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Crowdfunding app firm finds Blacksburg a good fit
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Tilt co-founder Khaled Hussein is a Virginia Tech alumnus.
Photo courtesy Tilt
The California-based technology firm Tilt had many reasons for opening an East Coast office in Blacksburg last September.
One was the proximity of Virginia Tech and other colleges. Students are the target market for Tilt's crowdfunding app.
Another reason was more personal. Eight of the company's 71 employees are Virginia Tech alums, including Khaled Hussein, Tilt's co-founder and chief technology officer.
"We have huge connections to this area," says Brian Hartsock, another Hokie who is Tilt's director of engineering.
The company was founded in Austin, Texas, in 2012, but its headquarters now are in San Francisco. The Blacksburg office is located downtown at the Tech Pad co-working space.
The Tilt mobile app is used for crowdfunding.
Since the company's founding, more than 500,000 groups have used Tilt's free crowdfunding app. "The app is the easiest way to collect money as a group," Hartsock says.
Students, for example, use the app to collect money for a tailgate party or a homecoming celebration. While aimed at college students, the app can be used by anyone who needs to round up payments for a variety of purposes.
Hartsock, who graduated from Virginia Tech 12 years ago, used it to collect money for a vacation house that several families had rented. "One person paid for the house and other people contributed," he says. "It makes it easy to do."
In addition to its sites in San Francisco and Blacksburg, Tilt has offices in Austin, Toronto, London and Sydney. Outside the U.S., its app is available in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Australia.
A good deal of Tilt's marketing is based on its "ambassador program."
"College students are our brand ambassadors," Hartsock says. "We try to get people … in different universities to use our product and tell their friends about it. We have people who serve as country managers that manage our ambassadors."
Tilt makes money through its Sell Something campaigns where "companies leverage our user base and sell products to students," says Hartsock.
The company doesn't have plans for more apps at the moment. "We are really focusing on our current app and collecting money as a group," says Hartsock. "We want to expand into new markets and new schools and grow the model we have." |
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European veterinary profession remains united, says BVA
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The BVA has released a joint statement alongside the RCVS and the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe in light of the UK's departure from the European Union.
The statement said that all groups would continue to "ensure that veterinarians in all European countries can give the highest possible standards of care to their patients and continue to look after animal health, animal welfare, public health and the environment, all over Europe, including the UK".
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The group also said it was "reassured" that the UK had left the EU under a Withdrawal Agreement, as this would "mitigate" Brexit's impact upon the veterinary profession. Nonetheless, all groups remained concerned that the move would have "implications" for animal health and welfare.
In a joint letter, the veterinary groups said: "The Withdrawal Agreement's provision for the continued mutual recognition of professional qualifications, at least until the end of the transition period in December 2020, mitigates Brexit's negative impact upon our members' ability to be trained, to work and to educate the next generation of veterinarians across Europe's borders.
"We must also remember that animal pathogens do not respect borders, so standards for animal health, animal welfare, public health, access to veterinary medicines, disease control, foodchain security and environmental protection must be maintained."
It added: "As such, we call on the UK government and the EU institutions to do whatever is necessary, via the negotiation of pragmatic solutions, to ensure that the European veterinary profession can continue to look after animal health and welfare, and public health to the highest possible level beyond the end of the transition period.
"The UK, through the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), will remain a member of FVE. The whole European veterinary community will be united in London, in June 2020, for the FVE General Assembly."
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Ripple Celebrates 2020 Early After Unlocking 1 Billion XRP From Escrow
By Daniel Phillips
2 January 2020, 18:25 GMT+0000
Updated by Adam James
Ripple, the company behind the XRP cryptocurrency and on-demand liquidity product, has unlocked another 1 billion XRP from its escrow.
Back in December 2017, Ripple announced that it would lock 55 billion XRP tokens in smart contracts to ensure that the supply could be controlled. This XRP was locked into 55 different smart contracts, each due to expire in one-month intervals, thereby allowing the Ripple company to access 1 billion XRP at the start of every month.
At its current value, this most recent unlock is worth around $192 million, which Ripple claims will be used for developing its various products, incentivizing market makers and perhaps most worryingly—selling XRP to institutional purchasers.
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— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) January 1, 2020
The Community Is Not Happy
Nonetheless, the XRP community can be considered to be partially responsible for this periodic XRP release schedule, since hundreds of XRP supporters petitioned for Ripple to lock the 55 billion XRP back in 2017. While this may have temporarily calmed investors, the periodic release pattern appears to have caused an entirely separate issue—almost perpetual bearish sentiment around the cryptocurrency.
Significant sales of any cryptocurrency are almost always considered to be a bearish event since this is commonly thought to shift the dynamics of supply and demand towards the increased amount and hence decreased price. However, since Ripple could use the funds for practically anything it thinks will benefit the Ripple ecosystem, it isn't 100% certain that this XRP will be sold to institutional investors.
Regardless, many modern XRP holders couldn't care less about the intentions of Ripple, and instead, regularly take to Twitter to voice their opinion on the subject—with the majority of these echoing the same sad tune.
It's a giant ponzi, of course people will pay attention
— LifeCoachOne (@tiger05rtc) January 1, 2020
With that said, Ripple has promised to return any unused XRP at the end of each month back into the escrow rotation. This would then be unlocked with the last tranche of the escrow funds at month 55. Fortunately, Ripple has made good on this promise several times in the past—such as when it returned its entire December 2019 allocated back to the escrow wallet just days after it was released.
XRP Didn't Fare Well in 2019
When you consider the performance of XRP in 2019, it isn't hard to understand why XRP holders get so riled up with every escrow unlock. After all, XRP was the worst-performing top 10 cryptocurrencies in 2019, after losing almost half of its value last year.
During this time, other cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Litecoin (LTC), appreciated considerably. In contrast, a handful of other major cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum (ETH) and EOS, witnessed only minor losses.
It isn't all doom and gloom for XRP, however. Throughout 2019, Ripple did manage to finalize dozens of impressive partnerships that might only bear fruit later on. This includes partnerships with dozens of financial service providers and institutions, including Euro Exim Bank, SendFriend, MoneyGram, and Finastra—the world's third-largest fintech firm.
As such, although it has certainly been a rocky period for XRP holders, it is clear that Ripple has long-term ambitions and is still laying down its foundations. With that in mind, it remains to see how the XRP cryptocurrency will fare in the future.
Daniel Phillips
After obtaining a Masters degree in Regenerative Medicine, Daniel pivoted to the frontier field of blockchain technology, where he began to absorb anything and everything he could on the subject. Daniel has been bullish on Bitcoin since before it was cool, and continues to be so despite any evidence to the contrary. Nowadays, Daniel works in the blockchain space full time, as both a copywriter and blockchain marketer. |
What parties really want: a general counsel's view of arbitration
The Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial law together with NYU's International Arbitration Association will be hosting a webinar entitled "What parties really want: a general counsel's view of arbitration." The webinar will take place on 5 April 2021, from 6.30 pm. to 7.45 pm.
A lot has been written about the presumed advantages of arbitration. This webinar will focus on whether these writings reflect the view general counsel has of arbitration and its advantages over litigation, and whether there are specific arbitration related issues of particular interest to general counsel.
The speakers will be Edgar Martinez and John Fellas. Franco Ferrari will moderate the event.
Edgar Martinez is the General Counsel of Japan Tobacco International Mexico, which commercializes the Camel, Winston and LD tobacco brands in the Country. He has been listed by the Legal 500 as within the top 100 General Counsels in Mexico. Edgar supports Legal Directors of other jurisdictions within the Company in arbitration matters, including the Global General Counsel. He is a part time professor at his alma mater, Panamericana University – Mexico City, where he teaches Arbitration and Private International Law. Edgar has experience as counsel in arbitration and arbitrator. He has an L.L.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law by Stockholm's University and has been admitted to the Paris bar.
John Fellas is a full time arbitrator at Fellas Arbitration and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. He has over three decades of experience in international dispute resolution, and has acted as counsel and has served as co-arbitrator, chair or sole arbitrator in arbitrations all over the world, under all the major arbitration rules, and across a range of sectors. John is recognized as a leading international arbitrator by all the major legal directories including Chambers USA where he is ranked as "one of the best—his reputation is phenomenal and deserved." He received a B.A. (Hons.) in law from the University of Durham, and both an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Franco Ferrari is a Professor of Law and Director of Centre for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at the NYU School of Law. Prior to joining NYU, he was Professor of International Law at Verona University, and Professor of Comparative Law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Bologna in Italy. Franco Ferrari has published more than 300 law review articles and book chapters in various languages and 35 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration. He is a recipient of the 2018 Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars awarded by the American Society of International Law for the 4 volume Encyclopedia of Private International Law. He also acts as an international arbitrator both in international commercial arbitrations and investment arbitrations.
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Did Bea really die?
Who has died from Prisoner Cell Block H?
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Does Joan Ferguson die?
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What did Bea Smith do in Prisoner Cell Block H?
When was Bea Smith transferred to Barnhurst prison?
When was Bea Smith announced to be dead?
How did Bea Smith save Sandy from being hanged?
During the last episode of the fourth season, Bea was killed off after being stabbed multiple times by Joan Ferguson (Pamela Rabe). The show's executive producer, Jo Porter, stated: "It is always an incredibly difficult decision to say farewell to a much-loved and revered character like Bea Smith.
Australian stage and screen actor Mary Ward has died at the age of 106. Ward was best known for her role as Jeanette "Mum" Brooks in the 1979-1981 prison drama Prisoner: Cell Block H (titled simply Prisoner in its native Australia).
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At age 70, Smith succumbed to early onset Alzheimer's, which she had been battling for years. She died Saturday at her Long Island home with family nearby.
But they all discover her now lifeless body in the box, and she was believed to be dead until appearing in the closing seconds of the Season 7 finale episode 'Under Siege Part 2' confirming she is indeed alive.
In Wentworth, Harry's death is not shown on-screen and he was killed by Nils Jesper instead of Bea.
When we left our inmates, Allie Novak's (Kate Jenkinson) life was in the balance after she was stabbed in the showers by Judy Bryant (Vivienne Awosoga) and left for dead. In this week's season return, set three weeks after these events, we can tell you Allie has survived the stabbing.
As she walks free, Bea Smith ambushes her in revenge for Joan's attempted murder of Bea's girlfriend, Allie, and thrusts a screwdriver into herself, incriminating Joan for Bea's murder. Season 5 follows Joan being imprisoned for Bea's murder, as she attempts to bring down Vera Bennett by becoming Top Dog.
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Terry Bourke
Two behind-the-scenes books were published in the UK during the early 1990s. Prisoner: Cell Block H – Behind the Scenes was written by Terry Bourke and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers, who published similar books about Neighbours and Home and Away.
Smith was an American restaurateur, model, author, and television personality who had a net worth of $20 million at the time of her death in 2020….B. Smith Net Worth.
Date of Birth: Aug 24, 1949 – Feb 22, 2020 (70 years old)
Profession: Chef, TV chef, Actor
Bea comes along and stops Marie and some other prisoners bashing Doreen. Bea and Doreen save Sandy from being hanged in the shower block. Bea gets Hazel to attach a small bag full of drugs to the sheet of Marie's bed so Marie can get in trouble. Bea takes the top dog position off Marie.
Beatrice Alice Smith (nee Corruthers) was known for her hatred of drugs, pushers and child abusers and her reign as Top Dog. Bea was transferred to Barnhurst after attacking Ferguson in episode 400. Bea was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 8 February 1938.
Bea Smith's announced dead by the Barnhurst Five, scenes taken from Episode 537. All rights to their owners.
Bea and Doreen save Sandy from being hanged in the shower block. Bea gets Hazel to attach a small bag full of drugs to the sheet of Marie's bed so Marie can get in trouble. Bea takes the top dog position off Marie. When Joan Ferguson arrives Bea is determined to stop her for what she is doing.
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Francis Edmund Bilton (Frank), born on 5 August 1869 and baptised on 29 August at St Mary's Anglican Church, Timaru, was the son of John and Elizabeth (née Inwood) Bilton. John Bilton died in 1894 and Elizabeth in 1900, both buried in Timaru Cemetery. His early education was at Miss Pavitt's Private School at Timaru, before he went to Timaru Main School, leaving for High School at the age of fourteen. Francis married Marion Charlotte Lynch in 1915 in Victoria. His brother Arthur also served with the Australian Forces in World War I, and his sister Margaret served with Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service.
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Following COVID-19 delays, cafe owners open Ooy's Deli at old Collegetown Bagels location
Matt Steecker
Ithaca Journal
Timing can be everything.
Sometimes you can time things perfectly; other times, you may be subject to Murphy's Law — or the idea that anything that can go wrong, will.
The latter seems like the case for the opening of Ooy's Deli at 203 North Aurora St., where Collegetown Bagels previously stood before its relocation to the City Centre building.
Bonner and Ooy Herren, a couple who own the cafe and Thai Basil, signed their lease for 203 N. Aurora St. on Feb. 25.
"A week later, things went cuckoo," Bonner Herren said, referring to the initial confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York state.
And the week after that, businesses shut down.
"We would have liked to be open months ago, but COVID-19 slowed things down, but we're moving forward," Bonner Herren said.
Ooy's Deli first opened its bar area on Tuesday and continues to be in a soft opening phase as the deli area undergoes remodeling.
The cafe is named after Ooy Herren because it was her idea to start the business.
"It's good because I had a coffee shop in my country," said Ooy Herren on how she felt when she and her husband decided to name the cafe after her.
Ooy Herren's family owned their coffee shop in Cha-am, a district southwest of Bangkok, for more than a decade since 2000. They continued to run the coffee shop when Ooy Herren moved to Ithaca in 2014.
"Her family had business there," Bonner Herren said. "Her coffee shop was a real big thing. Ever since she's been here, she's wanted to do a coffee shop."
Bar menu options at Ooy's Deli include smoothies, coffee, Thai tea and other teas, milkshakes, flurries, and ice cream cones and cups. Customers have also been able to buy spring rolls, summer rolls with peanut sauce, buttered rolls, muffins, pastries and bottled beverages.
Some of the menu options, including the Thai coffee and smoothies, are made with Ooy Herren's own recipes.
Despite the pandemic, Bonner Herren maintains a positive outlook, and said he and his wife are fortunate. The couple was able to adjust quickly when they expanded delivery for Thai Basil during the duration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Pause order.
"The Ithaca community is amazing in supporting all the restaurants," Bonner Herren said.
Once the deli side of Ooy's Deli opens, the business will have the same configuration as the Collegetown Bagels that operated there before reopening in October at 301 E. State St. Bonner Herren said he wants to have the deli open in four weeks, and hopes to have a hood for cooking hamburgers in the back of the business within six weeks.
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Menu options may include chicken strips, pulled pork, fries, mac and cheese, hamburgers, breakfast pizza, and vegetarian and vegan options.
"Trying to have something for everyone is the endgame," Bonner Herren said.
"It's grab-and-go here," he said. "We are in a dining community, and if people don't want to cook, they can come here. It's a win-win."
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Residents unable to go home during search in Garnett Valley area in Summerland
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Some residents of the Garnett Valley area of Summerland were not able to get to their homes on Dec. 21 as police were searching for suspects in a break and enter.
At 3:45 p.m., Summerland RCMP were called to a complaint of an interrupted break and enter on Garnett Valley Road.
A man and woman were seen at the house, but fled before police arrived.
Police searched the Garnett Valley area by road and air, but the suspects and their vehicle were not found.
The suspect vehicle is a green Ford F-350 pickup truck that had been stolen from Oliver earlier that day. The truck had the B.C. license number JT5483.
Police say the people may be suspects connected to multiple thefts of Ford pickup trucks and break and enters in the Okanagan Valley.
Cpl. Chris Richardson of the Summerland RCMP said residents of the area were affected during the incident.
"We recognize that while the search was ongoing, some residents were unable to access their residences," Richardson said. "We would like to thank all those affected for your patience and continued support."
Police urge residents to ensure their vehicles are locked and immobilized, and that their homes will be secured if they are away.
Anyone noticing suspicious activity, or anyone with information about the vehicle or the break and enter is encouraged to contact the RCMP.
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How to recognise perennial meadow plant species when they are not in flower - part 2
For all who liked part one of our "How to recognise perennial meadow plant species when not in flower" (http://urbanpollinators.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-recognise-perennial-meadow-plant.html) here comes part two.
Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
Bird`s-foot trefoil growing together with Wild carrot
Bird`s-foot trefoil has clover-like pinnate leaves with 5 leaflets (instead of 3 as in clovers), the lowest two at the base of the leaf axis. Leaves are glabrous to sparsely hairy. The plants are very small at the moment and a bit of searching is needed to find them.
White and Red clover (Trifolium repens and T. pratense)
White clover (Trifolium repens
Red clover (Trifolium pratense)
White clover has the typical clover leaves with 3 leaflets (the scientific name "Trifolium" means "three leaves"). The leaves are hairless and have a white marking. The plant has a creeping growing habit with roots forming at the nodes. Red clover looks similar, but leaves are hairy and a bit more elliptic and plants are not creeping.
Red and White campion (Silene dioica and S. latifolia)
White Campion (Silene latifolia)
Red and White Campion have hairy often glandular leaves which are elongated and simple. Both plants look very similar when not in flower so it is best to wait and see until the flower appears to distinguish both. Red and White campion can be confused with Black knapweed (Centaurea nigra) when not in flower but can be distinguished on the basis of the venation of the leaves. Also if the plants are a bit bigger, look for the position of the leaves along the stem. Campions have opposite leaves and Knapweeds have alternate leaves.
Common mouse-ear (Cerastium fontanum)
Common mouse-ear is a tufted or matted perennial with small, hairy leaves which are always opposite each other along the stalk. Quite a common plant in meadows but relatively small and inconspicuous.
Meadow buttercup and Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus acris and R. repens)
Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens)
Meadow buttercup is an erect perennial with deeply palmately lobed leaves. Creeping buttercup has triangular-ovate hairy leaves with 3 main segments which are not as deeply lobed as the leaves of meadow buttercup. Creeping buttercup also has strong creeping stems rooting at the notes (Meadow buttercup always without creeping stems). The leaves of Bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus) look similar to Creeping buttercup leaves but Bulbous buttercup has a swollen corm-like stem base which distinguishes it from Creeping buttercup (it has also no creeping stems).
Dove's-foot and Small-flowered Cranesbill (Geranium molle and G. pusillum)
Dove's-foot and Small-flowered Cranesbill have rounded leaves with 7-9 lobes. Stems are downy to hairy and sometimes reddish in colour. Both species are quite common but can only be distinguished from each other if you look at the seeds.
Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Common sorrel has rounded simple leaves which will develop very acute backward-directed basal lobes when older. Leave stalks are often reddish in colour. The taste of the leaves is very acidic (so if you want have a taste test). Common sorrel is not sown in our meadows but you can easily find it in most species-rich grasslands.
Common self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)
Common self-heal has entire or sometimes shallowly toothed slightly hairy leaves which are opposite along the stem. Once established it is spreading with creeping stems. Stems sometimes have a purplish colour (as the plant in the picture above). Common self-heal is fairly common in our meadows and can also be found in short grassland and lawns.
Daisy (Bellis perennis)
Most of you will recognise daisy when it is in flower and it often flowers throughout the year if the winter is not too cold. The plants form a rosette with simple, toothed light-green leaves which are slightly hairy. Very common in short grassland and also to be found in our perennial meadows.
Greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
At first the leaves look very similar to Black knapweed (Centaurea nigra) but soon the plant will get the characteristic deeply lobed leaves which distinguishes it from Black knapweed, which has mostly entire leaves. Normally found mainly on calcareous soils (grasslands, waysides, cliffs and rough ground) it is not as common as Black knapweed in our meadows but you should find it with a bit of searching.
Salad burnet (Poterium sanguisorba)
Salad burnet has hairless pinnate leaves with rounded but deeply toothed leaflets. The leaves smell of cucumber when crushed and can be used in salads. Salad burnet is not sown in our meadows but can be found in calcareous and sometimes neutral grasslands and rocky places.
Superb photography and descriptions :)
Deborah vdb 7 September 2013 at 14:56
More please! I'm growing scabious from seed given by a friend who was unable to tell me if it is Field scabious (knautia arvensis) or small scabious (scabious columbaria). Any pictures of early (basal) leaves so I can identify? Planted a couple of weeks ago and already coming up.
Urban Pollinators admin 9 September 2013 at 09:45
I don`t have a photo of Scabiosa columbaria when not in flower but Knautia should be much more robust with bigger leaves than the Scabiosa. If you want you can send me a picture of your plant and I can try to identify it. My email is n.mitschunas at(replace with @) reading.ac.uk
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Betterment vs Robinhood: Which Robo-Advisor is the Best for You?
August 24, 2019 May 14, 2016 by Janet Berry-Johnson
There's a lot of competition in the robo-advisor game. Earlier this week, the founders of two robo-advisor startups took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 to discuss how they're planning on disrupting traditional investment brokerages. While both companies believe in taking the technology institutions are using and making it available to retail investors, their philosophies on what should happen next differ. Robinhood co-founder & co-CEO Vlad Tenev believes in offering a simple and fee-free way for anyone to invest. Betterment co-founder and CEO Jon Stein believes in charging low and highly transparent fees in exchange for investment advice that helps customers reach their goals.
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Reviewed by: Janet Berry-Johnson, CPA (Forbes.com Contributor)
So head to head, how do the two investing platforms compare?
Both Betterment
and Robinhood are firm believers in not charging transaction fees to buy and sell securities.
Betterment charges customers transparent commissions in exchange for advice that helps customers achieve goals such as saving for retirement or building an emergency fund. For accounts of $0 – $10,000, they charge 0.35% with a minimum of $100 per month auto deposit or $3 per month without auto deposit. Commissions drop for larger account balances. Between $10,000 and $100,000, the commission is 0.25%, and for balances greater than $100,000 the commission is 0.15%.
Robinhood generates revenue outside of commissions by collecting interest from customers who choose to upgrade to a margin account (margin accounts are still being tested in beta) and accruing interest from customers' uninvested cash balances.
Betterment portfolios are composed solely of low-cost ETFs. Asset classes include U.S. Stocks, foreign stocks, emerging markets, TIPS, short-term treasuries, and corporate, municipal, emerging market and foreign bonds.
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Neither Betterment nor Robinhood have account minimums. You can open a betterment account with a $0 and you'll never be charged a minimum account fee, other than the $3 per month fee for not utilizing the $100 per month auto deposit.
With Robinhood, in order to invest you'll need to purchase at least one share of a stock or ETF, but that's a low bar of entry considering many online brokers require a minimum of $1,000 to get started.
Account Options & Features
Betterment offers individual and joint taxable accounts as well as trusts and Traditional, Roth, SEP, and rollover IRAs.
Where Betterment really stands out is its features, including automatic rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, and goal-based investing. You can also sync outside investment accounts, allowing you to see your total net worth on their dashboard. Using that information, Betterment can offer advice on how much you're losing to fees and idle cash. Betterment also offers Smart Deposits, allowing Betterment to automatically invest your extra cash.
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Betterment has apps for both iOS and Android, allowing you to access and manage your account with Touch ID or a secure PIN. You can even view your goals and account details via Apple Watch. With Betterment, you can also access your accounts via the web from anywhere you have internet access.
Robinhood is purposefully simple, with an app-only platform. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. They also currently support Android devices running 4.1 Jelly Bean and above.
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Both Betterment and Robinhood are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which protects securities customers of its members up to $500,000 (including $250,000 for claims for cash). Even if something happened to either Betterment or Robinhood, your securities are protected up to those limits. Of course, the SIPC does not protect against losses due to normal swings in the market.
According to their website, Betterment uses "the strongest browser encryption available, store all of our data on servers in a secure facility, and implements systematic processes and procedures for securing and storing data."
Robinhood uses bank-level security measures to protect customers' personal information. Passwords, social security numbers and other sensitive data are encrypted . Mobile and web applications communicate securely using SSL and 128-bit encryption.
International Investors
Betterment currently operates only in the United States and for regulatory reasons, cannot accept investors residing outside of the country. Customers must have a permanent U.S. address, a U.S. Social Security number, and a checking account from a U.S. bank.
Robinhood is currently available in the U.S. and China and will soon be expanding to Australia. They hope to announce more countries later this year as they begin the regulatory approval process in other countries.
Betterment integrates with TurboTax, TaxAct, and H&R Block tax preparation software to allow automatic import of your tax information.
Robinhood currently integrates only with TurboTax Premier.
Betterment provides customer support Monday through Friday from 9 am to 8 pm, Eastern and Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6 pm. You can also send support emails or live chat via the website.
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With zero transaction fees, Betterment significant savings for frequent traders.
Those who also want advice, multiple features, and the ability to view and manage taxable and non-taxable accounts from one dashboard in addition to fee-free trades may be better off paying Betterment's low commission in exchange for assistance in growing their portfolio and reaching their saving and investing goals.
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[Section 3 The Appointed Information Processing Organization]
(Designation of the Appointed Information Processing Organization etc.)
Article 30-10. A governor can delegate the following affairs to the organization designated by the Minister (hereinafter referred to as "Appointed Information Processing Organization"):
(1) Designation and notification of the Resident Card Code in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 1;
(2) Conference and adjustment in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 2;
(3) Offer of Personal Identification Information to a national organization and a corporation listed on the upper column of the attached table 1, in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 3;
(4) Offer of Personal Identification Information to (a) a municipal executive organ within an area which is listed on the upper column of the attached table 2 in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 4 and (b) a mayor within the said prefecture prescribed in the provision of Item 3 of the same paragraph;
(5) Offer of Personal Identification Information to (a) another prefectural executive listed on the upper column of the attached table 3 in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 5, and (b) another governor prescribed in the provision of Item 3 of the same paragraph;
(6) Offer of Personal Identification Information to (a) a municipal executive organ within another prefecture listed on the upper column of the attached table 4 and (b) a mayor within another prefecture in accordance with the provision of Item 3 of the same paragraph;
(7) Offer of material on Personal Identification Information to a national administrative organization in accordance with the provision of Article 37, Paragraph 2.
2. Designation in accordance with the provision of the above paragraph shall be done after the application from those who intend to perform the affairs on Personal Identification Information.
3. A governor who decides to delegate the affairs on Personal Identification Information to the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 1 (hereinafter referred to as "delegating governor") shall not deal with the affairs on Personal Identification Information (except the affairs listed on Item 4 and 7 of the same paragraph).
4. The delegating governor can make the Appointed Information Processing Organization collect the charge (in the following paragraph, referred to as "information offering charge") as its revenue with regard to the offer of Personal Identification Information in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 3, which is to be done in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 1.
5. The amount of information offering charge in the above case shall be set by the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with the delegating governor's prefectural ordinance. In this case, the Appointed Information Processing Organization must gain approval from the delegating governor in advance with regard to the amount of the said information offering charge.
(Notice to Appointed Information Processing Organization etc.)
Article 30-11. The delegating governor shall inform the Appointed Information Processing Organization of Personal Identification Information with regard to notification in accordance with the provision of Article 30-5, Paragraph 1.
2. The above notification shall be performed by electronic communication between the electronic calculator of the delegating governor and the electronic calculator of the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with the Ministerial Ordinance.
3. The Appointed Information Organization which has received the notification in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 1 must record Personal Identification Information with regard to the said notification on the Magnetic Disk in accordance with the ministerial ordinance and preserve it from the date of the said notification during the period prescribed by the cabinet order.
4. The offer of Personal Identification Information in accordance with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 5 to another governor prescribed in the provision of Item 3 of the same paragraph, made by the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 1 of the above article, shall be done by electronic communication between the electronic calculator of the Appointed Information Processing Organization and the governor's calculator in accordance with the ministerial ordinance, apart from a special request, when this does not apply.
5. When the Appointed Information Processing Organization has found an error in the Personal Identification Information recorded on the Magnetic Disk of the delegating governor in accordance with the provision of Article 30-5, Paragraph 3 in administrating and implementing the affairs, the Appointed Information Processing Organization shall inform the said delegating governor of the fact immediately.
6. The Appointed Information Processing Organization must make a report and publish it at least once every year in accordance with the ministerial ordinance as regards the situation of offer of Personal Identification Information prescribed in with the provision of Article 30-7, Paragraph 3 made by the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with Paragraph 1 of the above article.
7. The Appointed Information Processing Organization shall give to the delegating governor the necessary advice and information regarding the electronic calculation processing (hereinafter, meaning the information processing by electronic calculator such as input, accumulation, compilation, process, modification, renewal, retrieval, extinction, output and so on) of Personal Identification Information with regard to notification in accordance with the provision of Article 30-5, Paragraph 1.
8. The Appointed Information Processing Organization must give the necessary cooperation to the delegating governor to ensure the correctness of the records with regard to residents on the Basic Resident Registration of municipalities within the area of the said delegating governor.
(Criterion of Designation)
Article 30-12. The Minister must not make a designation in accordance with the provision of Article 30-10, Paragraph 1, if there is no other organization designated in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 1 of the same article and if the application in accordance with the provision of Paragraph 2 of the same article fulfills the following criteria:
(1) A scheme with regard to employees, equipment, the way of implementation of the affairs on Personal Identification Information etc. (hereinafter meaning the affairs on Personal Identification Information by the Appointed Information Processing Organization, the affairs prescribed in Paragraph 3, 5 to 8 of the above article and the affairs prescribed in Article 30-38 and 30-40) is proper in terms of protecting Personal Identification Information and implementing the affairs on Personal Identification Information etc. appropriately and certainly;
(2) An applicant has the financial and technical foundation necessary to appropriate and certain implementation of the scheme with regard to the affairs on the Personal Identification Information etc.;
(3) An applicant is a corporation established in accordance with the provisions of Article 34 of the Civil Law (Law No. 89 of 1886) and to whom a Local Public Entity gives the whole or part of its basic property;
(4) When an applicant has other affairs than the affairs on the Personal Identification Information etc, those affairs cannot be the obstacle to properly implement the affairs on the Personal Identification Information etc.
2. The Minister must not make a designation in accordance with the provision of Article 30-10, Paragraph 1 if an applicant in accordance with the provision of Article 30-10, Paragraph 2 fulfills one of the followings:
(1) Two years have not passed since the applicant finished being executed due to the violation of this law;
(2) Two years have not passed since the cancellation was made in accordance with the provision of Article 30-25, Paragraph 1 or 2;
(3) One of the following applies to any of the executives:
(a) A person who fulfills Item 1.
(b) Two years have not passed since the dismissal by the order in accordance with the provision of Article 30-16, Paragraph 2.
(Announcement of Designation etc.)
Article 30-13. The Minister must announce the name of the said Appointed Information Processing Organization, the location of the main office and the date of designation made by the Minister in accordance with the provision of Article 30-10, Paragraph 1.
2. When the Appointed Information Processing Organization intends to change the name or the location of the main office, it must notify the Minister of the matter by two weeks before the day of change.
3. When there is a submission in accordance with the provision of the above paragraph, the Minister must announce it.
Article 30-14. The delegating governor must (a) report to the Minister that he has decided to delegate the affairs on Personal Identification Information to the Appointed Information Processing Organization in accordance with the provision of Article 30-10, Paragraph 1; (b) inform other governors of the matter; and (c) announce the date when he has decided to delegate the affairs on Personal Identification Information to the said Appointed Information Processing Organization.
2. When the Appointed Information Processing Organization intends to change the name or the location of its main office, it must submit the matter to the delegating governor by two weeks before the day of change.
3. When there is a submission in accordance with the provision of the above paragraph, the delegating governor must announce it.
(Establishment of the Committee of Protecting Personal Identification Information)
Article 30-15. The Appointed Information Processing Organization must set up the Committee of Protecting Personal Identification Information.
2. The Committee of Protecting Personal Identification Information, replying to a consultation by the representative of the Appointed Information Processing Organization, can discuss the matters related to the protection of Personal Identification Information regarding the notice in accordance with the provision of Article 30-11, Paragraph 1, and can address the necessary opinion on the matters to the representative of the Appointed Information Processing Organization.
3. The commissioners of the Committee of Protecting Personal Identification Information shall be appointed from among literate people by the representative of the Appointed Information Processing Organization.
(Assignment and Dismissal of an Executive)
Article 30-16. The assignment and dismissal of an executive of the Appointed Information Processing Organization shall not come into effect without the Minister's approval.
2. The Minister can order the Appointed Information Processing Organization to dismiss an executive when the executive has (a) violated this law, an ordinance or procedure in accordance with this law or Administrative Regulation of Personal Identification Information of Article 30-18, Paragraph 1 or (b) taken a remarkably inappropriate action with regard to the affairs on Personal Identification Information etc.
(Obligation to Keep a Secret by an Official etc.)
Article 30-17. The person who is or was an executive or an official (in this and Paragraph 3, including the commissioner of the Committee of Protecting Personal Identification Information) of the Appointed Information Processing Organization must not reveal anything he could have learnt about the affairs connected with Personal Identification Information etc.
2. (a) Those to whom it is delegated by the Appointed Information Processing Organization, the affairs of the electronic calculation process etc. on Personal Identification Information in accordance with the provision of Article 30-11, Paragraph 1 (hereinafter, meaning the electronic calculation process or preparatory action for input of information such as a punch and so on or preservation of Magnetic Disk), (b) an executive or an official therein or (c) those who were (a) or (b), must not reveal anything they could have learnt regarding the delegated affairs or the affairs connected with electronic calculation processing etc. on Personal Identification Information.
3. An executive or an official engaged in the affairs on Personal Identification Information etc. shall be regarded as a public official in accordance with the law when a penalty clause in Criminal Law (Law No. 45 of 1907) or elsewhere applies to him. |
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Baby Nitara calls dad Akshay Kumar 'Birdman', can't wait to watch 2.0
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Published Dec 4, 2018, 12:37 pm IST
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Akshay's daughter Nitara, who hasn't seen the film yet, is quite intrigued about his character.
2.0, a successor to the 2010 film Robot/Enthiran, marks Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar's Tamil debut.
Akshay Kumar - Rajinikanth starrer 2.0 released recently and the film is not only breaking records at the box office, but also has good word-of-mouth, which comes as a pleasant surprise post Thugs Of Hindostan debacle.
Akshay's daughter Nitara, who hasn't seen the film yet, is quite intrigued about his character. She started calling her dad 'Birdman' after seeing the posters and promos of Akshay from 2.0.
Nitara wants to watch her dad's 'Birdman' film, which is one of the most spoken-about films currently, and we hear Akshay will be taking her to watch the universal film very soon.
On the box office front, the Hindi version of the film has surpassed the 100 crore mark, taking the total to Rs. 111 crore.
