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Neth adept at juggling many roles December 5, 2019 - Naugatuck, News, Top Stories - Tagged: Board of Mayor and Burgesses, Naugatuck, Robert Neth - 1 comment by Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer Burgess Robert Neth Sr., a Republican, was elected to his 12th straight term in November, making him the longest sitting burgess on the Board of Mayor and Burgesses. –ANDREAS YILMA NAUGATUCK — It is no small task for Burgess Robert Neth Sr. to juggle co-owning a business, running a youth baseball league, coaching a baseball team, being an elected official, and his personal life. “I’m always going to work. I’m not the kind guy that sits around,” Neth said. Voters elected Neth, a 61-year-old Republican, to his 12th straight term in November, making him the longest sitting burgess on the Board of Mayor and Burgesses. Neth received the second most votes among burgess candidates to earn the second deputy mayor role. He takes the title of longest sitting burgess from Democrat Robert Burns, who served on the board from 1973 until this year when he didn’t run for re-election. “I guess it’s an honor, quite honestly, that I’ve survived. I’ve actually worked much harder this year, going door to door. To me, if you work hard, you should be entitled to something, a vote,” Neth said. “I think this year is the hardest I’ve worked in a long time, I want to say probably since around early 2000s.” Neth was born in Bristol. He grew up in Thomaston, where he lived for most of his life until he moved to Naugatuck in 1982, and graduated from Thomaston High School in 1976. He attended Waterbury State Technical School for two years after high school. Neth and his wife, Joan D. Neth, have been married for 39 years and raised their three children, Robert Jr., Rebecca and Kimberly, in Naugatuck. “I’ve lived a pretty good life. I’m pretty fortunate. I’ve a great family, my wife, my kids, my in-laws,” Neth said. “It’s gratifying to come here (Naugatuck Town Hall) once, two, three times a month and be part of the good people that participate.” Neth’s political career began with the encouragement of a couple of former local politicians — Ron San Angelo, a former mayor and burgess, and the late Kevin DelGobbo, a former state representative. “Those guys actually, I think, got me started because they were highly involved in the political scene. I would say those guys are the ones that jumpstarted me to focus and get interested in it,” Neth said. Neth was appointed to the Board of Finance in 1989 and served four terms on the board, including three as chairman. “I’ve always loved math; that was like my top thing. The finance board is a very interesting area to start,” Neth said. “You get to know how every department runs, how it functions, the money involved with each department. So that was intriguing to me.” In 1997, Neth ran for burgess and was elected to the ninth and last seat on the board. Over the years, he’s served on 31 subcommittees, as well. “If you work hard, good things will come,” Neth said. “That’s why subcommittees are a gratification for me because I think I’m doing something good for the taxpayers of the borough.” Neth is just as active in his personal life. He is part owner and vice president of Connecticut Signcraft Inc., a Naugatuck company that designs and manufactures signs. Neth’s brother-in-law, David Dunn, is the majority owner and president of the company. Neth also runs the Housatonic Valley Senior Babe Ruth baseball league, a summer league for players ages 15 to 19. He’s run the league for 23 years and also coaches the Naugatuck team. “If I don’t do it, there will be nobody to do it,” Neth said. “That means that there are 20 kids that are not going to have that ability to play in the summer. I do it because of that.” Neth makes it work when it comes to juggling all of his responsibilities. As for his political ones, he said he’s humbled to have the opportunity to serve the borough. “I’m not in it for any glory. That’s not me. I’m not the guy that’s going out to every function and get my picture taken,” Neth said. “I’m happy to do what I’m doing. I believe that everything I do is a benefit to the borough of Naugatuck.” Neth feels the key to bettering the borough is unity, and his experience over the past 30 years has helped shape a nonpartisan political outlook. “My view is, we’re not Republicans and Democrats to me. I’m not a big party guy, that’s just my opinion,” Neth said. “There are people that are crazy about party, but in a town like this Democrats and Republicans don’t work.” During his time as chairman of the finance board, Neth said he didn’t know who was a Republican or Democrat. “When you have very good people that all have different perspectives and opinions, you have a very good board,” Neth said. “When you turn a board into politics, that’s when it starts to get a little negative.” Neth said it’s tough to know what his political future will hold, but he sees the positions he’s held as stepping stones. “Of course now the next level of burgesses is mayor,” he said. “That’s something that I would consider in the future because I think it’s a unique position. I think it’s a challenging position and I think that if you do your steps the right way you can transition to it in a positive way.” One thought on “Neth adept at juggling many roles” Tommy tomatoes December 5, 2019 at 6:13 pm Senior member of the 48 mill rate club.

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UAE Men’s The UAE senior Men’s team is the team that represents the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in all official and unofficial cricket matches. UAE Men’s became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1989 and an associate member in 1990. An emerging One Day International (ODI) team, the UAE have won the Asian Cricket Council’s ACC Trophy on four consecutive occasions between the years of 2000 and 2006, they were runners-up in the other three times the tournament has been played – 1996, 1998 and 2008. The senior men’s won the ICC Trophy in 1994, and played their first ODIs that year, UAE men’s also qualified for the 1996 Cricket World Cup.Other ODI matches were played in the 2004 and 2008 Asia Cup tournaments. At the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, the UAE were placed second behind Scotland, and subsequently qualified for the2015 Cricket World Cup. The UAE also gained ODI status, through to 2018. The cricket-loving public, and officials alike, applauded UAE’s performance at the 2015 CWC. Drawn into pool B the only amateur team in the 14-team tournament won many hearts for their tenacity and positive attitude, and although the team finished last (in their pool) they held numerous accolades during the tournament, including Shaiman Anwar’s outstanding performance with the bat which saw him hold the ‘Top Run Scorers’ top spot for a number of matches. Following the CWC, UAE competed in the 2016 ICC World T20 qualifier tournament, where unfortunately the team did not achieve qualification. UAE retained their ODI status, for 2018 – 2022, by qualifiying for the ICC CWCQ Super Sixes division, in Zimbabwe March 2018. UAE senior Men’s cricket team’s home is the ICC Academy at Dubai Sports City, Dubai and is proudly sponsored by Al Nabooda Insurance Brokers.

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Personal Loan Kozhikode, 20 January 2020 from Indian Overseas Bank Advance Salary Loan from Indian Overseas Bank in Kozhikode Kozhikode is a thriving city in the Indian state of Kerala. Nestling peacefully along the Malabar Coast, this city is popularly known as Calicut. The Kozhikode metropolitan area happens to be the second largest urban agglomeration in the state with a population of over 2 million. This city was earlier a major trading point of eastern spices and was hence called the "City of Spices." Kozhikode received the tag of the "City of Sculptures" or "Shilpa Nagaram" on 7th June 2012 because of the magnificent architectural sculptures around the city. Kozhikode has a strong mercantile aspect and business drives the economy of the city. One can find shops selling everything from saris to cosmetics in the Mittai Theruvu area which is undoubtedly a shoppers paradise. There are innumerable restaurants and sweetmeat shops in Kozhikode. Shopping malls are plentiful in and around Calicut. The city is home to some prestigious educational institutions like the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and the famous Calicut Medical College. Low interest rate Premium Bike Loan in Kozhikode, 20 January 2020 from Indian Overseas Bank IOB based in Chennai, is a public sector bank with almost 3400 domestic branches, including 1150 branches in Tamil Nadu, and eight offices in overseas as of 31 October 2017. An ISO certified in-house Information Technology department, which had developed the software used by IOB to provide online banking to customers earlier. The IOB had a network of around 3300 ATMs across India, as of 2016. The branches of IOB are in Singapore, Bangkok, Colombo, Seoul. The representative offices of IOB are in Guangzhou, Dubai, and Vietnam. In 1937, the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) was established by Thiru.M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar for encouraging foreign exchange operations and overseas banking. IOB opened a representative office each in Guangzhou, China, and Kualalampur. IOB opened other Representative offices in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates in the year 2009. In 2015, IOB launched m Passbook applications and new mobile banking services. The Apollo Munich Health Insurance has tied up with IOB to serve specialized health and personal accident products to its customers.

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Only You Lyrics can make this world seem right can make the darkness bright and you alone can thrill me like you do and fill my heart with love for only you can make this change in me, for it's true, When you hold my hand, the magic that you do You're my dream come true, my one and only you Only you can make this change in me, for it's true, you are my destiny I understand the magic that you do One and only you This is one of those songs that would be considered to be before my time, but I've always loved it. After all, true love can only be for that one special person. That one that makes you feel like no other person can. You know what I'm talkin' about. That is if you are a lover… and of course I already know you're a lover, or you wouldn't be on a site for Music "Lovers". Here are a few facts to go along with the video. The Platters formed in Los Angeles in 1953. The Platters had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967, including four # 1 hits. Only You was Released in the summer of 1955. It became the group's first Top Ten hit on the pop charts and topped the R&B charts for seven weeks. The follow-up was "The Great Pretender" and exceeded the success of their debut. It became the Platters' first national #1 hit. The lyrics were written by Buck Ram in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. "The Great Pretender" was also the act's biggest R&B hit with an 11-week run atop that chart. In 1956, The Platters appeared in the first major motion picture based around rock and roll, Rock Around the Clock, and performed both "Only You" and "The Great Pretender".

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Harper flashes star potential in big league debut Sports | April 29, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bryce Harper’s first day in the major leagues came with all the hype one would expect for the player dubbed “Baseball’s Chosen One” when he was only 16 years old. The No. 1 pick in the 2010 draft went 1 for 3 in his first game for the Washington Nationals, with a booming double, tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the ninth and a bullet throw from left field that nearly cut down a runner at the plate. It wasn’t enough to keep the Los Angeles Dodgers from winning 4-3 in 10 innings Saturday night on a homer by Matt Kemp, but it was an impressive debut for the 19-year-old. Greeted by a large crowd of reporters in the visitor’s dugout at Dodger Stadium before the game, Harper expressed how excited he was for his debut. “I think once the lights are turned on and the fans get here, I think that’s when my energy level’s going to go through the roof. So I’m trying to be as mellow as I can right now,” Harper said. “My dad told me: ‘Just to go out and have fun. It’s the same game you’ve been playing your whole life.”‘ His promotion from Triple-A Syracuse came a little earlier than expected – third baseman Ryan Zimmerman was placed on the disabled list because of inflammation in his right shoulder, making room for Harper. And there he was, listed on the Nationals’ lineup card: the No. 1 overall pick in 2010 was set to start in left field and bat seventh. It didn’t take long for him to make an impression. In the seventh inning, Harper lined a double to straightaway center field in his third at-bat for his first major league hit. He lifted a sacrifice fly to left in the ninth to break a 1-1 tie. The Nationals’ bullpen couldn’t hold a two-run lead. Harper grounded back to the pitcher in his first major league at-bat and flew out to left in the fifth. He also made a perfect throw from left field in the bottom of the seventh that would have nailed the tying run at the plate, but catcher Wilson Ramos let the ball pop out of his glove. “He seemed very relaxed,” Nationals manager Davey Johnson said before the game. “I asked him if he had enough sleep, because he came in very late last night. But as strong and as young as he is, I’m sure he doesn’t need any sleep. Basically, I told him: ‘Glad to have you. Just relax and have fun.”‘ Hype has followed Harper every step of the way. He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, heralded as “Baseball’s Chosen One” in June 2009. He signed a five-year, $9.9 million contract with the Nationals in August 2010, a record for a non-pitcher signed out of the draft who had not become a free agent. The deal included $6.5 million in signing bonuses. He progressed through the Nationals farm system rapidly, playing in Class A and Double-A last year and at Syracuse this season, where he was hitting .250 with a homer and three RBIs in 72 at-bats. This spring there was talk about Harper making the Nationals out of spring training but he was sent to the minors for more experience. “I talked to him about why he was going down to play, so that I won’t have to answer these questions if he struggled up here about why he didn’t get more seasoning. So we got that out of the way,” Johnson said. Harper, who doesn’t turn 20 until Oct. 16, joined the Nationals with 142 games left in the season. There have been 17 players in major league history who have played at least 100 games as a teenager, including Mel Ott, Ken Griffey Jr., Robin Yount, Al Kaline, Ed Kranepool, Rusty Staub, Tony Conigliaro, Edgar Renteria and Jose Oquendo. “I think they are very careful with the people they call up at a young age – because, obviously, getting to the big leagues and sticking is not guaranteed for anyone. So I think they took that into consideration,” said Zimmerman, who made his big league debut at age 20, less than three months after the Nationals selected him fourth overall in the 2005 draft. Of the 31 position players taken first overall in the draft since it began in 1966, only two hit home runs in their big league debuts. Atlanta third baseman Bob Horner did it in 1978 and Tampa Bay outfielder Delmon Young in 2006. “The game is definitely faster up here. There’s no denying that. But the best advice I could give Bryce is that baseball is baseball,” Zimmerman said. Harper, who has replaced Zimmerman as the youngest player to wear a Nationals uniform, made plenty of headlines and highlight shows while in the minor leagues because of his quick temper. His teammates are hopeful that his days of slamming helmets, getting in umpires’ faces and getting himself ejected for arguing called third strikes are over. “At first, Bryce had a different way of expressing his confidence. But from last spring training to this spring training, I’ve never seen someone grow up as much as he has in one year – just the way he carries himself and the way he thinks things differently now,” Zimmerman said. “That’s not to say that two years ago he was a bad person. I mean, Bryce is a great kid. He means well, works hard and plays the game the right way. So you’ll never have to worry about him not playing hard.” Harper has played in a big league ballpark before. He participated in last year’s All-Star Futures Game at Arizona’s Chase Field, going 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. “When young players come up here, there’s a lot of pressure on them to perform and prove that they belong up there,” Johnson said. “And sometimes when there’s too much hype about it, the tendency is to try to do too much. Bryce is so driven, a lot of times he tries to do too much. But if he just stays within himself and does the things he’s capable of doing, he’ll be fine.” 49ers, Packers look to go from losing seasons to Super Bowl Realignment puts Carson High in Class 5A for fall sports Titans, Chiefs on verge of Super Bowl Roger Diez: Chili Bowl gets the year’s racing underway Garciaparra critical of Astros at Nevada Wolf Pack’s Dolan Dinner

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NJ Musician Wants To Live In A Dome By Gary Wien My first thought upon hearing that Rich Lynch wanted to live in a dome wasn't that he was crazy, it was what does his wife think? Apparently, the Ringwood, NJ, musician chose the right person to share his life with because Laura (his wife) shares his dream of "embracing a more enlightened way of functioning on a daily basis." According to Lynch, his dream of living in a dome began from a very early age. He claims it originated during the 1967 World's Fair when society was envisioning a bold future of domes and high-tech convenience. "There's a story in my family that when I was two years old I ruined the vacation to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Quebec," he explains. "I remember seeing the Buckminster Fuller designed pavilion for the United States - a giant 250-foot diameter geodesic dome - and feeling an all consuming need to get closer to it. They tell me I ran off, tripped, and acquired a severe bloody nose that would not stop. I haven't been able to get the idea of living in a dome from out of my mind since!" Fast forward fifty years and the futuristic present has yet to truly arrive and the idea of living in a dome isn't everyone's idea of domestic bliss. Nevertheless, Lynch hasn't given up on his goal to acquire alternative housing. In fact, he's trying to use music to help him achieve his dream. He recently released a song called "I Want To Live In A Dome" which promotes his vision and aims to raise revenue towards the goal. The song is available on iTunes, Amazon.com, and various digital distributors under the Rich Lynch Band name. Reaction to the heartland-based song has been good so far. "We modeled the production around the more rockin' tracks on The River by Springsteen," said Lynch. "People seem to like it. A couple said I sounded like Mellencamp so that's a start." While the idea of building a dome sounds expensive, Lynch says the cost is no more or less than constructing a standard stick home. He plans to build his dream dome in Ringwood, NJ, where he currently lives. "I like to think outside the box," says Lynch explaining that he's excited for the day he gets to move into a dome home. "These forms are energy efficient, provide a flexible use of space, and have proven to be more disaster resistant than the traditional squares and rectangles that are the staples of our society." Lynch and his wife both got sucked into the "Under The Dome" series last year on CBS -- a program that helped his dream for a dome to return. Meanwhile, despite long being a part of the New Jersey music scene due to his work on the websites Kweevak.com and Soundpress.net where he's reviewed shows and records and conducted interviews with dozens of artists over the years, one thing that has been missing has been an emphasis on his own music career. Lynch hopes that the vision for the dome might help awaken his musical dreams as well. "There's a lot on the line for me right now," admits Lynch. "Maybe, I'm having a mid-life crisis, but I'm going for it. And, there's two dreams I'm in pursuit of now - the dome and a career in music. This house is going to have the nicest studio and performance space built in!" To follow his progress towards his dream, visit http://www.richlynchband.com To purchase his song for $.99 visit: http://www.amazon.com/Want-Live-Dome-Rich-Lynch/dp/B00J94RBLY https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-want-to-live-in-a-dome/id848463121 Gary Wien has been covering the arts since 2001 and has had work published with Jersey Arts, Elmore Magazine, Princeton Magazine, Backstreets and other publications. He is a three-time winner of the Asbury Music Award for Top Music Journalist and the author of Beyond the Palace (the first book on the history of rock and roll in Asbury Park) and Are You Listening? The Top 100 Albums of 2001-2010 by New Jersey Artists. In addition, he runs New Jersey Stage and the online radio station The Penguin Rocks. He can be contacted at gary@newjerseystage.com. For more by this author, click here More Articles You Might Like 21st Annual Makin Waves Awards Makin Waves Record Roundup with Honey Wild, Black Light Medusa, and New Narratives David Spelman of the New York Guitar Festival Four Of My Favorite Artists Featured Music Video: "Bad Love" by Best Ex David Vargo Auditions: "Bridesmaid Murder" Murder Mystery Dinner Show @ west hudson arts and theatre company, Kearny - 7:00pm DOG MAN: THE MUSICAL @ Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC), Morristown - 1:00pm and 4:00pm

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Josh Szczepanski of Mentor is one of 10 runners nationwide chosen to raise funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by participating in the 2020 Boston Marathon. Since his decision to take up running a few years ago as a way to cope with depression, Josh Szczepanski of Mentor has participated in several marathons. Josh Szczepanski is shown crossing the finish line in the 2019 Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon. Josh Szczepanski of Mentor completes one of the many marathon races in which he has competed. Mentor runner to run marathon to raise funds for St. Jude’s Mentor runner to run Boston Marathon to raise funds for St. Jude’s By Jean Bonchak For The News-Herald If 20,000 Greater Clevelanders each donated $1 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Josh Szczepanski’s goal of raising $20,000 would be met. Szczepanski, 36, of Mentor, was chosen as one of only 10 runners nationwide to represent the hospital in the 2020 Boston Marathon in April. Each runner is requested to raise $20,000. If that happens, the overall $200,000 goal will be the largest amount ever raised by the Boston Marathon team. “I’d love to see the $20,000 goal met by everybody giving a dollar. I’d love to see that kind of community interest,” Szczepanski said. Considering himself a “midpack” runner, the Boston native who moved to Cleveland 15 years ago wasn’t always able to compete in marathons. After suffering a concussion following a car accident a few years ago he fell into a deep depression, rarely leaving home. Lack of exercise and poor eating habits worsened the situation. His doctor said that if adjustments weren’t made his condition would deteriorate rapidly. Claiming that the news was “a kick in the butt” he chose to make a change. “I actually remember the day. I was sitting on the couch and I decided I was going to run a half-marathon," he said. "I’m the type that is ‘go all in or go home” so I found a 20-week training program and just started doing it. “I started running for one minute and walking for two minutes and it was really hard, but the weight started to come off and I started to feel better.” Szczepanski noted that running is a form of relaxation and that “after a couple miles your brain just clears out and you’re able to think so clearly. It’s really therapeutic.” The newly motivated man dropped more than 50 pounds from his 5-foot, 7-inch frame and began a search for races in which he could participate. Landing on the Rock ‘n Roll half-marathon in Las Vegas he decided to give it a shot. While researching the race he noticed an option to raise money for St. Jude’s. Within a week his goal of approximately $500 was met. “I knew that if I was only doing this for myself I would let myself down, so I decided I would do it for them,” he said. “It was such a great feeling to know that I was working for such a worthy cause. Even throughout all the training, whenever I would have hard runs I would think, these kids never give up. "I finished in Vegas and didn’t know what to do with myself. I started getting this itch.” That itch led him back to his Boston roots and the new goal of working hard enough to earn a coveted spot on the team. Describing his running style as “not fast” but “tenacious” he began to research the hospital’s website and located the director of fundraising. “I started bothering her last December," Szczepanski said. "I told her I wanted to run Boston 2020. It was almost a full year before applications. I ran 30 to 40 races in 2019 and almost every time I finished I sent her a picture of me at the finish line.” In September the application process was opened and Szczepanski’s submission was among the first to be received. Team members known as “St. Jude’s Heroes” were announced in late October. “I don’t think I’ve cried in 20 years and when she called me on a Monday to offer me a spot I cried,” he said. To prepare the team, a training coach sends out weekly newsletters with general diet guidelines and a running workout schedule. There are also team-building events such as the one he plans to attend in January. The St. Jude’s Heroes will visit the hospital’s campus. “I already have such an appreciation for what they do there, but they say once the team goes there they’re never the same,” Szczepanski said. He’ll also be traveling back and forth to Boston for 20-mile team runs. Aside from working toward reaching optimal physical shape, he wants to represent Cleveland well and make sure that the area leaves its mark on the fundraising campaign. “Seventy-five percent of the operating budget from St. Jude’s comes from private donations," he said. "The biggest thing is that I would love to see 20,000 different names (of donors) to show that this is what Cleveland does and this is how Cleveland comes together.” From 4 to 9 p.m., Dec. 9 a fundraiser will take place at Chipotle, 9188 Mentor Ave. in Mentor. Participants need only mention that they support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and 33 percent of purchases will be donated to the organization. Donations are also being accepted online. Cash and check donations made payable to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (memo line: Josh Szczepanski) can be sent to ALSAC/St. Jude, Attn: Boston Marathon, 313 Washington St. #310, Newton, MA 02458. “It was such a great feeling to know that I was working for such a worthy cause. Even throughout all the training, whenever I would have hard runs I would think, these kids never give up." 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Study shows how cancer-causing genes promote metastasis Cancer-promoting genes MYC and TWIST1 co-opt immune system cells to enable cancer cells to spread, but blocking a key step in this process can help prevent the disease from developing. These findings, published today in eLife, may help clinicians to identify cancer patients at risk of metastasis, a process where cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. They may also inform the development of new strategies to prevent or treat metastasis. Most cancer-related deaths are caused by metastasis, but there are currently no treatments available to stop it. The main goal of our research is to understand how cancer-causing genes enable metastasis and use that information to identify targeted therapies that may prevent it." Renumathy Dhanasekaran, lead author, a PhD student in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Stanford University, California Dhanasekaran and her colleagues genetically engineered mice to express both MYC and TWIST1 and found that these two major cancer-promoting genes led to metastases. They also saw that the cancer cells produced inflammation-promoting molecules Ccl2 and Il13, which attract immune cells called macrophages and make them more tumor-cell friendly. This makes it easier for the cancer cells to migrate to new areas of the body. The team next showed that exposing mice with liver cancer caused by MYC alone to Ccl2 and Il13 causes metastasis. But blocking this specific combination of cytokines appeared to hinder the process. To see if the two genes also contributed to metastases in humans, the scientists analyzed 10,000 samples of tumors collected from humans with 33 different types of cancer. They found that patients with MYC and TWIST1 were less likely to survive, produced more Ccl2 and Il13, and had more macrophages in their tumors. "Interestingly, MYC and TWIST1 have previously been shown to cooperate in a positive way to modulate inflammation during embryonic development," says senior author Dean Felsher, PhD, Professor in the Division of Oncology at Stanford University. "These microenvironment changes are needed to enable mesodermal cells to migrate to their destination. But in multiple human cancers, both MYC and TWIST1 are over-expressed, and we suggest that they in turn cause tumor invasion by 'hijacking' this embryonic cell migration program." Finally, the team monitored Ccl2 and Il13 levels in 25 patients with liver cancer and 10 control patients with cirrhosis. They found that only the patients with liver cancer had elevated levels of the two molecules and, of this group, those with higher levels of Il13 were more likely to have aggressive tumors. "These results suggest that patients with more aggressive cancers will likely have higher levels of Ccl2 and Il13 cytokines in their blood," Felsher concludes. "Testing for these molecules in future could help identify those who may benefit from combination therapies that target them." Dhanasekaran,, R., et al. (2020) MYC and Twist1 cooperate to drive metastasis by eliciting crosstalk between cancer and innate immunity. eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50731. Tags: Blood, Cancer, Cell, Cell Migration, Cirrhosis, Cytokines, Embryonic Development, Gastroenterology, Genes, Health Care, Hepatology, Immune System, Immunology, Inflammation, Liver, Liver Cancer, Medicine, Metastasis, Oncology, Research, Translation Nano-sized copper compounds together with immunotherapy can kill cancer cells Gastroenterology‎

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Lawrence Batley Theatre Housed in a former Methodist Church, Lawrence Batley Theatre is home to a wonderful array of dance, comedy, drama and music. There are shows for all of the family throughout the year. While the performances take centre stage, there are also tours of the theatre available, allowing you to go backstage at LBT and to hear more about its history. Contact and Getting Here Queen's Square, Queens Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 2SP Monday-Saturday (09:30-17:00, later on performance nights)

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ASSEMBLYMAN MONTESANO CALLS ON FTC TO INVESTIGATE CHANGES TO GLEN COVE HOSPITAL August 29 -- On August 26th, Assemblyman Michael Montesano (R,I,C-Glen Head) sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition – Healthcare Services requesting that it investigate North Shore - LIJ’s planned changes to Glen Cove Hospital. . . . READ MORE DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY? GOLD COAST LIBRARY HOSTS PRESENTATION BY NYS HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES OFFICIAL Assemblyman Edward Ra and Gold Coast Library Director Michael Morea August 8 - - This past Tuesday evening, the Gold Coast Public Library in Glen Head, hosted an Emergency Preparedness presentation by Patrick Beckley, the Regional Coordinator of the Long Island Office of Emergency Mangement. Two local Assemblymen Michael Montesano (R-Glen Head) and Edward Ra (R-Franklin Square) who represent Old Brookville and Glen Head were at the event to facilitate the discussion. Mr. Beckley gave a PowerPoint presentation which offered advice on what to do before, during, and after an emergency. He emphasized the importance of developing a family emergency plan, with which everyone in the household should be familiar. The plan should include who to call and where to meet in case of an event that causes family members to become separated. In addition, he stated that all family members should be familiar with basic first aid, and older children and adults with CPR. An emergency kit should also be set up, that at the very minimum would be able to sustain one's family for three days, but preferably seven to ten days. The kit should include water, food, a flashlight, basic tools, a whistle, and first aid supplies. During the discussion that followed Mr. Beckley's presentation, Assemblyman Michael Montesano commented that a question he got frequently after Hurricane Sandy, is "where do I get copies of the all the important documents, like a deed or birth certificate, that I lost?" He suggested to the Gold Coast audience, that important documents be kept in ziploc bags and fire resistant boxes, which can be purchased at office supply stores like Staples. For more information on what to do before, during, and after an emergency go to www.ready.gov.

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Stampede in India kills 115 during Hindu festival NEW DELHI — Uma Devi was halfway across the bridge when people started shouting that it was collapsing. "I grabbed my son and ran," the distraught woman told Indian TV a day after Sunday's tragedy in central India. "People were pushing and screaming and trying to run away from the bridge. I don't know how I escaped." The stampede killed 115 people, mostly women and children. Some were crushed to death, while others jumped off the bridge to escape and drowned. Scores more were injured. They were among the hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims who had come to the Hindu temple in the remote town of Ratangarh in Madhya Pradesh state on the last day of a popular festival. Many bodies were pulled from the river, but officials said others may have been washed away. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the bridge when the stampede occurred, but local media said some 500,000 people visited the temple honoring the Hindu mother goddess Durga. Deadly stampedes are relatively common at temples in India, where large crowds gather in tiny areas with no safety measures or crowd control. In 2011, more than 100 people were killed at a hilltop shrine in the southern state of Kerala. This is the second time people have died in a stampede at the exact same spot. In 2006, around 50 people died on or around the previous wooden bridge, prompting authorities to replace it with a bigger, two-lane concrete span. Adding to the chaos, police wielding sticks charged the crowd to try to contain the crowd. That prompted people to retaliate by throwing stones at the officers, said Dilip K. Arya, deputy inspector general of police, said. One officer was badly injured. Relatives crowded a state-run hospital to collect bodies and searched frantically for loved ones among the injured people being treated there. Arya told reporters Monday that 115 people had died in the stampede. He expected the toll to rise as some of the injured were in a critical condition. The state has ordered a judicial inquiry. Engineers say the bridge was not damaged, and images from the scene showed vehicles and people using the bridge after the stampede occurred. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed "deep sorrow and shock over the loss of lives" and asked local officials to help the injured and the families of the dead. "On this day of festivities, our hearts and prayers are with the victims and their families," the prime minister's office said in a statement.

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Of 2.3 Million Syrians Displaced By Civil War, 45 Found Home In U.S. Audie Cornish talks to Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard about the United States' role in resettling Syrian refugees. Of 2.3 Million Syrians Displaced By Civil War, 45 Found Home In U.S. Of 2.3 Million Syrians Displaced By Civil War, 45 Found Home In U.S. 5:03 < Of 2.3 Million Syrians Displaced By Civil War, 45 Found Home In U.S. December 31, 20134:08 PM ET ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. And I'm Audie Cornish. And we begin this hour with a number, 45. It's for our series Number of the Year where we explore the biggest stories of 2013 through numbers. What's 45? It's how many Syrians were accepted as refugees into the United States this year, a tiny number compared to the some 2.3 million people who've been displaced by the fighting in Syria. To understand why it's not far larger or zero, we turn to Anne Richard. She's the assistant secretary of state for population refugees and migration. Anne Richard, welcome to the program. ANNE RICHARD: Thanks for having me on. CORNISH: So first, these 45 people, these refugees, are they from the current conflict in Syria or from before that? RICHARD: These refugees who've come to the United States this year from Syria are from before that, and many of the people who have been displaced in the region now have come out of Syria just in the last year and a half, two years. CORNISH: And talk a little bit about that process then because the U.S. number is so small. RICHARD: Well, it takes a long time before refugees resettled in a new country. Generally, the best hope for a refugee who flees to a neighboring country is that they will be able to go home. And certainly last summer, a year ago summer, that was our hope for the Syrians pouring out of Syria. But as we know, the conflict continues. It's become quite an ugly situation, but it would be premature to start bringing lots and lots of the Syrians to the U.S. right now. CORNISH: And the U.N. refugee program has recently called on resettlement countries - the U.S., Germany, Sweden, Canada - to absorb upwards of 30,000 Syrians by the end of 2014. Germany has already pledged to take 5,000 of those. So where does the U.S. fit into that equation? RICHARD: Germany had agreed to take 5,000. They've since doubled that offer and offered to take 10,000. Austria, 500, France, 500. I think that the U.N. Refugee Agency knows that the U.S. will take the lion's share of the refugees that they resettle because that is what we do year in and year out with the world's refugees. CORNISH: Is it any more difficult or trickier for Syrians that citizens of other countries to get refugee status in the United States? We've heard advocacy groups talk this issue of rigorous security screening given some of the rules post 9/11. RICHARD: Well, we have two responsibilities, the State Department working with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. One is to the refugees. We feel that we ought to respect this American tradition and offer sanctuary to a fraction of the world's refugees who need a new home. But our other responsibility is to American citizens to protect our borders. Most refugees are not a threat to American citizens, but we have to go through a process to make sure we screen out anyone who would have bad intentions. CORNISH: And just to make that clear, I'm referring to the Patriot Act, which essentially bars members of armed rebel groups or people who have given them material support - shelter, money, transport - that sort of thing. RICHARD: Well, there's - we have the law in the Patriot Act that bars bringing to America people who have been involved in these armed uprisings unless they get a waiver, unless there's some reason that Congress determines that these folks were allied with the U.S. and should be let in. And so we don't have that yet for the Syrians and we would have to look carefully at who we were bringing and what their motivations for coming. Most refugees come to the United States are fleeing persecution or threats of death or persecution based on their ethnicity or their religious beliefs or their political beliefs. So in this case, people are fleeing this very nasty war and most of the refugees I've met are women and children and innocent civilians and many of them would qualify to come to the United States. CORNISH: Anne Richard, at this point, we mentioned that number, 45, as the number of Syrians who were accepted as refugees in the United States this year. Can you tell us, what is the number that the U.S. has committed to going forward? RICHARD: Well, part of it depends on U.N. refugee agency, how many they refer to us. I think they intend to refer several thousand. But they count on us, year in and year out, to take the lion's share of the refugees they do refer. And so I think they have confidence that we will continue to do that in the coming year, including for the Syrians. There are 27 other countries that take refugees. We take more than all of them combined. CORNISH: Anne Richard, she's the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration. Thank you so much for speaking with us. RICHARD: Thank you very much.

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Large woody debris in a second-growth central Appalachian hardwood stand: volume, composition, and dynamics Adams, M. B.; Schuler, T. M.; Ford, W. M.; Kochenderfer, J. N. In: Van Sambeek, J. W.; Dawson, Jeffery O.; Ponder Jr., Felix; Loewenstein, Edward F.; Fralish, James S., eds. Proceedings of the 13th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-234. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 237-245 We estimated the volume of large woody debris in a second-growth stand and evaluated the importance of periodic windstorms as disturbances in creating large woody debris. This research was conducted on a reference watershed (Watershed 4) on the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia. The 38-ha stand on Watershed 4 was clearcut around 1911 and has been undisturbed by management activities since that time. Down dead wood (DDW) was sampled in 1999 and identified by species and decay class. The contributions from two windstorms, in 1993 and 1998, were quantified at the same time. Total volume of DDW in Watershed 4 was 69.7 m3 ha-1, a value equal to or greater than those reported for old growth in central/eastern hardwood forests. The most frequent and the largest volume of DDW was chestnut, followed by sugar maple. Standing dead trees (snags) provided another 41.4 m3 ha-1 of large woody debris. Of the DDW contributed by the windstorms, the largest volume was American beech. The two windstorms were found to contribute approximately 3.5 m3 ha-1 of DDW each. Using these data and other stand characteristics, the stand on Watershed 4 was compared with old growth stands, and implications for management discussed. Note: This article is part of a larger document. View the larger document Adams, M. B.; Schuler, T. M.; Ford, W. M.; Kochenderfer, J. N. 2003. Large woody debris in a second-growth central Appalachian hardwood stand: volume, composition, and dynamics. In: Van Sambeek, J. W.; Dawson, Jeffery O.; Ponder Jr., Felix; Loewenstein, Edward F.; Fralish, James S., eds. Proceedings of the 13th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-234. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 237-245 Last updated on: February 1, 2007

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In 2011 the discovery of a new yeast species Saccharomyces eubayanus was reported. This species was found in the low-temperature forests of Patagonia. Of particular interest was the fact that this species is closely related to the hybrid lager brewing yeast S. pastorianus. Due to its tolerance to cold and its genetic relation to lager yeast, this new species was considered to have potential as an industrial brewing yeast strain, potentially increasing the functional diversity of strains available to the brewing industry, which has traditionally relied on a small number of genetically similar strains. The industrial potential of this strain was assessed at VTT by measuring a number of characteristics considered important in the brewing industry. These included cold tolerance, fermentation performance and flavour compound production. Several ale and lager yeast strains were included in the study for comparison. The S. eubayanus yeast was found to be particularly cold-tolerant and was capable of good growth at 10°C. In this respect the new species was similar to a variety of lager yeast referred to as Saaz (after the area in the Czech Republic where they were first used). The superior cold tolerance of S. eubayanus did not however translate to superior fermentation performance and the yeast fermented brewer's wort relatively slowly, though, again, the performance was similar to that of commercial Saaz yeast strains. Interestingly, though fermentation was quite slow, the concentration of higher alcohols and esters (fruit and floral flavours) in the beer was relatively high. This suggests that the yeast could be useful for the generation of low alcohol or non-alcoholic beers, which often suffer from low concentrations of flavour-active compounds. Natural lager yeast strains are believed to be the result of hybridization between the ale yeast S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus. The availability of the S. eubayanus parent now offers the opportunity to create new tailor-made lager yeast strains by mating strains of S. cerevisiae and S. eubayanus with specific desirable properties, thereby paving the way for new products and processes in the brewing industry. Gibson, B. R., Storgårds, E., Krogerus, K. & Vidgren, V. (2013) Comparative physiology and fermentation performance of Saaz and Frohberg lager yeast strains and the parental species Saccharomyces eubayanus. Yeast, 30: 255-266. Brian.Gibson@vtt.fi

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Small Business Roundtable Series NWBC Webinar Series Archive by category "Blog" ( Page2 ) ByNWBC Council NWBC Partners with the U.S. Census Bureau to Host Symposium In celebration of National Women in Small Business Month, the NWBC recognizes their partner, the U.S. Census Bureau, in advocating for women-owned businesses. In 2012, the Survey of Business Owners (SBO) found that there were nearly 10 million women-owned business in the United States, that generated over $1.4 trillion in sales and employed over eight million people. At the NWBC, we know that we cannot count what we do not measure. Sound policy initiatives and recommendations that improve the economic climate for women-owned firms are founded in reliable data and impactful research that drives actionable change. To do this, the NWBC relies on the U.S. Census Bureau’s SBO and Annual Survey of Entrepreneur (ASE) data to portray the state of women’s entrepreneurship and the impact that they have on the U.S. economy. On September 20, 2018, the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Administrative Records Research and Application (CARRA), held the first ever federal government’s Demographics of the Entrepreneur & Self-employed Research Symposium. This day-long event convened nearly 100 researchers and experts from across the country to explore topics related to entrepreneurship through the lens of gender, age, race, and ethnicity. “Since the business census began counting women owned businesses in 1977, the U.S. Census Bureau has been a partner to NWBC. It was when the Census Bureau began counting women businesses that lawmakers began referring to women businesses as the sleeping giant of the U.S. economy” said NWBC Chair Liz Sara during her opening remarks. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with the US Census to ensure that the tremendous economic impact of women-owned businesses does not go unknown or unrecognized,” she continued. This was reiterated as 16 presenters discussed groundbreaking research and data related to topics such as the gig economy, millennial entrepreneurship, and motivation for starting a business. A key concept throughout the presentations was the importance of current and reliable data to highlight key trends and statistics on business owners and self-employed individuals throughout the United States. During the workshop, the U.S. Census Bureau discussed various changes that will be implemented to the economic census and data landscape and their goal of providing users with up-to-date data on business ownership. Specifically, they highlighted the forthcoming Annual Business Survey (ABS) and the proposed development of the Non-employer Statistics by Demographics Data (NESD). The new ABS will be a vital tool for generating policy recommendations for – and analyzing the impact of – employer firms by gender, race, ethnicity, and veteran status. However, employer firms are only one side of the story. It remains critical to the continued success and advancement of women entrepreneurs and business owners that we continue to count all women-owned firms. As of 2012, nearly 90 percent or 8.8 million women-owned firms had no employees. These firms have contributed combined revenues exceeding $229 billion annually to the U.S. economy. NWBC supports U.S. Census Bureau business data collection efforts, because a trustworthy measurement of non-employer firms allows the NWBC to develop a holistic picture of women entrepreneurs for policy makers and key stakeholders. NWBC supports the U.S. Census Bureau’s development of NSED, which will ensure that the economic contributions of women-owned firms without employees will not be overlooked. The NSED would provide the necessary data to account for all women-owned businesses in the U.S., the progress made, and the barriers that remain in their establishment and growth. Together, we – the National Women’s Business Council and the U.S. Census Bureau, must ensure that women-owned businesses continue to be counted. March 2018 Public Meeting Recap – Accelerating Access to Capital: Crowdfunding as a Solution to Fund HER Business Access to capital remains one of the greatest barriers for women trying to launch, scale, and grow their businesses. As the government’s only independent voice on economic issues impacting women entrepreneurs, access to financial capital remains at the forefront of the NWBC’s agenda. That’s why this past March, in honor of Women’s Read More Accelerating Global Women’s Entrepreneurship – In Honor of International Women’s Day For the National Women’s Business Council, the month of March is particularly special. March, which is also Women’s History Month, serves as a time to commemorate the landscape achievements of women leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs across the country, and the globe. March 8th officially marks International Women’s Day 2018 – which annually serves as an international moment to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women who have shifted the global landscape and have fostered growth in a myriad of ways. Today, we reflect on the areas of opportunity for women to reach their full potential, but also reset the baseline for how we can support women business owners and leaders through our own efforts across the globe. In November 2017, the United States and the Republic of India held the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyperabad, India themed Women First, Prosperity for All, with a specific focus on supporting women entrepreneurs and advancing global economic growth and opportunity. The 2017 Summit theme and concentration on women was the opportunity to convene innovators and change-makers in programming to cultivate partnerships, pitch their business ideas to potential investors, such as the GIST Catalyst Pitch Competition, and learn about the various avenues to transform their businesses – and eventually transform their communities, countries, and the world[1]. It’s important to note that this year was the first time that women were the majority of participants at GES. Of the over 1,200 entrepreneurs in attendance, about 52.5 percent of entrepreneurs were women, attending from 127 different countries. Overall, it was the opportunity for individuals from a multitude of backgrounds across the global community to listen and learn from one another. At the Council, we have also followed that goal of global connectedness through our own efforts here in the United States. Over the past years, in ties with the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, the Council has met with delegations of women entrepreneurs and economic leaders from countries all over the world to discuss the state of women’s entrepreneurship; share our research findings and data such as our “Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Model” – a tool to evaluate regional supports for women’s entrepreneurship; and serve as a resource for the broader community of women business leaders. Following up on GES on December 4th, 2017, Council Member Rose Wang was honored to represent the Council at a briefing hosted at the State Department’s Foreign Press Center to a reporting tour of 18 foreign journalists coming from the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). These critical engagement opportunities have also taught us the importance of collaboration and reminded us the impact women entrepreneurs have made all across the globe. As the Council celebrates 29 years and looks ahead to our 30th this coming October, we remain committed to conducting critical research that identify the areas for growth and opportunity for women business owners. We will continue to construct and elevate policies that will vitally address access to capital and market disparities that women encounter at all phases of their business journeys. We look at this year as a dynamic opportunity to learn from the global and domestic communities to increase our understanding and shape the ways we work to progress entrepreneurial development and economic opportunity for current and aspiring women entrepreneurs. Throughout Women’s History Month, themed #Capital4HerBiz, we will be continuing to unveil our research related to women’s access to capital so check out our first report, in conjunction with the Library of Congress’ Federal Research Division titled, Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital for Women Entrepreneurs, which is a deep-dive into the landscape of access to capital for women entrepreneurs. To learn more about our upcoming research and activities, be sure to check out our website at www.nwbc.gov and follow us on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. You can join the conversation online as well using the hashtags #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay #Capital4HerBiz. Author: Shannon Trudge, Program and Operations Manager for the National Women’s Business Council [1] “The Eighth Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit” Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, 2017, https://www.ges2017.org/ Feb,2018 Black History Month Reflections I was exposed very early on to finance through my grandmother, who was the first female entrepreneur that I knew. Because I was good in math, she would often let me count the money from her business and by the time I was in 8th grade, I was helping her with her bookkeeping. This experience gave me an early interest in money and finance, and as I got older and eventually became exposed to Wall Street, I was all in! Deeply Rooted: The Significance of Black History Month & Black Women Entrepreneurs This year’s National Black History Month theme, African Americans in Times of War, is the opportunity to commemorate the centennial to the end of World War I (1918) and how African-Americans have marked a widespread impact in American culture and society. Women entrepreneurs, especially black women entrepreneurs, have been a key population contributing to the socioeconomic growth and vitality of this country since its foundation. According to the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons (SBO), there are more than 1.5 million black women-owned businesses, a near 67% increase from 2007. Black women entrepreneurs are one of the fastest subgroup of entrepreneurs of this time with an average net of 259 firms being created each day between 1997 and 2017 – the most number of firms created per day out of all subgroups of women-owned firms. According to the 2017 American Express OPEN Report, between 1997-2017, the number of women-owned businesses grew 114%, whereas firms owned by women of color expanded at 467%, four times that rate. Call for Applications: National Women’s Business Council Intern (Spring 2018) The National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) is searching for a college/university undergraduate or graduate student to join the team for a spring internship for a three to four-month term beginning late January 2018 (flexible start date). The NWBC was established via the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988, HR 5050. Throughout the years, the NWBC has brought together women business owners, policymakers, bankers, representatives of women’s business organizations, and other stakeholders to identify the unique challenges facing women business owners and to formulate potential solutions. Dec,2017 December 2017 Public Meeting Recap: Accelerating the Future of Women Entrepreneurs 2017 has been a busy year at the National Women’s Business Council and with our last Public Meeting of the calendar year (and first Public Meeting of Fiscal Year 2018), it was an opportunity to reflect on the progress made to advance women entrepreneurs, but also the priorities looking ahead to 2018. This year, the Council also celebrated 29 years of advising the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on key issues facing women business owners, convening the best intellect and experience around entrepreneurial successes and challenges that women still face, and developing poignant research relevant to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Billions of federal contracting dollars Billions of federal contracting dollars go to women-owned businesses—but it’s still not enough. In May 2017, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government exceeded its small business federal contracting goal for the fourth consecutive year, awarding 24.34 percent in federal contract dollars to small businesses. In order to achieve the goal of spending 23 percent of federal contract dollars with small businesses, major agencies of the federal government work with the SBA to establish individualized spending benchmarks, and are encouraged to meet them. For example, while the Department of Energy (DOE) aims to spend 6.37 percent of its contract monies with small businesses, the SBA, itself, aims for a small business spend of 72.75 percent of its contract dollars. You can see the FY16 agency goals and achievements here. Challenging definitions and telling her stories On October 11, 2017, the National Women’s Business Council released a new report, “Necessity as a Driver of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Her Stories.” This report is an extension of the report released by the NWBC in July 2017, “Necessity as a Driver of Women’s Entrepreneurship,” which challenged the notion that entrepreneurship is born from one of two realities: severe economic need or an innovative idea to disrupt the market. The NWBC research recognized these motivations and the entrepreneurship that results from them (typically referred to as “necessity” or “opportunity” entrepreneurship) but suggests that this traditional binary does not fully capture the range of reasons individuals—especially women—become business owners. NWBC’s work expands the traditional definition of necessity entrepreneurship to include a range of factors that might influence a woman’s decision to start a business and introduces a theoretical model to illustrate this expanded definition. NWBC August 2017 Public Meeting and Launch of the NWBC Solutions Labs (Recap) The National Women’s Business Council’s August 2017Public Meeting – the last Public Meeting for Fiscal Year 2017 — served as an opportunity to share with stakeholders the breadth and depth of the most aggressive research portfolio that the Council has undertaken to-date; to provide updates on NWBC research projects that were still in-progress, including: Hispanic women business enterprises, veteran women business ownership, necessity entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, and survey development; to announce the Council’s FY2018 research on the horizon; and to share our fourth quarter public engagement efforts. INVESTING IN WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES THE PASSAGE OF ‘BUILDING BLOCKS OF STEM ACT’ National Women's Business Council

