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These glazed chocolate donuts are soft and moist and dipped in a sweet glaze!
I’ve been on a quest to create the perfect chocolate cake donut. I mean, first of all, goals like this are fun to achieve. Even the not-so-perfect chocolate donuts are still chocolate donuts.
Second, how fabulous would it be to have a perfect chocolate donut recipe? Pretty darn fabulous, you guys. Being known as the lady with the perfect chocolate donut recipe is kind of a big deal.
So, I set my mind to it and I measured and mixed and baked and tasted and then did it again and again quite a few times. Finally, I came up with this recipe. The perfect chocolate donut. It’s moist. It’s fluffy. It’s like a chocolate cake, but it’s shaped like a donut which means that it’s breakfast. Then I dunked the donuts in my favorite donut glaze. It gets all crisp and crackly and is pretty much just as perfect as the donut shop glaze.
These are definitely my favorite baked donuts! If you prefer fried donuts, be sure to check out my favorite recipe for those here!
If you’re looking for an easy recipe for your donut pan, this is the one. No mixer needed and it takes less than 20 minutes to get your donuts on the table. These make a great after school snack, too.
Glazed Chocolate Donuts
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, baking soda, and salt.
- In a small bowl, beat together the vanilla, egg, sour cream, milk, and oil.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
- Spoon in a greased donut pan.
- Bake for 8 minutes or until the tops spring back when you touch them.
- Let the donuts cool in the pan before glazing.
- Whisk together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Dunk the donuts in the glaze to fully coat and place on a wire rack to set, about 5 minutes.
(I’ve changed this glaze recipe up a bit after receiving a few comments that it wasn’t setting properly. It works beautifully now!)
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Mean Girls: “You could try Sears!” Me: “Haha… is that bad!?”
Have you, a non-American, ever been watching a TV show or a movie and a character has referenced something or someone that’s gone straight over your head? Well I have – more than a few times!! Here are some examples:
Do you remember when Joey met his “identical hand twin” in Friends? Well it turns out that the theme song he comes up with for their TV show is actually based on a pretty popular American folk song!
After Annie meets the picture-perfect Helen in Bridesmaids, she spends her entire car trip home making fun of her, including how snobby she is. Here, Annie mimics Helen throwing shade at how she is from Milwaukee.
In a scene from You’ve Got Mail, Joe asks about a journalist Kathleen is seeing who uses the handle NY152; Joe then reads him to filth and likens him to a Clark Bar.
Remember this iconic line in Mean Girls? Regina goes to try on a Spring Fling dress she’s held back and finds it no longer fits her, so the shop assistant suggests she try the department store Sears, which is allegedly kind of… tacky.
In Disney’s Hercules, Pain and Panic suggest calling a telephone number in Roman numerals. The number would be familiar to Americans, but in the UK it would be IX-IX-IX, or 999!
In Never Have I Ever, Devi suspects her classmate Jonah is gay and accidentally mentions it out loud. He confirms this by referring to himself as a “baby Buttigieg”.
When Abbi and Ilana visit Trey’s place in Broad City for a party, they complain that he lives near somewhere called Port Authority, which is apparently hell on Earth.
At the beginning of the final season of Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek, we dive straight into Patrick and Alexis making fun of a hungover Stevie who spent the night before drinking two alcoholic drinks at the same time i.e. “double-fisting”.
This guy… who appears in SO MANY things!
There’s a joke in The Simpsons in which Krusty is mocked for being such a bad gambler that he bet against the Harlem Globetrotters. I assumed these guys must rule the NBA and completely missed the joke.
Is it just me or is the “DMV” always depicted in American media as some sort of hellhole? Apparently, the Department of Motor Vehicles – where you renew your driving license and other such stuff – is terrible, as seen here in Zootopia!
Perhaps, like me, you’ve heard this “tricks are for kids” line in lots of different things, from Kill Bill to RuPaul’s Drag Race. Well, if you also thought it was just a fun little epithet, you’d be wrong! It’s a reference to an American ad for breakfast cereal!
There are hundreds of subtle references in Gilmore Girls but this particular moment, in which Kirk is trying to drill up enthusiasm for an egg hunt in the town square
à la Howard Dean, was particularly obscure for non-Americans.
When Derrick Barry read the late, great Chi Chi DeVayne during season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she mentioned a store that I assumed was a bargain clothing retailer, but it’s actually not!
I have no idea what this line from Troy in Community is supposed to mean, but I’m guessing it’s not a compliment.
Towards the end of Bruce Almighty, Debbie tells Bruce that her typical evening involves watching Conan. I did not put that together, and spent the rest of the movie wondering who Conan was.
The 555 area code you often see in American TV shows and films isn’t a real code. It was left unassigned so that the US media could use it and no one watching would ever be able to dial a number on screen and reach a real person.
Remember when Emily and Richard were fighting in season five of Gilmore Girls and Emily had this to say about Reno, Nevada:
Another candy bar joke wasted on me comes from A Cinderella Story. Shelby sees David on his own without his Musketeer buddies and doesn’t recognise his costume until he tells her he’s a Three Musketeer, which is apparently the name of an American chocolate bar.
The Pottery Barn episode of Friends is one of my absolute favourites, but for all I knew Pottery Barn wasn’t even a real store!
Remember when Peter, Lois, and Meg were at a college fair in Family Guy and they dropped a really good Oral Roberts joke on us?
And finally, pretty much all of Portlandia.
Are there any American references that went over YOUR head? Tell us in the comments below!
Nevada is the only U.S. state where prostitution is legally permitted in some form, hence why Emily makes that reference in number 18 of this list. Thanks to our readers for pointing this out!
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New York, NY — Affluencers, a powerful grouping of Affluent consumers who also influence others’ shopping and buying behaviors, represent 71% of all Affluents, according to the Fall 2017 Ipsos Affluent Survey released this month. The Survey defines “Affluent” as adults living in households with at least $125,000 in annual household income, a group that reflects the top 16% of American households. “While most marketers have understood that the Affluent audience is important due to their buying power and purchase behaviors especially in luxury and high-ticket categories, we’ve found that their influence is felt in nearly every category,” said Michael Baer, SVP and Head of Affluent Intelligence Group, Ipsos Connect.
Marketers are becoming more and more interested in reaching out to and engaging Influencers – due to the factors like media fragmentation, quality and transparency issues of the media supply chain, and the rise of ad blockers. Thus, the idea of reaching a targeted group of people who are particularly powerful and influential is spreading. Which is why the identification of the Affluencers is so important – this target has the potential to not only represent a disproportionate amount of purchases, they also represent a group that is sought for their advice and purchasing input across all categories. In addition, Affluencers on average consume more media than general Affluents, with both print and digital publications up +9%.
Other key findings from the survey include:
- Affluencers spend 40% more than other Affluents on all categories, and 3.6X as much as non-Affluents.
- Affluencers are early adopters to new technology, innovations and new products – again influencing the adoption and purchase of new products beyond themselves.
- Affluencers have the highest levels of future purchase intent in the categories they influence – from 10% to 400% more
- All Affluencers influence others’ shopping and buying in at least one category, while 50% of all Affluencers express their influence in 5+ categories. In addition, 97% say that others seek them out for their advice across many product and service categories.
To view the full video from Ipsos Affluent Intelligence’s Fall Release launch presentation, “Meet the “Affluencers,” click here.
For more information on this news release please contact:
Senior Vice President, U.S.
Affluent Intelligence Group, Ipsos Connect
About the Ipsos Affluent Survey
The Ipsos Affluent Survey USA is the longest-running and most widely-used research study delivering understanding of the lives, mindsets, media habits and purchasing behaviors of financially-successful Americans. For more than 40 years, the Ipsos Affluent Survey has been helping hundreds of marketers each year gain insights and understanding of this influential market segment. The study reports on how Affluents engage with more than 290 media brands and 1,200 consumer brands and services, across all their delivery platforms.
The Fall 2017 study is based on 22,449 online interviews conducted between June 2016 and June 2017 among U.S. adults (18+) living in households with at least $125,000 in annual household income. The survey uses rigorous methodologies, including weighting to Census estimates, to ensure the results are projectable to the population of America’s 58 million Affluent adults. The maximum margin of error is ±0.8 percentage points in the total sample. All sample surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including coverage and measurement errors. In addition to the United States, the Ipsos Affluent Survey covers 50 additional countries.
Ipsos is an independent market research company controlled and managed by research professionals. Founded in France in 1975, Ipsos has grown into a worldwide research group with a strong presence in all key markets. Ipsos ranks fourth in the global research industry.
With offices in 88 countries, Ipsos delivers insightful expertise across five research specializations: brand, advertising and media; customer loyalty; marketing; public affairs research; and survey management.
Ipsos researchers assess market potential and interpret market trends. They develop and build brands. They help clients build long-term relationships with their customers. They test advertising and study audience responses to various media and they measure public opinion around the globe.
Ipsos has been listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since 1999 and generated global revenues of €1,782.7 million in 2016.
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Remember Lil Tay?
A few years ago, the then nine-year-old girl rapped her way to controversy on social media.
Said to be Claire Eileen Qi Hope in real life, Lil Tay was flashing wads of money, making racial slurs, and bragging that her washroom costs more than someone else’s rent.
One of her videos had a Mercedes convertible that belonged to her mom’s boss.
That was David Yang, a managing partner of Pacific Evergreen Realty, a Vancouver-based real estate brokerage.
According to a report by Global News in May 2018, Yang wasn’t too thrilled about his ride being used in the girl’s video.
Another video featured the girl in a property that was listed for sale by Pacific Evergreen Realty, and the owner was said to have complained after recognizing the place.
Based on reports at the time, it wasn’t established definitively if Lil Tay’s mom, Angela Tian, was either fired by or resigned from Pacific Evergreen Realty.
What was clear is that Tian left the brokerage.
Also reporting about Lil Tay in May 2018, CTV News quoted the Real Estate Council of B.C. saying that Tian’s license as a realtor is “being returned”.
“That means she will no longer be able to sell real estate in the region,” according to CTV.
Lil Tay has since disappeared from the radar.
As for Tian and Pacific Evergreen Realty, they’re back, sort of, in a ruling rendered by a B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal.
It turns out that Pacific Evergreen Realty billed Tian, whom the tribunal also identified as Qi Tian, for open house lawn signs and name cards because she didn’t stay with the brokerage for a year.
Tian wanted her money back.
According to Tian, she should be reimbursed $1,000.56 because she never agreed to be charged for lawn signs and name cards.
The brokerage, through its managing director identified only as LML, claimed that there was an agreement between Tian and the company’s managing partner identified as DY about the materials.
LML also filed evidence indicating that DY lost ‘as much as $8,500’ in time and business opportunities “by having to deal with Ms. Tian’s alleged conduct”.
However, tribunal vice chair Shelley Lopez noted in her reasons for decision issued Tuesday (May 19) that these are not connected with Tian’s claim for reimbursement.
“For clarity, for the purpose of this dispute, I find I do not need to address the reason why Ms. Tian left the respondent brokerage,” Lopez wrote.
Turning to evidence presented by the parties, Lopez found those by Pacific Evergreen Realty to be less credible.
“I find the weight of the evidence does not support the respondents’ position that there was any verbal agreement Ms. Tian would have to pay for lawn signs or name cards if she left before a year,” Lopez stated.
Lopez ordered the brokerage to pay Tian a total of $1,161.09.
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Tasmin Little - violin
John Leneham - piano
Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 12 No. 2
Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 12 No. 3
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 23
Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 24 “Spring”
English classical violinist Tasmin Little has firmly established herself as one of today’s leading international violinists. She has performed on every continent in some of the most prestigious venues of the world.
Her performance will take place as part of her final ever live concert tour.
Tasmin is joined by pianist John Lenehan for the second recital featuring all 10 sonatas of Beethoven.
“Little can justly be regarded as Britain’s finest violinist” – The Independent
“Beautiful piano playing from the peerless John Lenehan” – Guardian
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Because the national museum of the Republic of China, the Nationwide Palace Museum is likely one of the most intensive, and the most important, museums in the world. It offers dwelling to almost seven-hundred,000 pieces of artifacts and artworks – some dating again to the Neolithic interval. The history of China is best instructed by this museum and a superb tour package deal to Taipei contains this within the itinerary.
When traveling overseas, you needn’t have an emergency or criticism with the intention to talk in the local language. No one can fault you for trying and it is simply good manners to do so. That said, attempt to take just a few language classes before your journey. These will be very educational, numerous fun and virtually act as a mini vacation. If nothing else, they offers you confidence in your trip surroundings. Additionally, attempt to find a small phrase guide that’s easy to hold. These may be invaluable when asking for a myriad of things that come up in everyday life, similar to instructions, meals, the toilet or just having a pleasant dialog with one of many friendly locals.
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The iconic Massive Ben is a part of the St. Stephen’s Tower that’s part of the Homes of Parliament. The UK Parliament is among the oldest consultant assemblies on this planet and the Houses of Parliament now reside within the Palace of Westminster. A tour is definitely really helpful to catch a glimpse of its practically 1200 rooms.
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Belize, formerly the British Honduras is the one nation in Central America that does not have a coast line on the Pacific Ocean. Belize is dwelling to the native Mayan folks discovered in the north and northwest of the country and where you’ll find many Mayan ruins to go to and beautiful lush jungles with exotic vegetation and animals. On their Caribbean coast you will find worldclass diving, swimming, snorkelling and deep-sea fishing.
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Canadian based sports betting is handled a little bit differently than other forms of legal gambling you find in Canada such as casino and poker betting. Rather than being left to provincial governance, sports betting is permitted as an exception to the national criminal code, and is available through a three team minimum parlay wager. Participants can place their wagers at any of the various retail outlets or online.
Efforts are being made to pass legislation to modify the criminal code and eliminate the three team parlay requirement on sports betting in Canada. Previously Bill C 290 was introduced and made it through discussions and preliminary levels over several years, however it was finally killed and was replaced by Bill C 221 dubbed the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act. If the bill had passed, it would have allowed Canadian based sports betting services to accept wagers on any race or fight, as well as on any single sports event or contest. Unfortunately for supporters of the bill, it was not passed, and Bill C 221 is officially dead in the water. The good news is that Canadian residents do have access to placing bets on single sports events through legally licensed offshore sportsbooks that accept Canadian residents as bettors. Read more about this in the section directly below.
Is It Legal To Bet Sports Online In Canada?
Canadian residents can legally place bets at licensed and regulated sportsbooks that are located outside of the nation’s borders, also known as offshore sportsbooks. Included in this category are several world renowned online sportsbooks that are licensed through the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in Canada. Unlike Canadian based sportsbooks that are restricted to a three team minimum parlay wager, licensed offshore sportsbooks allow a wide range of wagering options, including betting on single games, matches, races or events. There are no provisions within the Canadian criminal code that make it illegal for Canucks to participate in online sports betting at legally licensed and regulated offshore sportsbooks.
Most Trusted Sportsbooks That Can Legally Accept Canadian Players – Play In CAD
The following online sportsbooks are the most reputable in the industry and are legally licensed to accept all Canadian players. We are currently working on offering detailed reviews for each of these sites so CA players can learn why they are a good choice. Until then, you can rest assured that each site listed below is legally licensed and regulated and are some of the most trusted sites open to Canadian players.
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Faq’s About Betting On Sporting Events In Canada – How To Do It Legally
What Types of Sports Events Are Included In Legal Canadian Online Sportsbook Gambling?
Canadian sports bettors will find that they have access to an extensive range of betting lines at online sportsbooks that cover a wide selection of sports categories, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, tennis, golf, horse racing, Nascar, MMA, UFC, swimming, rugby, darts, Cricket, volleyball, handball, snooker, motor sports and cycling, to name a few. The range of sports covered and betting lines will vary from site to site.
Is It Safe To Bet On Sports Online In Canada?
Online sports betting is extremely safe as long as you are limiting your access to only those internet based gambling sites that are legally licensed and regulated, and that are subject to legitimate regulatory oversight. The online sportsbooks recommended in this guide are all legitimately operating within the industry. Bookmakers who do not subscribe to licensing requirements and definitively high industry standards are the types of questionable and predatory operations that bettors should avoid at all costs.
What Should I Look For In A High Quality Canadian Friendly Online Sports Betting Site?
All of the online sportsbooks that we list on this page met specific criteria in order to be considered for inclusion in this guide. Our standards are more stringent than the minimum licensing requirements that allow an online gambling site to operate within the industry, so you may not see every single licensed bookmaker listed here. We restrict our recommendations to only those sites that provide the legally sanctioned, secure and high quality betting environment consistent with the absolute best performance and services that the industry has to offer.
Here are a few of the requirements that must be met to be included in our guide:
- Must be legally licensed and subject to legitimate regulatory oversight with proof of good standing.
- Must hold compliance certifications issued by a third party agency.
- Must employ a technologically advanced security profile.
- Must offer competitive betting lines and payouts that are consistent with the bookmakers in Las Vegas.
- Must offer bonuses and promotions that carry reasonable and attainable wagering requirements.
- Must cover a wide range of sports events, matches and contests.
- Must offer live betting and live in play betting features as well as a high performance mobile application for betting from tablets and smartphones.
- Customer support staff must be knowledgeable and responsive.
- Banking suite must demonstrate efficiency, fast payouts, and offer a robust selection of deposit methods and withdrawal options.
- Reputation among both bettors and industry professionals must be impeccable throughout the gambling industry.
- Interface must be user friendly, aesthetically pleasing and innovative with intuitive navigation.
Our complete list of elements that we scrutinize within an online sports betting operation is much to lengthy to publish here in its entirety. Relying on the input of industry professionals who are trained to perform this type of intense review process can save you a great deal of time and heartache by directing you to legally sanctioned online sportsbooks that have been carefully vetted for legitimacy and quality.
Do I Have To Pay Taxes On My Sportsbook Winnings?
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Career Profile: Air Traffic Controller
Why Is Air Traffic Controlling a Job of Tomorrow?
Despite the financial struggles that airlines are undergoing, airports remain busy. Consequently, air traffic controllers are needed for the crucial job of safely guiding complex flight routes. Employment opportunities for air traffic controllers are expected to increase 10 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Air traffic controllers earn an average salary of $117,240 annually.
What Does an Air Traffic Controller Do?
Air traffic controllers are responsible for directing and managing airway activity. Visibility and depth perception, as well as distance judgment, is greatly reduced in the air, so air traffic controllers must ensure that all aircrafts have an ample amount of buffer space around them. Even a slight miscalculation could be catastrophic, so air traffic controllers must be aware of every plane in the sky and on the runway at all times. The bulk of an air traffic controller's responsibility is to manage flights coming in and out of airports. In 2008, 25 percent of all flights were delayed, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Most of these delays were out of air traffic controllers' hands to remedy, but some were caused by congested airport runways and airspace. Air traffic controllers must always strive to keep the airport runways free from congestion to minimize lost time and money. When an airplane lands, a traffic controller works from the airport's air traffic control tower to guide the aircraft's pilot to the plane's assigned gate. Controllers also inform pilots about weather conditions around the airport, including temperature, visibility, and wind speed and direction. When a pilot is ready, controllers will give them clearance for takeoff. At busy airports where many planes may be occupying the same general airspace at the same time, air traffic controllers must alter some flight routes to prevent collisions.
What Kind of Training Do I Need to Become an Air Traffic Controller?
Air traffic controllers should expect to complete a bachelor's degree in a science or physics field or have three years of full-time work experience in the field. A bachelor's degree takes four years to complete. A degree program in science covers such topics as mathematics and meteorology. Prospective air traffic controllers must also complete an FAA-approved education program to learn more about the job. They then must successfully complete a preemployment examination, which typically takes eight hours to finish. After getting hired, air traffic controllers are required to pass an annual physical examination as well as a biannual job performance evaluation. | <urn:uuid:53ac5259-f94f-4dc1-9a57-14b04e0322f0> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.onlinecollege.org/jobs/service/air-traffic-controller/ | 2021-10-21T04:54:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585381.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021040342-20211021070342-00233.warc.gz | en | 0.95278 | 501 | [
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The United Way of South Central Missouri has been renamed the United Way of Phelps County to note the emphasis on local non-profit organizations that tackle health and human services issues affecting our community. The Missouri S&T campus has a long history of supporting the United Way. Your contribution will help the 15 non-profit organizations that are included this year and will be appreciated. Packets with more information will be distributed on Friday, Oct. 23.
CASA, GRACE, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Rolla Nutrition Site, 4-H and Special Olympics are examples of the organizations that are being assisted this year. Donors may give through payroll deduction as well as by check, and donors may designate a gift for a specific organization. | <urn:uuid:260120d3-cbcc-4684-a328-19051d921916> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://econnection.mst.edu/2015/10/support-the-united-way/ | 2021-10-22T16:43:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585516.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20211022145907-20211022175907-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.951353 | 169 | [
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Skyrocketing prices for five-star hotels, top boarding schools, and rare liquors are boosting an already robust Consumer Price Index (CPI) for luxury goods in China, according to a report released by the Hurun Research Institute on September 6.
China’s luxury Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the prices of luxury goods marketed to the country’s 1.47 million high net worth individuals, saw a 4.1 percent jump during the June 2017 to June 2018 period compared to the previous year period’s 3.6 percent rise. It caps an amazing 10-year run during which China’s luxury CPI jumped 82 percent.
For comparison’s sake, The Forbes 400’s own luxury price index, called the “Cost of Living Extremely Well Index” (CLEWI), which assesses the price changes of a basket of 40 luxury items, saw a 1.7 percent increase in 2017 and has edged up an average of 5 percent annually since 1982. China’s own CPI increased at a rate of 1.9 percent.
To determine the luxury CPI, Hurun assesses the price changes of a basket of 108 high-end goods across 11 categories: real estate, health, education, luxury tourism, weddings, watches and jewelry, accessories and beauty, cruises and private jets, lifestyle, liquor and cigarettes, and cars. Of the 108 goods measured, 38 of them are imported.
Luxury travel was a major contributor to the rising index, with an 8.5 percent rise in prices after a decline the year before. Hotel prices were the main culprit, with the nightly cost of a presidential suite at the Peninsula Hong Kong and the Shangri-La in Shanghai soaring by just over 25 and 20 percent, respectively. While the average cost of taking a private jet was down, the cost of a first-class airline ticket for a family of five to Singapore increased by just over 14 percent. Those embarking on the ever-popular polar cruise will also face a price hike: a 22-day stay in the deluxe suite of the Island Sky Antarctic Luxury Expedition Ship rose in price by nearly 23 percent.
Education prices for prestigious universities and boarding schools saw the highest growth in 10 years, buoyed by a renowned higher education school in China as well as a slight rise in costs for studying abroad programs in the U.S., measured by Phillips Academy, which, according to Business Insider, is the best school in America.
But it was the prices of baijiu and other high-end spirits that saw the most change from the year before, leaping by 12 percent and led by a 40 percent price increase for a 500 ml bottle Kweichow Moutai aged 30 years. The Flying Fairy Moutai, at a whopping $237 a bottle, saw a price increase of 15 percent from the year before thanks to a supply shortage that pushed demand through the roof. Meanwhile, the price of high-grade Hennessy cognac rose more than 27 percent.
Rolls Royce Phantoms and Tesla Model Xs contributed a 3.1 percent rise in the car class, while Apple’s new iPhone X—which was priced higher in the China market—helped take the accessories and beauty category up by more than 7 percent. Patek Philippe’s Nautilus watch, the Hermès crocodile leather Birkin bag, and real estate value for a Hangzhou villa were among the other luxury products seeing considerably higher prices in the period.
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Direct payments of benefits from the Social Insurance Fund
Since 2019, direct payments have been tested in different regions of Russia. This practice will be extended to the entire country starting with 2022.
But what are they? Let’s figure it out together.
In accordance with the Regulations on the assignment and payment of benefits by the Fund:
- the calculation and payment of benefits to employees are made not by the employer anymore, but by the Social Insurance Fund. At their own expense, the employers pay for additional days off to care for a disabled child, the cost of taking measures to prevent injuries, and also pay a burial allowance. These amounts are further compensated by the territorial body of the Social Fund. The first three days of disability in case of the sick leave are also paid for by the employer;
- insurance contributions are paid in the full amount they are accrued, without reducing the amount of expenses for the payment of benefits.
The benefits, which can be provided by the Fund:
- maternity and temporary disability allowance;
once-paidallowance for women who are registered in medical institutions in the early weeks of pregnancy;
- monthly child care allowance;
- allowance on temporary disability due to an industrial accident or occupational disease;
- payment of additional leave for treatment.
The company can get compensation for:
- the payment of additional days off for the disabled child’s care;
- burial allowance.
Forms of the documents necessary for appointment and payment of appropriate benefits, as well as the procedure for their completion, are approved by the Social Insurance Fund’s Order No. 579 dated
If the employer has not provided all the information in the register or has not submitted all the documents necessary for the appointment and payment of benefits, the Fund sends a notification.
During five working days from the date of its receipt, the employer must submit the missing documents.
If the employer does not submit a package of documents for benefits on time or submits such a package of documents with errors, the Social Insurance Fund’s territorial body will demand to reimburse the costs of improperly paid benefits.
In addition, an official, who made a mistake, gets a fine of 300 to 500 rubles.
The term of payment of the sick leave or other social benefits by the Fund is ten calendar days from the date of documents' receipt.
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Amazon reported the results of the first quarter of 2018, results that have literally burned analysts' estimates, with a consequent jump of the shares.
Online sales, in North America alone, the most important market for Amazon, rose by 46.4%, reaching the record of 30.73 billion dollars, only in the first quarter.
To boost profits is also the Amazon AWS division, that is the Amazon Web Services, like the cloud, which went up by 48.6%, reaching the record figure of 5.44 billion dollars, beating the estimate of the analisys, which was "only" 5.25 billion dollars.
The stock, which has already risen above the psychological threshold of $ 1500 per share as seen in the attached chart, has set a new all-time high of $ 1620 per share in the after-hours phase, setting aside the recent attacks by President Donald Trump, who had pointed to Amazon to trouble American stores.
The "fundamental" valuations of amazon do not seem to interest investors. With a price / earnings ratio above 260, amazon is the classic title that Warren Buffet or Mario Gabelli would look suspiciously.
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After just getting back from this exact trip, I just can’t stop sharing how storybook perfect it all was. I can’t recommend this trip enough for a short, affordable getaway. If you’re from Ohio like me, the drive is very manageable for an extended weekend trip and just as gorgeous as it has any right to be.
8:00am: Hike up the boardwalk next to the lake to the Grand Hotel
8:00am: Breakfast and Checkout
If you’ve been to Mackinac and you have suggestions, comment below! Wishing you a magical last month of summer!!
Welcome! I'm a wife, mama-to-be, foster mom, fourth year music teacher, and Jesus follower, and am chronically curious about just about everything. Join me as I explore the calling God has for my family's story.
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Leathario Leather Shoulder Bag Men’s Retro Leather Messenger Bag Crossbody Bag Satchel Bag Ipad Bag 11 inch Brown
- Casual leather messenger bag. Simple, stylish and unisex.
- Environmental friendly material , 100% Genuine Crazy Horse leather. Durable and smooth Brass zipper. Magnetic button in front. Leather cashmere Lining. Adjustable shoulder strap.
- The Product Dimensions Is 23cm L X 6cm W X 26cm H. Easy to take daily stuff.
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After almost a year of renovating and remodeling, I am so exited to to take you on our new white farmhouse kitchen tour with me!
A year feels really long when you only have a temporary kitchen set up and are doing dished in a tiny bathroom sink.
Even though we still need to finish some details, our new kitchen is almost done and completely functional.
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The old kitchen:
We think that our old kitchen must date back to the 1930s or 1940s because it had lath-and-plaster walls and knob-and-tube electrical (which almost completely disappeared in the 1950s).
Given its age, it is no wonder that the cabinets looked really worn and dingy, the kitchen had only a few poorly positioned outlets, and the window had been painted shut (can you imagine???).
With the refrigerator placed right next to the door the kitchen always felt cramped.
Outside of kitchen is a 100+ year old oak tree whose roots had been pushing up the kitchen floor and warping the tracks for the sliding door to the garden.
In other words, it was about time to do a full renovation.