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The 5 Lessons I've Learnt from Michelle Obama's Becoming as a Mother 4.0
Saying that Becoming is a must read for any working mother who wants to have her all, particularly the self discovery and life purpose part of it, would be an understatement. In her well-written memoir, Michelle Obama chronicled her journey from childhood on the South Side of Chicago to growing up earning degrees from both […]
Amy Nguyen, Career Happiness Strategist & Coach for Women/Mothers | Brain-based Happiness Expert at Happiness Infinity LLC
Saying that Becoming is a must read for any working mother who wants to have her all, particularly the self discovery and life purpose part of it, would be an understatement. In her well-written memoir, Michelle Obama chronicled her journey from childhood on the South Side of Chicago to growing up earning degrees from both Princeton and Harvard, from landing a job at a prestige law firm to taking the steps to find her true calling, from marrying a man of a big vision with personalities so different from her own to managing the relationship through tough times, and from struggling with conceiving to raising two daughters in the White House where having an ice-cream with some friends was a luxury as it would involve a long security check process.
Over the past two months, in the comfy sofa in our living room after our children have been well asleep, I marvelled at each line as if I had been chatting with an open yet listening friend besides. Within that quiet one hour, I could see an old video tape slowly flashing back different episodes of my own life: a childhood in Vietnam during its opening era, doing a Master Degree in Public Policy under a full scholarship in Singapore, building my expertise in Human Development and climbing the corporate ladder, getting married and having children, going through an existential crisis after suffering from insane work hours and culture, and pulling me, us and the world altogether as a mother in America. Turning the pages with a colored pencil for underlining and note taking, I see my story in Michelle Obama's story. And I believe this is also the story of many mothers on her path of "becoming", so here are the key lessons the book reinforces in me to share.
1. On Career and Purpose
Michelle Obama dedicated a big part of her memoir narrating about her career and purpose story. "I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving," her story begins. And she grew up constantly after the question of Am I Good Enough by graduating from two Ivy League Schools and working at a well-known law firm. This success formula based on outward measures could have been further unfolded if she hadn't met Obama whose sense of purpose was so strong and alive that it shook her interiority. Michelle realized being a lawyer didn't make her happy as it didn't give her meaning and joy. She was good at it but she also hated it. However, she had no clues about what the right next step would be. At the same time, she was worried about making less money if she made a big change. Doesn't this story sound familiar?
She could have followed her mom's motto of "money first, happiness later", but she was courageous to be her whole, especially after her dad's passing with which she learnt life was too short to be wasted. She met with as many people as possible to understand what was possible, what each possibility exactly entailed and how she could make the transition. Along the way, she also met with great people including her future hiring manager, a life-long friend as well as a great advocate, supporter and mentor who later worked for the White House during Obama's eight years as the President. And she did make the move that led her down to a different road. She felt fulfilled and her purpose was further fine-tuned with each action she took, each program she created and each move she made, from the Chicago mayor's office to the University of Chicago to its Medical Center to the White House. Everything centered around public service, particularly in the areas of health and education/career, focusing on women and children, the youth and families, especially military ones.
The lessons are:
· If we want to make a career pivot, don't lock ourselves in our own head and go to the real world with a thirst to learn and a belief that when we are genuine and willing to grow, people are generally open and helpful.
· When we have a click with our purpose, make the leap as the unknown "isn't going to kill" us and we would be "far away from being poor".
· Once we follow our purpose, our purpose will follow us. And we'll never look back.
· Even a First Lady's and a president's job are not greener, as having a couple dinner in a restaurant in New York could be rocky as it would involve a big operation that interrupts the lives of many people, in Michelle Obama's words 😉
2. On Parenting
Not less than a time throughout the book, Michelle Obama shared about how her parents raised her and her brother, Craig, to be who they were. Opposite to snowplow parenting approach, her parents always gave her and Craig space of their own, literally and metaphorically, so they could make their decisions for which they were also responsible. And she carried this spirit on when raising her very own children. Despite unusual challenges of public curiosity, she and Obama managed to maintain a sense of normalcy for their girls.
I believe that such approach did help Michelle become strong, independent, always have her opinions and challenge the norm from creating a garden in the White House to introducing up-and-coming designers and designers of color through her choice of fashion. The way her dad lived his life from the value perspective also instilled in her a great sense of responsibility, first towards her family and then to the world. However bad his pain was, he never complained and missed a day at work.
· Give our children space, let them use their brain and we don't have to worry about how they would cope with adversities in life (and the robots, AI or machine learning!). Instead, we will feel contented that their creativity and resilience carry them throughout their lives.
· The way we parent and honor our values daily have impact on generations to come.
· Regardless of circumstances, we have to protect our children's normal childhood so they grow up well-grounded.
3. On Marriage
I got hooked onto this part as much as I was drawn to her career story. Isn't that true that for a married woman, a fulfilling career, well-groomed kids and a happy marriage can mean everything? Michelle mentioned as any other new couples, she and Barack, who were raised in different families with different values, learnt to fight more efficiently. However, the true big challenge arrived when her husband got more active in his political journey and was away from home most of the time leaving her managing work, life and two young kids alone. Toppled by lapses in communication and the difference in expectations, their marriage was shaken with intense frustrations.
With the desire to protect her marriage, Michelle managed to get Barack to go to counselling where they both had aha moments. And these lines seem to speak of the source of any husband-wife relationship conflicts, at least from the perspective of myself and of the dozens of women who shared with me their stories: I'd been stoking the most negative parts of myself, caught up in the notion that everything was unfair and then assiduously, like a Harvard-trained lawyer, collecting evidence to feed that hypothesis. I now tried out a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be. I was too busy resenting Barack for managing to fit workouts into his schedule, for example, to even begin figuring out how to exercise regularly myself.
· A happy marriage doesn't have to be, and practically, isn't happy all the time. It's a journey of getting to understand each other more by being better at arguing against each other.
· Reminding ourselves and our spouses of the mutual vision we have for the future helps ease any tension and drive us back on track.
· Help doesn't have to come only from our spouses. If our husbands, in good faith, have maxed out his ability to support, help could be from our extended family, friends, and others. If we open our own minds that way, we have solutions to uplifting our lives while filling our hearts with contentment instead of resentment against our other halves.
· The reality is every marriage has miscommunication, misunderstandings, and conflicts. When spouse talks don't work, and if we truly want to keep our families, don't shy away from expert help as it helps unlock self-limiting hypotheses, get us and our husbands learn to communicate better with each other, and strengthen the marriage.
· When we, as mothers and wives, are happy, our family will be happy. So we'd better take care of our happiness first and everything will follow.
4. On Life & Happiness
In the book, Michelle wrote about her fond father with a sea of love and respect. However, she, her mom and her brother struggled with him on one thing: he didn't want to get any help with his multiple sclerosis. As he didn't want to see himself as a burden to anyone, he buried the fact and carried on living as if he suffered no illness even when his legs were so swollen. His health was sinking till he was on the hospital bed with his last heart beats and Michelle by his side. "He was saying that he knew he should have gone to the doctor a lot sooner. He was asking for forgiveness," she said.
Also in the book, the First Lady bold-heartedly talked about haters during the election campaigns as well as Obama's administration terms. At one point, she shared the punches that invalidated her not only made her feel emotionally worn out but also forced her into a negative circle of disparaging thoughts. However, she overcame all such rough stuff by talking it out to Barack, by resetting her expectation that "this is just politics", and by thinking more of the people who supported them.
· We all know that health is important, but when it comes to even the basics such as sleep and exercise, we always have reasons to stay away from them. So the next time we procrastinate, think of the why we should run, do yoga, go to bed early, etc., think of the vision where we don't want to ask for forgiveness from our families and loved ones.
· Rejection is everywhere and happens to everyone. Each time we feel deflated, depressed, or disappointed as we feel someone doesn't like us, undervalues us, ignores us, we should think of the people who support us, love us, and value us. We need to serve this people and make them proud, knowing that rejection is just the business of life — even Michelle Obama has it!
5. On Voice
From a black girl in a poor neighborhood to one of the most popular First Ladies of America, Michelle Obama has undoubtedly built a strong voice. Sprinkled throughout the book are the First Lady's thoughts and stories about being black, being woman and being a mother. Often mentioned is the feelings of "otherness" and all the striving to make up for it so she felt validated. After switching her career and seeing her new path unfolded in meaningful ways, Michelle no longer dealt with the question of Am I Enough, as she was more than enough by empowering not only those who are black, who are women, who are mothers but also many others. She became beyond herself.
· Skin doesn't matter. Accent doesn't matter. Age doesn't matter… All that matters is who we can help and what impact we create in the world. And this can be achieved by uncovering our life purpose and living it everyday.
· By uplevelling ourselves with hard and purposeful work and by sharing our stories, we also show others who share our skin color, who share our accent, who share our age, … that they can.
"Let's invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us. Maybe we can better embrace the ways we are the same. It's not about being perfect. It's not about where you get yourself in the end. There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become," the story ends. Flipping over to the last page of the well-loved book, I have more inspiration and motivation to keep sharing my own story, the story of a Mother 4.0 — just a mother like many other mothers — who is on her way to her Version 4.0 with 4.0 tools and knowledge, and who constantly learns through and shapes her journey of refining with purpose, managing her cause, building her voice, parenting two young kids, cultivating her marriage and hardwiring her happiness everyday.
To carry on Michelle Obama's spirit, I want to invite you in, so together, we become.
— Published on May 8, 2019
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Amy Nguyen is a Career Happiness Strategist & Coach, an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council and the founder of Happiness Infinity LLC, based in Greater New York City area. She helps highly-motivated women find out their Career / Life Happiness Infinity Zone and live it every day. While not coaching, Amy is often found blogging about her journey of training her brain for happiness in key areas of a mom's life including career, parenting and relationship. In her previous life, Amy did a Master in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, took seven jobs including Human Resources and Communication across nine industries in three countries namely Vietnam, Singapore and the United States. Amy's most recent position before she decided to do coaching as a full-time job is the Head of Employee Happiness at the biggest e-commerce company in South East Asia, Lazada Group.
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Feeding ecology and trophic comparisons of six shark species in southern Brazil
Published online on 12. June 2014
Feeding ecology and trophic comparisons of six shark species in a coastal ecosystem off southern Brazil
H. Bornatowski, R. R. Braga, V. Abilhoa, M. F. M. Corrêa
The diets of six shark species, Sphyrna lewini, Sphyrna zygaena, Carcharhinus obscurus, Carcharhinus limbatus, Rhizoprionodon lalandii and Galeocerdo cuvier, were investigated in a subtropical coastal ecosystem of southern Brazil. Stomach content data were obtained to assess foraging niche segregation and ontogenetic shifts in the diets of these sharks. Five of the shark species off the Paraná coast were ichthyophagous, with the exception of S. zygaena, which was teutophagous. With the exception of G. cuvier, which had a generalist diet, the other five species displayed specialization in their feeding. Ontogenetic shifts were observed in C. obscurus and S. lewini with large individuals consuming elasmobranchs. Owing to the diet overlap between C. obscurus and S. lewini, C. obscurus and C. limbatus and R. lalandii and C. limbatus, future studies on the spatial and temporal distributions of these species are needed to understand the extent of competitive interactions.
Journal of Fish Biology, Early View Version, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12417 |
Google issues data on handover of user data
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The BBC reports that, for the first time, Google has released details about how often countries around the world ask it to hand over user data or to censor information. According to the article,
"Brazil tops the list with 3,663 data requests while the US made 3,580 and the UK came a distant third with 1,166. … Google said it cannot provide statistics on requests from China which are regarded as state secrets.
… The search giant has launched an online tool breaking down the figures which it hopes will be "just the first step toward increased transparency".
"The vast majority of these requests are valid and the information needed is for legitimate criminal investigations or for the removal of child pornography, " said David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer.
" We believe that greater transparency will lead to less censorship. Unless companies, governments and individuals do something, the internet we know is likely to become ever more restricted – taking choice and control away from users and putting more power in the hands of those who would limit access to information."
… Google's "government's request tool" was unveiled on the same day that Canada's privacy commissioner sent an open letter to the company regarding privacy issues.
Officials from 10 nations backed the complaint sent directly to Google boss Eric Schmidt. The California based firm said any suggestion that their release was done to deflect from that news was "unrelated".
Few companies publish any sort of data about such requests.
"We have been noticing a trend with these requests and working on this initiative for a long time, " Scott Rubin, a senior spokesman with the company told BBC News.
"This is really about our ongoing quest to make information accessible and we are hoping this will inspire other companies to share data and become part of the conversation people are having about the scope of these kinds of requests."
Google said it was disclosing the information "in the spirit" of principles laid out by the Global Network Initiative, a group that promotes freedom of expression online. …
"Google's numbers are not nearly as transparent as they could be," said Tom Krazit of technology news site Cnet.com.
"The tool doesn't break out the data for the number of times Google complied or refused requests for information on individuals. It does say how often – in general – it complies with takedown requests, but does not provide specifics."
Google said it is working to perfect the information and that "it will get better". The next release will be in six months' time".
Datonomy will watch for further developments, which will quite possibly demonstrate the inadequacy of existing data protection laws at national level to control the activities of an internet-based organisation such as Google which operates globally.
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Book: Michael Vick Sent His Mistress A Puppy Dog Post Card. From Prison.
By Joel Mathis· 1/13/2014, 2:26 p.m.
From the long, long list of things we wish we didn't know, but do, the Daily Mail has a story about a new book from, apparently, the former mistress of Eagles QB Michael Vick. (Why do we say "apparently?" Because she doesn't name herself.) There are lots of icky details in Quarterback Keeper—get it? GET IT?!?!?!—but this one's probably the worst: That Vick sent the woman a card from prison (where he was serving time for his illegal dog-fighting ring) featuring two puppies and the inscription, "Thinking about our friendship."
The former Atlanta Falcons franchise player asks her about pictures and tells the mistress the two puppies on the front are she and him – he was in prison for running a brutally violent dog fighting operation.
He then tells her he wants 'a bag full of candy and some eye candy' when he finishes his prison sentence.
He repeatedly refers to her as family despite their relationship being a secret, and then tells the exotic dancer he has her heart and to keep the card for future memories.
'You my girl for life no fakin [sic],' he wrote.
Vick seems headed out of town. Probably just as well at this point.
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announce the establishment of the Iridium SafetyCast Service, as a recognized mobile satellite service in the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS). Effective 11 December 2020, Iridium declared the Iridium SafetyCast Service operational for broadcasting navigational warnings, meteorological warnings and forecasts, and Search and Rescue (SAR) related information.
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During the "trial" period, NAVAREAs and METAREAs will provide navigational warnings and meteorological warnings and forecasts in accordance with the Joint IMO/IHO/WMO Manual on Maritime Safety Information (MSI) on an intermittent and test basis and therefore they should not be relied on for planning or voyages. The "trial" period is a test and evaluation stage, which is necessary to ensure messages are processed and promulgated in a timely and appropriate manner.
Determination when each NAVAREA and METAREA is ready to enter the "operational" stage will come at a later date and will be announced via the Iridium SafetyCast Service. Mariners should ensure that they are compliant with EGC carriage requirements for the areas in which they operate by accessing MSI via the declared fully operational systems.
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In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, audiences will be thrilled by more dinosaurs than all past Jurassic movies combined! That's the bold promise made by Fallen Kingdom filmmakers in the new featurette that's just been released by Universal Pictures.
Check out the More Dinosaurs featurette below and watch Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in Philippine cinemas June 6, 2018.
Stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return alongside executive producers Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Pratt and Howard are joined by co-stars James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, Rafe Spall, while BD Wong and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles.
It's been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who's still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.
With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful franchises in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before. Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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Impressionist Museums in Paris You Must Visit
An impressionist museum is a museum that is devoted to the art movement of Impressionism. The most famous impressionist museum is the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. The Musée d'Orsay is home to the world's largest collection of impressionist paintings.
The Impressionist movement was a 19th-century art movement that began in France. The Impressionists were a group of painters who sought to break away from the traditional rules of painting. They believed that art should be about capturing the impression of a moment, rather than the realistic portrayal of an image.
The Impressionists were some of the most influential painters of their time. Their work has inspired generations of artists and continues to be popular with art lovers today.
Are you an art lover? Do you enjoy seeing beautiful paintings and sculptures? If so, then you'll love visiting the best impressionist museums in Paris!
1. The Musée d'Orsay
2. The Musée de l'Orangerie
3. The Musée du Louvre
4. The Musée de la Vie Romantique
5. The Musée de Montmartre
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If you love art, then you'll definitely enjoy visiting the best impressionist museums in Paris! Here, you'll be able to see some of the most beautiful paintings and sculptures by some of the most famous artists in the world. Trust us, it's an experience that you won't want to miss!
The Musée d'Orsay is one of the most popular museums in Paris, and with good reason. Housed in a former railway station, the museum contains an impressive collection of art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The collection includes works by some of the most famous French artists of the time, such as Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, and Gauguin. The museum also has a significant collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings.
The Musée d'Orsay is a must-see for anyone interested in French art. It is one of the most well-known and respected museums in the world, and is definitely worth a visit.
The Musée de l'Orangerie is a world-renowned museum in Paris, France, that houses an impressive collection of Impressionist paintings. The museum was originally built as a greenhouse for the Tuileries Palace, and was later converted into a museum to display the works of Claude Monet.
The Orangerie is home to some of the most iconic paintings of the Impressionist movement, including Monet's famed Water Lilies series. The museum is also home to works by other renowned Impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Édouard Manet.
Visitors to the Orangerie can expect to see a wide variety of Impressionist paintings, as well as a number of other artworks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The museum is an essential stop for anyone interested in the history of art, and is sure to impress even the most discerning art lover.
The Musée du Louvre is one of the most important museums in the world, and it is also one of the most important impressionist museums. The museum was founded in 1793 and houses a collection of over 300,000 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts. The Louvre is home to some of the most famous paintings in the world, such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. The museum also has a large collection of impressionist paintings, including works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne. The Musée du Louvre is a must-see for anyone interested in art, and it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris.
The Musée de la Vie Romantique is an impressionist museum located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the French writer, journalist and art critic François-René de Chateaubriand.
The museum is housed in the Hôtel de Lauzun, a 17th-century hôtel particulier which was once the home of Chateaubriand. The museum contains a large collection of impressionist paintings, as well as a library and a research center.
The Musée de la Vie Romantique is a popular tourist destination, and is one of the most visited museums in Paris.
The Musée de Montmartre is a small, independent museum located in the heart of the historic district of Montmartre in Paris. The museum is dedicated to the history of the district and the artistic movements that flourished there, particularly Impressionism.
The museum was founded in 1960 by André Utter, a historian and collector of works by the artists who lived and worked in Montmartre. Utter's collection formed the basis of the museum's permanent collection, which includes paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh.
The Musée de Montmartre also hosts temporary exhibitions on a variety of topics related to the history of the district and its artists. In addition, the museum offers a range of educational programs for children and adults.
The Impressionists were a group of painters who arose in the mid-19th century. Their name derives from the title of an Claude Monet painting, Impression, Sunrise (1872), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in Le Charivari.
The Impressionists rejected the rigid rules of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which taught that a painting should have clearly delineated shadows, and they instead chose to capture the effects of light in their work. The resulting paintings appear more "immediate" and "vivid" than those of their predecessors.
The Impressionists were initially met with ridicule from the art establishment, but they eventually gained acceptance and popularity with the public. Today, their work is some of the most beloved and iconic in all of art history.
If you're interested in seeing Impressionist paintings in Paris, there are a few different options. The Musée d'Orsay is probably the best-known museum for Impressionist art, and it's definitely worth a visit. The museum is located in an old train station, and the building itself is a work of art.
The Louvre is home to many famous paintings, including several by Impressionist artists. Some of the most well-known Impressionist paintings in the Louvre include Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette."
Impressionism is a style of painting that originated in the late 19th century. Impressionist paintings are characterized by short brushstrokes, light colors, and an overall 'impressions' of the scene rather than a realistic representation.
The style developed as artists began to experiment with alternative techniques that allowed them to capture the fleeting effects of light and color. The resulting paintings were often criticized by the art establishment of the time for their lack of technical precision.
Despite the criticism, Impressionism went on to become one of the most popular and influential styles of painting in the history of art. Many of the world's most famous paintings are Impressionist works, and the style continues to be popular with both artists and art lovers today.
The best impressionist museums in Paris are the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée de la Vie Romantique, and the Musée de Montmartre.
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Mortenson received top honors in the Construction category for the recently opened U.S. Bank Stadium, home of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. Image: courtesy of Mortenson
At an AEC Excellence Awards luncheon, co-sponsored by Autodesk and HP at Autodesk University 2016, Mortenson, BIAD, and Rambøll Sweco ANS were awarded first place awards in the Construction, Building, and Infrastructure categories, respectively. Tianjin Architecture Design Institute (TADI) and Nina Maritz Architects were also honored as the winner in a special Philanthropic category. This year's competition showcases projects embracing the future of making things for AEC and civil infrastructure through the use of innovative and connected building information modeling (BIM) technologies.
The competition this year received 162 submissions representing 29 countries. China had the highest number of overall submissions, followed by the United States and India.
Construction category
Mortenson received top honors in the Construction category for the recently opened U.S. Bank Stadium, home of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. The stadium features a massive transparent roof, zinc metal exterior panels, and the five largest pivoting glass doors in the world. By teaming with HKS Architects, Mortenson gave the construction team visibility into the BIM model well before construction began.
During the design phase, Mortenson was able to conduct the entire process of building the stadium virtually, eliminating problems before construction even began. The result: Mortenson completed U.S. Bank Stadium a full six weeks early — a first for a U.S. stadium — saving the owners hundreds of millions of dollars compared with the cost of similar stadiums.
Building category
Beijing Institute of Architecture Design received first place in the Building category for The Phoenix International Media Center, the new home of Phoenix Satellite Television. Image: courtesy of BIAD
Beijing Institute of Architecture Design (BIAD) received first place in the Building category for The Phoenix International Media Center, the new home of Phoenix Satellite Television. It features a design inspired by the endlessly curving form of a Möbius strip. The design team achieved the form working exclusively with BIM tools and paperless processes, making this project among the first in China to rely solely on BIM. BIM-based planning and conceptual design tools helped the team position the tallest elements of the building to minimize shading on nearby buildings while also improving energy efficiency.
Infrastructure category
The Rambøll Sweco ANS team captured first place in the Infrastructure category for their work on a project to lay 75 kilometers of double track between Sørli and Lillehammer, Norway. Image: courtesy of Rambøll Sweco ANS and NNRA
The Rambøll Sweco ANS team captured first place in the Infrastructure category for their work on a project to lay 75 kilometers of double track between Sørli and Lillehammer, Norway. For this project, the team, hired by the Norwegian National Rail Administration (NNRA), was able to overcome terrain challenges — as well as the tall order of getting approval from more than 100 stakeholders. The railway corridors cross several valuable landscapes that have significant environmental and cultural restraints, including an important nature reserve. In addition, rail lines would cross a lake, necessitating flood plain analysis.
By using 3D simulations, BIM helped the NNRA-led project team design, visualize, and negotiate these environmental complexities. A total of 120 design and approval participants used BIM tools as a central platform to design, propose, analyze, share, build, and comment throughout the entire project.
Special Philanthropic Award
TADI and Nina Maritz Architects received a special Philanthropic Award for a "Fun and Intelligent Cabin" project for a primary school in Huining County, Gansu Province, China. By fully utilizing building performance analysis within a BIM process, the team modified intelligent 3D models based on different conditions to help find ways to conserve energy — and generate money. Solar power supplies electricity and water heating, so the annual power conserved will make a profit, making it possible for the initial investment to be paid back in approximately 10 years.
Information provided by Autodesk (www.autodesk.com). Read more about all of the winners of this year's AEC Excellence Awards at www.autodesk.com/aecexcellenceawards.
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More than eight in 10 Asian Australians report discrimination during coronavirus pandemic
By Max Walden
Posted SunSunday 1 NovNovember 2020 at 7:19pmSunSunday 1 NovNovember 2020 at 7:19pm , updated SunSunday 1 NovNovember 2020 at 10:13pmSunSunday 1 NovNovember 2020 at 10:13pm
Asian Australians report being more anxious about coronavirus than the overall population. (Reuters: Loren Elliott)
Playing cricket earlier this year, Anthony was standing at the crease waiting for a bowl when he heard a member of the opposite team repeatedly call out "coronavirus".
A survey has shown 84.5 per cent of Asian Australians have faced discrimination this year
Nevertheless, the general population's trust in Asian Australians is high
The study found Asian Australians were more anxious about COVID-19 than people in the wider population
"I was trying to concentrate and so I thought it would be better to just ignore him," Anthony, who is of mixed Chinese and English heritage, told the ABC.
"At no time did any of his teammates pull him up, nor did the captain of my own team say anything."
A new study from the Australian National University (ANU) has found Anthony's experience of discrimination is a troublingly typical one for someone of Asian descent in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ANU survey of more than 3,000 people found 84.5 per cent of Asian Australians reported at least one instance of discrimination between January and October this year.
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"I have copped racism all my life and it is up and down dependent on political rhetoric or negative media coverage focusing on minority groups," Anthony said.
"It just happens it's China's turn again."
Earlier this year, the ABC was contacted by hundreds of people who shared their experiences of discrimination during the pandemic.
Asian Australians, particularly of Chinese heritage, reported an increase in abuse and racist attacks because the coronavirus was first detected in China.
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Two female international students were allegedly assaulted in Melbourne in April.
"Despite being born in Melbourne, discrimination has been a big part of my life due to my ethnicity," Jieh-Yung Lo, director of the ANU Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership, said.
"From outright racism in the school playgrounds, coming face to face with the 'bamboo ceiling' during early parts of my professional career, dealing with unconscious bias in the workplace, and in recent years having my allegiance and loyalty to Australia challenged and questioned due to my contribution to the public debate on Australia's bilateral relationship with China."
Some have expressed concern about Liberal senator Eric Abetz questioning three Chinese Australians about their view of the Chinese Communist Party during a recent Senate committee hearing focused on diversity in Australian politics.
Last week, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson warned "robust" debates about China in Australia could easily be used by Beijing to portray Australia as "intolerant".
China has repeatedly accused Australia of being racist and in July, amid escalating tensions, warned its citizens against travelling there.
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The ANU survey found Asian Australians were more likely to have their livelihoods adversely affected by COVID-19 and they were more anxious about the pandemic than Australians overall.
They saw their working hours drop five hours between February and April — twice the rest of the Australian population (2.4 hours).
The study's authors said this was partly because Asian Australians were younger and more likely to live in urban areas and work in industries impacted by lockdowns.
"[But] we cannot discount the effect of labour market discrimination as well," co-author Nicholas Biddle, from the ANU Centre for Social Research Methods, told the ABC.
'They started laughing when they saw my face'
The ABC has asked readers to share their personal experiences of racism during the coronavirus pandemic. The response has been overwhelming.
Some 80.7 per cent of Asian Australians reported being anxious and worried due to coronavirus in October, compared to 62.4 per cent of the rest of the Australian population.
"Asian Australians have fared worse during the COVID-19 period than the rest of the Australian population," Mr Lo said.
Mr Lo said their experience with prior viruses, such as the SARS epidemic, had seen Asian Australians being "more vigilant" about COVID-19 while they also faced "the rise and resurgence of xenophobia and racism" including physical and verbal assaults.
Nevertheless, Professor Biddle said Australians were more likely to think Asian Australians were "trusted" and "fair".
About 65 per cent of the Australian population reported high trust in Asian Australians, compared with 55 per cent who had high trust in Anglo Australians.
Asian Australians are younger and more likely to live in urban areas. (AP: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
"Having more Asian Australians take on senior leadership roles across our parliaments, media outlets, public and corporate boardrooms have the abilities to change perceptions, break down stereotypes and instil greater trust and confidence across our society," Mr Lo said.
"The opportunity to serve in senior leadership roles also helps Asian Australians and other diverse groups to shed the 'outsiders' and 'migrants' label."
The Australian Human Rights Commission reports less than 5 per cent of Australians of Asian heritage make it to senior executive levels and only 1.6 per cent become CEOs.
"Absent of COVID-19, governments have a responsibility to carefully design and enforce anti-discrimination laws," Professor Biddle said.
"Rhetoric matters. We all have responsibilities to make sure we choose our words carefully, do not target groups for negative treatment based on their ethnic background, and take time to get to know our fellow Australians as individuals, not as stereotypes."
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Gerber dies on return from DC
by DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS [email protected]
ELKO – Grant Gerber, an Elko native who grew up cowboying the county's ranges, died Saturday at age 72 in a Salt Lake City hospital surrounded by loved ones.
He was remembered for dedicating his life to fighting for local rights against federal encroachment.
A funeral is planned for Friday, which is Nevada Day.
On Oct. 7, while riding coast to coast carrying petitions to Washington, D.C., Gerber's horse, Gandhi, stumbled on a prairie dog hole in Kansas, taking Gerber down with it. He was knocked unconscious.
Gerber was one of many riders in the Grass March/Cowboy Express, a cause that started as an effort to protect the livelihood of Lander County ranch families who were ordered to remove their cattle from the drought-stricken range, on which they owned about half of the land and all of the water rights.
The movement blossomed to include redress for many controversial land policies and wildlife concerns due to federal management.
After the fall, Gerber said he was glad he was the one who took the tumble and not a fellow rider, according to his son, Travis Gerber, who rode alongside his father.
"He was examined and released from a St. Louis hospital with no sign of bleeding," Travis Gerber said Thursday.
The group continued on their journey, and made it to the Capitol on horseback Oct. 16.
The movement garnered widespread media attention as riders trotted horses down the busy D.C. streets.
After the petitions were delivered, Gerber had nagging headaches and checked into a hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming on the way home, where doctors discovered internal bleeding.
He underwent surgery Thursday in Salt Lake City.
Gerber was an Elko County commissioner and longtime local attorney. He was known as a man who turned ideas into action.
He was the driving force behind the Grass March/Cowboy Express movement, which started with a ride from Elko to Carson City last spring.
Longtime friend Demar Dahl said he spoke with Gerber after the Grass March made it to the Governor's Mansion.
"He said he felt so good when he rode in there," Dahl said. "He and I used to joke with each other a lot and banter. I said, 'What are you going to do next, ride to Washington?' The next day he called and said, 'We're going to go to Washington, go from sea to shining sea.' And of course he got it done."
From the Pacific to the Atlantic, the Grass March gained media attention.
Gerber was also a main organizer in the county's pilot sage grouse conservation program, which focuses on chick rearing through predator control and protecting habitat from wildfires with targeted grazing of dry fuel.
It was Gerber who suggested the county prominently display a sage grouse habitat map in the back of its meeting room to illustrate to residents how much of the county would be affected by a sage grouse Endangered Species Act listing.
He saw the looming sage grouse decision to be one of the greatest threats to the county's economic interests, and likened it to the spotted owl of the Northwest.
He also was involved in the creation of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade. After a storm in the 1990s washed out a road in a northern Elko County forest, residents cleared the road so it could be used, against the U.S. Forest Service's directive.
Almost 2,000 people showed up to help.
"Grant was really the power behind all of that," Dahl said.
Former Assemblyman John Carpenter said he and Gerber became close friends while working together on the Shovel Brigade. He remembered Gerber advocating for the citizens' right to assemble.
"Grant was leading the charge, (saying to a judge on a conference call) 'You can't stop people from demonstrating on public property,'" Carpenter said.
Out of law school, Gerber began to worry that too much land was being designated as wilderness, thereby restricting access and resources.
As a response, he organized the Wilderness Research Impact Foundation.
"He worked so hard and spent so much time on it," Dahl said. "He just devoted his life to that for so long that it about broke him."
More recently, Gerber turned his attentions to wildfire.
Through the Smoked Bear campaign, he drew attention for the first time to the deaths of countless animals and massive tonnage of pollution caused by wildfires. Allowing cattle and sheep to graze dry fuel could save critters from fire and improve air quality, Gerber would say.
Gerber, a history buff, often quoted from the journals of Peter Skene Ogden, and contrasted the desolate landscape early explorers encountered to the habitable place it became due to the toil and stewardship of early ranch settlers.
At a young age, he helped his family run a hunting camp in the Ruby Mountains.
When Gerber ran for office in 2012, he said his primary focus was to fight to maintain the freedoms of Elko County citizens.
Gerber dedicated his life to service, his son wrote in an email.
He served on the Great Basin College Foundation's planned giving committee and the Northeastern Nevada Museum Board; he worked pro bono for a number of nonprofit organizations, such as the SnoBowl and the animal shelter.
Gerber also volunteer to serve his country.
Awarded the bronze star for his valor in the Vietnam War, Gerber rose to the rank of captain of a Special Forces mountain climbing and ski team. He served on the VFW Honor Guard.
Gerber and his wife, Lenore, served a humanitarian mission in Egypt for their church.
"When they went to Egypt, I prayed every day that they would come back safely, which they did," Carpenter said.
"Lenore and I … helped our six children graduate from Elko and Spring Creek high schools," he stated in 2012. "I started businesses and a law firm in Elko, and dedicated time to preserving Elko County's Constitutional traditions."
This article was originally published in the Elko Daily Free Press.
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After the Raiders gave Derek Carr a five-year, $125 million contract in June and the Lions handed Matthew Stafford a five-year contract extension worth a reported $135 million, Rodgers' new contract would certainly exceed those dollar amounts.
Rodgers' current contract is a five-year, $110 million deal he signed in 2013. That keeps him under contract through the 2019 season. He's won two NFL MVP awards and led the Packers to a Super Bowl championship in 2010. Should he win another Super Bowl between now and 2019, he might just end up as the NFL's first $200 million player.
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Brian Moses: Fire Lit Eyes – Running a School Writing Club
Fire Lit Eyes: Running a school writing club
For four years from 1978 – 1982, Pie Corbett and I were teaching in the same primary school, having previously become friends at teachers' training college. It was a school that served a large estate of houses on the edge of a town that the railway had abandoned under Beeching. There had been very little thought about what those people who lived on the estate actually needed – no shops, no pub, no community centre. Parents brought their problems into school, argued in the playground or sought counselling from the headteacher.
The children brought their own troubles into the classroom and needed sympathetic but firm management. We discovered that many of the children really enjoyed being creative with words. They had imaginations and grasped enthusiastically at the ideas we presented them with. Our own inspiration came from the work of Sandy Brownjohn, from Ted Hughes manual 'Poetry in the Making' and from the American poet and educationalist, Kenneth Koch who had produced a number of books featuring the poetry of city kids. We were also impressed with the work of teacher Chris Searle and his publications – 'Stepney Words' and 'Firewords' which highlighted writing by children in London schools.
