Nikou grew up with a passion for trading baseball cards and competing in breakdancing competitions.

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Andrew Nikou built his career using innovative thinking to turn around distressed and neglected companies.

Now he turns his attentions toward solving a problem with a global scale: bullying.

Born to Iranian immigrants, Andrew Nikou grew up outside of Los Angeles, where his dad worked in the city's water and power department.

The family didn't have a lot of money, and Nikou was the target of harsh bullying in elementary and middle school.

"I was shorter than most of the guys," Nikou told Entrepreneur, "And that bullying had a traumatic effect on me."

With the guidance of his father, Nikou was able to take control of the situation and ultimately turned that trauma into a great motivator.

"My father let me believe that strength wasn't a physical matter, it was an intellectual matter and that allowed me to pave the way to focus on the competitive side of me," he says.

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Once that fuse was lit, Nikou's mind for business took off.

"When I was younger, I started trading baseball and basketball cards and began making a lot of money," he says.

"When people asked what I wanted to be, I said a CEO.

They'd say CEO of what kind of business and I said, 'I don't know, I just want to be a CEO!'"

Nikou was able to rise above his family's tough economic status, went to college, and in 2005, founded OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm that has amassed $5 billion in total revenues over the firm's 11-year history.

The founder spoke with Entrepreneur about his path to success and the initiative he is leading to help others escape the hopelessness brought about by bullying in school and in the workplace.

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"The problem of bullying is something that is deep in my heart from the experience that I had growing up back in Woodland Hills.

I experienced it mostly on the playground, and it left me feeling defeated.

It was tough and it was embarrassing, to be honest.

So I want to find new innovative ways to confront the bullying challenges we face in classrooms and the workplace, and then, of course, cyberbullying.

"I want to give people the support they need to pivot away from the psychological and physical trauma and build from a positive place of strength."

"This anti-bullying initiative I'm exploring is a collaboration between my charitable organization, The Andrew Nikou Foundation, and XPRIZE, where I am on the Innovation Board.

We have some of the greatest minds in many industries -- Elon Musk and Larry Page, to name a few.

XPRIZE is trying to use crowdsourcing and incentivizing prizes to solve some of the planet's grandest problems in fields like education, health and technology.

"I'm going to be the sponsor of the prize.

We will put this challenge out to teams, and invite them to present their approaches and projects to the board.

The winner of that will receive an incentive prize, which can range in the millions.

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You can imagine that this problem requires something other than a traditional solution.

You're not going to get a bunch of people in a classroom and tell them to read something and say this isn't the right way of behaving.

We need more of a disruptive, a more exponential approach to changing the way people behave.

Some of the concepts would surely include VR, taking kids and adults who are bullying and putting them in VR settings where they can experience what it feels like to be bullied."

"My father's teaching helped me through those tough times when I was a kid.

He taught me to be scrappy and smart, to use my brain rather than my muscles.

He retired early at a very low pay rate so that we could qualify to get grants to go to college.

His income was so low at that point that he had to move back to Iran in order to support himself.

That was another huge motivator for me to overachieve."

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"When we moved to Los Angeles, we became friends with people in the Iranian community and that helped build my confidence and made me stronger.

I never felt short with my friends -- in fact, I often felt like I was the tallest guy in the room.

The loyalty and love I felt from this group, which we called The Persian Pride, rolled into high school and we stayed tight.

They were actually the first people to invest in my first deal a decade later.

A lot of all this is implanted in the culture of my firm.

Loyalty is the number one most important thing for me."

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"When I was a teenager, I wanted to go out with a group of my friends to the movies and my father insisted that I stay home and focus on my studies.

We got in the biggest fight that night, but he was insistent.

So I stayed home and later that night, some of my friends were gunned down in a drive-by shooting.

Several were hit, and one of my best friends was killed.

I wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for my father."

"In business, I try to understand where other people are coming from.

I try to understand their position, where they came from, what their history is, who their family is.

Once you get to a humanistic level, you can really start to see what the truth is.

Sure there is a give and take in every negotiation, but I don't believe that there doesn't have to be a 'winner' and a 'loser.'

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"All of what we're doing, money is just a byproduct.

It is important to me that we're not just taking, but that we're giving back.

I'm 39, relatively young, so my goal is to look back and not just see that OpenGate was a bunch of financial products, but human products.

I want to be the guy they recognize when they talk about anti-bullying."

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Nikou was born in 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents left their native Tehran before the Iranian Revolution and relocated to Canada, later moving with Nikou to California when he was four years old. His father, who majored in mathematics at a German university, worked at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.


The music video for Albertine was shot in May 2007 in Rwanda.

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Brooke Fraser returns to the New Zealand stage in October for her first national tour in three years.

Brooke hits a dozen New Zealand cities on her Albertine national tour, travelling all the way from Invercargill to Whangarei.

The Albertine National Tour sees Brooke bring a full touring production to all centres and features her acclaimed international backing band for the first time in this country.

Brooke was last back home in for a brief sell-out main centre tour with a smaller combo in April.

She has since been touring her second album Albertine in the USA and Australia.

Brooke continues to serve up hugely popular hits with the four times platinum Albertine.

"Deciphering Me" and "Shadowfeet" have followed the likes of "Arithmetic" "Better" and "Lifeline" to the top of the charts.

The album's brilliant title track has just been released with a video filmed in Rwanda reflecting the African inspiration behind "Albertine".

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In the tropical Atlantic, sea surface temperatures were cooler than average, characteristic of a negative phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).

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Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari takes a look at Invest 99L in the Atlantic.

The tropical Atlantic might begin to wake up in early September.

Multiple tropical waves are forecast to emerge off the coast of western Africa, some of which could develop into a tropical cyclone.

September is the peak month for Atlantic hurricanes, recording more hurricanes in that basin than any other month on record.

No hurricanes have been active in the Atlantic Basin since July 12 despite August being the second-most-active month for Atlantic hurricanes, but some forecast guidance suggests the tropical Atlantic could wake up over the next two weeks.

(MORE: Atlantic Basin Could Have Zero Hurricanes in August)

Multiple tropical waves are forecast to emerge off the coast of western Africa, potentially spinning up into tropical cyclones as they track westward across the tropical Atlantic Ocean, known as the Main Development Region (MDR) for Atlantic hurricanes.

The National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday that one such tropical wave moving off the African coast by Thursday bears watching for some development in the eastern Atlantic over the weekend.

Another dry tropical wave, located near or just east of the Leeward Islands has our eye.

The wave is currently moving west-northwestward into the southern Atlantic and northern Caribbean.

The wave may reach more favorable conditions for development over the Bahamas into early next week if it can stay north of Hispaniola and Cuba.

Chances for development are currently very low with this tropical wave.

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Often referred to as African easterly waves, tropical waves are batches of energy and general spin in the atmosphere that develop due to temperature contrasts in northern Africa.

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"Medium-range models are indicating an uptick in activity over the Atlantic's Main Development Region in the coming 10 to 15-plus days," said Dr. Michael Ventrice, a meteorological scientist at The Weather Company, an IBM Business.

"Many forecasters are seeing numerous strong low-pressure systems, associated with the model's prediction of an uptick in African easterly waves pushing off western Africa, across the MDR towards the end of the European model's ensemble runs."

