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Kanayo Nwanze, president of IFAD, gave a keynote address at the ILRI@40 high-level event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This week (6–7 Nov 2014), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is marking 40 years of livestock research in a two-day high-level event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where ILRI has a principal campus.
In his keynote address to the ILRI@40 conference on the first morning, Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted high-priority areas where livestock research can make the greatest contribution to poverty reduction and better food security in future.
One of these was finding innovative methods small-scale farmers and herders can use to better protect their environments and adapt to (and cope with) climate change. With the impacts of climate change on farming becoming ever more apparent, Nwanze said that agriculture, always a risky business, is becoming riskier today.
Nwanze argued that the key was to increase agricultural productivity while diversifying risks across different products. He provided some examples of successes in this area.
Responding to the need to develop efficient livestock feeding systems that convert non-human consumable resources into valuable protein-rich food, he cited India, the world's largest milk producer. Here the dairy industry relies almost entirely on fodder and roughage, such as wheat and rice straw and maize stover. The value of the milk India produces each year now exceeds that of India's rice harvest.
Responding to concern about the impact of animal waste on the environment, in China IFAD has partnered with the government to transform animal waste into dollars. Biogas digesters are being used to turn the bio-methane into household fuel, making it less damaging to the atmosphere and far less damaging to human health.
Now, in Kenya and Rwanda, IFAD is scaling up a new generation of low-cost portable biogas systems. This is saving mostly women hours spent collecting firewood for cooking, reducing respiratory and eye diseases, and providing 'bio-slurry' for crop cultivation. And the power station is just one cow!
Nwanze said we will feed the world in coming years only by fully supporting and integrating livestock in the world's mixed food production systems.
Read the complete keynote address here.
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McConnell breaks Senate record for longest-serving leader
The chamber's minority leader officially beat the previous 16-year tenure of former Sen. Mike Mansfield with the opening of the new Congress Tuesday.
By Marianne LeVine
Mitch McConnell officially broke the record for longest-serving Senate leader on Tuesday.
In his floor remarks to open the new Congress, McConnell paid tribute to the last Senate leader to hold the record: Democratic Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, who served as Majority Leader for 16 years.
"This scholarly Montanan was not an exciting idealist who transformed our national discourse, nor a policy entrepreneur who brought to the leader's role his own sweeping wish list of federal programs," McConnell said. "Mansfield made a huge impact through a different road: by viewing the role of leader as serving others."
McConnell's standing as the longest serving Senate party leader stood in stark contrast to the situation of GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, who on the same day failed to attain the necessary votes to become speaker on a first House ballot. McConnell, meanwhile, achieved his record after beating back his first leadership challenge in November. Ten senators instead voted for Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), following a disappointing midterm performance for the GOP.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a close McConnell adviser, said Tuesday he's not "surprised at all" about McConnell breaking Mansfield's record.
"If you've read [McConnell's] book, 'The Long Game,' this is something he's wanted to do his whole life," Cornyn said.
McConnell also commemorated other Senate leaders, including former Senate Republican Leader Henry Cabot Lodge, former Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and former Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Mansfield succeeded Johnson as Senate leader.
McConnell said under Mansfield's management of the Senate, "proceedings became more orderly and less theatrical." And he highlighted Mansfield's interest in Asia, describing him as a "trusted foreign policy hand."
"Mansfield was a canny strategist who knew how to rally his conference. He knew when to go to battle, and when to coordinate with his counterpart Everett Dirksen," McConnell said. "In short, he knew how to work the Senate."
The 80-year-old McConnell, first elected Senate GOP leader in 2006, was majority leader from 2015 to the beginning of 2021. During that period, McConnell drew Democratic ire for blocking former President Barack Obama's 2016 Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland from Senate consideration, in addition to Obama's other judicial nominees. Under former President Donald Trump, Senate Republicans proceeded to confirm three Supreme Court justices, shifting the ideological balance of the court, along with 231 district, circuit court and U.S. Court of International Trade judges.
While McConnell worked closely with the Trump White House on judicial nominees and the 2017 GOP tax cuts, his relationship with the former president soured after the 2020 presidential election. After the Jan. 6 attack, McConnell described Trump as "practically and morally responsible," but declined to convict him during his second impeachment trial. The Kentucky Republican has since avoided talking about the former president directly.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer congratulated McConnell on breaking the record, during his own floor speech.
"We have a lot of work ahead of us, so I hope we can find some ways to come together and not succumb to gridlock," Schumer said. "For the good of this chamber and for the good of our country."
McConnell became the longest serving GOP leader in June 2018, beating out former Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.). He is also the longest serving senator from Kentucky, first elected in 1984.
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The main protected areas of Croatia are national parks, nature parks and strict reserves. There are 444 protected areas of Croatia, encompassing 9% of the country. Those include 8 national parks in Croatia, 2 strict reserves and 11 nature parks. The most famous protected area and the oldest national park in Croatia is the Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Velebit Nature Park is a part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. The strict and special reserves, as well as the national and nature parks, are managed and protected by the central government, while other protected areas are managed by counties. In 2005, the National Ecological Network was set up, as the first step in preparation of the EU accession and joining of the Natura 2000 network.
The total area of all national parks in the country is 994 km2 (384 sq mi), of which 235 km2 is sea surface.
Each of the national parks is maintained by a separate institution, overseen and funded by the government ministry of nature conservation and spatial development. The State Institute for Nature Protection provides centralized oversight and expertise.
All eight national parks are located in karst area.
Nature parks is also worth seeing (11) : Park prirode Biokovo, Park prirode Kopački rit, Park prirode Lonjsko polje, Park prirode Medvednica, Park prirode Papuk, Park prirode Telašćica, Park prirode Velebit, Park prirode Vransko jezero, Park prirode Učka, Park prirode Žumberak – Samoborsko gorje and Park prirode Lastovsko otočje.
Strict reserves: Bijele and Samarske stijene and Hajdučki and Rožanski kukovi.
If you come to visit Croatia at least one national park. |
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Iowa Man Indicted on Federal Drug Trafficking, Firearm Charges
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Robert J. Bell, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch, Jr., of the Northern District of Illinois announced the indictment of an Iowa man by a federal grand jury in Rockford on federal drug and firearm charges...
Illinois Woman Sentenced to 14 Years for Meth Trafficking
PEORIA, Ill. – Robert J. Bell, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris of the Central District of Illinois announced that Donna N. Mark, 39, of Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced on Jan. 20, 2022 to 168 months' imprisonment (14 years), to...
Wisconsin Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Drug Conspiracy Role
MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy M. O'Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Marcie Leoso, 40, of Washburn, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to five years...
Two Indicted on Drug Conspiracy and Other Charges in Landmark Case Following Fentanyl Overdose Death
Washington, D.C., – A brother and sister were arrested on charges stemming from an investigation by federal and local law enforcement agencies into a drug operation that was distributing Fentanyl, including to a woman who overdosed and died. The indictments, unsealed today, were announced by Jarod Forget, Special Agent in...
San Diego Pharmacy Pays $105,000 Penalty for Illegitimately Dispensing Opioids
SAN DIEGO – San Diego's Balboa Pharmacy has paid $105,000 to resolve allegations that it illegally dispensed opioids and other dangerous drugs to its patients, according to a settlement agreement signed by Balboa Pharmacy and the United States. The settlement stems from the United States' continued efforts to combat the...
Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Rashawn Fowler, 34, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after...
Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking Charges
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Michael L. Placencia, 53, of Auburn, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading...
10 Charged for Multi-Year Cocaine Conspiracy
MADISON, Wis. – John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy O'Shea, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that three indictments have been unsealed charging a total of 10 people with participating in a cocaine conspiracy. The indictments were returned by... |
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Hello my name is Sheila Hudson and I am the Manager of St. Mary's Pre-School along with my colleagues, Gill Cronin and Pat Ryder we manage our small friendly 25 place nursery, Monday – Friday 9.00am – 3.15pm (term time only) for children aged 2 – 4 years 11 months. Our Ofsted inspected nursery offers full day care and sessional day care. We aim to provide children with a safe, secure, fun, healthy and stimulating environment in beautiful surroundings, within the confines of St. Mary's Primary School.
We offer a child-centred approach where children are encouraged to develop their creativity, individuality and self confidence in secure surroundings, led by highly qualified practitioners who form strong happy relationships with the children and their parents/carers.
Following the guidelines set out by the Early Years Foundation Stage, we provide a wide range of age appropriate learning materials, high quality toys and resources for both inside and outside use. All children are provided with a healthy diet, exercise, rest, play and fresh air which together contribute to their physical, social and emotional and educational development.
Everyone at St. Mary's Pre-School prides themselves on giving the best care to our children making it a happy, caring and fun experience from which your child can explore, develop and learn.
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Despite some signs of life, Arizona's public and private sectors are still in a world of hurt. If a crisis really is a terrible thing to waste, there is no better time to bring forth compelling new information focusing on Arizona's academic achievement potential and an innovative, yet tried-and-true strategy, to get there.
Arts education may not be the first idea that comes to mind for jump-starting student achievement but it may be one of the best, most far-reaching and cost-effective ways of doing so. When Arizona leaders and parents worry about how to improve student achievement, particularly during this dramatic downturn, arts education is not a costly problem but a cost-effective and results-driven solution.
This report shows where access to arts education stands today and recommends how to use it to help reinvent K-12 education in Arizona, not just to increase achievement but also to match the skills employers want in 21st century workers.
Copyright 2010 Arizona Arts Education Research Project. |
How One Night (& One Man) Inspired me to Love Fully.
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I just got a call from the Carmel police station.
It was the night crew thanking me and my 13-year-old daughter for saving a life—telling me I should be proud of the example I set for her tonight and expressing their gratitude for the kind of citizen I am.
The ironic thing is that until that moment, I felt that I must keep tonight a secret. I had just asked my daughter to do so as we settled in for bed.
I've often asked my children to not talk about the times when I've randomly helped people in need. As a single woman who follows her intuition, and as a woman who loves and trusts life and God beyond what most would call logical, I have been accused—many times—of being reckless in my love and willingness to serve.
I live in fear that someone will try to take my kids from me, which would leave me at my weakest point. So I keep my ways below the surface. And my love for this world hides in fear of those who fear.
I know that two attractive females driving a nice car on a winding, dark highway with no protection would never be advised to stop for a drunk, foreign man walking on the side of a road.
But that's what I did—safely. And there is no scary story that you could tell me that would not have me do it again, because trust me, I've heard them all before.
Tonight, a 30-year-old man from another country was walking down Highway One. He had parked at Bixby Bridge, written a suicide note, and locked his keys in the car that he would not return to. He was drunk, which it turns out was a rarity for him, hated his job as a software engineer in San Jose, and had just been left by his girlfriend. He was also well-loved by his family, well-educated, and kind.
Tonight, I worked late at my studio, which I never do, but my assistant was gone and I was doubling up to get everything done before I had to take the kids to Kansas to see my grandfather on Friday. My son asked for a sleepover at his friend's house, so I got home at 9 p.m. and packed his overnight bag. I asked my daughter to drive with me so we could spend a moment catching up.
After I dropped my son off and gave him a kiss goodbye, I got back in the car and my daughter asked if we could drive to Big Sur and just look at the stars. There was a full moon, as she pointed out, and I was still wound up from work, so I agreed.
We have never driven to Big Sur randomly after 9 p.m.—ever.
Tonight was not extraordinary. It involved me driving, my daughter following her guidance and intuition, and a man who was experiencing a deep awakening.
The pain he was experiencing is something that many have felt before. I wish I could say I've never known that kind of pain, but I have—even if I was never bold enough to drive to a bridge.
The story he told was that he was a loser for not being more of a man. He cried in my car, apologizing for not being a man. To which, of course, I laughed, knowing that a strong man is one who owns his grief without shame, and not a person who doesn't feel. I told him his pain only reveals that he cares.
He told me he didn't believe in God because he was a scientist, to which I also laughed. I told him I believed in God because I am a scientist.
Tonight, a man woke up.
Tonight, a man came to believe that life was beyond coincidence.
Tonight, I come out of my deep love closet.
Tonight, I thank the police station for removing the shame from my love.
The love I have not been afraid to model for my children, but that I've been afraid would be used against me. And somehow, both me and this man needed each other to move past our fear.
It was a beautiful night.
This is a beautiful life.
The foreign, dark-skinned, drunk man in my car said so when he said goodbye to my daughter and I.
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An innovative project, "Self-Reliant Solar Energy Community", by the Nong Ta Tam Subdistrict Administrative Organisation, Prachuap Khiri Khan has won a United Nations Public Service Award 2019 (UNPSA) in the effective and responsible public institutions category
The Self-reliant Solar Energy Community initiative now provides 100 percent of the households in the sub-district with low-cost solar energy, facilitated learning centres with community technicians, and promotes revolving capital for purchasing solar energy equipment. The outcomes include knowledge of solar energy, environmental sustainability and CO2 reduction.
Nong Ta Tam Subdistrict Administrative Organization is located in Pranburi district, Prachuap Khiri Khan. There are 12 villages with a hilly topography as well as basins. Agriculture is the main activity with villagers usually planting cash crops such as pineapple, coconut, and rubber trees.
About 400 households did not have access to basic electricity, which greatly affected living standards. This was because these households are located on military safety land governed by the Thanarat infantry camp. They are not allowed to have electricity posts to provide electricity to the households.
This issue has now been solved in an efficient and responsible way with every household able to access electricity from solar energy for pumping water and other uses.
Mr. Montri Chuewongsakul, chief executive of the Nong ta tam SAO, said villagers in Ban Wang Won had long suffered from the problem of electricity scarcity. When the issue was raised with the administration, a budget was allocated for the project called 'Self-reliant Solar Energy Community.' The project also provided knowledge about solar energy to villagers. They learnt how to generate electricity from solar energy, using solar panels correctly and how to fix solar panels when they are out of order or broken.
Before winning the award from UNPSA, Nong Ta Tam was second runner-up at a national level with an award of 3 million THB spent on purchasing solar energy equipment such as solar panels and batteries.
"Since Nong Ta Tam created the solar energy system, villagers feel much better." he said.
"Not only do they use solar energy to improve daily life, but they also use it to support their incomes in the long term. This alternative energy source helps villagers to decrease monthly electrical bill," he added.
Mr. Montri said that "solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity. If any places in Thailand are facing the same problem, they can take learn from this initiative to solve their problems."
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Popular historic sites such as Rock Church and Helsinki Cathedral are in your itinerary. Do your shopping at Market Square Kauppatori and ARTag Gallery. You'll find plenty of places to visit near Helsinki: Brunberg Candy Factory Shop (in Porvoo) and Jarvenpaan Taidemuseo (in Jarvenpaa). And it doesn't end there: learn about all things military at Sea Fortress Suomenlinna, look for gifts at Artisaani, contemplate in the serene atmosphere at Kamppi Chapel of Silence, and view the masterpieces at Galerie Forsblom.
For maps, where to stay, photos, and other tourist information, you can read our Helsinki trip planner.
If you are flying in from South Korea, the closest major airport is Helsinki Vantaa Airport. July in Helsinki sees daily highs of 25°C and lows of 15°C at night. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 4th (Thu) so you can travel back home. |
FOX News and select local FOX affiliates join SLING TV's free "Stay in & SLING!" initiative
- FOX News added to SLING TV's lineup of free news channels with continuous coverage of COVID-19 crisis
- Local FOX affiliates in 18 markets included in free experience
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX News and select local FOX affiliates today joined SLING TV's "Stay in & SLING!" initiative, a program that delivers cost-free access to news and entertainment, as the nation confronts the COVID-19 crisis. SLING TV's free experience provides Americans with news, plus thousands of shows and movies for the whole family, with no paid SLING TV account required.
"'Stay in & SLING!' has been live for less than 24 hours, and we've already received a tremendous response as we put our platform to work providing American families with much needed free access to breaking news and entertainment," said Warren Schlichting, group president, SLING TV.
The SLING TV free experience currently includes news from ABC News Live, FOX News and local FOX affiliates in 18 markets including: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To view the full list of local markets, visit sling.com.
FOX News and certain FOX broadcast stations will remain on the SLING TV free experience temporarily, as the nation continues to monitor the rapidly evolving national emergency.
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SLING TV L.L.C. is an Emmy® Award-winning live streaming TV service that provides more than 700 channels from today's most popular networks across its general market, Latino and international services. It is available on all major streaming devices, smart televisions, tablets, game consoles, computers and smartphones. SLING TV offers two general market streaming services, SLING Orange and SLING Blue, that collectively feature content from Disney/ESPN, Fox, NBC, NFL Network, AMC, A&E, AXS, Discovery, Scripps, Turner, Viacom, NBA TV, NHL Network, Pac-12 Networks, GSN, Hallmark, SHOWTIME, STARZ and EPIX. On select devices, SLING TV offers customers access to free content, à la carte channels and services, plus Pay-Per-View events and movies on-demand. Additionally, SLING TV offers a suite of stand-alone and add-on Spanish-language services and packages tailored to English-dominant, bilingual and Spanish-dominant U.S. households. SLING TV is the leading U.S. provider of foreign-language programming, with more than 400 channels in 27 languages. Visit sling.com.
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Asbestos Removal Map in Philadelphia School District
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The Philadelphia School District released an interactive map of asbestos removal projects throughout the district's schools. Growing concerns of asbestos throughout schools got national attention early in the year. Now, the city is ready to provide funding to eliminate the toxin from schools.
Asbestos Removal Map Released by Philadelphia School District
Earlier this month, Philadelphia launched an interactive dashboard indicating the location of all asbestos construction projects in the school district dating back to 2016. The map lets users track the estimated completion dates at certain sites, along with other school-specific information from the Department of Public Health.
Schools throughout Philadelphia and the United States face concerns about asbestos each school year. When inhaled or ingested, asbestos can increase the risk of serious health issues, including cancer.
The map contains over 1,700 active projects. The city categorizes around 400 sites as "major projects."
Councilman Proposes $10M in Funding For Removal
Derek Green, a Philadelphia Councilman, introduced an ordinance to provide $10 million for asbestos removal in schools across the district. The councilman cited asbestos, lead, and other environmental issues currently afflicting school buildings.
According to a local source, a Philadelphia school teacher who was recently diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease prompted the remediation proposal. Most schools built before the 1980s used asbestos in some form of insulation, flooring, roofing, and other major building components.
Regulations now require schools to make plans that address the existence and removal of the toxin, according to the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). Teachers exposed to asbestos over the course of long careers risk developing mesothelioma, asbestosis, or other diseases. With most Philadelphia schools containing asbestos, the coalition estimates the cost of lead and asbestos removal and other repairs could exceed $170 million.
Councilman Green is a supporter of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers' coalition, called Fund our Facilities. The alliance of elected leaders, labor organizations, and community groups throughout the state work to secure funding for school building improvements. Other members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers hope the City Council will quickly pass the legislation of additional funding.
Asbestos Remediation Recurrent in Philadelphia Schools
Schools throughout the district have active asbestos problems, prompting the temporary closure of some. In 2019, five Philadelphia schools closed due to potential exposure to toxins. Since then, other schools were closed, including Carnell Elementary, Clara Barton Elementary, Francis Hopkinson Elementary, and T.M. Pierce Elementary.
The issue of asbestos exposure at school is not new. Closures due to toxins date back nearly 50 years. The large exodus of middle-class families to the suburbs in the 1970s left poor children remaining in dilapidated, asbestos-filled schools. A general lack of awareness and funding sanctioned asbestos exposure among students and teachers for decades.
The Julia R. Masterman magnet school delayed the start of school earlier this year after concerns of asbestos exposure. Ongoing building improvements prompted backlash from parents and teachers over the school's safety plan. According to some parents, the school was not clear enough about the extent of asbestos.
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Swiss-Belhotel International plans ambitious growth in Malaysia through joint venture with Nautical Insight Sdn Bhd
(From left to right) Mohammad Hasif bin Mohammad Nahar, Executive Director of Nautical Insight Sdn. Bhd.; Tan Sri Dato' Abdullah bin Taib, Chairman of Nautical Insight Sdn. Bhd.; Dato' Rosthman bin Ibrahim, Managing Director of Nautical Insight Sdn. Bhd.; Gavin M. Faull, Chairman & President of Swiss-Belhotel International; Matthew Faull, Executive Director & Senior Vice President of E-Commerce, Distribution and IT from Swiss-Belhotel International; and Lee Richards, Senior Vice President of Operations and Development for Central Asia, from Swiss-Belhotel International
Aiming to reach 10 hotels, 2000 rooms, and creating 1,500 jobs by 2025 in Malaysia, Swiss-Belhotel International embarks in a strategic joint venture with Nautical Insight Sdn Bhd.
The hotel, tourism and leisure industry is one of the leading service industries and is a significant source of economic growth in Malaysia's economy. Within Malaysia, the hospitality and tourism industry contributes 6% of Malaysia's GDP and 23% of national employment (3.5 million jobs) and is the third-largest component of the service industry. Thus, it is a no-brainer for Swiss-Belhotel International to put a flag in one of the upcoming economies in Southeast Asia.
Swiss-Belhotel International is bringing its 35 years of expertise in hospitality to drive its aggressive expansion in the Malaysian market. Established in 1987 with 16 well-positioned brands to serve any hospitality asset, Swiss-Belhotel International currently has a portfolio of 125 hotels, resorts and projects located in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Tanzania. The Group provides comprehensive and highly professional development and management services in all aspects of hotel, resort and serviced residences.
The Group recently marked its 35th anniversary celebrating the special milestone and its accomplishments. Staying true to its commitment, togetherness lies at the heart of everything the Group does as it continues to grow.
To fuel its robust expansion plans, the Group partners with Malaysian company Nautical Insight Sdn Bhd, the owner of LaCrista Hotel, a 5-star flagship hotel with 225 furnished rooms and focuses on the concept of Muslim travellers' friendly accommodation.
Mr. Gavin M. Faull, Chairman and President of Swiss-Belhotel International, said, "We are delighted to partner with Nautical Insight who understands this market well. We see tremendous growth potential for our respective companies in Malaysia and will be aggressively pursuing development opportunities throughout the country. Focused on high-growth markets in South East Asia, our expansion is driven by long-term sustainability while strengthening our diverse portfolio of brands."
LaCrista Hotel Melaka adds to the charm of Melaka's skyline, with its glass-domed ceilings and Roman pillars. It is a five-minute-drive from the local attractions in this UNESCO World Heritage Town.
LaCrista by Swiss-Belhotel aims to deliver the best personalised service to each and every guest who wish to create memories in its beautiful Colonial-inspired architecture. Embodying its tagline "Your Personalised Lifestyle Hotel," the property is perfect for leisure and business travellers.
Dato' Rosthman Ibrahim, Managing Director of Nautical Insight said, "We are thrilled to partner with Swiss-Belhotel International and look forward to combining the strengths of both our companies. We believe that LaCrista's better understanding of local culture and requirements can benefit the partnership in providing exquisite services to the customers. With the local knowledge and extensive networking that Nautical Insight has in Malaysia, we are confident that the partnership will deliver guests the exceptional hospitality with outstanding products perfectly suited for the local market."
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Trust me, you're in the wrong place! Over the next few days, beer will be dominating LF&B! Tonight's dinner is beer themed and St. Patty's Day is this weekend.
In the spirit of St. Patty's Day, and my new found love for the almighty Stout, I decided that today would be Stout Day. I wanted to do Stouts as my Beer of the Week a few weeks ago, but I've been to lazy I have not had a chance too.
Today, I'll give you a little description of the Stout and share the recipe for these babies.
I used Southern Tiers Double Milk Stout 2X today. Southern Tier Brewing Company was founded in 2002 by Phineas DeMink and Allen Yahn in Lakewood, New York. They currently produce around 50,000 barrels of beer every year. One neat fact I found about them, their bottling line can fill, label, and cap 10,000 bottles per hour at full speed. That is 2.8 bottles a second That is a lot of beer people!!
Stouts are a very dark beer. I remember before I liked beer I thought, from appearance alone, they were gross. Boy was I wrong. Stouts are usually mild in bitterness and high in sweetness. The dark roasted grains used in the brewing process can add coffee and chocolate flavors, too. They have a creamy taste and a tan/thick head.
Milk Stouts get their name from the lactose that is added. The milk adds extra sweetness to the beer. This probably isn't the best beer for the lactose intolerant people.
Stouts are broken down into 6 categories: Dry, Sweet, Oatmeal, Foreign Extra, American, and Russian Imperial. Milk and Oatmeal are two of my favorite. The Dry Stout (Guinness) isn't sweet enough for me. I like Stouts for the flavor. They remind me of dessert in a glass.
Stouts are by far my favorite beer to cook with. I've made everything from cookies to marinades. If pairing a milk stout with dinner, I would recommend a chocolaty dessert. The Chocolate will enhance the flavor of the beer. Dry Stouts work well with meats and of course oysters. Remember my post on the Oyster Stout?
Now it is time for the food!! How can I have Stout day and not share a sweet dessert?
I'm going to be honest. Each components does not work well on its own. The frosting is too sweet, the chocolate drizzle is bitter, and the cupcakes are not as sweet as normal cupcake. But together, it's heaven!! If I tried to make the cupcakes sweeter, then everything would be too sweet. Same with the bitterness. If I balanced out the bitterness with more sugar, it would throw everything off. Go ahead and try the chocolate sauce while you are making it, but just remember, everything will balance out.
Once I finished my cupcakes, I think every dish in the house was dirty. Baking is not my thing, but I'm really proud of these cupcakes. This was my first time baking them from scratch. Huck isn't a fan of sweets, and he even ate one!
Now, I'm off to make beer bread and check on my Corn Beef. That post is coming tomorrow! Stay tuned!
Add stout and butter to a pot over medium low heat and bring to a simmer. Slowly whisk in the cocoa and remove from heat. Make sure you do this step first so it can cool. The mixture will not be fully smooth and the butter will not be fully combined. It is OK.
Add Eggs and Sour Cream into a stand up mixer or a large bowl. Once fully combined, add the cocoa mixture. Mix until smooth. Slowly add the flour mixture. I added about 1/3 of the mixture at a time.
Once everything is completely combined, spoon into cupcake liners. Fill about 3/4 of the way full. Place in the oven and bake for 18 minutes. Stick a toothpick in the cupcakes to check to see if they are completely cooked. If the toothpick come out clean, the cupcakes are finished.
Allow to cool completely before applying the frosting and chocolate drizzle.
Combine ingredients in a mixer until smooth.
Pipe icing onto each cupcake. I used about 2 Tablespoons per cupcake. You will have lots of leftover icing.
Combined beer and chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 10 seconds.
Remove from microwave and stir. Heat for 10 more seconds and stir. Continue until chocolate is fully melted, about 20-30 seconds. |
in: Getter Robo Go Manga Characters, Pilots, Humans,
Getter Robo Go
Schwartz Koff
Title Schwartz Koff
Age (Young Adult)
Affiliation US Army
Allied Robot Corps
Status Former Stilva α04 co-pilot
Current bomber co-pilot
Schwartz Koff is an American soldier of German descent and a major character in the second major arc in the Getter Robo Go manga. He is the co-pilot of the Stilva α04 partnered with John Lambert. Unlike Lambert he is openly hostile towards the Getter Team due to his strong distaste for the Japanese population. Over time however, he grew close with Sho Tachibana and even fell in love with her.
1 Appearance and Personality
3.1 Getter Robo Go
3.2 Getter Robo Arc
Appearance and Personality[]
Schwartz is a young man with an athletic build and short blonde hair. He has always been seen in his military pilot suit commonly seen in American Air Force pilots.
Schwartz is a white supremacist believing Caucasian people are always better than other races and looking at those races with scorn. Out of other races and national biases, Schwartz puts most of his hatred on the Japanese. This is because his grandfather died in Pearl Harbor and his father's automobile company got outsold by Japanese cars. He does not have a high opinion of women either. After being helped by Sho a couple of times, his image of both the Japanese and women start to change but he still acts cocky around people like Go Ichimonji.
Schwartz is a competent fighter pilot able to control the Stilva and a bomber, although both times required a co-pilot.
Getter Robo Go[]
Schwartz appeared with Lambert piloting the Stilva in Alaska. When an SOS message came from the Getter Robo Go, Schwartz was against the idea of helping due to their heritage. However Lambert went ahead using the Stilva to fight off the Metal Beasts. Schwartz was not pleased about this excusing that Stilva fighter mode was exposed to the enemy.
At the base, Schwartz did just about everything to humiliate and abuse the Getter Team and their allies which got him into a few quarrels with Go. When the base was attacked, Schwartz was about to crushed under rubble until he was saved by Sho. After evacuating he goes to thank Sho while learning about her brother in the enemy ranks. Schwartz allows Sho to co-pilot the Stilva with him as Lambert was injured.
Against the wall in battle with the Metal Beasts, Schwartz and Sho are helped by Go in the Beetle T23. With the enemy regrouping on the Turtle Dragon, Schwartz pilots the Stilva with Lambert going in for a kamikaze to make room for the Texas Battleship. He managed to survive but lost consciousness. When the Getter defeated the Metal Beast piloted by Shinichi Tachibana, Sho goes to help him and manages to get him out in time before the Turtle Dragon's destruction. Schwartz then pilots a bomber jet to deal with the remaining forces of Vega Zone while noticing the activities of the Dinosaur Empire with Sho as his new co-pilot.
Getter Robo Arc[]
Schwartz's open hostility
Schwartz's white supremacist attitude
Schwartz schemes
Getter Robo Go Manga Characters |
Criminal Justice/ Education
School discipline comes to light after arrest
North Andover schools use 'safety plan' after assault
By Andy Metzger Breanna Edelstein, Brooke Randall, Eliezer Tuttle, Gregg Gilligan, North Andover, Scarlett Knight Academy 0 Comments Mar 15, 2019
A HORRIFIC CRIME in New Hampshire has cast a harsh light on the North Andover school district where a victim of sexual assault was warned to avoid her attacker and even to stay off of Main Street in front of the high school.
On February 17, 18-year-old Eliezer Tuttle picked up someone he had met at the Mall at Rockingham Park, but rather than going to a restaurant in Salem, New Hampshire, that afternoon, as they had planned, he pinned her down in the back seat of his car where he allegedly forcibly raped her. Then Tuttle took her to a movie theater in Epping, New Hampshire, where he allegedly attacked her again.
Tuttle, who has been held in New Hampshire, was involved in a similar incident with a very different outcome less than a year earlier in North Andover, where he was a high school student and an athlete on the wrestling and track and field teams.
Breanna Edelstein, a reporter at the Eagle-Tribune, got the scoop after the alleged victim in the earlier incident read the news of Tuttle's arrest in New Hampshire.
The first incident occurred on April 2, 2018. A high school classmate of Tuttle's went out driving with him, and then fought him off when Tuttle allegedly tried to take off her clothes and violate her. After taking her to her home, Tuttle tried to ensure that she wouldn't tell anyone about what happened, but she told school officials anyway, and Tuttle was arrested.
The week after the alleged attack, the victim signed an agreement with a school administrator barring her from "any avoidable contact or communication" with Tuttle, instructing her to travel her "normal pattern" to class, and requiring her to report any contact with Tuttle to administrators. Any violation of the so-called safety plan "will result in school discipline," the agreement said.
Sometime later in the year, the victim began attending Scarlett Knight Academy, which is part of the North Andover public school system and offers evening classes as an alternative to traditional high school. She signed an even more restrictive agreement with an administrator there. This new agreement, signed on December 5, barred the victim from Main Street in front of the high school and from the area of the gymnasium where she was not to travel nor loiter. The new agreement carried the same warning of school discipline.
It's hard to say how often those types of safety plan agreements are employed. North Andover Superintendent Gregg Gilligan would not answer the Eagle-Tribune's questions about how the school handled the incident.
In between the two safety plans, the juvenile court, which has secret proceedings to protect the privacy of minors, had apparently reached some type of conclusion because Tuttle had been on probation since November. The case was continued without a finding until Tuttle turns 19, according to an update the victim received from prosecutors.
Although a crime victim will often have many reasons to want to avoid an attacker, courts typically impose restrictions on the perpetrator, not the victim. Indeed, in the North Andover case, the victim obtained restraining orders against the victim that are still active. The school re-assigned Tuttle, who also signed a safety plan, according to a letter from the assistant principal, Brooke Randall, to the victim's mother, which does not identify Tuttle by name. Tuttle appears to have wrestled for at least part of last season, according to the Eagle-Tribune's sports pages.
Andy Metzger
Reporter, CommonWealth magazine
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About Andy Metzger
Andy Metzger joined CommonWealth Magazine as a reporter in January 2019. He has covered news in Massachusetts since 2007. For more than six years starting in May 2012 he wrote about state politics and government for the State House News Service. At the News Service, he followed three criminal trials from opening statements to verdicts, tracked bills through the flumes and eddies of the Legislature, and sounded out the governor's point of view on a host of issues – from the proposed Olympics bid to federal politics.
Before that, Metzger worked at the Chelmsford Independent, The Arlington Advocate, the Somerville Journal and the Cambridge Chronicle, weekly community newspapers that cover an array of local topics. Metzger graduated from UMass Boston in 2006. In addition to his written journalism, Metzger produced a work of illustrated journalism about Gov. Charlie Baker's record regarding the MBTA. He lives in Somerville and commutes mainly by bicycle.
Schools have different responsibilities and greater powers than authorities in other areas of society. Public schools have a duty to maintain order within their halls and classrooms and to educate every eligible student they can. Massachusetts policymakers have in recent years tried to avoid saddling youths with criminal records even when they could be charged with a crime.
Still, it is striking that so soon after the victim-empowering "Time's Up" and "Me Too" movements, the school administration in North Andover would dictate how one of its students can walk to and from class apparently because of the allegations of violent assault she made against one of her classmates.
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Canada Reports Further Jobs Increase As Unemployment Falls In December
Last Updated on janvier 8, 2022
Employment rose and unemployment dropped in December, in another solid month for Canada jobs, according to the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey.
The report, released Friday, showed Canada added 55,000 jobs during the month, while unemployment fell from 6.0 to 5.9 percent.
While employment has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, unemployment remains slightly about the 5.7 percent recorded in February 2020.