I forget whose idea it was but we decided to invite anyone who enjoyed writing to return to school on a Wednesday evening for extra poetry writing sessions with us. We were allowed to run these in the pre-school playgroup hut where we perched on tiny chairs or sat on the floor and wrote from 7.30 till 9 p.m. For our first session 30 children arrived out of the darkness of the estate. Few were brought by their parents, most just walked to school as they would in the daytime.
Pie and I were able to try out ideas that we might have thought twice about using in the classroom. We were surrealists taking our writing beyond the real with no limits to anyone's imagination. Often we explored three or four ideas each session and children would arrive the next day eager to show us poems that they had completed at home. We wrote with the children too and shared our ideas. They knew that they could comment and make criticisms about what we had written in the same way that we did with their writing. There was no fear of work being marked or graded and the poems were celebrated for what they were. On summer evenings we wrote on location visiting a graveyard, the abandoned railway line, a turkey farm and a spooky house.
We saved many of the poems that were written and put them in a book that we wrote about teaching poetry. We sent it to Oxford University Press as we liked the anthologies that John Foster had done for them. After three months, an editor from OUP range me up and said they wanted to publish it. That was 'Catapults and Kingfishers'. We were just in the right place at the right time and they'd happened to be looking for a book like ours. It was, they told us, the first unsolicited manuscript they'd published in fifteen years! And that book launched our careers.
Since those days the school has consistently lounged at the bottom of the league table in its LEA and has been in and out of special measures constantly… but we believed our children were as good as any others. We also had some winners in the WH Smith competition out of some 30,000 entries. ITV also made videos of two of the winning poems.
Recently Kate Long got in touch with me about a writing club that she runs at her school. You can find out more about her work here.
The Able Writers Scheme that I started up in 2002 operates on similar lines. We bring children together from different schools for a day of writing for writing's sake. The scheme has been successfully run by the Authors Abroad agency for the past eight years and we have over 150 host schools from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight who organise such days. Information about the scheme and how your school might become a host school can be found here.
The business man Alan Sugar is always complaining that the candidates on 'The Apprentice' often lack imagination and creativity. If those qualities are not fostered in schools, then we shouldn't be surprised at what he says.
Brian Moses
Brian Moses has been a professional children's poet since 1988. To date he has over 220 books published including volumes of his own poetry such as Lost Magic and I Thought I Heard a Tree Sneeze, anthologies such as The Secret Lives of Teachers and the recently published Spaced Out, (edited with James Carter), plus picture books such as Walking With My Iguana and Dreamer.
Over 1 million copies of Brian's poetry books have now been sold.
Brian also visits schools to run writing workshops and perform his own poetry and percussion shows. To date he has visited well over 3000 schools and libraries throughout the UK and abroad.
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How Big Data Is Changing Everything
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There's a radical transformation happening in information technology today, one that promises to be every bit as significant—and every bit as disruptive to existing business models—as were Web applications in the 1990s and virtualization in the first decade of the 21st century. It's a foundational change in the way enterprises, their employees, and their customers manage, share, and secure the staggering amounts of data that pass through their hands every day. It will make data available at higher speeds, on more massive scales and at lower costs that anyone could have imagined even a few years ago. It's Storage 3.0, and it's happening right now.
The big story in IT today is "big data"—the almost inconceivable volumes of digital information created and delivered by sensors, financial transactions, video surveillance, Web logs, animation studios, genomics, online gaming networks and a literally unlimited number of other sources. It's the inevitable but still breathtaking extension of Moore's Law: There's more of everything now, on corporate networks, on home computers and on mobile devices. More data is being produced by more endpoints, and the data that's being produced, like high-definition video, is denser that would have been imaginable even a few years ago. All those ones and zeroes have to be stored somewhere—and, crucially, many enterprises want to keep their data forever—and IT systems worldwide are strained to the limit and beyond as they try to accommodate that demand.
A vast array of solutions—some of them enterprise-class, some consumer-oriented—have emerged to deliver the data storage capacity the world is crying out for. E-mail users frustrated with their Internet service providers' data caps can use services like Box and Dropbox for oversized attachments. Online backup sites like Carbonite, one of the portfolio investments at Menlo Ventures (where John is a partner), reduce the risk of data loss caused by system failure. Amazon and Apple let businesses and individuals keep everything from financial information to family photos in the cloud. The multibillion-dollar investments being made in these projects highlight our insatiable demand for storage, and the major business benefits to those who can harness it at scale. But these systems are not well-suited to big-data analytics.
The benefits of analyzing big data—that's data measured not in gigabytes or terabytes, but in petabytes—are far-reaching, and they're only beginning to be realized. The Human Genome Project is leveraging petabytes of DNA sequencing data as it transforms medical research, and automakers are crunching equally huge amounts of safety test data to improve their new-car designs. But smaller businesses, too, are generating vast amounts of data that they want to store, analyze, and preserve. Casinos now store and mine petabytes of video surveillance data. Gaming companies collect all their users' in-game interactions to find ways to improve retention and monetization. Digital advertising companies collect and process terabytes of display, mobile and video ad impressions daily to improve campaign performance. Retailers analyze consumer purchases side-by-side with their ad campaigns to optimize revenues and gross margin dollars per shopping basket. Every business with a product or customer base of any size is feeling the competitive pressure to get smarter with its data, and do it now.
But traditional storage data architectures—what we now think of as Storage 1.0—can't keep up with the demands of these environments. Fibre Channel is too rigid and too complex to set up and manage fast-growing multi-petabyte data farms. And legacy storage arrays are simply too costly to maintain at the petabyte level.
Storage 2.0 emerged in the last decade, with significant improvements on existing storage array designs and smart software features like thin provisioning, deduplication and storage tiering. The changes, and their bottom-line potential, got noticed, with providers like 3PAR, Isilon Systems and Spinnaker Networks bought up in a series of acquisitions worth more than $12 billion. (3PAR and Spinnaker were also Menlo Ventures investments.) These deals injected badly needed innovation into the storage industry, but they didn't change the … Next Page »
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Boscola Announces $1.4 Million in Grants for Lehigh Valley Water/Sewer and Parks/Trails Projects
Bethlehem (September 18, 2018) – State Senator Lisa Boscola today announced a total of $1,411,179 in state grants for local water/sewer infrastructure improvement projects as well as recreation and park projects.
"I'm pleased to announce the approval of these state funds allocated to help expedite improvements to our region's aging sewer and wastewater systems and to improve recreational opportunities across the Lehigh Valley," Boscola said. "I will continue to seek state funding and resources for local efforts aimed at making our water and sewer systems safer, more reliable, as well as providing for additional park and trail improvements."
The Small Water and Sewer grants include:
$100,000 to the Coplay-Whitehall Sewer Authority for the Prospect Street Sanitary Sewer Project
$100,000 to Salisbury Township for the Salisbury Township Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation
$155,000 to the Whitehall Township Authority for the Water Main Replacement Project
$158,791 to the Borough of Emmaus for its Phase I and II Master Meter/Manhole repair and replacement Project
$100,000 to the Lower Saucon Authority for its Lower Saucon Authority Water Pressurization and Monitoring Project
$100,000 to the Hellertown Borough Authority for its Apple Street Tank Improvements
$50,679 to Lower Saucon Township for its Lower Saucon Township Water Line Replacement Project
$71,709 to Glendon Borough for its Glendon Pump Station Rehabilitation Project
$125,000 to the City of Bethlehem for its Founders Way and Biafore Avenue Sanitary Sewer Replacement Project
$100,000 to the Bethlehem Township Municipal Authority for its Green Pond Rd./Church Rd. Regional Pump Station (PS 11)
$100,000 to the Borough of Northampton for its Sewer Manhole Improvement project
The Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program grants approved include:
$40,000 to Whitehall Township for its Jordan Greenway Beautification Project
$125,000 to the National Museum of Industrial History for its Outdoor Demonstration and Artifact Park Phase 2
$20,000 to Lower Saucon Township for its Polk Valley Dog Park Development
$65,000 to the Borough of Emmaus for its Park & Recreation Comprehensive Plan
The grants were approved today by the state Commonwealth Financing Authority Board in Harrisburg. The PA Small Water and Sewer program provides grants to municipalities and municipal authorities to assist with the construction, improvement, expansion, or rehabilitation or repair of a water supply or sanitary sewer systems. Funding from the Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program uses revenue generated through Act 13 of 2012 that imposes an impact fee on the state's unconventional natural gas wells. |
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In 1983 Chuck Hull invented the first 3D printer. It could produce small plastic objects directly from a digital file on a computer. Instead of using ink the printer used plastic - adding layer upon layer to create an object. At first no-one was interested but now 3D printing technology is used widely, both by amateur hobbyists and industry. It's been taken up enthusiastically in the medical world to help separate conjoined twins and the next step is to help create human tissue for regenerative medicine. Photo: This tiny cup was the first thing made using a 3D printer, in 1983. Courtesy of Chuck Hull at 3D Systems. |
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Sommore (Lori Ann Rambough), is American comedian and actress. She grew up in the Trenton, New Jersey. She finished her schooling from the Our Lady of the Divine Shepherd and The Pennington School, She graduated from McCorristin Catholic High School.
She is graduated from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she finished her business administration. She is highly educated. According to her date of birth May 16, 1966 (age 49). We don't know about her height.
She has appeared in various movies, Def. Comedy jam, Showtime at the Apollo, Comic View, and Bet Live from L.A. Her movie appearance include Soul Plane, A Miami Tail, and Friday after next and Something New. Sommore was a winning participant on the sixth season of Celebrity Fit Club. She managed to lose about 5 kilograms.
It is hard to know about her marriage and personal. There has been speculation about her love affairs.She is not married till date. She is still single. She appeared on The Queens of Comedy as a Comedian, Friday After next, A Miami Tail, Soul plane, blunts &Stunts: Class of '94, Something New, Cedric the entertainer's Urban Circus, Sommore: Chandelier Status, Sommore Fun Now, Blunts & Stunts : Class of '94.
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The United States has decided to close the Palestinian mission in Washington in the latest move against them by President Donald Trump, a Palestinian official said Monday, denouncing it as a "dangerous escalation."
The closure comes as Trump seeks to force the Palestinian leadership, which has cut off contact with the White House, to negotiate as his team pursues a plan for Middle East peace — what he calls the "ultimate deal."
The United States has also been angered by a Palestinian bid to have Israel investigated for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
Palestinian officials say the reason given for the closure was their campaign at the ICC.
"We have been notified by a US official of their decision to close the Palestinian mission to the US," Palestine Liberation Organisation secretary-general Saeb Erekat said in a statement.
"This is yet another affirmation of the Trump administration's policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people, including by cutting financial support for humanitarian services including health and education."
Under longstanding US law, permission for the PLO to maintain its mission in Washington must be renewed every six months.
US officials say Palestinian leaders breach the arrangement by calling for Israeli officials to be prosecuted at the ICC.
The United States had already threatened to close the office in November.
The decision to close the mission comes just ahead of the 25th anniversary of the first Oslo accord on September 13, sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn and meant to lead to Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Husam Zomlot, head of the PLO mission in Washington, told journalists in Ramallah that the closure was "to protect Israel from war crimes, crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in the occupied Palestinian territories."
Both Erekat and Zomlot pledged to push forward with Palestinian efforts at the ICC.
The White House had not yet commented, but the Wall Street Journal reported that US National Security Adviser John Bolton was due to announce the closure in a speech later Monday.
The Palestinian leadership cut off contact with the Trump administration after the US president recognised the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December.
The Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
Trump has since pledged to withhold aid from the Palestinians until they return to the negotiating table.
The Palestinian Mission house in Washington: Trump orders it shut
In recent weeks, the United States has cut more than $200 million in bilateral aid to the Palestinians as well as cancelled its support for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
In making such moves, Trump has sided with Israel on core issues in the conflict without publicly asking for any concessions in return.
Palestinian leaders see his White House as blatantly biased in favour of Israel.
"Part of it is bullying," Zomlot said in response to a question about the US strategy.
"But the main part of it is just going ahead and implementing the grocery list that was submitted to them by (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."
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Frank Zampino found not guilty of corruption in Contrecoeur land sale
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Frank Zampino, who was once the right-hand man to former Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay, has been found not guilty of all charges of breach of trust and fraud in the Contrecoeur scandal.
Paolo Catania and the others accused were also found not guilty on all charges.
Judge Yvan Poulin delivered his verdict Wednesday after spending several hours delivering his analysis of the testimony and pointing out multiple times that the Crown failed to prove its assertions.
"For six years now Mr. Zampino has maintained his innocence in this matter," his lawyer Isabel Schurman said outside the courtroom Wednesday. "He deplores the delay, but is relived that he had an opportunity to speak and that he was heard."
Zampino and others were charged with fraud and corruption in connection with a plan to build a housing development known as Faubourg Contrecoeur.
One of the accused, Daniel Gauthier, who was the president of urban design company Groupe Gauthier Biancamano Bolduc., pleaded guilty during the first week of the trial, while another accused, Martial Fillion, has since died.
The scandal began in 2007 when the city of Montreal sold land to Frank Catania's construction firm at a steep discount: just $4.4 million for land others had evaluated at $31 million.
In his ruling, Poulin noted the Crown provided no evidence the sale was not the fair market value, nor was it proven that the estimate of the decontamination costs -- which was used to justify the low price -- was inflated.
"I guess we can say we decontaminated the courtroom," quipped defence attorney Pierre Morneau.
The sale shocked members of the city's housing group, the Societé d'habitation et de developpement de Montreal (SHDM), which hired an accounting firm to examine the deal.
KPMG determined that the city's then-director general, Martial Fillion, had facilitated payments by the construction firm without the required permission of the administrative council of the Societé.
In his ruling, Poulin seemed to agree with the defence's theory that Fillion gave Catania advances on a $15.8 million loan, and changed the terms of the deal, without any authorization from the SHDM or the knowledge of the other accused.
"There's nothing in the evidence that shows Frank Zampino tried to influence anything," he wrote in his lengthy ruling.
Poulin said that evidence of a conspiracy of a discounted sale in exchange for kickbacks was lacking, and said the low interest rate on the loan was the result of negotiations.
He pointed out that the political donations Catania made to Union Montreal, the politicians that ran the city, were entirely legal at the time.
The judge also noted that financial incentives for development are a frequent municipal tactic.
The Contrecoeur land sale convinced then-Montreal mayor Tremblay to turn the SHDM into a municipal company that no longer operated at arms-length from the city government.
Police then arrested Zampino, Bernard Trepanier (aka Mr. 3 Per Cent), and six others including Paolo Catania in 2012.
Sixty three witnesses testified, with former Ville Marie borough mayor Benoit Labonté stating that corruption and kickbacks were endemic at Montreal City Hall.
Poulin said, however, that one of the Crown's key witnesses, Michel Lalonde, was vague and unconvincing.
Tremblay testified that he was not involved in the development project and left matters entirely in Zampino's hands because "he had all my confidence."
The condominiums that were built on the land were destroyed by a fire in 2009.
Outside the courtroom, the Crown prosecutors said they were disappointed in the ruling, and that they would decide in the next few days if they would appeal the verdict.
"We presented plenty of very complex evidence. The verdict is duly noted, and we'll see if we plan to appeal," said prosecutor Nicole Martineau.
Schurman said her client was the wrong target all along.
"He sincerely believes today, as he has from day one that he should never have been accused in this matter," she said.
Zampino has another legal battle ahead of him: he was rearrested last September and was charged again with breach of trust and fraud, this time in connection with the way contracts were awarded when he was still working under the Tremblay administration.
That trial will take place at a later date.
Frank Zampino arrives in the Montreal courthouse on May 2, 2018, awaiting his verdict for fraud and corruption.
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The role of functional health literacy in long-term treatment outcomes in psychosocial care for adolescents
L. Beukema
S. A. Reijneveld
M. Jager
J. Metselaar
A. F. de Winter
Original Contribution
Although among adolescents with psychosocial problems low health literacy may increase the risk of poor treatment outcomes, the contributing mechanisms within treatment remain unclear. A better understanding of these mechanisms could contribute to improved treatment processes and outcomes. This study aims to examine the relationship between functional health literacy, treatment processes (treatment adherence, learning processes), and treatment outcome (level of psychosocial problems) in adolescents in psychosocial care. We used data from a prospective cohort study among adolescents aged 12–18 (N = 390), collected in four successive measurements: at entry into care, and 3, 12, and 24 months thereafter. We used a mixed effect model to investigate the association between level of functional health literacy (adequate vs. inadequate) and treatment processes (treatment adherence, learning processes) and treatment outcome (level of psychosocial problems). Between adolescents with adequate and inadequate functional health literacy, we found no differences or change over time in adherence or learning processes. The level of psychosocial problems significantly declined over time (β = − 1.70, 95% CI [− 2.72, − 0.69], p = .001) to a similar degree in both groups, though, in all measurements, the level was consistently higher for adolescents with inadequate health literacy. We conclude that health literacy levels did not affect change in treatment processes nor in outcomes of psychosocial treatment. However, the consistently higher level of psychosocial problems among adolescents with inadequate health literacy suggests an unaddressed need in psychosocial care.
Health literacy Adolescent Psychosocial problems Psychosocial care Treatment adherence Longitudinal
Psychosocial problems—emotional, behavioural, and social problems—are the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease in adolescents [1, 2, 3]. It is estimated that psychosocial problems affect up to 20% of children and adolescents [2, 4, 5] and that up to half of all adult psychopathologies have their roots in adolescence [4, 6]. Experiencing psychosocial problems in adolescence is related to a higher risk of poorer educational, social, occupational, and psychiatric outcomes later in life [2, 7, 8]. However, knowledge of factors that influence treatment outcomes in psychosocial care remains inadequate.
Client health literacy may be pivotal in the interpersonal communication between adolescent and professional, and in turn affect treatment outcomes [9]. The National Institute of Health (NIH) defines health literacy as the "degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" [10]. At its core, health literacy is deemed dependent on individual capabilities, such as reading and writing skills, speaking and listening skills, and numeracy [11]. In line with this perspective, the current study focusses on functional health literacy, meaning that the basic literacy skills (i.e., reading and writing) needed in regular health care situations.
People with more adequate health literacy have skills and capabilities that enable them to act in a health enhancing way. Studies show that low health literacy is associated with more adverse health, less participation in treatment [12] as well as less adherence to treatment instructions, a lower desire to participate in decision-making, and less self-management [13]. In addition, low health literacy is associated with increased use of health care [14]. While most health literacy research has been focused on adults, researchers have started exploring the role of adolescent health literacy in health care. Nevertheless, evidence on the role of health literacy in psychosocial care for adolescents is lacking. Exploring this issue could help to improve future treatment processes and outcomes for adolescents in psychosocial care. This is especially important, because adolescents are in a developmental phase in which they are becoming increasingly autonomous and ready to make more of their own decisions regarding health and health care [14].
This study aimed to assess whether functional health literacy is associated with treatment processes (treatment adherence, learning processes) and treatment outcomes (level of psychosocial problems) in psychosocial care. We hypothesized that adolescents with lower functional health literacy participate less in treatment, experience fewer learning processes, and have less reduction in psychosocial problems 2 years after enrolment into psychosocial care.
For our study, we used data from the Take Care study [15]. Take Care is a prospective cohort that included children and adolescents aged 4–18 years entering care for psychosocial problems. Take Care was designed to investigate trajectories and outcomes of care for youth with psychosocial problems in the Netherlands, and is part of C4Youth, the Collaborative Centre on Care for Children and Youth. The Medical Ethical Committee of the University Medical Centre of Groningen evaluated the design of the Take Care study, and approved it without requiring full assessment.
Sample and procedure
Take Care included adolescents enrolled in psychosocial care organizations in the province of Groningen, the Northeast of the Netherlands, recruited between April 2011 and April 2013. They were recruited at three different types of care organizations: preventive child healthcare (PCH), child and adolescent social care (CASC), and child and adolescent mental healthcare (CAMH). Take Care consists of five measurements made during a 3-year follow-up, starting at entry into care and 3, 12, 24, and 36 months after the first questionnaire. A detailed description of the objectives, design, and measurements of Take Care can be found elsewhere [15]. This study appertains to data from the first four measurements.
Following their entry into care, adolescents and one parent/caregiver received information about the study and were invited to participate. Informed consent was obtained from the adolescent as well as from the parent, if the adolescent was younger than 16. Potential participants were excluded if they were older than 18, had severe mental retardation, were not living in one of the three northern Dutch provinces, or did not speak Dutch. The first questionnaire was sent shortly after entry into care and before the start of treatment.
The current study focused on adolescents (aged 12–18) who received care after the first measurement, for whom data on health literacy were available, and for whom data from the professional as well as one of the parents were also available (N = 390).
We assessed health literacy, treatment processes (adherence, learning processes), treatment outcomes (level of psychosocial problems), and background variables and confounders (age, gender, educational level, ethnicity, and type of care in which adolescents were enrolled). Characteristics of the parent were also taken into account (educational level and level of health literacy).
Health literacy was measured at 3 months with three validated health literacy screening questions developed by Chew [16, 17, 18, 19]. The questions have not been tested in an adolescent sample, but studies in other samples indicated high reliability [19, 20]. The three questions are: (1) "How often do you have someone help you read materials related to your care/treatment?" (2) "How confident are you filling out treatment-related forms by yourself?", and (3) "How often do you have problems learning about your condition or symptoms because of difficulty understanding written information?" These questions were answered on a 5-point Likert scale. On item 1 and 2, the answer options were defined as: 1 'always', 2 'often', 3 'sometimes', 4 'occasionally', and 5 'never'. The answers options on item 3 were defined as: 1 'very much', 2 'a lot', 3 'somewhat', 4 'a little', and 5 'not at all'. After reversing the scores on the second question, a total score (range 3–15) was calculated by summing up the scores of the three questions, with a higher score indicating a higher level of health literacy. Due to the strongly skewed distribution, we chose to dichotomise the scores into a group with inadequate health literacy (score 11 or lower) and adequate health literacy (score 12 or higher). This cut-off point is based on previous studies, which used the same instrument [17, 20, 21], and in which comparable percentages of inadequate health literacy were found [22].
Treatment processes, i.e., treatment adherence and learning processes, were measured at 3 months, 1 year, and 2 years after intake. The assessment of these treatment processes was based on the previous studies using the Take Care data [9, 23]. Treatment adherence was measured by the agreement of the professional with the statement 'the adolescent demonstrated adherence in between therapy sessions', on a scale of 0–10 with higher values indicating stronger adherence. Learning processes were measured as improved understanding and improved confidence. Improved understanding was assessed by asking the professional as well as the adolescent how much they thought that the adolescent had learned so far due to psychosocial care. The specific questions were: "Please indicate how much you think the adolescent has learned from the treatment" and "Please indicate how much you have learned from the treatment you have received". The questions included examples: better understanding of the problems and knowing how to handle difficult situations. Improved confidence was assessed by asking the professional as well as the adolescent whether the feelings of the adolescent had changed positively because of the psychosocial care. The specific questions were: "Please indicate how much you think the adolescents' feelings have changed due to the treatment" and "Please indicate how much your feelings have changed due to the treatment you have received". These questions also included examples: improved self-confidence, worrying less, and feeling less hopeless. Both learning processes were scored by the professionals as well as the adolescents themselves, and measured on a scale of 0–10 (0 'absolutely nothing' and 10 'very much'). The distribution of the professional-rated and adolescent-rated scores was similar, although the professionals rated the improvement of the adolescents on average one point higher. To limit potential information bias, a total score was created by calculating the mean across the scores of the professional and adolescent per individual case for both learning processes. Since major discrepancies between adolescents' and professionals' scores were rare, convergence of their scores was deemed appropriate and leading to more accurate estimates [24].
Treatment outcomes, i.e., the level of psychosocial problems, were measured at entry into care, 3 months, 1 year, and 2 years after intake. Psychosocial problems were assessed with the Dutch self-report and parent-report versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) [25, 26, 27, 28]. The SDQ consists of 25 items, measuring internalizing [Cronbach's α parents = 0.78 (T1, T2, T3), adolescents = 0.75 (T1), 0.76 (T2), and 0.73 (T3)] and externalizing problems [Cronbach's α parents = 0.83 (T1, T2, T3), adolescents = 0.74 (T1), 0.76 (T2), and 0.73 (T3)] [29]. The total difficulties score (TDS) ranges from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating more problems. Studies have shown that detection of adolescent psychopathology improves by combining multi-informant data [30, 31, 32], and the TDSs of adolescents and their parents were added and divided by two, resulting in a mean TDS across two informants, and following the same procedure as previously applied to this data [9].
Background characteristics and confounders
Background characteristics and confounders that were included regarded the adolescents' gender, age, educational level, ethnicity, type of care, parental health literacy, and parental educational level. Adolescent educational level represented the level of current education and not the highest obtained diploma, because most adolescents were still in school. Educational level was categorised as (1) low (practical training, pre-vocational secondary education, special needs education, or lower levels of secondary vocational education), (2) medium/high (senior general secondary education, pre-university secondary education, higher levels of secondary vocational education, or higher professional education), or (3) undetermined (still at primary school or unknown). Ethnicity was defined as non-Dutch if the adolescent or at least one biological parent had been born outside the Netherlands. Type of care that an adolescent was enrolled in was either preventive child healthcare (PCH), child and adolescent social care (CASC), or child and adolescent mental healthcare (CAMH). Parental health literacy was measured and calculated in the same way as that of the adolescent, as described above. Parental education level was defined by the highest diploma obtained and categorised in the same way as the educational level of the adolescent.
First, we described the background characteristics and covariates of the sample, and the level of health literacy (adequate vs. inadequate). Second, we analysed the association between level of health literacy (adequate vs. inadequate), treatment processes (adherence, improved understanding, improved confidence), and treatment outcomes (level of psychosocial problems), using a mixed effect model. This is a fitting approach to investigate individual change over time, inserting the longitudinal data in a multilevel model with measurements per individual nested within individuals [33, 34]. The data were analysed using a mixed effect model with random intercepts and fixed slopes. To choose best model, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) was used. BIC is based on the log-likelihood of the model and the number of parameters in the model. As is standard, the model with the lowest BIC was used. The best-fitting model was based on restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) estimation and an unstructured covariance structure. REML gives the most accurate estimates of random variances and an unstructured covariance structure is preferable when estimating variances of random effects. Time was included in the model as a continuous variable (baseline = 0; 3 months = 0.25; 1 year = 1; 2 years = 2). For every outcome variable, we modelled two levels: the level 1 model includes the repeated measurements over time and does not include predictors. This model focuses on the main trend of the outcome variable over time. In the level 2 model, the predictors are added to test whether they are associated with the change over time found in the level 1 model. For example, for the outcome variable treatment adherence, we first modelled the main trend of treatment adherence over time (level 1 model), and then, we added the predictors (health literacy and the confounders) to test the level 2 model. We repeated these steps for the other outcome variable (improved understanding, improved confidence, and psychosocial problems). All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA, version 25.0).
Background characteristics
Adolescent, family, and care-related characteristics are presented in Table 1. The majority of the sample had adequate health literacy, were female and had Dutch ethnicity. In addition, most adolescents received care from a CAMH organization, followed by CASC and PCH. Level of health literacy was significantly associated with the level of psychosocial problems at baseline (d = 0.33, p = 0.002), as well as with educational level of the adolescent (V = 0.154, p = 0.016), and with age (d = 0.34, p = 0.001).
Characteristics of the sample at baseline, by level of health literacy
(N = 390)
(N = 158, 40.5%)
N (%)b
Adolescent characteristics
Medium/high
Dutch ethnicity
M (SD)c
15.0 (1.8)
Psychosocial problems at baseline
Parent health literacy
Educational level mother
Educational level father
Care characteristics
M mean, SD standard deviation
aChi-square tests were used for categorical variables (gender, adolescents' educational level, ethnicity, parents' educational level, parent health literacy, and care type) and t tests for continuous variables (age and psychosocial problems)
b Numbers do not always add up to N = 390 due to missing values
Health literacy level, treatment processes, and outcomes
Table 2 shows the results of the mixed model analysis, in which the columns represent the results per outcome. The analysis on the outcome variable 'treatment adherence' showed no change in treatment adherence over time (β = 0.15, 95% CI [− 0.08, 0.38], p = 0.21). The analyses on the outcome variables 'improved understanding' (β = 0.27, 95% CI [0.10, 0.45], p = 0.003) and 'improved confidence' (β = 0.26, 95% CI [0.07, 0.45], p = 0.007) showed a significant, yet slight, increase over time. Analysis further showed that neither outcome was significantly associated with health literacy, not as an effect and not as interaction. This means that the scores on 'improved understanding' and 'improved confidence' did not differ between adolescents with inadequate and adequate health literacy over time. In addition, the slight increases in 'improved understanding' and 'improved confidence' were also not associated with the level of health literacy.
Associations of health literacy with treatment processes (adherence, improved understanding, and improved confidence) and treatment outcomes (psychosocial problems): results of mixed model analysis with parameter estimates (β), 95% confidence intervals (CI), and p values
Improved understanding
Improved confidence
Psychosocial problems
(95% CI)
0.15 (−0.08, 0.38)
0.27 (0.10, 0.45)
−1.70 (−1.94, −1.46)
< 0.001
Time*Health literacy
−0.16 (−0.57, 0.24)
Time was included as a continuous variable with the values: baseline = 0; 3 months = 0.25; 1 year = 1; 2 years = 2. All analyses were adjusted for age, gender, education level, ethnicity of the adolescent, type of care, and parental health literacy
aNo parameter estimate is given as the main effect of time is not significant
The level of psychosocial problems declined significantly over time (β = − 1.70, 95% CI [− 1.94, − 1.46], p < 0.001). Further analysis showed a significant difference in level of psychosocial problems between adolescents with adequate and inadequate health literacy (β = − 1.70, 95% CI [− 2.72, − 0.69], p = 0.001). However, health literacy level was not associated with the degree of change in psychosocial problems over time; i.e., both adolescents with adequate and inadequate health literacy showed the same decline in problems (β = 0.22, 95% CI [− 0.30, 0.73], p = 0.40). Thus, the difference in level of psychosocial problems, observed at the first measurement, persisted over time.
Since educational level was associated with level of health literacy, we repeated the analyses without adjusting for educational level. This lead to similar results.
This is the first longitudinal study to examine health literacy of adolescents in psychosocial care. We found no association between health literacy level and treatment adherence or learning processes. During treatment, levels of psychosocial problems for adolescents with both inadequate and adequate health literacy decreased to a similar degree, but remained higher for adolescents with inadequate health literacy.
We found no association between health literacy level and changes in treatment adherence or learning processes. These results refute our hypothesis that adolescents with inadequate health literacy are likely to participate less in treatment and experience fewer learning processes. In regard to treatment adherence, previous studies have shown mixed or even weak evidence on the relationship between health literacy and adherence [35, 36, 37]. To our knowledge, no previous research has been done on the association between health literacy and improved understanding and confidence. However, previous studies did show positive associations between adequate health literacy and higher levels of health knowledge, positive beliefs related to health, and self-efficacy [38, 39]. Our results could indicate that in dealing with adolescents with different levels of health literacy, professionals have adequately tailored their treatment. Another explanation may be that most health literacy studies focussed on the medical care setting. Health literacy level may simply not play a role in adherence and learning processes in psychosocial care settings. Third, our measure of health literacy may have been insufficiently sensitive for use in the psychosocial care setting. Finally, missing data on the third and fourth measurement for the outcome variables adherence and learning processes may have resulted in decreased power to detect differences.
We further found that, over the 2-year period following entry into care, levels of psychosocial problems decreased to a similar degree for adolescents with both inadequate and adequate health literacy. It is noteworthy that, at entry into care, adolescents with inadequate health literacy had a significantly higher level of psychosocial problems compared to adolescents with adequate health literacy, and that this difference in psychosocial problems remained the same over the following 2 years. This suggests that adolescents with inadequate health literacy already enter care at a disadvantage and are not able to catch up during a treatment period of 2 years. Other factors which we did not take into account, such as situational determinants (e.g., social support, family, and peer influences), may also play a role here [38]. It should be noted, however, that the difference in level of psychosocial problems, between adolescents with adequate and inadequate health literacy, did not change during treatment. The professionals in this study may have been sufficiently patient-centred to cope with the low health literacy in this group, thus preventing the worsening of relative outcomes over time, as suggested by the other studies [40]. Adequate patient-centred communication, an important determinant of treatment outcomes in psychosocial care for adolescents, may have contributed here [9]. Patient-centred communication strategies may be especially helpful for patients with an inadequate literacy level [41].
Strengths and limitations
This study has major strengths, one being that we were able to assess changes over time and the relationship between health literacy levels and long-term outcomes of psychosocial care, using a representative sample of adolescents entering psychosocial care in one catchment area during a 2-year period. Another strength is that we used two groups of informants: adolescents and their parents for the measurements of psychosocial problems, and adolescents and professionals for measurement of learning processes. Combining different informants, and thereby different perspectives, potentially results in a more objective and stable measure of psychopathology [30, 42].
Several limitations of the study must also be considered. First, regarding our measure of health literacy. The health literacy questions used in this study have not yet been validated for use with adolescents, which casts some uncertainty on the discrimination between those with adequate and inadequate health literacy. However, studies on adults show its validity in general to be high, reducing the likelihood of considerable measurement error. Second, the current study documents the relationship between functional health literacy and treatment outcomes, while insight into other aspects of health literacy may be of importance as well, such as communicative/interactive health literacy, defined as the cognitive and social skills necessary to actively communicate in regard to health information, and critical health literacy, defined as the ability to act on health information [11, 43]. Third, selection bias may have been introduced through the sampling method. However, differences in background characteristics between respondents and non-respondents at baseline were small [15].
This study contributes to the growing research literature on health literacy in adolescents. We found that during treatment, levels of psychosocial problems for adolescents with both inadequate and adequate health literacy decreased to a similar degree, and remained higher for adolescents with inadequate health literacy. This finding suggests an unmet need: adolescents with inadequate health literacy already enter care at a disadvantage. They improve, but do not catch up during treatment compared to those with adequate health literacy.
Our findings further show a need for better ways to measure adolescent health literacy. This applies both to the validity of current measures, as well as their augmentation to include a greater range of aspects of health literacy. This may imply a need for a health literacy measure that is more suitable for the psychosocial care setting. For example, mental health literacy encompasses mental health knowledge, attitudes of stigma, and help-seeking [44]. However, the functional health literacy skills, as investigated in the current study, may also play a role in the psychosocial care setting. This implies a need for further research on the concept and instruments of health literacy and mental health literacy in the psychosocial care setting [45, 46].
