‘This particular paragraph is a Pandora’s Box by a factor of $2.5 trillion. The two individuals Warren refers to who were “implicated twice” in the FCIC’s criminal referrals are Robert Rubin, [and Chuck Prince]. ‘
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/09/elizabeth-warren-opens-pandoras-box-with-midnight-letters-to-doj-and-fbi/
diptherio September 16, 2016 at 10:04 am
the last time a big banks tried that, which was Barclays with the Bank of England over Libor price fixing, and later Standard Chartered’s CEO Peter Sands versus the New York’s Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawksy, both came out losers in a big way. The three top executives of Barclays were forced to resign. Peter Sands backed down and ate a lot of crow, and when his bank defied the regulators again (he claimed by negligence rather than design), he was defenestrated.
But did they both walk away filthy-frickin’ rich? Even when the criminals get caught and punished, they don’t ever really get punished. I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that being a failed and disgraced WS banker is a heck of a lot more lucrative than, say, being a successful and well-respected high school teacher, for instance.
Orange jumpsuits or it doesn’t count.
John Wright September 16, 2016 at 10:45 am
The DOJ must be surprised ungrateful DB does not appreciate prior US government largesse.
Per http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/16rescue.html
Titled “A.I.G. lists banks it paid with U.S bailout funds”
“Big foreign banks also received large sums from the rescue, including Société Générale of France and Deutsche Bank of Germany, which each received nearly $12 billion; Barclays of Britain ($8.5 billion); and UBS of Switzerland ($5 billion).”
As I remember, AIG was financially unable to pay the CDS it had underwritten and was in the process of negotiating haircuts with the banks owning the CDS contracts as AIG could not pay them in full.
Then Timothy Geithner stepped in and forced AIG, with newly received US government bailout funds, to pay the CDS off at 100%.
Truly a gift to the recipient banks from the US Government.
DB received about 12 billion, when without Geithner’s involvement, it might have been far less.
Maybe DB believes the US Government will fold again, even if it has a strong hand.
Kemal Erdogan September 16, 2016 at 10:50 am
A foreign bank publicly confronting US government is a sign that there is more at stake, probably at state level. I can’t fathom a private entity would go public over such an issue instead of silently making concessions and seeking friends among the bureaucrats.
This has smell of US flexing muscles and EU declaring not yielding. Will see soon if that is so if/when a US bank gets targeted by the European commission.
OpenThePodBayDoorsHAL September 16, 2016 at 3:07 pm
EU slaps Apple with a $14B fine, a few days later the U.S. slaps Deutsche with a fine of…$14B.
Real kids in the playground stuff.
No, you really have this wrong. Totally different government bodies. Apple’s fine was from the EU competition regulator, and was over a really indefensible special deal Ireland gave to Apple. Whacking a German bank is not gonna ruffle the feathers of any EU officials. German officials are a different matter.
Plus this case has been long in the making. The Obama administration is wrapping up the last of the crisis-related bank cases, and the foreign banks wound up at the end of the queue.
Kemal Erdogan September 18, 2016 at 6:13 am
The argument that these things long in the making is moot in my view as they can/do stop these cases if they deem necessary. Having seen all those wrongdoings on both sides, I can only view these actions as producing ammunition ready to use in case they are needed. And yes, I believe Europeans have the ability the coordinate actions of its various bodies; the treatment of Irish and Greek governments during the crisis is case examples of how at least three EU bodies coordinated their actions.
This fight started with US government fine of 8 billion on French bank BNP, probably because they wanted to make deals with Iran.
Huh? First, the IMF is not a “European body”.
Second, the ECB, IMF, and Eurozone members were all existing lenders to Ireland and Greece, hence they all had considerable skin in the game.
By contrast, there is no meaningful Eurozone level banking regulation (there were new rules implemented in January but they were widely criticized as being worse of all possible worlds and failing to achieve meaningful integration, or even a semi-credible deposit backstop). There is no reason to think France is gonna pump for Deutsche Bank. The ECB does not stick its nose in political matters unless it has political cover. And it does not have direct access to the DoJ. The way this will roll is at most Schauble will call Jack Lew.
And your remark about BNP says you are not even remotely up enough to comment on this topic. Iran was under sanctions. It was a clear violation of US law to do dollar transfers to them. If you do dollar transfers, you ultimately clear through the US, which means you are subject to US banking regs. So you act as if this was a political matter when it was a black letter law matter. Help me.
Stupendous Man - Defender of Liberty, Foe of Tyranny September 16, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Well, that flat out isn’t gonna happen. US Banks are beyond reproach.
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JimTan September 16, 2016 at 11:22 am
I’m not sure how firms are required to pay these fines, how much is due in cash, and where the cash comes from but Deutsche Bank’s equity (US market cap) is $18.2 Billion making this fine about 78% of their equity. I also think last year they had a $7 billion annual loss.
Gamesjon September 16, 2016 at 5:26 pm
How much of it is due in cash varies from settlement to settlement… you just have to read the terms of them and it will lay out how much is due in cash and how much is due in whatever other method may be used (have included things such as loan forgiveness, funding this or that project and/or educational campaign, repurchasing securities, etc…) As for where the cash comes from notice at the end of the first paragraph where it says the bank has 5.5b euros set aside in litigation reserves. There are stories at the beginning of a new quarter/year that one sees about this or that company adding x amount to their litigation reserves if they are facing lawsuits or regulatory penalties. Like in this story about that 6.8 billion euro loss last year you mentioned it mentions in the 5th paragraph how that was caused in part by the 1.2 billion euros they added to their litigation reserves.
Howard Beale IV September 16, 2016 at 11:38 am
Rumors are that DB is Trump’s main bank-maybe they’re kicking the can down until past election day?
Yves Smith Post author September 16, 2016 at 5:47 pm
That is ridiculous. Do not spread rumors. It discredits the site and confuses readers. I’m putting you in moderation over this.
It has been well reported that Trump does not have relations with any TBTF bank and he borrows mainly through a mid-sized lender than securitizes most of his loans. And separately, any NYC developer would be a third-tier client for a TBTF bank. Their best clients are private equity, overwhelmingly, followed by major multinationals.
Plus the DoJ has been working on mortgage settlements for a while and has been working though its list of outstanding banks. Deutsche was a particularly bad actor in mortgage-related CDOs, as we’ve written repeatedly over the years.
Synoia September 16, 2016 at 1:10 pm
Nice US banking License you have there. Pit is something happened to it.
Hayek's Heelbiter September 16, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Broken record here…Broken record here…
All roads in DB corruption lead back to the regime of Josef Ackermann (to the extent that “ackermannes” has become a German eponym for “banksters”).
And no doubt, once again, Herr Josef will skate free.
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but I cling tightly to the Roman aphorism about the coarseness of the mills of the gods.
human September 16, 2016 at 6:12 pm
The first thing that flashed in front of me when I read the beginning of the last paragraph, “Now this is an argument over price …”, was that old anecdote about “knowing what you are and now just haggling over the price.” How apropos.
Lune September 17, 2016 at 12:17 pm
DB is playing a very dangerous game.Generally speaking, the best strategy for a bank to get through this is to lay low, say “we don’t comment about ongoing investigations”, and use every backdoor channel (legal or illegal) to get the DOJ to reduce the figure and move on.
The general public has no love for big banks, and for foreign big banks, even less. The more publicity this deal gathers, the harder it will be for the DOJ to back down. And in an election year, they risk Clinton or Trump taking up the DOJ’s cause.
Right now, all this talk is only in the financial press, but once it leaks into the general public, it will be very easy for both Clinton and Trump to make DB the whipping boy to burnish their anti-Wall St. credentials. After all, they’re a foreign bank, they’ve had numerous other fines levied, and, in the eyes of the public, anything less than public beheading of the former CEO can easily be spun as letting the bank off too easy.
John Cryan may be spooked by an 8% drop in his stock price and calming nervous investors. He’s risking converting that into calming 12 angry men in a jury box (at least for his predecessors and some current execs). Does he really think awakening the general public in an election year will lead to a better outcome for his bank than dealing with this quietly with the typical Friday afternoon press release dump non-event?
JustWondering September 17, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Granted there is no investment treaty between the United States and Germany, but if there were, couldn’t the treatment of DB potentially be ripe for an ISDS claim? If the settlement offer doesn’t get whittled down to something approximating what the U.S. banks ended up with, would that look like discrimination? Is the $5.5B set-aside a reasonable expectation, based on how others were treated or signals during negotiations (similar to discrimination but a different claim)? Who knows, maybe there’s an interest out there with standing under one of the existing US treaties (a counterparty holding a derivative stake in the settlement?). Anyway, not sure if this is a typical fact pattern, but anytime a major bank or multinational complains about its treatment at the hands of the US government, seems some lawyer somewhere is billing someone to look for the claim (or threat of claim).