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The gains were concentrated in full-time work, where 123,000 jobs were added, offset by a decline of 68,000 part-time jobs.
Men aged 25 to 54 saw significant gains, adding 63,000 jobs to put employment in the demographic 2.5 percent higher than before the pandemic.
Employment for women in the same age-group was unchanged in December, but remains 2.2 percent about the levels seen in February 2020.
What Are The Labour Force Survey Highlights?
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Source: Statistics Canada
Provincial Canada Jobs Picture
In Canada's provinces, monthly gains were seen in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Ontario added nearly 47,000 jobs for an unemployment rate of 6.0 percent, the lowest since before the pandemic. Since May, employment gains in Canada's most populous province are at 468,000 jobs, concentrated in wholesale and retail trade and manufacturing.
Employment in Alberta rose by 11,100 jobs, with an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent. The province has an employment rate of 64.2 percent, the highest among all the provinces.
In neighbouring Saskatchewan, 6,000 jobs were added for an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent, again below the pre-pandemic level. Notable increases were seen in professional, scientific and technical services.
Over the course of 2021, Canada's four most populous provinces have spearheaded the COVID-19 recovery, led by Ontario, which added 413,000 jobs on the year, an increase of 5.7 percent.
Quebec (158,000, 3.8%), Alberta (130,000. 6.0%) and British Columbia (101,000, 3.9%) were all key contributors to the improving national picture.
Unemployment Rates In Canada's Provinces
Jobs change in last month
Canada Jobs Picture By Industry
Canada's construction industry saw its first employment gains since August, adding 27,000 jobs concentrated in full-time work. Employment in the industry remains 2.7 percent below pre-pandemic levels.
Employment in educational services also rose in December adding 17,000 jobs mainly in Ontario. Employment in the sector is now 6.7 percent above pre-pandemic levels.
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30 hour places are available and run over 4 and a half days. Parents are given the opportunity to pay for wrap around sessions (where available) at a cost of £10 per session.
Please help me to be a kind friend in the Nursery.
Children have the right to relax and play.
The first day at nursery can sometimes be a bit worrying for children (and Parents/Carers) especially if they haven't attended a preschool setting before. You are very welcome to stay and play with your child on their first day, usually for an hour. Arrangements for the following day can be made with a member of staff. It is important to us that children have a positive first experience of nursery. If you have any important information to share about your child, such as medical conditions, likes and interests, or any questions about nursery please see a member of nursery staff.
It is important for all children to wear sensible footwear and coat as the weather gets wetter and colder. We encourage the children to bring their own welly boots to use outside; these can be passed to a member of staff. When children are this age they are still learning to dress and undress independently, so we ask for them to wear shoes with velcro fastenings so they are easy to take off and put on. Please remember to name all clothing and footwear.
At St. Oswald's we place a high emphasis of the importance of good attendance, starting in Nursery. We encourage pupils to achieve attendance of 96% which is national average. There are lots of ways that we encourage and celebrate good attendance: text send home weekly to update them of their child's attendance, certificates sent home for weekly 100% attendance and termly 100% certificates and prizes. The children work toward their TREE targets (see key information section for more information) - one of the targets to be a golden apple at the end of the year is to achieve 96% attendance.
Nursery can be one of the first places that your child may mix with other children and they often catch lots of coughs and colds from each other. If your child is suffering with a cold it is important that you still bring them in to Nursery so that they can continue to build their resilience to illnesses. If we feel that your child is too poorly to be in school then we will contact you to collect them.
Please contact school and leave a message if your child will not be attending their session due to illness.
We encourage parents to support their children in learning the importance of arriving punctually for school. Starting these good habits in Nursery will ensure that your child continues this routine throughout their school life and into adulthood. At the start of our session children sign in - this gives them the opportunity to practice recognising their name, mark making and developing their fine motor skills. It also helps children settle into class and aids with seperating from parents. If children don't arrive punctually they are missing out on these key skills which provide foundations for their future learning. Please support us and your child by ensuring you arrive at 8:30am for morning sessions and 12:15pm for afternoon sessions.
We love to invited parents to join in with our sessions and 'stay & play' is the ideal time to do this. Each 'stay and play' session has a theme linked to the areas of development and parents are able to spend time looking at their child's learning journey and observations.
Each half term the children are invited to join in with our Mini-Church session where they can take part in a short church service at St. Oswald's Church. Parents are warmly invited to join in with our service and can enjoy refreshments afterwards.
Services begin at 11:15am and run until 11:30am. Attending church services is one of our tree targets and helps children become a 'Golden Apple'. |
Thrive Apartments London in London is an apartment building.
Set within 3.9 km of O2 Academy Brixton and 5 km of Stamford Bridge - Chelsea FC in London, Thrive Apartments London features accommodation with free WiFi, seating area and flat-screen TV. The accommodation consists of a living room, a well-equipped kitchen with a dining area, and a private bathroom with bath. A dishwasher, an oven and microwave are also featured, as well as a coffee machine. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Natural History Museum is 5 km from the apartment, whil...e Victoria and Albert Museum is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is London City Airport, 20 km from Thrive Apartments London.
Set within 3.9 km of O2 Academy Brixton and 5 km of Stamford Bridge - Chelsea FC in London, Thrive Apartments London features accommodation with free ...WiFi, seating area and flat-screen TV. The accommodation consists of a living room, a well-equipped kitchen with a dining area, and a private bathroom with bath. A dishwasher, an oven and microwave are also featured, as well as a coffee machine. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Natural History Museum is 5 km from the apartment, while Victoria and Albert Museum is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is London City Airport, 20 km from Thrive Apartments London.
When would you like to stay at Thrive Apartments London?
Children and extra beds All children under 1 year are charged GBP 5 per person per night for children's cots/cribs. The maximum number of children's cots/cribs in a room is 1. There is no capacity for extra beds in the room. Supplements are not calculated automatically in the total costs and will have to be paid for separately when checking out.
This property will not accommodate hen, stag or similar parties. Please inform Thrive Apartments London in advance of your expected arrival time. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly with the contact details provided in your confirmation. A damage deposit of GBP 200 is required on arrival. This will be collected by credit card. You should be reimbursed within 7 days of check-out. Your deposit will be refunded in full via credit card, subject to an inspection of the property. Please note that this property operates a strict no smoking policy. Parties are not permitted. |
Brian Berner, Spotify's Head of North American Advertising Sales
Jan 9, 2023 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Interviews, Leadership
Brian Berner is an advertising media and technology executive with over a decade of experience. He is the Head of North American Advertising Sales for Spotify, the popular streaming service, and he leads nearly 200 employees across various departments in all matters related to advertising sales and revenue within the United States and Canada.
Discovering his passion for advertising as a college student, Berner began his career at an email marketing firm that would eventually evolve into MySpace, the premier social media site at the time. He quickly grew from his role as an individual salesman to a managerial position, jumpstarting sales efforts for MySpace on the West Coast, eventually doing the same on the East Coast and in the Midwest before moving on. After a stint as the Vice President of Midwest Sales for marketing solutions company Centro, Brian Berner was approached by Spotify for the position of Regional Vice President of the Midwest, and soon advanced to Head of Advertising Sales in the US. As a result of his continued excellence, he subsequently became Head of Advertising Sales for North America in its entirety.
Brian Berner's wide breadth of experience in areas such as information, data, technology, and advertising have given him a distinct advantage in his career, providing him with a detailed understanding of digital-driven strategies long before they became the norm. His background in management information systems and informational hierarchies has also contributed heavily to his reputation as a well-respected leader with a proven track record of cultivating talent.
In looking forward, Brian Berner intends to continue excelling and achieving in his career, with hopes to one day start his own entrepreneurial efforts. Brian also has a passion for philanthropy and education, and his desire in this regard is to help improve Chicago's education system, where he grew up.
Our Interview With Brian Berner
Question: What's the most important thing we should know about you?
Brian Berner: Everything I live and stand for personally and professionally is family. My family is who shaped me growing up. They're who define me as a boss, husband, father, and sibling. They're who have helped me lead and grow great teams.
Question: Name the most impactful lesson you learned from failure.
Brian Berner: Failure leads to learning. It's something I learned early on in my life. We shouldn't be afraid of failure, as it helps us grow and better ourselves for the next opportunity.
Question: What accomplishment are you most proud of?
Brian Berner: Professionally, being the Head of U.S. Sales and going public with Spotify. It came with a great amount of learning, planning, strategy, and execution. To see it successfully come to life was a great moment.
Question: What did you waste the most time on when you were first starting your career?
Brian Berner: Trying to learn everything alone. There's a vast amount of people before me that "have done it before" for all types of problem solving. I could have spent more time networking and learning from people who already had experience in whatever problem I was trying to solve before attempting to do so without first laying some initial insights and prep.
Question: Name a tool you use for work that you can't live without.
Brian Berner: Salesforce. I love the CRM and insights that can be derived from such a good tool like this.
Question: What is your favorite hobby and why?
Brian Berner: Golf, but it should be noted that includes walking the course (no carts). It's such a nice opportunity to be able to go outside to relax and refresh at the same time.
Question: What excited you the most about your industry right now?
Brian Berner: The continued growth of streaming audio. As more consumers lean into streaming, especially Podcasts, the entire audio landscape continues to innovate and is affecting growth and advancements in other industries as well, like the connected car and home.
Question: What concerns you most about your industry right now?
Brian Berner: Trying to understand what the long term effects of COVID will be on consumer behavior and the advertising industry.
Question: What's the greatest risk you've ever taken?
Brian Berner: Professionally, when I first took the job as Head of Sales for Spotify in the U.S. Taking the job was a no-brainer, but the real challenge was moving a wife and 4 kids to a city where we had no family or established friendships in the neighborhood. At first it was one of the biggest challenges of my life getting our family settled in New York, but it was also equally one of the most rewarding opportunities to grow closer together as a family.
Question: Name one small habit that positively impacts your productivity.
Brian Berner: Placing "Do Not Book" time slots on my calendar through various times each day. As we all know, our calendars can get overwhelming, therefore I've gotten much better at making time to block that's just reserved for me. Whether that's getting through my inbox or just creating some white space, it keeps me energized throughout the day.
Question: What tips do you have for getting a seat at the table?
Brian Berner: Know your client's objectives and what your value proposition is.
Question: What book has made the biggest impact on your life?
Brian Berner: I've read them all, but one in particular was "Raving Fans". It's an incredibly easy read, but it truly rang home with me about what customer service is, and how we define and lead with customer service.
Question: Do you value intelligence or common sense more? Why?
Brian Berner: Both, it can never be just one. Data will always help provide direction and insights. Common sense tends to be learned through experience. Having both always leads to better outcomes.
Question: What would you consider to be the perfect day?
Brian Berner: A day out of the office with my family.
Brian Berner
Head of North American Advertising Sales |
Uber is suspending its main service in Finland as its global war with regulators continues
Sam Shead
Jul. 6, 2017, 7:05 AM
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Uber will "pause" its main service in Finland as it waits for local regulators to remove taxi licence permit quotas and fare restrictions.
The San Francisco headquartered company announced in a blog post on Thursday that it will suspend its UberPop service in Helsinki, the only Finnish city that it operates in, until next year.
UberPop allows any driver to sign up and offer unlicensed taxi trips providing their car meets certain criteria. But Finnish law dictates that all Uber drivers have a licence. As a result, UberPop has proved problematic in Helsinki.
A number of drivers in Helsinki have signed up to become UberPop drivers without holding a valid permit. Some of those that have been caught have been ordered to give up their earnings, with one driver ordered to hand over €12,000 (£10,500) by the Helsinki District Court.
New laws have been passed by the Finnish parliament but they won't come into force until next summer.
"We want to ensure that we do not pose drivers who use our app or our employees any unnecessary issues, especially now that we have a bright future to look forward to. We believe that the best way to do so and focus on the future is to pause UberPop and relaunch in the summer of 2018," said Joel Järvinen, Uber's country manager for Finland in the blog post.
"While we are looking forward to the reforms coming into effect, we have decided it is best to pause UberPop from 15 August until the new regulations allow a better environment," Järvinen added.
UberBlack, the premium Uber service, will continue operating in the city as it requires drivers to have a licence before they can sign up.
Uber is facing regulatory battles around the world, with licensed taxi drivers arguing that the venture capital backed company is massively undercutting the services they provide and breaking local transportation laws in the process. The app has been banned in cities like Berlin, Germany, and protested against in the likes of London and Paris.
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10% results from private contributions.
70% comes from agency contracts.
Out of approximately 350 individuals who enter Glory House program, over 70% are employed.
The LSI-R is a tool used to determine a clients' risk of reoffending within 1 year of discharging from a facility. It measures an offenders overall level of risk and criminogenic need.
Glory House clients show an overall 3.86 point improvement in LSI-R scores, demonstrating a capacity for success.
Of those clients that discharged successfully, they showed an 8.15 point improvement.
A Correctional Program Assessment Inventory (CPAI) was conducted on Glory House in May 2001 by Dr. Edward Latessa of University of Cincinnati. A CPAI is used to ascertain how closely a correctional treatment program meets known principles of effective correctional treatment. |
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Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor star in Singin' in the Rain, one of the greatest and most successful musicals ever filmed - filled with memorable songs, lavish routines and Kelly's fabulous song-and-dance number performed in the rain. Set during the advent of "talkies," Don Lockwood has risen to stardom during Hollywood's silent-movie era - paired with the beautiful, jealous and dumb Lina Lamont. And when Lockwood becomes attracted to young studio singer Kathy Selden, Lamont has her fired. But with the introduction of talking pictures, Lockwood finds his career in jeopardy after audiences laugh when they hear Lamont speak in her shrill voice for the first time... until the studio decides to use Selden to dub her voice.
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The first democratically elected communist party government formed in a State in India.
India's then largest bank, 'Imperial Bank of India', was renamed 'State Bank of India'.
Air India was nationalised and became the national carrier.
Goa became a part of independent India.
2. Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. Which of the following in the Constitution of India correctly and appropriately imply the above statement?
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair, has announced the Minimum Support Price for which of the above?
4. In which one of the following States is Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary located?
PSLVs launch the satellites useful for Earth resources monitoring whereas GSLVs are designed mainly to launch communication satellites.
Satellites launched by PSLV appear to remain permanently fixed in the same position in the sky, as viewed from a particular location on Earth.
GSLV Mk III is a four-staged launch l vehicle with the first and third stages l using solid rocket motors and the second and fourth stages using liquid rocket engines.
Capital infusion into public sector banks by the Government of India has steadily increased in the last decade.
To put the public sector banks in order, the merger of associate banks with the parent State Bank of India has been affected.
The definition of "Critical Wildlife Habitat" is incorporated in the Forest Rights Act, 2006.
For the first time in India, Baigas have been given Habitat Rights.
Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change officially decides and declares Habitat Rights for Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups in any part of India.
The National Programme for Organic Production' (NPOP) is operated under the guidelines and directions of the Union Ministry of Rural Development.
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority' (APEDA) functions as the Secretariat for the implementation of NPOP.
Sikkim has become India's first fully organic State.
11. Regarding Money Bill, which of the following statements is not correct?
A bill shall be deemed to be a Money Bill if it contains only provisions relating to imposition, abolition, remission, alteration or regulation of any tax.
A Money Bill has provisions for the custody of the Consolidated Fund of India or the Contingency Fund of India.
A Money Bill is concerned with the appropriation of money out of the Contingency Fund of India.
A Money Bill deals with the regulation of borrowing of money or giving of any guarantee by the Government of India.
The value of the vote of each MLA varies from State to State.
The value of the vote of MPs of the Lok Sabha is more than the value of the vote of MPs of the Rajya Sabha.
13. In the Indian context, what is the implication of ratifying the 'Additional Protocol' with the 'International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'?
The country will have the privilege to buy uranium from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
15. With reference to the 'Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA)', which of the following statements is/are correct?
GACSA is an outcome of the Climate Summit held in Paris in 2015.
Membership of GACSA does not create any binding obligations.
India was instrumental in the creation of GACSA.
16. Which of the following is/are the aim/aims of "Digital India" Plan of the Government of India?
Formation of India's own Internet companies like China did.
Establish a policy framework to encourage overseas multinational corporations that collect Big Data to build their large data centres within our national geographical boundaries.
Connect many of our villages to the Internet and bring Wi-Fi to many of our school, public places and major tourist centres.
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall vacate his/her office if he/she ceases to be a member of the Assembly.
Whenever the Legislative Assembly is dissolved, the Speaker shall vacate his/her immediately.
20. Which one of the following reflects the nicest, appropriate relationship between law and liberty?
if there are more laws, there is less liberty.
If there are no laws, there is no liberty.
If there is liberty, laws have to be made by the people.
If laws are changed too often, liberty is in danger.
No criminal proceedings shall be instituted against the Governor of a State any court during his term of office.
The emoluments and allowances of the Governor of a State shall not be diminished during his term of office.
23. What is "Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)", sometimes seen in the news?
Most of the Tyagaraja Kritis are devotional songs in praise of Lord Krishna.
Tyagaraja created several new ragas.
Annamacharya and Tyagaraja are contemporaries.
Annamacharya kirtanas are devotional songs in praise of Lord Venkateshwara.
25. Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the "Rule of Law"?
26. Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India?
27. Which one of the following is an artificial lake?
It is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
It, among other things, will also impart training in soft skills, entrepreneurship, financial and digital literacy.
It aims to align the competencies of the unregulated workforce of the country to the National Skill Qualification Framework.
29. In 1920, which of the following changed its name to "Swarajya Sabha"?
30. Which among the following events happened earliest?
Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath.
Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil Services Examination.
31. Which of the following is/are the possible consequence/s of heavy sand mining in riverbeds?
34. "3D printing" has applications in which of the following?
The last time the Barren Island volcano erupted was in 1991 and it has remained inactive since then.
36. Why is a plant called Prosopis juliflora often mentioned in news?
Its extract is widely used in cosmetics.
It tends to reduce the biodiversity in the area in which it grows.
Its extract is used in the synthesis of pesticides.
Most of the world's coral reefs are in tropical waters.
More than one-third of the world's coral reefs are located in the territories of Australia, Indonesia and Philippines.
Coral reefs host far more number of animal phyla than those hosted by tropical rainforests.
IRNSS has three satellites in geostationary and four satellites in geosynchronous orbits.
IRNSS covers entire India and about 5500 sq. km beyond its borders.
India will have its own satellite navigation system with full global coverage by the middle of 2019.
Light is affected by gravity.
Matter warps its surrounding space-time.
GM mustard has the genes of a soil bacterium that give the plant the property of pest-resistance to a wide variety of pests.
GM mustard has the genes that allow the plant cross-pollination and hybridization.
GM mustard has been developed jointly by the IARI and Punjab Agricultural University.
45. Which of the following statements best describes "carbon fertilization"?
46. When the alarm of your smartphone rings in the morning, you wake up and tap it to stop the alarm which causes your geyser to be switched on automatically. The smart mirror in your bathroom shows the day's weather and also indicates the level of water in your overhead tank. After you take some groceries from your refrigerator for making breakfast, it recognises the shortage of stock in it and places an order for the supply of fresh grocery items. When you step out of your house and lock the door, all lights, fans, geysers and AC machines get switched off automatically. On your way to the office, your car warns you about traffic congestion ahead and suggests an alternative route, and if you are late for a meeting, it sends a- message to your office accordingly. In the context of emerging communication technologies, which one of the following term" best applies to the above scenario?
India is the third largest in the world in the manufacture of silicon wafers used in photovoltaic units.
The solar power tariffs are determined by the Solar Energy Corporation of India.
49. Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?
50. Who among the following were the founders of the "Hind Mazdoor Sabha" established in 1948?
White marble was used in making Buland Darwaza and Khankah at Fatehpur Sikri.
Red sandstone and marble were used in making Bara Imambara and Rumi Darwaza at Lucknow.
53. Which one of the following foreign travellers elaborately discussed about diamonds and diamond mines of India?
54. With reference to Indian history, who among the following is a future Buddha, yet to come to save the world?
55. Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley?
56. Which one of the following statements correctly describes the meaning of legal tender money?
The bank money in the form of cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, etc.
the opportunity cost is zero.
the opportunity cost is ignored.
the opportunity cost is transferred from the consumers of the product to the tax-paying public.
the opportunity cost is transferred from the consumers of the product to the Government.
industrial output fails to keep pace with agricultural output.
agricultural output fails to keep pace with industrial output.
imports grow faster than exports.
individuals of a country to accumulate more capital.
increasing the knowledge, skill levels and capacities of the people of the country.
61. After the Santhal Uprising subsided, what was/were the measure/measures taken by the colonial government?
The territories called 'Santhal Paraganas' were created.
It became illegal for a Santhal to transfer land to a non-Santhal.
the Assembly of the State is automatically dissolved.
the powers of the Legislature of that State shall be exercisable by or under the authority of the Parliament.
Article 19 is suspended in that State.
the President can make laws relating to that State.
65. In which of the following areas can GPS technology be used?
The Reserve Bank of India manages and services Government of India Securities but not any State Government Securities.
Treasury bills are issued by the Government of India and there are no treasury bills issued by the State Governments.
The Earth's magnetic field has reversed every few hundred thousand years.
When the Earth was created more than 4000 million years ago, there was 54% oxygen and no carbon dioxide.
When living organisms originated, they modified the early atmosphere of the Earth.
69. With reference to the circumstances in Indian agriculture, the concept of "Conservation Agriculture" assumes significance. Which of the following fall under the Conservation Agriculture?
Widespread monoculture practices in agriculture and large-scale commercial farming with indiscriminate use of chemicals in many parts of the world that may result in the loss of good native ecosystems.
Fears of a possible collision of a meteorite with the Earth in the near future in the manner it happened 65 million years ago that caused the mass extinction of many species including those of dinosaurs. .
Large scale cultivation of genetically modified crops in many parts of the world and promoting their cultivation in other parts of the world which may cause the disappearance of good native crop plants and the loss of food biodiversity.
Mankind's over-exploitation/misuse of natural resources, fragmentation/loss of natural habitats, destruction of ecosystems, pollution and global climate change.
Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) is the amount that banks have to maintain in the form of their own funds to offset any loss that banks incur if the account-holders fail to repay dues.
CAR is decided by each individual bank.
72. The identity platform 'Aadhaar' provides open "Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)". What does it imply?
It can be integrated into any electronic device.
Online authentication using iris is possible.
73. Very recently, in which of the following countries have lakhs of people either suffered from severe famine/acute malnutrition or died due to starvation caused by war/ethnic conflicts?
74. Regarding Wood's Dispatch, which of the following statements are true?
Establishment of universities was recommended.
English as a medium of instruction at all levels of education was recommended.
75. With reference to the Parliament of India, which of the following Parliamentary Committees scrutinizes and reports to the House whether the powers to make regulations, rules, sub-rules, by-laws, etc. conferred by the Constitution or delegated by the Parliament are being properly exercised by the Executive within the scope of such delegation?
As per the Right to Education (RTE) Act, to be eligible for appointment as a teacher in a State, a person would be required to possess the minimum qualification laid down by the concerned State Council of Teacher Education.
As per the RTE Act, for teaching primary classes, a candidate is required to pass a Teacher Eligibility Test conducted in accordance with the National Council of Teacher Education guidelines.
In India, more than 90% of teacher's education institutions are directly under the State Governments.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 replaced the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is under the charge of Director General of Health Services in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The families coming under the category of 'below poverty line (BPL)' only are eligible to receive subsidised grains.
The eldest woman in a household, of age 18 years or above, shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issuance of a ration card.
Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to a take-home ration' of 1600 calories per day during pregnancy and for six months thereafter.
In India, State Governments do not have the power to auction non-coal mines.
Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand do not have gold mines.
Rajasthan has iron ore mines.
BHIM app allows the user to transfer money to anyone with a UPI-enabled bank account.
While a chip-pin debit card has four factors of authentication, BHIM app has only two factors of authentication.
84. Among the following cities, which one lies on a longitude closest to that of Delhi?
In the first Lok Sabha, the single largest party in the opposition was the Swatantra Party.
In the Lok Sabha, a "Leader of the Opposition" was recognized for the first time in1969.
In the Lok Sabha, if a party does not have a minimum of 75 members, its leader cannot be recognized as the Leader of the Opposition.
87. Which of the following leaf modifications occur(s) in the desert areas to inhibit water loss?
Rajasthan has the highest percentage share of agricultural households among its rural households.
Out of the total agricultural households in the country, a little over 60 percent belong to OBCs.
In Kerala, a little over 60 percent of agricultural households reported to have received maximum income from sources other than agricultural activities.
The NGT has been established by an Act whereas the CPCB has been created by an executive order of the Government.
The NGT provides environmental justice and helps reduce the burden of litigation in the higher courts whereas the CPCB promotes cleanliness of streams and wells, and aims to improve the quality of air in the country.
The Parliament of India can place a particular law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
The validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule cannot be examined by any court and no judgement can be made on it.
91. Which one of the following best describes the term "Merchant Discount Rate" sometimes seen in news?
The incentive given by a bank to a merchant for accepting payments through debit cards pertaining to that bank.
The amount paid back by banks to their customers when they use debit cards for financial transactions for purchasing goods or services.
The charge to a merchant by a bank for accepting payments from his customers through the bank's debit cards.
The incentive given by the Government, to merchants for promoting digital payments by their customers through Point of Sale (PoS) machines and debit cards.
92. What is/are the consequence/consequences of a country becoming the member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group'?
It will have access to the latest and most efficient nuclear technologies.
It automatically becomes a member of "The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)".
93. With reference to India's decision to levy an equalization tax of 6% on online advertisement services offered by non-resident entities, which of the following statements is/are correct?
It is introduced as a part of the Income Tax Act.
Non-resident entities that offer advertisement services in India can claim a tax credit in their home country under the "Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements".
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management ( FRBM) Review Committee Report has recommended a debt to GDP ratio of 60% for the general (combined) government by 2023, comprising 40% for the Central Government and 20% for the State Governments.
The Central Government has domestic liabilities of 21% of GDP as compared to that of 49% of GDP of the State Governments.
As per the Constitution of India, it is mandatory for a State to take the Central Government's consent for raising any loan if the former owes any outstanding liabilities to the latter.
The quantity of imported edible oils is more than the domestic production of edible oils in the last five years.
The Government does not impose any customs duty on all the imported edible oils a special case.
Aadhaar card can be used as a proof of citizenship or domicile.
Once issued, Aadhaar number cannot be deactivated or omitted by the Issuing Authority.
98. Which of the following has/have shrunk immensely/dried up in the recent past due to human activities?
99. "Rule of Law Index" is released by which of the following?
100. Which one of the following links all the ATMs in India?
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A Writer-Engineer's Historical Fiction Hack: Add Dragons04:28
Ravenna Koenig
Author Naomi Novik is a world builder. She writes books about dragons, witches and dark woods — and she's also designed computer games. "I'm an engineer and a writer," she says, "and I find that those two things are not uncomplimentary."
Novik's career as a writer and programmer started in the same place — her sophomore college dorm. "I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists, and every Wednesday we would all watch Star Trek: The Next Generation."
It was the early days of the Internet, and Novik found her way to a discussion list for Trekkers. Engaging with fan communities online got her interested in two things: coding and fan fiction. She completed her master's degree in computer science, but continued to write fan fiction on the side.
Almost a decade after she first went online, she says she was working as a programmer for a computer game "and something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of light-bulb moment for me as a writer." At the time, her fan fiction at was inspired by swashbuckling adventure novels set in the Napoleonic era. But something started happening to her stories — they were getting longer and more complex.
"Then all of a sudden I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters, as opposed to enjoying them," she says. "And that remains for me to this day the line ... where it's like: OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore."
She also had an idea she wanted to run with: "What could make the Napoleonic wars more exciting? Dragons!" And one dragon in particular: Temeraire. He's central in her 9-book "Temeraire" series, which opens with the dragon becoming the responsibility of Will Laurence, a naval captain fighting for the British against Napoleon. Laurence is chivalrous with a keen sense of duty, but he embraces the 19th-century conventions that Novik paints in faithful detail — even some that are distasteful to 21st-century readers, like class hierarchies and the roles of women. Temeraire, on the other hand, is newly hatched; he provides a more critical, modern voice.
"Temeraire comes out talking, thinking for himself," Novik says, "and immediately starts overturning all of Laurence's assumptions because he doesn't take things for granted." The last installment in the "Temeraire" series is due out this summer.
According to Novik, combining fantasy and historical fiction allows you to have a conversation with the past that you might not get with a straightforward historical novel. "You can actually muck with history and think about: What if? Why not?" she says. "What if there were dragons in the Incan empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?"
Novik's attraction to characters who provide an outsider's perspective comes from her own experience. Her parents are immigrants who came to the U.S. from Eastern Europe before she was born. Her grandmother was executed for her role in the Polish resistance during World War II, and her mother defected from Communist Poland and was separated from her family for many years.
Uprooted is the book she wrote from those fragments of her family history, and it's a finalist for one of the highest prizes in American science fiction and fantasy, the Nebula Award. Set in the Poland of her mother's bedtime stories, it follows a young witch as she unravels the mystery that lies in a dark wood at the edge of her village. "It's a place that should be nurturing, that should be positive and beautiful and have wild magic to it," Novik says. "And it has all been twisted inward by rage, by hatred and by the severing of connections."
These days, Novik's coding work is mostly volunteer. She likes the idea of designing games again, but she says she's happy where she is. "As a novelist, you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake — all the cake — and then you can have a second cake if you want it, too."
She still writes fan fiction, though — more than 450 stories in 50 different fandoms — and when she sits down to write, about half of it is fan fiction. Until, of course, her characters begin to chafe against the boundaries and a new story is born.
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Improve or we'll turn to youth: Clarko's ultimatum to veterans
Alastair Clarkson is hoping for a form turnaround against the struggling Swans on Saturday night
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Hawthorn captain Ben Stratton leads his side out. Picture: Mark Kolbe/AFL Photos
HAWTHORN coach Alastair Clarkson has put his experienced players on notice that they will be replaced by younger options if the Hawks don't snap out of their losing funk soon.
Clarkson's men have comprehensively lost their past three games after an impressive 3-1 start and have failed to score 50 points in that period.
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Triple premiership forward Paul Puopolo has already lost his spot, while the likes of captain Ben Stratton and Tom Scully are also feeling the heat.
Even 37-year-old Shaun Burgoyne has cooled off significantly since a strong start to the season.
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"We can't continue on losing like this," Clarkson said.
"We're backing in our senior guys but at some point in time there needs to be a changing of the guard if the senior guys don't perform.
"But you've got to understand this club and me personally and these players have got a pretty decorated history with the club … so they need to be given an opportunity to perform.
"That will only go so far before we say we need to inject some more young talent into our group."
The 'hard decisions' Clarko must make
Matthew Lloyd and Damian Barrett discuss Hawthorn's poor play, and why the coach needs to make some changes
The Hawks have begun to drip feed some younger footballers into their side, with Will Day – who looks a top-notch prospect – Josh Morris and Harry Jones making their AFL debut in the past few weeks.
Ex-Saint Darren Minchington also played his first match for Hawthorn last week.
Saturday night's opponent, Sydney, is also struggling, having dropped four games on the trot but will regain key forward Sam Reid from a calf injury.
Interestingly, Reid played on new Hawk and former Bomber Michael Hartley in an engaging duel in a practice game last weekend, so the latter might be an option to be called up.
Clarkson and co. also have decisions to make on defender Jarman Impey (knee), who's played two scratch matches since returning from a year on the sidelines, and ruckman Jon Ceglar (toe).
"He's certainly in the mix and it'll depend on training and his body," Clarkson said of Impey.
"He's spent a long period of time out of the game. We just want to make sure he's absolutely cherry ripe.
"We'll wait and see whether or not he needs another week in the scrimmage game we play against GWS, or whether he plays in the game against Sydney on Saturday night."
Young defender Jack Scrimshaw has also recovered from his ankle complaint and is available for selection.
However, Clarkson also called for perspective on his side's performances.
He pointed to his experiences of assistant Brett Ratten losing his son, Cooper, in a car accident, retired champion Jarryd Roughead twice being diagnosed with cancer, and this week's loss of Shane Tuck.
"There are lots of things that go on in life and everyone's making three losses in a row sound like it's the most catastrophic thing that's ever happened in the game," Clarkson said.
"We need to play better footy and we're not shying away from that but we've been through much more challenging things than this."
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Daphne Jackson Fellow honoured in the 2017 Power Part Time List
Daphne Jackson Fellow Dr Morag Maskey has been named in the 2017 Power Part Time List: a national roll call of the UK's top 50 men and women who work in senior, business-critical roles, all on less than five days per week.
The 2017 Power Part Time list – now in its fifth year – is compiled annually by Timewise Joint CEOs and co-founders Karen Mattison MBE and Emma Stewart MBE, to create more role models, debunk the myth that you cannot deliver in a top job in less than full time hours, and change the conversation on how businesses recruit senior talent. On this year's list more than half of the business men and women were recruited into their roles on a part time basis.
This year, Timewise has also introduced a new category to champion the 'Ones to Watch' in conjunction with the main Power List, in partnership with EY. Recognising that working part time in middle management roles often also comes with its challenges, the new category has identified 10 stellar individuals who are already working flexibly in the mid-career stage, and proving that it is possible to negotiate part time hours mid-career, as well at the top.
Timewise (www.timewise.co.uk) is a multi-award winning social business and leading change agent for the flexible recruitment market in the UK, running a series of services to articulate the business benefits of quality part time and flexible work, designed to boost the number of jobs that are advertised with flexible working possibilities in the UK.
The List, designed to inspire more employers to open their doors to talented people who need flexible and part time work, has been published in association with Management Today and is supported by businesses that champion workplace change and are at the cutting-edge of finding the best of talent: EY, Diageo and The Instant Group.
Dr Morag Maskey works 4 days a week at Newcastle University and leads a research stream which is investigating the use of virtual reality to help children and adults with autism to manage their anxiety. She has three children aged 12 to 15, and her youngest is on the autism spectrum. Returning from a five-year career break five years ago, Morag started work with the autism research team on a 0.5 FTE basis, following the award of a Newcastle University funded Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship. She has increased her hours as her children got older and the research developed. The success of Morag's work has led to a new virtual reality intervention for children with autism that is now available in the NHS, a process which Morag is managing, with the potential to help many young people with autism.