In our new kitchen we wanted to maximize the space of our medium-sized kitchen. But even more, we wanted to make the space a lot more efficient with a better flow. While we wanted a highly functional kitchen, we also wanted it to look pretty and have the look and feel match the rest of our 1910 home.
Obviously, one would know it’s a brand-new kitchen but we strived for a “could-have-always-been-there” look.
At some point, we considered opening the wall to the adjoining dining room and have a nice big island. However, we would have lost a lot of wall space as a result and believe that that open floor plan would have been too modern for this vintage home.
What we did:
First, we set up a temporary kitchen in our dining room. We were doing dishes in a small bathroom sink. That was fun …
Everything had to come out. We ripped out the concrete floor, the walls and the ceiling. We had to cut the windows out of their frame.
In that process, we realized that the plumbing was literally crumbling and would have caused big leaks in the near future.
We poured a new concrete floor and my husband updated all the plumbing, gas, and electrical which means more outlets and switches in our new kitchen.
We put new sheetrock on the walls and ceiling, put in new French doors that match the original multi-light windows and completely renovated the old windows that now operate.
Our new white farmhouse kitchen
We painted the walls in Farrow & Ball All White. With our of-white kitchen cabinets, our blueish-greyish counters and window trim that’s matching the rest of the house, we needed to bring a lot of different whites together. Therefore we chose Farrow & Ball All White. This is a pure white that doesn’t make any other white tints look off. Farrow & Ball paints are not cheap but with their pigment-rich colors and durability, I feel they’re so worth it and we couldn’t be happier!
Window and door trim
My husband spent a lot of time to mill the window and door trim so it would match the rest of the house. We were both surprised at how much time and detail orientation it takes but think that in the end, it was absolutely worth it.
This is the third Ikea kitchen in my life and I happily chose it again. Their value is unmatched, meaning you get a lot of quality for a very good price.
We chose the Ikea Bodbyn off-white door style that actually looks closest to the interior doors in our house. Except for in a few places where we couldn’t, we have drawers in most of our base cabinets. They’re just more accessible with no crouching down to reach into lower cabinets.
We love their soft-close doors and drawers. Another plus is their interior drawers that let us maximize cabinet space.
When we moved into this house, we found a lot of original stamped brass bin pulls. While the brass tone wouldn’t have looked good in our kitchen, we we so happy to find stamped bin pulls in brushed chrome. For the cabinet doors, we matched that look with very simple door knobs.
Keeping with the vintage theme, we wanted to find lighting that was both practical but also period-sensitive with a bit of a feminine look. We were so happy to find a 3-light chandelier for our kitchen table and mini pendant lights for task lighting over the sink and the counter space there.
I really, really wanted marble counters. I know that they are a bit more high maintenance but I just love their cool feel and look. One day last year, I went to about 8 different marble dealers in our area and could not find one slab I liked. Either the tint was off or the veining was way too dramatic and overpowering for our kitchen.
What I did find, though, was a marble-look-alike quartz: MSI Carrara Grigio which has the organic look of marble with the durability and low maintenance of quartz.
In our old kitchen we had a white single-bowl farmhouse sink. Of course, we wanted to keep that farmhouse look. You just can’t beat the price of the Ikea Havsen apron front double bowl sink. We just love it, the fact that we can wash and splash on one side and drain dishes on the other side. Best of all, I find keeping it clean a breeze.
The kitchen faucet:
We looked at a lot of faucets in the process (and I am so happy to report that we are still happily married!). Once we saw this vintage-style faucet, we both instantly said ‘yes’. While we’re not trying to have a completely old-fashioned kitchen, we like these nods to the past. I can easily love the two levers with the back of my hand when I need to.
Nothing says farmhouse style more than white subway tile. This was an easy sell since classic subway tile is very inexpensive and easy to install. Fun fact: we did it in one afternoon on our anniversary and went to dinner with bits of grout under our fingernails. It gives the kitchen that vintage look with the practicality of ease of cleaning.
There is a lot of cooking going on in our kitchen and inevitable splattering. White grout might look nice and clean in the beginning but we were worried that it might get dirty and dingy looking after a while. Therefore, we chose the Silver Shadow grout. It looks just slightly darker than white but will withstand stains.
The rest of our house has the original doug fir wood floors. Our intent was to match that as close as we could. However, we were worried about potential dishwasher leaks (or other water issues) so we felt that engineered flooring would be a good compromise.
We kept our previous appliances which were an older Bosch range, a newer Bosch dishwasher and a French-door refrigerator.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, both my husband and I like anything vintage. So we did think about putting in a vintage stove such as Wedgewood or O’Keefe & Merrit. I like the vintage look of them and their basic functionality while my husband loves their absolute durability. Most of those nicer ones are 36″ wide and we both felt that we would lose valuable counter and cabinet space over our trusty 30″ Bosh range. Therefore, I am happy to keep it. And let me tell you that it has worked flawlessly for us for over 10 years. My favorite functions are the simmer burners and the low oven temperature setting of 100˚F (great for proofing and fermenting).
Wall paint: Farrow & Ball All White
Kitchen cabinets: Ikea Bodbyn off-white
Drawer bin pulls: stamped brushed chrome bin pulls
Cabinet door knobs: simple brushed chrome cabinet knobs
Kitchen counters: MSI Carrara Grigio
Farmhouse sink: Ikea Havsen double-bowl sink
Vintage style kitchen faucet: Kingston Brass Heritage Faucet
Tile: 3×6 white subway tile
Grout: Silver Shadow grout
Flooring: Engineered hardwood
Mini light pendants: Seagull lighting
Stove (ours is an older discontinued model but this is this successor): Bosch stove
Dishwasher: Bosch dishwasher
Refrigerator (discontinued but similar model): Counter-depth French Door refrigerator
What we still need to do:
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Grab Financial Group (GFG), Southeast Asia's fintech platform, has announced the launch of Hospital Cash Cover (inpatient protection), the first inpatient protection product for users, in collaboration with PT Asuransi Simas Jiwa in Indonesia.
Hospital Cash Cover Insurance is now available and can be accessed through the Grab application as an easy and affordable solution for users to complete their health insurance by paying using their OVO balance.
This launch further builds on GFG's growing consumer insurance business and has shown strong growth in several regions, with more than 13 million insurance policies issued since launching in April 2019.
GFG's microinsurance business demonstrates an unmet need across the region for access. financial services. In Indonesia, insurance ownership is generally low, with insurance penetration (total premium/ GDP) of 3%. More than 80% of Indonesians live on less than USD4.50 per day, with regular insurance products that are not affordable for many.
Neneng Goenadi, Country Managing Director of Grab Indonesia said, "We care about our users and want to create innovative digital financial service solutions to help every Indonesian to adapt and develop in this new normal state. We believe that Indonesians can be better protected during these difficult times, where healthcare continues to be a top priority.
“Microinsurance solutions such as Hospital Cash Cover will help users and their families to be more at peace because they are better protected. Therefore, we will continue to advance Indonesia's digital economy and ensure that all Indonesians can benefit from it. "
This inpatient insurance product aims to give individuals the opportunity to protect their loved ones. In partnership with PT Asuransi Simas Jiwa, this insurance product will be available in the Grab application. Users can apply for 3 choices of insurance plans for either themselves or their families. Depending on the plan chosen, Hospital Cash Cover offers a lump sum payment per day of hospitalization ranging from IDR 150,000 to IDR 250,000.
With affordable premiums starting from IDR 9,900 per month according to the age and package selected, users will get a total coverage benefit of up to IDR 29 million, which includes daily inpatient benefits, including inpatient care at ICU / ICCU, Surgery Cash Benefits, and outpatient care continued for the same disease.
As the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, the payment system continues to be easily supported by OVO. Premium payment methods can be done automatically using OVO balances, bank transfers, credit and debit cards. Apart from that, customers can also have the flexibility to pay on a monthly or annual basis.
The end-to-end customer digital experience is also proven by the ease of purchase, centered on the claims process.
IJ Soegeng Wibowo, President Director of PT Asuransi Simas Jiwa, explained, “In collaboration with Grab, we have created a digital insurance process. Our main goal is to provide ease of use to ensure that more Indonesians have access to financial services, including insurance, with a safe, easy and fast online purchasing process. Hospital Cash Cover insurance products from Grab have provided maximum protection benefits at very affordable prices. "
Collaborating with Grab to market inpatient products is a form of PT Asuransi Simas Jiwa's commitment to serve the wider community, which is starting to show a greater awareness of the importance of protecting against risks in life, especially in terms of health.
The availability of inpatient products in the Grab application is one of the goals of PT Asuransi Simas Jiwa to realize Indonesian financial inclusion in accordance with the Presidential Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia (Perpres) Number 82 of 2016.
Tom Duncan, Head of Insurance, Grab Financial Group, said, “Hospital Cash Cover is an important part of our financial services strategy focused on consumers. The 'Thrive with Grab' campaign launched in August was created to protect loved ones. Hospital Cash Cover is part of a product suite that will help us build potential growth in protecting families across Southeast Asia from the uncertainties of life.
“In doing so, we unlock tremendous potential for the insurance and financial services industry in all markets," he concluded.
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Moncton to host 2019 edition of Touchdown Atlantic
MONCTON, NB –Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE) and the Canadian Football League (CFL) announced on Friday that the 2019 edition of Touchdown Atlantic will be played on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at the Stade Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium, located on the grounds of Université de Moncton.
The Toronto Argonauts will host the Montréal Alouettes in the first CFL regular season game down east since 2013, and the first presented by the Atlantic Schooners, who are working to become the CFL’s tenth team.
‘’From the very beginning, the major objective of our group has been to make the Atlantic Schooners a regional team and bringing this game to Moncton helps us achieve that,” said Anthony LeBlanc, founding partner of SSE. “It would not have been possible without the support of the City of Moncton and the Government of New Brunswick, and the great work of the CFL, the Toronto Argonauts and the Montréal Alouettes. We continue to work hard behind the scenes to offer football fans what will be a great experience, so stay tuned as more information about the game will be available shortly. You won’t want to miss it.’’
Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 15 on Ticketmaster.ca starting as low as $29. Fans that have already made a deposit for season tickets with the Schooners will enjoy an exclusive pre-sale opportunity starting April 8 to secure their seats for the August 25 game.
Fans are also invited to subscribe to the Schooners newsletter on the new Schooners.ca to receive all the latest information about the team and important reminders about the Touchdown Atlantic game. Fans can also follow the team on Twitter and Facebook.
“Canadian football belongs in Atlantic Canada,” said CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie. “Anthony and his partners Bruce Bowser and Gary Drummond and their team are working hard to realize the dream of a tenth CFL team, and this Touchdown Atlantic game is an opportunity to share our unique, exciting game and our incredible athletes with fans in Atlantic Canada. I can’t wait for game day, and I know fans will have an amazing experience.”
“The Touchdown Atlantic series has inspired our young athletes, attracted visitors and generated major economic benefits for our communities, while also helping to establish Metro Moncton as one of Atlantic Canada’s leading destination for sports and entertainment,” said Ernie Steeves, New Brunswick’s Minister of Finance and MLA representing Moncton Northwest. “Our province is looking forward to host what will be another signature event that we can all be proud of.’’
“We are excited to be the host city of Touchdown Atlantic for the fourth time. We are pleased to welcome two teams, the Argonauts and the Alouettes, who have already experienced our legendary hospitality,” said Mayor Dawn Arnold. “Moncton showed it was a great football city in the past, and we are looking forward to again displaying our passion for the game in August. It’s going to be a great time.’’
The Argos played in the inaugural Touchdown Atlantic game in 2005. The preseason tilt, played in Halifax at Huskies Stadium, ended in a 16-16 tie against their long-time rivals, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Toronto was also part of the first of three regular season games played in Moncton in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
“The Argos are thrilled to be returning to Moncton to take part in the Touchdown Atlantic series with Montreal,” said Bill Manning, President of the Toronto Argonauts. “Growing the game of Canadian football from coast to coast is an initiative we fully support, and we are excited to have the Double Blue faithful in Atlantic Canada to enjoy some east coast hospitality and cheer on the Argos!”
“We are delighted to return to Moncton where we had played a game in 2013,” said Patrick Boivin, President and CEO of the Montreal Alouettes. We have always said that we are in favor of adding a 10th team to our league, and we are happy to support the CFL’s presence in Atlantic Canada with this game in Moncton. Some of our supporters will be able to make the trip with us via our Fan Plane.”
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Essential Trigonometry: A Self-Teaching Guide
This no-nonsense guide provides students and self-learners with a clear and readable study of trigonometry's most important ideas. Tim Hill's distraction-free approach combines decades of tutoring experience with the proven methods of his Russian math teachers. The result: learn in a few days what conventional schools stretch into months.Teaches general principles that can be applied to a wide var...
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It was at the 2013 Ultimate Taste Test that Richie and I first took notice of them. Their booth was filled with scrumptious croissant doughnuts, unlike any we had seen before. Let's face it, it's hard to miss a booth filled with delicious and a sinful-looking donuts staring you in the face. It was definitely one of the most popular stalls that day. And due to insistent public demand, they have finally opened their very own kiosk at SM Aura!
Friends, in case you haven't heard of them yet, let me introduce you to, BRONUTS!
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I have to be honest, it was actually my first time to really taste Bronuts. I think the line to their booth at UTT was too long at that time so I skipped it. (D'oh!) I'm not a croissant donut expert but personally I liked it! I also love the fact that they don't use any extenders and their flavors are one of a kind!
My personal favorite is the Super Floss! (My mouth is watering right now as I type). A soft, flakey Donut-Croissant, topped off with delicious pork floss. The heat on the floss is just right, and basically all the flavors in it just work together.
The Bacon and Cream Cheese is also very good. My second savory bronut favorite next to the floss There's a touch of tanginess and saltiness from the cream cheese, then add the smokey savory taste of bacon. Yum!
For the sweet ones, I would have to say my favorite is the Belgian Chocolate with Salted Caramel! The chocolate is to live for! This also happens to be the best-seller. I can taste why.
Check out that caramel filling!
They have a total of 8 flavors
Blueberries and Cream which is not overly sweet despite how sweet it looks. It's actually kind of tart-y! Pretty good as well!
Comes with a blueberry filling
And then my next target which is the PMS ...
and the Hijo de Leche! They also have Strawberry Yogurt and Pylones.
Then there's the Big Bro. Be afraid! Be very afraid! It's equal to 5 bronuts. Sort of like a Man vs bronuts style.
This also makes a good alternative to a birthday cake!
Bronuts is planning to open a total of 3 permanent kiosks. The next ones might be in Century Mall and I think Megamall. More Bronut Kiosks for everyone! Yay!
Their ordering system is same as Pepper Lunch's organized system. You can be assured each Bronut is freshly made!
Yes same as Pepper Lunch because they set up a partnership with Pepper Lunch owner, Jeroen Van Stratten in setting up their own kiosks, simply because he believed in the product. Pretty cool!
Eddie and Chris. The Bronut masters!
I give Bronuts a thums up! With Chris, one of the minds behind Bronuts!
Congratulations Bronuts on your first permanent mall kiosk!
And thank you so much for the invite! One of the highlights of the day was meeting Jin of Jin loves to Eat!
Bring home a box today!
Visit them at the food court of SM Aura Premier, 4th Level, McKinley Parkway, Taguig.
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This episode corresponds with the Wandering Rocks, or Planctae, in Homer’s Odyssey.
In the Odyssey of Homer, the sorceress Circe tells Odysseus of the “Wandering Rocks” or “Roving Rocks” that have only been successfully passed by the Argo when homeward bound. These rocks smash ships and the remaining timbers are scattered by the sea or destroyed by flames. The rocks lie on one of two potential routes to Ithaca; the alternative, which is taken by Odysseus, leads to Scylla and Charybdis. Furthermore, in the Odyssey of Homer, it was Hera, for her love of Jason, who sped the Argo through the Symplegades safely.
In Joyce’s book, this episode is broken into 19 subsections, each symbolic of a wandering rock. Each of the subsections focuses on one of the characters in the book while that character makes his or her way through Dublin. Throughout each of these parts, glimpses of other characters pop up. These out-of-place paragraphs represent the danger of trying to navigate the episode and having dangerous, unforeseen shards of text suddenly appear, causing you to crash. The final subsection is a complete chaotic mashup of all the characters, which culminates the final thrust of effort needed to clear the chapter.
The following section provides a good example of the text in this episode. Individuals are depicted as wandering around, having haphazard collisions with other people while chucks of text from other subsections suddenly appear.
A onelegged sailor crutched himself around MacConnell’s corner, skirting Rabaiotti’s icecream car, and jerked himself up Eccles street. Towards Larry O’Rourke, in shirtsleeves in his doorway, he growled unamiably
—For England . . .
He swung himself violently forward past Katey and Boody Dedalus, halted and growled:
—home and beauty.
J. J. O’Molloy’s white careworn face was told that Mr. Lambert was in the warehouse with a visitor.
A stout lady stopped, took a copper coin from her purse and dropped it into the cap held out to her. The sailor grumbled thanks and glanced sourly at the unheeding windows, sank his head and swung himself forward four strides.
He halted and growled angrily:
—For England . . .
Two barefoot urchins, sucking liquorice laces, halted near him, gaping at his stump with their yellow-slobbered mouths.
He swung himself forward in vigorous jerks, halted, lifted his head towards a window and bayed deeply:
—home and beauty.
The last thing I would like to mention about this episode is that I believe there is hidden number mysticism woven in, which is unseen, just as the wandering rocks. The episode is comprised of 19 subsections. In Jewish kabbalistic number mysticism, this would be combined as 1 + 9 to give us the number 10. Ten is the episode number and it is also the number of sephirot in the kabbalistic Tree of Life. An explanation of the sephirot is far beyond the scope of this post, so I will simplify for those who need and say that according to Jewish mysticism, the sephirot are the building blocks of all existence. Everything that exists is a result of God’s emanation through the sephirot. Again, this is a very simplified version, but it’s my belief that Joyce hid number mysticism throughout Ulysses and the fact that the primary character in the book is Jewish would lead me to suspect that the hidden numeric symbolism is Jewish in nature. I will expand on this idea in future posts, when the time is right.
For those of you interested in learning more about the symbolism in the kabbalah, I recommend On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism by Gershom Scholem.
My next post on Ulysses will cover Episode 11 which ends on page 291 in my book with the phrase “Done.”
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A couple of nights ago I went to bed wondering if I was still a writer.
You know those moments when we doubt ourselves and wonder what on Earth we think we are doing? Those moments when we ask, “Who do I think I am?”
Maybe you don’t have a lot of moments like that.
I’ve had a long writing hiatus since my last surgery, and I have felt a little lost trying to find my way back on the path. My blog has been lying in wait for inspired words. I have a book that is waiting to be written. The outline is calling to me from the top of the stack on my desk. Bits and pieces are floating around Scrivener and Word.
It is all collecting dust, and I feel an itch to clean house.
I had declared myself a “writer” not that long ago on Facebook (gasp, does that make it so?) only to decide that what I do does not define me. I started to think about how much we associate what we do with who we are. I took writer off of my profile a couple months ago, and gave myself a proper label. I was determined that day to own what I always am, at all times and above all other things.
A human being.
But the dust has now settled into a thick coat, and my surgical wounds have sealed over into shiny pink scars. Never have I felt being human so acutely, as having my body poked, prodded, and cut on the operating table. We delude ourselves so deftly, and my humanitarian efforts seemed noble enough from the outside. I had convinced myself I took down my title of writer solely because I wanted to, first and foremost, be identified as a human being.
Now I know I was lying.
Now I see it was fear that had its quiet influence. It snuck in while I was nursing my wounds. I know now that I took my title down because I did not feel worthy of it.
I forgot that this human being gig includes doing what it is I feel I have been put here to do, even when I don’t feel like doing it. To put on my boots and to muster the strength and courage to keep digging, not knowing what I will uncover.
But sometimes I lose that strength and courage in the muck.
And sometimes I just sit in the mud.
I had this notion that I just had to show up with a pencil in hand and a heart full of excitement, for the sake of the expedition, in order to find the part of myself that had been lying in wait.
I didn’t know that digging would become a spiritual practice.
I didn’t know writing would become an act of faith.
Last night as I scrolled through my Facebook feed, one of my friends had posted a quote from Cheryl Strayed’s Sugar column from The Rumpus. If you haven’t read her Tiny, Beautiful Things, run; do not walk. Do not pass go. Get it, devour it, and then read it again.
I had almost forgotten that I attended her writing workshop in Petaluma last year, when my husband surprised me with it as a gift. The memories of what a profoundly inspiring and life-changing experience it was for me had since faded. Knowing that I was meant to write, had too.
How was it that my bravest self had found her way, once again, into hiding?
This morning, reading my morning blog roll, I was shocked to read one of my favorite bloggers/writers didn’t even think of herself as a writer! She has three books in progress and a blog that she has written faithfully for many years without ever missing a week. She doesn’t identify herself as a writer, and yet writes with a passion and a gift that cannot be denied or satiated.
It left me with the question, At what point do we claim our God-given gifts?
I have discovered what a lonely and vulnerable place it is to be lost inside your own head. To pack up in search of words that describe the human experience in a way that makes us feel connected again. I keep searching for my place in the puzzle, knowing my piece must fit somewhere. If only I could find exactly where that is.
Kids are good at puzzles, though. At least my little boy is.
I wasn’t even awake yet a couple of mornings ago, when he came to me with something pink. I had to put my glasses on to see, but I already knew what he had in his hand. What? But how could he possibly know?
“Here, Mommy, it’s the bracelet from that workshop with… What’s her name?”
I looked down, sleepy-eyed and in quiet disbelief, at the bracelet in his hand.
“Cheryl Strayed, baby… Her name is Cheryl Strayed.”
“No,” he said, “I mean Sugar. What does this say again?“
It says, “Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
How could I forget that I was in the process of breaking?
I get distracted sometimes.
I slipped the pink ‘Sugar’ bracelet on. I put it on right next to the bracelet my husband and I had made for our new Tree of Life campaign: Live Love, Live True.
But am I doing that? Am I living love? Am I living true?
Sometimes I am, but other times…
I forget. I get distracted. I let unworthiness pull me away from my path. I let fear of the pain of the fracturing paralyze me.
But living true means that I keep going, even when I’m terrified.
It means to always strive to give more than I take.
It means knowing myself, and cultivating the rough gemstones I have found within myself.
It means polishing them until they shine.
It means being brave enough to break my own heart, and to keep writing even if what I write ends up being crap.
It takes a brave heart even to write crap.
Don’t believe me? Try bearing your heart for others to read like, an unlocked diary. Tell of your adventures, your woes, your lowest moments, your deepest fears. Open yourself to judgment, to critique, to being taken out of context. Open yourself to not having any earthly idea what you are doing.
It’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever done.
The tremor in my belly tells me I’m on to something real.
When we open ourselves to all those terrifying things, we also open ourselves to so much that was covered up with shovels full of dirt. We open ourselves to the understanding that we all share some of the same truths. We open ourselves to the truth that all any of us really want is to be loved.
Living love means I keep loving the way I want to be loved. It means I don’t forget to love myself. It means I claim what God has given me and then give it away with a boundless heart. And so it is with the hearts that have been shattered into a million tiny shards.
The more pieces that have been fractured under the weight of this human experience, the more we come into the wholeness of giving our pieces away.
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In terms of assembling persuasive content, like most other construction task, you will need to count on your talent, experience, and toolbox.
The toolbox of this journalist is filled up with words.
In determining the things I think is a crucial section of crafting effective copy, I’ll make my case by amending the famous estimate from Animal Farm: “All terms are equal, many terms are far more equal than the others.”
And there are specific power words that hold more sway over
choice process that is making other people. You may be astonished to get that these “power words” don’t seem … well, all of that effective.
This talks to so just how damned efficient they have been. Simple language is crystal-clear language, and these words inform you exactly what you desire your audience to accomplish.
And also you could be astonished precisely how effective these deceptively easy terms can be.
I’ve listed these words below (along side studies pertaining to their energy) that may explain to you just how to persuasively speak more to your audience.
Warning: I can’t stress enough — just like into the application of writing headlines that work — you need to realize why these terms are persuasive, and also you must utilize them within the contexts that make feeling for your market along with your company. In the event that you simply begin slapping them on every bit of content you create for no obvious explanation, you’ll quickly see so how unpersuasive they could be.
Here, you’ve been warned. Now, let’s can get on utilizing the show …
There’s an often-cited study in the copywriting globe about a bit of Yale research that reveals “You” to be the # 1 energy term away from an expected 12.
Even though the study likely never happened, I involve some real research that reveals the effectiveness of invoking the self.
Since it works out, while individuals might just like the term “you,” it really is guaranteed in full that that they love reading their particular title alot more.
In accordance with present research examining mind activation, few things light us up that can match seeing our personal names essay writing sample in publications or on the display.
names are intrinsically linked with
self-perception and then make up an enormous section of
identification. Not surprising then, that individuals become more engaged and many more trusting of an email by which
Studies have shown that people will happily spend more for personalization, so is not it about time you begin getting individual together with your clients?
Nonetheless, there is certainly one tiny issue with this finding …
Composing web that is general with title utilization in your mind is not often feasible, but by taking advantage of the effectiveness of authorization marketing, it is possible to adjust this tactic easily — many mailing lists are significantly aided when you’re in a position to get started communications having a customer’s name.
While that will never be essential for the blog updates, you should), make sure you’re grabbing a first name to make your broadcasts trigger that personal aspect with customers if you maintain a variety of separate lists for your products (and.
2. Totally Free
Many people really like free.
Everyone loves free stuff plenty they’ll actually make various choices, even though the value that is respective of product or solution continues to be the exact same.
Dan Ariely revealed this fact that is startling their guide Predictably Irrational, where he examined a rather uncommon “battle” between Lindt chocolate truffles and Hershey Kisses.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the term “free” in terms of tangible value, the study first asked visitors to choose from a 1 cent Hershey Kiss or perhaps a 15 cent Lindt truffle (approximately half its actual value, generally considered a richer, superior chocolate).
The outcomes were the following:
Simply put, preferences had been discovered become truly in benefit for the truffle. After all, who’s likely to pass a deal up, appropriate?
Later though, another group that is random of seemingly flipped on the viewpoint of those two treats. Ariely unveiled that whenever the purchase price ended up being paid down by one cent both for brands (meaning the Kiss had been now free), individuals changed their alternatives drastically.
Utilizing the prices that are new right right here had been the outcome:
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Today’s business landscape is changing at the speed of light. Leaders are being asked to develop and deliver high quality products and services at a reasonable purchase price. Customers now decide who wins their business with every transaction taking place. So how does a leader continue to deliver quality while maintaining a constant eye on costs? The answer – Intentional Innovation.
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Sometimes it feels like the business in stuck in the mud and struggles to gain momentum. When you focus on speed you begin to identify where the business ruts are and what can be done to get out of the rut and back on the road. This involves teaching your leaders about urgency – for making decisions, for taking action, for being proactive with approval steps, etc. Your competitors are not waiting on you to make the next move. It is up to you to instill urgency and speed.
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Assignment number 5
On March 8, I will be interested in going to the SxSW Comedy Opening Party Presented by NBC’s late night with Seth Meyers. I’m overly excited about going because I like parties. I think the party will be entertaining and fun and also Seth Meyers is a comedian and is popular. The party will be fun and exciting
Content Idea: I think a good content idea for this event would be to do a “man on the street interview”. I know a lot of people are familiar with Seth Meyers.And i can get some good reactions from people on the street because he is really famous.
On march 10th i will be very interested in going to Nicolas Cage Booth and Conversation! i am very interested in going because of how famous and well known Nicholas Cage is. I also think he will bring up some good conversations and i look forward to what he has to say.
Content Idea: I believe the best content idea would bee a panel interview because its so direct and it could be very spectacular to get an interview with him i also think this would be the best content idea because i know that Nicholas cage can bring up a-lot of good points in his acting career and most importantly why did he ever decided to be in the ghost rider two movie because it was terrible and trashy
On Sunday march 9th i would like to attend Joe which is a film showcase because it is once again starring Nicholas cage in a suppose action film i am also excited because it has a very famous actor staring in it
Content Idea: I would want to do do a series of tweeting because i would like it if a lot of people would go especially because its staring Nichols cage even tho if he is not the best actor i believe once people know the will go.