Our results also highlight the need for further study on how to reduce health differences between adolescents with inadequate and adequate health literacy in psychosocial care, such as exploring interventions to decrease the rates of psychosocial problems in adolescents with inadequate health literacy. Further exploration into interventions to improve health literacy among these adolescents may also improve their treatment outcomes. Previous studies in other, more susceptible, patient groups have indicated that health literacy interventions are effective [12].
This study has received Grants from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) (Grant Number 737200017), the University Medical Centre Groningen, the University of Groningen, the Province of Groningen, health insurance company Menzis, and child and youth providers Accare and Elker.
On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest. Funders did not have any influence on the design of the study, or the interpretation of the results.
The authors declare this study to be in compliance with ethical standards.
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One Vancouver Seawall Stands Out
When it comes to infrastructure meant to prevent both flooding and property damage along shorelines, large concrete structures are usually what comes to mind. But one Canadian landscape architect took a more artistic approach for a project in Vancouver, BC.
According to the website for Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture, the firm's mission is "to design beautiful natural environments that inspire and refresh those who use them."
Photos: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture
Inspired by sandstone formations in the area, the color of this unique seawall was achieved through the use of Corten steel, which can be left uncoated to develop a rust-colored outer patina.
While many of the company's projects appear to be in classic garden settings, the same vision was at work in the construction of a seawall along a 200-foot section of the English Bay coastline.
'Also a Piece of Art'
The concrete and steel structure, known as Metamorphous, has a multifaceted geometry to it that is more visually interesting than the usual flat concrete walls erected in front of shoreline properties, leading reviewers like City Lab to refer to it as "a seawall that's also a piece of art."
Likewise, in September, the project won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, whose panel of judges jury praised the project, saying "We're desperate for a form that speaks to the 21st century rather than reruns of old ideas."
According to the firm's project narrative, the sandstone features of Saturna Island, BC, inspired both the wall's shape and its coloration. The color was achieved through the use of Corten steel, which can be left uncoated to develop a rust-colored outer patina.
For construction, the team relied on physical and computer models of the Corten steel. The computer model was fed into an automated waterjet cutter in order to minimize material wastage and simplify the complex forms. The resulting efficiencies made costs equivalent to a series of concrete walls, the firm said.
The work had to take tidal fluctuations into consideration when it came to construction as well. To accommodate these restrictions, all of the panels were fabricated and preassembled off site in the metal workshop. The wall pieces were cut into 20-foot segments before being transported to site for final assembly.
The Corten façade also served as a formwork shell, which was filled with shotcrete to enhance the functionality of the retaining wall. Because the steel façade is expected to disintegrate over time (75 to 100 years, according to City Lab), the concrete will also help to convey the original geometries of the wall.
Form with Function
Functionally, 13 feet tall at its western end and six feet at its eastern edge, Metamorphous, along with strategically placed boulders on the shore itself, is intended to help dissipate waves. An added benefit is that it will also allow sand to collect to build up the beach while also creating an environment for plants and sealife.
The Corten façade also served as a formwork shell, which was filled with shotcrete to enhance the functionality of the retaining wall.
According to the architect, dune grasses are becoming established and sand is slowly depositing in the area. Having always been exposed to harsh forces of water worsened by the massive concrete retaining walls along the shoreline, the area has never had a sand beach prior to this.
The new wall has been a successful effort in addressing the functional needs of a private client by stabilizing their property and creating a landscape zone, which is now effectively usable, the architect says.
As a residential project that a few adjacent homeowners joined together to fund, the total cost for the Metamorphous project (including the surrounding landscaping) came to approximately CAN$650,000 (about US$478,000).
"That's not affordable for the average group of neighbors," City Lab wrote, "but still, it challenges lazy assumptions about what water infrastructure has to look like."
Tagged categories: Asia Pacific; Concrete; Design; EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa); Infrastructure; Infrastructure; Latin America; North America; Program/Project Management; Seacoast exposure; Weathering steel
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Best Cities for Your Second Act
For those who've hit retirement age, but aren't quite ready to call it quits, living in a city with quality jobs is important. In addition to employment, activities such as golf, dining out and the theater are also vital for this age group, who still feel young at heart.
To identify the Best Cities for Your Second Act, Kiplinger teamed up with Kevin Stolarick, research director at the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank that studies economic prosperity. All of the cities on our list have reasonable living costs, strong employment growth and a population that scores high on measures of education and tech-savviness. For second acts, we also factored in the number of golf courses as well as the number of artists and musicians.
The cost-of-living index measures how expensive it is to live in a city; the national average score is 100. That means cities with a score below 100 have a lower-than-average cost of living. Nationwide, the median household income is $43,024, and median income growth from 2006 to 2011 was 11.1%. The national unemployment rate is 8.2%.
Check out our picks, and share your thoughts in our reader comment box below.
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5. Barnstable Town, Mass.
Courtesy of William DeSousa-Mauk
Population (metro area): 215,888
Unemployment rate: 6.0%
Cost-of-living index: NA
Restaurants per 100,000 people: 388
Craving a quaint New England lifestyle close to a big city? Barnstable Town, 70 miles southeast of Boston on Cape Cod, is both bucolic and bustling. In Hyannis, one of seven villages that comprise Barnstable, you can visit antique shops, stay in historic inns and B&Bs along bayside beaches, and eat at restaurants serving some of New England's finest seafood. Nightclubs feature live music and dancing.
Check out the Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises from May through October. The six-mile Sandy Neck Beach, a favorite location among locals, offers fishing, swimming, camping, biking and hiking, especially along salt marshes, where you can observe endangered species. Or catch a ferry from Barnstable Harbor to Nantucket and enjoy a day at one of the many beaches on the island, or explore Nantucket's famed Brandt Point Lighthouse or Whaling Museum.
Housing is expensive here -- the median price is just below $300,000, compared to the national average of $158,000. A 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Centerville (one of seven villages that comprise Barnstable) costs $535,000.
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4. Springfield, Ill.
Courtesy of Springfield IL Convention & Visitors Bureau
Cost-of-living index: 88.1
Illinois's state capital may be known to many as the home of Abraham Lincoln – scores of historic locales and museums pay tribute to America's famed president – but Springfield is gaining greater notoriety, especially among second act-ers, for its lively arts scene, outdoor and recreational activities, and cultural and historic landmarks.
Springfield is an artistic haven in the Midwest, thanks in part to its museums and art galleries, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Springfield Muni Opera and the newly restored Legacy Theatre, where you can catch an occasional Broadway musical.
Nature lovers can explore the more than 30 public parks and wildlife sanctuaries; among the highlights is eagle watching along the Illinois River. For sailing, fishing or boating, Lake Springfield is ten miles south.
3. Austin, Tex.
Population (metro area): 1,716,289
Bored with the status quo? Restart your life Austin-style, with tacos at Guero's, haute cuisine at the Driskill Hotel, rockabilly at the Continental Club, symphonies at the Backyard, hiking and biking in the 809-acre Barton Creek Greenbelt and downtown lofts for enjoying the city life.
If you must keep working, you'll find opportunity in Austin for established professionals. Not only is the city looking to fill mid- to senior-level tech jobs but "we also have lots of start-ups that need 'adult supervision,'" says Melissa Alvarado of the Mayor's Office for Economic Development. The Austin area added 19,200 jobs over a recent 12-month period; professional and business services saw the most growth.
Austin's popularity has its downside. "Traffic is a nightmare between 4:30 and 6:30," says Melanie Tipps, a freelance photographer, and housing prices are heading up, thanks to strong demand. Still, people flock to this city for at least one good reason, says Tipps. "It never gets boring here."
2. Santa Fe, N.M.
Santa Fe is an oasis in the Southwest desert—and not just for its climate. As the capital of New Mexico and the closest city to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe has long enjoyed low unemployment and an abundance of high-paying, highly skilled jobs. Research and technology employ thousands here, as do the hospitality industry, the regional medical center and the region's thriving arts community.
In fact, with a renowned opera and some 240 galleries, Santa Fe ranks among the largest art markets in the country. The city boasts four art districts, ranging from the high-end jewelry shops around its 400-year-old adobe plaza to the two-mile stretch of Spanish farmhouses, restaurants and galleries on Canyon Road. These amenities don't come cheap, and the median home price is about $210,000 above the national average. Still, the area's strong economy, vibrant art scene and picture-perfect scenery continue to draw tourists and transplants alike.
1. Portland, Maine
Cost-of-living index: 113.1
Portland's lively arts scene, highly skilled workforce and inventive cuisine, along with a low crime rate and high-quality medical facilities, are drawing professionals who are making their home base here and telecommuting or flying to their jobs. The cost of living is slightly higher than the national average, but compared with big-city prices, housing is affordable. Newly built two-bedroom condos on the eastern side of downtown sell for $360,000.
Downtown Portland offers boutiques, art galleries and restaurants along cobblestone streets. The arts district includes a symphony, ballet, an opera company, a theater and the Portland Museum of Art. Portland's renowned food scene offers everything from hardwood-cooked game to its famed steamed lobster.
Portland has its challenges. Homelessness is up (a task force is addressing the problem), and winters are long and cold. Locals either wait them out in warmer climates, head north to ski, or pop in to one of the many restaurants for a hot bowl of chowder. |
WikiLeaks documents show Afghan successes and failures
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Training of and handing over security responsibilities to the Afghan police and military forces has been a central component of Afghanistan strategy during the last two administrations. Among the tens of thousands of documents published by WikiLeaks are a series of reports on the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. The reports chronicle successes and failures of both agencies from 2004-2009. Although both agencies have had failures, a preliminary review of the documents suggests that the ANP has more problems than the ANA.
Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington DC, says that the mixed bag of results in the reports are apparent when reading raw military reporting and traffic. "If you had taken 90,000 documents from the Allied forces that invaded Normandy in 1944 until they reached V-E Day in 1945, you probably would have found the same kind of success stories and failures mixed together," Riedel told CNN.
Among their successes were the capture of Ali Mohammed and Akeeb Khan during separate operations in 2007. The documents allege that both men had played roles in the anti-coalition insurgency in Afghanistan, either with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. Both reports go into extensive detail into how and where both men were captured, but do not reveal the sources of the intelligence which led to those operations. Both Mohammed and Khan's names appear in a highly redacted list of detainees held by the United States at Bagram Air Base obtained by the ACLU last January.
Failures in these reports show instances of dysfunction, incompetence, and even criminality within the police and army ranks.
Tribal tensions flared at an ANP station in Delaram in 2005. Two units from different tribes began fighting over money and water. By the time a U.S. military unit arrived on the scene, two ANP officers had been killed and another two were wounded.
In 2007, ANA officers went after five ANP officers who had deserted their unit in an effort to talk them out of their decision or get them to hand over their weapons. According to the report, they returned five minutes later with an ANP officer who had been fatally wounded by a warning shot. That wasn't the end of the incident, though. The report noted that "all ANP in the area are being withdrawn to prevent an attempted honor killing."
Also in 2007, two Afghan police officers got into a heated debate that escalated with one "not seriously" shooting the other, according to the document, which also noted "The shooting was not accidental the policeman (sic) had been arguing with each other for a few days."
In 2008, an unidentified Afghan police officer was in a public shower smoking hashish when two Afghan army officers walked in. The police officer felt threatened and a firefight broke out, in which one army officer was killed and the other wounded. The police officer fled the scene but was later apprehended.
Despite the sheer volume of material that has been released, Riedel, a former CIA officer with experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan, cautioned against jumping to any conclusions. "This is really the raw material of the war, unassessed, raw fragmentary data that I think, in each case, you have to be very careful how much of a larger picture you can conclude from these fragments and snippets."
CNN has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents.
Post by: CNN's David de Sola
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McKool Smith, one of the nation's leading trial firms, has secured a $145 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Ottawa, Canada-based WiLAN Inc. against Apple, Inc.
The verdict was announced on August 1, 2018 following a jury trial before Judge Dana M. Sabraw in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. After 1.5 hours of deliberations, jurors awarded WiLAN $145.1 million in damages finding that Apple infringed WiLAN's 8,457,145 and 8,537,757 patents, which cover voice over LTE ("VoLTE") wireless communication technology used in many Apple products, including the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus.
"The jury worked very hard to understand the complex technology involved in the case, and they weighed the evidence very carefully," said Mike McKool, Chairman of McKool Smith. "Our client is pleased with the verdict."
Along with Mike McKool, the McKool Smith trial team included firm principals Brett E. Cooper, Ashley N. Moore, Steven J. Pollinger, Jonathan Yim, and Seth Hasenour, and associates Warren Lipschitz, Kevin Schubert, Christopher P. McNett, and Drew Hollander.
The case is Wi-LAN Inc v. Apple Inc., case number 3:14-cv-02235-DMS-BLM, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
With more than 185 trial lawyers across offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Marshall, New York, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C., McKool Smith has established a reputation as one of America's leading trial firms. Since 2006, the firm has secured eleven nine-figure jury verdicts and twelve eight-figure jury verdicts. The firm has also won more VerdictSearch and The National Law Journal "Top 100 Verdicts" over the last ten years than any other law firm in the country. Courtroom successes like these have earned McKool Smith critical acclaim and helped the firm become what The Wall Street Journal describes as "one of the biggest law firm success stories of the past decade." McKool Smith represents clients in complex commercial litigation, intellectual property, insurance recovery, bankruptcy, and white collar defense matters.
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Denver millennials need at least 11 years to save for a home
Megan Arellano
May. 24, 2016, 7:56 p.m.
Even college-educated millennials with no debt need at least a decade to save for the down payment on a Denver home, says a new report from Apartment List.
The firm's data science director tells the Denver Post that's because millennials in the city make (and save) less than in other places:
"The takeaway for Denver is that it is quite unaffordable for all three groups of renters," said Andrew Woo, director of data science at the San Francisco-based provider of apartment listings and market research.
Mix in the city's high home prices, and you end up with a city unusually difficult for would-be millennial homebuyers. As the Denver Business Journal points out:
"Nationwide, the report found that most college-educated millennials can afford a home in their metro, with it taking fewer than 6 years to save for the downpayment. Denver was one of the outliers: It would take the average college-educated millennial (with or without debt) more than 13 years to save for a home."
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Former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner visits UC Irvine
"Growing up wedged between two older and younger brothers, I developed a very early interest in human rights," Mary Robinson cleverly explained in her Gaelic accent to a crowd of UC Irvine students, faculty, staff and local community members. The former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visited the UC Irvine campus on April 19, 2007 to share her international experiences as an advocate for human rights as the UC Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy's Peltason lecturer and a guest of the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series.
Robinson's interest in human rights developed further into a passion after making several trips to Rwanda while serving as the President of Ireland and later in her position with the United Nations. "I saw piles of children's clothes, walls spattered with blood, women completely alone, many HIV positive," she says of her first trip to the country, shortly after the Rwandan genocide. It was a very eye opening experience, she recalls, that strengthened her resolve to "put rhetoric into action."
In discussions of human rights issues, people have a tendency to place more of an emphasis on political rights, she says. "In reality, the more important issues are the most basic of needs - food, shelter, safety," Robinson says. She now travels the world campaigning for international human rights through lectures on college and university campuses as well as her positions on several committees and projects including the Council of Woman World Leaders which Robinson helped found, and Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, a program promoting ethical trade and development, humane migration policies and better responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries.
Pulling a tattered copy of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights from her inside jacket pocket - a small book she noted that she never leaves home without - Robinson delved into the focal point of her lecture on human rights. Singling out two articles in the UN Declaration, Robinson emphasized the duty and responsibility of all people in society to protect and promote international human rights. "Everyday, over 30,000 children under the age of five die from disease, hunger and lack of immunization. This is completely unnecessary," she explained. "If we don't fulfill our duties to the community, we haven't reached our full potential."
Robinson went on to discuss her involvement with the UN's Millennium Declaration, explaining the goals addressed within the Declaration as a "way to make globalization work for all people," tackling issues associated with education, hunger and infant mortality worldwide.
The events of September 11, 2001 had a devastating effect on human rights, Robinson explained, calling the attacks "a crime against humanity". The attacks diverted attention away from the millennium goals, and the international focus became terrorism rather than humanity, she said. "It's time for reflection," Robinson said as she challenged the United States to hold a conference on reflection, similar to the Club of Madrid, in order to come together to discuss the impact of September 11 on society. Her comments were met with applause from many in attendance.
Robinson made another challenge to those seated in the audience; that "individuals and businesses work together to make known the universal rights of all human beings." Calling everyone to action, Robinson recited a quote from one of her heroines, Eleanor Roosevelt, and concluded her formal talk:
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." --Eleanor Roosevelt
A question and answer session immediately followed Robinson's formal lecture. A member of the audience asked a question as to Robinson's perspective on balancing freedom and human rights within a society with respect to the attacks of September 11 and the more recent school shootings at Virginia Tech. Robinson explained that "balance is at the very heart of the challenge." "I was very taken aback at the erosion of US civil liberties after 9/11," Robinson said. She further explained that in her opinion, the balance between these two issues has tipped too far to one side in the United States, stating that there "needs to be a serious reassessment." As for the Virginia Tech incident, Robinson called it "a wake up call for more regulation of gun control" in the United States.
A follow up question was asked, inquiring if the Bush administration, in her opinion, was a violation of human rights, to which Robinson very respectfully declined to comment.
A final question came from the audience, asking Robinson what the most memorable aspects of her career campaigning for human rights have been. Robinson noted her travels to countries with severe human rights issues - Sierra Leone, the Congo - where she has been able to bring home the responsibility of the government to protect its people. Describing the "quiet heroism" she witnessed - "the heroes and heroines in local areas who stand up against the torture of their people, often at the cost of their own lives" - Robinson explained as very memorable experiences.
The evening concluded with the Center for CitizenPeacebuilding awarding Robinson their fifth annual Citizen Peacebuilding Award for her "courage and compassion" campaigning for international human rights.
-Heather Wuebker, Social Sciences Communications |
By Ludovica Serafini on 5 Dec 2018
COP24: Real facts or just dreams
Over the next two weeks more than 22,000 people – including parties, observers, and journalists will arrive to in the little mining city of Katowice (Poland). Guests will be welcomed not only by delicious pierogi (typical Polish dish) and cold temperatures, but above all by a crisp and exhilarating atmosphere. As the eyes of the…
By Agnese Ruggiero - Policy Officer on 30 Nov 2018
Making Horizon Europe a tool to truly achieve the Paris Agreement goals – OpEd
The EU's Horizon Europe for research and innovation provides an opportunity to unleash the potential of low-carbon technologies that will help Europe in the transition to a carbon neutral economy. This, however, is contingent on its design, writes Agnese Ruggiero. Published in Euractiv.com Agnese Ruggiero is a Policy Officer at Carbon Market Watch, an NGO…
EU's Long Term Strategy offers hope for net-zero carbon future
Today, the EU Commission released its "Long Term Strategy for a Clean Planet For All", an ambitious plan for Europe to tackle climate change and fulfill its commitment to the Paris Agreement. Carbon Market Watch welcomes the strategy, in particular the EU Commission's open support for net-zero emissions by 2050. Of the 8 scenarios outlined…
By Agnese Ruggiero on 25 Oct 2018
National Energy and Climate Plans: a strong tool to implement the Paris Agreement but only if participative and ambitious
Engaging in a dialogue with all stakeholders is imperative for effective policy making, to ensure that the measures put forward can count on public support, and guarantee proper implementation. In the coming months, a particularly important opportunity for the active engagement of multi-level stakeholders will be the development and implementation of National Energy and Climate…
By Femke de Jong on 9 Oct 2018
Waste gases from steel worse for the climate than coal
The IPCC, the leading body of climate scientists, released a report this week showing that without unprecedented and rapid action, it will not be possible to avoid dangerous climate change. A major share of the efforts to keep global warming to 1.5°C will need to come from industry, which is the end-use sector responsible for…
By Gilles Dufrasne on 8 Oct 2018
New IPCC report shows 1.5C° is still possible, but more needed from aviation and shipping
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a leading climate science body, has published a report on the scientific evidence relating to 1.5C° global warming. The report shows that it is still possible to limit warming to 1.5C° and avoid dangerous climate change. Reaching this goal, however, would require rapid and large-scale climate…
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By Femke de Jong on 5 Jun 2018
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Carbon Market Watch is working to advance the carbon-free transformation of Europe's industry. But what does this actually mean and how does it affect our daily lives? On the occasion of World Environment Day under the theme 'Beating Plastic Pollution', we provide a deep-dive into the role of plastics. Plastics have become part of our…
Carbon Market Watch Newsletter – January 2018
Editorial Happy 2018, a pivotal year for stepping up climate action The World Economic Forum's latest Global Risk Report places climate change as the number one threat facing the world in 2018 – a hot topic at this year's meeting of world leaders in Davos. Our message to the crowds gathered in the Alpine town:…
By Gilles Dufrasne on 24 Jan 2018
Will this be the world's most significant carbon pricing scheme?
Canada's new nation-wide carbon pricing strategy is a promising step towards putting a robust price on pollution, but some of the scheme's technical details such as intensity-based targets cast doubt on its environmental effectiveness. The start of a new year marks the launch of Canada's nation-wide carbon pricing strategy, which was announced in 2016 as… |
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Together Festival Returns to Bangkok with Disclosure, Steve Aoki & More
Hailed as one of Bangkok's most revered single day festivals, Together Festival has announced details for its first spectacle of 2016. This year, the stage will showcase one of its most stellar line-ups to date as it plans to host a melting pot of Grammy Award-winning and nominated international artists including UK act Disclosure for their highly anticipated debut performance in Thailand. The fifth edition of Together Festival will take place on Friday May 6th, 2016 at the BITEC Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Doors for the event will open at 5pm. Tickets are now available for purchase starting at ฿2,200 with & VVIP tables service starting at 45000 Baht and can be purchased from the following locations.
Dance music enthusiasts will relish in the line-up that is beginning to take shape because along with Disclosure, Together Festival is welcoming back Grammy nominated artist, founder of Dim Mak Records and one of dance music most exciting personas Steve Aoki, as well as Grammy Award-wining duo Nervo who are Australia's best export as far as EDM goes. The final name of the first release is Dutch DJ duo Firebeatz, who bring their high-energy, self-produced set to Bangkok. Trance music fans will be excited to see the name Andrew Rayel on the bill, as it will be the Moldavian DJ and producers first time in Thailand. Future house maestro Tchami is also hitting the big stage, shaking things up with his distinct style of house. The final addition to the line-up sees Swedish powerhouse pair Galantis added to the bill, made up of Grammy Award-winning artist Christian Karlsson of Mike Snow and Linus Eklöw, otherwise known as Style of Eye.
Together Festival is a world-class electronic dance music event that has been dominating the festival landscape in Bangkok for five years now!
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Curmudgeonly romantic writer Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a neurotic homophobic racist who enjoys insulting his gay neighbour, artist Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear), and being rude to waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) at his local restaurant. However, when Simon is hospitalised, it falls to Melvin to…
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December 29, 2021 Changes for the Better
Movie Theaters, Museums, Zoos, Expand Capacity On Long Island
With the reopening of the movie theaters, zoos, museums as well as other entertainment venues are widely appreciated by the people in Long Island. Based on the recent report from the Government, Movie theaters are allowed to have more than 25% up to 33%. Both the Indoor and outdoor Arts & Entertainments across Long Island are mainly considered as Low risk. These mainly include the Museums, historical sites; zoos as well as aquariums would mainly boost the capacity to about 50%.
These seating has been only up to 25% in the last few months based on the rules and regulation that is set by the government. The Cradle of Aviation in Garden City is one of the famous museums and they have been allowed to easily accommodate more than 1500 people a day. President Andrew Parton of The Cradle of Aviation in Garden City states that this is one of the big steps for restoring normalcy. With more people coming to visit the museum, it helps to increase the restoration.
Increased Seating Capacity:
More large indoor arenas across the country would also increase their capacity to more than 25% from May 19, 2021. With the increase in capacity, there would be more people visiting the top venues in Long Island. With the impact of the covid19 spread across the world, there has been more number of Lockdowns to reduce the spread of the virus. Seating capacity on the movie theaters, museum, and other places have been greatly reduced.
Recently the Government has reduced the restriction with the seating arrangements so that the people could come into the normalcy. Safety guidelines are still in place even with the opening of the Arts & Entertainments industry in the country. These mainly include the requirement of masks as well as social distancing. News of these loosening restrictions was announced earlier this month. Along with which the news came with an update on the state's vaccination program, as well as many other attributes.
Arts And Entertainments:
The government is also urging people to continue to get vaccinated. States also ranked based on resources available for helping the businesses to easily recover. These also give the double weight for the rainy day fund in the state. It would mainly share the workers with the paid sick leave along with sharing people who are working from home. The Arts & Entertainments has mainly increased in the modern day with wider growth even from the impact of the spreading covid19.
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The industry has been increased with people across the country visiting movie theaters, museums, and many others. These are also a suitable option for providing a suitable solution for increasing the economy of the country to the extent. Movie theaters are allowed to fill at 33% capacity.
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Winding up a law school: the case of Indiana Tech
Indiana Tech's law school will shut down after this semester, and Charlotte's cannot be long for this world. What will happen to their assets?
Soon after last autumn's announcement of Indiana Tech's impending closure, Eric Welch of Muncie, Indiana, demanded that that glorious Harvard on the Wabash (as I called it in a previous article) return the $20k that he had put up to endow a scholarship:
http://www.theindianalawyer.com/impending-closure-of-indiana-tech-law-school-brings-anger-uncertainty/PARAMS/article/42030
Unlike me, Welch is "very disappointed" by the shuttering of Indiana Tech. He established the scholarship in order "to help a law student with a well-rounded body of work, extracurricular activities and classroom studies". Generous though his donation indubitably was, it would not have helped a law student very much: a base of $20k invested at 5% would have supported a scholarship of only $1k per year, nothing like the $30k that Indiana Tech originally charged (but admittedly more than the $0 that Indiana Tech charged in its penultimate year). And I'm not convinced that a single deserving student could be found at Indiana Tech. Hell, only one member of the first year's graduating class passed the bar exam (and another got in on appeal).
Nonetheless, Welch endowed a scholarship in perpetuity, and he certainly didn't expect Indiana Tech to shut up shop in less than four years. His purpose has been thwarted by the very recipient of his largesse. Why shouldn't he get his money back?
Shambaugh Kast Beck & Williams LLP of Fort Wayne apparently donated $25k for a scholarship. Rather than seeking a refund, it plans to let Indiana Tech put the money towards some other program. But Welch doesn't want his money to support the bachelor's program in recreation therapy or the infamous PhD in global leadership (for which Fort Wayne is an internationally recognized center of excellence). And why should he? The university may have a legal claim to those funds but not a moral claim. It should give the money back to Welch or at least transfer it to a law school of his choice.
But the contention at Indiana Tech goes well beyond scholarships. Washington-based lawyer Christopher Mackaronis represents thirteen students and two faculty members of soon-to-be-defunct Indiana Tech. He is "looking into misrepresentation and fraud", as Indiana Tech allegedly duped students and staff alike into moving to Fort Wayne (not exactly the Côte d'Azur) and forgoing other opportunities.
And what about the art collection that Indiana Tech touted even before it opened? Is the university simply going to absorb that collection? Has the artwork already been sold off to make up part of the law skule's eight-figure losses?
These concerns apply in spades to the Charlotte School of Law. Although Harlotte doesn't have a parent university that can absorb its assets, it is owned by the notorious InfiLaw chain of scam schools. Does InfiLaw have the right to absorb any endowments that donors may have set up for scholarships at Harlotte? Would it be appropriate, morally or legally, to move those funds from Harlotte to Horrida Coastal or Arizona Scum Pit?
Two law schools are on their death bed, and others are likely to follow. We shall see what happens to their estates, so to speak. For now, anyone wishing to endow a scholarship should consider using an independent foundation rather than putting the law school in control of the funds.
Posted by Old Guy at 23:55
Nando February 8, 2017 at 5:48 AM
The money will remain with the pigs. After all, that is the name of the game.
Hip Hop and the Law is priceless. Give it to andré douglas pond cummings so he can buy a premium refrigerator box to live in now that he's going to live in the ghetto for realz...
2 down, another 100 to go. Half of the lawl schools got to go.
Well, lots of colleges and for-profit schools have closed and these things get sorted out one way or another. Where there's only $20K in play I figure the donor won't sue and if he does the executors of the TTTT will just write a check rather than hire, presumably, a graduate of someone else's law school.
Old Guy February 8, 2017 at 11:35 AM
Shambaugh Kast Beck & Williams LLP has a lawyer on the board of Indiana Tech. That lawyer was involved in the "feasibility study" that determined—surprise!—that a law school at Indiana Tech was viable. Perhaps that's why the firm is not asking for the return of its money: it can hardly claim to have been deceived when one of its own members participated in the "feasibility study".
An attorney friend of mine once commented to me about another local lawyer who had sued a high school kid for slander on behalf of a union teacher who was on the Board of Education and it got in the papers. He said: "Before today I had always thought that other than being arrested or disciplined there was no such thing as a lawyer getting bad publicity." I suspect there is a firm in Fort Wayne that is seeing his point right about now.
Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King February 8, 2017 at 12:36 PM
The Indiana Toll Road eventually leads to Chicago's Expressways where struggling Solos in their LeSabres can pass billboards offering Traffic Ticket Defense for $49.00. "Don't Pay that Ticket!" Make 20K back in no time. All you need is 408 new clients!!!!!! Each not guilty and demanding trial!!!!! No Pleas!!!
I was hoping Charlotte would follow the ITT Tech model and just close. I know they (the law school administration) think they're going to be able to scam their way out of this, but they need to just give up the ghost.
Key difference: Indiana Tech has to support its toilet to the prejudice of its overall operation. Infilaw has nothing to lose by milking theirs for everything they can until the loan money dries up.
Old Guy February 9, 2017 at 2:56 AM
If one of InfiLaw's toilets becomes unprofitable, InfiLaw will be in the same position as Indiana Tech.
7:18 here, Old Guy. My point is that InfiLaw has filled its owners' pockets with millions. They can shut it down and open up a new, similar operation elsewhere. Indiana Tech, however, has Trustees who could face personal liability for breaching their fiduciary duty should they tank the whole place pursuing the hopeless cause of getting a law school up to speed. The pigs running InfiLaw have no such worries. Hell, they could make a plausible argument that the best business decision is, recognizing sooner or later they're going under, that it's best to just keep the loan money flowing as long as possible.
In December 1963 Studebaker shut down U.S. car manufacturing, but was still in business because they had diversified into other industries. They did, however, keep their Canadian car plant running. The Board of Directors knew full well that that, too, would eventually fold but by selling 1964 Studebakers as '64s, '65s and '66s, adding only a new grille for '66, they dramatically cut their losses by running through the huge backlog of parts and components that were in the pipeline. Think of Charlotte as the South Bend plant and Florida Coastal and Arizona Summit at the Hamilton, Ontario plant.
1:18 PM here: I was referring in my earlier comment to ITT Tech, not Indiana Tech. I'm certainly not praising ITT Tech, but at least they had the good sense to know it was over.
Old Guy February 8, 2017 at 2:07 PM
More on Harlotte:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/business/dealbook/for-profit-charlotte-school-of-law-loans.html
A lawyer in North Carolina points out that debt, with interest, comes to some $175k per student at Harlotte. "It would require an income of over $122,000 to be able to afford just the interest on a student loan of that size. Most North Carolina lawyers don't earn that much."
And something similar can be said about most other law schools: the graduates just won't be able to pay their debt.
Why exactly should people get to take out loans—federally guaranteed and non-dischargeable—that they won't be able to repay without a miracle?
dupednontraditional February 9, 2017 at 12:13 PM
$175-fricken'-k. Amazing. Per the article:
'That is little consolation to Ms. Valentine, who continues to take classes in the hope of earning her degree in May.
"We were sold a dream," she said. "This is affecting real lives." '
As we have said multiple times on OTLSS, the behavior by the Cartel affects real people with real lives. Heartbreaking and frustrating both that some people have to get screwed in order to prove the point, although if Ms. Valentine heads for the hills now, she could conceivably get a discharge of her loans. One can hope.
"Not the way to bet." - Pete Rose
There are only a few cities in the country that will pay that type of salary, and even then the vast majority of graduates won't sniff those jobs.
I always thought it ridiculous that a law school in the middle of rural Oklahoma for instance could charge NYC rates. It's not like the land costs the same or any of the other resources. What excuse do the schools have for such insane costs?
The basic rule for the liberal left is anything that they can charge they will charge. Everyone else has to watch costs and justify what they charge, as attorneys you can't charge unreasonable rates for the location and for the quality of work you do, but these garbage schools can charge whatever they want, wherever they want.
One possible fix for law is that only lawyers can be administrators or professors in a law school, all subject to the state bar association. Let character and fitness start sorting things out. It might not do anything, but might make them sweat a little at least. Mandatory pro bono for all professors and administrators, since they love suggesting it for students and new graduates. Then if they can't properly represent these pro bono clients, they can risk their licenses, in which case they can't teach/collect law school salaries, and now suddenly they have some skin in the game.
Just a fantasy though.
I'm not sure that Ms. Valentine is so innocent and deserving of having her loans discharged, which really means having them transferred to the public. Anyway, she's still at Harlotte, and she expects to graduate in May, so she won't get her debts discharged.
I see no reason to blame "the liberal left" for the law-school scam. Certainly right-wing scamsters abound.
BamBam February 9, 2017 at 8:10 PM
There is just one reason they charge so much--because they can.
I"ve noticed in these cases where there are ballooning numbers of schools opening, the deanships go to unrelated PhDs.
Captain Hruska Carswell, Continuance King February 9, 2017 at 7:13 AM
This is a bit sad. After all, this is an institution of higher learning and by extension an anti-dote to anti-intellectualism and Trumpism. Indiana is a conservative, dystopian wasteland. It is flat, filled with factory farms, massive soy bean and corn plantations. It is dotted by town after town of Dollar Generals, Used Car lots (Saturns, Pontiacs, and old Kias), fire works stands, Gun and Pawn Shops, diabetes clinics and corrugated steal Casey's. It is a drecky, drab place. Indianapolis which overwhelmingly voted Clinton is the only bight spot. Otherwise, the State is a dumpy version of Iowa. This school was actually a breath of fresh air if it succeeded.
Stonemason, Esq. February 12, 2017 at 5:39 PM
How is getting financially molested by a bunch of professors going to function as an antidote to Trumpism?!? If anything, it serves as a shining example of a Trumpist's suspicious that education is just a racket and that we need to put more faith in the El Presidente.