Timewise conducted the nationwide call to action for nominations in 2016, calling upon the public to nominate inspirational individuals they knew, who work part time / flexibly at senior levels.
Joint CEO Karen Mattison MBE led the judging panel which included:
• Lynn Rattigan, Chief Operating Officer, EY UK & Ireland
• Belinda Earl, Style Director, Marks & Spencer
• Andrew Saunders, Deputy Editor, Management Today magazine
• Katie Bickerstaffe, Chief Executive Officer, Dixons at Dixons Carphone plc, UK & Ireland
• Sally Bundock, Presenter, BBC World Business Report
• Andrew Porter, Head of Talent Engagement, Diageo
• Emma Stewart MBE, Joint CEO, Timewise
After receiving a wide range of industry nominations, the judges compiled the lists of people deemed to be the most outstanding. Both lists are not ranked or numbered in any way.
Morag says: "I'm honoured to have been included in the Timewise 2017 Power Part Time List and that, by opening up about my own personal working patterns, I can help pave the way for future generations of workers – men as well as women – who will need to fit work with other major commitments in life."
Timewise Joint CEO and judge Karen Mattison MBE, who led the initiative from the start says: "Dr Maskey and all winners from our top 50 and Ones to Watch category represent how work in the UK is changing, and offers us a glimpse into how jobs will be designed in the future. All it takes is an open minded employer who is prepared to try something new in a bid to hire or keep the best people, and an innovative solution is born. I am delighted that the conversation is moving away from WHY people need to work flexibly, to HOW businesses and individuals are making it work."
For the full list of this year's 50 Power Part Timers and Ones to Watch, please visit Management Today www.managementtoday.co.uk and www.timewise.co.uk.
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Coronavirus and the Crisis of State Identity in Belarus
Jahnavi Mukul / May 26, 2020 / 331
Chase Harrison 2020-05-26
Even after achieving independence, Belarus is still known as the most 'Russianised' of the post-Soviet countries. Its unique retention of Soviet structures even after the breakdown of the USSR demonstrates the lack of cohesive state identity in the country. This has allowed Alexander Lukashenko, the country's first and only president to date, to concentrate more and more power in his own hands. This article argues that Belarus' crisis of state identity has enabled Lukashenko's populist and, subsequently, authoritarian nature. Further, the lack of state identity has allowed him to neglect the severity of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Belarus's independence in the post-Cold War era was not a result of a long struggle, which hampered the formation of national identity. In 1991, after three-centuries under the rule of a variety of groups, newly independent Belarus started its journey of defining its unique cultural and institutional features. Historically, Belarus' close ties to Russia gave rise to a culture of Soviet-Belarusian patriotism or the adoption of Soviet identity in place of a Belarussian one. Lukashenko himself had defined Belarusians as "Russians but of a higher degree."
Just before the breakdown of the USSR, some privatisation of the economy had taken place. However, after Lukashenko was elected President, he renewed the Sovietisation of the country by returning control to the state. Within a year, he held a referendum to adopt slightly amended Soviet national symbols, made Russian a state language, and endorsed economic integration with Russia. After his election in 1994, instead of finding concrete measures to nurture the idea of Belarusian identity, Lukashenko emphasised two factors for national consolidation: increasing state capacity, along with the power of the president as its guarantor. Under the garb of opposing the elites, Lukashenko resorted to a referendum to amend the constitution to strengthen presidential power, while also intensifying anti-corruption and anti-elite campaigns.
Lukashenko's populism places himself at the centre of Belarus's identity. The values promoted by the government are "patriarchic rule by the bat'ka (or father)," which justifies building the Belarusian state around the President. This tactic has undermined the role of the opposition, which advocates for a classical sense of national identity by opposing close ties with Russia. To most Belarusians, they appear anti-patriotic. This is because the idea of their national identity is very closely tied to the idea of Lukashenko as their leader. This has made it challenging for the public to learn about or associate with the opposition.
The idea of Belarus being an extension of Lukashenko himself has caused diplomatic and economic crises in the country. It has allowed Lukashenko to do what he thinks is right as the father of the nation. Currently, Belarus has one of the highest daily rates of increase in Coronavirus infections in Europe. Yet, Lukashenko has not imposed a lockdown in the country. The number of healthcare professionals in Belarus is almost comparable to Germany, but the country is still far from flattening the curve of infections. The number of infections and deaths in the country have been speculated to be heavily underreported due to censorship from Lukashenko's government. Plainly, Lukashenko does not perceive Coronavirus as a threat. He has gone so far as to call the disease a "psychosis" and believes that the high rate of Coronavirus deaths in the Mogilev region of the country can be attributed to chronic diseases.
Some think Lukashenko's domineering reaction to Coronavirus is a product of the upcoming elections. But do those elections even matter? It seems likely that Lukashenko will win no matter what. There is a history of political oppression of the opposition in the country and the "father" has always emerged victorious. Still, Lukashenko is somewhat vulnerable if the economy falters. The Belarussian economy is underdeveloped, operating in a Soviet-era style. It remains overdependent on Russia, and its poor credit rating has kept it isolated from the international market. Recently, Putin has waged a silent but significant economic war on Belarus on account of his plans of making it a larger part of the Russian state. Thus, maintaining economic stability is critical for Lukashenko to remain in power. By not imposing a total lockdown, Lukashenko has attempted to keep economic activities going.
However, there is discontent with Lukashenko's response and the opposition is becoming more prominent. The Belarussian Ministry of Health has issued notices on avoiding large gatherings, even though the President attended mass recently. The Ministry has also been reporting on the situation daily, even though its statements have been overshadowed by Lukashenko's comments. The national train service has rearranged passenger seats to enable social distancing. Private sector companies have started working remotely. Some bars and restaurants have closed on their own. Finally, there is a decline in the number of people on the street and those using public transport.
However, large scale change may only come if Lukashenko decides to actively capitulate to the opposition to his pandemic strategy. This could be enabled by the increasing death rate, which may further cripple the economy, mounting pressure on the President to make changes.
Still, civil society's discontent unfortunately may not be sufficient to bring true democratisation. The carefully constructed state institutions in Belarus do not leave scope for much dissent, if any at all. If somehow the country manages to lower the rate of infection in comparison to other European countries, the idea of Lukashenko as the protector and bastion of Belarussian state identity will only be strengthened. In either outcome, the situation does not seem to be looking up for the country. A source of hope for sustained change lies in the renewed interest by the European Union in Belarus to counter Moscow, in the post-pandemic world. This could help foster a post-Russia identity in the country, which would alter its political course for the better.
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In June of last year, the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Shared Service completed a project to help UIC Faculty Affairs improve their hiring process for appointments requiring prior Provost and Board of Trustees approval. The goal of this collaboration was to reduce the amount of time required to process these approvals. Now, Dr. Angela Yudt, Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs, reports that after implementing the solutions recommended by the project team led by Marc Carlton of BPI, Faculty Affairs has experienced a 40% reduction in their average turnaround time. How did they achieve these considerable results?
Another crucial component to improving their process was using the FormBuilder workflow and forms tool. Dr. Yudt says that its "product features were able to meet our needs for flexibility, dynamic questioning, as well as security and storage." Using Faculty Affairs process information obtained and organized by the BPI team, Tanya Wood of AITS provides ongoing assistance to Dr. Yudt's team to configure FormBuilder according to the specific needs of their unit. FormBuilder's routing functionality has enabled their formerly paper-driven process to become completely on-line, increasing efficiency and transparency for their customers. Tanya is glad to have had the opportunity to work on this project, and continues to use her work with Faculty Affairs as a model for other groups requesting workflows and paper-process elimination.
Units that submit hiring requests to Faculty Affairs also appreciate the improvement, especially FormBuilder's contribution. "Overall, it's a great application … it has already saved a significant amount of time," says Antoniah Lewis-Reese of UIC's School of Public Health.
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Aleph to publish 'ONE WHO SERVES BECOMES THE MASTER': LIFE LESSONS FROM HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN Edited by Bela Upadhyay
The key teachings of Hazrat Nizamuddin on the ways to realize God.
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India has produced some of the world's greatest religious leaders, sages, saints, philosophers, and spiritual thinkers. They were monks, nuns, and renunciates, nationalists, and reformers. No one religion had a monopoly on them. They range from Mahavira and Buddha, who lived over 2,500 years ago, to medieval saints like Chishti, Avvaiyar, and Guru Nanak, to more recent philosophers and religious icons such as Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Saint Teresa, and many others. The spiritual and philosophical heritage they left behind is India's gift to all Indians and the world.
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In the 'Life Lessons' series we publish the essential teachings of some of India's best-known spiritual teachers, along with commentaries and biographical notes. Each book will be a handy companion to help the reader along the difficult pathways of life.
Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, is one of the most revered of the Sufi saints in the subcontinent and the founder of the Chishti Nizami order. Born in Badaun in great poverty, he chose to dedicate his life to the Sufi vision of love and peace and service to the poor. At the age of twenty, he became a disciple of the Sufi saint known as Baba Farid (of Ajodhan), and eventually took over as his spiritual successor. Renowned for his simplicity, he emphasized that love and service to humanity was the way to realize God. Nizamuddin Auliya's religious vision was imbued with a strong sense of plurality. He believed in the unity of mankind and decried all distinctions based on social or economic inequalities. His life was marked by a disregard for religious orthodoxy and political hegemony. He left an indelible mark on the city where he lived and his disciples spread the message of Sufism all over the world. Centuries later, his teachings continue to inspire his followers who flock to his dargah in Delhi in search of solace and guidance.
Edited by Bela Upadhyay, this volume collects together some of Hazrat Nizamuddin's core teachings.
BELA UPADHYAY is a curator and storyteller. Under her venture Delhi Eventalist, she facilitates storytelling workshops and experiences for children, young adults, corporates, and organizations around stories from folktales, literature, and history. She holds a certification from Kathalaya's International Academy of Storytelling, as well as a diploma in Advertising and Public Relations.
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Okay, so now we give the psychologist their shot at giving us a model.
actually it's also called the psychological motivational model.
And it's based on Brehm's or Jack Brehm's motivational intensity theory.
And it includes two components to it.
There's potential motivation and there is motivational intensity.
the athlete is willing to exert to succeed at an exercise task.
And as you know, some athletes differ from others in this.
The motivational intensity is the amount of effort the athlete actually expends.
is not reached or they view the task as being possible.
the athlete will disengage and not produce a good effort.
the athlete completely disengages from performing the task.
how to expend a higher level of fatigue without feeling tired.
their skill and their physiological capacity.
They must believe in it.
belief in their training preparations can delay the onset of perceived fatigue.
And the athlete will remain committed to producing the required work output.
Some are better than others at producing a good motivation.
and how much effort the athlete is willing to expend before giving up.
capacity left when the athlete feels fatigue.
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"Anyone who didn't know, didn't want to know"
Filed to: Harvey WeinsteinFiled to: Harvey Weinstein
Interesting Buzzfeed post about director Michael Caton-Jones's experience with Harvey Weinstein.
But what really struck me were the closing paragraphs:
For his part, Caton-Jones said he is dumbfounded by all the people who have publicly insisted they didn't know.
"Anyone who didn't know, didn't want to know," he said. "It's like Germany after the Second World War — I've never seen so many people not knowing anything. I certainly knew what was going on at the time. And everyone around us pretty much all knew what the score was.
"You only had to spend five minutes with Harvey to get the nature of the man. He didn't particularly hide who he was."
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Exhaust and Emissions Service - AutoNetTV Media, Inc.
Sometimes when we talk about exhaust service, we think about exhaust pipes and mufflers. And if you can see smoke, or if it's too loud. But, exhaust service is really a lot more comprehensive these days.
For example, in the U.S., the federal government mandated catalytic converters in 1976 and on-board emission control computers in 1990. State and federal emissions requirements have forced manufacturers to come up with much more sophisticated ways to comply with environmental regulations. And the cars sold in Canada follow the same guidelines.
So, exhaust service has really become exhaust and emissions service. High-tech computer-controlled emissions devices are now a big part of that. And because it's so sophisticated, your vehicle manufacturer recommends having your emission system checked out by a qualified technician regularly to make sure everything's working right – which is usually every six months or 6,000 miles.
If your 'check engine light' comes on, especially if it's flashing, then you need to get your car looked at right away. Chances are it's an emission related problem. You might have exhaust or emissions trouble if your car is hard to start, runs rough, or if it's noisy or smoking.
Next comes the catalytic converter. This part actually looks like a muffler. It changes chemicals that are dangerous to your health, and to the environment, into harmless carbon dioxide and water. Now it doesn't require any maintenance itself. But eventually they wear out. If it has, you'll probably find out when your car fails an emissions inspection.
We hope this hasn't been too 'exhausting' of a discussion, but these things impact everything from life and death safety due to exhaust leaks, to just fine-tuning the sound of your ride. And talk with your service advisor if you feel you need any of these items inspected on your vehicle, because a quick look can sure save a lot of pain down the road. |
North Sea Pure Can is Silver Design Award winner in 2017 - 2018 Packaging Design Award Category.
The design of Skiclub Kampen is pure, clear and impresses via simpleness. Skiclub Kampen North Sea offers high quality spirits and fillers of the same brand and with the same design language. The key icon of the logo is the Stranddistel, a flower only existing in Kampen/Sylt. All products have a colour which reflects the colour of the content of the bottle or can. The labelling of all packaging is done with one colour only to underline the required pureness.
Skiclub Kampen North Sea Spirits - A Tradition of premium Quality. Standards are set high at North Sea Spirits. The creation process begins on a 24 hectare farm where the wheat is sowed, grown and harvested which forms the basis of the handcrafted artisan distilled spirits all produced completely within a controlled organic environment. Alcohol distilled exclusively in Germany by an ancient traditional process is the basis of the premium product range and is characterised by outstanding mildness and purity. The distillery is one of the oldest family owned and operated locations in Germany and the owners have been licensed to produce alcohol since the 15th. Century. This family owned distillery has existed in the current location since 1864. After fivefold distillation, the vodka pass through a unique Silver-Filter. This ultra slow filtration process produces an extremely smooth and mild spirit. The resulting vodka forms the common base ingredient for all North Sea spirits products. The unique carefully monitored fivefold distillation imbibes the spirit with extreme quality, purity and mildness reflecting our true passion for premium uniqueness. As the spirits are made with meticulous care, the cans and bottles stand out due to their pure, clear optical presentation and unique signature design elements. North Sea Spirits – defining premium standards. |
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Federal government collects $10.8M in Wyoming lease sales
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Wyoming residents concerned about proposed horse facility
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Permits on sale to harvest Christmas trees on federal land
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Scheherazade and Stories: How Music Brought a Tale to Life
In Partnership with the Canton Symphony Orchestra
2023-01-12 18:30:00 2023-01-12 19:30:00 America/New_York Scheherazade and Stories: How Music Brought a Tale to Life 1,001 Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, was the inspiration for composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Learn the story and hear how music brought it to life. Exploration Gateway - Room A/B
Add to Calendar 2023-01-12 18:30:00 2023-01-12 19:30:00 America/New_York Scheherazade and Stories: How Music Brought a Tale to Life 1,001 Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, was the inspiration for composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Learn the story and hear how music brought it to life. Exploration Gateway - Room A/B
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1,001 Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, was the inspiration for composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Learn the story and hear how music brought it to life.
Have you heard of One Thousand and One Nights, aka Arabian Nights? It is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales where we got the famous story "Aladdin"! It was also the source of inspiration for a Russian composer named Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov when he wrote Scheherazade. Join Canton Symphony Orchestra Associate Conductor, Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz and Stark Library Librarians as they teach us about Scheherazade, the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights, and the piece of music inspired by her stories.
AGE GROUP: | Teens (6th - 12th Grade) | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Continuing Education | Arts and Cultural |
TAGS: | Storytelling | Oral History | Music | Arabian Nights | |
Discussion in 'Rat on a Rat' started by Giselle, Dec 5, 2018.
Hello girls, how are u lot doing? I knew that this was going to happen. Last night i got a message on instagram from him, I was fuming and instead of ignoring him I told everything that was on my mind and my opinions about him. Ofcourse he started with the usual stuff, such as "i miss you" "i cant move on", anyways I told him that i changed my opinion about him and in tunisians as a nation. The interesting thing is that he didnot react in a rude way and he didint sound pissed off, but more like dissapointed, after telling him that he might be using me. He answered simply and mentioned that hebdoesnt count anywthing especially with me. He asked me to call but I refused and now he is blocked from instagram too, after i told him that I am in a relationship. I kind of feel weak and emotional today, but I guess thats a part of the process, I am very proud of myself that this time I mnaged to move on and block him. He said that if i want to leave him and that will make me feel good, it is okay, but then kept on talking, just dont get his intentions.
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I have heard ALL of that same garbage from Abdelhak! It must be in the ratty Manuel! They don't ever give up but they are still rats!!
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It is very hard. If you were giving up drugs and suddenly had a shot what would happen? Do not let it happen!
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This La Amistad luxury villa is the epitome of upscale living in the heart of downtown Ojai. Designed to perfectly balance old-world charm with modern comforts, this custom home allows you to enjoy mountain views, abundant natural lighting, an array of custom touches throughout, and a beautifully landscaped, private courtyard – all just two blocks from Ojai Avenue.
This ideally located Ojai home for sale allows you to enjoy the look and feel of an Italian villa from which you can take a short walk to the farmers' market, ride your bike to your favorite coffee house, stroll through the Arcade for some boutique shopping, or wander over to Libbey Bowl for an outdoor concert or Ojai's one-screen movie house to catch the latest release.
La Amistad Villas has a total of just four units on the property, each of which is custom designed and built for maximum privacy and serenity. This home was the model unit; therefore, it has the upscale features common to all units, as well as custom features. Oversized, individual courtyards with stucco privacy walls and gated entries ensure that homeowners enjoy their personal retreats, while a two-car garage, covered parking alcove and additional guest parking helps to ensure that there is plenty of parking for dinner party guests and out-of-town visitors.
This two-story unit has two guest bedrooms, a guest bathroom, a powder room, and an office or library with built-in cabinetry and bookshelves on the first floor. The second floor features the primary living areas, including the living room, dining area, kitchen, master bedroom, laundry room and an additional room that could be used as a yoga studio, reading nook or nursery. An elevator connects the two floors to allow you to fully enjoy the views and peacefulness of top floor living with the convenience of an elevator for those who prefer not using stairs.
Entering your private courtyard featuring mountain views, mature trees and professionally designed landscaping with drought-tolerant plants, a slate walkway delivers you to an arched front door opening into the foyer. An open ceiling to the second floor makes this spacious entryway even more inviting, as does the custom, wrought iron chandelier.
From the foyer, you can access the two spacious guest rooms, the stairs to the top-floor living area, the elevator, the guest bathroom, the powder room, and the library or office, which has built-in cabinetry with bookshelves, a desk space and file drawers. The office and each of the guest bedrooms has French doors leading to a patio, and one of the guest rooms also has a built-in cabinetry unit.
The first-floor guest bathroom features a tile shower and counter top with a separate soaking tub, as well as ample storage. There is also a powder room with beautiful tiling and a granite counter top that has a door to both the foyer and the office. All of the rooms on the first floor feature acid-washed concrete floors, custom window coverings and ample natural lighting.
The elevator or a beautiful staircase crafted with sustainably harvested Brazilian cherry wood and a wrought iron banister delivers you to the second floor where you will find an open floor plan, mountain views, balconies, a well-equipped kitchen and a variety of unique touches, such as an art alcove in the dining area.
Sustainable Brazilian cherry wood floors are found throughout the upstairs living areas, while a ceiling of exposed, rough-hewn beams provides a rustic, romantic canopy for everyday life.
In the living room, you will find a beautiful corner fireplace with a Venetian-style plaster finish, as well as arched French doors leading to the landing where you can take in the view of Ojai's famous Chief Peak.
The dining area also has a set of French doors leading to a curved landing, as well as a second set of French doors leading to a tiled balcony where you can enjoy your morning coffee or watch the Pink Moment settle over the Topa Topa Bluffs as you entertain friends or have a family barbecue.
If you prefer to prepare meals indoors, you can cook while chatting with friends sitting at the breakfast bar as you enjoy the luxury of granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, including a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and a GE Monogram oven, microwave, six-burner stove and dishwasher. A tiled wall behind the stove, a walk-in pantry with built-in shelving and drawers, and plenty of counter space for preparing meals or serving guests finish off this kitchen to provide you with both the look and function only a well-planned kitchen offers.
As you walk towards the master suite on the opposite end of the second floor, you pass the elevator, a coat closet, an extra room that can be used as a reading nook, yoga studio or nursery, and the laundry room, which has a sink with a tile counter top, a tile floor and built-in cabinetry for storage. You also pass the upstairs guest bathroom, which is beautifully adorned with tile, granite and Brazilian cherry wood.
Once you step into the master bedroom, you will immediately see how this space is the ideal retreat at the end of the day. A cozy, remote-controlled fireplace, an exposed beam ceiling and French doors that lead to your private balcony provide a relaxing or romantic backdrop for your personal oasis. With room for bistro seating, the balcony is the perfect place to enjoy the crisp morning air over coffee, look over your garden as you have brunch, or end the evening with a good book and a cup of tea.
This resplendent retreat also has built-in cabinetry with room for your flat screen television and an arched entry to the master bathroom and extra large walk-in closet with built-in shelving and drawers. In the master bathroom, you will find a large, oval soaking tub, a separate, glass-enclosed shower, a granite counter with double sinks and a decorative tile backsplash, tile floor and abundant storage.
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Once you make this villa your home, you may never want to leave. Fortunately, with Village Mixed Use zoning, it is possible to run a small business from home, which means you could truly spend both your days and nights enveloped in the relaxed luxury this home provides.
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You might be familiar with the commonly discussed horror stories associated with credit cards. Perhaps you recall tales of credit card users getting drawn into black holes of debt, or maybe you've heard about the negative impacts of data breaches on many credit card holders. While there are consequences that could arise from irresponsible credit card usage, especially if your credit card bill isn't paid on time, there are plenty of reasons why it is worth it for you to get a credit card – particularly if you use it responsibly. Don't believe us? Keep reading to see why you should get a credit card.
Before citing the reasons why a credit card may be beneficial for you, it's helpful to know what a credit card is. Credit cards are typically issued by financial institutions, such as banks, and other entities, such as retail stores. When you open a credit card account, you receive a line of credit – the total amount of money you can borrow from the card issuer. Every time you make a purchase with your credit card, you borrow money from the issuer. This system allows you to spend money without having it deducted directly from your bank account, like with a debit card. As a credit card user, you are responsible for paying that money back to the card issuer in full (or at least making the minimum required payment) on a monthly basis. If you fail to fulfill your part of the agreement, you will be charged a late fee and a penalty APR will be applied to your account. Failing to pay your credit card bill over and over will land your account in collections.
Credit cards aren't just smart financial tools – they can also provide rewards on your purchases as well as all kinds of handy benefits. Depending on your needs and wants, you can get a credit card that earns cash back, travel rewards or points on all or some of your purchases. For example, if you eat out frequently, you could consider the Wells Fargo Propel American Express Card, which earns an uncapped 3X points on dining out (as well as gas, travel and popular streaming services plus 1X points on all other purchases) or the Capital One Savor Cash Rewards Credit Card, which earns an unlimited 4% cash back on dining and entertainment, 2% at grocery stores and 1% on all other purchases.
When it comes to perks, most credit cards come with at least a few, ranging from travel benefits, like car rental insurance or free checked bags on certain flights, to access to special discounts and deals. Some card issuers are known for their benefits, like Discover, which offers free identity monitoring to all its cardholders, or Wells Fargo, which offers cell phone protection with some of its cards. These can save you even more money or at least add a little extra convenience to your life.
A credit card can help build your credit history, which is a key factor in how your credit health is calculated and measured. Your credit history consists of your credit account payment history and your length of credit history (e.g., the age of your oldest account). Having a good credit history can help increase your chances of getting a desirable place to live, a job or even a credit card. Without a credit history, it can be difficult to get all of these. Why? When you apply for an apartment, loan or a job, the people who receive your application often run a credit check and look at your credit history, using it as a reference to decide if they should extend offers, such as that loan or housing offer, to you.
When looking at your credit history, the deciding parties look at how successfully you've repaid credit, which is why it's important to have that credit history to back up your financial responsibility. You can use a credit card to start building your credit history, potentially increasing your chances of getting that loan, apartment or dream job. Credit cards can also help improve your credit scores by letting you increase your available credit and decrease your credit utilization ratio, which measures the amount of credit available to you compared to how much of it you're using — ideally, you want this ratio to be no more than 30%.
One of the biggest benefits of having a credit card is the fraud protection it offers. If you're a credit card user, the Fair Credit Billing Act (FCBA) stipulates what happens if your card is lost or stolen — legally limiting your liability for any unauthorized use of your credit card to $50 if you report after your card is compromised (although, it's worth mentioning that $0 fraud liability, something almost all credit cards offer, reduces your liability to $0). And if you report the loss or theft of your credit card before it's used, the FCBA states that you aren't responsible for any of the unauthorized charges on the card. In contrast, if your debit card is compromised, you might be on the hook for up to $500 if you report it any time later than 2 days after the theft occurred – and you may be out of luck on getting any of your money back if the thief drains your account. Likewise, if your cash is lost or stolen, you likely won't be able to get any of it back. Credit cards also carry a number of other security features which help alert you to potential fraud and protect your information from getting stolen in the first place.
Have you ever been in a position where you needed to make a purchase, but you realized that you didn't withdraw enough cash to make the purchase? Or maybe you experienced a medical emergency and payday was too far away to be able to cover it with your debit card. Because of the way credit cards work, they can be nice to have around in these kinds of situations. If you have a credit card on hand, you can use it to make any necessary purchases in lieu of cash, which you may not have available. Plus, since many credit cards offer new cardholders 0% intro APRs on purchases, you can make a large purchase now and have time to pay it down without worrying about paying interest.
Much like with your bank account, you will receive credit card statements that list all the purchases you've made along with other transactions in a given month. Having a record of your purchases is beneficial for several reasons. First, having access to your statements helps you easily keep track of your spending habits, providing you with opportunities to identify any habits you may want to get rid of or places where you tend to overspend. You can also use your credit card statements to create or improve your budget, since many credit cards offer free online tools that break down your spending categories in a given month or even the entire year.
As you can see, there are many reasons why you should seriously consider getting a credit card, but before you do, it's important to research and find the right card for your needs. You can check out our reviews of the best credit cards and credit cards blog to learn everything you need to know to make the right decision. |
Chirpty: How to Use It and Find Your "Twitter Interaction Circle"
by Jordan Bloom
If you use Twitter frequently, you may have noticed some accounts sharing their "Twitter interaction circle." Everyone has friends (or acquaintances) with whom they spend the most time. This is mirrored in the social media network. The image that has been posted was created by a web program named Chirpty, which used the Twitter API. @Chirpty Team was created by @Duiker101.
What Exactly Is Chirpty?
Chirpty is a web tool that creates an image of the Twitter individuals you engage with the most. You do not need to log in to your Twitter account or obtain access to use the platform because it uses public data from the Twitter API.
The outcome, on the other hand, reflects this. Because I interact with mentions less and DMs more, and because I use responses to answer questions from strangers, my third "closest" circle includes people I don't know well… Just think about it.
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How Do I Find Out Who Is In My Twitter Bubble?
Visit chirpty.com;
You will be notified if there are any open slots;
Fill in the blanks with your username;
Wait for Chirpty to produce a result and then download your image.
The system generates three circles that are arranged in order of "proximity." The first has eight accounts, the second has fifteen, and the third has sixteen. These lists are not editable.
Before downloading Chirpty, the only thing you may modify is the background color.
Looking at the developer's blog, I noticed that interactions were taken into accounts, such as when a person likes, replies, or retweets (RT) the content of other users. When other users connect with your account, it is not counted; nevertheless, when other users engage with your account, it is counted. Each of these steps in the algorithm was given a numerical value. "Because a retweet is unquestionably a stronger sign of interaction," the developer explains.
If you tried to access the site and were stuck in a line for a "free slot," Chirpty claims it's because the Twitter API limits enable the app to make a specific amount of requests to Twitter every 15 minutes.
Users' orders are generated on a first-come, first-served basis to adhere to the restriction. However, because there is always a way, there are places prepared for the so-called Chirpty Hopper, which allows you to skip the queue for $0.99.
Twitter Interaction CircleWhat Exactly Is Chirpty?
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The Newspaper Society issued a reminder this morning that media accreditation has now opened for the Paralympic Games. The first stage of the process, called Press by Number, opened earlier this month and media organisations have until 28 November to complete a document to indicate how many people they would to request accreditation for.
There are more details and documentation at the British Paralympic Association website. Successful media organisations will be contacted early next year to progress their applications to the second stage.
The NS adds that it is currently working with regional and local newspapers and the British Olympic Association (BOA) to put in place a regional press pool for the Olympic Games, which runs a separate accreditation process.
The Olympic Games process has come in for some criticism in recent weeks after it emerged many local London papers have not yet been approved despite certain aspects of the games taking place on their patch.
The NS reports that the minister for sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson said he would write to the BOA about the matter after being questioned by MPs, but said it was "massively oversubscribed".
He added: "There will be a level of public interest that I do not think we have remotely started to get our minds around. Spots will be tight, but I will absolutely do all that I can.
Under the pooling system titles would be able to share material on the Games.
This entry was posted in Local media, Newspapers and tagged accreditation, Local media, Newspaper Society, Olympics, olympics journalism, paralymics, sport on September 22, 2011 by Rachel Bartlett.
Local news organisations are reminded they can now apply for accreditation to cover the 2012 Olympics in London in a release from the Newspaper Society.
Companies wishing to send journalists and photographers to the games must apply to the British Olympic Association (BOA) by the final deadline of 15 October.
The Society says it has held talks with both the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and BOA to remind them how "uniquely placed" local media are to cover the event.
The NS has re-iterated that it is vital that the organisers of the Games should take full account of the particular role and needs of the local and regional press both in terms of those applying for full accreditation and in respect of non-accredited journalists, including as regards access to local venues and facilities to follow and report on particular athletes' progress. The NS has also raised the issue of balancing broadcast rights against the needs of legitimate reportage on newspapers' own websites, including blogs.
Applications for accreditation must be made using the downloadable form on the BOA website. According to the NS, accreditation for non rights-holding broadcasters is managed by the International Olympic Committee with application forms available in March next year.
This entry was posted in Events, Local media and tagged accreditation, Newspaper Society, Newspapers, Olympics, olympics journalism, sport journalism on August 19, 2010 by Rachel Bartlett. |
What We Fight
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis belong to a group of conditions known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, most often in the end of the small intestine (ileum) or the beginning of the large intestine (colon), but may involve any part from the mouth to the anus. Crohn's disease is characterized by an abnormal response from the body's immune system to food, bacteria and other materials in the intestine that are mistaken for foreign substances.
in Lebanon, More than
People are living with Chron's Disease
New cases diagnosed each year
Chron's Disease most often impacts ages of
However anyone can be affected by Chron's Disease at any age
Studies have shown that Crohn's disease is triggered by a genetic predisposition in some patients: about 15% of those affected have a close relative (parent, child or sibling) with an IBD. Environmental factors also play a role in Crohn's disease; it is more common in developed countries and urban areas, other factors include viruses, bacteria, smoking, diet and stress.
How is Crohn's disease diagnosed?
Crohn's disease is diagnosed through a combination of lab tests and imaging studies. Initial lab tests highlight signs of inflammation and internal bleeding. Ultrasound, CT and MRI scans, sigmoidoscopies, colonoscopies and capsule (or double-balloon) endoscopies are further used to identify the severity and location of disease along the GI tract.
Patients may experience episodes of disease activity, or flare-ups, followed by periods where symptoms are less severe
Management of Chron's Disease
The main goal of treatment is to
Decrease inflammation. Treatments may act to relieve symptoms acutely or for long-term maintenance.
of patients will eventually require surgery when medical therapy is no longer effective or complications arise.
of patients undergoing surgery will experience a recurrence of their symptoms one year after surgery
Value of Patients Organizations
Overarching Principal of Advocacy
Understand patient priorities and experience
Advocate perspective of end-users in health services design
Active participation in policy making process
Channel the voice of Patients
Contribute to policy development at all stages
Capacity Building & Education
Strenghten organizational management and governace structure
Act as capacity developpers
Produce health-related information and develop guidelines
Translate health information and educate patients
Build capacity by investment in patients and community
Provide Permanent monitoring and counseling
Provide legal and financial support
Co-deliver self-management education and expand various types of support onto wider community
Being active research collaboratoes, partly through data collection
Encourage involvelemt of patients in early stages of R&D
help navigate regulatory process
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LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Las Vegas say R&B singer Chris Brown won't be charged with a crime based on a woman's complaint about a New Year's weekend altercation in a casino resort hotel room.
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LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown on Friday admitted a probation violation over an altercation last year outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., and was sentenced to remain on probation and serve an additional 131 days in jail.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown's attorney has asked a Los Angeles judge to block an order that would transfer the jailed R&B singer to Washington, D.C., for his upcoming misdemeanor assault trial.
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LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown will spend another month in jail after a judge said Monday he was told the singer made troubling comments in rehab about being good at using guns and knives.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who says he was punched in the face by singer Chris Brown and his bodyguard during an altercation outside a Washington hotel is suing for $3 million.