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In a little over 60 years, Binghamton University has built a reputation as a world-class institution that combines a broadly interdisciplinary, international education with one of the most vibrant research programs in the nation. Binghamton is proud to be a "premier public university," which means we challenge our... Bloom Energy is a provider of breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell technology generating clean, highly efficient onsite power from multiple fuel sources. Founded in 2001 with a mission to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world, Bloom Energy Servers are currently producing power for many Fortune 500 companies including Google, Wal-Mart, AT... Blueprint Power is an NYC-based tech company whose mission is to accelerate the growth and financial sustainability of distributed, intelligent clean energy by helping regional groups of real estate companies transform their portfolios into power plants. More specifically, we manage these power plants to generate excess supply that we can then sell to markets and customers who increasingly need... BOND, SCHOENECK AND KING, PLLC (BOND) is a full-service general practice law firm with 230 attorneys in offices throughout New York State. The Bond business law department is organized into specialized practice groups that focus on specific types of legal services often needed by start-up ventures, as well as by evolving and sustainable business entities. Given the organizational breadth and... Boralex Boralex develops, builds and operates renewable energy power facilities in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. A leader in the Canadian market and France’s largest independent producer of onshore wind power, the Corporation is recognized for its solid experience in optimizing its asset base in four power generation types — wind, hydroelectric, thermal and solar. Boralex... Borrego Solar is one of the leading national engineering, financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance firms concentrating on the development of solar and energy storage systems for the commercial, utility, and public sectors. We have been in business since 1980, and currently have offices in Latham, NY; Lowell, MA; Chicago, IL; Oakland, CA; and San Diego, CA. BRAEMAR ENERGY VENTURES was formed in 2002 by skilled energy-industry veterans who have been successfully investing in the energy technology arena since the mid-1980s. A number of the firm’s principals had worked together previously and saw the opportunity to bring together their diverse experiences to form one of the first firms dedicated solely to making technology investments in alternative as... BREN-TRONICS INC. is a technology based Power Systems company with 40+ years experience designing/manufacturing rechargeable batteries, chargers, fuel cells and complete energy storage systems. Supporting Worldwide Military/Commercial customers, providing power for any climate. http://www.bren-tronics.com/ BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (BNL) is one of ten national laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. BNL conducts research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. BNL is operated and managed for DOE by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited liability company. http://www0.... Brooklyn SolarWorks is a turnkey solar installer that specializes in flat roof solar installations. We design, permit, and install custom solar systems for homes, businesses and commercial buildings in our favorite borough. We approach our work with the highest degree of integrity and do everything we can to build a solar movement that is affordable, responsible, and grounded within in our... Founded in 2012 CADENZA INNOVATION is aiming to deploy its disruptive, high–performance and low–cost battery technology into its extensive global network. With an initial focus on electric drive and energy storage markets, the company's innovation and design experience is augmented by top–tier partnerships to drive accelerated product deployment. Eager to partner with other key technology and... For more than 30 years, Cadmus has been a leading energy and environmental consulting firm throughout the United States. Cadmus’ experts work directly with end users of renewable energy, energy storage and microgrids to provide project specific guidance on system feasibility, configuration, and procurement, as well as with state and federal agencies to provide energy storage program support and... CENTRAL HUDSON GAS & ELECTRIC -- A commitment to integrity, a dedication to customers, and a determination to improve the quality of life for others. Those are the hallmarks of the employees of Central Hudson—and of the entire CH Energy Group organization. The men and women of our Company take pride in serving the communities where we live and work. Through our commitment to nonprofit... CHA is a highly diversified, full-service engineering and construction management firm working to responsibly improve the world we live in. Since 1952, CHA has successfully completed tens of thousands of projects by offering engineering solutions, project management expertise, and client services that are second to none. Located throughout the United States and Canada, we provide a wide range of... CHARGE CCCV LLC is specializing in technology development and commercialization of next generation energy storage Anode and Cathode chemistries. We strive to deliver solution as drop-in replacement of the materials to be used in Li-ion batteries for total system optimization. The company seeks to discover and patent these refinements by applying material science research and then license the... High precision, integrated battery test systems designed for lithium ion and other chemistries and applications including EV batteries and energy storage systems. From R... Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit energy company headquartered in Boston, MA, creates innovative companies in the energy industry to generate profits to help charitable causes and make life’s basic necessities more affordable to those in need. Among other businesses, Citizens has developed robust solar, wind, transmission and storage portfolios over the past four decades: Citizens... The CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK is the nation's largest urban public university, comprised of 23 institutions, including 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and the CUNY School of Professional Studies. The City University of New York is the nation's... Cogen Power Technologies is recognized as an industry leader in planning, developing, and operating cogeneration systems. Along with providing turn-key solutions for clients in the healthcare, college/university, manufacturing, and other industries, Cogen currently owns and operates a cogeneration plant – giving us a unique advantage and expertise in understanding the complexities of the... COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is home to a number of major energy research programs including a DOE-sponsored Energy Frontier Research Center. http://www.columbia.edu/ COMBINED ENERGIES LLC is an early stage start-up focused on commercializing novel power electronic technology for the alternative dispersed energy market. The unique and patented designs address the sector need for cost effective low voltage high current DC power converters capable of efficient operation across a broad input voltage range. Combined with off the shelf renewable inverters Combined... Conamix is commercializing new Cornell technology that has the potential to dramatically increase the performance of lithium ion batteries. Based at the McGovern Center for Venture Development at Cornell, Conamix was founded in 2014 and was a member of the first class of technologies advanced through the NEXUS-NY clean energy proof of concept center administered by High Tech Rochester. ConEdison Battery Storage Con Edison Battery Storage is a world-class energy storage products and applications company. Our products and services help to reduce customers’ carbon footprint, improve energy resiliency, while delivering the greatest possible economic value, and supporting grid stability and sustainability. CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK INC. provides electric service to over 3 million customers in New York City and Westchester. Con Edison is in the process of implementing battery storage in its ongoing smart grid initiative, and deploys substantial numbers of batteries as power backup modules at Company facilities. http://www.coned.com/ Convergent Energy + Power (Convergent) is the leading independent developer of energy storage solutions in North America. Powered by results, Convergent manages all aspects of the energy storage asset development cycle to help customers navigate an increasingly expensive, decentralized, and renewable-driven energy landscape. Convergent deploys state-of-the-art technology to significantly lower... CORNELL UNIVERSITY boasts more than 100 interdisciplinary research organizations, bringing faculty and students together from across the university to pursue research, teaching, and outreach on broad scholarly and social topics like nano fabrication, life sciences, computing and information science, environmental sustainability... CORNING INCORPORATED is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. https://www.... Couch White, LLP Couch White, LLP is a full service law firm dedicated to providing cost-effective transactional and other advice and dispute resolution services to public and private sector clients. The Firm, with its main office in Albany, New York and satellite offices in Saratoga Springs and New York City, New York and Hartford, Connecticut, has more than 30 experienced attorneys and a full complement of... CSA GROUP is an independent, not-for-profit member-based association dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability and social good. We are an internationally-accredited standards development and testing and certification organization. We also provide consumer product evaluation and education and training services. Our broad range of knowledge and expertise includes: industrial equipment, plumbing... The newest of our business segments, the Electrified Power Segment brings together all of Cummins’ electrification resources to increase the visibility of and accountability for the company’s investments and performance in this growing market. It is positioned to provide fully electric and hybrid powertrain solutions along with technology leading components and subsystems to serve all our markets... CURTIS INSTRUMENTS INC - Corporate history of 50 years associated with the development and manufacture of electric vehicle components including battery monitoring, instrumentation, and motor controlhttp://curtisinstruments.com/ CUSTOM ELECTRONICS, INC (CEI) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-voltage capacitors, lithium-ion battery solutions and integrated electronic assemblies. CEI continues an ongoing initiative to develop and provide energy solutions and is committed to commercializing its high-tech products through technology innovation, development, partnering and transitioning. Serving the... CUSTOMIZED ENERGY SOLUTIONS assists clients in managing the changes in the wholesale and retail electricity markets. As the industry restructured, many participants recognized the value of creating sound market rules and staying abreast of market changes. Thus, Customized Energy Solutions was created to address the need to analyze, simplify and implement informed, fiscally responsible solutions... Deepwater Wind is proud to be America’s leading offshore wind developer. The company’s path breaking Block Island Wind Farm is the first in the nation. Led by a veteran management team with experience in developing complex energy projects worldwide, Deepwater Wind is making offshore wind in America a reality. Headquartered in Providence, RI, we are actively planning offshore wind projects to... Digital Energy Corp Digital Energy Corp is a projection developer and management company with experience operating distributed energy resources (DERs). Digital Energy is a premier consulting firm specializing in the energy industry with a focus on cogeneration plant operations and financial performance. In addition, Digital personnel have experience with the NYISO, REV PSC proceedings, and Utility rate case... Dimension Renewable Energy is focused on the development of distributed generation projects including energy storage. We are active in markets across the United States. Our experienced team has been developing, building and financing distributed generation projects for more than a decade. Throughout their careers, the executive team at Dimension has developed, financed, and constructed over a... Dimien is a growing business dedicated to solving clear, defined market challenges in energy conservation and energy storage by leveraging chemical synthesis routes to particles with novel features/benefits in the target space. At our core, we are chemical manufacturers. We control a block of intellectual property around hydrothermal production and chemical product compositions, and have... DNV GL ENERGY and Sustainability is a global, leading authority in business and technical consultancy, testing, inspections & certification, risk management, and verification, along the energy value-chain. In a world of increasing demand for energy, DNV GL has a major role to play in ensuring the availability, reliability, sustainability and profitability of energy and related products and... As DC standby power specialists we provide sales, battery system design including battery cabinets, mobile battery stations, installation services, energy storage applications, battery disposal, and preventative maintenance services. Dowd Battery Co., Inc. is a manufacturers representative for EnerSys and HindlePower. DST Co., Ltd. DST Co., Ltd. has been a global manufacture of automation machine that produces fin mill and core builder for past 26 years. We also manufactures vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) and owns vanadium mine (494 million lbs. of V2O5 resource) in Korea that is vital element for VRFB. We plan to provide total service for VRFB ESS to the customers of energy industry. E.ON develops, constructs, owns and/or operates 6,200MW of assets across the United States. With a particular focus on Energy Storage, solar and wind. E.ON Operates 50MW of Energy Storage systems worldwide. E&M provides Advanced Power Emulators for high fidelity DC power system/component and motor drive inverter testing. The wide bandwidth DC Emulator is a 100kW to 1.3MW DC source/sink that emulates dynamic, complex bidirectional loads with best in class frequency response, bidirectional full-power slew rate of <100us and repeatable noise/ripple generation. Ideal for full vehicle systems... East Point Energy East Point Energy is a battery storage project development firm founded in 2018 by energy executives with over a decade of energy development experience. We develop stand alone, front-of-the-meter, grid-scale battery energy storage systems. We partner with utilities, landowners, and communities to deploy projects that make the electrical grid more reliable, resilient and affordable. East Point... Eastman Business Park. Manufacturing ecosystem for emerging energy storage companies. Home of the BEST Test & Commercialization Center, the Park is rapidly becoming a hub for the development of critical next generation battery and energy storage technologies designed to improve the reliability and resiliency of our nation's electricity grid, as well as support hundreds of new product... ECG CONSULTING GROUP INC is a "boutique" management consulting firm which provides its clients with business strategy, market planning, technology commercialization and acquisition related services to help accelerate the growth and development of their businesses. ECG's clients range from Fortune 100 corporations to emerging technology companies to private equity firms in the energy,... Eden Renewables Eden Renewables, an offshoot of the award-winning UK solar developer, Solstice Renewables, has launched its innovative and successful community-focused model to the US market. Founded by Harry Lopes and Giovanni Maruca in 2013, Solstice Renewables became known for its unique, ethical approach which puts communities at the heart of its solar developments. Wanting to apply the same sustainable and... ELCO MOTOR YACHTS produces a line of fully integrated boat motor and drive systems, which are available in AC technology. These motors bring reliability, durability and high efficiency together with ease of use and installation. The system is ideally and responsibly suited for sailboats as well as yacht tenders and launches and is rated for 50,000 hours of use before scheduled maintenance.... Electric Power Research Institute The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducts research, development, and demonstration projects for the benefit of the public in the United States and internationally. As an independent, nonprofit organization for public interest energy and environmental research, we focus on electricity generation, delivery, and use in collaboration with the electricity sector, its stakeholders and... ELECTRON STORAGE, INC. is installing, managing, and owning behind the meter electricity storage systems and sharing the benefits with building owners. Electron Storage is technology and vendor neutral, working to provide the optimal system for each property. Electron Storage, Inc. has extensive experience in urban electrical projects, metering, billing and energy purchasing, and leasing and... Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (EGP-NA), part of Enel Green Power, is a leading owner and operator of renewable energy plants in North America with projects operating and under development in 21 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. EGP-NA owns and operates over 90 plants with an installed capacity exceeding 2 GW powered by renewable hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar energy. EGP-NA... DEMAND ENERGY NETWORKS - Founded in 2008 and led by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs from the telecom, utility and renewable energy industries, Demand Energy has architected the most comprehensive platform for integrating big-data analytics with energy storage at the edge of the utility grid. Our cloud-based, battery agnostic solution is running distributed energy storage systems today that are... Energy Tariff Experts ETE specializes in wholesale and retail electric and natural gas rate tariffs. This expertise, combined with comprehensive datasets and advanced analysis capabilities, allows ETE to provide excellent information products and consulting services around end-user utility costs. ETE works as a partner to energy efficiency companies, consultants, financial firms, developers, and large enterprises to... ETS is actively injecting the "Internet of Things" and "Disruptive Technologies" into complex buildings to expand real time smart building diagnostic connectivity and significantly reduce energy expenditures on a continuous basis. Our ETS Emerald engineers outfit buildings with smart meters, wireless load control devices and sensors, battery energy storage, renewable generation with smartphone... EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. We manufacture and distribute reserve power and motive power batteries, battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories and outdoor equipment enclosure solutions to customers worldwide. Motive power batteries and chargers are utilized in electric forklift trucks and other commercial electric powered... Green Charge Networks, the largest provider of commercial energy storage in the U.S. One of the key drivers for energy storage is Demand Charges – an issue that affects nearly business owner in the United States. Demand Charges average 30 to 50 percent of most business’ electric bills. Driving factors for large demand charges include electric vehicle charging, weather and HVAC systems. Energy... EnterSolar is a leading national provider of solar photovoltaic solutions to the corporate marketplace. We work with commercial enterprises to deliver solar energy with storage options to help them achieve their sustainability goals. Expert in the dynamic legislative environment, EnterSolar provides clients with real-time guidance to leverage tax credits and other financial incentives at the... EOS ENERGY STORAGE is developing a low-cost energy storage solution for electric utilities, with additional applications in commercial and industrial, telecom, and residential markets. Eos’s mission is to produce safe, robust, cost-effective energy storage solutions that are less expensive than incumbent alternatives, such as gas turbines for power generation.... ERS provides quantitative analysis, practical research, and multi-level project support in the energy space for policy, regulation, implementation, finance, and technology. From calculating savings at a project level to quantifying potential for entire service territories to estimating market sector opportunities, we are a technical company with quantitatively oriented engineers and analysts. Our... esVolta is dedicated to developing, owning and operating utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. Our projects provide essential services for electric utilities and large energy users including on-demand capacity, energy arbitrage, and ancillary grid support services. esVolta's portfolio of operational plus utility-contracted pipeline projects totals 450 MWh, and we are... EV Recycling Company, LLC is a recycler of Electric Vehicles and high-voltage battery systems. Specializing in EV’s, we are dedicated to finding environmentally responsible Second Life uses for all EV parts. Following our 3 step philosophy of, Reuse - Repurpose – Recycle. We supply high quality EV’s parts for reuse on EV repairs, modifications, and projects. And are working to find the best... Fisher Associates, P.E., L.S., L.A., D.P.C. Providing comprehensive, professional solutions since 1984, Fisher Associates, P.E., L.S., L.A., D.P.C. delivers services in the Transportation, Energy, and Land Development market sectors. These services are complemented by the expertise we provide in our Geomatics and Environmental services lines. The foundation of our approach to every project we undertake is “By living our clientship... Fluence is the result of two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage joining together to form a new company dedicated to innovating modern electric infrastructure. In January 2018, Siemens and AES launched Fluence, uniting the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage. The Fluence team encompasses more than 10 years of... ForeFront Power has more than a decade of renewable industry experience, serving business, public sector, and wholesale power customers around the world. Our team has developed over 800 MW of capacity across more than 1,000 projects, targeted on assisting public sector agencies and C&I firms to deliver the most impactful behind-the-meter, virtual, and wholesale solutions. FreeWire Technologies FreeWire Technologies designs and manufactures mobile, battery-based energy storage systems that provide clean and quiet power anywhere it is needed, regardless of existing grid infrastructure. Our goal is to fundamentally change the way energy is delivered to electric vehicles, construction sites, film sets, and more. FreeWire has successfully sold into Fortune 100 companies, utilities and... The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) represents the leading companies and organizations that are advancing innovative, clean, safe, and reliable energy technologies. FCHEA drives support and provides a consistent industry voice to regulators and policymakers. Our educational efforts promote the environmental and economic benefits of fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies. GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) Global Research is the hub of technology development for all of GE's businesses, with 10 global laboratories organized by scientific disciplines all focused on leveraging our technology breakthroughs across multiple GE businesses. Beyond the strong partnerships that scientists have with GE's business divisions, GE continues to look for the best partnerships with its... GI Energy is a leading developer of on-site energy generation and storage solutions. We help Utilities, Developers, Campus Owners... Giner ELX Inc Giner ELX is a spinn-off of Giner Inc, focusing efforts in the largest commercial market opportunity brought about by Large hydrogen generation systems for grid-level Energy Storage, P2G and hydrogen refueling systems in the Mobility market Giner ELX has active sales reps in Europe, Africa, India and the Americas, with Collaboration with major US... GlidePath Power Solutions LLC is a developer, owner, and operator of low carbon energy generation and storage projects to serve the needs of the interconnected bulk electricity system. Go Electric is a green-tech startup developing energy services solutions that accelerate a renewable energy future for America. Our patented AutoLYNC technology seamlessly integrates our battery energy storage with solar, wind, generators. We optimize those energy resources and deliver energy services that stabilize the grid and ensure businesses have secure, low cost uninterruptible power 24/7.... Gotion Inc. is based in the Silicon Valley of California. It is a fast growing company that aims to innovate in the electric vehicle technology (lithium batteries and related systems) with the goal of accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge battery powered transportation worldwide and achieving sustainable development. Great Lakes Graphite is an industrial minerals processing company working to supply customers with innovative, high quality value-added carbon products. There is no significant graphite production in North America now. As pricing and demand continue to rise, Great Lakes Graphite is one of the first new domestic suppliers to a growing regional customer base. We continually work to ensure our... Green Machine builds patented, lithium-ion WHISPERTECH™ battery and drive systems for construction equipment and industrial applications. Green Machine’s solutions are dramatically cleaner, quieter and less expensive to operate than comparable diesel batteries. Halmar is a preeminent heavy civil construction management firm specializing in a wide variety of infrastructure projects across the following markets: Highways and Bridges, Mass Transit, Aviation, Energy and Environmental, Industrial, Institutional, and Commercial. For Halmar, quality is a core value. Halmar's commitment to quality work at every level is Halmar's benchmark standard of... Hancock Estabrook, LLP Hancock Estabrook, LLP is one of Upstate New York’s leading law firms. We represent clients in a number of different industries, offering counsel and representation on a wide array of legal topics. Our attorneys are well recognized in their practice areas for their knowledge and experience in handling complex legal matters. Our Firm was founded in 1889 and has continuously maintained offices in... HARRIS BEACH and its subsidiaries provide a full range of legal and professional services for clients across New York state, as well as nationally and internationally. Harris Beach is among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal. Led by the only former head of both the New York State PSC and NYSERDA, our multi-disciplinary Energy Industry Team combines the knowledge and... A developer of solar power plants, wind power plants, energy storage solutions, and natural gas–fired power plants. Hecate Energy is energized by a mission to develop, own, and operate power-generating facilities in the United States and select international markets. Hecate Energy is uniquely qualified to carry out a wide range of development projects, at any stage, with an unmatched level of... Helix Power is a development stage company designing a next generation power management platform using flywheel technology. Helix received initial funding from the US DOE/Sandia National Laboratories and was selected for a 2.5M award from NYSERDA with letters of support from New York City Transit and ConEdison. Power is the rate that energy is transferred. High power (1MW+), high cycle... HESLIN ROTHENBERG FARLEY AND MESITI P.C. is the largest law firm in New York's Tech Valley, devoted exclusively to intellectual property law. The firm handles all aspects of acquiring and enforcing intellectual property rights, both domestic and foreign, including licensing and litigation. The firm's Cleantech Group is dedicated to helping today’s innovative Cleantech companies protect the... Hesse Mechatronics, Inc. Hesse Mechatronics is one of the world’s leading producers of fully automated Wedge-Wedge Bonders, software for monitoring ultrasonic-bond-processes, ultrasonic Flip-Chip Bonders as well as customized tools and machines. All relevant industrial companies engaged in assembly and connection technology (semiconductor manufacturers, HF/RF, automotive, medical etc.) are among the worldwide customers... Highview Power Storage is a designer and developer of large-scale energy storage solutions for utility and distributed power systems that use liquid air as the storage medium. Highview can design bespoke Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plants that can deliver from 5MW/15MWh – to more than 200MW/1.2GWh to service a growing multi-billion dollar energy storage market. LAES has been developed using... Hodgson Russ LLP Hodgson Russ provides high quality cost-effective representation with personal attention to our client's needs. With more than 200 attorneys practicing in all major areas of U.S. law, our firm provides a broad range of services. In particular, Hodgson Russ is a leader in the renewable energy industry offering expertise in real estate, tax, land use, permitting, siting, corporate and regulatory... Founded in 1843, U.S.-based HOLLINGSWORTH... Hudson Energy Development Renewable energy developer HYDROGENICS CORPORATION has over 60 years of experience designing, manufacturing, building and installing industrial and commercial hydrogen systems around the globe. We offer world leading expertise for a range of applications, including: •Hydrogen generators for Industrial processes and Fueling stations •Hydrogen fuel cells for electric vehicles, such as urban transit buses, commercial fleets... Hydrostor is a leader in Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES), a technology uniquely suited to enable the transition to a cleaner, more reliable electricity grid. A-CAES provides grid services that are not readily replicated by other storage technologies by flexibly addressing bulk electricity system needs for long-duration dispatchable capacity, renewable integration and optimization... For over 40 years, ICF has partnered with private and public sector clients to solve the most challenging issues facing the energy industry. ICF's advisory, analytical, program design, and delivery expertise continues to help shape the future of the energy industry. The offerings of the Commercial Energy Division include energy market outlook and asset valuation, regulatory and litigation... ICL Industrial Products – the world's largest manufacturer or Bromine; produces and markets a broad range of industrial chemicals based on bromine, magnesia, phosphorus, chlorine and salts. From raw materials to cutting edge research, ICL is dedicated to developing advanced bromine based technologies that are set to become the new force in the field of energy storage. Due to bromine’s high... INVENERGY has developed over 7,967 MW of utility-scale renewable and natural gas-fueled power generation facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Included in the portfolio is more than 65 MWs of energy storage projects in operation, construction, or advanced development, making Invenergy a leader in the rapidly developing, utility scale energy storage market. The depth of Invenergy’s... Jintec America Inc. Jintec America Inc., situated in NJ, represents DST that owns vanadium mines with approximate 494 million lbs of V2O5 in Korea and plan to commercialize VRFB after years of field testing. We also supply revolutionary Silicon Oxide (SiOx) that is used as anode material in Lithium-ion batteries; it increases the energy capacity of the batteries and significantly reduces battery cost. Jupiter Power Jupiter Power is a new venture working to create market solutions to grid problems. The company leverages the benefits of emerging energy storage technologies in novel ways to enhance grid support, reduce transmission congestion and improve options for power delivery. Jupiter is managed by a team of experienced executives with extensive background in the energy transition. The company is... Energy storage project developer. Kilowatt Labs is a power electronics company based in New York City that has developed the Sirius Energy Storage System, a supercapacitor-based storage technology that is approximately as dense as Lithium Ion, can be charged in less than 30 seconds, scales to any size, and has an expected life of 1,000,000 cycles. As a supercapacitor-based system, it can withstand a wider range of ambient... Kodak. Roll to Roll manufacturing is one of the historic areas of expertise for Kodak. There are many applications for roll to roll manufacturing processes. Our research labs and film coating equipment are being used by companies in the energy sector to design and commercialize industrial batteries to store solar and wind energy for the grid and power trains, buses and automobiles. We use... Leclanche Leclanché designs, develops, and manufactures customized energy storage solutions to meet the specific needs of its customers. With more than 100 years of experience in battery energy storage, Leclanché focuses on three key sectors – stationary energy storage, electrified transportation, and custom-designed battery systems. LG Chem Ltd. is one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery manufacturers with significant market share in consumer, automotive and stationary applications. The LG Chem Energy Solution division engineers and delivers energy storage systems for utility, C... The Li-ion Tamer® products were developed by the dedicated team at Nexceris, LLC. Founded in 1994, Nexceris prides itself in its core values of innovation, customer service, passion, and integrity. Our dual passions for safety and supporting the growth of clean alternative energy lead us down the path of the Li-ion Tamer development. Based on our lithium ion battery off-gas sensor technology... Lionano (the “Company”) is a supplier of high-performance, high-quality materials for lithium-ion battery manufacturers. The Company has developed a proprietary, nano-engineered material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) that delivers improved energy density (2x), enhanced cycle life (2-3x) and costs 50% less than the most advanced cathode material on the market. The Company has scaled up... Lockheed Martin offers turn-key energy storage solutions for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Backed by a full Lockheed Martin warranty, our modular energy storage systems are designed for performance, reliability, and low total cost of ownership. Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 126,000 people worldwide and is principally... LUX RESEARCH INC., is an independent research and advisory firm providing strategic advice and ongoing intelligence for emerging technologies. Leaders in business, finance, and government rely on us to help them make informed strategic decisions. Through our unique research approach focused on primary research and our extensive global network, we deliver insight, connections, and competitive... Matt Fronk & Associates LLC Matt Fronk brings over 40 years of Industry experience as an Executive in the development and implementation of advanced technologies. He spent 32 years at General Motors and is currently a consultant in the advanced energy field. He has supported clients in moving technology from research to engineering to production. He supports these clients from strategic business plan development to the... MHPS, is a joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), and Hitachi. MHI has operated for over 134 years and continues to maintain a stable presence globally and in the Americas through its local subsidiaries. Currently, MHPS employees approximately 2,000 people in the Americas. 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Health|A Book Doctors Can’t Close A Book Doctors Can’t Close By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D. It was a raunchy, troubling and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon devoured by a legion of medical students, interns, residents and doctors. It introduced characters like “Fat Man” — the all-knowing but crude senior resident — and medical slang like Gomer, for Get Out of My Emergency Room. Called “The House of God,” the book was drawn from real life, and 30 years after its initial publication, it is still part of the medical conversation. Written by a psychiatrist, Stephen Bergman, under the pseudonym Samuel Shem, M.D., the novel is based on his grueling, often dehumanizing experiences as an intern at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1974. More than two million copies have been sold, and the book has been continuously in print since its 1978 publication. A recent edition (Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2003) features an introduction by John Updike, who ranks the book alongside Joseph Heller’s famed military satire, “Catch-22.” Over the years, it has served as a required guidebook for medical neophytes and a clarion call for the old guard to make striking changes in the way we train young physicians. When the novel first appeared, many doctors were hesitant to admit they had heard of it, let alone were willing to discuss it. Several prominent physicians denigrated it as scandalous and without merit. And based on such scabrous reviews, hundreds of thousands of medical students eagerly read it, first laughing at how the protagonist, Dr. Roy Basch, and his fellow interns survive a year of being on call every third night and working 100-plus-hour weeks, and then shuddering when thinking about their coming internships. “I got a lot of flak for this book,” Dr. Bergman recalled in a telephone interview. “Older doctors attacked it and me, students would ask me to speak and deans would cancel me.” Stories of doctors learning the ropes have been a theme in American popular culture for decades. What makes “The House of God” singularly compelling is its brutally honest portrayal of the absurd tragedies and occasional triumphs of hospital life; the once-common abuse of young physicians by their superiors; and the anger and frustration these interns directed at themselves and patients. The novel introduced many derogatory terms to the medical culture. Gomer referred to the elderly, chronically ill patients no intern wants to deal with. The shorthand LOL in NAD (Little Old Lady in No Apparent Distress), was for patients needlessly admitted by their private physicians for expensive work-ups in an era when health insurance reimbursements flowed like the Mississippi. Apparently, time does heal most wounds. Interns and residents who were the profession’s protesting young Turks in the 1970s are now lumbering toward retirement. Today, doctors of all stripes discuss the novel in medical classes, book clubs and academic meetings. Perhaps more important, “The House of God” helped initiate a dialogue on the effects of sleepless medical training that continues, albeit in a milder form, as evidenced by an Institute of Medicine report in 2008 recommending major reforms in resident physician duty hours. Dr. Bergman, now 65, is retired from psychiatry and works as a full-time novelist and playwright. In 2007, “Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” a play he wrote with his wife, Janet Surrey, about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, had a respectable run off Broadway. His fourth novel, about a primary care physician in the Hudson Valley, “The Spirit of the Place,” was published in 2008 by Kent State University Press. He is enjoying a 30th anniversary victory walk with “House of God.” The book, he notes, has been praised in a number of recent publications and honored at several academic gatherings, including the 2008 meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. This past winter, Dr. Bergman was invited to deliver a prominent lecture in humanism and medicine at the Association of American Medical Colleges, the same organization, he says, “where medical school deans treated me and ‘The House of God’ with ridicule and derision when it first came out.” At some of these events, “Dr. Shem” brings along a few colleagues who were the basis for the characters in the novel. Listening to them reminisce over coffee, it is clear how proud they are of being part of the novel and prouder still of the reforms in graduate medical education that came in its wake. “The novel was an outcry for the humane treatment of interns so that our generation of doctors would not harden into the cold personas of our attending physicians, the people we were fighting against,” said Dr. David Heber, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, immortalized by Shem as a frenetic and sexually charged intern named “Hyper-Hooper.” Another “House of God” alumnus, Dr. Robert Press, a Manhattan internist, worries that recent changes in resident duty hours have created a whole new set of medical problems. “I think the pendulum has swung too far in one direction, toward making the experience too soft,” he said. “The inmates are running the prison, and it’s a huge challenge.” Dr. Richard Anderson, who appears in the novel as the motorcycle-riding “Eat My Dust Eddie” and is now the chief executive of a national physicians’ insurance company based in San Francisco, says “The House of God” remains so successful because it perfectly mirrors the stressful life of interns in a busy teaching hospital. “We were crass, rude, outrageous to each other but not to our patients,” he said. “We valued 110 percent effort and devotion. That was the lesson we took. But it was a hard way to learn it.”

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Dance|A Master’s Magic, Irretrievable Yet Recreated Dance Review | Merce Cunningham A Master’s Magic, Irretrievable Yet Recreated By Alastair Macaulay It is three months since the choreographer Merce Cunningham died. On Wednesday at 4 p.m. the Park Avenue Armory opened its doors for a five-hour program of dance and music to commemorate his work. Hundreds had already arrived before 4; many more kept coming as the evening advanced. The Cunningham company has long specialized in performing in unusual locations, both in New York, its home city, and elsewhere: the combination of rare place and rare choreography makes each season seem all the more unrepeatable. Many in the audience could remember watching the Cunningham troupe perform at the Park Avenue Armory in 1983 (when there were parked cars and trucks at one end of the space, and parts of the audience watched from the balconies). What an extraordinary place! Its exterior seems to imitate an Italian Renaissance castello, its interior a 19th-century railway station. For many — the number of young people who attended was remarkable — it will long be associated with Wednesday’s historic performance. There was more than enough room for choreography to be danced on three stages, with musicians performing in a balcony. The program began (at 4:30 p.m.) with the company dancing a group excerpt from Cunningham’s “Second Hand” (1970) on the central stage, followed by an Event (anthology) of numerous Cunningham works on all three stages, in which the troupe was joined by the four members of its Repertory Understudy Group. Then, from 5:40 to 7:10 p.m., Cunningham alumni — ranging from Valda Setterfield (who first danced with the company in 1961) to Holley Farmer (who left it last spring) — performed Cunningham choreography and classroom exercises. In many cases these dancers were reprising choreography in whose premieres they had performed. At 7:30 current Cunningham dancers repeated the “Second Hand” excerpt and the Event material they had performed three hours before, but now in different costumes. Merce Cunningham Memorial Daniel Madoff and Marcie Munnerlyn with other members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in an anthology performance at the Park Avenue Armory, part of a five-hour program to commemorate the choreographer’s work.Credit...Andrea Mohin/The New York Times It was especially moving to watch “Second Hand” — the dance in which Cunningham imagined himself as Socrates as the hour of death approached — twice. Robert Swinston (who joined the Cunningham company in 1980 and is still listed on its Web site as “assistant to the choreographer”) danced Cunningham’s role, in which — often recalling Jesus among the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane — he is both isolated and a leader, at once resigned and in preparation. At one point the nine other dancers formed a beautiful chain tableau (each in a different position) across one of the stage’s main diagonals, while Mr. Swinston alone kept moving. At other points he slowly lowered one arm after another in formal arcs downward, as if drawing veils over his face. John Cage’s score (his own recording was played) for this work, named “Cheap Imitation,” was modeled roughly along the lines of Erik Satie’s “Socrate.” Its one-finger piano notes have the rhythms of plainsong. (Cunningham’s choreography often has them too.) Amid the later Event material, Daniel Madoff danced the “Totem Ancestor” solo (1942) that Cunningham made for himself in the bright spring of his talent as a soloist, bouncing down onto the knees and then up from them, in leaps that still make viewers gasp in their physical daring. Cunningham once wrote about this: “There were some jumps on the knees, and I remember a dancer, after a performance, backstage trying them and falling down. Secret delight!” Mr. Madoff, who studied this solo with Cunningham in 2007, not only did not fall; he also vividly evoked the rapid reversals, slow turns of the head and commanding use of the eyes that for many years were distinctive characteristics of Cunningham himself. To watch the Cunningham alumni was fascinating in many different ways. Some I recognized at once; some I couldn’t recognize even after I had identified them. But with several, the marvel was to see them recapture aspects of bygone Cunningham choreography with an engagement so vivid that it suggested that they had gone on to dance it privately ever since leaving the company. From left, Silas Reiner, Marcie Munnerlyn and Daniel Madoff at the Cunningham memorial.Credit...Andrea Mohin/The New York Times Even if you search in the Cunningham archive, it is hard to find satisfying film of “Five Stone Wind” (1988), a dance I adored during its short life. (Cunningham revealed in 1997 that he had composed it partly along ideas from Chekhov.) But here was Robert Wood, a dancer who joined the Cunningham company in the year of this work’s creation and only stayed three years, powerfully evoking in a single solo its lyricism and contrasts. Who else had remembered Lisa Boudreau’s solo in “Way Station” (2001)? She danced it as if it had haunted her. The way Ms. Boudreau, quietly absorbed and wholly luminous, with a slow current of motion, kept moving different parts of her body while balancing on one or the other leg made many of us feel we had overlooked this piece when it was in repertory. There is no Cunningham work I loved more when it was young than “Doubles” (1984), made in an era when his company had such a wealth of talent that this piece was fielded with two different casts (hence its title), each so individual that the same choreography took on strikingly dissimilar inflections. Neil Greenberg danced a solo from it that brightly evoked the ebullience of its male choreography, while Megan Walker-Straight quietly moved in flowing lines around the periphery. (In the original, a pair of women — another reference to the title? — moved around the margins of the stage with a calm that made “Doubles” a transcendent, Mozartian experience.) I had to leave at 8:40 p.m., but the music continued till 9 (ending with Meredith Monk). The players included many of Cunningham’s long-term musical associates, including David Behrman, John King, Takehisa Kosugi, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff (whose collaboration with Cunningham began in the 1950s) and La Monte Young. Sometimes (as with a quiet organ chord by Mr. Behrman, recalling his score for the 1984 “Pictures”) it was enough to hear a few sounds to recall a score that had helped to give a Cunningham work its own theatrical character decades ago. David Vaughan, who used to deliver the often hilarious spoken text by Cage to “How to Kick, Pass, Fall and Run” with the composer in the 1960s (and with Cunningham earlier this decade), now repeated several lines of it again. It was good to see some of the alumni onstage giggling. “A sad occasion,” people kept saying in the audience as they greeted one another. Still, as often with Cunningham, there was plenty of laughter. I loved the solemn quartet for two men and two women when each of the two men finds that he is trapped by his partner’s leg and arm. The two women go on standing there. The men crouch down to extricate themselves, scuttling in furtive embarrassment along the floor to swap places as if trying not to draw attention to themselves. Then each inserts himself inside the other woman’s shape, and carries on as before.

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Television|The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ‘Glee’ The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ‘Glee’ By Brooks Barnes IT’S true: Sue Sylvester is a man. Behind most great comedic actors, the saying goes, there is a great comedic writer. Will Ferrell has Adam McKay. Jack Lemmon had Billy Wilder. And Jane Lynch, who won an Emmy Award last month for her portrayal of Sue Sylvester, the acid-spewing, narcissism-redefining cheerleading coach on “Glee,” has Ian Brennan. It was the 32-year-old Mr. Brennan, for instance, who wrote the classic Sue zinger: “You think this is hard? I’m passing a gallstone as we speak. That is hard!” And this oh-so-subtle put-down, said to one glee club student: “So you like show tunes. It doesn’t mean you’re gay. It just means you’re awful.” One of Ms. Lynch’s favorite Sue lines — again, written by Mr. Brennan — involves a threat, this time to her main nemesis, the glee-club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison): “I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then on some dark, cold night I will steal away into your house and punch you in the face.” Ms. Lynch said: “Ian is this incredibly nice, incredibly sweet guy who just happens to have a really cruel, supremely mean sense of humor. I think it has something to do with growing up Irish Catholic.” When it comes to writing “Glee,” the hit musical comedy on Fox, the three creators of the show — Mr. Brennan, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk — each play a different role. Mr. Murphy, the director of “Eat Pray Love” whose television work includes “Nip/Tuck,” picks the songs and comes up with some of the crazier story lines, like football players dancing in formation to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” Mr. Falchuk, a “Nip/Tuck” alumnus, generally handles the scenes that jerk tears. Mr. Brennan — who never had a professional writing job before — is a one-man one-liner factory, in particular writing the majority of the dialogue for the megalomaniacal Sue. The Web is overflowing with lists of his quips, with no compilation complete without this one: “I’m going to ask you to smell your armpits. That’s the smell of failure, and it’s stinking up my office.” Ian Brennan writes most of the acerbic one-liners for the “Glee” character Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch.Credit...Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times How does he come up with this stuff? “It honestly just kind of flows out, kind of in aria form, and I have to whittle the writing down to something usable,” Mr. Brennan said while curled up on a sofa in the “Glee” production offices on the Paramount Pictures lot here. “It’s just the mean things that pop into the back of your mind that you sometimes want to say but don’t. The difference is that Sue actually says it.” Mr. Murphy likened Mr. Brennan to a human sponge. “Ian is a big collector of detritus — ideas and words and observations that he thinks might be useful,” he said. “He writes them all down. I call it the magic book.” Mr. Brennan insisted that Coach Sylvester’s attitude is not based on a real person, but conceded, after some pressing, that the prickly Mr. Murphy is sometimes a muse. “Sometimes if I get stuck, I’ll think, ‘What would Ryan say in one of his really mean moments?’ ” It is clear that some of Mr. Brennan’s inspiration comes from himself. One of the running gags on “Glee” involves Sue’s hatred of curly hair. (“I don’t trust a man with curly hair,”Mr. Brennan had her say in one episode. “I can’t help picturing small birds lying sulfurous eggs in there, and I find it disgusting.”) Mr. Brennan has a love-hate relationship with his own long, wavy locks — something that started after an encounter with Stephen Sondheim. After college Mr. Brennan was cast in a Chicago production of Mr. Sondheim’s “Saturday Night.” Watching a rehearsal, Mr. Sondheim commented on Mr. Brennan to the stage manager, “He’s one haircut away from being attractive.” Writing was never a dream for Mr. Brennan. Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, Ill., Mr. Brennan had his heart set on acting. In junior high he got the lead in a community production. During high school he was in competitive speech and drama, and also joined the show choir, grudgingly, because he thought he needed to learn how to sing and dance if he was going to make it big. “God, those sequins were awful,” he said, recalling the choir costumes. After attending Loyola University Chicago he toiled as an actor in Chicago for a few years, ultimately landing parts in Steppenwolf Theater Company and Goodman Theater productions. Then came some bit television roles in New York. All that time, however, Mr. Brennan couldn’t shake his show-choir experience. So, in 2005, he bought “Screenwriting for Dummies” and wrote a first draft of “Glee,” then conceived as a biting, cynical film along the lines of “The Virgin Suicides.” He shopped it around and got nowhere. Then fate struck. A friend of Mr. Brennan’s in Los Angeles was a member of the same gym as Mr. Murphy. The friend passed Mr. Brennan’s script to him. A year of rewrites later, “Glee” was born as a television musical comedy. About 12 million people each week now watch the series, which has spawned hit CDs, a concert tour and a robust apparel business — and may be turned into a Broadway show. “The big learning curve has been figuring out how to deal with the anxiety,” Mr. Brennan said of his first full-time writing job. “You have a script deadline and this enormous operation depending on you and — sorry! — you have no ideas.” He also frets about the attention he has received, particularly when it comes to his older sister, Sarah Brennan, who is a founder of a charter school in a rough Chicago neighborhood. “I feel guilty that she works so hard doing something important, and I’m the one getting noticed,” he said. Mr. Brennan remains close to his parents, who were visiting the “Glee” set in early October. “I just let him be himself,” said his father, John Brennan, a former priest. “I can’t take any credit for his talent,” With more than a hint of sarcasm, Charman Brennan, a middle school math teacher, said: “What about the brilliant mother? Feel free to leave her out.” John Brennan added: “Ian has always been a character. His preschool teacher told us that he was the only one who got her jokes.” A character indeed. Ian Brennan, who is between girlfriends at the moment, is a chatterbox with a habit of talking with his fingers outstretched in front of him, as if he were manipulating marionettes. He has an unusual fashion sense, piecing together vintage-shop polyester with street-vendor jewelry in a look he calls “70s tennis eccentric.” (“It’s almost like he wears little costumes,” Ms. Lynch said.) In general Mr. Brennan has a hard time sitting still. “It’s kind of rodentlike, isn’t it?” he said. “Can’t you picture me grabbing a nut and scrambling up the wall?” He stuck with the metaphor over the course of several hours on the Paramount lot, where “Glee” is taped on three soundstages. On the show’s choir-room set, Mr. Brennan leaned backward against a grand piano and startled himself by playing a chord. “It’s my tail,” he said. “I just finished playing a sonata with my tail.”

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Opinion|Women Lose in New York State https://nyti.ms/11Jtzo0 Women Lose in New York State With too many misguided governors and legislators around the country trying to deny women the freedom to have an abortion, New York State was supposed to be a shining example of a government that cares about a woman’s right to choose. That did not happen. Late last week, the State Legislature ended its 2013 session by failing to pass Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 10-point Women’s Equality Act. The bill would have assured women of the protections now available under Roe v. Wade even if the Supreme Court chooses to undermine or narrow that decision. If Mr. Cuomo still wants to make this an achievement of his first term, which ends next year, he will have to convince a few so-called moderate Republicans to come aboard. Senate Republicans, including those who claim to support abortion rights, allowed floor votes on nine points of the bill but refused to allow a vote on abortion rights. That effectively killed the entire package, even though the Assembly had approved it. It also served as a reminder of how the Republicans will really vote on the matter. Voters should keep this in mind when next year’s elections roll around, especially those of Dean Skelos, the State Senate leader; his Republican allies; and two Democrats who are hostile to women’s issues: Senators Rubén Díaz Sr. of the Bronx and Simcha Felder of Brooklyn. In addition to the abortion provision, the casualties included toughening state laws against human trafficking, domestic violence and salary discrimination. The Assembly passed the governor’s complete plan with one Republican woman standing up for the entire package, including the reaffirmation of present federal laws on abortion. Janet Duprey, a Republican from Plattsburgh, told the hushed chamber last week, “I don’t know why a woman chooses to have an abortion, but I will strongly defend every woman’s right to make her own health care decisions including the right to choose.” Such stalwart behavior was not in evidence in the Senate. Women of New York deserve better.