Commenting on why people should stay clear of the top law schools. Do a linked in search for attorney Axiom. You will see 35 Harvard Law grads listed,32 Columbia Law, 31 Michigan, 31 Fordham as the top schools represented by numbers.
Problem is that Axiom is a temp agency, with very unstable jobs. You are employed one minute and the job has ended the next minute. Axiom is where many grads of the top law schools are ending up. Not exactly a great way to pay a mortgage, let alone your law school loans.
Old Guy February 9, 2017 at 11:21 PM
Some 150 current and former students of Harlotte are suing their alma mater:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/attorneys-file-lawsuits-for-150-plus-students-against-charlotte-school-of-law/489667217
Some of these juristic geniuses "have failed the bar multiple times; others should not have been admitted or were forced to drop out". Debt runs as high as $200k.
Old Guy,
Maybe Indiana Tech and Charlotte could hire Tom Vu as a consultant. Tom Vu was the infomercial star who promised to teach students the secret to making millions in real estate. He eventually shut down his operation after several lawsuits and government investigations. In retrospect, he should have said there was a critical shortage of women and minorities in the real estate business. He was just giving access to people who otherwise wouldn't have had a chance.
America doesn't need any more Cooley Law Schools.
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Elmwood Park, N.J.--Improvements in the New York City economy has resulted in some concession burn-off in the northern N.J. suburban markets, particularly in Hudson County.
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Elmwood Park, N.J.—Improvements in the New York City economy has resulted in some concession burn-off in the northern N.J. suburban markets, particularly in Hudson County.
The Hoboken, Weehawken, West New York, Jersey City, Edgewater and Fort Lee corridor, in particular, is a bedroom community to New York, explains Michael J. Fasano, vice president/regional manager of the Elmwood Park, N.J. office of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. "As things have improved in N.Y., there's been a benefit to Hudson County. Concessions are no longer as deep as they once were, rent levels have stabilized and occupancy has improved," he tells MHN.
Union and West Essex Counties are also benefitting from the accessibility to New York City, as well as the presence of some major employers. Vacancy rates here are averaging in the 4 percent range at Class B and C properties, according to Marcus & Millichap's third-quarter 2010 Market Update on the State of New Jersey.
At the same time, some urban markets, such as Trenton, Camden, Newark, for example, experienced different dynamics than the suburban markets. "Operators are faced with vacancy issues and collection issues," points out Fasano. "When we look at distressed assets in N.J. we're not finding distressed multifamily assets in suburban markets, but you are finding them in urban markets."
According to the report, statewide vacancy has increased 20 bps in the past year, to 4.9 percent. Vacancy in Northern New Jersey improved 10 bps, to 5.1 percent. Central New Jersey vacancy increased 20 bps, to 4.1 percent, while vacancy in the southern portion of the state improved 40 bps, to 7.5 percent.
Part of the stability, notes Fasano, can be attributed to a lack of new mult
ifamily construction, and while there was some shadow market in 2009, most of that has been absorbed. (According to the report, there are over 6,700 units in the planning pipeline, but none of the projects have announced a groundbreaking date.)
The report also notes that overall asking rents for the state fell 0.8 percent, with effective rents dropping 0.9 percent. Marcus & Millichap projects, however, that asking rents will increase 1.3 percent, while effective rents will rise 2 percent.
On the investment side, activity has picked up and multiple offers are being places on multifamily properties that come to the market, according to Fasano. "There's been a correction on pricing, but from where the pricing was, we are seeing compression on cap rates," notes Fasano.
The median sales price overall has declined 7 percent over the past year, to $73,840 per unit, according to Marcus & Millichap's report. (The median price in Central N.J. increased 3 percent, to $93,330 per unit, while assets in Southern N.J. saw a 10 percent decline, to $62,325 per unit.)
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Overall, the Hudson corridor's accessibility to New York City positions it for a strong recovery, Fasano asserts. "As N.Y. grows and job creation begins in N.Y., those markets are going to benefit from it first." At the same time, however, he tells MHN that the urban areas that have struggled with unemployment have the greatest potential for an upside in value-add opportunities.
N.J. overall has always been in the top-five of the markets that Marcus & Millichap tracks, Fasano adds, "in large part because of the strong, stable fundamentals." And some of the initiatives that are coming out of Trenton over the course of the last year, he notes, has been making the state more business-friendly, which will, in turn, position the multifamily market for a strong recovery.
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Following its record-breaking run in theaters, Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. Plenty of new information about The Russo Brothers' epic blockbuster have become available ahead of its home release, as the directors and writers fielded interviews about Endgame's complicated narrative. Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus wrote both Infinity War and Endgame, and recently revealed that the search for the Time Stone during the Time Heist originally looked much different.
During Avengers: Endgame's epic time heist, the newly formed Professor Hulk traveled to the Sanctum Sanctorum to acquire the Time Stone from Tilda Swinton's Ancient One. It took some convincing, but he was eventually able to get the stone, promising to return it after snapping the dusted back to life. Christopher Markus recently revealed another plan for the Time Stone that got cut, saying:
At one point, we had a different way of getting to the Time Stone which involved some characters breaking into (Doctor Strange's) Sanctum Sanctorum and being pursued by all the weird stuff that happens to be trapped inside there. It was totally off story and unnecessary and it got cut, but it was fun to write.
Well, that's quite different. While Bruce Banner used his mind and reasoning skills to get The Ancient One to hand over the Time Stone, he was originally in for a much more theatrical adventure. Alas, it got cut for time during the massive blockbuster.
Christopher Markus' comments to Canada.com shine a light on the process of crafting Avengers: Endgame's massive story. The blockbuster had three distinct acts, and the writers/directors had to cram a ton of plot lines and characters into the blockbuster. The second act saw the surviving Avengers traveling through the MCU timeline, attempting to gather the Infinity Stones to bring back half the population.
Bruce Banner succeeded in convincing the Ancient One to hand over the Time Stone, after revealing how her successor Stephen Strange handed over its power to Thanos in Infinity War. It was a surprisingly low action exchange, although fans were happy to see Tilda Swinton's departed character return to the silver screen.
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The Sanctum Sanctorum is a major setting in Marvel comics, and was obviously a big part of Doctor Strange. But the magical house of Bleeker Street didn't factor heavily into the events of the last two Avengers movies. Endgame originally did just that, as Hulk would have been forced to break into the Sanctum, and battle off the various magical entities that live within those walls.
Unfortunately, that type of mystical side quest would have slowed down Avengers: Endgame's runtime, and the epic Time Heist itself. So while the filmmakers likely made the right decision, Marvel fans may have some FOMO thinking about the Doctor Strange content that could have been.
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Even though Kyrie Irving is gone, it seems that LeBron James still can't get over his departure.
by Asmir Pekmic (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
November 15, 2017 at 7:56 AM Updated on November 17, 2017 at 11:12 AM
Kyrie Irving is not on the Cleveland Cavaliers anymore, yet it appears that LeBron James still hasn't gotten over it. The Cavaliers forward has been focused on improving his team lately, but it seems that Irving is still in the back of his mind. The King of subtweets recently talked about isaiah thomas, who might return to action next month, but he threw shade at Irving at the same time.
One of the reasons for the Cavaliers' struggles this season is Thomas' absence. After suffering a season-ending injury in last year's playoffs, the point guard has yet to appear in a game for the Cavaliers. LeBron James understands that Thomas is a great player and that Cleveland would be a much better team with him, and that is why he decided to talk about him.
James talks about Thomas...and Irving
LeBron's Cavaliers are 7-7 this season and their last game was very intense. Cleveland was down by more than 20 points against the New York Knicks, but LeBron James and Kyle Korver took over in the fourth quarter, making a big comeback and winning the game. Their next game is in Charlotte and the Cavaliers will be able to finally get back to a winning record.
LeBron recently acknowledged that the Cavaliers miss Isaiah Thomas and that he'd have a big impact on the team. He praised Thomas' scoring ability and his ability to get his teammates involved. The four-time MVP also said that it's been a while since he had a player like that on his team. Ouch.
"It's been a while since I've had that clear-cut guy who can get guys involved but also score at the same time.
But it's fine. It's something that our team will make an adjustment to," James told Howard Beck of Bleacher Report. While LeBron obviously complimented Thomas and his skills, it is also clear that he took a shot at Kyrie Irving. Irving was a great scorer, and even though he wasn't a pass-first guard, he did a great job involving his teammates in Cleveland.
Isaiah Thomas' return
Cleveland Cavaliers still don't know when Isaiah Thomas will return, but it seems that we could see him back in action next month. Thomas feels much better and he's been involved in a few light practices recently. The point guard was also seen in pre-game shootarounds.
If the Cavaliers bounce back and start winning games, Thomas will most likely be out until January.
There is no need to rush his return as he won't be needed much in a regular season. However, as long as he gets healthy before the playoffs, Cleveland will benefit from his on-court presence.
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The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: What Role for the Commonwealth in Environmental Impact Assessment?
Padgett, RJ and Kriwoken, LK, The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: What Role for the Commonwealth in Environmental Impact Assessment?, Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 8, (1) pp. 25-36. ISSN 1322-1698 (2001) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1080/14486563.2001.10648510
The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth) was proclaimed on 16 July 2000. This Act represents the most fundamental reform of environment legislation since the 1970s and it will change dramatically the role of the Commonwealth in environmental impact assessment. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act provides for Commonwealth involvement in environmental impact assessment to be focused on six matters of 'national environmental significance'. Another significant feature of this Act is that it provides a framework for the accreditation of State and Territory environmental assessment and approval processes. This article provides an outline of the repealed Federal environmental impact assessment legislation, the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 (Cwlth), an assessment of its deficiencies and a discussion of the key reviews of Commonwealth environmental impact assessment. The main features of the new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act along with the debate regarding the future role of the Commonwealth in environmental impact assessment, are then discussed. The issue of whether the new Act reflects an expansion or devolution of Commonwealth power with respect to environmental impact assessment is addressed and it is argued that the Act has the potential to expand Commonwealth power. © 2001 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Trumpington Personalities: Robert Sayle (1816-83)
Howard Slatter
Robert Sayle (1816-83) was a draper and philanthropist who lived in Trumpington. This paper is based on a presentation given at a Group meeting on 22 November 2012.
The Sayle family home, Leighton House, Trumpington Road, in the early 2000s. Edmund Brookes.
Most of us remember the Robert Sayle store in St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, now replaced by the John Lewis store which opened in 2007. But who was Robert Sayle?
Robert Sayle was born 22 Feb 1816 in Southery, Norfolk. His father was John Sayle, farmer and landowner. Robert went to school in Ely and moved to London from 1838-1840, working with drapers Hitchcock, Williams & Co. On Saturday 21 March 1840, Robert Sayle took over the premises of draper John Cooch at Victoria House, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, and began his local career. The Cambridge Advertiser & Free Press carried a typically effuse Victorian advert:
"ROBERT SAYLE
begs to inform the inhabitants of Cambridge and its vicinity that he has taken the premises lately occupied by Mr John Cooch, which having undergone considerable alterations so as to afford increased accommodation, he intends re-opening on Saturday, 21st instant, with a new well-selected stock of:-
LINEN DRAPERY, SILK MERCERY, HOSIERY, HABERDASHERY, STRAW BONNETS ETC. ETC.
In respectfully soliciting the patronage of the Nobility, Gentry and Inhabitants of the Town, County and University of Cambridge, R.S. begs to assure them that, being thoroughly acquainted with the various descriptions of goods connected with his business, he will be enabled to select the best fabrics; and intends purchasing such as he can with confidence recommend, his object being to ensure the repetition of such
favours as may be conferred upon him."
He goes into some detail of what he is selling, then at the end says:
"R.S. merely adds, that he intends conducting his business upon the principle so generally adopted and approved, that of selling entirely for READY MONEY – affixing the smallest profit to each article; and he trusts that by attention and perseverance he shall receive that encouragement which it will be the height of his ambition to merit."
The Robert Sayle store started at 12 Victoria House and by stages took over the adjoining premises, adding departments such as carpets and undertakers as it grew. By 1888, five years after the death of the founder, the store extended all the way to number 17.
When the Cambridge Plate Glass Mutual Insurance Society founded March 1851, Sayle was a founder member.
In 1849, he married Priscilla Caroline Ginger, of Eddlesborough, Bucks. They had 10 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. They initially lived over the shop until the early 1860s when moved into 10 St Andrew's Street, next door but one to the shop.
In the mid 1860s, he bought a plot of land in Trumpington and built Leighton House. In 1954, this became the Perse Boys Preparatory School, when the letters RS over the front door were cunningly amended to PS.
Leighton House, the Perse Preparatory School, 1950s.
Leighton House, the Perse Preparatory School, early 2000s. Edmund Brookes.
In the 1881 census, Robert Sayle was a JP and General Merchant and Farmer. As well as being a man of substantial means, he was a man of morals and of liberal religious tolerance. He was an Anglican, but with a strong interest in and sympathy for other denominations, particularly the Wesleyans.
Robert Sayle subscribed to the Royal Albert Almshouses built at the junction of Hills Road and Brooklands Avenue (foundation stone 1859). In 1862, he supported the Operatives' Relief Fund (for the relief of distressed operatives in the cotton industry in Lancashire and Cheshire, when the American Civil War cut off supplies of raw cotton from the USA). In 1865, he helped the Methodist Conference acquire a suitable piece of building land for a large Wesleyan Chapel in Hills Road (demolished in the 1970s). In 1872, he was instrumental in buying a house and its extensive grounds on Trumpington Road and selling it on to the Methodist Conference, who developed it as The Leys School. He was also a prime mover in setting up town scholarships to the Perse School 1871.
The Leys, Trumpington Road, c. 1850. By Permission of The Leys School Archive.
The Leys School, Trumpington Road, c. 1875. By Permission of The Leys School Archive.
Robert Sayle rented a farm opposite the Wesleyan Chapel in Hills Road. In 1871, there was a newspaper report of him being summoned before the County Magistrates for neglecting to report the existence of Foot & Mouth disease in 5 of his cows, which were among several head of stock grazing in a field in Grantchester. Mr Sayle "has a farm in Trumpington, another near the Cambridge Railway Station, and we believe a third farm at Southery, Norfolk". The Bench dismissed the case.
He subscribed generously to the funds of a Wesleyan chapel in Southery. He supported the opening of the Perse Girls' school in 1881. He was one of the guarantors of the YMCA building in St Tibbs Row, behind his shop. He was a great supporter of road improvements and street lighting in Cambridge.
In 1869, Robert Sayle opened an office in Aldersgate, London. He used this as a springboard for opening offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the early 1870s and Singapore by the 1880s, exporting "Manchester goods" (cotton) and importing hand woven silks.
In 1883 he had two unexpected heart attacks in quick succession and he died on 5 Oct 1883. Robert Sayle was buried in Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.
Robert Sayle's grave, Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge, February 2011. Andrew Roberts. |
Village School Innovation Lab: Let the Creating Begin!
November 8, 2017 Michelle Abrams
Teachers and students worked together to develop the Innovation Lab, which was funded by an FMPS grant.
November 8 was National STEM Day, and Friends of the Marblehead Public Schools and Village School marked it memorably. "If they build it, they will learn," read the banner at the FMPS-funded Innovation Lab, where students, teachers and parents gathered for the official ribbon-cutting celebration.
Officially open!
"We are so excited to be bringing this space to our community of learners, and we are eager to see the creative, collaborative, problem-solving learning that will take place," said Village School teacher Mandy Blodgett. "We'd like to thank and recognize FMPS: without them, this project would not have been possible."
Village School alumni Saylor Caruso, Ailish Moran, Will Schieffer, Brewster Smyers, and Zoe Spungin were special guests: it was their vision that helped launch the project.
"We wanted a space that could be dedicated to designing, building and group projects," explained Moran.
"We did research, and we were inspired by the Peabody Essex Museum Makerspace," said Spungin. "We were really excited to work on something for Village School."
Village alumni return to see their vision come to fruition.
The students, teachers and a group of parents worked on a grant proposal, students made a model of how they envisioned the space, and the group presented their grant request to FMPS last spring.
"In our Innovation Lab, students will question, design, produce, test, and revise the products of their learning," explained the group. "With materials as crude as cotton balls and popsicle sticks, or as complex as laser cutters, 3D printers, and audiovisual recording spaces, the goal is to equip learners with a wide variety of materials and tools, and provide them with a safe space to take risks, learn from failures, and be empowered in their learning. Makerspaces facilitate the limitless learning that comes from innovation, engineering and collaboration."
After FMPS voted to fund the grant, the design and building was underway. Now that the Innovation Lab is open for business, the work is kicking off with a design challenge created by students Juliet Burchfield and Francesca Thibodeaux.
Juliet and Francesca developed the Innovation Lab's first challenge.
"We thought of a project that would be challenging, but not too hard for 4th graders," Thibodeaux explained about Tallest Tower design project that all classes will tackle this week.
Even though the original visionaries have moved on to Veterans School, they were excited about seeing what great ideas will come out of the Innovation Lab. "We helped create something future students can enjoy," said Spungin.
Please donate today to the FMPS Fall Drive to help FMPS continue to fund important educational grants like the Village School Innovation Lab. Our schools' operating budget only covers basics like salaries and supplies. Your FMPS donation will go directly to programs that enhance and enrich the education of all Marblehead public school students. Thank you!
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Bridging the Technician Skills Gap
While the technician shortage isn't going away, the skills gap can be alleviated.
You've probably heard there's a heavy duty trucking technician shortage. On a number of fronts, the outlook for staffing repair shops is grim. Partnerships between truck services companies and technical schools, or government agencies and post-secondary institutions, or trucking companies and diesel tech service shops, or all of the above and repair showcase competitions, aspire towards a pipeline that will shore up the tech shortage with new talent.
Until those efforts produce new skilled techs in adequate numbers, the fact of the tech shortage remains. And right now, the working tech's knowledge is spread too thinly over the tasks in need of his or her attention.
The Tech Numbers Aren't There
From 2014 to 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projected that the demand for diesel service technicians and mechanics will have grown by 12 percent, outpacing overall employment growth of 6.5 percent. Higher demand for heavy duty trucking, a wave of retiring techs, and a retention problem of new techs are jointly contributing to an ever-widening tech shortage.
High demand for heavy duty trucking: By 2024, an additional 75,000 new diesel technicians will be needed to address the growing demand for heavy-duty trucking, on top of the 67,000 techs already needed by then to replace retiring technicians. As the coronavirus heightens demand for e-commerce and as companies look to bring supply chains closer to the United States, the growth in demand for freight — and therefore in the need for techs — will follow suit.
The Silver Tsunami: About half of the heavy-duty truck techs working today — some 110,000 — will retire by 2030. With their retirement, their institutional and technical knowledge is at risk of obscurity. In particular, the manual know-how that is the mechanic's right-hand would become a lost art.
Retention Issues: By 2030, the trucking industry will need 200,000 new technicians to meet current truck maintenance demands. According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), U.S. technical schools are only turning out about 3,500 diesel technicians each year. However, a survey from Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), the accrediting body for diesel technician education for high schools and post-secondary institutions, reported that 42 percent of new diesel technicians leave the field within their first two years.
But The Costs Are
The shortage in skilled heavy duty trucking technicians contributes to significant lost value across the industry as well as for individual fleets. Expectations for shortened delivery times grow with the surge in e-commerce demand, and the technician shortage will only continue to exacerbate late delivery penalties. Truck services companies are losing up to $1,200 per day in lost revenue with each technician position that is left unfilled.
Over the course of a year, that lost value compounds. The shortage of diesel technicians costs the trucking industry $2.4 billion annually in revenue across extended downtime, truck underperformance, and customer service issues. That daily lost revenue because of unfilled technician positions amounts to $6 million in losses each year for the average truck services provider, averaging out to $300,000 in lost revenue per open tech position each year.
The Generational / Knowledge Gap
The tech shortage, and the rising maintenance and operational costs attributable to it, may be more accurately described as a generational or knowledge gap.
For all the bluster of the numbers, repair shops face the simple possibility that the older generation of technicians, who have built up decades of experience, will retire and leave a gaping skills gap in meeting repair needs. With the growing demand for and transition to alternative vehicles and fuels, truck services companies will bear the brunt of an older generation retiring without passing on their institutional knowledge and also being torn in a new direction by alternatives, all in the manner of a few years.
Technicians entering trucking repair shops for the first time today are not as acquainted with working on heavy duty trucks manually. For example, these younger technicians, who may not have covered how to approach older diesel truck models very extensively in technical school, are without the necessary intuition when it comes time to fix up a truck without an aftertreatment system. Diesel engines are simply too costly for an inexperienced technician to test his or her hand without guidance, tying up tech efficiency and training as shops bring new techs onboard.
How to best cater to a younger generation of techs unaccustomed to working with their hands and complete routine work orders at the same time is a tough balancing act. Looking over their shoulder to double check diagnostics can throw tech efficiency by the wayside, but future tech efficiency is jeopardized by casting off training. It's a bind with few quick fixes.
Paving the Way for Future Techs
Hard-won and extraordinarily valuable as it is, the elbows-deep-in-grease diesel tech does not have the same claim over the future of technician work as it once did. Younger techs are more likely to prefer an app or computer interface that surfaces diagnostics, troubleshooting codes, or different engine tests. And the adoption of alternative vehicles so reliant on proprietary software will only accelerate this transition to digitized tech work. The 50-60 percent of days spent on the computer will increase as the wave of retirements, tech shortage, and alternatives coalesce as one broader trend toward non-manual tech work.
The loss of manual knowledge can be spared. Years of experience do not also need to retire with the 100,000+ heavy trucking techs within ten years. And digital knowledge does not need to be in the exclusive domain of the younger generation of techs. Digital solutions like Uptale's Industrial AI codify thousands of years of institutional and technical heavy duty trucking tech knowledge, as well as expertise on emerging technologies like CNG and EV vehicles, to deliver more precise analytics on vehicle health for fleets.
Uptake adds proof points to the best tech knowledge by taking high-quality data and running it through ASE World Class Technician-vetted data science models to deliver component-level insights. That way, techs and reliability managers can make proactive decisions on maintenance and training with a single reliable source of truth. In a simple dashboard, Uptake users gain the powerful and precise insights of tech knowledge, steeped in years of experience.
Here are a few ways fleets are already benefiting from Uptake's AI to address their tech shortage and training initiatives at the same time:
Reduced diagnostic time, increased tech efficiency
Sufficient lead times on pending failures to advance shop preparedness, ensuring the shop has the right skills and parts at the right time
Intuition matching for learning techs of tell-tale signs of certain failures and Uptake's alerts that correspond to them
Efficiency in new tech training flattens the learning curve
Surfaced insights in simple dashboard clarifies truck health with component-level precision
Iterative data science models on diesel engines and emerging alternatives digitize expert knowledge
While the tech shortage isn't going to go away, the skills gap can be alleviated. Repair shops can achieve their twin goals of ordinary repairs and teaching a new generation of techs. Using Uptake would remove the need for adding 17,000 new techs by 2024, saving an average-sized truck services company $700,000 each year due to tech understaffing.
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American model, media personality, and socialite Kendall Nicole Jenner was born on November 3, 1995. She is the daughter of Caitlyn and Kris Jenner and gained notoriety on the reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kendall Jenner's husband
Kendall Jenner is not married. However, between April 20th and November 2022, she was in a relationship with NBA all star Devin Booker. Kendal however loves to keep her relationship life out of the public eye. Thus it is not yet known if she is with someone else.
Kendall Jenner's age: How old is Kendall Jenner?
American model, media personality, and socialite Kendall Nicole Jenner was born on November 3, 1995. Kemdall would therefore be 28years old in 2023.
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Jenner began modeling when she turned fourteen. During the New York, Milan, and Paris fashion weeks in 2014 and 2015, she walked the runways for upscale labels, which marked her breakout seasons. She had previously worked on commercial photo assignments and print ad campaigns. Jenner is an Estée Lauder brand ambassador and has appeared in LOVE and other international Vogue issues' editorials, cover shoots, and advertising. Follow this link to know all about Jenner's career
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Kendall's net worth as of 2023 is estimated to be 45 million dollars which has been built mainly through her career.
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Kendal Jenner, who is known for her fame in the modelling , media and entrepreneurship industry has no children of her own.
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Archie's story: a little dog's tale
An inspiring pooch's cancer battle
When Mr and Mrs Furness were told their English springer spaniel, Archie, had cancer, they turned to LV= for support.
Archie after his surgery
Meet Archie, the English springer spaniel, and his owners who had to make a tough decision
LV= pet claims team were on hand to help Archie in his time of need
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Archie the brave English Springer spaniel
The start of Archie's story
Mr and Mrs Furness's dog Archie developed a hole in one of his front paw pads. Nothing they tried worked: the hole wouldn't heal. Mr Furness took Archie to the vet, who initially thought a seed had got into the paw, causing the sore.
The vet scheduled surgery. On the day, the team couldn't find anything inside Archie's paw, so decided the best course of action was to sew the hole up.
However, after his operation, the wound continued to open and would not heal.
The vet referred Archie to a specialist consultant, Patrick Ridge at Ridge referrals in Dawlish Water, who said they'd have to amputate his toe. Patrick also took a small sample of Archie's paw tissue to be sent away for tests after the operation.
The results of Archie's tests
A few weeks later, Archie's test results came back from the lab. It was bad news – Archie had cancer.
The vet advised Mr and Mrs Furness that as Archie had already had his toe amputated, there was a chance that the cancer could come back.
Mr Furness called LV= to see if his Lifetime Pet Insurance would cover Archie for more treatment, and was assured if the cancer did come back, Archie would be covered.
Unfortunately, about six months ago, the cancer presented itself as another hole in Archie's paw.
After taking him back to the consultant, Mr and Mrs Furness were given two options: either Archie's leg could be amputated as he was a young dog and he would be able to cope; or, Archie could be referred to Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick, aka The Super Vet, to see if there was the possibility to have a prosthetic limb fitted.
Whilst Mr and Mrs Furness wanted to do everything they could for Archie, the worry of spiralling vet fees was a concern.
Mr Furness called LV= again to ask for pre-authorisation of the claim. Our team emailed a form for the vet to fill in so we could start our pet claims process.
As The Super Vet is a considerable distance from Mr Furness' home, they organised a telephone consultation with a nurse, who explained there were considerable risks with the operation. Archie would have to be kept quiet and they would not be able to visit him for five weeks.
After further discussions with Patrick Ridge, Mr and Mrs Furness decided the best thing to do for their beloved Archie was to go ahead with amputation, which was covered by his LV= Pet Policy.
Archie had his operation four weeks ago and is already running around and going up and down stairs. He's learning to use his front paw and positioning the weight in the middle. His recovery has been truly remarkable.
'I'm delighted that Archie is doing so well after his operation,' says Mr Furness. 'LV= made the whole process really easy. One of the key things you expect from your insurance company is that if you ring, your call is answered straightaway. That was exactly the case with LV=.'
'The care you showed and the way you dealt with us proves LV= wants to make the claims process as easy as possible for the customer.'
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The PhD programme in Finance
The PhD programme in Finance at Hanken prepares students for both academic careers and analytical/managing positions within the finance community. The programme provides you with tools to quantitatively analyse the most challenging research questions.
Our PhD programme is affiliated with the Graduate School of Finance, and our students take their core finance courses together with students from other GSF schools. The programme is offered in both Helsinki and Vaasa. Other coursework typically consists courses in finance, statistics and econometrics, and economics, taken at Hanken. The required coursework (60 studypoints) takes approximately one year to complete, after which, the students write a doctoral dissertation. Normally, students graduate with a PhD after 4-5 years of full time studies.
Together with Aalto University and GSF, our department offers a weekly seminar series with high level international speakers. The seminar series provide an opportunity for our students to acquaint themselves with the latest research at the top level, and also with high caliber researchers. Our PhD students are also encouraged and financially supported to participate and present their work in international conferences.
Financial support for studies is provided, subject to satisfactory performance, and no tuition is charged.
Details about courses, how to apply, financial support, prerequisites and more is found on the pages describing the Hanken PhD Programme.
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Obama gives undocumented parents temporary relief
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The Department of Homeland Security has adopted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, giving undocumented parents a means to stay in the U.S. This comes as immigration reform legislation remains stalled in Congress.
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2009-2013 American Community Survey (ACS) estimated 40,342,000 immigrants are currently living in the United States with 4,188,000 immigrants living in Texas.
Bexar County houses 230,500 immigrants, while UTSA's spring 2015 enrollment statistics report 1,582 enrolled international students. Despite a large immigrant population, policy makers' continued efforts toward a unified consensus on immigration reform remains stagnant.
DACA a key contributor in immigration reform, allows undocumented individuals and undocumented individuals who were in the process of being deported the opportunity to apply for "deferred action," temporarily delaying their deportation. Beginning in 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted individuals who met DACA requirements deferred action status, which allowed undocumented persons to apply for a 2-year workers' permit that afforded them employment opportunities within the U.S.
"The situations for many of our young people who are struggling are without the official documents who are here on campus and our community and our country. So it's to try and dispel some of the anti-immigrant that classifies everybody the same way and stigmatize them as evil people," said Dr. Harriet Romo. "They're committed people and many of them have been here a long time. Their children have grown up here and gone to our k-12 schools so it's informational and just to get people involved and aware of the issues."
Previous DACA guidelines required individuals to be under 31 years of age as of June 15, 2012, have arrived in the U.S. below age 16, have lived continuously in the U.S. since June 15, 2007 and been enrolled in school or have graduated from high school. The DACA program, however, did not extend to parents, causing some concern for undocumented youth. If an individual qualified for DACA but was still in need of parental support, having their parents deported would create issues, such as safety and living arrangements. Furthermore, natural born citizens to undocumented parents faced a similar risk of having their parents deported leaving youth with no financial support system.
Late last November, President Obama, in attempts to remedy this potential problem, stated the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would cease deportation of undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and parents of lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in attempts to further immigration reform. Among Obama's executive actions were plans to increase citizenship education and public awareness of lawful permanent residents, improve modernization of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa programs, and expand the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals.
"DAPA is huge because it will benefit millions of people — parents in particular — who have been living in fear," said UTSA student Diego Mancha. "I think that it's a really big victory, but I don't think it's nearly done. It's not comprehensive or large enough to cover everyone — there's still room for improvements to be made."
DACA's expansion, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), would allow parents to stay within the U.S. under similar requirements as DACA. The revised program would eliminate the age requirement, making anyone born before or after June 16, 1981 an eligible candidate for DAPA. Additionally, individuals must have been living continuously in the U.S. since January 1, 2010 and be a parent of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident and neither committed any felony nor some specific misdemeanors. Obama's expanded program would also increase workers' permits from two years to three years.
Still, an immigrant problem persists as obtaining birth documents and generating the money required to obtain the permits is difficult. Although problems may arise, President Obama's executive orders addressing immigration policy are designed to focus on deporting felons and keeping families intact rather than deporting all illegal aliens.
"At least to have people sit down and rationally talk about what kinds of programs work, what kinds of changes in the law would be effective — there are a lot of things on the table," said Dr. Romo. "(Immigration reform) is very complex and it's hard to figure out what reforms will be most effective. We've had efforts in the past, we just need people to come together and talk and act."
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Through the Card: Newcastle, Thursday 27 June
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"...there is plenty to like about his chances..."
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13:50 - DARING VENTURE's (2) standout effort so far came on the all-weather, when winning a seven-furlong minor event at Chelmsford by three lengths on her return in May. She wasn't in the same form back on turf at Newmarket last time, having every chance two furlongs out but unable to go with the principals. Daring Venture is well worth another chance returned to an artificial surface now making her handicap debut from what looks a workable mark. Gale Force May may prove the principal threat.
14:25 - This can go to NORTHERN HOPE (3), who shaped with plenty of promise when only narrowly denied a winning debut at Beverley last week and should have learnt plenty from that experience. Gallaside looks the obvious danger on form, whilst You're My Rock could be the pick of the newcomers.
15:00 - Welcome Surprise left his debut form well behind when finishing third at Wolverhampton last time and looks the one to beat on form, but SPREADSHEET (4) has been backed as though defeat is out of the question this morning and the hint should be taken in what doesn't look the strongest race of its type. He makes plenty of appeal on pedigree, and hails from an in-form yard that do get first-time-out winners, so there is plenty to like about his chances.
15:30 - LONDON EYE (2) remains a maiden, but he has shaped with promise on several occasions, and looks well up to winning races from this sort of mark. He was beaten only by a fellow improver at Goodwood in May, and is best excused his latest run at Carlisle when seemingly unsuited by the heavy ground. His sole start on the all-weather came as a juvenile over an inadequate trip, so he is well worth another chance on this surface, and his run style suggests he will be well suited by the stiff finish at this track (usually held up). Tamooz caught the eye at Lingfield last time and could prove the biggest danger.
16:05 - SENIORITY (3) has a good record on the all-weather, winning three of his five starts on this surface, and is of interest having returned to form behind a thriving sort at Epsom last time. He was well backed that day, but had no answer for a rejuvenated well-handicapped sort who was ridden more prominently, and Seniority still looks feasibly treated from a 1 lb higher mark. Bowerman looks progressive, but at the odds this morning Seniority looks the value bet.
16:40 - SHERZY BOY (5) stepped up on his reappearance effort when finishing runner-up at Wolverhampton three days ago and will be suited by the return to this longer trip. He can register his first success, likely at the main expense of Roman de Brut and Paved With Gold in what looks a tricky contest.
17:10 - PRINCE OF ROME (2) has failed to fire in two runs on turf this year, but he's very much of interest back on the all-weather. Indeed, his form figures on polytrack read 211 and, with no real reason to believe he won't be just as effective on this surface, Richard Hughes' charge could be the answer. True Hero and Que Amoro, second and third respectively at Redcar on Saturday, can again fill the places.
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Randolph's Krauss makes debut for new club
Conor Krauss of Randolph (Photo courtesy Billings Mustangs)
It's been a long, hot summer for Conor Krauss of Randolph. Drafted in the 20th round by Cincinnati after his junior season at Seton Hall, Krauss was sent out to Goodyear, Ariz., to start life as a minor-league rookie.
Krauss finally made a move last week. He was called to the Billings (Mont.) Mustangs, another Reds rookie-league affiliate, on Monday.
Krauss made his first appearance in Billings' 3-1 win over Great Falls last night, and it was quite memorable. The Mustangs' first reliever in what turned into a 17-inning marathon, Krauss allowed three hits and two walks, and struck out five in four innings — a big change for the former Seton Hall closer.
Krauss has a 1-1 record with two saves and 1.08 ERA in 16.2 pro innings.