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Performance of two rapid diagnostic tests for malaria diagnosis at the China-Myanmar border area
Author(s): Yan, Juan
Li, Nana
Wei, Xu
Li, Peipei
Zhao, Zhenjun
Wang, Lili
Li, Siying
Li, Xiaomei
Wang, Ying
Li, Shuying
Yang, Zhaoqing
Zheng, Bin
Zhou, Guofa
Yan, Guiyun
Cui, Liwang
Cao, Yaming
Fan, Qi
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-12-73
Abstract Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become an essential tool in the contemporary malaria control and management programmes in the world. This study aims to evaluate the performance of two commonly used RDTs for malaria diagnosis in the China-Myanmar border area. Methods A total 606 febrile patients in the China-Myanmar border were recruited to this study and were diagnosed for malaria infections by microscopy, two RDTs tests (Pf/Pan device, and Pv/Pf device) and nested PCR. Results Malaria parasites were found in 143 patients by microscopy, of which 51, 73, and 19 were Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum/P. vivax mixed infections, respectively. Compared to microscopy, the sensitivity of the Pf/Pan device was 88.6% for P. falciparum and 69.9% for P. vivax with the specificity of 90.4%. For a subset of 350 patients, the sensitivity of the Pf/Pan device and Pv/Pf device for detection of P. falciparum was 87.5% and 91.7%, respectively; and for detection of P. vivax was 72.0% and 73.8%, respectively. The specificity of the Pf/Pan device and Pv/Pf device was 94.3% and 96.5%, respectively. Nested PCR detected malaria parasites in 174 of 606 samples, of which 67, 79, two and 26 were P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale and P. falciparum/P. vivax mixed infections, respectively. Compared to nested PCR, all other methods had sensitivity below 80%, suggesting that a significant number of cases were missed. Conclusions Compared to PCR, both microscopy and RDTs had lower sensitivities. RDTs had similar performance to microscopy for P. falciparum diagnosis, but performed worse for P. vivax diagnosis. Other RDT products should be selected with higher sensitivity (and good specificity) for both P. falciparum and P. vivax diagnosis. |
Essential One-Ups Galaxy S8 with This Wow Feature
The Essential is a new smartphone from the creator of Android that looks to impress with stellar design and magnetic modularity.
Samsung sits somewhat comfortably at the top of the Android smartphone market, but a new challenger has appeared.
That's the Essential, a 5.7-inch smartphone with a magnetic modular design and a breathtaking attractive aesthetic, which starts at $699 and is available for pre-order now.
(Image credit: The Essentials all-screen front and magnetic connectors make it stand out. Credit: Essential Products.)
Why is the Essential getting so much attention? It's not because of its internal specs (Snapdragon 835 CPU, 4GB RAM, dual 13-megapixel cameras, 128GB storage or its OS (pure, stock Android). It's because this phone is coming from Andy Rubin, the Android creator whose first name is in that platform's title.
Essential Phone Specs
Display (pixels)
5.71 inches (2560 x 1312)
Camera (Back)
13MP dual RGB and Monochrome cameras
Camera (Front)
Biometric Scanning Fingerprint reader
Less than 6.5 ounces
Black Moon, Pure White, Stellar Grey, Ocean Depths
802.11a/b/g/n/ac with MIMO
Titanium, Ceramic
What looks cool about the Essential
The Essential's first attention-grabber is its design, which looks to impress with a titanium body, ceramic back and a nearly bezel-less screen. While the Galaxy S8 (and supposedly iPhone 8) impress with a mostly-screen front, this phone's 2,560 x 1,312-pixel display goes so far up that the front-facing selfie-cam is positioned in the middle of its top.
On its back, the Essential takes a cue from the iPhone's minimalist attitude that fewer icons is better, by using zero words or pictograms. Its back is far from empty, though, sporting an easy-to-find fingerprint scanner that stands alone. The Galaxy S8's sensor sits too close to its rear camera.
Currently available for pre-order in Black Moon and Pure White, the Essential will later be sold in Stellar Grey and Ocean Depths (a dark green).
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Going Modular
The biggest deal about the Essential is the pair of tiny dots on the top right corner of its back. Those magnetic connectors allow for modular accessories, similar to what we saw in the Moto Z. Rubin told Wired that this proprietary connection is the Essential's means of future-proofing the handset, so add-ons always work with future devices.
The first of these snap-on tools is a 360-degree camera that will ship with the Essential in a combo pack that will cost $749 for those who order now, and $898 later. There will also be a charging dock sold separately. By itself, the Essential will cost $699.
A Different Take on Dual Cams
The Essential phone also sports a dual-camera system, similar to what Huawei's P9 and P10 offer. This phone uses its second lens as a monochrome sensor that can take in more light. That means better low-light photography, something that most smartphone users wish they could have.
What you don't get is true optical zoom or bokeh effect, which the iPhone 7 Plus offers via its dual cameras
During an interview on May 30, Rubin announced that the Essential will ship within 30 days, meaning it will leave factories in June and likely be delivered to early adopters in early July.
What doesn't look so cool about the Essential
There isn't much to dislike about The Essential, but the absence of a headphone jack will annoy some. Samsung managed to include the 3.5mm analog port in its super-thin, water-resistant S8 and S8+, so why can't The Essential? We're guessing Rubin & Co. find wired headphones to be non-essential. The phone does at least include a Type-C to 3.5mm adapter.
Also, Essential Products (the company releasing the handset) isn't saying which version of Android the handset will get. We wouldn't hold our breath for Android O to show up on it right out of the gate, as that will likely be reserved for Google's own Pixel 2.
One more thing: the Essential isn't alone
The company's other new product is Home, a smart home assistant that looks to be part Nest and part Google Home. Pricing and availability is unknown, but it will allow you to control lighting, play music, learn when you need to leave to make it to appointments and set timers.
In that May 30 interview, Rubin also revealed that the Home and the Essential will feature a new smart assistant. Seemingly unafraid of competition, he noted that he's willing to allow the Essential devices to support Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana and even Siri (if that's even possible).
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Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the past seven years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's also covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.
Mark_6
As usual, it sucks for most of the world that this is only available on a geo locked basis to the US.
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@MARK_6
but, but, but .....
what about that WOW feature that one-ups Samsung's S8? Doesn't that make your feel better about it?
but but but ....
what about the WOW factor that one-ups the Samsung S8. Doesn't that make you feel better
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Jessye Norman. (Photo Credit: Metropolitan Opera)
Hear Met Opera Radio's week-long tribute to opera great Jessye Norman
With the passing of Jessye Norman, the Metropolitan Opera family has lost one of its most treasured artists. This week, SiriusXM's Met Opera Radio (Ch. 75) is paying tribute to the celebrated American soprano by airing five of her memorable performances.
Check out the full broadcast schedule below, and click to listen to Met Opera Radio now.
Norman gave nearly 90 performances with the company in 11 roles, beginning with her breakout debut as Cassandra in Berlioz's Les Troyens on the opening night of the Met's centennial 1983–84 season. Just a few months later, she would make Met history by singing both Cassandra and Didon in Berlioz's towering grand opera, on a Saturday matinee radio broadcast in February 1984.
Over the course of her career, Norman thrilled audiences with soaring performances and moving characterizations across a range of repertoire, but she is best remembered for her portrayals of the great heroines of German opera. She appeared in three operas by Richard Wagner, including as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser in 1987, and to this day, she holds the company record for the most performances in the commanding title role of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She also helped expand the Met repertory by appearing in a number of lesser-known masterpieces, as in 1996, when she sang Emilia Marty in the company premiere of Janáček's The Makropulos Case.
Tannhauser
Recorded Jan. 24, 1987
Airtimes:
Friday, Oct 4 at 3pm ET
Sunday, Oct 6 at 12pm ET
Les Troyens
Recorded Feb. 18, 1984
Monday, Oct 7 at 3pm ET
Wednesday, Oct 9 at 9am ET
Sunday, Oct 13 at 9pm ET
Bluebeard's Castle
Tuesday, Oct 8 at 12am ET
Thursday, Oct 10 at 9am ET
The Makropulos Case
Tuesday, Oct 8 at 9am ET
Thursday, Oct 10 at 3pm ET
Saturday, Oct 12 at 6pm ET
Recorded Mar. 12, 1988
Airdates:
Tuesday, Oct 8 at 6pm ET
Friday, Oct 11 at 12pm ET
Sunday, Oct 13 at 9am ET
Watch some of Norman's Met Opera performances
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Harvard MBA Explains How To Make A Career Switch
by: Greg Yang on September 20, 2020 | 0 Comments Comments | 20,125 Views
Harvard Business School graduates
An MBA, for many, can act as a ticket to a new career.
"Career switchers" often pursue an MBA degree in order to switch industries or disciplines.
"I think the MBA is a great way to get an introduction generally to business," Idie Kesner, Dean of the Kelley School of Business, tells P&Q. "You get a chance to explore a variety of different functional areas, sometimes without the deep dive that you would necessarily get in an MS program, a customized or specialized MS program. And when you're changing your career, you need that breadth of perspective."
A former engineering manager at Etsy, Adam Palay, who'll be earning his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2021, recently offered a few pieces of advice for career switchers pursuing an MBA in a blog post for Harvard Business School's MBA Voices.
Palay, who joined the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program, wanted to learn about how entrepreneurs and investors are coming up with solutions to climate change.
Yet, Palay recalls not having much experience or knowledge of climate change. He tells MBA Voices that he was "a career-switcher coming in from scratch; I didn't know the industry terminology or how the energy grid worked, let alone the organizations and roles I should target."
So Palay did his research and attended Career & Professional Development (CPD) industry education programs, company presentations, and company conversation events in pursuit of the right internship for his goals.
"Hearing what companies had to say about their business and their impact gave me a sense of what I could learn in an internship," Adam tells MBA Voices. "Those observations helped me focus my internship interests and inform my search strategy."
Palay ultimately landed an internship in VC as a Portfolio Greenhouse Gas Impact Analysis Intern at Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV).
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Palay also highlights how helpful the resources and wider alumni network at HBS were in helping him career switch.
"Through the School's Business & Environment Initiative, which runs a mentorship program connecting students with alumni, I was able to speak to alumni in venture and at technology start-ups that have an environmental impact," Palay tells MBA Voices. "Those conversations shed light on the different career paths in venture and cleantech, which proved valuable as I prepared to discuss my transferable skillset in interviews."
Ultimately, Palay says, the MBA path is a journey that can open doors to new paths, careers, and findings.
"When I came to business school and this journey started, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do, and that is completely okay," he tells MBA Voices. "I knew HBS would open a lot of doors, but I didn't know just how many different doors there were out there; I'm glad I took the time to figure things out."
Sources: HBS MBA Voices, P&Q
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We report here the very first assessment of volatile flux emissions from Gorely, an actively degassing volcano in Kamchatka. Using a variety of in situ and remote sensing techniques, we determined the bulk plume concentrations of major volatiles (H2O 93.5%, CO2, 2.6%, SO2 2.2%, HCl 1.1%, HF 0.3%, H2 0.2%) and trace-halogens (Br, I), therefore estimating a total gas release of 11,000 tons·day−1 during September 2011, at which time the target was non-eruptively degassing at 900°C. Gorely is a typical arc emitter, contributing 0.3% and 1.6% of the total global fluxes from arc volcanism for CO2 and HCl, respectively. We show that Gorely's volcanic gas (H2O/SO2 43, CO2/SO2 1.2, HCl/SO2 0.5) is a representative mean end-member for arc magmatism in the north-west Pacific region. On this basis we derive new constraints for the abundances and origins of volatiles in the subduction-modified mantle source which feeds magmatism in Kamchatka.
Aiuppa, A., Giudice, G., Liuzzo, M., Tamburello, G., Allard, P., Calabrese, S., et al. (2012). First volatile inventory for Gorely volcano, Kamchatka. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 39 [doi:10.1029/2012GL051177].
First volatile inventory for Gorely volcano, Kamchatka
AIUPPA, Alessandro;Giudice, G;Liuzzo, M;TAMBURELLO, Giancarlo;Allard, P;CALABRESE, Sergio;Chaplygin, I;McGonigle, AJS;Taran, Y.
Settore GEO/08 - Geochimica E Vulcanologia
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2012GL051177
Aiuppa et al., 2012.pdf |
The Internet is a place we go to work, be entertained, connect, and get stressed out. Can this new screen make it a place to thoughtfully contemplate fine art?
Jake Levine thinks the Internet is stuck inside our computers. We turn on our screens, check email, write a Word document, head over to Facebook, maybe watch some Netflix, then turn them off.
The solution to Internet anxiety, then, isn't to decrease the amount of stuff we consume, argues Levine, but to create devices that improve our experience. His working mantra is: "There is more information available at our fingertips during a walk in the woods than in any computer system, yet people find a walk among trees relaxing and computers frustrating," a quote from Mike Wiser's 1991 paper The Computer for the 21st Century. In other words: it's the medium, not the message.
That's where Electric Objects, Levine's new venture, comes in. He wants to take some of the more serene parts of the Internet out of that stress-inducing device sitting on your desk, and put them on your wall through a different kind of device.
It sounds a lot like a smart TV. But, the similarities between the two end at the screen. Both the hardware and software of Levine's invention are designed for "passive" or "ambient" use, more like a picture frame and less like a tablet. Alex Rainert, the head of design at Project Florida who is testing the device, said it doesn't feel like a gadget at all. "There is something nice about how subtle the technology is," he told Fast Company.
The product is still in the prototype phase. But the current unpriced model hacked together by Levine is bigger than an iPad and, at 23 inches, smaller than most TVs. A final, more polished version will include a screen designed to be on at all times, with sensors that detect if anyone is nearby, activating the screen. It will also have a tilt sensor to reorient itself in either landscape or portrait modes, and an ambient light sensor to keep the brightness low and subtle. "I have a prototype here at my parents' house, and they'll have friends come over and they won't know it's a screen," Levine explained.
The software is a browser with no user interface–search bar, tabs, etc.–around it. It can technically show any URL, but Levine wants to constrain its use: No productivity- or entertainment-related content. Eventually, he will open up the API to developers, but before then he wants to teach people how to use the technology his way. The first app is a digital art archive, which allows users to choose from a variety of beautiful found items on the Internet.
Right now, about 60 designers, artists, and other people Levine thought might be interesting members of his frontier community are testing the device. "The pitch for this community is: 'Hey guys, we know you love the Internet. Wouldn't it be great if you could enjoy the Internet in a lasting, contemplative, ambient way?'" Levine explained.
To populate the screen with images, users head over to the Electric Objects site, where they can create an account, log in, and browse a gallery of digital art from the depths of the Internet curated by the members of the community, as well as Electric Object's director of artist relations, Zoe Salditch. Once they've found something they would like to display on their wall, they just click a button and send it on over to the device. They can keep it up as long as they like.
At first people asked Levine where the slide show button was, or how to get the device to cycle through images. Neither of those features exist for a reason; Levine wants the art to settle into its environment.
Over the time, Levine has found, his test group has started living with the images longer. (You can see how long someone has kept a picture up under a "displayed" tab on the site.) Rainert changes his every morning.
"Nick, one of my advisors, says that the relationship you have with the object changes over time–the longer you leave it up there, it starts to feel a part of your room and a part of your life in a different way," explained Levine.
Another tester, Alexis Madrigal, says the Internet achieves "objecthood" through the screen. "Most fundamentally, and this sounds absurd to say it out loud, but it makes the pictures of the Internet feel like concrete, tangible things in a way that nothing else I've discovered does," the Atlantic's technology editor told Fast Company.
Rainert thinks Electric Objects will have the best chance of attracting buyers if it can place itself outside of the gadget category, and into the art space. "It shouldn't feel like I bought a digital picture frame," said Rainert. Sure, an iPad Mini costs $400 and can approximate what Electric Objects is trying to do. But framing one piece of art can cost $300 for the frame alone. Electric Objects can display infinite pieces of art, and theoretically, look as striking as a framed portrait. |
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Big Food has been putting toxins into their food products for years. The addition of MSG was motivated by Big Food's perceived need to enhance the flavor of their products. Aspertame was birthed during the fat and sugar substitute food movement days; and the mistaken belief that GMO's could feed the world brought that scourge onto the planet.
Our original idea for this Newsletter was to give you a detailed look into these three food horrors including Aspertame, MSG and GMO's describing why they are harmful to the body, who created them and where they're hiding in the food chain. But the GMO section was too big to share the stage so there's going to be an Obesity in America Part 5 covering Aspertame and MSG coming in August.
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What are GMO's and from where do they come?
The GMO story is a long convoluted one; and we can't even begin to pretend to cover it all here; but we can give you an overview. GMO stands for genetically modified organisms; and if that isn't enough to cause you pause, maybe the following will.
According to the Non GMO project, a consumer advocate group working to expose the dangers of GMOs, they "are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering, or GE. This relatively new science creates unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding methods. Virtually all commercial GMOs are engineered to withstand direct application of herbicide and/or to produce an insecticide. Despite biotech industry promises, none of the GMO traits currently on the market offer increased yield, drought tolerance, enhanced nutrition, or any other consumer benefit. Meanwhile, a growing body of evidence connects GMOs with health problems, environmental damage and violation of farmers' and consumers' rights." (Quote taken from the NON GMO Project website, GMO Facts)
In close to 50 countries, including Australia, Japan and all the countries in the European Union, there are significant restrictions or even bans on the production and sale of GMOs. A recent study out of France showing huge tumors growing on rats fed GMO corn for their lifetime, which in the case of the females, is a much shorter one caused both Russia and France to ban GMO corn.
In a mind blowing review, "Food is Power", of William Engdahl's book entitled Seeds of Destruction, Stephen Lendman writes this about the beginnings of GMO plants. Most people believe GMOs started with Monsanto; but that is not the case. "Rockefeller Foundation funding was the Gene Revolution's catalyst in 1985 with big aims-to learn if GMO plants were commercially feasible and if so spread them everywhere." (To read the entire review go to theDandelion Salad Blog) Also, don't miss William Engdahl's book, Seeds of Destruction.
The GMO monster was actually born back in 1973 with the development of essential genetic engineering techniques. GMO manipulation is "based on what's called recombitant DNA (rDNA), and it works by genetically introducing foreign DNA into plants to create genetically modified organisms, but not without risks. London Institute of Science in Society chief biologist, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, explained the dangers because the process is imprecise. 'It is uncontrollable and unreliable, and typically ends up damaging and scrambling the host genome, with entirely unpredictable consequences' that might unleash a deadly unrecallable Andromeda Strain'". (Quote taken from "Food is Power", a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)
But all that mattered to the GMO advocates were potentially huge profits. "One project was to map the rice genome. It launched a 17 year effort to spread GMO rice around the world with Rockefeller Foundation money behind it. It spent millions funding 46 worldwide science labs. It also financed the training of hundreds of graduate students and developed an 'elite fraternity' of top scientific researchers at Foundation-backed research institutes. It was a diabolical scheme aiming big-to control the staple food for 2.4 billion people and in the process destroy the biological diversity of over 140,000 developed varieties that can withstand droughts, pests and grow in every imaginable climate." In other words, the goal of this GMO rice project was to replace all the natural rice that had been developed over hundreds, if not thousands of years, with GMO rice. (Quote taken from "Food is Power" a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)
Of course, Asia was the target continent and Engdahl's book Seeds of Destruction exposes the "Philippines-based Foundation-funded institute (IRRI). "It had a gene bank with 'every significant rice variety known' that comprised one-fifth of them all. IRRI let agribusiness giants illegally use the seeds for exclusive patented genetic modification so they could introduce them in markets and dominate them by requiring farmers be licensed and forced to pay annual royalty fees." (Quote taken from "Food is Power" a Review of Seeds of Destruction by Stephen Lendman)
By 2000, twenty-seven years after the 1973 development of essential genetic engineering techniques, a successful "Golden Rice" was developed that was Vitamin A enriched. It's marketing scam promised the cure of Vitamin A deficiencies; but no one bothered to explain that 20 lbs. of this shyster rice had to be consumed to get the desired result. Quoting again from Stephen Lendman's article: "Nonetheless, gene revolution backers were ready for their next move: "the consolidation of global control over humankind's food supply" with a new tool to do it-the World Trade Organization (WTO). Corporate giants wrote its rules favoring them at the expense of developing nations shut out."
We recently saw that a "Golden Rice 2" has been developed to solve the Vitamin A deficiency found in the original "Golden Rice". Exploring the merits and problems with "Golden Rice 2" specifically is a task for another Newsletter.
By this time (2000), several of the world's major chemical companies known unaffectionately as Big Chemi had gotten wind of the huge monetary windfall possible through GMOs. Monsanto was one of those companies, along with DuPont, Sangenta and Cargill. So let's take a close look at the leader of the GMO product and propaganda group-Monsanto.
Monsanto was established in 1901 and it's first product was saccharin. By 1955, Monsanto branched out into the petroleum business and acquired Lion Oil. With this acquisition, it was introduced to the fertilizer business. From there it moved into the agricultural chemical business with one of its leading products, a weed killer called "Round Up", which is known worldwide.
Recently, it has been shown that "Round Up" is toxic to humans and it's main ingredient, Glyphosate, causes cancer in humans. The French Environment and Energy Minister sent a clear message to Monsanto when she warned garden shops to stop selling it to their customers because it's harmful to humans; and two Swiss supermarket chains announced that they are dropping the product due to health concerns. (See the Christina Sarich article entitled, " French Minister Asks Stores To Stop Selling Round Up" and the Organic Consumers Association Article entitled, " New Study Links Monsanto's Roundup to Cancer")
Unfortunately, us guinea pigs for the Bio-Tech Companies in the U.S. don't get that kind of protection from our government. In fact we get the shaft (scroll down to section entitled U.S. House of Representatives Gives the People of America the SHAFT)
Now on with the Monsanto story because it gets even more horrifying. In the 1960's and 1970's, Monsanto gained the esteemed reputation of being a leading producer of Agent Orange, which contained the toxic chemical called dioxin. They produced this chemical for the U.S. Military in Vietnam. By the end of that war, "72 million liters of Agent Orange [were sprayed] on over one million Vietnam civilians and over 100,000 U.S. troops. Within ten years of the end of the war, 9,170 veterans had filed claims for disabilities believed to be caused by Agent Orange." (Quote taken from Wikipedia, Agent Orange)
And now, as a result, no doubt, of their sterling reputation, Monsanto's goal is to produce GMO food for the world. This company realized that they could create GMO seeds that grew plants that were resistant to their weed killer, Round Up-that same Round Up other countries are now banning.
Farmers could buy these GMO seeds and use copious amounts of Round Up to kill their weeds without affecting their plants. Round Up is a Glyphosate. A Glyphosate is a poison, which is extremely deadly for most plants and quite toxic for people especially over time. It not only can get in the human bloodstream; but it can cross the blood barrier and reach our unborn children.
A 2012 article published in the Ithika Journal"cites a study performed on average citizens of Berlin, testing whether or not people with no exposure to agriculture such as lawyers, doctors, and journalists had glyphosate in their systems. Guess what, they did, and had no idea it was in what they had been eating. Not only did they test positive, but they were found with between 5 and 20 times the "acceptable" limit."
Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, cotton, and sorghum, with wheat under development. Roundup Ready crop seeds have become known as "terminator seeds." This is because the crops now produced from Roundup Ready seeds are sterile. Each year, farmers must purchase the most recent strain of seed from Monsanto. This means that farmers cannot reuse their best seed. These franken seeds have been patented by Monsanto; and any cross pollination onto farmer's fields who have not purchased Monsanto seeds gets met with high paid Monsanto lawyers filing lawsuits aimed to destroy the helpless farmer who refused to get with the program.
Again from the article, Food is Power: "After Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans were licensed in 1996, 'a once-productive national family farm-based agriculture system [in Argentina, the first guinea pig nation for GMOs] (was turned into) a neo-feudal state system dominated by a handful of powerful, wealthy owners to exploit for profit'. President Menem went along. In less than a decade, he allowed the nation's corn, wheat and cattle diversity to be replaced by corporate-controlled monoculture. It was a Faustian sellout, and it helped Monsanto's stock price hit an all-time high near year end 2007. Argentina had become the world's largest uncontrolled experimental laboratory for GMO's and its people unwitting lab rats."
The U.S. and it's people are in even worse shape when it comes to GMOs. From 1996 to 2004, an astonishing 106 million acres of GMO crops were planted. This amounted to a staggering 2/3 of all GMO crops planted worldwide.
And we wonder why obesity, diabetes, cancer and infertility are on the rise??? The U.S. FDA is right now under the control of an ex-Monsanto Vice President, Michael Taylor, who was appointed our Food Safety (Czar) by President Obama. Do you really think our food is safe? Under Michael Taylor's rule you can bet mandatory labeling of GMOs will never be instituted but a lot of raw milk producers are being raided and even jailed. Guess which area Mr. Taylor oversaw for Monsanto? It was non other than that company's milk industry products specifically it's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, another one of their highly questionable products.
Just to make sure you get the whole picture. When GMOs hit the U.S. market, the FDA, under the influence of Monsanto lobbyists, declared them safe and not materially different from non-genetically modified versions of the same crops. There was no outside testing or scientific research required past what Monsanto and the other GMO pushers claim in their in-house so called scientific research. These products were unleashed into the U.S. and world market place with no required labeling either. So we don't really know when we're eating genetically modified products. Given the sad fact that 88 percent of corn and 94 percent of soybeans grown in America are genetically modified and many processed and packaged foods have these ingredients in them, you can bet you're eating GMOs by the mouth full.
The House of Representatives takes away our right to demand GMO Labels, which is another way of saying they just gave us the shaft.
Never mind the hand shaped like a gun to our heads. The Government is working hard on killing our 2nd Amendment Rights, too.
I'm feeling about as speechless as the little blond woman in my above cartoon. I had to create a cartoon out of this situation because what happened in our House of Representatives last Thursday, July 23, 2015 was historic, horrific and so sad that I had to bring some levity to it.
Our U.S. House of Representatives actually voted to deny our States the right to place Demand GMO Labeling Bills on their ballots. What happened to States Rights? What happened to the 10th Amendment that states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"?
What happened to the 275 Representatives who voted for HR1599 on that sad day? The real truth is they aren't our Representatives-they really Represent Big Food and the Big Bio-Tech companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Cargill and Sangenta. That's who really pays them. That's where the money comes from to put them in office and that's how they stay in office. It costs a lot to run a campaign in the new millenium.
So if you want to know "Who Was Really Paid to Bury GMO Labeling via the DARK Act?" just read the linked article by that name on the Food Democracy Now! website. According to their research, "house members who voted to keep the public from knowing what is in their food in the latest land-slide win for Big Food supporters of The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 (known to its critics as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know Act)) were paid three times as much as representatives who voted to give us the right to label or ban GMO foods."
Those traitors to our Food Freedom voted against the will of the people and they know it because we've told them we want our GMO food labeled. "The Center for Food safety says that 93% of Americans want their food labeled if it contains GM ingredients. And that is just one of many surveys showing similar results". (Quote taken from Food Democracy Now article, "Who Was Really Paid to Bury GMO Labeling via the DARK Act?"
There are Traitors to our Food Freedom in this Room! Keep reading if you want to know who they are.
According to opensecrets.org, this is where the money trail leads:
…the campaigns of Reps. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Rodney Davis(R-Ill.), Mike Conaway (R-Texas) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), all cosponsors of the legislation (most of whom also sit on the House Agriculture Committee), received six-figure dollar amounts from providers of agricultural services and products – one segment of the agribusiness sector – during the 2014 election cycle. That put them high among the top 20 recipients of funds from the industry.
Co-sponsors such as Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Steve Fincher (R-Tenn.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) aren't on the Agriculture Committee, but nevertheless pulled in six-figure dollar amounts from the crop production and basic processing industry (another part of agribusiness; think Cargill Inc. and the National Corn Growers Association) during the midterm cycle – landing them among the 20 members who received the most from that industry.
Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), two original sponsors of the legislation, were the top two current House members receiving the most money from the Grocery Manufacturers Association in 2014. The grocery manufacturers – who have spent $4.1 million lobbying on all issues so far this year, almost as much as they spent in all of 2014 – have lobbied on the bill more than any other organization, mentioning the measure on 14 lobbying reports this year.
If you want to get the entire List of who voted AYE and who voted NO, go to GovTrack.US. If your Representative voted AYE, he/she just chose the wishes of Big Food over yours. To read the Text of the "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015" go toGovTrack.US.
We knew there was a lot of special interest politics going on in our government; but this revelation just blew the lid off of it. We really aren't a Republic of the people when it comes to food legislation. We're a Fascist State ruled by Big Food in collusion with Government.
What's so ironic about this is we're the ones buying the products that these Big Food Businesses make. We are allowing them to turn us into sick, fat, sheeple who are being fed GMO's just like the food animals they raise. The animals can't speak for themselves; and now, if our House of Representatives has anything to say about it, neither will we. Big Food is not only turning us into mutants with their GMO concoctions, they are making us mute with their DARK Act.
If this bill passes the Senate, we won't be able to demand labeling via our State elections, and all of the products that now carry Non-GMO Labels will have those labels ripped off until the USDA gets around to issuing its rules and regulations that define, verify and certify what's Non-GMO. The last time the USDA was tasked with this kind of project, regarding Organic Food, it took them a decade to get it done. So DARK is absolutely the appropriate name for this Act because the whole issue of GMO's in our grocery stores will be delegated to a complete black out.
So how did our food system get controlled by Big Food the Bio-Techs and the Government in the first place?
There's a revolving door between Big Food, the Bio-Techs and Government–a door that should be SHUT forever. Take Michael Taylor for instance. Michael Taylor has been playing musical doors between Monsanto, the USDA and the FDA for years. After working as Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto, our President brought him into the FDA to be our Food Czar. A new and formal title was created just for him; and on January 13, 2010, he became Deputy Commissioner for Foods.
The following is a list of the Activist Food Sites:
Get in on the FOOD REVOLUTION and join the FOOD FIGHT! There are several Food Freedom sites that have grown up over the past five to ten years. This isn't a new fight; but if it's new for you, start paying attention. This is our health and the health of our children, our grandchildren and our environment that we're fighting for.
Go to the Food Democracy Now! website and SIGN the Petition to STOP H.R. 1599! Our lives depend on it.
The Activist Post activates about a lot of things; but onepost Eric Blair wrote in 2010 about a hotly contested Food Bill, Senate Bill S. 510, the "Food Safety Modernization Act" tells the story of what's really happening regarding food legislation in the U.S.
WARNING! That Bill passed both houses of Congress and became LAW! It also had the word, "Safe" in its title just like the "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015".
Oh, and please take note that S.510 was slipped into another Bill (that was guaranteed to pass) in the dead of night during the Christmas season on Sunday, December 19, 2010.
The Food Freedom USA website is taking a stand against the movement in our country to negate our Food Freedom. Their Home page states the following: " It is the Natural Right of the people to be well nourished and consume nutrient dense, GMO free, whole, raw, fresh, unprocessed, locally raised foods and beverages, including water; the right to save seeds, to grow food, to keep livestock, to access to grazing for cattle, to store water, to use natural medical alternatives, to raise hemp, to make butter, to make cheese, render lard, and the right to consume the foods of our choices according to the traditions of our ancestors."
Dr. Rima Laibow, MD and Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (U.S. Army Retired) have been a hard working duo in the world of Food Freedom for over a decade. Their Natural Solutions Foundation Who We Are page says this: "The Natural Solutions Foundation is predicated on the belief that people own this Republic of ours. Decisions that impact the lives of people must be made through a democratic process in which their voices are heard and counted and, in so far as possible, should be left to the individual to make for him/herself. That is the United States left to us by our Founding Fathers, the United States we believe in and the United States we participate in. We do not warm to the prospect of a United States of America controlled and run through the lies by huge multi-national corporations and deceptive special interests."
The Organic Consumers Association is a real Take Action site. They have several ways you can join the Food Fight! Go to their website and start making a difference today.
Food First has been operating for 40 years to "support communities and social movements fighting for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Food First gives you the tools to understand our global food system, and to build your local food movement from the ground up."
If you've been so activated by what our U.S. House of Representatives just did to our Food Freedom, this is the place to go to get your local food movement off the ground.
The Institute for Responsible Technology is the home of the premiere food activist focusing on GMO's, Jeffrey Smith. Mr. Smith wrote one of the most influential books about GMO's way back in 2003. It's a classic today and was one of the first books to expose the dangers of GMO's to our bodies and our world.
Get informed. Read Jeffrey Smith's book. Check out the Take Action section on the IRT website.
The Seed Freedom website is spreading a counter message to the Monsanto practice of denying their farmer participants from saving their seeds. Here's a quote from the About page on this website: "We are seed savers and seed defenders, farmers and gardeners, practioners of ecological agriculture and participants in fair trade. Our right to save and exchange our open pollinated, non GMO, non patented seed is non alienable. Farmers rights are non negotiable. We will resist every law and technology that attempts to undermine our freedoms, and the freedom of the seed, which is intimately linked to the freedom of Mother Earth. We are committed to preventing Monsanto and other chemical corporations which are seeking to control our Seed Supply through GMOs, patents, and Intellectual Property Rights."
The famous food activist, Vandana Shiva is the center piece and originator of Seed Freedom. She travels the world sharing her views about the importance of preserving diversity and fighting against the take over of our seeds and crops by Monsanto and friends.
These are just a few of the many food freedom websites that have sprung up over the years. Join them and Take Action with them. There's still hope that together, we can save our food, our lives and our world.
One last resource is a reference book on food. It's The People Power Food Superbook Book 1 by Tony Kelbrat. Mr. Kelbrat has written an entire cadre of these reference books on various topics. This one has a Section on Food Activist Websites. Granted, Mr. Kelbrat, uses a rather broad definition of Food Activist because Monsanto is actually on his list, and when we think of Food Activists we think of folks who are activating against Monsanto but nevertheless, this is a valuable resource.
More About Monsanto and the relationship between Obesity and GMO's.
The U.S. House of Representatives in passing the HR1599 Bill, just gave producers of products containing GMO's the right to put "Natural" on their labels; and Monsanto is actually claiming that their GMO seeds are organic because they only splice organic seeds. How long will it take for the NOSB (National Organic Standards Board) to be hijacked by this corporate giant and declare along with Monsanto that GMOs are organic. That will be the death knoll for the USA Certified Organic Label.
But what is the relationship between the obesity epidemic and GMO's? If you refer back to our May 2015 Newsletter, which is all about High Fructose Corn Syrup and its contribution to obesity, you'll see that the culprit in HFCS is CORN.