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Africa|Obama, in Africa, Praises U.S. Ruling on Gay Marriage https://nyti.ms/14zwIZF Obama, in Africa, Praises U.S. Ruling on Gay Marriage Speaking at a news conference in Senegal on Thursday, President Obama called the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages "a victory for American democracy."CreditCredit...European Pressphoto Agency By Michael D. Shear DAKAR, Senegal — President Obama on Thursday called the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act a “victory for American democracy” and said he had directed his administration to find ways to make sure gay couples received the benefits for which they were now eligible. “It’s my personal belief, but I’m speaking now as a president not as a lawyer, that if you marry someone in Massachusetts and you move somewhere else, you’re still married,” Mr. Obama told reporters at a news conference here during his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office. “We’re going to be evaluating all these issues.” Standing next to President Macky Sall of Senegal, Mr. Obama also urged African nations that treat homosexuality as a crime, like Senegal, to make sure that gays and lesbians were not discriminated against by the government. “When it comes to how the state treats people, how the law treats people, I believe that everybody has to be treated equally,” Mr. Obama said. The comment prompted a retort from Mr. Sall that his country is not “homophobic” even though its society is not yet ready to decriminalize homosexual behavior. Mr. Obama spoke on a wide range of subjects in his first news conference since a spate of news back home in the last week. He talked about the court’s decision to strike down a part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; the pursuit of Edward J. Snowden, who leaked documents about National Security Agency programs; and the fragile health of Nelson Mandela, the former South African president. On the Voting Rights Act, Mr. Obama said the court had made “a mistake” in its ruling, saying the justices had dealt a blow to a law that was "the cornerstone and the culmination of years of struggle, blood, sweat, tears; in some cases, deaths.” He added, “I might not be here as president” if the Voting Rights Act had not been passed into law decades ago. But the president acknowledged that the Supreme Court had ruled and he urged Congress to “simply make sure that everyone around the country can vote.” On Mr. Snowden, who fled Hong Kong to Russia after revealing that he had leaked sensitive surveillance information, Mr. Obama said he had not personally called the presidents of China or Russia because he did not want to elevate the importance of Mr. Snowden’s case. He said other nations should simply be willing to return Mr. Snowden to the United States as a matter of course. “This is something that routinely is dealt with,” Mr. Obama said. “This is not exceptional from a legal perspective. I’m not going to have one case suddenly being elevated to the point where I have to do wheeling and dealing and trading.” Cuba has been reported as Mr. Snowden’s next destination, but on Thursday afternoon, a flight from Moscow to Havana took off without any sign that Mr. Snowden was on board. Asked whether he would order the military to intercept any plane Mr. Snowden might travel on, Mr. Obama said he would not. At a news conference in Dakar, Senegal, on Thursday, the president said the Supreme Court made "a mistake" in its ruling on the Voting Rights Act. “I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,” the president said. Just a day before Mr. Obama is set to travel to South Africa, he expressed admiration for Mr. Mandela, who is often called Madiba, his clan name, in his own country. He is critically ill and has been hospitalized in Pretoria, South Africa, for weeks. “I’ve had the privilege of meeting Madiba and speaking to him,” Mr. Obama said. “He is a personal hero. But I don’t think I’m unique in that regard. I think he is a hero for the world. If and when he passes from this place, one thing I think we all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on for all the ages.” Mr. Obama formally opened his visit to the African continent at the Palace of the President, where he met with Mr. Sall to discuss opportunities for greater trade and investment that could bolster the economies of both countries. “I see this as a moment of great promise and great progress for the continent,” Mr. Obama said. “All too often the world overlooks the amazing progress that Africa is making.” Mr. Obama arrived at the palace along a driveway lined with palm trees and bright orange flowers. He was accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and greeted at the palace by Mr. Sall and his wife, Mareme Sall. In his first extended visit to Africa since becoming president, Mr. Obama’s motorcade was greeted by throngs of people, including women dressed in traditional white garb to signify peace, in the downtown area of the city. Signs along the route proclaimed, “Welcome Home President Obama.” Some Africans have criticized Mr. Obama for what they say has been a lack of attention and investment in the continent where his father was born. The American president spent one day in sub-Saharan Africa in 2009, delivering a speech in Ghana. “Africans have been largely disappointed, especially when they look at the focus on Africa by the previous presidents,” said Mwangi Kimenyi, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “They therefore have a feeling that President Obama is still not in tune with the emerging continent.” Meanwhile, Chinese leaders have traveled extensively in Africa during the last several years, investing billions of dollars in infrastructure throughout the continent. American officials concede the challenge from China and other countries but insist that America has not been absent. “China’s paying a lot of attention to Africa,” Mr. Obama said in his news conference. “Brazil, Turkey, India, are heavily invested in trying to expand trade and commerce with Africa.” Mr. Obama expressed frustration with questions from reporters on topics other than his trip. He said that too often Africa is “not focused on by our press and our leadership back home, unless there’s a crisis.” White House officials said the president’s trip would provide an opportunity for American businesses to increase their investments in African countries and to bolster trade with their counterparts on the continent. “We, frankly, have heard a high-demand signal from the U.S. private sector for us to play an active role in deepening our trade and investment partnerships in Africa,” said Ben Rhodes, Mr. Obama’s deputy national security adviser.

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Dance|Dada Masilo Turns Tchaikovsky on His Head in ‘Swan Lake’ https://nyti.ms/1nAyR6y Dada Masilo Turns Tchaikovsky on His Head in ‘Swan Lake’ “I want to open up conversations about issues like homophobia and domestic violence, because those are realities at home,” said Dada Masilo, who plays Odette in her version of “Swan Lake.”Credit...John Hogg By Roslyn Sulcas The Swan Queen enters the stage to the familiar harp ripples that signal the beginning of the tender Act II pas de deux of “Swan Lake.” Dressed in a white tutu and feathery headdress, she plunges her arms forward, wrists crossed, in a movement familiar to lovers of this ballet. But the familiarity ends there. Prince Siegfried is nowhere to be seen; this Swan Queen is barefoot and bald; and as Tchaikovsky’s plaintive violin melody begins, her movements incorporate balletic sweep and the grounded, hip-shaking, stamping notes of African dance. It’s a pivotal solo by Dada Masilo in her version of “Swan Lake,” which arrives on Tuesday at the Joyce Theater after a jubilant reception in Ms. Masilo’s native South Africa and an extensive tour in Europe, where it has been greeted by rave reviews and packed audiences. It’s the first time that a work by Ms. Masilo, 30, has come to New York, although she appeared in the city recently in “Refuse the Hour,” a performance work by the artist William Kentridge, with whom she has collaborated on film pieces for installations, as well as on live performance work. “We’ve been everywhere — I’m so pleased we’re finally here,” Ms. Masilo said in a telephone interview from Amherst, Mass., where her company was midway through its United States tour. On the phone, Ms. Masilo sounds girlish, but her dancing is powerfully muscular and kinetic, and she has been singularly unafraid of tackling issues that are volatile in her home country. “I don’t just want to be a body in space,” she said of her dancing and choreography. “I want to open up conversations about issues like homophobia and domestic violence, because those are realities at home.” In “Swan Lake,” her Odette is married off to Siegfried, who is in love with Odile. The catch: Odile is a man, although Ms. Masilo has him dance on point and, like all the swans, wear a tutu. The three principal characters are victims of social convention. As in the original ballet, it doesn’t end happily. This is not the first “Swan Lake” to offer a gay spin on the story. Matthew Bourne’s version is the best-known, but there are several classical productions (by Rudolf Nureyev and John Neumeier, among others) that feature a sexually ambivalent leading man. But in Ms. Masilo’s “Swan Lake,” the issues of homophobia, arranged marriage and domestic violence are part of the picture, too. Born in Soweto in 1985, Ms. Masilo grew up partly under apartheid, partly in post-1994 democratic South Africa. Her mother, a single parent, worked as a cashier, and she was raised by her grandmother in modest circumstances. Ballet, mostly the province of the white middle class in her youth (and still hardly diverse anywhere in the world), was not an obvious option. But at 10, Ms. Masilo began to dance with a group of children from her neighborhood, “just for the fun of it.” Two years later, the group’s dancers were invited to start formal training in ballet and contemporary dance after appearing at a festival at the Dance Factory in Johannesburg. “I was bitten by the bug right away,” she said. “I fought very hard to be able to dance; my family did not like it one bit. They wanted me to be a lawyer or accountant, something stable.” Ballet was her first love. She saw a Russian production of “Swan Lake” in Johannesburg at 12, and “fell in love with the tutus and Tchaikovsky,” she said. “But in the end, contemporary dance made more sense to me.” After graduating from the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg, Ms. Masilo trained for a year with Jazzart dance theater in Cape Town, then auditioned in 2004 for the Parts School in Brussels, founded by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. She was one of 30 candidates chosen from 250 applicants. (“A terrifying experience,” she said.) Choreography was part of the course work. At first uninterested, Ms. Masilo decided to create a solo to Saint-Saëns’s “The Dying Swan” as a tribute to her aunt, who had died of AIDS. “That was the start of ‘Swan Lake,’” she said. “It was about rejection and pain and dying.” The experience, she said, made her want to explore choreography further. After returning to South Africa in 2007, she danced in other productions and then began to create her own pieces, partly, she said, because no one else was making the kind of narrative work that she wanted to perform. “I started tackling the classics, because the narratives are so good, and the characters so great,” she said. First came “Romeo and Juliet” in 2008, then “Carmen” in 2009, and “Swan Lake” in 2010. Her reputation began to grow. “We first became aware of her at a platform in South Africa in 2010,” said Linda Shelton, the executive director of the Joyce. “Her work wasn’t on, but everyone was talking about it.” Mr. Kentridge said he was immediately intrigued by the eroticism and unconventionality of Ms. Masilo’s work, and its blend of dance styles. “There are a lot of very good dancers and choreographers in South Africa, but to have someone who is engaged with tradition, who is playing against expectations, and has the openness to allow all things to come into the dance was something I was in sympathy with,” he said in a telephone interview from his home in Johannesburg. The international success of “Swan Lake” and “Carmen” has kept Ms. Masilo and her dancers working steadily for the last three years, but she said she was looking forward to time off to create a new work. “I’ve done flamenco, Zulu dance, West African dance, and now I’m learning the dance of my own Tswana culture,” Ms. Masilo said. “It is very delicate and intricate, with a lot of complicated rhythms and footwork with rattles.” She paused. “I’m thinking, ‘Giselle.’”

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Dance|Danspace Project Remembers the Lost Unknown Ghosts of AIDS https://nyti.ms/2dIRKEj Danspace Project Remembers the Lost Unknown Ghosts of AIDS The choreographer John Bernd, who died in 1988.Credit...Kirk Winslow, via John Bernd Archives By Gia Kourlas As Danspace Project delves deeper into its “Platform 2016: Lost and Found,” which looks at the effect that AIDS has had on generations of dance artists, it features a program dedicated to the work of John Bernd, who died in 1988. One of the first choreographers to incorporate gay themes and AIDS into his work, Mr. Bernd will be honored in “Variations on Themes from ‘Lost and Found’: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd” beginning Thursday, Nov. 3. Ishmael Houston-Jones, who along with Will Rawls organized “Lost and Found,” directs the work, which features a cast of seven young dancers as well as the collaboration of Jennifer Monson (who danced with Mr. Bernd in “Two on the Loose,” his last performance before he died), Nick Hallett and Miguel Gutierrez. “What do John Bernd’s life and death signify?” Mr. Houston-Jones writes in an essay for the “Lost and Found” catalog. As he points out, so many artists like Mr. Bernd died too soon; their work, no matter how important it was at the time, has vanished. But to Mr. Houston-Jones, those artists “nevertheless laid the foundation for work being performed today. These are the lost unknown ghosts of AIDS.” At least Mr. Bernd is not so unknown anymore. (danspaceproject.org)

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Must visit national parks near Bangalore with your family If you are a lover of the outdoors and rather see animals in their natural habitat than in zoo enclosures, then a getaway to a national park is a great way to spend your holidays or a weekend. Bangalore has several national parks that are within a 500km radius and should take you about half a day or less to reach. Karnataka is said to have the highest tiger population and seeing a tiger or panther in the wild is a memory for a lifetime. To make the most of your experience, it would be ideal to stay close to the national park. Family resorts in Bangalore like Discovery Village make for a great getaway and a wonderful place to unwind and relax. If you want to get away to a national park close to Bangalore, here is a list of the must-visit parks close to the city. Bannerghatta National Park Bannerghatta National Park is about 35km from the city and is the closest national park from Bangalore. It is spread over 65,000 acres of land. This park is India’s first national park with a fenced elephant sanctuary. The park offers safaris where you can see tigers and lions walking about the park. They also have a bird park, butterfly garden, and boating. The Grand Safari or the lion and tiger safari is one of the main attractions of the park. Other than that, there is a lot of other game to be seen at the park-like elephants, deer, Indian gaur, sloth bears, etc. The park also has an elephant corridor that connects to the Sathyamangalam forests. It is one of the best places for people seeking adventure in Bangalore. Bandipur National Park Situated about a five-hour drive away from the city, the Bandipur national park is home to more than 3000 Asian elephants and about 70 tigers and other wildlife like sloth bears, panthers, the famous Indian dhole and so much more. Located on the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in Chamarajanagar, this wildlife reserve used to be a game reserve for the Maharajas of Mysore. The national park is open throughout the year though the best time to visit is between June to October, once the summer is over. Source: holidaytravel.co This national park is also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park is about a 250km drive from Bangalore. This is one of the best national reserves in South India and is home to a variety of wild animals like leopards, wild boar, elephants, tigers, the elusive mouse deer and so much more. The name ‘Nagarhole’ translates to ‘Snake Hole’ and this park is also home to a different variety of serpents. They have early morning and evening safaris and if you’re lucky you might spot a tiger strolling across the road or the elephants gathered around the salt pit in the evenings. The sanctuary on one side is easily accessible from Kabini where Discovery Village has a resort and the forest department also organizes boat rides along the Kabini River. The park is open between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mudumalai National Park Located in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, the Mudumalai National Park has diverse flora and fauna, along with over 200 species of birds and 50 species of animals. This national park is a treat for bird-watchers who can catch a glimpse of the Long-Billed Vulture or White-rumped Vulture. The park also has an abundance of Mynas, Parakeets, and Owls. Private cars are allowed to drive on the outer region of the park and the park officials also organize elephant safaris and camps. The best time to visit Mudumalai National Park is between December and June. Source: NativePlanet Eravikulam National Park Located on the Munnar-Udumalpet Road, this national park was established to protect the Nilgiri Tahr which resembles a stocky goat with coarse fur. The Eravikulam National Park currently has the largest population on the Nilgiri Tahr. This park is also one of the regions to spot the ‘Kurunji’ flower which blossoms once in 12 years. This shrub is found in the Western Ghats in South India. The Nilgiri Hills which means Blue Mountain got their name from these purplish-Blue Kurunji flowers. The national park is divided into the core area, buffer area, and tourism area. Only the tourism area located in the Rajamalai region is open to the public. Visitors can trek and go for safari rides inside the park.

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2019 – A YEAR IN REVIEW(S): THE DISAPPOINTING AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): RATTENFÄNGER — “GEISSLERLIEDER” AEONS CONFER: “ZERO ELYSIUM” Album Reviews Add comments (This is TheMadIsraeli’s review of the new album (released on November 29th) by the German band Aeons Confer.) Sometimes you have to… not temper your expectations, but when it comes to artists you love and the output they produce you have to learn how to divorce yourself from your own nostalgia-based bias. I’ve never been a fan of nostalgia, and I’m someone who is always eager to try and avoid the pitfalls of it as much as possible. I was confronted with this resolution when listening to Aeons Confer’s new record Zero Elysium. I LOVE this band’s debut Symphonies Of Saturnus, which I reviewed here nearly six years ago. Since 2013 I’ve actually listened to it AT LEAST once a week. I never got over that album, so it’s expected maybe that someone like me might feel a bit cold when encountering a sophomore record that didn’t deliver on an assumed promise of “first album, part two”. For the uninitiated, Aeons Confer started as a black metal band, but then on their debut album turned into something of a mish-mash of melodic death metal, black metal, industrial, and other elements that really stood on its own and stuck out to me in a big way. The debut was an ambitious record, pretty diverse in its song styles, and had a 20+ minute closing suite that’s still one of the best closings of a metal album I’ve ever heard. When I first got around to listening to Zero Elysium I was a bit surprised that they not only had written a shorter album, but also had decided to shrink their sound instead of expanding it. The black metal is all but gone from their music, completely streamlining it right down to their death metal and industrial elements. This in turn made for an album that felt less diverse and epic in scope, and so for an excited fan like me AT FIRST it was a bit of a let-down. It was good, but I wasn’t initially enthralled like I was by the first record. However, I had the realization that this was my nostalgia bias talking. I had to take a step back and divorce myself from previous expectations because that’s not fair to the band nor myself. I came back to it a few days after the first listen with fresh ears and no expectations. I listened to Zero Elysium again, from that perspective, and found it to be just as good as Symphonies Of Saturnus, and actually better in some ways. True to Aeons Confer’s German origins, Zero Elysium is a tome of just overpowering bestial sonic domination. It’s about as German extreme metal as you can get, and I have grown to fucking love it. While the operatic clean vocals of vocalist Bernhard definitely still add some melodic variety and a different tone of power, I feel like Aeons Confer just wanted to write a really killer industrial death metal album with synths, and they did the job flawlessly. There’s shades of a lot of stuff here — Scar Symmetry, Bloodbath, Hypocrisy, Fear Factory, In-Quest, Endolith, just for reference points — but Aeons Confer are their own thing, mainly thanks to the fact that while the literal black metal musical elements are gone, the darkness of melody is still there. The music is a sledgehammer made of frigid black ice full of straight-to-the-point, tectonic-shift-inducing riffs, such as the entirety of the record’s opening song “Impactors” or the following “Termination Artifacts”. It’s all about that perfect synergy of hooks, melody, and what will induce you to ascend beyond your earthly form and punch a hole through the moon, while maintaining that blackened sense of mysticism and that industrial sense of nihilism. The At The Gates waltz versus Nevermore prog thrash stylings of “Wise Deflector” is a particularly fantastic song, probably my favorite overall, showing the band in fact expanding their horizons, just in a way that’s sideways instead of moving forward. There’s also some impressively weighty pieces of militaristic groove such as “Plasmoid” and “Repulse”, but they’re also counter-balanced by some fast as fuck and interestingly thrashy songs for the band in the back-to-back barnburners of “Confront The Sum” and “Nemesis” that are delightful. The closing duo of songs — the title track and “Pandemonium” — provide a pretty bittersweet atmospheric 10-minute closing (pretty sure these are parts of the same song given how they transition into each other), which really hits a metal Blade Runner kind of vibe that resonates with me pretty hard. So, overall, after re-evaluating I found myself loving Zero Elysium as much as the band’s debut. It’s not better, but it’s different, and sometimes different is more impressive than just “first album, part two”. If anything, I’ll probably just make BOTH of these albums a once-a-week listening ritual now. It’s definitely a favorite of this year. While I don’t say this to undersell either band, if you loved Endolith’s record this year, you’ll love this just as much. I’m in that category, coincidentally enough, and yeah, I’m enthralled with this record. I still love Aeons Confer. BANDCAMP: https://aeonsconfer.bandcamp.com/album/zero-elysium http://www.facebook.com/aeonsconfer Zero Elysium by AEONS CONFER Posted by Islander at 7:50 am Tagged with: Aeons Confer, TheMadIsraeli One Response to “AEONS CONFER: “ZERO ELYSIUM”” kaneda says: I cannot agree more with the author. Incidentally, it was his review of “Symphony of Saturnus” that introduced me to Aeons Confer. That album is so massive that it took me a while though to digest and fully appreciate. Zero Elysium first felt a bit like a let-down (even more as the awesome Plasmoid” song was released years ago), but it gets soo much better with every listen. Unbelievable that this band is not signed. Maybe similar to Project Hate, they simply don’t want to get signed…?

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Independence Day in Haiti in 2021 Battle of San Domingo, also known as the Battle for Palm Tree Hill. Image by Polish Army Museum How long until Independence Day? Dates of Independence Day in Haiti 2022 Haiti Sat, Jan 1 National Holiday 2021 Haiti Fri, Jan 1 National Holiday 2020 Haiti Wed, Jan 1 National Holiday 2019 Haiti Tue, Jan 1 National Holiday 2018 Haiti Mon, Jan 1 National Holiday Commemorates the day in 1804 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and restored the country's native name. Local name Jour de l'Indépendance When is Haitian Independence Day? Independence Day is a public holiday in Haiti on January 1st. Although celebrated by many Haitians as New Year's Day, the date commemorates the declaration of independence from France that was made on this day in 1804. This is the National Day of Haiti. History of Haitian Independence Day The French first got a foothold on the island of Hispaniola when French sailors settled in the western part of the island in the 16th century. By 1659, the French colony of Saint-Domingue had been established, in what is now Haiti. Sugarcane plantations, worked by slaves from Africa, were established by colonists. In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began when slaves and some free people of colour of Saint-Domingue began a rebellion against French authority. The rebellion was abated when the French abolished slavery in the colony in 1793. A prominent leader in the 1791 rebellion, Toussaint Louverture had grown powerful and in 1801, he drafted a new constitution for Saint-Domingue. Napoleon sent 20,000 troops to the colony to restore French authority. Louverture was captured by the French in 1802 and deported to jail in France, where he died in 1803. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a lieutenant to Louverture, then took the leadership of the revolution, defeating French troops at the Battle of Vertières on November 18th 1803. France then withdrew its remaining 7,000 troops from the island and Napoleon abandoned any ambitions to North American empire. This defeat had ramifications far beyond Haiti, with the war having gone so badly, Napoleon sold Louisiana (New France) to the United States for $15 million dollars, in the Louisiana Purchase. On January 1st 1804, in the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence as a free republic, renaming it "Haiti" after its indigenous name. Dessalines became the first Emperor of Haiti but was assassinated by political rivals in October 1806. The revolution made Haiti the first independent nation in Latin America, the first post-colonial independent black-led nation in the world, and the only nation whose independence was gained as part of a successful slave rebellion. How is Haitian Independence Day Celebrated? To mark the day, Haitians shake off their New Year's Eve hangover to watch the parades in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The day is marked with fireworks, dancing and renditions of the national anthem, which honours Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the hero of the revolution. A New Year's Day tradition in Haiti is 'soup joumou' pumpkin soup. The story is that slaves in Haiti were forbidden from drinking soup joumou as it was a delicacy reserved for their colonial masters. It's said that Dessalines' wife, Marie-Claire Heureuse Felicite, declared that on this day no Haitian should be denied a traditional bowl of joumou. Drinking the soup on 1st January to mark the country's liberation has become a symbol of freedom. Bònn Ane! et Bònn Fèt Lendepandans! (Happy New Year and Happy Independence Day!)

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Harold Pinter Theatre Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN The Watsons Search for Uncle Vanya tickets Search for The Watsons tickets Ian McKellen on Stage Following a sell-out UK tour, Ian McKellen comes to the Harold Pinter Theatre with from 20th September with his highly-anticipated show Ian McKellen on Stage: with Tolkien, Shakespeare, others and YOU, with each performance raising much-needed funds for theatre charities. One of Britain’s greatest performers, Ian McKellen celebrates his eightieth birthday with a one-man show exploring his illustrious career. Ian himself says; “The show starts with Gandalf and will probably end with an invitation to act with me on stage. In-between there will be anecdotes and acting.” Ian McKellen has starred on stage and screen for nearly sixty years, having made his professional debut in 1961. His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and sci-fi. He has been awarded six Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BIF Award, two Saturn Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as receiving nominations for two Academy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards and four BAFTAs. He is famous worldwide for his film roles, including the titular King in Richard III, Magneto in the X-Men films, and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Don’t miss the chance to see one of Britain’s greatest actors live on stage - Ian McKellen on Stage will be performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre from Friday 20th September. Tickets will go on sale on 14th June at 10am The age recommendation for Ian McKellen on Stage is yet to be announced. Click here for the Harold Pinter Theatre seating chart and seat price guide.

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Fidelity Bank - Oklahoma Personal Overdraft Privilege Relationship Line of Credit Loan App Construction Loan Officers Card Controls Zelle® Corporate Debit Card Bravely Onward Office Experience Interactive Banking EMV Chips Online Account Login My Mortgage Account Loan Application Login EZ Depositor Capture VISA Gift Card Login VISA Credit Card Login IT STARTED WITH HOMES. Fidelity Bank is committed to providing exceptional service to all of our customers. As the second largest locally owned financial institution in Wichita, Kansas and a growing presence in Oklahoma City and Overland Park, we provide customers with a wide array of quality financial services. The forerunner of Fidelity Bank – The Fidelity Investment Company – opened its doors for business in Wichita in 1905 as a mortgage lender. Homer C. Bastian, Kansas’ first director of the Federal Housing Administration, acquired the operation in 1942. IT STARTED AT HOME. Homer’s son, Marvin Bastian, joined the company in 1946 after serving in the Army Air Force during World War II. Their teamwork guided the company’s growing commitment to customer service. In the late 1960s, Marvin became chief executive officer of the Fidelity companies, and, in 1975, he acquired Air Capital Savings, a $32 million asset savings and loan association. During the next 20 years, the company experienced exceptional growth as a thrift institution known as Fidelity Savings Association of Kansas. Marvin’s sons, Clark and Clay Bastian, joined the company in 1976 and 1980, respectively. Clark is currently chairman and CEO of the Bank and Clay serves as chairman of the holding company, Fidelity Financial Corporation. Fidelity continues to thrive under the family’s leadership through emphasis on customer service. By the 1980s, Fidelity had outgrown its downtown Wichita headquarters. Recognizing the importance of a vital downtown area, the Bastians constructed a $6 million, five-story office building – a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Wichita. In 2006, Fidelity purchased and remodeled the historic Carnegie Library to house its expanding commercial banking division. Fidelity entered the Oklahoma City market in 2004 with the acquisition of Bridgeview Bank. Oklahoma Fidelity Bank has steadily grown to include locations in the communities of Oklahoma City and Edmond. The Oklahoma division also saw the addition of the fourth generation of the family leadership when Aaron Bastian, Clark’s son, became president of Oklahoma Fidelity Bank in 2009. Aaron was named president of Fidelity Bank in 2015. In 2014, the Fidelity footprint expanded to northeast Kansas with the purchase of an office in Overland Park. This location enabled the Bank to offer commercial and residential lending services to the Kansas City metro area. THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT. While we maintain commitments that trace back to our beginnings, we remain steadfast in our approach to better the banking experience. Our company has grown. Our buildings have changed and our technology has improved. We uphold the promises of the past while persisting toward a better future for our customers and communities. As a full-service bank we offer individuals and families premiere banking services that keep them connected to their money while building their financial future. We help people achieve the dream of homeownership with comprehensive mortgage lending options. We help businesses, large and small, meet challenges with confidence and empower their progress through cash management, credit and capital services. The Fidelity Bank legacy is one of generous community investment, charitable support and volunteerism. Through our actions we serve as a catalyst for building community spirit and celebrating our cities, because our success is unconditionally linked. Today, our $2.3 billion bank employs more than 450 people across a network of offices in Kansas and Oklahoma. For the organization that began in 1905 as the Fidelity Investment Company, Fidelity Bank's philosophy has remained the same: To create a better future by acting with courage and integrity alongside our customers and in our communities. FDIC Equal Housing Lender © 2019 Fidelity Bank, N.A. | Oklahoma Fidelity Bank. All rights reserved. You are leaving Oklahoma Fidelity Bank By clicking Continue, you will be taken to a website that is not affiliated with Oklahoma Fidelity Bank. Please be advised that you will no longer be subject to, or under the protection of, the privacy and security policies of Oklahoma Fidelity Bank's website. We encourage you to read and evaluate the privacy and security policies of the site you are entering, which may be different than those of Oklahoma Fidelity Bank. Do not send confidential or personal information in this email, call us or visit your nearest Oklahoma Fidelity branch.

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How to use Load Cells for Weight Measurement Before we get into how to use load cell weight measurement, you need to pay attention to the nature of loading. There are different types of load cells. Their use is determined by the nature of the loading (compression, tension, bending, or shear) and maximum rated capacity (because heavy loads need specialized load cells). How to use Load Cells for Weight Measurement? To measure the weight, the subject is placed on a load application point of a load cell. The resulting force generated from the weight is transmitted to the strain gauge placed in the configuration of a Wheatstone bridge. This force deforms the strain gauge changing its electrical resistance which is picked up by the Wheatstone bridge. This change in electrical resistance in millivolts (mV) is proportional to the weight acting on the bridge. The electrical signals are then amplified, conditioned, and converted to legible output. How to Use a Load Cell for Torque Measurement? Load cells used for torque measurement are known as torque meters. Since torque is a twisting force, the load cells used for torque measurement are set up in a way that they are affixed to a torsion bar. When the load cell detects a change in the shear stress of the bar, it will give out a reading that is proportional to the applied torque. There are different types of toque sensors like the reaction torque sensor, rotary torque sensor, slip ring torque sensor, and more. How to Use a Load Cell for Tank Weighing System? When installing a load cell for a tank measuring system, having equal load distribution on all the supports is critical for accurate measurements. If the tank sits on three supports, each support should have a load cell ideally placed at an equal distance from the vertical axis of the tank, separated by 120° on the same plane. Other considerations when setting up a load measuring system in tanks are the center of gravity of the tank and the effects of the supply connection on tanks that can create force differences. How to use a Load Cell for Level Measurement? The level of liquid inside a storage tank is the overall weight of the system (tank plus the liquid). A strain gauge is the perfect load cell for measuring the weight of such a system. With an increase or decrease in the liquid level, the resistance in the strain gauge will change. This change in resistance will be proportional to the weight of the liquid. Note that the load cell is not in direct contact with the liquid. Instead, this type of level measurement is non-contact and is ideal to measure the weight of a storage vessel. How to Use a Load Cell for Force Measurement? The load cell is set up by connecting an excitation voltage to the inputs while a measurement reader is connected to its output. A force is applied on a load cell which deforms the strain gauge. This deformation produces a change in resistance. The resulting output voltage is then picked up by the amplifier, conditioned, and converted to digital values. Load cells for force measurements are also called force transducers and consist of a spring element where the forces to be measured are applied. Related articles to: How to use Load Cells for Weight Measurement Pressure Transducer and Amplifier Selection What is a LVDT Sensor?

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“The Adjustment Bureau” and Others Pushed Back NBC 5 News The tubes are clogged with news of release dates getting pushed around. Let's a take a look at what's happening and why... Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in this thriller, based on a Philip K. Dick story, that was originally supposed to come out July 30, but will now be out Sept. 17, apparently clearing the way for... Starring Zac Ephron as a young man overcome with grief by the death of his brother, which moves up from its original October release date. Efron in the summer makes (more) sense, which hopefully means that the "Adjustment" adjustment isn't a bad omen. The latest from Kevin James was due out in October, but apparently scored so well with test audiences that the studio pushed it back to July 8, 2011, when it could really rake in the dough. It's funny cuz it's true and it's sad cuz it's true. Director David Gordon Green's medieval stoner saga starring Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, James Franco and Danny McBride, has been bumped from Oct. 1 back to April 8. In the words of Scooby Doo, "Rut-roh." There's talk that Green, a man who made his name crafting small films, has been having trouble with a project of this scale loaded with special effects. We're rooting for this one, but you gotta wonder... Other release dates out today are for the Sundance hit "Catfish" on Sept. 17; M NIght Shaymalan's "The Night Chronicles: Devil" on Feb. 11; Ron Howard's "Cheaters" (supposedly) starring Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Garner, Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, on Jan. 14; and from executive producer James Cameron it's "Sanctum," a 3D adventure about a team of divers trapped in an undersea cave, coming out March 4.

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Senate passes sweeping legislation to combat opioid epidemic Lawmakers in both chambers have responded public pressure to find solutions to a deadly crisis that has affected every state in the nation. Arrangement of oxycodone-acetaminophen.Patrick Sison / AP file Sept. 17, 2018, 11:03 PM UTC By Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday overwhelming approved a sweeping legislative package of bills aimed at combating the nation's deadly opioid epidemic. The bipartisan measure passed 99-1. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was the only senator to vote against it. Similar to the House package passed in June, the Senate's Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (OCRA) directs funding to federal agencies to establish or expand programs dealing with prevention, treatment and recovery. The opioid crisis: 'We still have a lot of work to do' Highlights from the 70 bills in the package include funding that requires the Food and Drug Administration to dole out prescription opioid pills in smaller quantities and money that offers an incentive to the National Institutes of Health to prioritize the development of non-addictive painkillers, two solutions medical experts believe could help decrease opioid addiction in the long run. The package also includes Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman's Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act "STOP" Act, a bill endorsed by President Donald Trump because it establishes parameters to crack down on shipments of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, from entering the U.S. Currently, the U.S. Postal Service is the only transportation carrier that does not collect electronic information on overseas cargo, which makes it harder for Customs and Border Protection agents to screen packages for drugs. It is outrageous that Poisonous Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl comes pouring into the U.S. Postal System from China. We can, and must, END THIS NOW! The Senate should pass the STOP ACT – and firmly STOP this poison from killing our children and destroying our country. No more delay! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2018 The Senate package comes months after the House passed their 58-bill opioid package, a response to the pressure lawmakers have felt to find solutions for the deadly crisis that has affected every state in the country. Overdose deaths killed an estimated 72,000 Americans in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In comparison, over 40,000 Americans died that same year in car accidents, while 12,000 died from gun violence. The Senate vote on Monday also offers a success for vulnerable Democrats and Republicans to point to during the final weeks leading up to November's midterm election. Some of these lawmakers have seen ads in their states pressuring them to support opioid legislation. In an effort to secure a massive bipartisan legislative win before year's end, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., spent a majority of the summer leading an effort to hammer together dozens of bills passed by five Senate committees this year. Three sources familiar with the process tell NBC News the Senate and House have already started to iron out minor differences in their legislative packages, including parameters for opioid addicts to access Medicaid-backed mental health facilities. Currently, the Senate version also reauthorizes $500 million per year in opioid grant extensions for the next three years, includes provisions for doctors to understand how to treat young addicts. It also reauthorizes the White House's ability to oversee narcotic-related issues among federal agencies. Once a compromised bill is worked out, each chamber will have to pass the bill before sending the final measure to the president for his signature.

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March 11 - Earth In Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future Presented by David Grinspoon, Ph.D. Senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute David Grinspoon will be talking about his new book Earth In Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future. Among the topics to be discussed is the merits and demerits of “activating” the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by transitioning from passive listening to deliberate sending of messages to targeted star systems. This has become something of a hot topic again with the publication of the end-note in a recent Communications of the ACM by Seth Shostak, wherein SETI’s senior astronomer takes an uncharacteristically pessimistic view of the possible consequences of reaching out to our interstellar neighbors. Can science fiction serve as a Gedankenexperiment for possible outcomes in advance of the actuality? Copies of Dr. Grinspoon’s book will be available. David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist, award-winning science communicator, and prize-winning author. He is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and adjunct professor of astrophysical and planetary science at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe. In 2013 he was appointed as the inaugural chair of astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress where he studied the human impact on Earth systems and organized a public symposium on the Longevity of Human Civilization. Dr. Grinspoon has been recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Public Communication of Planetary Science by the American Astronomical Society and has been honored with the title “Alpha Geek” by “Wired Magazine.” National Science Foundation, Room 110 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA (Ballston-MU Metro stop) Enter NSF from the corner of 9th St. N & N Stuart Streets. www.nsf.gov/about/visit FREE admission – Everyone welcome, members and non-members Refreshments and socializing after the talk. Shadow of a Doubt - February 2017 March 11 - Earth In Human Hands: Shaping Our Plan...

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JAMA. 2006 Oct 11;296(14):1735-41. Risk of myocardial infarction in patients with psoriasis. Gelfand JM1, Neimann AL, Shin DB, Wang X, Margolis DJ, Troxel AB. Department of Dermatology and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. joel.gelfand@uphs.upenn.edu Psoriasis is the most common T-helper cell type 1 (T(H)1) immunological disease. Evidence has linked T(H)1 diseases to myocardial infarction (MI). Psoriasis has been associated with cardiovascular diseases, but has only been investigated in hospital-based studies that did not control for major cardiovascular risk factors. To determine if within a population-based cohort psoriasis is an independent risk factor for MI when controlling for major cardiovascular risk factors. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS: A prospective, population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom of patients with psoriasis aged 20 to 90 years, comparing outcomes among patients with and without a diagnosis of psoriasis. Data were collected by general practitioners as part of the patient's medical record and stored in the General Practice Research Database between 1987 and 2002, with a mean follow-up of 5.4 years. Adjustments were made for hypertension, diabetes, history of myocardial infarction, hyperlipidemia, age, sex, smoking, and body mass index. Patients with psoriasis were classified as severe if they ever received a systemic therapy. Up to 5 controls without psoriasis were randomly selected from the same practices and start dates as the patients with psoriasis. A total of 556,995 control patients and patients with mild (n = 127,139) and severe psoriasis (n = 3837) were identified. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Incident MI. There were 11,194 MIs (2.0%) within the control population and 2319 (1.8%) and 112 (2.9%) MIs within the mild and severe psoriasis groups, respectively. The incidences per 1000 person-years for control patients and patients with mild and severe psoriasis were 3.58 (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.52-3.65), 4.04 (95% CI, 3.88-4.21), and 5.13 (95% CI, 4.22-6.17), respectively. Patients with psoriasis had an increased adjusted relative risk (RR) for MI that varied by age. For example, for a 30-year-old patient with mild or severe psoriasis, the adjusted RR of having an MI is 1.29 (95% CI, 1.14-1.46) and 3.10 (95% CI, 1.98-4.86), respectively. For a 60-year-old patient with mild or severe psoriasis, the adjusted RR of having an MI is 1.08 (95% CI, 1.03-1.13) and 1.36 (95% CI, 1.13-1.64), respectively. Psoriasis may confer an independent risk of MI. The RR was greatest in young patients with severe psoriasis. Psoriasis and risk of myocardial infarction. [JAMA. 2007] 10.1001/jama.296.14.1735 Myocardial Infarction/epidemiology* Myocardial Infarction/immunology Proportional Hazards Models Psoriasis/physiopathology* K23 AR051125/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States K23AR051125-01/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States Psoriasis - Genetic Alliance Heart Attack - MedlinePlus Health Information Psoriasis - MedlinePlus Health Information

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The wage-earner robot apocalypse arrives: Wendy’s to install 1,000 fast food kiosks to replace humans Saturday, March 04, 2017 by: Robert Jonathan Tags: automation, fast food, minimum wage, Wendys (Natural News) In the fight for $15 championed by social justice activists, the minimum wage worker may actually wind up getting pummeled, unfortunately. Fast-food chain Wendy’s has announced that 16 percent of its nationwide locations will install self-service ordering kiosks by the end 2017. This translates to about 1,000 stores which may be able to reduce headcount at the same time the government-imposed hourly minimum wage hikes continue to go into effect. Wendy’s has already tested the technology at some central Ohio outlets. Wendy’s isn’t the only franchise chain that is gravitating toward automation. Panera and McDonald’s, among others, are going in that direction, suggesting that a minimum wage increase will ultimately be self-defeating for those that it is supposed to benefit. On the other hand, Panera had to increase kitchen staff at some of its restaurants because of the uptick of orders moving through self-service kioks, the Los Angeles Times detailed. According to Wendy’s Chief Information Officer David Trimm, “The kiosks accomplish two purposes: They give younger customers an ordering experience that they prefer, and they reduce labor costs. A typical store would get three kiosks for about $15,000.” Trimm estimated the payback on those machines would be less than two years, thanks to labor savings and increased sales. “Customers still could order at the counter,” The Columbus Dispatch explained, while also noting that smartphone mobile ordering is likely the end game. (RELATED: Read more about the fast-food industry at FastFood.news.) Wendy’s experienced “a tough” five percent wage inflation last year, with four percent expected in 2017, its COO told investors last month, which prompted a greater emphasis on efficiency. It’s not just millennials that prefer to avoid dealing with the sometimes distracted or indifferent counter help, but that’s another matter, as is the rationale of consuming fast food in the first place. About the kiosks generally, a restaurant industry insider quipped that “They always are courteous. They always show up for work on time.” Parenthetically, in China, KFC is rolling out facial recognition technology with the stated goals of making ordering faster, more convenient, and personalized which will, in their view, facilitate repeat business. Last year, KFC implemented voice-activated robot order takers at a restaurant in Shanghai. Regardless of whether or not you think the feel-good fight for $15 by the leftist, social justice cohort is admirable, a one-size-fits-all, hourly minimum wage rate, whether set at $15, $10.10, or at another arbitrary benchmark, was originally designed as an entry-level pay grade rather than a career endpoint. Although not every employer by any means operates in good faith in the treatment of employees, in the normal course of things, minimum wage employees — which generally applies to a younger demographic — pick up work experience and new skills, and hopefully get promoted, especially those who are hard working, to higher-paying positions or land at another company that offers better opportunities. The fight for $15 could short-circuit this process, forcing more people into welfare dependency. The automation trend in a variety of industries separately raises questions as to why the U.S. continues to prioritize the admission of low-skilled immigrants. In his speech to Congress on Tuesday evening, President Trump suggested that the U.S. should move to a skill-based immigration system. “Switching away from this current system of lower-skilled immigration, and instead adopting a merit-based system, will have many benefits: it will save countless dollars, raise workers’ wages, and help struggling families — including immigrant families — enter the middle class,” the president said. On the subject of fast-food automation in general, the ex-McDonald’s U.S.A. CEO recently issued a reluctant “I told you so” after predicting that the Fight for $15 would prompt employers to begin installing touchscreen, self-service kiosks to reduce headcount, thereby increasing the ranks of the unemployed. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once observed that, “A minimum wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills,” ZeroHedge recalled. Dispatch.com LATimes.com Previous :Make sure you have hard copies of these documents for post-disaster life rebuilding Next : Gross: Water test shows just how much pee is in public swimming pools More news on automation It’s about to get A LOT noisier: Commercial drone delivery won’t just bring packages, but also incessant buzzing McDonald’s acquires machine-learning startup to develop personalized menus using A.I. Don’t take your hands off the wheel: Tesla’s autosteer actually INCREASES risk of crashes; previous findings were “misinterpreted” Y2K-like software glitch takes down NYC communications system, proving vulnerability of modern society to programming mistakes Bangkok to deploy drones to combat air pollution In two decades half of all jobs predicted to be lost to automation Coming soon: Mini robot grocery stores A.I. will cause more inequality in wealth and employment across the world – study Meet the new automated barista that can make 120 cups of coffee an hour New autonomous robot, Maverick, designed to paint walls and houses perfectly each and every time https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-03-04-wage-earner-robot-apocalypse-wendys-to-install-1000-fast-food-kiosks-to-replace-humans.html <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-03-04-wage-earner-robot-apocalypse-wendys-to-install-1000-fast-food-kiosks-to-replace-humans.html">The wage-earner robot apocalypse arrives: Wendy’s to install 1,000 fast food kiosks to replace humans</a>

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The 10 Most Common Postpartum Depression Symptoms, According to Moms A candid, open, and honest look at the struggles new moms go through when they suffer from postpartum depression. By Jenn Sinrich On the laundry list of mom-to-be and new-mom taboos, postpartum depression (PPD) has earned itself a spot on the very top. Despite being relatively common, postpartum depression is widely misunderstood. It affects as many as 10 to 20 percent of new mothers and briefly impacts approximately 70 to 80 percent in the form of the "baby blues," a less severe and short-lasting condition. Cavan Images/Getty Images "Like all mental illness, there's so much stigma and stereotypes that surround postpartum depression that make it difficult for a new mother to reach out for help or admit that she might be struggling," says Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, a maternal health specialist at Crystal Karges Nutrition who experienced postpartum depression herself. "Many of the symptoms of postpartum depression are commonly misunderstood or mistaken as part of 'new motherhood,' when in fact, it may be a more serious illness at hand that warrants professional interventions." Much of the discrepancy between what postpartum depression looks like and what it's actually like comes from the way it is portrayed in the media and society, especially on social media. We're used to seeing one of two extremes—the over-the-moon happy mom who feels beyond #blessed to be gifted her precious baby and who enjoys every single moment #nofilter, and the deeply broken new mom who cannot stop crying because her world has been turned upside down. The reality, however, is that there's an entire spectrum of symptoms lying in between that are far more subtle—and many of them are specific to the mom experiencing these symptoms. In other words, the symptoms are not always a one-size-fits-all. RELATED: 5 Things I Learned From Having Postpartum Depression This is why the term Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) is quickly becoming the standard denomination when discussing maternal mental health conditions. "PMADs refer to a group of mental health symptoms occurring before and after childbirth and persisting up to one year or longer that are characterized by changes in mood that can interfere with a woman's ability to handle day-to-day tasks, including bonding with her infant," says Patricia De Marco Centeno, M.D., a reproductive psychiatrist and the medical director of Maternal Mental Health Program at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California. To better understand how symptoms of postpartum depression manifest—and what they're really like—we reached out to real women who've suffered and survived PPD. Here are the most common symptoms of PPD, based on their experiences. A large majority of new mothers feel anxious and panicky, and these feelings can be quite intense—not only because of the hormonal fluctuations following the birth, but also because of the impact of bringing a new life into the world and the responsibility that holds, says Elyse Weinstein, M.D., psychiatrist and co-chair of the Mental Health Department for Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, California. For Rebecca Conklin, mom of four from Tampa, Florida, managing her anxiety and stress level was a daily battle. "If the baby cried, my heart would start racing, and just driving in the car with her would send me into a panic attack," she says. "If something unexpected happened, no matter if it is big or small, I would find myself amid a panic attack." RELATED: Postpartum Anxiety: The Other Baby Blues We Need to Talk About Kristin White, a mom of two from Gig Harbor, Washington, also suffered panic attacks caused by postpartum anxiety that were so debilitating they sent her to the ER on a few occasions. "I constantly worried about irrational fears such as a fatal car accident, my son being kidnapped by a babysitter, or me dying and leaving my son without a mom," she says. "I did recognize that these were not normal thoughts, but at times they would manifest themselves into an endless record of spinning thoughts." Loss of Interest in Hobbies or Activities Many new moms suffering from postpartum depression find themselves less likely to engage in activities that they once found enjoyable, such as running, yoga, journaling, spending time with friends, or getting their nails done. Of course, participating in many of these activities is more challenging when you're caring for a new baby around the clock, but a more severe reduction in interest in them is worrisome. "If a new mom used to have plenty of energy and joy with what she did, but now cannot feel any joy doing any of the things she used to enjoy, it is a sign of PPD," says Mary Ann Block, D.O., P.A., medical director of The Block Center. Vanessa Gordon, a mom of two from Sag Harbor, New York, had no interest in talking to or seeing anyone and ignored phone calls, emails, and direct messages when she first became a mom. "I had no interest in anything fun because I felt like I was not worthy," she says. "Even celebrating a friend's birthday two weeks after my baby was born was difficult—I ended up not showing up because I felt unworthy to have a friend." Irritability and Mood Swings It's hard for anyone to stay level headed when they're sleep-deprived, however sharp and drastic mood swings and a feeling of not being able to control one's emotions often signals postpartum depression, notes Dr. Blocker. Gordon describes this as feeling like everyone was expecting something from her. "Anything could set me off, from my baby needing a changing and my needing to get up right away to being told 'you need some sleep' combined with 'you should get someone to help you out,'" she says. "Any disagreement, big or small, triggered this irritability." RELATED: Why Are New Moms So Emotional? Frequent Crying Episodes Sudden bursts of crying are often associated with new motherhood, in part due to hormonal imbalances associated with the weeks after childbirth, but they tend to last longer in women with postpartum depression. In addition, many times mothers with postpartum depression find themselves crying for no substantial reason at all. Of the many things that made Karges cry after she had her baby, the majority were things that wouldn't have ever bothered her before, like being out of milk or not being able to find something she was looking for. "I would just burst out into tears and feel completely overwhelmed by my emotions." Anger and Rage Along with feelings of irritability, many moms note feeling intense moments or even hours of rage. Karges explains that this symptom is quite common and rears its head in an angry episode often directed toward oneself, other family members, or even the baby. White even found herself directing anger at random people she'd come across throughout her day. "If someone didn't reply back to my email at work, I felt disrespected by a cashier at the grocery store, or my husband didn't load the dishwasher correctly, I would feel the fire inside of me and just want to hit and scream," she says. "Unfortunately, my son experienced some of this rage when he wouldn't do 'normal' toddler things like getting into his car seat." RELATED: I Was Uncontrollably Angry After Giving Birth Feeling Disconnected from your Baby A lack of interest for the baby or intense anxiety around the baby can be some of the most distressing symptoms to both the mother and family, explains Dr. Weinstein. "It is hard for all concerned to understand that these are symptoms and not an indication of one's ability to mother," she says. "They speak to the level of depression and lack of ability to function and can also occur due to the profound lack of sleep and the anxiety that occurs with PPD." Kargas describes feeling as though she was just going through the motions of caring for her daughter and her needs, but not feeling emotionally connected to her. "So often I had heard women describe the immediate love and affection they had for their babies, and that never occurred for me," she says. "Instead of knowing that I was, in fact, struggling with a serious mental health issue, I blamed myself for being a bad mom." Intense Guilt It's typical for mothers and new parents to be critical of themselves, explains Dr. Weinstein. "They imagine wanting to either emulate what their own parents did or do it differently than how they were parented," she says. "The mom can feel defeated like she's not doing anything right." For Anna Yam, Ph.D., a perinatal mental health specialist at Bloom Psychology who suffered postpartum depression firsthand, guilt was the hardest symptom to swallow. "I felt guilty for wanting to take time away from my baby and for not having enough energy to provide her with 'proper stimulation,'" she describes. "I felt guilty for not 'enjoying' her early babyhood." Conklin too remembers feeling immense guilt and shame—specifically after the times where she'd yell or become aggravated with her husband or children. "It became a vicious cycle that caused me to sink deeper into depression," she says. "The more I felt out of control with my emotions, the more I felt I was failing my kids." RELATED: Why New Moms Have Intrusive Thoughts Lack of Sleep—or Too Much Sleep Most new moms have difficulty sleeping, especially in the first few months; however, Dr. Weinstein explains that some new mothers have sleep issues that are due to depression or anxiety. "Either their body just won't let them sleep or their mind can't take a rest, which may cause them to worry more and ruminate about the smallest things," she says. "This can be quite distressing and interfere with functioning." Although White didn't have trouble falling asleep, she remembers waking up every three to four hours even when her baby was sleeping just fine in his crib. "I would wake up with anxiety, always thinking about what I needed to do and hypothetical what-ifs (what if my baby died, what if my husband left me, what if I have cancer)," she says. Changes in Appetite "When any person is depressed or anxious, they can either overeat, out of nervousness or to make themselves feel better, or lose their appetite altogether," explains Dr. Weinstein. "Their upset state takes their appetite away, and in some cases, it may be that they are not taking care of themselves because they lack motivation and energy to do so." White found herself eating more than usual and drinking several cups of coffee in an attempt to mitigate her appetite. "I would use naptime as an excuse to eat a second lunch in front of daytime talk shows," she shares. For Gordon, this manifested itself in an inability to eat meat due to immense feelings of guilt when doing so. "It was so bad some days that I could hardly pour myself a glass of juice, getting up out of bed was a true feat." RELATED: 10 Things to Do to Get You Through a Parenting Breakdown Feelings of Hopelessness and Isolation Many new mothers suffering from postpartum depression express feeling as though they're on their own island—that their loved ones simply don't "get" what they're going through. To add to the issue, PPD symptoms make it difficult for new mothers to connect or even communicate with their loved ones. Emily Merriman, a mother of three from Chicago, felt as if no one would understand what she was going through. "I didn't want to leave the house or talk to anyone in fear that they would feel something was really wrong with me," she says. "Even when friends said they understood, I felt they couldn't possibly know what I was feeling." Despite how common postpartum depression is—especially the less severe symptoms of "baby blues," too many new moms suffer alone or feel ashamed. "Every woman will experience symptoms differently, so it's critical to reach out for help or talk to someone if you feel like something is not right," says Karges. "You may feel worried, embarrassed, ashamed, or scared about admitting symptoms that you are experiencing, but remember that these symptoms do not define who you are as a woman and a mother." Professional help and resources are available to support you through your journey that you can better enjoy early motherhood—don't be embarrassed to ask your obstetrician or child's pediatrician for referrals. After all, caring for you and your baby is their job.

