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The world’s largest video streaming service fell short of its latest quarterly subscriber targets, so naturally pundits across the internet and Wall Street are busy engraving its tombstone.
“Netflix is falling off a cliff,” TechCrunch announced.
“Netflix’s Slowdown Sparks Fresh Fears of Video-Streaming Bubble,” Bloomberg fretted.
What’s remarkable is the short-term memory loss such analysis requires. Netflix’s subscriber growth, which has been dramatic over the past several years, is never a smooth upward curve. Sometimes it wildly outperforms in a quarter, as it did in Q1 this year. Sometimes it misses badly.
“As a reminder, the quarterly guidance we provide is our actual internal forecast at the time we report, and we strive for accuracy, meaning in some quarters we will be high and other quarters low relative to our guidance,” the letter says.
The company also included this handy chart, which shows the hits and misses for each quarter. Netflix has had three misses in the last 10 quarters, and seven beats, including a couple of quite large beats in Q4 of 2016 and 2017.
Still, most of this falls on deaf ears, as such explanations tend to do, whether the news is good or bad. When it’s good, the market overreacts. When it’s bad — same story. As a result, the company’s stock was down around 13 percent in after-hours trading. That’s hardly a disaster, as the stock has still doubled over the past year.
But this temporary blip masks Netflix’s growing might, something that will be particularly important now that HBO’s new owners are making noise about wanting to invest in and expand the service to better compete with Netflix. Indeed, HBO’s own streaming service has been doing quite well since it launched a couple of years ago.
As of February, HBO had 5 million streaming customers in the U.S. and 142 million subscribers via cable and streaming around the world, putting it ahead of Netflix’s 130 million subscribers as of Q2 2018. But then HBO had 136 million subscribers as of December 2016, when Netflix had only 93.8 million subscribers.
So overall HBO has remained stagnant while Netflix has enjoyed a boom. But that still overstates HBO’s online prowess. As Bloomberg notes here, HBO has just 2 million streaming-only customers; the rest log in as an extension of their cable subscription account.
Worse, the company is hampered by other problems internationally. Its content outside the U.S. is still typically shown via other paid-TV services. In France, where I live, it’s shown primarily on OCS. Those services have their own streaming apps, and so HBO’s streaming apps remain blocked in many countries. Of course, HBO gets revenue from the relationships, but not much brand recognition. And in terms of expanding its relationship with those customers, well, it doesn’t really have a way to do that.
Of course, HBO likes to brag that it’s about quality, not quantity, a philosophy that appears to be a source of tension with its new AT&T overlords. But the fact is that even on the creative front, HBO has been slipping for a long time.
Yes, it still has Game of Thrones. Yet as that show heads toward its final season, HBO’s response seems to be ordering several more GOT-related series. Not really a sign of a creative renaissance. While it produces the occasional buzzworthy miniseries, it’s hard to think of a show on HBO that’s having the cultural impact of The Sopranos or the The Wire or Sex in the City.
As if to drive that point home, Netflix just broke HBO’s 17-year Emmy winning streak when it received more nominations, something Netflix bragged about in its shareholder letter. The knock against Netflix is that it is just cranking out a huge volume of shows. But while there are certainly plenty of duds, the Emmy milestone is still amazing for a company that just began producing original content five years ago.
HBO, by comparison, has had a several-decade head start. Compare that impact to Amazon Studios, which began producing series in 2013. Not even close — either in volume or quality — to Netflix.
Certainly, Netflix will have to continue pushing to increase those subscriber numbers as new competition comes online, including Apple’s foray into original content and Disney’s streaming service that’s set to launch next year. But perhaps sitting inside the U.S., where HBO has been such a cultural force for so long, obscures the global domination Netflix has achieved.
The former DVD rental service has become the largest producer of original video content on the planet. Its brand has begun to reach global recognition on the level of McDonald’s and Starbucks. No matter the pedigree of competitors or the ups and downs of quarterly subscriber growth, Netflix is going to be mighty hard to dislodge from its video streaming throne.
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| Fen-Chi for Weight Loss? |
Answered by: Susan Eagles
Question from: Arlene Perkins
Posted on: June 6, 1998
I have been on an exercise program for quite some time. I run 4 miles, at least, 4 times a week. This has been consistant for about a year. My question is, since I have been exercising in this fashion what effects (short or long) could taking Fen-Chi have on my body? An analysis was done to determine my body fat. It reads as 25%, at age 34, height 5’2", 127 lbs. I know it will take time to acheive my goal in eliminating unwanted fat.
I have no information on the short or long term effects Fen-Chi as a weight loss program. It contains ephedra, diuretics and ginger. Ephedra is a stimulant which is harmful in cases of heart problems. Long term use of diuretics can cause kidney problems. You should consult your doctor before starting Fen-Chi.
A nutritious diet is the best accompaniment to your exercise program. Foods to be avoided because they cause health problems and an increase in weight and are: sugars, sweeteners, fatty, fried or processed foods, white flour products and dairy products. Foods to be increased are fresh raw fruits and vegetables, soy products, whole grains, water, juices. Herbal teas and Dandelion coffee can replace caffeine drinks (tea, coffee, cola, cocoa), provide nutrients and some of your daily liquid requirements.
For more information on weight loss, see Siegfried Gursche, "Encyclopedia of Natural Healing" (Alive Publishers, Canada, (800) 663-6580 or Natural Life Publishing Inc., U.S. (800) 663-6513), who recommends the following: Essential fatty acids available in nuts, seeds and fatty fish like salmon or mackerel can help the body burn excess fat; enzymes from fresh raw fruit and green leafy vegetables speed up the metabolism and boost the immune system; fiber-rich foods such as fruit, especially apples, suppress the appetite by swelling to form bulk in the stomach and bind with bile to prevent fat reabsorption.
Dietary recommendations can be found in Dr. Dean Ornish’s "Eat More, Weigh Less", (Harper Collins Publishers) which describes the basic philosophy behind a fat free diet and includes hundreds of delicious recipes. |
We can learn a lot about resilience from communities impacted by the summer fires.
As cities, towns and entire countries endure lockdown due to COVID-19, most of us are coming to terms with the fact our lives have significantly changed — that possibly things won’t ever be the same.
But communities always look after each other in times of crisis and uncertainty. Whether it’s bushfires and droughts, or a global pandemic, we see amazing generosity and kindness. We also witness incredible resilience, with many people reflecting on how they want to live.
Just a few months ago, people around Australia were still reeling from the devastation and destruction of the summer megafires. Many are still recovering. We cannot forget their experiences.
Read and watch their incredible stories of resilience, recovery and community.
For even more inspiring stories, listen to the Surviving Extremes webinar on Wednesday 13 May with bushfire community members Dan, Michelle and Don – plus TV presenter and podcaster Osher Günsberg.
Being witness to the megafires rip through my community really impacted my thoughts and my practice. I've been criticised for speaking out publicly about what's been going on and its links to climate change. But it does matter to us doctors about what's going on in the environment today. The health of our environment is directly linked to our health, and healthy environment means healthy humans.
Doctors care about saving lives. That is our business. So this is my job. I need to speak up about these issues because the public should be aware of this. Clean air, clean water and a liveable climate underpin our very survival and I feel as though these basic rights for us humans are being eroded before our very eyes.
My future vision is to see Indigenous ranger groups working back on Country … on public lands and private lands. For us to get healthy Country back, it could take a generation. It could take two generations. Country's been mismanaged for 200 years and it's not going to be an overnight fix.
A lot of scientists want to measure cultural burning. But the benefits are also socially within our community. It's connecting our community back to culture, back to Country and that’s measurable straight away. We've got a lot of problems in our community. I think it stems from not being connected to culture and not being connected to Country. By connecting us back to traditional burning it will connect us back to all of those things and it'll create a healthy community again. There's a saying, you know, 'healthy country, healthy community'.
Part of resilience means you've got a financial base and the [community] capacity to respond to crisis. We need to urgently decarbonise our economy … this does not need to be ‘economy wrecking’ — indeed we think in this region it may well revive our regional economy. We just need the collective will power to do this.
I feel politicians who are promoting coal mining in Queensland and new coal fired power stations are denying our local economy. We can design an orderly transition to more sustainable industries that build a stronger, value-adding renewable economy that is better than what we currently have. The more solar and wind we have down here, the more money could stay in our community. That becomes a really important part of our future resilience. Why would you blow against that?
Communities are coming together. We're helping each other out. And that's important. But that doesn't absolve governments of responsibility. This shouldn't be political. You either believe the science or you don't. And I think the fossil fuel industry spends billions of dollars on propaganda denying climate change. And some people are still sucked in by that.
We need to move into renewable energy and away from fossil fuels quickly. I think that's what we have to do. It's about getting big companies onside, the banks onside, banks not giving loans to coal companies. I think what's happened is proof that it's urgent and I know some people still don't believe that. And we need to keep telling these people how our rainforests that haven't burnt for thousands of years have been permanently damaged.
European honeybees and native Australian bees have been hugely impacted by these fires, not just the bees, but all the insects. Every insect that we can think of that lives in that forest has been impacted by the lack of food and habitat. If you think about what native bees and European honeybees do to our environment, they're the pollinators. Without bees, we don't have trees, literally. So we need to act quickly and think about what we can do to help our bees re-establish themselves in our forests.
I'd like to see more work being done for the bees and for the little native insects by putting feeding stations out for them, and by planting pollination patches. If we can plant pollination patches right up and down the coast we're going to quickly re-establish the forest.
I think there needs to be a very significant role within faith communities. We've seen a failure of political leadership and to some extent we've seen a failure of faith leadership, because I think the church could be more vocal about this.
One of the interesting things about what's happened is that it might, for some people, be tapping into the fact they actually do feel a strong connection to nature they haven't really been paying enough attention to. And seeing the damage is kind of a reawakening of that. There's a place for engaging with people in a way that really brings them into actual touch with nature … just go down the road and look at this tree that's burnt, and look at what's happening here and and feel what this is about. This is our life.
There's been an absolute lack of federal leadership in the climate breakdown and in what we've faced in drought, fire and flood. I'm finding in the regional communities, where we're actually facing it, we’re coming together. We’re recognising we have to do something. We have to act. Otherwise our communities are going to be broken. We're not going to be here as rural communities anymore or regional communities.
We've got to start looking to support ourselves and one of the initiatives might be that we set up our own solar farms with battery packs to guarantee that any future natural disasters whether it be flood, fire or drought, where power lines are cut, we have our own resources. We can start looking after ourselves. We need the federal government to start funding activity like this so regional communities are able to be sustainable. Climate action isn't just about emissions, it's about supporting and looking after regional and rural communities.
The need for solutions to the climate and extinction crisis will not go away. These are uncertain and challenging times, but now is not the time to stop our collective work creating a kinder, fairer and healthier world.
Photos: Annette Ruzicka/MAPgroup |
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Old Log Jail (No. P688 California State Historical Point of Interest)
California Points of Historical Interest
California Points of Historical Interest are sites, buildings, features, or events that are of local (city or county) significance and have anthropological, cultural, military, political, architectural, economic, scientific or technical, religious, experimental, or other value.
Points of Historical Interest designated after 1997 are recommended by the State Historical Resources Commission, and are also listed on the California Register.
Historical resources that are designated as Points of Historical Interest are not designated as Landmarks. Points of Interest are of local significance, while Landmarks are of statewide significance. Points that are granted Landmark status are retired from their Points of Interest designation.
To be designated as a Point of Historical Interest, a resource must meet at least one of the following criteria:
1) Is the first, last, only, or most significant of its type within the local geographic region (City or County)
2) Is associated with an individual or group having a profound influence on the history of the local area
3) A prototype of, or an outstanding example of, a period, style, architectural movement, or construction or is one of the more notable works or the best surviving work in the local region of a pioneer architect, designer, or master builder.
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The Old Log Jail in Markleeville was constructed after the county seat was moved from Silver Mountain City (also known as Kongsberg) to Markleeville in 1872. The new jail was constructed from logs, and the builders used a mortise and tenon method, a building method where the tenon "tongue" is joined into the mortise "hole." The tongue is cut to perfectly fit the hole. The log style and the mortise-tenon building method make this jail unique. The jail contains two iron cells that were originally at the Silver Mountain City jail.
The remains of the jail from Silver Mountain City can be seen from Highway 4, a short drive from Markleeville. Though nothing more than the stone foundation is left of the Silver City Mountain jail, it is a relic of a time when the population of the Markleeville and Silver Mountain City were larger, when the appeal of mining and the hopes of striking it rich drew thousands of people to the region.
In 1969, the jail was donated to the Alpine County Historical Society in memory of Sheriff Orrin P. Brown, and moved to its present-day location next to the Alpine County Museum. It is now part of the Alpine County Historical Complex, and was registered as a state historic point of interest on August 13, 1987. A plaque was erected in 1992 by the Snow-Shoe Thomson Chapter of E. Clampus Vitus.
The Old Log Jail is at the Alpine County Historical Complex at 1 School Street off of Montgomery Street in Markleeville.
High in the Sierra along the Nevada border, Alpine County is sparsely populated, and is in fact the least populated county in California. Situated between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park, Alpine County is a destination for outdoor enthusiasts looking to get away from the crowds. Grover Hot Springs State Park is in Alpine County, and parts of the El Dorado National Forest, Stanislaus National Forest, and Toiyabe National Forest are within Alpine County. In 1844, John C. Freemont’s expedition, accompanied by Kit Carson, passed through the area and over today’s Carson Pass. The Overland Emigrant Trail passed through this county, and is marked today by yellow painted iron markers and plaques. Markleeville is the County seat.
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RANCHO SANTA FE — Mention Bing Crosby and most people instantly think of him crooning a heartfelt rendition of “White Christmas” or bantering with Bob Hope in comedic quips.
But besides being a major Hollywood star and box office draw in the 1930s through the 1960s and beyond, Crosby, was also a big horseman and breeder. Born Harry Ellis Crosby Jr. in 1903 in Tacoma, Washington, he went on to co-found the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in 1937 and helped build the Del Mar Racetrack. He also made 58 motion pictures, broadcast many radio shows and sold more than 300 million records, according to an article in the LA Times at the time of his death.
Crosby, also an avid golfer and star of such films as “High Society” with Grace Kelly, and “Going My Way with Hope,” he took up residence in Rancho Santa Fe in the 1930s. He wasn’t alone as other top celebrities of the time like Corinne Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford, and then later, Victor Mature of “Samson and Delilah” fame, as well as Robert Young of “Father Knows Best” became residents of Rancho Santa Fe.
According to an article written by a past archives chairwoman for the Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society, Fran Foley: “ … Crosby organized the tournament later known as the National Pro-Am in Pebble Beach. Initially, the event was conceived as a more casual affair, a “clambake,” as he called it. The first of these clambakes was held at Crosby’s local club in Rancho Santa Fe in 1937. (Sam Snead won the tournament and pocketed a princely $700 for the victory)”
Foley also wrote: “Rancho Santa Fe has been a popular place for the rich and famous to live since the ’30s. Whether the reasons lie in the area’s remote-ness, its beauty and charm or its million-dollar mansions, Rancho Santa Fe has always been an attraction for Hollywood stars and corporate executives. Rancho Santa Fe attracts celebrities because it is known that in the Ranch, they will be able to lead a normal life. In the 30s, 40s, and 50s, movie stars would flock to this area because they wanted to get away from Hollywood.”
The house that Crosby Built
In terms of living in the Ranch, Crosby bought the 100-acre property known as Osuna Adobe No. 2, the former home of Juan Maria Osuna, owner of the original Rancho San Dieguito land grant, in 1932. The sprawling ranch at one time was considered a historical landmark. Crosby and his predecessors made changes to the property with the help of popular architect of the time, Lilian Rice, including the Crosby family main residence.
Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society’s Sharon Alix said Crosby’s first wife Dixie Lee Crosby (1911-1952), lived at the ranch. She was an actress, dancer and singer, who later died of ovarian cancer on Nov.1, 1952, at the age of 41, according to Google. She was married to Bing from 1930-1952. They had four sons: Gary, twins Phillip and Dennis, and Lindsay, according to Wikipedia.
“Dixie raised the children there because it was shortly after the Lindbergh baby abduction; she had a 1-year old baby and feared for their safety in Los Angeles as a high-profile family,” Alix said. “Bing traveled a lot, so he wasn’t there full time, but he did spend time there and did a lot of work to the house and property, and to the development of the Del Mar Race track.”
Speaking of horses, Crosby bred, raised, and even raced horses on the property. The home had wonderful stables, large grass fields where the horses could wander and there was a practice track right on the property, Alix said.
“Many Hollywood stars would come to Rancho Santa Fe because it was far away from Hollywood and a perfect getaway for them. There were very wide-open spaces here and Crosby utilized all of his property to its full advantage and watched as the race track in Del Mar grew in popularity.”
The former Crosby estate is still located off Via de la Valle across from the Morgan Run Golf Club and Resort, in the Whispering Palms section of the Ranch, Alix said.
“There still are a lot of trees, large lawn areas and it has lush private gardens,” Alix said. “There is no public access onto the property, and if you drive by, you wouldn’t know there is a home there.”
Ultimately, Crosby sold the home in 1945; and today it is owned by another private family. Crosby died on Oct. 14, 1977; he suffered a heart attack after playing 18 holes on a course near Madrid. He was 73 years old. |
The term Bamboo Curtain denotes the political and economic barrier between territories under the control of the Communist regime in China and non-Communist countries, especially from the late 1940s to 1972.
It was coined after Iron Curtain, denoting a notional barrier dividing the capitalist West and the Communist countries of the Eastern bloc, prior to the decline of Communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
I have, however, found earlier figurative uses of bamboo curtain in a different sense, i.e., the censorship imposed within a South-East Asian region or country, which isolates it from the rest of the world.
The first of these uses is from No Censorship Wanted, published in The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) of Friday 16th April 1948:
The peace of the world is now threatened by the iron curtain which is one of the principal causes that makes it impossible to reach agreement with Russia in regard to prevention of atomic warfare. Censorship in Japan has led to the declarations of some that a bamboo curtain has been set up in the Orient.
Certainly, when the United States is taking steps for the protection and relief of other countries, it has a right to ask that the rights of its newspaper representatives be upheld.
Not only must the press be protected against censorship but, unless it is fairly well known and established that this is the case, then dispatches from any country which has a censorship curtain must be discounted.
The second-earliest use of bamboo curtain referring to censorship is from Malaya Press To Be Liberalized, published in the Binghamton Press (Binghamton, New York) of Wednesday 25th August 1948:
Singapore—(AP)—An authoritative source said today senior British officials are reconsidering a lower-level decision which has permitted a bamboo curtain of censorship to be dropped around police activities against Communist insurgents in Malaya.
The informant said a more liberal press policy will be ordered soon.
The earliest instance that I have found of Bamboo Curtain in its current sense is from a letter published in The Readers’ Forum of the Lincoln Evening Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) of Friday 26th November 1948. On the question What Should the U.S. Do About China?, a Chinese student named Tan Meng Kiat wrote the following:
The corrupt, totalitarian nationalist government represents only a small minority of the Chinese people, so that, support of such a government by the United States would be most un-democratic, and would result in the lowering of American prestige not only in China but also thruout South-East Asia. As regards the fear of a communist China, I do not believe that is a possibility, for the communists in China are different from communists or communism of the west. Mr. Owen Lattimore1 called them “agragrian [sic] reformers,” tho I prefer to use the simpler term “socialists.” Even the British have informally recognized them as “socialists” saying that a “Bamboo Curtain” in China would be different from the “Iron Curtain” in Europe2. Due to the wide differences between totalitarian and socialism, these socialists in China — are called communists, which would not have been the case if it had been between capitalism and socialism.
1 Owen Lattimore (1900-89), American scholar of China and Central Asia
2 I have not been able to trace that British declaration. |
There are two fairly distinct ways of contesting the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government’s decision to alter the status of Jammu and Kashmir. One is to examine the constitutionality and legality of the decision, and the other is to identify the ideology that is the driving force behind this decision.
The constitutional contestation is poised to come to the fore after the Supreme Court set up a five-judge constitution bench to commence hearing, from October 1, petitions challenging the change in the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir following the reading down of Article 370 and scrapping of Article 35A.
It was evident from Union home minister Amit Shah’s remarks while introducing the Bill in parliament that the government was aware of the constitutional challenge and was prepared for a legal fight.
Though it is very tempting to indulge in speculation regarding the verdict that the Supreme Court might give, excessive emphasis on the constitutionality of the move by some critics is deflecting attention away from a more fundamental aspect of the issue – namely the ideology behind the ruling dispensation’s move and its possible implications.
The importance of the motivating ideology behind the decision in Kashmir will persist even if the Supreme Court rules against the government’s move. Undoubtedly, if the Supreme Court verdict goes against the Centre’s move in Kashmir, it will be a huge setback for the government’s agenda, even if that setback proves to be temporary.
The government agenda can be understood only by unearthing the ideological roots behind this government’s decision which will have a huge bearing on India’s future. Before Partition, two potential visions of an independent India were in circulation – one that favoured decentralisation and one that championed centralisation.
The concept of a decentralised India envisioned a coordinating centre but with substantial powers devolved to the regions of the country. This vision was articulated in the Cabinet Mission proposals in 1946 and was based on an understanding that the India that the British had constructed, after completing their colonial takeover in 1857, was a large territorial space.
This geographical entity was inhabited by a population that was overwhelmingly diverse – religiously, linguistically, ethnically and culturally. The form of governance appropriate for such a diverse populace logically seemed to be the one that recognised and allowed flexibilities to accommodate those diversities.
This decentralist vision of accommodation did not succeed because, of the several fault lines that existed in this diverse geographical space, the religious one proved to be the most overpowering. It led to the partition of this entity into the two nation-states of India and Pakistan.
Both, at some level, appeared to be false creations of unity as well as promises of new experiments of governance through accommodation. That promise was soon debunked in the case of Pakistan when the linguistic fault line within the entity, created on religious grounds, split the country and gave birth to a Bengali speaking Bangladesh in 1971.
After India was partitioned along religious lines in 1947, the pendulum in the minds of the Indian political leadership swung drastically towards centralisation and away from the vision of decentralisation. The ideological construct of India as a unitary nation or a slightly less drastic idea of ‘India as a nation in the making’ started getting prominence.
This centralising vision, which was an antithesis of the earlier conception that recognised and celebrated diversities, became the key feature in the drafting of the Indian constitution and the political culture of governance. It was a case of a centralised superstructure constructed over a base that consisted of multiple diversities.
So terrified was Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, of these diversities undoing his project of constructing one unified Indian nationhood that he at first opposed the linguistic reorganisation of India that had been promised by the Congress party before Indian independence.
His opposition became apparent when movements emerged for the creation of linguistic states such as Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. When he finally agreed to the creation of these linguistic states under pressure from powerful mass movements, it was like he was forced to drink a poison.
Yet, as someone who valued democratic values that were still hegemonic then in Indian politics, he swallowed the bitter pill. He reserved his most dogged opposition for the creation of a Punjabi speaking state to the extent that it was only his death that prompted conditions for the creation of Punjab in 1966. For Nehru, it was this ideological obsession with centralisation as the key to Indian nationhood that fed his opposition to the linguistic reorganisation of states.
The Jan Sangh – the present-day BJP’s ideological predecessor – was always opposed to the reorganisation of states on linguistic basis on the grounds that recognising these diversities posed a threat to the creation of one unified Indian nationhood.
It is this ideological mindset that led the Jan Sangh to oppose the special status of Jammu and Kashmir from the very beginning, which Nehru had agreed to under historical compulsions. The current BJP-led government is advancing the Jan Sangh’s ideological agenda.
There are several differences between the Congress and the BJP but there is one strong ideological affinity between the two i.e. both view centralisation as the key for making one unified Indian nation even if conceptions of that nationhood differ. I
t is this underlying ideological affinity on centralising Indian nationhood which explains why some leading figures in the Congress party such as Karan Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Janardhan Dwivedi, Milind Deora, Anil Shastri, Bhupinder Hooda, Bhubaneswar Kalita and Aditi Singh have unhesitatingly supported the BJP-led government’s Kashmir adventure.
Given the narratives of Indian nationalist historiography, it will require a massive degree of unlearning and relearning to acknowledge that India is a land of multiple nationalities, and that peace and sustainable development requires not an overcentralised form of governance dictated by a hyper-nationalist ideology but a federal form of accommodative governance in which special status for some parts of the federal entity is compatible with all nationalities living together with consent and not out of coercion.
It is only this vision that has the moral and intellectual power to question the BJP’s centralising agenda and the wavering elements within the Congress and other smaller parties which have supported the BJP-led government’s move to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its special status and indeed its position as a full-fledged state of the Indian Union.
Although the outcome of the constitutional contestation will have important short-term implications, it is the ideological contestation that will, in the long run, shape the future of India, including its constitutional governance.
Pritam Singh is a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of Federalism, Nationalism and Development. |
Tom Miller Dam. Austin, Texas
Hyperbole, hyperbole. I'm kidding about everyone needing a superzoom but I have to tell you that it's making my ongoing project work delightful, to say the least. I know, I've done this kind of work before with the D810, D750, GH4, OMD-EM5ii and even the older Sony a99. Shooting video with DSLRs just flat out sucks unless the only parameter that matters to you is how far out of focus you can put a background. Compared to the Sony RX10 cameras the audio is no better, the codecs (excepting the GH4) are no better (and in most cases much, much worse) the focusing is worse, the controls are more limited and you need to drag around a wheelbarrow to bring your lens selection along.
I'm always frank so I will say that 90% of the stuff I shot in video with the Sony RX10iii could have been done exactly as well with the Panasonic fz 1000. But I'll draw the line there and say that any other DSLR or hybrid camera would have made life more miserable, taken longer to shoot with, and required more lenses. Of course, if you were smarter than me you could trump my whole argument (as it applies to video only) by just grabbing one of the newly plentiful Sony one inch, dedicated video cameras and maybe your job would have been even easier. Not so with non-dedicated-video camera choices. Sorry. No way.
And the funny thing is that what I was shooting was not earth shattering or the kind of material that requires the lowest noise and the highest degree of sharpness.
I'll back up and go from the start; which was around 4:30 pm this afternoon. I've been working on a video about the Memorial Day flood last year. We've already handed off a rough cut and we used some archival footage, provided by the client, of flooding. You know, cascading water and water overflowing roads. The problem was that it didn't look dramatic enough. We wanted something with more power and punch behind the water. And we wanted swirling, angry, brown, fast moving water.
I got an e-mail around 4:30 to discuss raging water aesthetics and five minutes later I had my "go" bag (video) in the car and was heading a couple of miles away to the Tom Miller Dam where, I had learned earlier today, they were opening flood gates to deal with a tremendous amount of flood water coming to them from upstream. The area around the dam was boiling as the water roared down into the narrow chasm.
The Lower Colorado River Authority is officed just in front and high above the dam, over to the right of this frame. You can be sure they built their HQ far out of any possible flood zone but they like to keep their eyes on things and, you know; location, location, location.
The LCRA was kind enough to build an observation deck at the end of a catwalk that puts you in the perfect position to videotape or photograph the damn from the correct angle as well as the raging torrent flowing from the dam. I had my RX10iii in my hands and I've had it set to all the appropriate settings from the moment I left the car. I put a variable neutral density filter on the front because we had full sun this afternoon (for a change) and I started composing shots. The water was so co-operative. It swirled, broke and sluiced with all the enthusiasm you would expect, given the thousands of feet per second being released...
I got great overall shots at 24mm and amazing shots of the suffering, half submerged tree lines that used to be on little islands in the lake. I shot at 60 fps to I could get smooth footage. The range of focal lengths was like having magic in my hands and, with some practice on the little zoom switch by the shutter button, you can get some great zooms from wide to mid-telephoto which were smooth and kept focus.
No lens changing. A complement of zebras to show me just were the highlights break. Focus peaking for those really long focal length shots, and a wonderful EVF. All writing to an inexpensive SDXC card. So, we're on like, day ten of our project and, computing a rental rate of $150 per day, we've already hit the break even point at which the RX10iii has paid for itself and is now entering the realm of pure potential and profit making.
The camera is not perfect, but then neither is the operator. But that mutual understanding of our deficiencies is a bond rather than a wedge. I help out the camera and the camera helps me.
If you shoot a mix of video and still photography for a living you might want to consider a camera like this one. Get an fz 1000 if you are on a budget. But don't tell me your DSLR is as good or better for hybrid use. I just won't believe you. |
CURBSIDE TRASH SERVICESince October 2012, SCSWA has provided solid waste curbside service to residents who reside within the city limits of Sunland Park, NM. Residents are provided with trash carts and are serviced at least once a week.
THE YEAR 2020: SUNLAND PARK STREAMLINES SOLID WASTE BINS
HOW TO PREPARE FOR CURBSIDE CART SERVICE
- Residents should ensure that their carts are placed out for servicing by 6:00 a.m. on their scheduled pick-up days.
- Place carts at the curb or within 3 feet of the driving surface, road or lane with the opening facing the street or alley.
- Ensure that your carts are at least 5 feet away from low hanging objects, trees, mailboxes, basketball hoops or other containers.
- All residential garbage MUST be bagged and tied before placing in container which includes household waste, wet or moist waste like food, food containers, green fresh yard waste, pet waste, or disposable diapers.
- Avoid "overflow", placing more in your solid waste container than what actually fits inside of it. OVERFILLED CONTAINERS WILL NOT BE SERVICED. Max 300 lbs
- For additional container(s) and rates, please contact the customer service office at (575)528-8068
- Lids should be properly closed to prevent spillage and littering.
- Bungee cords strapped to containers are NOT allowed.
WHAT NOT TO PUT INTO YOUR CARTLarge appliances and boxes; furniture or auto parts.
- Concrete, rocks, dirt, sod, or livestock waste.