One of the reasons for this potential uptick in activity is that the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is expected to enter its active phase over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa regions, which often corresponds with an uptick in tropical cyclone activity across the Atlantic Basin's MDR, Ventrice added.

Since this forecast is in the extended range, there is still uncertainty when it comes to computer model guidance, he cautioned.

(MORE: What is the Madden-Julian Oscillation?)

"I think we are going to see some activity in the coming two weeks across the MDR, but there's a chance the models are not handling the tropics correctly and things end up less active than what is being touted," Ventrice said.

For now, it is too early for any specifics, but it's a reminder we are in the peak of the hurricane season.

Residents of coastal locations should have a hurricane preparedness plan in place every year no matter how active or inactive of a season is expected.

### September is the Peak Month for Atlantic Hurricanes

Historically speaking, September has recorded the most Atlantic hurricane formations since 1851 with 404.

That's an average of two or three forming in the month every year, according to NOAA.

August ranks second with 245 hurricanes, and October ranks third with 205.

The period between Aug. 20 and Oct. 10 accounts for 60 percent of all Atlantic Basin hurricanes and 75 percent of all major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) in that basin, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a tropical scientist at Colorado State University.

This graph shows that named storm, hurricane and major hurricane frequencies are typically the highest from August through October.

Atmospheric conditions are more favorable over a much larger expanse of the Atlantic Basin during the peak months of August through October than early or late in the season.

In June, the tropical cyclone formation zones are confined to the Gulf of Mexico, western Caribbean Sea or just off the southeastern U.S. coast.

This is one reason for the relative lack of early-season hurricanes compared to August through October.

Storms that form in these areas early in the season don't have far to go before reaching land.

From July into August and September, the formation zone gradually spreads eastward until the so-called MDR, from the Lesser Antilles to just off Africa, is in play.

This opens up the potential for Cape Verde hurricanes to make the more-than-3,500-mile trek from the eastern Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean islands or U.S. coast.

(MORE: The Most Notorious Portion of the Atlantic Hurricane Season)

September has the largest area of development zone based on climatological history, as shown in the map below.

Typical tracks and origins of tropical cyclones in August, September and October.

One factor that may influence this year's peak hurricane season is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is a long period of upward and downward swings in tropical activity in the Atlantic Basin.

The AMO is trending negative this season after being predominantly in its positive phase since the mid-1990s.

Each phase lasts 20 to 40 years and is a result of changes in the system of oceanic currents in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

This oscillation is the climate background that all other climate and weather patterns build on in the Atlantic, including El Niño.

Research has shown that negative AMO Atlantic hurricane seasons can have a slightly later than normal peak, according to a tweet by Eric Webb, a University of North Carolina at Charlotte graduate student.

Some computer model guidance is suggesting that may be true this year, with an uptick in tropical activity in late September, beyond the typical Sept. 10 peak of the hurricane season.

Last September was the most active month on record for Atlantic hurricanes following Category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria and Category 4 Hurricane Jose.

The Weather Company's primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives.

This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

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The protest was organized after the murder of 14-year-old Chiara Paez, found buried underneath her boyfriend's house on May 11, beaten to death and a few weeks pregnant.

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Thousands of people took to the streets last week to protest against gender violence.

One of the organisers explains how the #NiUnaMenos movement began

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On May 11, after a three-day search, her body was found buried in the garden of her boyfriend's house.

Chiara had been beaten to death after having been forced to take medication to terminate her pregnancy.

Her boyfriend, who confessed to the crime, had been helped by his mother.

A couple of months earlier, the body of Daiana Garcia, 19, was found by the roadside.

The body of another young girl, Melina Romero, was found a few metres away from a waste-processing plant last year.

She had gone missing after celebrating her 17th birthday at a dance club.

In another case, the body of Angeles Rawson, 16, was found inside a rubbish-compacting machine.

All were victims of gender violence; and the list goes on.

Although official statistics are lacking, respected NGOs in this country – by compiling media reports – have calculated that a woman is killed every 30 hours because of gender violence.

In the past seven years, more than 1,800 women have been killed in such circumstances.

Given the absence of official reporting on femicide, this number is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Where once these gender crimes, in most instances against a partner or former partner, were likely to be committed in domestic settings, in many recent cases they have made a leap into the public sphere – into coffee shops and classrooms.

"Macho" gender violence has taken on perverse new forms and entered new spaces in Argentina.

Questions abound but there is one that rules over the rest: are more crimes being committed, or is it that they have become more visible?

Whatever the answer, it was on the day they discovered Ciara's body that the idea to demonstrate was born; to take to the streets and shout "stop femicide".

The seed was a tweet in which Marcela Ojeda, a radio journalist, challenged women across the country with a phrase that is already historic: "They are killing us: Aren't we going to do anything?"

We protested, rallying around the slogan and hashtag #NiUnaMenos ("NotOneLess", meaning we must not lose one more woman to violence).

The main march was to the congress in the capital city of Buenos Aires, where I and the other female organisers were astounded at the size of the crowd.

Groups of women from outside the city arrived bearing photos of their relatives, slain victims of femicide.

Some of them yelled their disappointment at the failure of the police and the courts to respond adequately.

"I don't want you to tell me how to dress," read one of the handwritten placards.

For the three weeks before, a group of female journalists, intellectuals and activists had come together, explaining to others why we needed to march.

We underlined that Argentina has comprehensive anti-gender violence legislation, but the law has not been fully implemented.

Security forces and justice officials need to be trained in how to deal with women who wish to report violent partners.

An official register of femicide cases needs to be established.

We asked actors, television hosts and friends in showbiz to help.

They each posed for a photo holding a sign reading #NiUnaMenos.

Then, anonymous men and women, groups of friends, workmates, students, families and young children started doing the same.

Politicians also joined, but only after the hashtag and the issue were already on everybody's lips.

Before we knew it, in homes, schools, shops, on television, everywhere, people were talking about the issue.

Young children grasped the concept and could explain to others that #NiUnaMenos was a campaign to eradicate violence against women – proof that our bid to raise awareness was beginning to bear fruit.

When we started to promote our cause we were just a handful of women.

But soon we were hundreds and then thousands.

From the beginning we knew that what we wanted was not, or at least not exclusively, some form of collective venting of frustration.

We wanted to ask for concrete action, not only by politicans and the justice system, but also by other sectors of civil society such as the media.

We wanted criticism regarding the way these cases are presented, often focusing on the lifestyle of the victim, revictimising them again and again because of the way they dressed, the men they dated or the kinds of photos they posted on Facebook.

We need to help woman experiencing domestic violence out of the spiral.

The silent cry of women who suffer or have suffered domestic violence broke out of hundreds of thousands of throats that afternoon.

It's something much more basic. It is a human right.

Barely 24 hours after the march ended we had the first piece of good news.

Supreme court justice Elena Highton announced a registry of femicides would be set up at the court.

The office of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner set off a series of tweets emphasising her government's concern.

Meanwhile, the government's Human Rights Secretariat announced it, too, would start to compile statistics on femicides.