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Capacity-Building in MPAs: Practitioners Face Challenges, View Opportunities Posted on March 15, 2000 - 12:00am, by MPA News staff Amid the growing recognition of marine protected areas as a useful resource management tool, two things stand out to enable MPAs to achieve their resource management goals. Effective institutions and processes must exist to plan and support the MPAs, and qualified managers and other personnel must be available to oversee them. Without these ingredients, an MPA may well "protect" in name only. Building the capacity of institutional and human resources that support MPAs improves the management of MPAs' natural resources. But this capacity-building is not easy. The still-new field of MPAs is in the midst of a rapid learning curve on issues of planning, management, and science, forcing institutions and managers to learn as they go. To make matters worse, budgetary realities handicap all aspects of MPA management, including the hiring and training of personnel. This month, MPA News asked managers and capacity "trainers" for their views on capacity-building, the challenges they've faced with regard to capacity, and opportunities for improving resource protection. Starting with the basics Capacity-building on the individual level can be as basic as helping to develop a general environmental awareness among a coastal community's residents. Ilse Kiessling, a natural resource policy manager with WWF Australia's Tropical Wetlands of Oceania Program, said her work in the Arafura Sea/Gulf of Carpentaria region (on Australia's north coast) has involved introducing a conservation mindset to residents more concerned with economic development than environmental protection. "Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria region is very remote, very development-oriented, and very dynamic in terms of indigenous issues, economic stability, and a lack of regulation, among other things," said Kiessling. "Concepts of conservation and environmental management are only just starting to be discussed, and there is a great deal to be done in building relationships, fostering communication, and gathering information on just what is out there in need of protection." Kiessling said that the designation of an MPA in the region would not likely occur in the near future. Consequently, capacity-building in terms of training, education, and skill-sharing for the practical management of any future protected area is not a large part of her work. "Nevertheless," she said, "capacity-building from the point of view of awareness raising, generating discussions and ideas, supporting indigenous aspirations for (and title to) their country, and empowering local communities to the development of management planning and environmental policy is definitely part of what we're doing." In the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, capacity trainers on coastal management are dealing with some of the same issues as Kiessling. They've used innovative exchanges of personnel with established MPAs outside of Indonesia to further their work. Brian Crawford of the University of Rhode Island (US) Coastal Resources Center helps oversee Proyek Pesisir, an Indonesian coastal resource management project that has taken Indonesians to the Philippines to study the Apo Island Marine Sanctuary, noted for its success in rebuilding local fish stocks (MPA News 1:3). Crawford said that by introducing the Indonesian group -- consisting of representatives from three coastal villages, national and provincial government, and national and local universities -- to a successful MPA, "It gave everyone a common view of what a marine sanctuary could be." The visit played a part in establishing the Blongko Marine Sanctuary in North Sulawesi, which Crawford said was the first community-based marine sanctuary in Indonesia to receive government endorsement at the village, provincial, and national levels. Distributing lessons In turn, the project has brought representatives of Apo Island to the Indonesian villages. Although Crawford said the Indonesians had more to learn from Apo's experience than vice versa, he noted that the speed with which the Indonesian villages had accepted the sanctuary idea compared favorably with the Philippines, owing perhaps to the benefit of having the latter's model to follow. "The coastal communities in our project are rural, quiet fishing villages, which is typical in Indonesia," said Crawford. "For a lot of the people, 'biodiversity' and 'environmental conservation' don't really ring with them. Making a living from day to day does. If they see a benefit accruing from these small MPAs -- such as from improved fishing or tourism -- that can be the hook that gets communities involved. It's not so much the number of hectares saved that's important; we're establishing examples of how improvements can be made." Now, Proyek Pesisir is working to apply the community-based model to other Indonesian provinces by distributing lessons from the three-village pilot program. In addition, the project will hold a workshop this September with Filipinos and Indonesians to discuss lessons learned from their sanctuary management. On the subject of what advice he would give to other capacity trainers, Crawford said that several capacity-building techniques applied over the long term were the best method. "One technique alone won't do it," he said. "You need multiple strategies: short-term skills training (such as mapping), mentoring with more experienced professionals, and learning by doing. You should also take an incremental approach. Provide some basic concepts on integrated coastal management and community-based sanctuaries, then meet back in six months and take it a bit further." US is training, learning The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has engaged in both sides of the capacity-building process, according to Bud Ehler, director of NOAA's International Programs Office. On the training side, his office is partnering with the IUCN (World Conservation Union) World Commission on Protected Areas to offer technical support to workgroups from the Caribbean and the Northwest Pacific. "With the IUCN workgroups, we're working with countries to develop regional action plans with regard to sustainable fisheries, integrated coastal management, and strengthening the global representative system of MPAs," said Ehler. "The message for us has been that we can work with other countries whose real need is not necessarily financial support from us, but technical and planning support. "One of the benefits of working internationally is that there's a lot to be learned from the experience of other countries," he continued. "In particular we're looking at the application of no-take reserves by other nations, like the Philippines and South Africa." Ehler pointed to the establishment of a no-take "ecological reserve" in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (MPA News 1:1) as an example of the US incorporating a lesson learned from other countries. Similar to the North Sulawesi project, NOAA has encouraged the development of partnering programs between MPA personnel inside and outside the US. Various partnerships with managers in China, South Africa, Mexico, and Canada have led to staff exchanges with US federal MPAs and training workshops in which personnel of both countries share their experiences and knowledge. The US and China, for example, have established three sets of "sister sanctuaries" which exhibit similar physical properties and environmental challenges. (The partnering projects are described in more detail at http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ipo/projects/us-china/.) Challenges in the Caribbean Although some areas of the world have benefited from capacity-building efforts initiated by externally funded programs and governments, other areas remain challenged by needs for funds, information, skilled personnel, and appropriate institutional structure. Tom van't Hof, who has established three MPAs in the Netherlands Antilles and consulted on MPA projects around the world, said that although capacity-building was identified 10 years ago as an area of concern for Caribbean MPAs, it remains a problem. "Many Caribbean MPAs are still struggling with the fact that they exist on paper but do not have the capacity to manage effectively," van't Hof said. The main reason for the lack of progress, he said, was the lack of institutional structure. "With one or two exceptions, there are no Caribbean nations that have -- or can afford -- specialized park management agencies," he said. "Park management is therefore often delegated to a fisheries or forestry department whose primary mandates are not conservation-oriented. In some cases, management is put in the hands of statutory bodies that operate semi-independently from government, or is contracted out to NGOs." To counter this, said van't Hof, MPAs need to start building a network of relationships involving government, NGOs, and the private sector. "My advice is to use all available opportunities for training personnel, and for funding MPA management, outside of traditional government subventions," he said. "The private sector, for example, can contribute in many ways. Financially, they can contribute through license fees, sponsorships, and fees for use of the park name in advertising. Dive tour operators can assist with maintenance, surveillance, law enforcement, and resource monitoring." He is optimistic about the new "Training of Trainers" course offered to Caribbean MPA managers by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). A 10-day course covering everything from marine ecology to planning, management, monitoring, and communication, "Training of Trainers" is designed to offer comprehensive instruction that managers may then use to train other managers in their countries. UNEP and TNC offered the first course last November in English, and will offer a Spanish-language version in April of this year. Eventually, the course's modules will be used to offer custom-made seminars, like a two-day course on management planning or a one-day workshop on participatory approaches. (For more information on the course, contact Alessandra Vanzella-Khouri, whose contact information is provided at the end of this article.) Science of capacity building There are ongoing efforts by intergovernmental institutions to apply a scientific look at capacity-building. In the interest of becoming more efficient in its assistance to developing nations, for example, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the United Nations Development Programme has initiated a project to measure the success of its various capacity-building efforts. Through its Capacity Development Initiative, the GEF will develop a strategic approach to assisting developing nations. Only a minority of the projects under analysis involve marine resource management, although some of the lessons should be transferable. (More information is available at http://www.undp.org/gef/web_files/index.html.) In terms of building human capacity for MPA management, the science may involve a retreat to past mores, in at least one area of the world. Austin Bowden-Kerby, project scientist for the Coral Reef Restoration and Development Project in Fiji, pointed out that the idea of no-take MPAs is a Pacific Island concept that has existed for thousands of years before being discovered recently by scientists. Traditionally called "tabu" or "tapu" areas (or "kapu" in Hawaii, as noted by Jim Bohnsack, [MPA News 1:5]), these zones gave honor to the ancestors and to the gods, ensuring continued benevolence, health, and the continued harvest of fish and crops. "Unfortunately, the coming of the missionaries caused the opening of most of the tabu areas," said Bowden-Kerby, noting that the zones were based more on belief in the old religion than on a conscious understanding of resource management. "Now the islanders are beginning to realize that that was a mistake, and are beginning to re-establish tabu areas on their coral reefs and lands." In the case of these islanders, capacity-building has involved their return to the practices, if not the reasons, of their ancestors. Ilse Kiessling, WWF -- Tropical Wetlands of Oceania Program, GPO Box 1268, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. Tel: +61 8 8941 7554; E-mail: ikiessling [at] wwf.org.au. Brian Crawford, Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA. Tel: +1 401 874 6225; E-mail: crawford [at] gso.uri.edu. Bud Ehler, International Programs Office, National Ocean Service, NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway N/IP, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA. Tel: +1 301 713 3078 x159; E-mail: charles.ehler [at] noaa.gov. Tom van't Hof, Marine and Coastal Resource Management Consulting, The Bottom, Saba, Netherlands Antilles. Tel: +1 599 4 63348; E-mail: fpsaba1 [at] sintmaarten.net. Austin Bowden-Kerby, Coral Reef Restoration and Development Project, Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 639, Suva, Fiji Islands. E-mail: bowdenkerby [at] is.com.fj. Alessandra Vanzella-Khouri, UNEP/RCU, 14-20 Port Royal Street, Kingston, Jamaica. Tel: +1 876 922 9267 x9; E-mail: uneprcuja [at] cwjamaica.com Capacity Challenges for Caribbean MPA Managers Georgina Bustamante, The Nature Conservancy's marine conservation coordinator for the Caribbean, said that Caribbean MPA managers face several capacity-related challenges, including: Shortages of management plans and of research data needed to support such plans in negotiations with other stakeholders. A lack of sustainable funding for implementing regulatory measures, such as mooring buoy placement and maintenance, ecotourism projects, patrolling, and outreach programs. Pressure from the fishing community, tourism developers, and government agencies to manage their MPAs in ways favorable to the fishing and tourism sectors. Georgina Bustamante, The Nature Conservancy, Caribbean Division, 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203-1606, USA. Tel: +1 703 841 5682; E-mail: gbustamante [at] tnc.org.

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ASTROS WILL WEAR COLUMBIA SHUTTLE PATCH Drew Dixon, Sentinel CorrespondentTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL KISSIMMEE -- The seven astronauts who died aboard space shuttle Columbia will be memorialized this year by the baseball team named for their profession. The Houston Astros, who are having spring training in Kissimmee, will don the official NASA patch of Columbia's fateful mission on their game uniforms. The patch will be on the right sleeve of the Astros' jerseys, and it contains the names of the seven astronauts lost in the Feb. 1 disaster. At Osceola County Stadium, players were pleased with the team's decision. Center fielder Craig Biggio is a 16-year veteran of the team and said he is honored to wear the patch. "NASA's hometown is Houston. NASA's big in Houston. I'm excited about it. I think it will be a nice thing," Biggio said. "We're trying to pay our respects . . . It's a nice tribute for us to do that. It is special. The space center's not far outside of Houston, and we owe those people a lot. To be able to wear a patch on our arm is a tribute to the sacrifice they've made," he said. Rob Matwick, senior vice president of operations for the Astros, said, "The history of the franchise is closely associated with the space program. Our name is short for 'astronauts.' We've just had a good relationship. We've had a number of astronauts that have been fans of the team for years. It was a small gesture on our part to honor the seven astronauts that were lost," he said. The patches won't appear on the uniforms until the regular season gets under way. "We considered spring training, but we in no way wanted to pressure NASA or the families to get permission. The other challenge right now is getting the patches made," Matwick said. The company that makes the patches, AB Emblem of Asheville, N.C., has been inundated with requests for the patches, so there was little hope for getting them in time for spring-training uniforms, Matwick said. The families of the astronauts who died, in addition to the space agency, had to grant permission for use of the patch on the baseball jerseys. Astros manager Jimy Williams said it's not much to ask the team to wear a patch honoring the men and women who did so much for the United States. "Those people tried to do special things for our country," Williams said. "If we can do this one little thing here and wear this patch to represent their loss and give their family something really to be proud of, it's a little thing but it's an important thing."

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Bucs' season startson roller-coaster ride Orlando may have the biggest selection of theme parks and coasters in the state, but chasing down the newest creation at Busch Gardens in Tampa will be a tall order. As in 200 feet. At 90 degrees, no less. SheiKra, which opened Saturday, is not only America's first dive coaster, but also the nation's tallest. Busch Gardens previewed the attraction Thursday, culminated by a live shot on ESPNEWS of five Tampa Bay Buccaneers riding shotgun. Look for the clip to appear as one of the SportsCenter's "Top 10 Plays of the Week." "I think I heard Michael Clayton crying," offensive tackle Derrick Deese said. Clayton, the second-year wideout, waved off Deese's remark. Earlier this month, Clayton rode in an F-16 fighter jet that took off from MacDill Air Force Base, so the 4 G's he pulled on SheiKra -- which features an Immelmann Loop, a rolling loop named for a German fighter pilot -- was a fraction of the experience. "But it was still awesome," Clayton said. "A lot of people are going to be standing in line to ride this." The coaster climbs to a 200-foot vista that overlooks a stunning panorama of the city before creeping to the edge of the 200-foot vertical drop, tilting over the edge and locking there for a five-second pause. Then down she goes. "That was a struggle, I'm not going to lie to you," rookie linebacker and second-round pick Barrett Ruud said. "But I'd recommend it." DILLON'S DIFFICULT PATH As a player who once struck out 124 times in a 134-game minor-league season, third baseman Joe Dillon had to learn patience at the plate. After spending seven-plus seasons in the minors before making his major-league debut last week, Dillon had to learn patience, period. It was all worth it, though, when the Florida Marlins' Dillon -- subbing for an injured Mike Lowell -- singled in his first major-league at-bat Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. What a strange odyssey it has been for Dillon, 29. After being taken in the seventh round of the 1997 draft by the Royals, he toiled for five seasons before the Twins plucked him in the Rule V minor-league draft. Two years later, he retired because of back problems and became a volunteer coach at Texas Tech, his alma mater. Dillon resurfaced in pro baseball with the Marlins' organization last year, hitting a combined 39 home runs for Class AA Carolina and Class AAA Albuquerque. And that ultimately led to Dodger Stadium. "This is where I've been trying to get my whole career," Dillon told mlb.com. "It feels good." Florida State men's basketball Coach Leonard Hamilton (right) pulled off a handful of impressive recruiting coups this week with nothing more than the promise of a hopeful future and a past in the ACC basement. So how did he do it, luring, for starters, Rockville (Md.) Montrose Christian star Uche Echefu away from national champ North Carolina? Echefu and St. Pete Catholic junior Aaron Holmes, who committed for the '06 class this week, both cited loyalty in the recruiting process that turned out to mean more to them than national prominence. "They were the first people on Aaron back in his sophomore year," St. Pete Catholic Coach Mike Moran said of FSU. "He felt a degree of loyalty in them, they've never wavered in interest, and that meant a lot to him." Holmes had committed to NC State in the fall but changed his mind after the state tournament. That's when the phone calls -- even to his mother's private cell phone -- began to overwhelm the family. Florida State's early interest stood out. He ultimately picked the Seminoles over Wake Forest, which finished second in the ACC last season. Echefu was similarly won over by the program that expressed interest in him last fall, not just last month, when early NBA draft defections left North Carolina scrambling for bodies. Echefu had to weigh immediate playing time for the defending ACC champs with, well, immediate playing time for the team that finished last in the conference. His decision, like that of Holmes and recent JuCo signee Jerel Allen, suggests that if few on Tallahassee's apathetic campus believe in FSU's basketball future, at least someone does. Former FSU guard Roneeka Hodges, a second-round WNBA draft pick last month, has earned a roster spot with the Houston Comets. She was considered a long shot to make the 11-player roster. The WNBA regular season opened this weekend. "I've taken a lot of [abuse] from a lot of people. Probably more than anybody in the history of this sport. I know Hank [Aaron] and Jackie [Robinson] took a great deal of [abuse], but I guarantee it wasn't for six years." -- Former big-league pitcher John Rocker, in an interview with espn.com Busch Gardens Orlando

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Android · Apple · apps · news Open Source At a Glance: Better than Propriety Apps? A couple of years ago, I remember my friend telling me about how she merged google maps with Pokemon Go to win the game in a fraction of the time it would usually take. I was dumbfounded, not knowing that open source code can allow such actions to take place. The conversation about open source applications and their advantages opened again when people suspected FaceApp to be stealing user data and selling it to the Russians. FaceApp is a recently widely popular app that lets you see what you could possibly look like when you’re older using augmented filters. While there is little reason to believe that they’d actually be selling your photos to the Russians, data security is a big issue. There is an open-source alternative to FaceApp– AI Portraits, that reveals who it’s built by, how it is built, where the data goes and how vulnerable it is to risks because its code is available online. A similar alternative to Google Maps is available too, known as OpenLayers. You can use it to access maps from any map provider, such as Microsoft or Yahoo. You can add any plugin you may need and if you’re a coder, you can resolve bugs yourself! A very popular open-sourced messaging application is Telegram X, you may have heard about it when rumors of WhatsApp being a security risk started surfacing a couple of years ago. All of these are popular alternatives to propriety or privately developed apps. Privately developed apps, unlike open source, don’t let their code be accessed by the general public. So if there are any channels that allow security breaches to take place, they cannot be accessed. Even if the app developers intentionally have a system in place that extracts user data from the cloud, there is no way of knowing because the coding framework is kept under lock and key. This is why even if people are aware of the data security risk that comes with installing Facebook, there’s not much they can do about it. Because ultimately Facebook is a privately license enterprise that can only be modified by the people employed by it. Open-source applications aren’t developed for profit, and since they aren’t licensed so they have little incentive to sell your data to third parties. The biggest advantage is that open source apps are transparent about data vulnerabilities. Since the code is available online and there are many people to review it for you, they’ll be quick in noticing any errors or security loopholes that may be present in the program. People who aren’t directly affiliated with the developers that made the app can suggest changes to it or revamp the code to make their own versions. Hence open source has a wider variety of advantages to tech. The code can be modified to add or remove features for different uses. For example, an app that sets reminders and makes checklists may be modified to ring an alarm alongside the reminder too. Developers can just take the code from the open-source and build upon it. It reduces cost as well as improves the quality of the program. Moreover, if the application fails to break even in the market and is abandoned by the developers, it doesn’t mean all is lost. Since these apps aren’t licensed, they can be modified and reintroduced by developers who could possibly save it from extinction. However, the vast majority of open source applications cannot be run on iOS. So if you are an Apple user like myself, and would like to test out more open-sourced applications, it would be better to switch to android. If you don’t want to do that, the only other option may be to jailbreak your iPhone. Beware though, it does not necessarily mean that your phone will be secure from identity theft and viruses. As much as open source can be used for good, people can implant malware and bugs into the code as well. Another problem is that application updates which remove major bugs may be overlooked by users and they might continue to use the faulty versions. Also since there are a variety of open source languages, and different developers specialize in different ones, spotting errors in code may not be as quick and easy as one might think. In short, if you’re looking for alternatives to google maps and FaceApp, there are good open-source apps available that won’t sell your data to advertisers. But does that guarantee that the app won’t be hacked? Not really. Tags: AndroidAppleappscodingData Privacydata securitydevelopersopen sourcetech Previous story Everything you need to know about GALAXY UNPACKED 2019! Next story Just In: The HarmonyOS – Huawei’s Latest Operating System Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge March 1, 2015 Review: Cygnett Soundwave Bluetooth Speaker and Dock September 1, 2013 What is Google up to with its new voice search assistant? July 29, 2019

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To be eligible to attend master class, all competitors must enter minimum TWO or more classes. Each contestant will have a chance to learn from renowned Professors and musicians. Master classes will be held in small groups. Each student may have a one-on-one lesson with Masters. Please prepare one to two pieces for your master class. All contestants must be studying RCM Level 4 and above. All contestants are only paying for his or her Master class lessons — 30 minutes $100. No tickets required. Woodwind Division Violin Master Sunny Qu Sunny was born in Qingdao, China, and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He golds a Master degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music. During his teenage years, he had been successful in numerous piano competitions. Since then he has performed at special events in three continents, such as Salzburg’s Weiner Salle in Austria, Duke’s Hall in London and the Chan Center in his hometown Vancouver. He also performed in other events held in China, Japan, Taiwan, and embassy of Russia in Japan. Yue incorporates both Baroque and contemporary music in his work. This is due to his interest in the composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni. He actively looks for Busoni’s less-known work to perform. Yue came in third in 2009 Knigge competition and was the winner of the UBC Concerto. He was subsequently invited to perform with the UBC Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. He also received the Johann Strauss Foundation Award in 2009 to advance his studies at the Mozart Conservatory in Austria. In 2013, he received the Else Cross Brahms Award from the Royal College of Music in London. Yue graduated from UBC Conservatory of Music and Royal Conservatory of Music under the supervision of Sara Davis Buechner and Hamish Mine. He is studying at the University of Southern California with Jeffrey Kahane. Yue was taught by many music masters, including the renowned teacher Edward Parker, and pianist Ian Parker, He was also fortunate enough to be instructed by Anton Kurrti, Robert Levin, Joanna MacGregor, Pascal Devoyon and Steven Osborne. Yue returned to China numerous time during his study to hold solo concerts, where he worked hand in hand with the famous pianist Sara Davis Buchner for a duo-piano program. He also taught master classes and performed one of Dun Tan’s “Eight Watercolor Notes” at his solo recital. The local news published and reported that “Yue Qu challenges Dun Tan’s famous piece” and reviewed his concert. Angel Wang Renowned violinist Angel Wang has established herself as a violinist of exceptional ability in both China and Canada in solo, chamber and orchestral settings. In Canada she has performed with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Opera and was concertmaster for a run of La Traviata. As a soloist she has been heard on television and has appeared as a judge for numerous television competitions and festivals. Angel Wang performed in the Toronto production of the hit musical The Sound of Music and has performed with the Elora Festival singers and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.A veteran of both stage and screen Angel Wang has recorded extensively for the film industry in China and in North America. She is also active in the Toronto recording scene for CDs, commercials and movies.Angel Wang has also appeared in concert with such notables as singer Roger Hodgson and international piano star Richard Clayderman. Most recently she was the concertmaster for Richard Clayderman’s 2017 North American tour.In addition to her diverse and busy performing activities Angel Wang is much in demand as a teacher. She is on faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto where she leads a full violin studio. Her students are frequent recipients of awards and are distinguished players. Many of her students are now pursuing careers in music. Malcolm Crawford Malcolm Crawford has a M.Mus. in bassoon performance from the University of Toronto and a B.Mus. (Honours) and B.Ed. from the University of Western Ontario (now called Western Universty). He is a former winner of CBC National Auditions and member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. He holds both Licentiate and Associate diplomas in bassoon performance. Mr. Crawford was professor of woodwinds and music theory for Laurentian University and Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario, and, later, professor of bassoon and music theory at the University of Alabama. He has extensive performance experience on all of the woodwinds including four recordings, one of which, "Soft Edges", was distributed worldwide and featured on CBC Radio's "Gilmour's Albums" and Peter Gzowski's "Morningside". As a winner of the Alabama State Council of the Arts Award, Mr. Crawford recorded a solo bassoon CD, "High Adventure" which featured his composition by that title. Besides his orchestral experience with the London Symphony and the Tuscaloosa Symphony, Mr. Crawford had an extensive career as a bassoon soloist and virtuoso. Woodwind Master Dmitry Rachmanov Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov is a Professor of Piano at California State University, Northridge, where he serves as Chair of Keyboard Studies. A sought-after educator, master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, Dr. Rachmanov has served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and he has appeared as a guest artist at schools such as Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Shanghai Conservatory and Beijing Central Music School in China, UCLA, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Florida State University, Arizona State University and Indiana University at Bloomington, among others. Dr. Rachmanov is a frequent adjudicator, having served on the juries of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Brahms International Competition in Poertschach, Austria, Claviarium in Moscow, Russia, among many other regional, national and international contests. As a researcher, Dr. Rachmanov has authored reviews and articles on historical subjects related to piano performance in publications such as Keyboard Classics, the Journal of the Scriabin Society of America and the London-based International Piano magazine, which has published Rachamnov's surveys of recorded legacies of the Chopin F Minor Ballade, Op. 52, Rachmaninoff's Corelli Variations, Op. 42 and the Paganini Rhapsody, Op. 43 as well as a features on the art of the Russian pianist Grigory Ginzburg and the noted Juilliard pedagogue Joseph Bloch. Dr. Rachmanov is an active lecturer, having presented his research on various topics at public venues, such as the Beijing National Theater to conservatories and universities, as well as music teachers associations, such as MTNA & MTAC, among others.

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Does this painting predate the Mona Lisa? The argument could be settled once and for all today - though some scholars will remain unconvinced The so-called 'Isleworth' Mona Lisa The Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation says it will prove to the world today that Leonardo Da Vinci painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa. The foundation, which has been working with the owners of the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa," says that it can prove that after 35 years of research the painting predates the 16th-century masterpiece in the Louvre, Paris by approximately 12 years. it has based its assertion on regression tests, mathematical comparisons and historical and archival records. "So far, not one scientific test has been able to disprove that the painting is by Leonardo," art historian and foundation member Stanley Feldman told the Associated Press last night Wednesday). "We have used methods that were not available to Leonardo 500 years ago. When we do a very elementary mathematical test, we have discovered that all of the elements of the two bodies the two people, the two sitters - are in exactly the same place. It strikes us that in order for that to be so accurate, so meticulously exact, only the person who did one did the other. It's an extraordinary revelation in itself, and we think it's valid." The Isleworth painting (above) is slightly larger, was painted on canvas (not wood) and has brighter colours than the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum. The posture, folded hand positions, faces, expressions and clothing are similar, while the landscape in the background is different. The painting turned up in a house in Isleworth, in the late 1800s and was shipped to America for safekeeping during World War I. After the war, it was analysed in Italy, and eventually taken to Switzerland where it remained in a bank vault for the last 40 years, the group said. However, Martin Kemp, an Oxford University professor and Leonardo expert claims that scientific analysis cannot categorically deny that Da Vinci didn't paint 'the Isleworth Mona Lisa. "The infrared reflectography and X-ray points very strongly to it not being by Leonardo," he has written. "The Isleworth Mona Lisa miss-translates subtle details of the original, including the sitter's veil, her hair, the translucent layer of her dress, the structure of the hands." He adds that "the landscape is devoid of atmospheric subtlety. The head, like all other copies, does not capture the profound elusiveness of the original." The Louvre Museum, for now, is staying out of the debate. Leonardo Paperback | English USD$11.95 Wallpaper* City Guide FlorencePaperback | English USD$12.95 Wallpaper* City Guide RomePaperback | English USD$12.95 Fra AngelicoPaperback | English USD$11.95 The Pre-RaphaelitesPaperback | English USD$11.95

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Increase Seen in Foster Care Entries Due to Parental Drug Use Number and proportion of entries attributable to parental drug use increased from 2000 to 2017 MONDAY, July 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The number of foster care entries attributable to parental drug use increased considerably from 2000 to 2017, according to a research letter published online July 15 in JAMA Pediatrics. Angélica Meinhofer, Ph.D., from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and Yohanis Angleró-Díaz, M.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, analyzed data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System for children in foster care during fiscal years 2000 to 2017. The sample was stratified based on home removals attributable to parental drug use. A total of 4,972,911 foster care entries were identified, of which 23.38 percent were home removals attributable to parental drug use. During the study period, the researchers found a dramatic and steady increase in the number and proportion of entries attributable to parental drug use, from 14.53 percent in 2000 to 36.26 percent in 2017. Children entering care because of parental drug use were more likely to be 5 years or younger, white, and from the southern region of the United States compared with children entering care for other reasons. Acute Flaccid Myelitis Features Differ in Peak, Nonpeak Years "Policymakers must ensure that the needs of this new wave of children entering foster care because of parental drug use are being met [through] high-quality foster care interventions," the authors write. "These have been shown to mitigate some of the adverse effects of early childhood deprivation and disruptions in attachment." FDA Authorizes Marketing of Automated Insulin Dosing Controller

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Be InspiredBlog Picture This! Gallery 2016-07-19 Biography of Tom Thomson Inspiring articles and tips on art, artists, framing and life! Tom Thomson was born near Claremont, Ontario and grew up in Leith, near Owen Sound. Some biographers report that in 1899 he tried unsuccessfully to volunteer to fight in the Second Boer War, and instead went to a business college in Chatham and later in Seattle, Washington. In 1904 he returned to Canada, and in 1907 joined an artistic design firm in Toronto where many of the future members of the Group of Seven also worked. With his colleagues he often travelled around Canada, especially to the wilderness of Ontario, which was a major source of inspiration for Thomson. His first exhibition was in 1913. Beginning in 1914 he acted as a fire fighter and guide in Algonquin Park in Ontario. During the next three years he produced many of his most famous works, including “The Jack Pine and The West Wind.” He was employed as a graphic designer with Toronto’s Grip Ltd., an experience that honed his draughtsmanship. Although he began painting and drawing at an early age, it was only in 1912, when Thomson was well into his thirties, that he began painting seriously. His first trips to Algonquin Park inspired him to follow the lead of fellow artists in producing oil sketches of natural scenes on small, rectangular panels for easy portability while traveling. Between 1912 and his death in 1917, Thomson produced hundreds of these small sketches. Thomson disappeared during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park on July 8, 1917, and his body was discovered in the lake eight days later. The official cause of death was accidental drowning but there are still questions about how he actually died. There are many different rumours and theories that surround Thomson’s mysterious death. In September 1917 artists James E. H. MacDonald and John W. Beatty, assisted by area residents, erected a memorial cairn at Hayhurst Point on Canoe Lake, where Thomson died. Although the Group of Seven was not officially founded until after Thomson’s death, his work is sympathetic to that of group member’s A. Y. Jackson, Frederick Varley, and Arthur Lismer. These artists shared an appreciation for rugged, unkempt natural scenery, and all used broad brush strokes and a liberal application of paint to capture the stark beauty and vibrant colour of the Ontario landscape. The Art of Group of Seven About Group of Seven Inspiring articles and tips on art, artists, framing and life, on the blog! PLUS, receive: "7 Mistakes New Art Buyers Make and How to Avoid Them" Framing Stories Picture This Gallery Presents Donation to Wild North from Robert Bateman Evening Every Picture Tells a Story – 70 Year Old Military Keepsakes A Hole-in-One… Twice! – Picture Framing Golf Collage Picture This Artist Michael Dumas Wins Award – Best Outdoor Still Life Terry Isaac Internationally Acclaimed Wildlife Artist Passes Away What’s in a Rock? Why, a Bear of Course! – The Art of Stone Carving A Picture Framing Collage in Memory of Shawn Eastland – Featuring his Children’s Book “i Am I” The Perfect Gift – One-of-a-Kind Custom Framed Treasure Artist Guy Combes Receives Prestigious Award Masterpieces in Miniature Art Show – Small Art, Huge Show

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Books Calendar Local Books Calendar: authors’ events, signings Books Calendar Local Books Calendar: authors’ events, signings Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/1RQ8aZg Poughkeepsie Published 9:14 a.m. ET July 22, 2015 | Updated 6:48 p.m. ET July 22, 2015 Books Calendar(Photo: Chris Cusumano / Poughkeepsie Journal)Buy Photo — Merritt Bookstore, 57 Front St., Millbrook. 10:30 a.m. July 24, Tea party and celebration of 150 years of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” with a reading of the chapter, “The Mad Tea Party,” from this Lewis Carroll classic with author and photographer G.A. Mudge. This event will be accompanied by the photographs from Mudge’s latest publication, “Alice in Central Park: Statues in Wonderland,” a walking guide to Alice related sculptures and other sculptures in the park. 845-677-5857 Children’s writers group meets — Barnes & Noble, 2518 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie. 10 a.m. July 25, Meeting of Society of Children’s Writers. 845-485-2224. Author discussion and signing — Hammertown Barn, 6420 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck. 4 p.m. July 25, Priya Parma will discuss her book, “Vanessa and Her Sister.” Story of the inseparable bond between Virginia Woolf and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to destroy their family. Author will also appear at the Pine Plains store 12:30 p.m. July 26. 845-876-1450. Author presentation and signing — Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck. 7 p.m. July 25, Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment (writing as A.J. Rich) discuss “The Hand That Feeds You,” their novel of psychological suspense. 845-876-0500. Author discussion and signing — Grinnell Library, 2642 E. Main St., Wappingers Falls. 1 p.m. July 25, Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero will discuss her book, “Adopting Older Children.” She is a doctoral student at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. 845-297-3428. Singer performance and record signing — Kingston Barnes & Noble, 1177 Ulster Avenue, Kingston. 2-3 p.m. July 25, Kate Pierson from the B-52’s will be signing her vinyl edition of “Guitars and Microphones.” 845-336-0590. Actor/author discussion — Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St., Rhinecliff. 7 p.m. July 27, Mary Louise Wilson, Tony Award-winning actor, will talk with WAMC’s Joe Donahue about her new memoir, “My first hundred years in show business,” her passion for gardening, playwriting and her extensive career in film and on Broadway. 845-876-0500. Book group meets — Barnes & Noble, 2518 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie. Noon July 29, The Bag Lunch Group will discuss “The Light Between Oceans” by M.L. Stedman. 845-485-2224. Read or Share this story: http://pojonews.co/1RQ8aZg

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The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party Carol Swain Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party. Click here to shop for exclusive PragerU merch! Facts & Sources Which party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party? The Democratic Party Which of the following did the Democratic Party not do? Start the Civil War. Imposed segregation. Stop the spread of slavery. Perpetrated lynchings. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote, only passed because of _______. universal Republican support Abraham Lincoln’s assassination Vice President Andrew Johnson unprecedented bipartisanship Who founded the Ku Klux Klan? Gary Johnson, a Libertarian Ralph Nader, a member of the Green Party Richard Nixon, a Republican Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Democrat The only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats. Retake Quiz? SCORE 0/5 You Passed! Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, including abolishing slavery. The Democratic Party fought against the abolition of slavery, instigated the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, participated in and promoted lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the mid-20th century. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party, established to stop the spread of slavery into the new Western territories and ultimately abolish it altogether. WATCH: Political science professor Carol Swain on the Democratic Party’s legacy of racial discrimination. Related reading: “Abduction: How Liberalism Steals Our Children's Hearts And Minds” – Carol Swain The Ku Klux Klan was formed by southern Democrats to keep African Americans and Republicans out of political power. The KKK was an organization formed by southern Democrats in order to keep African Americans and Republicans out of political power. According to historian Dr. Eric Foner, “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” Related reading: “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda” – Angela McGlowan Which political party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the Ku Klux Klan, and imposed segregation? The Democratic Party. Related reading: “Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise” – Carol Swain Southern Democrats sought to block the influence of black voters after the Civil War. Democrats gerrymandered Congressional voting districts to minimize the influence of blacks, allowing Democrats to monopolize power at the state level. Inconvenient fact: More Republicans voted in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats. Southern Democrats attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. A total of 80% of Republicans in both houses of Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act. Only 60% of Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act. It was the Democratic Supreme Court justices who promoted slavery in the Dredd Scott decision. The Republican justices dissented. The Dred Scott v Sandford case challenged the then-status-quo that blacks could not be citizens and thus were not protected by constitutional rights. All seven of the Democratic justices voted to deny rights to blacks and promote the pro-slavery agenda in the Dred Scott v Sandford case, and both Republican justices dissented in favor of solidifying rights for blacks. The Ku Klux Klan operated as a tool for the Democratic Party in the post-Civil War south. Their enemy: Republican and black politicians. One of the goals of the KKK was to undermine and defeat the Republican Party. What did all the justices who voted to promote slavery in the Dredd Scott case have in common? They were all Democrats. When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? The Republicans? Or, the Democrats? Most people would probably say the Democrats. But this answer is incorrect. Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court. In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans. The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander-in-chief during that war was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln – the man who freed the slaves. Six days after the Confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. But Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order. Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. All three passed only because of universal Republican support. During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935. But after Reconstruction ended, when the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote. And how was all of this enforced? By terror -- much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest. As historian Eric Foner - himself a Democrat - notes: “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He re-segregated many federal agencies, and even screened the first movie ever played at the White House - the racist film “The Birth of a Nation,” originally entitled “The Clansman.” A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats. Eighty percent of Republicans in Congress supported the bill. Less than 70 percent of Democrats did. Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days, until Republicans mustered the few extra votes needed to break the logjam. And when all of their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was purported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, “I’ll have them n*****s voting Democrat for two hundred years.” So now, the Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing. Democrats falsely claim that the Republican Party is the villain, when in reality it’s the failed policies of the Democratic Party that have kept blacks down. Massive government welfare has decimated the black family. Opposition to school choice has kept them trapped in failing schools. Politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime. So, when you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party should come to mind? I’m Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, for Prager University.

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Erin Benning Prairie Post East Prairie Post West West e-Edition East e-Edition Tina, played by Eliza Switzer, tries on a pair of colourful socks in a scene from the Robert Munsch story Smelly Socks. It is one of seven fun stories in the Lyric Theatre's Christmas production of Munsch stories aimed at children of all ages. More Merry Munsch opens on Dec. 13 and there will be 12 performances over two weekends. Lyric Theatre brings more Robert Munsch stories to the stage Matthew Liebenberg The funny and imaginative stories of popular children’s author Robert Munsch will come alive on the Lyric Theatre stage for several performances over two weekends in the run-up to Christmas. More Merry Munsch is the second production in the Lyric Theatre's 2019-20 season of the Sparks in the Dark live theatre series. Last year’s inaugural Sparks in the Dark season included a production of six Munsch stories during the Christmas season that was very popular with audiences. The Lyric Theatre's Artistic Director Gordon McCall has adapted seven other stories for this new production, which will be perfect entertainment for families and those young at heart during this festive season. “This is family time of the year, and also the children are out of school,” he said. “It’s a beautiful experience to have with the family, and the show is short enough in its length that the attention span of children is well-served.” Almost the entire run of last year’s production of Munsch stories sold out, and McCall received positive responses from audience members. “One set of parents said they still read the Robert Munsch stories to their children and when they got to the stories that we put on the stage last year, the little kids got up and acted them out,” he recalled. “So it was an amazing, wonderful response to the stories and this is more of the same spirit, but they’re different stories. So it’s little bit different. We have a boat in the show, we have various other things, but it’s the world of Robert Munsch.” For McCall the appeal of these stories is a result of the author’s ability to understand the everyday experiences of children. “In this production one of the stories is Smelly Socks and we live that experience in our homes,” he said. “We have one that says Good Families Don’t and that’s about farts. Another is about going to a special restaurant with your grandmother on your birthday and having just an amazing experience, which involves ducks.” The Munsch stories also appeal to adults, because they might have heard them the first time when they were young or they have read them to their children. “So it spans generations,” he said. “This storyteller is universal and he’s got longevity. He will be with us forever.” McCall is responsible for adapting, designing and directing this production. The seven stories in More Merry Munsch will be very close to the original books and the author approved the adaptations. “We don’t get the rights to perform this unless he approves the adaptation,” McCall noted. “So he has approved the adaptation both years that we’ve done this. I stick very, very closely to the story, because I think they’re wonderful and I respect him and the writing so much. I don’t have a desire to move it elsewhere.” As director he has a lot of freedom to dramatize each story and to bring it to live on the stage, which adds excitement and even more appeal to the original story. “We’re telling the story literally,” he said. “If you listen to the show, it would be like you’re listening and having someone read it to you, but it would have an energy and an animation that it might not normally have. When you open your eyes, you’re seeing it come to life.” He selected the seven stories to provide several different experiences to audiences during the performance, but each one has that characteristic Robert Munsch touch. “That’s the uniformity of the experience,” he said. “Seven is a good number, because the stories are all five to eight minutes in length. So we end up under an hour and it’s got momentum for the children.” He directs and designs the production due to his extensive experience with live theatre, but also because of the small staff component at the Lyric Theatre. “We don’t have a staff of designers or the money to afford it,” he said. “So I’m happy to take on those tasks. If we had a much bigger operation, I wouldn’t take on all those tasks, but I’m lucky I have experience in all of those fields.” At the same time, he is using this production as a training opportunity. Blayne Anderson, a recent high school graduate, is assisting with sound and stage management. “The future for our theatre is to develop more people in our community, and then those tasks will become their tasks,” McCall said. Heather Christie, who acted in the first production of the current Sparks in the Dark season, is assisting with props and costumes. The cast members of More Merry Munsch are Joey Donnelly, Desiree Leonard, Verena Marsden, Dillon Reil, and Eliza Switzer. McCall did not feel the smaller size of the Lyric Theatre stage was a challenge, but rather an interesting way to approach this production. He compared it to building a jigsaw puzzle and figuring out where all the pieces will fit. “It triggers our imagination and saying why don’t we do it this way,” he explained. “Instead of having a clothesline, why don’t we just hold the socks up on a rope or why don’t we use the ladder for a rooftop. It’s a wonderful group experience of figuring out how to make some of these things work in a smaller space, and quite frankly, I love the compression that it brings to the stories and it will also stir the children’s imaginations to say ‘I could do that at home.’” There will be 12 performances of More Merry Munsch. Opening night is Dec. 13, when the show starts at 7 p.m. There will be performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Dec. 14, and afternoon performances at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Dec. 15. The Dec. 19 performances will be at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., and on Dec. 20 there will be an evening performance at 7 p.m. The Dec. 21 shows are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and the final two performances on Dec. 22 will be at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Doors will open 30 minutes before each show. Tickets are available at Pharmasave. Tickets are $20 each for adults $20.00 and $5 each for children (12 and under). 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PAST. LOEWE began as a cooperative of leather artisans in the center of Madrid in 1846. The German entrepreneur Enrique Loewe Roessberg consolidated the workshop under his name in 1872, creating one of the world’s first luxury houses. As LOEWE developed and expanded over the following century, a commitment to modernity emerged as a defining characteristic. In the 1950s and 1960s, LOEWE’s offices and stores in Spain became a benchmark for international design thanks to the distinctive architecture and interiors designed by Javier Carvajal. In 1970, artist Vicente Vela created the Anagram, the abstract symbol consisting of four intertwined Ls that has been stamped ever since on LOEWE’s products as a sign of their material and technical excellence. LOEWE’s first ready-to-wear clothing collection was launched in 1965, bringing fashion to the heart of the brand, and this was followed by the debut of the iconic Amazona bag in 1975. This was also the decade in which Loewe broke into the luxury perfume sector with its debut fragrance, L de Loewe. From that time onward, it has continued to demonstrate its prowess in this field with each new perfume creation. Emilio Valeros has been Loewe’s “nose” for over 20 years and has created some of the brand’s signature fragrances including Solo Loewe and Aura Loewe. The company was acquired by the leading luxury group LVMH in 1996. PRESENT. In October 2013, Jonathan Anderson became the brand’s Creative Director. Under his leadership, LOEWE has rebranded its heritage of 168 years of craftsmanship and innovation with a view to setting its sights on the FUTURE.