- Construction, remodeling, or demolition material.
- Hot ashes, oil, gas, paint, or any form of hazardous waste.
- Tree trimmings that exceed two (2) feet.
WHAT IF I HAVE TOO MUCH GARBAGE FOR MY CART?
- Use the NEW Grappler Service once a month to alleviate the extra waste
- You can take excess trash to Camino Real Landfill at 1000 Camino Real, Sunland Park, NM. There will be a fee, depending on the total volume assessed.
- You can arrange for a second container for an additional charge of $9.32 per month.
- Remember that only household waste placed in the container will be picked up (waste outside of the bin or near it is the responsibility of the account holder)
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CART?
- The resident is responsible for any loss, theft, fire damage, or other damage caused by negligence or abuse of the container.
- Containers damaged by customer will be assessed the cost of $52.02 to replace the container.
- We will replace or repair container broken through normal use.
- Each homeowner should record the serial number from the container assigned to his home.
- It is the customer’s responsibility to keep their container clean by washing it as often as necessary.
- Each homeowner is required to bag and tie all waste to help keep container(s) clean and odor free.
NEW GRAPPLER SERVICEEffective as of February 1, 2018. The SCSWA grappler truck picks up large trash items that are unable to fit into your trash bin/cart and arrives once a month on your regular trash day.
CURRENT SOLID WASTE SERVICE RATES
Effective as of July 2020
- Solid Waste Residential Cart Service for 1 - 65 gallon bin........$19.14 per month
- Additional Charge for an additional/extra bin..........................$9.32 per month/bin.
- Note: Taxes and additional fees may be applicable.
SCSWA HOLIDAY SCHEDULEOnly three holidays will affect collection service:
- Christmas Day
- New Year's Day
Questions or concerns about your Sunland Park solid waste service? Call 575-528-8068 Se Habla Español
Questions or concerns about your solid waste bill? Call Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) at 575-589-1075. |
Lidia Morawska is a Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) at QUT, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre on Air Quality and Health, and a co-director in Australia for the Australia – China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM). She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter.
Professor Morawska is a physicist and received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for research on radon and its progeny. Prior to joining QUT she spent several years in Canada conducting research first at McMaster University in Hamilton as a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and later at the University of Toronto.
Professor Morawska is an author of over 904 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. She has also been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies and has been acting as an advisor to the World Health Organization.
In recognition of her contributions to the field, in May 2020, she was elected as a fellow to the Australian Academy of Science, and in September 2020, she was named in the list of Top 40 Australian Researchers in The Australian Research Magazine. She was also recipient of a ‘2018 Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research’ (Australian Museum of Eureka Prizes); as well as the ‘American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2017 David Sinclair Award’, where in his nomination of her for this award, Prof Tunga Salthammer of the Fraunhofer WKI (Germany) stated that she “…has long been considered as one of the top researchers in the field of aerosol science, covering a broad scientific spectrum including, radon, traffic exhaust, indoor related particle emissions, modeling and occupational exposure. For more than 30 years, she has worked in challenging and important areas of aerosol research, with her outstanding results of substantial value for other researchers”.
She was also the recipient of a ‘QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award 2017’ “in recognition of a significant and superior contribution to the work of the university”, and in 2011, the ‘Clean Air Medal, Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) ‘for “…sustained and dedicated contribution to the understanding of fine particles in the air. She is also a past President of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate. |
Reviewing Log Shipping Status Information
The log shipping status tab contains information about non received and non applied logs into Physical Standby databases of the configured Data Guard environment. It comprises the following sections:
Reviewing ASM Instances
Starting in version 188.8.131.52, Foglight for Oracle provides a detailed dashboard for monitoring ASM performance. The ASM information is presented only after ASM instances are configured.
The ASM tab lists all ASM instances which have been configured. To access the detailed dashboard for that instance, click the home button.
The ASM dashboard provides information about the ASM cluster/instance, it includes general instance information, Disk groups and disks information, ASM Parameters and ASM Alert log information.
The ASM dashboard has three tabs:
Reviewing Summary Information
The summary tab contains information about all the disk groups that are configured for the ASM, as well as the disks that are configured for each ASM disk group. This information includes the version number, status, total storage space, and the number of ASM clients.
The number of ASM clients is clickable and opens a pop-up that shows all the Oracle instances that are using a disk group managed by the ASM instance.
It also has a column named Monitored that gives an indication whether or not that Oracle instance is monitored by Foglight. If the Oracle instance is not monitored by Foglight, it is possible to monitor it immediately by clicking Monitor.
The Disk Groups table provides detailed information about each group. Selecting one or more disk groups will display additional information in the pane below, either in Map or Table View.
Each disk group in the top table or disk in the Map or Table view is clickable and opens a pop-up with additional information.
For disk groups, the pop-up includes the following tabs:
If you select a specific disk in the Map or Table view, the pop-up includes the following tabs:
Reviewing Parameter Information
The Parameters tab displays a list of all the ASM parameters and their values, as well as some other additional information for each parameter. |
My year of reading started innocently enough. Emily invited me to see the movie Mary Queen of Scots to relive part of our trip across Scotland, and after the movie, I bought biographies about both the first Stuart queen (Guy) and Elizabeth I (Weir). A few weeks later, I decided to read Chernow’s Hamilton, since Emily had secured tickets to the touring production of the musical.
The problem occurred when I was putting those three works away. I stood staring at the wall of books in our front room and found myself pulling, one by one, books from the shelf that I hadn’t read, hadn’t finished reading, couldn’t remember reading, or wanted to read again. Books I had received for Christmas, books people had given me for fun, books I had taken from our family’s annual book exchange at Thanksgiving, books that had sat on the shelves of five different houses, as well as my dorm room.
I meticulously lined the books up on a separate shelf, the “Shelf of Books to be Read,” and then, like a sniper, I started picking them off, week after week.
Fantastic beach reads (Sharp) were followed by classics (Dickens, Hemingway, Woolf, Austen) and books about Russia, Iran, China, Europe, and Africa, but oddly, nothing from South America.
I never found a work of fiction that surpassed, in my mind, All the Light We Cannot See, but I discovered that I was more of a non-fiction reader anyway, much to the chagrin of my friends and family when they realized I was starting more and more of my sentences with, “Well actually…” I gobbled up bios about Lewis and Clark, the Plantagenets, Renaissance queens, and I dreaded reading about the final moments of Marie Antoinette.
At a lecture, I corrected a professor’s explanation of the theory of The Selfish Gene (because “I just read it last week”), and I realized how faulty my dissertation on Game of Thrones was after discovering the glaring symbolism in the final chapters of Martin’s first book.
I gave myself an out if I really hated a book (Gregory and Pearl). I fell in love with authors I had never met (Shields, Kennedy and Jewett). I wrote down my favorite phrases and quotes, including Melville’s “sailing dirty,” which I cite more often than I should. I read books that had lingered for years with a contemporary eye (Fergus is bad, and the #metoo accusations ruin Rinpoche).
I found myself fascinated by books on war, especially the one my dad gave me (Bradley), although I inwardly groaned when he handed it to me.
I read the People of the Black Mountains before our visit to Wales and thought often of both volumes while on my solitary hikes around Llanthony. I reread A Midsummer Night’s Dream before seeing the production at The Globe, which I’m afraid I watched like a kid watching Frozen.
Last night, after I finished the final sentences of The Goldfinch, I texted Cass with, “And…DONE.” But then I despaired about what to do since there was not one book waiting for me on the Shelf of Books to be Read. To which she responded, “Write YOUR book?”
Maybe. Unless you happen to have a really great recommendation?
Below are the 80 books I read this year. Sixty-five were previously in my library, while the other 15 were purchased in the last 12 months. All in all, I read almost 32,000 pages.
Asterisks denotes books in my library prior to 2019. DNF = did not finish.
- Allen, Sarah Addison. The Peach Keeper: A Novel.*
- Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.*
- Austen, Jane. Emma.*
- Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park.*
- Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey.*
- Bradley, Omar. A Soldier’s Story.
- Bryan, Helen. War Brides.*
- Bryson, Bill. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe.*
- Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth.*
- Cather, Willa. My Ántonia.*
- Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
- Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton.
- Chevalier, Tracy. Remarkable Creatures.*
- Collins, Billy, ed. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry.*
- Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene.*
- De los Santos, Marisa. Belong to Me: A Novel.*
- Devoto, Pat Cunningham. Out of the Night that Covers Me.*
- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.*
- Downey, Kirstin. Isabella: The Warrior Queen.
- Eliot, George. Adam Bede.*
- Fergus, Jim. A Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.
- Finane, Ben. Handel’s Messiah and His English Oratorios.*
- Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.*
- Frazier, Ian. Travels in Siberia.*
- Fraser, Antonia. Marie Antoinette: The Journey.
- Frieda, Leonie. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France.
- Goolrick, Robert. A Reliable Wife.*
- Gregory, Philippa. The Other Queen: A Novel. [DNF]*
- Guy, John. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart.
- Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes.
- Hamilton, Jane. A Map of the World: A Novel.*
- Hamner, Earl. Generous Women: An Appreciation.*
- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.*
- Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs.*
- Kennedy, Margaret. Lucy Carmichael.*
- Landon, H.C. Robbins. 1791: Mozart’s Last Year.*
- Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.*
- Lehane, Dennis. Gone, Baby, Gone.*
- Lopez, Barry Holtsun. Of Wolves and Men.*
- Martin, George R.R. A Game of Thrones: Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire.*
- Maugham, W. Somerset. Liza of Lambeth.*
- Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.*
- Merrick, Elizabeth, ed. This is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America’s Best Women Writers.*
- Metzger, Deena. Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life’s Journey.*
- Miller, Jonathan, ed. Don Giovanni: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal.*
- Mishima, Yukio. The Sound of Waves.*
- Montalbano, William. Basilica.*
- Mpe, Phaswane. Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Post-Apartheid South Africa.*
- Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.*
- Naslund, Sena Jeter. Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer.*
- Nelson, Pete. I Thought You Were Dead.
- Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime.*
- Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.*
- O’Gorman, Frank. The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832.*
- Paolini, Christopher. Eragon.*
- Patchett, Ann. Taft.*
- Patchett, Ann. The Patron Saint of Liars.*
- Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club: A Novel. [DNF]*
- Praeger, Dave. Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product.*
- Pullman, Philip. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage.*
- Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.*
- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.*
- Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude.*
- Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.*
- Sharp, Deborah. Momma Gets Hitched.*
- Shields, Carol. Collected Stories.*
- Solomon, Maynard. Mozart: A Life.*
- Stoddard, Elizabeth. The Morgesons.*
- Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch: A Novel.*
- Theroux, Paul. Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.*
- Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I.*
- Vanderbilt, Arthur. Golden Days: Memories of a Golden Retriever.*
- Walbert, Kate. The Gardens of Kyoto: A Novel.*
- Weir, Alison. Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster.
- Weir, Alison. The Life of Elizabeth I.
- Weir, Alison. The Wars of the Roses.
- Williams, Raymond. People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning.
- Williams, Raymond. People of the Black Mountains: The Eggs of the Eagle.
- Woolf, Virginia. Flush: A Biography.*
- Woolf, Virginia. The Waves.* |
Amy and Andy met four and a half years ago, but realised soon after that up until that point in their lives they’d been like ships passing in the night, with shared connections and hobbies that had almost, but never quite, brought them together. They were even at Pony Club Camp together at primary school. Cute! We’ll let Amy tell you about the proposal, the wedding, and the Patchworked honeymoon.
How did you get engaged?
Andy proposed on holiday in Croatia. We had sailed to Šibenik on my parents’ boat and were planning to visit the Krka Waterfalls. Andy planned a secluded sunset walk and got down on one knee to propose with a ring that he had designed especially for me! It was so special.
What kind of wedding did you plan?
Our wedding was a medley of everything we love, shared with everyone that we love! Where to have the wedding was an easy decision to make. My parents are retired growers and we were lucky enough to have a huge glasshouse at our disposal, complete with fields that could accommodate a wedding campsite and of course the 1920’s carousel!
What was your first dance?
Our first dance song was called I’ve Got This Friend by a band called The Civil Wars. We had actually been to see the band for our second date so the song has a great memories for us.
What was your favourite part of the day?
There are a few favourites – holding my brand new husband’s hand as we walked down the aisle past all of our friends and family with the church bells jangling, riding the 1920’s carousel with our bridesmaids and groomsmen as our guests arrived and the crammed dancefloor as we rocked out late into the night!
Why was Patchwork the best gift registry for you?
Patchwork allowed us to create an eclectic and totally personal wedding list…Where else could our guests select to buy us honeymoon adventures alongside a gift to help us pimp our campervan Wanda!
Tell us more about Wanda, and what else you wanted to fund?
Wanda was in need of a bit of TLC so we allocated funds to “Make Wanda Wonderful” which have since been used to give her a new paint job. We also used the honeymoon adventure money to buy 11 bottles of whisky during our 3 week campervan tour of the Scottish Isles. Having the flexibility to create a wedding gift list that was completely unique to us as a couple was fantastic.
What was the best bit about using Patchwork?
It was great to be able to write a personalised thank you to every one of our guests for their special gifts. We are especially looking forward to sharing the whisky with our friends and family every wedding anniversary for the next decade. Our family and friends loved the personal touch of the gift list rather than simply asking for cash.
Would you recommend your trip to other honeymooners?
We loved our Scottish Highlands and Islands tour but 3 weeks was not enough… It is a stunning part of the world with much more to offer.
You’ll (hopefully!) plan quite a few trips in your life, but none of them will be as special as your honeymoon.
Celebrating your brand-new marriage and new life by zipping away to some beautiful destination with your sweetheart… well, there’s just nothing quite like that, no matter what adventures you get up to further on down the road.
We know you have a lot of options to think over when you’re planning your honeymoon, and also that sticking to a travel budget can be a major consideration — especially after a big (and expensive) wedding.
That’s why we’re here to talk to you about the benefits of taking your honeymoon by RV, including everything you need to know about choosing a destination, stocking up on camping essentials, and even finding the perfect RV rental through RVshare.
RVshare is the world’s first and largest peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace with more than 100,000 RVs to rent across the country. With a broad range of inventory ranging from travel trailers to luxury motorhomes, there is a perfect RV for your honeymoon!
BENEFITS OF RV VACATIONS
Let’s start at the top: Why would you want to take your honeymoon in an RV in the first place?
The better question is, why wouldn’t you? In an RV, you’re in total control of your route and itinerary; there’s no risk of facing a flight delay or finding your hotel room’s been downgraded or rebooked. You know exactly where you and your new spouse will sleep each night and exactly when the sheets were last laundered. You even have the option to make each others’ favorite meals in your very own kitchen.
Plus, according to campingfunzone.com an RV brings you all the liberty of the open road. You can carefully route an exciting trip with multiple stops, but still be open to staying an extra day or taking the turn down that interesting-looking back road on a whim. And, of course, your RV experience is totally private; you don’t share walls with anybody. That’s one perk newly-wedded couples are sure to appreciate!
RVING: ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE HONEYMOON IDEAS
Depending on whether or not you consider yourself a camper (and whether or not you’ve ever tried out the #RVlife before), renting a motorhome or travel trailer for your honeymoon might sound brilliant… or not so hot. Aren’t you supposed to be whiling away your stay at some resort, having spa treatments and couples’ massages every day?
Well, maybe. But if you’re looking for a bit more of an adventure, renting an RV can be an incredible way to go about your honeymoon — and with some of the resort-style campgrounds available these days, it can suit more refined travel tastes equally well.
Let’s break down the perks of renting an RV for your honeymoon.
Choosing a honeymoon destination can be a major source of stress. How much easier would that task be if you didn’t have to pick just one?
Renting an RV essentially gives you a “honeymoon on the go” option. If you and your new spouse can’t decide on just one place to visit… well, you can make a road trip out of it and visit both.
Maybe he’s more into mountain biking and she’s more into sitting by the surf. Or maybe you both want to hit up all the epic hiking trails (or fine dining restaurants, or museums, or fishing streams) you can. Either way, a honeymoon road trip gives you lots of places to look back on and consider your special destinations. You’ll also be able to try out lots of different parks, campgrounds, and RVing styles, whether you end up preferring boondocking off-grid or relaxing in a resort campground environment!
It’s true: even “big” RVs have relatively small footprints. But there’s something romantic about being in a small space together — and it’ll make your home feel even bigger and more luxurious once your honeymoon is over!
Plus, even though the size is scaled down, rental RVs still have all the comforts of home you’re used to: kitchen appliances, a cozy bed to cuddle up in, bathroom facilities, and sometimes even entertainment systems. It’s hard to feel like you’re “roughing it” when you’ve got every creature comfort available, even if it is smaller than standard size!
Thank you Amy & Andy and a huge congratulations from Team Patchwork. |
So it’s been a while since the last update. Finally, last Thursday, the wind from TS Fay abated a little and we were able to get back to our sampling. We were fishing the wall zone where historically our highest catches have been so we were pretty sure we would see sharks. Our record so far this project was sixteen sharks from four species on a single longline set – that was a busy day! As expected we caught few sharks, thirteen to be precise, of which only one was a Caribbean reef and the rest were all sharpnose sharks, ten Atlantic and two Caribbean – I think! A new record for the largest number of a single species on a set!
The Bahamas is an interesting place to look at sharpnose sharks. It is reportedly the only place in the world where the home range of the Caribbean sharpnose and the Atlantic sharpnose overlap and as such we are probably the only shark research program in the world that catches both on the same longline. Which raises a problem – telling the two apart.
The literature offers fairly generic descriptions of the two species, enough to separate them from other species but not from each other. Visually they are obviously different species, slightly different second dorsal positioning, body color and size but descriptions in the literature and not specific enough to make a positive identification without making vertebral count…. not an easy thing to do if you want to make an ID in the field and release the shark unharmed!
Anyhow – we have a plan. Every shark we catch has a genetic sample taken which is given to our collaborators at the Guy Harvey Research Institute. They will be able to make a positive ID from a 2mm circular punch taken from the dorsal fin and that coupled with our morphological observations should solve the sharpnose conundrum – although I don’t think it’s a problem for most other shark research programs!
I don’t have any photos of the two species side by side just yet so here is a screen grab of an Atlantic sharpnose taken from one of our baited underwater video surveys. |
Even the most distinctive artists, who have honed voices that distinguish them from their peers, typically have some identifiable precedents. Norwegian pianist Jon Balke's earlier works with Oslo 13 and the Magnetic North Orchestra all bear obscured antecedents that can be found by digging deep enough. Recent albums like Diverted Travels (ECM, 2004) seem to operate in a separate universe, however, leaving behind the shackles of convention and creating a new aesthetic where Balke demands as much of the listener as he does his ensemble.
Balke's latest project, Batagraf, advances his ongoing progression towards greater abstraction and percussion-centric music. His septet features four percussionistsin addition to his own occasional percussion workand he incorporates broad multicultural concerns in new and unusual ways. Rather than presenting clearly delineated solos from Balke, saxophonist Frode Nymo and trumpeter Arve Henriksen, the music on Statements finds form and freedom cohabitating seamlessly in a collage-like suite of unorthodox song structure that incorporates vocals whose rhythmic articulation is as importantif not more sothan the words themselves.
Much of the vocals are in languages other than English, with the exception of Norwegian singer Sidsel Endresen's recitations on the appropriately-named "Doublespeak" and the more cryptic "Karagong." But the album seems to be all about making the statements referred to in its title. Miki N'Doye recites in the Senegalese Wolof language, while elsewhere an unknown announcer is buried beneath obfuscated melodies. "Befong" uses equally odd vocalizations as the focus over chordal washes from Balke, which provide some harmonic foundation for the vivid percussion section.
Balke is no stranger to electronic manipulation. Despite the percussion section's footing in real-time performance, Balke's keyboards and the various vocals are often processed, making this an electronica-influenced effort with some roots in Saturation (Jazzland, 1998). While Nymo's primary instrumental voice and Henriksen's less-used shakuhachi-like tone make pieces like the more assertive "Attiet" veer closer to a conventional jazz aesthetic, more often it's Balke's keyboards that create the nearest thing to a familiar frame of reference.
Balke's increasingly astute understanding of how to create rhythm-based music allows this many percussionists to coexist without any kind of clutter, and their interplay, while often clearly orchestrated, also feels spontaneous and alive. The closing "Unknown" feels more like contemporary electronic chamber music, as opposed to the insistent pulse of "Betong" and "En Vuelo," where Balke's keyboards approach funk and the African polyrhythms of the percussionists create a tenuous comfort zone for the listener.
With each successive release, Balke's conception continues to evolve to a place where the only thing that's predictable is its unpredictability. Statements may not be the easiest listen, but when absorbed as a continuous 55-minute experience, it succeeds in drawing the listener into a continuum that has little by way of reference points, making it all the more uncanny for its remarkable appeal.
Haomanna; Butano; Rraka; Doublespeak; Pregoneras del Bosque; Betong; Altiett; En Vuelo; Pajaro; Whistleblower; Karagong; Unknown.
Frode Nymo: alto saxophone; Jon Balke: keyboards, percussion, vocals; Kenneth Ekornes: percussion; Harald Skullerud: percussion; Helge Andreas Norbakken: percussion; Ingar Zach: percussion; Arve Henriksen: trumpet; Sidsel Endersen: text recitals in English; Miki N'Doye: text recital in Wolof; Solveig Sletteahjell: vocals; Jocelyn Sete: voice; Camara Silva: voice; Jennifer Miskja Balke: voice; Unknown Media Announcer: voice.
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Clare Wheatley: Buccaneering left-back who overcame injury to become an Arsenal icon
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Born: 4 February 1971, Kingston upon Thames
Debut: Croatia (A) 18 April 1996
Occupation: PE teacher (1996)
Londoner Wheatley got her start in five-a-side football before being taken on at locally-based giants of the day Friends of Fulham. But an enforced hiatus arrived when her prissy grammar school slapped its pupils with a football-ban.
Undeterred, she re-emerged with Sheffield Wednesday, while in South Yorkshire for her PE Teacher training course at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University).
Back in the Big Smoke after graduation, Wheatley signed for Chelsea WFC in summer 1993. Chelsea boss Tony Farmer discerned leadership qualities and immediately handed her the team captaincy.
While Sheffield Wednesday had been jockeying for promotion to the National Premier League, Chelsea were in only their second year of existence and languishing in the lower echelons of the regional Greater London League.
Billed as Clare Stevens, Wheatley scored on her league debut in a 2–0 win at Leyton Orient on 26 September 1993. She became a fixture in Chelsea’s number 8 shirt and won over fans with her high energy and consistent goal threat from midfield.
More eye-catching displays for Chelsea saw Wheatley and prolific Julie Newell spirited away to national champions Arsenal Ladies’ pre-season training camp in 1995.
Crocked left-back Michelle Curley had been with Arsenal since their 1987 inception and rose from being one of the first ever female YTS players to playing for England. But an extended spell on the sidelines left her spot in the team open for Wheatley.
Manager Vic Akers famously warned his charges that “Arsenal Ladies is not a social club”. Wheatley soon bought into this ethos and became a trusted on-field lieutenant. She could “only stomach one episode” of bawdy 90s TV show Playing The Field.
In Arsenal’s German-style 3–5–2 there was an onus on the wing-backs to get forward. So Wheatley and Kirsty Pealling on the other flank conducted most of their business in the opposition half.
Wheatley’s Gunners league debut came in the rarefied environs of Anfield on 2 September 1995. The team rattled six unanswered goals past hapless 15-year-old debutante Rachel Brown in the Liverpool goal.
England manager Ted Copeland was casting about for a left-back and wasted no time in drafting Wheatley into the setup for the Euro 1997 qualifying campaign.
She entered the honoured ranks of England internationals as a substitute in England’s tricky away tie in Osijek, Croatia on 18 April 1996.
England won 2–0 thanks to strikes from Wheatley’s former Owls team-mate Vicky Exley, her first for England, and Kelly Smith. The match was notable for the debut of Mary Phillip and – shamefully – a local pre-pubescent boy aiming a Nazi salute at black England star Hope Powell.
Disaster struck for Wheatley in April 1997 during a 6–0 win over understrength Millwall Lionesses. After tapping up Wembley’s Kelly Smith at Christmas time – already the best player in the country – Arsenal had romped to the league title.
Meanwhile Millwall were ploughing through a monster fixture pile-up in preparation for the Cup final on 4 May. It was a dead rubber fixture with a terrible outcome for Wheatley: the universally dreaded ACL knee injury.
She sat out the entire 1997–98 campaign and could not do her day job teaching PE. But better news arrived when Vic Akers got the gig as the men’s team’s kitman. This left a vacancy for a club development officer role which Wheatley delightedly snaffled.
After knee reconstruction surgery, Wheatley was back for 1998–99. She crowned her return with the killer second goal in Arsenal’s Cup final win over Southampton Saints at The Valley.
By admission, Wheatley had always battled fragile confidence – especially after her injury. She was destined never to win a second cap.
Mentally she held back the extra 2–3% needed to be a top international player. She remained a functional part of the Arsenal juggernaut without ever putting the hammer down and going hell for leather.
Wheatley was briefly forced into playing retirement in August 2001, after being wiped out by Doncaster Belles keeper Leanne Hall in the Charity Shield match at Kingsmeadow.
Hall presented Wheatley with a bouquet of flowers at the teams’ next meeting – a touch of class typical of the Belles.
Irrepressible Wheatley battled back again to represent the Gunners in the new-fangled UEFA Women’s Cup. She scooped a third FA Women’s Cup winner’s medal in 2004 and finally hung up her boots after bringing up a decade at the club in 2005.
“I’m now a team-mate of Lianne Sanderson and I can remember her in nappies – she calls me ‘Mum’ and when that happens it’s time to hang the boots up.”
When Arsenal Ladies godfather Vic Akers quit his General Manager role with the team in 2014, Wheatley was promoted into his shoes. |
What is Office 365 business and how can I download? Or perhaps how much does it cost to buy office 365 business? On the contrary, Office 365 is actually a line of subscription services provided by the very own Microsoft as one of the parts of the Microsoft Office product line or Microsoft Corporation. In other words, it is one of the Microsoft Office 365 lines of subscription services. That provides you with the right office tools for business. Hence, see more information about the service and how to buy it. How to use office 365 for businesses started with the office 365 business plans. You can downloadproductivity products to get started.
Furthermore, if you’re running a small business or midsized company and you’re looking for educative and productive toolkits to manage your business. The service is one of the collaboration tools that design. In other to cover collaboration in business areas such as organizational, departmental, and also team levels. Moreover, Office 365 services comprise different numbers of products and services on the aspect of businesses. It includes Office 365 business,and also Business Essentials.
What is Included in the Office 365 Business?
On the contrary, when talking about what’s includes in the. This is actually talking about office 365 business productivity products. However, the service offers a number of productivity products to help manage your business and that includes the following:
- Outlook Mail
- Microsoft Word
- Access (PC only)
These are the list of office 365productivity products that come under the Microsoft 365 business subscription plans. However, the service is compatible with businesses that require the need for Office apps and also a cloud file storage.
Features of the Microsoft Productivity Tools
Aside from Office 365 business productivity products, there are also other services and benefit you get to enjoy when you buy the service. Above all, the services boost your business. By providing you with office apps mentioned above to create, view and edit files or documents in real-time.
- Monthly updates: it provides you with the latest feature and capabilities that come with the latest version of the Microsoft Office app.
- Works across multiple devices: unlike most plans, the services provide you with connectivity access to multiple devices.
- 1 TB secure cloud storage: in other for you not to experiences insufficient memory. It offers you with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage to back-up and shore your files.
- Professional digital storytelling: it provides you an easy concept. So as to create an engagement, interactive, web-based, presentations and lots more with Sway.
In addition, the 365 business is also built with security features. In other to keep your data safe and the setup of the Office productivity tool is easy. Also, it comes with Microsoft support to you can get solutions to question you need answers to.
How to Buy and Download Office 365 Business Plan
Furthermore, the is compatible with operating systems such as Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 Services Pack 1. Also the two recent operating versions of the macOS. However, you can buy and download Office 365 business plan for $8.25 users/month with annual commitment or $10.00 user/month with a monthly commitment. Also, the service offers you a free 1-month trial to enjoy the services for free.
In addition, you can buy the service from the Microsoft Store or on Amazon. Keep in mind, the acceptable payment on the Microsoft store includes all major credit cards. Secondary, to access the office 365 login after buying and download the service, you can log in with your Outlook email address account. |
Release Centre is the section dealing with administration, release formalities and payment of terminal benefits in respect of all sailors awaiting release from naval service. On an average, 3000 sailors retire every year. The Release Centre is entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring their smooth exit. The organisation is separate genform issuing authority for the sailors who report for release formalities. Release Centre is headed by the Officer-in-Charge and functions directly under the Logistics Officer-in-Charge, Naval Pension Office, who also carries out the following duties
- Officer-in-Charge, NGIS.
- SSO (Verification/Leave).
- Officer-in-Charge, Placement Cell.
The Release Centre deals with the following categories of personnel:-
- Sailors released on Expiry of Engagement (EOE) (discharged/ released on Medical ground/ Compassionate Grounds).
- Widows / Next-of-Kin of the sailors who have died in action / harness.
- All retired sailors (for Final Closing Balance & Retirement TA/DA claims only).
The Release Centre is responsible for the following:-
- Arranging payments of terminal benefits such as Leave encashment, AFPP fund payment, NGIS Payment, to Retiring Sailors, as well as issue of the following documents.
- Issue of documents namely
- Discharge Book.
- Certificate of Service.
- Graduation Equivalent Certificate.
- National Classification of Occupation (NCO Code Certificate).
- Sea Service Extract
- Maintain of proper accounting of NGIF and disbursement to retiring sailors.
- Payment of Pending Enquiry Award (PEA) to widows / NOK.