Most important of all, judging by the massive turnout at the march, the majority of us now understand that looking away is no longer an option.

• Hinde Pomeraniec is one of the 10 women journalists who, without personally knowing each other previously, came together via Twitter in mid-May to organise last Wednesday's mass demonstration against gender violence in Buenos Aires.

"Ni una menos" (Spanish: [ni ˈuna ˈmenos]; Spanish for "Not one [woman] less") is an Argentine fourth-wave grassroots feminist movement, which has spread across several Latin American countries, that campaigns against gender-based violence. In its official website, "Ni una menos" defines itself as a "collective scream against machista violence." The campaign was started by a collective of Argentine female artists, journalists and academics, and has grown into "a continental alliance of feminist forces". The movement regularly holds protests against femicides, but has also touched on topics such as gender roles, sexual harassment, gender pay gap, sexual objectification, legality of abortion, sex workers' rights and transgender rights.
 The movement became nationally recognized with the use of the hashtag #NiUnaMenos on social media, title under which massive demonstrations were held on June 3, 2015, having the Palace of the Argentine National Congress as a main meeting point.


Mold was born on 27 May 1863 in the village of Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire.

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Arthur Mold was one of the most controversial figures of an era when throwing became an increasing problem.

Although his action was considered suspect for many years, there was no doubting his speed, and that allied to the movement he got off the pitch, made him the foremast quick bowler of his generation.

At the time of his retirement he had taken more wickets than any other fast bowler.

He made an immediate impact in his first season (1889) taking 100 wickets at 11.80, and in the next 12 summers he passed a hundred wickets on nine occasions, and two hundred twice (207 in 1894, 213 in 1895).

But murmurings over his action meant that he made only three Test appearances, all in 1893.

In 1900 he was no-balled by umpire Jim Phillips, and a meeting of county captains at the end of that season voted 11 to 1 that his action was unacceptable.

The authorities decided - unofficially - to act and in 1901 he was no-balled 16 times in one match, again by Phillips.

Although no other umpire called Mold, the writing was on the wall and he drifted out of first-class cricket.

He finished his playing days in the Northamptonshire leagues.

He spent his retirement shooting, running a pub, and looking after his mother.

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Warren ran the Disney Channel Storytellers program, which was launched in 2014 as an initiative to find new talent in creating and writing for Disney programming content.

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The primary focus of the program is not staffing, but rather identifying the unique voices who represent the next wave of half hour comedy developers.

Running from November through April, Storytellers will allow four participants to write an original script for pilot consideration, create digital content for the online space, and pitch Disney-centric concepts for network consideration.

The highly competitive program will be overseen by key Disney Channel development executives who will provide regular guidance and feedback, all in the name of building the creators and showrunners of tomorrow.

### The program is overseen by Marc Warren, whose imprint on television can be seen in some of the most recognizable family comedies of the past twenty five years.

Warren's work, which has garnered him multiple Emmy nominations, can be found in shows such as Full House, and multiple Disney Channel hits including Even Stevens, Jonas LA, Disney XD's Kickin' It, and That's So Raven.

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It was there he met Dennis Rinsler before moving to Los Angeles. Their experiences as teachers was the inspiration for the 1990s sitcom "Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher" starring Mitch Mullany, which they also produced, receiving co-creation credit with Richard Gurman. They both formed the production company "Warren & Rinsler Productions".
 They have been active since 1982, writing and producing for the television series "Madame's Place", "Fast Times", "Full House" (which they also executive produced and served as showrunners of for the series' final three seasons), "The Parent 'Hood" and served as creators of "Cory in the House". The two have been nominated for Daytime and Primetime Emmys for their work on the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens" and "That's So Raven". In 2009, Rinsler and Warren dissolved their partnership. The two had each already been writing and directing solo during their runs as executive producers of "Even Stevens" (Rinsler directing the episode "Beans on the Brain"), "That's So Raven" (Warren directing five episodes) and "Cory in the House" (Warren directing two episodes, while retaining a producer partnership). Warren eventually landed a solo job as a writer and consulting producer of "Jonas" for its second and last season in 2010.


The "bedroom tax" is an austerity measure that has attracted particular criticism, with activists arguing that two thirds of council houses affected by the policy are occupied with a person with a disability.

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# 'Bedroom tax' puts added burden on disabled people

People with disabilities are having to curb spending on food and bills after being refused discretionary funding help

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Paul, Sue and Warren in the living room of their house.

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Nine in 10 disabled people are being forced to cut back on food or paying household bills after being refused emergency housing payments to help them pay the "bedroom tax", research has found.

The report by the disability charity Papworth Trust shows that almost one in three disabled applicants are being rejected for discretionary housing payments (DHPs) from the government fund intended to provide assistance to housing benefit claimants who are unable to pay a shortfall in their rent.

Almost two-thirds of people affected by the loss of housing benefit on rooms deemed to be "spare" are disabled.

DHPs were widely promoted by the government as protecting people with disabilities from the worst effects of its under-occupation charge, which was introduced in April.

Yet disabled people are no more likely to be given an emergency housing payment than non-disabled people, the research found, even if they live in adapted properties.

David Martin, strategy director at the Papworth Trust, says: "The government asked councils to prioritise people with disabilities and long-term health conditions when deciding who should get emergency payments.

Paul and Sue Rutherford had hoped to be awarded a DHP at least for short-term help in making up the £13.50 a week they are losing for having a third bedroom.

Though disabled themselves – Paul has a lung condition while Sue has chronic depression – they are full-time carers to their grandson.

Warren, 13, has a rare chromosome disorder.

He is unable to walk or talk, cannot feed himself, and is doubly incontinent.

Their house in west Wales is purpose-built for his needs, with ceiling hoists, wide doorways, a wet room and a third bedroom that allows a carer to stay at weekends when Paul and Sue need respite.

Last month, however, the family were rejected for a DHP because the county council judged they had excess income of £99 a week.

"Pembrokeshire county council has included at least the majority of Warren's [disability living allowance, DLA] care component [in that calculation]."

Martin explains: "When calculating people's income, councils are including DLA to help them sift the sheer volume of deserving applications for these emergency payments."

However, he says this goes against the advice of the work and pensions minister, Steve Webb, who has told councils to "disregard income from disability-related benefits, as they are intended to be used to help pay for the extra costs of disability".

Richard Hawkes, chief executive of the disability charity Scope, says the majority of people affected by the bedroom tax are disabled.

"The government has repeatedly referred to a discretionary fund to support those hit by this cut.

But we know that this money is not getting to disabled people," he says.

The consequences of this failure need to be considered in light of wider financial pressures on disabled people, says Hawkes.

"The fact is that, in 2013, disabled people are struggling to make ends meet.

Life costs more if you're disabled, but living costs are spiralling, income is flatlining [and disabled people] are also facing huge cuts to support that they need."

The Department for Work and Pensions says reform of housing benefit in the social sector is essential, and that it is monitoring the changes closely.

"We are giving local authorities £150m discretionary housing payment funding this year to support vulnerable people, including £25m to help people who live in accommodation that has been adapted for their disabilities," a DWP spokesman says.

"Disability benefits are disregarded when calculating housing benefit entitlement, and where that income is clearly earmarked for care and mobility costs local authorities should disregard it in DHP applications."