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Apr 17 The Fellowship of The Ring: Farewell to Lorien
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The Company prepares to leave Lothlórien and are outfitted by the elves for the next leg of the journey. Apart from cloaks and rope of elvish make, and lembas bread to keep them on their feet, the Fellowship receives individual gifts from Galadriel.
Also of note is Aragorn's divided mind. He did not know what Gandalf's plans for the journey were after Lothlórien and his intention since Rivendell was to accompany Boromir to Minas Tirith. Now, with Gandalf's burden on his shoulders, he's doubly thankful for the gift of boats, which will allow him to delay his decision whether to follow the Ring or go to Gondor—as far as the falls of Rauros.
Before the departure of the Company, Celeborn warns them against entering Fangorn Forest, for it "is a strange land, and is now little known." Boromir remembers warnings about Fangorn but recalls them as "old wives' tales, such as we tell our children." He's doubtful about these tales because it has been generations since the people of Gondor visited the forest, "to prove or disprove the legends that have come down from distant years."
""But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.""
Boromir is not worried about possibly braving Fangorn; he has made long and perilous journeys already: "I do not doubt that I shall find a way through Rohan, and Fangorn too, if need be." Despite Boromir's well-earned confidence, Celeborn reproves his easy dismissal of "old wives' tales."
"But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years," says the ancient elf. Can the old and outmoded be useful for those of us who have the knowledge and progress of the present? As is fitting for an immortal, Celeborn has a dim view of chronological snobbery, "for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
The elves are far from perfect but they are nothing if not wise.
The most useless gift
If the elves are among the wisest beings in Middle-earth, why does the great Lady Galadriel bestow a useless gift on the Ringbearer's faithful companion? Sam will go all the way to Mount Doom with Frodo but instead of a weapon, or even a belt to keep his pants up, Samwise Gamgee receives a box of dirt.
Yet, Sam "clutched the box and bowed as well as he could" when he accepts his gift from the lady, why? Because Sam's greatest virtue is not his bravery, his hate for evil, or even his good sense. Sam's greatest virtue is his love of goodness, plain and simple; he loves growing things—not the act, because he cannot make anything grow himself, but the living things themselves.
The gift of soil from Lothlórien, blessed by the lady, is a promise of hope. More than just the hope of returning to the Shire, Sam's gift hope for a renewal. "It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril," Galadriel tells him. "But if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you." The garden this soil blesses will reflect "a glimpse far off of Lorien [that] will never be seen on earth again save in memory."
It is this hope, not of home as Sam left it but of home as it ought to be—a good and endless Shire—that will carry Sam across the wastes of Mordor. It is this hope that will carry them home after so much fear and failure.
On to The Great River, along which dark wings of fear close in and, far off, the wings of hope are spotted, even no no one can yet understand the promise they hold. Only two more chapters left in The Fellowship of The Ring!
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TRIAL OF FORMER RWANDAN MAYOR RESUMES
6 November 2000 By JusticeInfo.net
Arusha, November 6th, 2000 (FH) - The trial of former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza resumed on Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) with a closed hearing of testimony from a second prosecution witness. The Chamber granted a prosecution request that witness "VAJ" be heard in camera because some of the questions could reveal the identity of protected witnesses.
It rejected arguments by Semanza's defence counsel Charles Taku (USA) that the trial should be postponed pending an Appeals Court decision on an urgent motion. Semanza's trial started on October 16th this year, but was adjourned after two days during which the first prosecution witness, Canadian policeman Pierre Duclos, gave his testimony. The trial is alternating with the so-called Cyangugu trial before the ICTR's Trial Chamber Three. The Cyangugu trial groups three suspects accused of genocide in the Cyangugu region of southwest Rwanda. The Chamber is composed of judges Yakov Ostrovsky (Russia), Lloyd Williams (Jamaica) and Pavel Dolenc (Slovenia). Judge Williams is presiding in the Cyangugu trial and Judge Ostrovsky in the Semanza trial. Semanza, 46, was mayor of Bicumbi in Kigali rural prefecture, central Rwanda, during the 1994 genocide. He is charged with 14 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape. He was arrested in Cameroon in March 1996 and made his initial appearance at the Tribunal in February 1998. SW/JC/FH (SE%1106e) |
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What Happens When People Drink?
What Is Alcoholism?
What can be confusing about alcohol is that some grown-ups seem to be able to enjoy it occasionally with no problems. Other people, though, can develop a problem with it. Sometimes, that's called alcoholism (say: al-kuh-HOL-ism) or being an alcoholic (say: al-kuh-HOL-ik). Someone who has alcoholism craves alcohol. The person has little control over his or her drinking and can't stop without help. A person who starts drinking alcohol at a young age is more likely to develop alcoholism.
Alcoholism is chronic, which means it continues over time. It often gets worse, too, because the person may start experiencing health problems related to drinking. In addition to causing liver problems, long-term drinking can damage the pancreas, heart, and brain.
It can be tempting to try alcohol. It's normal to be curious about new things, especially if it seems like everyone is doing it. But everyone is not drinking alcohol. Don't believe it if someone says you're immature for not drinking. You're actually more mature (which means grown up) because you're being strong and smart.
Still, it can be hard if you feel unpopular because of your decision. Good friends won't stop being your friend just because you don't want to drink alcohol. If you feel this kind of pressure, talk to someone you trust.
And if you're concerned about a friend who's drinking, you should tell one of your parents, a school counselor, or another trusted adult. That way, someone can talk with your friend before the alcohol causes a big problem. Unfortunately, some kids who drink may also drop out of school, get in car accidents, start fights, or join in crimes.
But with help, anyone who has a problem with alcohol can be successful at stopping. And if you're still a kid, help yourself by not starting in the first place!
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Dallas Cowboys announce 2019 schedule
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Posted: Apr 17, 2019 / 07:21 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 23, 2019 / 08:56 AM CDT
The NFL announced the 2019 regular season schedule on Wednesday, and at least six national television appearances highlight the Dallas Cowboys upcoming season. The Cowboys schedule currently features five games that are going to be broadcast nationally in primetime, two from AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys play six games against teams that qualified for the 2018 playoffs – Chicago, Los Angeles Rams, New England, New Orleans and Philadelphia (twice). Additionally, this season marks the sixth time that the Cowboys will face both Super Bowl participants from the previous season:
Years Teams Years Teams
2019 LA Rams and New England* 1995 San Diego and San Francisco*
2015 New England* and Seattle 1973 Miami* and Washington
2010 Indianapolis and New Orleans* 1970 Kansas City* and Minnesota
* indicates Super Bowl champion
In addition to the two primetime games at AT&T Stadium – both on NBC – and the club's annual Thanksgiving Day national appearance (this year on CBS), the Cowboys will make three national appearances in primetime on the road, one on NBC's Sunday Night Football, one on ESPN's Monday Night Football and once on Thursday night on Fox/NFL Network/Amazon. Dallas will play on Monday Night Football for the 81st time in club history (second in NFL history behind Miami's 84). Only the San Francisco 49ers (48) and Pittsburgh Steelers (47) have won more MNF games than Dallas' 46.
For the 10th time in the organization's history, the Dallas Cowboys will open and close the season at home, and for the sixth time in the last eight seasons – fifth time at home – Dallas will open the season against the N.Y. Giants (Sept. 8). Week 2 has Dallas heading to Washington to take on the Redskins on Sept. 15 to mark the 10th time since 1970 (third in the last five years) the Cowboys will open a season with consecutive division games. The Cowboys start their AFC schedule with a contest against Miami on Sept. 22, followed by Dallas' first primetime game on Sunday night Sept. 29 at New Orleans to close out the first month of the season.
October opens with a home match-up against Green Bay (10/6), then a road bout at the N.Y. Jets (10/13). The Cowboys will host Philadelphia on Sunday night (Oct. 20) before enjoying their bye week (Oct. 27).
Dallas has a full slate of games in November (five), the first coming on Monday night at the N.Y. Giants (Nov. 4), followed by a Sunday night bout against Minnesota (Nov. 10). Dallas will be in Detroit on Nov. 17 before heading to New England to face the Super Bowl champion Patriots on Nov. 24. The club's annual Thanksgiving Day game will be against Buffalo on Nov. 28.
The final month of the season opens with a Thursday night game as Dallas will head to Chicago – the fourth straight season the Cowboys will have back-to-back Thursday night games. The 2018 NFC champion LA Rams come to town on Dec. 15 before Dallas closes out the season with two divisional games – first at Philadelphia (Dec. 22) then at home against Washington (Dec. 29).
The Dallas Cowboys will put all remaining 2019 single-game tickets on sale to the general public Wed., April 17 at 9:00 p.m. CDT. Standing room only (SRO) tickets are the only single-game tickets available for purchase.
DALLAS COWBOYS 2019 SEASON SCHEDULE
(All Kickoffs Dallas Time)
DATE PRESEASON (TV) KICKOFF
Sat., Aug. 10 @ San Francisco 8:00 p.m.
Sat. Aug. 17 @ LA Rams (Honolulu) 9:00 p.m.
Sat. Aug. 24 HOUSTON 6:00 p.m.
Thurs., Aug. 29 TAMPA BAY 7:00 p.m.
DATE REGULAR SEASON (TV) KICKOFF
Sun., Sept. 8 N.Y. GIANTS (FOX 51) 3:25 p.m.
Sun., Sept. 15 @ Washington (FOX 51) Noon
Sun., Sept. 22 MIAMI (FOX 51) Noon
Sun., Sept. 29 @ New Orleans (KETK) 7:20 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 6 GREEN BAY (FOX 51) 3:25 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 13 @ N.Y. Jets 3:25 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 20 PHILADELPHIA (KETK) 7:20 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 27 BYE
Mon., Nov. 4 @ N.Y. GIANTS 7:15 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 10 MINNESOTA (KETK) 7:20 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 17 @ Detroit (FOX 51) Noon
Sun., Nov. 24 @ New England (FOX 51) 3:25 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 28 BUFFALO 3:30 p.m.
Thurs., Dec. 5 @ Chicago (FOX 51) 7:20 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 15 LA RAMS (FOX 51) 3:25 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 22 @ Philadelphia (FOX 51) 3:25 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 29 WASHINGTON (FOX 51) Noon
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Game times and television broadcasts are subject to change
* Sunday night games in Weeks 5-16 subject to change, Week 17 TBD
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"We call it 'modernization'" – reception centers for migrants will be 'closed' facilities
During her recent visit to Greece, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson made assurances that new reception centers on the Aegean islands would not be closed facilities. However, the reconfiguration of existing camps on the mainland into closed facilities are progressing at a rapid pace − and the authorities involved are pointing fingers at each other.
/ Anastasia Misbach
Illustration: Fanis Kollias
Edit: Stavros Malichudis
The Diavata Open Facility of First Reception for asylum seekers is located a few kilometers outside Diavata, just 20 minutes from Thessaloniki.
It stands as a daily reminder of an unstable European and Greek immigration policy; invisible to the rest of the world, this "warehouse of souls" has the capacity to house 1,057 people.
One of the residents of the facility is 20-year-old Denise, (real name not used), who is originally from Afghanistan and has lived at various refugee camps in recent years.
She traveled from Tehran to the camps in Turkey, where she had to make a decision about continuing her journey. She had three options, none which guaranteed her safety: return to her war-torn country, stay in Turkey and risk imprisonment, or attempt to make a difficult passage across the Aegean in an inflatable boat.
She chose the third option. Denise ended up at the Moria Reception and Identification Center (RIC) on Lesvos and from there she went to the Facility of Diavata, where she has been living for the past two years. It's been five months since her first asylum interview, with the date of the decision still unknown.
Denise describes the camp as "a prison, the only difference is that criminals are alone in prison, and we are in small military bases with our families. At night, when I look beyond the barbed wire of the camp, I realize how different my life in here is from the lives of others out there. I can only look at the beauty of the city lights from afar without knowing how long I will remain here."
"By raising a wall they've built a prison for us"
But something has been changing. In recent weeks, the facility where Denise lives has been surrounded by the sound of bulldozers and cranes. A three-meter-high concrete wall is being constructed around the perimeter of the facility.
Denise shared her thoughts with us as she watched laborers hastily working to construct the emblematic division of "modern" societies. "By building this wall, they're completely cutting off our connection to the outside world. It's really scary and bad," she said.
At night, beyond the wire fence, she often gazes at the bright lights of the city. "Once the wall is up, I will no longer be able to see anything. By building this wall, they're creating a real prison for us, our shelters will become jail cells."
"Modernizing" the facilities with walls
Solomon contacted the Ministry of Migration and Asylum in regards to the walls being built at Diavata and also at the facilities of Malakasa, Ritsona, and Polykastro.
During a telephone conversation with the Ministry, they underscored that "we call it modernization".
"All facilities will be modernized," said Giannis Kabourakis, from the Ministry's Press Office, adding that "all facilities will have a perimeter fence, an electronic entry-exit system and individual entry-exit cards."
Kabourakis referred to a plan for transforming the current facilities into "closed and contained" and argued that the reason for creating the wall is "to strengthen the sense of security for all involved, both local communities and camp residents. No one will be able to enter or leave," he said.
It is a fact − throughout the years of the facility's operation, the safety of its residents has often been called into question. Not only because of incidents among the asylum seekers but also due to the lack of necessary infrastructure.
In the spring of 2020, two investigations by The Wall Street Journal and by Deutsche Welle, Lighthouse Reports, Bellingcat and Trouw, presented convincing evidence that asylum seekers at Diavata had been loaded into vans by men who had their faces covered, and then transported to Turkey.
Victims and witnesses, who spoke to Human Rights Observatory, claimed that these operations were carried out by Greek Police.
Ministry: "specifications and construction has been set by the IOM"
According to what the Ministry of Migration and Asylum has told Solomon, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is responsible for the specifications, design, tender and construction of the walls at the Diavata facility.
IOM in Greece
Since 2016, IOM has been a service of UN. Together with UNHCR, they are the main agencies charged with receiving refugee populations in Greece, where IOM is responsible for running the HELIOS program for the integration of refugees (with questionable results) and participates in the administration of the facilities on the mainland (the so-called SMS − Site Management Support).
When asked if the decision to build the wall at the facility was made by the government or the IOM, Kabourakis replied that "it is not being done against the will of the government," which is "informed." He referred, however, to an IOM plan "that goes from one to 100."
"There is daily cooperation with the IOM. There are many things that the IOM has done in Greece, which the government knows about, but which have not been carried out by the government," Kabourakis clarified.
EC: "the Greek government is the authority"
The statements by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum to Solomon contradict what we were told by the European Commission, regarding who made the decision to build walls around the facilities.
Specifically, in our communication with the European Commission's Migration and Home Affairs, we received the following response:
"The Greek authorities have ordered the construction of fences (in four camps) and the technical specifications have been prior shared and consulted with the Commission and EASO in order to identify whether they meet EU reception standards."
We also contacted the third agency involved, the IOM, and reiterated both of the afore-mentioned replies to them. We asked them to clarify, who in fact, made the decision to build the walls.
IOM: "The decision was made by the Ministry"
The IOM responded that "within the framework of the EU project, the IOM support to the Greek authorities in the management of the camps includes also some construction activities."
However, the IOM clarified that the decision did not belong to the organization.
"All construction interventions conducted within the framework of the EU project are decided and approved by the Greek authorities. The decision to proceed with the fencing of the camps on the mainland was taken by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum (MoMA) in the framework of establishing a controlled entry/exit system in the open reception facilities, based on access cards."
According to the IOM, at the invitation of the Ministry, an IOM technical team submitted various options in accordance with international standards, for approval by the Ministry.
Once the plans were approved, on January 3 and February 12, 2021, the IOM announced a public tender "to invite competing offers from suppliers and contractors for the creation of perimeter fencing" for the facilities at Malakasa, Ritsona, Polykastro and Diavata.
At all of the facilities, construction work has already started, and according to information from the field, the contractors have been asked to finish the work within a month's time. IOM clarified to Solomon that the rationale for the walled perimeter "is also to increase the security of the residents by discouraging unauthorized individuals from entering or occupying spaces reserved for asylum seekers, while still retaining open and free movement for its residents."
The construction projects at the four mainland facilities are being carried out within the framework of the SMS (Site Management Support) program, which is financed by the European Commission.
According to the EC, the new tender announcement on March 31, 2021 by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the construction project "Construction of perimeter fencing and installation of security systems at the mainland facilities" at 24 additional mainland facilities, will no longer be funded by the SMS program, but instead "funds are pending from national and EU sources."
The Commissioner's statement
In late March, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and the Minister of Migration Notis Mitarachi Asylum met on Lesvos and Samos to formalize the construction program of new facilities on the two islands and also on the islands of Chios, Kos and Leros. Total funding for the construction is over €276 million.
During the press conference, Johansson mentioned the creation of open structures on the five islands but Mitarachi only spoke of closed structures.
At the time the issue seemed to be in regards to the facilities on the islands, but the construction which is currently underway will soon result in the first closed refugee reception facilities on the mainland.
Petra Molnar, researcher at the Migration and Technology Monitor, made the following statement to Solomon:
"Greece's decision to close the camps is in line with a global trend of criminalizing migration and turning to containment and detention in place of humane policies that respect people's dignity and their internationally protected right to seek asylum."
This report was produced during Solomon's media lab 2020-2021 and was supported by Faces of Migration.
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The Big Picture: Man of Tomorrow
Thread starter MovieBob
annoyinglizardvoice
DTWolfwood said:
Andrew Siribohdi said:
Bob, you say that it was wrong for Superman to kill one person and that it will open the door for Superman killing his other enemies.
But the complaints I've heard online is that he killed WAY more people when he had that DBZ fight with Zod at the end of the movie and by not even trying to save them from falling buildings and debris, it made him seem more heartless than just killing Zod.
The collateral damage he causes in the cartoons and comics will have killed people. Can't imagine that wouldn't be the case.
Why not just write it as he felt so bad about killing Zod that subsequently NEVER do it again? Seems like an easy enough out.
I agree, that seems a reasonable enough way round that issue.
Also, in some of the comics, he was willing to use lethal force against enemies of similar power level, he just doesn't think it's his place to do so against humans and monsters that humans could stop. He did kill a group of dimension-hopping world-ending kryptonian nut-jobs in the comics once, and he has tried to kill Brainiac, Darkseid and Doomsday at times in various animated versions (they're still around afterwards because they are just that tough). According to something on TV tropes, the reason he tries not to kill, but doesn't fuss about his allies killing as much as Batman does is based on the fact that he is tough enough and powerful enough to try to find other ways round the problem, but not everyone is.
faefrost
Magog1 said:
canadamus_prime said:
Ken_J said:
Wait, Superman kills Zod? That's not right. Superman doesn't kill.
actually Zod is consistently superman's first/only kill in pretty much every medium he shows up in.
Huh? what? I don't remember Superman ever killing Zod. Again don't read the comics so...
MAybe this needs to be spammed till people READ THE GOD DAMN THing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Superman_Phantom_Zone_execution.jpg
It's kinda funny when peoples biggest issue is "but my nerd sense tells me they ruined super man."
well sorry it would seem your just not nerdy enough to know what your talking about ^ ~.
I figured somebody would bring up John Byrnes classic hard hitting Superman #22 from 1988. And yes that is basically where they get parts of this story from. Yes Superman does for the first time violate his personal beliefs and kill Zod. A purely evil being bent on complete destruction of our world. But here are the differences. Firstly the build up. Before this story they spent over 2 years across several cominc titles establishing Superman. Establishing his character and morals, and establishing that this was something that he would not simply do. Superman always finds a way to save people. Superman always finds a way to not kill. 4 regular ongoing series. 2 backstory limited series. All mainly to establish those core character elements. And then when they pulled that trigger it was devastating. Which led to the second part. The fallout from what he did. That act destroyed him. He quit being Superman ung up his cape and wandered off alone into space for 2 years not willing to trust himself around anyone else.
This would have been a fantastic story for a second movie in a trilogy. The first movie should have been establishing the hero. The second should have been this ultimate confrontation and choice. and the third should have been the repercussions of that choice and eventual redemption. Trying to mash it all together just feels wrong.
ShadowHamster
WARNING!!!!! POST FULL OF SPOILERS!!!!! DON'T READ FURTHER WITHOUT SEEING THE MOVIE!!!!!
I saw Man of Steel and REALLY REALLY enjoyed it, I'd call it a masterpiece even!
That said, it hit on something I've always felt about Supes, and am about to take to the bank here. Supes is an idea, not something to necessarily be taken this seriously. There is a ground between serious and laughable, and that ground covers "Ridiculously Stylized" which is where this movie fits in. That said, it does that job spectacularly, and when your hero's most telling attribute is his iconic nature(I mean, what else makes superman interesting? NOTHING! THAT'S WHAT!!!)
I don't agree with Bob's obvious anger at some of the action taken in this Superman movie, because it's all symbolic. No Superman didn't have to fight in a small town where obviously tons of people died when THE STREETS CAUGHT ON FIRE!!!!! But this scene didn't truly represent that to me, because I understood that no people being seen was the artistic telling that these people just didn't die. This gets compounded throughout the movie as the director shows off what is apocalyptic levels of chaos that only Superman can overcome, pushing the Superman Icon in the only place it can move forward.
In fact they REALLY push it, and REALLY show off his creed by having him never attack his classmates despite them attacking him, being alienated but still willing to act as a savior. They pushed the "Space Jesus" them to the max, because that is the heart of this character. He is the incredible humble god who walks like a man.
To that light, Zod's death is easily a one-time thing, and the air of the moment was that superman didn't want to do this thing. Zod didn't just threaten a family of four, he stated that he wouldn't let this fight end without one of them dying, and superman fought and fought for that not to be the case FINALLY killing him when not doing so meant the direct death of others. Something Superman is tired of "seeing", all symbolic.
I can't take Man of Steel as a realistic look at superman no matter how much they try to justify his powers. I look at it as over the top action from the silver age, and that is what I felt I got. I didn't get the "90s comic" vibe that MovieBob got, and I felt the Writing, Production, Direction all understood their source material very well. Yes, they did throw in elements to make a very boring character interesting, giving him humanity(He watched his father die when he could have saved him, because his father insisted on him keeping his secret and he mentions this being a core factor in him randomly saving people from there on out. Furthermore, the element of him getting panic attacks from his powers is not only something I can understand greatly(I get panic attacks, and they basically showed off what super "hyper-vigilance" would look like.) and works in his power set to give him something he had to deal with that was very human. It bridged the gap from unbelievably powerful, to relatable.)
All this said, I do hope that they don't make Superman kill from here on out, and would also bring up Batman in that regard. In "Batman Begins" he kills Ra's Al Ghul and yet Batman in the comics just doesn't kill. He doesn't kill, use guns, or go against the police, these are all things he has developed into his creed because of what he has experienced fighting crime, and it's the distinction that stops him from being a crazy guy who wears a cape, and commits vigilantism. I hope that Superman killing Zod stays with him in future films and makes him wary of ever doing it again, after his reaction to Zod's death it would be easy to use it as the reason he doesn't kill.
Just admit it bob, you don't like the movie. Quit beating around the bush trying to act neutral to everything like you somehow really liked it on a technical level or whatever the hell your reasoning is and just say it....you don't like it. We get it bob, your not a big fan of Nolans style of "dark" and "more realistic" super heroes and just stop acting like you are somewhat interested still in the direction they are going and just say it out loud and get it off your chest.
I personally found a ton of heart in this movie, especially the scenes with the father and when he was saving lives without asking for anything in return. I guess all those scenes mean nothing to you and just magically disappear when the fighting starts or something but I remember the movie having tons of heart.
And yes, you are being "THAT" guy.
MrMixelPixel
I didn't really feel Superman killing Zod meant that now Superman is a-o-kay with killing people as long as it saves people. The scene was pretty intense and Superman had to think of something quickly, and he seemed to deeply regret his decision. This could possibly be some new motivation to never kill anyone else, after having done it.
Trishbot
So... Superman kills. And the movie tries to say that that's okay because the villain put a lot of people's lives at risk...
So, who's looking forward to the "Injustice" movie Warner Bros. is apparently trying to make?
Drauger
You know I liked the movie a lot and the killing thingie? I tought it was a great way to end it ( a shame we won't see more of zod ..) , it kind of reminded me o this...
When this happened I tought " well I know she is the only one from the so called trinity with enough balls to do this" and actually made me start reading wonder woman vol 3 ( which I loved btw)....
On topic: Well I don't think this will make supes a pscyho to kill every enemy, I think they are profiling it more like a trauma? and this could actually explain the big reason why from now on superman won't kill.
I'm a Huge batman fan , that being said if warner actually pulls a JLA ala avengers and makes a origin movie ( at least of the trinity right?) I'm eagerly waiting for a Wonder Woman movie........ I just wish.... REALLY WISH they choose her right , I mean big woman, fit... kind of muscular..... right? ..... please?
goliath6711
You know, people love to defend the Zod-killing in Man Of Steel with this:
Well, I'd like to counter that defense with this:
Stabby Joe
I know it's been brought up but the point is valid, Superman has killed someone and he feels guilt thus he WOULDN'T do it again. It won't give him an excuse to kill off any new villain as he knows that leads to a dark place.
goliath6711 said:
Yeah.............. I'm sorry but any point you wanted to make is invalid because you included a small ville video in your post........XD
Darth_Payn
Good god, that picture of jay Sherman was creepy. I can still see it with my eyes closed!
But back on topic, I understand that Superman doesn't kill all the time, but in Man of Steel, his hand (or arm, more like) was forced by Zod. There was too much death and destruction in Metropolis thanks to Zod, and Supes said no more. And he definitely felt bad about killing, which is the human thing to do, because I saw the movie as Superman's quest to discover humanity, for all its ups and downs. And since I can't be arsed to dig through the other comments here, I'll say this:
Too the guy who posted the quote from Chris Sims' review: I skimmed that thing and all I heard was the siren on the fanboy WHAAAAAAAAAAA-mbulance. I have never before read such bitching and moaning that wasn't a comment in a Comics Alliance article! I do not hold up Sims' every review as the gold standard to compare all other opinions to, since the guy ONLY writes good things about Batman and the Punisher.
Speaking of him, I am going to dare to say something that would probably get me flogged, but here goes: he sucks at his job. Think about it; there are a plethora of villains running around and not dead, so if he were really so great, he'd have blown them all away.
Olas
The only difference I can see between Zod and all the people Supermen allows to die throughout that movie is that with Zod it was through action, not inaction, that Superman ended his life. I guess if Superman had stuck Zod on a train, blown up the tracks, then said "I can't kill you, but I don't have to save you" and flown off, it would have been okay. Right BATMAN?
MrMixelPixel said:
See, that's the problem I had with it. There didn't seem to be any point where he tried to weigh any other options in his head. This scenario didn't require a split-second decision (Zod is straining to turn his head toward the family while Superman is straining to turn it away from them, resulting in Zod's heat-vision beam slowly inching towards them for about 30 seconds, which the family could have run away from on their own when you think about it),and yet Superman doesn't even think about trying to find any other solution. And the thing is it's not that he didn't care about finding another solution, it's the only solution that immediately came to his mind when they entered the train station.
Here's what seems to be the thought process going on in Superman's head at this point: Okay, he's not gonna do this. He did say that I'd have to kill him to stop him, but he's just bluffing. He's not gonna really kill any of these people. Not in a million years. Uh oh, it looks like he's gonna fry that family with his heat-vision. But he's not gonna do it. He's gonna shut it off at the last second just to screw with me. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. Wow, that beam's getting pretty close. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna- OH SHIT! HE'S GONNA DO IT! [SNAP]........oh shit.......he really was gonna do it......
Ohlookit'sMatty
Ok there is the one point about the killing of Zod that I'm sure people have mentioned already but here in my two cents // Superman killed him because he knew Zod would never stop, Never // Zod said it himself and Superman would have known that there was no way to talk him down, change his mind or stop him // Nothing on Earth could contain him and Zod was a better fighter than Superman // It was only a matter of time before Zod start to win and do some real damn to earth
Superman had only started to be Superman for a short time during this movie // He had faith, he had conflict within him and you could see that killing Zod was not an easy thing // He didn't have access to anything or anyone to help him with this and for later movies he will learn restraint and how to deal with the big bads
Something Amyss
Aswyng and Amyss
I'm at least sort of agreeing with Bob in that I don't care whether they do some sort of big overarching deal or not, and that my primary concern is more or less the vision with respect to putting out good movies.
Also, Superman pretty much always finds a way, so that whole "no alternative" thing was crap. Is it cheesey and hokey? Well, yeah, but it's a Superman movie. Even in this version he's a dude who flies around in tighta and a cape in mixed primary colours. If you want dark and gritty, wait for Squirrel Girl.
That's Green Lantern you're thinking of. Superman's the best at what he does, though what he does isn't very nice.
That's why he runs around with a skull on his chest and enough technology to take down the US government.
raven47172 said:
I kept laughing when Bob's Boston accent kept slipping in.
SLIP in? That thing barged in on the back of a zombie T-Rex.
Red X said:
Who's Making these?! XD
Batman. It's all part of a promotion campaign to enrage Superman fans so they'll come back to him. |
Marketing Made Easy
Marketing made easy. Marketing concepts defined with funny illustrations like:
You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I am very rich. Marry me!"
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Rosh teamed up with his classmate CK, who was also an engineer, so they could both divide the course work load of their Post Graduate Diploma In Business Management.
Rosh knew that adding this qualification to his Resume would increase his marketability, but studying full-time while he worked full-time was going to be onerous.
Since CK had a similar qualification as his own, he reasoned that CK would have developed a similar study ethic. So, teaming up with him made sense.
At the very least, they could pilot a few get togethers and continue together only if it proved to be successful and mutually beneficial.
They had arranged to meet in an open auditorium at college straight after lectures for their first meeting.
Rosh had agreed to prepare and deliver the first lesson in marketing concepts.
CK however, arrived with Sunny as they were both going to watch a movie straight after CK had finished his study session with Rosh.
Sunny was their classmate too, and he had enrolled in their Management course after finishing his Bachelor of Arts degree.
"Marketing is simple," Rosh began. "Today, I'll just introduce the marketing jargon and fix their definitions with some relevant but funny illustrations."
"Class will be dismissed in five minutes, unless any of you are unclear about something I have explained, or have further questions. Ready?"
Both nodded. This was going to be interesting. The first chapter was 43 pages long, and Rosh was promising to cover it in five minutes. At this rate, the qualification coursework would be done and dusted in a week.
Rosh began speaking:
You see a gorgeous girl at a party.
You go up to her and say, "I am very rich. Marry me!"
That's Direct Marketing.
You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl.
One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you, says, "He is very rich. Marry him!"
That's Advertising.
You go up to her and get her telephone number.
The next day you call her and say, "Hi, I am very rich. Will you marry me?"
That's Telemarketing.
You're at a party and see a gorgeous girl.
You get up, straighten your tie, walk up to her, pour her a drink. You open doors for her, push back chairs, pick up her bag if she drops it, offer her a ride.
Almost as an afterthought, you then tell her, "By the way, I am very rich. Marry me!"
That's Public Relations.
She walks up to you and says, "You are very rich. Will you marry me?"
That's Brand Recognition.
She gives you a nice hard slap on your face.
That's Customer Feedback!
She introduces you to her husband.
That's Demand and Supply Gap!
You go up to her but before you say anything, another person says to her, "I am very rich. Marry me!"
She goes with him.
That's Competition. Eating into Your Market Share!
You go up to her and before you can say, "I am very rich. Marry me!"
Your wife arrives.
That is Restriction on Entering New markets!
You're at a party and checking out gorgeous girls.
That is Market Research...
"What if," Sunny interrupted, "You see a gorgeous girl at a party."
"You look around and make sure no one is in earshot."
"Then, you go up to her and say, 'I am very rich. Marry me'!"
"That must be Risk Management!" CK chimed in.
'This marketing shit is easy,' Sunny thought, his brain already bubbling with a thousand marketing ideas now.
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Interview + Show Preview: Dark Dark Dark (at The Satellite with Y La Bamba in L.A, April 28th)
by Portia Medina
Dark Dark Dark (Minneapolis)
Y La Bamba (Portland)
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? (New Orleans)
21+, $10-$12
The Satellite, Los Angeles, California
Eclectic folk quartet Dark Dark Dark will be coming to Satellite in Silverlake on April 28 with support from Y La Bamba and Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? They will be rolling through well into their spring 2011 tour in support of Wild Go, their second full-length album on Supply and Demand Records. Dark Dark Dark's haunting and whimsical storytelling has evolved and become even more inviting. The melodic harmonies and impassioned instrumentals by Marshall La Count, Todd Chandler, and Jonathan Kaiser nestle in the sublime shade of Nona Marie Invie's meandering vocals.
Y La Bamba's effervescent style is an ideal compliment to the line up at Satellite along with the old world charm of Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? Portland, Oregon's Y La Bamba is fronted by the mystically mesmerizing songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza, who's vinyl crackling Alida St. recently gave into a lush folk album rooted deep in American folk with the spirit of her family's Mexican heritage. The album, Lupon (review), was inspired by her six toed cat lovingly named "Bamba", who comforted her to health following a devastating sickness. For more info on Portland's Y La Bamba, check our previous interview out with Luz Elena Mendoza. As a sample of what Los Angeles is about to experience from them, check out this live version of "Winter Skin."
The Show starts at 8:30p.m. and tickets are $10 here: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/29307/ or at the door.
Marshall La Count from Dark Dark Dark was kind enough to chat with us about the band's passion, progress and plans for the future.
Much of what comes out of Minnesota in music tends to hover around The Replacements, Prince, or more recently Atmosphere, Low. Yet your band as well as Spirits of the Red City shows another side not often known. What's the Minneapolis music scene like to you? How has it embraced Dark Dark Dark?
Dark Dark Dark (Marshall La Count): The Minneapolis music scene is diverse and abundant. There is so much going on and so many people interested in different things, that I think you could dream up any type of music and you'd find someone playing it around town. It's great. It has been a very diverse community of artists and musicians to grow up and work in. For us, there were definite scenes to grow through and be accepted by, but our friends and community accepted and supported us right away, enough to keep us going no matter what. Now I feel we are part of something much bigger than a scene or a neighborhood.
How do you feel the album Wild Go compares to Snow Magic as a whole album? Do you feel growth as a band on Wild Go?
We have grown so much as a band since recording Snow Magic. We developed musically and emotionally together and the songs reflect those changes. Musically, The Snow Magic was written to compete with other sound, because we were acoustic and playing in loud bars or on the street. The "chamber" of "chamber folk" or "chamber pop" that we've begun to identify as our genre, helps imply that we're much more intentional now, in that regard, and able to use subtlety, quietness, more dynamics. Wild Go and the EP Bright Bright Bright are much more emotional, and to me, passionately and smartly arranged, and the poetry and writing have developed with age and experience.