No, as I’ve indicated repeatedly, looking at the gross amount of activity (“DB did 75% of the mortgages that JP Morgan did, therefore its headline settlement number should be 75% of JP Morgan’s”) is bogus. When regulators impose fines, they look at the severity of the misconduct and the behavior of the miscreant during the investigation. Someone could have engaged in vastly worse conduct on smaller total activity, and/or stonewalled a ton (or fabricated records or had officials lie!) during the investigative process. And there is no way DB can know that, since the regulatory exams themselves are secret.
And the reasons ISDS has nothing to do with this is that this is a DoJ action. This is exactly like a private settlement process. 95% of threatened suits settle. If the settlement talks fail, the DoJ will go to court and sue DB. DB will be forced to pay whatever the court deems fitting based on the facts and law. I’m not sure what legal theories the DoJ will invoke, but they are pretty certain to include securities law theories and simple fraud. It is hard to argue that those laws are discriminatory AGAINST investors (the basis of ISDS claims) when they are designed to protect investors.
Not sure this explanation dispenses with the possibility of ISDS. An investor can bring an ISDS claim over treatment by the DOJ — the point would be that DOJ’s conduct would be judged according to the international rules and standards set out in the treaty. ISDS addresses “treatment” of a foreign investor or investment that is attributable to the host government, meaning govt actors or agents at any level (except where expressly carved out), and can include a series or collection of actions or omissions across gov instrumentalities and need not take a specific form.
Two interesting points raised here but not sure they rule out ISDS. First is whether, merely by negotiating and making an offer, DOJ has done anything actionable under the treaty or whether any conditions for exhaustion or remedies are satisfied. On the first issue, as noted “treatment” can be lots of things so not sure that as a matter of legal formality that would be a major hurdle — but as far as showing the treatment violates international obligations for purposes of this hypothetical, need to wait and see where DOJ lands. But that’s a merits issue, not a standing issue. On exhaustion — this is a long technical issue but the upshot is that DB probably would have options. The second point raised in the response is that every investigation is different and involves different facts and conduct, so DB can’t know if DOJ is applying a double standard. But that point, too, would seem to go to the merits of a claim and not to the ability to bring a claim in the first place. To allege discrimination (“national treatment”), DB would need to assert that its treatment was less favorable than DOJ’s treatment of U.S. investors in like circumstances (i.e., DOJ’s offers/negotiations/ etc., w/r/t banks in similar circumstances). Seems the different nature of the banks’ conduct would be highly relevant here — but we can only assume that if we know how these analyses play out, which I don’t. Point being that if DB can’t get DOJ down to a number that’s in the same ballpark as the other bank settlements, it seems it could at least allege discrimination — even if on the facts it’s a weak claim. Claimants also always allege failure to accord minimum standards of treatment and full protection and security. Again, not saying these would be good claims, just available claims — and claims that have nothing to do with the substance U.S. law per se, or with the ability of an international tribunal to “overrule” DOJ or replace U.S. adjudicators’ interpretation of U.S. law with its own, but rather have to do with whether in applying U.S. law — and in other interactions or actions w/r/t DB — the U.S. government’s treatment of DB satisfies U.S. international obligations in the applicable investment treaty. That’s the point — an ISDS tribunal is not judging U.S. law on its own terms, it is judging whether separate, independent international rules and standards are met, a critical distinction.
There was an NAFTA ISDS claim brought over the handling of a private contract dispute by a U.S. state court. The investor faced a large jury award and a large bond requirement for appeal, and so took a settlement. Two years later, the investor brought a NAFTA ISDS claim for discrimination, min standards of treatment, and expropriation, believing it had been mistreated by the court. Five yrs. later with the ISDS still going on, the investor sold the investment in bankruptcy proceedings to a US owner, which dissolved jurisdiction before a final decision was issued. The merits were an open question — with some observers believing it was tilting toward the claimant. Anyway, main point being, any action(s) attributable to the gov potentially implicates ISDS.
Thanks for the response. I appreciate the chance to think through these possibilities.
One clarification that occurs to me belatedly — in my hypothetical, the “investor” is Deutsche Bank, referring to its status under a (hypothetical) investment treaty (in reality there isn’t one, but would be under TTIP). Deutsche Bank would qualify as a German investment and would enjoy treaty protections vis a vis the United States. At issue in ISDS would be how DB (i.e., an “investment”) — or any holder of a treaty-recognized interest related to DB (i.e., an “investor”) — is “treated” by the U.S. government. The bank conduct at the heart of the investigation and settlement talks isn’t a first order issue — it’s relevance and import would be filtered through the lens of the investor’s claims, that is, how it weighs upon what Deutsche Bank (or any claimant) is trying to prove about its mistreatment. DB’s conduct would not have any relevance independent of how it pertains to legal conclusions about U.S. government conduct.
The speculation at the end of my first post about potential parties with derivative claims (which can imply a different notion of “investor”) is not meant to confuse things — merely searching for an example to illustrate the possibility that even now there may be a party of a nationality that DOES have treaty rights and could meet the standing requirements to bring an ISDS claim in respect of the DB settlement negotiations or outcome (may be a bad example, just trying to illustrated how complicated it can get). To be clear, I have no idea in this instance, simple point being that it’s not impossible, and the field of possible claimants with a potential claim arising from DOJ “treatment” accorded through the DB settlement is not necessarily known. Obviously ISDS would not permit claims seeking to hold the United States responsible for Deutsche Bank’s treatment of its own investors (the very conduct DOJ presumably would be alleging against DB under U.S. law). The focus, put bluntly, is whatever the U.S.G. did that cost someone money. Again — not to be misunderstood, I am not trying to say that based on what we know there is ISDS exposure (look, I opened by acknowledging no German treaty!). I am merely highlighting what is possible, because (1) in this area, what’s possible often comes to pass, or at least gets threatened which can have its own consequences, and (2) even critics of ISDS seem not to understand how widely it can apply.
Jim Thornton September 18, 2016 at 9:52 pm
True story: Deutsche Bank held our mortgage in a securitized note from 2000-2008.
When I lost my job and business, due to the financial crisis brought on by the overlevergaed banks. I applied for HAMP.
After 50+ plus phone calls, 46 letters-copies if information, and being told we were accepted, they pulled out without telling us and we lost our house.
In a moment of brevity the contact on the phone informed us the Deutsche Bank had not intention of honoring any HAMP modifications, and was forcing us into foreclosure (we short sold and had to pay the difference) so they could sell the house AND collect the HAMP money from the US government (read middle class taxpayers).
They should be closed down and thrown in jail, 14b on shareholders backs mean nothing.
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Nigerians in Ghana condemn attack on GIS personnel
The Accra Chapter of the Yoruba Community in Ghana has condemned the verbal attack by some Nigerians resident at Kasoa, on some personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) who were in the area to carry out their duty.
Due to this, the Accra Yoruba Community has called on the Ghana Police Service to arrest the law-breakers and punish them for their misconduct.
Captured in a video which has gone viral, scores of Nigerian youth based at Kasoa, Central Region, obstructed an official vehicle of the GIS and personnel from accessing a road to where the West African natives reside to carry out their official duty.
The Nigerian youth ranted and chanted, pouring unprintable words at the GIS personnel, who, eventually, turned away to their office.
The misconduct by the youth had been widely condemned by law-abiding aborigines of Ghana and foreigners, and latest to condemn the act is the Accra Chapter of the Yoruba Community.
Chief Oyeyemisola Fatuyi, chairman of the Accra Yoruba Community, said: “As law abiding citizens, well-meaning Nigerians dissociate themselves from such an obnoxious and primitive behaviour. We support the law enforcement agency to pursue the culprits and bring them to book.”
He reminded all Nigerians resident in Ghana that, Ghana remains a second home, as well as an investment destination to Nigerians.
In this regard, he said Nigerians are encouraged to be law-abiding citizens and ensure that they operate within the limits of the ECOWAS protocols.
The Yoruba Community pleaded with the Ghana Police Service not to let this bad conduct by the youth die, pointing out that punishment for crime must not be nepotistic.
“The Yoruba community appreciates the peaceful and cordial atmosphere in Ghana and will not condone any act of violence that will compromise that peace.
“We are happy to collaborate with the Nigerian High Commission and the relevant Law Enforcement Agencies to build a network that will expose any deviant who wishes to tarnish the image of Nigerians, as well as tamper with the peaceful atmosphere in Ghana.
“We call on our All Nigerian Community Executives (ANC) and leaders to restructure that body that joins all Nigerians in foreign land to become more effective,” Chief Fatuyi, who is also a Peace Ambassador, said.
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Film-document №5383 4 parts, Duration: 0:38:42, Black-white to collection Price category A
Director: Kristi A., Repnikov S.
Script writers: Braslavskiy L.
Operators: Akkuratov E., Artseulov O., Bgancev I., Kopalin B., Maksimov L., Mikhaylov L., Mikheev I., Tsitron B., Shlykov N.
Anouncers: Khmara L.