David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, describes the bedroom tax as "an unfair, unworkable policy that should be repealed".

He says: "How can we ask vulnerable and disabled people to eat or drink less, heat their home less or cut back on medical expenses?

The government says discretionary housing payments will protect them, but the Papworth Trust findings make it clear that this temporary measure isn't even a short-term solution."

Pembrokeshire county council says it has received "a significant number of applications" for DHPs and that every one is considered on its merits.

A council spokeswoman says: "In cases where the customer or a member of their household is confined to a wheelchair and resides in a property that is purpose-built or specifically adapted to meet the needs of their disability … the council will only reject an application for a DHP when it appears that the customer has an excess of income over expenditure and is therefore able to meet the rent shortfall.

At the customer's request we will review, with them, their income and expenditure to ensure the figures submitted to us are accurate."

BULLET::::- Incapacity Benefit (3.06%) BULLET::::- Council Tax Benefit (3%) BULLET::::- Other (10.03%) The United Kingdom has a long history of welfare, notably including the English Poor laws which date back to 1536. After various reforms to the program, which involved workhouses, it was eventually abolished and replaced with a modern system by laws such as National Assistance Act 1948.
 In more recent times, comparing the Cameron–Clegg coalition's austerity measures with the Opposition's, the respected "Financial Times" commentator Martin Wolf commented that the "big shift from Labour ... is the cuts in welfare benefits." The government's austerity programme, which involves reduction in government policy, has been linked to a rise in food banks. A study published in the "British Medical Journal" in 2015 found that each 1 percentage point increase in the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants sanctioned was associated with a 0.09 percentage point rise in food bank use. The austerity programme has faced opposition from disability rights groups for disproportionately affecting disabled people.


He also performed solo acoustic sets around the UK, including regular engagements at the Lewes Con Club, before his death from cancer on 31st October 2018.

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# Rock bands to play tribute gig to legendary Erdington club

Tribute night planned for legendary Erdington rock club Mothers

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A handful of bands that made a Birmingham club one of the world's greatest rock venues are to play a unique tribute gig to the establishment.

The line-up of 1960s supergroups who played at Mothers in their pomp will be headlined by Soft Machine.

There will also be performances by Edgar Broughton, The Groundhogs, Stan Webb's Chicken Shack, heavy metal pioneers Quartz and Graham Vickery of the Shakey Vick Blues Band.

The event, at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall on May 10, 2019, will also feature rare memorabilia, including unique posters.

A flyer advertising Traffic's 1970 comeback gig at the Erdington venue is the only one still in existence.

The charity gig, with cash raised going to Cancer Research, is being put together by music enthusiast Dave Gordon, who has his own radio show on Switch FM, Made in Brum.

The 63-year-old was too young to be a Mothers regular, but has been drawn to the iconic club's rich history.

Quite simply, the world's greatest bands played there: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Who, Free, Steppenwolf, Canned Heat, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Chicago...

Pink Floyd even recorded a 1969 live album at Mothers, Ummagumma.

Yet the endless rock milestones were squeezed into a very short timeframe.

Mothers opened in 1968 and was gone three years later: gone, but not forgotten.

Dave Gordon has an extensive collection of material relating to legendary rock venue Mother's in Erdington.

In faded white paint in an alleyway next to where Mothers stood is the slogan, Out Demons Out.

That is the title of a legendary track by Edgar Broughton Band and Dave believes it may have been scrawled by one of the group themselves.

He has staged two Mothers reunions at St Bartholomew Church, Erdington, but nothing on the scale of next year's concert, which will also feature up-and-coming bands and an auction.

"Through my radio show, I've become aware there is now a scene that's very similar to what was happening in the late '60s and early '70s, with blues, rock and psychedelic bands," says Dave.

"This is a way of connecting those two generations.

People we've spoken to are aware of Mothers, but not the true background and the whole history."

Dave, whose dad attended Mothers, is excited by the charity concert line-up – a line-up that is still being added to.

Keith Moon of The Who performing on stage during a concert at the University of Reading in 1971

Striking images of Balsall Heath in 1968 on show as part of Flatpack Festival

"Stan Webb was one of the leading artists responsible for the late '60s revival of blues music," he says.

"Edgar Broughton played there so many times.

He was an amazing guy, they were an amazing band.

"We wanted to represent Birmingham's heavy metal legacy and Quartz, from the 1970s, fitted the bill.

"The story of Ummagumma is well known," he adds.

"But there was another live album recorded at Mothers .

In 1969, Shakey Vick's Blues Band released Little Woman You're So Sweet.

Graham Vickery will revisit that album at next year's concert."

The valuable posters chronicle Mother's rise.

The real rarities feature performances by Richie Havens, who opened at Woodstock, British blues band Blodwyn Pig, American rockers Spirit and Procol Harum.

Steve Winwood left the ground-breaking band to form Blind Faith with Eric Clapton, a supergroup that lasted for only one album and 12 months.

Steve then reformed Traffic, and the poster marks their first comeback concert.

Dave adds: "For me, Mothers was the most important venue there has ever been in Birmingham.

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### Cancer Research will benefit from concert takings

"Since it finished in 1971, the memories and stories have never gone away.

There are so many stories, the most famous one probably being Pink Floyd making Ummagumma.

That sums up how important the club was, it shows how well-respected it was by musicians.

"I was brought up on stories about Mothers, which included The Who's drummer Keith Moon collapsing with heat exhaustion.

He was carried into a dressing room and had a jug of cold water poured all over him.

But then they sat on his legs to make him wait 10 minutes before trying to get back on to the stage!"

There's a reason that Cancer Research will benefit from concert takings.

Why Roadhouse rock venue fire is latest threat to Birmingham's live music scene

"One of my friends who is helping me, Chris Brown, has had a cancer scare," explains Dave.

"Luckily, he has managed to get over it and make a full recovery.

"Ray Owens, lead singer with Juicy Lucy, was going to play, but he died from cancer a couple of weeks ago.

There will be a tribute to Ray on the night."

Many, many legends made their names at Mothers.

It launched Rod Stewart on the road to superstardom, with the gravel-voiced singer stepping in as a short-notice replacement for Long John Baldry.

Radio guru John Peel was resident DJ and it was twice voted the world's best venue by America's Billboard magazine.

Facts about Erdington's fascinating past

Live music venues we have loved and lost

Pink Floyd recorded Ummagumma at Mothers

Mothers, formerly the Carlton Ballroom, opened above a furniture store in Erdington High Street on August 9, 1968.

From that date to the last night – January 3, 1971 – more than 400 acts performed.

Just one month after opening, Mothers was pulling in big names, and 1968 provided an endless stream of rock royalty.

The list includes Pink Floyd (Sep 13), Deep Purple (Sep 27), Barclay James Harvest (Oct 11), Fleetwood Mac (Oct 27), Tyrannosaurus Rex (Nov 9), Jethro Tull (Nov 24) and Free (Dec 28).

Bands that played there for the first time in 1969 included The Who (Mar 1), Led Zeppelin (Mar 22), The Moody Blues (Apr 26), King Crimson (May 3), Steppenwolf (May 18) and Yes (Dec 28).