- Finalize Leave Encashment claims of BOD Sailors.
- Payment of gratuity to non-pensioners.
- Issue of last pay drawn certificate (LPDC).
Verification Section deals with all documentary aspects of sailors who are due to be released from the service by verifying their leave sheets and Service Certificates. Verifies Service Certificates / Service Books/ leave sheet / record of Sailors released/ discharged : -
NAVPEN Placement Cell
NAVPEN Placement Cell liaises with the industry/ corporate to ensure a second career opportunity to retiring/ retired sailors.
Pension Section (Sailors)
This Section undertakes the following :-
- Service Pension/Rank Revision for issue of Pension Payment Order (PPO).
- Revision of Pension Claims.
- Claims for Disability Pension.
- Claims for sanction of Family Pension.
- Appeal Medical Cases
- Operates Pension Help Desk to address pension grievances.
- Legal and establishment matters..
- Reservist Pensions.
- ECHS memberships of retiring sailors.
General Branch Section
General Branch Section deal with records updation & validation issue (except pension) related to ex-sailors and their families. It also interacts with various agencies Viz. Zilla Sainik Board/Central Govt. /State Govt. /Private Organizations apart from IHQ, MoD(N), Command Headquarters and other Naval Units.
Other Functions of GB Section
- Issue of Duplicate Discharge/ Service Certificate.
- Enrollment in DSC as JCO and Pre-verification of Enrollment in to DSC as Clerk (GD)/Sepoy (GD).
- Issue of Sea Service Extract.
- Registration of New Born Child/Marriage registration.
- Employment Assistance to the Dependent of Late Sailors.
- Counting of Former Service and Pay Fixation.
- Verification of Character, Antecedents and Dependents.
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Officers Pension Section
The section collates documents required to process officer’s pension and ensures timely issuance of PPOs to them
Master Record Room deals with maintenance and upkeep of master records, index cards, accounting of 'P' & 'D' dockets, issue of dockets to various section, proper filing of documents, weeding out of old records.
This section deals with RTI cases, Legal Notice of Representations and other legal issues.
This section examines medical documents for sanction of attributable/ aggravation of disability of in respect of sailors being released in low medical category. |
The exhibition by the Polish artist Natalia Krsyzanowska at the Burnside Gallery thrilled Labour MP Katy Clark, who talks to the Voice about her interest in Polish culture.
written by Nick Underdown
8 January 2009
Until the next census, it won’t be known exactly how many Polish people live on Arran, but a recent
exhibition hosted by the Burnside is one measure of just what a vital part of Scotland’s culture Poles have become and the cultural connection that has developed over the years.
The exhibition by the Polish artist Natalia Krsyzanowska explores the many regional varieties of traditional Polish culture. The artist’s visit to Scotland took in not just Arran’s eclectic Burnside Gallery, but also included a presentation at the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
During Natalia’s visit to Arran she delivered interesting and informative presentations to local school
children, an elderly retreat and adult groups specifically interested in international costume.
The exhibition even attracted local Labour MP Katy Clark, who saw first-hand the perhaps little-known
wonders of traditional Polish culture. Katy was most impressed with Natalia’s exhibition, which included traditional customs, music, craft and folklore stories from different regions of Poland.
‘I greatly enjoyed meeting Natalia and learning about Polish traditions from her,’ said Katy. ‘She has
put much time and effort into her exhibit, and has been a superb ambassador for her country. It is fantastic that Burnside Gallery can host such worthwhile visitors and exhibits, and events such as this are a huge asset to the Arran community…I wish to thank both Natalia and Burnside Gallery for inviting me to this exhibit. It has been wonderful to see the unique aspects of Polish culture.’
Gallery Director Mhairi-Aileen Smeir said, ‚Natalia spent five day presenting members from all parts
of our community with a wonderful, exciting and educational presentation of Poland and Poland’s districts, culture, art and folklore. I am delighted with the outcome of her visit and look forward to further visits from Natalia and others like her in the future.’ Natalia Krzyżanowska ilustracje |
As the Mycoplasma bovis disease spreads, here is everything you need to know.
What is Mycoplasma bovis?
It’s a bacteria that can cause diseases in cattle. It can cause untreatable mastitis, abortions, pneumonia and arthritis.
How is it spread?
It’s spread from animal to animal through close contact and bodily fluids. Calves can be infected through drinking milk from infected cows. Farm equipment can play a role in spreading the disease. It’s spread between farms through the movement of cattle.
Can it be spread to other animals?
Other animals are very unlikely to be infected by the disease.
Had it been found in New Zealand previously?
No. The original July 2017 detection was the first time the disease had been found in New Zealand. . .
Cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is spreading around New Zealand farms at a rate much faster than previously thought. RNZ maps out the spread of the virus over time.
July 2017 – Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) responds to the detection of Mycoplasma bovis on a dairy farm near Oamaru. The farm, part of the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group (VLDG), is put under legal controls to restrict movement of stock and other at-risk goods. Other farms in the group are also put under controls.
July 31, 2017 – A second farm in the VLDG is confirmed to have the disease.
August 2017 – Testing begins on farms bordering VLDG properties.
August 2017 – Four more properties test positive, bringing the total number of infected farms to six. . .
Farmer’s determination pays off – Sally Rae:
When Logan Wallace returned home to take over the family sheep farm in South Otago, he had a big task to take on.
He set some goals, including making sure he farmed sustainably, meeting both the environmental requirements of councils and expectations of consumers.
The young farmer’s determination and ability has already paid off. He and his parents, Ross and Alexa, were this year’s Otago Ballance Farm Environment Award winners and he will also represent Otago-Southland in the grand final of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest in Invercargill in July. . .
Microplastics are one of the biggest threats to oceans and synthetic textiles are a huge contributor to the problem, but now a New Zealand company is hoping to lead change by promoting the use of natural fibres like merino wool.
The issue of microbeads in beauty products is well known, but tiny plastic fibres from clothing are an even bigger issue for oceans and marine life.
For example, each time people wash their synthetic clothing these microplastic fibres break off and, because they’re so tiny, they’re then carried into rivers and eventually oceans. . .
From a ‘nasty little wet farm’ to an award-winning dairy property – Gerald Piddock:
Sandra McKinnon always remembers the unflattering description made of the farm she and husband Rob bought in 1992.
The 44 hectare property near Matamata was unkindly called by an industry colleague: “A nasty little wet farm and what did we think we were doing buying it.”
She admits it had little going for it at the time. But it did have a a stream and native bush and that was enough.
“It’s an ex-ballot farm, it hadn’t had a lot of work done to it,” she says. . .
Farmer’s mid-life crisis results in buying a rare sheep breed – Peter McDonald:
“Honey, I’ve just bought a sheep stud.”
That’s what I said as I put the phone down. I joke that I will just have to throw this one in the bucket with all my other mid-life crisis, although this is starting to wear a bit thin I’m told, as mid-life is well and truly in my rear vision mirror.
The ryeland is classified as a rare sheep breed in New Zealand with about six to seven mostly small flocks scattered throughout the country. Some could say they are a breed that time forgot, their popularity peaked in Great Britain in the 1800s and here through the 1960s.
To give you an idea of their long history as a breed it was reported that Queen Elizabeth requested before the onset of winter that stockings be knitted especially for her from ryeland wool, now this is not the current Queen Elizabeth this story refers to Queen Elizabeth the first who ruled from 1558-1603. . .
Within the framework of the European Union (EU) Days in Armenia, Minister of Territorial Administration and Development Suren Papikyan on Sunday attended the official start of the EU co-funded EU4 Shirak: Wool for Jobs project, in Amasia rural community of the Shirak province.
Ambassador Piotr Świtalski, Head of the Delegation of the EU to Armenia, also was on hand at this event, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. . . |
Sussex Police confirmed that two fans — one home and one away — were arrested for homophobic abuse and one home fan was arrested for racist abuse.
“Yet again our safety and stewarding team, along with Sussex Police, have had to deal with three separate and unwanted instances of disgusting racist and homophobic abuse,” Barber told the Brighton website on Thursday.
“If the prospect of a life ban from watching their clubs play football isn’t a strong enough deterrent, we have to ask the question as to whether the courts should be given the power to hand out more severe punishments?
“Football can only do so much, and we are sick and tired of the game’s reputation being tarnished by these people.
“I find it impossible to comprehend how and why some individuals think it’s acceptable to behave in this way, and yet again I will make it very clear that neither Brighton & Hove Albion nor the wider football community, will tolerate racism, homophobia, or any other form of discrimination at any time.”
Barber also urged fans to immediately report discriminatory behavior they experience at the club’s stadium.
In a statement to CNN, Chelsea said that the club “welcomes and commends the swift and firm action taken by Brighton,” adding that “we join them in condemning the disgusting behavior of a small number of supporters at yesterday’s match.”
It continued: “Chelsea FC also operates a zero tolerance policy towards racism, homophobia and any other form of discriminatory behavior, and will always take the strongest possible action against season ticket holders or members who take part in such despicable behavior.”
Rainbow Laces campaign
The arrests made on Wednesday were the latest in a series of incidents of abuse that have blemished the Premier League.
That same weekend, Everton also launched an investigation after claims of homophobic chanting in the club’s victory against Chelsea.
The rainbow symbol — synonymous with the LGBT movement — was displayed on LED boards, captains’ armbands, corner flags and even the laces of footballers over the course of two match weeks.
“It’s really important that Brighton & Hove Albion stepped up and took action to show that hateful slurs are unacceptable and the club is committed to creating an inclusive environment,” Robbie de Santos, director of sport at Stonewall, told CNN in a statement.
“The more players, fans, clubs and organizations that stand up for equality in sport, the sooner we kick discrimination out and make sport everyone’s game.”
The Premier League did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. |
The Ocala region is known for its horse farms, rolling hills, freshwater springs and the Ocala National Forest. Ocala is located in the center of the state, just north of Orlando. Although four rivers run through the Ocala area, if you want to enjoy dinner while taking a cruise on the water, you'll have to outside the immediate Ocala area. Just a short drive from Ocala, however, you can find a number of cruise experts who can help you dine on the water.
Hillsborough Bay Cruise
Yacht StarShip (yachtstarship.com) sails on Hillsborough Bay, a little less than 100 miles south of Ocala in Tampa. As of this publication, the 2.5-hour cruise departs daily from the downtown Tampa dock. Choose from an earlier or later departure on Saturdays. Aboard the Starship, you can enjoy a three-course freshly cooked meal with your choice of entrees. Dinner is served at your leisure, and you can purchase wine, champagne or bar drinks. More formal dress is encouraged; attire such as T-shirts, [tank tops](https://society6.com/tank-tops?utm_source=SFGHG&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=1837) and shorts are prohibited.
Clearwater Harbor Cruises
The Calypso Queen (calypsoqueen.com) sails from Clearwater Harbor, which is a little over two hours from Ocala. Dinner is served buffet-style on the 65-foot triple-deck Island Queen. The daily sunset dinner cruise is casual; it is billed as a tropical party, and wine, beer and rum punch are included in the fee. Also leaving from Clearwater Harbor, the StarLite Cruise’s (starlitediningcruise.com) dinner cruise lasts for three hours. The 115-foot ship has indoor dining, and the dinner is prepared fresh on board. You can choose from any of the 10 entrees on the menu; beverages are an additional charge. Live music wafts through the dining room as you enjoy dinner; after dinner the band will take your requests.
St. John's River Cruise
Travel about 1.5 hours north of Ocala to Sanford on the St. John’s River. Board the 98-foot Riverside Romance (riversideromance.com), a triple-decker ship, and enjoy a Saturday evening dinner cruise down the St. John's River. When you board the ship, help yourself to an hors d’oeuvres buffet. During the course of the 3.5 hour cruise, you can dance to live music or just relax and enjoy the scenery. Dinners are prepared fresh aboard the ship, usually featuring seasonal food, and you can purchase cocktails for an additional fee. Advanced reservations are required.
Indian River Cruise
Take a two-hour drive southeast of Ocala on Fridays for a two-hour cruise on the Indian River aboard the Indian River Queen (indianriverqueen.com). The paddleboat motors down the Indian River for two hours, during which a buffet dinner is served. As of this publication, each Friday night cruise has a unique menu and entertainment. Alcoholic beverages are an additional fee. The cruise line also offers weddings aboard the ship, with complete planning for the entire event.
Joe Murray began writing professionally in 1980. As a technical writer, he authored white papers and articles for Hewlett Packard and Intel. Since retiring, Murray has written several home-exchange travel articles for KnowYourTrade.com and CHECtravel,com among other outlets. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Santa Clara University. |
The Cochin is a breed of large domestic chicken. It derives from large feather-legged chickens brought from China to Europe and North America in the 1840s and 1850s. It is reared principally for exhibition. It was formerly known as Cochin-China.
Partridge Cochin cock
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Like the Brahma, the Cochin derives from very large feather-legged chickens brought from China to Europe and North America in the 1840s and 1850s. These were at first known as "Shanghai" birds, and later as "Cochin-Chinas".:89 The large size and striking appearance of these birds contributed to a sudden large increase of interest in poultry-breeding in Western countries, sometimes described as "hen fever".
The Cochin was included in the first edition of the Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, prepared by William Bernhardt Tegetmeier for the first Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1865. The colours described are buff, black, cinnamon, grouse, lemon, partridge, silver buff, silver cinnamon, and white.:5–12 Bantam Cochins were not listed.:4
The Cochin, both full-sized and bantam, was included in the first edition of the Standard of Excellence of the American Poultry Association in 1874. The original colours were white, partridge, buff and black; other colours were later added.
The most distinctive feature of the Cochin is the excessive plumage that covers leg and foot. The skin beneath the feathers is yellow.
In the United Kingdom the recognised colour varieties, for large fowl only, are black, blue, buff, cuckoo, partridge and grouse, and white;:90–93 Cochin bantams are not recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain.:89 The Entente Européenne lists the same nine colours for full-sized Cochins, and twenty-four for the bantam; any of the bantam varieties may be frizzled, with the feathers curling outwards. The American Poultry Association recognises nine colours for the full-sized bird – barred, black, blue, brown, buff, golden-laced, partridge, silver-laced, and white; the same colours are recognised for the bantam, with the addition of four more: birchen, Columbian, mottled, and red.
The Cochin has been bred principally for exhibition, at the expense of productive characteristics.:89 It is a good layer of very large tinted eggs, and lays well in winter.:89 The hens are good sitters and good mothers, and may be used to hatch the eggs of turkeys and ducks. The meat tends to be coarse in texture and excessively dark; capons slaughtered at an age of 12–16 months provide a good large table bird.
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- Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed January 2017.
- Heritage Poultry Breeds: Chickens. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Accessed July 2020.
- Victoria Roberts (2008). British poultry standards: complete specifications and judging points of all standardized breeds and varieties of poultry as compiled by the specialist breed clubs and recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405156424.
- Carol Ekarius (2007). Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds. North Adams, Massachusetts: Storey Publishing. ISBN 9781580176675.
- APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
- Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
- Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
- Cochin Chicken The Livestock Conservancy. Archived 3 October 2016.
- Smith, Page; Charles Daniels (2000). The Chicken Book. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2213-1.
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier (editor) (1865). The Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, authorized by the Poultry Club. London: Groombridge and Sons, for the Poultry Club. |
Fat Fender Garage is your number one source for all things custom for your hot rod! We're best known for our work with Coyote motor swaps. This kit works with model years 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. We have them available for 2WD 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton and 1 ton models.
This one is for 3/4 and 1 ton trucks. Kit includes motor mounts, transmission crossmember and hardware.The components have all been powder coated black to ensure a sleek look and to protect the metal from harmful rust. This kit will work with the stock suspension and the stock power steering gearbox. It will accommodate the mustang headers with some minor frame relieving. The motor will sit offset in the engine bay just as it would from the factory in order to allow room for the steering to function properly. The item "1973-1979 Ford F100 Coyote Swap Motor Mount Transmission Crossmember Kit 1 Ton" is in sale since Wednesday, April 10, 2019. This item is in the category "eBay Motors\Parts & Accessories\Car & Truck Parts\Engines & Components\Motor Mounts". The seller is "fatfendergarage" and is located in Gilbert, Arizona. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay, Ukraine, Cayman islands. |
Here's a quick comparison showing how closely the live-action version of Bo-Katan compares to her animated counterpart:
As you can see, a handful of elements have changed in the transition to live-action. Her Beskar plates are slightly larger and the neck area has changed, while her hairstyle is slightly less stylized (perhaps to reflect her older age). But for the most part, Bo-Katan looks pretty similar in either form, right down to the more angular shape of her helmet's visor.
The original story is below:
Another familiar face from Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be making the jump to live-action in the upcoming second season of The Mandalorian. Slash Film reports Katee Sackhoff will reprise the role of Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze in Season 2.
Sackhoff voiced Bo-Katan in The Clone Wars and the followup series Star Wars Rebels, but this will be her first time playing the character in live-action. This comes on the heels of news that ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano is also making her live-action debut in Season 2, where she's reportedly being played by Rosario Dawson (Marvel's Daredevil). No doubt the two characters' stories will intertwine in The Mandalorian.
Slash Film's sources indicate Sackhoff already filmed her scenes in February. We previously learned production on The Mandalorian Season 2 wrapped in March and post-production work has been carrying on remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Warning: The following paragraph contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 1 and Star Wars Rebels:
Bo-Katan's presence in The Mandalorian is especially intriguing given the way Season 1 ended. Giancarlo Esposito's character Moff Gideon is shown wielding the Darksaber, an ancient blade granting the wielder the honor of ruling Mandalore. Chronologically, the Darksaber was last seen in the final season of Star Wars Rebels, as Sabrine Wren passed the Darksaber onto Bo-Katan. Presumably, Season 2 will reveal how Bo-Katan lost the Darksaber to Gideon.
Bo-Katan and Ahsoka aren't the only two Star Wars icons appearing in Season 2. Temuera Morrison has reportedly been tapped to play iconic bounty hunter Boba Fett, having previously played Jango Fett in Episode II and voiced Boba Fett in later versions of the original trilogy movies. Michael Biehn (Terminator) has also been cast in an undisclosed role. Here's our explainer on how Boba Fett might've survived to appear in The Mandalorian.
The Mandalorian Season 2 is slated to debut on Disney + in October 2020. The lineup of directors for Season 2 includes Peyton Reed (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror). Meanwhile, pre-production work on Season 3 has already begun.
Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter. |
Escape to the Hotel Escondido Oaxaca Mexico. The hotel is alluring, the rooms beyond private, the beach empty and the vibe … a bit corporate. If you manage your stay in advance; you can experience lovely abandon.
While the rooms are comfortable and private; the consumables can be a bit bland. Luckily, as you are in Oaxaca, it is easy to bring your own!
Beach & Bungalows
The true attractions of Hotel Escondido Oaxaca Mexico are the beach and the bungalows.
First the beach: A perfect, empty expanse of sun & warm ocean. You look left – nothing. You look right – nothing. You look out – nothing. Aside from a few other tanning bodies; you have the world to yourself.
Second the bungalows: Spacious and private, you enjoy your own plunge pool and hammocks. Sliding doors pull wide letting in air and the delicious smells of the warm beach scrub.
Let’s start with alcohol. The selection at the bar contains the mainstream brands and obvious varietals of Mezcal & Tequila. Its a bit of a shame as Oaxaca is the home of Mezcal. There are amazing independent, artisanal distillers, known as Mezcaleros, in the region. The suggestion is that you avoid the bar cocktails altogether. We sent back several premixed cocktails as they were loaded with sugar.
Luckily we had visited a couple of palenques (distilleries) before arriving to Hotel Escondido. We found ourselves drinking through a couple of the bottles intended as for gifts !!
Food is where the Grupo Habitas’s shift to a more corporate structure becomes obvious. The cuisine is more tex-mex than Mexican. The cook is a local kid who appears more a surfer than a chef!
Here we have to balance the Hotel Escondido. It is positioned for the not-too-experimental foreign tourist. This is evidenced in the bleached out pop music of Justin Bieber to the use of industrial tortillas. The tortillas are quite disappointing, as even the most modest of families make their own masa for authentic tortillas. To be served tostadas from an industrial fried package, as if purchased from a discount store, is a bit underwhelming. Fortunately, we were able to convince one of the kitchen staff to order real masa for our tortillas from a local woman. They readily understood our desire for authentic cuisine! Thank you again!
The hotel’s reservation department is overpriced and short on replies. We usually recommend booking directly from hotels. The rate is good, you are supporting the actual business directly. However, in the case of Grupo Habita hotels, it is much easier to reserve via Design Hotels or Tablet. You will receive better deals and cancellation policies If you are a foodie, choose without meals! Seriously, just bring provisions!!
Another point to keep in mind is getting to the hotel. If you are renting a car just follow the GPS. If you are arranging your transfer via the hotel, it would be a good idea to remind the concierge the day before and on the day of transfer. Our taxi was not booked at all after both of these confirmations. Costing us 2 hours of precious beach time!
While the Hotel Escondido Oaxaca Mexico is one of the most photogenic Mexican beach hotels; another option is to rent one of the Airbnb Houses adjacent designed by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach also responsible for the Botanical garden at Casa Wabi a few meters down the beach. Lovely and private properties like these ones are quite affordable. For our next trip; this is what we will do.
In conclusion; The Hotel Escondido Oaxaca Mexico, by Grupo Habita, is a nice hotel in a WONDERFUL location. With a little bit of advanced planning, you can ensure yourself the perfect beach escape. One where you only need to tan and eat, and drink, and to …
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Marrakesh WTCR round axed after Bennani exit
The Salzburgring has been added to the 2020 World Touring Car Cup calendar following the cancellation of the series' Marrakesh season opener.
The Moulay El Hassan circuit in Marrakesh has hosted WTCR and its World Touring Car Championship predecessor 10 times since 2009, and for the past three years was the venue for the World Touring Car season opener.
But promoter Eurosport Events said it was "no longer possible to deliver a race weekend of the standing and quality" it previously has as Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani will not be on this year's WTCR grid.
Bennani drove for Sebastien Loeb Racing for five years, but Volkswagen's decision to end its support of the SLR programme - in line with its adoption of an electric motorsport strategy - left him with without a seat for 2020.
Though Motorsport.com understands talks between Bennani and SLR to have a continued presence in WTCR did take place, these were not successful. SLR has now left the series.
While the Salzburgring keeps WTCR's quota of 10 rounds in place, it is not a straight swap for the marrakesh round. Instead, the Austrian venue - which hosted three WTCC rounds between 2012 and 2014 - will host the sixth round of the season on the July 24-26 weekend.
The extension of the European leg of the season also means the first of the flyaway races at Ningbo in China has been put back two weeks until September 18-20 to allow ample time for the shipment of cars and equipment.
WTCR added the FIA and Eurosport will liaise with local authorities and the promoter of the Ningbo event, Mitime, "to assess the evolution of the coronavirus outbreak".
The date changes, which were approved on Wednesday at a meeting of the FIA's Touring Car Commission but remain subject to ratification by the World Motor Sport Council, mean the season will begin at the Hungaroring on the April 24-26 weekend.
The date of the pre-season test at Aragon, which will also host a WTCR round in 2020, is unchanged. The three-day test will take place on March 24-26, while WTCR's 'Race of Spain' event will be held over the July 3-5 weekend.
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I’ve been having conversations lately with coaches about the best way trying to try to get a “read” on an athlete’s personality or goodness-of-fit with particular coaches or coaching styles. Here in college sports it’s a common practice to try to vet out the best possible to assess a potential recruit’s personality at the outset to see if they will be successful in your program. On the latter end, coaches sometimes find themselves losing an athlete during the year and wondering how they could have prevented the lack of good fit or lack of success only after the fact. While there are many ways to go about assessing this issue for me, a sport and clinical psychologist, I always go back to how the research can inform the issue or process.
I won’t bore you with all the details, however what I will say is that in graduate school, specifically doctoral programs in clinical psychology, we get a lot of education and training on assessment. Psychological testing is a hallmark specialty of a clinical psychologist and what delineates us from therapists, psychotherapists, life coaches, and counselors. We assess IQ, personality (my favorite), neuro-cognitive functioning, behavioral assessment, learning disability, and so on. Assessment in my field means using questionnaires, tests, instruments, processes and surveys that are standardized and have empirical (scientific) evidence to back it up reliability and validity. It’s not pulling questions out of thin air or inventing our own process of curiosity or ego’s sake.
With that said…
- Would you like to know if your athlete, or prospective athlete, is going to be socialable and take risks, or will be withdrawn and prefers time alone?
- Or if your athlete, or prospective athlete, can be empathetic and maintain positive relationships or less likely to express their emotions and be taken advantage of by others?
- Would you like to know if your athlete, or prospective athlete, prefers to be organized, responsible, or dutiful versus careless?
- Or how open your athlete, or prospective athlete, is to learning new experiences or can adapt to new situations easily or struggles when in unfamiliar situations or ridged in their beliefs?
- Would you like to know if your athlete, or prospective athlete, will sweat the small stuff and is prone to negative emotions or if they can keep his or her cool under pressure?
Well I give you…The Big Five Personality Dimensions! The Big-Five has been used in Industrial Organizational psychology for years and has been applied all over the world to various business and organizations. “The Big Five dimensions of personality have been useful in providing a framework for organizing personality attributes used in industrial, work, and organizational psychology research and practice. They have been investigated in relation to many areas of interest, including occupational attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes.” It has also been applied, to, no surprise, in sport organizations and with athletes. At the end of this post there are summaries and references to studies using the BFI with athletes.
The Big Five dimensions of personality are (1) Neuroticism (Emotional Stability), (2) Extraversion, (3) Openness, (4) Agreeableness, and (5) Conscientiousness. If you take the assessment (links provided below) you will get a percentage score for each five of the dimensions indicating if you are in the high range, moderate or low range. With the Free Online version you will actually get a mini report (example below) explaining what your scores indicate in relation or compared to the general population of people whom have take the test. The paper version will not do that, so the diagram below is helpful in interpreting the results. The online version takes about 10 minutes to complete.
So there are many ways to incorporate the The Big Five Assessment in your coaching practice and with your athletes. You can simply email them the link or paper version and have them send back the report or their raw scores to you, or if you are doing a training camp or recruiting camp you can have all your athletes complete the assessment before-hand so you will have the results in hand as you observe their performance for the duration of camp.
On the other hand, if you are looking to select captains for your team you might want to think twice of choosing athletes low on extroversion or low on conscientiousness because their tendency maybe to be less organized and to stay more to themselves.
Let me remind you that any assessment, including this one, is an added piece or information backed by solid research. However, in the end, when evaluating an athlete, it’s important that you also use, and trust, your experience, expertise, and gut/intuitive instinct.
I hope this was helpful in providing an additional resource and approach to assessing if you and your athletes are good fit for your program.
Please, send me any feedback or comments if you decide to incorporate the the Big Five. I would love to hear how it goes. Additionally, if you would like a consult regarding the results and/or specific consultation feel free to reach out.
Reference articles and summaries on Big-Five Inventory with Athletes:
Using the ‘Big – Five’ – For Assessing Personality Traits of the Champions: An Insinuation for the Sports Industry
Openness to experience has been found to be positively related to performance; which implies, that open mindedness in athletes can enhance their performance. This is perhaps because, athletes with this trait can bear the pressure of a new environment; their open mindedness provides them with the pitch to handle competition related stresses, as they are more flexible, creative and intellectually oriented; which helps them in performing well in competitions, even under unfamiliar surroundings. Thus, this study supports the contention, that openness to experience is an important trait that has been found to have significant positive impact on the performance of all the champions.
Extroversion is another important trait that has been found to have a positive effect on performance. The athletes who have been identified as extroverts in this study have emerged as highly confident, excitement seekers and enthusiasts; who perhaps helps them in overcoming fears, insecurities, negative emotions, worry or anger, and thus performing better in the face of challenges. Conscientiousness, as a trait, helps in developing impulse control, and focus on specific goals; it makes a person persistent, responsible, dependable and to work in an organized manner.
“The Neuroticism dimension was found to be associated with the selection of less adaptive coping strategies and lower levels of reported coping effectiveness. The other four personality dimensions were associated with more adaptive coping strategies that were rated as effective.”
“Positive actor effects emerged for commitment (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion) and relatedness (i.e., agreeableness, extraversion), and partner effects revealed that dyad members reported favorable outcomes when their partner was highly conscientious and/or agreeable. The potential moderating effect of one’s role in the dyad was also examined. Conclusions: Consistent with mainstream relationship settings, the Big Five model may provide important insight into dyadic functioning in coach–athlete contexts.”
John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big-Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (Vol. 2, pp. 102–138). New York: Guilford Press. |
Meb Keflezighi Wins USATF Masters Title at Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon
92-year-old Harriette Thompson becomes oldest woman in the world to run a marathon
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May 31, 2015
SAN DIEGO – San Diego lived up to its nickname as “America’s Finest City” this weekend. More than 26,000 athletes ran through its streets at the Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon & 1/2 Marathon on Sunday and the new Rock ‘n’ Roll 5K on Saturday.
The half-marathon doubled as the USATF Masters Half Marathon Championships and 40-year-old Meb Keflezighi, competing in his first race as a master, took home the title with a time of 1:02:29. The fastest ever half-marathon run by an American master.
For Keflezighi, an Olympic silver medalist and winner of both the Boston and New York City Marathons, the race was especially memorable considering that the 40-year-old broke two American masters records enroute (10 mile and 15K) and ended up with the USATF Masters title—his first. Jen Rhines from Boston won the women’s masters race in 1:16:36.
Keflezighi recalled the “MEB ZONE” after the race (a cheering section that pays tribute to him near the finish) and how it helped him in the home stretch. “It was an awesome place to be,” he said of the area where he gave spectators high fives after finishing. “My goal was to run to win and I did that. I wish I won the overall. But second place is a good place,” said the San Diego-native.