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Liz Johnson wins 2017 Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship Author: Matt GREEN BAY, Wis. - United States Bowling Congress Hall of Famer Liz Johnson of Deerfield, Illinois, once again confirmed her dominance on the Professional Women's Bowling Association Tour by climbing the stepladder to win the 2017 Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship. The 43-year-old right-hander opened the championship match Sunday at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley with six consecutive spares before striking on five of her last six shots to outdistance top seed Kelly Kulick of Union, New Jersey, 228-205. The $20,000 win marked the ninth major victory of Johnson's career and fourth since the return of the PWBA Tour in 2015. It also was the second time she's hoisted the trophy at the PWBA Players Championship (2001) and her second major win at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley, where she won the USBC Queens in 2015. "I can't believe this, I'm in awe right now," said Johnson, who was the runner-up to Colombia's Clara Guerrero at last year's Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship in Green Bay. "There's just something about this house I really like. It treats me well, and I'm incredibly grateful." Johnson's strategy all week in Green Bay included patience and focus on spare shooting, due to the challenge of the lane condition, which wasn't revealed until the live TV show was on the air. Spares kept her in the match against Kulick, a 40-year-old right-hander, until a ball change on the right lane late in the game earned her a momentum-shifting double. A washout conversion in the seventh frame of her semifinal match against Lindsay Boomershine of Perry, Utah, kept the game within reach. Johnson was able to fill 20 pins in the 10th frame to sneak by Boomershine, 181-178. This week's event was only the third tournament of the year for Boomershine, who had her first child, Aiden, in February and has been plagued by a knee injury. The 31-year-old right-hander, who had a runner-up finish on the PWBA Tour in 2016, led by 10 pins at the halfway point Sunday against Johnson but opened twice in the back half of the game to give the two-time reigning PWBA Player of the Year the chance to steal the win. Johnson started the day with five consecutive strikes before a 10 pin ended her run at perfection, but the string was enough to pull away from Malaysia's Siti Rahman on the way to a 227-212 victory. Rahman, a 26-year-old right-hander who was looking to become the first player from the talented Malaysian contingent to claim a PWBA Tour title this season, struck on three of her last four shots to keep the pressure on Johnson, but the hall of famer started her final frame with a strike to lock up the match. "Just getting to the show this week meant a lot because it was so tough, and the shot took me out of my comfort zone," Johnson said. "Once I got comfortable, it was about making the shots, staying down and not over-throwing it. Some shots weren't pretty, but they fell, and that's all that matters." After finishing 13th in the season-opening QubicaAMF PWBA Sonoma County Open, Johnson went on to qualify for the championship round in six of the next seven events, including five in a row, which is one shy of the PWBA Tour record. Johnson's run includes a win at the 2017 PWBA Storm Sacramento Open and a runner-up finish at the 2017 USBC Queens. Two of her championship-round appearances will come in the three TV shows being taped for delayed broadcast Sunday at The Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley. The trio of tapings will include the finals of the PWBA Wichita Open, Pepsi PWBA Lincoln Open and PWBA Greater Detroit Open, scheduled to air on July 4, 11 and 18, respectively. Johnson qualified for the finals of the Wichita Open and Lincoln Open, where she'll meet Kulick in the opening match. Rahman also qualified for the Wichita Open as the second seed. All 67 competitors at the 2017 Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship this week bowled 18 games of qualifying over two days to determine the 18 bowlers who advanced to round-robin match play. Total pinfall for 36 games, including 30 bonus pins for each win in match play, determined the four finalists for the live TV finals. All rounds of competition leading up to the stepladder finals of the 2017 Go Bowling PWBA Players Championship were broadcast on Xtra Frame, the exclusive online bowling channel for the Professional Bowlers Association. To subscribe to watch the action on Xtra Frame, visit XtraFrame.TV. Categories: Uncategorized, Tournaments, Players

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Sandra Edwards Gray Practice Area Specialties: Lawyer Sandra Edwards Gray Sandra Edwards Gray, Esquire Sandra Edwards Gray is a Texan and a graduate of Houston Baptist University. After graduating from college, she was a secondary mathematics teacher. While teaching, she attended graduate school on a part-time basis and earned a Master’s Degree in Education, with honors, from Temple University. Ms. Gray later attended and graduated from Villanova Law School, Villanova, Pennsylvania. While in law school, she won the Annual Client Counseling Competition and represented Villanova Law School at the Regional Competition. In addition, she was listed in Outstanding Young Women of America. She has been voted one of the top attorneys in Lancaster County. After graduating from law school, Ms. Gray served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Wayne G. Hummer, Jr. She joined Pyfer, Straub, Gray & Farhat, P.C. and is now a Shareholder and the Secretary of the Firm. In 1986, Ms. Gray was selected by the Judges of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas to serve as a Custody Conference Officer. She served the Court as a Custody Conference Officer, on a part-time basis, for ten years. Ms. Gray, one of the leading divorce attorneys in Lancaster, has served as a lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. In addition, she has spoken to numerous local groups in the areas of estate planning and matrimonial law. Ms. Gray is active in community affairs. She is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Dollars for Scholars of Lancaster County. In the past, she has been an active member of the Boards of Directors of the YWCA, the League of Women Voters, Project Runway, Lancaster Guidance Center, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, The Janus School, and is also a member of St. Leo’s Catholic Church. She has served as Chair of the Board of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Ms. Gray, having been considered one of the leading divorce lawyers in the area, became the first (and only) person in Lancaster County to be accepted as a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.** In her leisure time, Ms. Gray enjoys reading novels, watching old movies, and spending time with her family. **According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers website, Being a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers™ means: The attorney has demonstrated an active interest and competency in matrimonial law as evidenced by the fulfillment of criteria and standards as established by the AAML™ Board of Examiners and Board of Governors. The attorney has substantial experience and is able to handle complex matters relating to custody and support of children, property division and alimony or spousal support. The attorney is recognized by the bench and bar as a leading practitioner in the area of matrimonial law. The attorney has demonstrated substantial involvement in the matrimonial field and has endeavored to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matrimonial law.

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At Queenscourt we consider ourselves very fortunate to have local and national celebrities that have offered to help us in many ways. You may find them speaking at one of our events, hosting their own fundraisers or simply helping to promote our cause. We are very grateful for all that they do and the time and effort that they volunteer. Below is a short snippet of information about each one, you can find out more on their official websites which you can find links to below. Marcus Wareing was born and bred in Southport and went on to become one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs. Marcus began his career at the young age of 18 and has since gone on to be awarded several Michelin Stars, created some of London’s most iconic restaurants and starred in the hit BBC show Master Chef: The Professionals, as one of the show’s leading Judges. We really look forward to working with Marcus in the future; keep an eye out on our upcoming events as he may make an appearance! Twitter: @marcuswareing http://www.marcus-wareing.com/ David Lonsdale Having spent his early years in Southport, David trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London’s Barbican Centre. Since graduating he has worked extensively in theatre, film and television, most notably as the hapless David Stockwell in ITV’s long running drama Heartbeat, a character he played for nearly 18 years. Away from acting David has written for a number of publications; is a regular guest speaker and compere; and has made countless appearances at charity events across the country. David lives in Southport with his family and we offer our sincere thanks to David for all of his support and for agreeing to support Queenscourt in the future. http://www.davidlonsdale.co.uk/ Mark Lawrenson Birkdale resident Mark Lawrenson is a former professional footballer, a defender in the Liverpool and Ireland football teams of the 1980s. After a short career as a manager, he has since been a radio, television and internet pundit, making regular appearances on the BBC Match of the Day programme. A big believer in Charity, Mark has offered his help to several organisations across the North-West in recent years. His public appearances and fundraisers have made a real difference, raising money and making it possible for charities to reach a much wider audience with their message. We are delighted that Mark has agreed to join us at Queenscourt and very much look forward to working with him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lawrenson Want to become a Famous Friend? If you are a local or national celebrity who is passionate about supporting Queenscourt then we would love to hear from you, please email us or give us a call on 01704 544645 and ask for the Corporate Services Director.

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Lee Ann Womack vs. Chris Stapleton: "Either Way" Chris Stapleton just dropped his second record, From A Room: Volume One, and it has definitely lived up to all the hype surrounding the release. From start to finish, the nine song album is cohesive and focused, and highlights Stapleton's strengths both as a vocalist and a songwriter. When creating this record, the songwriter reached back into his vast catalog of songs instead of turning to more recent writes. One of those songs is "Either Way," a song that Lee Ann Womack recorded on her 2008 album Call Me Crazy. Comparing these songs seems like an impossible task, as both Womack and Stapleton are two of the most talented artists in the genre. But here are my thoughts on the interesting differences between the two recordings. Listen to both versions below. Stapleton's version is full acoustic, with all of the focus on his Grammy-winning vocals. The simple production allows the story to be the forefront, and that production choice echos the silence that he speaks about in the relationship, adding another level of emotion to the track. The rasp in his voice at the high notes in the chorus evoke pain and emotion in a way he never showcased on his debut record, Traveller, and it shakes you to the core. There's no mistaking: his version of this song is one of the best songs to come out of 2017 so far. Womack's version is at a faster tempo, and includes more production than Stapleton's does. The fuller production, along with background vocals from no other than Stapleton himself has a different effect: it adds a little less sadness and a little more acceptance than the pure grieving that can be found on Stapleton's version. ​But the most interesting difference between Stapleton & Womack's versions of this song is point of view. In country music, as Maren Morris recently brought attention ti in her article for Lenny Letter, women tend to be forced into two specific roles: a woman scorned or a woman falling into rom-com style love. But on this song, Womack is neither. Stapleton singing, "I won't love you either way" fits the outlaw, tough guy persona of many men in country music and music in general. But a woman saying that? That's new ground to cover, especially in country music. The verdict? Both of the versions are worth a thorough listen.

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Andy Holland Andy is our assistant concertmaster and joined us in November 2010 I knew someone, a viola player, who was one of the first members of the group, and he recommended it to me. I came to a few rehearsals and a concert. That was back in 2010, and I came to rehearsals and concerts very sporadically until a few years ago. I’m glad to be a regular member now. The West Village. It’s just so quiet and beautiful on so many of the blocks. The alto clef. I’m a viola player first and foremost, and there aren’t many instruments that use the alto clef at all. How long have you been playing viola? I’ve always been a viola player. It’s the instrument that I started on and it’s the instrument that I’ve always taken lessons on. It’s probably very rare for people who start on viola to play much violin—usually, it goes the other way! But I like the violin too and I really appreciate the very different experience that comes with playing an outer voice, instead of an inner voice, in orchestra and chamber music. I also generally feel that it’s easier to learn technique on than the viola. Even my viola teacher tends to agree with that. Question from Frederick: What characteristic of your favorite instrument that you like to play best describes your personality? And why? This is a neat question! I’ll answer from the perspective of playing the viola. For the most part, the further back we go into history, the less the viola was favored compared to its closest relatives, the violin and cello. There weren’t many solo works written for the viola by many of the major composers, and there probably aren’t even as many old violas around now as there are old violins and old cellos. The situation has improved for violists over the years. And I identify with the feeling of not being the center of attention, and maybe also of being enigmatic and even unusual, but hopefully able to express great beauty just the same.

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Jennifer Lawrence, Benedict Cumberbatch and the celebrities who hate social media We might love a celebrity selfie, but plenty of famous faces want nothing to do with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Pinterest By Ellie Walker-Arnott Tuesday, 27th May 2014 at 11:05 am Tweeting, posting, pinning, instagramming, tumblr-ing(?)… It’s not for everyone. And while plenty of our favourite celebrity faces use social media to publicise their latest role, promote a cause close to their heart, tell us what they had for lunch or share dubious semi-nude photos of themselves (James Franco, we are looking – very closely – at you) others eschew social media all together. Some stars just don’t get the obsession with it all, while others actively despise communicating online… As anyone who’s ever had dental work can appreciate, Emma Thompson really doesn’t want to join Twitter. “I’d rather have root canal treatment for the rest of my life than join Twitter,” Thompson told Vanity Fair recently, adding: “I can’t bear the thought of being connected all the time. God knows what it’s all doing to us.” And it seems Thompson’s issue isn’t confined to Twitter alone. Apparently “putting [her] head in the toilet and flushing it repeatedly would be a more cleansing experience” than Googling her own name. Thanks to his army of dedicated fans, the Sherlock star might be one of the most talked about people on Twitter, but he’s not planning on joining anytime soon. Why? Because he thinks he’d struggle with being concise. “Just listen to how much I talk. I’ve already talked over our time and tweeting is about being pithy,” the star said at Cheltenham Literature Festival. “I think tweeting would take so many hours of editing I’d be lost for doing my job.” Back in 2009 Knightley told the Telegraph just how much she hated social media, saying: “I hate the Internet. I find it dehumanizing to constantly check emails or social sites which have become so fashionable.” Having said that, she did briefly dabble in the Twittersphere last year, but deleted her account after just 12 hours saying it made her feel like “being in a school playground.” Twilight star Stewart has a slightly more serious reason for avoiding social networking. She’s worried that being on Twitter or Facebook will result in her dying. Yep, dying. Calling Twitter “scary” the star told TVNZ that: “I’m going to die because somebody is going to say where I am and somebody is going to kill me. Someone’s going to Twitter my location and then it’s going to be like, boom.” Hollywood royalty Clooney isn’t about to jump on the tweeting bandwagon either, but more because he’s worried about the effect it would have on his privacy – and his career. “If you’re famous, I don’t – for the life of me – I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter?” Clooney said to Esquire magazine. “First of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available… [But also] you’ve had two too many drinks and you’re watching TV and somebody pisses you off, and you go ‘Ehhhh’ and fight back… you wake up int he morning and your career is over.” For 24-year-old Radcliffe, aka The Boy Who Lived, Twitter spells (geddit) the end of a private life, too. Speaking to Sky News, the Harry Potter star said: “I don’t have Twitter and I don’t have Facebook and I think that makes things a lot easier. Because if you go on Twitter and tell everybody what you’re doing moment to moment and then claim you want a private life, then no one is going to take that request seriously.” Now you’d assume the man who officially owns the Oscar selfie that broke Twitter would be on board with all things viral and social media-esque. But you’d be wrong. The American Hustle star says he is “old fashioned”, adding: “If I know so much about you and you’re playing a character in a movie then that’s a lot of work I’m gonna have to do to forget who you are so that I can believe the character and therefore enjoy the movie.” There’s no denying her twitter account would probably be hilarious, but chances are we’re never going to get to see it. “I think you should have to get a license to use Twitter,” Tina Fey said on NBC. “Most people are so f***ing boring that they should shut up. Why do you need to say ‘Happy Birthday’ to another person in front of the whole world? Just email that person. Why do you have to be like, ‘Hey girl, I loved your outfit yesterday”? Just contact that person! You’re wasting the Internets… or something. It’s just so boring.” Fiennes has a more intellectual concern when it comes to social media. The 51-year-old actor is worried that modern language “is being eroded by a world of truncated sentences, soundbites, and Twitter.” “Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us,” he said at 2011 BFI Film Festival. Now we can’t quite imagine 007 updating his Facebook status, and it seems the actor who plays him can’t get his head around the social network either. “I am bloody not [on Facebook]. And I’m not on Twitter either… ‘Woke up this morning, had an egg’? What relevance is that to anyone? Social networking? Just call each other up and go to the pub and have a drink,” he told Seven magazine. That is a Twitter feed we’d REALLY like to see. Just imagine those photobombs. J-Law is unlikely to be joining the ranks of social media anytime soon, though. “Everybody was talking yesterday about Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr. It was really confusing me and overwhelming me. I literally started losing my breath,” the 23-year-old told The Daily Beast. She doesn’t think she’ll be able to catch up with the world of technology, adding: “What’s Pinterest? I don’t have it. I know by the time I get it, it’ll be something else. I bought a CD case less than a year ago.” His character in Sherlock might be a master blogger, but in real life Freeman’s not keen on social media. His reasons? “I don’t want my mug plastered all over the internet, thank you very much.” The star goes on to talk about the thousands of Sherlock filming pictures that find their way onto Twitter before the episodes air, telling Radio Times: “I’m not a huge fan of it. I don’t think technological advances like that are exactly progress really. “There is no deferred anything – no deferred gratification at all for anything, which I think is a shame.” Radio Times loves social media. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. The best celebrity photobombs Five things you may have missed from last night’s Golden Globes 2014 7 of the best Comic-Con moments Facebook gets emotional with new reaction buttons

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A scene in the Doctor Who Christmas special left “everyone in tears” – and it wasn’t Peter Capaldi’s regeneration Get the tissues ready – it's going to be emotional By Huw Fullerton Thursday, 30th November 2017 at 12:57 pm As we inch ever closer to the airing of this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special (that’s Christmas Day, unsurprisingly) fans are getting pretty emotional about the departure of current Doctor Peter Capaldi, who’s bowing out after four years at the Tardis controls to hand over to new Time Lord Jodie Whittaker. However, it’s now emerged that viewers might emerge from Twice Upon a Time red-eyed for reasons entirely unrelated to the Twelfth Doctor’s regeneration, with one of the episode’s most emotional moments apparently coming from a scene slightly earlier in the episode. An unexpected event in the Doctor Who Christmas special left David Bradley and Peter Capaldi “almost blubbing” Sherlock, Doctor Who and hours of BBC classics to stream for free on BBC iPlayer this Christmas What clues does this new Doctor Who picture hold about the Christmas special? At least, that’s the story according to Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, who went on the Doctor Who set in the last days of filming for a new radio documentary and discovered the whole crew were still a little shellshocked from a VERY emotional scene they’d just shot. “The day before there was a scene that they had to film,” Whiley told RadioTimes.com, “and everyone said EVERYONE was in tears. “Because of the poignancy of the scene that they were filming, which had less to do with the Doctor himself and more to do with the storyline. And everyone was in pieces. “And when you watch the Christmas Day episode, you’ll understand,” she went on. “It’s really very very clever, and very laced with emotion. It was less to do with the departure of the Doctor and more to do with the storyline. She concluded: “There were tears being shed everywhere.” Peter Capaldi and Jo Whiley on the set of Doctor Who (BBC, HF) Curiouser and curiouser… and now these new details have us wondering about something else. Could this mysterious non-regeneration-related scene be the same one that episode star David Bradley (taking over William Hartnell’s First Doctor role) said had both he and Peter Capaldi “blubbing” when they filmed it? “There’s an event towards the end of [the Christmas special] that happens and when it happened, well, we just did a take and neither Peter nor I expected it,” Bradley said at London Film and Comic-con in September. “There was no CGI involved, it was all happening and we were both almost blubbing by the time that the take ended. I can’t say, I’m not going to say, what it was but it was quite an event and we weren’t prepared for all the things that were going to be going on around us as we were doing our dialogue. “And as I say to you, we got quite lumpy. They’ve kept that out of the trailer but it takes it all to another dimension…” So watch out, Who fans – if you’re holding your crates of tissues and tear buckets for the Christmas special’s final few minutes, you might want to break some out early to avoid an unexpected emotional sucker-punch earlier in the episode. There’s only so many tears one body can give, after all. Jo Whiley’s Access All Areas Doctor Who special airs on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday 21st December from 8.00pm to 10.00pm Susan Calman explains why she unfollowed Strictly’s Twitter account John Barrowman on Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor: “There’s no Gallifreyan law that says it has to be a man” All about Doctor Who

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Review: Quench the Smoldering Wick ​A young New Orleans novelist Gordon Peter Wilson has published a work Quench the Smoldering Wick that impresses me by its satirical humor and literary fluency. One might have expected a novel of this quality to be put out by a first-rate commercial press, but this may not be possible in today’s Politically Correct publishing industry. Wilson takes liberties with all kinds of sacred cows, a nouveaux riche Jewish business tycoon with an inappropriately young mistress, an unhinged black revolutionary, upscale WASPs (with ancestors, not relatives) who patronize fashionable leftist causes, and a young female do-gooder from a Western Pennsylvania rustbelt town. Although some of these types might pop up in a novel by Philip Roth or Tom Wolfe, it may be harder for a young novelist nowadays to get away with such humor. Even if he succeeded in finding a suitable publisher, instead of having to self-publish, he would likely never be invited to speak at a “book event,” hosted by authorized liberals and conservatives. Without giving too much of the plot way, which unfold entirely in New Orleans, I may be permitted to repeat some of the details offered by advertisements. The protagonist of sorts is Shale Himmel (quondam Himmelfarb), a food industry tycoon and the owner of the swanky Watercress Hotel in downtown New Orleans. Jupiter Mingo (this seems to be an assumed name) is a black dishwasher at the Watercress and as things turn out, a violent adversary of what he perceives as “systematic” white racism. His girlfriend through most of the novel is Gretchen Sobieski, a naïve comely social justice warrior from a Polish Catholic background and an impoverished Northern town. Mansuel Williams Blackshear is the vain young patrician, who helps himself to Shale’s mistress, although both of them land up being shot at the Watercress, when Jupiter decides to take out his racial resentment at the end of the novel. Wilson depicts all of his main characters as playing social roles that betray their inauthentic selves. Shale is a self-conscious Ostjude (Eastern European Jew), who no matter how hard he works to rise socially, always imagines himself to be snubbed by the long established German Jewish elite of New Orleans. It was for me impossible to read Wilson’s perceptive characterization of Shale without thinking of the neoconservative “policy advisors” I’ve known. The resemblance is truly remarkable. Gretchen is basically what she is, a Polish Catholic girl from Western Pennsylvania who is assuming the role of social justice warrior. She is delighted to make love to a black revolutionary, as integral to her assumed identity, but only at the end does she realize how psychopathic her lover is. Jupiter is also assuming a role, which lifts him out of his otherwise dismal existence as a very dark black living on the edge of society. Like Shale, his boss at the Watercress, he is full of resentment against those higher up in his own group, in his case, lighter-skinned blacks with French Creole blood. These blacks have not only snubbed him but represent the intermediate command at the hotel where he is destined to perform lowly menial tasks. Although elements of this novel remind one of Wolfe’s Bonfire of Vanities, the conclusion is much darker. The book ends not in racial reconciliation, but in a blood bath that the reader sees coming by the last third of this novel. One wonders whether, as Wilson explains at the beginning, this is only “a work of fiction.” The author may be offering a not very subtle prediction of the direction in which both his native city and the country are moving. Brilliant review Van Gallinghouse Paul Gottfried nailed the review. One would hope that the “young New Orleans novelist” is deep into his next work of art. Thomas Bonner, Jr. An interesting critical treatment of an intriguing novel. Written in the spirit of comedic satire like John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces, Quench the Smoldering Wick also has dystopian elements and insider perspectives of contemporary and historical life in New Orleans, especially its perspectives on the city's Jews. Often I felt as if I were reading a roman a clef, much like William Faulkner's novel Mosquitoes. As a native New Orleanian, I kept being surprised by connections among people and places. The strongest accomplishments in technique are in the first two/thirds. The writer's extended contextual details sometimes get in the way of the psychological development of characters and the immediacy of the narrative. I, however, had a hard time putting the novel down during its reading. Paul Gottfried is the president of the H.L. Mencken Club, a prolific author and social critic, and emeritus professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College

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The Ferrari Monza SP1 Is a Wild 812-Based Speedster The Monza SP1 is a single-seater, while the SP2 variant lets two to enjoy Ferrari's most powerful V12 ever. By Máté Petrány Named after Ferrari's one-off 'Special Projects' division and inspired by such racing hits as the 250 Testarossa and the 750 Monza, the Monza SP1 and SP2 speedsters debuted at the brand's so-called Capital Markets Day. There, after looking at the new barchetta, investors could learn about Ferrari's plans past Sergio Marchionne, including a new mid-engined car positioned above the 488, a new V6 engine, hybrids, EVs, and Ferrari's first SUV. The Monza SP1 and SP2 are based on the most radical GT on the market, the 812 Superfast. Wrapped in carbon fiber and carrying much less weight, logic dictates that these speedsters should offer a driving experience only the complete lack of windshields can provide. And a naturally-aspirated V12, of course. That naturally aspirated V12 is even more powerful. In fact, with 798 horsepower and 530 pound-feet of torque, it's the most powerful V12 Ferrari has ever produced. Ferrari claims it'll hit 62 in 2.9 seconds and 124 in 7.9. It's easily one of the most radical designs for a modern production car, with tiny doors that flip up and a single or two seat layout, depending on if you have a friend who likes to go places with you. It's most reminiscent of the Mercedes SLR McLaren Stirling Moss, a speedster version of the big Mercedes super GT car. That derivative was never sold in the US. The Monza will be sold in the US, but Ferrari has confirmed that it'll be limited to track use only and will not be road legal. You might notice that there's no windshield. It has something Ferrari is calling the Virtual Windshield, which works to deviate airflow around the driver. It's a cool solution to keep the minimalist styling, but you'll likely still want to at least wear eye protection when driving the car. The Monza is part of Ferrari's new limited collection of special cars, called the Icona series. It's the first entry in the new series, but we'll likely see more and more over the coming years. We don't know the price on the Monza, but we're willing to guess it's not less expensive than an 812Superfast.

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Chemical leak from US Steel plant closes beaches, parks near Lake Michigan FILE PHOTO © Colin Braley © Reuters Federal authorities say a US Steel facility in Portage, Indiana, leaked an unknown amount of a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a canal located 100 yards from Lake Michigan. On Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement that they have been conducting “intensive water sampling” of Lake Michigan after a US Steel Corporation facility discharged wastewater containing hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium-6) into Burns Waterway. The EPA said their tests have “not detected hexavalent chromium from the spill in Lake Michigan.” US Steel says the spill was caused by a pipe failure that caused the chemical to flow into the wrong wastewater treatment plant at the complex, according to the Associated Press. In a statement, US Steel said, “all production processes were shut down; and additional steps to mitigate the impact are being taken. These steps include the isolation and repair of the damaged pipe, recovery of material, and the addition of a water treatment compound,” according to the Times of Northwest Indiana. In response, Indiana American Water in Ogden Dunes, the nearest municipal water source, shut down its water intake from Lake Michigan and switched to a reserve water supply “as a precautionary measure.” While they say they have not detected any hexavalent chromium in their stored water, the plant will be closed until “additional data and water testing results confirm there is no threat to the company’s source water at this location.” The National Park Service (NPS) has also closed four beaches in the area of the spill “as a precaution to protect the health of park visitors,” warning that people and pets “should have no contact with the water of Lake Michigan or Burns Waterway.” Save the Dunes, an environmental protection group in Indiana, is also warning people from coming into direct contact with the chemical, which they say is “the same carcinogenic chemical that appeared in the 2000 biographical film, 'Erin Brockovich.'" “It is known for creating reversible and irreversible skin lesions if in direct contact,” the group said in their statement. Aerial footage of the tributary shows a large dark area that appears to be moving into the lake, but the EPA says that's sediment, not the chemical, according to NBC News. “You’re really looking at years – potentially decades of contamination of chromium now out into the environment, where wildlife and people can be in contact,” Jennifer Sass, the senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told NBC. “It’s going to stay in the soil. It’s going to stay in the water.” According to the EPA, the Great Lakes are the second largest source of fresh surface water in the world, behind the polar ice caps. Together, they hold 22 percent of the world’s fresh water supply. Lake Michigan alone is a primary source of drinking water for more than 6 million people. Congressman Fred Upton (R-Michigan) said action must be taken to clean up the spill, calling it “an all-hands-on-deck effort” in a press release. “If there is one thing that unites us it’s the need to protect our Great Lakes. Any chemical spill so close to Lake Michigan is cause for great concern. As we’ve seen with BP and Flint before, we must ensure clean water for everyone,” Upton said in a press release.

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Inquest records open verdict after death of man in Limerick road crash Updated / Wednesday, 4 Dec 2019 17:01 Patrick O'Reilly was killed on 24 February 2015 By Cathy Halloran Mid West Correspondent The family of a 73-year-old man who died instantly when a car crashed into him outside Limerick four years ago, have said the justice system has failed to help them get answers about what happened to their father. The family of Patrick O'Reilly from Clarina in Limerick was speaking after an inquest into his death recorded an open verdict. He died on the morning of 24 February 2015 moments after he had left his two grandchildren to school at Ballybrown in Co Limerick. He was killed instantly when another car, driven by 51-year-old German national, Hans Schnottalla who also lived in the locality, crashed into his car. A number of witnesses told the inquest today that they saw Mr Schonottalla driving at speed on the incorrect side of the road at the time of the crash. The victim died instantly from multiple head and chest injuries. Mr Schnottalla left the scene of the collision, leaving his young son strapped and injured in the back of the car. He was subsequently arrested and charged with dangerous driving causing the death of Mr O'Reilly. But he was found not guilty on the grounds of insanity, and committed to the Central Mental Hospital. There was evidence at his trial that he was suffering from an acute psychotic episode at the time of the collision, and had not been taking his medication. Members of Patrick O'Reilly's family Mr Schnottalla's wife Annette Langenbacher, who did not attend the inquest but whose statement was read out, said her husband suffered from a mental health condition. She had asked him several times leading up to the accident to take his medication. She said he was acting confused that morning, but said he was ok to drive their son to school. Francis Reilly, son of the victim, said today they still had so many unanswered questions about what happened to their father and why. They appealed to Coroner John McNamara not to record a verdict of accidental death and to deliver an open verdict given the doubts they had. The Coroner said he did not want to add to the family's suffering or upset and acceded to their request to record an open verdict. Following the inquest Francis O'Reilly said they had been disappointed with the justice system and that it had failed them "miserably". After a trial and an inquest they still had no answers, he said. More by Cathy Halloran Design team selected for Limerick city centre development 'masterplan' Business | 10 Jan Arrest made in connection with 2017 murder of Rose Hanrahan Munster | 28 Dec 19 Reflections on stories from the midwest - 2019 2019 in Review | 26 Dec 19

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SANS10400 are the Building regulations in South Africa, and both international and national standards, are fundamental to successful building and construction projects, both big and small. Building Regulations (NBR) Introduction Why National Building Regulations The PAJA: A Law to Protect Your Rights Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act House Plan Submissions Municipality Contact Planning and Building By-Law Definitions Zoning Schemes Cape Town Zoning Scheme Town Planning Scheme – JHB Tshwane Town Planning Scheme 2008 National Building Regulations Glossary Town Planning Definitions Environmental A to Z National Building Regulations (SA) Construction Laws & SANS 10400 Building Regulations Section 1 General Principles & Requirements-Part A Structural Design-Part B Dimensions-Part C Public Safety-Part D Demolition Work-Part E Site Operations-Part F Excavations-Part G Foundations-Part H Tree Damage to Walls & Foundations – SANS10400-H Annex-D Floors-Part J Walls-Part K Roofs Part-L Stairways-Part M Glazing-Part N Lighting and Ventilation-Part O Drainage-Part P Non-Water-Borne Sanitary Disposal-Part Q Stormwater Disposal-Part R Facilities for Disabled People-Part S Fire Protection-Part T Refuse Disposal-Part U Space Heating-Part V Fire Installation-Part W Energy Usage & Sustainability (SANS 10400X & XA) Fenestration Calculations Construction Elements Concrete Mixes by Weight and Volume Concrete Slab Concrete in Cold Weather Glass and Glazing as a Construction Element Anchor Roof Structure Thatch Roofs and Lightning A Guide to SANS 10400XA Facilities for Disabled Persons NHBRC National Home Builders Registration Council – NHBRC About The NHBRC NHBRC Warranty Scheme Review Owner Builder Requirements – NHBRC NHBRC Technical Requirements Review NHBRC – Q&A’s NHBRC Fees NHBRC Suspends Fees Included in PA003 What Is the SABS? SABS Contact Additions & Alterations House Without Approved Plans Plan Your Bathroom Decorative Concrete Floors Electric Fences Rules & Regulations Is This Electric Fence Legal and Compliant? A Garden Structure Plans & Minor Building Work Build a Pergola DIY Plumbing-What is Legal. The Plumbing Saga Continues How to Replace a Tap Mixer Cartridge Owner building Pros and Cons of Owner Building Home Building Definitions A Competent Person Be Your Own Project Manager Classic Film Clip on How to Build a House The Dutch are Forging Ahead With 3D Printed Houses Alternate Building Technologies A Dune House Building contraventions Stormwater disposal Boundary Lines & Walls Boundary Lines,Walls & Fences Boundary Walls and Fences Masonry Arches Landscaping Part 1 Reduce Your Energy Costs by 90% Consumers Pay For Fresh Air On Their Water Bills New Electric Fence Law Implications of Non-Compliant Electric Fencing and Outdated Certificates of Compliance Did you Know the NHBRC Can Send You to Jail? Nkandla – At What Cost? Building Stopped on Non-Compliant Site After Complaints City of Cape Town Planning Joins Digital Age Illegal Building Leads to Chaos Councils Must be Ruthless with Unsafe Buildings Building Collapses Contractors All Risk-Insurance Policy Explained Detect Pipes and Cables Engineers’ Specs Are Vital Balustrade Installation Are High Ceilings a Waste of Money? Download Regulations How to Register to Download Books on Building Home » Building » Owner building » Environmental A to Z An A to Z list of Environmental phrases and words Thanks to the City of Cape Town for providing the basis for this list to which we have added more entries. We will expand the list as and when we find more interesting and useful words and phrases. There is a link to the City of Cape Town website at the end of this list. Acid Rain Polluted air from factories and power stations often has sulphur dioxide in it. When this combines with rainwater, you get acid rain. Acid rain damages plants and buildings, and can affect your health. Aesthetic Having a sense of the beautiful or characterized by a love of beauty. Afforestation The act or process of establishing a forest, especially on land not previously forested. Agenda 21 The international policy agreed on at the Rio Conference in 1992. Under Agenda 21, countries agreed to work towards sustainable social, economic and environmental development. Agricultural pollution Farming wastes, including runoff and leaching of pesticides and fertilizers; erosion and dust from plowing; improper disposal of animal manure and carcasses; crop residues, and debris. Agricultural waste Poultry and livestock manure, and residual materials in liquid or solid form generated from the production and marketing of poultry, livestock, furbearing animals and their products. This also includes grain, vegetable and fruit harvest waste. Air pollution events The days when air pollution levels go over the limits set in recommended guidelines. Alien species Plants and animals, which do not occur naturally in an area – they are brought in by humans. Alien plants often force indigenous species out of the area. Rooikrans is a good example of alien species in the Cape. Alternative energy sources Also called “renewable sources of energy” because these sources, such as the sun and wind, can never be exhausted. Unlike energy generated from fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil (which can be exhausted), they do not lead to high concentrations of harmful gases in the atmosphere. Anthropogenic Resulting from the presence or activities of humans. Aquatic ecosystem An ecosystem that provides a habitat for aquatic plants and animals which also sustains aquatic ecological processes. Aquifer
Rock formations under the ground that carry water – this water can be recovered and used for washing and cooking. Arable land
Land that is fertile enough for you to plant on and farm. Assessment A study to carefully check something.
>> See Environmental Impact Assessment. Atmosphere
The air surrounding the Earth, described as a series of layers of different characteristics. The atmosphere is composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen with traces of carbon dioxide, water vapour and other gases, acts as a buffer between Earth and the sun. Audit
A way of measuring how well something is working. >> See Environmental audit. Best Practicable Environmental Option
The option that provides the most benefits or results with the least damage to the environment as a whole at a cost acceptable to society in the short- and long term. Biodegradable
The ability of a substance to be broken down physically and/or chemically by micro organisms. Biodiversity The rich variety of plants and animals that live in their own environment. Fynbos is a good example of rich biodiversity in the Cape. Biome A major living unit consisting of plant and animal communities having similarities in form and environmental conditions, but not including the non-living (abiotic) portion of the environment. Biophysical environment The part of the environment which did not originate with and is not dependent on human activities (e.g. biological, physical and chemical objects and processes). Bioremediation The use of living organisms (e.g. bacteria) to clean up oil spills or remove other pollutants from soil, water and wastewater. Biosphere Part of the Earth system in which life can exist. Biota The living organisms (animals and plants) in an area. Brownfields Abandoned or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental pollution. Brown haze Air pollution caused by traffic and factories. Part of brown haze is smog, which forms when water vapour mixes with pollution particles in the air. You can often see brown haze over Cape Town in winter. Built environment Physical surroundings created by human activity, e.g. buildings, houses, roads, bridges and harbours. Themes that form part of the built environment are urbanisation, infrastructure, transport, energy and waste. Capacity Building The improvement of an organisation’s or community’s ability to perform its tasks effectively and confidently. It may include skills training, organisational development and financial resources. Carrying capacity The maximum number of users that can be supported by a resource, e.g. the maximum number of cattle that can feed on one farm. Catchment Area of land that collects rainwater into a river or stream, which then carries the water to a lake or the sea. Catchment management Controlling and protecting catchment areas – areas of land that collect rain water into a river or stream, which then carries the water to a lake, dam or the sea. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) A family of chemicals commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators as coolants and also as solvents and aerosol propellants. CFC’s drift into the upper atmosphere where their chlorine components destroy ozone. City of Cape Town (CCT) The local authority that provides municipal services to the people of Cape Town (established in December 2000). The six previous municipalities of Blaauwberg, Cape Town, Helderberg, Oostenberg, South Peninsula and Tygerberg, along with the Cape Metropolitan Council, are now part of the new City of Cape Town (also called “the Unicity”). Climate change A change which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere. The build-up of manmade gases in the atmosphere trap the suns heat, causing changes in weather patterns on a global scale. The effects include changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, potential droughts, habitat loss and heat stress. Coliform bacteria Bacteria that are usually found in animal faeces and sewage, and are indicators of the quality of water. They are not pathogenic (disease-causing), but are indicators of the possible presence of pathogens. Commercial waste All solid waste from businesses. This category includes, but is not limited to, solid waste originating in stores, markets, office buildings, restaurants, shopping centres and theatres. Community-based organisation (CBOs) Groups based within communities that are involved in support and developmental work at a local level. Compost Decomposed organic material that is produced when bacteria/earthworms in soil break down garbage and biodegradable trash, making organic fertiliser. Congestion The daily build-up of heavy traffic that blocks the roads. Conservation Protecting, using and saving resources wisely, especially the biodiversity found in an area. Consumption Using something, e.g. by eating or burning. Contamination Polluting or making something impure. Crime rate The number of crimes committed for every 100 000 people in a year. Data Information, statistics and records used to update Sustainability Reports. Deforestation Destroying forests and woodlands, leading to climate changes, the death of animals and soil erosion. Degradation The lowering of the quality of the environment through human activities, e.g. river degradation, soil degradation. Desalination The removal, using any of several processes, of excess salt and other minerals from water in order to obtain fresh water suitable for animal consumption or irrigation, and if almost all of the salt is removed, for human consumption, sometimes producing table salt as a by-product. Desertification The process by which an area or region becomes more arid through loss of soil and vegetation. Development The process of changing something so that it moves forward, improves or grows. >> See Economic development and Environmental development. Disposal The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into the environment (land, surface water, groundwater and air). Dump A land site where wastes are discarded in a disorderly or haphazard fashion without regard to protecting the environment. Ecology The scientific study of the relationship between living things (animals, plants and humans) and their environment. Economic development Developing the economy of a region or country, e.g. expanding economic activities, improving work skills, creating jobs. Economic Development Strategy An approach to guide local government actions to promote global competitiveness and reduce poverty by co- ordinating and integrating a range of economic activities across the City of Cape Town. Ecosystem A system involving the relationships and interactions between plants, animals and the non-living environment. Ecotourism Planning and managing tourism in a way that is sensitive to the natural environment. Ecotourism also involves helping the natural environment to be sustained by the economic benefits of tourist activities, e.g. camping facilities, hiking, horse trails, and game-watching. Effluent Liquid released as waste from sewage and industrial plants. Emissions Discharging or sending out of substances or fluids, e.g. car fumes. Endangered species Animals, plants, birds, fish, or other living organisms threatened with extinction by manmade or natural changes in the environment. Endemic species Plants and animals that are found nowhere else in the world. Environment Our surroundings, including living and non-living elements, e.g. land, soil, plants, animals, air, water and humans. The environment also refers to our built, social and economic surroundings, and our effect on our surroundings. Environmental To do with the environment. Environmental audit A detailed assessment to check if an organisation is following the law, its environmental policies and its Environmental Management System (EMS). The results of the audit help the organisation to improve its environmental policies and management system. Environmental development Taking steps to develop and improve the environment by carrying out responsible environmental policies. Environmental equity Equal protection of people, groups and communities from environmental hazards. Environmental governance Government’s present and future duty to protect the environment through things like monitoring, control, management and making laws. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) A scientific study of the likely effect on the environment of proposed activities or development. EIAs help bodies like local authorities to decide if they should accept proposals, e.g. to develop a piece of land for housing. Environmental management Making sure that environmental concerns are included in all stages of development, so that development is sustainable. Environmental Management Systems (EMS) The structures, plans and processes that are developed to manage the environment in an area. Environmental policy Guidelines and rules for managing and protecting the environment. >> See Integrated Metropolitan Environmental Policy. Environmental sustainability Maintaining the environment in a responsible way to keep it healthy for future generations. Estuaries The widening channels of rivers as they near the sea. Eutrophication The process whereby nutrients (e.g. phosphates or nitrates) accumulate in a body of water. Event greening Hosting events or associated services, in such a way that have minimal effect on the environment and maximum benefit to the people. Faecal Referring to body waste, e.g. faecal coliform bacteria found in water. Faecal coliforms These are a sub-group of coliform bacteria and are more accurate indicators of faecal pollution due to their growth at high temperatures. Fauna Animal life in an area. Floodplains Flat area next to rivers, made up of soils deposited during flooding. Flora Plant life in an area. Formal sector Part of the economy where people are employed by government, industries and companies. Fossil fuels Non-reusable and decayed organic material that can be burned or consumed to produce energy e.g. oil, natural gas and coal. Fynbos Low-growing and evergreen vegetation found only in the South Western Cape. Fynbos is known for its rich biodiversity. Geomorphology The study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms. Global competitiveness The ability of an area to attract foreign and local investment and to sell goods and services internationally. Globalisation The process of becoming part of the world economy. Global warming The noticeable increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. An increase in global temperatures can in turn cause other changes, including a rising sea level and changes in the amount and pattern of rainfall. These changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes and tornados. The accepted term used now is “climate change” which includes global warming. Governance The system and manner used to govern an area or issue, e.g. environmental governance. Greenfields Sections of undeveloped land, either currently used for agriculture or just left to nature. Greenhouse effect The gradual increase in the temperature of the earth, caused by the sun’s rays reaching the surface of the earth and being trapped by pollution in the air. Greenhouse gas A gaseous component of the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse effect. Grey water Any water that has already been used and has the potential for reuse without treatment. Groundwater Water found underground, typically supplying wells, boreholes and springs. Habitat The physical environment that is home to plants and animals in an area, and where they live, feed and reproduce Hazardous waste Waste that is a threat to the well-being of people, plants and animals, e.g. hazardous waste from factories, detergents, pesticides and vehicles. Heavy metal A common hazardous waste; can damage organisms at a low concentration and tends to accumulate in the food chain. Herbicide A pesticide designed to control or kill plants, weeds or grasses. Almost 70% of all pesticides used by farmers are herbicides. These chemicals have wide-ranging effects on non-target species (other than those the pesticide is meant to control). Hydrology The properties, distribution and circulation of water on Earth. Indicator A mark or a measure that helps you to know if you are succeeding in reaching your goals. Indicators are often used in a State of Environment Report to measure environmental quality and changes. Indigenous species Plants and animals that are naturally found in an area. Informal sector Part of the economy where people are self-employed and earn a living through activities such as street- trading. Informal settlement Houses (often of a temporary nature) erected on land of which the majority have not formally been proclaimed and serviced for residential use. Infrastructure The network of facilities and services that are needed for economic activities, e.g. roads, electricity, water, and sewerage treatment. Integrated Mixing or combining all useful information and factors into a joint or unified whole. >> See Integrated Environmental Management. Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) The policy of managing catchments by including all important information, factors and stakeholders that can affect the environment in the catchment. Integrated Development Plan (IDP) A plan for development of the City of Cape Town that considers and combines all important elements and factors, e.g. land use planning, economic development, public investment and the monitoring of performance. Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) A way of managing the environment by including environmental factors in all stages of development. This includes thinking about physical, social, cultural and economic factors, and consulting with all the people affected by the proposed developments. Integrated Metropolitan Environmental Policy (IMEP) The environmental policy developed for the City of Cape Town. The IMEP is a good example of Integrated Environmental Management. Kelvin Scale An absolute scale of temperature in which each degree equals one kelvin. Water freezes at 273.15 K and boils at 373.15 K. Kibble An iron bucket used in wells or mines for hoisting water, ore, or refuse to the surface. Kilowatt A unit of power equal to 1000 watts. Land degradation Reduction in capacity of the soil or vegetation to support life, through the damage to physical, chemical or biological properties, contributing to an unsustainable ecological system. Landfills / Landfill site Places like quarries and mines, used for disposing household and industrial waste, and hazardous waste. Landscape The patterns and structure of a specific geographic area or place, including its natural, built and socio- economic environments. Land use The use of land for human activities, e.g. residential, commercial, industrial use. Local Agenda 21 Local government projects to carry out sustainable development under Agenda 21. This charter developed out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio, Brazil in 1992. Mariculture Growing sea-plants and animals in their natural environment in the sea or on land-based sea farms. Marine Of the sea, or to do with the sea. Marine Protected Area (MPA) An area where some types of fish or plants are protected. Median concentration Average amount of water quality measurements like nitrogen and phosphates found in a quantity of measured water. Metropolitan Of or to do with a large town or city, e.g. metropolitan government Metropolitan Open Space System (MOSS) A planned network to ensure open spaces in cities and towns to facilitate conservation, agriculture and recreational and cultural enjoyment. Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework (MSDF) The overall plan to guide what kinds of physical developments are allowed in the City of Cape Town, and where these should be positioned, e.g. housing, transport and social services developments. Mixed land use Mixed land use refers to a combination of land uses such as a mixture of commercial, industrial, retail, entertainment and institutional uses. National park Land kept for protecting plants, animals and scenery, and for human enjoyment. In the City of Cape Town, the Table Mountain National Park includes Table Mountain and other mountains and wetlands ending at Cape Point. Natural environment Our physical surroundings, including plants and animals, when they are unspoiled by human activities. Themes that form part of the natural environment are: air quality, inland waters, coastal waters and biodiversity. Natural heritage site A site of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic, scientific or conservation point of view which encompass natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations. This also includes precisely delineated areas which provide a habitat for threatened species of animals or plants. Natural resource Any resource provided by the biophysical environment. Network A system of things that are all connected and dependent on each other, e.g. roads, telephone lines. 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Coast Lines: Jan. 12, 2011 PUBLISHED: January 12, 2011 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 11, 2018 at 12:00 am Farr to host town hall meeting Rep. Sam Farr will host a town hall meeting 6-7 p.m. Thursday in Santa Cruz to remember those killed and injured during the Tucson, Ariz., shooting over the weekend, as well as to discuss constituent concerns. Among the six killed was UC Santa Cruz graduate Gabriel Zimmerman. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head, remains hospitalized. Santa Cruz police Capt. Steve Clark said police officers will be present, as is normal procedure whenever an elected representative is in town. “They typically let us know when they come to town, and we typically have somebody present for security purposes and for information,” he said. The meeting will be at First Congregational Church, 900 High St. For information, call 429-1976. Pain seminar Friday at Dominican Dominican Hospital physical therapists and pharmacist will discuss the latest treatment and medication options for joint pain 1-2 p.m. Friday at the hospital”s Education Center at 1555 Soquel Drive. The free seminar does not require registration. For information, call 462-7706. Gas price increase slows A drop in demand for gasoline has slowed the increase in pump prices, according to AAA Northern California. The price in Santa Cruz was $3.30 per gallon, up 8 cents from Dec. 14. The statewide average is $3.35 per gallon, up 9 cents, while the national average price is $3.09, up 11 cents. A SpendingPulse report showed demand down 12.5 percent for the final week of 2010, dropping to 8.4 million barrels per day, the lowest since Sept. 9, 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. AAA Northern California spokesman Matt Skryja attributed the drop in demand nationwide to commuters taking the holidays off and weather hampering road travel in the East Coast. Angelou reschedules visit Celebrated poet, author and civil rights figure Maya Angelou has pushed back her scheduled date to speak in Santa Cruz from Feb. 12 to March 18. Angelou was one of 15 individuals named last week as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation”s highest civilian honor. She rescheduled her Santa Cruz date to take part in the medal ceremony in Washington, D.C., hosted by President Obama. Tickets purchased for the Feb. 12 date will be honored on March 18 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. They may also be returned to the Civic box office for a refund no later than Feb. 12. For information, call 423-7970 or go to www.pulseproductions.net. MLK to be celebrated Sunday Since the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 43 years ago, “We Shall Overcome” has become the anthem of civil right movements throughout the world. A service, at 10.45 a.m. Jan. 16, will be held at the United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz, 250 California St., to honor the memory and legacy of King and to support Palestinian Fair Trade Association actions. The service also will feature a presentation of photos of the civil rights movement by local photographer Bob Fitch. Science talk focuses on squid Not so many years ago, large carnivorous invertebrates known as giant squid invaded the Monterey Bay, eating Pacific hake, rockfish and market squid, all important fisheries in California. Are they staying? Breeding? Dangerous? Join squid expert Danna Staaf of Hopkins Marine Station and Stanford University in a public lecture at the Seymour Center at 1 p.m. Sunday. She will attempt to answer these questions, and discuss how the changes affect the marine environment. Staaf”s lecture, “Straight Talk about Jumbo Squid: The Life History and Movements of the Jumbo/Humboldt Squid,” is part of the Science Sunday lecture series at the Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory. The event is free with paid admission or membership. Fundraiser for community groups A fundraiser to benefit several community groups will be today from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Surfrider Cafe, 353 Moore St., Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz High School Interact Club is sponsoring the event that will raise money for Second Harvest Food Bank, ShelterBox International, Santa Cruz Homeless Shelter and the Lakota Reservation in Pine Ridge, S.D. Surfrider Cafe has agreed to donate 15 percent of the day”s proceeds to the Interact Club. For more information, call 423-6607 or e-mail area10@interact5170.org.