Newcomers in 1970 included Black Sabbath (Mar 11, and returning twice within a month), Elton John (May 30), The Faces (Jun 27), Argent (Aug 2) and Trapeze (Aug 15).

The Who performed there and Traffic made their debut at the club.

Mothers is referred to on the sleeve notes of albums by Canned Heat and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Cult folk figure Roy Harper once told Brum Beat website: "That was the first club outside London that meant anything at all and that's why I have this long association with Birmingham.

"I played there about six times between 1968 and 1970.

And the late John Peel said: "I sometimes get mail from younger people who live in Erdington and are amazed to hear that for a few years, the best club in Britain – and it was because I went to most of the gigs – was right here in Birmingham."

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In 2004, bassist Colin Fudge and drummer Paul Fletcher joined the band, after the legal situation had been resolved. This version of Juicy Lucy released the album "Do That And You'll Lose It" in 2006 and toured the UK with Nazareth. They played at the Cambridge Rock Festival in 2008.
 In 2009, a new line-up of Juicy Lucy was formed as - due to health problems - Owen was unable to continue touring on a regular basis. The band was then fronted by singer/guitarist Steve 'Mr Fish' Fishwick, with Paul Fletcher on drums and James Morris on bass, and this line-up continued to tour throughout the UK. In September 2012, Frank Cokayne (on bass guitar) joined Fishwick and Fletcher in the UK-based version of the band. The songs "Mississippi Woman" and "Who Do You Love?" (from the band's first album) were regularly performed live by this trio, until they parted ways in 2018.
 Owen occasionally played live in France under the moniker "Ray Owen's Juicy Lucy", accompanied by Mike Jarvis and Spencer Blackledge from the 1990s incarnation of the band, and latterly with Sylvain Galesso on drums and Rosie Woodland on bass guitar.


The shows were at 9:30 pm, 10:30 pm, and 11:30 pm on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, with the 10:30 pm show on Saturday delayed slightly so the portion of the show where Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon would happen exactly 50 years to the second after the actual event (10:56:15 EDT).

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Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, featuring a 363-foot Saturn V rocket projected on the east face of the Washington Monument and a special "Apollo 50: Go for the Moon" show.

This presentation was conceived and commissioned by the National Air and Space Museum, and is made possible through a partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior and 59 Productions.

On July 16 through 20, the projection will be live from 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm.

It all builds up to July 19 and 20, when we will also present "Apollo 50: Go for the Moon," a 17-minute show that will combine full-motion projection mapping artwork and archival footage to recreate the launch of Apollo 11 and tell the story of the first Moon landing.

The show will unfold on the face of the Washington Monument and supporting screens, including a 40-foot-wide recreation of the famous Kennedy Space Center countdown clock.

The free show will run at 9:30 pm, 10:30 pm, and 11:30 pm on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20.

Experience "Apollo 50: Go for the Moon" from viewing areas on the National Mall in front of the Smithsonian Castle between 9th and 12th Streets.

Check back on this page for updates and additional details.

Text Apollo50GO to 888777 for live updates on the days of the shows.

Support for Apollo 50 programming is generously provided by

Apollo 50: Go for the Moon was commissioned by the National Air and Space Museum and created by 59 Productions, a multi-award-winning company of artists, architects, designers and technologists offering world-leading expertise in design for stage and live events, architectural projection-mapping to exhibition design, VR experiences, and technical consultancy.

Created in 2006 and led by directors Leo Warner, Mark Grimmer, Lysander Ashton, Richard Slaney and Anna Jameson, 59 Productions created the video design of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the design and creative direction of the record-breaking "David Bowie is" exhibition, and the projection and video design of the National Theatre stage production "War Horse," which has reached audiences of more than 7 million people in 11 countries.

The company received a Tony Award in 2015 and an Olivier Award in 2018 for the video design of Christopher Wheeldon's celebrated stage adaptation of An American in Paris which played on Broadway and in the West End.

"Apollo 50: Go for the Moon" is directed by Richard Slaney, with music by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal.

On June 10, 2015, Congressman Bill Posey introduced resolution H.R. 2726 to the 114th session of the United States House of Representatives directing the United States Mint to design and sell commemorative coins in gold, silver and clad for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. On January 24, 2019, the Mint released the Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins to the public on its website.
 A documentary film, "Apollo 11", with restored footage of the 1969 event, premiered in IMAX on March 1, 2019, and broadly in theaters on March 8.
 The Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum and NASA sponsored the “Apollo 50 Festival” on the National Mall in Washington DC.   The three day (July 18 to 20, 2019) outdoor festival featured hands-on exhibits and activities, live performances, and speakers such as Adam Savage and NASA scientists. As part of the festival was a projection of the 363-foot (111 m) tall Saturn V rocket on the east face of the 555-foot (169 m) tall Washington Monument from July 16 through the 20th from 9:30 pm until 11:30 pm (EDT).   There was also a 17-minute show that combined full-motion video projected on the Washingtom Monument to recreate the assembly and launch of the Saturn V rocket.   The projection was combined with a 40-foot (12 m) wide recreation of the Kennedy Space Center countdown clock and two large video screens showing archival footage to recreate the time leading up to the moon landing.


Since then there have been at least eight additional confirmed sightings in the state; all were immediately east of the Tennessee River in Middle Tennessee: initially in Humphreys county and on September 4, 2016, further south in Wayne county.

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The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as mountain lion, panther, painter, puma and catamount, is the largest feline animal in North America.

There haven't been any cougars in Tennessee since the early 1900's.

Similar to Tennessee's wild elk and buffalo, the cougar was extirpated from the state around the early 1900's due to over hunting and habitat loss.

However, the cougar may be coming back to Tennessee.

There have been some confirmed sightings in Tennessee.

The cougar belongs to the family Felidae (cat family) which is in the order Carnivora.

This powerful predator ranges from 5 to 8 ½ feet in total length and weighs from 70 to 250 pounds, with males being bigger than females.

Adults are large sleek cats with small heads.

Their ears are black on the upper side and are a small and rounded with no tufts of hair.

The muzzle is white on the end and black where it joins the head.

Cougars have a long heavy cylindrical tail ranging in length from 20 to 30 inches, with the last couple of inches blackish in color.

Claws are retractable and are very seldom part of a track.

Cougar fur is generally a solid tan color on the upperparts with white undersides.

Slight variations can make the solid brown cat have a reddish, yellowish, or grayish tinge.

No black color phase (termed melanistic) of a cougar has ever been documented.

There is however, documentation of melanistic jaguars (Panthera onca) that live in Mexico and south to northern Argentina, as well as melanistic leopards (Panthera pardus) in Africa.

The bobcat is the only other animal belonging to the cat (Felidae) family that can be found in Tennessee.

Bobcats differ from cougars in their size, coloration, and tail length.

They are much smaller than cougars, ranging in weight from 10 to 40 pounds, where as a cougar starts at 70 pounds.

Their coat is not uniform in color like the cougar's, but is marked with black spots and streaks.

T hey also have pointed ears with hair tufts, unlike the cougar.

The bobcat's tail appears "bobbed", hence the animal's name, and is typically 3 to 8 inches in length, which is very short in comparison with the tail of a cougar.