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STUDIO DIRECT GOES AFTER SMALL GUYS
Byline: Valerie Seckler
NEW YORK — There’s a new player in the Internet’s crowded B2B apparel field that is providing private label fashion for smaller retailers.
So what else is new?
The surprise in the otherwise familiar wrapping is that the player, Studio Direct, is being backed by a $3 billion apparel behemoth, Li & Fung Limited — which has sunk approximately $140 million into the effort to serve stylin’ but smaller-sized companies via the Internet, marking a departure from its usual focus on large-scale chains. The business-to-business site, at studiodirect.com, is aiming at style merchants in the U.S. and Europe, with annual volumes of less than $300 million, rather than those that produce sales north of $1 billion a year, the kind that account for 90 percent of Li & Fung’s customers.
The offer from Studio Direct, set to go live online today, includes online sourcing, product development, factory management, trend tracking, and customs information.
“In the past 90 days, spot prices on cashmere are up 80 percent,” noted John Suh, chief executive officer of Studio Direct, in an interview during a recent visit to the fashion district from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. “We expect apparel firms to look to us for alternatives, in these kinds of situations.” Sounding nothing like a techno-geek who most recently had formed an Internet consultancy, Suh said: “They might select a better quality merino wool as a substitute, for example, or a more affordable cashmere from a new source.”
It turns out that Suh is not the typical techno-geek: His career includes forays in supply chain management and retail, as well, including stints assisting Warner Bros. Retail develop its international marketing strategy and working with Lucasfilm to develop the Internet strategy for the release of the “Star Wars” prequel. Suh hooked up with Li & Fung in his former role as ceo and a founder of Castling Group, an Internet consultant that counted the Hong Kong-based trading company as a client, along with JCrew.com, hifi.com, and GiftCertificates.com, among others.
For year one, the startup will focus strictly on snagging the 10 percent of Li & Fung’s customers with sales of less than $300 million annually. In the U.S., for instance, Studio Direct is estimating the market for private label fashion and lifestyle goods, of the sort it is offering, at around $50 billion. For openers, that merchandise includes women’s apparel, men’s knit shirts, and sweaters; golfwear and accessories and home decor items. Eventually the mix will be expanded to offer woven tops and bottoms for men and women, and children’s apparel.
“We’re focusing on the small-to-mid-sized companies first because they are so under-served,” Suh said. “We are trying to bring the level of service for smaller accounts up to the level of what bigger accounts are used to, like shipments that are on time and in-spec. If a shipment is late or inaccurate,” he added with a chuckle, “The Limited won’t wait. Smaller companies aren’t used to that kind of service.”
In another departure from the typical B2B model, Studio Direct is eschewing transaction fees for its clients. “We are taking a principal stake in the product, unlike other models that require clients to play that role, but we’re not physically holding the goods,” Suh explained. “Then we take a gross margin markup and are responsible for funding the product until we sell it. Our markups are in the high teens,” he continued, “compared with wholesalers, who will give retailers 45 to 50 percent markups, and importers, who will markup anywhere from 30 to 300 percent.”
Studio Direct’s business model is based on giving retailers 65 percent of gross margin, an effort he expects to be aided by Li & Fung’s presence in factories where it controls anywhere from 30 percent to 70 percent of a plant’s production, as well as the technological edge afforded by sourcing online.
And with a war chest of $200 million, Suh isn’t cowed by the deluge of dot-bombs or the drip drops of financing coming from venture capital faucets that once spewed forth for virtually any dot-com, let alone a formerly-favored B2B format.
Customers will be acquired off line, in large part, because, as Suh noted, “Our research showed very few people were willing to buy items online they hadn’t seen or touched, but they were willing to reorder familiar items — much like the B2C customer.” The off-line effort began last month, with a presence at the PGA golf tournament, and is continuing this week at WWDMAGIC, which began Tuesday and concludes Friday. As part of the effort, Studio Direct will be leveraging the contacts of its advisory board, which includes Richard Marcus, chairman of GiftCertificates.com and former chief executive of Neiman Marcus; Howard Socol, chairman and ceo of Barneys New York, and former ceo of J. Crew and Burdines, and Phil Schlein, a partner with U.S. Venture Partners, and former chairman and ceo of Macy’s California.
In the alphabet soup that’s become the naming pool for various Net ventures, Suh sees Studio Direct’s P2P — or path-to-profit in current e-speak — as a 24-to-36 month journey, beginning today. When an observer remarked that the timetable is an ambitious one, even for a less costly B2B concept, Suh responds that he’s always been big on keeping costs under control.
“For our first six months, we called our office space the dungeon,” Suh said with a smile in recalling Studio Direct’s first frame, back in October 1999. “It was in a damp, cold basement, but we were only paying $20 a square foot. We had people sitting next to space heaters, doing computer coding with gloves on.” | <urn:uuid:bd197ec9-a88c-417e-a6d5-cf9703215354> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/article-1177168/ | 2021-10-24T07:04:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585911.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024050128-20211024080128-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954332 | 1,368 | [
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By Phil Hecken
It’s that time of year — around the third weekend in October — when NCAA teams, now smack dab in the midst of the celebration of the college football’s 150th Anniversary, begin to really start breaking out the costumes. Some of these are good — some are well, not so good — but the one I’ve been really waiting to see since it was introduced is being worn today: Rutgers “throwback” sleeved uniform. That’s right, to really give the uniforms the Scarlet Knights will be wearing today a special throwback feel, Rutgers will be wearing FULL sleeves on their jerseys.
The Scarlet Knights will be debuting a new uniform combo of long-sleeve scarlet jerseys, off-white pants with an old school Rutgers “R” on off-white helmets to honor the first ever football game between Rutgers and Princeton back in 1869. Of course, this uniform will look nothing like that first uniform (or at least, the artist’s rendition of that uniform), but why quibble over facts? I’m just excited to see a full sleeved uniform for the first time in probably my entire lifetime. In fact, if anything, this uniform will probably more closely resemble one worn just pre-World War II (more like 77 years ago):
You can look at a bunch of photos of the uniform from when it was first released here. Back then, the uniform definitely had a scarlet and cream look to it, but that was no doubt due to the filter on the camera. The unis to be worn today should have a more pronounced white look to the cream-looking elements:
— The Birthplace (@RFootball) October 18, 2019
— The Birthplace (@RFootball) October 18, 2019
The team did a pretty decent hype video for these, also showing off the look:
At Rutgers University we take pride in being the Birthplace of College Football.
— The Birthplace (@RFootball) October 17, 2019
I’m very pumped to see this game, or at least a part of it, if only for the novelty of the full sleeve. In a sport where sleeves have basically disappeared (in favor of compression shirts), and where the sleeve has been viewed as a competitive disadvantage, it will be interesting to see how these fare. Granted, the sleeves on this jersey aren’t like the sleeves of 60-plus years ago — they’re form fitting and pretty compression-like in their own right — but they are still sleeves. I hope it goes well, as I for one would LOVE to see the return to sleeves for a football jersey, especially for cold-weather games. I wouldn’t bet on it — I’m sure this will be a one-off novelty — but for one game it will be fun to see.
Rutgers is not alone in having a special costume today. There are plenty (and I’m sure I’m missing a few) but let’s see what else it new on the gridiron today:
The Red Riders will be throwing it back to 1976 today.
— Under Armour FTBL (@UAFootball) October 16, 2019
The Eagles are once again throwing it back to the Flutie Hail Mary days:
— BC Football (@BCFootball) October 15, 2019
You can read more about both of these unis here
The Blazers will be breaking out the worst uniforms in football:
The best uniforms in college football. pic.twitter.com/LO1seXnKPV
— UAB Football (@UAB_FB) October 16, 2019
The Illini are again wearing their Red Grange “Galloping Ghost” alternates:
— Illinois Football (@IlliniFootball) October 16, 2019
The Falcons, who always seem to get one great alternate uniform a season, will honor the C-17 aircraft with their kits. Read more here
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) October 16, 2019
Duke & Virginia
In what may qualify as the stupidest celebration of 150, the Hoos & Devs will be wearing giant honking “150” decals on their hats:
The Bison are going full mono green (you never go full mono green):
NDSU Football going full Code Green https://t.co/g38wbvoYnJ
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) October 18, 2019
The Longhorns, who won the NCAA Champeenship in 1969, will be throwing back to that year:
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) October 15, 2019
The Sooners will be bringing the wood versus the Mountaineers:
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) October 15, 2019
And that’s just a sampling of today’s costumes. I’m sure there will be plenty more (including Stanford going BFBS once again). It’s that time of year. And we still have another weekend before Hallowe’en!
For those who don’t wish to click the links, Graig paints baseball heroes (and regular guys) from the past, and is an immense talent.
Occasionally, I will be featuring his work on Uni Watch.
Here’s today’s offering (click to enlarge):
Title: “Chet Brewer, 1946” (color study)
Subject: Chet Brewer, 1946
Medium: Oil on linen mounted to board
Size: 5” x 7”
Perhaps one of the busiest ballplayers of the era, Chet Brewer saw himself on teams that traveled the United States, as well as places like China, Japan, the Philippines, Panama, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Santo Domingo.
Starting his career in professional ball during the mid-1920s, Brewer is best known as a Kansas City Monarch. With that club he found himself pitching alongside the likes of Bullet Rogan, who was one of his boyhood idols, and later, Satchel Paige. Though he sat out the 1924 Negro World Series, at the age of 19, Brewer became a regular in the starting rotation in ‘26, going 14-1 in the regular season – good for tying Rogan for third most wins in the Negro National League. He also led in winning percentage and was second to Bill Foster in strikeouts.
By the mid to late 1930s, when he was in his prime, Brewer left the NNL to play semipro ball for Bismarck and the Jamestown Red Sox. It was also then that he ventured to Latin America, notably to the Dominican Republic (to do battle on the diamond against the famous Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo) and the Mexican League.
The early 1940s saw Chet with various war-time industrial leagues in Los Angeles, as well as a stint in the California Winter League.
Chet is pictured here in his road Cleveland Buckeyes uniform from the 1946 season – a year after the ballclub won its first Negro World Series. Interestingly enough, that same year prior, an Indians farm team had considered signing Brewer as a player manager, only to have General Manager Roger Peckinpaugh balk at the chance.
By 1952, he had become one of the first black managers in the minors with Porterville of the Southwest International League. He even found himself on the mound occasionally, going 6-5 (for a sub-.400 team) and posting a 3.38 ERA.
The man just never stopped.
This is one of 200+ paintings of mine that will be on display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the spring of 2020.
Thanks, Graig! You can (and should!) follow Graig on Twitter.
After being dormant for a while, the Uni Tweaks/Concepts have returned!
I hope you guys like this feature and will want to continue to submit your concepts and tweaks to me. If you do, Shoot me an E-mail (Phil (dot) Hecken (at) gmail (dot) com).
I received the following e-mail from reader “cmayor71”, who has a couple concepts for the soon-to-be-redesigned Cleveland Browns:
I came up with this while imagining what the last Browns redesign might look like. Hopefully they’ll get it right this time around.
Thanks cmayor. OK readers (and concepters). If you have some tweaks or concepts, shoot ’em my way with a brief description of your creation and I’ll run ’em here.
MLB Playoff Uni Tracking
A few years back, reader Alex Rocklein tracked the MLB Playoffs by uniform — you guys may recall this. Here’s what his 2010 Uni Tracking looked like. Alex also tracked the playoffs for Uni Watch last season as well. Here’s how the 2016 World Series looked, here’s how the 2017 Playoffs shook out, and here’s the 2018 Playoffs.
Alex is back once again for the 2019 MLB Playoffs. Last night’s Astros/Yankees game ended too late for the tracking, but the pins v. gray matchup held for all three games at Yankee Stadium. In case you haven’t already noticed, the Nationals — your NL Champs — have worn their blue “Nationals” alternate tops in EVERY game they’ve won, so we can expect them to break those out for the first game of the World Series. My guess is they’ll ride these until they lose; I’d expect to see a similar situation to that of the 2007 Colorado Rockies, who wore those god-awful black vests throughout their LDS & LCS games all the way to the World Series, where they were stymied in 4 games by the Red Sox. The team did ditch the black vest look once they lost in them. I can see the Nats possibly doing the same, should they lose any games.
Wild Card & LDS Games
And now a few words from Paul: Hi there. In case you missed it on Friday, we’re once again offering the Uni Watch Cycling Jersey for a new batch of orders from now through Nov. 1. Just like before, you can choose your number and NOB for a custom look. The finished product should be ready to ship in early December — just in time for the holidays. If you want in, you can place your order here.
• I’m about to start working on my annual Uni Watch Holiday Gift Guide. If you know of a good uni- or logo-themed product or company — or if you produce such a product or run such a company yourself, for that matter — please let me know. Thanks.
• If you purchased a Uni Watch Press Pin, please feel free to enter your numbered pin on this pin registry. The idea is that it’s fun to see who got which number, and some people may want to trade for specific numbers.
• I’m grateful to the many readers who chipped in on Friday to help send me to San Diego, where I’ll cover the Padres’ uni unveiling. I’ll have more to say about that on Monday.
That’s it! We now return you to your regularly scheduled Phil-fest.
Welp. I was thisclose to announcing a new contest for readers to design a logo for another team named the Griffons (unlike the Grand Rapids Griffins, this is for the Nevada [Missouri] Griffons summer collegiate baseball team). To be brief, the team has decided to update their logo (seen above), and are offering a $200 grand prize for a winning design.
Why “Griffons”? It’s a pretty cool back story.
After some back and forth, the team ultimately decided they wouldn’t be able to partner with Uni Watch (for reasons too complicated to explain), but I told them I’d still bring attention to their contest on this site.
If you’re a graphic designer (or, really, ANY kind of designer) and you would like to take a shot at redesigning their logo, the rules & deets are here. The contest is open from October 1 through December 1, so you have some time to participate.
I think it would have been cool to host two different Griffin/Griffon design contests for two different teams in two different sports in two different states in one year, but alas, ’twasn’t to be.
Good luck to those who participate!
from the scoreboard
The game has returned! At least for a trial basis, but I got a lot of positive response to its return, so we’ll see how long we keep this one going.
Today’s scoreboard comes from reader ojai67.
The premise of the game (GTGFTS) is simple: I’ll post a scoreboard and you guys simply identify the game depicted. In the past, I don’t know if I’ve ever completely stumped you (some are easier than others).
Sorry about the giant watermark on today’s entry — but it shouldn’t in any way affect your ability to solve the game…
Here’s the Scoreboard. In the comments below, try to identify the game (date & location, as well as final score). If anything noteworthy occurred during the game, please add that in (and if you were AT the game, well bonus points for you!):
If you guys like this, please continue sending these in! You’re welcome to send me any scoreboard photos (with answers please), and I’ll keep running them.
By Anthony Emerson
Baseball News: A guy wore a “Joe Buck Sucks” T-shirt behind home plate during last night’s ALCS game at Yankee Stadium. Buck was, of course, broadcasting the game on Fox at the time.
NFL News: New uni numbers for the Ravens: CB Marcus Peters is now wearing no. 24 after being assigned no. 30 yesterday and CB Brandon Carr is now wearing no. 39 after after wearing 24 for his first two-and-a-half seasons in Baltimore. He wore 39 with the Cowboys and Kansas City (from Andrew Cosentino). … Also posted in the hockey section: the 49ers all wore Sharks sweaters while travelling to Landover (from Paul Simpson). … NASCAR driver Michael Annett has a new Browns-themed helmet for this weekend’s race in Kansas (from David G. Firestone).
College/High School Football News: GFGS has gone too far! McGuffey (Pa.) High is installing a two-toned grey artificial turf. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself (blame goes to Joe Werner). … Virginia Tech is going mono-maroon tomorrow (from Andrew Cosentino). … Mizzou is going mono-white when they take on Vanderbilt (from Jacob Bogage). … Storm Lake (Ia.) High coaches are wearing pink pants for breast cancer awareness (from Jay Wright). … Omaha (Ne.) Central wore mono-silver when they played Omaha South last night, and it was just as bad-looking as it sounds (from @CWSSuperFan). … Arlington (Tx.) Bowie High has added No. 46 patches to their uniforms in memory of senior Anthony Strather, who was shot and killed last weekend (from Chris Mycoskie).
Hockey News: Cross-posted from the NFL section: the 49ers all wore Sharks sweaters while travelling to Landover (from Paul Simpson). … The KHL’s Salavat Yulaev will wear special sweaters to face their rivals Ak Bars Kazan (from Conan Smeeth). … The WHL’s Calgary Hitmen have unveiled a special jersey for Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart night, one of the team’s original owners. The uni is to be worn on Nov. 2 (from Wade Heidt and Colin Fraser).
Pro Basketball News: The WNBA’s Atlanta Dream have undergone a complete redesign (from @TheSkyShowCHI and @Starkman55). … Grizzlies fans — that is, Vancouver Grizzlies fans — rallied outside of Rogers Centre ahead of the Clippers/Mavs pre-season game there to call for another franchise in the city. Chinese-Canadians also showed up to protest the NBA’s coziness with the Xi regime following Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong protests tweet (from Wade Heidt).
Soccer News: Next season’s Barcelona training kits have been leaked to Footy Headlines, and they offer us a look at Nike’s newest template (from Josh Hinton). … Also from Josh: the Premier League and EA Sports have released “No Room For Racism” kits for download in FIFA 20, along with a stadium theme with the same message. … A whole bunch of alternate kit colors, competition logos and balls were released yesterday, which you can check out on Josh’s Twitter feed.
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By Dan Deanovic
Historically, the majority of a manufacturer’s costs have been labour. When Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line in 1913, labour accounted for an estimated 80 per cent of total costs. One of Ford’s key beliefs was that labour costs could be greatly reduced by eliminating unnecessary steps from the manufacturing process.
Ultimately, machinery accomplished what Ford and many others set out to do: streamline the production of goods and improve efficiencies on the shop floor. Machines could complete the same tasks as humans on an assembly line, but at a much quicker pace and at significantly lower costs. As a result, production and assembly processes required fewer workers and labour costs dropped considerably.
Faced with tighter margins and increasing competition, job shops and custom manufacturers today are embracing innovative new ways to take shop floor automation and business management to the next level. Driven by new applications and technology advancements, these solutions are enabling businesses to minimize costly manual labour practices throughout the manufacturing process to obtain a level of efficiency that their predecessors could only have imagined. In addition, these solutions allow shops to maximize other resources, including their existing investments in machines, systems and applications.
One of the new tools responsible for driving this level of efficiency on the shop floor is intelligent numerical controls (INC). Capable of running on virtually any machine – from the simplest lathe to multi-function machines running the most advanced algorithms – INCs monitor and measure the output of production data, such as job starts, machine hours and part counts, without manual intervention. These controls provide seamless integration with almost any application and peripheral, including shop management systems, while also interfacing with barcoders, feeders, robots, probes and tool setters to help streamline production.
It is critical for job shops and custom manufacturers to have access to this production data, along with employee information and other operational data, in a single system to more effectively manage production. The integration between the shop floor and back office provides a more holistic view of the organization. It enables management to better plan and schedule projects, ensuring that business is always running smoothly and that customer expectations are being met.
While computer numerical controls (CNC) have been in use for decades, intelligent numerical controls are a very recent introduction. Based on standard PC motherboard architecture, these controls truly represent the state-of-the-art in numerical control form and function.
Whereas previous controls relied on hard-wired control mechanisms, intelligent controls rely on software. The difference is significant. For example, every machine purchased with CNC controls was, in essence, obsolete the day it was installed. It could be upgraded with new controls, of course, but this was extremely expensive and time consuming. In contrast, intelligent controls are upgradeable simply by installing new software. Should additional computing horsepower ever be required, the components of the intelligent control are as easy to upgrade as the components of any personal computer.
The true value of intelligent numerical controls is apparent when they are integrated with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system on the back end to automate the collection of production data and enable communication with business and production systems on the shop floor. Production data can come directly off machines into the ERP system, providing a level of accuracy unattainable through traditional data entry methods. Moreover, by automating this process, job shops can always have the most up-to-date data in real time, and they can also better control headcount and costs.
ERP integration with INC controls offers powerful additions to a manufacturer’s competitive arsenal. Far more than simply reporting machine run times and parts produced, the integration of ERP and INC systems helps to drive all aspects of manufacturing effectiveness and efficiency.
The product of ERP/INC integration can be as basic as real-time reporting of machine data to the ERP system. However, since INC is a software-based environment, manufacturers can now achieve unprecedented synergy between not only the INC and ERP systems, but also a wide range of affiliated applications, including robotic controls, automated tool management, metrology, cooling systems, material feeders and tool setters.
Achievement of such integration typically involves the use of an application program interface (API). Well-designed intelligent numerical control software includes not only a resident API, but also a well-documented, easy-to-use .NET interface. With these components in place, integration between multiple systems is a relatively straightforward process.
One of the benefits of the integration shown in Diagram 1, is real-time data transfer from the machine to company management. Among the possible data being transferred are:
• Job setup time (accurate tracking of setup time and costs);
• Job starts and stops (machine time costs, maintenance schedules, tool changes);
• Machine operator time (accurate labour tracking, not only by work centre but by job); and
• Material usage (pulling material from inventory within the ERP system as material is depleted on the job).
Such basic integrations offer all of the advantages you would expect, including reduced human error and improved accuracy. Perhaps most important is the instant addition of the data to the manufacturer’s ERP system. This empowers managerial decision making. Any purchasing manager responsible for raw materials can tell you how important that becomes during times of material shortages or price volatility.
While the basic integration of ERP and intelligent controls is powerful, imagine what you can do by taking the concept one step further. In Diagram 2, the same use of the API is applied to integrate with several other systems in the work cell. The diagram shows tool usage data flowing from the automated tool crib, through the API, into the intelligent control, and out to the ERP system. We also see that the tool usage data are being combined with tool wear data from a metrology system. The entire overall system is now working more effectively and efficiently than ever before. For example, tool wear data combine with tool availability data. The metrology system authorizes the automated tool crib to issue new tools when they are needed. Purchase orders are automatically issued, just-in-time, based on rules set up within the ERP system. Costs are tracked more accurately than ever before, and finite adjustments to the system are now possible.
In this example, we’ve only leveraged the intelligent control to integrate ERP with the tool crib, metrology, machine data, material usage and labour. Similar integration, based on the straightforward use of the intelligent control’s API, greatly broadens the possibilities. As shown in Diagram 3, an entire manufacturing operation can now be integrated. Integrating two systems, however, can be problematic, and integrating three or more can be overwhelming. But history shows that such integration is possible. Consider, for example, the integration of your PDA with your cell phone and laptop. This was originally looked at as an impossible dream until the appropriate APIs were developed. Now, such integration is commonplace. It has changed the way we do business and the way we live.
The integration of the manufacturing environment, made possible through the use of intelligent numerical controls and ERP, holds similar promise. At the very least, it will change the way we manufacture. Given the history of manufacturing breakthroughs, it could just change our world.
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11:43AM, Wednesday 24 October 2018
A Slough man who harassed his colleague by sending her pornographic images and inappropriate messages has been sentenced.
Surinder Kalia, 66, of Pearl Gardens, Slough, was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ court on October 12.
The court heard how Kalia subjected his victim to a four-year campaign of harassment, which began when they worked together at Paddington Station in 2014.
The victim initially gave Kalia her mobile number after he offered to help her find a house in Slough, claiming he knew a lot of people in the area.
After exchanging numbers, Kalia inundated the victim with inappropriate messages, pornographic images and videos as well as inappropriate images of himself.
Kalia was charged with harassment without violence, charges he admitted in court.
He was handed an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He was also given a restraining order which prevents him from contacting the victim. He was also ordered to pay £200 costs.
Investigating officer, Mohtasim Pal, from British Transport Police, said: “This is a good result for what has been a upsetting and drawn out ordeal for the victim who had the misfortune to become the unwanted target of Kalia’s affections.
“Kalia’s harassment understandably had a huge impact on the victim and her health and this sentence underlines how unwanted and inappropriate sexual behaviour simply won’t be tolerated.
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How did the store seven eleven get its name?
The company's first outlets were in Dallas, named "Tote'm Stores" because customers "toted" away their purchases. ... In 1946, the chain's name was changed from "Tote'm" to "7-Eleven" to reflect the company's new, extended hours, 7:00 am to 11:00 pm, seven days per week.
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None of us start with a blank sheet of paper. We all have been shaped by others, and had people, events and information draw some lines, colors and shading on our blank slate. We take those lines, draw around them, and create something new. Understanding what shapes us is key to moving forward. Know what has been written into our lives allows us to translate it into a better language.
You’ve heard the phrase “sky is the limit” but what happens when you run out of sky? Who does the leader look to for inspiration?
Life changes as we grow older. Our priorities change as our life takes unexpected (or even expected) twists and turns. Some changes are momentous and some are small. But if we can’t learn to adjust our goals with the changes that happen in our lives, we may find ourselves becoming more and more frustrated with our inability to meet these goals. Do you know how to effectively change your life goals?
The degree of your influence is directly affected by how uncertain you are and how you express that uncertainty. When you doubt your facts, second guess your observations of the influencee, or are fraught with indecision, your influence potential goes down considerable.
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Dr Maleeha Lodhi
Even by the grim standards of Pakistan’s history, 2008 was a tumultuous year. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto cast a pall of gloom at the year’s outset. But the high point of a politically charged year was the February 18 election, which represented a moment of hope and anticipation in marking the return of civilian rule.
As the democratic transition gathered pace with the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and the Army’s withdrawal from politics, this opened up an opportunity for the country’s new rulers to set Pakistan on to a new course. There was much public goodwill to tap into during the initial months to chart such a direction. Expectations are always higher of civilian governments even though they inherit a troublesome legacy. And so it was with the PPP-led coalition.
But the vision and leadership needed to address the daunting challenges was nowhere in evidence when the new dispensation was tested by tough domestic issues and an exceedingly complex international environment. This contributed to one of the shortest honeymoon periods for an elected government. Amid deepening economic gloom, deteriorating security, prolonged political wranglings and broken promises on the judiciary, the shifting public mood mirrored the hopes and disappointments that accompanied every tortuous turn of events.
Opinion polls captured this growing mood of pessimism, as hope turned to despair. Between April and December 2008, the number of people who were hopeful dropped substantially, from 60 to 15 per cent, according to Gallup. Another survey by the International Republican Institute found that an overwhelming number of Pakistanis (88%) saw their country headed in the wrong direction.
This could mostly be ascribed to the inability of the government to reverse the widespread perception of drift and disarray by setting a sense of public purpose and direction to inspire faith in the future. To be sure, the constraints imposed by a difficult legacy limited the government’s room to manoeuvre. But rather than set policy priorities and organize itself to deal with them, the Zardari-led government responded in sporadic and adhoc fashion to the challenges at hand.
This was evident, for example in its response to the deepening power crises – not of course of its making. But its tardy effort to manage it was prompted only by the outbreak of riots and protests. Dithering on critical issues and a muddling through approach produced rule without governance and revealed a startling disconnect between the urgency of the country’s problems and the infirmity of official responses.
The political manoeuvring that followed the election so consumed the energies of the government that it distracted it from addressing pressing policy issues, especially steering the economy out of one of its severest crises. For months the government functioned without a finance minister. This lack of urgency accelerated the run on confidence and was reflected in the flight of capital. It also fed the image of a government more interested in power plays than public policy. Spurning and then embracing the IMF not just signified the government’s belated admission of reality, but arguably its lack of experience and expertise.
The politics of wheeling and dealing initially paid the PPP leader handsome political dividends, including his elevation to the Presidency. But the manipulative skills that secured the country’s highest office offered no guarantee of effective governance. It also came at the cost of shattering any chance of a consensus government that could evolve national, bipartisan solutions to the plethora of problems afflicting the country. Outmanoeuvred, the Muslim League led by Mian Nawaz Sharif walked out of the coalition. But while the former Prime Minister’s approval ratings went up, that of the incumbent leadership declined precipitously.