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Location Map ( geo) From: Basford ST5 (SJ860466) To: Chesterton ST5 (SJ834488) Distance: 2.3 miles (3.7 km) Meets: A53, A527, B5368, B5370, A34, B5500 Traditional Counties B5369 Basford – Chesterton Dimsdale Parade The B5369 runs through the north-eastern suburbs of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. Originally unclassified, the route gained its present number in the late 1920s. Starting from a junction on the A53 in Basford, three quarters of a mile east of Newcastle town centre, it first heads NNW along Basford Park Road. After a short distance it bends slightly to the right and a service road appears on the left, which is the original drive to the now demolished Basford Hall and existed long before Basford Park Road was even thought of. At the end of the service road, the B5369 reaches a large, grassy area called Wolstanton Marsh (actually in May Bank at this point!) and crosses the A527 at a set of traffic lights. These were not installed until the link road between Jubilee Road and Alexandra Road was built in the 1970s; prior to this, the B5369 ran through what is now a car park and crossed the A527 at a staggered junction. The old route is clearly visible. For historical reasons (as this was the first road built) until the 1990s, the route of the B5369 to the south of the A527 actually ran along Oxford Road and Lower Oxford Road – TOTSOing twice between the two – rather than Basford Park Road, although traffic was not directed that way. This situation lasted until the access from Lower Oxford Road to the A53 was blocked for reasons of safety. After intersecting the A527, the B5369 continues along Wolstanton Marsh, passing Porthill Park Cricket Club (a former haunt of SF Barnes) and meets the B5368, which multiplexes with the B5369 for a short distance. The Marsh ends soon after this and before long there's a junction with the (unsignposted) B5370. Our route now passes between Bradwell (with street names referencing local author Arnold Bennett's books) and Wolstanton Golf Course and soon reaches a roundabout junction with the A34. Beyond this, the road continues for a further quarter of a mile or so before it ends on the B5500 (former A52) on the edge of Chesterton. Junctions Wolstanton Roundabout A34 • A52 • A53 • A449 • A500 • A519 • A524 (Ashbourne - Newcastle-under-Lyme) • A525 • A526 (Newcastle-under-Lyme - Salford) • A527 • A5011 • A5182 • B5038 • B5043 • B5044 • B5045 • B5352 • B5367 • B5368 • B5370 • B5500 • C119 (Staffordshire) • E05 • E33 (London - Glasgow) • E33 (Northampton - Liverpool) • M6 • M6 Toll • M64 (Trentham - Long Whatton) • Northern and Western Motorway • T13 (Britain) B5300 – B5399 B5300 • B5301 • B5302 • B5303 • B5304 • B5305 • B5306 • B5307 • B5308 • B5309 • B5310 • B5311 • B5312 • B5313 • B5314 • B5315 • B5316 • B5317 • B5318 • B5319 B5320(N) • B5320(S) • B5321 • B5322 • B5323 • B5324 • B5325 • B5326 • B5327 • B5328 • B5329 • B5330 • B5331 • B5332 • B5333 • B5334 • B5335 • B5336 • B5337 • B5338 • B5339 Earlier uses: B5306 • B5310 • B5311 • B5312(N) • B5312(S) • B5334 • B5341 • B5358 • B5359 • B5361 • B5364 • B5381 • B5383 • B5384 Retrieved from ‘https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=B5369&oldid=587449’ Articles with pictures in the gallery Staffordshire Council Roads numbered B5369

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Military & online dating scams If you have been scammed, please post here and share your experience; it may help others avoid the same situation! #380170 by Roatangirl Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:16 am So, I’m relatively new to the online dating scene too but here are my experiences so far… I have had contact with a Mark36363636 says that he was in the Army (don’t remember his job) & currently stationed in CO. Sweet words, etc. & soon asked for a iTunes, Amazon or Steam card to get an internet connection to continue to talk to me. He also had the brilliant idea of using Western Union. I told him I didn’t have the resources to send him anything; no more contact. Next, was a Paul Hariss (very handsome but looked too young based on his profile) from Hawaii also in the Army. Kept in good contact but conversations were somewhat abrupt. Professed his love & then asked for an iTunes card to continue internet service for communication; he also had the brilliant idea of using Western Union. When I told him I didn’t have the resources to send him anything; he got a bit nasty. I simply told him “This conversation is over unless he can be more reasonable.” No more contact. Next, was Ben MaCcarthur Tackett (Italian) says he owns a ranch in FL and a restaurant from GA & has a daughter in boarding school. Supposedly, traveled to Edinburg to oversee a project for his sponsor; not clear how the project & his U.S. businesses are connected… He professed his love for me & then asked me to be his “next of kin” for his company (no company name). He wanted to have my bank/credit card info in order to transfer funds into to pay his employees. I informed him that I had foreign accts. that wouldn’t be able to handle that kind of activity (which is true) & then told him that credit cards don’t work that way. He was fairly persistent but eventually stopped contacting me. Next, is Alex Francis owns a construction company in San Diego & has a grown son in TX. He hasn’t asked for anything but his Facebook Messenger gave a stranger message & we’ve since then moved to Google Hangouts. When I went back to use a picture to do a reverse image search, his whole FB profile disappeared. As I was talking to him a couple of days ago, I asked him what time it was & he gave me the wrong time based on PST compared to where I’m located. He seems to have a varied schedule & doesn’t say much but checks in daily. When I asked him to do a video chat, he said that his camera on his computer wasn’t working. I made some suggestions and he simply stated he didn’t have time for something like that. It was his name that I put into the search of a blog to try to find out some information but I’m not sure it’s the same person. There are some ‘red flags’ but I’m not convinced yet either way. Next, is Eric (Spanish) says he lives in Anderson, Alaska & says he is a legal practioner/a lawyer. Says he lost his dad (as a child) & mom is from FL. He forgot my name & asked me several times what I did for a job (which are both on my dating profile); he also has a TX based phone # (chatting on WhatsApp). He disappeared during the middle of a conversation & has gone days w/out contact. There are some ‘red flags’ but I’m not convinced yet either way. Next, in Kelly Michael (American). He’s a widower; his wife died 12 yrs. Ago. He says he’s from San Jose, CA & says that he is “a district senior registered pharmacist and the dispensing coodinator working with the United States government (& later said) United Nations Subsidiary (USAID) in the Solomon Islands on a cruise ship (According to the picture he sent is Royal Caribbean’s “Allure of the Seas” which was just in my home port at the end of Dec.). He supposedly is retiring in the next couple of days & needs to pay to obtain his exit card to leave the ship & doesn’t have the cash; only has a check. He hasn’t told me the amount but wants me to send the money directly to the headquarters in Washington DC but hasn’t given me any further details. Next, is Watkins Vega (American). He says he’s from New York but never answered where exactly and stationed at Fort Drum. He says he’s a US Navy ‘major sergeant’ deployed in Kabul, Afghanistan at Camp Victory and has made multiple attempts to call me from Google Hangouts. He states he’s looking for a serious relationship with “some one ready to have crying to my daughter hear ok” (as you can see there’s a lot of broken English) and a mother to his 7 yr. old daughter. He has declared his undying love for me, wants me to marry him and change my life! Most importantly, he wants me to block myself from the dating site. He’s sent several pictures which are FULL of visible tattoos but he doesn’t look the age he’s claimed (late 40’s). First, he asked for an iTunes card to use for an internet connection; he’s also asked how much money I make, what I drive, my family member’s names (mom, son, etc.), my sexual practices and, finally, wants me to fill out papers(& payment) for him to be able to go on leave. He sent me a document that puts our nation’s capital in the state of Washington (like the U.S. government would pay for a color background) and is way too simple for a government document. He has asked several times what the airport code and its address here but has said that he doesn’t know the details of where I am located (Bay Islands, Honduras, etc.). Finally, he’s being VERY insistent about me sending him pictures of myself. Lastly, was Michael Corbin (this is the one who I regret losing). He said he was from Memphis (I love the southern boys!), widowed & only had his sister/2 sons as family. Another Army man, says that he is stationed in Nigeria on a peace-keeping mission. He sent plenty of pictures & even sent a video (however, it cut out before it was finished) and was a REALLY sweet talker. When it was time to buy airline tickets to come home on leave for the holidays (is this even a thing in the military?), he said he didn’t have enough money for the flights to come see me (flights are expensive during this time of year). It’s a complicated trip to where I live & I offered to help him w/the flights once he got here but that I didn’t have the resources to buy the tickets for him ahead of time. He sent me itineraries (w/prices) of his attempts but wasn’t following my suggestions (I’m a certified travel agent) and was getting increasingly agitated (which hurt my feelings) with me. He stated he was just going to give up & go home to Memphis. He gave me an address/phone number & said if I was ever in the area to look him up. Finally, I asked him to video chat so we could try to solve this problem, he then accused me of “setting a trap” & cut off all communication. There were some ‘red flags’ but I’m not convinced he was a fraud but that may be because I didn’t want to believe it (and the southern accent I keep hearing!). My specific situation comes w/a couple of “red flags” too. I live out of the country on an island. I have limited resources (if you’ve never lived on an island, you may not understand or think are true) and I have to have a lot of help from my family in the states to do relatively simple things (i.e. banking, travel, mail, etc.). I’ve chosen this lifestyle… it has its benefits but also its drawbacks (one is not too many single men my age). I may have to seek unusual ways to occupy myself but I’m smart & I’ve lost nothing but my time. Keep the love REAL & keep trying. Good luck ladies & gentlemen! Roatangirl Roatan, Bay Islands Honduras Return to Personal accounts of scams

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Home > Journals > Earth & Environmental Sciences > JWARP JWARP> Vol.2 No.11, November 2010 Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dye Methyl Orange with Phosphotungstic Acid DOI: 10.4236/jwarp.2010.211116 7,713 Downloads 13,437 Views Citations Weiping Wang, Shuijin Yang Silicotungstic acid and phosphotungstic acid were prepared and characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results showed that the prepared catalysts possess classical Keggin structure. The factors on the degradation of methyl orange, such as the kind of catalyst, the amount of catalyst, the original concentration of dye and illumination time were investigated under metal halide lamp. The degradation of methyl orange is up to 93.6% with phosphotungstic acid at the best reaction conditions at 8.89 g/L concentration of phosphotungstic acid, 5.56 mg/L concentration of methyl orange and 80 min illumination time. 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02 8607 8801 Plan your trip Bali & Indonesia Gourmet & Wine Signature Departures Days Like This Magazine Top Japanese Ryokans Secret Seasons Europe specialists Indian Subcontinent specialists Worldwide specialists What's hot for 2019 Home About Scott Dunn Charitable Fund The Scott Dunn Charitable Fund supports a variety of community-based projects right around the world. Money raised through the fund goes directly to charitable projects that promote education, community development and conservation that bring real long-term improvements to the lives of many in poverty stricken and remote areas. It's a sad fact that the world we live in is an unpredictable place so we believe it's only prudent to set aside a small reserve to use in the event of major natural disasters. As a principle, we choose to help local people on the ground rather than donating to large international charities. Following the earthquake in Japan in 2011, we were able to donate a significant sum to the RQ Centre, which usually operates as a non-profit organisation running Ecotourism Centres for children, however in the aftermath of the earthquake they mobilised volunteers to clean houses, schools and public buildings so that people could return home. CHICKS is a national children’s charity which provides some of the most disadvantaged children in the UK with free, week-long breaks in the countryside and by the sea. Since being set up in 1992, CHICKS has grown tremendously and has helped over 13,500 children. Each week a group of children from different backgrounds come together in Devon, Cornwall or the Peak District to enjoy some exciting indoor and outdoor activities. Rock climbing, face painting, horse riding, trips to the beach and theatre are all but a few of the activities that are available for the children. Scott Dunn has funded a week at the Cornwall retreat for 16 children. CHICKS aims to form positive childhood memories, therefore all of the activities are designed to encourage potential and improve confidence. Mary's Meals, Kachere 1 Primary School, Southern Malawi As a School feeding program, Mary’s Meal aims to give one daily meal to a child in return for a place in education. In memory of Louise Black, Scott Dunn has made a donation to ensure that every child at Kachere 1 Primary School in Malawi is provided with one meal a day. This is an extremely beneficial scheme as it encourages more children to attend school, which provides prospective employers with evidence of good attendance and therefore greatly increases their chance of finding a good job. The Surfrider Foundation The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network. They ensure clean water, a healthy ocean and coastlines and accessible beaches for all to enjoy by finding lasting solutions to the threats our ocean faces. Since Scott Dunn opened our California office in 2016, we wanted to find a local charity that resonated with the beliefs of our team and worked to protect the world’s oceans and beaches. The Surfrider Foundation was the perfect fit. TOFT - Travel Operators for Tigers TOFTigers is an international campaign across the Indian sub-continent, which aims to encourage and support responsible tourism, as a way to save Tigers and their wilderness areas, which are at risk of extinction. TOFTigers’ main objectives hope to change the foundation of nature tourism by improving visitor guidance, increasing community involvement, targeting green investment and enhancing the governance of all of their projects. By improving these components of responsible tourism, the welfare and protection of these animals and their habitats will ultimately create a more sustainable future. Tusk Trust For the last 25 years, Tusk’s main objectives have been to protect Africa’s wildlife, natural heritage and the future of its land, culture and people. With over 60 projects in 19 African counties, Tusk aims to eliminate the threat of endangered species such as elephants, rhinos, cheetahs, chimpanzee, gorillas and marine species like turtles. In addition to the conservation of wildlife being a primary objective, Tusk believes that the future of wildlife is extremely dependant on education and sustainable development of those communities that live alongside the wildlife. Therefore supporting areas of poverty is an important component that tusk aims to also improve. Small Steps Project Scott Dunn is proud to support Tusk Trust A Tale of Two Schools Read about Mary's Meals in Days Like This Giving back on holiday with Scott Dunn The Surfrider Foundation's Top Tips for Protecting our Oceans and Beaches Call us on 02 8607 8801 to start planning your holiday Stay on Australia site

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New Microplastic Pollution Study to Launch in San Francisco Bay and Adjacent Ocean Waters A two-year investigation on microplastic and nanoplastic pollution in San Francisco Bay and the surrounding ocean will launch this month, led by two research centers, the San Francisco Estuary Institute and the 5 Gyres Institute. The project will provide the most comprehensive study in the U.S. on microplastic and nanoplastic levels in water, sediment, and fish and explore ways to reduce this pollution. Plastic pollution has gained recognition as a threat to the resilience and productivity of ocean ecosystems. However, the scope and impacts of microplastic particles (less than 5 millimeters in size) and nanoplastic particles (less than 0.001 millimeters) on coastal and ocean resources is still emerging. A preliminary study of nine sites in San Francisco Bay, published in 2016, found greater levels of microplastics in Bay surface waters than in either the Great Lakes or Chesapeake Bay. Understanding the sources, pathways and distribution of microplastic pollution is important to the health of San Francisco Bay, and the surrounding ocean environments. This project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with additional support from the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP). The RMP’s microplastic strategy, released today and developed by a team of international experts and regional stakeholders, will guide the effort. Beauty products with plastic microbeads, synthetic clothing, plastic bags, polystyrene foam packaging, and disposable plastic items can all contribute to plastic pollution. Fish, birds, and wildlife eat plastic debris, which can lead to physical impacts like blockages or starvation, as well as exposure to harmful chemicals. Microbeads from beauty products and tiny fibers from synthetic clothing were found at all nine Bay sites examined in the previous study. Both California and the U.S. banned microbeads in beauty products starting in 2017. Microbeads are a small portion of total microplastic pollution. Other sources, as well as associated environmental and health impacts and policy and innovation solutions, are active areas for continued research. The new research will document microplastic levels in the region’s fish, sediment and surface water, and assess stormwater runoff and wastewater as pathways by which plastic enters the Bay. It will also characterize microplastics outside of the Golden Gate and within adjacent ocean areas, and develop a computer model to illustrate the path of Bay microplastic pollution to the sanctuaries beyond. Based on the findings, the researchers will suggest potential avenues to control pollution, including innovations by private industry, individual behavior changes, and policy options. A major scientific component of the project is to develop monitoring methods and standards to encourage similar studies across the globe. Novel nanoplastic detection methods will be deployed for the first time as part of this study. “The Bay Area is an international hub for innovation and forward-looking science,” said Dr. Rebecca Sutton, lead researcher at San Francisco Estuary Institute. “We can lead the search for solutions to this global problem.” “The project’s microplastic and nanoplastic research will serve much more than the Bay Area,” said Carolynn Box, Environmental Programs Director at 5 Gyres. “We are researching so many components of the issue – fish, sediment, surface waters, stormwater, and wastewater – and working with experts to come up with policy recommendations based on what we find. This will have impacts locally and also globally as we intend to share the results and recommendations widely.” The San Francisco Estuary Institute is a California-based, not-for-profit organization that strives to promote enlightened environmental planning, management, and policy development based on sound science. SFEI scientists work to inform pollution prevention and other management measures in order to protect water quality. Visit sfei.org or follow @sfei_asc. The 5 Gyres Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California, with a global network of supporters dedicated to a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres’ mission is to empower action against the global health crisis of plastic pollution through science, art, education, and adventure. Visit 5gyres.org or follow @5gyres. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation fosters path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and p reservation of the special character of the Bay Area. Visit Moore.org or follow @MooreFound. Rebecca Sutton Carolynn Box Microplastic Monitoring and Science Strategy for San Francisco Bay Microplastic contamination in the San Francisco Bay, California, USA Microplastic Contamination in San Francisco Bay - Fact Sheet Monitoring San Francisco Bay for microplastics - photo by Plus M Productions Microplastic Pollution in San Francisco Bay and Adjacent Marine Sanctuaries (Project) Plastic pollution is gaining global recognition as a threat to the resilience and productivity of ocean ecosystems. However, we are only just beginning to understand the scope and impacts of microplastic particles (less than 5 mm) on coastal and ocean resources, and the San Francisco Bay Area is no exception. A preliminary study of nine water sites in San Francisco Bay, published in 2016, showed greater levels of microplastics than the Great Lakes or Chesapeake Bay. Microplastic Pollution (Project) The RMP has conducted initial studies of microplastic pollution in San Francisco Bay. Findings from a 2015 screening-level RMP study of microplastic pollution in our Bay show widespread contamination at levels greater than other U.S. water bodies with high levels of urban development, the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. Wildlife consume microplastic particles; ingestion can lead to physical harm, and can expose aquatic organisms to pollutants like PCBs that the plastics have absorbed from the surrounding environment. New Microplastic Fact Sheet puts Bay study findings in context (News) The same week that the U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill to ban microbeads in cosmetic products, the Bay's Regional Monitoring Program releases a fact sheet that describes our recent study on microbeads and other microplastic particles in Bay water and treated wastewater. These scientists want you to rethink how you use plastics: SFEI and 5 Gyres issue a new video (News) The short (3-min) video summarizes the goals of the SF Bay Microplastics Project, which aims to better understanding the distribution of microplastic in San Francisco Bay and adjacent National Marine Sanctuaries, the pathways by which these contaminants enter the Bay, and possible means of controlling their release. 5 Gyres and San Francisco Estuary Institute are collaboratively carrying out the project. El Cerrito Rain Garden SFEI Science at International Marine Debris Conference (March 12-16) (News) SFEI science will feature prominently at the Sixth International Marine Debris Conference in San Diego next week: Coastal Cleanup Day Information in East Bay Express (News) Just in time for California Coastal Cleanup Day, an insert in today’s East Bay Express provides readers with ways to help protect San Francisco Bay. The East Bay Municipal Utility District invites Bay residents to volunteer for creek and Bay cleanups on Saturday, and take everyday steps for the health of the environment, like fixing leaky pipes and flushing only the 3 P’s – not wipes or medications. Setting Sail to Find Microplastics in San Francisco Bay (Event) 5 Gyres and SFEI have begun field work for the SF Bay Microplastics Project, a two year investigation on microplastics in San Francisco Bay and the adjacent marine sanctuaries, in August and September. 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A New Era in Athletics December 2, 2016 | By Tim Pratt A photo of former Athletic Director Bryce Jacobsen hangs in Iglehart Hall. When Bryce Jacobsen took over as athletic director of St. John’s College in Annapolis in 1958, interest in intramural sports was floundering. A once-thriving intercollegiate athletic program had been eliminated in the late 1930s. And intramural sports, which struggled to attract students since World War II, continued to lack organization. So in 1962, Jacobsen started a new form of intramural athletics that still exists today. The goal was to provide a balance in talent among the teams, but also a sense of continuity. Novice athletes were encouraged to compete, just as they are now. And Jacobsen wanted to create a sense of pride and enthusiasm for each team. More than 50 years later, his efforts have proven to be a success. The athletic director started by selecting a group of captains, and using the entire student body as one pool, the captains drafted teams. Entering freshmen would be randomly divided into equal groups and allotted to each team. The teams would be assigned colors and adopt names. They were the Panzas, the Reds, the Greenwaves, the Guardians and the Spartans. The following year, freshmen would be randomly assigned to the existing teams. Rising sophomores would go into an annual draft. Once drafted, the sophomores would stay on those teams until they graduated. Mid-way through the first year of the new system, Jacobsen wrote: “There can be no doubt that this has been the best fall athletic program that we have had in the last five years, and probably for many more than five.” Four women’s teams also formed: the Maenads, the Amazons, the Furies and the Nymphs. Sports have changed over the years, depending on what was popular at the time, along with some of the team names. The Maenads became the Daughters of Camilla; the Panzas became the Druids; the Reds became the Hustlers. Legend has it that the Hustlers got their name because two of the team’s captains spent time playing billiards at a pool hall on Main Street. Jacobsen also introduced “A” and “B” teams, giving participants a chance to compete against players of equal talent on other teams. Team wins in each sport were tallied, and at the end of the year the team with the most wins became the overall champion. They are now immortalized on plaques in the gymnasium, along with the individual outstanding athletes. Iglehart in 2019. Alum Jon Barone (A13) developed an interest in the history of athletics at the college while a student in 2012. That summer, he walked through Iglehart Gymnasium, read all of the plaques and compiled statistics of the winners since 1962. But Barone also looked at the evolution of athletics at the college, from Jacobsen’s tenure through 1988 to Pickens’ term through 2012. Jacobsen and Pickens oversaw many changes, from improvements to the gymnasium to variations in sports offerings. Over the years, basketball popularity increased; volleyball was scaled back; softball participation waned and was replaced by handball. Soccer and flag football, meanwhile, were constants. Ultimate Frisbee exploded in popularity. And Croquet grew into a community-wide event. In 2016, more than 7,000 people attended the annual match between St. John’s and the Naval Academy. Crew, sailing and fencing also emerged over the years, giving St. John’s its intercollegiate sports back. Intramural sports recently have increased in popularity. Athletics and Recreation Coordinator Chris Krueger (A07) estimates participation in all sports is up 10 percent this year. Barone recently gathered updated intramural statistics though this spring. The results show some interesting trends: The Hustlers are the winningest team in St. John’s history with 16 ½ wins, including a tie in 1976 with the Spartans. The team had a bit of a dynasty between 1967 and 1976, during which it won 7 ½ championships. The Guardians and Greenwaves are tied at 12 wins each for second place. The Druids have seven wins and the Spartans have 6 ½. Barone, a member of the Greenwaves, still lives in the area and comes back to campus regularly to play with his team. Alumni, tutors and other staff, who also are assigned to teams, are allowed to participate in intramural athletics. “A lot of people who graduate move away from Annapolis, but still being a member of the team and still being able to come back and participate really fosters that sense of community,” Barone says. Team allegiances remain strong years after graduation. Ultimate Frisbee has exploded in popularity in recent years. “We played together and developed great bonds on the playing field,” says former Athletic Director Leo Pickens, who graduated in 1978 and is a member of the Druids. “Even though you might think St. John’s intramurals is no big deal, we can still get together over a pint and tell a great story of a soccer game in a hurricane, when Chris Borden drove one in the back of the net to win the game in the pouring rain.” Even Annapolis President Chris Nelson, a star athlete when he attended in the late 1960s, still feels a strong connection to the intramural program. He was drafted as a Druid, but was traded to the Spartans his sophomore year. “I am, to this day, a Spartan,” he says with a smile. Nelson says some of the best friendships he made at St. John’s were a result of the intramural program. His performances left an impression on those who competed with him or saw him play. “I would put Chris Nelson on my all-star team,” Pickens says. “My all-time Johnnie all-star team.” Jerry Januszewski, who attended the Graduate Institute in the 1990s, is another prominent athlete in St. John’s lore. One of the things he enjoyed most about intramurals was the fact that students who never played sports before could compete with students who were all-stars in high school. And it was done in a welcoming environment. “It’s incredible to see people who never played a sport come out and play,” Januszewski says. “The amount of courage that takes is enormous. But every year, students do that.” Catch up on Part 1 of the series: St. John’s: Unlikely Pioneers of Sport.

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Home » Like Peas and Carrots: Keeping Like Technologies Together with VLANs Cyber Security News Like Peas and Carrots: Keeping Like Technologies Together with VLANs Victor Pak KEYWORDS infrastructure security / IP / NVR / surveillance A major trend in the security integration channel has been the evolution of IP security surveillance cameras and Network Video Recorders (NVRs). Instead of using their own dedicated cabling, the devices are sharing the existing IP-based computer network infrastructure. The popularity and affordability of IP networking has driven security integrators to utilize existing Ethernet networks more and more. However, by sharing the IP network, a new set of problems can arise that in a worst-case scenario can make the entire network unusable. Gone are the days of analog security video which had its own dedicated cabling and nothing to interfere with its use. Having spent countless hours supporting dealers and installers, we’ve encountered a common problemthat is caused by sharing the IP-based network. What we have found is that a newer generation of IP devices, such as video-streaming devices and home controls, send out multitudes of broadcasts that can clog up bandwidth and thus affect the performance of other devices on the network, especially security cameras and the associated NVRs. In the past, when personal computers were the only devices on the network, the computing experience was not impacted if bandwidth was not sufficient. The user’s satisfaction was not diminished if he or she received a file in 35 seconds rather than 30 seconds. Unlike computer data networks that can tolerate a certain degree of unpredictable latency, IP cameras, video and audio streaming, control systems cannot. The packets that carry surveillance video must arrive on time and in order, and IP-based controls cannot lose critical command packets. In other words, today’s sophisticated IP networks require a new level of robustness in order to even perform their basic functions. A New Way to Design Network Infrastructure As technology evolves, it seems as though infrastructure is the last to catch up. As automobiles became faster and more prevalent, for example, paved roads and multi-lane highways took decades to develop. The same is true for computers and IP devices versus their infrastructure. Audio and video devices have advanced and are now IP-based so they share the same network as computers and printers. Meanwhile, the routers, switches and wireless access points that make up the IP-based infrastructure remain the same in features and functionality, as if there are only computers on the network. The routers and switches sold today for the residential and commercial market have the same basic "intended use” features as devices sold 10 years ago. The prevailing standard, by and large, still assumes that a given network will only be used for basic computing, such as file sharing and Internet access. This archaic standard also assumes that there is very little broadcast packet traffic, which is characteristic of today’s new audio/video-based IP devices. Eliminate Wide Broadcasts One problematic feature we've discovered is that IP-based audio/video streaming and home control devices send out numerous broadcasts to stay in sync. Let's say that all security IP cameras are connected in a single Local Area Network (LAN) with a switch. Switches, Layer 2 devices, are designed to forward all broadcasts, but that's not always a good thing. A switch in a typical home might have anywhere from 12 to more than 100 ports with all the devices using the network. By default, all hosts connected to that switch are going to be in the same broadcast domain because everything is connected in a single LAN. Now, let's say you have 100 ports on your network. If one host connected to that switch sends a broadcast, by default, all of the other 99 hosts are going to receive that broadcast. These unnecessary broadcasts will soak up your network's available bandwidth. Moreover, for some network services and protocols used today, a broadcast received by a host triggers that receiving host to transmit a broadcast of its own. When all of the hosts receive that second broadcast, they respond by transmitting additional broadcasts. In moments, these broadcasts have swelled into a broadcast storm that can take up a major part of a network's bandwidth and make normal network operations almost impossible. Imagine what this means if you are trying to stream IP surveillance video to an NVR over this network! Just wait until you start streaming even higher megapixel resolution videos. Introducing Virtual LANs or VLANs VLANs are essentially segmentations of the entire LAN into smaller LANs grouped together by services, which address issues surrounding broadcast filtering, security and traffic flow management. Today’s security installers need to segment the network into smaller networks where similar devices reside; otherwise, there is potential for trouble. VLAN technology has been around for many years now. At the most basic level, a VLAN is nothing more than a broadcast domain. Devices that perform critical communications must be grouped together. For example, different sets of groupings might be surveillance videos and the associated NVRs, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone systems, devices streaming audio and video from a central server, devices that provide home automation and, finally, the computer network. Each of these categories needs to be in its own sub-LAN where devices can perform their critical functions without being affected by other devices that they do not need to communicate with. The installer’s job is to logically construct VLANs to separate out surveillance videos, VoIP, audio/video streaming, home controls and computing into broadcast domains. Broadcasts won't be forwarded or propagated between VLANs, and a broadcast sent by one host in a VLAN will be forwarded only to other hosts in that same VLAN. By default, there will be no inter-VLAN traffic on the switch. But what if a computer needs to communicate with an IP surveillance camera? For traffic to go between VLANs, a Layer Three device, or a router with VLAN-aware capabilities, needs to be added to the network. To finalize this new type of IP-based network, each newly created VLAN, when accessing shared resources such as the Internet, cannot have equal priority with the others. The VLANs containing devices with digital media assets, such as surveillance video and VoIP audio, must be given top priority in this new network. Remember, a computer downloading a file in 35 seconds versus 30 seconds does not affect the user’s experience, whereas a lost or delayed surveillance video packet can completely ruin a security system. In summary, designing and implementing a VLAN-with-priority network allows security integrators to break up a large, loud network into smaller, separated groups that can communicate effectively while each is still connected to a greater extended network. Smart Technology – Not Body Cameras – More Likely to Reduce Lethal Force by Police Businesses More Likely to Pay Ransomware than Consumers What's New with AXIS Camera Station

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Home › SCADA / ICS Saudi Attacks Expose Threat to Critical Infrastructure By AFP on September 16, 2019 The strike on Saudi oil infrastructure highlights the easy vulnerability of such facilities even as the kingdom has splurged billions on sophisticated defense hardware. Yemen's Iran-aligned Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for the weekend assault, saying they sent a swarm of drones far across the border, but Washington has squarely blamed Iran. Here is a round-up of the nation's key infrastructure potentially exposed to attacks: Oil facilities Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest energy company, operates Ghawar and Safaniyah, two of its biggest oil fields. While its oil wells, scattered over a vast geographical area, may be a difficult target, its various oil processing facilities are more exposed. The Abqaiq facility –- one of the two sites targeted on Saturday –- is the "most vulnerable" among them, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report. The Abqaiq plant is the world's largest oil processing facility, with a capacity of more than seven million barrels per day, according to the company. Aramco's vast system of pipelines, pumping stations and its ports along the Persian Gulf and Red Sea are also vulnerable to potential attacks. The Huthis claimed their drones targeted two oil pumping stations on Saudi Arabia's key east-west pipeline in May, shutting it down for several days. The nation's oil infrastructure is also vulnerable to cyber attacks. In 2012, Aramco was among the firms hit by Shamoon, an aggressive disc-wiping malware, in what is believed to be the country's worst cyber attack yet. Desalination plants Desalination plants provide more than 70 percent of the kingdom's drinking water, according to official figures. Ras al-Khair, the world's largest desalination plant located on the kingdom's Gulf coast, is an obvious target. The kingdom's water supply could be severely affected in the event of a major attack on the plant. "Cyber attacks also present a serious threat to Saudi desalination plants like Ras al-Khair," the CSIS report said. Saudi Arabia's electrical grid has struggled to keep pace with the demands of its rising population and industrial infrastructure. An attack on the oil and gas industry could severely impact the electrical grid as the kingdom is largely dependent on hydrocarbons as fuel for the electricity sector. Its network of transformers and substations are vulnerable to explosive attacks, the CSIS report said. The electrical system can also be disrupted by cyber attacks, it added. Industrial control interfaces that help regulate large-scale infrastructure such as gas pipelines, transportation systems and power transmission networks are also potentially at risk, the CSIS report said. "All of these components may be vulnerable to attack by direct human interference such as the deployment of malware in the master unit or by poor design or configuration, which opens up the system to remote cyber exploitation," the report said. Learn More About Critical Infrastructure Security at SecurityWeek's ICS Cyber Security Conference