The cougar occupies the most extensive range of any New World terrestrial mammal, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern tip of South America.

In the United States, cougars inhabit the western region and extend eastward as far as the western edge of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and close to the eastern borders of Colorado and Texas.

A study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management in 2012 compiled confirmed locations of cougars collected outside of their established range during 1990-20081.

The results of the study suggest that the cougar is recolonizing the Midwest with a range expansion eastward.

It is well documented that cougars travel hundreds of miles in search of new territory.

The recent confirmed sightings in Tennessee could be a result of this range expansion and long exploratory treks by transient cougars.

This expansion does not equate to population establishment.

Population establishment only occurs where reproducing females are documented.

Considering that there are large expanses between Tennessee and the established populations, it will likely be a long time before cougars make their home here.

1 - LaRue, M. A., Nielsen, C. K., Dowling, M., Miller, K., Wilson, B., Shaw, H. and Anderson, C. R. (2012), Cougars are recolonizing the midwest: Analysis of cougar confirmations during 1990–2008.

The Journal of Wildlife Management, 76: 1364–1369.

Since September of 2015, there have been a few confirmed sightings of cougars in Tennessee.

These are listed below and are displayed in the Tennessee Confirmed Cougar Sightings Map.

When more confirmed sightings occur, they will be added accordingly.

Tennessee Confirmed Cougar Sightings Map

Trail camera photo submitted by a landowner

Hair sample was submitted by a hunter; DNA analysis indicated a female with genetics similar to cougars in South Dakota

Trail camera video and photos submitted by a landowner

Trail Camera photos submitted by a landowner

TWRA receives many photos and reports of cougars, but until 2015 the photos were not confirmable.

What does it take to become an officially confirmed sighting?

Many photos turn out to be other animals caught in a position in which they look like a cougar.

Often perception in a photo can be distorted, making house cats and bob cats appear cougar like.

Coyotes and large dogs are also often mistaken for cougars.

Also, many trail camera photos are taken at night and are too unclear to make out the details to really know what kind of animal is in the photo.

It boggles the mind the number of cougar hoaxes that are out there.

Many times a photo of a cougar from another state is touted as being from Tennessee.

Other times, an image of a cougar has been "photo shopped" on to a photo of Tennessee landscape.

Photographic evidence must be examined to rule out these possibilities.

Often, the physical site that is represented in the photo is examined by TWRA staff members.

There are many steps in the confirmation process.

Just because the landscape in the photo has been confirmed as real, doesn't mean the sighting itself has been confirmed.

Hair, tracks, and scat samples can be analyzed as evidence of a cougar sighting.

Sign left behind such as kill sites and caches, drag marks, and scrapes can also be useful.

Cougar tracks are round and are 3-4 inches long and 3-4.5 inches wide.

When photographing suspected cougar tracks it is helpful to place a ruler or object such as a coin to enable size judgment.

Large dog tracks are often mistaken for cougar tracks.

Like a dog, the paw has four toes and a pad.

Unlike the dog, the toes are teardrop shaped and the pad at the opposite end of the paw has three lobes, while the dog's pad has two lobes.

A detailed explanation of the confirmation process of the first confirmed cougar sighting is available here.

Because Tennessee law protects all animals for which no hunting season is proclaimed, the cougar is protected in Tennessee.

It is illegal to kill a cougar in Tennessee except in the case of imminent threat of life and injury.

Also, if a landowner is experiencing property damage made by wildlife, that landowner has the right to protect his/her property.

TWRA has never, nor has it any plans to stock or otherwise physically encourage the establishment of a cougar population in Tennessee.

TWRA plans to monitor the natural expansion of the cougar from the western US as it pertains to Tennessee.

There are three subspecies of cougar relevant in North America.

The Western Cougar is well established in Western USA, Western Canada, and throughout Mexico.

This subspecies is likely recolonizing and expanding their range in the Midwest and is likely the subspecies that is the subject of Tennessee cougar sightings.

The Eastern Cougar, once ranging in all of the U.S. east of the Mississippi River, is now officially extinct, with the vast majority of the population wiped out by the early 1900s.

Because the federal Endangered Species Act does not protect extinct species, the Eastern Cougar subspecies was officially removed from the federal endangered species list this year (2015).

The Florida Panther, residing on the southern tip of Florida, is the only breeding population of cougar east of the Mississippi River.

With a population estimate of 100-180 individuals, this subspecies is on the federal endangered species list.

The occasional dispersing male has made his way to into Georgia and parts of Alabama.

Cougars are shy, nocturnal, solitary, secretive animals, with large home ranges.

Because of their behavioral patterns, the likelihood of encountering a cougar is extremely slim, even in areas with established populations.

To show how rare a cougar attack is, compare the number of human fatalities resulting from cougar attacks to those resulting from other hazards from animals or nature.

In the 100 years between 1890 to 1990, in the U.S. and Canada, only 10 humans died due to cougar attacks.1

Every year in the U.S. an average of 26 human deaths are the result of dog attacks, 3 deaths from bear attacks, 12 deaths from rattlesnake bites, 40 deaths from bee stings, and 90 deaths from lightning strikes.

Also considering there have been no confirmed sightings of a cougar between the years 1900 and 2015 in Tennessee, the chances of a cougar encounter are even smaller.

Even if the chances of encountering a cougar are miniscule, it doesn't hurt to know what to do!

Cougars are large predatory carnivores and if you see one, it might be deciding whether or not you'd be an easy meal.

Never run, but instead make yourself threatening by standing tall, waving your arms, throwing objects, and yelling.

Don't turn away, but back away slowly, and towards shelter like a car or house if possible.

If you're with a group of people, gather together.

Dogs and children have a tendency to run and they are more vulnerable than you, so pick them up so they don't become a target.

Report the encounter to local authorities and TWRA as soon as possible.

1 - Beier, P. Cougar attacks on humans in the United States and Canada.

Wildlife Society Bulletin. 1991;19:403–412.

All four confirmed cougar kills in Iowa since 2000 involved males.
 On April 14, 2008, police fatally shot a cougar on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. DNA tests were consistent with cougars from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Less than a year later, on March 5, 2009, a cougar was photographed and unsuccessfully tranquilized by state wildlife biologists in a tree near Spooner, Wisconsin, in the northwestern part of the state. Other eastern sightings since 2010 have occurred in locations such as Greene County, Indiana, Greenwich and Milford, Connecticut, Morgan County Pike County, and Whiteside County, Illinois, and Bourbon County, Kentucky. In Tennessee, no confirmed sightings had been made since the early 1900s. The first confirmed sighting in a century was made on September 20, 2015, in Obion county in the north-western corner of West Tennessee. Six days later, and about 35 miles to the southeast, a hair sample was found in Carroll County. DNA analysis revealed that it was from a female genetically similar to South Dakota cougars.


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# Y Combinator Startup Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube

First we had Ning, which lets you build your own niche social network.

Now we have Fliggo, which lets you build your own YouTube.

Fliggo is the latest startup to come out of Y Combinator.

It has been in private beta for a while, but is now open to the public.

Fliggo lets you create your own video-sharing site.