Aside from Meb’s Masters performance, it was 92-year-old Harriette Thompson who stole the show, finishing the marathon in 7:24:36.The two-time cancer survivor started running at the young age of 76, and ran her 16th marathon in San Diego today to raise awareness and funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To donate to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on behalf of Team Harriette, please visit: http://pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/rnr15/hthompson.
With a time of 1:02:27 Jordan Chipangama finished first in the men’s half-marathon, Keflezighi second and third place went to Shadrack Biwott (1:03:11). The women’s half-marathon race was a decisive affair with Japan’s Eri Hayakawa prevailing in1:10:50. Jessica Trengrove from Australia was a distant second, clocking 1:11:10, while third went to American runner Sara Hall who came across the finish line in 1:11:31.
California’s own Igor Campos was men’s marathon winner. The 31-year-old scientist lives in Chula Vista and ran 2:37:05. “It’s super amazing. I’m super stoked,” he said at the finish about being a local champion. Campos didn’t lead the race from the start. He recalled that he caught the first-place runner near the 21-mile mark. Suddenly, the leader stopped to stretch his legs and Campos took advantage of that moment.
“The leader started walking, so I dropped the hammer. In case he recovered I thought, ‘I’ve gotta get out of here,'” said Campos. “I just tried to survive those final miles.” Campos traditionally runs ultra marathons, so he was a bit surprised to prevail at a distance that’s much shorter and faster than he’s used to running. Behind Campos in second was 22-year-old Chris Collins (2:39:17). And third was awarded to Boone Ebel from Chandler, Ariz. who ran 2:41:56.
The women’s marathon champion was also a Californian. Twenty-four-year-old Lenore Moreno blazed the course in 2:41:39(the second-fastest time overall for the day). Moreno was pacing with the men nearly the entire race. “It was kind of scary,” Moreno said of the race that was her debut marathon. “I felt good and said I was going to just go for it. I thought of it like a practice run for this distance,” she recalled.
Moreno says she got into running after leaving high school and entering community college. “I didn’t expect the win today,” she said with a big smile on her face. “It was something I will never forget. The cheering out there on the course and all the spectators really helped.” Second place went to Zoila Gomez (2:48:02), while the final podium slot was awarded to Susan Smith who ran 2:58:18.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the official charity of the race. The charity’s endurance training program, Team In Training, welcome more than 300 runners who raised $1 million for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at the race this weekend. Team in Training has raised more than $260 million dollars through the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series events since the inception of the Series in 1998.
The Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon & 1/2 Marathon took place over the weekend of May 29-31, starting with an interactive 2-day Health & Fitness Expo. The new Rock ‘n’ Roll 5K on Saturday, offered participants two days of running and the chance to take on the Remix Challenge by running both days. The race routes incorporate a scenic tour of San Diego’s neighborhood charm, passing through Little Italy, Old Town, University Heights and Normal Heights, before ending by Petco Park at 13th and K Street, with a celebratory finish line festival.
The Toyota Rock ‘n’ Roll Concert Series with headliner O.A.R. gave participants a reason to rock out at San Diego’s Petco Park on Sunday after the race. In addition to O.A.R.’s performance, runners enjoyed the sounds of motivational music and entertainment along the course, along with enthusiastic cheerleaders and thousands of encouraging spectators.
Suja Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego Marathon & 1/2 Marathon Results – May 31, 2015
Place, Name, Age, Hometown, Time
Men’s Half Marathon
- Jordan Chipangama, 26, Flagstaff, AZ, 1:02:27
- Meb Keflezighi, 40, San Diego, CA, 1:02:29
- Shadrack Biwott, 30, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 1:03:11
Women’s Half Marathon
- Eri Hayakawa, 33, Japan, 1:10:50
- Jessica Trengrove, 27, Australia, 1:11:10
- Sara Hall, 32, Mammoth Lakes, CA, 1:11:31
- Igor Campos, 31, Chula Vista, CA, 2:37:05
- Chris Collins, 22, Yorba Linda, CA, 2:39:17
- Boone Ebel, 34, Chandler, AZ, 2:41:56
- Lenore Moreno, 24, West Covina, CA, 2:41:39
- Zoila Gomez, 35, Alamosa, CO, 2:48:02
- Susan Smith, 22, Portland, OR, 2:58:18 |
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My weekends are not has packed with activities but I still wake up early. My weekend activities continues to spread across family and business but I also make time to do things I enjoy, at the moment I’m watching Decoding Disruptions Masterclass and its really encouraged me to keep my focus during these challenging times. Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday is a weekend staple.
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NS: Outside of skincare?
AA: Beauty comes from the inside, they say you are and what you eat so, I eat a health balanced diet and I drink plenty of fluids - I drink a lot of hot water, honey and lime. I have also been keeping up my supplement efforts, I am trialling vitamins for hair and nail growth, containing a high dose of Vitamin D3 at the moment. |
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The number of burglaries in Sheerwater and Maybury has more than tripled in just one month, police statistics reveal.
The latest figures from Surrey Police show that their fears aren't unfounded - from December to January the number of burglaries more than tripled from seven in December to 24 in January.
Last month's figure is TWELVE TIMES as many as in November, which saw just two burglaries in the area.
Police think that January's burglaries, which mostly seemed to occur during a two-week 'spike', are linked.
A resident from Sheerwater, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "There's been around one nearly every night for the past month.
"The burglars had initially been targeting people with a lot of money, now they're just targeting anyone, so more people are concerned.
"They even do it in broad daylight, or even between 6pm-7pm when I think most people would be home from work, so how would they know that a whole family is not in?
"That shows that they are watching."
"Left in the dark"
Another Sheerwater resident, Majeeb Ramzan, said he feels people have been left in the dark by police.
"I'm just astonished by the response by the police , I'm sure they are doing all they can but they need to let us know," he said.
"And there other things they can do, for instance all they need to do on Princess Road is have cameras installed.
"My parents who live on Princess Road are scared to leave the house, as they don’t want their house burgled. They also care for their disabled son.
"The police need to do a lot more, for example, when the robbery happens send the forensics team within the hour to the house not 24 hours or 48 hours later."
Surrey Police has said it will always prioritise resources and has reassured residents that the force is "working hard" to address the spike in burglaries.
Woking Neighbourhood Inspector Andy Crane said: "We’re aware there are concerns about burglaries in the Sheerwater and Maybury areas in recent weeks which is something we’ve been working hard to address.
"There were two specific weeks in January which saw an unusual spike in the number of burglaries in the Maybury and Sheerwater areas.
"We believe the majority of these burglaries were linked – the offenders entered through the rear of the properties, and took jewellery.
"The local policing team reacted quickly with extra plain-clothed patrols and other operational activity. Early indications are that these measures have had an impact, and the first two weeks in February have seen the number of burglaries fall."
He continued: "It is not unusual for burglaries to increase during the winter months because of the dark evenings, however we will always prioritise resources and direct very specific activity when a particular type of offending emerges."
"I would like to reassure residents that we are working hard to both prevent further offending and identify those responsible for the offences that have already occurred.
"If you see anything suspicious report it to us straight away by calling 101 or 999 in an emergency. If possible, make a note of vehicle make/models and registration numbers. Also any descriptions of individuals involved can really help progress our enquiries." |
It was all about injury updates after Nebraska’s Wednesday practice as the offense continued preparation for Minnesota. So much so, head coach Mike Riley spoke to the media before offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf. Riley does not typically address the media until Thursday.
Riley’s reason to meet with the media one day early was to provide an update on quarterback Tommy Armstong Jr., who suffered a head injury during Nebraska’s matchup with Ohio State.
“Tommy has progressed what we would call normally through the [concussion] protocol to this point,” Riley said. “As you have probably gathered from similar injuries in the past, it’s always day-to-day until he’s finally cleared. And he is not finally cleared.
“He will do some football-related activity tomorrow. If he goes through all that day tomorrow, which probably means he can throw the ball around a little bit, maybe even do some pass skeleton, as long as he’s in no situation where he has no contact, that’s the kind of stuff he’ll be doing. If that passes, if everything goes good, then he would be available for the game, everything stays normal.”
As Riley noted, if everything goes well for Armstrong, he could be cleared to play against Minnesota as early as Thursday. Riley said he is hopeful.
“Yes, I anticipate [he will play],” Riley said. “You know me. I’m kind of an optimistic guy. I don’t see any reason why not at this point but we’ve been surprised before so I shouldn’t go any further than that.”
On to other news and notes from Wednesday’s practice:
>> If Armstrong is not cleared to play against Minnesota for some reason, Langsdorf feels backup quarterback Ryker Fyfe will be ready to go.
“He’s had a really good week,” Langsdorf said. “He gets rid of the ball quick, throws accurately. I think he does a nice job. [He] has good footwork, and he plays it at a fast pace which is good to see. He’s looked good all year, he just hasn’t had a lot of the game reps.”
As for Zack Darlington, he’s been balancing his time between holding and practicing at quarterback in case Fyfe starts.
“He’s good with whatever been doing,” Langsdorf said. “He’s a smart kid, and we’ve got a package of plays for him.”
>> Langsdorf said he’d like to see more rotation at the running back position against Minnesota, which has been a challenge to accomplish recently. Part of that is due to Devnie Ozigbo battling an ankle injury, which has made the Huskers reliant on Terrell Newby.
>> Offensive line coach Mike Cavanaugh confirmed that guard Jerald Foster may play against Minnesota after battling back from an MCL injury. Foster saw some reps during practice on Wednesday with the Huskers’ top group.
“He could spot a little bit, so we’ll see,” Cavanaugh said. “It’s day-by-day.”
The doctors gave Foster the OK to practice last week, and Cavanaugh said that he’s been a man on a mission to return ever since. Langsdorf agreed, adding that the transition has been pretty seamless for Foster.
“He’s admitted himself [that] he has to knock some rust off and get in shape, but he’s been a pleasant surprise,” Langsdorf said. “He’s looked good. It seems like he’s coming right back into the mix without any hang-ups.”
>> What was it like for Cavanaugh to get his starting group back this week?
“It was fun,” Cavanaugh said. “Sam Hahn said earlier, ‘Hey, the band’s back together.’ It was good to have them all back, all working.”
>> One final note on the offensive line: Cole Conrad will start at right tackle against Minnesota in place of David Knevel.
Erin is the Deputy Editor and Digital Marketing Strategist for Hail Varsity. She has covered Nebraska athletics since 2012, which has included stops at Bleacher Report, Cox Media Group’s Land of 10, and even Hail Varsity (previously from 2012-2017). She has also been featured on the Big Ten Network, NET’s Big Red Wrap-Up, and a varsity of radio shows nationwide. When not covering the Huskers, Erin is probably at Chipotle. |
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It’s been almost 15 years since Stephenie Meyer and the publishing world introduced the public to sparkly “vegetarian” vampires, but people still love to hate on Twilight. Seriously, even Robert Pattinson has moved on by now. But for every person who seems to hate Twilight with the passion of a thousand midnight suns, there are kids who fell in love with reading because of Bella and Edward.
When I graduated college at the height of Twilight fever, it was oh so cool for my fellow English majors to deride the series for hours at the dining hall. It was also cool to not have read the books. Spoiler alert: I was not cool. I had read through the Twilight series when it made the rounds through my all-girl musical theater troupe. Did I know it was dramatic and a little silly? Yes. I had eyes. From Bella’s first use of “unconditionally and irrevocably,” a small part of me smirked. But it was a welcome break from the novels of Hemingway and Hardy I was studying in school, and it had Edward. Seriously, team Edward for life. I talked this way with other fans, but when most of my classmates attacked the book, I kept my mouth shut.
Years later, starting my MFA program, I was surprised to find the vitriol against Stephenie Meyers still raged strong in Academia. When I told fellow classmates that I was studying YA, more than one laughed at me and said something like, “but not Twilight, right?” with a chuckle. “What’s wrong with Twilight?” I would answer. In reply I received looks that clears asked What’s wrong with you?
And those are just a few personal anecdotes. We remain inundated with Twilight hate through traditional and social media. And I want to be 100% clear that I think a lot of the criticism is valid. Edward and Bella do not model healthy, equitable relationship dynamics. The elevating of purity culture seems regressive and anti-feminist. The depictions of Native American characters and stories are deeply appropriative. And on a line level, many of the sentences in this book will make any good English major cringe. I don’t want to pretend like I’m ignoring any of this or saying it doesn’t matter.
But…rarely do I see these legitimate criticisms come up. Instead, people call the characters stupid. Or worse they call the readers stupid. And if you take away the line level critique, many of these problems (especially accusations of sexism) are just as true about Hemingway and Hardy novels as well. They just aren’t as popular. And for some reason, society assumes that readers who gravitate towards “the classics” are smart enough not to mimic the behavior of those characters. Books that a primarily written for and primarily read by teenage girls are held to a different standard and completely unacceptable level of scrutiny.
I liked Twilight when I read it in college. I admit it!
But I’ve loved Twilight (unconditionally and irrevocably) ever since my first job as a middle school teacher. Why? Because in a sixth grade classroom where the average reading proficiency was at a first grade level, reading Twilight became cool. I saw kids trying to teach themselves how to read, in order to keep reading the book. Others read sections out loud during lunch. Carrying it under your arm in the hallway was a badge of honor.
And let me tell you these kids—young teenage girls and boys—were not stupid.
As a very frazzled, overly idealistic 22-year-old, I’d tried to captivate them by reading A Wrinkle in Time and The Hobbit. And does part of me wish they’d gravitated towards those instead of Twilight? Sure. I’m pretty sure it’s the snobby part of me though.
And the point is that children and teenagers and women are all individuals with free will. They get to choose what they read. They enjoy reading what they enjoy reading. And even if a book isn’t good by academia’s standards or the taste of certain literary communities, I don’t think it should be singled out, nor should its readers be shamed.
Twilight has inspired many kids (and adults!) to become avid readers. It inspired writers from Kiersten White to Sarah Enni to Roshani Chokshi to write nuanced, interesting YA stories. Twilight also helped popularize the idea of female leading characters in books and movies. These are all good things.
I now teach children and teenagers of all ages in New York City. And every year I still see readers who fall in love with reading because sparkly vampires and over-protective werewolves. The problematic elements in Twilight can spark important conversations. And after one young student writing thinly veiled fanfic decided to end her story with the heroine ditching the male lead, becoming a vampire anyway, and deciding to live alone with 14 dogs (blood hounds no less) I decided that kids are probably more savvy readers than anyone gives them credit for. I think that Twilight readers are going to be just fine.
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Cognitive biases are insidious precisely because they are unconscious. So insidious that you can make a really bad decision and not realize it for years.
For over a decade, I have hired Decision Mechanics Limited to design and deliver web and mobile apps. Because the company is in the United Kingdom, payment of their invoices has been complicated and expensive.
Or so we thought.
We began with international bank transfers. These are expensive — there is a $30 dollar transfer fee and additional penalties if there are errors. And they are complex.
The form requires six different sets of account identifiers totaling nearly 60 numbers, letters and symbols. Any error with those account identifiers or with the addresses of two international banks means the transfer is rejected. Resubmitting adds an additional $50 in penalty and new transfer fees, making the total transfer $80.
Each time I went to my credit union to send a transfer, the teller would forget some step and I would get a phone call asking me to return to fix the error and re-sign. In a typical year, there were only a few of these transactions, but they were frustrating, expensive and time consuming.
In 2011, we examined Google Wallet upon its release, but rejected it because of its high fees for international transfers.
Then, recently, somehow two of the 60 numbers, letters and symbols were transposed, a transfer was rejected and we had to eat the $50 in penalties and re-submission fees, an $80 expense on a $750 payment.
This spurred us once again to explore high-tech solutions: Google Wallet, Paypal’s new Venmo app, a different international bank. And then my colleague suggested, “There’s another option. We do this so infrequently you could just post a check.”
Seriously, I thought. We both have advanced degrees and occasionally fancy ourselves clever. How could we have been so stupid?
“Andrew, why haven’t we done this all along?” I asked.
He replied, “Because we have a mental block when it’s not high-tech. My mother would have suggested this right away. Of course, let’s see it work seamlessly before we get all excited.”
$2.95 cents in postage and a $7.50 check clearing fee later and we think we’ve coined a new cognitive bias:
Tech blindness: the inability to see an obvious, low-tech solution when high-tech options are available. |
More than 400 gaming dens operate on native lands, but critics say social ills and inequality stack the deck.
St Regis Mohawk Reservation, US – Miss the roadside signs welcoming you to Akwesasne and it can be hard to know you’ve arrived – possibly in another country.
Snowy winter streets begin in the United States and end in Canada with few tangible hints of a borderline. Some properties are even split between the two countries, with a living room in New York and a kitchen in Quebec.
But the boundaries – international and internal, visible and invisible – that proliferate here matter. Centuries old, yet still contested, they shape the post-9/11 lives of Mohawk residents more than ever.
|The reservation straddles the US-Canada border [Joe Jackson]|
Straddling the US-Canada border, which slices through the eastern half of the reserve and continues west with the St Lawrence River, the territory encompasses about 66sq km of peninsulas, islands and wetlands.
The Native-American name Akwesasne, translates to “land where the partridge drums”. It could also be described as a jurisdictional Frankenstein – a complex array of entities make claim to portions of the reserve or responsibility for its nearly 23,000 people, who live in roughly equal numbers on either side.
“I never realised how complicated life is, how odd things are here when it comes to jurisdictions until I left,” said Brian David, one of 13 tribal chiefs on the Canadian portion.
Akwesasne has two sets of elected administrations governing the territory.
The St Regis Mohawk Tribal Council manages the American section, which abuts two counties of upstate New York. The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne runs the Canadian half, which splits between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Both federal governments enforce the external boundaries.
To complicate matters further, the Mohawk Nation, which consists of eight communities spread across the region, is one of six Iroquois Nations joined in a historically powerful and important confederacy collectively represented by an assembly.
went from a farming community to not being able to farm any more because of the pollution.”]
The muskrat fur hat-wearing David, who worked for decades all over the US before returning to Akwesasne in 2007, said Mohawks have adapted to this situation – for better or for worse.
The 62-year-old crosses the externally imposed border daily, carrying Canadian and US dollars in his wallet, buying generous cuts of meat in the US to cook with his cheaper petrol in Canada.
“I’ve just got used to it,” he said of utilising both sides. “That’s just how it works here.”
Lay of the land
Akwesasne Mohawks traditionally subsisted through agriculture, hunting and fishing. But after over two centuries of encroachment by European settlers, and the subsequent emergence of heavy industry nearby, they were left with a divided, semi-urban scrap of land ill-suited to their traditions.
“There were a lot of things that changed,” said Beverly Cook, 61, one of three chiefs on the St Regis council. “[We] went from a farming community to not being able to farm any more because of the pollution.”
Economic malaise and reliance on government led to no businesses and a plethora of federally funded trailers, added Ron LaFrance, 49, another chief from the American side. The situation has slowly improved, both agreed.
“Thirty years ago you could tell you were on the reserve; now you can’t,” said LaFrance. “[We’ve] moved into the 20th century.”
The St Regis tribal area has indeed modernised or, perhaps more accurately, Americanised.
Most commercial development lines Route 37, the main artery, with uninspiring roadside eateries and strip mall-type businesses. Untaxed cigarettes and petrol mean smoke shops and petrol stations multiply.
The Akwesasne Casino Resort, opened in 1995 after gambling proponents won a closely contested referendum, is the primary local landmark. A sprawling, functional site of gaming and bingo halls, restaurants, a seven-floor hotel and big parking lot, it wouldn’t look out of place anywhere in Middle America.
Roadside adverts proclaim: “Gambling is not in our culture.” But locals have accepted the casino as beneficial, said general manager Patrick Bassney.
About 40 percent of the staff are Mohawk and it generates $19m annually for the St Regis administration, said Aimee Benedict, a media manager for the council. “Just about every programme within the tribe gets money from the casino,” she added.
More modernisation is imminent. An $11m US Department of Agriculture grant is paying for the replacement of the dial-up connection with fiber-optic broadband. It will herald the launch of a TV station airing Mohawk news, weather and current affairs.
|Mohawk firefighters Adrian and Jason McDonald [Joe Jackson]|
“This is a big deal,” said Benedict. “It’s going to totally change the way we reach our community.”
More than anything else, money makes the border materialise. The two tribal administrations have independent funding while private utilities, such as water and gas companies, only operate within their respective national boundaries.
“The bucks stop at the border,” said Les Benedict, assistant director of the environment division on the American side, noting federal and state funds can only be spent within the US.
A few agencies operate across Akwesasne. The most visible: the volunteer fire department. It comprises three stations – in Hogansburg, NY, Ontario and Quebec – that respond to emergencies.
Jason McDonald, 39, who lives on the American side, said the reserve’s division had been problematic but doesn’t impede their work now. “We’re not a political entity,” he explained. “When there’s a big operation, there is no border.”
Issues, such as getting the power shut off and using standardised equipment and fire hydrants have been resolved, he added.
His brother and fellow volunteer firefighter, Adrian McDonald, 44, whose home is split by the border – he has a Canadian phone number but receives power from a US utility – said the department could be a model for a more unified approach.
He added: “We always say that. Why can’t this community work more like the fire department – what border?”
Law enforcement appears a more complex – and sensitive – area to consolidate.
Matthew Rourke, 40, a detective sergeant of the St Regis Mohawk Tribal Police, conceded the junction of jurisdictions is “a nightmare”.
Police from the Canadian side must pass through the American part 90 percent of the time to reach their territories, he said.
“There’s time when I get in arguments with them,” Rourke admitted. “But we still have that common goal of protecting our community.”
He said the main issues his 30-member department faces are similar to any US border area: criminals utilising the boundary for human and contraband trafficking.
“Organised crimes like it [here] because they know that our people like to stick up for their rights,” he said. “And when they can use the sovereignty rights … they try to exploit it.”
The tribal police work increasingly with federal authorities through multi-agency task-forces and Rourke takes offence when outsiders claim the border is porous. “It’s not unmanned,” he said.
Future on ‘the res’
The borders of “the res” – as Mohawks call it – used to be more relaxed, people on both sides said.
Akwesasne residents are granted dual American and Canadian citizenship. But since the September 11, 2001 attacks, stricter customs and immigration enforcement has made crossing the Seaway International Bridge – connecting the bulk of the reserve with the populous Cornwall Island section in Canada – particularly tortuous. It can often take hours, locals said.
|Store owner Filfred Tahy [Joe Jackson/Al Jazeera]|
There’s currently no high school on the reservation. Children choose from four in Canada and two in New York, with many making a daily international commute.
Meanwhile, Filfred Tahy, 42, an artist who runs a store on the American side, relies on Canadian customers benefiting from the favourable exchange rate to shop. He hears regular reports from customers of harassment at the border.
“They just want to know everyone’s business,” he said. “And Natives have to declare everything.”
Many residents have stopped making non-essential trips, such as visiting relatives on the other side. The situation has become so intolerable some think of leaving the reserve.
“Sometimes it feels like it’d be easier just to … no longer live as a Native-American,” said Heather Phillips, 42, who was born and raised on the Canadian side. “But we identify our identity with our territory.”
Although the prospects for a more unified Akwesasne – and looser border controls – appear remote, there’s some optimism for greater cooperation and better economic prospects.
Residents note Mohawks are among the best educated of all North American tribes. The decline in heavy industry in nearby towns such as Massena – which were once more prosperous – has left Akwesasne as one of the only economic engines around, they said.
David, the Canadian-side chief, said he envisages a future economy built around growth industries such as alternative energy, light manufacturing and tourism.
“Akwesasne is slowly emerging as a hub,” he said. “I’m looking into the future very positively.”
This is the second in a four-part series on border towns around the world. Part I is here. |
Really bad news for today! It was just announced that a new critical vulnerability is present ins SIM cards. If this flaw is leveraged, it could give hackers remote access to mobile phones in order to spy on their victims.
This new cyberattack is known as “SimJacker”, its vulnerability lays in a piece of software, named the [email protected] Browser or SIMalliance Toolbox Browser.
[email protected] Browser is an application that comes installed on a variety of SIM cards, including eSIM, as part of SIM Tool Kit (STK) and has been designed to let mobile carriers provide some basic services, subscriptions, and value-added services over-the-air to their customers.
This [email protected] Browser can be found on most of the SIM cards; many of which are being used by mobile operators in at least 30 countries!
Cybersecurity researchers say that hackers are actively exploiting the SimJacker vulnerability from at least the last two years.
This is how SimJacker works:
The vulnerability can be exploited by anyone using a $10 GSM modem to perform several tasks:
retrieving targeted device’ location and IMEI information
spreading misinformation by sending fake messages on behalf of victims,
performing premium-rate scams by dialing premium-rate numbers,
spying on victims’ by ordering the device to call the hacker’s phone number,
spreading malware by forcing the victim’s phone browser to open a malicious web page
performing a denial of service attacks by disabling the SIM card
retrieving other information like language, radio type, battery level, etc.
The most problematic thing about this cyberattack is that during the exploitation, the victim is completely unaware of it.
Simjacker is also unique because it could carry a complete malware payload, specifically spyware.
Cybersecurity researchers announced that real-cyberattacks against users with devices from nearly every manufacturer, including Apple, ZTE, Motorola, Samsung, Google, Huawei, and even IoT devices with SIM cards, have been observed in the wild.
For the moment the SIMalliance has acknowledged the issue and provided recommendations for SIM card manufacturers to implement security for [email protected] push messages.
Also, mobile operators can protect their users by setting up a process to analyze and block suspicious messages that contain [email protected] Browser commands.
Unfortunately, as a potential victim, there is nothing much a mobile device user can do, except requesting for a replacement of their SIM that has proprietary cybersecurity mechanisms implemented.
Simjacker represents a clear danger to the mobile operators and subscribers, it is the most sophisticated cyberattack ever seen over core mobile networks.
This terrible event should serve as a wake-up call because as we can clearly see hackers are investing heavily in increasingly complex and creative ways to undermine network security. |
We recently announced the winners of our European Talent Awards 2017 at our annual talent party. The awards are run with the purpose of celebrating amazing people, producing amazing work in the digital space.
Alongside our judged categories, we also awarded an overall winner for each territory, voted for by you! This year our UK winner was Chirag Grover for his work on ‘OWNS’, a London-based contemporary footwear label. He created an integrated branding solution which involved branding, brand portfolio, website and app, shoe customisation app, packaging and art direction.
We caught up with Chirag at the event to find out what he thinks of the awards and what advice he would give to anyone thinking of entering next year.
Why did you decide to enter the Talent Awards?
“When I came across the awards, I got really excited as I wanted to showcase my work and show what I had been doing for the last couple of months."
What are the benefits of the Talent Awards?
“The Talent Awards as a platform is a great opportunity for freelancer’s work to get more recognition and it’s also an affirmation of all the hard work you put in.”
What do you think is the most important information to include when entering?
“Designing just to make something look aesthetically pleasing is not enough. Outlining the thought process/design journey behind it helps a lot to give gravitas to the project. Also my advice would be make sure you use the 4 images available to showcase your work well. Have a wide range examples to show the variety of your work.”
How did you select the most relevant images?
“I wanted to show the wide range of my project from traditional print to digital mediums.”
How did you go about sharing your entry?
“I used all my social media platforms to share the link regularly and get votes.”
Has winning the Talent Awards had any effect on your career in any way?
“I feel it has reinforced trust in former and potential clients.”
Here are our top tips for getting your entry noticed:
- Make sure you upload the best images to showcase your work. If you have more than four images, why not create a montage?
- Always ensure your images are the correct format and ratio for the site gallery, so that they are shown in all their glory!
- Fully explain your entry including the story behind it, your process and all positive feedback or ROI.
- Remember you can enter more than once and in more than one category, so don’t limit yourself to a single piece of work.
- You can enter self-initiated projects too!
- Make sure you share your entry across all your social media channels. Share more than once and get your friends and connections to promote your entry as well.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to win the Talent Awards 2018, subscribe to our mailing list now to receive updates and alerts. And in the meantime, get working on your entry. Good luck! |
Nuspay Multi Signature Wallet- One step forward to the Security
Security is one of the core elements of Nuspay™. The revolutionary Multi-Sign wallet by Nuspay™ provides users with sophisticated technologies to dependably secure their wallet with multiple authenticating steps. Not only can the wallet be securely authenticated, it can also be integrated with multiple exchanges and marketplaces.Nuspay multisignature wallet allows the users for requiring more than one key to authorize a transaction. It is generally used to divide up responsibility for possession of assets. The Wallet can be integrated with Exchanges and Marketplaces.
Why is it a Must Have?
A specified wallet can be easily secured with the multiple authentication. An user can easily apply for the multi-sign wallet by allotting multiple members to his wallet. Doing this has a lot of benefits, as the blockchain protocol is already a tamper proof protocol, multi-sign wallet by Nuspay™ adds another layer of security on top of that. No transaction can be made without the approval of all the allotted members of the wallet. All the members can also check the activity of the wallet regarding the funds & transaction on their end, giving them the opportunity to protect their wallet from multiple threatening scenarios or bizarre activities.There will be a recovery phrase for each member, in case of a member going haywire, the other members can salvage the wallet and protect their funds.
An easy example can make the whole process a lot easier. Suppose a wallet is created by X and Y. If X tries to move the fund, then a proposal token is created. This Token notifies the other member which is Y. Until and unless Y signs or approves the token the funds will not be transferred. There is no set time limit to the expiration of the proposal token, as person Y might be busy at the time of receiving the proposal token. Person Y can go through the proposal token and take the time he/she requires to approve it. The funds will finally be transferred upon the approval of person Y.