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TCU, Cincinnati title-worthy? Welcome to the sport's new reality At his postgame press conference last Friday following a 24-21 win over West Virginia, Brian Kelly, coach of the 10-0 Cincinnati Bearcats, said all the things a coach should say when he's still got two games left ahead of him. "I don't sit around and think about being 10-0," said Kelly. "I never think in those terms." Away from the podium, however, when prodded by a reporter, the coach whose team sits fifth in the BCS standings acknowledged he's not oblivious to the bigger picture. "Look, we know about Florida, we know about Alabama, we know about Texas," said Kelly. "If I'm ever sitting down reading the paper or trying to get some information, I want to know about TCU and Boise." What do you want to know, coach? "If they're still undefeated." A day after his team's eye-opening 55-28 rout of 16th-ranked Utah, TCU coach Gary Patterson also started out saying all the things a coach should say when his 10-0 team has another game to prepare for next weekend. "We've got to go to Laramie, Wyoming," said Patterson, "where if we don't play well, we can get beat." Prodded further, however, Patterson acknowledged having noticed the first-place vote his team received in the latest Harris Poll. "That's pretty cool," he said. "That shows we're making strides." These are "cool" and unusual times to be the coach at a place like TCU or Cincinnati. Never before have the top six teams in the BCS standings (No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Texas, No. 4 TCU, No. 5 Cincinnati and No. 6 Boise State) all held undefeated records with just three weeks left in the regular season. The only other year that's come close was 2004, when USC, Oklahoma, Auburn, Utah and Boise State remained perfect through the entire regular season. Yet this season's landscape feels entirely different than that one. Back then, the nation was busy working itself into a tizzy over the previously unthinkable possibility that an undefeated SEC champion, Auburn, might not play for the national title. Utah, which would go on to become the first non-BCS team to reach a BCS bowl, sat behind one-loss squads Cal and Texas. The Utes were a sidebar; the Broncos barely merited the agate page. This year, we have the Big Three -- Florida, Alabama and Texas -- from which the two BCS title participants will presumably emerge. There's no Auburn-like controversy, at least not yet. But as I read through e-mails and scrolled through Twitter comments late Saturday from fans who were watching TCU -- many of them for the first time -- a common theme emerged: "Wow. ... TCU is for real ... Very impressed ... as good as the 'top three.' ... deserve to play for national title." This is college football in 2009. In the past, any mention of TCU (or Utah, or Boise State) in the same sentence as "national title" would have immediately garnered smirks and the automatic response of "Who have they played?" Now, there's an unquestioned respect level. The Horned Frogs have Utah to thank for much of that; last year's Sugar Bowl romp over Alabama elevated both the Utes' and the Mountain West's profile. But I'm guessing a lot of it is also coming from a simple eyeball test. In a year in which the teams at the top aren't necessarily the prettiest, viewers that tuned in Saturday night were treated to an all-around dominant TCU performance against a nationally-respected opponent. The Horned Frogs jumped to a 35-7 lead early in the second quarter. TCU's vaunted defense did its thing -- Jerry Hughes terrorized Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn; Tank Carder returned an interception for a touchdown. But what separates the 2009 Horned Frogs from Patterson's previous teams is an equally explosive offense. Andy Dalton & Co. racked up 549 yards on a Utah defense that came in allowing less than 300 per game. They've outscored their last five opponents 233-53. "We've always played very good defense here," said Patterson, the Frogs' head coach since 2000, "but I'll be honest -- I'm glad we don't have to face our offense right now." Teams aren't exactly lining up to face Cincinnati's third-ranked offense, either. But here's another sign of college football's new reality: The Bearcats are the BCS-conference team, yet I'm hearing far less national-title buzz for them than I am the Horned Frogs. (Meanwhile, poor Boise State is a legit top-10 team with no buzz whatsoever.) Part of that may be due to the Bearcats' close calls the past two weeks in primetime games against Connecticut and West Virginia, though they have a huge showcase game still to come at No. 8 Pittsburgh. After seeing Cincinnati in person, I believe the Bearcats -- while certainly fun to watch -- aren't in the same class as Florida/Alabama/Texas. There's no disputing their offensive firepower, but their defense isn't BCS-caliber. They'd also suffer in a national-title matchup due to their lack of a physical red-zone option. Relief pitcher/quarterback Tony Pike played that role against West Virginia, coming off the bench to throw a pair of touchdown darts. He'd face a lot more pressure, however, against one of those aforementioned defenses. TCU is a different story. Take away those cool, new uniforms, and you'd never know you're not watching an SEC defense. Throw in an offense with its own share of playmakers, and you've got a complete football team. "I have been a head coach for five years, and that is the best team I've faced," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said of the Frogs. Could they beat one of the Big Three? Absolutely. Would they? There's only one way to find out. Are we going to get that opportunity? Not unless someone knocks off Texas. Patterson seemed quite content Sunday with his one first-place Harris vote, but will he be lobbying for something more if TCU wins its last two? Actually: No. "Is all we're going to do is complain that we don't have an opportunity to play for national championship? Why turn a marvelous season into a negative?" he said. "I don't have any control, besides winning, whether I play in a national championship game or not. If we're given that opportunity, we'll be excited, but why should I turn what these kids have done for 12 games into a negative?" He shouldn't. And he won't have to. I'm sure there will be no shortage of pundits and politicians ready to take up the cause for him. When I talked to Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh last week following his team's 51-42 upset of Oregon, he said the Cardinal were treating their last three Pac-10 games like the NFL playoffs. "[The Oregon game] was like the divisional playoff," he said. "Now we've got to get ready for the conference semifinal." Personally, I prefer to use NCAA tournament analogies when discussing mythical playoff events, in which case Stanford is the torrid No. 5 seed that nobody wants to play right now. Two weeks ago, the Cardinal (7-3, 6-2 Pac-10) were still a cute little story, a rebuilding program zeroing in on their first bowl berth in eight years. But there's nothing cute about consecutive 50-point outbursts against the Pac-10's two most respected teams, the latest a 55-21 beatdown of 11th-ranked USC that shredded any remaining aura surrounding Pete Carroll's normally resilient program. Ironically, Stanford's offense is doing exactly what the Trojans did for years: Out-physical people. With the help of a tough offensive line and bruising fullback Owen Marecic, Heisman hopeful Toby Gerhart bulldozed his way to 178 yards and three touchdowns on 29 carries, which opened the field for freshman sensation Andrew Luck to take shots downfield. Luck was an efficient 12-of-22 for 144 yards and two touchdowns, including a 24-yard strike to Coby Fleener that opened the floodgates early in the fourth quarter. (The score was 28-21 at the time.) And let's not forget the defense, which picked off Trojans quarterback Matt Barkley three times (including Richard Sherman's back-breaking 43-yard touchdown return) and forced a Barkley fumble. "It was put-up-or-shut-up time for Stanford football," said Harbaugh. "Our guys came out focused and loose and did what we had to do to win." In the opposite locker room was a sullen, stunned team that's basically had its entire reality shattered over the past three weeks. For seven years, USC (7-3, 4-3) was the team beating people 55-21. The Trojans rarely lost, and they never got humiliated like they have twice in the past three weeks. Saturday marked their first November loss under Carroll and the most points ever allowed by a USC team. In Saturday's most degrading moment, Stanford scored to go up 48-21 with 6:47 left -- and went for two. "I'm not sure I have the right words to describe being humbled like that in the Coliseum after so many years and so many good things and playing well and all that," said Carroll. "I don't really know where to put it." Two years ago, Stanford went into the Coliseum as a 41-point underdog and pulled off an epic upset. Saturday, the Trojans were favored again, but the Cardinal proved to be in a whole other class. Wrap your head around that. My reaction to the latest polls and BCS standings. This week's most notable poll absurdity concerns Iowa. Following a closer-than-expected overtime defeat at Ohio State, the coaches poll voters dropped the Hawkeyes (9-2) two spots to No. 15. I don't have a problem with that. The bigger injustice is that they jumped two teams Iowa beat on the road -- 9-2 Penn State (from 17th to 12th) and 8-2 Wisconsin (from 14th) -- ahead of the Hawkeyes. Keep in mind, just a week earlier, the Nittany Lions lost 24-7 at home to the Buckeyes. Lest you think this I'm nit-picking, keep in mind that the Big Ten teams' final rankings could have direct consequences on the BCS pairings (see below). Each week, I'll update my projected BCS lineup based on the latest week's games. • Title game: Alabama vs. Texas • Rose: Ohio State vs. Oregon • Fiesta: Iowa vs. Boise State • Sugar: Florida vs. Pittsburgh • Orange: Georgia Tech vs. TCU TCU's win likely erased any remaining hopes for Boise State of gaining an automatic BCS berth -- but it's starting to look like it might not matter. With "brand name" teams USC, Miami and Notre Dame all falling out of the picture, the Broncos are becoming a more realistic at-large choice. Their biggest obstacle: Oklahoma State (8-2), which, if it wins at Oklahoma, will likely replace Texas in the Fiesta Bowl. Otherwise, the only at-large certainties are TCU, the SEC title game loser and either Penn State or Iowa. The Penn State-Iowa scenario could become tricky if both finish 10-2. The Hawkeyes won head-to-head but have fallen behind the Nittany Lions in the polls (though remain one spot ahead of them at No. 13 in the BCS standings). The Fiesta Bowl covets Iowa, which has never played there and has a huge local alumni base. However, should the Fiesta select TCU instead, the Orange Bowl would be more likely to tap Penn State. All 34 projected bowl game matchups. • A knowledgeable person within the sport whose opinion I value told me Sunday that Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson "may be the best coaching hire in the last 30 years." The No. 7 Yellow Jackets (10-1, 7-1 ACC) are headed back to the ACC title game for the first time since 2006, only this time it feels like the Jackets' best days are still to come. They could well be a national-title contender in the future. • I may have been a bit too negative in my column from Ohio State's Rose Bowl-clinching win over Iowa. It was a great moment for the Buckeyes, even if it seemed at times like Jim Tressel was trying to prevent it from happening. OSU's defense has been tremendous all season, and linebackers Ross Homan and Austin Spittler were relentless in shutting down the Hawkeyes' running attack. • We know well by now what a special talent Pittsburgh (9-1) has in freshman running back Dion Lewis (129.1 yards per game, sixth nationally), but Saturday night against Notre Dame, another young back got his chance to shine. Freshman Ray Graham burst for a 53-yard run in the third quarter, then followed it up with a 2-yard TD in the Panthers' 27-22 win. Graham is averaging 6.1 yards per carry. • Last week, I talked to Colt McCoy about the evolution of Texas' passing game since Oklahoma. He spent time working individually with each of the 'Horns' younger receivers. "Guys were playing positions they've never played before," he said. "Now we've got guys in the right spots." It didn't matter in Saturday's rout of Baylor; in a rarity, the 'Horns ran for more yards (224) than they passed (187). • Dabo Swinney is pulling out all the stops to make sure C.J. Spiller keeps showing up on Heisman voters' radars. Saturday against N.C. State he became the first player in school history to run, catch and throw for a touchdown in the same game. "Another ho-hum day for him," said Swinney. With a win Saturday against Virginia, the Tigers (7-3, 5-2 ACC) will clinch their first ACC division title. • Oregon's 44-21 rout (no, LaGarrette Blount did not play) of Arizona Sate, coupled with Arizona's 24-16 loss at Cal, means the Ducks (8-2, 6-1) regained control of the Pac-10 standings but still play two of the three teams -- Arizona (6-3, 4-2) and Oregon State (7-3, 5-2) -- directly behind them. They lost to the third, Stanford. Good luck figuring out the tiebreakers if Oregon loses another game. • Boise State's Kellen Moore continues to sit atop the nation's pass-efficiency chart following another masterful performance (22-of-32, 299 yards, five TDs, no INTs) in the Broncos' 63-25 drubbing of rival Idaho (7-4). With Houston's Case Keenum suffering his second loss Saturday against UCF, it will be interesting to see whether Moore starts supplanting him on various Heisman Watch lists. • LSU's offense took a beating in last week's loss to Alabama -- and it showed Saturday against Louisiana Tech. With oft-maligned quarterback Jarrett Lee starting in place of the injured Jordan Jefferson and top rusher Charles Scott, center T-Bob Hebert and tight end Richard Dickson all sidelined, the Tigers (8-2, 4-2 SEC) managed just 246 total yards in a 24-16 win over Louisiana Tech. • A week after throwing five interceptions in a 10-3 loss to Nebraska, Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones lit up Texas A&M for 392 yards and five TDs in a 65-10 rout. It may be just the spark Oklahoma (6-4, 4-2 Big 12) needs heading into season-ending games against Texas Tech and Oklahoma State. The 5-5 Aggies, meanwhile, now rank 108th nationally in scoring defense (34.0 points per game). • When Houston Nutt decides to get Dexter McCluster the ball, Ole Miss' runner/receiver can take over a game. He was unstoppable against Tennessee, running 25 times for 282 yards and four TDs and catching four passes for 42 yards in a 42-17 rout. Unfortunately for the Rebels (7-3), it marked just the third time this season McCluster had more than 15 touches, all in the past four weeks. • Rutgers vanished from the national radar by the end of its first game, but the Scarlet Knights (7-2, 3-2 Big East) have a decent shot of finishing 10-2. Following a 31-0 rout of perennial underachiever USF last Thursday in which freshman quarterback Tom Savage showed why he was such a coveted recruit, Rutgers visits Syracuse and Louisville, then closes at home against West Virginia. • Bobby Bowden likely avoided the indignity of his first losing season in 33 years with Florida State's 41-28 win at Wake Forest. 'Noles fans had to be encouraged by the performance of first-time starting quarterback E.J. Manuel (15-of-20, 220 yards). Manuel, who was Jimbo Fisher's first major recruit back in 2007, will start the rest of the way for 5-5 FSU in place of injured standout Christian Ponder. • Now that Virginia (3-7) is guaranteed its third losing season in four years, it's safe to say Al Groh's days are numbered. However, I'm hearing Colorado's Dan Hawkins -- whose team also fell to 3-7 with a 17-10 loss to Iowa State (6-5) -- will get a reprieve. Colorado's debt-strapped athletic department cannot afford the reported $3 million to buy out the remaining four years on Hawkins' contract. • UCF is the definition of a second-half team. The Knights, which overcame a 17-3 second-quarter deficit and trailed 17-10 at the half of its eventual 37-32 upset of No. 13 Houston on Saturday, have led at the half just once in their six victories ... and just once all season. Saturday's win marked the program's first ever over a ranked opponent. • Here's all you need to know about North Carolina's defense under Butch Davis: The Tar Heels (7-3) have won five straight against ranked foes dating to last season and have forced a combined 15 turnovers in those games. • Here's all you need to know about Michigan's defense under Rich Rodriguez: If the Wolverines (5-6) allow 38 points to Ohio State, they'll match the school record for most points allowed in a season (347) ... which they set last year. Ten years ago, June Jones took over a Hawaii team that had gone 0-12 the year before and immediately led it to a 9-4 record and WAC championship. It seems Jones is losing his touch. This time, it took him a full two years to resuscitate a formerly hapless program. SMU (6-4, 5-1 C-USA), which posted its second straight 1-11 record in Jones' debut season last fall, took over sole possession of first place in Conference USA's West Division (supplanting nationally-ranked Houston) with a 35-31 win over UTEP on Saturday. The Mustangs got the win despite giving up 627 yards, sealing the game on a fourth-and-6 sack at the SMU 14-yard-line in the final seconds. With one more victory, either next week at 5-5 Marshall or Nov. 28 against 3-7 Tulane, the Mustangs will lock up their first bowl berth since 1984. SMU fans have suffered through two miserable decades and five different coaching regimes watching a team that seemingly never could recover from its infamous NCAA death penalty in 1987, which shut down the program for two seasons. After firing Phil Bennett in 2007, school officials spent 71 days waiting out Jones, then in the midst of Hawaii's run to the Sugar Bowl, before luring him with a reported $2 million annual contract, a staggering amount for C-USA. Jones' famed Run and Shoot offense hasn't gotten into full gear just yet, but it's been good enough for the Mustangs to rank 22nd nationally in passing offense (271.7 yards per game). Freshman quarterback Kyle Padron, who stepped in for injured starter Bo Levi Mitchell in SMU's Oct. 24 loss to Houston, was a modest 17-of-24 for 244 yards, two touchdowns and two picks against the Miners -- but he's 3-0 as the Mustangs' starter. Jones' last postseason trip did not go so well; Georgia crushed his Warriors in the 2008 Sugar Bowl. If all goes well, he could be returning to New Orleans -- for the New Orleans Bowl -- or one of C-USA's other bowl partners. The faithful have waited 25 years for any taste of the postseason. It's come to this: After writing a column last week about the influence of YouTube and Twitter on exposing this season's many officiating controversies, I spent the weekend receiving e-mail reports about pretty much every potentially offensive call from around the country. Please stop. I have eyes, too, and nearly every game I watched this weekend included at least one absurd replay moment. Friday night at Cincinnati, I watched Bearcats running back Isaiah Pead dive over the pile toward the goal line and lose the ball. Officials on the field called it a fumble, but the guys in the booth said the ball crossed the plane. After watching the replay myself, I found myself in agreement -- but I still had a problem with the double standard officials employed in overturning the call. After last week's Alabama-LSU interception controversy, SEC coordinator of officials Rogers Reddingtold the Birmingham News: "The instant replay rule is if you don't have clear, 100 percent, absolute proof that the call on the field is incorrect, then you let it stand." Believe me, there was nothing 100 percent positive about Pead crossing the plane. Nor was there "indisputable evidence" that Jimmy Clausen's arm wasn't moving forward on a late-game fumble call against Pittsburgh, though it did appear so to me. In that case, however, the guys in the booth overturned the call on the field and ruled it a fumble. Ditto the end of the Northwestern-Illinois game, when officials ruled that Illinois receiver Jarred Fayson, while down, did not have possession of the ball when Wildcats defender Sherrick McManis swiped it from him for a game-sealing interception. Again, the replay guys let that one slide. But lest you think that's a Big Ten thing, remember back to the Indiana-Iowa game, when the booth overturned an apparent touchdown catch by Hoosiers receiver Terrance Turner, who sure he looked like he had a foot inbounds to me. Believe me, I take no joy in wasting column space writing about officiating. It is quite possibly my least favorite topic in sports. But instant replay is causing far too great a credibility crisis in college football, especially considering it was added solely for the purpose of improving officiating. But at least we may have one possible explanation. In that same Birmingham News article, national officiating coordinator David Parry made the astounding revelation that replay officials -- unlike millions of fans watching from home -- do not use HD television monitors. An administrator at Friday night's game told me conferences are looking to upgrade for next season but are concerned about the cost. Note: You will each be receiving upwards of $17 million from the BCS this season; try taking a cut out of that. Or, better yet, here's an idea: Is there any particular reason why replay officials actually need to be at the stadium? Why not set up a couple of guys in someone's living room with a remote, a cell phone and a 60-inch plasma screen? Do something. These days the ref in those Buffalo Wild Wings commercials is getting more calls right. Are you a current or former struggling soccer player? Have you ever dreamed of making a game-winning kick in front of 105,000 people to send your team to the Rose Bowl? Ohio State's 26-year-old walk-on-turned-instant-legend shows you how. With the last days of the Charlie Weis era upon us, it's time to reflect on all the great memories of his five-year tenure in South Bend. This guy provided about 90 percent of them. Mini-previews for three of this week's big games • Ohio State at Michigan, Saturday (Noon ET): Shortly after Saturday's Rose Bowl-clinching win, Jim Tressel told his team: "You can have three hours and savor this, but when the clock strikes 12:00, we know what week it is." Then: "I'm just playing with you guys. They have no defense. ... Take a couple of days off." • Cal at Stanford, Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET): When's the last time these two rivals both entered their annual Big Game with seven wins? That would be 1991, when Dennis Green was coaching the Cardinal, Bruce Snyder was coaching Cal and Jim Harbaugh passed for a career-high 3,121 yards for the Chicago Bears. • Oregon at Arizona, Saturday (8 p.m. ET): Two years ago, the Ducks' BCS hopes died in Tucson when Dennis Dixon's knee gave out. This time both teams are playing for high stakes: the spot opposite the Buckeyes in Pasadena on New Years. A loss would likely eliminate Arizona; Oregon would still have a slim shot. 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Billionaire Neilson sells down stake in fund manager he co-founded By Melanie Beeby Billionaires Kerr Neilson and Judith Neilson are selling about 10 per cent of the listed fund manager he co-founded 25 years ago, freeing up about $300 million for interests including arts and philanthropy and to diversify their personal investments. The Neilsons, who divorced in 2015, will each sell 30 million shares in Platinum Asset Management at $5 a share, a 9 per cent discount to Tuesday's closing price of $5.50. After the sale, Kerr Neilson will still have voting control over 42.97 per cent of the company. Credit:Jessica Hromas After the sale, Mr Neilson will retain 126,037,420 shares and Mrs Neilson, founder and patron of the popular White Rabbit Gallery in Chippendale, Sydney, will have 126,037,421 shares. Mr Neilson will have voting control over 42.97 per cent of the company. The Neilsons have committed not to sell any more shares for 12 months. Mr Neilson, who's been dubbed "Australia's Warren Buffett" for his investment prowess, said he would remain on the board and "participate in the daily activities of the investment team". "The partial disposal of our interests allows us to direct some of our capital towards other pursuits, particularly those that relate to the arts and philanthropy, as well as diversifying our personal investments," Mr Neilson said in a statement on Tuesday night. "The company has a remarkable pool of talent which will be thoughtfully and ardently guided to pursue the purpose of the firm of providing investors with superior returns." Judith Neilson is selling 30 million of her shares in Platinum. Credit:Janie Barrett The sale will be conducted as a fully underwritten offer to institutional and professional investors on March 19. Platinum chairman Michael Cole said the partial sale would have no impact on the firm's day-to-day investment processes or operations, and he looked forward to welcoming new shareholders to the register. "I want to again acknowledge the outstanding contribution that our co-founder Kerr Neilson has made to the company and appreciate his continuing commitment both as an executive director and major shareholder," Mr Cole said. The company's value almost halved from a peak in February 2018 to the start of this year, as its investments stumbled and after Mr Nielson stepped down as the fund's CEO. However, it has steadily clawed back ground since the end of January. Mr Neilson, who was born in South Africa and whose personal wealth was valued at $1.78 billion by the AFR Rich List 2018, built his reputation with Bankers Trust during its glory days of the 1980s. At Bankers Trust, he famously ensured his investors were defensively positioned prior to the sharemarket crash of October 1987. with Reuters Platinum Asset Management Melanie Beeby Melanie Beeby is the Business deputy editor and a former editor of The Australian Financial Review online.

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Scots want independence, new post-Boris poll finds Brexit chaos By Nick Miller August 5, 2019 — 7.26pm London: Fears that the new Boris Johnson government could lose the Union by winning Brexit have been heightened by a new poll that puts Scottish independence ahead for the first time in two years. The survey by pollster Lord Ashcroft found 47 per cent of Scots agreed there should be another independence referendum within two years – as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has demanded – with 45 per cent disagreeing. And asked how they would vote in such a contest, 46 per cent said they would vote Yes to independence, and 43 per cent would vote No. After "don’t knows" and "wouldn’t votes" were excluded, that came to a lead of 52 per cent to 48 per cent for an independent Scotland. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon greets Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit:AP It is the first lead for independence in a published poll since a survey by a different pollster, Ipsos MORI, in March 2017, and the biggest lead since a brief burst of polls in June 2016, just after the Brexit referendum in which Scotland voted a majority against Brexit. In the new poll, published on Monday, a majority of Scots – including half of those who voted against Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum - thought Brexit strengthened the case for Scottish independence. And asked if they would prefer to remain in the EU over remaining in the United Kingdom, Scots were closely divided but 45 per cent would prioritise the EU, while 43 per cent would prioritise the UK. In September 2014 Scotland voted by 55 per cent to 45 per cent to stay in the UK, after the highest turnout of any election or referendum in British history. Sturgeon told The Scotsman the new poll was “phenomenal”. “More and more people think it’s time that Scotland took our own decisions and shaped our own future,” she said. Johnson visited Edinburgh last week in one of his first acts as prime minister – but he was booed on arrival by boisterous nationalists outside Sturgeon’s official residence, Bute House, and reportedly left by the back door. He also won a tepid welcome from Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who criticised Johnson’s Brexit strategy saying “I don’t remember anybody saying we should crash out of the EU with no arrangements in place to help maintain the vital trade that flows uninterrupted between Britain and the EU”. Johnson announced a £300 million ($540 million) investment package to “strengthen the union” through “growth deals”. On Sunday he announced a big cash boost for NHS hospitals in England and Scotland, to go towards new equipment and upgrades – though health think tank the Nuffield Trust said the promised £1.8 billion was barely a third of the amount needed to clear the existing backlog of necessary repairs and replacements in the health system. During the 2016 Brexit campaign Johnson promised a vote to leave would mean extra hundreds of millions of pounds available for the NHS every week. The cash splash has added to speculation Johnson is setting up for an early general election, though Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said on Sunday the government would not “initiate” an election – it would only happen if Labour staged and won a no-confidence vote in parliament. A by-election loss to the Liberal Democrats last week has left the minority government with a working parliamentary majority of just one, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hinted at calling a confidence vote in the coming months before the Halloween Brexit deadline. Nick Miller is Arts Editor of The Age.

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Spec offices to be built in northern St. Johns County will fill growing need Colleen Jones It's been more than three years since a speculative office building went up in St. Johns County. Tuesday, the St. Johns County Commission approved an incentive package that would allow for the construction of two new spec office complexes in the northwest sector of the county. One, in Nocatee, and another, on St. Johns Parkway, will likely house medical professionals, according to the developer. Melissa Glasgow, the county director of economic development, said the buildings will help meet the need for commercial and office space in the fastest growing area of St. Johns County, adding that with little inventory on the market, certain projects she's fielded inquires about have faced obstacles. Daryl Grubbs, president/owner of Custom Builders in Neptune Beach, is the developer behind both projects. Following commissioners' approval of the building incentive, Grubbs told The Record: "We think both areas [where the offices will be located] are really underserved for this kind of space, particularly with the retirement community." One development, to be called the Palms Professional Park, will take up 24,896 square feet on St. Johns Parkway. Planners expect to break ground this fall and complete construction by late 2020. The project scored a five in the county's business incentive program, making it eligible for expedited permitting and an economic development grant of up to 100 percent of impact fees paid to the county and four years ad valorem taxes paid by the applicant on capital improvements. The total estimated value of the incentive is $153,539. The other project, tentatively called Pyrotek E3, would encompass 15,000 square feet of office space located in Nocatee along Valley Ridge Boulevard. Construction should begin by the end of 2020 and conclude in 2022. The application scored three points toward the business incentive program. That makes it eligible for expedited permitting and an economic development grant of up to 50 percent in impact fees and two years ad valorem taxes paid to the county by the applicant. The total estimated value of that incentive is $48,218. Both the complexes will offer Class-A office space. Grubbs said since marketing efforts haven't begun yet, he did not yet have any tenants officially locked into leases. In 2016, the International Management Company constructed a 62,000-square-foot office building in the Fort Wade Road Office Park in Nocatee at a time when sales in the master-planned community were beginning to pick up again following the economic recession. The last speculative office building to be constructed before that one goes all the way back to 2008. "Developers sometimes are reluctant to build office space without a tenant signed on first, but because of the fact that St. Johns County is growing so much these [speculative developments] make sense," Glasgow said. Creating more office vacancy, of course, also has the potential to motivate companies to consider relocating to or opening new locations in St. Johns County.

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Saudi Prince Asks Bashar Assad to Ban Anti-Saudi Movie TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz told a friend to ask Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to prevent circulation of an anti-Saudi movie in his war-torn country. Issuing a statement on his Twitter account, the Saudi Prince harshly criticized Syrian director of the 'King of Sand', Najdat Aznour, calling him “director of Jihad al-Nikah”. King of the Sands tells the story of rise of the founder of Saudi kingdom, Ibn Saud, from an obscure tribal leader in Kuwait to the undisputed ruler of the Arabian peninsula. The film depicts Ibn Saud as an unscrupulous, bloodthirsty womanizer who was a pawn of the British. The film’s director has said that his intention was to expose the religious fanaticism that Ibn Saud promoted which - he says - is behind much modern day terrorism. Prince Talal said the movie was not a successful work and “it will be thrown in the rubbish bin of art works”. He wrote that he has asked a friend to talk to President Assad and persuade him to ban the movie in Syria which has been suffering from a deadly insurgency that Riyadh happens to be one of its strongest supporters, Al-Alam reported. Saudi prince wrote that he hoped “for all the favors Abdul Aziz Al Saud has done for Syria and the Syrian government and nation can’t ever forget,” Bashar Assad orders banning the movie. In an interview with Lebanese Al Akhbar daily on November 30th, Assad said the whole war in Syria could end if Saudi Arabia stopped arming and supporting militants who poured to the country following 2013 pro-reform protests. Saudi Arabia, along with Qatar and Turkey have been the strongest supporters of the war in Syria with Riyadh and Doha spending billions of dollars to support militants. Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who is Director General of the Saudi Intelligence Agency has been referred by many as one of the main figures leading the war against Syria. Nearly three years of crisis has taken its toll on the lives of around 126,000 people in Syria, according to new statistics compiled by the United Nations. Millions have also been displaced due to the turmoil.

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Suzuki Music Dallas About Suzuki ​Every Child Can Learn Dr. Suzuki believed that every child can be educated and that every child has the potential to reach a high level of skill. Daily practicing and listening are the keys to a child’s musical success. The “Mother Tongue” Approach The “Mother Tongue” approach is based on Dr. Suzuki’s belief that all children can learn when given the opportunity. Every child is expected to speak. Children are lovingly and patiently taught their native language by absorbing what they hear around them. They repeat the sounds they hear as they slowly and constantly build their own vocabulry. Listening, imitation, and repetition are also the key building blocks in learning to play an instrument. Encouraging an Early Start We are never too old to learn, but it is more natural and more effective when the child gets an early start. A three-year-old child can begin their instrument specific music education via the Suzuki Method. Parent Involvement is Crucial The involved parent is the “practice partner” at home. The parent attends every lesson, takes notes on assignments, and directs home practice with the teacher’s guidance and supervision. The teacher has great trust in the parent as the teacher guides the parent through every step. Daily Listening Students listen to their current pieces daily and repeatedly, just as they do when learning a language. They listen to familiarize themselves with what they will be learning, and the maintain and build their skill base. Learning by Repetition Students constantly review and refine the pieces that they have learned. This in turn strengthens memory, solidifies technique, and develops musical expression. Step-by-Step Mastery Each skill and piece of music is broken down into the most basic units, which are carefully mastered before continuing. This insures a child’s ease of playing and ultimate success in performance. Positive Reinforcement Promotes Success Enjoyment is an important part of the learning process. The teacher and parent praise the child’s progress. They find supportive and creative ways to work towards further improvement. Weekly Individual and Group Lessons Individual lessons provide the parent and child with the tools they need to work together at home. Group lessons provide an opportunity for a student to practice those skills with others, review the materials from the private lesson, and gain confidence and inspiration from other students. Parent-Teacher-Child Triangle The responsibility of the child’s progress lies with the parents and the teacher. They work together to nurture ability. They are the base that hold up the child at the top of this triangle. They not only instill a music education, they work together to develop the whole child. ​The Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas The Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas aims to foster and promote a learning community that strives for excellence and nurtures the human spirit through music. The Suzuki Music Institute of Dallas (SMID) was founded in 1968 by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki and Dr. Evelyn Hermann (the previous CEO of the International Suzuki Association), to provide learning opportunities and particularly musical training for children according to the Talent Education Philosophy expounded by Dr.Shinichi Suzuki. Paul and Lorraine Landefeld, upon Dr. Hermann’s retirement in 1986, guided the growth of the Institute to its then enrollment of approximately 160 students. Nicolette Solomon became the Executive Director in May 2005 after the retirement of Paul and Lorraine Landefeld. During her 13 years as director, the school grew to 300 students, with 6 full-time and 6 part time faculty, and tuition offered in violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, piano, organ, harp, music theory, and composition. Dr. Rhea Edelman was appointed as the Executive Director in 2018, after being a member of the violin faculty for 6 years. The Institute has many ties to Japan. Nicolette Solomon studied with Dr. Suzuki at The Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan. Paul and Lorraine Landefeld spent two years studying there. In February 1995, SMID hosted the Third International Suzuki Piano Basics Workshop and Conference, featuring Mr. Seizo Azuma, Pianist, of Yokohama, Japan, and Dr. Haruko Kataoka, co-founder of the Suzuki Piano method. Also featured were exemplary students of the Talent Education Institute of Matsumoto, Japan. SMID has on several occasions hosted the Japanese Children’s Tour Group featuring Talent Education students from many parts of Japan. SMID regularly invites artists and recognized pedagogues to conduct master classes and workshops for its students and the community. Fabio Bidini, Dr. Doris Harrel, Nancy Locken, Gerardo Ascheri, Brian Lewis, Fay Adams, Diana Galindo, Lucy Shaw, Michi North and many other fabulous string and piano clinicians from the United States and abroad have been guest teachers at our Institute.

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David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979 | The New York Times | Martha Schwendener The Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012) is best known for the sly, jokey photographs, sculptures and videos he made with Peter Fischli under the name Fischli/Weiss. Among these is the classic film “The Way Things Go” (1987), a Rube Goldberg lineup of everyday objects arranged into a flaming, foaming, combustible chain reaction. Before Fischli/Weiss started in 1979, however, Mr. Weiss published artists’ books. Included in this exhibition are more than 60 comics, abstractions and psychedelic landscapes peppered with anthropomorphic insects, plants and animals. Many of the works here served as sketches or prototypes for the books Mr. Weiss published in the ’70s, which were gathered in the recent publication “Nine Books 1973-1979” (2014). Vestiges of Sigmar Polke, whom Mr. Weiss knew in Zurich, are apparent, as well as alt-comic artists like R. Crumb — particularly in the board-game-cum-comic “The Big Society Game or the Story of the Beagle Commune” (date unknown), which finds Minnie Mouse frolicking among a commune of dogs. American viewers will immediately see overlaps with Philip Guston, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley or the Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg; Mr. Weiss cited Walt Disney and the European illustrators Wilhelm Busch and Ernst Kreidolf as inspirations. What’s really on display here, though, is an ethos: call it post-’60s exhaustion or countercultural ennui. An undated ink-and-gouache drawing, not unlike a cartoon in The New Yorker, finds two longhaired types walking through an urban landscape. “I’m fed up with drugs,” one man says. “Me, too,” the other responds. Shortly after this, Mr. Weiss and Mr. Fischli would make the work they’re known for, couched in photographic irony and humor rather than hand-drawn hippie existentialism. “Untitled” (date unknown), by David Weiss, whose show at the Swiss Institute comprises works on paper from 1968-79, including comics and psychedelic landscapes. Credit Estate of David Weiss David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979

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Initially founded in 1991, until now, we cooperate with more than 50 big famous brands of fashion field. Specialty Fashion Group (SFG) is the largest specialty retailer of women’s fashion in Australasia, represented by its brands: Millers, Crossroads, Katies, Autograph, City Chic and the newest addition, Rivers, which brings new categories to the Group including menswear and (a heritage in) shoes. Our six diverse brands offer style and value to our customers. At SFG, we sell a garment every second in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States through our portfolio of over 1,000 stores and our 7 online businesses. SFG has one of the largest women’s customer communities in Australasia with over 7 million members and can reach over 3 million members through email. Our members’ loyalty is high, representing over 80% of sales. With a large range of activities, we always provide best products and solutions to customers. All 0 - 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Alfred Dunhill Ltd. Anna Valentine Dolce & Gabbana‎ E. Thomas Gucci‎ Reem Alasadi There is no brand macthing your select

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Ouch! See which sci-fi films picked up those 'coveted' Razzie Awards Tag: Razzie Awards Tag: After Earth Tag: the lone ranger The night before the best in cinema was celebrated at the Oscars, the worst in cinema was celebrated at the Razzies, and genre films were well represented. Earlier this year, the nominees for the 34th annual Razzie Awards were announced, and several of the year's biggest sci-fi, fantasy and horror duds were on the list. After Earth, M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi adventure starring Jaden Smith and his father, Will, earned six nominations, while Gore Verbinski's much-maligned The Lone Ranger earned five. Both films were also up for the top Razzie prize: Worst Picture of 2013. So who took home the trophies Saturday night? More Razzie Awards So which sci-fi flick got the most Golden Razzie noms for 2012? Transformers: The Last Knight, The Mummy, Dead Men Tell No Tales will vie for worst movies at 2018 Razzies Well, both After Earth and The Lone Ranger "lost" the Worst Picture award to the comedy anthology Movie 43, but both films still earned awards. After Earth "won" Razzies in three of the six categories in which it was nominated, including Worst Actor for Jaden Smith, Worst Supporting Actor for Will Smith, and Worst Screen Combo for the father-son duo. The Lone Ranger, meanwhile, left with only one award: Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. After Earth's three wins also tied it for most wins on the night alongside Movie 43 (Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay). The other genre films up for Razzies -- Machete Kills (Worst Supporting Actor for Lady Gaga), Scary Movie 5 (Worst Supporting Actress for Lindsay Lohan, Worst Screen Combo for Lohan and Charlie Sheen, and Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel), The Smurfs 2 (Worst Remake, Rip-off, or Sequel) and A Haunted House (Worst Supporting Actor for Nick Swardson) -- were all shut out. So, now that Awards Season is officially over, it's time to start looking ahead to what films we might be talking about in these categories next year. What do you think? Have you spotted any early Razzie contenders yet? (Via Rotten Tomatoes)

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Giles Goodall Giles is a passionate pro-European, liberal, and internationalist. Born and bred in Sussex, he studied in Surrey and in Bruges, and holds two degrees in European affairs. He joined the Liberal Democrats to campaign for the UK’s place in Europe, and to fight for a fairer, greener Britain. Currently heading a team of 25 at the European Commission’s department for justice, consumers and equality, Giles is a communications professional with 20 years of EU experience. He has previously worked in the EU departments for economic and financial affairs, employment and social affairs, in the European Parliament, and as a journalist. Giles was a Liberal Democrat candidate for the South East at the last European elections, when he ran a dynamic campaign across the region, reaching out to young people, EU citizens, and the LGBTI community, and helping to ensure Catherine Bearder’s re-election as MEP. As a long-time Chair of Liberal Democrats in Europe, Giles more than doubled the local party’s membership and worked to build alliances with other liberal parties around Europe. He also stood as our parliamentary candidate in Wealden, East Sussex at the 2015 General Election. His priorities as a European candidate are to fight Brexit, to restore Britain’s damaged influence in Europe, to stand up for liberal values by working with our allies, and to represent the South East region. Fluent in three European languages and conversant in another three, Giles brings energy, dynamism and direct EU experience to the Lib Dem team for the South East.

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Space Shuttle Discovery Lands on Earth After Final Voyage By Denise Chow 2011-03-09T16:57:32Z Space shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to complete its 39th and final flight. (Image: © NASA/Bill Ingalls ) This story was updated at 3:37 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth from its final mission, never to soar in orbit again. In the end, Discovery — NASA's oldest and most traveled shuttle — flew its last mission the same way it flew its first: with grace and pride, and with keen eyes around the world watching it every step of the way. The shuttle landed for the final time here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 11:57 a.m. EST (1657 GMT), capping a busy 13-day mission to the International Space Station. After 27 years and 39 flights, Discovery's wheels rolled to a stop for the very last time under the warm sun at the Florida spaceport's Shuttle Landing Facility. Discovery was "a perfect vehicle from start to finish on her final flight," the mission's commander Steven Lindsey radioed Mission Control after landing the shuttle smoothly despite windy conditions. "Great job by you and your crew. That was a great landing in tough conditions and it was an awesome docked mission that you all had," Mission Control told the crew, adding that the mission's 13 days boosted Discovery to a full year of cumulative time in space. "I think that you'd call that a fleet leader and a leader of any manned vehicle for time in orbit. So, job well done." As the shuttle's six-astronaut crew rightly predicted, the air at the landing site was tinged with a mixture of celebration and sadness. "It really is an honor and a privilege to be able to fly Discovery at any time, and the fact that we're on this final flight really stands out to us," mission specialist Nicole Stott said during an in-flight interview. "It's a real opportunity to celebrate the really great things that have gone on with Discovery. I think when we walk away from her on the runway, there's going to be tears in my eyes. I worked with her at KSC and the chance to fly her has just been a real, real privilege." [Gallery: Building Space Shuttle Discovery] The next mission for Discovery will never leave Earth. NASA plans to begin preparing the shuttle for public display in a museum, likely the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Discovery is the first of NASA's space shuttles to be retired, but all three will eventually end up on display in a museum somewhere in the country. An intense competition among 29 different institutions has been under way for the limited number of shuttles. NASA will announce the final destinations for Discovery and its two sister ships on April 12 – the 30th anniversary for the shuttle program. Space shuttle Discovery sails high over the southwestern coast of Morocco in this image taken by International Space Station astronauts just after the two vehicles undocked on March 7, 2011 during the STS-133 mission. (Image credit: NASA) Discovery's legacy Discovery launched on its final mission on Feb. 24, after months of delays due to issues with the shuttle's external fuel tank. The STS-133 mission delivered supplies, hardware, a new storage room and a humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 to the International Space Station and its residents. The STS-133 and Expedition 26 crew members gather in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station to speak with President Barack Obama on March 3, 2011. (Image credit: NASA TV) NASA's space shuttle fleet has been instrumental in the construction of the space station, and Discovery did its part by hauling sections of the backbone-like truss, the U.S. Harmony node, and the Japanese Kibo laboratory module. Discovery was the first shuttle to visit the International Space Station during the orbiter's STS-96 mission in May 1999. Over the course of its space career, NASA's fleet leader returned to the orbiting outpost another 12 times. Among its myriad accomplishments, Discovery also deployed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, giving mankind the ability to peer deep into the cosmos. NASA's current chief, former shuttle commander Charles Bolden, served as the pilot for that Hubble mission. He watched today as Discovery returned to Earth for the final time. ""This is very bittersweet for all of us," Bolden said on the shuttle landing strip. Discovery also performed both return-to-flight missions after the agency's fleet was grounded following the losses of the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. During its 27-year operational life, Discovery spent a total of 365 days in space, putting roughly 148 million miles (238 million kilometers) on its odometer in the process. Skywatcher Rob Bullen of Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England caught this snapshot of shuttle Discovery (left) as it approached the International Space Staiton on Feb. 26, 2011. Discovery was flying its final mission, STS-133. (Image credit: Rob Bullen) Over the course of 39 launches, Discovery carried 246 people into space, according to NASA officials. Returning home on the shuttle with Lindsey were pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Alvin Drew, Steve Bowen, Nicole Stott and Michael Barratt. Shuttle program wrapping up NASA is bringing its 30-year space shuttle program to an end later this year to focus on exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. After Discovery lands, the orbiter will begin a months-long decontamination process to ensure that it is safe for public display in a museum NASA has two more shuttle missions planned — Endeavour's STS-134 flight in April, and Atlantis' final STS-135 flight in June. The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to roll out to the seaside Launch Pad 39A tomorrow night beginning at 8 p.m. EST (0100 March 11). You can follow SPACE.com Staff Writer Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow as she covers Discovery's final space voyage and landing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Visit SPACE.com for complete coverage of Discovery's final mission STS-133.

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2012 Volkswagen Golf GTI Concept Car Paris is now the city of the VW Golf GTI. Four years ago, the sixth generation of the best-seller made its debut here - still as a concept car. In autumn 2012, Volkswagen is presenting the seventh generation Golf GTI in a premiere at the 2012 Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris - also as a concept car. In doing so, Volkswagen is opening another window to the immediate future of the most successful European car model series, because another car being shown to a global audience in the French capital at the same time as the GTI is the near-production concept of the new Golf BlueMotion. The new Volkswagen Golf GTI will be launched into the market in early 2013. Volkswagen Golf GTI Concept 220 PS and 230 PS. The concept of the next Golf GTI is powered by a further advanced engine from the EA888 series - a two-litre turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine with 162 kW / 220 PS. A new option: for the first time in the iconic sports car's history, a performance pack will be available as a factory-installed option. In this version, the engine's maximum power is boosted to 169 kW / 230 PS. Both GTI versions are equipped with a Stop/Start system as standard, they fulfil the EU-6 emissions standard that takes effect in 2014 and - with a 6-speed manual gearbox - they attain the same low DIN fuel consumption of 6.0 l/100 km (CO2: 140 g/km). Compared to the previous model (155 kW / 210 PS), the combined fuel consumption of the new Golf GTI is therefore reduced by 1.3 litres per 100 km or 18 per cent. A 6-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) is available as an option for both power levels. The performance pack not only offers a plus in power, but also a plus in handling: instead of 16-inch brakes, the GTI is equipped with 17-inch brakes here (with GTI badges on the callipers) and a front axle differential lock (VAQ) that is also being offered for the first time in this form. Front axle differential lock. The electronically controlled lock has a positive effect on active safety and driving dynamics, because it practically prevents the power-related understeer that can occur in powerful front-wheel drive cars. This makes handling precise, and has a stabilising effect in load-alteration induced oversteer. The reason: VAQ increases the power to the wheel on the outside of the curve, which also optimises the vehicle's speed through bends. Traction is also improved when driving on loose and wet road surfaces and in turning situations. Progressive steering. The new progressive steering system is celebrating a world premiere in the Golf GTI. It is a standard feature for both power levels. Thanks to this steering system, the driver can turn the car through a desired radius with fewer turns of the steering wheel. In other words, the driver does not need to reach over the wheel as often. That may sound simple, but it is revolutionary. The reason is that conventional steering systems work with a constant gear ratio. The new steering of the Volkswagen Golf GTI, meanwhile, operates with a progressive steering gear ratio. This noticeably reduces steering work when manoeuvring and parking. On country roads with lots of bends, and when making turns, the driver experiences a benefit in dynamics due to the more direct layout. Technically, progressive steering differs from the basic steering system due to the rack and pinion's variable tooth spacing and a more powerful electric motor. Its functional difference: unlike with constant steering ratios, which by necessity always represent a compromise between dynamic performance and comfort, here the steering rack's toothing is significantly modified by the steering stroke. As a result, the transition between indirect steering behaviour in the mid-range (straight-line driving) and direct steering behaviour at larger steering wheel angles is designed to be progressive, which, as mentioned above, enables significantly more agile steering behaviour in dynamic driving situations. This results in smaller steering input angles when parking for greater convenience and comfort. Variable ratios have long been known in the area of hydraulic steering systems; however, the tuning of such a steering system is subject to very tight limits, so that the driver is not overtaxed by the transitional behaviour. With the Golf GTI's progressive steering system the situation is completely different: the combination of the steering rack's progressive steering ratio and the tuning potential of an electro-mechanical steering system is systematically exploited in the GTI to realise optimised steering behaviour that is sporty yet practical in everyday driving. In all other Golf cars, progressive steering is offered as an optional feature. Like all six Golf GTI generations before it, the seventh generation concept car being shown in Paris is distinguished from other Golf models by numerous additional equipment features and classic GTI insignia. On the exterior, these include the red painted brake callipers, a GTI-typical honeycomb structure for the air inlet screens, smoked LED rear lights including LED licence plate lighting as well as chrome 80 mm diameter tailpipes on the left and right. Some features have been characteristic since the days of the first Volkswagen Golf GTI, for example the production colours Red ("Tornado Red") and "Black" and an optional white exterior ("Pure White" as special colour). Volkswagen has further developed the classic GTI wheels "Denver", "Detroit" and "Glendale" whose styling characteristics from the previous model have flowed into the design of the new machine-polished 17-inch "Brooklyn" alloy wheels; they have a lighter visual look and are in fact lighter in weight. The wheels are fitted with 225/45 size tyres. 18-inch wheels will also be available on the GTI as an option. Overall, the seventh generation Golf is also visually more dynamic than the previous one. The objective of the designers was to develop an even more striking and sporty character into the new Golf GTI - the goal was to give the GTI a lower, wider image with a more challenging character. Volkswagen Design developed numerous individual, detailed solutions for the new Golf GTI and integrated them harmoniously into the overall visual concept. Important here is the fact that the GTI-specific design elements are not simply "add-on" solutions, but are integrated into the overall design of the car. One significant reason for this is that the GTI was designed in parallel to the "normal" Golf - and this made it possible to coordinate perfectly the differentiating characteristics of the two model versions. At the front end, with its LED fog lights specially customised for the GTI, a powerful and significant GTI element attracts attention, which has now been fully reinterpreted: the red stripe. In the first generation of the car it surrounded the rectangular radiator grille completely. On the sixth generation GTI there were two red stripes, which framed the grille at the top and bottom. Now, on the seventh generation car, the red stripe marks the lower edge of the radiator grille, but for the first time it extends further to the left and right, up to the housings of the bi-xenon headlights. So, the red line now runs completely across the front end. In the far lower section of the bumper, beneath the crossbar painted in body colour, the black air inlet (with a honeycomb pattern screen) is no longer framed by a black area, rather by surfaces painted in body colour, which makes the air inlet stand out more powerfully. At the same time, the three lateral black aerodynamic fins beneath the headlights play a more prominent role in the front end styling. Another detail fitting in with the precisely contoured styling is the black splitter (lower edge of the front spoiler), which is familiar from motorsport. Also styled in black are the side sills and the rear diffuser. These quasi wrap-around black elements give the Golf, which is equipped with a GTI sport chassis (15 mm lower ride height), an even fuller stance on the road. Another example of the harmonious integration of GTI-specific elements is the new roof spoiler design, which is considerably larger than its counterpart on Golf versions with less powerful engines and which is integrated to be flush with the bootlid and the body. For the first time, the sporty Volkswagen also has - in addition to the GTI badges at the front and rear - red plates on the front wings at the height of the character line with the same typographic interpretation of the GTI logo that has been used for decades. GTI insignia in the interior. The very first GTI had this feature: seat covers in legendary tartan pattern. The sixth generation Golf GTI used "Jacky" fabric, and in the transition to the new GTI generation this has been redesigned and is now named "Clark". Naturally, the tartan pattern was retained. The sport seats (in front, with sliding drawers under the seats) have exceptionally good ergonomic properties. Step in, sit down, adjust the backrest angle and the distance to the steering wheel, buckle up, and you're all ready to drive. Nonetheless, the front seats also have height adjustment and a manually adjustable lumbar support. Red decorative seams in the area of the seats and the gear shift trim provide a sporty contrast; the black roofliner that is always part of the GTI emphasises the sporty layout of the interior. Along with its many standard features such as air conditioning, fatigue detection and the "Composition Touch" radio system (with CD card slot and AUX-IN interface), other GTI-specific features refine the standard version interior as well: typical of a Volkswagen Golf GTI are the customised sport steering wheel and a special gear shift grip. The latter is once again reminiscent of a golf ball, which also makes it a tribute to the first GTI just like the new leather-trimmed steering wheel design. The sporty flat-bottomed steering wheel with its three metal spokes and trim in high-gloss black has a lightweight look, and it is remarkably handy and easy to grip. On its two cross spokes it has multifunction keys as standard, and at its centre - in contrast to all other Golf steering wheels - it has a round impact absorber whose form is similar to that of the component in the first GTI. Also making a strong statement is the GTI instrument cluster with a colour display and independent graphics of its instruments. It is no coincidence that it resembles high-end chronographs. The GTI-specific look of the interior is completed by red ambience lighting, special trim strips and panels (trim strips in the front doors with ambience lighting), brushed stainless steel pedals and foot rest (on left), door sill entry plates in front with a stainless steel application and ambience lighting that is also integrated here. Volkswagen Golf GTI Edition 35 market launch begins in mid-June The 35th anniversary of the Golf GTI was an impetus for Volkswagen to create a very special type of anniversary model. In Germany, from May 12th orders are... MTM Volkswagen Golf GTI German tuners Motoren Technik Mayer (MTM) has revealed its latest tuning programme for the Volkswagen Golf GTI. The new kit is ready to make your GTI powerful enough to smash the... The new Volkswagen Golf R The most powerful and fastest-accelerating Golf ever produced – the Golf R – has been unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Developed by... 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h t t p : / / w w w . s p e a k e r s l a . c o m Founder of the Solidarity Movement, Fmr. President of Poland & Swan Productions,LLC Manhatten Beach, Tues., Nov.13, 2001 PASADENA 8:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 14, 2001 REDONDO BEACH 8:00 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 15, 2001 THOUSAND OAKS 8:00 p.m. This brash union organizer's personal courage helped shape the 20th century. As leader of the Solidarity movement he led Poland out of communism. His contribution to the end of communism in Europe, and hence the end of the cold war, stands beside those of Pope John Paul II and Soviet leader Gorbachev. He became Poland's first democratically elected president in 1990. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Medal of Freedom, and the Award of the Free World. TO ORDER TICKETS, CLICK HERE. 2001 Season | Past Seasons | Order Tickets | Our Sponsors | Contests | Contact Us | © 1998 Swan Productions. All rights reserved. Julie & David Eisenhower

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Heat wave sees Chamonix reach 36°, Mont Blanc glacier melting You are here:HomeBlogHeat wave sees Chamonix reach 36°, Mont Blanc glacier melting 29 June 2019 from Danielle in Latest news Record-breaking temperatures were recorded at Mont Blanc this week. Chamonix (1050m) reached a sweltering 36°, breaking the former record of 34° from the year 1947. And at the Aiguille du Midi summet, which is normally frozen this time of year, temperatures shot up to 14°, another record. Even the summit of Mont Blanc reached 7° for a few hours before dropping back down to 2°. Over in the Pyrenees, at the Pic du Midi (2876m), the temperature at the summit reached a record-breaking 12°, and glaciologists estimate that the current glacier melt rate is around 10cm per day. Melting glaciers leading to unstable terrain Since the snow line lies above the summit of Mont Blanc, all the glaciers are experiencing positive temperatures, leading to melting glaciers. This has led some French journalists to quip that "Mont Blanc" ("Mount White") might soon be undeserving of its name. Once the permafrost starts melting, the entire mountain face becomes unstable, leading to an increased risk of landslides. Guides have already had to adapt their itineraries and mountain refuges have been relocated to compensate for the unstable terrain due to the increasing temperatures of the last few decades. Climate change may change the face of our glaciers It's not the first time this region has experienced such hot temperatures - they occurred in 1983, August of 2003 and July of 2015. But the increase in hot years appears to be linked to climate change, and this is the first year the drastic heat wave has happened so early in the season. A scientific study released by Nature magazine warned that climate change may cause the summit of Mont Blanc to see a 45-50% decrease in frost by the end of this century. Over in Écrins, the Glacier Blanc has shrunk by 450m and lost 5m in thickness between 2014 and 2018. Heat wave hit France earlier than usual France has been in the throes of a heat wave and experts predict this summer's temperatures could surpass those experienced in 2003, when 15 000 people died from the August heat. The hotter-than-usual temperatures are due to a blast of hot air from the Sahara and North Africa. Météo France has released orange weather warnings and the country is on high alert to mitigate the effects of this early heat wave. Check out this map by Météo France for an overview of heat records that were set in June and July 2019. High-altitude lakes are melting faster than usual for this time of year (Photo: © Eric Courcier, accompagnateur en montagne - photographe) Effects of climate change on the ski industry Melting ski areas is old news, and most skiers and snowboarders will recognise the panic associated with choosing a ski resort that will have guaranteed snow cover, even in the middle of winter. This past ski season saw Austria inundated with way too much snow, while France, Italy and Switzerland suffered brown slopes for most of the winter. Back in November, a group of students mounted a giant postcard on the melting Aletsch Glacier, pleading governments to take action against climate change. In response to rising temperatures, Tignes is planning to build an indoor ski slope at 2000m above sea level, and ski resorts in the US are suing petrol companies over their negative effects on their ski seasons. In more encouraging news, some ski resorts are having success with snow farming and green energy. While fighting climate change will likely require intervention by governments and corporations, we can do our part by making environmentally sound decisions when planning our ski holidays. Let's keep the snow around so our children can enjoy skiing too! Header image from Chamonix Mont Blanc webcam

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// Home / Sonneveld / News / Archive / Sonneveld / Powder factory Sonneveld has a new operating system 19 June 2017 - Powder factory Sonneveld has a new operating system (Corporate News) The Sonneveld powder factory operating system has been upgraded to the latest version. This upgrade took place between 12 April and 24 May. All hardware (computers, switchboards, switchboards) has been renewed and the software has been re-inserted. Through this upgrade, we can ensure the continuity of our factory for the coming years. The operating system of the old specialty factory and the Palipro factory will be upgraded next year. The preparations have taken months. Our customers and their orders have always been our priority to ensure that their raw materials are delivered on time. Hence, an estimation of the orders of raw materials was made in advance. These raw materials were stocked accordingly to meet customer’s demands during these weeks. This process was successful. In addition to the upgrade of the operating system, two other projects have also been completed: 1. All raw materials have a barcode. This enables us to track the raw materials even better, from supplier to customer. This is beneficial in ensuring the best quality. 2. All motors in the powder factory are now equipped with special switches to ensure a safer work environment for all operators. Sonneveld shows that she is ready for the future together with these investments!