Here are the sad statistics regarding how far the GMO takeover of our crops has gone. This information is coming right out of the USDA where they use a new word to describe GMO crops. They are calling them HT (Herbicide Tolerant) these days. Do you think it's an accident that just when the heat against GMO's gets to boiling, the USDA simply changes the offending name. And guess which Herbicide the crops are tolerant of. Why it's Monsanto's Round Up, of course, that same herbicide that's being banned in France and other countries because researchers have shown it causes cancer and can built up in the human body. But it's not being banned in the U.S. because Monsanto has a strangle hold on our Government Agency with one of their own, Michael Taylor, sitting in the seat of our Food Safety Czar. Are you ready for the scary news? Here it is:
"Based on USDA survey data, HT [read GMO] soybeans went from 17 percent of U.S. soybean acreage in 1997 to 68 percent in 2001 and 94 percent in 2014 and in 2015. Plantings of HT [read GMO] cotton expanded from about 10 percent of U.S. acreage in 1997 to 56 percent in 2001, 91 percent in 2014, but declined to 89 percent in 2015. The adoption of HT [read GMO] corn, which had been slower in previous years, has accelerated, reaching 89 percent of U.S. corn acreage in 2014 and in 2015." (Quote taken from USDA Article entitled "Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.")
Now where do you think the corn in all of that High Fructose Corn Syrup is coming from? It's coming from those GMO corn fields that now represent nearly 90% of our corn crop. So YES, GMO corn is contributing to obesity, big time. It isn't an accident that just as GMO's came into our food system in the mid nineties, the obesity epidemic began to take off; and once HFCS took over for sugar cane, the obesity epidemic got worse. Here's the chart to prove it.
Graphic accessed from Garma On Health.com
Since the innocent fifties, when family farmers were our food growers and our waistlines were much narrower, the American Food System has experienced a hostile take over by Big Agri, Big Food, Big Chemical and Big Government. With a nod from the government, these companies are allowed to treat the animals they raise and the people they feed, the American people, with ruthless disregard.
The recent passage of HR1599 by the House of Representatives is exemplary of that. We, the American people will have nothing to say about the GMO's in our food if the Senate follows suit. We are being treated no differently than the poor, pitiful animals that have nothing to say about the deplorable lives they are having to endure under the highly questionable husbandry standards of the Big Agri companies.
Isn't it time for YOU to join the FOOD REVOLUTION. You can access all of our Newsletters here or just go to our Aquaponics USA website to access them under "AP Education". There's a 4 Part Series on the FOOD REVOLUTION to catch you up about this important and necessary movement in the U.S.
Coming in August! Part 5 of Obesity in America.
Don't miss Part 5 of the Series, Obesity in America. This is the longest Series we've written. Part 5 is all about how Aspertame and MSG came into being, what they are, where they are and how terrible they are for our health. See you in August.
There doesn't seem to be a shortage of things to bring to the light of day out of our grossly mismanaged American Food System.
It really is time for a FOOD REVOLUTION in America; and learning Aquaponics is a big part of taking a stand for REAL Food. You can go to our Aquaponics USA website and access a 7-Part Tutorial on Aquaponics complete with Quizzes and a Certificate of Completion all for Free if you really want to learn how to be an Aquaponics farmer.
Please alert your colleagues, friends and family who need to become aware of the dangers of GMO's. We can't make the changes we need to make without first understanding why the changes are so important. We can save lives with this information.
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June 2014, Newsletter
A Word From Our Editor
The Battleground is our World
Who's Putting Unlabeled GMO's On Our Plates?
What the Big Food Corporations and the Genetic Engineering and AgraChemical Companies Don't Want YOU To Know!
Our Hero, Dr. Phil Howard
I really thought I was going to talk about the Food Revolution in one Newsletter.
I've just completed our third Newsletter on the Series and am finding I still have more to share on this important subject.
So look for the
FOOD REVOLUTION Part 4 in our
July Newsletter:
More Allies
More About the #1 Adversary, Monsanto
More Revolutionaries
Where does Aquaponics fit in?
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What is it? Why is it?
Who Are The Revolutionaries?
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Dear Subscriber:
We are at war–it's a FOOD REVOLUTION.
In some ways it's a war just like any other war because it's all about territory. The side that gets the most territory wins because food is raised and grown on our land.
But we don't actually fight this battle with high tech weapons and rifles. We fight this war with our pocket books, our credit cards and our food stamp vouchers; and in that way WE, THE CONSUMER, can and are choosing the winner of this war.
Every time we purchase a food item, we are fighting on one side of this war or the other. That's why it's important to know who are our Allies and who are our Adversaries because the battle lines have been blurred and are often not existent at all.
In truth, the Battleground is our entire world.
And the two main factions of the battle are the Genetic Engineers with their Big Food Allies versus the Naturalists with their small Family Farm Allies. So who are these two factions and what are the beliefs which fuel the fight.
Genetic Engineers: Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genome using biotechnology. New DNA may be inserted in the host genome by first isolating and copying the genetic material of interest using molecular cloning methods to generate a DNA sequence, or by synthesizing the DNA, and then inserting this construct into the host organism.
An organism that is generated through genetic engineering is considered to be a genetically modified organism (GMO). How we got here is a long story. If you really want to know, read William Engdahl's Book, Seeds of Destruction.
Most of us "commoners" have no clue what these Genetic Engineers who are messing with our food are up to; but all we really need to know and understand is they are changing the DNA of many species.
Did you know that "All species, from simple bacteria to human beings, use the same genetic code? It consists of four chemical units in DNA, sometimes called nucleotides or bases, that are usually represented by the letters A, C, G and T." Recently, one group of researchers just added two more letters to the code because they believe that "if you have a language that has a certain number of letters, you want to add letters so you can write more words and tell more stories". They're talking about our DNA with this callous, arrogant analogy.
These scientists actually believe they can play God with our universal DNA without consequences; and the GE food engineers believe non labeled GMO Food should be fed to the people of the world without giving us a choice. (Quotes taken from New York Times Article, May 7, 2014 by Andrew Pollack, "Scientists Add Letters to DNA's Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear")
Naturalists: The Naturalists encompass overlapping groups that include the Organic Food, Raw Food, Local Food, Vegetarian, Aquaponic and Hydroponic food proponents along with various Animal Advocacy groups. For the most part, the Naturalists believe that food should be free of petro-chemicals, pesticides and, most certainly GMO's; and that the food animals should be raised in humane environments and sacrificed in humane ways. Naturalists believe food should be as close to what mother nature intended as possible whether it be fruits, vegetables, dairy or meat.
In the U.S., the term "Natural" on labels is not regulated and, therefore, is vague and rather meaningless. But the term "Organic" has an established legal definition in many countries, including the U.S. Aquaponic and Hydroponic food is hitting the food market in ever increasing numbers and is presently self identifying with a variety of individualized labels.
If you think we ought to be messing with the DNA, you're on the side of the GE's in this battle. If you believe that DNA is something that should not be messed with by man and is beyond our full ability to understand or comprehend, you're on the side of the Naturalists. It's good to know which side of the battle you're on.
Factory Farms have devastated the Family Farm
Not that long ago chickens were raised on family farms and allowed to roam freely around the farmyard. In the last 70 years, small family chicken farms, have been devastated and chicken farming has been taken over by five multinational giants we are citing as Adversaries in the Food Revolution.
The five chicken meat producing companies include: Tyson, Gold Kist, Pilgrim's Pride, ConAgra Poultry and Perdue Farms. "They produce chicken meat under 'atrocious health and safety conditions.' According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), these plants had 'one of the highest rates of injury and illness of any industry' " (Quote taken from article by Stephen Lendman, Jan. 19, 2008 "Unleashing GMO Seeds: "Food is Power")
Because poultry is the world's most important source of meat protein, we can be sure the Genetic Engineers are already working on producing a GMO bird. Presently, they're introducing a GMO Salmon as their first test of the market for a GMO food animal.
Cows, both dairy and meat cattle and pigs have also been taken over by large multi-Nationals among which Cargill, Sysco, JBS and Smithfieldare dominant. In the U.S. these animals have been fed GMO feed "since these crops were first introduced in 1996 and each of the top 6 GMO crops (soy, cotton, corn, canola, sugar beet, and alfalfa) are heavily utilized by the US and global animal feed market". (Quote taken from article by Ryan Beville, July 16, 2013 and published on the GMOInside.org website "How Pervasive are GMOs in Animal Feed?")
So even if you're being careful not to purchase GMO foods, if you're a meat eater, you're getting a secondary dose of GMO's via the animal meats you're ingesting. It's kind of like breathing secondary smoke from smokers.
And if you're a milk drinker, there's the whole awful subject of rBGH, which stands for recombinant bovine growth hormone, which causes dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk per cow per day, which is 10 times as much milk as a calf would need. This unnatural "milk production causes cows bones to become severely deficient in calcium. They become prone to fracture, and the result is a sharp increase in the number of downed cows, a general term for farm and food animals who collapse, unable to stand up again, and must be destroyed."
How did the idyllic family farm turn into a cruel, grotesque, bloated caricature of its former self? Farming got taken over by mega corporations. A corporation is incapable of feeling love or respect for the food animals they're raising. These animals represent income and stock market indexes. They are simply figures on a balance sheet. There is no heart in the Factory Farms. One of the best documentaries out that describes this travesty is called "Food INC."(Quote taken from article published on Britannica Advocacy for Animals website, June 11, 2007, linked below)
Here are two Links to the Allies on the Naturalists' side of the fray that appeared in this segment:
Britannica Advocacy for Animals
Who's Putting GMO's on our Plates without our knowledge and wants to continue doing so?
These are the Adversaries; and many of them are playing on both sides of the battlefield.
This section may surprise many of you because here is where the blurred lines get clearer; and you'll see who the Adversaries really are.
The up side of the losses of the ballot measures to label GMO's in both California and Washington is that the Adversaries had to show themselves in order to cause these defeats. They had to come out of the trenches and stand in full view of the public they've been duping for over a decade. This unveiling came in the form of contributions to defeat the ballot measures. These companies were so determined to cause these defeats, that they were willing to reveal themselves to do so after a Washington state Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, filed a lawsuit that forced the issue, of course. So who are they?
cal-access.sos.ca.gov
Here are some of the big players: Read further at your own risk. You most likely will find some of the producers of your favorite products here. These companies were hiding behind the Grocery Manufacturers Association until they were forced to step into the light of day.
Pepsico (owners of Pepsi Cola)
ConAgra (you saw this name with the Meat Producers)
Campbell's Soup Company
Kellogg Company
Land O'Lakes
Ocean Spray Cranberries
Cargill (you saw this name with the Meat Producers)
Dean Foods
Then there's the Genetic Engineering and AgriChemical Companies which include:
BayerCropScience (this is enough to cause headaches)
But the truth gets even more painful, when you realize that many of your favorite organic and natural products, like Kashi, quite literally "sold out" to mega corporations.
Here's that painful list:
Yes, Coca-Cola owns odwalla, vitamin water, Zico Coconut Water, Honest Tea and Simply Orange!
Coco-Cola spent $1.5 million to defeat the GMO labeling bill in Washington. n to
Naked is owned by Pepsi, the company that contributed $2.4 million to defeat the GMO labeling bill in Washington.
Gardenburger, Kashi and Fit are owned by Kellogg. We're not sure how much Kellogg contributed to kill the labeling bills in California and Washington; but it was a monetary contributor.
Arrowhead Mills is owned by Hain-Celestial, which is partially owned by Heinz. In fact, between the time the Agriculture Department came up with its proposed regulations for organic food in 1997 and the time those rules were made law in 2002, hundreds of small, independent organic companies were purchased by the corporate giants.Heinz and it's affiliate, Hain, bought 19 organic brands alone.
"In 1995 there were 81 independent organic processing companies in the U.S. A decade later, Big Food had gobbled up all but 15 of them." (Quote taken from article written by the Cornucopia Institute, "Who Owns Organic")
"Now Big Food has assumed a powerful role in setting the standards for organic foods; and these major corporations are dominating the Board that sets these standards. If they want to use carrageenan, they'll use carrageenan. As these Big Food companies started stacking the Board, the list of nonorganic materials approved for organic foods increased. It's called the National List and it has grown from 77 items in 2002 to 250 nonorganic substances in 2012." More about this sad development in the July Newsletter. (Quote taken from our Aquaponics World website's Aquaganic page)
General Mills owns Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen and LaraBar. General Mills spent $869,000 to defeat the GMO labeling bill in Washington.
Horizon is owned by Dean Foods. We're not sure how much Dead Foods contributed to kill the labeling bills in California and Washington; but they are part of the gang of GMO lovers.
Dean Foods also owns Silk, which they acquired when they bought White Wave in 2002. Then they changed the word "Organic" on the label to "Natural" but left the packaging the same. Thousands of unaware shoppers are buying "Silk" thinking it's still organic.
What the Big Food Corporations Don't Want YOU to Know!
Just click on the words, "Big Food Corps" to see this graph up close and uncomfortable.
These Big Food Corporations hide in the background of their organic company acquisitions because they don't want us consumers to know what's actually going on. They don't want us to realize that our food system has been hijacked by less than 35 mega corporations.
So, which family owned organic food companies didn't sell out to the mega giants?
Here's that List: It's short and sweet–too short; and we've most likely missed a few.
Eden Foods Inc. is the oldest independent organic food producer in the
U.S. and the largest supplier of organic dry grocery items. We're adding the owner of Eden Foods, Michael J. Potter, to our Revolutionaries List, which we published in our May Newsletter. We will be adding Mr. Potter to our List in our July Newsletter. Mr. Potter is deep in the trenches fighting for real food. See that story in July.
Amy's Kitchen is located in Petaluma, California and has remained a family owned organic, vegetarian food producing business since its inception in 1987. The company is now offering 110 Gluten-free options along with many frozen meals, but they also make a line of canned sous, chili, beans, pasta sauce and salsas. In 2011, Amy's introduced several lines of products including Light and Lean, Gluten Free, and Light in Sodium for customers with special dietary needs.
Nature's Path is located in British Columbia, Canada and has remained a family owned organic food producing business since it's inception in 1985. It's product line consists of breakfast cereals, granolas, hot oatmeal, waffles, toaster pastries and snack bars. This company is North America's largest organic cereal brand with products sold in 42 countries worldwide.
Originating in Wisconsin, this Cooperative of Family Farms is demonstrating how small, family farmers can conpete wit the gega giants by becoming a large Cooperative. Today, Organic Valley comprises 1,834 farmer-owners located in 32 states and three Canadian provinces that specialize in sustainable, organic agriculture practices. Organic Valley has becoe the world's largest independent cooperative of organic family farmers and one of the nation's largest producers and distributors of organic produce, dairy, soy and eggs. It markets its line of beef, pork, turkey and chicken products under the Organic Prairie brand.
A special Thanks to the WordPress Blog, Bliss Returned, for it's excellent post entitled "Find Out Which Organic Companies Owned by Mega Corporations".
What the Genetic Engineering and AgraChemical Companies Don't Want YOU To Know!
Just Click above on the words, "Genetic Engineering and AgraChemical Companies" to see this graph.
The Independent Seed Industry is in even worse shape compared to the Independent Food Producers because, as you can see by this graph, there are only 8 Multi-National Companies in ownership of most of the seed companies; and 5 of them are on The Big Six List of mega giant Genetic Engineering Companies.
Here's that List:
Monsanto has the largest market share of GE crops in the world.
Syngenta makes most of its money on pesticides but is working to
to introduce new GE crops, like rice for Japan.
Dow Agrosciences is a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company.
Bayer Cropscience is a subsidiary of Bayer.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International is a subsidiary of DuPont.
So what do you think is happening to our seeds under the control of these companies? We're talking about seeds that have taken thousands of years to adapt to specific climatic conditions in various parts of the world.
"Many of today's modern garden crops and fruit were first grown six thousand to seven thousand years ago by the Incas of Peru, the Maya of Central America and the Aztecs of Mexico. These cultures were the first to grow more than 150 species of plants such as corn, beans, certain varieties of squash, peanuts, peppers and tomatoes."
(Quote taken from Native American Gardening by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac, Fulcrum Publishing, 1996).
The history of corn is a fascinating one as it took thousands of years of careful cultivation to transform maize from a wild grass called Teosinte that originally grew in Central America 7,000 years ago into the staple food we recognize as corn today.
It took the Genetic Engineers less than 25 years to turn 85% of the U.S. corn crop into GMO corn. Obviously, it takes a lot less time to destroy our natural food resources than it does to cultivate them.
So Which Seed Companies Didn't Sell Out To The Mega Giants?
Here's that List: It, too, is short–real short.
Introducing Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, also located in Petaluma, California, and their line up of available books, magazines and free Good Seeds catalog. Baker Creek caries one of the largest selections of seeds from the 19th century, including many Asian and European varieties. The company has become a tool to promote and preserve our agricultural and culinary heritage. All of their seeds are non-hybrid, non-GMO, non-treated and non-patented.
Introducing Humble Seed, founded in 2009 by Jim and Kristen Mitchell, a husband and wife team devoted to top-quality garden seeds, the betterment of the environment and the well-being of people.
Humble Seed's premium herb, fruit and vegetable seeds are packaged in re-sealable Mylar® bags. Then they are themed and bundled in FDA food-safe containers like the ones you see above. Their convenient garden seed kits inspire gardeners to venture beyond the produce section by growing their own varieties of fresh foods.
Humble Seed is packed with care by their friends at the Marc Center. Marc Center provides opportunities for people with disabilities to be actively involved in determining where and how they live, learn, work and play.
You can purchase Humble Seed direct or buy it on our Aquaponics USA website by clicking here.
And yet another company in the Petaluma, California area. It seems Petaluma is a hot spot for Naturalists. Introducing The Natural Gardening Company.
For 26 years, they've specialized in certified organic seedlings, organic vegetable, herb and flower seeds, drip irrigation, natural pest controls and fertilizers, and tools. Their catalog is a work of art.
The family that owns this company is the real deal and has been passing heirloom seeds back and forth since the 1830's.
The President is the famous Bill Heid who has been putting out the SURVIVAL SEED VAULT since the crash of 2008 and purporting the necessity of preparedness and food independence. His company,Heirloom Solutions is an off shoot of his popular Seed Vault offering many more varieties of heirloom seeds.
This company got the premiere name, HEIRLOOM SEEDS and then attached a .com to it so they are often at the top of the Google search list. It doesn't appear that they have a fancy catalog and their website is quite basic. Located in South Western Pennsylvania, they are a small, family run seed house that has been in the mail order business since 1988. When they started this business, their first priority was to offer old fashioned vegetables noted for their taste. All of the varieties they offer are open pollinated (non hybrid) and have been grown by generations of backyard gardeners.
Irish Eyes Garden Seeds has been going through some changes in the last couple of years. They recently absorbed Garden City Seeds and are a family company that is also related to Ronniger's Potato Seed Company. They specialize in organic heirloom variety seeds, as well as organic pest control and garden supplies. They also do their own trials for taste & hardiness in cold climates. The catalog has very specific (and helpful) growing instructions, including companion crop listings and pest control hints.
Our newly found HERO and a true Revolutionary in the FOOD REVOLUTION! To meet the other Revolutionaries Click over to our May Newsletter from our Quick Links Menu on the left.
Dr. Phil Howard, an expert on our broken Food System
Meet Dr. Phil Howard; and if we had anything to say about it, this man would be as famous as the other Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil Howard, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State. He is responsible for the creation and updating of the Organic Food Producers Chart and the Seed Industry Structure Chart. These Charts were featured in this Newsletter above. He teaches in the University's Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies program.
Here's some advice from Dr. Phil Howard:
"Consumers who want food companies that embody more of the original organic ideals would do well to seek out products from independent organic firms," Howard advises. "Given the very uneven playing field they are competing in, independent organic processors are unlikely to survive without such support."
Howard has created additional infographics and network animations on the wine, beer, soft drink and coffee industries, as well as on foodborne illnesses and the structure of the food system.
Like we stated in our introduction, this is a REVOLUTION we will win or lose with our wallets.
Don't Miss The Final Part of this 4 Part Series, called FOOD REVOLUTION,
COMING IN JULY
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This is a copy of our May Newsletter, which is Part 2 of a 4 Part Series on the FOOD REVOLUTION. Part 3, which is being posted shortly has Links to all three Parts of this important story about the FOOD REVOLUTION.
May Newsletter, 2014
Who is the Guinea Pig for the BioTechs? We The People Are
Let Them Eat Poison
Choose REAL FOOD
The Revolutionaries–Jeffrey Smith
The Documentaries–Genetic Roulette
The Revolutionaries–Dr. Dean Ornish
The Revolutionaries–Dr. Vandana Shiva
The Revolutionaries–Jamie Oliver
The Revolutionaries–John and Ocean Robbins
The Revolutionaries–Joel Salatin
The Revolutionaries–Alice Waters
The Revolutionaries–Mike Adams
The Revolutionaries–Dr. Gabriel Cousens
The Revolutionaries–David Wolfe
The Revolutionaries–Murray Hallam
National Geographic Magazine Cover–The New Food Revolution
What's Coming in June–FOOD REVOLUTION Part 3
It's been touch and go; but here it is, our fifth consecutive Newsletter, which I thought was going to be a two-Part Series; but it just turned into a 3-Part Series.
You're not going to want to miss Part 3 where we delineate the Battle Fields and talk about the Adversaries, which are legion.
Genetic Roulette
The FOOD REVOLUTION!
Why is it?
See our June Newsletter for Part 3: The Battlegrounds and the Adversaries
The Food Revolution is a multi-faceted insurgency rebelling against the industrialization of the World's food production over the last 70 years. Those who are proponents of the Food Revolution are determined to reaffirm our right to eat healthy, nutritious, locally grown food that is not laden with chemicals, pesticides and GMO's.
Some of our mottos like: "Taking Our Food Back" in which the word "Taking" is an acronym for "The Assured Knowing It's Naturally Grown", "NO to GMO's" in which the GMO's stands for Genetically Modified Organisms, "Real Food" and "Right to Know" are slowly seeping into the mainstream consciousness.
It's becoming widely known that food and health are intricately interconnected in spite of the embarrassing fact that in the 21st Century, doctors in the U.S. still get less than 25 hours of nutritional training as a prerequisite for receiving their licenses to diagnose and treat diseases in the human body. It's also becoming widely known that Americans are the most unhealthy people on the planet. A recent study at the National Academy of Sciences found we die sooner than people in 16 other developed countries due to drug abuse, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and lung disease to name just a few of the causes of our early demise.
The U.S. Population has been designated as one of the Guinea Pigs for the BioTechs! Several nations have declined the offer.
These sad statistics are understandable once you realize the U.S. was the flash point for the industrialization of food, which started on a grand scale after World War II. We were also one of the first populations to unknowingly ingest genetically modified organisms, which were brought into our food supply in the mid 1990's without us having one word to say about whether or not we wanted to serve as the guinea pig for the grand GMO experiment.
GMO's have been in our food for nearly 20 years, and we're still fighting for the right to know which foods contain them so we can choose whether or not we want to eat them and remain on the biotech's experimental treadmill.
Let Them Eat Any Damn Thing We Choose to Put in Their Food and Keep it a Secret! Because we've been given a pass by our U.S. Food Safety Czar, Michael Taylor, a former VP of Monsanto. That must mean Monsanto runs the FDA!
It's our prediction that by 2020, given the success of the Food Revolutionaries, we'll look back at the practice of medicine, the mass production of food, the use of GMO's and the collusion between our enforcement agencies like the FDA and big corporations like Monsanto as the Dark Ages with Monsanto standing in for Marie Antoinette and her infamous line: "Let them eat Cake".
In Monsanto's case it's "Let them eat Agent Orange", OOPS, I mean "Glyphosate", which is one of the toxic ingredients in Monsanto's weed killer, Round Up.
". . .one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty [to Choose what's in our food] and justice for all."
CHOOSE REAL FOOD!
The People of Vermont Did IT!
We Can All Do IT!
The Food Revolution has arisen for the same reasons every revolution arises–to bring drastic CHANGE. The word "Revolution" is from the Latin word, "Revolutio", which mean "a turn around". Revolutions trigger "a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that take place in a relatively short period of time." (Wikipedia)
In the case of the Food Revolution, it's about putting food production back in the hands of the people and taking it away from the mega corporations that have turned food into processed poisons that bolster their bottom lines.
The Food Revolutionaries are just plain sick and tired of being sick and tired; and they aren't going to take it anymore.
We're giving you a list of the Revolutionaries below; but you'll need to do your homework to learn more about who they are and what they're doing.
The Revolutionaries include:
#1 Mr. Jeffrey Smith
Meet Jeffrey Smith, a tireless Activist and "the leading consumer advocate promoting healthier non-GMO choices, Jeffrey Smith's meticulous research documents how biotech companies continue to mislead legislators and safety officials to put the health of society at risk and the environment in peril. His work expertly summarizes why the safety assessments conducted by the FDA and regulators worldwide teeter on a foundation of outdated science and false assumptions, and why genetically engineered foods must urgently become our nation's top food safety priority." (From About Jeffrey)
Don't miss Jeffrey Smith's Award Winning Film, "Genetic Roulette, The Gamble of Our Lives", it's a Must See if you're a budding Food Revolutionary!
And now you can purchase it at Whole Foods.
It's received the 2012 Movie of the Year (Solari Report) and the Transformational Film of the Year (Aware Guide) Award.
Along with his Assistant Writer and Associate Producer, Samm Simpson, Jeffrey links genetically engineered food to toxic and allergic reactions, infertility, digestive disorders, and numerous problems that have been on the rise in the US population since genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced. It's a mind altering experience. It might even make you mad enough to join the movement.
Genetic Roulette Movie Trailer
#2 Dr. Dean Ornish
"For over 35 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Recently, Medicare agreed to provide coverage for this program, the first time that Medicare has covered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes. He directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may stop or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. His current research showed that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression, "turning on" disease-preventing genes and "turning off" genes that promote cancer and heart disease, as well as increasing telomerase, an enzyme that lengthens telomeres, the ends of our chromosomes which control aging (in collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009).
He is the author of six books, all national bestsellers, including: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease; Eat More, Weigh Less; Love & Survival; and his most recent book, The Spectrum."
Watch his famous TED Talk below:
Dean Ornish: The world's killer diet
#3 Dr. Vandana Shiva
Dr. Vandana Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. In the photo above, she is campaigning for California's mandatory labeling of GMO's Measure that was defeated in November 2012 after Monsanto, Dupont, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Kraft and the Grocery Manufacturers Association spent a combined 22 million to fool Californians into thinking the price of food was going to rise if mandatory labeling of GMO's was passed.
Vandana Shiva has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering.
In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, which led to the creation of Navdanya in 1991, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade.
She has many talks posted on YouTube. Below is a link to one called:
Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically-Modified Seeds
#4 Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is fiery Brit who came to the U.S. to help us deal with our abysmal health challenges. He was the first one to coin the term "Food Revolution" in his ABC TV Series by that name that debuted on March 21, 2010.
The show, which was produced by English chef Jamie Oliver and Ryan Seacrest, followed Oliver as he attempted to reform the school lunch programs, help American society fight obesity and change their eating habits in order to live healthier and longer lives.
The series had its UK premiere on Channel 4 on September 13, 2010. The Greek premiere was on Fox Life Greece on November 2010. The premiere in Italy was on Raisat Gambero Rosso Channel in January 2011. The show was cancelled in the U.S. the summer of 2011 because a calcitrant school Board Member in the LA School District refused to cooperate with Jamie and his production team.
If you don't watch anything else on TV, catch a few of the episodes that were aired on this incredible reality TV show at:
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
You can also watch this reality series on YouTube. Here's Part 1 of the first episode from YouTube.
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Episode 1 Part 1 Above
Jamie declared a Food Revolution Day for May 16, 2014 and is sponsoring a FREE Cooking Classroom in the San Diego Area from May 10-31, 2014. Sign up for the Cooking Classroom today.
#5 & #6 John and Ocean Robbins
John and his son, Ocean, Robbins founded The Food Revolution Network, which is an online-based education and advocacy-driven initiative committed to healthy, sustainable, humane and conscious food for all.
Guided by John and Ocean Robbins, with more than 100,000 members and with the collaboration of many of the top food revolutionary leaders of our times, the Food Revolution Network aims to empower individuals, build community, and transform food systems to support healthy people and a healthy planet.
Together, they have sponsored three annual Food Revolution Summits featuring an A-List of top people in the world of healthy food advocacy. If you really want to be up on who are the movers and the shakers among the Food Revolutionaries, go to the 2014 Food Revolution Summit Page and scroll to the bottom to get your empowerment package.
Watch the Video Introduction to The Food Revolution Network below:
A Welcome Message from John and Ocean Robbins
#7 Joel Salatin
Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include "Folks, This Ain't Normal", "You Can Farm" and "Salad Bar Beef".
Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.
Joel's Polyface Farms and his down home and straight-forward demeanor was first debuted in a beautiful documentary called "Fresh" that was made in 2009. From there, he spun off to become one of the most outspoken critics of factory farming and the use of drugs and harmful chemicals in modern day farming practices. One of his monikers is his use of phrases like:
"The chicken-ness of the chicken"
"The cow-ness of the cow"
To indicate the importance of feeding animals what they naturally eat not some concocted mixture of food and antibiotics that is not part of their natural diet.
Below is the Trailer for "Fresh"
Fresh The Movie – Official Trailer
Below is his "You Can Farm E-School: An Online Semester with Joel Salatin."
Joel Salatin Semester – Pastured Poultry Lesson
You're going to love this guy.
#8 Alice Waters
Here she is, Alice Waters, the mother of the movement with one of her best selling books, "The Art Of Simple Food". "Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.
Waters opened the restaurant in 1971. It was consistently ranked among the World's 50 Best Restaurants from 2002 to 2008. Waters has been cited as one of the most influential figures in food in the past 50 years, and has been called the mother of American food. She is currently one of the most visible supporters of the organic food movement, and has been a proponent of organics for over 40 years. Waters believes that eating organic foods, free from herbicides and pesticides, is essential for both taste and the health of the environment and local communities." (Wikipedia)
Ms. Waters single handed spearheaded the School Garden Program, which she called the Edible Schoolyard program at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California. She serves as a public policy advocate on the national level for school lunch reform and universal access to healthy, organic foods, and the impact of her organic and healthy food revolution. Another one of her famous books is named after that program, "Edible Schoolyard".
Below is the 60 Minutes Segment that focused on Alice Waters:
60 Minutes – Alice Waters
She's a living legend.
#9 Mike Adams, The Health Ranger
Mike Adams, known as The Health Ranger, is an outspoken Activist and Author. His website, Natural News, is dedicated to alternative medicine and various health concerns such as chemtrails, the dangers of fluoride in drinking water, monosodium glutamate (MSG), aspartame and health problems caused by "toxic" ingredients in vaccines.
He features guest authors such as anti-vaccinationists Joseph Mercola and and Jon Rappoport.
Mike works tirelessly to promote alternative medicine over pharmaceuticals and follows questionable activities perpetrated by the FDA swat teams that have been raiding raw milk farms and pig farms in the recent past under the guise of protecting Americans while GMO's are allowed to flood the market unlabeled.
Watch his introduction YouTube Video for his new website called SCIENCE.naturalnews.com below:
SCIENCE.naturalnews.com announced by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
#10 Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Dr. Gabriel Cousens is an American physician M.D., homeopath, and spiritual writer who practices holistic medicine. Cousens advocates live foods therapy, a nutritional regimen which he says can cure diabetes, depression and other chronic degenerative diseases.
He is the founder of the "Essene Order of Light", an offshoot of a New Age religion based upon modern interpretations of the Essenes, an ancient Jewish sect, teachings from the Jewish Kabbalah and the Torah, and Hindu beliefs. Essene Order of Light is taught by Cousens at "Tree of Life Foundation", an organization directed by Cousens and headquartered at its "Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center" in Patagonia, Arizona.
Cousens has written books, made movies and tours internationally promoting his ideas on food and his spiritual beliefs.
Below is a YouTube Video of Gabriel discussing his movie, "Simply Raw:Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days".
Green Lifestyle Film Festival "Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days"
Below is the Trailer for the documentary, "Simply Raw".
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days Trailer
#11 David Wolfe
"David Wolfe is the rock star of the superfoods and longevity world, America's TOP CEOs, Global Ambassadors, Hollywood celebrities, busy professionals, and even the most powerful buying influence in the nation-Moms-all look to David for expert advice in health, beauty, herbalism, nutrition and chocolate!
David is co-founder of TheBestDayEver.com online health magazine and is President of The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation with a mission to plant 18 billion fruit trees on planet Earth.
With over 20 years of dedicated experience and understanding of the inner workings of the human body, David is a true living master of what it means to "walk the talk" on the road to higher and higher levels of natural beauty, vibrant health, and peak-performance.
David is the author of many best-selling books including Eating for Beauty, The Sunfood Diet Success System, Naked Chocolate, Amazing Grace, Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, and Chaga: King of the Medicinal Mushrooms. His latest book, Longevity Now, shares a multi-faceted approach to rejuvenation, beauty and radiant health. David empowers and inspires people to take charge of their own health because. After all, your health is your wealth!" (From davidwolfe.com/about)
Watch this YouTube Video by David Wolfe on the important subject of inflammation.
David Wolfe on Inflammation
#12 Murray Hallam
Murray Hallam is the Founder and Director of Practical Aquaponics, an all-around Aquaponics company working out of Australia and offering Kits, System Plans and DVD's. For many, he is regarded as the father of Aquaponics and has mentored a growing bevy of up and coming Aquaponics entrepreneurs including our own system designer, Oliver Duffy.
Murray himself has become an international image and influence in the field of Aquaponics through his consulting services, his seminars, workshops and popular DVD's on the subject.
Watch this 60 Minutes Australia segment about Aquaponics featuring Murray and his company Practical Aquaponics:
60 Minutes Australia – Food Security – Aquaponics
We're not the only folks talking about the Food Revolution this Month. Be sure to check out the National Geographic May Issue entitled: THE NEW FOOD REVOLUTION.
The article inside poses this question:
Where will we find enough food for 9 billion?
It goes on to propose that "It doesn't have to be industrial farms versus small, organic ones. There's another way and lists the "Five-Step Plan to Feed the World".
Those steps include:
1. Freeze agriculture's footprint
2. Grow more on farms we've got
3. Use resources more efficiently
4. Shift diets
5. Reduce waste
We recommend you check out this article and see if you agree with the Five-Step Plan. We have mixed feelings.