The gap between the public’s constitutional aspirations and reality widened, not just as a consequence of the PPP’s disinclination to deliver on the judiciary and the Seventeenth Amendment, but also by the post-Presidential election configuration of power, in which effective executive authority was exercised by President Zardari. This whittled down Prime Ministerial powers, continuing a trend that began in 2002. Together with the proclivity to use Parliament to affirm rather than shape decisions, this translated into non-adherence with the most fundamental aspect of Parliamentary democracy.
The ruling party followed a familiar political tradition in giving primacy to consolidating personal power rather than building institutional support within the polity. Not only were the autocratic powers of the 17th Amendment retained, but the personalization of this power and its exercise in an unstructured mode of decision-making resulted in unsteady and erratic governance. The President’s reluctance to delegate authority betrayed a surprising lack of confidence in his own team. It also made his unfamiliarity with statecraft more evident and exposed the government to higher risk of mistakes and missteps in the absence of institutional checks. For example the ill-conceived attempt to place the ISI under the Interior Ministry reflected surprising naiveté, and ended predictably in an inglorious retreat.
Another case in point was the government’s faltering handling of the crisis with India, which was triggered by the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. From a hoax call (supposedly received from the Indian foreign minister), that almost led to a military mobilization, to the flip flops in official responses, this became amateur hour in Islamabad.
2008 witnessed more terrorist violence than the previous year, posing the most serious threat to Pakistan’s security. Terrorist-related violence reached a record high, with the number of suicide bombings and killings exceeding those in 2007. The NWFP and FATA were obviously the most severely hit but the bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad dramatised the militants’ reach and the impunity with which they could strike at the capital.
While the threat of militancy grew official responses assumed the form of fire fighting actions undertaken under the exigency of circumstances rather than as part of a comprehensive strategy. While the effectiveness of the most intense and prolonged military operation in Bajaur is yet to be determined, the fragile gains in Swat have already been reversed by the resurgence of militancy after the collapse of the peace agreement.
Despite a government effort to elicit Parliamentary backing for counter-militancy, the debate in the House exposed significant differences rather than a unified approach. The resolution subsequently adopted was long on rhetoric and short on strategy. The lack of a political consensus on how to address the threat of militancy had a grave and deleterious bearing on framing a publicly-backed strategy that could deal with both the short and long term dimensions of the challenge.
Throughout the year, Pakistan seemed to be caught between more aggressive actions by the militants on the one hand and the United States on the other. The dramatic rise in attacks by unmanned Predator aircraft in the country’s border regions inflamed public opinion, threatened to undercut Pakistan’s own counter insurgency efforts and risked destabilising the country. Islamabad’s feeble protests gave grist to the mill of its critics who accused it of a covert deal with Washington on this count.
This posed an imposing challenge for the government: how to square the circle of reconciling conflicting demands from Washington, and its own people. At year end this posed even sharper policy dilemmas given the commitment of the incoming Obama Administration to give greater strategic focus to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
While defusing tensions with India remained the top priority as the year ended, the public fallout of the aggravating energy crisis was a sharp reminder to the government that its honeymoon period had long ended. The key question that 2008 posed for the New Year is whether the PPP-led coalition can provide the leadership to steer Pakistan out of its multiple crises, in governance, the economy and security, that have plagued its past and threaten its future. Both the substance and style of governance will need to be corrected if 2009 is to be negotiated effectively.
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Update: Headline and story has been updated to reflect a clarification from lawyer Humphrey Djemat that Governor Ahok was not referring to Ma’ruf Amin when he said that he would be taking legal action to report witnesses giving false testimony in his trial. However, Humprey also still promised to provide the court with evidence that the call in which SBY asked Ma’ruf to issue the blasphemy fatwa took place.
Yesterday’s session in the ongoing blasphemy trial of Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama saw the chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Ma’ruf Amin, take the witness stand to testify against Ahok. His testimony included several statements that shocked observers (including an admission from Ma’ruf that he had not actually watched the video of Ahok’s speech in the Thousand Islands before MUI’s fatwa declaring that it contained blasphemy was issued) but his denial of one particular question from the defense could have signaled the start of an absolutely massive political scandal that could turn the trial on its head and forever stain the reputation of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
As Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body, it was MUI’s fatwa declaring that Ahok had committed blasphemy, issued on October 11, that provided the fuel for the massive protests that took place in Jakarta in November and December. Islamic hardliner groups forming a body called the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Ulema Council’s Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) to organize the enormous anti-Ahok demonstrations.
At yesterday’s hearing, one of the lawyers on Ahok’s legal team, Humphrey Djemat, asked Ma’ruf a crucial — and unusually specific — question about the events of October 6.
“On Thursday, before meeting with [Jakarta gubernatorial candidates Agus Yudhoyono and Sylviana Murni] on Friday, was there a call from Pak SBY at 10:16 am in which he, first, asked that a meeting be set up for Agus and Sylvi be accepted at Nahdlatul Ulama headquarters, and second, requested that a fatwa on defamation of religion immediately be issued?” Humphrey asked Ma’ruf as quoted by Kompas.
Ma’ruf flatly denied Humprey’s question. Ahok’s lawyer then pressed him, saying that the MUI chairman had just lied in court and reminding him of the consequences of giving false testimony.
Ma’ruf, however, continued to deny that the call from SBY had occurred.
That’s when Humphrey dropped the bomb, saying that his side would provide proof that the call had indeed taken place.
At that point, Chief Judge Budi Dwiarso Santiarto reminded Ma’ruf that he could be imprisoned if he gave false testimony but the MUI leader would not change his answer.
Ahok later spoke to the court himself, noting that Ma’ruf had a close relationship with SBY, having once been a member of his Presidential Advisory Council (Wantimpres) and was thus not a reliable, objective witness.
Perhaps you are thinking that Ahok and his lawyers might have somehow been bluffing. Well, something else the governor told the court yesterday makes us think he’s dead serious about proving their claim.
“Believe me, in closing, if you oppress me, your opponent is Almighty God. I will prove these shameful acts one by one. Thank you,” Ahok said.
If the accusation of the governor and his legal team prove to be true, then the implications are potentially explosive.
Most obviously, it would prove a suspicion that many political observers have long held – that former President SBY engineered the fatwa and subsequent criminal blasphemy charges and protests against Ahok, all as a means of helping his son Agus win the upcoming Jakarta governor’s election (not to mention weaken the government of President Joko Widodo).
SBY was heavily criticized for fanning the flames of religious anger against Ahok back on November 2 (shortly before the 4/11 anti-Ahok rally) when he said, “If you do not want this country to burn with the anger of justice seekers, Pak Ahok must be prosecuted. Do not let him be considered above the law.”
After violence broke out towards the end of the 4/11 protest, Jokowi addressed the country and said the violence had been “steered by political actors who were exploiting the situation”, which some observers took as a veiled reference to SBY.
The extreme specificity with which Ahok’s lawyer referred to the supposed call between SBY and Ma’ruf (noting both the exact time of the call at 10:16 am and the exact contents of the call) would seem to imply that the “very complete data” they have to prove the shocking accusation is am actual recording of the alleged phone call.
Interestingly, in a statement released by SBY’s political party condemning Ahok’s accusation in court, Democratic Party spokesman Rachland Nashidik characterized it as a form of “character assassination” and argued that it was Ma’ruf’s fundamental right as a citizen to have political preferences. However, it seems like Rachland never explicitly denied that the call took place.
If a recording of such a phone call exists, the question would then be, how could Ahok’s legal team possibly have obtained it? One might guess that it could’ve been an MUI insider, but the more obvious possibility would be that a government intelligence agency had tapped the line (It wouldn’t be the first time an intelligence agency monitored the former president’s phone calls – leaked documents showed the Australian government targeted SBY for phone surveillance when he was in office).
We’re now entering the realm of pure speculation, but could it be that Jokowi was aware of the existence of the Ma’ruf-SBY phone call recording all this time and knew that it could be unleashed later as a devastating revelation that could help Ahok win not only his trial but also the election? It would certainly cause those who believed that the president had distanced himself from Ahok to save his own political future to reevaluate many of Jokowi’s actions over the last few months.
Of course, if it did come from a government intelligence agency, how could Ahok’s legal team possibly present that evidence in court? Well, we may be way down the wrong speculative path at this point, but if it does turn out that Jokowi somehow helped get Ahok the theoretical recording and they were successfully able to use it to reveal a grand conspiracy by SBY, then it would be definitive proof that our president has been two steps ahead of his opponents this entire time. | <urn:uuid:e4b27016-8706-43dc-96a3-c0163644f264> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/ahok-says-he-has-proof-sby-asked-mui-issue-blasphemy-fatwa-will-report-mui-chairman/ | 2021-10-18T14:16:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585203.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018124412-20211018154412-00633.warc.gz | en | 0.980209 | 1,479 | [
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About This File
Supermarine Spitfire IXc 'Dhimar' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2
This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire Spitfire IXc to create a fictional Spitfire IXc in service with the Royal Dhimari Air Force in the 1943-1947 timeline.
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the Spitfire9c_Dh folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the Spitfire9c_Dh folder into your Decals folder.
That's it! Although you will need a suitable 'prop' pilot (not supplied here).
As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim.
Extra special thanks to Starfighter2 for the Spitfire cockpit.
And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Version 1 - Sept 24th, 2021
What's New in Version 1.0.1
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The brief interview with terrorism expert Kenneth Pollack in the front of the NYT Magazine this morning reads like an audition piece for a possible Kerry Administration. (It includes a particularly abject apology by the former CIA analyst for his misjudgment on Iraqi WMDs.) I don’t blame Pollack for this – we’d all like a good job – but I am worried that he will get it because of the attitude he expresses on Iran, which I am sure reflects his forthcoming book on the subject – The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America.
Here’s the exchange that got me nervous:
NYT: But as a former C.I.A. analyst and a scholar of Middle East policy at the Brookings Institution, how do you propose that we prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons?
Pollack: I’d prefer not to have an Iran with nuclear weapons, but if it happens, I think we can probably deal with it.
NYT: Your use of ”probably” does not inspire confidence.
Pollack: It’s hard to imagine how the Iranians would see it in their interest to give nuclear weapons to a terrorist group. They hate Al Qaeda as much as we do.
Oh, really? How does Pollack know that and, more importantly, who is the “they” to which he refers? Iran is a large county with many competing factions, even within the Mullahcracy. One of the many current theories is that Bin Laden himself is being hidden in Iran. Does Pollack know for a fact that this is untrue? If so, how? Is he willing to bet the future of civilization on a society where sixteen-year old girls are publicly hanged for adultery by allowing their leaders to have nuclear weapons? Evidently so. And if Pollack were a key adviser to a Kerry administration, this is what he would be acquiescing to.
Look, no one can pretend that the Iranian situation is simple or anywhere near that. But one thing the last decade has taught us is not to trust “terrorism experts.” There is no such thing. (Indeed, an argument can be made that there is no such thing as an expert in general outside the hard sciences, where the learning curve is steep.) CIA and think tank pedigrees prove nothing other than that someone has given them a job. I do not wish to disparage Pollack personally. He’s clearly a smart guy. But on this one, I’d prefer to think for myself. And I am frankly scared to vote for a candidate whose putative advisers are prepared to allow nuclear weapons in the hands of a violent theocracy. (hat tip: Catherine Johnson)
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Marines, and others in our armed
services, have since their inception been indoctrinated
with the creed that the only thing that should be
cleaner than your woman is your rifle. Many times
this sage cleaning advice came with an ever so subtle
warning that if your rifle wasn't spotless that
the shiny boot of the Drill Instructor might find
a home between some cheeks.
It is with good reason that the
military puts such an emphasis on weapon cleaning.
A dirty rifle won't function as well or as accurately
as a clean one will and it is also much more susceptible
to rust and corrosion. A dirty weapon also ages
faster than a clean one. This was particularly true
during the World War II years when corrosive ammunition
was still being used.
In addition, cleaning
breeds familiarity with, and confidence in, ones
own personal weapon.
The M1 Garand is a
robust firearm but it needs regular care and maintenance.
To that end the military developed several types
of cleaning kits which could be stored in the buttstock
of the M1. We have often wondered why more rifles
don't have this 'gimmicky' but very useful option
Nickel Oilers. Note the leather
pad at one end and pull-through thong.
During the war railroads played an important role.
Note the SP handbill.
The first buttstock
kit made available to troops was in many ways the
best. The 1903 Springfield rifle had a butt-trap
storage capacity and nickel oilers like those pictured
above were originally produced for it.
These nickel oilers
were tough, and did not crack as easily as the later
plastic ones. Interestingly, the cleaning jag that
came with these oilers was tied to a thong which
allowed cleaning from the breach instead of the
muzzle of the rifle. This reduce wear on the bore
particularly at the muzzle (barrel-tip) which could
adversely affect bullet flight.
Two types of plastic oilers.
Note one comes with the pull-through thong.
Railroad passengers frequently got 'Victory Leaflets
like this one during W.W.II.
Later, oilers made
from plastic were developed. These were a bit lighter
and certainly a lot easier to manufacture. The larger
style of plastic oiler retained the draw through
thong for cleaning, but the smaller one could be
issued with sectional steel cleaning rods.
The bane of muzzles & bores.
Steel cleaning rod cleaning kit.
The sectional cleaning
rod kit that was issued could also be stored in
the buttstock of the M1 Garand. Though it was convenient
in many ways (no thong to break) improper use of
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of the steel sliding against steel during cleaning.
The NEXT PAGE has several
photographs of how these items slip into the buttstock.
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Curve25519 ECDH encryption issue
wk at gnupg.org
Fri Apr 8 10:31:32 CEST 2016
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:02, gniibe at fsij.org said:
> I think that expected GnuPG behavior in this case is returns an error,
> not decrypting the message. Is it right?
That is probably the best solution. The other would be to detect the
case, decrypt, and print a warning. But that requires a new diagnostic
string for a very rare case. Thus I think it is better to return an
error like GPG_ERR_BAD_MPI.
Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but it can also provide a solid setup for one hell of a great movie. Khan blames Kirk for his wife's death and we have 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.' The screwup son of a Russian mobster kills the dog and steals the car belonging to a former assassin and we get 'John Wick.' Because of the barbarous scalp trade we have Burt Reynolds hungry for justice in Sergio Corbucci's 'Navajo Joe.'
As whites pushed west and grabbed up more and more land, frequent clashes with native tribes resulted, creating a black market industry for Indian scalps. One scalp earned the man carrying it a dollar. For Duncan (Aldo Sambrell), his brother Jeffrey (Lucio Rosato) and their gang of bloodthirsty cutthroats, business is booming. After raiding a peaceful tribe of natives, they make off with their bounty headed towards towns that would offer a fair price for their haul. Along the way, a mysterious lone Indian warrior calling himself Joe (Burt Reynolds) appears on the horizon. Seeing only money riding a Pinto, Duncan orders two of his men to take the scalp. Joe sends these men's corpses back tied to one of their horses. Everywhere Duncan goes, Joe is there to give him a little peek at hell as he picks off Duncan's men one by one.
After failing to unload their bounty when it's learned they've been preying on peaceful tribes, Duncan and his gang are approached by a mysterious man who offers them the opportunity to get in on a share of half a million dollars. All Duncan has to do is capture a train bound for a new bank and the mystery man will unlock the vault. When an entertainer and his dancing girls hear of the plot, they attempt to flee but are chased and soon run into Joe and tell him everything. After picking off their pursuers, Joe follows the gang, staying out of sight - even as the they murder everyone on the train to cover their tracks.
Using only his knife and his cunning, Joe takes out the train's guards left behind by Duncan and safely returns the train and all of the money to the townsfolk. Knowing Duncan and his nature, the people in the town realize they don't stand a chance against him. As Joe is the only capable fighter, they ask him to wage a one-man war against Duncan and his armed posse who will do anything and everything to recover the money they're owed - which suits Joe just fine as he has a few tricks up his sleeve and is ready to enact his own brand of vengeance.
Years ago I saw 'Navajo Joe' on cable TV. I'd heard it was a solid film and one of Tarantino's favorite Spaghetti Westerns, but I'd also heard that Burt Reynolds detested the film saying that it was "so awful, it was shown in prisons and airplanes because nobody could leave." With those dual perspectives at play, I didn't really know what to expect. While I can understand Reynolds point of view (more on that in a moment), I have to side with Tarantino on this one - 'Navajo Joe' is one hell of a great Western, let alone a Spaghetti Western. The action is swift and intense. The good guy is appropriately gruff, mysterious and exceedingly tenacious towards his personal vendetta while the villain is unapologetically pure evil. It also features another fun and wild score from Ennio Morricone!
If you're going into this movie for pure fun, it delivers on that scale. If you're looking for some intricate plotting with clear character motivations, this probably isn't the best movie. 'Navajo Joe' is a movie you just let be. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and shot in Spain, 'Navajo Joe' makes a great effort to crib the best elements from films like Corbucci's own 'Django' film and Sergio Leon's 'Man With No Name Trilogy,' while also still trying to carve out it's own signature style. Reynolds makes a fine hero, so much so that had this production been more to his liking, it would have been a great recurring role for the actor. Apparently this shoot was absolute hell for Reynolds. As a former stuntman he took great issue with the hazardous and loose safety issues during big action scenes to the point that he oversaw a lot of the shooting of these stunts, and there's also a story out there where Reynolds was apparently driven out into the middle of nowhere by Sergio Corbucci and left there because Corbucci wanted to see if he could make it back on his own!
As a piece of entertainment, I found 'Navajo Joe' to be a gas. It's just entertaining to see one man wage a personal war against an army of 30 or more well-armed bad guys. I also have to mention Ennio Morricone's score one more time, it's just that good. It may not rival his efforts on 'For a Few Dollars More,' or 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' for that matter, but it's definitely impressive how the man uses various instrumental themes and layers them with choral accompaniments and sound effects. In case you feel like you've heard this score already, chances are you have. It was featured throughout both 'Kill Bill Vol.1' as well as 'Kill Bill Vol. 2.' At just 93 minutes, 'Navajo Joe' serves up some thrilling entertainment that just about every Western genre fan should enjoy.
The Blu-ray: Vital Disc Stats
'Navajo Joe' arrives on Blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and their Studio Classics line and is pressed on a BD25 disc. Housed in a standard case, the disc opens directly to the main menu.
The last time I saw 'Navajo Joe' it was on one of the "HD" movie channels on my parent's satellite system. While I loved seeing the movie again, that image's waxy DNR infused look had me disheartened for any upcoming Blu-ray release. Thankfully, Kino Lorber did not use that master! Film grain has been retained leading to some very strong and beautiful detail levels. Colors are bright and leap off the screen with some lovely pop to them - especially the color red! Likewise, black levels are very strong with only a couple instances of crush. A few scenes look like they were intended to be shot "day-for-night" and didn't process well so film grain can look a bit noisy, but there are only a couple moments like that. The print is in overall decent shape with only some slight speckling here and there and some thin scratches that are difficult to even notice. The only other problem area worth mentioning is that It appears that some edge enhancement has been employed here and there. While this image can look a bit "crunchy," it's also light years ahead of that flat and waxy transfer I saw years ago and far better than the previous DVD release.
Rocking a DTS-HD MA 2.0 track, 'Navajo Joe' is an auditory delight. Part of the reason I love Spaghetti Westerns is the audio mixing. Since Italian productions rarely ever record audio on set, voices are usually dubbed in later along with all of the sound effects and music. The results tend to be a lot of fun as each horse hoof clap gets its own track, gunshots have a heightened reality to them, and the music track can have a life of its own. All of this is true for 'Navajo Joe.' The dialogue is crisp and clean and is never a struggle to hear, sound effects have plenty of punch, and Ennio Morricone's score has a wonderful presence and power behind it. Without any kind off age related hiss or drop outs, this is a great track for a fun movie.
Audio Commentary: Film Historian Gary Palmucci offers up a lot of insight and detail about the film making it a fun and informative track.
Navajo Joe Trailer: (HD 1:51) I love classic trailers like this, they just don't market movies the same way anymore.
Malone Trailer: (SD 2:00) Burt Reynolds VS Cliff Robertson with a gigantic gun!
White Lighting Trailer: (HD 2:25) Another great looking Reynolds "driving" movie.
Gator Trailer: (HD 1:09) Reynolds narrates the trailer and it makes it look like a nice cheesy good time.
Note: The artwork for the disc indicates that a trailer for A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die would be included but apparently it didn't make the final cut.
'Navajo Joe' is just one of those wildly entertaining Spaghetti Westerns that relies on simple storytelling, a strong performance from it's lead hero and villain and features some slick music. Burt Reynolds may hate this movie, but I loved it. Fans of the film should be happy to hear that this Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber is a pretty solid effort for a catalogue release. The Image quality is pretty good, the audio is great and it features an informative and entertaining commentary track. I'm calling this one recommended. | <urn:uuid:af59cff3-0023-4a81-81c1-f9a7ad53170c> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/21830/navajojoe.html | 2021-10-25T23:36:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587770.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025220214-20211026010214-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.971181 | 1,897 | [
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Windows 7, which was publicly released Oct. 22, has been hit by at least two security flaws.
One of these lets hackers execute code remotely; the other lets them trigger an infinite loop remotely, causing a kernel crash.
Both are flaws in SMBv2, security researcher Laurent Gaffie, who posted details about them on his blog, told TechNewsWorld.
The Windows 7 Bugs
SMB, or Server Message Block, is a Microsoft file-sharing protocol used in Windows. It is most often used with the NetBIOS transport protocol over TCP/IP. SMBv2 is a major revision of the SMB protocol, using different packet formats from SMBv1 and adding several enhancements.
Microsoft posted Security Advisory 977544 on Nov. 13, which stated the company is investigating reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the SMB protocol. The vulnerability affects Windows 7 running on 32-bit and x64-based systems, and Windows Server 2008 R2 running on x64-based and Intel Itanium-based systems. The vulnerability may be exploited through Web transactions using any browser, the security advisory stated.
However, hackers cannot use the vulnerability to take control of or install malicious software on a user’s system, the advisory noted. Microsoft is developing a security update to address this vulnerability, although it declined comment on how critical this flaw is. “We cannot comment on the severity of the issue at this time,” Dave Forstrom, group manager of public relations for Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, told TechNewsWorld.
This exploit is more of a nuisance than anything else, Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology at Qualys, told TechNewsWorld. It involves tricking an end user to click on a link to a server with a malicious configuration, and it only locks up one machine, he pointed out. “An attacker who goes through the trouble of tricking users to click on a link will use an exploit that allows him to control the target machine after execution,” Kandek explained.
Forstrom would not confirm that the fix was posted in response to Gaffie’s blog.
Redmond also pointed to a National Vulnerability Database listing of a bug in the kernel that lets remote SMB servers cause a denial of service in computers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. This attack comes through an SMBv1 or SMBv2 port containing a NetBIOS header with an incorrect length value, the listing stated.
The kernel flaw is under review for inclusion in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) section of the National Vulnerability Database.
Gaffie Lists Windows Gaffes
Gaffie discovered both flaws while working on other issues with Microsoft and other vendors, he said. He released the information “to make sure Microsoft acknowledges security issues and patch the flaws as soon as possible and with transparency,” he explained.
On Nov. 11, Gaffie published news of denial of service flaw in Windows 7 on his blog. This triggers an infinite loop on SMBv1 or SMBv2, and it is the flaw referred to in the National Vulnerability Database listing.
This bug can be triggered from outside a user’s local area network by hackers using Internet Explorer, Gaffie wrote. “The bug is so noob, it should have been spotted two years ago by the SDL if the SDL had ever existed,” he wrote.
SDL is the Security Development Lifecycle. It is part of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Initiative. “The SDL is useful, and provides more secure software to users, but in this case it failed, as Microsoft probably focused way too much on Internet Explorer and the Office suite, and critical services run with kernel privileges such as SMB are not well covered by this process,” Gaffie said.
Microsoft could have discovered this flaw easily, Gaffie said. “If they’d launched a fuzzer on SMB, they would have found the bug in two minutes,” he explained. Gaffie was referring to fuzz testing, a software testing technique that provides invalid, unexpected or random data to the inputs of a program. File formats and network protocols are the most common targets of fuzz testing.
On Sept. 7, Gaffie had posted news about an SMBv2 flaw that could let attackers remotely crash any machine running Windows Vista or Windows 7 with SMB enabled.
It’s All Par for the Course
Software development is a process, Microsoft’s Forstrom said. “It’s impossible to completely prevent all vulnerabilities during software development. Microsoft’s SDL process is intended to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in software as well as reduce the severity and impact of the ones that occur,” he explained.
“There will always be security problems in any operating system,” Michael Cherry, senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, told TechNewsWorld. “There’s a real tendency with Windows 7 right now to analyze it to death. It’s been less than a month since its release. We need to let a year go by before we come to any conclusions.” | <urn:uuid:44a71f88-cc96-4de9-a8aa-b5b655784fd2> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.technewsworld.com/story/microsoft-addresses-prickly-pair-of-windows-7-flaws-68659.html | 2021-10-26T00:04:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587770.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025220214-20211026010214-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.929697 | 1,081 | [
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As an introduction to Volume I of the Guide, this chapter addresses UK and US law regarding two critical concepts that a corporate facing an investigation in either or both jurisdictions will need to consider at the outset: corporate criminal liability and double jeopardy. This chapter also sets forth in summary the priorities and challenges corporations face at each stage of an investigation – topics that are explored in more detail in the chapters that follow. One topic not explored, but likely to affect chapters in this guide with a European dimension, is the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, scheduled for 29 March 2019. Considerable uncertainty remains surrounding the consequences, legal and otherwise, of that decision, which we hope will have become clearer by the next edition.
1.1 Bases of corporate criminal liability
When corporate misconduct that potentially implicates multiple jurisdictions is uncovered, a critical preliminary question is: what is the test, in each jurisdiction, for corporate criminal liability? Not all countries have corporate criminal liability, but for those jurisdictions that do, it typically rests on the premise that the acts of certain employees can be attributed to the corporation. However, the category of employees that can trigger corporate liability differs between jurisdictions – in some, it is limited to those with management responsibilities, whereas in others the category of employees who can trigger corporate liability is much broader. Generally speaking, the act triggering corporate liability must occur within the scope of the employee’s employment activities. The act must also generally be done in the interest of, or for the benefit of, the corporation. The difference between theories of liability across jurisdictions inevitably poses challenges and complicates a company’s strategy for dealing with a global investigation, and in some instances can determine the outcome.
1.1.1 Corporate criminal liability in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, there are two main techniques to attribute to a corporate the acts and states of mind of the individuals it employs.
The first is by use of the ‘identification principle’ whereby, subject to some limited exceptions, a corporate may be held liable for the criminal acts of those who represent its directing mind and will and who control what it does. The relevant test is set out in the leading case of Tesco Ltd v. Nattrass:
Where a limited company is the employer difficult questions do arise in a wide variety of circumstances in deciding which of its officers or servants is to be identified with the company so that his guilt is the guilt of the company. I must start by considering the nature of the personality which by a fiction the law attributes to a corporation. A living person has a mind which can have knowledge or intention or be negligent and he has hands to carry out his intentions. A corporation has none of these: it must act through living persons, though not always one or the same person. Then the person who acts is not speaking or acting for the company. He is acting as the company and his mind which directs his acts is the mind of the company. There is no question of the company being vicariously liable. He is not acting as a servant, representative, agent or delegate. He is an embodiment of the company or, one could say, he hears and speaks through the persona of the company, within his appropriate sphere, and his mind is the mind of the company. If it is a guilty mind then that guilt is the guilt of the company. It must be a question of law whether, once the facts have been ascertained, a person in doing particular things is to be regarded as the company or merely as the company’s servant or agent.
It is for the judge to decide, as a matter of law, whether there is evidence on which a jury could be sure that a particular individual was a ‘directing mind’ within the Tesco principles; and, if there is such evidence, the jury must then be sure that the particular individual was in fact a directing mind for the purposes of his or her particular actions. A directing mind is not necessarily limited to board directors; it may also be found in a delegate who has full discretion to act independently of instructions from the directors. In short, under the identification principle, before a corporate can be found guilty of a criminal offence, someone who represents its directing mind and will must also be found guilty. There cannot be an aggregation of acts or omissions to attribute the company with criminal conduct; rather, the criminal act or omission must be performed by a single person who can be identified with the corporate for it to be liable.