Film about 49-day drift of Soviet soldiers in the open ocean and rescue helicopter pilots of an American aircraft carrier.
The crew barge T-36: Junior Sergeant A. Ziganshin, series A. Kryuchkovsky, F. Poplawski, Fedotov, to perform military service on the Kuril Islands, the hurricane turned out to be a stormy Pacific Ocean. Helicopters, border boats, wireless operators are searching for a soldier in the Pacific Ocean. Drawings in the film reveal a challenge for 49-day drift of Soviet soldiers in the open ocean and rescue helicopter pilots of an American aircraft carrier. The rescued soldiers at the American aircraft carrier. Press conferences in San Francisco, New York, the suburban villa of the Soviet Embassy in Glen Cove (near New York) take guests: Soviet citizens working in New York, the children of embassy staff. Newspaper reports of heroism and courage of Soviet soldiers, letters, telegrams of congratulations. Guests relatives in the homes of parents: A. Ziganshina in the Kuibyshev region, A. Kryuchkovskogo, F. Poplavskiy in Ukraine, I. Fedotova in the Khabarovsk Krai. Fedotov, located in New York, said by phone from his wife Irina. Seeing the characters from New York to France on an American ocean liner "Queen Mary". | cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1345352 |
__label__cc | 0.613461 | 0.386539 | Climate change: what is eco-anxiety and what can we do about it?
Therapists are noticing an increase in patients feeling overwhelmed about climate change.
By Abigail Malbon
Have you ever felt stressed about climate change? Worried about how much plastic you’re using, or panicked about increased water usage? Has it left you lying awake in bed at night, or frantically Googling the effects of global warming? If so, you could be suffering with eco-anxiety, and you wouldn’t be alone.
Described by Psychology Today as ‘a fairly recent psychological disorder afflicting an increasing number of individuals who worry about the environmental crisis,’ eco-anxiety is likely to stem from an increase in news headlines about climate change, along with an obvious shift in temperatures and weather patterns. This, combined with more talk about our personal impact on the world, is leading to millions of people feeling stressed about the future of the planet.
Since it’s a fairly new problem, no stats are available on the prevalence of eco-anxiety. However, many psychologists and therapists are noting an increase in patients seeking help for their stress. We speak to Roxana Rudzik-Shaw, psychologist and counsellor, and Hilda Burke, UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist, couples counsellor and author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, who both say they've seen more clients seeking reassurance over climate change.
What is eco-anxiety?
Rudzik-Shaw says: ‘Individuals experiencing anxiety about the changing and deteriorating state of the world we live in may present with anxiety or stress, worry, guilt, overwhelm, panic, uncertainty, powerlessness, pessimism, rumination and sleep issues, to name a few examples.
"With the prevalence of natural disasters, it is unsurprising that individuals may be experiencing psychological distress."
‘With the prevalence of natural disasters, which include extreme weather events such as drought, floods and famine, and few solutions to address an environmental crisis on a global scale, it is unsurprising that individuals may be experiencing psychological distress.’
A 2017 report from the American Psychological Association on the impacts of climate change on mental health describes eco-anxiety as: 'a chronic fear of environmental doom'.
It notes that some people are 'deeply affected by feelings of loss, helplessness and frustration due to their inability to feel like they are making a difference in stopping climate change.'
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Who is suffering from eco-anxiety?
‘In my private counselling practice, I have noticed an increase amongst millennials in particular who are already afflicted with mild-moderate anxiety, experience the vulnerability and helplessness of eco-anxiety when considering the future,' Rudzik-Shaw says. 'This may be heightened due to the rise of the internet, social media and popular culture in general reporting natural disasters. We know that some individuals experience vicarious traumatisation on hearing about a tsunami or flood on the news, for example.’
Burke has also noticed a shift in eco topics being discussed. ‘I have noticed an increasing number of clients expressing anxiety over the state of the planet, and indeed its survival,’ she says.
‘What's interesting to note is that this anxiety is rarely an isolated one but often mentioned in connection with Brexit, poverty or race/gender inequality. Often the client expressing such anxiety feels helpless and disempowered, a sense of 'what can I do as one single person' to make a difference?'
What's it like to suffer with eco-anxiety?
23-year-old Ellie, from London, says her eco-anxiety began when the video of a sea turtle having plastic straws removed from his nostrils went viral online.
‘I hadn't realised how badly polluted the ocean was,’ she explains. ‘My brother was studying marine zoology at university at the time and he brought home quite a few details about the effects of plastic pollution on marine animals. As I'm an animal lover and also suffer generalised anxiety disorder (unknown at the time) it affected me quite a lot.
"Going zero-waste has really helped to alleviate some of the guilt about the environment."
‘I had anxiety dreams about it, many of them I can't remember but things like drowning at sea and being locked in my flat because of piles of plastic. I also started feeling tremendous guilt whenever I used plastic items like straws, takeaway cups, disposable cutlery etc.’
Ellie looked for alternative ways to use plastic to ease her guilt, and ended up finding out about ‘zero-waste living’.
‘I first discovered it via YouTube with Kate Arnell based in London and other YouTubers across the globe,’ she says. ‘Through this, I learnt about zero-waste stores that offer plastic-free items like reusable cutlery, bamboo toothbrushes, refillable cleaning supplies etc.
'Going zero-waste has really helped to alleviate some of the guilt about the environment and the current rate of pollution and climate change. And my going zero-waste has helped others, such as my parents and friends, look at their own levels of pollution and find alternative ways to combat their waste.’
How are therapists treating eco-anxiety?
With such a huge problem looming, and no real answers, what can be done if someone is suffering with eco-anxiety?
‘I try to explore ways that they could feel empowered, how they could get involved to shape change, whether it's joining an action group or just becoming more conscious of how they can personally act in a way that helps the planet,’ says Burke. ‘Often taking steps - however small - to affect change can help to ease their anxiety and sense of helplessness.'
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What can individuals do to help ease eco-anxiety?
According to Anxiety UK, more than 1 in 10 British adults are likely to experience a 'disabling anxiety disorder' during the course of their life. While this doesn’t refer specifically to eco-anxiety, some of the coping techniques remain the same. These include:
✔️ Breathing exercises
✔️ Getting enough sleep
✔️ Taking time out
✔️ Exercising
✔️ Focusing on the present
Individuals worried about their effect on the planet may also alleviate anxiety symptoms by beginning to make positive changes in their life; such as reducing plastic usage, making conscious choices about the way they travel and consuming energy carefully. It may also help to talk about climate change further with family, friends and colleagues.
If you are feeling anxious or depressed and you need some support, try one of the following resources:
✔️ Anxiety UK: a charity which specifies in helping those suffering from anxiety.
✔️ The Samaritans: a charity providing support to anyone in emotional distress.
✔️ Mind: a charity that makes sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone.
✔️ CALM: helping to reduce stigma and reduce rates of male suicide.
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Sharing faith with Saturday shoppers in Dereham
A small group of Christians are heading into Dereham’s town centre on Saturday afternoons to pray for shoppers and introduce people to God, with some amazing outcomes. Jenny Seal reports.
Former London City Missionary Alex Milne, his wife Astrid and their four children moved from East London to Swanton Morley, a village in Mid Norfolk, in the summer of 2014.
A passionate evangelist, as well as a driving instructor and a Town Pastor, Alex started going out on the streets of Dereham on a Saturday afternoon to pray for people and to chat to anyone interested in knowing about Jesus.
His wife, Astrid, their sixteen year old daughter Lizzy, a Russian friend and sometimes a few others from the Fountain of Life Church and Wellspring Family Church in Dereham join Alex.
The team, which is backed and prayed for by the Fountain of Life Church in Ashill, which the Milne family attend, can be found on the streets of Dereham three out of four Saturdays each month from 1.30pm-3.30pm. Their ministry on the streets has led to various encouraging encounters.
Alex tells about a man the team came across one Saturday in early November, after having prayed for him a couple of weeks earlier. Alex said: “We often bump into him. The man said to us: ‘here’s my medical report’ and I looked at the medical report and it said, ‘it has resolved itself’. We had prayed for him a couple of weeks before because he had lung cancer.”
Alex also recalls praying for a lady with arthritis in her hand. He said: “We prayed and then she walked away and then she came back wiggling her fingers, saying, “I couldn’t do this before”.”
“We have prayed for a lot of young people,” Alex said. “Skateboarders often have accidents. They tell their friends, ‘he healed my ankle’, but we tell them that it is Jesus who healed them.”
“We can’t say we’ve seen everyone be healed. But the more we pray, the more we see. I’m looking forward to seeing more. What inspired me was YouTube ‘Healing on the Streets’ videos. In the New Testament they preached the Gospel and healed the sick, and that inspired me to go down that road.”
On the second Sunday of each month, the group meets for training and prayer. Astrid said: “Alex encourages us in sharing our faith, talks us through how to do a Discovery Bible Study and things like that. Our emphasis is on being equipped to tell others.”