It hosts and streams the videos, and provides "grandma-friendly" management tools to customize the site and monitor usage.

Fliggo sItes can be private or public, and are geared towards groups, companies, or video bloggers who want more control over who can see and comment on their videos, and the ads placed against them.

Fliggo takes the expense and custom-work out of building a video-hosting site.

Right now, if you want to create your own video site, the easiest thing to do is to simply use WordPress and embed YouTube's videos.

In fact, that is exactly the approach we used with our own video site, Elevator Pitches.

The downside to that is that all of the videos also reside on YouTube, and if we wanted to enable advertising, we'd have to split that with YouTube.

Fliggo lets you control all the videos, as well as who gets to comment on them, and the related videos that are suggested alongside them.

In fact, Fliggo created a quick-and-dirty version of Elevator Pitches just to show us how easy it could be done.

(We're not switching over, though, so please continue to upload videos to the official Elevator Pitches site).

The downside is that your videos don't show up in YouTube searches.

And Fliggo doesn't yet offer HD uploads (athough that is coming).

Another danger for Fliggo is that it becomes a magnet for videos taken down for copyright violations elsewhere or porn (both of which are prohibited by Fliggo's terms of service).

The basic service is free, but Fliggo charges for premium features such as teh ability to serve ads or host Fliggo on your own domain.

The company has a not-yet-public API it shares with partner sites which want to embed Fliggo functionality on their own existing sites.

JamLegend (a LaunchBox startup) recently did just that, adding a video section based on the Fliggo API where players can film themselves rocking out on their keyboards (literally).

Above is the screenshot of the JamLegend implementation.

Below are screenshots of the Fliggo version of Elevator Pitches and a view of the management dashboard.

Fliggo was a video sharing website where users could create their own private video sharing site. Users could choose who had access to their videos and what they could do on their site. The site eventually merged with video sharing website Vidly, which was later renamed Twitvid.io.
 The website was founded in October 2007 by Chrys Bader and Daniel Rhodes and became incorporated in July 2008. Fliggo publicly launched on February 25, 2009 and was relatively well received.


In October 2018, he was named in India's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against the West indies, but he did not play.

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# Uncapped Krunal Pandya, Nadeem named in India squads for Australia, Windies T20Is, Dhoni left out

MS Dhoni has been dropped from India's T20I squads for their three-match series against Windies and Australia.

The slow left-arm pair of Krunal Pandya and Shahbaz Nadeem have received their maiden call-ups.

Dhoni's legacy as one of India's greatest limited-overs cricketers is assured, but the decision to leave him out will still come as a blow; at the age of 37 years old, it may well spell the end of his T20I career, especially with Rishabh Pant emerging as a ball-stirker par excellence.

Could MS Dhoni's glittering T20I career be coming to an end?

It could even prove to be the first indication that India are considering leaving Dhoni out of next summer's Men's Cricket World Cup squad.

There have been some rumblings about his continued worth in ODI and T20I cricket, with his ability to score at the pace required for modern white-ball cricket in doubt.

The only difference between the two squads is the absence of Virat Kohli from the squad to take on the Windies at home.

It has become routine for him to obtain rest from a busy international schedule by missing certain engagements, with his absence also giving India the chance to take a look at some other options.

In this instance, Nadeem takes his place in the squad, though it is hardly a like-for-like replacement - Nadeem averages under 10 in T20 cricket.

In September he broke the record for the best-ever List A figures, taking 8/10 for Jharkhand against Rajasthan in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Shahbaz Nadeem claimed the best List A figures in history

He was also one of five spinners taken by India to the UAE as they prepared for the Asia Cup and has also impressed for Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Krunal Pandya, brother of seam-bowling all-rounder Hardik, also shot to prominence through the IPL, starring with both bat and ball for Mumbai Indians.

He has taken 51 wickets in T20s at an excellent economy of 6.96, and scored his 967 runs at an average of 26.86 and a brilliant strike-rate of 146.96.

He won't make his debut alongside Hardik, with his brother still recovering from an injury sustained during the Asia Cup.

Siddarth Kaul, Suresh Raina, and Deepak Chahar are the other omissions from India's last T20I assignment, against England.

Krunal Pandya has impressed for Mumbai Indians

India's series against Windies begins on 6 November at Kolkata.

Their series against Australia begins on 21 November at Brisbane.

SQUAD FOR AUSTRALIA T20Is: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant (wk), Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed

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The pro-Hadi Yemen Army was able to remove 300,000 Houthi mines in recently captured areas, including 40,000 mines on the outskirts of Marib province, according to official sources.

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Mark Yudof, then president of the university, was hoping that Monson would be able to help the program move past the scandals of previous head coach Clem Haskins.

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The new Gophers basketball coach says he'll make academic achievement a top priority.

Gonzaga University head coach Dan Monson

signed a seven-year contract with the University of Minnesota over the weekend.

University officials say Monson's committment to good grades was a key factor in their decision to hire him.

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his team defeated the Gophers in round one of the NCAA tournament last

It would be the last game Clem Haskins would coach for Minnesota, coming

one day after allegations of academic fraud first rocked the university and

Now, Monson is back; this time to lead the

in the wake of Haskins' buyout last month

concerned about the ongoing investigation into the men's basketball program.

investigation is expected to conclude in the fall and the university will likely

appear before the NCAA infractions committee next spring.

Monson: I know that, with this probation, the next coach here has to do it the right way, has to academically...

off the court, things have to be done the right way.

as a coach, I stand for, and so I think that in that regard, I know I'm coming

into a place that expects me to run my program the only way I know how.

Monson's contract includes a base salary of $150,000 a year with

a supplemental package of $340,000 per year.

income worth hundreds of thousands more from shoe contracts and basketball

And in a change from Haskins' contract, Monson is eligible for bonuses if

his athletes show strong academic performance.

says he's pleased with the 37-year-old Monson's youth and exuberance.

Yudof: Coach Monson is outstanding, and he's the right person to grow the

basketball program and take us where we want to go and take us there in - what

court, which is important, but what is equally or more important, he stands for

them in the classroom and in the community

The decision to offer the job to Monson - and his decision to accept

- came after an intensive search to replace Haskins.

interest in recruiting several high-profile coaches and just last week seemed on

the verge of hiring University of Virginia athletic director Terry Holland

But U of M athletic director Mark Dienhart says

hiring Monson was not settling for second-best.

Dienhart: What we do is to go out and to try to find the best fit and try to pay them what the marketplace would dictate and what their credentials would

And I think we have a coach here, with whom we have a signed

contract right now, who is worth every penny of what he is being paid.

And to me, he's not a second choice of any kind.

Dienhart says he identified Monson early in the recruitment process

but that Monson was out of the country for much of the summer.

Europe as an assistant coach to the gold-medal winning men's team in the World

Monson became one of the more sought after coaching candidates in college basketball in the spring of 1999. After Gonzaga's improbable run to the Elite Eight, he signed a new contract in mid-April, then was offered the head coaching position at the University of Minnesota in late July, which he accepted.


In 2002, Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth established the "Booth Family Rome Prize Fellowship for Historic Preservation and Conservation" at the American Academy in Rome, which is awarded on an annual basis and has supported over 15 fellowships.