The Start of Change
Economy is at the core of every nation. The fewer the economic frauds, the more a nation develops. Businesses are the backbone of all the developing nations. Companies which are transacting heavily are in great need of the feature sets that Nuspay™ Multi-Sign wallets provide. A business having multiple shareholders may not want to depend on one's decision to approve the massive amounts of transactions a business has to go through. If the board of directors sign up with a wallet, every member would have to approve before the transaction is made. This greatly reduces the internal fraud.
Multiple devices can be used as the authentication devices. Service provider sims, registered phones or computers can be used to authenticate. For example, if one of the members of the wallet loses his/her device, he or she will not be locked out of using the wallet. The user can report the issue and easily use the other authenticating devices to sign the proposal tokens. Later the user can add another device upn reporting the issue of the previous device.
In this day and age everyone wants added security. There are multiple security protocols integrated within the Nuspay™ Multi-Sign Wallet. There are bank facilities which might seem similar on the surface but the encryption protocols are much lighter in the banking network. As Nuspay uses state of the art blockchain protocols, which is nearly invincible in itself, it is further optimized to cater to the security needs of the users of this day and age.
In the business world, Multi-Sign Wallet will be a staple in the near future. Nuspay™ seeks to continuously work on its ecosystem and further optimize the security, for a strictly tightened protection from vulnerabilities. The blockchain protocols will evolve over time and so will the Nuspay™ ecosystem. |
The first two days of hearings on the latest round of scientific review for biotech crops and genetically engineered foods reflected that the National Research Council is tackling a highly politicized debate about the future role of biotech crops in American agriculture.
An ad-hoc committee of 18 scientists is tasked by the National Research Council with examining the science and ramifications of biotech crops by looking at the history of genetic engineering and the potential the crops and biotech foods hold for the future. Speakers offered the committee a range of views from university professors and non-governmental experts who have battled over biotech crops for decades.
Though the committee is just starting its task, there already is a lot of angst over assuring the report garners public confidence. Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin science communications professor, told the committee that the report needs to go beyond the science of biotech crops. He noted the highly politicized nature of biotechnology stems from the complex science and lack of overall public understanding of it.
Yet, a great many people have already framed their views and will validate their own opinions regardless of the report’s outcome through the process of “motivated reasoning.” However, the scientific committee would be wise not to ignore social concerns, Scheufele said.
Of the 17 speakers over two days, 12 were critical of crop biotechnology, mostly representing dedicated anti-GMO advocacy organizations, such as the Center for Food Safety, Consumers Union, ETC Group, Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists, among others.
Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, offered an aggressive defense of biotechnology and lashed out at critics of genetic engineering when he spoke. Entine noted some representatives of consumer groups “invariably only point to one side of the issue” on biotechnology. Entine asked the committee to reject these views and focus on science. He asked the committee to ignore some claims published in what Entine characterized as “one-off studies by pay-to-play journals.”
Read the full, original article: Groups offer scientific panel a range of suggestions to study biotech foods |
Educational documents are valuable credentials. Academic institutions invest in ways to protect them from being forged by incorporating security features into the document. Learning what security features are available and keeping a record of the features will aid you in catching forgeries.
Before you inspect the document, remember some of the following:
Not all countries/institutions use the same documentation practices.
Highly secured documents are more costly. Institutional budget may dictate what type of documents are being issued.
Older documents contain older printing techniques.
Authentic documents are usually consistent within the same time period. Forgeries are invented by various individuals. They are not going to be consistent.
Of course, most of these security features are only available on the original document. So we do recommend that at some point you examine an original document and become familiar with the features for each institution you work with.
When you are ready to examine the security features, make sure you have the proper tools. Here are the tools we recommend:
Illuminated magnifying glass or microscope.
This will help with viewing things like microtext or differentiating between printed ink and pen ink.
UV light or blacklight.
Some documents incorporate UV features. A small portable UV light will let you quickly check a document.
A lamp or other bright light source.
Simply holding the document in front of bright light can reveal security features like embedded fibers or a watermark.
Mobile device camera.
The camera on your cell phone or tablet will let you access QR codes. You can read more about using QR codes for verification here: https://theconnection.ece.org/NewsItem/1480
Your sense of smell and touch.
Ok, technically the scent and feel of documents aren’t security features. But your senses of smell and feel can be one more input in determining authenticity. When you become familiar with what type of paper a document is usually printed on, whether it’s heavy stock paper or thin parchment paper, anything that varies can be a clue that something is amiss. We’ve also found over the years that certain documents have a unique smell. Maybe it’s the paper, glue, ink, or where the paper is stored - we don’t exactly know. But if something doesn’t smell right about your document… it might literally be that something doesn’t smell right!
If you’ve kept records of which documents contain which features, it might be time to investigate further when you find a document missing a feature.
Majka Drewitz is a Research and Evaluator Supervisor and Senior Evaluator. She has been with ECE since 1999. Majka authored ECE Insights: Evaluation Tools for Russian Credentials and co-authored the third volume of ECE’s Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean series. She is a frequent trainer for the EAIE Academy.
For more information about document forensics and how to use tools to spot them, watch our ECE e-Learning on Fraud and Authenticity.
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Watch: Lee Jae Wook And Kim Hye Yoon Enjoy Filming Cameo Appearance In “True Beauty”
tvN’s “True Beauty” has released a behind-the-scenes look at the drama!
Kim Hye Yoon introduces herself, saying, “I’ve come back as Eun Dan Oh in ‘True Beauty’!,” and Lee Jae Wook warmly greets the viewers as well. They rehearse with the same energy and chemistry from their previous work. Kim Hye Yoon comments that it feels like they’re back on the set of “Extraordinary You” and expresses how much fun she had filming this scene. She adds, “Most of all, I was really happy to film with Jae Wook.”
Lee Jae Wook says, “A lot of the same staff members we worked with in ‘Extraordinary You’ were there. It feels really refreshing. It’s been about a year since the drama ended, so I was happy to see everyone again, and I really enjoyed filming.”
Moon Ga Young sits beside Kim Hye Yoon, and they pose for pictures together. Kim Hye Yoon jokes that they should suddenly pretend to hate each other. Moon Ga Young stares at her in shock, and Kim Hye Yoon bursts into laughter at her priceless reaction. Moon Ga Young happily points to Kim Hye Yoon and says, “We’re actually really close!”
Kim Hye Yoon and Lee Jae Wook rehearse for the scene where she suddenly sprints away in search of her true love Haru (played by SF9’s Rowoon). Heartbroken, Lee Jae Wook lowers his head and trudges towards the exit, making everyone laugh at his hilarious reaction.
In the interview after filming, Kim Hye Yoon says, “I was able to come on the set of ‘True Beauty’ for a brief moment, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.” Lee Jae Wook comments, “Even this scene was a lot of fun, so I hope the viewers enjoy this drama as well.”
Watch the fun making-of video below!
“True Beauty” airs every Wednesday and Thursday at 10:30 p.m. KST.
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7 Best Jobs for the Future to Keep an Eye onSettembre 16, 2019
Ever wondered which are the best jobs for the future, which will dominate the market in the future? Read about the most in demand skills for the future.
In the future, it will be increasingly common to see jobs that will be in demand in 2025 linked to artificial intelligence, virtual reality and 3D printing.
If you want to stay on top of the best careers for the future and are interested in technology-related areas, learn about the professions of the future:
1. Artificial intelligence engineer
This engineering specialty assesses challenges and difficulties for the development of artificial intelligence solutions.
These skills needed for future jobs conduct all research to develop projects involving AI, ranging from suitability to programming.
2. Aerial simulation specialist
With drones and other aerial devices, the aerial simulation specialist post is responsible for producing, installing and configuring flight simulations.
The professionals of these stem jobs of the future will be able to determine the most effective ways to use urban air mobility and drone deliveries.
3. Robotics technician
A robotics technician is responsible for performing robot maintenance and implementations.
For example, if a robot fails during operation and blocks any process within the company, that technician would look for the best solution to perform the repair.
4. Drone operator or tester
Managing a team of drone pilots, coordinating flight routes, analyzing travel data, and managing air traffic are all functions of these jobs of the future 2020.
5. Virtual reality developer
In a daily life increasingly dominated by virtual reality, a developer or engineer can build new usage possibilities for technologies such as VR.
The professionals of these future jobs in demand 2020 are true artists capable of creating a virtual world full of experiences on a single platform.
6. 3D printing technician
Have you ever thought about producing objects ranging from sculptures to human organs?
The 3D printing technician, one of the best jobs for the future, is responsible for the performance and servicing of these printers, working to ensure the accuracy of the parts made.
7. Data detective
Analyzing data is already a profession of the present. But in a few years, more than just evaluating, professionals will also be responsible for investigating.
Data detectives, one of the best jobs for the future 2025, will be responsible for identifying patterns and proactively finding relevant information in large amounts of data.
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In a plot twist most didn’t see coming, all felony charges against Jussie Smollett were abruptly dropped on Tuesday morning.
However, the very prosecutor who dropped the charges—Cook County first assistant state’s attorney Joe Magats—wants to clear up one thing: this doesn’t mean he believes Smollett actually told the truth.
“We believe he did what he was charged with doing,” Magats told CNN affiliate, WLS. “This was not an exoneration. To say he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true.”
“Do I think justice was served? No,” said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson during a press conference with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday, per Entertainment Tonight. “What do I think justice is? I think this city is still owed an apology.” Johnson has been firmly critical of Smollett since his arrest in January, accusing the actor-singer of “[taking] advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career.”
Now, according to CNN, the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is calling for a federal investigation into Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s involvement, claiming there are text messages between Foxx and an attorney about “diverting the case from Chicago police department to a federal investigation.”
In a series of texts and emails obtained by CNN, Foxx informed Smollett family friend Tina Tchen about Johnson requesting a federal investigation, after the Smollett family expressed “concerns about the investigation.” Tchen is Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff.
Later, Foxx had a text message exchange with another unidentified Smollett family friend noting she “spoke to the (police) superintendent earlier, he made the ask. Trying to figure out the logistics” to which the unidentified friend responded with, “Omg this would be a huge victory.” Following acknowledgment of the texts, Foxx recused herself from the Smollett investigation in mid-February.
The Chicago police union also wants the feds to further investigate the letter Smollett claims was sent to him prior to the alleged attack against him.
“We’re doubling down on that. We want to make sure that the Justice Department takes a very hard look with that case and what went on today,” union president Kevin Graham told reporters following news of the dropped charges.
Additionally, CNN reported that Gloria Schmidt, the attorney for brothers Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, noted they were “fully prepared” to testify in court, but has since confirmed she no longer represents them. Smollett was initially accused of paying the Osundairo brothers to attack him in connection with an alleged hoax. |
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For more information or to register for any of these programs, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 ext. 213 or [email protected].
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Pre-Fling into Fall and Model Pumpkin Boat Competition II
October 5, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, October 5th
Free with Museum admission ($5 entry fee for model pumpkin boats)
11:30am-Noon – Yard in the Yard Demonstration Help furl the square sails on our Downeaster mast in the yard.
Noon – Presentation & Book Signing John Anderson will discuss his new book Borne on the Wind: the Life and Journals of Captain Anders Anderson. A Swedish immigrant, Captain Anderson sailed schooners out of Stonington, Camden, and Rockland in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
1pm – Model Pumpkin Boat Competition II Bring your model pumpkin boat to compete in our second annual competition. *$5 registration fee, free museum admission with model pumpkin boat entry. See details below.
2pm-5pm – Scarecrow vignette building. Help museum staff & volunteers create this year’s Fling Into Fall scarecrow vignette to be entered into the scarecrow competition on October 12th.
Model Pumpkin Boat Competition II Details:
In the second year of this event, we challenge you to make a model boat out of a Pumpkin! Bring your model pumpkin boat to the Penobscot Marine Museum on Saturday October 6th to compete. PMM staff will judge entries using a point system based on size, composition, creative use of pumpkin, overall look, ability to float, and speed. The winner will receive 50% of the proceeds and the other 50% will go to the Penobscot Marine Museum to help support programming like this!
Rules & Regulations
- A member of the gourd family (pumpkin, squash, cucumber, zucchini, melon, etc.) must be a key component of the model boat
- Must float
- Must be able to move from A to B without human contact (all boats will be timed to travel across our small pool)
- Must be under 12” tall by 12” wide by 12” deep
- All boats must arrive before 1pm on Saturday, October 5th. Judging begins at 1pm.
To register, call 207-548-2529 or email [email protected]. |
Melbourne’s ADA and AUA departments were nearing capacity and the airport required a solution that would help ease the administrative pressure, whilst improving on the high standards already fostered in those areas. With such a big change to so many organisations, they also needed to ensure a smooth rollout and ongoing stable operation.
“Melbourne was AIRDAT’s first project in Australia. The airport had put their faith in us and our team were eager to impress. We provided on-site support, with our technical teams turning around developments and configurations discussed that morning, overnight. The time difference really benefited the project, allowing us to deliver within a tight timescale “
Rupert Wills, COO - AIRDAT
AIRDAT worked closely with the Melbourne Project, Airfield and Fleet teams to configure the best solution. Attending onsite, process flows were mapped and enhanced, then configured within AIRDAT’s Passport, Onboard and VISA systems. Bespoke developments allowed for integration into existing eLearning, accounting and card payment systems. Our project team further assisted with the rollout with in-person stakeholder training and the drafting of community communications.
Melbournes new assurance scheme was captured and built into Onboard, with their vehicle permit application digitised and ready to accept submissions. A dedicated application pre-vetting team worked with the airport to outline the standard or submissions that should be accepted.
AIRDAT Passport was configured to map out the Melbourne training process, including eLearning pre-requisite courses and management for all ADA types such as Manoeuvring Area, Runway and Escorting Skills.
VISA was activated for the Melbourne team, with all-new driver and vehicle permits embedded with a secure QR code, ready to be scanned via the app to improve remote audit and safety.
Adjustments were made to accommodate Melbourne’s existing eLearning provider, accounting systems and card payment systems. We also handled the mapping and import of legacy data for users, training, vehicles and permits.
Our project team attended on-site to provide planning, support and training to the Melbourne Airport management team and to key stakeholders within the airport community.
The ADA and AUA projects were rolled out separately and both fully supported by AIRDAT. Registrations and Applications for training from nearly 4,000 users were recorded within the first month of operation, whilst the streamlined vehicle permitting process ensured that 200 airport organisations could now quickly make applications for the 2,000 pieces of fleet required for Melbourne’s aircraft turnarounds. The airport went on to commit to a further 12-month project focussed on enhancing the systems further for their use, and the remit has been extended into other areas of the operation to provide even greater value.
“It was great to work face to face with the team at AIRDAT and run through the system. It gave us the confidence we needed for our rollout and the opportunity for stakeholders to ask questions directly before release, contributing to a very successful launch.”
Julio Slayo , Airfield Compliance Manager - Melbourne Airport
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Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is a Pakistani mother of three, an alumna of MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University. She is also accused of working for Al-Qaeda and was charged last week in New York City with attempting to kill American soldiers.
Aafia Siddiqui is accused of working for Al-Qaeda.
Her arrest serves to remind how invisibly most Islamist infiltration proceeds. In particular, an estimated forty Al-Qaeda sympathizers or operatives have sought to penetrate U.S. intelligence agencies. Such a well-placed infiltrator can wreck great damage explains a former CIA chief of counterintelligence, Michael Sulick: “In the war on terrorism, intelligence has replaced the Cold War’s tanks and fighter planes as the primary weapon against an unseen enemy.” Islamist moles, he argues, “could inflict far more damage to national security than Soviet spies,” for the U.S. and Soviet Union never actually fought each other, whereas now, “our nation is at war.” Here are some American cases of attempted infiltration since 2001 that have been made public:
- The Air Force discharged Sadeq Naji Ahmed, a Yemeni immigrant, when his superiors learned of his pro-Al-Qaeda statements. Ahmed subsequently became a baggage screener at Detroit’s Metro Airport, which terminated him for hiding his earlier discharge from the Air Force. He was convicted of making false statements and sentenced to eighteen months in jail.
- The Chicago Police Department fired Patricia Eng-Hussain just three days into her training on learning that her husband, Mohammad Azam Hussain, was arrested for being an active member of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H), a Pakistani terrorist group.
- The Chicago Police Department also fired Arif Sulejmanovski, a supervising janitor at its 25th District station after it learned his name was on a federal terrorist watch list of international terrorism suspects.
- Mohammad Alavi, an engineer at the Palo Verde nuclear power plant, was arrested as he arrived on a flight from Iran, accused of taking computer access codes and software to Iran that provide details on the plant’s control rooms and plant layout. He subsequently pleaded guilty to transporting stolen property.
Nada Nadim Prouty pleaded guilty to multiple charges.
Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese immigrant who worked for both the FBI and CIA, pleaded guilty to charges of: fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and engaging in conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- Waheeda Tehseen, a Pakistani immigrant who filled a sensitive toxicologist position with the Environmental Protection Agency, pleaded guilty to fraud and was deported. WorldNetDaily.com explains that “investigators suspect espionage is probable, as she produced highly sensitive health-hazard documents for toxic compounds and chemical pesticides. Tehseen also was an expert in parasitology as it relates to public water systems.”
- Weiss Rasool, 31, a Fairfax County police sergeant and Afghan immigrant, pleaded guilty for checking police databases without authorization, thereby jeopardizing at least one federal terrorism investigation.
Three other cases are less clear. The Transportation Security Administration fired Bassam Khalaf, 21, a Texan of Christian Palestinian origins, as an airport baggage screener because lyrics on his music CD, Terror Alert, applaud the 9/11 attacks. FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz “showed a pattern of pro-Islamist behavior,” according to author Paul Sperry, that may have helped acquit Sami Al-Arian of terrorism charges. The Pentagon cleared Hesham Islam, an Egyptian immigrant, former U.S. Navy commander, and special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, but major questions remain about his biography and his outlook. Other Western countries too – Australia, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom – have been subject to infiltration efforts. (For details, see my weblog entry, “Islamists Penetrate Western Security.”) This record prompts one to wonder what catastrophe must occur before government agencies, some of which have banished the words “Islam” and “jihad,” seriously confront their internal threat? Westerners are indebted to Muslim agents like Fred Ghussin and “Kamil Pasha” who have been critical to fighting terrorism. That said, I stand by my 2003 statement that “There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim government employees in law enforcement, the military and the diplomatic corps need to be watched for connections to terrorism.” Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org), director of the Middle East Forum, is the Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University during the spring semester.
Since 9/11 at least ten Islamist infiltrators, have been caught trying to reap havoc on the United States. That’s Ten we know about. These infiltrators have worked for the CIA, were part of the USAF, were police officers, and even worked at Nuclear Power plants. Despite these cases we have a Homeland Security Department which refuses to identify our enemy for what they are Islamists and Jihadists. A State Department which recruits from jihadist websites, and a foreign service that appeases the Islamofacists at every opportunity. Below, Daniel Pipes talks about these Infiltrators, and why we should be concerned: |
Chelsea have confirmed their squad numbers for the 2020/21 campaign, with the club making a couple of changes to accommodate their five new signings.
Hakim Ziyech was the first to arrive at the club this summer and he has been given the No.22 shirt, which he wore in his first year at Ajax and then again two years later when Dusan Tadic was given his No.10 jersey.
Ziyech’s preferred number was vacated by Christian Pulisic, who wore it last for last campaign, and the American winger has now been handed the No.10 shirt after the exit of Willian.
The Brazilian winger was not the only player to leave Chelsea on a free transfer this summer, with Pedro’s exit away from the club freeing up the No.11 to be given to Timo Werner.
But, He has some large boots to fill, with the No.11 famously worn by Didier Drogba during his outstanding career with the blues, while Oscar, Damien Duff, Zenden and Dennis Wise have all also worn the jersey.
And Thiago Silva has been given the No.6 shirt number by Frank Lampard, which suggests that he will be a regular player in the starting lineup.
The former PSG captain has worn the No.2 or No.3 in his career, both of which are already taken by Rudiger and Alonso respectively.
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Meanwhile, Ben Chilwell wore the No.3 for Leicester City but has to switch to the No.21 jersey, which has recently been worn by Davide Zappacosta.
Chelsea’s record signing Kai Havertz has been granted his wish to wear the No.29 jersey – which he wore throughout his career at German side Bayer Leverkusen – with Fikayo Tomori vacating the shirt number.
Although the defender is believed to be close to leaving Chelsea and potentially joining Everton on loan, he has given up the No.29 to Kai Havertz and will now wear No.14, which was previously worn by Tiemoue Bakayoko. |
Travellers having to stay in quarantine hotels in England will be charged £1,750 for their stay, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
The measures, which come into force on Monday, apply to the UK and Irish residents returning from 33 red list countries.
Those who fail to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel for 10 days face fines of up to £10,000.
Meanwhile, all travellers arriving in Scotland from abroad by air will have to go into quarantine hotels.
People travelling from red list countries to Wales and Northern Ireland will be required to book and pay for quarantine in England, as neither destination currently has any direct international flights.
Travellers arriving into England who lie on their passenger locator forms about visiting a red list country face a fine of £10,000 or up to 10 years in jail.
It comes as the UK reported another 12,364 confirmed cases of coronavirus and a further 1,052 deaths within 28 days of a positive test – bringing that total to 113,850. More than 12.6 million people have received a first dose of the vaccine.
Delivering a statement in the Commons, Mr Hancock said 16 hotels have been contracted for the programme, with 4,600 rooms secured.
The health secretary also confirmed a new “enhanced testing” regime for all travellers arriving into the UK would begin on Monday, with two tests required during the quarantine process.
They will be required to get a test on days two and eight of their 10-day quarantine period, whether they are isolating at home or in a hotel. The tests, conducted by NHS Test and Trace, will cost travellers £210.
“People who flout these rules are putting us all at risk,” the health secretary told MPs.
Airlines and travel companies will be legally required to make sure travellers have signed up for the new measures before they depart, with fines for companies and passengers if they fail to comply, he said.
The penalties include a £1,000 fine for travellers who fail to take mandatory tests and a £2,000 fine for failing to take the second mandatory test – along with a 14-day extension to quarantine.
Failing to quarantine in a designated hotel carries a fine of between £5,000 and £10,000.
Asked when the travel rules would be relaxed, Mr Hancock said: “We want to exit from this into a system of safe international travel as soon as practicable and as soon as is safe.” |
Editorial board member Jacob Austad warns against the risk of standardising for the sake of using standards.
In the last issue of LMJ, Robin Howlett wrote an interesting article on how leader standard work can support the implementation of a continuous improvement programme. This had me reflect on the reasons why people – particularly in service and administrative environments – resist standards and I wondered whether in reality it is the standards they resist or things like assessments and audits, which often blame or praise people for (non-) compliance with the standards.
There is hardly any company or organisation that works with lean without talking about the aim of implementing a culture of continuous improvement, and a lot of good advice and research papers tend to show how to do it. But what about understanding the purpose first?
In order to build a lean culture – and continuous improvement is most likely a part of a lean culture – there is a need to consider several areas. First of all there is a need to understand the system end to end, and it is the people working on the system and the leaders who need to understand.
In the early days of lean, back when (some) organisations believed they could just copy the use of lean tools and get the same brilliant results as Toyota, only few did succeed because they lacked the understanding of the big picture and why Toyota developed the tools and techniques. Unfortunately only few studied the causes before abandoning “the programme” and they did not see that continuous improvement cannot be a goal in itself because it will result in a non-wishful and nonsustainable culture. In fact CI will only ensure short-term activities, which will not focus on improving the system and will therefore drive costs up.
Currently, some organisations talk about standard work – not only at operator level, but increasingly also in leadership and this is often labelled leader standard work (LSW). From an organisational point of view, predictability is often good as this will help to avoid fire fighting that in turn “helps” a short-term view instead of letting companies out of the vicious cycle and take the systems and long-term view.
One of the problems with any kind of standard is that they are often designed and implemented for the wrong reasons. Technocrats and tool-heads (thanks to John Seddon for that word) believe that if we just put a standard in place and make sure people (operators and managers) follow them, then we can ensure that assessment and audits will be passed and we can all collect our bonus.
Compliance to standards should be avoided and the thinking should be reversed starting with understanding what problem we are trying to solve. Then we should measure the improvement in systems performance and every little adjustment should follow the PDSA cycle (Shewhart’s and Deming’s scientific method).
As a result we would see a series of improvements (as well as many idea/ theories that had to be abandoned because they did not improve the system). In a simplistic way, this could easily be labelled “continuous improvements”, but the real aim is to improve systems performance, not to put standards in place.
LEADER STANDARD WORK
Talking about LSW could potentially lead to the wrong or undesired behaviour. A tool-head manager will see standard work as a checklist of what to do and measure if it is done on-time-to-standard. The success (= compliance) would be measured as “yes/no” or “done/not done” with only little focus on actual customer and real benefit for the business.
A daily, weekly or monthly briefing focusing on operations and overall systems performance could be called a routine and the aim is not to have the briefing/meeting but to look 360 degrees into the system’s performance in the past period and – based on learning’s – to take concrete action going forward. This includes prediction of what will happen when the actions are undertaken.
The routine could be labelled LSW, but in reality it is an organisational standard routine aimed at delivering according to customer needs. The difference is that now there is a common purpose linked to the systems performance and not some arbitrary internally-focused targets related to “what” and “how”. There is also a framework for improving, which brings the focus back to our overall purpose involving everybody and not only managers.
The difference of focusing on the systems performance instead of the standards is clearly seen in the measures and the questions asked. Here is an example:
Of course we want people to be autonomous with regards to identifying opportunities for improving, but that will only happen if people know why. Give people a target of x-number of improvements per year and they will fulfil it…. the question is: by doing what? The same is true for standards and LSW and the constant fight between quantity and quality.
Continuous improvements need to be for the right reasons and therefore I truly believe we have to be extremely careful in implementing standards and measure compliance to them.
Continuous improvements are also (from time to time) labelled kaizens and no one can say that Ohno didn’t know what he was talking about. It might be worth remembering one of his statements:
“If you’re going to do kaizen continuously, you’ve got to assume that things are a mess.”
Let’s clean up the mess and focus on systems performance!
I predict that starting with understanding purpose before implementing standards will decrease the need for standards and eliminate the endless discussions on which standard or template to use. Also, the focus will shift on constantly measuring if the system delivers according to customers’ needs and not if the people in the organisation comply with the standards.
The result is that we have continuous improvements. |
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|Other titles||Artist in El Dorado.|
|Statement||An artist in El Dorado, edited, with a biographical sketch, by Edith M. Coulter.|
|Contributions||Coulter, Edith Margaret, 1880- ed.|
|LC Classifications||F869.S3 C64|
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|Number of Pages||31|
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The court observed that woman’s statement offered an alternate conclusion of “promiscuous attitude and a voyeuristic mind”.The HC ordered counselling of the trio at AIIMS “for correcting their behavioural aberration”.
In an unusual order, the Punjab and Haryana high court granted bail to three convicts in the infamous blackmailing and gang rape case of a student of OP Jindal Global University at Sonipat, observing that woman’s statement offered an alternate conclusion of “misadventure stemming from a promiscuous attitude and a voyeuristic mind”.
The HC passed these orders while allowing the bail plea of the three convicts — Hardik Sikri, Karan Chabra and Vikas Garg — till the pendency of their appeal against conviction.
Applying the element of reformatory and rehabilitative justice in its order, a division bench of the HC ordered counselling of the trio at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) “for correcting their behavioural aberration”.
“We are conscious of the fact that allegations of the victim regarding her being threatened into submission and blackmail lends sufficient diabolism to the offence, but a careful examination of her statement again offers an alternate conclusion of misadventure stemming from a promiscuous attitude and a voyeuristic mind,” observed a division bench comprising Justice Mahesh Grover and Justice Raj Shekhar Atri.
The bench went on to observe, “She states that ‘he (one of the accused, Hardik) then sent his own nude pictures and coaxed me into sending my own nude pictures’. The perverse streak in both is also revealed from her admission that a sex toy was suggested by Hardik and her acceptance of the same.”
The bench directed that all the three convicts would be subjected to counselling by a trained psychiatrist of AIIMS and “a report in that regard be communicated to the HC indicating whether the applicants are free of their voyeuristic tendencies”.
The court has also directed the three to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation, to be shared equally by them, to the rape survivor.
In March this year, a local court in Sonipat had awarded a 20-year sentence to Hardik and Karan each and a seven-year jail term to Vikas, holding them guilty of blackmailing and gang-raping a student of their university for around two years.
While challenging the orders, the counsel for accused had vehemently argued that the testimony of the girl did not reveal that she was being subjected to a traumatic blackmail rather, she came across as a willing and compliant person.
A complaint was lodged by the girl student to the university administration on April 11, 2015, alleging that the trio, final year law students of the university, have been blackmailing and raping her since August 2013. She also alleged that the accused were having her objectionable photos and they used to threaten her for making the photos viral. She was being blackmailed and forced to make physical relations with them.
— The testimony of the victim does offer an alternate story of casual relationship with her friends, acquaintances, adventurism and experimentation in sexual encounters and these factors would therefore, offer a compelling reasons to consider the prayer for suspension of sentence favourably particularly when the accused themselves are young and the narrative does not throw up gut wrenching violence, that normally precede or accompany such incidents.
— It would be a travesty if these young minds are confined to jail for an inordinate long period which would deprive them of their education, opportunity to redeem themselves and be a part of the society as normal beings. Pendency of the appeal, ironically may work as a guarantee to prevent a repeat resulting from the fear of incarceration in the event of failure of the appeal.
The court order in this case exhibits victim shaming of the worst kind. Defence counsel in rape cases often try and paint the victim as a person of loose morals. It is most unfortunate that a high court has stigmatised a victim in a similar manner. The Supreme Court has in the past said that victims of sexual crimes should not be stigmatised for their perceived morality and that a woman has the right to refuse consent to sex even if she has been promiscuous. That is as it should be. We wish the court had shown at least as much sensitivity towards the victim in this case as it has towards the accused. |
What's The Most Beautiful Place Near Home?