Alex explains: “Going out on the streets we will ask a person the question: “May we ask you a question? That’s the opening, and if they say yes, then we ask them: “if you could know God as your friend, would you be interested?’. And some people say, ‘yes’ and some people say, ‘no, thank you’. And if they say yes, we share our testimony and the Gospel. And then we also ask the question, “are you in any pain?” and if so we pray for healing. And we have found that the more we do it, the more we grow in it.”
Alex uses resources taught by Steve Addison, who is the founder of Christian mission agency MOVE and has a website called movements.net. Steve teaches about sharing the Gospel through ‘Three Circles evangelism’ and discipling through ‘Discovery Bible Studies’.
Alex said: “We want to make disciples who make disciples. We would like to see a disciple making movement. And we are looking for people of peace. These are God prepared people, people who would like to look further into the Christian faith, people who would like to share with their friends.”
Astrid has recently led a Discovery Bible Study, in the town centre, with a mum of five children that she met on the street and Lizzy, their daughter, is leading a Discovery Bible Study with non-Christians in Dereham Sixth Form College where she is currently studying.
Lizzy Milne, Alex and Astrid’s daughter, joined the team after an awakening of faith when she was 14.
Lizzy tells of how in 2016 a South African lady, working in Eckling Grange, came to the family home for a meal and prayed individually for the children. Lizzy said: “She spoke some prophetic words over us – I can’t really remember much of what she said, but my life changed from that moment onwards. Before I wasn‘t interested in God and definitely wouldn’t go out on the streets. Gradually I wanted to read the Bible for myself, and go to church, not because my parents wanted me to but because I wanted to. God became real for me and I started following Jesus myself.
“And then a few months after that I decided to join my parents who were already going out onto the streets of Dereham, praying for people and telling people about Jesus, and I decided I could join them. But for the first six months I didn’t really say anything – I just kind of watched while they did all the talking but then gradually God helped me grow in confidence and I started taking part.”
Alex and Lizzy agree they have different styles of talking with people on the streets. While Alex is keen to pray, Lizzy prefers to ask questions, but both share the same challenges.
Lizzy said: “Sometimes it is quite hard when we ask them a question and they may have misconceptions so they brush past quite rudely.”
Alex agrees: “Yes, it does hurt you if you ask someone ‘if you could know GOD as your friend, would you be interested?’ and they say no, it does make you feel a bit sad. The way we approach it is that we are looking for people who are interested and if they are not interested then we just say ‘God bless you’ or say ‘Have a good day’.
He continues enthusiastically: “But there are people that are interested, and it is such a joy when you find people who would like to know God personally. One young person asked me, “Why has no one ever told me this before?” and I remember apologising on behalf of the church for failing to go out and tell people”.
“What we hope to do is not just share the Good News and pray for healing, that is the starting point. We want to see a disciple making movement and see many Discovery Bible Studies and missional communities established. We are very much at the beginning, but from acorns oak trees grow. We believe God’s on the move. Jesus said, “Go and make disciples...” and we are going in obedience to his command.”
If you would like to join Alex, Astrid, Lizzy and their team to share your faith on the streets of Dereham you would be very welcome. You can contact Alex on aaemilne@uwclub.net or 07946 287 283.
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__label__wiki | 0.935481 | 0.935481 | Saturn magnetises its moon Titan
Space 11 September 2008
By Rachel Courtland
Cassini imaged the many layers of Titan’s upper atmosphere in this ultraviolet image, which has been adjusted to look like true colour
(Image: NASA/JPL/SSI)
A Cassini flyby has shown Titan’s atmosphere is magnetised by Saturn. In this image, Titan is the brownish moon above the rings
(Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
Saturn’s moon Titan is temporarily magnetised by encounters with its host planet, a recent Cassini flyby shows. The new find could help researchers understand the ultimate fate of Titan’s atmosphere. It may also help reveal whether Titan hides a salty ocean beneath its surface.
Titan’s atmosphere is a thick soup of nitrogen, as well as hydrocarbons like methane. It is thought to be very similar to the early Earth.
But researchers don’t know how much of its atmosphere is gradually escaping into space. Like Mars, Titan seems to lack a strong intrinsic magnetic field that would protect its atmosphere from being stripped away by the solar wind – a stream of charged particles from the Sun.
It does, however, spend 95% of its time within Saturn’s magnetosphere, an oblong region of ionised gas, or plasma, surrounding the Ringed Planet. The plasma is made up of material jettisoned from the moon Enceladus, which spews icy geysers into space.
Saturn’s magnetosphere may help shield Titan from the solar wind. But it also strongly influences the magnetic fields in the moon’s atmosphere, making it difficult to discern whether Titan has its own intrinsic field.
So researchers have been hoping to study Titan when its orbit takes it outside of the magnetosphere, whose boundary flaps around in space.
Magnetic memory
After 31 close fly-bys of the moon, the Cassini spacecraft finally flew through Titan’s upper atmosphere at a time when the moon had edged out of the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
The encounter, which took place on 13 June 2007, showed that Titan’s atmosphere actually retains a memory of the magnetic field of the plasma that surrounds Saturn. This memory might last for as long as 3 hours.
“It’s surprising that it stays there that long,” says team member Andrew Coates of University College London. “Over long time scales, this could really help us understand how planetary atmospheres evolve.”
Titan’s temporary emergence fully exposes the moon to the solar wind. But the temporary magnetisation of the moon’s atmosphere, which produces a draped sheath of magnetic field lines, might protect it from substantial losses.
Inner ocean
The new work could help advance future efforts to discern the interior magnetic field of Titan, says Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not associated with the study.
Such an investigation might begin as early as August 2009, when Saturn will reach equinox in its orbit around the Sun, and its rings will appear edge-on to Earth observers.
The solar wind will then stream into the planet from a different angle. And that will reverse the direction of the magnetic fields induced in Titan’s atmosphere by Saturn’s magnetosphere, Russell told New Scientist.
By subtracting flyby data taken then from older data, researchers might be able to determine the strength of Titan’s intrinsic magnetic field – assuming Cassini’s extended mission lasts for another year.
This could reveal more information about the composition of Titan’s interior. It might, for example, reveal whether Titan hides a salty, electrically conducting ocean beneath its icy surface – a possibility suggested by recent measurements of the moon’s spin rate.
Journal reference: Science (vol 321, p 1475)
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Saturday, Jan 11 @ 7:30pm: God's Necklace by Morgan Trant Kinally
Sunday, Jan 12 @ 12:00pm: Workshop: "Creating Art for Impact: Partnering with Non-Profits to Develop, Produce, & Promote Your Play" moderated by Josh Gershick, So. California Regional Representative, Dramatists Guild.
Sunday, Jan 12 @ 2:00pm: Live from Folsom Prison by Tom Steward
The Ghosts from the Pali
by Roy Sekigahama
Directed by Albert Park
Reading: Friday, Jan 10 @ 7:30pm
About the Play: Dennis, a 12-year old from California, is unhappy about moving to Kaneohe, Hawaii in 1969. Spammy, a local boy tells Dennis his apartment is haunted by a ghost who hates haoles (Caucasians from the mainland). Kimo, Spammy’s older brother, bullies Dennis into believing that the Gods are angry at his family who are disrespectful to Hawaiian beliefs and customs.
About the Playwright: Roy Sekigahama began writing in a Playwright Project workshop. His first short play Face the Music won third prize in Scripteaser’s annual Short Play Competition in 2016. His first full-length play, A Desert Rock Garden was chosen for a reading in New Village Arts’ 2019 Final Draft New Play Festival. Subsequently, NVA received a grant from the California State Civil Liberties Program for a full production. Stuck in the Closet won Honorable Mention in Scripteaser’s 2019 annual short play contest and The Purple Swastika was a semi-finalist in the JCC’s annual 5-minute play contest in 2018.
Separateland
by Cynthia Ochoa
Directed by Frankie Alicea-Ford
Reading: Saturday, Jan 11 @ 2:00pm
About the Play: Far away from their land and separated from their parents and families under the “Zero Tolerance” policy by the current administration, four immigrant children who are being held in a detention facility of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under in-human and horrific conditions, encounter each other for the first time. Together, Griselda, Fabio, Mario, and Paco will learn the meaning of resilience, friendship, hope, faith, and the realities of a deplorable, corrupt, and rotten system.
About the Playwright: Cynthia is a senior at UCSD, where she is majoring in theatre. Her passion for the arts flourished as an actor, and most recently through playwriting. While at Southwestern College she earned various awards including the Student of Distinction Award for the Theatre Department in 2016, the highest honor available for students. Cynthia’s passion for theatre was also recognized with the Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship in 2018, which allowed her to transfer and continue her career at UCSD. Cynthia was recently nominated by the Theatre department at UCSD to the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for her play “Separateland”. Cynthia is a proud immigrant and believes that art must be a vehicle for social change.