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Non-bank lenders provide growth opportunities to mid-market businesses Mid market businesses have increased opportunities for growth since financing options, previously only open to large corporates, have become accessible for mid-market corporates. Grant Thornton UK LLP surveyed 100 mid sized businesses and 100 non-bank lenders, and revealed that 61% of corporate respondents have used a non-bank lender. Shaun O’Callaghan, UK head of debt advisory at Grant Thornton said: “I believe this is a once in a generational change in the financing market. The proliferation of non-bank lenders has been a key driver of innovation and these firms are an exciting source of funding for mid-market companies”. Daniel Smith, Partner at Grant Thornton, assessed the benefits that non-bank lenders offer mid-sized corporates. He said: “Non-bank lenders can be attracted to alternative funding structures such as non-amortising debt, where a substantial portion of the loan is not repaid during the loan period, because the total interest they receive remains constant” “These bullet repayment structures can be hugely beneficial to mid-sized businesses, as it opens up the possibility for them to invest more of their operating cash flows into fuelling further growth, rather than paying down debt”. “As a result of benefits such as these, corporates have become increasingly aware of non-bank lending activity with virtually all corporate respondents (92%) thinking that these firms have been ‘active’ or ‘very active’ over the previous two years”. Grant Thornton’s research found that 45% of non-bank lenders are looking to invest over the long term and offer a range of interest rates; however the research highlighted a need for better understanding between the lenders and respondents. Findings show that in the past year 15% of lenders began 15 or more deals but only 2% were completed with 82% of respondents citing corporates unrealistic expectations as to why deals are not completed. Furthermore, Grant Thornton found that some businesses perceive lenders to put their own their returns ahead of the interests of business owners’. Daniel Smith said: “Non-bank lenders need to do more to improve communications with corporates over these misconceptions. If they can tackle these misunderstandings there is surely room for further acceptance and growth”. Stephensons’ Commercial Team can assist businesses in finding the right financial advice for their particular needs. There are a significant amount of products in the market and obtaining the correct advice at the outset may well save your business money in the future. By Nicola Whittle, associate solicitor in the commercial litigation department Employee ownership trusts - the alternative way of selling your business Top tips for buying or selling a care home The sale of new-build houses as leasehold to be banned - what does this mean for developers? What is a full repairing and insuring lease and what does it mean for tenants? Updated HMO licensing rules What are my legal obligations as a landlord of a commercial building?

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St. Mary’s Shimek Named NCBWA All-American Home » News » St. Mary’s Shimek Named NCBWA All-American San Antonio – St. Mary’s University baseball player Scott Shimek was named Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-American for his play during the 2008 season, it was announced by the organization on Wednesday. Shimek (Jr., Shiner) was an honorable mention honoree on the team. He went 11-1 this season with a 3.18 ERA, four complete games and one shutout. He struck out 113 batters against just 39 walks in 93.1 innings this season. His 11-1 record is the second best winning percentage for a pitcher in a single season in school history, behind only Aaron Carter’s 15-1 mark in 1996. Previously, Shimek was named Rawlings/American Baseball Coaches Association All-South Central Region, Heartland Conference Pitcher of the Year and first team all-conference; the first time that he has earned All-Heartland Conference honors. Twice this season he was named conference pitcher of the week. Shimek is the third Rattler to earn Heartland Conference Pitcher of the Year honors. Jeff Wigdhal picked up the honor in 2004 and Caleb Staudt earned it in 2006. The Rattlers finished the 2008 regular season with a 39-17 overall record and a 35-14 mark in Heartland Conference play, good for second place in the league standings. The Rattlers finished the season by winning eight of their last nine games. Students and faculty showcase the formation of faith at St. Mary’s

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Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie address: A. Mickiewicza Ave. 30 30-059 Krakow, Poland phone: +48 12 617 50 92, e-mail: international.students@agh.edu.pl internet: www.agh.edu.pl The AGH University of Science and Technology is at present one of the oldest (established in 1913), biggest, and best Polish technical universities. Contrary to its traditional name, the University has a wide portfolio of education, covering virtually all scientific issues related to technical or similar sciences. The profile and scope of education as well as research at AGH UST is constantly changing and developing, as we are aspiring to be continually up to date with demands of the present times. We are following the requirements of dynamically changing labour market, closely watching directions of changes in economy, administration and politics. The mission of our university is up-to-date education of engineers who specialise in many branches of technology (offering 59 courses and over 200 specialisations). It is worth mentioning that many of AGH UST specialisations are unique and they have no counterparts in any other Polish universities. We want to preserve this uniqueness by combining knowledge of technology and arts, especially since we employ highly qualified and internationally recognised staff in many unique fields (environmental protection, environmental engineering, underground renovation of historical monuments and archeometallurgy, multimedia and social communication, geotourism, management in specified industries, biomaterials and biomedical engineering). There are more than 32 000 students studying at 16 faculties. PhD courses are also conducted – there are about 1 000 PhD students at AGH UST. 16 faculties are authorized to confer the degree of Doctor of Science or Doctor of Philosophy. The AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow is a university of modern technologies with great prospects for the future. A varied and attractive educational offer and innovative research in the fields strategic for the national economy are our true asset. A wide scope of research conducted at the university is a result of the contemporary structure which has been shaped over the last 100 years; the development of the university units was connected with the dynamic development of economy of the country. Invariably, the ambition of AGH UST has been getting ahead of present time, which results in many innovative solutions in different areas. Today, the university comprises 16 faculties. Their research activity is connected with traditional, yet constantly developing branches of industry and economy (mining, drilling, metallurgy…), and with particular fields of Earth and technical sciences (geology, geodesy, electrical engineering…). Well represented are also faculties conducting research in dynamically developing disciplines such as computer science, telecom-munications, and biomedical engineering, as well as faculties connected with the basic sciences (mathematics, physics, geophysics, and sociology). The university is a creative place. This fact is confirmed by annual reports published by the Polish Patent Office, where we are in the lead among institutions submitting the largest number of inventions and utility models. Every year, we obtain over 100 patents and sell several dozen licences. Our activity is also noticeable on the European arena. The AGH UST campus is located in the centre of the most beautiful Polish city – Krakow. Modern teaching and research facilities with laboratories equipped with unique apparatus, comfortable conditions, numerous improvements for people with disabilities, and the largest campus in Poland – these are only some of its many assets. The compact complex of AGH UST buildings is located in one district of Krakow and covers the area of 38 ha. An integral part of the university campus is the AGH UST Student Campus, covering the area of 13 ha. Comfortable conditions are a great asset of the student houses – access to the Internet, special places for learning, TV rooms, and club rooms. The student campus has its own sports fields (including a modern football pitch, and volleyball and basketball courts with artificial surfaces), and tennis courts. A very modern AGH UST Swimming Pool is another great asset. Close proximity of the Krakow Błonia Park and Park Jordana allows runners, joggers, cyclists, and roller skaters to spend time actively in the picturesque and green areas of the city. AGH UST is a special place with unique atmosphere; it is a place of ideas, successes and friendships for life. 2237 academic staff 31 941 students (36 % women) Centre for International Students A. Mickiewicza Ave. 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland REGULAR STUDIES: phone: +48 12 617 50 92, +48 12 617 46 15 EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES: e-mail: exchange@agh.edu.pl www.international.agh.edu.pl www.facebook.com/AGHUSTCIS BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications BSc in Mechatronic Engineering MSc in Chemical Technology: Clean Fossil and Alternative Fuels Energy MSc in Civil Engineering : Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Construction MSc in Computer Science: Systems Modelling and Data Analysis MSc in Electrical Engineering: Smart Grids Technology Platform MSc in Electronics and Telecommunications: Network and Services MSc in Geophysics: Applied Geophysics MSc in in Computer Aided Engineering Processes: Virtualization of Foundry Engineering MSc in Management: International Management MSc in Materials Engineering: Advanced Materials – Processing and Characterization MSc in Materials Engineering: Functional Materials MSc in Materials Engineering: Modern Materials, Design, and Application MSc in Mechatronic Engineering: Mechatronics Design MSc in Mining and Geology: Economic Geology MSc in Mining Geology: Mining Engineering MSc in Sociology: Technology and Society

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Japan has one of the highest standards of living in the world due to its expansive public transport system, an abundance of affordable and healthy eateries, and some of the lowest crime rates in the world. ​For a comprehensive guide to Japan for students, visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website Study in Japan. Web Japan offers information on Japanese culture, tourism and history. Timing of study sessions Most Japanese higher educational institutions have an academic year that runs from April to March of the following year, with two semesters, first semester (April ~ September) and second semester (October ~ March). Preparatory language opportunities Many universities offer short Japanese language courses as do a wide variety of private language schools. Some private universities such as Sophia, Waseda and Keio Universities offer short-term programs that can be undertaken as part of broader study or independently. For further information about language study, see the Study in Japan website. Studying in English Japanese universities are increasingly offering more courses and degrees in English. This is particularly evident at the burgeoning number of international universities and at the post-graduate levels. Asian Students Cultural Association University Degree Courses (English website) The Japan Student Services Organisation also provides information on education institutions in Japan VET or technical colleges in Japan Japan Institute of National Colleges of Technology Metropolitan Tokyo Professional Institution Association (Japanese) Students on a ‘College Visa’ or ‘Pre-college Student Visa’ who wish to work a part-time job are required to obtain a work permit (‘Permit to Engage in Activity other than that Permitted by the Status of Residence Previously Granted’). Applications for work permits can be made at the local immigration bureau. Part-time jobs most commonly available to international students include: food service industry jobs; sales and marketing; language teacher; and cleaning. For more information, see Study in Japan, Tokyo Employment Service Centre for Foreigners and Osaka Employment Service Centre for Foreigners. Internships are not common in Japan but are attracting growing student interest. Most are arranged through individual connections after arrival in Japan, and host universities and supervisors are a key source of advice on internship opportunities. Organisations in Japan that can be of assistance include: The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Australia-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ANZCCJ) The Tokyo Employment Service Centre for Foreigners (Operated by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, caters primarily to full-time employment but can advise on internships). Students in rural areas such as Kyushu and Shikoku should budget on average ¥110,000 per month (including tuition fees), while Tokyo-based students can expect to get by on about ¥150,000 yen per month. The Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO).) provides an overview on living costs according to each region in Japan. Academic fees in Japan tend to be more attractive than in Europe and North America. There are a number of opportunities for tuition fee exemption/reduction and scholarships specifically for international students. In addition to tuition fees, students are required to pay fees for admission (in their first year), facility and equipment usage. For information regarding academic fees, visit the website of the Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO). You should not expect the same level of service at ATMs as in Australia. In some areas, ATMs are closed at night and/or on weekends, and may not accept international credit cards. Not all banks have money exchanging services available. For information on currency and money exchange visit the Japan National Tourism Organisation website. See Financial assistance for information about financial support and scholarships. The Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) and the Japanese government offer scholarships for international studentes: Scholarships for Study in Japan - JASSO Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship See the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a comprehensive Guide to Japanese Visas. Host organisations and the Japanese Embassy or Consulates in Australia can provide further advice. International students may join the National Health Insurance System on arrival in Japan (mandatory if staying for more than one year), and many Japanese universities offer additional insurance plans for students. As the national system does not cover the full costs of medical treatment, students are advised to take out travel insurance before departure or seek advice on host university insurance arrangements. For more information, see Study in Japan. Accommodation and transport Japanese universities have adequate facilities for student accommodation from low cost dormitories to private, higher cost accommodation options. Accommodation may require a commute to campus. Campuses provide low cost dining options ($4-5 meals), and usually offer low cost restaurants in surrounding areas. In Japan taking out a lease on private accommodation may require a down payment of up to 6 months of rent, and a guarantor is necessary. Its extensive and reliable public transport network operates until 12am in major cities. Japanese Government websites Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Japanese Embassy and Consulates in Australia Embassy of Japan in Australia Consulate-General of Japan, Brisbane Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney Consulate-General of Japan, Melbourne Consulate-General of Japan, Perth Australian Embassy in Japan Australian Embassy Tokyo 2-1-4 Mita, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-8361 TEL: +81 (0) 3-5232-4111

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A Russian Immigrant and an American Classic Opinion, Top Stories David Hejmanowski - Contributing Columnist “You swore that you would, so be true to your vow, let’s all be Americans now.” — Let’s All Be Americans Now, 1917 “While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free.” — God Bless America, 1938 Israel Baline was born May 11, 1888 in Tolochin, a city that is now part of Belarus, but was then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Moses, was a cantor in a synagogue, but when the Tsars issued pogroms against the Russian Jews, Moses and his wife Lena moved their eight children to New York. The year was 1893 and Moses took work at a kosher deli and as an instructor in Hebrew. Lena worked as a midwife and the older children got jobs to help the family as well. Israel, or ‘Izzy’ as he was known to his friends, sold newspapers and soaked in the music of the theater district. He quit school at age 12, moved out of the home at 14 and soon was working in saloons and, eventually, as a singing waiter in Chinatown. He learned to play the piano, began writing his own songs and, in 1907, sold the rights to his first song, ‘Marie From Sunny Italy’, for 37 cents. The publisher misread his last name and instead of Baline, printed ‘I. Berlin’ on the sheet music. The career of Irving Berlin was off and running. Within two years he had his first job as a staff writer and, two years after that, in 1911, he penned the song that would change his life — ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band.’ The song made him a superstar and made his stage name instantly recognizable around the world. But just as the world was recognizing the genius of Irving Berlin, it was also being drawn into the hellish clutches of World War I. One hundred years ago — April 2, 1917 — President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to formally declare war against Germany. The Senate complied on April 4th, and when the House did likewise on April 6th, the U.S. had officially joined the Great War. Berlin was convinced that the music industry needed to do its part for the war effort. He immediately set to writing patriotic songs and, nearing age 30, was drafted into the Army and made a Sergeant. Among his first wartime hits was ‘For Your Country and My Country’, which included the line ‘It’s your duty and my duty, to speak with the sword not the pen.’ The piece, for which Berlin contributed the lyrics, was particularly moving for him as a Russian immigrant. He also set to writing an all-soldier musical about life in the Army called ‘Yip Yip Yaphank.’ It was a wartime success and is remembered today for the short tune, ‘Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.’ But it was a song that Berlin wrote for Yip Yip Yaphank and then decided not to use in the show that would later cement his place as an American icon. The tune just didn’t have a good place to go in the show, but Berlin liked it, so he held onto the music. In 1938, America was watching the winds of war swirl in Europe again and Kate Smith, the ‘First Lady of Radio’ was looking for a song to sing at an Armistice Day celebration in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the end of the Great War. Berlin knew just the song for the occasion — the one he had penned during the war but set aside. He considered the piece to be ode to his adopted country, but also to be a prayer for peace. As soon as Smith sang ‘God Bless America’ in November of 1938, America fell in love. Both Presidential candidates used it in the 1940 campaign. It has been sung in movies, at sporting events, even on the steps of the U.S. Capital by the members of Congress following the attacks of September 11th. And it was inspired 100 years ago by the patriotic stirrings of a Jewish immigrant — a refugee from religious persecution who fell in love with his adopted nation. http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/48/2017/05/web1_Hejmanowski.jpg David Hejmanowski David Hejmanowski is Judge of the Probate/Juvenile Division of the Delaware County Delaware County Court of Common Pleas. Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: A Russian Immigrant and an American Classic. Here is a link to that story: https://www.sunburynews.com/opinion/6108/a-russian-immigrant-and-an-american-classic

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Back To Team USA Athletes' Advisory Council Olympians and Paralympians Association Paralympic Advisory Council Performance Plan Selection Procedures Trevon Jenifer makes a shot during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Basketball has been a part of the Paralympic Games since 1960. Though originally played only by men with spinal cord injuries, now both men's and women's teams throughout the world, with a variety of disabilities, compete in the sport. Many of the same rules from its counterpart apply in the wheelchair game. While plays and tactics are similar, special rules, such as those to accommodate dribbling from a wheelchair, are also in place. The sport is governed by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF). The IWBF governs all aspects of the game, including court size and basket height, which remain the same as able-bodied basketball. Athletes in this event are grouped by demonstrated playing ability, rather than strictly by medical classification. Paralympic basketball competition is open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities such as amputation/limb loss, spinal cord injury/wheelchair-users, cerebral palsy/brain injury/stroke and other orthopedic and locomotor disabilities. The U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball Team and the day-to-day operations of the high performance program are overseen by National Wheelchair Basketball Association, the National Governing Body for Paralympic wheelchair fencing in the United States. To learn more about Paralympic wheelchair basketball, visit National Wheelchair Basketball Association's website or email NWBA. Find a local program in your community by visiting the Paralympic Resource Network. About U.S. Paralympics Sport Information How to become a classifier Paralympic Sport Clubs

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Meghan Markle 'distraught' after beloved dog 'breaks two legs' Meghan Markle and her dog, Guy Credit: Instagram Hannah Furness, Royal Correspondent Hannah Furness Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Meghan Marklehas been left "distraught" after her pet beagle broke two legs, it has been claimed. Ms Markle, who brought one of her two pet dogs with her to London from their Canadian home, has taken beagle Guy to be treated by vets, according to the Mail on Sunday. The accident is understood to have happened shortly after her engagement to Prince Harry was announced at the end of November. The newspaper has reported that the dog is being treated by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, described as a "world-class orthopaedic-neuro veterinary surgeon" and known for his work on television. Meghan Markle with Guy and Bogart in Toronto Credit: Instagram Ms Markle has previously spoken of her deep love for her two dogs, Guy and Bogart. Bogart, a labrador-shepherd cross , has been left behind with friends in Toronto after he was considered unfit to fly with the former actress to her new home at Kensington Palace. Speaking to the BBC after the engagement was announced, Ms Markle said: "One [dog] is now staying with very close friends and my other, little Guy, he's in the UK, he's been here for a while. "I think he's doing just fine." Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Credit: PA Prince Harry's fiance has previously described her dogs as "my boys" and "my loves", and said that they "mean the absolute world" to her. The Mail on Sunday reported that Guy is receiving treatment at a facility in Surrey, with Prince Harry travelling with a "very upset" Ms Markle to support her. A spokesman for Kensington Palace has not yet commented. Ms Markle was described this weekend as having a "feeling of zen" around her by broadcaster Tom Bradby, a former Royal correspondent and friend of Prince Harry. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their engagement photos Credit: Alexi Lubomirski He told the Sunday Times: "It's a great story at a time when the whole country is wrestling with issues of diversity. "The idea that Harry is marrying a strong, mixed -race campaigner for human rights …" Asked if he has met her, Bradby added: "I have. She's incredibly likeable and warm. I'm sure she's got her flaws, like all of us, but it's difficult to see what they are. "She's got a feeling of zen around her, and if you look at Harry over the past year and a half, he's really calmed down. "The only thing he gets exercised about now is protecting her from the media." Meghan Markle makes her first public appearance in Nottingham Credit: AFP Asked whether there might be concern among other members of the Royal Family that Ms Markle will claim their spotlight, Bradby said: "There are bound to be tensions — there just will be, but they'll probably be between the generations. "I think Kate and William are a bit absorbed in having young children and keeping the work show on the road. "There are always tensions about money and who's going to do what and I'm sure they'll go on. They won't necessarily get any better or worse."

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Briley, Cooper issue statements on ICE incident in Antioch Nashville Mayor David Briley and his opponent, At-large Council Member John Cooper, issued statements in response to an ICE incident Thursday. Briley, Cooper issue statements on ICE incident in Antioch Nashville Mayor David Briley and his opponent, At-large Council Member John Cooper, issued statements in response to an ICE incident Thursday. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/09/05/nashville-ice-shots-incident-antioch-reaction-mayor-briley/2222164001/ Juan Buitrago, Nashville Tennessean Published 12:54 p.m. CT Sept. 5, 2019 | Updated 3:35 p.m. CT Sept. 5, 2019 Shots fired during ICE traffic stop in Nashville A bullet hole in a truck that was driven by a Mexican national, according to ICE. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are investigating after an ICE agent fired shots at the box truck during a traffic stop Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are investigating after an ICE agent fired shots at a box truck during a traffic stop Sept. 5, 2019, in Nashville. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are investigating after an ICE agent fired shots at a box truck during a traffic stop Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean A bullet hole in a truck that was driven by a Mexican national. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are investigating after an ICE agent fired shots at a box truck during a traffic stop Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean Law enforcement officers investigate the scene where shots were fired involving ICE agents in the parking lot of a Food Lion store Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 in Antioch, Tenn. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean Metro Nashville police on scene of a shots fired called in the parking lot of a Food Lion store in Antioch Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 Natalie Alund / The Tennessean Nashville Mayor David Briley and his opponent, At-large Council Member John Cooper, issued statements after Thursday morning's incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a man who tried to evade them in Antioch. "This is exactly what we don’t want happening in our city," Briley's statement said. ICE spokesman Bryan Cox said ICE agents attempted to conduct a vehicle stop to arrest a 39-year-old Mexican national who has been deported multiple times from the U.S. At some point during the traffic stop outside a Food Lion store, the man attempted to flee and drove toward an officer, Cox said. The man who was driving a white box truck escaped but not before one of the ICE agents fired two shots at the truck, officials said. The truck was later found empty with at least two bullet holes and blood inside, officials said. Cooper said he was "deeply concerned" by the report of shots fired and a possible injury during the incident. "I understand that MNPD did not take part in the ICE operation and is now searching for the injured person," Cooper said in a statement. "We won’t know exactly what happened until more details are forthcoming. However, I applaud our police officers for their restraint and for the assistance they are providing." The FBI along with U.S. Homeland Security is leading the investigation. Briley, who recently signed an executive order calling lawmakers to repeal a state law banning sanctuary city policies — including local cooperation with federal immigration agents, issued the following statement: The federal government’s inability to arrive at comprehensive immigration reform results in situations like what happened in Antioch this morning. This is exactly what we don’t want happening in our city. MNPD is no longer involved and has turned the scene over to the FBI. MNPD is currently looking for the victim of this shooting so that he may receive any needed medical assistance. My top priority remains the safety and well-being of all of the residents of Nashville. Metro police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said the department knew of no outstanding criminal warrants against the man. Nashville police initially responded to the Food Lion for a report of an officer's "weapon discharging" about 7 a.m. Thursday, according to a Metro Nashville Police spokesperson. Police taped off a section of the Food Lion parking lot for several hours before pulling out of the investigation and referring further questions to the FBI. FBI Special Agent Joel Siskovic said the agency is investigating a potential assault on a federal officer and assisting ICE in the search for a suspect. ICE was still searching for the 39-year-old man as of midday Thursday with assistance from the FBI. Read or Share this story: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/09/05/nashville-ice-shots-incident-antioch-reaction-mayor-briley/2222164001/ Tennessee's HBCUs say new law is a 'game-changer' for their future

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Preserve › Historic Resources Survey › Historic Resources Survey Funding Certified Local Government (CLG) sub-grants are provided by the THC annually through a federal grant from the Historic Preservation Fund of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. At least 10 percent of this federal allocation is set aside by THC for distribution solely to CLGs. Sub-grants may be used for local historic preservation projects, including surveys of historic properties/districts, preparation of nominations to the National Register, and other community-based preservation projects. Sub-grants are allocated once a year on a competitive basis based upon established priorities identified by the THC. Such priorities may be subject to change based upon changes in federal historic preservation program priorities. All sub-grants are reimbursable and require a local cash match budgeted on a one-to-one (dollar for dollar) match equal to a 50/50 ratio for the total cost of the project. Proposed projects utilizing all or partial matches of verifiable in-kind services and/or goods may also qualify as long as the local match equals a 50/50 ratio for the total cost of the project. Only non-federal monies may be used as a match, with the exception of Community Development Block Grants. See the Texas Certified Local Government Program Grants PDF for examples of survey grants that have been funded in the past. For more information, email the CLG grants coordinator or call 512.463.7812. http://www.thc.texas.gov/preserve/projects-and-programs/certified-local-government The Texas Historical Commission (THC) awards grants for preservation projects from the Texas Preservation Trust Fund (TPTF). Created by the Texas Legislature in 1989, the TPTF is an interest-earning pool of public and private monies. The earned interest and designated gifts are distributed as matching grants to qualified applicants for the acquisition, survey, restoration, preservation, planning and heritage education activities leading to the preservation of historic properties and archeological sites. Competitive grants are awarded on a one-to-one match basis and are paid as reimbursement of eligible expenses incurred during the project. The TPTF Grant Program application process is a two-step process. First. all applicants are required to submit a brief application form to the THC for review. The THC will select the highest priority projects from the initial applications and invite those applicants to move forward to the second step. Successful applicants will continue the process by submitting detailed project proposals. Full project proposals will be considered by the THC for final grant awards. For more information on the TPTF, please go to the THC TPTF webpage. Preserve America The Preserve America matching-grant program provides planning funding to designated Preserve America Communities to support preservation efforts through heritage tourism, education and historic preservation planning. Through these grant projects, our country gains a greater shared knowledge about the nation's past, strengthened regional identities and local pride, increased local participation in preserving the country's cultural and natural heritage assets, and support for the economic vitality of our communities. Designated Preserve America Communities and Neighborhoods, State Historic Preservation Offices, Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, and Certified Local Governments that have applied for Preserve America Community designation are all eligible to apply for Preserve America grants. Individuals, nonprofits and for-profit businesses are not eligible for funding. Preserve America grants support planning, development and implementation of innovative activities and programs in heritage tourism such as surveying and documenting historic resources, interpreting historic sites, planning, marketing, and training. Successful applicants will emphasize creative projects that promote and preserve the community's cultural resources. Successful projects will involve public-private partnerships and serve as models to communities nationwide for heritage tourism, education, and economic development. For every dollar of federal funds awarded, the grantee must supply a dollar of non-federal matching funds. The basic rule regarding matching share is that it must be necessary to achieve the objectives of the project and must share the cost of performing the grant-assisted work. The matching share requirement is essential because it creates a strong partnership that financially connects the grant recipient to achieving the work of the project. For more information on Preserve America, https://www.nps.gov/preservation-grants/PreserveAmerica/ Surveys may be funded through local governments, voluntary efforts and contributions, and various grant sources. About the Historic Resources Survey Program THC Historic Resources Survey Packet Useful Survey Tools What is a Historic Resources Survey? Why conduct a Historic Resources Survey? TxDOT Publications for Surveys National Register Publications for Surveys The Atlas features nearly 300,000 site records, including markers, historic places, courthouses, cemeteries, museums, and sawmills across the state.

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'F--- yeah': Tumblr's 26-year-old founder celebrates $1.1 billion deal By Sarah Frier and Douglas MacMillan Updated May 23, 2013 — 1.31pm first published at 1.03pm Tumblr chief David Karp, a 26-year-old who started the company in 2007, signed a note announcing Yahoo's $US1.1 billion acquisition with the closing, "F–- yeah." Beyond just expressing elation, Karp was making a statement that the New York-based company will retain its distinctive and irreverent character under a new owner. "Our headquarters isn't moving. Our team isn't changing. Our road map isn't changing": Tumblr CEO David Karp. Credit:Bloomberg The phrase is common parlance at the social media upstart, used in the titles of some of its most popular blogs, such as F--- Yeah Cats!, F--- Yeah! Ryan Gosling and F--- Yeah UK. In its own statement on the deal, Yahoo! echoed the idea of giving Karp and Tumblr a wide berth, saying it "promises not to screw it up". "Our headquarters isn't moving. Our team isn't changing. Our road map isn't changing," Karp said. "Our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn't changing." Karp, who will remain CEO at Tumblr, is getting $US209 million in cash from the transaction, according to PrivCo, a New York-based research firm specialising in closely held companies. For Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the purchase adds a service with more than 13 billion monthly page views and brings more young entrepreneurs into the fold. Yahoo! bought Summly, the developer of a news-reading application, for $US30 million in March, a person familiar with the transaction said at the time. That deal made 17-year-old founder Nick D'Aloisio a millionaire. Ad strategy Karp received his payday after taking pains not to emphasise revenue at Tumblr, a network of more than 108 million blogs. The company, popular among teenagers and 20-somethings, only started accepting advertising last year. Karp told the Los Angeles Times in 2010 that he was opposed to web advertising, saying "it really turns our stomachs." Tumblr ultimately adopted an approach to advertising that lets users pay money to make their posts more prominent on the site. The company expanded the program to the mobile version of its service, a bid to get closer to profitability. The company had about $US13 million in 2012 revenue, according to PrivCo. For now, the company hasn't been able to break even. That made the Yahoo! deal more compelling, even though Tumblr didn't expect to sell out so soon, Karp said. 'Our providence' "We are not cash-flow positive yet, which means we are always running out of money," he said. "There was no expectation we were selling the company – certainly not this year. This was our providence." Karp has emphasised user experience, more than gaining market share, money or press coverage, said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital who sits on Tumblr's board. The founder is meticulous with anything that affects users – including personally editing the company's terms of service so readers aren't forced to decipher legal jargon, Sabet said. Tumblr's backers include Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, which led the start-up's first two financings – a $US775,000 round in 2007 and a $US4.5 million round the next year. Sequoia Capital joined as an investor in late 2010 as part of a $US30 million funding round. Tumblr then raised $US85 million the following year, with firms including Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Growth Fund joining the existing investors. UrbanBaby money Karp founded the company using money and experience he acquired as a software consultant for the website UrbanBaby. The CEO grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side and dropped out of Bronx High School of Science before moving by himself to Tokyo when he was 17. He founded Tumblr after returning to New York and learning computer programming. He still hasn't earned his high school diploma. Karp updates his own Tumblr with quotations, photos, animated GIFs and snippets of conversations with girlfriend Rachel Eakley. He lives a minimalist existence in an apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sabet said. "It's this beautiful one-bedroom loft, beautifully designed, but it's not this mega-mansion thing," Sabet said. The company, which provides the building blocks for popular blogs such as Reasons My Son is Crying and Food on My Dog, has been expanding to new floors of its headquarters in New York's start-up-friendly Flatiron District. The offices are adorned with eclectic artwork, with beer on tap. Users' ire In accepting a takeover from Yahoo! – a company that thrived in the initial dot-com boom only to lose ground to Facebook and Google in the social-media era – Karp risks alienating some users. After reports of the deal broke over the weekend, the number of Tumblr posts switching to WordPress, another platform, surged to 72,000 per hour on Sunday night. That compared with the usual 400 to 600 an hour, founder Matt Mullenweg said in a post. Still, he doesn't expect an exodus from Tumblr. One user responded to the situation by creating a Tumblr spotlighting outrage about the Yahoo! deal. The blog, Meltdowns About Yahoo Buying Tumblr, includes reactions such as, "This is like going out to see a movie, and when I come back my entire family has been sold into the slave industry." In his negotiations with Yahoo!, Karp said he asked for as much stock as the company would give him. He sees that as a sign he'll stay with Tumblr for years to come. "This is something I've been building for the last seven years and hope employs me 30 years from now," he said. Yahoo! buys Tumblr for $US1.1 billion 'We promise not to screw it up': Yahoo From high school drop-out to billionaire Should we let tech geniuses drop out of school? Most Viewed in Technology

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Michael O'Toole, 1963 ~ Impressionist painter Michael O'Toole was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1963. He attended BCIT where he studied architectural design and later moved to Toronto to work for several architectural firms. Eventually he was drawn back to the beautiful West Coast where he now resides. Michael's love for design led him to explore his creativity in variety of media including watercolour, pen and ink, graphite, gouache and acrylic. Currently focusing on acrylics, his diverse subject matter ranges from landscape and seascape, to architecture and portraiture. His vivid and dramatic style is inspired by his former instructor, renowned artist Charles M. Svob and other impressionists. His travels both locally and internationally have also been a tremendous source of inspiration. Michael's Canvas Prints are published by Canadian Art Prints and are sold in print Galleries around the World with much acclaimed success. Several Magazine (Magazine Art, International Artist) News papers and Articles are always writing his story and journey on the "Road Less Traveled" the life of a full time Artist for over 20 successful years. Michael believes that his paintings reflect a balance of emotion and technical skill. Painting has become an "all consuming passion". To date, he has lectured extensively and enjoyed many successful exhibitions in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. Michael's work may be found in thousands of corporate and private collections across Canada, the USA, Europe and Japan. Art Styles and Categories: Etichette: 20th century Art, 21st Century Art, Canadian Art, Impressionist Artist

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Chuck Casto Station Blackout A halt to retirement (0:08) 0:08-5:27 (Chuck describes how Fukushima changed his career.) Q. How did Fukushima change your career? A. Chuck Casto was close to retirement and had just moved back to Atlanta, Georgia when he was called to go to Japan after the Fukushima accident. Chuck now spends much of his time teaching about the lessons learned from Fukushima. Chuck’s book, Station Blackout, is an important archive of the event, making sure that the younger generation can learn about the accident. Chuck’s primary motivation to write the book was to tell the operators’ story who are unable to tell it themselves as they are considered villains. Further, Chuck wanted to share how America helped behind the scenes. Writing Station Blackout (5:28) 5:28-10:47 (Chuck explains how he wrote Station Blackout.) Q. How soon after Fukushima did you write the book? A. In 2012, Chuck began interviewing Fukushima operators and began writing the book the year after. It took Chuck years to digest the stories and thoroughly check all the facts. He also worked hard to strike a balance between the technical and emotional details, making sure to keep the story accessible to a wider audience. Prediction errors (10:46) 10:46-16:36 (Chuck explains why accident predictions were wrong. He also describes why the NRC’s evacuation zone was larger than Japan’s.) Q. How was the tsunami prediction so off? A. The predicted height of the tsunami was 10 feet high. The actual wave height greatly surpassed this and was 50 to 60 feet high. The earth broke in three places creating an additive effect for the wave, which may have contributed to the prediction error. Chuck has recently visited Fukushima. He notes that during this visit, he was stuck in a traffic jam on a highway that had been previously closed. He was happy to be stuck as it represented the return of life. Much of the evacuated area has since been remediated. At the time, there was not enough information about the accident, leading to the NRC’s evacuation zone to be five times larger than Japan’s zone. In the US, the NRC’s resident inspector program is an independent inspector that shares the facts of an accident. Japan does not have this type of program, creating confusion and a loss of confidence in leadership during the accident. There were also many models that provided vastly differing results for what the evacuation zone should be. The US used the larger evacuation zone as a buffer to protect against the unknown information. It also served as a way to tell US citizens not to enter the area to avoid disrupting the Japanese evacuation efforts. Listen, Learn, Help and Lead (16:37) 16:37-23:41 (Chuck discusses the US’s involvement with Fukushima and how a change in strategy resulted in more successful advisement.) Q. It seemed like the US just helped the Japanese develop their own solution to the accident. Why do you think this was? A. At first, the Americans independently analyzed data and came up with a plan. Instructing the Japanese did not work, however, and so the strategy changed to one that aimed to see the problem from the Japanese point of view. Chuck calls this Listen, Learn, Help and Lead. For instance, the US thought it was best to flood the reactor containment building. But after Chuck listened to why this was not possible, they realized that the Japanese were right to not flood the building because the many breaks in the building could potentially cause an overflow into the ocean. Chuck saw a huge difference once the Listen, Learn, Help and Lead model was adopted. This gave the Japanese confidence, enabling Chuck to gradually ask questions and he eventually developed a repore with the Japanese team. This created a stronger relationship, leading to an acceptance of American advisement. Expressing remorse was also of huge importance to successful advisement. It was important to remember that the Japanese workers were also victims. The operators that stayed at the facility were also unaware of the state of their families outside of the plant. Even Chuck finds it emotional to drive through the evacuation zone, seeing life interrupted such as children’s toys left in yards and the devastation from the plume. Learning from Fukushima (23:42) 23:42-26:42 (Chuck discusses the measures the US has taken to avoid another Fukushima-like accident.) Q. How do we prevent this type of event from happening again? A. We have learned from Fukushima and all other nuclear accidents to implement effective corrective actions. For instance, Flex equipment, which are quickly accessible equipment brought in during an accident, is a good solution that avoided making thousands of small changes to nuclear facilities around the country. The US has also put in place measures to protect against external hazards, including in earthquake zones. Japan’s nuclear industry and response (26:43) 26:43-36:47 (Chuck explains why Japan adopted nuclear and describes their past and current regulator. He also speaks about Japan’s response to Fukushima.) Q. Why did Japan pursue nuclear? A. Japan is an island with few natural resources to produce electricity. Japan needed a high amount of power to rebuild after WWII and to support the population growth. Nuclear presented the most efficient and environmentally friendly option. Compared to the US’s nuclear industry, Chuck believes Japan’s regulator was not strong or effective at the time of Fukushima. Nuclear promotion and regulation were grouped together. They have since been separated and Japan has given the regulators more power and full responsibility over safety and oversight. Chuck believes this must be balanced, however, giving utilities the responsibility for safety and regulators the responsibility of oversight. While Fukushima made people lose trust in Japan’s nuclear industry, trust in nuclear utilities must be rebuilt. Chuck believes the issues in the response to Fukushima were more than communications based, but included confidence and effectiveness. The Japanese government lacked knowledge and a national response plan, giving them little structure to respond. Chuck points out, however, that Japan faced the earthquake and tsunami in addition to the Fukushima nuclear accident, creating a desperate and serious situation that caused the loss of over 16,000 lives. Naoto Kan, the prime minister at the time, needed to focus on Tokyo and the evacuation of people, especially those critically injured in buildings damaged from the earthquake. While sheltering in place around Fukushima would have been satisfactory, at the time Japan was unsure of how large the scale of the problem would become. Most people did not return to the nuclear site, but about 40% have, primarily the older generation. The younger generations have remained in the larger cities of Japan. Chuck’s nuclear journey (36:48) 36:48-46:00 (Chuck explains the future workforce of nuclear and his own journey through the industry.) Q. Do we see a lot of younger people studying nuclear and learning to operate nuclear plants? A. The number of nuclear PhD students in the US is the highest it has ever been. Nuclear is clean and could be the future of the US. Chuck encourages the youth to study nuclear as it is a great opportunity for environmental students to make it safer and greener. Chuck did not study nuclear in school but first entered the field during the Air Force. Part of his job was to work with nuclear weapons, sparking his interest in the nuclear weapons program. After the Air Force, Chuck was attracted to the nuclear energy industry and got a job in construction, later becoming an equipment operator and joining the control room. He was also an instructor before becoming involved in regulation. Chuck enjoys that he jumped into the field and gained hands-on experience. Fukushima later became a pinnacle part of Chuck’s career, stopping his retirement from the industry. He is now interested in academia and helping others grow their careers. Fukushima taught Chuck a great deal about crisis leadership, something he believes he could teach in an executive MBA program. Post-Fukushima (46:01) 46:01-48:48 (Chuck further expands on how the US’s nuclear industry has changed after Fukushima.) Q.Have there been any changes in how we regulate and operate post-Fukushima? A. Chuck believes Flex equipment is a good solution. Everyone must also keep reflecting and remembering Fukushima so an accident does not occur again. The industry has included many lessons learned from Fukushima into training materials, procedures and safety culture. Fukushima proves that the US has an effective emergency plan. We also have many counter measures and well trained people in place to ensure accidents do not occur.

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8 things you should never say to a stay-at-home mom or dad Family Kids Toddler Activities Birthday parties Books Crafts Discipline Family life Special needs Style Toys The ultimate toy guide Women's health Parents of Influence “You must have SO much free time!” Grrrrrr. By Kim Shiffman | Jul 24, 2017 Photo: iStockphoto Ask any stay-at-home mom or dad and they’ll tell you they’ve heard some pretty rude comments about their decision to be at home with their kids. Although the intent of the comments may not be to offend, that’s exactly what they often do. Here are some of the common things stay-at-home parents hear a lot—and really wish they didn’t. 1. “Your partner must make a lot of money for you guys to be able to afford it.” This is among the most common misperceptions of families with one stay-at-home parent. Most families make all sorts of sacrifices in order for one of the parents to stay home full-time. Of course, the comment could be true—maybe dad is able to stay home because mom has a prestigious, high-paying position. But that still doesn’t make commenting on the family’s financial situation acceptable. 2. “But you went to university! Isn’t staying home a waste of your education?” People change career paths all the time. The (insulting) implication in this comment is that a parent shouldn’t be proud to choose full-time parenthood over a career. Also, a post-secondary education has benefits other than just career preparation. Stay-at-home moms vs. dads: There's a difference! 3. “You must have so much free time!” Pfft. Between cooking, cleaning, errands and caring for children, most stay-at-home moms and dads barely have time to shower, let alone enjoy tons of free time. 4. “I don’t know how you do it. I could never stay at home all day with my kids.” That’s fine—you do you. But the comment comes off as super judgmental. Talk about a back-handed compliment! If you’ve made this comment to a SAHM before and you work full-time outside the home, imagine if someone said to you, “I don’t know how you do it—I could never be away from my kids all day.” 5. “You don’t work? Aren’t you setting a bad example for your daughters? What about feminism?” This comment assumes that being a stay-at-home mother isn’t a worthy thing to do. What’s more, a child’s mom isn’t her only female role model. Unless she lives in a bubble, she’ll surely be exposed to all sorts of women in her life. Oh, and yes, you can totally be a SAHM and a feminist. Feminism means believing that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. There’s nothing un-feminist about choosing to stay home with the kids. 6. “Since you’re home all day, can you please do ____ for me?” See “You must have so much free time!” above. It’s simply unfair and almost never correct to assume that stay-at-home parents have all sorts of available time during the day. 7. “But you’ll go back to work when your kids are in school, right?” As if the possibility of continuing to stay at home is ludicrous. 8. “But daycare prepares kids for school.” Well, yeah. It does. It teaches them how to interact positively with other kids, and how to work within a daily routine. But parents at home can provide these opportunities, too. And the truth is, all kids will adjust to kindergarten in their own time. So, what should you say if a fellow parent mentions that he or she stays home with the kids? Best thing to do is make no assumptions. Try: “That’s interesting. Do you enjoy it?” Can’t go wrong. 5 annoying things that strangers say to moms 11 things you should never say to a work-from-home parent

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The Role of Genetics in Alcoholism Withdrawal and Relapse Children of Alcoholics Buddy T Buddy T is an anonymous writer and founding member of the Online Al-Anon Outreach Committee with decades of experience writing about alcoholism. Dylan M Howell Photography / Getty Images Alcoholism seems to run in some families. Is there any scientific evidence that your genes may predispose you to become an alcoholic if your parents or grandparents are? While many studies have been done and experts agree that there is a hereditary connection, genetics is not the only factor and we don't quite know the full impact it has on alcoholism. Is Alcoholism Hereditary? There is a growing body of scientific evidence that alcoholism has a genetic component. The actual gene that may cause it has yet to be identified. Likewise, studies of laboratory animals as well as human test subjects indicate that genetic factors play a major role in the development of alcoholism. Just how big of a factor that is, remains undetermined as well. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, children of alcoholics are four times more likely than other children to become alcoholics. Yet, environmental factors could be a factor in many of those cases as well. Alcoholism's Genetic Component Family, twin, and adoption studies have shown that alcoholism definitely has a genetic component. In 1990, Blum et al. proposed an association between the A1 allele of the DRD2 gene and alcoholism. The DRD2 gene was the first candidate gene that showed promise of an association with alcoholism (Gordis et al., 1990). A study in Sweden followed alcohol use in twins who were adopted as children and reared apart. The incidence of alcoholism was slightly higher among people who were exposed to alcoholism only through their adoptive families. However, it was dramatically higher among the twins whose biological fathers were alcoholics, regardless of the presence of alcoholism in their adoptive families. Subsequent genetic studies have attempted to pinpoint the exact genes associated with alcoholism, but none have produced conclusive results. A number of genes have been identified that play a factor in the risky behaviors associated with alcohol abuse or dependence as well. Some are directly related and others have only an indirect influence. Fruit Fly Similarities Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) are using fruit flies to find the genetic causes of alcoholism. According to scientists, drunken drosophila fruit flies behave the same way humans do when they are drunk. In addition, a fruit fly's resistance to alcohol appears to be controlled by the same molecular mechanism as humans. Hugo Bellen, a geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, said the study "lays the foundation for a genetic approach to dissecting the acute, and possibly the chronic, effects" of alcohol in people. Genetically Sensitivities to Alcohol In another study, scientists selectively bred two strains of mice: those that are not genetically sensitive to alcohol, and those that are acutely genetically sensitive to it. The two strains show markedly different behavior when exposed to identical amounts of alcohol. The sensitive mice tend to lose their inhibitions and pass out rather quickly, earning them the nickname "long sleepers." "Short sleepers" are mice that are genetically less sensitive to alcohol. They seem to lose fewer inhibitions and tolerate the alcohol for longer before they pass out. Alcohol Abuse Is Influenced by Environmental and Genetic Factors "Alcohol consumption is influenced by a combination of environmental and genetic factors," said Gene Erwin, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutic sciences at the CU School of Pharmacy, "This study indicated that genetic factors play more of a role, and we're trying to understand the power of those genetic factors." If alcoholism can be traced to a particular gene or combination of genes, how can the information be used? "These genes are for risk, not for destiny," stressed Dr. Enoch Gordis, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He added that the research could help in identifying youngsters at risk of becoming alcoholics and could lead to early prevention efforts. What this means for family members of alcoholics is that you are not necessarily going to abuse alcohol yourself. However, your odds of developing a dependency are higher than others. Genes only make up about half your risk for alcoholism. Factors like your environment and your ability to handle situations that may trigger dependency are just as important. These are things that we can remain mindful of as we continue to develop an understanding of alcoholism on a personal basis. Mayfield RD, Harris RA, Schuckit MA. Genetic Factors Influencing Alcohol Dependence. BR J Pharmacol. 2008;154(2):275-287. doi: 10.1038/bjp.2008.88. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Genetics of Alcohol Use Disorder. Alcohol Metabolism Could Be Key to Alcohol's Dangers How a Gene Variation Influences the Rate of Alcoholism Among Jews Early On-Set Drinking Is Linked to Later Alcohol Use Disorders What Brain Protein Is Linked to Alcoholic Behavior? How Are Studies in Alcohol and Alcoholism Funded? What Research Says About the Link Between Drinking Age and Alcoholism Alcohol Abuse and Thiamine Deficiency Damages the Brain Alcohol's Effect on Testosterone May Explain Aggression Alcohol Tolerance May Lead to More Damaging Effects How Various Alcohol Problems Differ Drinking to Relieve Stress May Actually Compound the Problem Early Marijuana Use Influences Later Drug, Alcohol Problems Causes of Brain Shrinkage in Alcoholics What You Need to Know About Alcohol Problems What Is Alcoholism and How Can Someone Get Help for Addiction? 4 Online Tests That Can Help Determine If You Have a Drinking Problem

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