The good news, National Geographic is addressing the most important topic on the planet–our FOOD.
Look for FOOD REVOLUTION Part 3 in our June Newsletter
1. About The Battlefields
2. About the Adversaries Fighting Against our Revolutionaries.
In every war there are at least two sides and sometimes more. This war is no different. The FOOD REVOLUTION is a War for the right of the people to be SOVEREIGN EATERS of SAFE Food. This is a serious FOOD FIGHT. We are fighting for our rights to have clean, safe, nutritious food in a clean, safe environment; and we're determined to TAKE BACK OUR FOOD!
Be sure to watch for our June Newsletter, which will continue this look at the FOOD REVOLUTION!
This time it's We the People of the World!
This time we're ALL Fighting for
FOOD FREEDOM!
We have featured 12 Revolutionaries in the FOOD REVOLUTION; and we're sorry we can't keep going because we're leaving out many. Do your Home Work, find out who the others are and start supporting ALL of them.
These Heros and Heroines are the ones standing between the rest of us eating fake food filled with more and more toxins as we line the coffers of the Big Agra, Big Chema and Big Pharma companies who have taken over our food supply while we stand around the coffins of our fallen loved ones who are dying from chronic diseases that could have been prevented with proper education and "REAL FOOD".
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By AquaponicsUSA • Posted in Food & Health, Food Freedom Issues, Food Politics • Tagged Bio Techs, food freedom, Food Revolution, Genetic Engineering, Monsanto, Organic Food
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By AquaponicsUSA • Posted in Food & Health • Tagged Alliance for Natural Health, Bolen Report, Center for Food Safety, Citizens for Health, CoMed, Farm Wars, Food & Water Watch, food freedom, Food Freedom USA, Health, IMVA, Institute for Responsible Technology, Jeffrey Smith, Medscape, Monsanto, National Sustainable Agriculture Association, Natural Solutions Foundation, Organic Consumers Association, Organic Food, Organic Trade Association, Overfishing, Raw Milk, S510, SANE VAX, Seeds, Supplements, Vandana Shiva
A SNAFU Brews around S.510
A SNAFU Brews around S.510.
By AquaponicsUSA • Posted in Food Politics • Tagged do not fund food safety bill, fake food safety bill, food freedom, food regulations, food safety bill, S510, Senate Bill S510
The Dead (I mean Lame) Duck Session Didn't Quite Get It Right!
On Tuesday, the Senate thought they had successfully passed S.510. But the crippled and gasping for breath stork (also known as a Lame Duck) delivered the new baby, S.510, to the eagerly awaiting co-parents in the House DOA (Dead On Arrival).
S.510 was hyped to be the savior of the American people (in keeping with the season) by protecting them from food-born illnesses. It was cleverly titled "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" and was touted to be the greatest achievement in over forty years for bringing a safety net into the food production business in the US. But the baby fell through a big hole in the net and landed squarely on its noggin.
This Bill was going to crack down on companies both domestic and foreign carelessly producing food that harmed, maimed and killed innocent eaters. How was this to be accomplished? By giving more power to the FDA, Food and Drug Administration, and also extending the already out of control powers of, guess what agency, Homeland Security. All these new powers were to be solely at the discretion of the FDA who would decide which evil food manufacturers were to be targeted and prosecuted and stripped of their rights to produce food based on whether or not the Secretary of Health and Human Services "believed there was a reasonable probability" that a violation of the new endless litany of food safety standards was taking place. In other words, yet another bureaucrat was going to decide which food producing businesses were to live or die a horrible death of relentless harassment.
While the Dead (I mean Lame) Duck Congress kept reiterating that this bill was not controversial, not well known and of secondary importance, literally millions of emails and thousands of phone calls protesting it were pouring into Congress spearheaded by Health Advocates. Some of those Health Advocates include:
Health Freedom USA
By AquaponicsUSA • Posted in Food Freedom Issues, Food Politics • Tagged do not fund food safety bill, fake food safety bill, food freedom, food regulations, food safety bill, S510, Senate Bill S510
My S.510 RANT!
The FDA has been SOOO Co-Opted!
My S.510 RANT:
I've been putting this off for weeks, reporting on S.510, but my time is up and so is our country's time to be free of it, as it is about to be voted on when the Senate returns after the Thanksgiving Holiday. What do you think the odds are they save this one for the big Christmas surprise, just like they did with the Health Care Bill last year. The situation does not look good for those of us who see S.510 as another expensive POWER GRAB by Government.
To get a bird's eye view as to how terribly stacked the deck is in regard to S.510 just click over here http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29693.php to see what Senators received from Special Interest Groups to either support or oppose S.510 – The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. The author of this post has listed the names of the Senators, the Party and State, and the amount of Special Interest campaign contributions that they received to support it or not support it.
I'm not a lawyer or legal assistant or anything like that. I'm just a citizen who is very interested and concerned about our FOOD FREEDOM; and I am against S.510, so I'll tell you right now this post is biased against the Bill.
Here's what my reading of the Bill has determined from my biased point of view:
S.510 is divided into four TITLES as follows:
TITLE I is called "Improving Capacity to Prevent Food Safety Problems"
TITLE II is called "Improving Capacity to Detect and Respond to Food Safety Problems"
TITLE III is called "Improving the Safety of Imported Food
TITLE IV is called "Miscellaneous Provisions"
Now, before I start talking about TITLE I, let me explain my prejudice against this Bill, which I have fully declared here. Preceding TITLE I, is a page that announces the Act's (also known as a Bill) short title, which is 'FDA Food Safety Modernization Act'. It also lists its Table of Contents and defines the purpose of the Bill. The purpose of the Bill is defined like this:
"Purpose: In the nature of a substitute" S.510 To amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply."
So here's my first argument:
There is already a perfectly good Act in place, which is about protecting our Food, Drugs and Cosmetics. It was put in place in the early sixties and is administered, regulated and controlled by the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, which is the same agency that would be administering, regulating and controlling the FDA Food safety Modernization Act presently tagged S.510.
Now, is there anyone in this audience who doesn't know the FDA is co-opted up to its ears by the Big Agri, Big Pharma and Big Chemi Companies with Monsanto, the creator of GMO seeds on the top of the list? Here are some articles to bring you up to speed should you wish to see the truth about that statement:
http://www.psrast.org/ecologmons.htm
http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/politics/revolvingdoor.html
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Revolving-Door.htm
This next resource is so loaded I'm quoting the first paragraph here just to give you an idea of what is really going on with the new Food Safety Modernization Act:
The FDA's Revolving Door Swings Again
Posted July 13th, 2009
By Christine White
"Announced this past week, former Monsanto director Michael Taylor has joined the FDA as 'senior advisor to the commissioner'. In accepting this position, Taylor takes on the role as what critics have claimed 'a kind of food czar of the Food and Drug Administration'. His FDA appointment includes the following responsibilities:
– Assess current food program challenges and opportunities
- Identify capacity needs and regulatory priorities
- Develop plans for allocating fiscal year 2010 resources
- Develop the FDA's budget request for fiscal year 2011
- Plan implementation of new food safety legislation."
Read the entire article here: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2490
Yes, you read the above quote correctly. The former Monsanto Director, Michael Taylor, has joined the FDA and is making a plan to implement the new food safety legislation. Excuse me a moment while I go puke.
Okay, I'm a little on the grey side but I can still write. So now we've got the big bad wolf, Michael Taylor, right in the hen house implementing plans on how to keep the sheep (I mean hens) safe. If you don't know what Monsanto is and has been up to for decades, check out these interesting resources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html
http://survivingthemiddleclasscrash.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/the-multiple-ways-monsanto-is-putting-normal-seeds-out-of-reach
http://www.rense.com/general38/saver.htm
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/news/10040.htm
Our FDA has been under Monsanto's influence for a long time, which is why GMO's were approved based on Monsanto's word they were safe with no testing or oversite whatsoever. In fact the FDA declared GMO's to be so like natural foods that no oversite was necessary. Here are more resources if you really want to know the truth about how much our FDA cares about our safety.
http://www.psrast.org/fdalawstmore.htm
http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_food_safety/006531.html
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/Home/index.cfm
Now, the original Bill, the one that's being modernized by Monsanto (I mean Michael Taylor), covers Food, Drugs and Cosmetics. Well, as far as the cosmetics are concerned, there's another big discrepancy between what the FDA says its mandate is, keeping the citizens of the US safe, and what it's actually doing.
US Cosmetics are carrying dangerous Nanoparticles, thanks to the BIO-Tech Companies that are also in bed with the FDA. This Nano-Technology is causing a devastating illness called Morgellons disease and is having other harmful effects on the body.
Every woman reading this post needs to print the following pdf and read every word of it because Nanoparticles are everywhere in your Cosmetics and the FDA is doing nothing to protect you. Here's a quote from that pdf:
"Many types of nanoparticles have proveno be toxic to human tissue and cell cultures, resulting in increased oxidative stress, inflammatory cytokine production, DNA mutation and even cell death." PLEASE READ THIS REPORT!
http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/nanotechnology/nanocosmetics.pdf
And then look at these sites which talk about Morgellons:
http://www.morgellonsexposed.com/
http://www.morgellons.org
Now, do you see why I simply don't believe the FDA really cares about our food safety. If it did, there would be no GMO's in our food, no aspertame in our food, no fluoride in our water and no Nanoparticles in our cosmetics. So if it isn't about safety, what is S.510 about?
More on that tomorrow:
I'm Drowning in the Red Tape! Gulp. . . Gasp!. . .Give me Air!
I'm Drowning!
The next time I decide to comment on a Congressional Bill, will someone shoot me. I had no idea what I was getting myself into (and I don't even have a following on this Blog yet.) So why am I spending so much time swimming through this ocean of RED TAPE? The number one reason is because I said I was going to do it; and now I've committed in public (small as it may be). It's going to take me days to complete the read and take the notes to describe what I'm reading as this Bill, S510, is 225 pages long and not an easy or enjoyable read, believe me. Right now, I'm on page 54 (that's less than one quarter of the way through it). Thank goodness, I didn't say I was going to comment on the Health Care Bill. I will complete this and give a report; so if you're out there, hang on. It just so happens I'm a good swimmer; so once I clear my lungs, I'll start swimming again.
The Work Begins on S510
The Work Begins on S510.
There's been a lot written about this Bill. If you google S510 you get tons of posts about it's horrors, many of them repeating the same things: "S510Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food!" When I declared I was going to write (actually, I said "RANT") about S510, my intention was to do some internet research and put it into my own words. I did not intend to read the Bill. After all, if our representatives in Congress don't read their Bills, why should I? WRONG THINKING! I'm doing an about face. I just went to the Government Tracking Site (I'll give you the url later) and copied and printed S510. My next trick is to sit down (actually I'll probably lay down as I believe what's coming is something I'll need to be laying down to take) and read it. Then I'll be qualified to talk about it. So here goes.
About to read the 50+ page S510 Bill. What fun.
By AquaponicsUSA • Posted in Food Freedom Issues, Food Politics • Tagged food freedom, food regulations, food safety bill, S510 |
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Our department was certainly busy over the weekend, hosting both the Centennial Awards Luncheon on Friday and the 10th Annual Homecoming BBQ on Saturday. The Luncheon was held at 12pm at Hotel Congress in the heart of downtown where the winners of the 2015 Centennial Awards were recognized. Mark Woodson, Brian Dolan, and Robert Turton were the recipients of the Distinguished Alumni award; Jorge Villalobos was this year's Outstanding Young Alumni; and Dr. Philip Newlin, who passed away in 1995, and Dr. Mo Ehsani were honored with the Centennial Professor award.
The 10th Annual Homecoming BBQ was held in the CEEM courtyard, as per tradition, and welcomed back many alumni. Lido's Bar-BQ Ranch catered the event and Rudy Jimenez and the AZ Banjo Blasters played guests through the afternoon. The SCE student officers raffled off items to fundraise for their PSWC conference, including two basketballs autographed by the 2015-2015 men's team. Many alumni brought their families and young children, who enjoyed "canoe fishing," face painting, and removable tattoos in the Kid's Corner. Finally, many CEEM t-shirts bearing our original logo were sold to alum who were eager to represent the department.
Both events were a great success, and we are very thankful to our donors, without whom none of the festivities would have been possible. Big thanks to QuakeWrap, Inc. and Brian Dolan for sponsoring tables at the Centennial Luncheon, and QuakeWrap, Spencer and Ena Tucker, Structural Grace, and Nathan and Karen Palmer for their sponsorship of our Homecoming BBQ. We would also like to thank everyone who was able to attend both events, making this year's Homecoming one to remember.
Nathan Palmer introduces the Centennial Awards Luncheon presentation. |
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Texas dad who beat his daughter's alleged molester to death won't face charges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
The Texas father who allegedly beat his daughter's molester to death on the family's ranch will not face charges. (Carolina Astrain/AP)
A young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, authorities said Tuesday as they released a dramatic 911 tape of the dad frantically pleading for help before the hired ranch helper died.
A Lavaca County grand jury Tuesday declined to indict the 23-year-old father in the death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47. Prosecutors said the grand jury reached same conclusion as police after reviewing the evidence: The father was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
Flores was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property.
"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" the father yells. "I don't know what to do!"
The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP does not identify victims of sexual assault.
The tense, nearly five-minute 911 call begins with the father saying that he "beat up" a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, cursing and crying into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.
At one point tells the dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriff's deputies finally arrive.
"He's going to die!" the father screams. "He's going to (expletive) die!"
District Attorney Heather McMinn, left, and Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon announce that a grand jury declined to return an indictment against the young father Tuesday. (KIN MAN HUI/San Antonio Express-News via AP)
V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, sternly told reporters several times during a news conference at the Lavaca County courthouse that neither the father nor the family will ever give interviews.
"He's a peaceable soul," Huser said. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."
The attack happened on the family's ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum. Authorities say a witness saw Flores "forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area and then scrambled to find the father. Running toward his daughter's screams, investigators said, the father pulled Flores off his child and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area."
Emergency crews found Flores' pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body by the time they responded to the 911 call. The girl was taken to a hospital and examined, and authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father's story that his daughter was being sexually molested.
Although the father was never arrested, the killing was investigated as a homicide. Huser, the Lavaca County sheriff and the district attorney did not take questions during the news conference.
Philip Hilder, a Houston criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said he would have been surprised if the grand jury had decided to indict the father. Hilder said Texas law provides several justifications for the use of deadly force, including if someone committing a sexual assault.
"The grand jury was not about to indict this father for protecting his daughter," he said.
Authorities said the family had hired Flores before to help with horses on the ranch. He was not born in the U.S. but was here legally with a green card.
On Tuesday, a new "No Trespassing" sign was freshly tacked onto a gate barring entrance down a gravelly, shrub-canopied path leading to the barn and chicken coop on the ranch. Authorities say the attack happened near the barn.
Across the street, neighbor Michael James Veit, 48, described the father as easygoing and polite — down to always first asking permission to search his property for animals that had wandered off the ranch, even though the families have long known each other.
"They won't find a jury pool here that will convict him," Veit said.
No one answered at the father's home. The front yard could pass for a children's playground: blue pinwheels sunk into patchy grass, an above-ground swimming pool, a swing set, a trampoline and a couple of ropes dangling from a tree for swinging. A partial privacy fence is painted powder blue.
A few miles away, at a home listed as belonging to the father's sister, a woman shouted through the front door that the family had nothing to say.
Veit's son was a classmate of the father's at Shiner High School in a graduating class of about two dozen. Veit said the young father was never known to be in trouble.
"Just like a regular kid, went to dances, drank beer like the rest of the kids around here," Veit said. "Never been in trouble. Never, ever. You know, I think justice is served. It's sad a man had to die, but I think anybody would have done that."
A public records search did not turn up anything for Flores.
Shiner, a town of about 2,000 people about 80 miles west of San Antonio, revolves around the Spoetzl Brewery that makes Shiner, one of the nation's best-selling independent beers. Even gas stations here sell it on tap.
Flores' death is only the sixth homicide the sheriff's department has investigated in the last eight years, and half of those killings involved one triple-murder. Shiner residents boast their squeaky-clean image on a highway welcome sign: "The Cleanest Little City in Texas."
At Werner's Restaurant, customer Gail Allen said she didn't want to speak for all of Shiner, though her comments might as well have.
"The father has gone through enough," said Allen, 59, who has nine grandchildren. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that." |
Social Justice Matters: The High Price of Vengeance
Posted on 13 October, 2010 2 September, 2010 by s.e. smith
The United States is one of the last nations in the world to continue using the death penalty. I am strongly opposed to the death penalty, for a whole variety of reasons, and I could write a post about wrongful convictions, about the inhumanity of death row, about conditions in US prisons, about whether we should be killing people to avenge horrible crimes or not, but today, I'd like to focus purely on economics. Because, economically, the death penalty does not make sense.
And I am a big fan of winning people over with economic arguments, because economics cuts to the chase. It gets to the heart of the matter. There's room for debate about where we get the numbers from, but when you get right down to it and talk about the best way to do things as a society, I think there's something to be said for efficiency, and economic efficiency in particular. I think, in other words, that there are better things to be spending our money on.
You may not care about human beings; you may think that prison reform is not an issue relevant to your interests. You may personally think that prisoners should all rot in dark pits somewhere, especially if they have committed crimes you deem particularly reprehensible. You may think that this series of posts is, as one person helpfully told me in an email, 'a pathetic pile of liberal handwringing over CRIMINALS!' But you ought to care about money. You ought to think there are better uses for our money, whether you think that people in the US should be paying less in taxes, or you think that we need more social programmes, or whatever. The death penalty is really expensive, far more expensive than imprisoning people for life, and that means it's time to talk economics.
Here in California, death row inmates cost an estimated $90,000 USD more, per year, to imprison than other inmates (source). Approximately $63 million dollars is spent annually on the extra costs associated with death row prisoners here in the Golden State. These numbers are similar in other US states.
There are a number of reasons for these costs. One is the need for increased security and special procedures for people held on death row, adding to the costs of prisoner maintenance by creating more layers of bureaucracy. Prisoners in the general population are not as expensive to house, feed, and monitor, although as I have discussed elsewhere, we should be spending more money on those prisoners to provide basic health and safety services; right now people are dying, experiencing rape and sexual assault, and being physically abused on my dime, and yours, if you're a taxpayer in the US.
In addition, people on death row are entitled to file motions, go through appeals, and take advantage of other opportunities to interact with the legal system. This is a legal right. It is not a right I am interested in abolishing, but it does cost a great deal of money. Supposedly, all of these stopgaps are in place to prevent the execution of innocent people, so I'd ask why it is that we continue to execute innocent people, but that's a topic for another post. The important takeaway here is that the legal rights people are entitled to with a death penalty conviction cost money, and lots of it.
For those who think that abolishing the appeals process and limiting access to the legal system after conviction, as is done in Japan, is the solution to the high cost of the death penalty, well, I have disappointing news for you. According to Amnesty International, trials where the death penalty is sought are more expensive to run than non-death penalty cases. That means that even before a conviction takes place, the death penalty is already more expensive than seeking life in prison without parole; an individual trial can cost more than $10 million.
A Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice report issued in 2008 for California estimated that we spend $137 million every year on our current prison system. The Commission made a number of recommendations for improving the justice system in California while leaving the death penalty intact as an option. Cost? $232 million. We would have to spend over $100 million more every year just to make the current justice system in California fair. Narrowing eligibility for the death penalty and enacting reforms, on the other hand, would drop administration costs to $130 million per year.
What about the costs for maintaining a prison system in California if we abolished the death penalty? $11 million per year. That is a significant difference and represents substantial potential savings.
The current population of California is, rounded up, around 34 million people. Let's say we went from spending $137 million to $11 million on prisons in California. That would be a savings of $126 million. Enough to send everyone in California almost $4 USD. Ok, not very impressive. But sinking that money into something else, like roads, or schools, or public safety, could make a significant difference. We could plow that money right back into the justice system and aim it at prevention programs, rehabilitation, victim advocacy, and other projects, thereby potentially saving ourselves even more money in the long term by reducing crime, cutting down on the number of trials needed, and limiting the prison population.
The death penalty is expensive. It is inarguably, obviously, demonstrably, clearly, expensive. It's notable that within the framework of the current broken system, it's already expensive, and pretty much all proposals for making the death penalty and the justice system in general more fair add up to increased expenses. Do we really want to plow $100 million more every year into making our prison system better, while still executing people? Or would we rather just skip that by abolishing the death penalty and generating substantial cost savings?
How high is too high a price to pay for vengeance? People can talk about this theoretically, from the perspective of policymaking and ethics and whether we should be executing people at all, but I personally want my $4 back.
Posted in politicsTagged costs of imprisonment, death penalty, false convictions, prison reform, the innocence project, wrongful imprisonment
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REARVIEW MIRROR WITH MAP LIGHT I Filed Aug. 6. 1968 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 m I! if I; as W an Z,...,. jf h f W A TTOQNEY Nov. 24, 1970 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 6, 1968 INVIJN'I'HRS fizz/011663.542 was a f? C/ayzozz A T TORNEY U.S. Cl. 2404.2 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A rearview mirror for use in a motor vehicle wherein a lamp assembly is received within a slot formed in the bottom surface of the mirror housing and is slidable therewithin between detented on and off positions. A light source is spring mounted between two mounting clip contacts, one of which slidingly contacts a conductor that is connected to an electrical power source and the other of which includes a resilient grounding finger that engages the side of the housing in the on" position to form a ground connection therebetween and thereby illuminate the light source. Illumination is directed outwardly of the housing through a lens mounted in the lamp assembly.
In the past, the instrument panels of motor vehicles have been provided with a rearwardly projecting ledge. A lamp assembly or map light is usually installed at the undersurface of the ledge for providing a secondary source of interior illumination to supplement the interior dome light. The lamp assembly is operated by a switch or in response to an opening of a vehicle door. However, the recent trend in interior vehicle styling toward a substantially vertical instrument panel surface has partially eliminated the aforementioned ledge and thereby the convenient location for the map light. In these instances, it has been proposed that the lamp assembly be incorporated on the inerior rear view mirror. However, these proposals have not been entirely satisfactory inasmuch as an independent lighting unit must be attached exterior of the standard rear view mirror or a non-standard housing must be provided for a mirror incorporating the desired lamp assembly. Moreover, these devices usually require a manually operable two-position switch for selectively illuminating and extinguishing the light source. The switch requires internal electrical wiring for connecting the light source to the electrical power source. Thus, the additional parts and operations required to produce rear view mirrors of the above described construction greatly increases the cost thereof and limits acceptance of these mirrors either as a standard or an accessary item.
The present invention, on the other hand, provides a lamp assembly readily adaptable for use with conventional rearview mirrors. The lamp assembly is insertable as a unit within an opening formed on the bottom wall of the mirror housing and as such requires only minimal alterations to the ordinary housing. The lamp assembly is slidable along the wall between detented electrically on and off positions thereby eliminating the need of an independent switch. A pair of mounting clips are attached to the body of the lamp assembly and, in addition to forming the mounting means for a light source, also serve as electrical contacts for the latter. One of the mounting clips slidingly electrically engages a conductor that is connected to an electrical power source thereby eliminating the need for internal wiring. The other mounting clip includes a resilient grounding finger that is normally spaced from the housing in the otf position. When the lamp assembly is shifted to the on position, the grounding finger engages the electrically conductive housing and an electrical circuit is completed through the United States Patent Otfice 3,543,018 Patented Nov. 24, 1970 conductor, the mounting clips and the light source that illuminates the latter to direct illumination outwardly into the vehicle interior through a lens mounted within the lamp body.
Accordingly, the objects of the present invention are: to provide a lamp assembly that is insertable as a unit within an electrically conductive housing and which cooperates with the latter to selectively illuminate and extinguish an associated light source; to provide a lensoperated lamp assembly and switch wherein a lamp body including a pair of electrical contacts and a light source is insertable within an opening formed in the lamp housing and is movable between detented positions to selectively illuminate or extinguish the light source; to provide a rearview mirror including a light source for illuminating the interior of a motor vehicle wherein a combination lensswitch-light source lamp assembly is slidingly received within an aperture formed in the bottom surface of an electrically conductive mirror housing, the lamp assembly including two resilient mounting clips that serve to complete a circuit from an electrical power source to the light source when the lamp assembly is in one of two detented positions; and to provide a rearview mirror having a manually operable light source for illuminating the interior of a motor vehicle wherein a lamp assembly including a lens, a pair of electrical contacts and a light source is inserted as a unit within an aperture formed in an electrically conductive mirror housing and is slidable therewithin, the light source being illuminated when a grounding finger on one of the contacts engages the housing in one position to form a ground connection therebetween and complete the electrical circuit from a source of electrical power connected to the other contact.
FIG. 7 is a view taken along line 7-7 in FIG. 3.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a rearview mirror 10 incorporating a lamp assembly 12 made in accordance with the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the rearview mirror 10 more specifically comprises a generally dish-shaped metallic housing 14, a support stud 16, a shroud 18 and a mirror element 20 having a reflective surface 22. The mirror element 20 is peripherally and rearwardly retained within a forwardly opening recess 24 formed in the shroud 18. The mirror housing 14 frontally terminates with an outwardly turned peripheral flange 26 that is adhesively bonded to the rear surface of the shroud 18. The support stud 16 includes a spherical end 28 that is conventionally adjustably connected to a complementally formed socket (not shown) attached within the lamp housing 14. The other end of the support stud 16 is adapted to be connected to a suitable mirror support of the type customarily located within a motor vehicle adjacent the upper portion of the windshield.
Referring to FIG. 1, the lamp assembly 12 more specifically comprises a pair of mounting clips 30, 32, a light source 34, a lamp body 36 and a translucent lens 38. A conductor assembly 40 cooperates with the lamp assembly 12 in a manner to be hereafter described to selectively illuminate the light source 34. The lamp assembly .12 is insertable as a unit within an elongated opening generally indicated by the reference numeral 42 formed in the lower wall 44 of the lamp housing 14. As will be explained in greater detail below, the lamp assembly 12 is shiftable within the opening 42 and along the lower wall 44 between electrically on and off positions, the off position being illustrated in FIG. 1 and the on position being illustrated in FIG. 3.
Referring jointly to FIGS. 3 and 7, the lamp body 36 has a generally rectangular base 46 having a centrally located opening 48 formed therein. A pair of upwardly projecting bosses 50 and 52 and a transversely extending rib 54 are formed on the upper surface of the base 46. An upwardly opening recess 56 is formed in each boss 50 and 52 for receiving the lower ends of mounting clips 30 and 32. A downwardly projecting shifting knob 58 is formed on the bottom surface of the base 46 adjacent one end thereoof. In assembly, the rib 54 is selectively detentable between a pair of depressions 60 and 62 formed in the lower wall 44 of the lamp housing 14. As shown in FIG. 6 the lamp body 36 further includes a pair of deflectable shouldered tabs 64 formed at the upper surface of the base 46 intermediate of and adjacent to the opening 48. Referring to FIGS. 3 and 7, the lens 38 is formed of a translucent plastic material and includes a generally rectangular base 66 and a pair of upwardly extending arms 68. The base 66 may include surface optics for controlling the distribution of illumination from the light source 34.
Referring to FIG. 3, the mounting clip 30 is formed of a suitably electrically conductive material and comprises a how-shaped downwardly extending leg 70 and a generally U-shaped flex section 72. As shown in FIG. 4, the lower end of the leg 70 is slotted to form a pair of spaced sections 74 having sawtoothed projections 76 formed at the sides thereof. An inwardly turned mounting ear 78 is formed in the leg 70 for mounting one end of the light source 34. The upper end of the flex section 72 terminates with a generally V-shaped channel 80.
Referring to FIG. 5, the mounting clip 32 is formed of an electrically conductive material and comprises a downwardly extending bow-shaped leg 82 and a generally C-shaped head section 84 laterally offset therefrom. The lower end of the leg 82 is slotted to form a pair of spaced sections 86 having sawtoothed projections 88 formed at the sides thereof. The upper end of the leg 82 terminates with a. reversely bent downwardly depending grounding finger 90. The upper end of the head section 84 is formed with an inwardly turned mounting car 92 for mounting the other end of the light source 34.
The light source 34 is a commercially available model having a cylindrical glass envelope 94 and sealed ends 96. A generally line source filament is located within and substantially coextensive with the envelope 94. The filament includes hooked terminals 98 which are sealed within and extend outwardly from the ends 96.
The conductor assembly 40 comprises a grommet 100 and a conductor 102 having a terminal end 104. The grommet 100 is formed of an insulating material and is adapted to be press-fitted within an aperture 106 formed in the top wall 108 of the mirror housing '14. The other end of the conductor 102 is electrically connected to a suitable electrical power source 110, such as a battery, and to a ground connection 112.
As previously mentioned, the lamp assembly 12 is assembled as a unit prior to installation. More specifically, referring to FIG. 4, the mounting clip 30 is secured to the lamp body 36 by pressing the leg 70 downwardly within the recess 56. The sections 74 deflect inwardly and the projections 76 slide downwardly over the inwardly facing surface by the recess 56. In assembly, the projections 76 become partially embedded in the surface and withdrawal of the mounting clip 30 from the boss 50 is prevented by the sawtoothed configuration.
Similarly, as shown in FIG. 5', the mounting clip 32 is secured to the lamp body 36 by pressing the sections 86 downwardly to the illustrated position wherein the projections 88 are partially embedded in the surface of the recess 56.
To mount the light source 34, the mounting clips 30 and 32 are inwardly deflected and the terminals 98 are hooked over the mounting cars 78 and 92. Thus, it will be appreciated that the light source 34 is resiliently held and electrically connected between'the mounting clips 30 and 32.
The lens 38 is secured to the lamp body 36 by pressing the arms 68 upwardly within the opening 48 to the locked position shown in FIG. 3 wherein the base 66 abuts the bottom surface of the base 46.
The lamp assembly 12, in the aforedescribed assembled relation, is inserted upwardly through the opening 42. As the tabs 64 engage the surface of the opening 42, the inclined surfaces of the former deflect inwardly thereby accommodating continued upward movement of the lamp assembly 12. After the tabs 64 pass above the opening 42, the internal elastic forces of the lamp body material urge the tabs 64 outwardly and the lamp assembly 12 assumes a securely assembled position wherein the tabs 64 and the base 46 slidably engage the spaced surfaces of the bottom wall 44. In this connection, it should be noted that the lens 38 may be mounted to the lamp body 36 after the lamp assembly 12 is inserted within the housing 14 without departing from the above described unitized construction.
The connector assembly 40 is attached to the mirror 10 by pressing the grommet 100 within the aperture 106. In final assembly and with the lamp assembly in either the on or off position, the terminal 104 electrically engages and downwardly biases the channel 80. The terminal 104 slides along the channel as the lamp assembly 12 is shifted between the aforementioned positions thereby maintaining a continuous sliding electrical connection therebetween.
In operation, when it is desired to illuminate the light source 34, the operator grasps the knob 58 and shifts the lamp body 36 to the position illustrated in FIG. 3 wherein the rib 54 is engaged with the depression 62. In this position, the grounding finger resiliently engages an upturned edge 114 formed adjacent the opening 42 to form a ground connection 116 with the mirror housing 14 thereby completing an electrical circuit with the power source 110 and illuminating the light source 34. Accordingly, illumination is directed outward of the housing 14 through the lens 38. When it is desired to extinguish the light source 34, the lamp body 36 is shifted to the position shown in FIG. 1 wherein the rib 54 is detented within depression 60. In this position, the grounding finger 90 is spaced from the edge 114 thereby interrupting flow of current through the light source 34 and extinguishing the latter.
Although only one form of this invention has been shown and described, other forms will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Therefore, it is not intended to limit the scope of this invention by the embodiment selected for the purpose of this disclosure but only by the claims which follow.
1. A lamp unit, comprising: an electrically conductive housing having an aperture formed therein; a lamp body including a transparent lens, said lamp body received within said aperture and movable therealong between a first and a second position; first and second contacts carried by said lamp body within said housing, said second contact cooperating with said housing in said first position to form a ground connection therebetween; conductor means for electrically connecting said first contact to an electrical power source in said first position; and a light source mounted within said housing and electrically connected between said first and second contacts whereby said light source is illuminated and light is directed outwardly of said housing through said transparent lens when said lamp body is in said first position and said light source is extinguished when said lamp body is moved to said second position.
2. A lamp unit, comprising: an electrically conductive housing having an aperture formed therein; a lamp body including a translucent lens received within said aperture and selectively movable between a first and a second position; first and second electrically conductive mounting means attached to said lamp body and located within said housing, said second mounting means including a resilient finger engaging said housing in said first position for electrically grounding the former, said finger spaced from said housing in said second position; a conductor adapted to be connected to an electrical power source mounted within the housing and insulated from the latter, said conductor slidably engaging said first mounting means to form an electrical connection therebetween; and a light source mounted between and having terminals electrically connected to said first and second mounting means, said light source being illuminated when said lamp body is in said first position whereby light is directed outwardly of said housing through said translucent lens and being extinguished when said lamp body is shifted to said second position.
3. A lamp unit, comprising: a metallic housing having an aperture formed therein; a lamp body formed of an insulating material received within said aperture and selectively slidable between detented positions; a lens mounted within said lamp body; first and second contacts mounted in spaced relationship on said lamp body within said housing, said second contact having a resilient finger engageable with said housing when said lamp body is in a first detented position thereby forming a ground connection therebetween, said resilient finger disengaged from said housing when said lamp body is in a second detented position; conductor means insulated from the housing continuously slidably engaging the first contact for electrically connecting the latter to an electrical power source; a light source mounted within said housing and aligned with said lens, said light source having terminals electrically connected to said first and second contacts whereby said light source is illuminated and light is directed outwardly of said housing through said lens when said lamp body is in a first detented position and said light source is extinguished when said lamp body is shifted to said second detented position.