God’s Necklace
by Morgan Trant Kinnally
Directed by Joy Jones
About the Play: Two Nuer women in South Sudan flee Juba after President Kiir’s armed guard begins killing Nuer civilians door-to-door in December 2013. Three years later in Kakuma Refugee Camp, they are chosen for resettlement in San Diego, California. They struggle with culture shock and how to present their traditional Nuer woman marriage to their American volunteer, Roberta. With the help of Roberta, a chainsaw-wielding arborist from Alpine, the women learn the preciousness of love, friendship, and culture.
About the Playwright: Morgan Trant Kinnally is a California-based playwright and educator. Her work has been presented by THML/Moxie Arts NYC, Ion Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, Scripps Ranch Theatre’s New Works Studio, Theatre for the New City, For a Better Understanding of Mankind, Midwest Dramatists Conference, and Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She is a Eugene O’Neill and Princess Grace Award semifinalist and a finalist in Leah Ryan Emerging Women Writers, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation Festival, and Pride Films & Plays' LezPlay Contest. Dramatists Guild Member. B.F.A. in Theatre/Acting from NY State University at Buffalo. She teaches English and creative writing at Bayfront Charter High School in Chula Vista, CA.
Live at Folsom Prison
by Tom Steward
Directed by Ben Yalom
Reading: Sunday, Jan 12 @ 2:00pm
About the Play: Batshelder and Matlock are inmates at Folsom Prison confined to a cell during the two shows performed at the penitentiary by Johnny Cash on January 10, 1968. Unable to hear the concert on the prison PA system, they pass the time whittling, reminiscing, dreaming about the future, singing, and trying to go to the bathroom. Visits from Cash’s dazed manager Holiff and a sadistic prison guard only complicate their lives further – as does the disappearance and reappearance of their furniture – and they begin to doubt their own identities as the futile, brutal and illogical nature of their situation hits them.
About the Playwright: Tom Steward is a writer, actor and producer. His plays have been produced in San Diego County by New Play Café, Lamplighters Theatre, Onstage Playhouse and Theatre Arts West and in New York by Navigators Theatre. Tom wrote and performed the solo show One Man Bond and co-wrote and produced Space Force! for The San Diego International Fringe Festival. He has performed regularly at theatres across San Diego Country, including New Village Arts and Scripps Ranch Theatre. Tom is also the founder of Lonesome Whistle Productions, a theatre company dedicated to developing innovative solo theatre, stage auteurs and new playwriting.
Workshop: Creating Art for Impact: Partnering with Non-Profits to Develop, Produce & Promote Your Play
Moderated by Josh Gershick, So. California Regional Representative, Dramatists Guild
Sunday, Jan 12, 12-1:30pm
Southern California playwrights, there is money and opportunity all around to help you develop, promote and produce your play: Non-profit organizations and community agencies are interested & invested in themes found in your scripts. You can write a show that helps them highlight key issues. Come learn how local playwrights have partnered with city, regional and state organizations and agencies to create good work and serve specific community needs.
Panelists include Playwright Aleta Barthell, "The Great Smelly Slobbery Small Tooth Dog" – City of Carlsbad/National Foundation for Autism Research/Sahm Foundation/Nordson Foundation; Kent Brisby, artistic director, Asian Story Theater; Playwright Thelma Virata de Castro, "The Fire in Me" – Creative Catalyst Fund/California Humanities; and Playwright Herbert Siguenza, "El Henry" – San Diego Rep/Mellon Foundation. The event moderator is Josh Gershick, Southern California Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild.
We’ll also discuss new festivals and contests for playwrights and launch the Dramatists Guild’s End of Play challenge for San Diego playwrights. Presenters include Charles Peters of the Out on a Limb Festival; Susan Benninghoff of Scripteasers; Steven Oberman of Local Flavor Play Readings; and playwright & festival veteran Tori Rice.
This colloquium, free and open to DG members and all playwrights interested in the Guild, is part of NVA’s Final Draft New Play Festival.
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__label__wiki | 0.563566 | 0.563566 | Robert A. Moskowitz
http://www.RobertMoskowitz.com
Robert A. Moskowitz has been a professional writer since 1968, writing on a wide range of news and cultural topics for dozens of popular magazines, authoring a dozen or more books and book-length works, and coaching other writers on how to strengthen their word-power and hone their style.
He is the author of How To Organize Your Work and Your Life, a Fortune Book Club selection, and also of Parenting Your Aging Parents, a classic in the field based on interviews with thousands of families dealing with quality of life issues. His bylined articles have appeared in dozens of national magazines.
Among Mr. Moskowitz’s other published works are books and book-length projects about financial planning and investment, computers, and knowledge management. He also won an Emmy for his writing and on-air work in KOCE-TV’s series on personal finance: ”Dollars and $ense.”
Books by Robert A. Moskowitz
How to Organize Your Work and Your Life
Parenting Your Aging Parents: How to Protect Their Quality of Life, and Yours!
Book Reviews by Robert A. Moskowitz
Scott Bittle
Business, Investing & Economics, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Economics, Business, Investing & Economics, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Economics, Business, Investing & Economics, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Economics, Business, Investing & Economics, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Economics, Economics, Business & Management Profiles/Histories, Business, Investing & Economics
Where Did the Jobs Go—And How Do We Get Them Back? Your Guided Tour to America’s Employment Crisis
“. . . Where Did the Jobs Go is nothing like a prescription for fixing America’s jobs problem, regardless of the subtitle’s promise (And How Do We Get Them Back?).
Bob Frisch,
Business, Investing & Economics, Human Resources, Management & Leadership, Business, Investing & Economics, Human Resources, Management & Leadership, Business, Investing & Economics, Management & Leadership, Human Resources
Who’s in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them
Frances Kay, Neilson Kite
Psychology, Popular, Self, Psychology, Self, Popular
Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Boosting Your EQ and Using It in the Workplace
“All this—and there’s plenty more, replete with examples and case studies—makes Understanding Emotional Intelligence a comprehensive source of insight and information for people wh
Simon Fairlie
Cooking, Food, Wine & Spirits
In the interests of full disclosure, let me say that I enjoy a good hamburger, and I love to cook— and eat—spareribs.
Thomas A. Freese
Sell Yourself First: The Most Critical Element in Every Sales Effort
Sell Yourself First is two books in one, both good.
Josh Kaufman
Marketing, Management & Leadership, Small Businesses
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Full disclosure: This book intentionally debunks the value of an MBA degree. While I do not have such a degree, both my sons have MBAs from Stanford University (paid for by themselves).
Business, Investing & Economics
Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done
There’s an old saw in the world of business management, which goes something like this: “Faster, Cheaper, Better . . . you can have any two, but not all three.”
David Siteman Garland
Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-Free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business
Chris Widener
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Leadership Rules: How to Become the Leader You Want to Be
There’s not much to this book. It’s primarily sizzle. And instead of steak, we get a hamburger—which is not a criticism. I personally like hamburger, and I like the material in this book.
Ann Handley
Computing, Technology & the Internet
Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (New Rules Social Media Series)
Unless you’ve been living on another planet for the past few years, you know that social media and social marketing are now the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread.
Scott R. Singer
How to Hit a Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business
This isn’t a great book. That’s not to say it’s useless. It has value, like a recipe for mashed potatoes or buttermilk pancakes.
Adrian Gostick
The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization
There are many ways to parse the sources of success in this world.
John Badalament
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The Modern Dad's Dilemma: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids in a Rapidly Changing World
Being a dad is just about the easiest thing in the world. It’s merely a matter of placing some sperm in the right place at the right time.
Clutch: Excel Under Pressure
Although there are many other fields in which it matters, sports is probably the most obvious and most widely recognized area of human endeavor in which clutch performance is observed, studied, and
About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising
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__label__wiki | 0.774657 | 0.774657 | I'm so excited about this news! And you? What's your opinion about?
Niccolò Santambrogio
Skateboarding, along with baseball, karate and surfing, are all under consideration for the 2020 Games
Olympic organizers have proposed adding five new sports to the Tokyo games in 2020, including skateboarding.
While the Olympic committee debates which ones will make the cut—their final decision will come in August 2016—skateboarding’s biggest name is weighing in.
Tony Hawk told TIME that if skateboarding were to become an Olympic event it would bring a new relevancy to the sport that Hawk himself helped legitimize by attracting the public’s eye. Though skateboarders compete in the X Games, a broader audience tunes into the Summer Olympics every four years.
“It is exciting that skateboarding could possibly be included in the Olympics,” he told TIME. “This is not only a great opportunity for our sport and the skaters, but also for the Games. It is now more important than ever to preserve the unique culture of skateboarding which makes our sport so appealing and relevant.”
Baseball and softball, karate, sport climbing and surfing are all also under consideration by the Olympic committee.
To all those who are skeptical about skateboarding as a sport, well...It certaintly keeps you very active and has lots of beneficial effects for your...
Wanna know more about my lifestyle? Just check out this cool interview I did with Inspatime.com!