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# Growing Influence: A New Art Prize Finds Collectors Ramping Up Their Giving

After Agnes Gund launched the $100 million Art for Justice Fund with the proceeds from the sale of Roy Lichtenstein's "Masterpiece," I wondered if collectors represented the sleeping giants of arts philanthropy.

A number of founding donors to Art for Justice have committed gifts of artwork or contributions, and late last year, the fund allocated $22 million to 30 criminal justice reform groups and education and arts initiatives.

Around the same time, the anonymous consignor of Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Red Skull" announced they would donate the proceeds to a nonprofit that opens new public charter schools.

News out of Texas, meanwhile, finds prominent collectors embracing a more traditional model of arts philanthropy.

Glenn Fuhrman and his wife Amanda partnered with Suzanne Deal Booth and The Contemporary Austin to transform the existing $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, which is currently celebrating its inaugural exhibition, into one of the nation's largest awards presented to an artist.

The revamped Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize will fund a $200,000 unrestricted award to an artist selected by an independent advisory committee.

It also includes a catalog and solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin and Fuhrman's Manhattan-based FLAG Art Foundation.

The prize's inaugural winner for 2020 will be announced in July.

A philanthropist, collector and board member of The Contemporary Austin, Booth is also the founder of the Friends of Heritage Preservation, a charitable organization that has contributed to 60 preservation and conservation projects around the world.

In 2001, she and her family established the Booth Family Rome Prize Fellowship for Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome.

When I first reported on the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize a couple of years ago, I noted that Booth was drawn to its practice of inviting artists to create site-specific work.

"By putting an emphasis on the artist, it creates something very stimulating, very fresh that people can connect with," she said.

Glenn Fuhrman, meanwhile, is another financier with an interest in art.

He co-founded MSD Capital, majored in finance and art history at UPenn, and is a trustee at the MoMA, where he and Amanda have provided steady support throughout the years.

ARTNews listed the couple in its Top 200 list of collectors each year of the decade, while Business Insider listed Fuhrman as one of the 25 "most serious" Wall Street art collectors.

Collectors have historically deferred to institutional givers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to traditional grantmaking and the red-hot area of activist art in particular.

This is why Gund's Art for Justice Fund is so important.

It's predicated on the idea that by selling their work, collectors can advance social justice.

As Ford President Darren Walker noted, "art has meaning on a wall, but it also has meaning when it is monetized."

And while Booth or Fuhrman do not seem to be selling any work to fund the prize, they are nonetheless prominent and influential collectors who have launched a lucrative prize that provides highly coveted direct support to artists.

An open question is the extent to which the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize will align with the surging fields of boosting access to the arts and promoting socially focused work.

Corroborating evidence suggests it will.

Regarding access, the Fuhrmans' FLAG Art Foundation exhibition space has been free and open to the public since its 2008 opening.

The Fuhrman family has also underwritten free admission at the Institute of Contemporary Art annually for nearly a decade.

The couple is clearly committed to eliminating financial barriers to access.

Exemplifying its social focus, in the charged aftermath of the 2016 election, the FLAG Art Foundation curated an exhibition that focused on artists who "negotiate politics, tragedies, social issues, and their own perspectives" by using the New York Times as an inspiration for their work.

Also consider the CV of Los Angeles-based Rodney McMillian, the winner of inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize.

McMillian, according to Contemporary Austin, "has worked in a range of mediums and materials, including sculpture, painting, video, performance, and immersive environments, to explore themes of class, gender, race, social history, and culture."

I recently spoke with VIA Art Fund President and collector Bridgitt Evans on the state of arts philanthropy and floated the theory that collectors are the sleeping giants of arts philanthropy.

Collectors, she said, are "exposed to a wider variety of artists, practices, ideas, and social commentary," and moving forward, they will "direct the same passion they have to collecting to philanthropy."

Glenn Fuhrman, while commenting on his new and improved arts prize, said the partnership with Booth "seemed like a natural next step, a way to learn about artists we may not even be familiar with."

Ms. Deal Booth and the Fuhrmans have committed to fund four prizes biennially through 2026.

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From 1986 to 1996 Deal Booth worked as the Getty Art History Information Program and Training Program Coordinator, Getty Conservation Institute.
 In 1998 she founded Friends of Heritage Preservation (FOHP), a charitable giving group that works in partnership with individuals, organizations, museums, and foundations to promote cultural identity through the preservation of endangered artistic and historic works, artifacts, and sites.
 Deal Booth served as a Gubernatorial appointment to the Board of the California Cultural & Historical Endowment from 2004- 2008  She has been a board member of Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2002 and serves on the boards of the Menil Collection; The Blanton Museum of Art; Ballroom Marfa, and The Contemporary Austin, as well as serving on the advisory council of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a former trustee of Rice University, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute of Fine Arts (New York University) and the Centre Pompidou Foundation.


According to the official website of the Muséoscope, the "museum of the largest dam in Europe made of compacted soil", Lac de Serre-Ponçon includes a hydroelectric power plant with a 380 MW generator.

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## The hydroelectric plant of Serre-Ponçonis one of the most powerful of France

The hydroelectric plant of Serre-Ponçon produces about 700 million kWh per year, which corresponds approximately to the consumption of the departement of the Hautes-Alpes.

With an output of 380 MW (1/3 of a nuclear reactor), it is the most powerful hydroelectric plant in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, and one of the most powerful in France.

By the opening of the spillway gate (dam water release) a great spray of water of many cubic meter springs out

But Serre-Ponçon is the reservoir from where the EDF canal of the Durance starts.

The latter carries the water stored in the reservoir of Serre-Ponçon and runs over 250 km, down to the Saint Chamasplant, located on the banks of the Etang de Berre.

Throughout this channel, 15 hydropower plants successively turbine the water.

Upstream of the Lake Serre-Ponçon, 8 hydropower plants were built on the Durance and its tributaries.

With the plants of the Verdon, a tributary of the Durance, the entire hydroelectric chain of the Durance - Verdon gathers 32 plants.

This assembly forms one of the five most important hydraulic deposit of France (1 / 6th of the advanced hydraulic means).

This Durance - Verdon assembly shows a potential output of 7 billion kWh, corresponding to:

40 to 60% of the electricity production in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, a vital production for the region that now consumes twice as much electricity than it produces

15 to 20% of the consumption in the Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur Region

19 power plants of the Durance - Verdon chain are remotely controlled by computer and simultaneously from the joint command post of Sainte-Tulle, near Manosque.

This centralized operation ensures synchronized functioning with a capacity of 2,000 MW, the equivalent of two nuclear reactors.

Within 10 minutes, this production potential can be mobilized, a valuable asset to respond in real time to changes in the consumption of electricity or to deal with failures of the electrical system.

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The lake was created to control water flow after disastrous floods caused severe damage and loss of life in 1843 and 1856. First proposed in 1895,  construction started in 1955 and was completed by 1961.
 During construction of the lake, approximately 3,000,000 cubic metres (110,000,000 cu ft) of material was moved. The dam was constructed and the valley slowly became a lake, flooding some villages in the process.  This flooding is the subject of Jean Giono's movie "Girl and the River" (1958), starring Guy Béart.