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You just finished a ten-date tour in France. Why tour so extensively there and what stood out the most? What would you say to someone considering touring Europe?
We are very fortunate to have met some people that make it a little easier to tour in Europe, especially in France. Our first more formal (non-CDR) release) was actually an EP for a little French DIY label called What A Mess! Records. We toured behind that release two years ago, and made it back last year. Audiences there are passionate about our music, but perhaps not more so than here…it just feels a little more romantic because hospitality in Europe is infinitely better, at least at this point…perhaps our acceptance in France was a little easier or faster than in the "indie" or "rock" circuit which is standard in the US. I'd say find a local host and start touring in Europe in a small, probably ambitious way. Do it yourself with help. That's how we've started everything. We don't know the other ways, but eventually we gained all the infrastructure to start losing our "DIY" badges. I haven't seen the results yet, but we did a very strange little photo shoot for Vogue France last time we were there, so I guess we're famous, (sarcasm I guess) but it started very basic. Now we're doing an EU release of both the BBB EP and Wild Go, double cd and double vinyl, with a label in Manchester called Melodic, and working with an agent from Belgium who is great. Whatever the point of all that is…this is all we do, because we love playing for people, and want it.
What kind of responses have you been receiving on your current tour? Are you received differently in Europe than in the States? How so?
People are passionate differently, but passionate nonetheless, in the US and in Europe, and probably everywhere else we want to go. We feel incredibly supported and encouraged at home and abroad. I'm not going to say that Europe is better anymore. As above, only in hospitality…anyway, the response is very positive, people are passionate alongside us, and we are excited to make another record and continue playing. We're often oblivious to what you're talking about, and try to feel good while performing.
You have participated in several artistic events outside of live music performances. How do you go about choosing which events to participate in? Do they mean something to any of you on a personal level?
Of course! All of our choices are specific and personal. All of the events we've been fortunate to participate in are friends' projects. As an example, we are so grateful to be able to say we've been to the Venice Biennial, and that because of the nature of Callie Curry's "Swimming Cities of Serenissima," and our crew, had a completely unique experience in Venice, had the keys to the city, and were able to connect with the residents and local community, as well as the art patrons and tourists. We are so proud of our friends when we look at a list of the other projects we've been involved in. Flood Tide, the film, has been another experience that has been incredible, and the Empire Drive-In. Installation and living art have a way of inviting us, as a band to participate, which is great, because it is some of the most accessible and change-effecting or experience-inducing art. Ugh. Have I gotten carried away yet? Quit making me talk this way!
What are you currently working on musically? Artistically? Otherwise?
Musically we are poising to make another record, patiently, by thinking and talking about how we will write it and what it will be. This is the most important thing. We will continue touring in the US and EU, record a soundtrack for Flood Tide, do a special live soundtrack performance for a Fritz Lang film at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and hopefully by then understand better what we are going to do next.
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How did the members of Dark Dark Dark first come together?
Nona and I started playing some friends' songs in order to play shows and make gas money on the way to New Orleans in 2006.
Jonathan was foolish enough to come along. Walter was there when we got there. Todd was waiting for us in NY. Brett and Adam are just really good. On this tour we've also fit in a performance of our Flood Tide soundtrack at a festival in Boulder, which means we've had our alternate line-up and members from NY, New Orleans, Chicago, and Mpls. This question is confusing. I don't remember.
Because you all live in different locations, how do you go about having rehearsals? The song writing process?
My fun new answer to this question is, "None of this matters, because it is all changing again." Historically, every time I've met one of Nona's aunts or a Grandma, they say "Where do you sleep, all this traveling around?" I say, "Under bridges and in gutters." I think we've started admitting to rehearsing on the road, in front of audiences.
What are some of the challenges that Dark Dark Dark has faced as a band in the last four years?
I can't remember because I have post-traumatic stress. It feels like one big endurance match sometimes. We love doing this thing, and to do it and be us, we have to give up everything and then figure out how to get it back, and it takes good music, years, and tens of thousands of miles, and decent health, and a channel for money to flow through. We are a channel where money flows. Then, when we don't want this anymore for a moment, its all we have. I mean, if you're thinking in terms of challenges…
Are there any recording artists, past or present, that you call on for inspiration while you are performing or creating music? If so, who?
Yes, definitely, and of course, but I won't name them. Our friends are so busy and passionate and inspiring that they are the first, whether they are in Minneapolis working in their community, or in New Orleans, really deeply learning their craft, or in New York or the Bay working on spectacular projects, they inspire us the most directly.
What does the future hold for Dark Dark Dark?
Okay, so, we are going to make two masterpiece records, then we are going to make one more record before we realize we should stop for a while, The Hood Internet is going to do a mash-up of one of our songs, we are going to be sampled for a Hot 97 hit, we'll get guest spots in R&B and hot jam hits, we'll score movies, and have songs used in countless others, we'll support our community and be supported by our community. We are really excited to make a decision about what our next record will be and where we'll make it.
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Afghanistan: Operation Achilles Heel?
International forces claim success in their latest operation in Helmand, but locals say the Taleban stopped fighting so that the opium poppy harvest could go ahead.
By IWPR trainees
As international forces in Afghanistan's Helmand region engage in their biggest offensive yet to drive the Taleban out of the north of the troubled province, everyone agrees the insurgents have not put up much of a fight.
However, IWPR has been told by local residents that the relative calm has little to do with a successful security operation. Instead, they say, the Taleban have staged a tactical withdrawal to prevent the opium harvest being harmed by fighting.
Operation Achilles, which began on March 6, was billed as "the largest multinational combined operation launched to date", and will eventually involve 4,500 troops from the International Security Force, ISAF, and up to 1,000 Afghan National Security Forces, ANSF.
An ISAF press release issued on April 16 suggested that the tough tactics were working, "Helmand province showing signs of [economic] growth due to increasing security."
The reason for the improvement, ISAF said, was Operation Achilles.
Helmand residents were left either chuckling or shaking their heads at the suggestion. From their vantage point at ground zero in the conflict, the new phase of relative calm will be temporary.
"There are no big problems in Helmand right now because everyone is busy with the poppy harvest," said Abdul Halek, from Nawzad district. "The elders have asked the Taleban to leave until the harvest is in, so that NATO does not come and bomb the fields or the harvesters. But I don't know what will happen afterwards."
Six weeks in, the results of Operation Achilles are mixed. The bombing campaign is terrorising civilian residents - potentially winning new recruits for the Taleban - while yielding little in the way of concrete results.
The one major victory for ISAF came in early April, when foreign troops assisted by ANSF took back the district centre of Sangin, a little over 50 kilometres north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
ISAF issued a statement on the battle just after the district centre was recaptured. "Over the course of the last two days, we have reduced the enemy's ability to destabilise the government of Afghanistan. By doing so, we are one step closer to creating a secure, stable and prosperous environment in which reconstruction and development can take place," it said.
But reports from Sangin suggest that it may be too soon to celebrate. The Taleban, with typical bravado, have sworn to fight to the end.
"We don't care about Operation Achilles," a top Taleban commander in Sangin district, who asked not to be named, told IWPR. "We will never leave Sangin. We withdrew from the centre [town of Sangin] because the tribal elders asked us to. They told us, 'You can't fight here any more right now because it's time to harvest the poppy. You have to go.' So we left, and ISAF came in.
"But now we're ready to fight again."
Mullah Qasem, a Taleban commander in northern Helmand, accepted that the overwhelming ISAF presence had also been a factor in persuading the insurgents to pull back.
"We did withdraw from Sangin," he said. "It was a tactic. NATO brought many troops to the area, and we did not want to fight them. But now we have dug trenches and we are prepared to take back the district centre very soon."
This will be bad news for residents still reeling from the last onslaught. They are angry at the damage caused by NATO bombs, and even more unhappy about the behaviour of the troops on the ground.
"ISAF troops enter our houses without permission and conduct searches," said Habibullah, a Sangin resident.
"Our people are complaining about ISAF," said Hajji Abdul Qadir, a tribal leader. "They drop bombs on our houses and destroy them. We want ISAF to take care of the local people."
Searches and bombing are not the only problems residents are facing.
Once the Taleban were driven out of Sangin town, Afghan police went on the rampage, looting homes and stores.
"I had a shop in the bazaar," said Nisar Ahmad. "Men in uniforms stole everything. It was the only source of income I had, and they took goods worth 1.4 million kaldars [23,000 US dollars]. Now there's nothing left but an empty shop."
Gul Agha, 45, who owns a clothing shop, had a similar tale. "This is the first time I have seen the government authorities looting shops," he said. "I saw armed men in uniform come and begin to rob the bazaar. They also came to my shop, and took away some very expensive fabrics."
Afgan government officials, including provincial governor Asadullah Wafa and the chief of police, confirmed that looting had taken place and promised to punish the perpetrators.
General Lawang of the Afghan National Army, ANA, told IWPR that the police had done most of the damage, but they had been aided by foreign troops and ANA forces as well.
"The ANA returned some of the items back to their owners," he said, adding that the army also took some police into custody following the incident.
Some residents are now wondering whether it was a good idea to ask the Taleban to leave.
"If the government and foreigners won't help us then we have to support the Taleban," said one man.
Governor Wafa visited Sangin last week, where he addressed a council of tribal elders and extended his condolences to those who had lost family members in the battle.
He pledged new reconstruction efforts designed to woo the local population back to the side of the government.
"I will do my best to help you people," he said. "The president has promised that the Kajaki dam will be rebuilt. And we will build 90 kilometres of roads inside Sangin."
Sangin is one of Helmand's largest districts, and a strategically important centre. The switching station that distributes electricity generated by the Kajaki dam to the north is located in Sangin. Whoever controls it can shut down the power to Lashkar Gah, and even to the major city of Kandahar to the east.
Throughout the winter and early spring, much of Lashkar Gah was in darkness due to fighting in the Sangin area.
After the Sangin victory, many expected that ISAF would move to retake Musa Qala, which has been openly controlled by the Taleban since early February. But so far, things are quiet, and residents are settling into their new lives.
"Right now, everything is fine in Musa Qala," said Zahir Jann, a resident. "We have returned and we are working day and night to rebuild our homes which were destroyed by NATO bombs. We feel better now that there is no more bombing. We can hear some small-arms fire on the outskirts, but we don't know who is doing it."
Hanif, also from Musa Qala, has not yet gone home. He is staying in Lashkar Gah and waiting for the government to recapture his native city.
"The government cannot bring security, they are making us more and more insecure," he said. "Every day they proclaim loudly that they're going to launch operations, but nothing happens. Meanwhile, young people are captured and executed as spies."
Helmand, along with much of Afghanistan, is still grieving over the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi, a young journalist and translator who was kidnapped by the Taleban in Helmand in early March.
Ajmal was executed after five weeks in captivity, when the government refused to bow to Taleban demands to release two detainees in return for his freedom. The Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, whom Ajmal was accompanying when he was captured, was freed after the government released five Taleban prisoners, while a third man, driver Sayed Agha, was murdered by his captors.
In the wake of Ajmal's murder, Afghan journalists united to organise a one-week boycott of reporting on the Taleban. Casualty figures and news of future Taleban plans have therefore been scarce on the ground.
The government has filled the news vacuum with its own upbeat account of the Helmand operation.
"Soon we will chase the Taleban out, and we will be able to control the districts," said Nabijan Mullahkhel, chief of police in Helmand.
He refused to comment on why it was taking so long for the military to move against Musa Qala, however. "Go and ask NATO what is going on," he said.
Local residents are impatient with claims that the situation is improving.
"It's a lie," said Qudrat in Lashkar Gah. "Things are not getting better. I saw ISAF troops fire on a car yesterday. They could have killed the children who were playing nearby. I don't like the Taleban, but the foreign troops are worse."
IWPR is running a journalism training and reporting project in Helmand. This piece is a compilation of reports by the trainees.
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A Day in the Sun The Open 30 Years Ago
No one ever doubted the natural talents of Tom Watson. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he was long off the tee, laser accurate with his irons, had the ability to get up and down from anywhere and had a bold and confident putting stroke. Such defined his physical strengths. The initial doubt, however, was his mental fortitude. A perspective that was probably unfair, as his sometimes brilliant play revealed his innate abilities that had not yet been matched by experience of tournament hardened nerve. Probably due to the early success of a young Jack Nicklaus, critics were quick to judge a young golfer with talent if he failed to win majors while still wet behind the ears.
Twenty-four years old, Watson held a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the 1974 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Facing brutal conditions and determined competition, the young golfer would falter, posting a final-round score of 79. He would finish fifth, five strokes behind the winner, Hale Irwin.
Tom Watson is congratulated by Jack Nicklaus after his 1977 Open victory (Getty Images).
Afterwards, Watson sat alone in the locker room gathering his thoughts when he heard a voice. I know how you feel, son. Ive thrown away tournaments, too. If you ever want to talk about your game, call me. Watson looked up to see the legendary Byron Nelson at his side. It was an offer that Watson would take advantage of, winning his first tournament, the Western Open, soon after commencing. Just over a year later, Watson would win his first Open Championship at Carnoustie, joining the ranks of major champion (he would go on to win five Open Championships); however, his media-placed reputation for choking when in contention dogged him. Perceived poor play while in contention at the 1975 Masters and U.S. Open did not help to eradicate the moniker.
At the 1977 Masters, that perception would change. It was a classic final round that would feature a man-to-man slug-fest between Watson and the most feared man in the game at that time, Jack Nicklaus. Playing just behind Nicklaus, Watson would match the great man birdie for birdie. After making birdie on the 13th hole, Nicklaus would gesture with his arm to the patrons, acknowledging their wild cheering and support. Viewing this from the fairway, Watson misinterpreted the gesture as being intended for him, a pantomimed So There!
Watson would proceed to chase down Nicklaus, eventually taking the lead with a birdie on the 17th hole. When the 20-foot putt dropped, the roar was so loud, that Nicklaus backed away from his approach shot in the 18th fairway. He would later admit that Watsons birdie rattled him, and caused him to change his plan of attack on the hole. Instead of firing for the center of the green, he chose to attack the pin, resulting in a shot he caught slightly heavy, that ended up in the front bunker. The ensuing bogey by Nicklaus, and par on the same hole by Watson, would give Watson his first green jacket and a two-stroke victory (he would win again in 1981 and he would finish tied for second in 1978 and 1979, and a solo second in 1984). Nicklaus shot a final-round 66 to Watsons 67. It would not be the last time that Watson would stand toe-to-toe with Nicklaus, take his best, and persevere.
A footnote to this Masters was the lingering effect of the affair at the 13th hole. Watson caught up to Nicklaus outside the scoring tent and confronted him about the gesture at 13. Nicklaus assured Watson that the gesture was not meant for him and he meant him no ill will. Whether the incident had any lasting impact on their relationship is doubtful; however, it did serve to illustrate the fighting spirit of Tom Watson and his steely resolve to stand up to any challenge, perceived or otherwise, regardless of the source.
I proved I could win against the big boys, Watson would say following the impressive finish.
That years next major stop would belong to neither Nicklaus nor Watson. The 1977 U.S. Open at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., belonged to Hubert Green, who held or shared the lead in all four rounds, finishing at 2 under par and one stroke in front of Lou Graham.
So, the stage was set for a renewal of the burgeoning Nicklaus/Watson rivalry at the Turnberry Ailsa Course at the 1977 Open Championship, the first time the course would host the Championship. This was a tournament that would feature what has been called the greatest final round in major tournament history.
The Ailsa Course at Turnberry is one of the finest layouts in the entire world. As is often the case with classic golf courses, it has a fascinating history. Used as an airfield during the Second World War, as recently as a few years ago while digging out a bunker on the second hole, an unexploded bomb was discovered buried deep under ground.
In 1977, like many of the great links courses of the British Isles, it did not have an irrigation system, so if the weather was hot and dry, the course would run like a ball on a runway. At its best, links courses, the quintessential test of golf, are unpredictable. When they get hard and dry, ball control can become very, very challenging, to say the least. Such was the case in July, 1977. Conditions were uncharacteristically oppressive.
Prior to the start of the tournament, some thought the lack of wind and rain would actually make the course easier to play. Playing in his first Open Championship, Greg Norman speculated, during the practice rounds, that someone might shoot a 60 that week (Norman would miss the cut but would get revenge by winning the 1986 Open Championship at Turnberry). By the end of the week, the scoring average for the field over 72 holes would be near 10 over par.
Through the first two rounds, Watson and Nicklaus would post identical scores of 68 and 70, to sit one stroke off the lead, held by Roger Maltbie, after 36 holes. Maltbie had fired a second-round 66, after a first-round 71, to vault him into the lead. Also tied for second place were Green and Lee Trevino. Surely, it must be hard to get a good nights sleep when nursing a slim lead in front of that foursome?
The third round would belong to Watson and Nicklaus. Paired together, both played brilliant golf, matching each other birdie for birdie, posting matching 65s, and pulling away from the field by three strokes clear of second place, held by Ben Crenshaw, who shot a 66 in Round 3. Everyone anticipated that the pair would pick up right where they left off in April, and did they ever deliver!
However, the round did not start as anticipated and beguiled the drama that was to follow. Nicklaus birdied the second hole while Watson posted a bogey. He would then birdie the fourth hole. So, by the end of the fourth hole, Nicklaus had pulled ahead by three shots, an often insurmountable lead in the final round of a major by any of his pursuers. Remember, Nicklaus is remembered not only for his supreme skills, but also as one of the most intimidating golfers of all time. Seldom was Nicklaus the first to blink. Not only was he capable of heroics, but he possessed a supreme intellect, the ability to wait until his opponent erred, then exploiting the mistake. Whats more, many doubters began to give each other wayward glances, as if to affirm that here was Watson being the Watson of their accusations; another major opportunity spurned. But, major championships are not won by what other people think of you; they are won by what you have inside, and Watson was ready to prove, again, just how determined and convinced he was of his own mettle.
Watson would secure birdies at the fifth and seventh holes to cut Nicklaus margin to one stroke. He would tie him with another birdie at the eighth hole and then Watson would bogey the ninth to once again fall one behind. On the 10th hole, Watson would leave his approach shot short of the putting surface and his drive on the 11th hole would find a bunker. On both occasions, however, he would save par. Like a snake waiting to strike, Nicklaus would tighten the noose with a 25-foot birdie on the 12th hole to go back up by two strokes. Watson would bounce off the ropes with a birdie at the 13th hole to slice the margin to one, and the two would post identical pars on the 14th, after Watson missed a 6-foot putt for birdie. On the 15th hole, Watson would make a birdie, putting from 60 feet off the green and slamming his ball into the flagstick, bringing the metal-match play to all square.
The 16th hole also had its share of the dramatic. Watsons drive cleared a stream that cuts across the fairway, but settled on the hill above it, in front of the green. For a few agonizing seconds the fate of this Championship lay in the roll of the ball from this precarious perch. If the ball were to roll even a dimples worth back down the slope, his ball would have tumbled to the bottom of the stream bed. It held and both men would post par. The 17th hole is a relatively short par-5, just under 490 yards, played from an elevated tee to an elevated green. Both men hit perfect drives that split the fairway. However, Nicklaus caught his ball heavy and left his second shot well short of the green. Watson placed his second shot on the green in two, some 15 feet away for eagle. Nicklaus would negotiate his chip 4 feet from the hole. However, his birdie putt slid tortuously past the left side and he would settle for par when he knew he needed more. Watson would take the lead for the first time with a two-putt birdie.
The match moved to the final tee. Watson would later admit that prior to the hole playing out he informed his caddy that he would not be playing it safe, as he expected Nicklaus to make a birdie on the hole (it was logical for him to feel that way as Nicklaus seemed to have a habit of making birdie on the final hole, particularly when it mattered. As if being a preview of things to come, Nicklaus birdied the 18th hole in the first round after sinking a long, 25-foot winder).
Watsons 1-iron was played safely down the fairway, leaving a 7-iron to the green from there. Crushing into his drive with his trademark power and fade flight path, Nicklaus ball settled into the heather aside the fairway. Upon reaching his ball, he discovered that it had actually rolled under some gorse as well. Up first, Watson would hit one of the finest irons of his entire career, a perfectly struck 7-iron that would see the ball finish only 3 feet from the cup.
I hit it dead flush. It was one of the best shots I ever hit. Its something I will never forget, he would later recount.
Down one stroke, under gorse and heather and facing incredible pressure, in typical Nicklaus-esqe fashion, Nicklaus somehow found a way, tearing at the ball with his 8-iron and hitting a fabulous golf shot that finished some 40 feet from the cup.
In a vision near trademark at the Open, the gallery closed in around the competitors, consumed with frenzy, clearly grasping that they were witnessing history in their midst. Perhaps the greatest pressure putter the game has ever known, Nicklaus proceeded to snake his 40-foot birdie putt over knolls and swales, breaks and valleys, and remarkably, into the hole for birdie. The pressure now shifted squarely on the shoulders of Watson as his 3-foot putt must have seemed much longer at this juncture. If his tenacity at the Masters and through 71 holes of this Open were not enough, finally he had the chance to assert his status as a member of the club which included the greatest golfers the game has ever known. Watsons putt split the hole, securing his birdie, his triumph, and a bold new reputation.
Watson would finish with a final round 65, to Nicklaus 66. The pair finished eleven strokes ahead of third-place finisher, Hubert Green. Watson now owed his second Open title, his third major, and with an aggregate score of 268, he beat the previous Open record, set by Arnold Palmer in 1962 at Royal Troon, by eight strokes.
Perhaps as lasting an image from the Open as the spectacular play was when the gracious Nicklaus put his arm around the 10-years-younger Watson as they walked off the green. Youve seen my best and you have beaten it, Nicklaus would summarize.
And one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the game was in full bloom.
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Shop working with new chrome method
By Wendy Sweeter
Al's Motorsickle Shop in Lennox has started experimenting with a new method to apply chrome.
Owner Al Osborn was solicited in August about offering the service, Hydrochrome. While leery at first with an unknown caller, Osborn started asking questions about the process.
"We get so many robo calls and that type of thing. I was very leery when they started talking to me about it," he said. "They said they would guarantee nobody within a hundred mile radius would be able to do this."
He thought that sounded fair. The company said the nearest Hydrochrome dealer is Chicago.
Hydrochrome is mostly water based and 98 percent chemical free.
"It's a water-based and a spray on unlike the traditional chrome which is dipped in all kinds of chemicals to get it clean and then dipped in nickel several times and other chemicals to make that chrome happen," Osborn said. "Another difference between regular chrome and the Hydrochrome is regular chrome can only typically be done on steel or metal because of the chemical process, where Hydrochrome can be sprayed on virtually anything."
Osborn's first Hydrochrome project was using it on glass Ball canning jars. They started practicing with it in September and will continue to practice the process before being ready to use on customer projects.
On the jars, Osborn said that was a nine-step process. In practicing, they have discovered that if the steps are not done properly, they will not get the desired look.
"The jars that we did didn't always look quite perfect the way they should with the chroming process. The concepts with the nine steps is if you don't do the steps appropriately then the end result doesn't come out just right. We're still experimenting and working on the finer details," he said.
Osborn noted they had to purchase quite a bit of special equipment to make the whole process come together. |
AfriOne unveils manufacturing plant for 'Made in Nigeria' phones
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AfriOne Limited, a technology-driven enterprise, on Friday inaugurated its manufacturing and assembly plant for Made in Nigeria phones and other technological devices.
The Chief Executive Officer of AfriOne, Sahir Berry, at a news briefing in Lagos, said the plant was a technological breakthrough and precedent for the company and for Nigeria.
Berry said the plant served is a pioneer in the manufacture and assembly of high-end communication technology in the African space.
He said the company's state of the art facility was spread out over 20,000 square feet, including Research and Development and testing laboratories.
According to him, the facility will be able to produce 300,000 products in a month on its four production lines.
He said the company's brands of Smartphone would soon be unveiled into the Nigerian market.
Berry said: "AfriOne champions corporate socio-economic development, while wholly supporting the Made in Nigeria" mantra.
"The company models products that utilise cutting-edge technology reflect a modern, sleek design and integrate the latest and arguably necessary financial technology such as mobile health, mobile education and mobile banking.
"This is all with the goal of facilitating connectivity among Nigerians and the rest of the world."
The co-founder of AfriOne, Hemang Kapur, said the products of the company were proudly and smartly crafted in Nigeria by Nigerians.
Kapur said AfriOne served Africa's largest socioeconomic power player with integrity.
He said the company was hosting cutting-edge technology, stylish design, affordable price points and particularly an inherent commitment to financial integration.
According to him, the financial integration was through the automatically installed mobile banking and financial technology through the NowNow application.
He said: "AfriOne aims to democratise technology by offering affordable innovations through our product offerings and removing barriers for large scale adoption of advanced technologies in Nigeria, hence our motto: AfriOne – one for everyone.
"We offer a wide range of feature-rich and technologically loaded product lines from dual SIM mobile phones to educational tablet PCs and even android smart watches."
The Chief Operating Officer of AfriOne, Sandeep Natu, said the company presently employed approximately 500 staff, who worked at its state-of-the-art product and testing facilities.
Nayu said the organisation had an installed capacity of 300,000 products per month via its world-class production facility located in Lagos.
The Managing Director of Contec Global, Roheen Berry, said in addition to the production of contemporary ICT devices and accessories, AfriOne was dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility.
Berry said the corporation facilitated education and training programmes and encouraged entrepreneurship in Nigeria and across Africa, recognising it as a means of contributing to economic growth.
He said: "In adherence to the AfriOne and Contec Global in-house agenda, young men and women have the opportunity to be involved in product development and strategic management training programmes.
"We are tangibly investing in Nigeria's future through AfriOne, while providing a valuable skill set to its workforce that will facilitate continued innovation in Nigeria's emerging, dynamic and robust market."
The assembly plant was inaugurated by Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.
Ambode, represented by the Commissioner for Science and Technology, Olufemi Olubiyi, commended the company for choosing Lagos State as its starting point in Nigeria.
Ambode said his government would do all within its power to support AfriOne.
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Eguavoen to stick with Rohr's team for Cameroon 2022 AFCON
Wilfrey Morena December 17, 2021 247 Nigeria News Update, General News, News, Trends
Super Eagles' Interim Coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has revealed that he will work with the same set of players used by his predecessor, Gernot Rohr, at the Cameroon 2022 African Cup of Nations. The competition begins on January 9 and ends on February 6.
Speaking with The Guardian yesterday, Eguavoen said it would be difficult to raise a completely new set of players for the AFCON and remaining matches of the World Cup qualifiers.
"I will work with the player's Coach Rohr listed for the AFCON. The only thing I will do is add a few new names to the list.
"However, every member of the team will have to justify his stay in the squad," he said.
The coach confirmed that before he left, Rohr had submitted a list of players to CAF from where the final 23 players will be chosen.
"The list is already with CAF. So, it is from that we are going to pick the players, the list Gernot Rohr submitted."
Eguavoen also disclosed that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has not picked any camp for the team, saying he would meet with the federation to decide the team's program for the AFCON.
Nigeria will begin its campaign with a clash against Egypt on January 11 before further games against Sudan and Guinea Bissau. |
Despite Predicted Slow Down During Winter Season, Zika Continues Plaguing Florida
By Sascha Cordner • Jan 17, 2017
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Despite a predicted slow down during the cooler winter season, the Zika virus continues plaguing Florida.
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The Zika virus is mainly transmitted by the aedes aegypti mosquito. But, Florida Department of Health Secretary Celeste Philip says there are not well-researched protocols for how to get rid of the mosquito.
"It's different than the nuisance mosquitoes that most of us are familiar with in that instead of dusk and dawn—remember that messaging—they're day biters," she said, speaking last week to the Senate Budget committee. "Instead of being out and about in nature, they like to be in urban areas, close to people, inside homes, often times. And, so the way that you address, mitigate, and control the aedes aegypti mosquitoes is very different."
Philip says one of the focuses in this year's health budget is more funding for epidemiologists, who deal with controlling different types of diseases.
"As we've learned from our Zika response as well as in the past few years, there seems to be a new disease DuJour that the department is responsible for," she added. "We've had Ebola, we've had MERS—which is a Middle East respiratory syndrome and have repeatedly had to depend on epidemiologists. And, what we find is we are able to respond very well to whatever that condition is, but some of the daily activities of epidemiologists, then there is a delay in some of that. And, so, we have now gotten to a point where we believe that this is an important investment for the state for us to have a strong epidemiologist workforce."
So far, the state has confirmed about 1,300 Zika cases. That includes cases considered travel-related, locally acquired via Florida mosquitoes, and involving pregnant women.
And, Philip says health officials are already making plans to monitor those mothers and their kids, since Zika is associated with a severe birth defect.
"So, as we move forward, and we continue to work with healthcare professionals to learn more about Zika to make sure testing is available and that they have the resources that they need, to make sure we're following up with those infants over the next few years, if not longer—that will be an important partnership as well as following up with the CDC," she continued.
Meanwhile, the health department isn't working alone.
Since the first report of local Zika transmissions, state Department of Economic Opportunity Director Cissy Proctor says her jobs agency focused on assisting and educating the business community.
For example, she says DEO officials along with members of the Small Business Development Center, or the SBDC went to the Zika hotspots of Wynwood and Miami Beach.
"So, this was a team on the ground that went around to businesses and knocked on their door and asked, 'how can we help you? What can we do?' The things that they needed were technical assistance. 'What can we do if people are not coming to our restaurants, to our businesses?' And, working with the SBDC, came up with some creative ideas," said Proctor. "For instance, if a company or restaurant didn't normally cater or didn't normally deliver, then maybe that is something that they would try to see if they could keep income and money coming in the doors, so they can continue to employ the folks in their restaurants and their business."
As for the state's tourism industry, Zika still hasn't had a big impact. Proctor says that's according to her partner agency, Visit Florida.
"So, Visit Florida began a tracking survey to determine the impacts of Zika on people's perceptions," she added. "So, to date, we have 20 weeks of survey information that has been collected. What we know is that from what we've heard from tourism leaders, and anecdotally as well as I'm sure you all have seen on the news that there were cancellations. But, the survey results showed that even with increased news that there were not a significant number of cancellations. So, what we've heard is 'yes, we've seen the news. Yes, we are concerned. But, no we are not cancelling our vacation."
In fact, Proctor points out Florida hit record setting tourism numbers in the third quarter of 2016, despite concerns over Zika.
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Florida Researchers Win $10M CDC Grant For Zika Research
By Kate Payne • Dec 27, 2016
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are granting a team of Florida researchers $10 million to research Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases. University of Florida scientists will lead the regional research center, in collaboration with teams from the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the University of South Florida.
As Fla. Zika Cases Top 1,200, Health Officials Continue To Stress Mosquito Prevention
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There are now more than 1,200 cases of the Zika virus in Florida, and about a fifth are locally contracted cases via Florida mosquitoes. So, health officials are reminding Floridians to continue taking preventive measures to combat the disease.
Zika No Longer An International Emergency, But Still A Threat
By Kate Payne • Nov 21, 2016
The Zika virus outbreak is no longer an international emergency, according to the World Health Organization. But a Florida epidemiologist is stressing the disease is still a threat.
As US Senate Strikes Funding Deal, Gov. Scott Puts $25M Toward Zika Vaccine Research
By Sascha Cordner • Sep 22, 2016
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The U.S. Senate announced Thursday that a bipartisan Zika funding deal has been struck and a vote could take place next week. But, in the meantime, Governor Rick Scott has authorized $25 million to go toward researching a vaccine to combat the Zika virus. |
Québec: may a Jew be compelled not to work on Saturdays?
Posted on 17 July 2017 by Frank Cranmer
May a Jew be compelled by his employer not to work on the Sabbath? That question recently came before the Québec Human Rights Tribunal.
In Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Zilberg) c. 9220-3454 Québec Inc. (Spa Liv Zen (Spa Orazen)) 2017 QCTDP 13 (CanLII), the claimant, Richard Zilberg, was a hairstylist employed by Spa Orazen and its owner, Iris Gressy. He had a strong Jewish identity and attachment to his religion but chose not to observe Shabbat. So he worked six days a week including Saturday – which was the busiest day of the week at the salon. [6].
In 2012, Ms Gressy, who was herself Jewish, suggested that Mr Zilberg should stop working on Saturdays because he was a Jew. He disagreed and continued to work Saturdays [8]. In mid-July 2012, Ms Gressy told him no longer to work on Saturdays, "in accordance with her new policy whereby her Jewish employees are not permitted to work on the Sabbath". She also told him not to tell clients why he would no longer be working on Saturdays but simply to tell them that Saturday was his usual day off [9]. Another Jewish employee contested the policy and lost her job, but Mr Zilberg, who was dependent on the job for his livelihood, followed his employer's instructions and stopped working on Saturdays [10].
In August 2012, Ms Gressy learned that Mr Zilberg had told a client of the salon that his employer did not allow him to work on Saturdays because he was Jewish. She accused him of a breach of confidentiality. Following an argument, she fired him on the spot [12 & 13]. He complained to the Québec Human and Youth Rights Commission, which pursued his case before the Human Rights Tribunal.
The Tribunal concluded that Mr Zilberg's religion had been a factor in Ms Gressy's decision to restrict his right to work and to dismiss him [48].
S. 10 of the Québec Charter of Rights and Freedoms declares that:
"Every person has a right to full and equal recognition and exercise of his human rights and freedoms, without distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions, language, ethnic or national origin, social condition, a handicap or the use of any means to palliate a handicap.
Discrimination exists where such a distinction, exclusion or preference has the effect of nullifying or impairing such right."
In Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) c. Bombardier Inc. (Bombardier Aéronautique Centre de formation) 2015 CSC 39 (CanLII), the Supreme Court of Canada had laid down three conditions for discrimination to exist within the meaning of s. 10. In order to demonstrate discrimination, there had to be:
(1) a distinction, exclusion or preference;
(2) based on one of the grounds listed in the first paragraph of s. 10;
(3) and having the effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition or full exercise of a person's right or freedom.
On that basis:
"If no justification is established by the defendant, proof of these three elements on a balance of probabilities will be sufficient for the tribunal to find that s. 10 of the Charter has been violated" [49].
The Tribunal concluded as follows:
(1) The decision to forbid Mr Zilberg to work on the Sabbath because he was Jewish violated his right to equality in employment due to his religion.
(2) His dismissal was based, in part, on religious grounds.
(3) The decision violated his rights to freedom of conscience and religion, the safeguarding of his dignity and respect for his private life [50].