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__label__wiki | 0.657241 | 0.657241 | Morgan O'Neill
Visit Morgan O'Neill's Web Site.
Author: Morgan O'Neill
Two authors writing as one, Cary Morgan Frates and Deborah O'Neill Cordes specialize in recreating pivotal moments in history, epic adventure, and romance—with a time travel twist.
Ever Crave the Rose - The Elizabethan Time Travel Series Book 2
Number: B071P72MJS
Tags: * Romance: Speculative / PNR, * Romance: Historical
Publisher: Time's Arrow Productions TM
London 2014?Catherine Howard stumbles upon the tomb of her granddaughter, Anne Howard Brandon, who'd been swept back through time. Horrorstruck, she discovers Anne was murdered in the year 1562. Elizabethan England 1562?Dr. Jonathan Brandon, Anne's husband, pens a desperate message to Catherine, which gives the details of his wife's kidnapping and murder, and the plea to "find a way to undo this!"
Upon discovering the ancient letter, Catherine calls on a time-traveling priest, Father Daniel, to rescue her precious granddaughter. But journeying back to the sixteenth century is a dangerous undertaking, the life and death risks sobering and real. Will Daniel survive? Can anyone thwart the evil that threatens Anne, or is the timeline immutable, her fate sealed? Daniel calls upon the forces of heaven and earth?including a secret Vatican society of time travelers?to aid in this quest. Will they be able to help? Can they change the course of history? Will time rewind?
Begun by Time - The Prequel to The Elizabethan Time Travel Series
Number: B0725JGWH2
Tags: * Romance: Historical
In the final days of World War II, Catherine Hastings meets the man she wants to marry. Flight surgeon Jonathan Brandon isn't just handsome?he's everything Catherine could hope for in her betrothed. But her dream of a happily ever after is shattered when Jonnie vanishes before their wedding, leaving Catherine bereft, broken-hearted, and with a lifetime of unanswered questions.
Arthur Howard is smitten with the lovely Catherine the moment he sees her. He's certain he's found the woman he wants to marry. Yet behind Catherine's sparkling green eyes is a haunted look?the look of a woman who has known loss. Can he love a woman who still grieves the loss of her fiancé? Arthur must find answers to the mystery surrounding the man Catherine intended to marry. What he discovers is a truth far stranger than fiction.
The Thornless Rose - The Elizabethan Time Travel Series Book 1
Number: B06ZXWHWT8
Tags: * Romance: Speculative / PNR, * Romance: Historical, #FirstInaSeries
What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945? Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free will, seeking another life?
American teacher Anne Howard is stunned by a different explanation that her British grandmother’s long-lost fiancé was unwillingly wrenched back through time, to Elizabethan England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense until she is handed a fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over four hundred years! And then, when the impossible happens and Anne journeys back to 1560 London, she must somehow survive encounters with royal enemies, accusations of witchcraft and the possibility of never returning home.
In the midst of the chaos, she meets Brandon. Drawn into the perilous web of Elizabethan court life, they must confront their growing feelings for each other, complicated by poignant familial ties, while struggling with the shared danger of knowing what the future holds.
Love, Eternally - Roman Time Travel Series, #1
Number: B00TRQESOM
A witch's ancient curse propels talented flutist Gigi Perrin back to A.D. 408, to the court of the depraved Roman Emperor Honorius and his admirable sister, Princess Galla Placidia.
There, Gigi grapples with her disbelief about what has happened, and with the strange, new world of violent politics, social upheaval, and Visigoth barbarians straining at the very gates of an empire.
Through it all, she must struggle with her powerful attraction to a pagan senator and military commander, Quintus Magnus, a man exotically different from anyone she has ever known. On the brink of a dark and war-torn age, Gigi joins forces with Magnus, battling to save a princess and her people, and ultimately finding love amid the chaos, before the fall of Rome.
The Roman Time Travel Series needs to be read in order. (Love, Eternally / After the Fall / Return to Me)
After the Fall - Roman Time Travel Series, #2
Number: B00TQJJ0HK
After the Fall ratchets up the tension as time traveler Gigi Perrin and her husband, the Roman warrior Quintus Magnus, join forces with the Visigoth King Alaric to march on Rome. There waits Princess Galla Placidia, the admirable sister of the despicable Emperor Honorius. About to be forced into an arranged marriage by her brother, Placidia fears a bleak future, trapped in a loveless union.
In an attempt to save Rome from barbarian invasion, Placidia puts aside her troubles and meets with Alaric's delegation, which includes Gigi and Magnus, and the king's second-in-command, the Visigoth prince, Athaulf. The attraction between Placidia and Athaulf is instantaneous and overwhelming, but theirs is a forbidden love, destined to fail because of implacable politics and impending war.
Bound by a friendship that transcends time, Gigi and Placidia must do whatever they can to protect the men they love, after the fall of Rome.
Return to Me - Roman Time Travel Series, #3
Number: B00TQJVG9A
Return to Me finds time traveler Gigi Perrin happily settled into twenty-first century life with her husband, the former Roman senator and military commander, Quintus Magnus. Gigi has resumed her successful musical career, playing the flute for her adoring fans, while making her first foray into Hollywood by creating the musical score for a feature film about the Roman emperor Nero.
At the film’s wrap party, Gigi is presented with a gift to commemorate her work: an ancient Roman ring depicting the goddess Victoria. Stunned, she and Magnus recognize it as the very ring that brought them together, and the one subsequently stolen from her and lost in A.D. 410. How did it make its way back to them? Magnus believes the answer is clear; Victoria sent it as a warning about their dear friend, Princess Galla Placidia. They start researching what happened to Placidia after Gigi and Magnus time traveled from the barbarous fifth century. To their shock, they discover Placidia's life took a series of terrible turns, culminating with the murders of her children.
Realizing they have no other choice, Gigi and Magnus prepare to embark on a perilous quest to go back in time and rescue them. But one ominous question remains – how can they save the children without altering the course of history?
The Other Side of Heaven - Italian Time Travel Series, #1
Number: B00NPC9YMA
Californian Gwendolyn Godwyn seeks to learn her family’s history and hopes to restore the bond that once existed between her Italian forebearers and those who live in America. While visiting her ancestral Italian town, Gwen is caught in a violent earthquake and inexplicably thrust through time.
At first refusing to believe what has happened, she nevertheless uses her wits to survive, donning a monk’s cowl to hide her identity as a woman. Ripped apart from all she has ever known, Gwen finds herself in the midst of brutal territorial battles in an era she once blithely called “The Dark Ages.” When the golden Italian summer of 951 emerges from the strife and gloom, Gwen joins forces with a cadre of gallant men, allies in the struggle against the evil nobles, Willa of Tuscany and Count Berengar, kidnappers of Italy’s rightful queen, Adelaide.
Along with Father Warinus and Lord Alberto Uzzo, Gwen seeks to rescue Adelaide and restore her kingdom. In the midst of this great adventure, Gwen falls in love with the complex and passionate Alberto, to whom she reveals her identity as a woman. But can Alberto learn to love her strong and independent nature and help Gwen in her quest to discover her rightful place in time? (Sensuality Level: Sensual)
This is the first in a series that needs to be read in order. Book two is: Time Enough for Love.
Time Enough for Love - Italian Time Travel Series, #2
Number: B00NPCGH34
Through dark magic, Californian Gwendolyn Godwyn has been swept back in time to medieval Italy. There, she finds herself in the midst of a war between Italy’s rightful queen, Adelaide, and those who have kidnapped her and seek to usurp her crown. Risking her life, Gwen elects to play a pivotal role in the planned rescue. In the midst of the chaos, she is drawn to the queen’s champion, Lord Alberto Uzzo, who battles not only their military foes, but also his personal demons. Tested to the limit when he discovers Gwen’s true identity as a time traveler, Alberto nevertheless fights through his doubt and the whirl of superstition that surrounds this intriguing and strong-willed woman. Time is of the essence as the lovers seek to overcome the evil forces rallying against the queen they’ve vowed to save. Will Gwen and Alberto be able to overcome the groundswell of danger to find time enough for love?
Stands Alone: NO - Read book 1: The Other Side of Heaven first.
Ever Crave the Rose
Begun by Time
The Thornless Rose
Love, Eternally
After the Fall
Time Enough for Love
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Posted Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:00 am
By Matt Keeton
WEST BRANCH — The Ogemaw County Board of Commissioners voted to hire the Michigan Municipal League at an approximate cost of $21,000 to conduct a hiring search for an administrator to oversee county departments during their Thursday, Nov. 14 meeting.
The commissioners voted 3-1 in favor of the measure, with Commissioner Ron Vaughn casting the dissenting vote. Commissioner Chairman Bruce Reetz was absent from the meeting.
The commissioners also voted 3-1 to approve the payment of $950 for annual membership to the MML and to approve the hiring of an interim county administrator utilizing assistance from the MML. Vaughn supplied the lone dissent in each of those votes as well.