4. A rear view mirror for a motor vehicle, comprising: an electrically conductive housing in which there is positioned a mirror element having a reflective surface, said housing having an aperture in a lower wall thereof; support means for adjustably mounting said housing within said vehicle; a lamp body received within said aperture and selectively movable along the surface of said lower wall between two positions; a lens mounted within said lamp body; a pair of electrically conductive mounting clips attached to said lamp body and located within said housing; conductor means electrically connected to one of said mounting clips and insulated from said housing, said conductor means adapted to be connected to a source of electrical power; grounding means electrically connected to the other of said mounting clips, said grounding means engaging said housing when said lamp body is in one of said positions to establish a ground connection between said housing and said other of said mounting clips and spaced from said housing when said lamp body is in the other of said positions; and a light source electrically connected between said mounting clips, said light source being illuminated when said lamp body is in said one of said positions whereby light is directed outwardly of said housing through said lens, said light source being extinguished as said lamp body is shifted to said other of said positions.
5. A rear view mirror including a lamp assembly for directing illumination within the interior of a motor vehicle, comprising: an electrically conductive housing in which there is positioned a mirror element having a reflective surface; support means for adjustably mounting said housing within the interior of the vehicle; an elongated opening formed in a lower surface of the housing; a lamp body received within said opening and selectively movable along said surface between two positions; a lens mounted within said lamp body; a pair of electrically conductive resilient mounting clips attached to said lamp body and located within said housing, one of said mounting clips including a resilient finger engageable with said housing in one of said positions to form a ground connection therebetween and spaced from said housing when said lamp body is in the other of said positions; conductor means electrically connected to the other of said mounting clips and insulated from said housing, said conductor means adapted to be connected to a source of electrical power; and a light source electrically connected and resiliently mounted between said mounting clips whereby said light source is illuminated when said lamp body is in said one of said positions and illumination is directed outwardly of said housing through said lens and said light source is extinguished when said lamp body is in said other of said positions.
6. A rear view mirror for a motor vehicle, comprising: an electrically conductive housing in which there is positioned a mirror element having a reflective surface; support means for adjustably mounting said housing Within said vehicle; an elongated opening formed in a lower wall of said housing; a lamp body received within said opening and selectively detentable along the surface of said lower wall between two positions; a lens mounted within said lamp body; a pair of electrically conductive resilient mounting clips attached to said lamp body and located within said housing, one of said mounting clips including a resilient finger engageable with said housing in one of said positions to form a ground connection therebetween and spaced from said housing when said lamp body is in the other of said positions, the other of said mounting clips including a resilient end portion; a conductor insulated from said housing and electrically connected to and slidingly engaging said end portion of said one of said mounting clips; means for electrically connecting said conductor to a source of electrical power; and a light source resiliently mounted and electrically connected between said mounting clips, said light source being illuminated when said lamp body is in said one of said positions whereby light is directed outwardly of said housing through said lens, said light source being extinguished as said lamp body is shifted to said other of said positions. |
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Al Diwaniyah (Arabic: الديوانية; BGN: Ad Dīwānīyah; also spelled Diwaniya) is the caipital ceety o Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Govrenorate. In 2002, its population wis estimatit at 440,927. The aurie aroond Al Diwaniyah, which is well irrigatit frae the nearby Euphrates river, is eften considered tae be ane on the maist fertile pairts o Iraq, an is hivily cultivatit. The toun is locatit on the main rail transport corridor atween Baghdad an Basra.
For birdwatchers, Al-Diwaniyah is a ceety wi a rich bird list, as the ceety haes a wide range o biodiversity. Al-Qadisiyah consists o vast agricultural auries, wetlands, arid zones, an semi-desert auries.
The toun is the steid o a tyre manufacturin plant that ance provided tires for much o Iraq. The plant is currently active.
Al-Diwaniyah is the heidquarters o the Iraqi Airmy's 8t Diveesion (Iraq).
↑ Gordon, Michael (2008-08-03). "The Last Battle". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
↑ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq". Weatherbase. 2011. Retrieved on November 24, 2011.
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Recreational amphibious vehicles are nothing new, but most are one-offs, and most tend to be boats that can creep on land, or cars that slosh slowly through water. There are exceptions, notably entries from Gibbs, but arguably, amphibious vehicles have not made the grade as true all-round vehicles that can be driven to work during the week, and on the lake on weekends. WaterCar's new Panther straddles the divide.
Take a Jeep CJ-8, put a Honda Acura 3.7-liter V6 in the back to provide 305 hp, add a fiberglass hull, retracting wheels, and a jet boat drive and you've got the new Panther from WaterCar, which it claims is the world's fastest amphibious car. Capable of doing over 80 mph (127 km/h) on the road and 44 mph (70 km/h) on the water, the Panther is equipped with a long-travel off-road suspension that allows access to less user-friendly lakes. The appearance of the Panther takes after the Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler, with a stretched wheelbase that provides extra interior room.
Because the Jeep chassis proved too heavy, so WaterCar designed a lightweight chassis made of chromoly steel. Having properties (weldability, formability, strength, ductility and toughness) that greatly exceed those of regular carbon steel, the choice of chromoly steel, while pricey, solved the Panther's weight problem.
The Panther's chassis was designed to slip neatly into a fiberglass hull, and is secured therein by modern epoxies, thereby reducing noise and shimmy during hard handling. The hull and chassis incorporate advanced composites where extra strength and toughness is required, and the hull is filled with closed-cell styrofoam, rendering the Panther nearly unsinkable.
What goes inside the hull and chassis includes a powerful powertrain that provides motive force both on land and water. The engine for the Panther is the latest-generation Acura 3.7-liter VTEC V-6 engine. An all-aluminum powerplant, the V-6 is equipped with single overhead camshaft cylinder heads and 24 valves. Both intake and exhaust valves are controlled by Acura's Variable valve Timing and lift Electronic Control (VTEC) system.
This 3.7-liter engine is a bored and stroked version of the Acura 3.5-liter engine. As this left little clearance between the cylinders, the cast-in iron cylinder liners of the 3.5 liter were replaced by high-silicon aluminum liners. This results in better cooling and tighter piston ring seals. The compact and efficient 3.7-liter engine produces 305 horsepower at 6,300 rpm with special emphasis on mid-range torque giving this VTEC a peak torque of 274 lb-ft (371 Nm) at 4,500 rpm.
The Panther uses WaterCar's own transfer case with Winter's Quick Change gears and components to transfer power between a model 091 VW Vanagon bus four-speed manual transaxle driving the rear wheels, and the H450 Panther Jet drive. WaterCar's transfer case is rated at 1,000 hp, so should have a long service life in the Panther. The H450 Panther Jet drive is rated to 500 hp input.
Enough tech specs – how does the Panther perform? On the road the Panther is capable of a maximum speed somewhere north of 80 mph (128 km/h). Acceleration times are not yet available, but with 305 hp (232 kW) driving a car weighing just under 3,000 lb (1,340 kg), it is reasonable to expect snappy, if not extreme, acceleration. The VTEC engine has a compression ratio of 11.1:1, and requires 91-octane premium gasoline to avoid detonation.
Entering the water can be done at speeds up to 15 mph (24 km/h) if there is no step higher than about six inches (15 cm) and the beach is sufficiently firm. Some spectacular entries and exits from the water appear on the video below. Once in the water, the pilot places the four-speed in neutral, pulls a knob to switch the transfer case over to jet drive, pushes a knob to hydraulically lift the wheels and tires out of the water, and start boating. The entire procedure takes less than 15 seconds.
Once in the water, the Panther is remarkably stable for a boat that is only 15 ft (4.6 m) in length. It leans a bit in tight turns, but makes the most of the low center of gravity resulting from having both automotive and marine drive systems. This also renders the Panther a bit reluctant to get out of the hole to planing speed, but the amphib appears to handle well at its top speed of nearly 45 mph (72 km/h).
Remarkably, the Panther maintains an even keel on the water even when stopped. It appears to be slightly low at the stern, but at most by an inch or two. The video shows a person diving from the Panther, which again appears to take the sudden shift of weight in stride. The Panther has all the power and speed needed to pull water skiers or wakeboarders, with the vehicles getting up to enough speed to let even most barefoot skiers to get on top of the water.
The Panther's design also allows it to function well as an off-road vehicle. This is due in part to the Jeep heritage together with the wide 30X9.50R15 tires, but is mainly the result of WaterCars designing a long-travel suspension system for the Panther. The primary purpose for this suspension was to allow the Panther to drive directly in and out of the water without requiring a slipway, but in the end it also gives the Panther a chance to shine on, for example, Arizona sand dunes.
As a rear wheel drive, it is probably best to go off-road only in locations with which you are familiar, or together with a four-wheel drive vehicle that can tow you out of soft spots. Despite that, there are many situations in which off-roading just adds to the Panther's potential for fun.
All in all, early descriptions of WaterCar's Panther suggest that it will provide real enjoyment to anyone living on or near water. The Panther is pricey, starting at US$76,000 for a "Rolling chassis", $106,000 for a "Turn-key minus" version, and $135,000 for a complete Panther. The reason for the uncompleted models is that WaterCar's legal and regulatory requirements are far less if they sell kits instead of completed vehicles.
The rolling chassis requires a good bit of work and additional components, but the components can be bought off the shelf. The Turn-key minus version lacks the engine and automobile side of the powertrain. If buying a complete Panther, WaterCar's approach will be to find an outside firm that will complete your amphib for you.
Perhaps the fairest price comparison for the Panther is with separate vehicles. A decent off-road capable car that will tow a boat trailer that carries a 45 mph (72 km/h) boat. When you look at it that way, the price seems a bit more in line. Besides, being able to drive to a lake, drive into the lake, speed past gawking landlubbers, go back to ground for a nice meal, and then slipping into the water to enjoy a slow twilight cruise through the span of London Bridge (now in Lake Havasu, Arizona) before returning to the road home is surely worth a bit of sticker shock. |
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More than one fifth of the world's population consists of women of reproductive age. On average, a woman spends seven years of her life menstruating, making menstruation a natural and essential part of the reproductive cycle. In addition to menstruation, women also experience other forms of vaginal bleeding and at the end of the reproductive cycle they experience menopause. It is an essential human right to have the ability to manage menstrual health and all other forms of vaginal bleeding with adequate knowledge, safety, and dignity and without stigma. Menstruation is a highly relevant theme in Bangladesh as it plays a role in the interplay between health, hygiene and development issues.
Though MH has recently gained attention in the global development agenda, it is still a taboo topic in many countries, including Bangladesh, where cultural beliefs and social norms restrict the participation of women and girls in society during menstruation. Furthermore, women and girls lack access to the information, products and infrastructure that is needed to manage menstruation with dignity. This has a severe impact on their health, well-being, and the realisation of their rights. It should be noted that adolescent girls, and girls and women living with a disability, are especially vulnerable to negative outcomes related to menstruation, including effects on their overall self-esteem and confidence.
Bangladesh is currently experiencing rapid economic growth and industrialisation. As well as the rest of the country, this also has a positive impact on the situation of Bangladeshi women and girls, as shown by more girls enrolling in junior secondary school, girls and women's improved academic performance, and more young women participating in (formal) employment.
At the same time, Bangladesh remains a country with deep-rooted cultural traditions that determine gender roles and form the basis of gender discrimination against girls and women. Many Bangladeshi girls and women face malnutrition and gender based violence, while child maternal mortality rates are high. The Ritu programme is positioned within this contrast of steady economic growth and regressive social and cultural barriers that prevent girls and women from exercising their basic rights.
The Ritu programme
Ritu is a girls 'name and means 'season' in Bengali and is also used to indicate menstruation in Bangladesh. A suitable name for a programme that aims to promote improved Menstrual Health (MH) among school-going girls in Bangladesh.
Read the study protocol here.
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• Improved health and well-being of girls between 10 and 13 years in Netrakona, Bangladesh.
• Improve menstrual hygiene and related well-being of girls between 10 and 13 years in Netrakona, Bangladesh.
• Increased knowledge and improved attitudes and practice on menstrual hygiene of girls, boys, men and women.
• Increased commitment towards menstrual hygiene management by the government and civil society in Bangladesh.
• Women and girls have access to better MHM facilities at schools and affordable (biodegradable) sanitary napkins.
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Together with RedOrange -a Bangladeshi media and communication agency-, knowledge institute TNO, and with support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN), Simavi implements the Ritu programme to promote menstrual health in Bangladesh. Our main goal is to structurally improve the health, wellbeing, and social and economic participation of girls between 10 and 13 years old.
The Ritu Programme consists of three main elements: 1) the interventions in Netrakona that are directly targeted at school girls, 2) a national communication and advocacy campaign, and 3) the development of a biodegradable sanitary pad.
The programme started with a six month inception phase, that provided us with the opportunity to consult existing rigorous evidence on menstrual health programming in Bangladesh and on a global level. Based on this information, gaps were identified and used to design our formative research. Based on the information gathered, the final mix was further defined in a series of workshops with the partners and with the support of the Impact Centre Erasmus University (more information on Evidence Informed Programming can be found here).
Empower girls, women, men and boys (communities) to have a better understanding of MHM and engage in healthy behaviour, including accessing safe and quality MHM services.
In Netrokona, Bangladesh, Simavi combines WASH and SRHR interventions in schools and communities to improve overall well-being of girls during their menstrual health as part Ritu programme. Simavi works with two local partners: BNPS, that implements the training of teachers and parents on menstrual health and DORP, that realizes gender sensitive toilets through a resource mobilisation method.
The programme in Netrakona consists of an evidence informed mix of interventions that is carefully sequenced. Based on the idea that toilets need to be in place in order for girls to practice their newly learned behaviour, our interventions in schools are sequenced as follows: 1) kick-off in schools to inform teachers and students about the programme, 2) budget tapping process with students and School Management Committee to realize toilets, 3) training of head master and 10 teachers and parents of the school girls.
To ensure a conducive menstrual health environment in schools, BNPS trains an average of 10 teachers per school, in addition to the headmaster. The comprehensive manual that is used for the training of both teachers and parents is rights-based, is based on WASH and SRHR information and combines key information with interactive exercises. Topics range from the reproductive cycle, gender, the role of men, influence of contraceptive use on menstruation, to negotiation skills, good practices to maintain hygiene, guidelines for girl friendly toilets and nutrition. As part of the training, BNPS works with teachers to integrate the different sections of the manual in the existing lesson plan in correspondence with the national curriculum. The quality and progress of the training of teachers and the implementation of the new knowledge and skills in the class room is carefully monitored by the partners and Simavi's Ritu team. Support systems and refresher trainings are designed based on the progress of teachers and the overall school environment against the set indicators.
Menstrual Health Training Manual
To ensure that in addition to the school environment, girls are supported to improve their menstrual health at home, BNPS trains the parents of the girls following the same manual as is used to train the teachers. The sessions are supported with printed information and education materials that RedOrange developed together with Simavi.
Build an enabling environment in which government and civil society actors show more commitment towards MHM.
As part of their communication strategy, our partner RedOrange developed and implemented a range of edutainment materials and events that aim to influence the national discourse on menstrual health. This includes the Ritu website and Facebook Page. RedOrange also produced a successful TV Series called The Best School for Girls. Together with Simavi, RedOrange also organised the launch of the Ritu programme and the yearly celebration of MHM Day.
RituOnline: http://rituonline.org/
Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/RituKothon)
and "Best school for girls'' (https://www.facebook.com/MeyederSheraSchool)
As part of the Simavi programme, Simavi brought together a range of different stakeholders from SRHR, WASH, Education, Government and the Private Sector, working on menstrual health in Bangladesh. Together, these stakeholders formed the MHM Platform that is chaired by our partner BNPS. The members of the platform jointly advocate for integration of menstrual health in the Teacher Training and Secondary School curricula as well as for the implementation of gender sensitive WASH in schools.
Simavi has also trained local NGOs on menstrual health to strengthen their capacity following our MH manual.
Ensure that affordable and sustainable MHM services are in place and utilised.
Our local WASH partner DORP works closely with School Management Committees and groups of parents in communities to realise gender sensitive toilets. To realize these toilets, DORP implements a social accountability approach named budget tapping. This approach builds on a joint budget tapping exercise where DORP mapped budget available for sanitation in schools at different government levels in Bangladesh. This exercise identified a discrepancy between budget allocated by the national government and the actual expenditure on district an union level. Through the budget tapping approach, DORP works with schools to allocate money for MHM friendly toilets from school and where needed to access available government budget. School Management Committees and students are empowered to use social accountability methods to voice their demands to Union or District level government representatives. At the same time, DORP raises awareness of local government representatives on the importance of MHM friendly toilets and supports the budget allocation process.
As partner in the Ritu project TNO took the necessary actions to ensure that biodegradable sanitary napkins will become available in Bangladesh. The collaboration of TNO and the Dutch company Rodenburg Biopolymers since 2016 resulted in coming to a successful recipe for the industrial production of biodegradable thin foil at an affordable price. This foil is made of an innovative blend of potato starch and clay and can be used as water resistant ant-leakage layer in sanitary pads. Based on this business case analysis it is shown that biodegradable sanitary napkins can be sold for 0,05 US dollar per napkin which is equal to the current lowest price for which basic napkins are available in Bangladesh at the moment. TNO is working with a Bangladeshi sanitary pad producer to produce biodegradable sanitary pads using the foil.
Ensuring programme quality
Simavi works closely with Impact Centre Erasmus University to ensure programme quality. For example, the different trainings that are part of the programme have all been piloted to ensure that these resulted in the wanted change in knowledge and skills. Furthermore, the quality and progress of the training of teachers and the implementation of the new knowledge and skills in the class room is carefully monitored by the partners and Simavi's Ritu team. This means that Simavi also monitors the capacity of staff that implement the trainings. Support systems and refresher trainings are designed based on the progress of teachers and the overall school environment against the set indicators.
In addition to in-depth monitoring of quality and progress, the programme is evaluated through a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in close collaboration with the Maastricht University and Johns Hopkins University. With this RCT we aim to contribute to the current evidence base of MH programs by conducting the first large scale RCT study on the impact of a MH program. We aim to i) compare the school attainment and psychosocial wellbeing of girls across our control and treatment groups, ii) analyze the exact costs per treatment and its cost-effectiveness and iii) explore how the school-level and household-level intervention components affect the lives of girls and iv) analyze the change in perceptions of MHM among pupils, teaching staff and parents.
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This programme is still running up to March 2020. A thorough needs assessment , a baseline as well as a programme evaluation have been conducted. The final programme report including the RCT findings follow after the end of the programme.
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Bangladesh. The exact location will be decided after the baseline and analysis carried out during the inception phase.
School-going girls from grade 5 – grade 8, in the age from 10-13.
Secondary target groups: girls and boys at school; men (fathers, brohers, fathers in law, etc.) and women (mothers, mothers in law, sisters, etc.); community and religious leaders; general society; schoolteachers; NGOs working in youth SRHR (including MHM); decision-makers at governmental level (local government as well as relevant ministries, e.g. MoE, NCTB); private sector; journalists.
The programme is designed and implemented by Simavi (a Dutch Health NGO), RedOrange (a social media company) and TNO (a Dutch technology and research company). Simavi works with its partners BNPS and DORP in the implementation of the Ritu programme in Netrakona, Bangladesh. The programme is funded by the Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
BNPS and DORP
Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Bangladesh (EKN).
Role of Simavi
Simavi and RedOrange will be mainly responsible for project implementation in Bangladesh. Simavi is project manager and will work with local partners on activities for capacity-building in MHM for girls, key individuals in their communities and other stakeholders.
Hilda Alberda
Hilda Alberda is Simavi's Director Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and an expert on Menstrual Health. In 2016, she was invited by Léo Heller, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, to take part in an expert consultation on 'Gender equality in the realisation of the human rights to water and sanitation'. Together with a group of experts, Hilda discussed topics such as menstruation, specific challenges that women face in accessing WASH, and how to combat gender-based violence related to water and sanitation – in short, a lot of issues close to Simavi's heart.
Do you want to know more about Ritu?
Please contact our colleague Hilda Alberda.
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Crop yield estimates to highlight annual state fair report
By Steve Leer, Ag Communications
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A slow start to spring planting led to a mad dash by farmers to finish in June, followed by cool and wet weather that hampered crop development. Those wild fluctuations in the 2009 crop season will provide the backdrop for fall crop yield projections that will be presented Aug. 12 at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.
The annual crop report takes place at 9:30 a.m. in the Pioneer Our Land Pavilion and is open to the public. Speakers include Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist; Greg Preston, Indiana director of the National Agricultural Statistics Service; and Anne Hazlett, director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. Jay Akridge, Purdue's Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture, will moderate the panel discussion.
Crop report panelists will analyze that morning's U.S. Department of Agriculture crop production numbers and what that data means for Indiana.
"The August crop report is one of the most anticipated in years," Hurt said. "It will provide an evaluation of the actual acres that finally got planted this spring and what the cool summer means to yield potential.
"Just one year ago, the world was fearfully short of basic foodstuffs. This year, much better world harvest and improved prospects for U.S. production appear to have reduced the fear of supply shortages. Large crops will help reduce food price inflation, which has been a concern over the past year."
Preston said spring planting started late across much of Indiana.
"On June 1, the amount of corn planted was 17 days behind the average five-year pace," he said. "For soybeans, on June 1 we were 14 days behind for the five-year average."
Lower-than-average temperatures after planting extended corn and soybean crop development, Preston said.
"By the end of July, crop development was still behind last year's pace and about half as far along as where we would be for the five-year average," he said.
The crop report starts 30 minutes before the Pioneer Our Land Pavilion officially opens. Those attending the meeting should enter at the main entrance on the building's south side.
Those with Internet access also can follow the report on Twitter, the social networking Web site. Regular "tweets" will be posted throughout the meeting on the Purdue Extension Twitter feed. To receive the Twitter posts, visit http://twitter.com/PurdueExtension and request to "follow" the feed. Users must already have set up a free Twitter account.
Indiana crop conditions better than expected
Surplus U.S. crop means lower prices; need to stimulate use
In-field reference allows producers to identify crop problems
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Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her projects builds on over thirty years of exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut before moving to London in 1972 to attend the Architectural Association (AA) School where she was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. Hadid founded Zaha Hadid Architects in 1979 and completed her first building, the Vitra Fire Station, Germany in 1993.
Hadid taught at the AA School until 1987 and held numerous chairs and guest professorships at universities around the world including Columbia, Harvard, Yale and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Working with senior office partner, Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid's architecture arranges form and space into breath-taking spatial compositions.
The MAXXI: Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku are built manifestos of Hadid's quest for complex, fluid space. Previous seminal buildings such as the Guangzhou Opera House and Contemporary Arts Centre in Cincinnati have also been hailed as architecture that transforms our ideas of the future with visionary spatial concepts defined by advanced design, material and construction processes.
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And That Happened: Sunday's Scores and Highlights
By Craig CalcaterraAug 28, 2017, 7:49 AM EDT
Here are the scores. Here are the highlights:
Twins 7, Blue Jays 2: Byron Buxton had tons of hype when he was a top prospect and then got a slow start in the bigs, causing some to think of him as a bust. He's still only 23, however — over a year and a half younger than Aaron Judge — and the second half of 2017 is showing everyone that he is anything but a failed prospect. Yesterday he went 4-for-5 with three homers and five driven in. In the second half he's hitting .333/.370/.657 with eight homers and 21 driven in. All season he has been basically the best center fielder in baseball. I think it's safe to say Buxton has arrived.
Yankees 10, Mariners 1: The M's made five errors in the first and the Yankees scored six runs in the first and at that point the game was basically over. Watch them all here, in their infamy. Masahiro Tanaka could've won a game the other team didn't hand him, however, as he allowed one run over seven and struck out ten.
Indians 12, Royals 0: Kansas City gets shut out for the entire weekend — they were outscored 20-0 in three games — with homers from Francisco Lindor, Carlos Santana, and Yan Gomes doing them in yesterday. Gomes' blast was a grand slam. Carlos Carrasco tossed seven shutout innings. The Royals looked like they were going to give the Indians a run for a little while this season. Now they're a game under .500, nine games behind Cleveland in the AL Central and stuck in the muck of teams battling for a second Wild Card spot. And they're looking bad heading into the home stretch.
Pirates 5, Reds 2: John Jaso and Starling Marte each drove in two for the Pirates and five pitchers bent — issuing seven walks — but kept the Reds from capitalizing on 13 base runners.
Marlins 6, Padres 2: Giancarlo Stanton hit homer number 50 on the year. It's August. People are really gonna start up the "what if he hits 62 homers?" talk now, arguing that Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire's higher totals are someone not the higher totals. Don't fall for that jazz. You can be more impressed with Stanton's home run total than those guys' higher totals if you'd like, but there is a difference between records, which are objective things, and feats, which are subjective. Barry Bonds is the single season home run record holder. If Giancarlo Stanton hits 62, he will have the seventh most homers in a season of all time. That's how match and records work.
Orioles 2, Red Sox 1: The Red Sox have now lost four in a row and, while they weren't shut out like the Royals were all weekend, they were outscored 25-4 by Baltimore, so it's not really any better. It was at least close yesterday, as Adam Jones and Trey Mancini hit back-to-back RBI doubles in the first and then held on for the rest of the day. Boston stranded 13 runners and went 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Their lead in the AL East is now down to two and a half games over the Yankees.
Rockies 3, Braves 0: Jon Gray tossed six shutout innings and the pen did the rest, with a Mark Reynolds two-run homer and a Trevor Story double accounting for all of the runs.
Phillies 6, Cubs 3: Rhys Hoskins continues his rampage, hitting yet another homer. It was his 11th in his first 18 games. He started a triple play too, albeit a sort of ugly one.
Mets 6, Nationals 5; Nationals 5, Mets 4: The split doubleheader. For years they've amused me as the teams go to sleep having spent, like, 12 hours at the ballpark having made no progress nor suffered no setbacks in the standings. I've often though I should come up with a name for these beasts, but I always forget to put thought to it. Something with "zero velocity" in the title, if for no other reason than it messes with people who think velocity and speed are the same thing. I dunno. Any ideas?
White Sox 7, Tigers 1: Lucas Giolito first game up over a year ago but yesterday he got his first win. That's misleading of course, as he's only made six starts, but it's still weird to say out loud. He tossed seven scoreless innings to get it and was backed by a Matt Davidson three-run homer. The White Sox have won four of five and took two of three from Detroit.The Sox are only four games behind the Tigers in the AL Central with a little over a month to play. It's not the sort of thing players would crow to the press about, but I bet they've made it a goal to try to catch them and not finish in last place. Given where the Sox are at the moment — a rebuild, having cast off most of their veteran players — that would be quite an accomplishment. And quit an embarrassment for the Tigers, though a well-earned one.
Rays 3, Cardinals 2: Logan Morrison hit two homers: one in the fourth and one for the go-ahead run in the tenth, giving him 30 and then 31 on the season. Chris Archer (7 IP, 5 H, 1 ER 8K) and Lance Lynn (7 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 8K) had a nice little duel but didn't figure in the decision due to it going extras.
Astros 7, Angels 5: Brian McCann tripled with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to rally the Astros back from a one-run deficit after earlier blowing a 4-0 lead. Quite an effort on a day when their minds were understandably not fully focused on baseball thanks to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey wreaking havoc back home. After this game they could only fly as far back as Dallas due to airport closures in Houston. They'll make a decision today about whether tomorrow's game in Minute Maid Park will go forward.
Athletics 8, Rangers 3: The sweep. Jharel Cotton allowed two runs — one earned — over six innings and struck out nine. Marcus Semien drove in three.
Brewers 3, Dodgers 2: The Brewers did what no other team has done since June 5-7: take a series from the Dodgers. Jimmy Nelson took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and Hernan Perez homered and Domingo Santana had two hits and an RBI. More important than simply taking two of three from Los Angeles, the Brewers pull to two games back of the Cubs.
Diamondbacks 11, Giants 0: This was a close one until the eighth inning. That's when Matt Cain came in in relief for the Giants and was shelled for eight runs on five hits and walked two in two-thirds of an inning. Paul Goldschmidt's three run homer was the big blow. Normally I'd make some jokes about a rout like this, but I'm pretty sure we're watching the end of Matt Cain's once excellent career, and it's hard to see guys go out like this.
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Study reveals how a bioterrorism attack could spread to several continents before it's even detected
By Hayley Peterson
Published: 22:48 EST, 24 July 2013 | Updated: 05:28 EST, 25 July 2013
A bioterrorism attack could spread to several continents before it is even detected, according to a startling new scientific study.
The study found that if a small group of terrorists infected themselves with a disease such as smallpox and walked around London, then the pathogens could spread to up to four nations before doctors managed to diagnose it.
'A deliberate smallpox release is likely to assume an international dimension even before the epidemic is identified,' the researchers wrote in the study, which was published in this month's Scientific Reports, a trade publication.
In the case that a biological attack were released in London, this map shows the level of probability that certain areas would become immediately infected
'We show through large-scale individual-based simulations that biological targeted attacks on a single city can result in the presence of exposed individuals in several countries before the health system is aware of the release and the ensuing outbreak.'
Developed nations have contingency plans to contain biological attacks, but the study points out that the pathogens could rapidly overtake less developed nations that don't have the same resources.
'Some of the countries that could be affected may not have health infrastructures able to timely cope efficiently with the emergency dictated by a highly pathogenic virus outbreak,' the study notes.
The researchers who conducted the study recommend that international health organizations better prepare for the possibility of a biological attack that originates in a remote location.
This map shows the probability of infection globally two weeks after an attack originating in London
'They need to think about sharing resources,' one of the researchers, Alessandro Vespignani, told Quartz. Vespignani is a health sciences professor at Northeastern University.
Parts of the study were not published due to international security concerns.
'According to the comments of biosafety reviewers, we have removed quantitative data on risk probability and outbreak size in different scenarios,' the researchers wrote. 'Those additional outputs can be shared with government officials and biosecurity researchers upon request.'
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The Republic of Namibia is a vast, sparsely populated country situated along the south Atlantic coast of Africa between 17 and 29 degrees south of the Equator. With its surface area of 824 268 square kilometres, Namibia is the 31st largest country in the world. It stretches for about 1300 km from south to north, and varies from 480 to 930 km in width from west to east.
Namibia (previously known as South West Africa) is bordered by South Africa in the south, Angola and Zambia in the north, and Botswana and Zimbabwe in the east. The oldest desert in the world, the Namib Desert, stretches along the whole west coast of the country, while the Kalahari Desert runs along its south-eastern border with Botswana.
Namibia's economy is heavily dependent on the extraction and processing of minerals for export. Although the mining sector employs only about 3% of the population, mining accounts for 20% of GDP. Rich alluvial diamond deposits make Namibia a primary source for gem-quality diamonds. Namibia is the fourth-largest exporter of non-fuel minerals in Africa, the world's fifth-largest producer of uranium, and the producer of large quantities of lead, zinc, tin, silver, and tungsten.
According to David Bristow's article in the December 1994 issue of Getaway magazine: "When it comes to seaside resorts it's hard to beat Swakopmund, the holiday centre of Namibia: that's because it has the largest beach in the world. Its sandy sea front stretches, almost unbroken, from the Orange to the Kunene River Mouth - an incredible 1 500 kilometres. The beach varies between about 50 to 100 kilometres wide, prompting many people to call it a desert. It is, according to scientists, the oldest, and rivals Chile's Atacama Desert coastline as the most arid place on earth. Others call it a sand sea, which is understandable in a country that has only one permanent water course between its northerly, and southerly riverine borders."
Swakopmund, Namibia's second biggest town and traditional "summer capital", is one of the most surreal places in this surreal country. The town is approached through the endless expanse of the Namib Desert, one of the world's largest wilderness areas. Then, through the mists (it is almost always misty in the morning and late afternoon), Bavarian spires and elaborate Germanic architecture rise through the fog banks. The boom of the surf on the notorious Skeleton Coast is an ever-present reminder of the icy Atlantic Ocean beyond. The town is an eclectic mixture of Bohemian and Bavarian, home to an intriguing mix of artists, hippies, strait-laced descendants of German settlers, stately Herero women in Victorian dress, and hard-bitten miners, game rangers, safari operators and fishermen. Swakopmund exudes romance and history, a rich cultural melting pot of old and new.
The coastal town of Swakopmund is Namibia's premier resort. Its most splendid facility is undoubtedly The Swakopmund Hotel & Entertainment Centre: a 4-star luxury hotel, built in and around the impeccably restored old station building. The Swakopmund Hotel attractions include an entertainment centre with two cinemas, a casino, a video arcade with the latest games, speciality shopping, fast food, and an action bar with live entertainment and dancing.
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Ministers McEntee & Coveney Welcome 4th Report Of Independent Reporting Commission.
The Minister for Justice, Mrs Helen McEntee TD, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Simon Coveney TD, welcomed the publication today of the fourth report of the Independent Reporting Commission (IRC).
Minister for Justice, Mrs Helen McEntee
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Simon Coveney
The Fourth Report sets out the Commission's further assessment of progress to date on the implementation of the provisions of the 2015 Fresh Start Agreement that are designed to tackle paramilitary activity and associated criminality, and bringing an end to paramilitarism in Northern Ireland.
The Commission reports that paramilitary activity remains a stark reality of life in Northern Ireland and describes it as a clear and present danger.
The Reports of the Commission provide an invaluable insight into the work that is being done to tackle paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland and they set out a pathway to achieving progress, both through the policing and criminal justice response and a response to the wider socio-economic factors that exist in the communities where paramilitaries continue to operate.
This year the Commission highlights that as a result of the major focus that has been brought to bear on tackling paramilitarism following the Fresh Start Agreement, there are now a whole range of actions and initiatives in place that simply did not exist before and that these are now beginning to have real effect on the ground. There is of course still work to be done and the IRC sets out some further recommendations, building on their previous reports.
Speaking on the Report's publication, Minister McEntee said,
"This fourth report of the Independent Reporting Commission sets out the stark reality that paramilitary activity remains a clear and present danger in Northern Ireland.
These groups carry out horrendous crimes such as paramilitary style shootings, attacks on police officers and attacks in their own communities. As well as this appalling physical violence, the Commission focuses on coercive control in this Report and the harm that it causes to the communities that are in the grip of this fearful reality.
Paramilitarism, and the associated criminality that we witness, is simply unacceptable and something that our communities should not have to endure. We need to ensure pressure is maintained to bring this activity to an end.