The second technique of attributing liability to a corporate under English law is that of vicarious liability. Although, in general, in the United Kingdom a corporate entity may not be convicted for the criminal acts of its inferior employees or agents, there are some exceptions, the most important of which concerns statutory offences that impose an absolute duty on the employer, even where the employer has not authorised or consented to the criminal act.
Most significantly, statutory developments in the United Kingdom, starting with the offence of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007, but more significantly the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010 and more recently Part 3 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (which came into force on 30 September 2017), represent a policy shift by introducing the strict liability offences of failure to prevent by an ‘associated person’ committed on behalf of the corporate, unless the corporate can demonstrate that it had adequate (or reasonable) procedures in place to prevent such an offence occurring. These statutes have broad jurisdictional reach. Under the Bribery Act for example, a corporate, falling within the definition of a commercial organisation under the Bribery Act, could be guilty even where no conduct occurred in, and where the associated person has no connection with, the United Kingdom.
The policy of the legislation to improve corporate governance is clear: Ministry of Justice guidance for the Bribery Act refers to the need for a corporate to create an ‘anti-bribery culture’. Similarly, a corporate is guilty of the offence of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007 if the way in which its activities are managed or organised causes a person’s death where a duty of care was owed. Guidance issued for the corporate offences of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion, which closely mirrors the Bribery Act guidance, also refers to the culture of the organisation. For example, top level commitment should foster ‘a culture within the relevant body in which activity intended to facilitate tax evasion is never acceptable’. Each piece of legislation and accompanying guidance invites consideration of the corporate’s culture – its attitudes, policies, systems and practices. The test for liability is closer to the test in the regulatory context where liability is based on broad principles and considers governance, and systems and controls. In respect of the new tax offences, the UK government has stated that it expects ‘rapid implementation’ with companies expected to have a clear time frame and implementation plan in place by the time the offences came into force.
It may be that this model of corporate criminal liability expands, in due course, to all economic crimes; on 13 January 2017 the government issued a Call for Evidence (which ran until the end of March 2017) to examine whether the law on corporate criminal liability in the United Kingdom needs reform. The government said that it was seeking to establish whether there is evidence of corporate crime going unpunished because of the current impediments presented by the identification doctrine, as well as evidence on the costs and benefits of further reform, bearing in mind the significant changes made in certain sectors to tackle misconduct. This, it indicated, would inform government decisions over whether to make further reforms. It set out five options for reform: amendment of the identification doctrine; a strict (vicarious) liability doctrine; a strict (direct) liability offence – effectively a widening of the current offence under section 7 of the UK Bribery Act (section 7 offence); incorporation of the failure-to-prevent wording into substantive offences, but with the burden on the prosecution to establish that the corporate had not taken adequate steps to prevent the unlawful conduct; and possible sector-by-sector regulatory reform (in the form of implementation in other sectors of similar arrangements to the new individual accountability regimes introduced for financial services in the United Kingdom). It is yet to be seen what impact political uncertainty in the United Kingdom will have on this thinking. In the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) context, the current high threshold for establishing corporate criminal liability in the United Kingdom is a problem inherent in the DPA regime: to enter into a DPA, a prosecutor must satisfy the evidential test, which requires either that the evidential stage of the Full Code Test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors is satisfied or, that ‘there is at least a reasonable suspicion based upon some admissible evidence that [the corporate] has committed the offence, and there are reasonable grounds for believing that a continued investigation would provide further admissible evidence within a reasonable period of time, so that all the evidence together would be capable of establishing a realistic prospect of conviction in accordance with the Full Code Test’. For that reason many expected DPAs to be used principally for section 7 offences, where the identification principle does not present an obstacle to satisfying the evidential test. The prospect for DPAs to be used for the proposed failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion offence is specifically laid out in the government’s guidance. Both the first two DPAs in the United Kingdom were for section 7 offences, although XYZ Ltd – anonymised because of ongoing criminal proceedings against individuals – also accepted misconduct in relation to conspiracies to corrupt and to bribe. However, XYZ Ltd was a small company and, as Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, found, ‘there is no question but that XYZ spiralled into criminality as a result of the conduct of a small number of senior executives bending to the will of agents’. In other words, the identification principle did not, in that case, present a problem. However, in Rolls-Royce, the DPA spanned three decades, and dealt with conduct much of which predated the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010 and which formed the basis of seven counts of conspiracy to corrupt and false accounting. The remaining five counts related to section 7 offences. We can conclude that in that case, despite being considerably larger than XYZ Ltd, the identification principle did not present evidential hurdles in reaching a settlement. At the time of writing, no individual has been charged. The Call for Evidence recognises that ‘the effectiveness of the DPA as an alternative disposal is dependent on there being a realistic threat of prosecution’, which, they conclude, ‘lends weight to the suggestion that the “failure to prevent” model would offer a more realistic threat of successful prosecution than a case built on the application of the identification doctrine.’ The failure-to-prevent model as enacted in the Bribery Act and now the Criminal Finances Act is described in the Call for Evidence as having ‘some clear advantages’. Apart from being readily applicable to offending by organisations of any size, the government is explicit in the power of the model to effect corporate cultural change by acting as ‘an incentive to companies to include the prevention of economic crime as an integral part of corporate governance and, should it afford a more realistic threat of prosecution, it might enhance the effectiveness of DPAs as an alternative to criminal prosecution’.
1.1.2 Corporate criminal liability in the United States
The United States has long recognised principles of corporate liability based on common law and statutory bases. The application of these concepts, however, has evolved over time and was most recently shaped by the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, where the spectre of industry and market collapse loomed large. Today, increasing emphasis on individual liability and corporate culture continues to shape and refine this area of law.
In the United States, the common law of agency plays an important role. Specifically, under principles of respondeat superior, a company may be held vicariously liable for the illegal acts of any of its agents (including employees and contract personnel) so long as those actions were within the scope of the agents’ duties and were intended, even if only in part, to benefit the corporation. An act is considered ‘within the scope of an agent’s employment’ if the individual commits the act as part of his or her general line of work and with at least the partial intent to benefit the corporation. The corporation need not receive an actual benefit and may be liable for these offences even if it directs its agent not to commit the offence.
Moreover, even where no single employee has the requisite intent or knowledge to satisfy the scienter element of a crime, courts have recognised a ‘collective knowledge doctrine’ – where several employees collectively know enough to satisfy the intent or knowledge requirement, courts can impute this collective intent and knowledge to the corporation. While historically courts have used the doctrine to establish knowledge on the part of a corporation, in recent years the doctrine has also been used to establish a corporation’s intent (i.e., to establish whether the corporation acted wilfully). This doctrine is not universally accepted and some courts have limited it to circumstances where the company was flagrantly indifferent to the offences being committed.
Additionally, beyond the common law principle of respondeat superior, some legislation imposes criminal liability for companies, including in the fields of environmental and antitrust law. Such statutes have the dual effects of forcing companies to internalise the costs of their wrongdoing and of increasing the deterrent effect of the law or regulation. For example, in a field such as environmental law, where misconduct can have tremendous collateral and long-term consequences, the imposition of liability on the company acts as a strong incentive for corporate monitoring of employees and thorough due diligence and risk assessment.
Although corporate criminal liability has been a feature of US law since the nineteenth century, the criminal prosecution of corporations slowed abruptly and significantly – although temporarily – following the ill-fated prosecution of Arthur Andersen in 2002; the conviction (subsequently overturned by the US Supreme Court) resulted in the firm’s collapse and job losses for many thousands of innocent employees. In the aftermath of the Arthur Andersen case, prosecutors became far more hesitant to unleash the brute force of criminal charges against companies. Although limited prosecutions continued following Arthur Andersen, they were further reduced in number when, in the wake of the financial meltdown of 2007–2008, many feared that prosecuting big banks and large employers might lead to further economic turmoil. This idea, that an entity might be ‘too big to fail’, is now widely rejected by both prosecutors and the public, and there has since been a marked uptick in prosecutions. Today, prosecutors are generally less willing to accept the prospect of dire collateral consequences as justification for not pursuing criminal charges against corporations and have required guilty pleas from large corporations, previously considered ‘too big to jail’. As corporations survive – and even thrive – in the wake of guilty pleas, the spectre of the Arthur Andersen case recedes and the rigour with which prosecutors pursue companies continues to increase.
In recent years, the United States has increasingly placed emphasis on an organisation’s compliance culture and internal controls. The result is that self-reporting, full acceptance of responsibility and the disclosure of all relevant facts concerning culpable individuals (regardless of seniority) now form the basis on which the government awards co-operation credit. The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Justice Manual, the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Seaboard factors, US Sentencing Guidelines and the ‘Yates Memorandum’, each of which is discussed in detail in later chapters, all reflect this pronounced shift in enforcement priorities. As a recent example, in late 2017 the DOJ introduced the Corporate Enforcement Policy, which creates a rebuttable presumption that the DOJ will grant a declination to a company in regard to Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) violations where the company satisfies the requirements for voluntary self-disclosure, co-operation and remediation. The DOJ has also announced that it will use the Policy as non-binding guidance in criminal cases outside the FCPA context.
Although the price of attaining corporate co-operation credit is often painfully high, most companies have no choice but to tolerate it; co-operation typically provides the best prospect for a company to prevent a criminal charge, minimise financial penalties and avoid other harsh collateral consequences, such as the imposition of a monitor. Still, co-operation is not for the faint of heart, and any company operating in the United States or subject to US jurisdiction should carefully consider the far-reaching consequences – both good and bad – of setting off down the often treacherous path of co-operation. Once a company voluntarily discloses misconduct to the government, the ability to defend the case and control the process is effectively relinquished, and a company will find it very difficult to withhold sensitive, embarrassing or even harmful information. Given the highly uncertain alternative to co-operation, however, most companies accept and embrace this new reality from the start of an internal investigation and understand that factual findings far more often than not – if they involve potential criminal misconduct – will be presented to law enforcement.
1.2 Double jeopardy
Another key question in any global investigation – where misconduct crosses borders and where more than one enforcement authority may seek to assert jurisdiction – is the extent to which different authorities can sanction the same or similar conduct. While domestic constitutional provisions on double jeopardy are similar between nation states, no universally accepted international norm exists and the protection afforded by the laws in one country may offer no protection in another. This can present a major difficulty to achieving a satisfactory global settlement for a client.
The doctrine of double jeopardy is that a person should not be tried twice for the same offence. Its underlying objective is to bring finality to criminal proceedings against individuals and companies in specific circumstances. Double jeopardy applies to criminal proceedings, but has been held by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to encompass an administrative penalty, in circumstances where that penalty was classified as a criminal penalty because of the nature of the charges and the severity of the punishment.
In the United Kingdom, there are two essential conditions for the doctrine to apply. First, the case must be ‘finally disposed of’ and second, any penalty imposed must actually have been enforced or be in the process of being enforced. The rationale for the doctrine is that it confers protection on the person (individual or corporate) from the risk of repeated prosecution by the State with its greater resources. Reflecting similar concerns, the concept of double jeopardy in the United States is rooted in the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which reads in relevant part: ‘nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb’. These twenty words have generated tens – if not hundreds – of thousands of pages of case law and are worthy of a treatise in themselves. Distilled to its essence, however, double jeopardy in the United States applies to prohibit subsequent prosecution or multiple punishments of an individual or corporation for the same conduct. Nevertheless, the doctrine of double jeopardy is complicated by the question of dual sovereignty, which holds that double jeopardy’s bar against successive prosecution for the same conduct does not apply when the prior prosecution was brought by a separate sovereign, for example, the US government is not barred from bringing a case where a state or another country has already prosecuted the defendant for the same conduct or vice versa.
1.2.1 Double jeopardy in the United Kingdom
In England, the principle of double jeopardy is well established and has its origins in 12th-century common law and ecclesiastical law. The modern principle of double jeopardy in English law was set out by the Divisional Court in Fofana v. Deputy Prosecutor Thubin Tribunal de Grande Instance de Meaux, France:
The authorities establish two circumstances in English law that offend the principle of double jeopardy:
(1) Following an acquittal or conviction for an offence, which is the same in fact and law – autrefois acquit or convict; and
(2) following a trial for any offence which was founded on ‘the same or substantially the same facts’, where the court would normally consider it right to stay the prosecution as an abuse of process and/or unless the prosecution can show ‘special circumstances’ why another trial should take place.
The Divisional Court referred expressly to the United Kingdom’s adoption of Article 54 of the Schengen Convention and its underlying rationale. This is particularly important, as Article 54 states that a person (or company) whose case has been ‘finally disposed of’ by one Contracting Party may not be prosecuted by another for the ‘same acts’, provided that any penalty imposed has been enforced or is in the process of being enforced.
Throughout the judgment, the Court stressed the need to look at the underlying acts behind each charge, rather than the label of the charge itself. In the event, the Court stayed the extradition proceedings on the basis that, although the extradition offence specified in the warrant was not based exactly, or solely, on the same facts as those charged in the UK indictment, there was such significant overlap between them as to require the proceedings to be stayed.
In the case of DePuy International Limited, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) applied the double jeopardy principle and confirmed that it will likely arise where there is or has been an investigation into the defendant’s conduct by another authority overseas and the essence of a criminal offence in England and Wales is the same offence for which the defendant already faces trial, or has been acquitted or convicted. DePuy was a UK subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, a US company that self-reported to the DOJ and the SEC bribery of foreign officials by DePuy, as well as other offences that did not involve the company, under the FCPA. Johnson & Johnson agreed to a DPA with the DOJ covering the FCPA violations and a civil sanction with the SEC that encompassed criminal and civil fines amounting to US$70 million.
The DOJ informed the SFO of the criminal conduct and the SFO commenced an investigation into DePuy and Mr Dougall, the company’s marketing manager. The SFO took the view that the DPA agreed by the parent company with the DOJ had the legal character of a formally concluded prosecution that punished the same conduct that had formed the basis of the SFO investigation. It determined that the rule against double jeopardy prevented any further criminal sanction being applied in the United Kingdom and instead pursued the company using a civil route to obtain the proceeds of crime. The civil sum obtained by the SFO took into account the global settlement in the United States, including the civil fines paid and recovered of £4.8 million.
Whether a DPA under the United Kingdom’s regime would qualify for double jeopardy protection remains an open question. Although entry into a DPA does not constitute a criminal conviction, it does become the final disposal of specific intended criminal proceedings on its expiry and is almost certain to include the enforcement of a fine against the corporate subject. Furthermore, prosecution may follow in the event of a breach of the DPA.
1.2.2 Double jeopardy in the United States
As noted above, the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution contains a double jeopardy clause. Generally speaking, the double jeopardy clause prohibits the US federal government, or any individual state, from twice prosecuting someone for the same conduct if that person has already been acquitted or convicted (or after certain mistrials once a jury has been empanelled and ‘jeopardy has attached’). It also prohibits courts from imposing multiple punishments for the same conduct, which may be covered in multiple charges in an indictment. The double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment – unlike its privilege against self-incrimination – applies to both individuals and corporations.
The US Supreme Court, however, has recognised a significant exception to the double jeopardy clause, known as the ‘dual sovereignty’ doctrine. Pursuant to this doctrine, double jeopardy does not prohibit the federal government from prosecuting a person previously convicted or acquitted by a state, or vice versa, or one state from prosecuting a person convicted or acquitted by another. In other words, under this doctrine the US federal government can prosecute individuals and entities for the exact same conduct that they have previously been tried for in one of the states, regardless of whether they were convicted or acquitted in that prior case.
To blunt the potentially harsh impact of the dual sovereignty exception, the DOJ has adopted a policy that precludes the initiation of federal prosecution following a prior state (or federal) prosecution based on substantially the same facts. The Dual and Successive Prosecution Policy (the Petite Policy) seeks ‘to vindicate substantial federal interests through appropriate federal prosecutions, to protect persons charged with criminal conduct from the burdens associated with multiple prosecutions and punishments for substantially the same act(s) or transaction(s), to promote efficient utilization of Department resources, and to promote coordination and cooperation between federal and state prosecutors’. To overcome this policy, federal prosecutors must not only comply with the standards applicable for commencing any federal prosecution (i.e., that the defendant’s conduct constitutes a federal offence and that the admissible evidence probably will be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction by an unbiased trier of fact), but they must also obtain the approval of the appropriate Assistant Attorney General and establish that (1) the matter involves a substantial federal interest; and (2) the prior prosecution left that federal interest ‘demonstrably unvindicated’. It is the second of these two factors that provides the greatest protection against successive prosecutions, as, under this policy, the DOJ ‘will presume that a prior prosecution, regardless of result, has vindicated the relevant federal interest’. While this presumption can, of course, be overcome (and the policy lists the factors relevant to make such an assessment), federal prosecutors traditionally reserve such challenges for those cases where it perceives the preceding result to have been manifestly unjust.
Notably, the Petite Policy does not expressly preclude the DOJ from bringing criminal charges based on the same conduct previously prosecuted by a foreign sovereign. Nevertheless, similar, if not identical, principles are at play whether the prior prosecution was brought by a state or federal government, or a foreign sovereign. Counsel endeavouring to persuade the DOJ to defer to the foreign result certainly should be prepared to demonstrate why a successive prosecution would contravene that policy. The DOJ will, of course, consider if US interests have been sufficiently redressed by the foreign prosecution. And, in the cases of corporate criminal activity, it is likely that the DOJ will seek to extract a penalty based on the harm to its interests.
Still, if a prior prosecution by a foreign sovereign has resulted in adequate penalties proportionate to the conduct, the DOJ may well decline or defer the prosecution or, perhaps, offset any US fines or penalties by the amounts paid abroad, particularly in the corporate context. This is particularly likely in the wake of the DOJ’s new policy, announced in May 2018 and since incorporated into the DOJ’s Justice Manual, to discourage the ‘piling on’ of multiple penalties by the DOJ and foreign and domestic agencies when they are investigating the same corporate misconduct. The policy articulates certain factors to be used when determining whether the imposition of multiple penalties would nevertheless serve the interest of justice, and therefore there is no certainty that prior prosecution by a foreign sovereign will result in no or lenient punishment by the United States.
The double jeopardy clause generally does not restrict the ability of the US government to pursue successive criminal and administrative remedies for the same conduct. Indeed, while it is more common for administrative investigations to run in parallel with DOJ investigations, double jeopardy is not offended when a criminal prosecution follows the imposition of an administrative sanction (or vice versa). As the Supreme Court held in Hudson v. United States, the double jeopardy clause does not apply to non-criminal penalties. Though the Court in Hudson recognised that criminal charges following in the wake of stinging administrative penalties could potentially implicate double jeopardy concerns, a defendant mounting such a challenge must establish by the ‘clearest proof’ that the administrative penalty was so punitive as to render it criminal for double jeopardy purposes – a very high hurdle indeed.
1.2.3 The application of double jeopardy in the EU and under the ECHR
Increased focus on combating overseas corruption following the signing of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, has resulted in a rise in multiple prosecutions. A person or company engaging in overseas corruption faces the prospect of prosecution in any signatory country where he, she or the company may have sufficient involvement, either by citizenship or place of incorporation, or as a place where relevant acts took place.
The picture is evolving on both the supranational and national levels, and this is discussed below. The double jeopardy principle is set out in Article 54 of the 1985 Schengen Agreement. On 29 May 2000 the United Kingdom adopted Article 54 of the Schengen Convention and so it presently forms part of the United Kingdom’s domestic law. The rationale for the application of the principle across the European Union was made clear in R v. Gozutok and Brugge, as permitting finality in criminal proceedings and also engendering mutual trust in national criminal justice systems by requiring that each Member State recognise the criminal laws in force in the others even when the outcome would be different if its own national law had been applied.
The Council Framework Decision 2009 on the prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings (the EU Framework Decision) sets out measures to prevent situations where the same person is subject to parallel criminal proceedings in different Member States in respect of the same facts that might lead to the final disposal of those proceedings in two or more Member States.
The EU Framework Decision is constitutionally binding on the United Kingdom as a Member State and as such must be taken into account by the SFO in its decision whether to open a criminal investigation. The double jeopardy principle is not a bar to a criminal investigation however, and the SFO has very wide discretion in deciding whether to carry out an investigation.
1.2.4 European human rights jurisprudence
184.108.40.206 European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
Article 4 of Protocol 7 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) specifically recognises the double jeopardy principle.
The importance of the principle was emphasised in the ECtHR’s Chamber judgment in the case of Grande Stevens and Others v. Italy. Here, the applicants received an administrative penalty from Consob, the Italian Companies and Stock Exchange Commission, in respect of providing false or misleading information concerning financial instruments. The penalty took the form of substantial fines and various banning orders. Subsequently, the applicants were committed for trial before the Turin District Court in respect of criminal allegations of market abuse arising out of the same facts.
The applicants argued before the ECtHR that the subsequent criminal proceedings were in breach of Article 4 as the applicants had already been subject to a penalty that was akin to a criminal penalty, even though it was imposed as an administrative penalty. The court accepted their argument and ruled that the administrative penalty should be considered a criminal penalty for the purposes of the ECHR and that Article 4 prevented the criminal proceedings from taking place on the grounds of double jeopardy.
220.127.116.11 The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
2018 saw three further cases arising in Italy where the principle of double jeopardy was considered, again in relation to administrative penalties imposed by Consob which were severe enough to be considered criminal in nature. All these cases were referred to the CJEU by Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation for a preliminary ruling considering Article 50 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 4, Protocol 7 ECHR.
In the Ricucci matter, the defendant had been fined €10.2 million by Consob, as well as being convicted in criminal proceedings resulting in a sentence of four years’ imprisonment for alleged market manipulation. The Rome District Court subsequently pardoned Ricucci in a final judgment.
Ricucci challenged Consob’s fine in Rome’s Court of Appeal, which reduced it to €5 million in 2009. He then took his appeal to Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation, where he argued that his 2008 criminal conviction and subsequent pardon should negate any Consob proceedings. The Court of Appeal asked the CJEU whether the ne bis in idem principle in Article 50 gives individuals a direct right that can be applied to negate dual proceedings. The Court also asked the CJEU whether the ne bis in idem principle precludes Italy’s law allowing administrative proceedings to be brought for market manipulation after a defendant has been finally convicted.
The CJEU held that dual proceedings can be pursued if they meet ‘an objective of general interest’ – in this case, to protect the European Union’s financial interests. However, the national legislation must also ensure that proceedings and the severity of penalties are limited to ‘what is strictly necessary’ where dual proceedings are to be pursued. Italy’s market manipulation law did not respect the principle of proportionality, and the CJEU ruled that, if a criminal penalty already punishes misconduct in an ‘effective, proportionate and dissuasive manner’, administrative proceedings of a criminal nature are gratuitous and so go beyond ‘what is strictly necessary’.
In two other cases, Di Puma and Zecca, appeals were made against Consob fines, with the defendants arguing that they should not face administrative charges for insider trading when a criminal court had found no misconduct. The appeals court asked the CJEU whether, in light of ne bis in idem, a court would violate an EU directive that requires Member States to provide ‘effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties’ for insider trading if it did not bring administrative sanctions after a criminal court found no wrongdoing.
The CJEU determined in its preliminary ruling that not bringing administrative sanctions after a criminal court has found no misconduct is in accordance with EU law because of the principle of res judicata. It ruled that a defendant who is cleared of a criminal charge, should not be the subject of administrative proceedings for the same matter.
The CJEU has considered the application of the double jeopardy principle to the Schengen Agreement in the context of an individual under investigation in Poland and Germany for allegations of extortion. In this case it upheld the German prosecutor’s decision that the double jeopardy principle did not apply. The matter had not been finally disposed of as no detailed investigation had taken place.
On 15 November 2016, the CJEU rejected an appeal brought by two applicants who were penalised by the Norwegian Tax Authority for failing to pay tax in 2008 and then convicted of aggravated tax fraud in 2009 by the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic Crime. The applicants claimed they were being prosecuted twice for the same misconduct in violation of double jeopardy rules. Rejecting the application, the court held that ECHR double jeopardy rules are not violated where the contracting party could satisfy the court that dual proceedings are sufficiently connected in time and space so as to represent a coherent whole, rather than two sets of proceedings.
1.2.5 Double jeopardy in France
Recent developments in France continue to warrant a special mention as the issue of double jeopardy and its application has come before the courts on a number of occasions recently. The appellate courts have recently considered the extent to which domestic law will recognise convictions in the United States as a bar to prosecution, as well as the status of US DPAs in domestic proceedings. On 18 June 2015 a criminal court in Paris acquitted four French corporates that were accused of paying bribes in connection with the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Programme on the grounds that they (or their corporate parents) had already signed DPAs with the DOJ. The rationale given was that it was inconsistent with French international obligations to prosecute the companies for a second time on what the Court found to be the same facts. The prosecutor’s appeal against the acquittal was successful and in February 2016 a Paris court fined Total SA €750,000 for corrupting foreign officials.
At the time of writing, criminal proceedings in France against Total are being pursued in relation to separate Iranian corruption conduct that allegedly occurred in 2013. In relation to the same matters, Total entered into a US$245.2 million, three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ and disgorged US$153 million in an SEC cease-and-desist order. The DPA expired in November 2016.
On 26 February 2018, the Court of Cassation in Paris upheld a decision to fine Swiss energy company Vitol €300,000 for making corrupt payments to the Iraq government as part of the United Nations Oil-For-Food programme. The Court rejected Vitol’s argument that it was protected from criminal proceedings in France because it had already been punished in the US. The Court found that double jeopardy did not apply because the company had pleaded guilty to a different charge in US proceedings and stated that France must maintain its right to punish companies that break French law. In its ruling, the Court of Cassation considered double jeopardy protections enshrined in both France’s Penal Code and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It concluded that both those protections fail to immunise a company from being prosecuted twice if part of the offence occurred within France and if the misconduct is prosecuted by a country that is not bound by French or EU law, such as the United States. This significantly weakens the double jeopardy defence, in circumstances where some of the misconduct occurred in France.
These cases demonstrate the potential unfairness to a corporate that has effectively admitted the offence in another jurisdiction to obtain a DPA and then finds those admissions being used against it in a jurisdiction that does not recognise the DPA under the double jeopardy doctrine.
At first sight, the doctrine of double jeopardy appears to be a substantial protection against repeated prosecution in respect of the same conduct. However, although the doctrine may in some circumstances protect against a similar prosecution within the state, or member group such as the European Union, it may well fail to protect against a prosecution brought by a separate state. France’s decision not to apply the principle in circumstances where part of the offence occurred within its sovereign territory is a significant restriction on its scope.
As many countries do not recognise a foreign conviction for the purposes of double jeopardy, it is not possible to reassure a corporate client that a criminal settlement in one jurisdiction will qualify as a settlement in others as well. Further, entering into a DPA in one jurisdiction may risk damaging the client’s interests in another if the DPA is not recognised as a bar to prosecution, but the admissions it made to secure the DPA are admissible against it in other jurisdictions.
The picture is uncertain and many questions remain unanswered. These include:
- Should there be international recognition of criminal convictions for the purposes of double jeopardy, to encourage global settlements?
- Should DPAs be given the status of a criminal conviction for the purposes of double jeopardy?
- Should regulatory sanctions qualify for the purposes of double jeopardy?
Until these issues are resolved, a corporate client will only be able to place very limited reliance on the double jeopardy principle as a bar to further prosecution in respect of the same conduct. At present, the only safe course will be to seek to negotiate a global settlement with all the states most likely to take an interest in the conduct, before admitting guilt in any state. Whether this is practicable will vary from case to case.
In relation to individuals, an issue of note was recently referred to the CJEU stemming from a dispute between Hungary and Croatia in the case of AY. The Croatian court had sought a preliminary ruling on whether the double jeopardy principle under EU law means Member States may refuse to enforce European arrest warrant (EAW) requests in cases where its investigations treated individuals as witnesses and not suspects. Specifically, Croatia asked whether Hungary could refuse to enforce two EAW requests it issued for an individual, named only as AY to prevent damage to reputation, after AY was treated as a witness rather than a suspect in an investigation conducted by the Hungarian prosecutor’s office. In its judgment of July 2018, the CJEU stated that execution of an EAW cannot be refused on the ground that a prosecutor had closed a criminal investigation where during that investigation, the requested person was interviewed as a witness only. The Court stated that the judicial authorities of the Member States must adopt a decision on any EAW communicated to them.