The Herald reported in October that MML Executive Recruiter Jerry Richards gave a presentation on the league’s hiring services at the Oct. 24 commissioners meeting, which included building a digital brochure for the position, creating an advertising strategy and reviewing and screening the list of initial candidates drawn from a national search.
Richards said the league will typically come up with three to four candidates for the county to interview. The MML would also help with the final phase of hiring, such as extending a conditional offer of employment and providing a contract template.
Commissioner Craig Scott said he believes the fee to hire MML is worthwhile if it leads the county to a quality candidate. He said that, as part of the agreement, MML will reconduct the search if the selected candidate does not work out during a probationary period.
Scott said while the county has not had an administrator in the past, he believes hiring an administrator is a smart decision, as having someone overseeing departments on a full-time basis will prove cost effective in the long run.
Vaughn said while he believes the county would benefit from hiring an administrator, he does not believe it to be a cure-all to the county’s budgetary concerns.
“I do believe we need a county administrator,” Vaughn said. “But until we get this budget straightened out, the money is not there.”
Commissioner Jenny David said during the meeting she also has concerns about funding the administrator position and proposed the commissioners take a 20-percent pay cut to help fund it.
“I have talked to my townships related to the administrator role, and the question I usually get is, ‘How are you going to fund it?” David said. “I’m proposing to help fund this by us as commissioners taking a 20-percent pay cut.”
Scott said during the meeting the commissioners have eliminated several forms of compensation over the last 20 years including health insurance, per diem pay for meetings attended and mileage pay.
“All these things have been eliminated through the years, so now we’re entering another phase,” Scott said. “I’m not saying no, but I would for sure say that it’s contingent on the hire. I would not do it beforehand.”
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__label__cc | 0.639482 | 0.360518 | Panthers Prepared For Road Trip This Weekend at Grand Valley and Malone
Ohio Dominican (9-3-1, 6-1-1 GLIAC) 0 1 1
Grand Valley State (12-2-0, 7-1-0 GLIAC) 0 0 0
Ohio Dominican (10-3-1,7-1-1 GLIAC) 1 3 4
Malone (2-11, 1-9 GLIAC) 0 2 2
2nd - 57:07 - Jordan Mazzi (Ohio Dominican)
G: Jordan Mazzi - 1
A: Lauren Pratt - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#3, #19) - 2
Sv: Laura Clark - 3
Sh: 3 Players (#6, #11, #13) - 4
Sv: Andrea Strauss - 3
1st - 2:32 - Ashley Blake (Ohio Dominican)
2nd - 54:32 - Lauren Pratt (Ohio Dominican)
2nd - 62:15 - Christine Najjar (Malone)
2nd - 77:50 - Summer Bourcier (Ohio Dominican)
2nd - 85:55 - Brianna Smith (Malone)
G: 4 Players (#3, #6, #12, #19) - 1
A: 4 Players (#6, #13, #17, #25) - 1
Sv: Felicia Cuthbert - 6
Sh: Christine Najjar - 9
Sv: Kari Naylor - 6
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Dominican women's soccer team will be back on the road this weekend as they face Grand Valley State and Malone.
The Panthers were able to get off to fast starts as they defeated Findlay 3-1 and Tiffin 3-0. Junior Lauren Pratt (West Chester, OH) scored her first two goals of the season, finding the back of the net once in each match. Pratt scored twice while four other Panthers found success scoring goals once each in sophomores Emily Riviello (Huber Heights, OH), Alexa Scardina (Cincinnati, OH), Amanda Fodor (Hilliard, OH), and freshman Ana Akovic (Strongsville, OH).
For the weekend the Panthers outshot their opponents 32-9, including a 15-1 advantage against Tiffin.
All three goalkeepers saw action for ODU as freshman Kelsey Harris (Mason, OH) started both matches with senior Laura Clark (Lapeer, MI) subbing in at halftime. Junior Felicia Cuthbert (Marysville, OH) was also a part of the 3-0 shutout over Tiffin.
GLIAC Ranks
Harris is tied for second in the GLIAC with eight wins on the season. She also ranks fourth among conference goalkeepers in goals against average at 0.81.
Senior Jordan Mazzi (Galena, OH) ranks eighth in the conference and leads the Panthers in total shots with 37.
ODU still has yet to receive a yellow or red card this season, the only school in the GLIAC.
No. 3 Grand Valley State (Friday, October 17)
The Panthers will travel to Allendale, MI on Friday to face the defending conference and national champions in Grand Valley State. Currently the Lakers are ranked third nationally and hold an 11-1-0 overall record. GVSU sits atop the conference standings as they have been the only team to win all previous conference matches this season with a record of 7-0-0.
The Lakers are led by Gabriella Mencotti and Marti Corby who are the top two goal scorers in the GLIAC. Mencotti has nine goals while Corby has eight.
The Panthers are 0-4-0 all-time against GVSU. Last season ODU fell 1-0 to the Lakers in Columbus, Ohio.
ODU and GVSU are scheduled to kickoff at 7:00 p.m. at GVSU Soccer Field on Friday.
Malone (Sunday, October 19)
On Sunday the Panthers will travel to Canton, Ohio to battle the Pioneers of Malone. Malone comes into the week 1-10-0 overall and 0-8-0 in the GLIAC. Brianna Smith leads the offensive attack for Malone with five of the team 11 goals on the season.
The all-time series record for ODU against Malone is 6-6-0, but the Panthers are currently riding a three match win streak against the Pioneers including a 3-0 win in Canton last season.
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Want to play for Omaha's pro soccer team? Union Omaha to hold open tryouts
By Reece Ristau World-Herald staff writer
Reece Ristau
Think you have what it takes to earn a spot on the roster of Omaha’s first professional men’s soccer team? Tryouts commence soon.
Union Omaha is holding an open tryout next month as it works to craft its inaugural roster before the USL League One team begins play at Werner Park in the spring.
All male soccer players ages 19 or older can register for the Nov. 9 tryout, which will be held at the Tranquility Soccer Complex, 4006 N. 120th St.
Matt Homonoff, chief operating officer of Union Omaha, said the tryouts will be a great opportunity to highlight Omaha’s talented young soccer players, though the team already is seeing interest from players across the nation.
“There’s certainly a concentration in the Midwest — more specifically the Omaha metro — but we’re getting registrations from literally all over the country,” Homonoff said.
To qualify for the tryout, applicants must have been born on or before Nov. 9, 2000. Registration is $95 per player, a cost that includes a numbered training top, on-site parking and evaluation by Union Omaha staff on outdoor turf and natural grass. Those interested must register online.
The team is accepting 150 applications for the event.
Earning a spot on Union Omaha’s roster won’t be easy: Homonoff said finding even one or two players from an open tryout would be “incredibly successful.”
Players with previous professional experience are expected to make up nearly half of the team’s roster, Homonoff said. The other half — perhaps more than half — will be players with less experience.
Team organizers generally expect to see serious soccer players at the tryout who believe they have a legitimate shot at playing professional soccer, Homonoff said. However, he said he has attended enough open tryouts to know that all manner of people show up.
“The cream rises to the top really quickly,” Homonoff said.
Members of the public are encouraged to attend the tryout, which is free to observers.
“We’re incredibly excited to see what the community has to offer on the field,” Homonoff said.
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CEO Gary Green, left, takes a selfie with coach Jason Mims after the name and crest of Omaha's new professional soccer team was revealed. The team will be called Union Omaha and an owl will be featured on the team crest.
Owners and community members stand in front of the crest for Omaha's new professional soccer team. The team will be called Union Omaha and the crest with sport an owl.
Omaha's new professional soccer team will be called Union Omaha and its crest will sport an owl.
Curtis Taylor, center, buys Union Omaha merchandise at a block party where the team's name and crest were revealed. Taylor said of the pro soccer team, "It's just exciting to have a pro team here finally."
Curtis Taylor, center, shows off the scarf he bought at a block party where Omaha's new professional soccer team's name and crest were revealed. Taylor said of the pro soccer team, "It's just exciting to have a pro team here finally."
Jaxonn Haag, right, and Francisco Calleja, left, play with a soccer ball during a block party. At the block party, the name and crest of Omaha's new professional soccer team was revealed. The team will be named Union Omaha and the crest features and owl.
People attend a block party for the announcement of Omaha's new soccer team's name and crest. The team was named Union Omaha and the crest will feature and owl.
People attend a block party where the name of Omaha's new professional soccer team was announced. The team name is Union Omaha and the crest features an owl.
Union Omaha coach Jason Mims speaks during a block party. At the block party, the name and crest of Omaha's new professional soccer team was revealed. The name of the team is Union Omaha and the team's crest features an owl.
Matt Homonoff, left, chief operating officer of USL Omaha and Gary Green, CEO and managing partner of Alliance Omaha Soccer (USL Omaha), attend a block party. At the block party the name of Omaha's new professional soccer team and its crest were announced. The team's name is Union Omaha. And the crest features an owl.