What's the most beautiful place near home?
Whether it be a chapel or an open field, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Share your spot with your friend, spouse, or random stranger. But be careful! If it is a "secret" spot, you may want to go with your second favorite spot so you don't spoil it for yourself! :)
Answer(s) from Allie:
I have many answers to this. My "home" has been unstable for the past decade as I went to college, worked different jobs, and love to be nomadic. So, I'll share my most beautiful places from every "home" I have experienced.
My grandmother's house.
It was located on a small point on the Atlantic Ocean. Only my closest friends have seen this spot. If I ever had a bad day, I would drive there to smell the ocean, feel the salty breeze, watch the waves break along the beach.
Her house made the area even more beautiful. It was an old cape house with ivy on all its sides, and huge rhododendrons were surrounding the entire property.
It was recently demolished after our family had to sell the property from my grandmother's passing. I went back this past winter and I cried as the house was no longer there. In its place, however, was just a bare "park".
It was almost as magnificent as the house...
I mean not really.
But it was better than a new enormous, unoccupied house. It was a peaceful open grass spot. Looking over the beach and the ocean. The most beautiful place I know.
Somewhere in Wyoming
This is where I spent most of my summers growing up. It was such a magical place that I still remember this one spot very clearly.
When I was 12, I went on a backpacking trip in one of the lesser-known wildernesses. I remember walking over a hill and came across this unbelievable pasture full of wildflowers and an abandoned homestead. It was definitely the most beautiful place near home, or what "home" meant while I was there. I've never been back but I sure would love to.
My family sailboat
I was lucky enough to be born into a family full of sailors.
In summer, my parents would spend their holidays on the boat going north to Maine, Nova Scotia, and Labrador.
They loved that boat so much, that they now reside on the very same boat in the Bahamas. Poor them, right?!
One of the best places I've been while traveling on the boat was Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. There, there were countless small colorful houses and mossy forests. You can probably guess why I loved that place.
Chautauqua Park in Boulder, Colorado
When I was in college, the most beautiful place near home was Chautauqua Park.
It is well known to all the tourists and locals and can be sometimes very busy. However, if you catch it at the right time of year, on the lesser-known trails, you can have the whole area to yourself.
I would make sure to take a different route every time I walked from campus. I could see the beautiful old growth trees and some spectacular houses.
Usumbura Mountains, Tanzania
I had the most magical time when I was studying abroad. I was on a wonderful program and I had the chance to live in a very cool place.
My favorite spot was in the Usumbura Mountains. To get there, I had to go on an amazing hike, which I hope I'll get the chance to go again!
And finally, Telluride. If you are a summer geek like me, you'd love to explore the high basins in the summer. I love flowers and the feeling of sunshine hitting my shoulders.
If you want to see some spectacular sights, you'll have to hike above waterfalls. There, you'll to find the meadows and the colorful wildflowers.
If you're not really into hikes... Walk on the alleys of Telluride, you will see some pretty cool houses!
Wow, those were a lot of places! Thinking about my favorite places awakened some of my dearest memories too.
Now it's on you!
What is the most beautiful place near home? Share it with us in the comments below!
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Training time is money Oct 20, 2020
For our latest cast of SBA today, Marli speaks about the training attrition cycle. What does it cost your organisation? We think we have a better way – we support your current team so they can concentrate on what’s important all whilst minimising loss of process knowledge through staff attrition.
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Training Time is Money Transcript
How much time would you invest in training and onboarding a new staff member?
From appointment and induction to training your organisation’s systems and process – minimum a week – it’s also reasonable to allow another two or three months to settle in during their 6 month probationary period.
It’s safe to say your time investment for each new team member can be anywhere between a few days up to a few weeks! Not to mention the stress of attrition – your team member departs, their knowledge base is lost and the cycle repeats. A standard fixture of HR in any organisation.
What if there was a better way? We think there is! SBA can flexibly adopt any of your processes, supporting your current staff and mitigating the impact of the attrition cycle.
We begin with a one off zoom session that takes between an hour and an hour and a half – with your permission we’ll record the meeting then create a process flow document.
The process is then shared with multiple team members, when coupled with their expertise in adopting a new process, it’s an ongoing seamless experience which is dynamic to your needs.
With SBA outsourcing methodology you can expect up to 70% less time expended in comparison to the ongoing compounded effect of the training investment cycle, all with no six month probation period to contend with.
Our commitment to you – If we can’t deliver within the month you’re free to walk away!
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The pandemic’s global economic fallout has put every pricing strategy out there through its paces. In these difficult times, we’ve seen how software technology is and will continue to be the best ally to push those sales numbers back up. The proof is right in front of us. Whether you are working from home or not, I am 100% sure your workflow would not be nearly as efficient without conferencing platforms, email, or (god forbid) the internet.
As useful as these are, there is another type of ones-and-zeros that will be the corporate key to push out and through the COVID-19 mayhem: data. Right now, the ability to make data-driven decisions will mark the difference between successful and unsuccessful pricing strategies. With the help of Artificial intelligence (AI), you could start stabilizing your sales margins today.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
We’ve all wished to know the future at some point in our lives. While that remains impossible to this day, using AI to analyze data is the next best thing—especially in our current pandemic context. Just a few days ago a friend of mine called data the “best anti-panic remedy” for businesses losing their minds in this crisis. And I completely agree with her.
It is not difficult to see how this perspective applies today. We have all heard of companies from virtually every industry trying to do their best to survive the economical chaos of COVID-19. This has not only led to worst-case scenario pricing but also to more dramatic (and sometimes necessary) emergency measures. If you have recently dealt with order backlogs, value chain deconstruction, sales pipeline review, or similar negotiations, let me tell you your company is far from being alone in that.
That is why data is the light at the end of the tunnel. Whether we like what it tells us or not, it is the best way we have to understand the market, our consumers, and their insights. It tells us where we are, what we can do with what we have, and gives us a guideline of where to aim at. If you have access to data (which we all have, in some form), decision-making becomes a whole lot easier. And in the case of pricing, it can be the lifesaver you need. Coupled with AI, of course.
Why Use AI in your Pricing Strategy?
There are many ways a business can keep up its profits. Pricing isn’t just one of them, but perhaps the most important one. According to this McKinsey study, for example, a 1% price increase would directly yield a 22% increase in EBITDA margins for most businesses. In comparison, achieving this same result would require a 7.5% reduction in fixed costs.
But just pumping up the prices is never the solution. Doing such a thing now would be plain unethical. The strategy, then, relies on integration. The better integration between your operating processes (aka accounting, production, sales, finance, etc) and data, the better pricing decisions you will be able to make. This is the playing field of AI pricing.
AI pricing is one of the most effective tools when it comes to commercial analytics. What is it, you ask? Well, it is a dynamic pricing model that combines commercial strategy, data, and advanced analytics to automate pricing management. It helps you make data-driven decisions that mitigate risks and demystify uncertain revenue forecasts, which are fairly common in uncertain times.
Using machine learning and predictive analytics, AI pricing can provide accurate and real-time intelligence for any products or services you offer. Think of a software engine that monitors, analyzes, recommends, and even acts upon various types of risks. This includes suppliers’ costs, supply chain delays, unforeseen events, and anything else that impacts revenue. Now imagine having that information on your desk just time to make a decision. That would change a lot, wouldn’t it?
This approach to pricing is critical to preserve profit margins during the pandemic. By integrating with your current ERP or CRM platform, AI pricing is the perfect solution to create smart, dynamic, and personalized pricing strategies that provide more value to your customers and keep your company’s margins where you want them.
It’s time to get in the game
There’s no denying it: implementing AI pricing across your organization is not as easy as installing a magical piece of software and letting it run everything for you. It requires a lot of analysis and commitment across departments, from top management to the sales force on the frontlines. Everyone must understand the insights revealed by the AI and use them accordingly for the goals of their positions. Remember, it is not about how much data we have, but how we use it.
However, I can say with full confidence that AI pricing will save more companies through this pandemic than any severe cost cut strategy ever will. With the proper integration and with the right talent by your side, it should be a piece of cake. What’s more, the benefits of AI pricing do not expire. It will help your company through this rocky economy, boost it once everything is better, and prepare you for any upcoming crisis in the future. |
A stronger partnership between China and Indonesia may impact Indonesia's relationship with the US.
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The US used to remain neutral on China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. Why it changed tack.
The US-Australia alliance remains rock solid, but as Foreign Minister Marise Payne made clear, 'we don’t agree on everything'.
As tensions in the disputed waters mount, it's important to understand how this conflict began and what international law says about freedom of navigation and competing maritime claims.
The ministers have written of their desire to "find every possible way to advance shared interests". But this should stop short of following the US down its hostile path with China.
With the US exercises in the South China Sea, the security and political environment is treacherous at a moment when China itself feels under siege.
The US could be losing a key ally to China. But it has less to do with Trump's foreign policy and everything to do with a drug war in the Philippines.
Two major initiatives will be on the agenda at the weekend's summit: a mega trade deal and a regional security framework.
Despite agreeing to a ceasefire, the two sides offered differing depictions of their trade war truce that show a lasting peace may still be out of reach.
Ongoing volatility is causing intense debate about how to manage relations between the two powerful nation, which is only likely to become more challenging.
The prime minister's China "reset" speech indicates he has yielded to diplomatic advice to separate domestic politics from foreign policy.
China has taken an incremental approach to cementing its control over the disputed waters, making the US and its allies powerless to stop it.
For China, national amnesia has become a 'state-sponsored sport'. Memories of events deemed sensitive by the state are not just forgotten, they are winnowed out and selectively deleted.
Australia's recently announced review of its national fuel stockpiles is timely indeed. The country is almost totally reliant on oil being shipped through some of the world's most contested regions.
Unstable relations between China and Vietnam are affecting the lives of Hmong highlanders in surprising ways.
The contestation of Asia will continue this year, with many countries facing internal and external battles.
Narratives of nationalism has risen following news about illegal fishing by countries including China in South China Sea. Will nationalistic pride affect regional stability?
China's actions in the South China Sea are getting scant attention at Davos. But if the Chinese set a precedent for other rogue nations, there will be a profound impact on global free trade. |
Police hunting a suspect who knifed a delivery driver to death have officially linked the attack to two other stabbings within the past week.
Leon Street, 48, was murdered on Neasden Road North near the home he shares with his fiancee in Brent, north west London, on January 11 at about 9.30pm.
Just 10 minutes earlier, another man, 47, was stabbed by a bus stop two streets away. He was taken to hospital and has since been discharged.
A third man, in his 30s, was stabbed in broad daylight in Neasden on Sunday near the same bus stop at the junction with Press Road despite police patrols being in place.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to stab injuries and his condition is not life-threatening after the stabbing at 9.50am.
Police do not know the motive for the spate of attacks and said the victims were not robbed and the attacker did not say anything significant during the stabbings.
Leon Street, 48, was murdered near the home he shares with his fiancee in Brent, north west London, on January 11 at about 9.30pm
On Sunday morning police were called at 9.50am to reports of another stabbing on Neasdon Road North (pictured)
Police arrested two men, aged 47 and 33, on January 11 but released them without further action.
The 47-year-old was the victim of the earlier stabbing.
A crime scene remains in place on the road and no arrests have been made yet.
Since those incidents, local officers have been increased patrols in the area and these will continue.
Mr Street, who worked as a delivery drier, was a father and step-grandfather.
Officers attended the scene on Neasden Lane North along with paramedics and found Mr Street suffering stab injuries. Despite the efforts of emergency services, he died at the scene.
The victim's next of kin have been notified and are being supported by specialist officers.
Sunday's victim, a man believed to be aged in his 30s, was taken to hospital for stab injuries and his condition is unknown. Pictured: Police on the scene
A post-mortem examination held on January 13 gave cause of death as stab injuries to the chest.
Homicide detectives are linking the fatal stabbing to another attack around ten minutes earlier on Neasden Lane near the bus stop close to the junction with Press Road.
The victim was stabbed by a lone male who ran away from the scene. The male victim was taken to hospital for treatment and has since been discharged.
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Williams said: 'This is an investigation into three stabbings, one of which was fatal. I am working with a dedicated team of detectives to get answers for Leon's grieving family and for the two other victims.
'At this stage, I believe that all three attacks were committed by the same, lone male suspect. He is a white man, aged very roughly around 30 years, and I think he was wearing a dark coloured jacket both on January 11 and January 17.
A crime scene remains in place on the road (pictured) and no arrests have been made yet
'We are making progress and following up a number of lines of enquiry, and our investigation is receiving really useful support from local people in and around Neasden. However, there are others who may have information that could help us.
'There were people around Neasden Lane North on the evening of Monday January 11 and on Sunday morning who will have seen or heard something of note. I need those people to come forward.
'In particular, I want to hear from anyone who saw a man running or otherwise acting suspiciously in the Neasden Lane North area between 9pm and 10pm last Monday or at around 9.50am on Sunday morning. I also want to hear from anyone who has seen a man hanging around the area in recent weeks.
Police do not know the motive for the spate of attacks and said the victims were not robbed and the attacker did not say anything significant during the stabbings
'It is my belief that the suspect lives locally, and I am asking local people to get in touch if they know anyone whose behaviour is suspicious – for instance do you know anyone who has been disposing of clothes or simply seeming agitated for no apparent reason?
'Officers are making extensive CCTV enquiries, and I am confident that together with information from local people, we are piecing together what happened.
'If you have information that may assist, please do not delay in making contact with us. Even exceptionally small details could prove extremely significant.'
Anyone with information should call police on 101 or Tweet @MetCC quoting 6783/11JAN.
To remain anonymous please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit crimestoppers_uk.org. |
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The Subaru Outback is one of the few vehicles that have been designed with the US market in mind. This wagon shares many of the positive traits of a conventional SUV but without the downside. Like all Subaru’s, a used Subaru Outback in Joliet has all wheel drive and a raised suspension; perfect for navigating Chicago streets in the winter.
The outback began as a spin-off from The Subaru Legacy sedan. For the years that it has been available it has given buyers comfort and all weather capability without adopting the feel of a truck based SUV. Even with generous ground clearance, the Outback handles more like the sedan in its linage than an SUV or crossover.
Changes over the years:
The Outback, which dates back to the mid 1990s, came along when SUV sales were going up. In 2000 the Outback was refreshed, it gained ground clearance and a more powerful engine and automatic transmission. The interiors went under the spotlight as well and in 2012 it was improved again to provide a new ride sensation, more refined and more comfortable.
The last couple of years:
A used Subaru Outback in Joliet is a very sound vehicle; rarely does anything fail or go wrong. The Outback has no trouble seating five full grown adults, the wide doors makes getting in and out easy. When the split folding rear seats are down the floor is almost flat giving it a mammoth cavity for handling cargo.
Although the Outback drives more like a well bred sedan don’t think for one minute that it can’t handle itself well off road. When the road is covered with snow, the all wheel drive gives it the sure footedness of a cat.
The thing with a used Subaru Outback is, it will not be the least expensive used car on the lot simply because it holds its value very well thanks to its innate quality and reliability.
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The Nordic diet was developed in 2004 and is often compared to the Mediterranean diet. Also known as New Nordic Cuisine or the new Nordic Food Programme, the diet focuses on ten concepts that guide food choices and promote embracing a sustainable food philosophy. Designed for people in Scandinavian countries, the diet incorporates aspects of Scandinavian culture, including relaxed meals with friends and family, traditional Nordic ingredients, and eating foods that are in season. The diet is not designed for weight loss; rather, it's about eating delicious, healthy food.
The ten concepts of the Nordic diet guide the food decisions of those following its guidelines. They guide not just what to eat, but how to source and prepare food. The concepts are
Despite its association with Scandinavian countries, the diet is not based on what a Viking would have eaten. It was developed by a team of nutritional scientists in conjunction with the chef and co-founder of world-renowned restaurant Noma. The group aimed to address growing obesity rates and unsustainable farming practices in Nordic countries. It also wanted to offer tasty, traditional food. In 2005, agricultural and food ministers from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland gave their support to the program.
The emphasis on whole grains gives people following the Nordic diet plenty of fiber-rich complex carbohydrates to choose from. These foods are slower to digest, leading to feeling full for longer, which helps aid weight maintenance or loss. A high-fiber diet helps maintain bowel health, control blood sugar levels, and lower cholesterol. Scientists have also linked high-fiber diets with a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers, including colorectal cancer.
The Nordic diet recommends eating more fruits and vegetables. Eating more vegetables has been linked to a decreased risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. As berries grow well in Nordic climates, they are a popular addition to the diet. These nutritional powerhouses are packed with antioxidants that aid in longevity and reduce inflammation. Fruits and vegetables are also full of fiber and aid weight loss.
The Nordic diet recommends eating more foods from lakes and oceans. The cold water of the region is full of fatty fish like salmon, herring, and mackerel, which can be eaten fresh or preserved traditionally by drying, fermenting, or smoking. Fatty fish contain omega-3 fatty acids that keep the heart healthy and are linked to brain health and fetal development. The guidelines also recommend that people get less protein from meat and that they eat meat from high-quality, organic sources.
The diet recommends choosing canola oil for cooking rather than the olive oil favored in the Mediterranean diet. This is not a traditional Nordic food, but it is high in omega-3 fatty acids and relatively low in omega-6 fatty acids. Scientists believe canola is a heart-healthy oil choice, with studies linking it to reductions in bad LDL cholesterol and improved insulin sensitivity.
The Nordic diet also recommends specific food-sourcing methods. It emphasizes local, seasonal foods and suggests using organic and wild foods whenever possible. These recommendations give the diet strong environmental credentials, as eating in this manner reduces waste and energy consumption and uses fewer natural resources, like fossil fuels. Although the links between organic foods and better health are inconclusive, less pollution invariably leads to improved wellness. Wild foods are also a healthy choice, as they do not contain additives, and scavenging for them encourages low-impact exercise.
There are limited studies on the efficacy of the Nordic diet, although most studies support its health benefits. One study of obese men found that those following the diet lost more than 10 pounds, compared to the control group, who lost 3.3 pounds. However, a follow-up study found that most participants gained the weight back within 12 months. Despite this, all the foods included in the diet have accepted benefits that help reduce inflammation and support healthy living.
The main criticisms of the Nordic diet are related to how easy it is to follow. Many of the recommended foods, including fish, organic vegetables, and high-quality meat, are expensive, putting it out of the reach of some people. The diet can also be difficult to adhere to, especially when eating out, and people will not receive the full health benefits unless the changes become a permanent part of their lifestyle.
Manufacturing canola oil creates trans fats, which is concerning to some people. Although the amount present is considered low, the World Health Organization seeks to eliminate trans fats. Recent independent animal studies suggest that canola oil can harm memory and may increase inflammation, cholesterol, and blood pressure. It is possible to substitute olive oil without significantly altering the benefits and prescriptions of the Nordic diet.
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon: It’s only the bad stuff that happens to you without effort. (In most cases; there are exceptions.) On the other hand, while bad things may rain down on you without your control or consent, you have to work really hard to make the good stuff happen. Very rarely does something wonderful just land on you without you having first put in some serious effort to make it happen.
Think about it: Death, disease, accidents, etc. are mostly things that happen to you without effort. Sure, there are times where these things are directly caused by something you did or didn’t do, but most of the time they seem pretty random. You just get up one day and something awful happens. That physical that you thought would turn out fine reveals cancer, or some bozo runs a red light and t-bones your car. Not much you can do except cuss at the universe for being unfair.
Even in the case of writing (or any other life goal), having bad things happen usually comes about because you did nothing (or at least didn’t do enough). If you get rejected it may be simply because the agent or editor wasn’t compatible with your work or didn’t have time to deal with you, but it may also be because you didn’t write a great book, or do enough research, or have a big enough platform, etc. And if you aren’t progressing in your writing career, it may be because you are doing nothing or not enough and you’re just letting the bad things (or nothing at all) happen to you.
I know I go through this more often than I should. I’ll think, “Why is nothing happening? Why aren’t I moving forward?” and I’ll get down on myself and feel that the world must be against me. But if I look deep and am honest with myself, it’s because I’m not pressing hard enough to make the good things happen. I’m sitting back and letting the bad things happen. Maybe I’m not working hard enough on my projects, or I’m not putting myself out there enough. Maybe I’m putting off doing something that might help because I’m being lazy or I’m not sure how to proceed so doing nothing at all seems safer. So instead of getting good things, bad things (in the form of rejections or complete silence from agents/editors, projects that never get finished, promotion that goes nowhere, etc.) keep happening.
But when I push myself and really go after the writing and promotion, good things start to happen. Even if it’s just working on my blogs or journaling through my problems, it’s effort that leads somewhere. Sure, it’s not always, “Here’s a publishing contract and some chocolate cake,” kind of wonderful, but it’s forward progress. An agent asks for a full. Someone sees a social media post and I gain a useful follower or make a networking contact. I solve the problem of a tricky revision and create a better story. I get a new freelance gig. Whatever it is, it’s something positive.
Of course there are still rejections, disappointments, and missed opportunities. Working hard doesn’t guarantee 100% success 100% of the time. That would be a fairy tale. But not working or not working hard enough pretty much guarantees that the bad things will happen, or at least that nothing will happen, which is pretty much the same thing if you’re a writer looking to move forward.
So get out there and make the good things happen. It’s easy to sit back and whine about the bad things, but those are the things that happen when you don’t even try. If you work to make the good things happen, they will. It may not be huge at first, but good things build a momentum of their own after a while and eventually you end up with more good than bad. And life is certainly more fun and interesting when good things are happening than when you’re sitting on the couch eating chips and watching TV.
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I have a thing about takeaway food. If you can make it better at home, don’t bother buying it. It will never stack up. That’s why I tend to go for takeaway types that I don’t usually make myself. Then I can enjoy the meal.
Pizza is something I very rarely buy – it’s so jolly easy to make and there are almost always topping ingredients at hand. I try to keep some mozzarella (which is very long-lasting unopened) in the fridge or freezer.
For me, the secret of good pizza is a super thin crust and a limited number of great ingredient toppings. The best pizza I ever ate was in a small Italian town and consisted of cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and fresh basil. None of this 28 (highly processed) meats super supreme rubbish.
I also think a really hot oven and pizza stone helps. Although, you can forgo the flash stones and pick up a porcelain tile from your local hardware store. It’ll set you back $3-4 per tile and last for ages.
There’s nothing special about this recipe. It’s not much different to the other bread recipes on my blog. After all, basic dough is basic dough. Just roll it thinly and you’ll be right.
What you’ll need
300ml (ish) tepid water
1 Tbsp sugar
1Tbsp active dry yeast
500g pizza flour (eg. high grade or tipo 00)
2 tsp salt
To make it
Dissolve the sugar and yeast in 150ml water. Set aside for at least 5-10 minutes until yeast begins to activate. You’ll smell it and it will be quite bubbly looking.
Mix flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Make a ‘well’ in the centre.
Pour the yeast mixture into the well and add another 150ish ml of warm water. Work in flour with your hands until a ball of dough forms. You can start off with a large spoon if you don’t like the sticky hand thing.
Knead the dough on a floured surface for about five-seven minutes until smooth. (You can take the hard work out by using your mixer. I have to admit that now I have Kenny in my life, he is often found whipping up pizza bases while I’m doing something else.)
Put the dough in a lightly oiled large bowl. Cover and set aside in a warm area. Or it can be put in the fridge at this stage if using many hours later (yeast will develop more slowly in fridge). I sometimes will make the evening before I need it and pop it into the fridge till the next night. Just make sure you take it out long enough for it to come back to room temperature.
Stand for about 40 minutes (or longer) until the dough ball doubles in size.
To make pizzas
Turn oven to 220-230C (or 210C fanbake). Enusre it is hot before you are ready to put the pizza in. You can put your stones/tiles in the oven while it is heating. They will not break.
‘Knock’ the air out by ‘punching’ into the dough.
Remove dough from bowl and divide into equal size balls: 3-4 for large pizzas and 5-6 for medium size.
Lightly flour a solid surface. Roll the dough to desired size (no bigger than your stone or tile). Some of my students have rolled their pizza on baking paper as it makes it easy to put the paper and pizza straight on to the stone/tile. This works well, just make sure the oven isn’t super super hot or the paper will burn.
Add your favourite topping (see below for some of mine). Transfer the pizza to the stone or tile with a paddle or similar (or you can do the above baking paper thing).
Cook in the preheated very hot oven for about 10 minutes depending on thickness of base and topping (ie. pizza bread will take less time to cook than pizza with toppings).
Remove from the oven and cut with a pizza cutter. Devour.
There it is. Easy and better than the shop one. Every time.
Some of my favourite toppings
Olive oil and fresh rosemary
Add sea salt when pizza comes out of oven
Artichoke and Blue Cheese
Onion marmalade (I used Barkers)
Mix of blue cheese and mozzarella
Topped with chopped artichokes
Topped with more of the cheese mix
(You can pop fresh rocket on top of the pizza when it comes out of the oven, but not essential.)
Olives, Anchovies, Capers
Top with Mozzarella
(This pizza traditionally has salami on it, but I don’t eat salami so don’t add it.)
To make the tomato base, sweat onion and garlic in fry pan with a little oil (for about 10 minutes, add garlic towards the end). Add a tin of crushed tomatoes in juice and a tablespoon of tomato paste. Bring to boil, then simmer for 20-30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. This will make enough to cover at least two pizzas. Freezes well.
Basil and Tomato
Add torn fresh basil leaves when pizza comes out of the oven.
(This pizza is also delicious with cherry tomatoes.) |
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#1. Mom guilt – obviously. Is there a mom that doesn’t get this? I recently met my goal of exclusive breast milk for a year though and this has relieved a bit of the guilt. Now most of the guilt comes from simply not having enough time to spend with the triplets because I’m either working, doing adult chores, or trying to get outside and do something fun.
A video proving I’m into “free-range parenting”
#2. Skier guilt – this is also commonly called FOMO or fear of missing out and it doesn’t just apply to skiing but that was fresh on my mind this winter. This guilt manifests itself with the following internal thoughts, “there’s good snow out there, I should ski it!” or “I haven’t skied Tallac this year yet” or “Lines are filled in here in Tahoe that haven’t been for years and I haven’t skied any of them!” Just thinking about this is overwhelming, makes we want to run to my car, get my ski stuff together, and drive to the end of Fallen Leaf lake and ski Halls of the Gods.
#3. Environmental guilt – Triplets increased my carbon footprint. No doubt about it. Shear time constraints have forced me to drive more. Shear number of family members have forced us to own bigger cars. At least I didn’t fly anywhere this year to ski. Every year I want to compost and I can’t seem to get it together. Oh yeah and SO MANY DIAPERS = SO MUCH GUILT!
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#4. Community guilt – Attending that community meeting, friend’s social gathering, fundraiser, etc. is going to send me off the deep end. Sometimes I have to go to bed at 8:30. Other times I have to use the time between 8:30 and 9:30 to obsessively prepare wholesome food to assuage mom guilt as described above.
#5. Work guilt – I don’t have much to add about this except that in busy periods I wish I could do more work. Doing more work leads to more #1, #2, and #4 guilts – maybe a bit less #3 guilt since my job is to help improve the environment. Is that a catch 22? Or is it ironic? Damn it Alanis! I bet Buddhism holds the answer.
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It was disappointing that we couldn’t get together in the same room, but it was brilliant to interact with all the distillers, hear about their gins and have Trish talk us through the tonics.
Here are the 5 Gin and Tonic Pairings for you to try:
Never Never Distilling Triple Juniper gin and Fever-Tree Indian Tonic
Never Never Triple Juniper gin is a classic dry gin with plenty of juniper oomph.
Trish says: Fever-Tree Indian Tonic is made for classic, juniper-led gins and Utilising the finest quality quinine and zesty natural citrus oils, this pairing is clean, crisp with a touch of bitterness.
Also try with: Melbourne Gin Company Gin, Kalkimoon Navy Strength, or Anther gin.
Imbue Distillery Suburban Gin
Suburban gin sits firmly in the contemporary category. It’s a complex gin balancing juniper and coriander with fennel, dandelion and prickly pear. The melon aromas from the pear are divine.
Trish says: This soft and fresh tonic adds a floral dimension to the suburban gin. Like a garden in springtime.
Also try with: Pinkster, Bloom and Archie Rose Signature gin
Bellarine Distillery Rosey & The Rabbits
Juniper spirit, distilled apricots and Middle Eastern black limes spend four months together in ex Pinot Noir barrels from the award winning Scotchmans Hill to create Rosey and the Rabbits. It has a well balanced gin rich with brown sugar flavours and a salty sour complexity with a peppery finish.
The aromatic tonic water contains cardamom and ginger that work well to enhance the flavours of this barrel-aged gin.
Also try with: McHenry Distillery Barrel-Aged gin, Imbue Distillery Barrel-Aged gin.
Warners Rhubarb Gin
The World’s First Rhubarb gin, a third of each bottle is pure, pressed rhubarb juice. Sweet and juicy with hints of cinnamon, cardamom and sweet orange.
Fever-Tree Mediterranean allows the flavours of the rhubarb to shine, without adding too much sweetness.
Also try with: Fever-Tree Mediterrean is a work horse at GQHQ as it goes with SO many gins, particularly the complex gins containing lots of native botanicals.
McHenry’s Distillery Sloe Gin
My favourite sloe gin. William steeps the hand-picked Tasmanian sloes for over 12 months, creating a rich, dark gin with hints of marzipan and amaretto. It’s sweet and moreish.
The tartness of Fever-Tree’s lemon tonic is the perfect counterbalance to the sweetness of this juicy gin.
Also try with: Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz gin, Seppeltsfield Road Barossa Shiraz gin
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MY GRAPEVINE IS DOING FINE IN THE GREENHOUSE
IT HAS GRAPE-BEGINNINGS, AT LEAST 5 LITTLE BUNCHES SO FAR, I REALLY HOPE THEY’LL GROW INTO REAL GRAPES AND RIPEN……..