Neither Québec Inc nor Ms Gressy entered an appearance. The Tribunal awarded Mr Zilberg $6,000 in material damages, $4,000 in moral damages and $2,500 in punitive damages.
[With thanks to Paul de Mello Jr for the lead.]
Cite this article as: Frank Cranmer, "Québec: may a Jew be compelled not to work on Saturdays?" in Law & Religion UK, 17 July 2017, https://lawandreligionuk.com/2017/07/17/quebec-may-a-jew-be-compelled-not-to-work-on-saturdays/
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Lake Shore respects your privacy.
Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. (Lake Shore) complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union, and the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, as applicable) to the United States pursuant to Privacy Shield.
Lake Shore has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern.
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Lake Shore may collect your information when:
You visit our facility or interact with us on our website, via email or other electronic medium, in person, on the phone or at trade shows;
You place an order for products or services, or
You opt in to sharing usage analytics from your Lake Shore products
Depending upon the circumstance, the following information may be collected:
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Under limited circumstances, documents and information to verify identity such as a passport, national identity card, driver's license, or tax number; and
Aggregate usage analytics on targeted products.
While Lake Shore collects personal data; we do not collect sensitive personal data, as defined under the GDPR.
Why we collect it
We collect and use personal data for legitimate business purposes. We use it to provide products and services to our customers, to collaborate with our partners and to fulfill United States export and other regulatory requirements. Lake Shore will not use your personal information for any purpose other than the original intent or authorization. If opportunity were ever to arise, we will contact you to opt-in at that time.
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Lake Shore will securely retain personal data in order to contact customers and collaborators on past or current transactions and to fulfill notification and literature requests, such as newsletters. We will never sell or offer to sell your personal information for any purpose. Your personal information will not be disclosed by us to a third party for a purpose that is incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized.
Under limited circumstances, Lake Shore will disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Data security is our priority and we are committed to safeguarding your information. We do this by:
Establishing policies and procedures for securely managing information;
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Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc. which is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission, participates in the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield, which provides a framework for the transfer of information from the European Union to the United States. The Privacy Shield Framework includes seven central Principles:
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Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation;
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If you have concerns, questions or would like further clarification about this policy, please contact us at [email protected].
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STATEMENT: VIRGIN FESTIVAL NOVA SCOTIA
The Tragically Hip unable to perform but the show will go on? for free!
HALIFAX (NOVA SCOTIA) July 3, 2009
"Our thoughts are with The Tragically Hip right now," says Andrew Bridge, director of Virgin Festivals. "The Virgin Festival will still go ahead as planned at Citadel Hill on July 4 – but now it will be free to anyone and everyone. We continue to have an amazing line-up and it's sure to be a fantastic day. We invite everyone to come along and enjoy the festival – but be sure to come early so you're guaranteed a spot."
Virgin Festival will be reimbursing all current paying ticket holders and guaranteeing their entry. All internet and phone purchases through Ticket Atlantic will be automatically reimbursed to credit card – no action is necessary. All other refunds including purchases made in person or through Future Shop and futureshop.ca will be available at the Metro Centre Box Office as of Tuesday, July 7 for all purchased Virgin Festival tickets.
Virgin Festival attendees are also encouraged to bring along a non-perishable food item or cash donation to the Parker Street Food Bank. All donations will be collected at the Festival gates.
Entry for non-ticket holders is subject to capacity.
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Time Artist
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7:50 p.m. Metric
6:40 p.m. Dinosaur Jr.
5:35 p.m. Handsome Furs
4:40 p.m. Hey Rosetta!
3:50 p.m. Plants & Animals
3:10 p.m. Arkells
2:30 p.m. In-Flight Safety
1:55 p.m. Dog Day
1:00 p.m. Gates Open
The Virgin Mobile group of companies has attracted more than 12 million customers worldwide. As the No.1 mobile youth network, Virgin Mobile Canada's mission is to be Canada's most loved mobile company. Its simpler, better deals offer customers control, flexibility and choice to design mobile packages that truly works for them. J.D. Power and Associates ranked Virgin Mobile highest in customer satisfaction with prepaid wireless service for four years in a row and 91% of customers would recommend Virgin Mobile to a friend.
Virgin Mobile phones are available at more than 4,000 locations with top-up cards available at more than 10,000 locations nationally. Virgin Mobile products can also be purchased online at www.virginmobile.ca or by calling 1-888-999-2321.
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Gillett Entertainment Group (GEG) is one of the top entertainment promoters in the world. In 2008, GEG finished in 10th position amongst the top concert promoters around the world and Bell Centre was ranked third in America (according to Pollstar magazine), reaching out to 1.5 million fans thanks to over 638 shows that were presented across Quebec, the Maritimes and Vermont. |
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FG Appoints Ex-Eagles captain Mikel Obi Youth Ambassador
The federal government of Nigeria has appointed former Super Eagles skipper John Obi Mikel as the country's youth ambassador.
His appointment was announced on Friday at an event at the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) secretariat in Surulere, Lagos.
Speaking at the event, minister of youth and sports development, Sunday Dare, said Obi's appointment is aimed
to "inspire young Nigerians to strive for excellence".
He also described the former Chelsea star as a role model whose lasting legacies in football development has continued to have positive impact on youths in the country. "It is it my pleasure to appoint you as Nigeria Youth Ambassador.
It's a new portfolio and your role as youth ambassador will be made known to Nigerians.
"It's phenomenon to have somebody like him, he should be able to gather young men around and talk to them.
"Time will not permit me to say much about Mikel's success as a footballer. He is our legend and a role model who has continued to impact the lives of youth positively."
Mikel promised to work with the sports ministry to foster youth development in the country.
"I feel highly honoured to be appointed as Youth
Ambassador of this country, it is a great feeling," Obi said.
"I am happy with this partnership and promise to do my best to encourage and inspire the youths towards national development not just in football but in other sports like Basketball, Boxing among others."
Mikel helped Nigeria win the 2013 AFCON in South Africa and featured at two FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2018.
He was part of the Flying Eagles squad that finished second at the 2005 U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands.
He was the captain of the U-23 Eagles that won bronze at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Brazil.
At club level, he won the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League with Chelsea.
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Amazon editors say this is the best book of 2020 — and it's 50 percent off with Kindle
With the year coming to an end, the long-awaited "best of" lists have begun rolling in and one of the latest to kick off the trend is Amazon with its coveted "Best Books of 2020" list.
Curated and compiled by Amazon book editors, this list includes titles that range across several categories from literature to cookbooks. The book that reigned supreme, however, is the Brittany K. Barnett-authored criminal procedure-themed A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice and Freedom.
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Described as "an urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system," this book, in addition to being dubbed the best of 2020, is lauded by several scholars and political pundits for its timely messaging.
CNN host and political commentator Van Jones called A Knock at Midnight "an essential book for our time." Journalist and The Washington Post opinion columnist Michele Norris also sang its praises, calling it "a memoir that offers an irresistible invitation to examine the evolution and the impact of injustice in America."
Barnett's talents as a writer and best-selling author have also been praised by several respected reviewers and outlets. Van Jones further called her a "first-rate storyteller" with the likes of Booklist and the Library Journal praising the lawyer and activist for "telling each client's story fully" and weaving together "memoir, biography and legal drama in a powerful and moving story."
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With Kindle Unlimited, users gain access to millions of titles that are drastically cheaper than print editions. One of the most common ways to use this service is via an Amazon Kindle device, like the one pictured below. But you can also use Kindle Unlimited on another e-reader or most other smart devices, like a smartphone or tablet.
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Sound proofed music room in Wimbledon
by Jasmine Wythe | Nov 27, 2018 | Garden Room, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Living in a flat and playing an instrument (or being a heavy metal enthusiast), don't often go peacefully hand in hand.
Thankfully this particular client in Wimbledon had done some research and decided that a Vivid Green garden room with Premium Plus Acoustic Package would provide a comfortable place for practice where he could feel confident that he was not upsetting the neighbours.
In a Premium Plus Acoustic Package building, the SIPS panels used to construct the building are lined with a double layer of acoustic plasterboard, which are also filled mineral wool that absorbs sound vibrations. The ceiling consists of sound block plasterboard and the floor consists of acoustic underlay.
Considerations are also made to installation of sockets, switches and lighting – as the more openings that are made in the acoustic plasterboard, the less efficient it becomes at blocking sound. For this reason, wall mounted switches and sockets are used rather than more common inset ones, and set of four spotlights on a track were installed rather than inset spot lights which require multiple large holes to be drilled into the ceiling.
The weakest point in any soundproofed room is always the glass. For this reason the design chosen has minimal glass without making the room seem dark. In addition to this, the glass we used was special acoustic glass – a type of double glazing which has an inner glass thickness of 6mm and an outer glass thickness of 4mm.
Find out more about our Acoustic Packages here.
Maximising internal space
To ensure the best use of space, the building was an irregular trapezoid shape, following the line of the garden's perimeter fence.
The external dimensions were finalised at approx 3.5m x 2.75m with one shorter side. See 2D dimension plan below.
This particular client lived in a flat, and so did not benefit from having permitted development rights that they would if the property were a house. This meant that they had to seek full planning consent for a garden building that wouldn't normally require it. On this occasion the client had already obtained permissions, however Vivid Green can also provide a full turnkey service, and are highly efficient at getting the planning sorted on your behalf – including all of the drawings that would normally require costly help from an architect.
A warm, modern and sustainable Thermowood cladding was used to finish the building.
The build took just three weeks from start to finish.
For a free site survey, or just a chat about your idea contact us here.
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Does Child Support End When the Child Graduates From High School?
By: Miranda Morley
Whether your child is nearing 18 or just starting preschool, understanding whether you will continue to receive child support after she graduates can help you make good decisions about her future. In most states, there are provisions that require a non-custodial parent to continue to pay child support throughout post-secondary education. However, in some states, child support payments terminate once a child reaches a certain age.
Parents can create a contract that continues support payments after high school.
Termination at Graduation
In some states, child support terminates when a child graduates from high school. However, there is usually an age past which support will not be mandated. For example, non-custodial parents in Georgia can continue to receive support as long as the child is in high school, but not past age 20. In other states, such as Arkansas, children can continue to receive support after they graduate from high school as long as they are under 18. Other states simply mandate that child support cease when the child is no longer a minor; the age of majority is either 18 or 21, depending on the state.
Child Support and College
In some states, non-custodial parents must continue to pay child support after high school graduation if the child is enrolled in college. For example, in Missouri, support payments continue until age 22 if the child is going to post-secondary school. In other states, the non-custodial parent may be ordered to pay part of the cost for college and other expenses depending on the situation. In Maryland, for instance, the court decides whether terminating the support would be "unjust or inappropriate" before doing so, considering college costs in that decision.
In some instances, states may order the termination of child support for other reasons. For example, if a child is legally emancipated, then some states will discontinue child support. In other states, a child must be going to school full-time for the custodial parent to receive payments after the child has reached the age of majority. In most states, the child support amount can be modified if circumstances drastically change, like the custodial or non-custodial parent experiences a change in income.
Finding Your State's Laws
The first place to look for information about child support payments is your court order, which is presented to both custodial or non-custodial parents and includes all the details of the child support case. In addition, you can contact your state's family law department or visit the National Conference of State Legislatures website to learn more about child support laws in your state.
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As the mother of two daughters — and so, obviously, also as a woman — I am grateful to stand on the shoulders of giants, many of them women, who fought for the right of women to own property, to vote, and to control their own bodies. We have come a long way. But there is still room to grow.
In the past, women suffered because the state treated them differently than men, out of either a misplaced sense of chivalry or outright misogyny. The old discriminatory policies usually announced themselves as such, like the ban on women owning property in their own name. Nowadays, policies tend superficially to be gender-neutral, but they often have disproportionate and negative effects on women. Here are a few examples.
End Restrictive Immigration Policies
The convergence between men and women in terms of education, lifestyle and professional choices is one of the greatest advances for society. Yet it is true that for those women who decide to join the labor force, time spent on the job comes largely at the expense of time spent doing housework and caring for children — functions still mostly female-dominated.
What is clear is that working moms who have to cut back on their housework would benefit a great deal from the ability to hire workers to help them. Unfortunately, state governments' regulations such as staff-child ratio rules and worker-qualification requirements have reduced the supply of child care providers, and hence hiked the cost of child care (see later section). While deregulation would be a great way to address some of these issues, there is no better way to solve the problem than to get rid of restrictive immigration policies, especially for low-skilled immigrants. These low-skilled immigrants are found in three major categories: child care, housecleaning, and yardwork. So increasing the supply of low-skilled immigrants would allow women to work longer hours and earn more money. It also would allow them to spend less of their free time doing housework and more time interacting with their kids (or doing whatever they actually want to do). Restrictive immigration policies get in the way of these improvements by reducing the supply of household help.
Tariffs are taxes on the goods we choose to buy from foreigners. They are regressive. They inflict disproportionately heavy harm on the poor. No surprise there.
You may be surprised to find out that there are also great differences in the burdens of tariffs across genders. Focusing on apparel products — which are responsible for about 75 percent of the total tariff burden borne by U.S. households — 66 percent, of the tariff burden is on women's apparel products. According to a study by the International Trade Commission, in 2015, the tariff burden for U.S. households on women's apparel was $2.77 billion more than on men's clothing. This gender gap grew about 11 percent in real terms between 2006 and 2016.
And there's a super-easy fix for this problem: unilateral elimination of U.S. tariffs. Eliminate the tariffs immediately and completely and without condition. Voila! Problem solved. No more burden and no more disproportionate damage inflicted on women.
Here's a government policy that might be more devastating to women than any other: the war on drugs. Because of mandatory minimum sentences, prosecution of low-level drug offenses, increased conviction and imprisonment of those with relationships to drug dealers, and the treatment of drug addicts as criminals, the number of incarcerated women has skyrocketed since 1980.
For instance, female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to be serving time for drug offenses (25 percent vs. 14 percent in state prisons, 56 percent vs. 47 percent in federal prisons), even if men still account for the vast majority of drug offenders in prison (88 percent in state prisons, 92 percent in federal prisons).
This is a slight improvement over the past. The number of women serving time in state prison for drug offenses has fallen slightly (by about 7 percent) since 1999, while the percentage of female state prisoners serving time for drug offenses has fallen more sharply, from 34 percent to 25 percent. The overall percentage of state prisoners serving time for drug offenses fell from 21 in 1999 to 15 in 2015. The share of federal prisoners serving time for drug offenses also has declined, from 57 percent in 1999 to 47 percent in 2016. But that's still too much, especially for victimless crimes that shouldn't even be crimes.
As you can imagine, when women leave prison, they face many barriers to obtaining housing, employment, and education. As I wrote a few years ago over at Reason:
"As Harvard University sociologist Bruce Western and University of Washington sociologist Becky Pettit showed in a 2010 study published by the Pew Research Center, incarceration has a lasting negative impact on inmates' earnings. Taking age, education, school enrollment, and geography into account, they found that past incarceration reduced subsequent wages by 11 percent, cut annual employment by nine weeks, and reduced yearly earnings by 40 percent."
And their kids are victims too, I added:
"Incarceration also has consequences for families. According to "Caught in the Net," a 2005 report from the ACLU, two-thirds of female state prisoners are the mothers of minor children — kids who become indirect victims of a cruel and unfair policy."
Criminal-justice reform and ending the war on drugs would address many of these problems. As I have written here, there is hope on the horizon after the recent midterm elections.
Workplace regulations make women's lives harder as well. Because women exit and re-enter the labor market (for maternity leave or to take care of their children) more frequently than men, they suffer disproportionately from labor regulations that restrict workplace mobility.
Women also suffer from idiotic state regulation of the child care industry.
Rules like staff-to-child ratios and work-qualification requirements restrict the supply of child care and jack up the price significantly. Cato Institute's Ryan Bourne writes, "According to 2016 data compiled by Child Care Aware, the average annual cost of full-time center-based infant care varies dramatically nationwide, from $5,178 in Mississippi to $23,089 in the District of Columbia. That amounts to 27.2 percent of median single-parent family income in Mississippi and fully 89.1 percent in D.C."
Not surprisingly, these high costs are particularly hard on poorer people and single mothers.
Staff-to-child ratios could be relaxed to increase supply and lower cost without impacting quality. Bourne cites a few studies to that effect:
"Mercatus Center economists Diana Thomas and Devon Gorry, for example, estimate that loosening ratios by just one child across all age groups would result in prices falling by 9 percent or more. That's over $2,000 per year for a family using full-time infant-center care in D.C. Requiring lead teachers to have high-school diplomas likewise raises prices by between 25 percent and 46 percent.…
"It's a matter of supply and demand, as research by economists Joseph Hotz and Mo Xiao shows. They find that tightening the staff-child ratio by one child reduces the number of child-care centers in an average area by 10 percent with no apparent impact on quality. Increasing the average required years of education for center directors by one year has modest positive effects on quality, but likewise reduces the number of centers by between 3.2 percent and 3.8 percent."
And then there are occupational-licensing laws for child care providers. Each state has its own set of regulations for licensed daycare providers and makes it illegal to operate an unlicensed child care operation with the exception of caring for a few children in a home setting. We are told that the need for licenses to work comes from the necessity to protect consumers (parents and children) and guarantee quality. Yet while those licenses do not deliver on that front, they are effective at protecting workers from competition in the child care industry, reducing the supply of child care, and forcing consumers to pay higher prices. Women who want to join the labor force or work more are the primary victims of these idiotic rules.
Women suffer all the normal barriers to entry that men do. But in addition, professions dominated by women tend to require licensing more often: 28.1 percent of employed women have a license as compared to 23.2 percent of men. These licensing requirements create a heavier burden for women entering or re-entering the workforce than for men.
Absurdly, many low-risk occupations dominated by women have ridiculously high licensing requirements. For example, some states require a license for braiding hair, even if the service offered involves no cutting of hair (no sharp object), heat-related treatments such as straightening, or chemical treatments such as coloring.
Missouri requires 1,000 hours at a school of cosmetology or 3,000 hours in an apprenticeship, as well as a written exam, and a practical exam. Can you believe this? This training and these exams require that a woman who wants to open a business that involves practically zero risk to her or her customers must nevertheless spend bizarrely large amounts of time and money on "training" that imparts no knowledge of any practical value.
State-granted licensing is an unfair protection against competition and should be removed entirely. The private sector can provide necessary licensing for those professions where consumers demand them.
I could go on and on. I would like to end with a warning. There is a worrisome trend in the conservative movement today to demand protections for women in the name of promoting families and children. The most recent example is the push that the federal government implement a paid family leave law. The proposals range from straight-up government provision of paid leave to using Social Security to pay for the benefit.
Paid Leave Policies Will Backfire
Unfortunately, these provisions will not only over time grow the size and scope of the federal government, but they are guaranteed to produce bad outcomes. They already have in Europe, where they have been implemented at large, as well as in the states that have family leave policies. Government mandates that force employers to offer lengthy maternity leaves make hiring women of childbearing age less appealing.
As a result, women are more likely to be unemployed or to see their cash compensation reduced, whether they want to have children or not. I recommend the work of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber that looks at real wages for women in the 1990s in states that require comprehensive employer-supplied maternity expenses. He finds that their compensation fell compared to compensation in states that don't have such requirements.
I also recommend the work of Cato Institute's Vanessa Brown Calder and the Heritage Foundation's Rachel Greszler on this issue. The bottom line is that conservatives and others need to resist the temptation to protect women through government policies.
Women have come a long way. Isn't it ironic, then, that women's freedoms are today being constrained by misguided government policies enacted in the name of increasing that freedom? In other words, there are still battles yet to be won and disasters yet to prevent.
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Synchrolog debugs the debugging process
Software developers typically have to solve many problems with very little information. They spend almost half of their time debugging web applications, trying to find out the what, who, how, when and where of errors. Typical error monitoring tools don't provide the context needed to fix errors properly. Synchrolog provides this context.
Synchrolog is a full-stack error tracker for web applications that reduces the amount of time and resources developers spend on searching, finding, understanding and fixing errors. It offers a full view of the inner workings of web applications with readily available information that enables developers to respond quickly and solve errors with unmatched precision.
Synchrolog provides full context for errors by collecting data from three sources: user sessions, server logs and error stack traces.
Recordings of user sessions allow developers to see what a user was viewing, clicking on and interacting with before, during and after an error.
Session scoped web server logs direct developers to inspect only the web server logs that are relevant to the issue.
Detailed error information enables developers to examine the error stack trace along with the additional error details. This feature allows them to see the exact lines of code where errors occur and a detailed description and backtrace, along with additional data that improves the diagnosis and debugging process.
Using all of this information, developers are able to replay the session that triggered error and diagnose and fix the problem.
Target market and competitive edge
Synchrolog is targeting web-based small and mid-size startups and web development agencies—a $300 million market. These companies usually have limited resources and aggressive time constraints, and they're continuously deploying new features, increasing the probability of bugs.
There are other error-tracking companies out there, but Synchrolog has a significant competitive advantage. It's the first company in the market that in addition to traditional error tracking also tracks user web sessions and webserver logs. Some companies provide standalone services that store and manage server logs or record user sessions, but they don't do both, forcing developers to pay for several individual subscriptions and correlate the combined data on their own.
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Synchrolog's greatest challenge as a Puerto Rican startup is that most of its potential customers, tech startups in particular, are not local. As a result, the company has to reach out to established tech hubs on the U.S. mainland and other countries.
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Through Bravo Family Foundation's Rising Entrepreneurs Program, the Synchrolog team hoped to connect with tech industry experts who could help steer the startup in the right direction and facilitate meeting potential clients. Being in Mayagüez for the program also gave Synchrolog a chance to recruit talent from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, and support other local aspiring entrepreneurs.
Synchrolog was impressed with the Thoma Bravo mentors and the group of talented entrepreneurs who participated in the program. "They all have a unique story and experiences that have helped them become who they are today," said Synchrolog founder Roberto Rivera. "Having the opportunity to interact with fellow participants allowed us to learn from their accomplishments and their mistakes about what works and what doesn't work, helping us make better decisions."
The program curriculum focused on profitable growth was especially enlightening, Rivera said.
"It helped me to deeply analyze my business and make the necessary adjustments to move Synchrolog toward profitable growth."
Synchrolog founder, Roberto Rivera
Rivera strongly recommends the program to other entrepreneurs. "It provides the tools and connections you need to take your startup to the next level in a healthy, sustainable way," he said, noting that these meaningful connections would be very difficult to make otherwise. "Having a direct, open line of communication with a Thoma Bravo mentor who is an expert in my industry helped me make educated decisions for my business."
Thanks to the program, Synchrolog has been able to increase the value it offers its customers. "We identified new needs in the market and came up with innovative solutions on which we can capitalize to have a successful launch," Rivera said. One of Synchrolog's new offerings is a "clips" feature that facilitates communication between quality assurance staff and software developers, making it easier for workers that are not tech savvy to report errors in a simple and efficient way.
In five years, Rivera sees himself running a successful tech company and passing on what he has learned to other entrepreneurs and software developers.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- -- Discount air carrier Southwest Airlines flew thousands of passengers on aircraft that federal inspectors said were "unsafe" as recently as last March, according to detailed congressional documents obtained by CNN.
Congressional documents show Southwest flew thousands of passengers on aircraft deemed "unsafe" by inspectors.
Documents submitted by Federal Aviation Administration inspectors to congressional investigators allege the airline flew at least 117 of its planes in violation of mandatory safety checks.
In some cases, the documents say, the planes flew for 30 months after government inspection deadlines had passed and should have been grounded until the inspections could be completed.
The planes were "not airworthy," according to congressional air safety investigators.
On Thursday, the FAA initiated actions to seek a $10.2 million civil penalty against Southwest for allegedly operating 46 airplanes without conducting mandatory checks for fuselage cracking.
"The FAA is taking action against Southwest Airlines for a failing to follow rules that are designed to protect passengers and crew," Nicholas A. Sabatini, the FAA's associate administrator for aviation safety, said in a written statement.
Calling it "one of the worst safety violations" he has ever seen, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minnesota, is expected to call a hearing as soon as possible to ask why the airline put its passengers in danger.
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But Southwest Airlines -- which carried more passengers in the United States than any other airline last year -- said there was never a flight safety issue.
"The FAA penalty is related to one of many routine and redundant inspections on our aircraft fleet involving an extremely small area in one of the many overlapping inspections. These inspections were designed to detect early signs of skin cracking," the airline said in a statement Thursday evening.
"Southwest Airlines discovered the missed inspection area, disclosed it to the FAA, and promptly reinspected all potentially affected aircraft in March 2007. The FAA approved our actions and considered the matter closed as of April 2007."
The airline said it understood the FAA's concerns and was anxious to work with the agency.
The documents obtained by CNN allege that some management officials at the FAA, the agency responsible for commercial air safety, knew the planes were flying "unsafely" and did nothing about it. CNN's Drew Griffin uncovers 'troubling information' »
"The result of inspection failures, and enforcement failure, has meant that aircraft have flown unsafe, unairworthy, and at risk of lives," Oberstar told CNN.
He said both FAA managers and the airline may also have broken the law as well as threatened the safety of Southwest passengers.
The documents were prepared by two FAA safety inspectors who have requested whistle-blower status from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which is headed by Oberstar.
The two inspectors have been subpoenaed to testify before the committee. The nation's "Whistle-Blower Protection Program" protects federal employees from being fired or retaliated against by their employer.
The inspectors say FAA managers knew about the lapse in safety at Southwest, but decided to allow the airline to conduct the safety checks on a slower schedule because taking "aircraft out of service would have disrupted Southwest Airlines' flight schedule."
According to statements made by one of the FAA inspectors seeking whistle-blower status, a manager at the FAA "permitted the operation of these unsafe aircraft in a matter that would provide relief" to the airline, even though customers were on board.
Laura Brown, an FAA spokeswoman, told CNN that the administration has taken action and that a supervisor who was in charge of overseeing Southwest is "no longer in a supervisory position."
The FAA's announcement that it would seek civil penalties against Southwest came after news of the congressional reports became public. Watch passengers react to the violations »
The safety inspections ignored or delayed by the airline were mandated after two fatal crashes and one fatal incident, all involving Boeing's 737, the only type of airplane Southwest flies.
In 1994, a US Air Boeing 737 crashed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing 132 people. Three years earlier, a United Airlines Boeing 737 crashed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25 people. Investigators blamed both crashes on problems in the planes' rudder control system, leading the FAA to demand regular checks of the 737's rudder system.
Documents provided to CNN show 70 Southwest jets were allowed to fly past the deadline for the mandatory rudder inspections.
The documents also show 47 more Southwest jets kept flying after missing deadlines for inspections for cracks in the planes' fuselage, or "skin."
The long-term, mandatory checks for fuselage cracks were required after the cabin of an Aloha Airlines 737 tore apart in mid-air in 1988, killing a flight attendant. That incident, which opened much of the top of the plane during flight, was attributed to cracks in the plane's fuselage that grew wider as the plane underwent pressure changes during flight.
An FAA inspector at a Southwest Airlines maintenance facility spotted a fuselage crack on one of the airline's 737s last year, according to the congressional documents. He notified the airline and then began looking through safety records, discovering dozens of planes that had missed mandatory inspection deadlines.
According to the inspector's statement in congressional documents: "Southwest Airlines at the time of discovery did not take immediate, corrective action as required to address this unsafe condition and continued to fly the affected aircraft with paying passengers."
In a news release Thursday afternoon, the FAA said Southwest operated 46 Boeing 737s on nearly 60,000 flights between June 2006 and March 2007 while failing to comply with an FAA directive that requires repeated checks of fuselage areas to detect fatigue cracking.
The FAA alleges that after Southwest discovered it had failed to comply, it continued to operate the same planes on an additional 1,451 flights. The airline later found that six of the 46 planes had fatigue cracks, the FAA said.
"We expect the airline industry to fully comply with all FAA directives and take corrective action," the FAA's Sabatini said in the statement.
Southwest has 30 days to respond to the agency.
The documents show Southwest voluntarily disclosed some of the missed inspections last spring. Earlier, Southwest told The Wall Street Journal it did not expect any civil penalties to be imposed because of the self-disclosure.
But, even after the airline's disclosure, FAA inspectors assert that planes continued to fly, in some cases for more than a week, before inspections were complete. The airline "did not take immediate, corrective action," according to the congressional documents obtained by CNN.
"That is wrong," said Oberstar. "When an aircraft is flying out of compliance with airworthiness directives, it is to be shut down and brought in for maintenance inspection. That's the law."
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Creating the Trophy for the NASCAR Cheez-It 355 at The Glen
In a partnership with Watkins Glen International that began last year, Museum glassmaker Eric Meek has designed and crafted the unique sculpted glass trophy that will be presented to the winner of the Cheez-It™ 355 at The Glen NASCAR race.
Eric was at The Glen on Monday to share more about the trophy's design.
Eric Meek talks about the trophy's design. (Photo courtesy of Watkins Glen International)
Watch how the trophy was made.
It all begins with a clear gob of glass. Once inflated, the glass is blown into a hollow cone of specially matched light blue glass – the same color as The Glen's raceway rails. To create the outline of the track, Eric uses a one-sided mold, and hand sculpts the glass to match the track turn by turn. From there the glass is covered, or cased, in more clear glass and stretched into the final form.
Making the trophy for the 2013 Cheez-It™ 355 at The Glen
At last summer's 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Marcos Ambrose took home the prize.
"The trophy made by the Corning Museum of Glass is very unique to the Sprint Cup Series and I'm proud to own it," said Ambrose. "There is not anything else like it and it's something that I'll cherish for the rest of my life."
Marcos Ambrose won the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and took home the trophy last year.
The modern form of the trophy references both The Glen's and the Finger Lakes region. The encased blue glass matches the color of the raceway's rails, while also calling to mind the region's many waterfalls.
The Cheez-It™ 355 at The Glen is Sunday, August 11. Stay tuned to see who will win this uniquely crafted trophy!
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The Buryats are very similar to Khalkh Mongolians by its language, history, and nomadic herding. Today the Buryat people are the 2nd biggest ethnic minority in Mongolia constituting over 49,000 in northern Mongolia. There 70,000 Buryat ethnic groups live in Russia and 25.000 Buryats live in north eastern area of Inner Mongolia, China.
If we trace back, It is most likely that the ancestors of modern Buryats are Bayyrku and Kurykans who were a Xiongnu tribe, that inhabited the Lake Baikal area. Historically, the territories around Lake Baikal belonged to Mongolia, Buryats were subject to Tusheet Khan and Setsen Khan of Khalkha Mongolia before Manchu domination in 16th century.
17-18th century
The territory and people were formally annexed to the Russian state by treaties in 1689 and 1727, when the territories on both the sides of Lake Baikal were separated from Mongolia. In 1741, the Tibetan branch of Buddhism was recognized as one of the official religions in Russia, and the first Buryat Buddhist monastery was built.
Purge of Buryats
During the Russian Civil War most of the Buryats were supporting the White forces of Baron Ungern-Sternberg. In 1925, a battle against religion and clergy in Buryatia began. Datsans were gradually closed down and the activity of the clergy was curtailed. Consequently, in the late 1930s, the Buddhist clergy ceased to exist and thousands of cultural treasures were destroyed.
In 1937, Joseph Stalin had more than 10,000 Buryats killed to avoid Buryat Nationalism Moreover, Stalinist purge of Buryats spread into Mongolia, known as the incident of L'humbee.
Republic of Buryat
In 1958, the name "Mongol" was removed from the name of the republic. Also around 1958, the Mongolian script was banned and replaced by Cyrillic. Republic of Buryatia was adopted in 1992.
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The core building of this immaculately maintained ensemble is a dignified but understated frame I-house erected ca. 1820 on property deeded in 1818 by Thomas Macon to his daughter Lucy, wife of Ruben Conway. The Macons and Conways were both locally prominent landed families and were kinsmen of James Madison who resided at nearby Montpelier. Although enlarged in 1850 with the addition of a two-story wing, and later with a modern kitchen and garage, the original portion of the house is little changed. Its interior preserves simple late Federal trim. One early outbuilding stands amid a cluster of later but architecturally compatible structures. Like many historic dwellings in Orange County, Greenwood was carefully sited to take advantage of a remarkable panoramic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 111 acres remaining with the property preserves the integrity of Greenwood's rural setting.
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Behind its understated Romanesque façade and distinctive rose window, the Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) is teeming with Renaissance treasures, as well as ranking among Bologna's most important churches. The church was built in 1221 to house the tomb of San Domenico, Founder of the Dominican Order of Preachers, and the Ark of St. Dominic remains the church's grand centerpiece – a magnificent marble shrine created by Nicola Pisano and Niccolò dell'Arca.
The church's elaborate interiors also include colorful frescoes and paintings by Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi, Guido Reni, Ludovico Carracci, and il Guercino, while one of its three grand organs was once played by Mozart. Other priceless artifacts are on display in the basilica's small museum, including a terracotta bust of St. Dominic by Niccolò dell'Arca and a gothic-style reliquary once belonging to French King Louis IX.
Mon-Fri 9am-12pm & 3.30-6pm; Sat: 9am-12pm & 3.30-5pm; Sun: 3.30-5pm
Piazza S. Domenico, 13, 40124, Bologna, Italy
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2-Hour Bike Tour of Bologna
A historic university city, culinary capital, and hub of architectural beauty, Bologna offers no shortage of attractions—and this zippy bike tour through town gives you the perfect opportunity to explore. Get up close and personal with the sights, from the bustling Piazza Maggiore to the Basilica of San Domenico and the modern Manifattura delle Arti district. As you go, hear about the city's long history from your guide.
Private tour of Bologna, its University and its UNESCO heritage arcades
The only Bologna tour dedicated to the world of the University and the arcades (now a UNESCO heritage site). The Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio with its Anatomical Theater and its immense collection of books and on the other side the Palazzo della Scienza (Palazzo POGGI), which became a large collection of natural finds, and a model for the study of science in the XVIII century .. on a European level. The visit is completed by the numerous and splendid churches linked to the art and world of the city study, from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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What are Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) hours of operation?
Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) hours of operation: Mon-Fri 9am-12pm & 3.30-6pm; Sat: 9am-12pm & 3.30-5pm; Sun: 3.30-5pm. Buy tickets in advance on Viator. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund.
Should I book Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) tickets in advance?
We recommend booking e-tickets ahead of time to secure your spot since Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) can get crowded. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund.
How much does it cost to visit Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) 2022?
Currently, an entrance ticket to Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) costs USD 44.63. Guided Basilica of San Domenico (Basilica di San Domenico) tours start around USD 44.63 per person.
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