Omaha new professional soccer team revealed its name and crest during a block party. The team will be named Union Omaha and the crest features and owl.
Photos: Union Omaha block party
The name of Omaha first professional soccer team was announced during a block party. The team's name is Union Omaha and the team crest features an owl.
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What: An open tryout for Omaha's first professional men's soccer team.
Who: All male soccer players 19 years of age or older (born on or before Nov. 9, 2000).
When: Saturday, Nov. 9. Check-in begins at 11:30 a.m. The tryout begins at noon and will last until about 6 p.m.
Where: Tranquility Soccer Complex, 4006 N. 120th St. on fields 2 and 3.
Cost: $95 per player
How to register: Unionomahasc.com
Youth soccer team, under Union Omaha's crest, 'represented Nebraska well' in national tournament
Union Omaha's coach assembled a boy's academy team over the summer — and Union Omaha owner Gary Green and the franchise funded a recent trip to Texas — as part of an effort to help grow the sport locally.
As the new pro soccer team in Nebraska, Union Omaha wants to grow the sport locally
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Reece covers Sarpy County for The World-Herald. He's a born-and-raised Nebraskan and UNL grad who spent time in Oklahoma and Virginia before returning home. Follow him on Twitter @reecereports. Phone: 402-444-1127
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The #MeToo Effect in A Federal Case
The #MeToo Movement has not only brought a plethora of sexual misconduct to light, it is now becoming a part of the judiciary’s lexicon in sexual harassment cases. One such federal case illustrating this movement is the case of Minarsky v. Susquehanna County, et al.
On July 3, 2018 the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[1] ruled on the case of Minarsky v. Susquehanna County, et al, 17-2646 (Jul. 3, 2018). In this case, the Plaintiff, Ms. Minarsky, worked for the Susquehanna County in an administrative position. Ms. Minarsky alleged in her complaint against the County that her supervisor, Mr. Yadlosky, sent her sexually inappropriate emails on various occasions.
The County had a sexual harassment policy directing victims to report harassment; however, Ms. Minarsky did not report the harassment that she’d allegedly suffered. Instead, Ms. Minarsky resigned and filed a civil lawsuit against the County.
Why These Facts Are Important
Ms. Minarsky’s failure to report the harassment is a significant fact. In 1988, the seminal case of Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998) provided employers a defense to workplace harassment claims when: 1) the employer could show that it exercised reasonable care to prevent harassment and to promptly correct it when it occurred; and, 2) that the employee failed to use the preventive measures provided by the employer. Armed with this defense, employers implementing a policy prohibiting harassment could affirmatively defend themselves if the employee failed to report harassment in the workplace.
The Court’s Finding
Despite Ms. Minarsky’s failure to report the harassment, the appellate court held for Ms. Minarsky. In doing so, the court found Ms. Minarsky’s reasons for not reporting the harassment understandable. These reasons included: 1) Ms. Minarsky’s need to keep her job due to her daughter’s illness; 2) the veiled threats that she had purportedly received from Mr. Yadlosky; and, 3) the County’s previous failure to stop Mr. Yadlosky’s sexual misconduct. Relevant to the court’s finding was the County’s knowledge of Mr. Yadlosky’s propensity of grabbing women in the workplace to hug and kiss them and the County’s tepid and insubstantial response to his actions.
How The Court’s Finding Applies to Employers
While courts adjudicating similar cases have found that an employee’s failure to utilize their employer’s anti-harassment policy is unreasonable, even when the employee fears retaliation, the Court’s decision here serves as a call to employers, particularly in light of the #MeToo movement, to take sexual misconduct seriously. With the eve of a progressive and strengthening movement, employers’ response to sexual misconduct must be swift and material. Employers must show a priority and commitment to preventing and stopping harassment with actions that go beyond policies and investigations. Employers have to make the employment site safe for all employees or suffer from the tide of change.
[1] The Third Circuit Court of Appeals includes Delaware, New Jersey, the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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By Kristy Puchko | TV | July 23, 2019 |
What’s Seth Rogen’s beef with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss? We breakdown the shade thrown at Comic-Con International: San Diego.
First a bit of background: Following the final season of Game of Thrones, the last Comic-Con panel for the massively popular fantasy series should have been a victory lap for a cast and crew that churned out some of the most talked-about television of the last decade. But after outraging fans all season long with unearned character arcs, shocking twists, careless gaffes, and a finale that would’ve been funny if it weren’t so infuriating, the night would be dark and full of blowback. So maybe that’s why Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss bailed on the Hall H event entirely.
Benioff and Weiss left castmembers like Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Jacob Anderson, Conleth Hill, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to fend for themselves as fans asked variants of WHY and WTF!? (Check out Joanna’s Vanity Fair piece for the full rundown.) And fans weren’t the only ones who noticed D&D’s absence.
The next panel was Preacher’s, where co-creator/producer Seth Rogen appeared alongside the show’s stars Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Mark Harelik, and Julie Ann Emery. And Rogen took the opportunity to take a shot at Game of Thrones and its creators.
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“I know we’re following the Game of Thrones panel,” Rogen said, “which is a f*cking nightmare. Just objectively. I also know that their showrunners didn’t show up because they didn’t want to answer questions about the show. So, I just want to say I am not one of the creators of Game of Thrones but I am the creator of other TV shows. So feel free to ask me any Game of Thrones questions you guys have throughout the night. I didn’t read the books but I watched the show. So, I could give you my insights and thoughts.”
After the chuckling died down from Rogen and the audience, he was asked whether Preacher’s series finale will be more satisfying than Game of Thrones’ conclusion. To that, Rogen quipped, “I’m here at least! I think that’s a good sign. I’m willing to show my face.”
The fourth and final season of Preacher launches August 4 on AMC.
Kristy Puchko is the managing editor of Pajiba. You can follow her on Twitter.
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ROW OVER CHINOY TRIBUTE: The House, which was called to order by Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza at 11:20 am, also witnessed a brief disorder when lawmakers from different political parties got in an apparent argument over whose resolution should be read out and adopted to pay homage to the Oscar-winning Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. At least five to six resolutions were tabled by lawmakers from the PPP, PML-F and Muttahida Qaumi Movement, including Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, Sassui Palijo, Heer Soho, Bilquis Mukhtar, Shazia Marri and Marvi Rashidi. “It’s not about a short or long resolution. We need to take up the one which is comprehensive,” Marri snubbed when Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza tended to read out the shortest of the resolutions on her table. This made the chair take up the longest one, but even this did not satisfy the information minister, who wished to read out her resolution herself. Marri was also quick in reminding Marvi Rashidi of the PML-F that the resolutions were not party-based when the latter said the PPP seemed to have decided to take the resolution of its legislators. Before the dispute could worsen, the chair called the members for developing consensus and moved on to other agenda items. Ultimately, the House adopted a long resolution expressing immense pride in the accomplishments of Chinoy whose short documentary ‘Saving Face’ not only created awareness about the heinous crimes like acid burning but also won Pakistan its first Oscar Award.
SINDHIS’ KILLING IN US: Before the chair could call it a day until 10:00 am on Thursday, PPP Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Imran Leghari, on a point of order, protested the third consecutive killing of a person from Sindh in the United States. He said Sardar Sheikh was a member of a Sindhi family and he was murdered in broad daylight in Houston, Texas. This, Leghari said, was the second killing following another Sindhi, Abbasi, whose body has not been sent back home “under a conspiracy”. The lawmaker called upon the home minister to approach the Foreign Office for taking up the issue with Washington. Law Minister Ayaz Soomro said the additional secretaries present in the House had taken notice of the complaint and would take the required steps.
WAHEEDA SHAH SLAPPING: As soon as the House reassembled, Marvi Rashidi of the PML-F took the floor on a point of order and condemned the manhandling of a female polling officer at the hand of MPA-hopeful Waheeda Shah in the by-polls of Tando Muhammad Khan. “The female lawmakers of this House feel ashamed of what she did to the polling officer. She does not deserve to become a member of this august House,” Marvi said. The deputy speaker was approving, but said some underlying reasons were yet to be ascertained in the unfortunate incident.
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More recently, while away at school in Lexington, Kentucky, she started writing songs and uploading them to Soundcloud. The reactions from her friends, musical peers, and complete strangers was extremely positive and lead to a collaboration with Nashville’s Okey Dokey and some discovery from fans around the country.
Nari’s next single, “Julia”, a sweet ode to friendship. It’s inspired by Nari’s friend, Julia Tamaoki. The two met in middle school and became inseparable. But eventually, Nari moved from California to the Midwest for college and it left a hole in her heart. The two still keep in touch and still best friends after all these years. As Nari says, “Julia has always been my rock and my biggest fan and has inspired a lot of what I do as an artist. Whenever I am having a hard time or I feel homesick she is the first thing I think of and it helps me get through the tough times of being away from home.” This one’s for you, Julia, xoxo.
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