1.3 The stages of an investigation
Issues that at first glance may appear to be isolated or technical can quickly spread across borders and escalate into multifaceted threats to businesses, reputations and careers. Even within jurisdictions, different enforcement authorities operate within their own, often complex, legal and technical frameworks. Any investigation, whether an internal fact-finding inquiry aimed at establishing the size and nature of a problem or one commenced by an enforcement authority, is inevitably a dynamic process. There can be no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and the scope of an investigation can change significantly as it progresses.
Nonetheless, it is possible to identify three broad, and often overlapping, phases to an investigation, namely the commencement, information-gathering and disposal phases. Particular challenges arise, and sometimes recur, at each of these.
Conducting and handling investigations, limiting the damage they cause and bringing them to as swift and efficient a conclusion as possible is an art rather than a science. It requires advisers to anticipate, balance and respond to a wide variety of challenges, and to appreciate the potential ramifications of every interaction with a diverse cast of characters.
When deciding whether or how to commence an investigation, or how best to respond to one already commenced by an enforcement authority, it is axiomatic that the very first task to be carried out must be to establish as precisely as possible the size and shape of the problem. Which corporate entities and individuals are regarded as subjects of the investigation? Which offences are they thought to have committed, and which regulatory provisions might they have infringed? Are any other local or foreign agencies investigating (or likely to investigate) this misconduct?
In some cases (typically those involving alleged breaches of regulatory requirements), the answers will be self-evident from notices confirming the commencement of an investigation or the appointment of investigators, and there may be opportunities to seek to establish more detail through scoping discussions. However, in other cases (typically those involving alleged criminal misconduct), the investigators will not necessarily provide details or opportunities for discussions. In some cases, the first indication an individual or entity receives of an investigation by an enforcement authority will be a requirement to attend an interview or provide documents, or, worse still, a knock at the door from investigating officers. In all cases – whether or not enforcement authorities are already aware of alleged misconduct – steps must be taken immediately upon discovery of the alleged misconduct to preserve and to avoid the destruction or deletion (inadvertent or otherwise) of documents that are, or could become, relevant. In large multinational organisations, identifying the custodians of these documents, drafting and disseminating appropriately inclusive document-retention notices, gathering the material and suspending automatic deletion policies is a substantial undertaking in itself.
Where authorities are not already aware of apparent misconduct, considering whether, when and how to disclose matters to them will be an immediate priority. In some cases, specific regulatory obligations will require disclosures. In others, it may be appropriate to voluntarily report matters to maximise the prospects of a consensual resolution on favourable terms. Both types of disclosures require careful handling. Consideration must be given to potential consequences, both for those individuals or corporates already implicated in alleged misconduct, and for those that may become so. Where information is disclosed voluntarily, wider considerations about whether co-operation will be appropriate and would be likely to encourage the relevant enforcement authority to curtail its investigation (and on which terms) should be borne in mind. Identifying the potential risks and benefits will typically involve assessing the enforcement policy and posture of each agency involved (and often of individual investigators) and its ability and propensity to pass information to other investigating or prosecuting authorities (both within and between jurisdictions).
These assessments will inform the answers to a number of practical questions:
- Should an initial notification be made before a full internal investigation has been undertaken?
- What should be disclosed at the end of the internal investigation and to whom?
- Should information be disclosed to the authorities orally rather than in writing?
- Will investigators regard anything less than unfettered access to witnesses’ first accounts and other underlying documents as true co-operation enabling them to contemplate a negotiated outcome?
- Is it feasible to maintain claims to legal professional privilege or challenge investigators’ actions or demands while still seeking to claim that the subjects of the investigation are co-operating?
Choices made at this stage about how much information and control to relinquish over the investigative process and the robustness of the line to be taken with investigators in relation to issues such as privilege can be crucial in setting the tone for the rest of the investigation, and any proceedings that flow from it.
Since the second edition of this text, the Court of Appeal has allowed ENRC’s appeal against the first instance decision, upholding its claim to litigation privilege over the disputed documents, including notes of witness interviews. Under the leadership of the new Director of the SFO, Lisa Osofsky, the SFO decided not to appeal that decision. Given the importance of privilege in the context of global investigations, the decision has been welcomed by lawyers across the globe – the Court of Appeal’s judgment aligns the law more closely with the law of privilege in the United States and its clear articulation of the applicability of litigation privilege in the context of a criminal investigation is likely to mean that the SFO will be less aggressive in making assertions that privilege claims by companies over documents created during the course of internal investigations are ill-founded. However, it is unlikely that the SFO will be any less willing to request waivers of privilege, particularly since the Court of Appeal judgment was clear that its decision should not ‘impact adversely’ on the deferred prosecution regime in the United Kingdom, and emphasising the relevance of waiver to an assessment of a corporate’s co-operation in reaching resolutions. Therefore, decisions as to the approach taken by a company to privilege, regardless of whether privilege can properly be asserted or not, will continue to be crucial decisions that set the tone and, possibly, direction of an investigation.
In cases involving allegations made by or against directors or employees, early determinations need to be made as to whether any specific whistleblower protection legislation or rules have been engaged and whether action should be taken to suspend or dismiss those individuals.
1.3.2 Information gathering
Once the scope of an investigation has been determined, the process of gathering and analysing relevant information, whether in documentary or electronic form or in the form of witnesses’ accounts, commences. Since the advent of the European investigation order (introduced in England and Wales from 31 July 2017), the process of gathering information across borders will be a much simpler and quicker process for enforcement authorities in Europe.
In substantial cross-border investigations, the task of collating relevant material, ascertaining whether it is responsive to requirements to produce documents or provide information (or whether it should otherwise be produced to demonstrate a co-operative stance), and filtering it to remove material exempt from disclosure is time- and resource-intensive. It often requires specialist technical input and expertise. Information should not be treated as a readily portable commodity, and careful consideration should be given to applicable data protection and other confidentiality constraints before information is transferred between jurisdictions or produced to investigating authorities.
Witness interviews during internal investigations raise no fewer questions. When should interviews take place? Who should be present? What material and questions is it appropriate to put to them during such interviews? Should they be represented (and, if so, at whose expense)? Taking a wider view across all jurisdictions in which action could be taken, and from the individual’s perspective, is it in the interests of subjects of the investigation to provide information voluntarily, or should they insist on being compelled to do so?
Of course, where investigations by the authorities have already begun, investigating authorities will be keen to interview individuals who are suspects. Depending on the nature of the investigation and the allegations against them, it may be open to individuals to remain silent in response to questions (although this course of action may limit their options in any proceedings flowing from the investigation). Conversely, it may serve such individuals’ interests to proactively volunteer information to secure more lenient treatment by authorities, or ultimately the courts.
As the information gathering progresses, and evidence is assimilated and understood, a decision will need to be reached as to whether this may be resolved through negotiation, or whether the individual or corporate disputes the allegations entirely or is unprepared to reach any resolution or enter into any settlement that requires admissions of misconduct.
Where settlement is an option, from economic, commercial and reputational standpoints, settling with as many investigating authorities as quickly and on the most favourable terms possible is likely to be preferable. Particularly in regulatory enforcement investigations involving corporates, it is often clear from the commencement phase that this will be the most likely outcome, and dialogue throughout the investigation will have to be directed towards this outcome.
It should not be assumed that the process leading to a negotiated disposal is a smooth or simple one. Even in cases involving only one enforcement authority, the legislation and rules governing settlement and the calculation of penalties are complex. Although the discounts available for early settlement are potentially significant, the processes leading to them can involve successive rounds of proposals, counterproposals, representations and negotiations. In criminal investigations, in jurisdictions where it is possible to achieve negotiated outcomes as an alternative to prosecution, although the degree of scrutiny varies depending on which jurisdiction is concerned, such settlements will also be examined by a judge.
Complexity is multiplied where multiple authorities or jurisdictions are involved, or where it is possible that a finding, even if it does not involve any admission of liability, may fuel subsequent litigation from third parties such as erstwhile customers, employees or shareholders.
Although major investigations are unlikely to have progressed to the disposal stage without attracting at least some publicity, it is at this stage that press and political interest will peak. Enforcement authorities usually must make the outcomes of investigations public (and indeed corporate entities themselves may be obliged to do so if their securities are listed).
Other difficult questions arise with negotiated disposals. What will be the size of the fines, if any? For individuals, is there the prospect of imprisonment or other career-threatening penalties? Will it be possible to settle with all interested investigating authorities? For the corporate to bring matters to a close, will it be necessary to assist authorities in their pursuit of individuals? Will the disposal of the investigations mark the end of the matter, or simply the start of a new phase of litigation or the commencement of a long process of reporting to a monitor and heightened levels of regulatory scrutiny or supervision? What can be said publicly by the subjects of the investigations?
With these themes in mind, we turn now to a detailed consideration of each stage in the chapters that follow.
1 Judith Seddon and Ama A Adams are partners at Ropes & Gray International LLP; Christopher J Morvillo and Luke Tolaini are partners, and Tara McGrath is a senior associate, at Clifford Chance; Eleanor Davison is a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers; and Michael Bowes QC is a barrister at Outer Temple Chambers.
2 Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v. Nattrass AC 153; reaffirmed in Attorney General’s Reference (No. 2 of 1999) 2 Cr App R 207 at 217-218 in which Rose LJ stated: ‘Tesco v. Nattrass is still authoritative … and it is impossible to find a company guilty unless its alter ego is identified. None of the authorities since Tesco v. Nattrass … supports the demise of the doctrine of identification: all are concerned with statutory construction of different substantive offences and the appropriate rule of attribution was decided having regard to the legislative intent, namely whether Parliament intended companies to be liable. There is a sound reason for a special rule of attribution in relation to statutory offences rather than common law offences, namely there is, subject to a defence of reasonable practicability, an absolute duty imposed by the statutes. The authorities on statutory offences do not bear on the common law principle in relation to manslaughter. Lord Hoffmann’s speech in Meridian is a re-statement not an abandonment of existing principles … .’; and Environment Agency v. St Regis Paper Co. Ltd 1 Cr App R 177, at paras. 10-12 in which, at para. 12, Moses LJ said: ‘It seems to us that as a matter of statutory construction it is impossible to impose criminal liability for a breach of Regulation 32(1)(g) to the company in circumstances other than those where an intention to make a false entry can be attributed by operation of the rule in Tesco Supermarkets. There is, in our view, no warrant for imposing liability by virtue of the intentions of one who cannot be said to be the directing mind and will of St. Regis Paper Company.’ The identification principle was reaffirmed by the Court of Appeal in R v. A Ltd, X, Y EWCA Crim 1469. Most recently the SFO was unsuccessful in having charges against Barclays Bank PLC reinstated through a voluntary bill of indictment, after all charges against the bank were dismissed in the Crown Court. The reasoning behind Lord Justice Davis’s decision cannot be reported until the conclusion of the trial of the individuals, including Barclays’ former chief executive officer, https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2018/10/26/barclays-
3 These statutory offences are referred by Rose LJ in Attorney General’s Reference (No. 2 of 1999) 2 Cr App R 207 at 217-218, at footnote 2.
4 Ministry of Justice Guidance on the Bribery Act 2010, issued pursuant to section 9 of the Bribery Act 2010.
5 Tackling tax evasion: Government guidance for the corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion, 1 September 2017, at page 25.
6 Ministry of Justice, Corporate Liability for Economic Crime: Call for Evidence, Consultation Document, at p. 4.
7 Namely that prosecutors must be satisfied that there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against each suspect on each charge. They must consider what the defence case may be, and how it is likely to affect the prospects of conviction. A case that does not pass the evidential stage must not proceed, no matter how serious or sensitive it may be.
8 DPA Code of Practice, at para. 1.2(i)(b) (https://www.sfo.gov.uk/publications/guidance-policy-and-protocols/deferred-prosecution-agreements/).
9 Government Guidance, at p. 13. See footnote 5, above.
10 SFO v. XYZ Ltd Case No. U20150856, (Preliminary Redacted) Approved Judgment, dated 8 July 2016, at para. 34.
11 Ministry of Justice, Corporate Liability for Economic Crime: Call for Evidence, Consultation Document, at p. 23.
12 Ibid. at p. 21.
13 Charles Doyle, Congressional Research Service, Corporate Criminal Liability: An Overview of Federal Law 1 (2013).
14 Jones v. Federated Fin. Reserve Corp., 144 F.3d 961, 965 (6th Cir. 1998). See also Hamilton v. Carell, 243 F.3d 992, 1001 (6th Cir. 2001).
15 United States v. Singh, 518 F.3d 236, 249 (4th Cir. 2008) (citing United States v. Automated Med. Labs., 770 F. 2d 399, 406–47 (4th Cir. 1985)).
16 Automated Med. Labs., 770 F.2d at 407.
17 United States v. Sci. Applications Int’l Corp., 555 F. Supp. 2d 40, 55–56 (D.C. Cir. 2008). See also United States v. Bank of New England, N.A., 821 F.2d 844, 856 (1st Cir. 1987); United States v. T.I.M.E.-D.C., Inc., 381 F. Supp. 730, 738–39 (W.D. Va. 1974).
18 See United States v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co., No 14-CR-00175-TEH, 2015 WL 9460313 (N.D. Cal. 23 December 2015). There, a grand jury charged the Pacific Gas & Electric Company with violating the Pipeline Safety Act after a gas line erupted causing several deaths and injuries. The company moved to dismiss on the basis that the grand jury received incorrect instructions on, inter alia, collective intent. In denying the motion to dismiss, the court held that the collective knowledge of the corporation’s employees demonstrated that they wilfully disregarded their legal duty to abide by the safety standards outlined in the Act. Id. at *3. Following a jury conviction on five counts, the company sought to have the case set aside; however, the court held that a reasonable juror could have found wilfulness beyond a reasonable doubt based on the evidence presented. United States v. Pac. Gas & Elec. Co., No. 14-CR-00175-TEH, 2016 WL 6804575, at *3 (N.D. Cal. 17 November 2016). See also United States v. FedEx Corp., 2016 U.S. Dist LEXIS 52438 (N.D. Cal. 18 April 2016) (denying FedEx’s motion to dismiss, which was premised on the ground that the jury received incorrect instructions on collective intent and collective knowledge).
19 T.I.M.E.-D.C., Inc., 381 F. Supp. at 740.
20 See, e.g., United States v. Hopkins, 53 F.3d 533 (2d Cir. 1995) (imposing a strict liability standard for a violation of the Clean Water Act); United States v. Weitzenhhoff, 35 F.3d 1275 (9th Cir. 1993). Contra United States v. Ahmad, 101 F.3d 386 (5th Cir. 1996) (suggesting that there is a mens rea requirement for violations of the Clean Water Act). See also James Swann and Alex Ruoff, Self-Referral Law Seen as Barrier to New Provider Agreements, Bloomberg BNA (5 May 2016), http://www.bna.com/selfreferral-law-seen-n57982070764/ (discussing the physician self-referral law’s imposition of strict liability).
21 For a discussion of the history and development of corporate criminal liability in the United States, see Kathleen F. Brickey, Corporate Criminal Accountability: A Brief History and an Observation, 60 Wash. U. L.Q. 393, 404–15 (1982).
22 Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, 544 U.S. 696 (2005). For a complete history of Arthur Andersen LLP, see Susan E. Squires et al., Inside Arthur Andersen: Shifting Values, Unexpected Consequences (2003).
23 See Gabriel Markoff, Arthur Andersen and the Myth of the Corporate Death Penalty: Corporate Criminal Convictions in the Twenty-First Century, 15 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 797, 805–07 (2013).
24 See Gretchen Morgenson & Louise Story, Behind the Gentler Approach to Banks by US, N.Y Times, 7 July 2011, at A1.
25 See, e.g., Peter J. Henning, Seeking Guilty Pleas From Corporations While Limiting the Fallout, N.Y. Times Dealbook (5 May 2014), https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/seeking-guilty-
pleas-from-corporations-while-limiting-the-fallout/; Francine McKenna, Why the Ghost of Arthur Andersen No Longer Haunts Corporate Criminals, MarketWatch (21 May 2015),
26 U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Justice Manual 9-28.700 (2015).
27 The ne bis in idem or double jeopardy principle is well established both in EU law and under the European Convention on Human Rights. The phrase is derived from the Roman law maxim nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa (a man shall not be twice vexed or tried for the same cause).
28 Grande Stevens and Others v. Italy (4 March 2014) Application Nos. 18640/10, 18647/10, 18668/10 and 18698/10. The judgment is not final.
29 The protection is not absolute. A second trial is permitted in defined circumstances. In the United Kingdom, a prosecutor will seek a retrial if a jury has been unable to reach a verdict in the initial trial. A further trial in murder cases may also be permitted in circumstances where compelling new evidence comes to light.
30 U.S. Const. amend. V.
31 See generally Ernest H. Schopler, Annotation, Supreme Court’s Views of Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause Pertinent to or Applied in Federal Criminal Cases, 50 L. Ed. 2d 830 (2012).
32 EWHC 744 (Admin), Judgment, at para. 18.
33 Id. at para. 14.
34 In the United Kingdom, the decision to leave the EU adds further uncertainty to the recognition of double jeopardy principle in its application to convictions in other Member States.
35 Fofana, Judgment, at para. 29. See footnote 32, above.
36 See U.S. Const. amend. V; Martinez v. Illinois, 134 S. Ct. 2070, 2074.
37 See Breed v. Jones, 421 U.S. 519, 528 (1975).
38 See United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., 430 U.S. 564 (1977) (applying double jeopardy to corporate defendants without discussing their status as corporations); United States v. Sec. Nat’l Bank, 546 F.2d 492, 494 (2d Cir. 1976).
39 United States v. Lanza, 260 U.S. 377, 385 (1922).
40 Notably, the Supreme Court very recently declined to extend the dual sovereignty doctrine to successive prosecutions by Puerto Rico and the United States, concluding that the question of separate sovereignty requires an assessment of the source of the power to punish. Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, 136 S. Ct. 1863 (2016). There, the Court held that successive prosecutions may be brought only where two prosecuting authorities derive their power to punish from independent sources; if those authorities draw their power from the same ultimate source, successive prosecutions are prohibited.
41 U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Justice Manual 9-2.031 (1999).
44 See Thompson v. United States, 444 U.S. 248, 248 (1980) (noting that there is an exception to the Petite Policy where US prosecution would serve ‘compelling interests of federal law enforcement’).
45 US Dept. of Justice, Justice Manual §1-12.100; Deputy Att’y Gen. Rod Rosenstein, Remarks
to the New York City Bar White Collar Crime Institute (9 May 2018), available at
46 See Hudson v. United States, 522 U.S. 93, 96 (1997).
47 Id. at 99.
48 See id.
49 Article 54: ‘A person whose trial has been finally disposed of in one contracting party may not be prosecuted in another contracting party for the same acts provided that, if a penalty has been imposed, it has been enforced, is actually in the process of being enforced or can no longer be enforced under the laws of the sentencing contracting party.’
50 2000/365/EC: Council Decision of 29 May 2000 concerning the request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to take part in some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis.
51 2 CMLR 2.
53 Section 1(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987; ‘The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud.’ See also R (Corner House) v. Director of the SFO EWHC 714 (Admin), at para. 51.
54 ‘Article 4 – Right not to be tried or punished twice
1 No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the same State for an offence for which he has already been finally acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of that State.
2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not prevent the reopening of the case in accordance with the law and penal procedure of the State concerned, if there is evidence of new or newly discovered facts, or if there has been a fundamental defect in the previous proceedings, which could affect the outcome of the case.
3 No derogation from this Article shall be made under Article 15 of the Convention.’
55 Grande Stevens and Others v. Italy (4 March 2014) Application Nos. 18640/10, 18647/10, 18668/10 and 18698/10. The judgment is not final.
56 In March 2015, France’s Constitutional Court ruled that Airbus executives could not be prosecuted for insider trading because they had been cleared over similar administrative charges by France’s Financial Markets Authority, the AMF. In reaching its decision the Court gave considerable weight to the decision of the ECtHR in the Grande Stevens case.
57 Case C-537/16: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 20 March 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione – Italy). See also
58 Joined Cases C-596/16 and C-597/16, Di Puma and Zecca.
59 Case C-486/14, Kossowski, 29 June 2016.
60 Case of A and B v. Norway (Applications nos. 24130/11 and 29758/11) 15 November 2016, lovdata.no/static/EMDN/emd-2011-024130.pdf.
61 The Court of Cassation will hear appeals from another 14 companies accused of wrongdoing as part of the UN Oil for Food scheme, with more double jeopardy arguments likely to feature in 2019. See https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/article/1168159/vitol-decision-shakes-double-
62 The fine was in addition to a US$17.5 million sanction Vitol received in the United States in 2007 as part of a plea agreement entered to resolve identical allegations.
63 The company pleaded guilty to a single count of grand larceny in the New York State Supreme Court and paid a US$17.5 million fine, US$4.5 million of which was donated to the state of New York. Vitol admitted in the US plea deal that corrupt payments were made through its employees in France. In total, the company said it paid US$13 million to Iraqi officials between 2001 and 2002 hidden in oil contracts awarded to the company as part of the Oil-For-Food programme.
64 Note that as France is a civil law jurisdiction, lower courts are not strictly bound to follow the Court of Cassation’s decision.
65 Judgment in Case C-268/17 AY (Arrest warrant — witness). The Court analysed whether any of the grounds for optional non-execution provided for in Article 4(3) of the framework decision applied in the AY case and concluded they did not. Those grounds relate to: (1) the decision of the executing judicial authority not to prosecute for the offence on which the European arrest warrant is based; (2) the fact that, in the executing Member State, the judicial authorities have decided to halt proceedings in respect of the offence on which the warrant is based; and (3) the fact that a final judgment has been passed on the requested person in a Member State, in respect of the same acts, which prevents further proceedings. The Court determined the first and third grounds were irrelevant in the case. The Court concluded that an interpretation according to which the execution of a European arrest warrant could be refused where that warrant concerns the same acts as those that have already been the subject of a previous decision, without the identity of the person against whom criminal proceedings are brought being considered relevant, would be manifestly too broad and would entail a risk that the obligation to execute the warrant could be circumvented. As that ground for non-execution constitutes an exception, it must be interpreted strictly and in the light of the need to promote the prevention of crime. The investigation by the Hungarian authorities was conducted, not against AY, but against an unknown person, and the decision that closed that investigation was not taken in respect of AY. The Court concludes from this that the second ground for non-execution does not apply either. See also https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/article/1166589/croatian-case-to-clarify-eaw-double-jeopardy-rules.
66 SFO v. ENRC 2018 EWCA Civ 2006.
67 See SFO v. ENRC 2018 EWCA Civ 2006 at paras. 115–117, in particular: ‘In any event, to determine whether a DPA is in the interests of justice, and whether the terms of the particular DPA are fair, reasonable and proportionate, the court must examine the company’s conduct and the extent to which it cooperated with the SFO. Such an examination will consider whether the company was willing to waive any privilege attaching to documents produced during internal investigations, so that it could share those documents with the SFO . . .’
68 See Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017. There are at the time of writing proposals for European production and preservation orders that would, respectively, allow electronic evidence to be requested directly from a service provider in the European Union or oblige a service provider to preserve specific data. In the United Kingdom, the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill is making its way through Parliament, which would, if enacted, allow a UK court, subject to certain requirements, on the application of an appropriate officer (which would include, among others, a police officer, a member of the SFO or a person appointed by the FCA) and provided that an international co-operation agreement were in place, to make an order against a person in that jurisdiction.
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Welcome to this week’s Math Munch!
A few months ago, the Math Munch team got an email from retired mathematician Hermann Hoch with a lead to his amazing website full of (among other things)… clocks! One of the things Hermann does with his spare time in retirement is make creative math-y clocks using html. He calls them “html5 experiments”– and they really do take math art to the next level!
There are many fascinating clocks on Hermann’s site. (Be careful, or you might spend too much time watching the seconds go by!) One of my favorites is a clock he calls the Mondriaan Clock. The display is inspired by the art of Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan, who was known for his paintings of overlapping squares and rectangles in primary colors. The clock also comes with the exciting prompt– “wait until time creates golden ratios for us”! At what time will one of the rectangles in the image have dimensions that approximate the Golden Ratio? Hermann says that this question isn’t easy– he hasn’t even found all of the times himself! (And I’m sure he’d love to know– post your ideas in the comments below.)
Next up, I’ve been obsessed with Spirolaterals lately. What’s a Spirolateral, you ask? It’s a shape made by drawing segments of different lengths (say, 2, 3, and 4) one after another in a cycle (say, right, up, left, and down) until the shape closes up (or doesn’t, and you know it never will). If you follow those instructions (drawing on grid paper helps), you make this flower-like shape:
You can make Spirolaterals (or Loop-de-Loops, as they’re also called) with any numbers and using any turning angle. This Spirolateral uses three numbers and a turning angle of 90 degrees. (See the square corners?) But what if you use four numbers? Five numbers? Thirteen numbers? You can try drawing by hand- and then coloring them in, to make a beautiful mathematical creation. The Spirolateral below uses the first 50 digits of pi!
But you also don’t have to draw them by hand. The two Spirolaterals shown here were both drawn using a computer program! My favorite program for drawing Spirolaterals with 90 degree turns is this one, made by Chris Lusto. He gives great instructions and allows you to use as many numbers as you like!
But what if you wanted to make a Spirolateral with a… 109 degree turn? Wouldn’t that be cool! Well, yes, it is cool–
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Ashley Ravenscraft had a decision to make. Over the past several hours as a storm rolled through northern Alabama on 11 January, her team at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Huntsville had already issued two tornado warnings.
Ravenscraft, a meteorologist, had issued the warnings using the Three Ingredients Method, which uses radar inputs to estimate the likelihood a linear storm will shift into a vortex. Then the azimuth motor went down on the closest radar to the storm—a technician had been sent to repair it, but it would be a least an hour before he arrived and would be able to get it back online. The remaining radar stations were far enough from the storm that they were capturing only data above several thousand meters in altitude—too high to make accurate judgments on storm rotation close to the ground.
But Ravenscraft was getting consistent data about one piece of the storm that would become key: lightning.
The NWS had brought a new application online in 2018—Ravenscraft was using it for only the second time. Her color-coded screen was showing 1-minute flash extent density data, or the rate at which lightning was flashing in the area. It was pulling in real-time data from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), a near-infrared instrument aboard the GOES-R satellite. As the frequency of flashes increases, the colors on the map move from cool to warm.
A month earlier, on 16 December 2019, Ravenscraft had been on radar for her first big storm and had GLM data up on her screen. As the storm line approached the Huntsville region through northern Mississippi, “I was watching the nature of the lightning jumps [the flash extent density data]—how high it got, how quick it got,” she said. “I knew that they were putting out tornado warnings, and I knew how the radar looked, so I thought, ‘If we start to see these lightning jumps, and we see these updrafts grow, especially combined with the surge in the line we can see on radar, then there’s a good chance we’re going to end up with a tornado.’”
When the storm reached her coverage area, eight reported tornados touched down. Ravenscraft had successfully predicted and sent out a warning for each one.
But there was one additional warning she issued that night, for residents in Lincoln County, Tenn. The lightning jump had been lower than the others she had seen, but combined with what she saw on radar, she made the call. That night, no tornado was reported in that location. A few weeks later, however, her team was looking over the data and became so convinced that something had to have happened there that a colleague drove out to inspect the scene for himself. Ravenscraft had been right: A line of uprooted trees and an eyewitness account from a neighbor confirmed a small twister had touched down. “From that event, we realized how significant the GLM data was.”
Now Ravenscraft was studying the January storm on her monitors, with very limited radar data, and the current tornado warning was just about to expire, which meant residents would believe it was safe to leave shelter. “I started to notice that every minute, the [lightning flash] rate was going up.…I said, this is not good, obviously the updraft was strengthening.” Then the GLM data spiked.