HERE YOU CAN SEE SMALL PEA PLANTS, LETTUCE AND TAGETES TO KEEP THE BUGS AWAY
LETTUCE FOR CUTTING AND CARROTS, THEY ARE DOING WELL, THE CARROTS ARE TINY ROUND ONE’S CALLED PARIS MARKET
TOMATO PLANTS ARE LOOKING GOOD AND THEY ARE IN BLOOM BUT NOT A SINGLE TINY TOMATO CAN BE SEEN YET…….
THESE ARE SHOOTS OF LIATRIS SPICATA WAITING TO BE PLANTED OUTSIDE
MORE PLANTS WAITING FOR A PLACE IN THE GARDEN
SOME OF MY HERBS I MOVED FROM THE GREENHOUSE TO THE GARDEN, I LOVE THE YELLOW LEMON THYME !
Please please if you can, sent me some sun, my plants desperately need a bit of sun and warmth now and so do I !!
I took some pictures in my garden today, the sun was shining and it looked very much like Spring but it was still very cold cos of the cold wind we had so I did some gardening in my greenhouse where it was lovely and warm.
MARSH MARIGOLD ( CALTHA PALUSTRIS) IN THE SWAMP PART OF THE POND, NORMALLY THEY ARE IN BLOOM IN MARCH
BUDS OF MY AMELANCHIER
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF BUDS ON MY AMELANCHIER TREE, IN A FEW DAYS IT WILL LOOK STUNNING AND ALIVE WITH BEE’S AND BUMBLE BEE’S, THIS ONE IS ALSO ABOUT 4 WEEKS LATER THAN USUAL
SKIMMIA JAPONICA WHITE KEW, IT WAS BUZZING WITH BEE’S BUT THEY WERE SO FAST I COULDN’T GET THEM ON CAMERA AND IT WAS TOO COLD TO BE PATIENT, I LOVE IT WHEN THERE ARE A LOT OF BEE’S IN MY GARDEN, BEE’S ARE IN DECLINE, EVEN IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION OVER HERE SO I TRY TO PLANT SHRUBS, TREE’S AND FLOWERS THEY LIKE TO VISIT AND I WANT TO BUILD A BEE HOTEL IN MY GARDEN SO THEY CAN OVERWINTER THERE AND LAY THEIR EGG’S
A PRETTY DOUBLE DAFFODIL IN THE SHADE
IN THE GREENHOUSE, LETTUCE FOR CUTTING AND SPINACH, COS OF THE LONG COLD WINTER I HAD TO POSTPHONE SEEDING SO THERE IS LOTS TO COME BUT MOST IS SO TINY AND JUST COMING OUT OF THE SOIL, I DID A LOT OF SEEDING LAST WEEK
I BOUGHT THESE TOMATO’S LAST WEEK IN THE GARDENCENTER SO THEY HAVE A GOOD HEAD START, THEY ARE DARK RED EGG SHAPED SPANISH TOMATO’S, I ALSO BOUGHT A RED PAPRIKA PLANT
It is also very very dry, we had some rain last week but it was not nearly enough !
I hope you are all enjoying your gardens ! Have a great week !
This is the first sunny day we’ve had this year, it’s 9 C° but it is cold cos of an easterly wind but behind the windows it is warm, this feels soooooo good !!! It is only for a couple of days but I intend to enjoy every minute of it ! I want to start sowing in the greenhouse, of course only things that can stand a bit of frost cos my greenhouse has no heating (yet), for the first time this ear the automatic window openers opened the windows ! At the moment all my pots with succulents are in there to protect them from the rain and they have done well this Winter, they are looking good.
I took a few pictures of my indoor plants who are sunbathing and enjoying it !
I THINK THEY ARE ALL SMILING AT THE MOMENT !
IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY YOU CAN HEAR THEM SCREAM OF JOY !
Once a year, for about a month, the royal greenhouse near Brussels is open for the public. I’ve been there several times and I love it. It is very popular with visitors from all over the world so it can be rather crowded. I always try to imagine what it would be like if I was the only visitor or even better, the owner and I could do with it what I want….I have soooo many idea’s. But I am happy with my garden and greenhouse too you know but we can dream can’t we ?
Here are some of the pictures I took when we were there.
THIS IS CALLED THE CHINESE PAVILLION, IT WAS A GIFT FROM CHINA
I THINK THIS TREE IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS !!!
ALL THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN AT THE END OF APRIL
For all of you who would like to visit this royal greenhouse, it is usually open from end of April till end of May.
Have a great week and to the lucky ones : enjoy your garden !
I’ve been in hospital for a week but now I’m back but unable to do some gardening or other work for a while and there is sooooo much to do ! I was amazed to see how much my garden had changed in just a few days, everything looked bigger and greener, less flowers…they all rotted away cos of the heavy rains we are having. I had hoped to come home to a lovely garden where I could sit in the shade, recover from my operation in a pleasant way and enjoy the view, read a book, do some drawing….Alas the weathergods decided differently. I don’t know why but for month’s now the SoutEast part of Europe has warm and sunny weather whereas the Nortwest part (where I live)has cold and very wet weather. And for the next 10 days we’ll get more of the same, this is really depressing me.
Before I left I took some pictures in my garden as we had a few hours of sun in the afternoon.
THIS LITTLE FLOWER IS CALLED ASPERULA, FOR US IT IS AN ANNUAL, I THINK NEXT YEAR I’LL USE THEM TO MIX WITH OTHER ANNUALS, THIS YEAR IT WAS JUST AN EXPERIMENT TO SEE WHAT COLOUR THEY WERE AND WHAT HEIGHT THEY HAD AND HOW LONG THEY BLOOMED, LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE QUITE RAIN RESISTANT
ASTRANTIA MAJOR, A SWEET LITTLE FLOWER THAT DOESN’T ASK FOR MUCH AND BLOOMS FOR A LONG TIME
FIRST BLOOMS THIS YEAR ON MY HYDRANGEA, THE CREAM WILL BECOME PURPLE AS THE FLOWER AGES, WHEN I BOUGHT THIS PLANT THE FLOWERS WERE PINK BUT IT STANDS NEXT TO A CONIFER HEDGE SO IT BECAME PURPLE, IN AUTUMN IT WILL TURN DARK RED AND MOSGREEN , VERY PRETTY WHEN YOU DRY THEM.
A CLOSE UP
I also took some pictures in my greenhouse.
TOMATO SELLERY CABBAGES FENNEL
THIS YEAR I TRIED SWEET CORNS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEY ARE GROWING LIKE MAD BUT WILL THEY BE RIPE BEFORE THE FIRST FROSTS ? I’LL LET YOU KNOW ! BEHIND THE GREENHOUSE YOU CAN SEE NETTLES GROWING, THESE ARE FOR THE BUTTERFLIES WHO NEED THEM TO LAY THEIR EGG’S ON
MY ONE AND ONLY EGG PLANT.
I’m dying to see what is happening in my greenhouse at the moment but my terrace is slippery when it is wet and I can’t risk a fall right now so I’ll have to wait till it dries again. At the moment it is just pouring !
Have a great weekend all and thanks for stopping by !! |
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In France, buying new property under construction – known as Vente en l‟Etat Futur
Achèvement (VEFA) in French – is subject to a highly regulated procedure. Buyers
consequently enjoy a large number of guarantees.
What kind of property?
A new flat or house can be bought “from plan”.
But the definition of “new property” is quite broad in France and refers to all property
completed within less than 5 years.
How do you proceed?
The purchaser buys property that has not yet been built (and, more often than not, only exists
on paper) or visits a show-flat if the building is already partly complete.
In exactly the same way as for buying existing property, the purchasing process is divided
into two stages, the only difference being that the preliminary contract is known as a contrat
de reservation or reservation contract.
Reserve your property!
The reservation contract is a regulated document specific to the “buying from plan” process.
It necessarily includes a number of details: a description of the property, the projected
purchase price, the date of delivery and the date when the deed of the sale will be signed, etc.
the signature of this reservation contract implies the payment of a deposit, which never
exceeds 5% of the projected purchase price. No deposit is required if the deadline for
completing the sale is more than 2-year after the signature of the reservation contract. Make
sure you include the let-out clause concerning your ability (or inability) to arrange a
mortgage; this will be included in the final sale agreement signed before the notaire.
N.B: You enjoy a 7-day “cooling-off” period after signing this contract. Apart from this
retraction period, the document must also include the legal conditions allowing you to
withdraw from your agreement and recover your deposit, failing which the contract will be
Sign before the notaire!
The building may still only exist on paper! You become the owner of your property gradually
as construction work proceeds, and pay the purchase price in stages. You will be sent the
final contract before the date for signing it to allow you the necessary time to examine it and
check that it corresponds to the preliminary agreement.
Take delivery of the property!
When you take delivery of the new flat or house, you sign a procès-verbale de livraison
(acceptance certificate). If the property does not comply with what is specified in the
contract, you can place the balance of the purchase price (5%) on a special account until the
problems have been put right.
The transfer of funds corresponding to the purchase price is regulated by French law and
depends upon progress achieved in building the property.
Payment must not exceed :
- 35% of the total price when the foundations are complete,
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- 95% of the total price when the building is completed.
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modern comforts and no need for renovation work on the building, the buyers of new
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Easy Instant Pot Loaded Potato Casserole is a comforting dish made with cheese, bacon, and green onion. It's ready in 30 minutes and perfect for family dinners!
Course Dinner, Main Course, Side Dish
Keyword Casserole, Easy Dinner, Instant Pot, loaded potatoes, Make Ahead, One Pot Meal
Prep Time 5minutes
Cook Time 27minutes
Total Time 32minutes
Instant Pot (or any electric pressure cooker) ** See notes to make without a pressure cooker**
5lbspotatoes, scrubbed and cut into 2" chunks
1packetranch seasoning mix(see notes for substitutions)
1bunchgreen onions, chopped(green parts only)
4slicesbacon, cooked and crumbled, approx ¾ cup(can sub with chopped ham or turkey)
Add the scrubbed and chopped potatoes, hot water, and butter to the Instant Pot. Add lid, close sealing lever, and cook at high pressure for 7 minutes. After the pressure cycle is complete, allow to naturally release for 10 minutes then initiate a quick release.
Mash potatoes with a potato masher in the pot. Stir in milk, sour cream, ranch mix, cheese, and half the green onions. Add the bacon and green onion on top as garnish before serving.
To serve as a casserole:
If you prefer to serve this as a casserole, add to a casserole dish and bake at 350º for 15-20 minutes. Top with the green onion and bacon.
This dish can be made ahead. After step one, allow potatoes to cool. Place potatoes into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag and refrigerate for 1-3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. To serve, thaw frozen potatoes in the refrigerator. Then mix with ingredients from step two and bake as directed in step three.To make this without an Instant Pot: Boil the potatoes in a large stock pot with 2 tsp salt added to the water. When the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork, drain potatoes. Continue on to Step 2, increasing milk to 2 1/2 cups (adding more if necessary).Ranch seasoning substitute: 2 Tablespoons Buttermilk Powder (optional), 1 Tablespoon garlic powder, 1 teaspoon dried parsley, 1 teaspoon dried chives, 2 teaspoon onion powder, 1 teaspoon dried dill. Mix together. |
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The Lamborghini Huracan Spyder (LP610-4) is the replacement of the Gallardo/LP560. It has come in a revised and more elegant shape as compared to the LP560-4, with a high performance 5.2 litre V10 engine. The new Lamborghini has managed to squeeze an enormous 602 bhp out of this new engine setup whereas the new stop/start mode, fuel economy has been increased by up to 10%. It has challenged the common belief that a sports car cannot be budget and eco-friendly.
As it has become a common feature of supercars, the Lamborghini Huracan Spyder (LP610-4) has replaced the manual gearbox with the new 7 speed gear box, directly from the R8 V10.
The interior has introduced improvements better than any other model of this manufacturer, with updated gadgets and better plush trim. Also note that the visibility is enhanced that will help maneuvering in town. The hasty engine note with the signature whirring at startup and straight line performance is thrilling. The entire driving setup of the car has also been improved, with enhanced road grip and smooth steering control.
And it does not end here, this model with its superfast wheels also features a fabric roof that is operated electrically at the speed rate of 31 mph. As per the claims of manufacturers, it takes less than 17 seconds for the roof top - in red, brown or black - to open.
The interior resembles the Huracan coupe, however it comes with new innovative ducts that have lower air turbulence. It also comes with detachable rear windows. These wind guards enhance the talking experience while in the car, even when the roof top is down, or open, allowing the guttural sounds to dispense into the cabin.
This convertible version, like it’s coupe counterpart, allows you to choose from three types of driving modes - Corsa, Sport and Strada. The Advanced network intelligence management features - known as Anima, allows you to select whatever mode you wish to drive at.
For those planning to travel abroad this year, it is a great chance to make your vacation one of a kind by renting a supercar like this. If you rent a Lamborghini Huracan Spyder (LP610-4) from us, you and your family can have a vacation full of luxury with a car experience none like before.
The annual auto motor show at Frankfurt had this super car on the top of the list. Being the star of the show, this sensational sports car outshines the Gallardo Spyder, while being the best manufacturing of this company so far. According to Mr.Winkelmann, “our expectation is that the new Huracan Spyder will take over the success of its ancestors in every way”. Chances are that most of us would not be able to afford this sensational road hero. Nonetheless, renting is always an option available to you. So if you are curious to know what an exceptional road experience is like, rent this luxury car now. |
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The cover of its first issue was included in a list of the Top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
In 1999 Life magazine listed it in the Best Magazine Photos of the Year.
The New York Times characterized it as "not your father's National Geographic."
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For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Imagine you get done shopping, head to the parking lot, see your dream car and decide that’s the car you want to drive today. So, you walk up to the owner and tell them you need to borrow their car for the day. They hand you the keys and off you go. Now I don’t know about you, but that sounds really crazy, especially in today’s society. But that’s kind of what Jesus did in Luke 5.
In Luke 5:1, “people pressed upon [Jesus] to hear the word of God.” Since they were by the sea of Galilee, Jesus looked for a more efficient way to teach the crowd. On the seashore, He saw two boats. He entered one of the boats and asked the fisherman to go out a little ways from the shore so that he could teach the crowd. This fisherman’s name was Simon Peter, who was not yet called to be Christ’s disciple. Even though Peter didn’t fully understand the significance of what Christ was going to do, he allowed Jesus to use his vessel. In this instance, Jesus partnered with Peter.
Now we know, because we’ve read Matthew 14:14, that Jesus can walk on water. And since this is the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, it seems like this would be the perfect opportunity to demonstrate His power to the large crowd around Him. How impressive would it have been for Jesus to just walk out on the water and stand on the waves teaching people? That would have been a “WOW” moment don’t you think?
But He didn’t do that. He wanted to use Peter’s vessel. Just like He wants to use your vessel. Just like He wants to use your life.
Insecurities and self-perception make it so hard to understand why Jesus, the man who by the power of His word, could calm raging seas, heal blinded eyes, and bring life back to a dead man would ever want to use us.
These insecurities are often our greatest enemy because they become excuses.
I can’t do this for Jesus because I’m too young and I can’t do that for Jesus because my vessel is a little too beat up.
If we look at Luke 5:2 again, we’ll read that the Bible mentions two boats. Now this is my opinion, but I believe if Peter would have said “No.” when Jesus asked to use his vessel, God would have gotten in the other boat. This is important to understand, because God is going to use somebody. Why not let it be you?
This may be a tough pill to swallow, but Jesus doesn’t need your vessel. That sounds harsh, but what is so beautiful is that Jesus wants to use you. He will not force himself on you, but He does stand at the door and knock.
He asks that you see yourself as the capable, useful woman He created you to be.
When Peter loaned Jesus his boat, he had no idea what he had just gotten himself into. Throughout the next three years, Peter witnessed deaf ears opened and dead men come alive. God will blow your mind if you let Him. Leave your insecurities at the feet of your Creator and live the abundant life He created you to live. |
How Sales Reps Become Trusted Advisors
Seventy percent of B2B buyers wait until after they have defined their needs before engaging a salesperson.
By that time, most buyers have established a preferred vendor relationships as well, which is why getting in front of the right crowd to build relationships with prospects early and often is so important.
B2B buyers avoid sellers before they know what they want. To solve this problem, growth marketers should work to position sellers as subject matter experts by keeping them current on the latest trends, building up their profiles and positioning them as thought leaders.
“When buyers meet sales professionals who can discuss the macro issues facing their industry, instead of the features and benefits of their own product, they are instantly elevated to trusted advisor status,” says JD Bowles, president and CEO at iPRSoftware — a company I founded that builds online news centers, newsrooms, marketing digital assets management solutions, social media hubs and custom mobile apps.
“Envision a world where you know that when your rep contacts a prospect, they’re representing your company as the expert in ‘West Coast-based tech companies under 200 people that specialize in education management’ rather than ‘the rep who was assigned to the account,'” writes Outreach.io CEO Manny Medina in his new book Sales Engagement.
In addition to positioning and promoting sales reps as experts in their marketing materials, growth marketers should help sales reps increase their relevance by creating persona-based buckets comprised of customizable research report templates, organized sales enablement materials and a thoughtful personalization strategy to automate as much of the sales process as possible and maximize selling time.
B2B sales is difficult enough already.
Sellers must gain access to over six decision makers and understand their needs when selling time is being cannibalized by administrative duties, buyer’s time is increasingly hard to come by and expectations for those interactions are sky high.
In this environment, B2B sales organizations need as much support as they can get.
They need ideal customer profiles and enriched personas-based on target accounts, roles, industries and market conditions. And sales needs a library of crisp, concise, compelling email templates and follow-up snippets that resonate with buyers to shortcut communications and accelerate sales cycles.
Marketing grows revenue by:
- Equipping reps with relevant market, account and customer research.
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- Featuring reps in content marketing materials as industry and subject matter experts.
Public relations also has an important role to fill. “Not only should marketing have content focused on educating buyers on the company website, this information must also be present in channels like third-party sites, industry publications, blogs and more,” writes Jeff Davis in his revelatory book Create Togetherness.
It’s time we reassessed who gets the quote in the press release and who we attribute the byline articles and blog posts to. Shouldn’t we be building up our sale reps so customers seek them out, instead of just stroking the C-Suite for ego’s sake?
Aligning sales, marketing and service for cross-functional collaboration means continuously improving each stage of the customer journey by sharing feedback with each other on what is and isn’t working.
But be careful not to let dominant personalities drown out the introverts, who may have important innovative, creative insights to share but hold back for fear of appearing self-promotional.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Adjusting on the fly has become second nature to Saben Lee.
Vanderbilt’s junior guard is taking the latest challenge thrown his way in stride once again and is poised to show off the latest version of himself when he returns to his home state at 5:30 p.m. CT Wednesday when the Commodores face Loyola (Chicago) in Phoenix.
“A lot of adjustments have been made,” Lee said about his Vandy career to this point. “I’m just a more mature player, a more all-around player. I’ve just evolved as a basketball player overall.”
Lee, averaging 17.2 points and 5.7 assists per contest, will play his 74th game in black and gold Wednesday when the Commodores take the floor at Talking Stick Resort Arena. The 6-foot-2 graduate of Corona del Sol High School in Arizona has flourished despite coaching and position changes since arriving to West End.
The latest curve ball thrown his direction came at the start of this season when new Vanderbilt head coach Jerry Stackhouse asked Lee, a two-year starter, to enter games off the bench.
“The fact of the matter is, our two best scorers, our 1A and 1B scorers, are Aaron Nesmith and Saben Lee. I want to try to stagger those guys,” Stackhouse said earlier this season. “It’s a huge advantage because we have a point guard (Scotty Pippen) already that can run the show and get us in things. It makes sense to start (Nesmith) with a point guard who we’re trying to groom for the future and our long-term plans of having the ball in his hands and being able to run the team.
“Then we come back with maybe our best scorer in the second unit that’s going against the other team’s second unit. I anticipate of seeing a lot more of that with (Lee) being able to take advantage and pick his spots.”
Lee is still playing nearly 29 minutes per game even if he’s not among the first five on the floor night-in and night-out. And coming off the bench hasn’t affected the junior’s ability to score – he’s finished in double figures in every game this season.
Against Buffalo on Dec. 3 he set a career high of 25 points.
“It’s definitely a different role, but when I get in there I’m just trying to adjust to the game and the flow, trying to impact the game anyway I can to just help the team win,” Lee said. “It’s definitely a different role, but I trust coach Stackhouse and what he has to do with me.”
Lee grew up in Arizona as the son of a former NFL standout and a Vanderbilt law school graduate. His father, Amp Lee, was a standout running back at Florida State from 1898-91 where he was an All-American. He also played nine seasons in the NFL
Lee’s mother, Natalie Williams, is the chief of staff at Paul Quinn College and holds a law degree from Vandy.
Saben Lee draws his character from both – the academic focus from his mother and athletic prowess from his father. Both will be in attendance to watch their son Wednesday – along with upwards of 40 friends and family and Saben’s Lee’s biggest fan, his 9-year-old brother Aubry.
“I’m extremely proud of him,” Amp Lee said. “I went through the process of recruiting and being an athlete and trying to juggle the academics and the strains and the pressures of all those things – and playing at a high level.
“I’ve always tried to give him some examples of situations to refer to in terms of just trying to find the balance. I’ve watched him mature both on the floor and in the classroom and it’s just been fun to watch. I tell him all the how the time how proud I am of him.”
Needing 101 points for 1,000 for his career and 18 more assists to reach the 300 mark in that category, Lee was challenged by Stackhouse this preseason to lead the Southeastern Conference in assists. Going into Wednesday’s game he ranks fourth in the SEC in assists per game (5.7) and in total assists (51).
Those type of goals may have been the sort of standards Lee expected to reach as a freshman after he was recruited to play the point guard position coming out of high school in 2017. He averaged 22 points, five rebounds, four assists, three blocks and three steals as a prep senior and chose to be a Commodore – the night of his official recruiting visit to campus – over scholarship offers from Louisville, Stanford, Nebraska and, his father’s alma mater, Florida State.
But as a true freshman, Amp Lee said, Saben Lee wasn’t quite ready to take over the point guard spot from senior Riley LaChance. And last season the team was handed to future NBA Draft pick Darius Garland before Garland was lost for the season due to injury.
Now Lee’s role has changed once again.
“I kind of tilted my head at it, trying to make sense of it,” said Amp Lee, a member of the Florida State Hall of Fame, “but at the same time what I said to him was, ‘We’re not really built that way – to pout. You got to keep going. It’s time to go, it’s time to lock in and it’s time to focus. You can’t go in the tank now because you got to go play.’ We talked about being able to deal with the things you can control. All he could really control is going on that floor every day to practice, go into every game and play to the best of his ability.
“I think he’s been strong by keeping his head up, coming in and providing what ever the team needs and providing whatever coach (Stackhouse) wants him to do. I think the staff has done a phenomenal job with him. Statistically he’s having one of the best seasons he’s ever had. And I think he’s having more fun.”
A major in human and organizational talent, Lee said he is now considering a career in coaching once his playing days are over. He did an internship with the YMCA and coached a youth basketball team where he joked he got the coaching, “bug.”
The lessons he’s learned so far under Stackhouse along with those from season’s past will certainly help in that endeavor. For now he’s just focusing on getting the Commodores in the win column.
“(Stackhouse) said I was going to have a big role – I do have a big role. Just a lot of the leadership role is going to be on me and (Nesmith),” Lee said. “And doing whatever I need to do to win games and defensively put pressure on people.
“(And offensively) it’s a challenge I’m willing to take – getting the ball to people and just trying to maneuver through the defense.” |
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If anybody could have made excuses it was Francesca. If anyone had reason to call it quits, it was her.
Francesca was the proverbial runt of the litter – born two months premature in 1850, when Italy’s infant mortality rate was horrifying. Even though she survived infancy, she remained frail and sickly throughout childhood and early adulthood.
At six years old, however, Francesca believed God was calling her to bring the gospel to China. Everyone, including her family mocked her idea. At twelve she took a vow of chastity and planned to become a nun. Everyone made fun of that idea too. When she reached the minimum age of eighteen, she applied to join the Daughters of the Sacred Heart, but was rejected for being too sickly. For six years she continued to apply, and for six years she was repeatedly rejected. Rather than brood and be bitter, Francesca filled her hours with good deeds, teaching children and ministering to the sick.
Finally, six years later Francesca gained acceptance into the order. But did she find support to take the gospel to China? No. No one took the request of a pint-sized sickly nun seriously and she was given menial tasks with the local populace. Finally, a superior advised her that if she wanted to be part of a missionary order she should form one herself – something not likely to happen. Yet that’s what Francesca did. In 1880, she and a half-dozen other nuns formed the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Then after establishing foundations in Milan, Rome and other Italian cities, she again sought approval to take the gospel to China. But her dreams finally were crushed when Pope Leo XIII sent her instead to – New York City, where he wanted her to help run an orphanage, school and convent.
Yet when she arrived in the strange land of America, she found that the plans to establish those facilities had fallen through and was told to go back from where she came. At this point Francesca had received nothing but opposition to the dreams God had placed in her heart. How easy it would have been to conclude she was never meant to serve God and to make excuses for not doing God’s will.
Francesca had come as a missionary to America and in America she would stay. She quickly solved the problems with those failing plans for the school, orphanage, and convent and established those facilities. And over the next twenty-eight years Sister Francesca Cabrini – better known as Mother Cabrini – established more than seventy hospitals, schools, and orphanages in the United States, Spain, France, England, and South America. The impact of this little dynamo of a woman was immense. All because she refused to make excuses or give up in the face of adversity.i
All of us will face opposition to our dreams and plans. And we, too, will have plenty of opportunities to make excuses for doing nothing. But the Scripture admonishes us: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,” (Joshua 1:9)
Dear Father in heaven, help me to persevere in the face of adversity, opposition and discouragement. Motivate me, energize me, and inspire me to press onward to the dream you’ve placed in my heart. Amen.
i Information from John Maxwell, Failing Forward, and Frances Heerey, Biographies: God at their Sides |
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Fukushima has changed our approach to nuclear safety to more emphasis on accident mitigation.
At these hearings the elephant in the room was not Elmer the traffic safety elephant well know to Canadian children but the Fukushima safety elephant. It shook up the way we look at nuclear safety.
The essential lesson from Fukushima is that future reactor accidents are much more probable than what we might like to think. Since then accident mitigation has become an urgent consideration as shown by the emphasis on emergency planning at the hearings.
According to the World Nuclear Association there have been almost 15,000 years of power reactor operation from about 1960 to the end of 2012. During that time there have been three serious nuclear accidents – “black swans” (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima). This makes the probability of a serious accident about 1 in 5,000 or 2 x 10-4 per reactor year. One can play with this number by changing the number of reactors that melted down (three at Fukushima or not counting TMI as a serious accident) and so on but it’s the order of magnitude of the meltdown probability that is really of interest.
Each of these events occurred in a different reactor types (PWR, RMBK and BWR) in countries with differing nuclear cultures and regulation regimes. Aside from stressing the importance of overriding issues such as human error, institutional failure and design defects, it is difficult to know where to go with the black swan approach in analyzing reactor safety. Although certainly one can draw lessons from them after the fact as is being done for Fukushima, notably compensating measures for the complete loss of electrical power in a reactor plant (“total station blackout”) and further measures to prevent hydrogen explosions.
Contrast this with the traditional approach to reactor safety known as PSA (Probabilistic Safety Analysis/Assessment). This approach tries to examine all possible accident event sequences and figure out the probability associated with each sequence. In practice it’s very complicated and there can be hundreds or even thousands of events and sequences. To give an overly simplified example, let’s consider an accident sequence that starts with event A: a cooling pipe breaks, then B: a sensor fails to indicate the break, then C: the reactor operator doesn’t see the reactor temperature increasing, then D: a switch activating the emergency core cooling system doesn’t work, then E: the operator pushes the wrong button to correct this and F: a core meltdown occurs because the reactor overheats.
This too simple example illustrates some of the key aspects of PSA. The validity of the approach depends on the accuracy of the probabilities assigned to the individual events since the overall accident probability (of event F for example) is obtained by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events in the sequence. Some might be well known; perhaps the B sensor is used in many applications and its failure rate is well documented from experience. At the other end of the scale there are probabilities that one can merely guess at e.g. the initiating pipe break probability might be hard to evaluate. Another very important condition is that the probability of a certain event happening is independent of other events. This may not always be the case: event C implies an incompetent operator and therefore, event E may be more likely. For completeness all possible accident sequences need to be evaluated. There isn’t any way to be sure completeness has been achieved. Unfortunately, there wasn’t an event sequence at Fukushima that started with: “suppose there was a tsunami wave higher than the protective sea wall”.
Safety analysts in Canada and internationally continue to use PSA. In fact people have made whole careers in the nuclear industry putting bells and whistles on the basic PSA framework. While it has proven useless for predicting accident probabilities, PSA is useful for highlighting and correcting potential problems. In the context of the example above, perhaps a more reliable type of switch D could be installed or better training is needed for operators in terms of events C and E. The other important reason for continuing PSA is that there doesn’t seem to be any worthwhile alternative. As CNSC staff pointed out, PSA is still the international standard approach to reactor safety.
The problem is that PSA comes up with accident probabilities of the order of one in a hundred thousand or one in a million or even one in ten million per reactor year that are completely out of whack with the one in five thousand observed accident frequency. At the hearings I was disappointed to hear staff from the CNSC and OPG bandy about terms such as a “10-6 accident”, usually without the “per reactor year” unit giving the erroneous implication that these were realistic accident probabilities. In the best interpretation this could be excused as bad communications using nuclear jargon and in the worst interpretation a dishonest attempt to minimize the probability of an accident.