I welcome that the IRC reports that the range of actions and initiatives commenced on foot of Fresh Start are now beginning to have real effect on the ground. There is of course still work to be done and we will continue working with our UK and Northern Ireland counterparts, and the Independent Reporting Commission on tackling this ingrained problem."
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Simon Coveney T.D. said,
"I welcome the fourth report of the Independent Reporting Commission.
The Commission continues to provide an invaluable and comprehensive overview of efforts to end continuing paramilitary activity.
The report makes clear that, while some progress has been made, many challenges remain. As the Commissioners recognise, the twin track approach – incorporating policing and justice measures and a wider approach that deals with systemic issues – is crucial. The Commissioners have highlighted the complex issues required in ending paramilitarism and I look forward to continuing to engage with them on this in the coming year."
Ministers McEntee and Coveney expressed thanks to the Commissioners and officials for this Report and their work to date.
The full report is available to view HERE.
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GBCA certify 1000th Australian Green Star project
GBCA urges Baird Government to broaden NSW's sustainability focus
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Australia's property and construction industry has achieved a unique milestone with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) certifying its 1000th Green Star project.
GBCA's Chief Executive Officer, Romilly Madew observes that GBCA has certified more than 14 million square metres of building and precinct space since the Green Star program was launched in 2003. She commented that the industry has delivered 1000 remarkable, sustainable Green Star projects all over Australia through innovation, technology and knowledge sharing.
According to Madew, these Green Star certified projects include more than 8.1 million square metres of office space, equivalent to all the existing Premium and A Grade office space in the Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide CBDs combined.
She noted that more than half a million Australians now work in Green Star-rated offices, representing 4.5 per cent of the country's total workforce, or more people than the populations of Canberra or Newcastle. These people now enjoy workplaces that are better for their health as well as for the environment.
Additionally, more than 4,400 people now live in Green Star-rated apartments and upwards of 16,800 students learn in Green Star-certified schools. GBCA has also certified a growing number of Green Star – Communities projects, which will be home to more than 80,000 people, exceeding the population of Rockhampton.
GBCA also applauded the efforts of every person who specified, commissioned, designed, constructed, manufactured products for, occupied or managed a Green Star building or community for their commitment to transforming Australia's buildings, cities and communities.
In terms of environmental benefits, these 1000 Green Star certifications save the equivalent of 128,000 average households' electricity use, and 625,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year, equivalent to removing 175,000 cars from the roads.
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Klopp, Liverpool Manager Hits Back at Guardiola
Author: index Published Date: November 19, 2019
Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool couldn't believe the claim made by Pep Guardiola that the player of his players dives and has also hit back at the manager of Man City with a jibe regarding tactical fouling. On Saturday Guardiola has suggested that the string of current late wins of Liverpool that has given them a lead by 6 points at the Premier League table is partly because of the conning of the referee.
The comment of the City manager was taken to be about Sadio Mane who managed to win important late penalties against Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City, last month. As a matter of fact, Mane had also been booked for simulation in the first half of the 2-1 win for Liverpool during the weekend at Aston Villa. Thereon he went on to score the match-winning header.
Initially, Klopp had been reluctant to discuss about the remarks of Guardiola and stated that he didn't wish to pour oil on burning flame before the Premier League visit of Manchester City to Anfield. However, he made a playful reference to the allegation of tactical fouling that has been leveled at City. Pep Guardiola has always denied instructing his players about fouling opponents.
Klopp said that he couldn't really believe it and then he saw it when he had been asked about the comments made by Guardiola. He says that he is not sure if Guardiola has actually spoken about it in that manner about the team or Sadio, both aren't too nice. He said he would like to put oil on the fire because he is not interested in those kinds of things. Klopp promises not to talk about the tactical foul.
The remarks of Guardiola have been made in an interview shortly after a win against a Southampton match. Klopp had been surprised the City counterpart had commented about another team just after the game.
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What are kitchen cabinetry? Stock kitchen cabinets have been cabinetry that are pre-built to a specific size and then resold by a cabinetry seller. Stock cabinets are typically made in two inch increments. In certain basic kitchen designs such as an L shaped kitchen you'll be able to lay cabinets outside without much issue. However, what can you do if you're fitting cabinets between two partitions? Well in this instance the cupboard dealer can supply you with filler pieces to take up any large gaps that will gradually occur using cabinets that are constructed inside 2 inch increments. These cabinet filler pieces can be trimmed to match the remaining gap relatively nicely. The main disadvantage with stock kitchen cabinets is the above incremental sizing but also the quality. There are a couple benefits with using stock cabinetry the very first one that comes to mind is cost. Since stock cabinets are mass produced they can be quite affordable. Another advantage is speed, in the majority of cases traders have access to larger warehouses where the cabinets are saved, and you may have your stock cupboard order within a few short weeks or in some cases days.
Custom kitchen cabinets are cupboards that are built only for your kitchen design, design taste and requirements. Custom kitchen cabinetry can readily be constructed to match between two partitions or to match odd angles, something impossible with stock kitchen cabinets. There are various benefits with custom cabinets that may not be obtained with stock cabinetry. The benefits that are at the top of the list are choice. Since a custom cabinet manufacturer will be producing your brand new kitchen cabinets you can have them create just about any fashion that is imaginable. You might also have them create cabinets that are in exotic or rare forests. You can also have a much larger choice of cupboard doors and drawer fronts. Some custom cabinet makers do opt to outsource their doors and drawer fronts, in this situation they will normally have a very large catalog of doors that you make your choice. With custom built cabinets it is possible to select the sort of hardware such as cabinet door hinges in addition to drawer slides. Most are currently choosing hinges and drawer slides with the soft close feature. This is not only popular but I would not be surprise if that becomes the norm in the next few decades.
Custom Cabinet Price. Most people want to know how much more custom cabinetry will probably cost compared to stock cabinets. This is all but impossible to answer with any degree of precision. The actual fact of the matter is that custom cabinets will cost more that the lower lines of similar stock cabinetry. However, we've observed custom cabinets be quite aggressive with the mid to high range stock cabinets. Despite the higher prices of kitchen cabinets it's almost always worth the extra cost. The cabinets are built in a much more solid fashion too as most custom cabinetmakers will utilize a 3/4 inch thick cabinet case substance, it doesn't get a whole lot more solid than that. All cabinet shops will have varying prices, thus we do recommend you constantly compare the exact same exact kitchen design from store to search for the most precise estimations. |
This week is Road Safety Week, coordinated by the road safety charity Brake.
It's the UK's biggest road safety event with thousands of schools, communities and organisations getting involved each year. Road Safety Week strives to inspire communities to promote road safety both during the week and beyond.
The theme this year is 'Look out for each other', focusing particularly on encouraging drivers to drive 20mph or lower in communities, giving road users plenty of room and looking for longer at junctions.
Being discourteous on the roads can lead to tragedy, with many people getting injured or even killed because a driver was going too fast or because they didn't look for long enough at a junction.
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"Like David Lynch Directed a Remake of Office Space"
A site that perfectly captures the existential despair of the conference call.
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Is there a form of modern communication more frustrating and alienating than the conference call? The inevitable technical glitches, the mysterious background sounds and missed connections, the uncertainty of just who's on the other end, the jokes that seem hilarious on one end but are met with dead silence on the other—it all combines to create a very particular and identifiable type of white-collar existential dread.
This sensation is captured perfectly by the innocuous-sounding site ConferenceCall.biz, created by Washington, D.C.-based GIF artist Zach Scott. Click through and you'll be taken into a simulated conference call in which the participants seem perpetually talking at cross purposes, coming into the conversation late, and expressing frustration that they're discussing material they've already covered. (A dog barking in the background has a memorable cameo.)
The dialogue is randomized so that you never listen to exactly the same meeting twice; this effect also adds to the feeling of disconnection between the participants but somehow still feels entirely believable. Sometimes—particularly if you're listening at work—it can feel eerily realistic. As Scott tells me via email, "It always makes me laugh when the first randomly selected audio clip that plays is 'Did someone just join the call?' because it makes the website visitor feel like they're being addressed directly."
According to Scott, there are about 75 lines of dialogue and 15 participants in the call. "The voices on ConferenceCall.biz are all vaguely addressing the same handful of topics, but they'll never get around to making any substantial progress," Scott says. "I created the script with randomization in mind. Occasionally a few clips will play back-to-back and respond directly to each other, while at other times the audio clips bounce from one person addressing a technical problem to another."
All of it's accompanied by an eerie electronic soundtrack and washed-out office imagery that another blog has described as "what would happen if David Lynch directed a re-make of Office Space." One friend of mine has also compared the aesthetic to "Fitter Happier"-era Radiohead.
What makes conference calling such perfect material for this type of project? "I think conference calls provoke such a negative reaction because they allow people and technology to frustrate us simultaneously," says Scott. "The human failure is easy to recognize—people talking over each other, calling in 10 minutes late and interrupting, forgetting to unmute before speaking. On the technology side, conference calls are in an Uncanny Valley–like stage where they manage to serve the basic purpose of allowing numerous people to speak with each other, but are still far away from providing a smooth experience that feels as practical as being in the same room with other people."
Reactions to the site have varied from amusement to near despair. (The Russian edition of Esquire is currently linking to ConferenceCall.biz from its homepage with the caption "useless site.")
"Before I launched the website, I expected that those who were more familiar with conference calls would respond to the more humorous elements in it, while those who were unfamiliar might react more to the melancholy elements," Scott says. "While I intended for ConferenceCall.biz to be surreal, somewhat melancholy, but also funny, a lot of the reactions I've seen have viewed it as a documentation of a certain kind of hell. Some people seem to view it only as a true attempt at a simulation of conference calls, while others approach it more as an artistic expression. I also know of some people who use it as an ambient relaxation tool to play in the background."
I have a hard time imagining blissfully grooving to ConferenceCall.biz—but it does make you wonder how many office workers are using real conference calls this way. |
AFSC Urges Congress to Vote "No" on Funding Increase for DHS
Photo: Nathaniel Doubleday / AFSC
WASHINGTON DC (February 13, 2019) The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – a Quaker organization that has worked with immigrants and refugees for over 100 years – is urging members of Congress to vote no on any funding bill that increases funding for border walls, border militarization, or immigrant detention.
AFSC spoke out against reports that a compromise bill may be released tomorrow that includes $1.375 billion for additional walls at our southern border and a substantial increase in the number of immigrants held in detention every day.
"We cannot compromise on human rights, on family separation, or on the wellbeing of our border communities," said Kathryn Johnson, Policy Advocacy Coordinator for AFSC. "We are calling on Congress to reject any bill that increases funding for detention, deportation, and the deadly and destructive militarization of our border communities."
While some lawmakers touted the compromise as a decrease in detention, in actuality it would dramatically increase the number of people ICE can detain every night. This deal includes funding for an annual average daily detention population of 45,274, which is a 12% increase over 2018. It also fails to provide a cap on the number of people in detention, and does nothing to limit reprogramming and transfer authority, which means that ICE can continue to raid funds from other accounts to increase its budget throughout the year.
"AFSC has worked for years with people in detention, and we have seen firsthand the cruelty, poor conditions, and human rights abuses that take place within detention centers," said Kristin Kumpf, AFSC's Director of Human Mobility and Migration. "These funding levels would mean tens of thousands more immigrants torn from their families and communities and could lead to additional deaths in dangerous and poorly monitored detention facilities."
AFSC also spoke out against the allocation of $1.375 billion for wall construction. "Instead of endangering our communities and driving migrants to their deaths with more border militarization, U.S. authorities should concentrate their resources on expediting asylum requests and safeguarding human rights," said Pedro Rios, director of AFSC's U.S.-Mexico Border Program.
AFSC is part of a large and growing movement calling on congress to defund ICE and CBP. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions in recent weeks demanding cuts to the budgets of both agencies, and in Washington, DC and across the country people are mobilizing to tell lawmakers this deal is unacceptable.
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According to Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president of engineering and products, Couchbase, businesses are expending considerable effort to get insights into their operational data, with data typically having to be extracted from its operational database and then transformed and loaded into a data warehouse or a Hadoop cluster.
The combination of operational, search, and real-time analytical functionality in a single platform, the company says, enables digital businesses to now create intelligent and data-intensive applications without the complexity of mapping and moving data between disparate systems or the difficulty of managing multiple technologies.
Couchbase also introduced the latest release of Couchbase Server, version 4.6, which adds multi-data center awareness, globally-ordered conflict resolution, and other developer-centric features to speed up and simplify app development.
In addition, the company announced new Couchbase Spark 2.0 and Kafka 3.0 Connectors that enable developers to continuously stream and analyze data changes in order to build more intelligent, responsive applications.
With the elimination of ETL, jobs, and reduced dependency on other technologies, Couchbase Analytics simplifies the ability for digital businesses to develop highly-customized apps. The Couchbase Analytics developer preview release enables developers to run complex, ad hoc queries on operational JSON data stored in Couchbase to get real-time insights using the new distributed parallel analytics engine. This analytics engine is delivered as an independently-scalable service using Couchbase's Multi-Dimensional Scaling technology, enabling users to run analytics on the same data platform without any impact to their business operations.
The new Couchbase Full Text Search capability, in developer preview, is built on the open source project Bleve and is now integrated with Couchbase, providing functionality that enables developers to add rich text search features such as faceting and relevance-based scoring to their apps without replicating data to a separate search system. The capability extends Couchbase management capabilities such as auto data distribution, rebalance and node failover, to the text search service.
Addressing the needs of digital businesses that are increasingly dealing with interactions across a geographically-distributed customer base, Couchbase Server 4.6 builds on capabilities including Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) to add multi-data center awareness, globally-ordered conflict resolution, and a range of other developer-centric features to speed up and simplify app development.
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Ask the author: Julia Abel Smith on Lady Augusta Murray
Prince Augustus Frederick, George III's sixth son, caused a royal scandal when he married Lady Augusta Murray in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772. Upon the couple's eventual split, Augusta went from socialite to social outcast and has been largely forgotten by history – until now. We spoke to Julia Abel Smith, author of Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray, about her research.
What first drew you to Augusta's story?
Lady Augusta Murray's tragic story captivated me because it appeared to be entirely unknown. It seemed unbelievable that her tale of tragic love set against the background of the American and French revolutions remained unresearched.
Augusta herself was a delightful character - lively, intelligent and tenacious. Prince Augustus - sensitive, warm-hearted and cultured - was the most attractive of the George III's sons.
The Georgian period fascinates me and Augusta's lifetime (1761-1830) fits neatly into the reigns of George III and IV. I loved the prospect of discovering the details of her life from letters, commonplace books and accounts.
Why do you think Augusta's story has slipped through the cracks of Britain's royal history?
Her son and daughter had no known descendants and her husband was the least known of George III's sons. Prince Augustus went to Göttingen University aged 13 in 1786 and, due to his delicate health, did not return home for good until 1804. After that he led a quiet life building up his library at Kensington Palace and speaking in the House of Lords.
Augusta's family seat at Dunmore near Stirling is in ruins. There is no National Trust for Scotland or Historic Houses to welcome the public to her former home where they can study her life and family history, and no portrait of Augusta, researched and restored, hangs in a major British collection. Her picture by George Romney is untraced, a miniature by Richard Cosway is in Colorado State University and another portrait of her is held privately in Washington D.C.
Mount Albion, her home in Ramsgate, once set in 16 acres of carefully tended gardens, has been developed. Her mausoleum is in a dark corner of a Ramsgate churchyard and has been woefully vandalised.
What was the most difficult part of the research process?
The most challenging part of the process was also the most interesting. Augusta lived in Italy and America, as well as Scotland, London and Kent and for a short time in Teignmouth and Paris. She was also a keen traveller. My research therefore took me to many different archives. I looked at her papers in the Royal Archives, in Edinburgh, in the Adam archives near Kinross, archives in Canterbury and Dover, Exeter, the National Archives at Kew, and at Williamsburg in Virginia. I also visited Augusta Street in Nassau, named in her honour by her father.
Do you think Augusta and Augustus could have done anything differently to convince George III to give them his blessing?
Categorically not. A bill 'for the better regulation the future Marriages of the Royal Family' was given royal assent in 1772, the year before the birth of Prince Augustus. It required members of the Royal Family to receive the monarch's permission before entering into marriage. King George III believed that his sons should marry protestant princesses in order to maintain 'the honour and dignity of His Crown'.
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The Sheriff And The Cookie Mom To The Top
Date: August 16, 2020 Posted By:LeonCategory:NASCAR, NASCAR news, NASCAR recap, The Redneck Fantasy League, TRFL news, TRFL opinion, TRFL recapTag:chase elliott, daytona international speedway, go bowling 235, leon your most humble sheriff
William Clyde Elliott, Jr. scored a historic triumph Sunday, prevailing in his third straight road-course event to win the first NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course. The dream has come true!
Elliott led a race-high 34 of the 65 laps in the inaugural Go Bowling 235 on the 3.61-mile road circuit. Chase drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevolet to his second win of the season and the eighth of his Cup Series career.
Denny Hamlin clinched second place in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, just a car-length behind at the checkered flag. Martin Truex Jr. took third with Jimmie Johnson fourth and Chris Buescher completing the top five.
Elliott won Stage 1, and Hamlin prevailed in the second stage.
Points leader and pole-starter Kevin Harvick spun from fifth place after the start of Stage 3 when his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was bumped from behind by the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Toyota of rookie Christopher Bell. Harvick slid to a stop in Turn 3 and continued on, but in 37th place — last on the lead lap.
He spun again on Lap 43, continuing after looping the No. 4 car in Turn 6. Harvick rallied to finish 17th, ending a streak of 10 straight top-10 results.
Kyle Busch had adventurous day, even before a brake issue sent his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota behind the wall for lengthy repairs. He locked up the brakes entering the frontstretch chicane on Lap 2, forcing an unscheduled pit stop to change tires. He also spun in Turn 6, and the brief off-course excursion knocked him back to 13th on Lap 25. When his brakes gave out with 17 laps to go, Busch steered the No. 18 to the Cup Series garage, where he lost six laps to the front-runners while his crew worked. His return to the track was a brief one, and he retired after blowouts of both rear tires forced him to crash with five laps left in regulation. Busch placed 37th, his fifth finish outside the top 30 this year.
Kaz Grala finished an impressive seventh in his Cup Series debut, leading three laps during a pit-stop cycle in the final stage. He was picked by Richard Childress Racing as a late replacement in the No. 3 Chevrolet for Austin Dillon, who was sidelined after reporting a positive COVID-19 test Saturday.
The race was halted by a roughly 30-minute delay for a late-afternoon lightning strike in the vicinity of the speedway.
THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE GO FAST
Well, to start off this 3rd segment Leon Your Most Humble Sheriff and Linda The Cookie Mom looks as though they were shot out of a cannon! Both players were all in and most definitely betting the farm that Chase Elliott could make it three in a row road course victories for the HMS No. 9 crew. For their loyal support at the Daytona road course these two players deposited a cool 54 points into their bucket. No, Chase Elliott was not dreamin', but if he was dreamin' then he may want to "dream on"!
THE MOVERS AND THE SHAKERS
Doing almost as good as The Cookie Mom and Your Most Humble Sheriff this week was Jim, aka Chiefy, and Bernie the Bay Area Bandit. This unlikely pair were riding tall in the saddle with The Delivernator Sunday. I guess both players thought that, just because Denny Hamlin won the last two Daytona 500's, that he could pull off the first Cup road course victory as well. They dang near were successful with their expectations! Hamlin stalked Elliott for more than the last dozen plus laps, getting to Elliott's rear bumper on several occasions, but was unable to surpass him. Nonetheless, this pair put a nifty 45 points into their bucket to start off this segment.
Meanwhile, Amber the Extremely Lucky Cheddar Head continues to amaze the entire fantasy league with her run of great luck this season. It seems like she just keeps getting it right week in and week out! Does anybody else think that maybe she is involved in some underworld or covert operations this season? I mean think about it. She won the first segment. She is leading the second segment with just one race left in that segment, and starting out the 3rd segment The Cheddar Head is the 3rd highest scorer. (I'm asking for a friend)
Carole, aka Rudy, really lit it up at Daytona! Rudy was the only player who was hanging with Sliced Bread this race. Joey Logano really flew way below the radar for most of the race, but when the pay window opened up he "let the big dog eat" and finished up in 9th place, rewarding Rudy with 37 points.
Rounding up the top five scorers this week is Jeremy The Coach. In spite of his 2nd segment nose dive, The Coach walked away with 32 points today with his man Clint Bowyer's 6th place finish.
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As it always happens at the beginning of a segment the player(s) who are awarded The Crappiest Pick of The Week will alway get a two-fer! That two-fer includes a weeks all expense paid trip, including room and board, to our luxurious Outhouse, which I keep repeating for those who have not experienced The Outhouse yet, is located down at the end of Lonely Street across the street from The Heartbreak Hotel! This week the husband and wife team of Snoopy Dawn and Carlton The Doorman begins the 3rd segment as roommates in The Outhouse because of their microscopic one (1) point score!
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2 died before political donor's arrest. Some question delay
by: BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press
Posted: Sep 29, 2019 / 11:17 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2019 / 12:32 PM CDT
FILE – In this Sept. 22, 2010 file photo, Ed Buck crashes a campaign appearance for Meg Whitman, not shown, then a Republican candidate for governor of California, in Los Angeles. It took more than two years from the first overdose death in political donor Buck's apartment until his arrest this month. In the time in between, another man died in the West Hollywood home, another had a close brush with death and several others reporting harrowing encounters with the gay white man who preyed on young black men to satisfy a drug-fueled sexual fetish. Activists who pushed for Buck's arrest wonder why it took so long to lock him up. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — When a dead man was carried out of Ed Buck's apartment two years ago, members of the gay political club he lavished with thousands of dollars in political donations swiftly ousted him.
Buck attempted a comeback in early January, less than six months after prosecutors declined to bring charges in the overdose death. He tried to crash the Stonewall Democratic Club's holiday party at a Los Angeles-area wine bar, telling members he had been exonerated, club president Lester Aponte said.
"When somebody dies at your house, wouldn't you think that's the kind of event that will make you re-examine your life choices?" Aponte told The Associated Press. "It doesn't seem like it registered with him at all."
Two days after Buck was escorted out of the bash, another gay man was found dead in his West Hollywood apartment — again from a methamphetamine overdose. Buck is white, and both dead men were black.
He wasn't stopped until authorities said a third black man nearly died. It's what victims' families and their supporters warned about for two years as they tried to get prosecutors to bring charges.
"I said it the last time we were down here that there's going to be a third victim," said LaTisha Nixon, whose 26-year-old son, Gemmel Moore, was the first to die. "We said there's gonna be a second victim. We kept saying it because we all knew … Ed Buck didn't stop doing what he was doing."
Nixon and her supporters welcomed the arrest but criticized the time it took to put Buck behind bars and renewed their questions about whether a wealthy, white Democratic donor benefited because the victims were mostly gay black men and drug users, some of whom were sex workers and homeless.
"If white gay men had been dying in a black man's house or anybody's house, rather, this case would have been taken a lot more seriously," said Jasmyne Cannick, a communications strategist who spearheaded the effort to get justice for Moore. "Ed Buck knew who he was preying on, and he knew that people would not care. Or he thought that people would not care."
Buck, 65, was arrested Sept. 17 after the third man was hospitalized for an overdose.
The Los Angeles County district attorney charged Buck with running a drug house. Two days later, U.S. prosecutors charged him with distributing methamphetamine resulting in Moore's death.
Buck is being held without bail and has yet to enter a plea in either case. His attorneys declined to comment, but one defense lawyer, Seymour Amster, previously said Buck denied any role in the deaths of Moore or Timothy Dean, 55, who overdosed Jan. 7.
Moore was found naked on a mattress on Buck's living room floor on July 27, 2017. Two dozen syringes and five glass pipes were found, along with meth stored in a toolbox with sex toys.
Prosecutors said Buck paid men with drugs and money to feed a sexual fetish that included having them pose in underwear and injecting some of them with large doses of drugs.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey has defended her decision not to bring a case sooner or file homicide charges. She said there was insufficient evidence to charge Buck in the deaths and that it made more sense to proceed with a federal prosecution that would bring a minimum 20-year sentence if he's convicted.
Lacey, who is black, denied that Buck, who had given her a $100 donation that she later returned, received any favoritism. She said investigators didn't have the necessary witnesses to make an arrest until the latest victim provided the account that gave them their big break.
"We did not have other victims that were willing to talk to the prosecutors to tell us what happened, to tell us they were injected by Mr. Buck," Lacey said.
The federal criminal complaint, however, said eight men had provided harrowing accounts about encounters with Buck before the latest alleged victim survived overdosing twice in a week this month. That man said he lived with Buck for weeks this summer and Buck regularly injected him with meth.
Several of those men said Buck encouraged them to take drugs or injected them himself — some against their will and others who said they woke up to being injected or suspected they had been given a powerful drug before passing out.
One man, who was homeless and worked as a prostitute, told investigators in March that Buck was known as Dr. Kevorkian, a reference to the late doctor imprisoned for helping terminally ill patients end their lives. The man said Buck injected him twice with meth in 2011 and he lost consciousness each time.
"Buck insists on injecting prostitutes with methamphetamine and … would dismiss anyone who would not permit it without compensation," according to an affidavit by Drug Enforcement Administration agent John Mundell.
Lacey, the district attorney, said witnesses were reluctant or had "lawyered up" and wouldn't speak, while others didn't have firsthand encounters with Buck.
Cannick, the communications strategist, and two lawyers representing Moore's mother in a lawsuit against Buck, the district attorney and Sheriff's Department, disputed the prosecutor's assertions. They said they accompanied victims mentioned in the criminal complaint to interviews with sheriff's deputies and provided text messages, photos, videos and receipts of electronic payments Buck made.
The witnesses all spoke with Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators, who consulted frequently with county prosecutors, said Lt. Derrick Alfred, who oversaw the team of detectives who investigated Dean's death. He said the activists were integral by finding witnesses.
Moore's death was originally listed as an accidental overdose. A criminal investigation wasn't launched for about three weeks, after Cannick said she published excerpts from a journal Moore kept that said he had become addicted to drugs and "Ed Buck is the one to thank."
Prosecutors declined to bring charges a year after Moore's death, but another investigation began after Dean died. In July, deputies approached a federal-state task force on opioid overdoses, which agreed to take the case, DEA spokesman Kyle Mori said.
Attorney Ambrosio Rodriguez, a former Riverside County prosecutor, said it was unusual for federal prosecutors to take over a state investigation. He said he didn't buy Lacey's statements about a lack of admissible evidence and that her explanation for passing the case to federal prosecutors was "disingenuous."
"No one is pickier about what cases they file than the federal government," Rodriguez said. "It's a known thing in criminal law that the federal government only files perfect cases. … They want two helpings of all the evidence in the world."
Before Buck could be charged in federal court, investigators learned of the latest overdose and finally made an arrest.
When Buck was taken into custody, "he acted confused, seemingly wondering why we were there and what was going on," Alfred said.
A small crowd, including Cannick, gathered across the street from the building where protesters had once posted signs saying, "Justice 4 Gemmel" and "Ed Buck is a Predator!"
Within a week, an eviction notice was posted on Buck's door. It cited the illegal drugs and the deaths of two men found inside.
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A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala has died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert.
The child's death is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families seeking asylum in the United States.
According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody about 10 p.m. on December 6th south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.
After a helicopter flight to Providence Children's Hospital in El Paso, the child went into cardiac arrest and "was revived. However, the child did not recover and died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported," CBP said.
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What We Learned About Today Back Then
Author: James Pellegrin '69
Published: Autumn 2020
In the fall of 1968, four college kids, myself included, drove a brand new white Pontiac from South Bend, Indiana, to a tiny agricultural town on the Texas-Mexico border called Rio Grande City. It was the days of the United Farm Workers' grape boycott, and though the local crop was melons, not grapes, a strike had somehow been organized in that godforsaken town on that godforsaken border.
When our professor-friend Ernie heard about this action, he sent the four of us down there to check it out and support the farm workers. He supplied the Pontiac from his dad's car dealership.
"Try to learn something," he said, smiling, "and try not to wreck the damned car."
So we drove day and night all the way from South Bend to the Rio Grande. Four white college guys with empty wallets, heads full of big ideas and nothing better to do. Quite often whoever was driving would fall asleep at the wheel, and the car would swerve onto the rough median and wake us all up. We referred to this as "graveling." For food, we bought big bags of cheap hamburgers, which we called "gut bombs." The car became the White Whale. We laughed and slept and joked and sang as we rolled along; we were happy and free, and more important, we were on a mission from God.
At some point we stopped for gas in Austin, Texas, and wound up resting there on the state university's campus. It was a balmy evening, and hundreds of students, beautiful young men with golden hair and blue eyes and beautiful young women with long, shapely legs, were lolling around dreamily on the cool grass.
It occurred to me that this was heaven, and if we succeeded in our mission, we would get to loll in that cool grass for eternity.
We never did make it back to that cool grass. Instead we got back in the car and drove through another night, graveling and gulping down gutburgers and sleeping in snatches.
In the morning we pulled into Rio Grande City, a dot on the map of southern Texas just barely hanging onto the north shore of the river. Whoa, the middle of nowhere, someone said, which was where we were. A crossroads in a vast, empty expanse of dusty ranches and cactus spines and rattlesnakes. A grange hall, two or three empty storefronts, a few houses, and that was it.
Dazed and dirty, we walked to a neglected park and sat on a bench watching a column of fire ants bumbling across the dirt. There was something menacing about them, primal and violent. Some of them carried carcasses of other, smaller ants. Sitting there, you could feel the stultifying heat building up, minute by minute.
Then they found us. A small group of Latino children, brown grade-school kids, the boys with shiny black hair and wide smiles, the girls with toddlers on their hips, the whole bunch of them wearing plastic sandals and baseball caps. They said nothing, literally took us by the hand and led us across the street to what I thought was a grange hall.
Illustration by David Pohl
Inside it was cool and clean, and we were greeted by a group of Latino men who welcomed us warmly and told us briefly how the strike was going. It was not going well for the workers, and you could see the stoic sadness welling up in their eyes. Heads were shaking and there was some silent staring off into the future, then one of the men said we could talk all day, but he was going to show us what was going on.
This man, I'll call him Jorge, simply walked us back to the White Whale and asked for the keys. Best to go see before it gets too hot, he said, then he drove us, very fast, first to a ranch and then to the river, a huge plume of dust rising up into the sky behind us, so that anyone could see us coming for miles and miles and miles.
We finally arrived at a modest house, and Jorge motioned us toward it, while he stayed in the car. A very polite woman met us at the door and directed us to a room where a tall, stocky, sun-blasted man was sitting at his desk. He was formally dressed in a Western snap-button shirt and a spotless white cowboy hat, and he introduced himself, without standing up or offering his hand, as the owner of the ranch we were standing in.
After he asked who we might be, we launched into boilerplate college-kid talk about how he really ought to negotiate with the farm workers for a fair wage et cetera.
He tolerated this for a minute or two, then abruptly stood up behind his desk, silencing our rant with the sight of the pistol in his belt. "You boys look here," he said. "All I know is I got to get them melons picked. You'll be leaving my house now, and I wouldn't be coming back if I was you."
So that was the end of our interview with the rancher. His wife politely closed the door behind us, and we shrugged our shoulders at Jorge as we got back in the car.
"Somehow, I don't think he came around to our way of thinking," I said. "Not surprised," said Jorge. "Next stop, the river."
With that, we sped off down the dirt roads, kicking up more dust, Jorge gunning the car as if we were cruising the interstate. He, too, seemed to be on a mission from God.
In a matter of minutes we arrived at the river. I guess I'd been expecting a wide expanse of deep water, but when we got out of the car we were standing before little more than a shallow creek overarched by a modern, iron footbridge.
A highway patrolman stood facing us in front of the United States side of the bridge. With his khaki uniform and his knee-high boots and opaque sunglasses, he had the look of an anonymous soldier standing guard, the shotgun cradled in his arms answering any questions.
Behind the highway patrolman, a silent, steady stream of Mexican men walked over the bridge and filed into trucks waiting to take them to the melon fields to pick the melons. It was as simple as that.
We stood and watched, stunned by the heat and the violence. After a few minutes Jorge said, "That's enough, you've seen it," and then he drove us, in a furious silence, back to town, faster than I thought anyone could possibly drive on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.
That night we slept in sleeping bags on the floor of a small stage at one end of the hall. We were, after all, minor actors in a short, sad play, a tragedy with no audience, really, that spooled out in the desert over a few hot days.
In the end, the strike was easily broken, the melons got picked, and the farm workers were paid nothing. It wasn't in any newspaper, it wasn't on TV. Nobody except the people in that small town would ever know about it, but we knew about it.
The next morning, our hosts saw us off with the best breakfast I have ever eaten in my life. There were warm tortillas the women shaped from tiny balls of dough, pressing them and tossing them from hand to hand and baking them on a large, flat grill, and fresh fried eggs and green salsa and grits and butter and good coffee. We were very moved by such a generous gesture from people who had just lost so much, and when we were ready to leave, people lined up and shook our hands and thanked us, grateful and amazed, it seemed, that someone from the larger world had witnessed their struggle, had seen their lives as proud and brave.
"Well," Ernie asked when we got back, "learn anything?"
"Yep," somebody said, "we did. If you want to help people getting a raw deal, be smart about it. If you're not smart about it, you're just going to hurt them even more. What could be dumber than convincing those poor people to stage a strike right on the border, with millions of workers waiting to walk over that bridge and pick those crops? Dumb, dumb, dumb!"
"Well, that's very good," said Ernie, "Don't be dumb, ha! You get an A-plus for that. But you know what?"
"No, what?"
"I bet those farm-worker folks were glad to see you, all the same."
"Yep, they sure were. "
"And I bet you won't forget them."
"Nope, I bet we won't. Oh, and sorry about the car."
Jim Pellegrin, a retired physician and former volunteer in the Council for the International Lay Apostolate, lives in Point Reyes Station, California, with his wife, Sally Jones, as well as a rooster and four hens. He dedicates this story to the memory of Rev. Ernest Bartell, CSC, '53, teacher, mentor and friend. |