Ravenscraft issued the alert. The action began a cascade of notifications in the area: Weather radios blared the alarm, local media was instantly notified, automated scripts went out on all the regional NWS social media pages, and within about 10 seconds, anyone with a mobile app that pulled NWS data and was within cell range was alerted to take—or, in this case, stay in—shelter.
Almost immediately, an EF2 tornado touched down and slammed into an elementary school, causing significant damage—thankfully, it was a Saturday. “GLM was the decision maker,” Ravenscraft said. “If we had only had radar, we may not have decided to issue that warning.”
Reaching the Perfect Storm of Lightning Detection
GLM is the most recent lightning detection instrument to go online in what is still a relatively young field. In the early 1980s, detection sensors were popping up in regions around the United States. In 1989, they were consolidated into the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN). Today, a little more than 100 low-frequency sensors are distributed across the continental United States under the operation of Vaisala, a company that performs industrial and environmental observations and makes them available to clients like the NWS.
About 15 years ago, Ryan Said was in the electrical engineering doctoral program at Stanford University. His research group was taking very powerful sensors that had been used for studying the ionosphere and repurposing them into exceptionally sensitive lightning detectors. Where the NLDN sensors can detect lightning around 800 kilometers away, these sensors can pick up lightning emissions up to 10,000 kilometers away. About halfway through development, Vaisala got wind of the project and invested in it—one of the head engineers at the company became Said’s dissertation adviser. That network, called the Global Lightning Dataset 360, or GLD360, launched in 2009. Said wrote the sensor software and location algorithms for it and has been at Vaisala as a senior scientist and systems engineer since 2012.
Between NLDN and GLD360, explained Said, “we can detect these radio signatures from lightning happening anywhere on Earth.” (And he really does mean anywhere. Last June, GLD360 detected the closest flashes to the North Pole ever observed.) When a sensor detects a radio impulse from a flash, the GPS-synchronized data are sent to a central hub and processed into lightning location data. Clients who subscribe to the data get a near-real-time feed that includes the time of each detected stroke within a flash to within a microsecond, the location to within 200 meters in the United States (2 to 3 kilometers for the GLD360), the peak current, and the polarity of a lightning flash.
Many of the people who use this information, like Ravenscraft and her colleagues at NWS Huntsville, use streams from several environmental monitoring networks simultaneously. “They take that real-time feed and then overlay it on their AWIPS [Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System] software,” explained Said, “which is sort of a Swiss Army knife tool that can overlay satellite and radar and lightning data for meteorological information on the same display.”
The major benefit of the NLDN—which detects radio emissions in the very low frequency and low-frequency ranges—is in its precise location pinpointing. GLM observations, meanwhile, capture the flashes from above, making one of its major benefits the ability to see the horizontal extent of a storm and to detect the majority intracloud flashes—flashes that don’t make ground contact but tend to indicate stronger updrafts as they occur in greater numbers (NLDN sensors can detect only about half of all intracloud flashes). In other words, NLDN tells you, among other things, precisely where powerful strokes may be causing damage, and GLM tells you how far away that storm is still churning.
One of the experiments Said and his team are pursuing is using these complementary data sets to study lightning-triggered wildfires. The numbers here themselves are wild: Lightning causes around 16% of wildfires, but those fires cause 56% of the acreage burned, making it a priority for many in the forest services to track these triggering events [Balch et al., 2017].
It’s not as simple as monitoring lightning data during storms. Wildfires are often caused by continuing currents—that’s when a lightning flash establishes a conductive channel to the ground, but instead of concluding in a fast-return stroke, a weaker sustained electrical current continues on the ground for 10 to 100 times longer than the stroke. “An analogy I often give is a hot poker: If you just touch something quickly it might not do much damage, but if you hold it for awhile it can heat up.” If you heat up a patch of underbrush long enough, it catches fire.
The GLM can see this type of sustained flash—from 10 to several hundred milliseconds long—but can resolve its location only to around 64 square kilometers. Vaisala is testing software that takes these broad GLM data points and combines them with NLDN data to narrow down the location to 200 meters. That’s information that emergency management personnel could use to go investigate potentially smoldering locations before they catch.
What Lightning Tells You at a Glance
Going one step further, one group is trying to take these data and create automated wildfire detection algorithms. Chris Schultz is a research meteorologist at NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center, or SPoRT, in Huntsville. He recently led a team that looked at how long an area might smolder before catching fire after it has been struck by lightning. In a paper published last year, they found that half of causal flashes occurred the same day as the fire, but the rest were tracked largely between 2 and 5 days before the fire was spotted—one fire in New Mexico didn’t catch until 12 days after the causal lightning strike [Schultz et al., 2019].
“The end goal is to develop an algorithm where you have all the inputs of precipitation, storm type, and land surface and soil moisture that forecasters look for as assessment of the fire danger,” said Schultz, “and then as thunderstorms roll through you can evaluate the likelihood of a fire” from a lightning strike, even if it doesn’t ignite for a week.
SPoRT is tasked with developing all sorts of tools that can help forecasters and anyone charged with public safety to handle the ever-changing weather. Later this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be rolling out the Time Since Last Flash tool, an operational version of a concept that SPoRT created that uses GLM data. The tool automatically changes colors on a digital map from red to yellow to, finally, green, when lightning was last detected 30 minutes ago. It’s a simple application that could be used by football game managers or lifeguards to easily and accurately know when people can safely come back outside.
Other applications are those that meteorologists like Ravenscraft use, such as the colors that indicate a spike in lightning rates. “The hardest thing to measure in atmospheric sciences is vertical motion,” said Schultz, so forecasters use lightning as a proxy for that motion.
“We’ve got to this point where forecasters are comfortable taking their radar data, taking their lightning data, taking their satellite data and understanding the formation of that storm and its impact for the next 30 to 40 minutes,” said Schultz. And applications like the ones SPoRT provides to meteorologists allow them to make faster and more confident predictions and get people to safety. “That’s what gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling, when forecasters are able to utilize the things we’ve been working on.”
Modern Lightning Safety in the United States
Last year, the NLDN recorded 20 million lightning flashes that hit the ground in the United States. But as modern, grounded buildings were erected, metal-topped cars proliferated, and the percentage of people working outside went down, fatalities from lightning have gone from around 400 annually in the early 20th century to 27 for the past decade.
Maybe you’ve called your kids in from the yard because you know “When thunder roars, go indoors.” Or perhaps you know the 30-30 rule: When the time between lightning and thunder is less than 30 seconds, it’s not safe to be outside; when 30 minutes have passed since the last strike, it’s safe to go back outside (the rule behind Schultz’s Time Since Last Flash concept).
If so, you can thank Ron Holle, Mary Ann Cooper, and a group of colleagues determined to educate the public on lightning safety. The group met to discuss these ideas in 1998 at the American Meteorological Society conference. The timing (30 seconds, 30 minutes) was based on data they were collecting from the NLDN. Then Holle and Cooper, today known as the preeminent lightning safety experts in the world, went on a media blitz, giving thousands of interviews to local and national reporters to spread these simple messages [Cooper and Holle, 2012].
Even with this progress, Holle, who is now a consultant for Vaisala, argues there’s a long way to go—in developed countries like the United States, that means vulnerability regarding our infrastructure.
“A lot of the power companies are not using lightning data,” Holle said, noting that 50 years ago it may not have been a huge issue if a transformer blew and power went out for an evening, but today, even a few seconds of outage can cause major problems. Nevertheless, Holle said, the list of companies—utilities, airports, major sports facilities—that could still benefit is significant. “It’s a bit frustrating to know that we’re sitting on the data that really could help people.”
The Current That Kills Can Come from Below
Lightning safety is an entirely different issue in developing countries. When thunder roars, go indoors? “Not if you have a thatched roof,” said Cooper.
In June 2011, 18 children were killed, and 38 were injured when lightning struck Runyanya Primary School in Uganda. The tragedy moved Richard Tushemereirwe, an adviser on science and technology to the president of Uganda, to found the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network, or ACLENet. The organization collects injury data, educates communities on lightning dangers, and raises funds to protect schools and other buildings with lightning safety devices.
The first thing Tushemereirwe did was recruit Cooper to run the organization. (She brought on Holle, who serves on the board.) Cooper is a medical doctor and one of the first experts in modern emergency medicine. She quite literally wrote the book on it—helping to design the first protocols and accreditation standards for the doctors who treat you in the emergency room today. While Cooper was in school, a family friend suffered a high-voltage industrial accident; several years later, it inspired her to give a lecture on electrical injuries at which an attendee asked about lightning injuries. She discovered there was almost nothing published on the topic. She decided to do it herself, searching back through a century of literature for the few documented cases and eventually developing a handful of correlations on location and type of burns and their impact on mortality.
There are five electrical mechanisms through which lightning can kill or injure a person. Only a small percentage of victims are killed or injured by a direct lightning strike. An equally small number are hit through conduction, or contact injury, such as touching a faucet when lightning strikes it. Fifteen to 20% are killed or injured through what’s called a sideflash, the electrical current that strikes outward once lightning has hit something nearby, like a tree.
Another 15% to 20% of victims suffer through a terrifying mechanism called an upward streamer. “As a thunderstorm is coming through the area—it doesn’t even need to be over top of you—this intense, huge electrical field starts, inducing opposite charges in whatever’s underneath it, whether it’s a TV tower or a tree or a person or a cow,” said Cooper. “It turns out that sometimes that opposite charge can be strong enough that an upward streamer will actually start up from the skull of that person or tower.” Sometimes a lightning flash will attach to that upward streaming charge, but it doesn’t have to—the charge itself can be strong enough to kill you. Cooper herself wrote the first medical report on the mechanism after studying the case of a man who was killed during a lightning storm but presented none of the usual high-voltage burns and neither his nearby crew members nor the electrical equipment he was working on suffered any damage. [Cooper, 2002]
But it’s the final mechanism that’s responsible for half of all people killed or injured through lightning: ground current. That is largely the challenge in Africa, where many buildings still have dirt floors, and schools are collections of unsafe buildings in close proximity. In the United States, it’s extremely rare for more than one person to be killed by a single strike; in Africa, it’s not uncommon for groups of 10 or more people to be killed while sitting together in a room—often children attending class.
Cooper and her team presented their data on the high incidents of lightning deaths of African schoolchildren at an international conference in 2014, urging the attendees to focus on safety in schools. The presentation fostered a partnership with German lightning protection company DEHN, and together, they developed a system that was first installed at Runyanya in 2016.
The system starts with a simple lightning rod. “There’s nothing that’s superior to the old-fashioned Ben Franklin lightning rod,” said Cooper. The building is then retrofitted with wires or metal fittings, and the system ends in a ground ring.
In Runyanya, community members were greatly involved with the project, using their farming tools to dig a trench about a half a meter deep around each building to bury cables, said Holle. “When the lightning hits the building, it comes down the conductors and goes directly into the ground, into this long loop around the building, and dissipates.” It took about 3 days to retrofit all six Runyanya buildings plus a local church.
ACLENet has now protected six schools around Uganda and is currently negotiating some plans with the government to increase and better fund these efforts, including developing workshops in lightning safety building codes for engineers in Africa.
Big Questions Remain on the Big Spark
A better understanding of the mechanisms of lightning itself can better support prediction and mitigation efforts on the ground, researchers say.
“Lightning is just a big spark,” said Bill Rison, a research professor at Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. “You can measure sparks quite well in the laboratory.” But when researchers compared lab conditions to measurements taken by balloons or aircraft inside storms, he said, “you find that the electric field in the thunderstorm is about an order of magnitude smaller than it would take to generate a spark in the laboratory.”
In 1996, Rison was flying back with his colleagues from AGU’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco when they had a bit of an epiphany. They had been working with NASA on a novel very high frequency (VHF) detection system at Kennedy Space Center in Florida that could map lightning flashes in 3-D. But the cost was exorbitant—about $1 million for each of 10 stations. The key to this kind of instrument is highly accurate timing, and highly accurate GPS technology was just becoming available.
These new GPS-based 3-D instruments that make up the Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) cost about 5% of the original NASA stations, which meant Rison’s New Mexico Tech team could deploy them all over. [Rison et al., 1999] Today, there are about 15 of these arrays around the world, and the data they produce are “supercool,” said Vaisala’s Ryan Said. “There are some things we can’t measure,” referring to the NLDN. Unlike radio detectors, VHF instruments can measure all the very small electric discharges that a flash produces to create that detailed 3-D structure. “It’s remarkable,” said Said. “The amount of intuition we have from this research into lightning flashes is ridiculous.”
Lately, Rison’s team has been working in collaboration with the University of Utah, which runs a cosmic ray observatory. Thunderstorms can produce gamma rays, as NASA discovered in the early 1990s, and the Utah team was seeing these terrestrial gamma rays in their data. The New Mexico team already had an LMA in the area, “so now we could actually see characteristics of lightning that were producing the terrestrial gamma ray flashes,” said Rison [e.g., Abbasi et al., 2018]. In 2017, researchers in Japan used instruments outside a nuclear power plant to detect what’s called the relativistic runaway electron avalanches produced by the strong electrical fields in a storm. [Enoto et al., 2017] “Lightning is actually a slow nuclear reactor,” said Rison; his team is working on a new paper from the Utah observations that will offer “more details with exactly what processes of lightning are to generate the terrestrial gamma ray flashes.”
A Second Golden Age
When Chris Schultz looks around at the field of lightning study today, he sees immense progress. “We have a lot of new instrumentation that’s come online in the last 2 years, so we’re trying to integrate all that new information and build a better picture of how that lightning is forming and how it begins in the cloud,” he said.
When Ashley Ravenscraft looked back at the stats for the eight tornados that touched down in northern Alabama in December 2019, she found “we were giving 30 to 45 minutes of lead time” through tornado warnings that told local residents to get to safety. “It tears me up that we had two fatalities, but to not have more is a step in the right direction.”
As researchers build that better picture—through the NLDN and GLD360, through optical images obtained by the GLM in low-Earth orbit, through 3-D lightning mappers—the practical applications for how we protect our communities from dangers of lightning proliferate. Schultz concludes, “We’re in the second golden age of lightning measurement.”
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I don't understand the difference in mechanics of a transformer vs LSTM for a sequence prediction problem. Here is what I have gathered so far:
suppose we want to predict the remaining tokens in the word 'deep' given the first token 'd'. Then the first input will be 'd', and the predicted output is 'e'. Now at the next time step, the previously predicted output 'e' is fed along with the previous hidden state which contains information on 'd'. This is done till the predicted output is
In the same example, how would the transformer work, and avoid sequential inputs? Would we be giving the entire word 'deep' as input and leave it to the network to get the characters in correct sequence, or do we only input 'd' (which is what we did in LSTM)?
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A slot is a machine that spins reels to place symbols next to each other, and if you get the right combinations of symbols, you can win big. It’s a fun game and can be a great way to pass time, but it is important to know a few basic rules before you start playing.
1. Know your limits
First and foremost, it is crucial to set a budget for yourself before you start playing slots. This will help you avoid going over your limit and destroying your bankroll. You should also set a stop loss amount, which is the point where you quit if you are losing too much money.
2. Choose the right slot for you
There are a wide range of different types of slot games, and you should always take your time and decide which one is best for you. This will give you the best chance of winning and keeping your bankroll intact.
3. Look at the pay tables
You should always read the pay table before placing any money in a slot machine. It will tell you the maximum payout for each symbol, as well as any caps that a casino may have on jackpot amounts. This will allow you to make the most informed decisions before you start playing.
4. Be aware of the bonus rounds and features
Depending on the type of slot you’re playing, there may be some features that can make your experience more exciting. These can include wild symbols, free spins and progressive jackpots. They can also add some extra ambiance to the gameplay, which can make it more engaging.
5. Ensure the paytable is easy to understand
The paytable of a slot should be easy to read and explain how the different symbols work. It should also show you how many lines the machine has and how much you can bet per line to win.
6. Identify a machine that is idle for long periods of time
If you’re tired and need to take a break from the slot machine, you can easily do this. Many casinos have a service button that can be pressed to contact a slot attendant, who can then lock up the machine and prevent others from using it for a while. This will help you avoid giving it away to other players and keep your chances of winning high.
7. Consider the RTP and return to player percentages
Another important part of any slot game is its paytable. It will explain how much you can expect to win over time, which is referred to as the return to player percentage or RTP.
8. Be careful when selecting a machine
In some slot machines, you can change the number of reels and paylines. This can significantly affect the amount you’ll win. If you’re only playing with a small amount of money, it’s better to play with fewer paylines and less coins.
9. Be aware of the jackpots
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When it comes to film, there are genres and directors I am a fan of, those I dislike, and those I appreciate. For purposes of today’s post, I will say that I dislike horror and appreciate the director Robert Rodriguez – especially his masterful work on Sin City.
Now, if you ever saw his film From Dusk to Dawn (written by Quentin Tarantino) … (am I supposed to add a spoiler alert for a film that is over two decades old?), you know that the first half of the film is very much a Tarantino-style film, with a gallery of rogues and a slew of seedy deals. And then halfway through, in the blink of an eye, it stops being a roadhouse film and begins being a horror film, complete with vampires. I don’t exactly know what happens in the first ten minutes of that crossover, because I spent the entire time shocked, repeating “what the hell? what the hell?” I felt like I got suckered into one kind of film, which I appreciate, only to be handed a film whose genre I seriously dislike.
What does this have to do with today’s hymn, you ask?
Look at these lyrics, by Grace Lewis-McLaren:
When we are gathered for a time of worship and of song,
let none forget the joys and griefs that mark each path of life,
and thus we reach for those who love, we reach for those who love.
For youth shall pass and time is wise, and countless seasons turn,
so day by day our years increase until at last by life released
our spirits shine like stars, our spirits shine like stars.
Here we go, tripping along, being gathered, grateful for the time of sharing and the community of love that surrounds us. And then suddenly, the sun sets and You Are Going To Die.
This song gives me the same whiplash that From Dusk Till Dawn did. I didn’t spend 20 minutes staring at the screen, but I did feel like I got suckered into singing one kind of song only to be handed another.
Which then begs the question: if this a time passes, life is impermanent kind of song, why is it in the Entrance Songs section?
And just as I’m still not quite sure about whether I like, appreciate, or dislike From Dusk Till Dawn, I’m not quite sure what I think of this one. It’s a lovely, light tune (Repton), and it has a lot to appreciate, but I really don’t think I like it, because I’m not sure how I would use a piece that’s part ‘welcome to this loving community’ and, part ‘to dust you shall return’.
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Latest Buzz and typographic affairs. A transparent look into the world of Parachute®. New releases, events, lectures, workshops, exhibitions and multidisciplinary projects.
Since its inception, Parachute® has received more than 40 international distinctions including the esteemed Red Dot Grand Prix and TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Additional awards were received by the European Design Awards, Tokyo TDC, German Design Awards, HiiiBrand, Granshan Awards, Communication Arts, Creative Review.
Be it magazines, books or newspapers, the work, the expertise and the bold approach to design of Parachute® Typefoundry has been featured in major publications around the world.
We are a digital type foundry and design agency, specialising in bespoke type design, corporate typefaces and lettering. We use the power of typography to transform living brands to global brands, enrich their identity and localise their language in emerging markets. Never content with the average, we manage to bridge the West with the East, the North with the South and combine tradition with innovation. We have collaborated with several leading organizations since 2001 and designed proprietary typefaces for some of the world’s most iconic brands and institutions such as Bank of America, Apple, European Commission, National Geographic, Ikea, Kraft Foods, UEFA, Samsung, Financial Times, Pernod Ricard, Ogilvy, Emirates.
Our work has earned numerous accolades around the world with top honours from TDC, Red Dot, European Design Awards, Tokyo TDC, HiiiBrand, Granshan Awards, Communication Arts and many others.
Our type library reflects the work of several talented designers, creatives, engineers and storytellers obsessed with type. Be it analog, digital or spatial, we use the power of typography to transform global brands.
Typeroom - The Blog
TYPEROOM, an online platform for the Typophile Generation, is considered to be one of the most influential type blogs today. Showcasing outstanding typographic works, featuring inspiring stories about the letterforms that matter, premiering breaking news and interviewing type designers from around the globe, TYPEROOM is a curated portfolio for the discerning typophile. From the inspiring typographic murals in Delhi through the groundbreaking first movable type ever, to the type foundries that push the limits of typographic design forward no matter what, TYPEROOM is here to give space to the typography that matters. Being a consistent source of inspiration across the type platform, documenting contemporary typography and revisiting old classics, this is our way to communicate and converse with like-minded individuals, encourage creativity, be inspiring, get inspired. | <urn:uuid:80d174f1-95f0-437a-87ed-2a3530afb3d1> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://parachutefonts.com/article/world/blog | 2023-11-30T21:30:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100232.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130193829-20231130223829-00553.warc.gz | en | 0.919749 | 552 | [
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Protect yourself from rain or sun with this handy compact, ultra lightweight travel umbrella. It stows into a handy pouch when not in use. This is one of our favorite travel essentials, from one expert traveler to another.
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An event that will take us once again to one of the best artists of his time, Fabrizio De André at Villa Borghese. His songs will come back to life in the splendid surroundings of the Villa Borghese. Let’s dive into his rock compositions that have given the artist a great honor. Your favorite aperitif and a delicious dinner will also take care of the fantastic atmosphere. The concert will begin at 9.30 pm.
Place: Villa Borghese, Piazzale Napoleone I, 00197 Rome, Italy
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2020
Start: 7.00 pm
Contact: 392 382 3924
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Tink on a beautiful pink and purple holographic ombre glitter base. You’re able to add a name or short quote to the reverse of the tumbler. This is on the dual lid tumbler, The black lid has a flip up spout with straw inside, the second lid is the traditional clear one with slide opening.
Each mug is hand coated in multiple layers of FDA approved epoxy. In short, it’s food safe epoxy. Your fabric design will be sealed into the epoxy so it will not come off your cup. All of this results in a smooth, shiny finish! The colours will never chip, fade, yellow and all glitter and decals will remain permanently. It is still recommended to handwash your mug only as the dishwasher can pop the insulated seals inside your tumbler.
Delivery: Please allow up to 10 business days for your cup to be made.
Please be careful when handling epoxy items. As amazing as they are, if dropped from height they may crack.
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Jose, CA—July 15, 2013
Cafe Stritch, formerly Eulipia Restaurant in San Jose, continues its heritage of presenting first-rate jazz by presenting a five-day tribute to the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. In addition to three nights of performances by trombonist Steve Turre, the week includes a number of diverse activities revolving around Rahsaan’s life and work. Betty Neals will be performing her legendary ‘Theme for the Eulipions‘ poem with Steve Turre’s group.
Kirk’s “Theme for the Eulipions” gave Eulipia its name in 1977, and the restaurant’s owners, and now their children, who own Cafe Stritch, carry on the tradition of reverence for the jazz of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Trombonist Steve Turre, who played for many years with Kirk, will be playing as part of a sextet at Cafe Stritch on August 8, 9, and 10 and Kirk’s widow Dorthaan will attend all of the activities during the five day tribute in honor of her late husband. Many friends of the late great jazzman will participate in the festivities. The first-rate band includes Matt Clark on piano, Howard Wiley on tenor sax, Charles McNeal on alto sax, Marcus Shelby on bass, and Darrell Green on drums.
No Walls Between Us, an exhibit of Kathy Sloane’s powerful, atmospheric portraits of jazz greats will be presented throughout the cafe with an artist’s reception being held on Saturday August 10 from 3:00PM to 6:00PM. Drawn in part from her acclaimed book Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club, the exhibit also includes jazz photos from her 30-year career.
Friday August 2 – Sunday September 29: No Walls Between Us: an exhibit of jazz photographs by Kathy Sloane.
Wednesday August 7 at 6pm: Birthday Party for Rahsaan featuring live jazz, a panel discussion with Dorthaan Kirk, Steve Turre, Betty Neals, and others, along with a screening of Adam Kahan’s Rahsaan documentary “The Case of the Three Sided Dream”. (No admission will be charged for any activities on August 7)
Thursday August 8, Friday August 9, and Saturday August 10 at 8pm: Rahsaan Tribute Sextet Featuring Steve Turre performing two sets each night with special guest Betty Neals performing her iconic “Theme for the Eulipions”. Tickets available for $15 at
Saturday August 10 from 3pm to 6pm: Artist’s reception for No Walls Between Us: an exhibit of jazz photographs by Kathy Sloane.
Sunday August 11 at 6pm: The Eulipions, Cafe Stritch’s house jazz collective pays tribute to Rahsaan.
About Café Stritch: Opened in March, 2013, Cafe Stritch was named for an iconic saxophone used by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the jazz great whose “Theme for the Eulipions,” gave rise to the name Eulipia, the white tablecloth restaurant and jazz club that preceded Cafe Stritch in the same location: 374 South First Street, San Jose, CA. (408) 280-6161. Cafe Stritch features affordable food offerings such as fried chicken and waffles, hamburger sliders, jambalaya, salads, sandwiches and a variety of house-made soups. It offers a full bar including craft beers, Chromatic coffee and live music.
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In the wake of last Friday's horrifying shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people dead, including 20 children, schools around the Catskills are increasing their security.
The Daily Mail reported this week that students at both schools in Catskill in Greene County will now find an armed police officer at the door when they arrive in the morning. An officer will be present throughout the school day, and doors will be checked on an hourly basis to make sure they remain locked. The plan will remain in place for the immediate future.
Catskill Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kathleen Farrell, also present at Darling’s office, said it will continue at least until the end of the Christmas break, Wednesday, Jan. 2, when students return to school.
State and local police in Ulster County are working with the schools there to increase police presence and to reexamine existing security measures, according to a report earlier this week in the Daily Freeman:
As of Monday and hereafter, area police agencies will have a greater presence in local schools, said Ulster County Undersheriff Frank Faluotico.
“We look at this as trying to prevent copycat incidents, and we also want the parents to feel comfortable bringing their child to school and not let one horrific event prevent their education from progressing,” he said.
Captain Robert Nuzzo of the New York State Police's Troop F told the Freeman that state police were planning to hold more in-depth training with local schools.
In the Cobleskill-Richmondville school district, about 80 parents and students showed up at a recent school board meeting to push for tighter security measures at the school, the Schoharie Times-Journal reports:
More deeply concerned than angry, parents took the opportunity to raise questions about C-R building security and emergency procedures.
Parent Jennifer Gerken pointed to an issue repeated by many: That anyone can walk into a school without being challenged for ID.
All C-R buildings have a main office right by the entrance, "but if I'm going to do something, I'm not going to stop at the office," Ms. Gerken said.
"I know we live in a small town," she told the board, "but it's not like when you and I went to school."
Cobleskill-Richmondville school board president Bruce Tyron told the crowd at the meeting that school officials were still weighing how best to respond, but that some action would be taken to increase security.
Many school districts are sending letters home with parents or posting notices on school websites to inform parents of the measures being taken to secure the safety of their children.
Downsville Central principal Timothy J. McNamara sent home a letter to parents advising them of actions similar to those in Catskill:
This is notification that all doors will be locked before and after school. This is part of the ongoing effort of the school to improve our safety plan at Downsville Central School. Parents with students participating in extra-curricular activities in need of contacting their children after 4 pm until 5 pm can call the library program @ (607) 363- 2124 or their child’s cell phone.
Phyllis McGill, Superintendent of Onteora Central School District, issued two letters addressing the Sandy Hook shooting and the response by each of Onteora's five schools. The letters stated that McGill and the principals of Onteora schools had spoken with state police about security, but did not indicate that any policy changes would be made going forward.
Middleburgh Central Schools sent home a letter from Superintendent Michele R. Weaver to parents, that focused on the conversations about the Newtown tragedy that would happen at home, and strategies parents might use for discussing it at length with their children. The letter also described the security plan under which Middleburgh operates.
In Liberty, parents received a letter from the Liberty Central School District indicating that a new entry screening procedure will be put into place, but that the school will strive to be a "welcoming, comforting place for our students, parents and the community":
We know that in reality our schools cannot (and should not) be turned into armed fortresses, but the district will do everything we are capable of to make our children as safe as possible.
At Saugerties High School, a panic erupted briefly on social media Thursday evening, when students and parents began sharing reports that someone had used Twitter to broadcast a threat of a shooting at "SHS." The Freeman reported that Saugerties police chief Joseph Sinagra did not find any substance in the threat:
Sinagra said each time they questioned someone who had posted something about the threat on their Facebook page, they discovered the information had come from someone else’s post.