Much more serious was OPG and the CNSC using PSA as a basis for emergency planning. Statements were made that can be roughly paraphrased as “their (PSA) probability is so low that we don’t consider accidents with offsite consequences more than a few kilometers from the site” and “OPG has identified two catastrophic accident scenarios but their PSA probabilities are in the order of 10-7 and so we can safely ignore them”. Using PSA, discredited by experience as a method of predicting accident probabilities, is unscientific and intellectually dishonest. Thus, in my opinion, the hearings witnessed a disgraceful performance on the part of the institutions charged with our nuclear safety. |
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Let them smile and play again
Save 1,000 Refugee Children on
MAY 20TH IN SHEFFIELD
‘Mothers’ Day’ is the day appointed for a great and special effort in support of the Lord Baldwin Fund for Refugees—to rescue another 500 Christian and 500 Jewish children. Please do your very best to make your local contribution a bumper one. There are still nearly 70,000 children in Germany—Christians as well as Jews—so persecuted that they are not even allowed to play in the public parks. Help to get them out—before it is too late!
ISSUED BY THE LORD BALDWIN FUND FOR REFUGEES
BLOOMSBURY HOUSE, LONDON, W.C.1
from the Sheffield Telegraph and Daily Independent (Yorkshire) of 10th May 1939
The noun Kindertransport designates a transportation made as part of an operation from 1938 to 1940 to evacuate children, mostly of Jewish confession, from Nazi-controlled areas of Europe to the United Kingdom, and this operation as a whole.
This noun is a borrowing from German Kindertransport, composed of Kinder, plural of Kind, child, and Transport, transportation (cf. kindergarten, from German Kindergarten, literally children’s garden, denoting an establishment where children below the age of compulsory education play and learn).
The first known use of Kindertransport in English is from The Youngest Pioneers, by Marian G. Greenberg, published in Survey Graphic, Magazine of Social Interpretation (New York) of March 1940:
While worldwide search is being made for havens for refugees, over 6000 young Jews from Europe have been given a permanent home in Palestine. The American chairman of Youth Aliyah, the international committee responsible for this work, tells how it was done, and what the future holds for these young pioneers.
When a new drive began in Germany against Polish and stateless Jews (those holding Nansen papers) in June and July, 1939, the victims remembered the previous year when Germany had ordered the expulsion of Jews having Polish passports. Then men, women and children had been pushed across the Polish frontier without food, money or adequate clothing; subsequently, as the number of refugees increased, Polish guards had forced them back upon the bared bayonets of the Nazis so that many perished in the No-Man’s Land between the two countries. Small wonder they preferred to leave their children in Germany rather than expose them to the terror of existence in No-Man’s Land in the hope that they might find refuge elsewhere.
These events aroused men of good will in all lands. In England, Lord Baldwin inaugurated the Fund bearing his name and gave impetus to a movement which in eight months brought nine thousand German, Austrian and Czech children to Great Britain. The Youth Aliyah wards among them are placed in special training centers where preparation for Palestine is furthered. A Youth Aliyah Training School with 160 children has been established at Whittingehame, Scotland, the ancestral home of the late Lord Balfour, which was made available by his nephew and heir, Lord Traprain. Other training farms have been established in England for four hundred and fifty young people.
The example of Great Britain and the Netherlands has been followed by other countries. Hundreds of Youth Aliyah registrants have been accepted “in transit” for Palestine by Denmark, Sweden, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
This summer, in Europe, I witnessed the arrival of a “Kindertransport” bringing these child refugees from Berlin to London. One hundred and twenty left the train at Liverpool Station—tiny children heavily laden with miniature knapsacks, youngsters of ten and twelve struggling with clumsy suitcases, and adolescents whose entire aspect gave the lie to their youth. For a moment I almost confused the scene with that of an American camp homecoming. But the illusion was quickly dispelled by a glance at the platform, barren of welcoming parents, and by a closer examination of the placarded train and its human cargo. I followed the children who were led off immediately to be sorted, stamped and consigned.
Many of the little ones were received by British men and women who, in advance of their coming, had generously offered them a home. It was not easy to find private homes for the older boys, most of whom were assigned to institutions and special camps until reemigration could be arranged—to what country no one could say. Neither jobs nor tools awaited their eager hands in the pre-war England of unemployment. Only the young girls were permitted to accept work and then only in domestic service. The look of passive resignation on the faces of these young people was tragic.
In contrast I turned to the eighteen Youth Aliyah children among them who had occupied one of the carriages in the transport and apparently had already constituted themselves into a firmly-knit, integrated society of comrades. Although from widely separated storm centers of central and eastern Europe their common ideal and the knowledge that after a short training period in Great Britain they would go to a permanent home in Palestine had sustained them. Nearly all of the eighteen children had been brought to England because they were “desperate cases.” Only a few spoke of their anxieties.
The following is from The Stage (London) of 8th April 1993:
Sarah is ready to shine
Sarah Shanson will get a chance to shine at the Soho Theatre next week when she takes on the role of nine-year-old German Jewish refugee Eva in Diane Samuels’ Verity Bargate award-winning play, Kindertransport.
With an ironic twist to the tale, it emerges that the 13-year-old actress’s grandmother had first hand experience of the situation. She came to England as a refugee at the age of 12 in 1939 and later discovered that both her parents had been victims of the concentration camps.
For Shanson, from Hampstead Garden Suburb, it will not be a stage debut. She has appeared in Carmen for English National Opera and recently won a Britten Pears singing scholarship.
A promising musician, she played the piano in three major recitals and at the North London Music Festival. She also plays flute and has sung for fellow pupils at the Henrietta Barnet School.
“I have many ambitions,” says Shanson. “I have always wanted to perform on the stage and show people what I can do. I love to sing and long to play a part in a musical. My other passion is acting. I love drama and enjoy putting myself in someone else’s shoes and turning into a completely different person.”
Sarah Shanson – Picture: Sheila Burnett |
“Given the number of people potentially eligible for treatment with the [new class of cholesterol drugs] will number in the millions, the potential overall expenditures by payers are huge,” officials at CVS Caremark warned in a medical journal earlier this year. “The healthcare system has never seen a challenge like this to our resilience in absorbing costs.”
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Repatha, the second drug in a novel class of powerful cholesterol-lowering medications.
Made by Amgen, Repatha is indicated only for people with extremely high cholesterol levels and those with heart disease who cannot sufficiently lower their cholesterol levels with statins and other therapies. Repatha will cost $14,100 per year.
The high price tag has caused comment among some industry players. Express Scripts Holding Co., the nation’s largest manager of prescription drug benefits, said that up to 10 million people are affected by extremely high levels of high cholesterol, and the new class of drugs to treat them has “the potential to grow over the next several years to become the costliest therapy class our country has seen.”
Industry analysts expect the actual price of Repatha to drop once rebates and other discounts are taken into account. Amgen acknowledged concerns about the drug’s cost, saying that the company would work with payers to provide “innovative pricing programs.”
For now, health insurers and pharmacy-benefit managers probably will require doctors and patients to exhaust other options first or obtain additional lab tests before getting a prescription. Repatha is administered once every two weeks.
Repatha (evolocumab), an injectable drug, works by blocking a protein that interferes with the liver’s ability to remove LDL cholesterol from the blood. In July, the FDA approved Praluent (alirocumab), another injectable drug in the same class of medications.
The new drugs, called PCSK9 inhibitors, have lowered levels of LDL, the dangerous form of cholesterol, by 54 to 77 percent in people already taking other cholesterol-lowering drugs. Some patients in clinical trials have even seen their LDL levels drop into the single digits.
“Repatha provides another treatment option in this new class of drugs for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia or with known cardiovascular disease who have not been able to lower their LDL cholesterol enough with statins,” said Dr. John Jenkins, director of the FDA’s Office of New Drugs at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. |
Advertisements have a quick 50/50 chance to “pitch” itself to online users once exposed. Upon first glance, an ad’s illustration and what it promotes yields the make-it-or-break-it factor for users. Ads connecting to the user is left to either be closed and skipped, or clicked on with interest.
Thus, personalizing your campaigns is something that you should consider in order to gain more interest from users. A starting point on how to effectively optimize your campaigns is through Dynamic Creative Optimization, or DCO. We recently discussed how you can optimize your performance with DCO by introducing the ad technology and briefly mentioning why it is crucial for your campaign optimization. Today, we will share what DCO’s capabilities are when it comes to creatively optimizing your campaigns.
DCO is essentially a technology that can personalize campaigns. DCO generates through the following three factors: format, data, and dynamic element. Let us walk through each format.
As a native advertising company, we offer native formats for clients’ campaigns. We believe that the look and feel of a native advertorial promotes a better online user experience. Through Native Outstream or High Impact Ads, selecting the right format when implementing DCO is already a start to personalizing an ad. This is because the native format does not interrupt the flow of reading for users, thus inviting an organic way of contact to the user.
With DCO, there are six different parameters that can be tailored automatically to its respective campaign. The parameters that optimize a campaign are as follows: location, device, time, day of the week, holiday, and weather. DCO collects data on these six parameters, which accurately approaches and appeal to the end user. For instance, when you have data about a user who often seeks clothing deals on Fridays and lives in a location with consistently warm weather, DCO technology can individualize a campaign by “matching” that user with a campaign about the hottest trends and discounts on summer clothing for a night out. The more data that you collect, the more capable DCO can produce more personalized campaigns.
The final step of the DCO generation process is the dynamic element. The campaign consists of an image, a corresponding text, and a URL that links to the respective owner of the ad. Dynamic element has the ability to adjust an individualized display in real time toward the user profile. This is what makes it highly optimizing. Especially effective, the DCO campaign essentially acts a chameleon to fit the needs of the online user, which gives them a better user experience.
Why go DCO?
DCO is a great way to connect to online users due to its personalization capabilities that are based on the included parameters. We recently shared a case study with a plista e-commerce client who utilized DCO technology into their campaigns channeled towards users in Berlin and in Hamburg. As a result, we found that DCO yields more interaction from clients. The customized adverts for clients’ products make for an easy exchange of elements. For example, this includes message, imagery and a call to action. These personalized campaigns are controlled as they are in contact with the right user at the right environment and time. Creative optimization is a trend this year, and with DCO’s ability to display elements in real time and in dynamic, individualizing tactics, campaigns are sure to encounter more user interaction.
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NEW YORK: Bitcoin and other digital currencies have, so far, not been formidable competition for cash, checks or credit cards as a payment method in the United States and other major economies, according to two economists at New York Federal Reserve.
Virtual currencies usually thrive as an alternative form of payment during times of suspicion around traditional forms of payment, they said in a blog post published on Friday.
Cryptocurrency rivals snap at Bitcoin's heels
For example, in 2015, as Greece struggled with its debt problem, Greek interest and trading in bitcoin jumped amid worries over capital controls and a possible exit from the euro zone, the New York Fed economists, Michael Lee and Antoine Martin said.
"Cryptocurrencies arguably solve the problem of making payments in a trust-less environment, but it is not obvious that this is a problem that needs solving, at least in the United States and other advanced economies," the post said.
Indeed, bitcoin, ethereum, ripple and other digital currencies, while they have grown in use and popularity, have notable drawbacks, the economists said.
With bitcoin, extreme volatility tends to undermine its function of storing value. This is unlike a traditional currency that is managed by a central bank, they said. Bitcoin transactions also consume a lot of electricity and it takes time to validate transactions, the economists said.
Bitcoin suffers dramatic price plunge in Asia
Right now, bitcoin transactions are estimated to use 48 terawatt hours of energy a year, an amount which could power 4.4 million US homes, according to Digiconomist, a blog about cryptocurrencies that Lee and Martin cited in their post.
Cash and other traditional payment methods also offer convenience, a formidable advantage relative to cryptocurrencies, the economists said.
"Fundamentally, we wonder whether a payment method designed to function where trust in institutions is completely absent can ever be as convenient as one where trust is required, but also already exists," Lee and Martin wrote.
Bitcoin has seen its value tumble as much as 70% from a record peak near $20,000 in mid-December.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2018.
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It was my senior year. Everything was going great. My grades were good. I had an awesome boyfriend and a part-time job with a wonderful boss.
I should have been happy, but I wasn’t. I was sleeping excessively, I was constantly tired, pushing away my friends and ignoring things I once found enjoyable, and I just felt sad and empty all the time. Still, I pushed on, with the thought “Everyone feels like this at some point in their lives.”
The thing that snapped me out of it was that one day, I was driving my car, and suddenly I had the thought “Why don’t I just drive off this bridge and end it?” Whoa. Everyone certainly doesn’t think like that.
Free and confidential
The next day, I called the Student Counseling Center and made an appointment with Fran Scheel, a therapist I had seen briefly during a breakup my freshman year. We talked about my feelings, and she agreed that there were alarming tendencies.
“The Student Counseling Center offers free, confidential mental health counseling to students at Troy University,” said Scheel, who is also the coordinator of the Counseling Center.
“We also offer numerous outreach events throughout the year to raise awareness and educate the campus community about mental-health-related issues, sexual assault and domestic violence.”
We continued to meet every week for a month. After the month, Fran mentioned that she believed I had clinical depression and anxiety. She said we could continue to meet and talk through my problems, or I could think about going on an anti-depressant.
At first I was flabbergasted. I need crazy pills? No. Pills are for people who can’t deal with life on their own. After thinking about it some more, though, I became receptive to the idea. If it will help me feel better and make it through this year, I’ll try it.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one in 10 American adults have reported being depressed, or having symptoms of clinical depression. In fact, also according to the CDC, Alabama, in 2008, was one of five U.S. states that had overly high levels of depression, at over 13 percent.
Clinical depression is an illness, one that, given the right medicine, can be controlled. A person with depression can’t simply snap out of it, or one day decide not to be depressed. You wouldn’t tell a person with strep throat to just stop being sick, right? No, that person needs antibiotics to get better. So the next thing on my list was an appointment at the Student Health Center.
“Counselors may refer to the Student Health Center to consult with the doctor or nurse practitioner for medication to treat symptoms of depression and/or anxiety,” Scheel said.
“Also, in some cases, a referral may be necessary to determine if there is an underlying medical cause for symptoms.”
At the Student Health Center, I saw Beth Long, the university’s resident nurse practitioner. She sent me to get blood work done, to make sure I didn’t have any medical problems that could be causing my symptoms.
A 180-degree turn
My blood work came back negative, and under the consultation of Dr. Mickey DiChiara, the university’s physician consultant, she prescribed me an anti-depressant.
From there, my life made a 180. I was social again, I had plenty of energy, and the troublesome suicidal feelings were no more. I continued to see Ms. Fran every week, and had periodic checkups with Ms. Beth to ensure my physical well-being.
The Student Counseling Center and the Student Health Center are among the many resources available to students at Troy University. They are helpful and extremely capable at their jobs.
Four full-time counselors are employed at the Student Counseling Center. They are available by appointment unless it is a crisis, in which case you will be seen immediately. Counseling is confidential unless you are in immediate danger of harming yourself or others.
The Student Counseling Center is located 113 College Drive, across from Hillcrest House. The Student Health Center is in Hamil Hall.
Chynna McKillion is a multimedia journalism major from Bay Minette who was a senior in the spring. |
So clearly I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus since the beginning of August. Something got in the way of the time I like to spend blogging. You know – that little something we sometimes call real life. Or, online shopping. One of the two.
Anyway, I should probably feel ashamed that the first time I post in a while it’s to, well, beg for money. But in my own defense, you should know that – though tempting – it’s not for the Burpo Home Decor Fund. Alas, it’s to raise money for Ian’s school.
Of course, at first I was figuring we’d go knocking on some doors this weekend…maybe send out a few emails to family members. Then I read that these low-tech fundraising tactics are a thing of the past…even for cash-strapped public schools. Silly me!
So tonight Ian and I sat down and created his very own fundraising website in honor of the upcoming Raleigh Park Jog-A-Thon. The kids have a certain amount of time to see how many laps they can run around the track at school. Last year he ran 11 laps. This year his goal is 14. Kids accept pledges by the lap, or as the online site where you can oh-so-conveniently use your credit card, donate a flat fee.
Of course, there are prizes the kids can earn based on how much money they raise. Ian decided he wants his goal to be $500 so he can get a limo ride to lunch at the Spaghetti Factory with his principal, Mr. Rutherford. A noble goal, I believe. If the whole school raises $40,000, all the kids get an ice cream party. Woo hoo!
The school always depends on this fundraiser, but this year it might be more important than ever. Beaverton School District cut $37 million from their budget, which included laying off more than 200 teachers district-wide. Every school, including Ian’s, lost their librarian. This year there is a committee accepting volunteers to train to teach kids art literacy. The state of education in Oregon and across the country, really, is heartbreaking.
So what can you do to help? How about giving a kid $5 so maybe he can get a limo ride? Ian thanks you and Raleigh Park Elementary thanks you! |
On August 17, 1977 the Georgia Forestry Commission dedicated the museum in memory of Howard E. Bennett, to preserve the historical legacy of Georgia’s forestry activities. Bennett was a GFC employee and the editor of a quarterly forestry publication. As he traveled the state interviewing people for the magazine, he was inspired by their stories and the equipment they used throughout the years. He established a central place to gather these artifacts and information about Georgia’s forest industry on the GFC campus outside Macon in Dry Branch.
The log cabin that houses the museum was built to replicate a depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) cabin in Albany, Georgia. The original cabin had been used since the 1950’s by the Georgia Forestry Commission as a residence, and then as an office. Plans to move the original cabin to Macon were shelved when it was discovered that termites had destroyed too much of the structure. Some of the wormy chestnut lumber, however, was salvaged, and is now a part of the museum’s framing, sub-flooring and porch roof. Most of the fixtures were also salvaged and are still in use in the museum. The logs used to build the cabin were grown in Baldwin Forest (Bartram Forest), which is managed by the Georgia Forestry Commission and located in Milledgeville, Georgia. Construction labor for the cabin was provided by Georgia Forestry Commission personnel. A group of individuals, public entities, and private corporations provided a variety of contributions to the museum, and a plaque with their names and contributions can be found at the museum’s entrance
Trees can be considered timekeepers of history. A crosscut of a bald cypress welcomes visitors as they enter the building. Scientists at the University of Georgia estimate the bald cypress began sprouting in 1444, before Christopher Columbus made his historic landing on American soil. That would have made it 520 years old when it was cut in 1964 in McIntosh County, Georgia!
The museum houses several unique dioramas built by Georgia Forestry Commission Forester Louie Deaton. Each diorama is intricately constructed and the details are impressive. Dioramas include a logging town, nursery operations, low hazard versus high hazard forest management, and a harvesting operation.
The Georgia Forestry Commission is responsible for all wildfire protection in the state of Georgia. GFC rangers have the equipment and training needed to fight even the toughest wildfires.
Near the front of the museum, visitors are welcomed by a beautiful mural that represents wildland firefighting. This mural was painted by Monroe Gaines, a Georgia Forestry Commission Ranger. Wildland firefighting equipment such as a fire shelter, hand crew tools and more are on display, including a wooden replica of a firefighting truck carved by Ranger Crumley in the 1950’s. There are several fire tower radios on display, including the first radio used by the Georgia Forestry Commission in 1935. Information about other forestry equipment is also featured.
Naval Stores & Forest Management
Pine sap was used predominantly in the 1930’s through the 1950’s to seal and waterproof naval ships, which is how the name “naval stores” came to be. A section of the museum is dedicated to naval stores and forest management practices. Visitors can explore different tools, techniques, and the history behind naval stores in this part of the museum.
Forest Use and Products
Different types of forest products are on display – from everyday products such as bath tissue, toothpaste and gum, to lumber, engineered wood, laminated board and a myriad of other products. |
There is some confusion as to what is meant:
- Where this the 9th, 10th or 11th Scala Days?
- Where the first Scala Days 9, 10 or 11 years ago?
The truth is, that the first Scala Days were organized in 2010 and took place in Lausanne. So it was 9 years ago, but the tenth event. For this reason it was done in Lausanne again, but in a much larger venue.
Just for the completeness:
- first Scala Days 2010: Lausanne (Videos)
- Scala Days 2011: Stanford
- Scala Days 2012: London
- Scala Days 2013: New York
- Scala Days 2014: Berlin
- Scala Days 2015: Amsterdam
- Scala Days 2016: Berlin
- Scala Days 2017: Copenhagen
- Scala Days 2018: Berlin
- Scala Days 2019: Lausanne
I visited the following talks:
- A story of unification: from Apache Spark to MLflow by Reynold Xin
- Creating Native iOS and Android Apps in Scala without tears by Zahari Dichev
- Akka Streams to the Extreme by Heiko Seeberger
- Polymorphism in Scala by Petra Bierleutgeb
- Making Our Future Better by Viktor Klang
- How are we going to migrate to Scala 3.0, aka Dotty? by Lukas Rytz
- Implementing the Scala 2.13 collections by Stefan Zeiger
And on the last day I visited the following talks and the diversity panel and the closing panel:
- Sustaining open source digital infrastructure by Bogdan Vasilescu
- Run Scala Faster with GraalVM on any Platform by Vojin Jovanovic
- Pick your number type with Spire by Denis Rosset
- Performance tuning Twitter services with Graal and ML by Chris Thalinger
- Scala best practices I wish someone’d told me about by Nicolas Rinaudo
- Immutable Sequential Maps – Keeping order while hashed by Odd Möller
Here is the whole schedule.
Btw., links might expire when the next Scala Days will start using the site in early 2020. Where it will be in 2020 is still unknown, but since 2014 it has been a habit to do the even years in Berlin. I will try to come, if there are Scala Days 2020 in Europe. |
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Just a few days shy of the six-month anniversary of last August’s bitter Verizon strike, bosses in New Jersey celebrated by announcing the layoff of 336 technicians.
The mass firing left only 20 Verizon Connected Solutions techs in the entire state. They began April 3. The layoffs pour fuel on the contract fight that continues for the 45,000 Verizon union workers on the East Coast.
VCS technicians make up a small portion of Verizon workers overall. They work exclusively with the copper plant, part of the infrastructure that carries both voice and DSL through much of the state. They have a separate contract from 5,000 Verizon “core” workers, who work on both copper and fiber-optic cable and who maintain the high-capacity circuits that connect the cell phone towers for all wireless phone companies.
Because the VCS techs work with older equipment, management feels justified in giving them a contract that’s worse on benefits, wages, work rules, and job security.
Bill Huber, president of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 827, believes the VCS layoffs are a foot in the door to lay off the better-compensated core techs.
Once the majority of VCS techs are fired, Verizon can change the job description of the few who are left and begin to lay off core workers.
In a meeting with union leaders, a Verizon official reportedly said that VCS is profitable; it’s just not profitable enough to appease Wall Street.
Verizon earned $20.5 billion over the last five years while paying its top five executives $258 million. In 2010 the company paid no federal income tax and received a $1.3 billion refund.
This latest attack on their union brothers and sisters has reinvigorated many Local 827 members. Since the layoffs were announced, the union has been holding weekly rallies at Verizon stores and locations around the Garden State, demanding movement on their stalled contract. Many were already riled up about the December firing of 40 East Coast union members for strike-related activity, six of them from New Jersey.
The day the layoffs were announced, Communications Workers Local 1101 held a rally of 400 across the Hudson River in Manhattan to support Rich Corrigan and David Ramos, two of those fired because of the strike. Corrigan said the company knows he didn’t do anything wrong, but it doesn’t care.
Chris McMahon, another fired striker, said the lesson to workers is that if two managers team up on a worker, he can get fired, no matter how fabricated or flimsy the case. "The process is the punishment," he said. "Whether you're right or wrong, you're looking at a year or two without income."
“This could have been any one of us,” said Pam Galpern, a Local 1101 member and organizer who emceed the rally. “It’s a blatant attempt by the company to intimidate workers and chill union activity. But we’re not going to stop until we get justice.”
TALKS GOING NOWHERE
Billions of dollars of concessions are still on the table as contract talks grind on month after month. The company’s latest proposal offers no wage increase this year and 1 percent increases in the next two years. Health care cost increases would include payments of up to $6,000 a year for a family and cuts in the percentage paid for many procedures.
Management is also looking for major pension concessions and essentially unlimited ability to contract out and transfer workers.
“We’re eight months into negotiations and no closer to a contract,” Huber said. “Their proposals have consistently focused on cutting to make us more marketable. CEO Lowell McAdam wants to get rid of the unions. The company has no desire to give us any new work, even at a lower pay scale.”
Last fall, McAdam said that Verizon was “asset heavy” on the wireline side. This can be interpreted as too many workers, too much real estate, and too many facilities—copper and fiber cable, central offices, poles, and terminals.
Huber thinks Verizon is preparing to sell the wireline part of the company to gain revenue, boost the stock price, and push off the books the pension and health care promises it’s made to generations of workers.
For the 99%, a sale would mean service nightmares for customers, increased attacks at the workplace, and grabs at pension funds. That has been the story in northern New England since Verizon sold its business to FairPoint Communications in 2008. By 2009 the much smaller company, heavily in debt, was in bankruptcy.
Verizon announced in December a $3.6 billion purchase of spectrum from its cable competitors. The unions fear this means Verizon will focus exclusively on its wireless products and stop installing fiber-optic lines, which deliver the bundled TV, internet, and phone service that competes head to head with the cable companies. That would drastically reduce the union workforce.
The union is working to get U.S. senators to reverse the deal on the grounds that it would create an unregulated monopoly, eliminate jobs, and hurt consumers.
THE LONG ROAD TO VICTORY
Union leaders and rank-and-file rabble-rousers have attempted to keep members fired up since the end of the strike, but much of the militancy that exploded during the two-week rumble has fizzled.
In November CWA organized a 150-mile march from Albany to Verizon’s Manhattan headquarters in conjunction with local Occupy groups. Informational picketing at worksites and leafleting at retail stores has continued, spottily. Verizon workers fanned out across the Northeast on February 28, telling commuters about the company’s tax evasion, corporate greed, and refusal to negotiate a fair contract.
But the 40 firings and local managers’ continuous harassment have had a chilling effect. Some members are frustrated with the inconsistency of mobilization efforts and the unwillingness of many of their co-workers to participate.
Members and leaders are debating how to regain leverage. After the strike, Verizon workers were held back by court injunctions that limited the number of pickets and kept them far from store doors. Some members wanted to defy the injunction and continue mass pickets at the stores.
But workers who defy injunctions must have their leaders behind them. Unions are big enough to take those kinds of hits; individual members are not.
The unions could adapt different tactics based on local circumstances. For example, Newark, New Jersey, is a city long ravaged by unemployment and racist disinvestment. The copper cables that feed the city’s schools and public buildings are in atrocious condition, a result of Verizon’s refusal to maintain older infrastructure. Workers spend hours trying to patch together broken pieces of wire.
CWA and IBEW could join with community groups that are already organizing around jobs and education to demand that Verizon hire in Newark rather than lay off.
Picketing at Apple stores that sell Verizon Wireless products could bring some international attention to the fight. The conditions in the Chinese factories that make iPads have become notorious around the world.
Or perhaps the unions could call for an Occupy Verizon day, bringing hundreds of workers to selected high-traffic stores to take them over.
The Verizon strike reminded us how much power workers have, more power than many of us realize. The data pipes that feed the world’s financial markets flow through our central offices. The gadgets everyone depends on are powered by the network we maintain. With bold leadership, our might could be felt around the world.
Pat Fahy is a member of IBEW Local 827 in New Jersey. This article was originally published by Labor Notes. |
Xi Jinping is seeking to boost ties with Brazil with a state visit to the country this week.
While in the country for the BRICS summit, Xi is making a state visit to Brazil where he will meet with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. This is Xi’s first visit to Brazil since becoming president (he visited the country as vice president in 2009), and comes as China and Brazil celebrate their 40th anniversary of bilateral ties.
Before leaving for Brazil, Xi stated in a written interview that he attaches “great importance to growing the global strategic partnership with Brazil” and believes “China is ready to work with Brazil under the principle of mutual benefit to promote sustained two-way trade.” He explained that during his trip, he and Brazilian leaders will be discussing to further strengthen exchanges and cooperation in all aspects of Sino-Brazilian relations.
Xi reiterated his goal of improving China-Brazil relations shortly after landing in the country, when he told reporters that he is “looking forward to conducting wide exchanges with Brazilian leaders and people from all walks of life, focusing on common development, boosting practical cooperation and accelerating the development of China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership.”
One of Xi’s goals this week will be to find new opportunities to boost China’s investment in Brazil’s infrastructure. Modernizing Brazil’s transportation and energy infrastructure presents a win-win scenario for Brazil and China. Indeed, modernizing infrastructure will substantially reduce the transportation costs, which will benefit Brazil’s entire economy even as it makes it a more profitable trade partner for China. Beijing also has deep expertise in this area owing to its own development as well as its efforts in other parts of the world like Africa.
On other hand, Brazil will use Xi’s state visit to try and reduce its trade imbalance with China. In 2012, Brazil imported almost $19 billion more from China then Beijing imported from Brasilia. Brazil will also use Xi’s trip this week to try and rebalance its exports to China away from raw materials, like soybeans and iron ores, and towards more manufactured goods. Brazil is trying to move its economy up the value chain and breaking into the Chinese market will be essential for achieving this goal.
Bilateral ties between China and Brazil have increased substantially in recent years, going above and beyond their joint membership in the BRICS bloc. In 2012, China and Brazil agreed to establish a comprehensive strategic partnership, and bilateral trade topped $80 billion last year. As a result, China surpassed the United States as Brazil’s top trading partner back in 2009, and Brazil is currently China’s 9th largest trading partner. In another sign of their intentions to boost bilateral trade, Brazil and China signed a $30 billion currency swap last year.
Kelwin Choi is an editorial assistant at The Diplomat. |
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