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The world needs more chiropractors! The quest of chiropractic is not only to ease pain through hands-on adjustments but to cure ailments by integrating holistic practices and lifestyle guidance for patients. This is a tall order in our world of quick fixes. With a pharmacy on nearly every corner and telehealth becoming prevalent, a one-on-one with your chiropractor is nothing less than a requirement for a healthy lifestyle.
Back pain affects most adults, can cause disability, and is a common reason for seeking healthcare, according to the National Institute for Health (NIH). Typical remedies for back pain include over-the-counter pain medications and, in the worst cases, opioids. Opioid prescriptions for lower back pain have increased, and more than half of regular opioid users report they still experience back pain. However, opioids do not seem to expedite a patient’s return to work after an injury or improve functional outcomes of back pain.
Research finds that opioids are not the most effective way to deal with back pain, yet overdoses are our country’s number one cause of accidental death. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in a 12-month period ending in 2022, the highest number of overdose deaths were recorded in a year. Back pain sufferers who receive treatment from a chiropractor are given a healthy path to a pain-free life without that level of risk. Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs) are tasked with not only relieving life-debilitating pain but they are also part of a more significant positive impact on the current opioid crisis. What an inspiring perspective for future chiropractors!
Like many healthcare professions, the resolve to become a DC is an intuitive calling more than a choice or decision. Determining which school is the best fit is even more complicated. Graduate school is time-consuming and requires dedication, so finding an educational institution that meets expectations with enough leeway for life is imperative.
Parker University’s DC program has a new track designed for students who perform well in a virtual environment and want to concentrate on their science courses online for the first four trimesters. Students on this track won’t begin courses on campus until the end of the fourth trimester and will then start hands-on instruction. Like the standard program, this online track positions students with academic and clinical hours needed to graduate.
A DC degree from Parker University prepares you to open a practice, work in integrated healthcare, or move into a specialized area like strength and human performance. If you’re an aspiring chiropractor, Parker University can fulfill all prerequisite courses as needed or accept candidates with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
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The Craftsman Lodge is going green!
We have instituted many conservation savings ideas at The Craftsman Lodge to reduce our carbon footprint. We are also starting to rehabilitate the property beginning with rebuilding the pond for spring, construction of two walk-way bridges over the small ravine that runs down one side of the property, clearing the walking paths, and installing a wood fired sauna built from recycled material from our deck replacement. Maybe even construction of a tree house if there is enough left over material!
We just finished installing all LED/CFL lighting, ditching the old incandescent and halogen floodlights. Additionally, both wood stoves are up and running with plenty of split wood to burn culled from the property (fire mitigation), drastically reducing our gas fired forced air heat, at the choice of the guests of course. We have built two 5 x 2 1/2 foot composters for all kitchen waste, using horse manure as a starter and to keep the wildlife away from the composter, and reducing our trash significantly.
We have also placed recycling containers in the kitchen and barn for all glass, metal, plastic and cardboard which has reduced our trash by 80%. We cart the recycling material to Pueblo once a month. Planned in the near future is the refurbishment of the outhouse for our campers into a composting toilet using the saw dust from the firewood as the composting material. We are also planning a rainwater catchment system to keep the pond filled for the area wildlife as well as solar power for the house well. Guests are welcome to suggest additionally improvements to the property!
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AMD is expanding its third-generation Ryzen desktop processor family with the quad-core Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X CPUs. While these new silicon are more affordably priced starting at $100, they still pack plenty of performance.
Based on AMD’s Zen 2 architecture, the company claimed that the Ryzen 3 3100 delivers up to 20% better 1080p gaming and 75% better content creation performance when compared to the competing Intel Core i3-9100. This is the same microarchitecture used in the AMD’s new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors as well.
“Taking advantage of the AMD world-class portfolio of technologies, these new Ryzen 3 desktop processors bring the groundbreaking ‘Zen 2’ core architecture to business users, gamers, and creators worldwide, leveraging Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) technology for increased productivity,” the company said in a statement. AMD claimed that its latest desktop processors are the fastest Ryzen 3 chips ever made.
Priced at $99 for the Ryzen 3 3100 and $120 for the Ryzen 3 3300X, these new processors finally bring AMD’s 7nm architecture to a price point under $200. The chipsets will be available at various retailers when they launch in May.
Though AMD offered direct performance comparison between the Ryzen 3 3100 and Intel’s Core i3-9100 in a variety of benchmarks, the company did not do this for the more premium 3300X. However, the performance of the 3300X should give AMD an even bigger advantage against Intel’s mainstream processor.
Both Ryzen 3 processors use a four-core, eight-thread design and a maximum 65-watt TDP. The Ryzen 3 3100 has a base clock speed of 3.6GHz and a boost speed of 3.9GHz, while the Ryzen 3 3300X starts at a slightly higher 3.8GHz base clock speed and can go up to 4.3GHz.
These processors have 18MB cache, which helps reduce memory latency for faster gaming performance. AMD’s Ryzen family scales up to a premium 16-core, 32-thread design on the Ryzen 9 3950X made for performance seeking gaming enthusiasts.
In addition to the Ryzen 3 processors, AMD also announced that its B550 chipset will be coming in June. Compared to AMD’s premium X570 chipset, B550 gives AMD gamers a cheaper option to obtain PCIe 4.0 performance and speeds. Thanks to PCIe 4.0 support, the B550 delivers twice the bandwidth when compared to the older B450 design, AMD stated.
The AMD B550 will be available beginning June 16 from ODM partners, like ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Colorful, Gigabyte, and MSI.
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In my previous post on environmental issues I mentioned the Sellafield plant in Cumbria. There have been industrial plants in this area since the late 1940s. As the nuclear industry has grown so has this site in West Cumbria.
‘Sellafield Stories’ was started by Whitehaven Archive and Local Studies Centre, with funding from British Nuclear Fuels. The project aimed to record 100 interviews to represent the history of the Windscale/Sellafield nuclear site in West Cumbria from the 1950s onwards. Testimonies cover the opening of Calder Hall power station, memories of the Windscale fire in 1957 through to the development and expansion of the Sellafield site.
Interviewees include employees, residents and anti-nuclear campaigners. Their differing perspectives give a fascinating insight not only into the nuclear industry, but also into the local economy and its heavy reliance on Sellafield.
Often in the same interview you can hear people on this dilemma of the positives and negatives of Sellafield on the area of West Cumbria as a whole. Mary Kipling states the impact on her hometown, St. Bees. (SS-13_e01 / download)
Joe Farrell recognises the importance of local employment but has concerns about how the waste will be stored in the future. (SS-16_e01 / download)
Family also feature in the interviews; here both interviewer and interviewee acknowledge that many families are employed by Sellafield. Mary Kipling goes on to recount the role her aunt played in the community as a district nurse and as someone who gave evidence at the THORP enquiry into whether a new plant should be built. (SS-13_e02 / download)
Graham Brightman shares his views on the nuclear industry; from the start he was only ever interested in the peaceful application of nuclear energy for the generation of electricity and not for the creation of weapons, although he was aware of both taking place on the Calder Hall site. (SS-1(1)_e01 / download)
In 1957 there was a fire at the Calder Hall site. Around that time public perception of the industry was generally positive. As Graham Brightman points out it brought employment that was of national importance. However, in the aftermath there was more caution at the plant, the public had to be reassured and there was more attention from the media. (SS-1(1)_e02/download) and (SS-1(1)_e03/download)
Mary Johnson shares her memories from this time; her brother was working at a farm and the milk had to be poured down the drains, yet the community were quiet possibly due to fear “…scared stiff really…”. (SS-25_e01 / download)
From 1964, when the Magnox reprocessing plant was opened, more spent fuel was reprocessed, meaning more plutonium was produced at the site. Dave Banks reflects on working with this material and his own social conscience. He goes on to talk about the protesters from Greenham Common (“…we hated them…”) and later Greenpeace, recalling the negative perception of them from the onsite security and police (“…we were told not to [shoot] …we were told not to even fire in the air…”) (SS-10_e03 / download) and (SS-10_e02 / download)
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Sellafield seemed to gain a higher profile than other nuclear sites across the country. Part of the interview with Peter McLean looks into the role the media played and whether this was based on a previous poor reputation that proved difficult to shake. (SS-26_e02 / download)
Former BBC journalist and film-maker Eric Robson produced a number of programmes criticising the nuclear industry. He felt that they “…encouraged the industry to get its act together…”. He shares an anecdote about former colleague who went to work in public relations at Sellafield. Unfortunately, this was after a contamination incident. When asked if Seascale beach was safe, he is said to have replied ‘perfectly safe as long as they wear wellies’. (SS-38_e01 / download)
Around the same time the protests also continued and also became higher profile too. When talking to Peter McLean the interviewer notes that “Greenpeace has had a prominent role in the past around Sellafield…” and he goes on to detail the holes burnt into the pipeline to stop discharges out to sea and the work of the divers on both sides. (SS-26_e03 / download)
Eric Robson recalls his time covering the protests. While he admits to having a “…sneaking admiration for Greenpeace”, he is still fairly dismissive of protesters and only reluctantly admits they may have had a role in bringing the industry to account after prompting by the interviewer. (SS-38_e02 / download)
Conversely Keith Chisholm reports that the pressure from Greenpeace combined with negative media portrayals, as well as a court case brought about a “…change in ethos at Sellafield…” (SS-45_e01 / download)
Objections also took place at a local level. In her role as a local councillor Marjorie Higham attended Local Liaison Committee meetings and gives an eye-opening account of them! (SS-37(2)_e01 / download)
image: Ben Brooksbank / General view of Sellafield Nuclear Plant, 1986 /
audio: extract from interview with Dave Banks (SS-10_e02 / download)
West Cumbria is not the only part of the north west to protest against the nuclear industry. Across Liverpool and Manchester various anti-nuclear campaigns have been held. In the Radio Manchester collection there are news reports from the mid-1980s featuring stories on a range of related issues, from weapons to peace camps.
Manchester CND plan to take part in a demonstration against Trident missiles in Barrow (RMAN/10078)
An anti-nuclear peace camp at the BNFL plant in Capenhurst, Cheshire ends with a rally and leads to the formation of a Merseyside women’s peace group (RMAN/2985)
Report in 1983 on a vigil in St Peter’s Square, Manchester in support of the Greenham Common women and their upcoming court case (RMAN/3771)
In 1984 a new peace camp was to be established at Burtonwood. At that time Burtonwood was the site of an RAF base and home to extensive American military operations. (RMAN/8979.1 and RMAN/8979.2)
There have been strong reactions to the nuclear industry over the years. Supporters look at benefits to the economy and in scientific breakthroughs. While detractors can point to a series of accidents and their implications for the planet. Others still fall somewhere in between, seeing the negative aspects of weapons production with the positives of meeting our growing energy needs.
Vicki Caren, Cataloguing Manager, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage North West Hub, based in Archives+, Manchester Central Library.
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Stewart Prager is an astrophysics professor here at Princeton. For eight years he served as the director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He stepped down in timing adjacent to technology functions in the main facility. PPPL works on plasma physics and nuclear fusion in order to develop fusion for energy. Today he works on the Program on Global Science and Security on reducing nuclear threat. He helps with the APS Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction to bring other physicists into work on nuclear non-proliferations. Prager speaks in his interview with an intentionality and awareness of his impacts in his work on fusion. Yet we all have a long way to go when it comes to understanding both the science that he works on and its impacts on indigenous communities. Below are some links to places where one can learn more about the resources he explains are key to fusion energy.
Some highlights from our interview:
Responses have been edited for length and clarity
Prager: So deuterium comes from the oceans waters, about one out of every 3000 or so molecules in the ocean, it's not h2o, but h D O. So instead of having to order a hydrogen nuclei, or atoms rather than an oxygen, you have a hydrogen and deuterium, so you can so there's a straightforward and well established commercial processes just for taking oceans water and extracting the deuterium from it.
[To learn more about the process of through which deuterium is created, check out this article]
Interviewer: How is tritium created?
Prager: So tritium is produced in the reactor itself. There's a process if you have lithium and one of the products of the fusion reaction is a neutron. And if you surround the hot plasma with some blanket of lithium, the neutrons that fly out of the plasma bombard the lithium and cause a nuclear transformation that produces tritium. So the answer at a high level is that tritium is produced in the reactor itself.
[To learn more about the impacts of tritium and “heavy water,” check out this article: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/]
Interviewer: Do you see any other places where there could be potentially negative impacts along the process of creating fusion energy?
Prager: I would say any massively deployed technologies id going to have some impacts, you know, this means because of material needs, right to free up solar cells, and you need materials for that we read about it for solar cells, the need for cobalt, if you read about that, will check uh, just Google for cobalt mining Cobalt is needed. And I forget, just Google that cobalt mining, it's needed for solar cells or something like that. And they exist in the Congo, you know? So there, you have, you have risks of exactly the kind of thing you're asking about. And for fusion, you have to get lithium in the ground, and you get it from lithium mining? And I? And I don't know, I should know, but I don't completely know the answer to your I don't know the answer to your question
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Interviewer: Do you think there is a special obligation with physicists towards nuclear disarmament? Because of the role in the past? How do you understand your role or ethical obligation towards this?
Prager: I don't believe that it puts an obligation on every physicist to have to work on this. I don't I don't I don't think that, you know, I don't. There are some physicists working on something completely unrelated to nuclear weapons, which the vast majority are, you know, they don't have any obligation just because other physicists are working on nuclear weapons, or have developed them that they need to do anything, I don't think they have a special obligation. In the same way, I don't think that, you know, descendants of people that have committed genocide are responsible for what their parents or grandparents great grandparents did. But I do think we have a special opportunity. | <urn:uuid:8c4cf0f1-4704-42ad-a957-b03ebf8df1a8> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/stewart-prager | 2023-12-07T01:11:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100626.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206230347-20231207020347-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.957909 | 886 | [
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Patent Drawing Examples: Everything You Need to Know
Patent drawing examples can comprise of diagrams or representations that you use to outline an innovation for a patent application. On the off chance that your drawing would enable a commentator to comprehend what your development does or what it looks like, you have to incorporate a patent drawing with your application. Most patent applications will require in any event one drawing, so you ought to comprehend the components of a successful patent drawing.
Here are a couple of examples of patent drawings to help outline the drawing recipe:
Cordless optical PC mouse and how it chips away at the inside
Bike, including the apparatus and wheel systems
Shaving gadget from the 1920s, made by Jacob Schick
Transmission from a Honda dashing cruiser
For what reason Are Examples of Patent Drawings Important?
Basically expressed, patent drawings make your patent application more grounded, increasingly definite, and more clear.
Being explicit and as point by point as conceivable with your depictions and your drawings are vital to verifying a patent. On the off chance that you can demonstrate that your item or configuration has a greater number of subtleties or highlights than what exists as earlier workmanship (already existing plans or items), at that point you are bound to demonstrate that your innovation merits its very own patent.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) enables you to forget about certain subtleties in your drawings, however disregarding subtleties may make issues. For the most part, you can exclude highlights appeared in the depiction or cases in the event that they are not fundamental to appropriately understanding the development. In any case, you should stamp these highlights in your drawing with an image or marked portrayal.
What Are the Rules for Creating Patent Drawings?
The USPTO has a rundown of principles you should pursue when submitting patent drawings. Inability to pursue the rules implies you’ll need to hang tight for your patent recording date. This postpone welcomes contenders and dangers the loss of your protected innovation.
Patent drawing models additionally help you realize what points of interest to appear and what wide plans to add to the drawings.
When all is said in done, patent drawing models show configuration licenses and utility licenses. Configuration licenses are articles, for example, furniture and adornments. Utility licenses show how a machine or procedure functions. A large portion of these drawings are in standard high contrast, despite the fact that shading models are accessible. These shading alternatives are possibly acknowledged by the USPTO in the event that they’re more qualified to delineate the item.
The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure plots all the fundamental rules including:
Submit on 11-inch by 8.5-inch or A4 white paper
Utilize dark India ink
Mark equations, graphs, and charts similarly as drawings
Focus the title of the creation, designer name, and application number at the highest point of each page
Left and top edges are 1 inch, the base edge is 3/8 inch, and the correct edge is 5/8 inch
When making a point by point patent drawing portrayal, you ought to incorporate a different rundown of the creation’s parts. You can add any fundamental reference numbers to the rundown. A composed depiction enables you to:
Maintain reference numerals in control so you don’t utilize a similar number for two unique parts
Keep your depictions clear with the goal that you don’t utilize the various words to portray similar parts
Offer a simple route for the patent artist to quickly distinguish parts or reference quantities of the creation
When Wouldn’t You Use Examples of Patent Drawings?
You may have innovations that identify with a substance aggravate, a procedure, or technique being asserted. In these occurrences, a patent drawing may not be required.
For some patent applications, a creator may enlist a patent artist. A patent artist is an expert who uses your plans to portray a quality drawing of your creation. This administration can cost somewhere in the range of $100 and $125. For creators who don’t have the opportunity or persistence to make their very own drawings, enlisting an expert might be progressively advantageous.
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For first-time patent entries, following a patent attracting model enables you to make your own drawings without the assistance of a patent artist. Regardless of whether you choose to employ a patent artist, you have to know the fundamental format of the drawings, what ought to be incorporated, and a thought of what number of representations to add to your application.
Consider patent drawings not as one drawing, however the same number of drawings as you have to give patent application analysts a top to bottom visual of your innovation.
Another motivation to consider utilizing patent drawing models is that they help you discover rivals in the market. From these comparative thoughts, you can draw an outline that is keeping pace with different models in the business. The more mind boggling your thought, the more patent drawing models help you put your thoughts into visual structure.
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When you utilize patent drawing models, you can get another viewpoint of which perspectives to utilize. A portion of these perspectives include:
The standard six perspectives including front, back, left, right, base, and top of the innovation
Point of view sees, which show profundity, shape, and surface
Detonating sees, which show how one piece of the innovation functions when being used
Sectional or cutaway sees, which demonstrate a cross-area of the innovation
Square outlines and flowcharts to improve the working procedure of the development
Patent drawing models additionally show how 2D and 3D patent drawing programming, for example, PC helped drafting, analyzes to freehand. For the aesthetically tested, these projects make the drawings less difficult to get ready. Indeed, even a hand drawing is significantly upgraded when combined with patent drawing programming. In case you’re new to the product, the designer needs to at any rate know a portion of the drawing systems utilized which can be helpful to the patent artist.
Models can likewise help you in drawing the moving or mechanical pieces of your development. Utilizing bolts, you can depict what each piece of your gadget does, leaving no hazy areas. Bolts likewise help keep your references straight, maintain your words in control, give a superior generally speaking impression, and show individuals how the gadget functions, even without a portrayal or legend. In the event that you would prefer not to utilize bolts, you can utilize different drawings which demonstrate every one of the parts in every one of their positions.
When you’re wanting to present a patent, you can check different licenses in your field, which can offer models for you to pursue. These models will likewise demonstrate to you what different things should be incorporated into the patent depiction, for example,
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Andrew Ryan Quotes – Andrew Ryan is the character of the BioShock video game. The BioShock video game series developed by the Irrational Games. In the first BioShock game, Andrew Ryan was the primary antagonist, and in the sequel of BioShock, which was BioShock 2, he played a minor character.
After BioShock 2, the prequel of BioShock with the name of BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea was also released. In the game, Andrew Ryan was an idealist businessman who seeks to avoid scrutiny from the government.
During the civil war, Andrew Ryan ordered the secret construction of the underwater city. His idea of the construction of an underwater city helped a lot in the civil war. Due to this idea, he got the victory in the war.
Andrew Ryan’s dialogues or quotes have a strong impact on his fans. You will learn how to solve different mysteries and find the solution by reading the quotes by Andrew Ryan. Here is a collection of famous Andrew Ryan quotes that might help you a lot in life.
Popular Andrew Ryan Quotes
2- “We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.” – Andrew Ryan
3- “Commerce is the life blood of the City. If we are not careful, the government will become cancer.” – Andrew Ryan
4- “My city was betrayed by the weak…” – Andrew Ryan
5- “Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a parade. “Who was that,” they’ll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, “who was that?” – Andre Ryan
6- “Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. ‘Never mind your own needs,’ they say, ‘Think of the needs of… of whoever. Of the state. Of the poor. Of the Army, of the King. Of God.’ The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words ‘Think of yourself?’ It’s the king and country crowd who light the torch of destruction.” – Andrew Ryan
7- “In what country is there a place for people like me?” – Andrew Ryan
8- “Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?” – Andrew Ryan
9- “Altruism is the root of all Wickedness.” – Andrew Ryan
10- “To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.” – Andrew Ryan
11- “What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!” – Andrew Ryan
12- “Stop, would you kindly? ‘Would you kindly’. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses, a slave obeys. Kill! A man chooses! A slave obeys! OBEY!” – Andrew Ryan
13-“It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.” – Andrew Ryan
14- “Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know that my beliefs have elevated me, just as I know that the things I have rejected would have destroyed me. But the city… it is collapsing before my… have I become so convinced by my own beliefs that I have stopped seeing the truth? Perhaps. But Atlas is out there, and he aims to destroy me, and destroy my city. To question is to surrender. I will not question.” – Andrew Ryan
15- “Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.” – Andrew Ryan
16- “In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!” – Andrew Ryan
17- “With the sweat of your brow. Rapture can become your city as well.” – Andrew Ryan
18- “I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No,’ says the man in Washington, ‘it belongs to the poor.’ ‘No,’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘it belongs to God.’ ‘No,’ says the man in Moscow, ‘it belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture.” – Andrew Ryan
20- “A man has a choice.. I chose.. the impossible!.” – Andrew Ryan
21- “I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the great would not be constrained by the small, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. I chose to build Rapture. But my city was betrayed by the weak. So I ask you, if your life was priced would you kill the innocent? Would you sacrifice your humanity? We all make choices but in the end our choices make us.” – Andrew Ryan
22- “No gods or kings, only men.” – Andrew Ryan
23- “Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.” – Andrew Ryan
24- “I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you differently either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.” – Andrew Ryan
25- “God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.” – Andrew Ryan
26- “What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks ‘Where’s my share?’ A man creates, a parasite says ‘What will the neighbors think?’ A man invents, a parasite says ‘Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God…” – Andrew Ryan
27- “Even in a book of lies sometimes you find truth. There is indeed a season for all things and now that I see you flesh-to-flesh and blood-to-blood I know I cannot raise my hand against you. But know this, you are my greatest disappointment. Does your master hear me? Atlas! You can kill me, but you will never have my city. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. A season for all things! A time to live and a time to die, a time to build… and a time to destroy!” ― Andrew Ryan
28- “My journey to Rapture was my second exodus. In 1919, I fled a country that had traded in despotism for insanity.”― Andrew Ryan
29- “No,’ says the man in Washington, ‘it belongs to the poor.’
‘No,’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘it belongs to God.’
‘No,’ says the man in Moscow, ‘it belongs to everyone.’
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… ” ― Andrew Ryan
30- “Good evening, my friends.
I hope you are enjoying your New Year’s Eve celebration; it has been a year of trials for us all.
Tonight I wish to remind each of you that Rapture is your city. It was your strength of will that brought you here, and with that strength you shall rebuild.
And so, Andrew Ryan offers you a toast.
To Rapture, 1959.
May it be our finest year.” ― Andrew Ryan
31- “Altruism is the root of all Wickedness” — Andrew Ryan
33- “We swim in different oceans but land on the same shore” – Andrew Ryan
34- “It’s never too late to make things right.”– Andrew Ryan
35- “Are you a man or slave”– Andrew Ryan
36- “10 years later and it still gives me chill.” – Andrew Ryan
37- “There is a world of difference between what we see and what is.” – Andrew Ryan
38- “Time roots everything even hope.”– Andrew Ryan
39- “The Seed of the Prophet will Sit the Throne, and Drown in flame the Mountains of Man”. – Andrew Ryan
40- “We were all buried at sea we just didn’t know it yet.” – Andrew Ryan
In life, everyone has to suffer from a lot of problems and challenges. It is up to you to solve these problems or difficulties. Whenever the character Andrew Ryan faces any challenges or mysteries, he tried to find different ways to solve them.
He said that if you want to solve any mystery or problem, then uncover it with your abilities. Or the second way is if you do not find the solution to the problem, then eliminate it from life.
“Always a man. Always a light house. Always a city.” – Andrew Ryan
By reading the quotes from Andrew Ryan, you will know about the way to solve different problems. Andrew Ryan’s quotes also tell us about the importance of freedom and victory. For getting the victory in the Civil war, Andrew Ryan uses some interesting ways.
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Have you ever noticed the same numbers appearing everywhere? Whether you’re at home, at work, or out in public, certain numbers seem to follow you. You might see them on license plates, billboards, or even on your phone. These numbers are not just a coincidence. They are the way the angels communicate with us, giving us messages and guidance to help us on our journey.
Angel numbers are sequences of numbers that have a special significance. Each number carries its own unique meaning and message from the angels. When you see angel numbers, it is a sign that the angels are trying to speak to you and guide you in some way. These numbers can appear in different combinations, such as 101, 14, or even five-digit numbers.
The interpretation of angel numbers is a tool that can help us understand the messages the angels are sending. These messages can range from reminders to pay attention to certain aspects of our lives to guidance for making important decisions. Angel numbers can also be manifestations of the changes that are happening in our lives. They can be a sign that we are on the right path or that there are certain areas of our lives that need to be modified.
Angel numbers have a particular significance in manifesting our desires. They are a way for the angels to let us know that our wishes and prayers have been heard and answered. When we see repetitive numbers, it is a sign that the angels are working behind the scenes to bring our desires into reality. Angel numbers can also be a reminder to stay positive and balanced in our thoughts and actions, as they can help us manifest our true desires on an earthly level.
Angel numbers are everywhere and they can appear to anyone. It does not matter if you are a believer or not, the angels’ messages are available to everyone who is open to receiving them. It is up to us to pay attention to the signs and symbols around us and to seek knowledge and understanding of their meaning. by doing so, we can tap into the power of angel numbers and use them as a tool for growth and spiritual development.
So next time you see the numbers 3, 17, or any other number that seems to be following you, don’t worry. These numbers are not just a coincidence, they carry a significance that goes beyond the ordinary. They are a way for the angels to communicate with us and guide us on our journey. Whether you’re looking for answers, seeking guidance, or simply curious about the meaning of angel numbers, remember that the interpretation is a perfect tool for understanding the messages the angels are sending us.
Section 2: Unveiling the Secret Language of Numbers Revealed by Angels
In the realm of spirituality, numbers hold a particular significance. They serve as a divine tool for communication, allowing angels to send messages and guidance to us. Angel numbers, such as 6 and 123, are symbols that fall into our lives, guiding our actions and processes.
Each digit carries its own unique meaning and virtue. For instance, if you’re frequently visited by the number 6, it signifies the seeds of love, harmony, and balance that you’re being asked to nurture within yourself and your relationships. This number is a reminder to trust in the processes of the universe and to align your actions with love.
Similarly, the number 123 holds a special spiritual interpretation. It is a combination of sequential numbers that tells us to stay focused on our goals and take steps towards their manifestation. It reminds us that our actions and positive changes will be answered and lead to the fruition of our desires, even if we must wait for them to unfold.
In the gospel of numerology, angel numbers act as a nurse guiding us through life’s challenges and blessings. They help us pass through difficult times by aligning our actions with the forthcoming spiritual revelations. By holding onto these numerical messages and trusting their meanings, we can navigate life’s twists and turns with greater ease.
Money is another frequent topic that angels often signal to us through number sequences. If you frequently encounter three-digit numbers like 16 or 123, it may be a message from the angels regarding financial matters. These numbers can signify the steps you need to take to manifest abundance and make positive modifications in your financial situation.
Angel numbers teach us the importance of oneness and unity. They remind us that we are not alone and that the angels are always by our side, working alongside us and supporting our journey. By detaching from negative thoughts and embracing wonder and trust, we can open ourselves up to the guidance and blessings that angel numbers offer.
When angel numbers visit us frequently, it’s a sign that we are being called to align our actions with the universal principles. It’s an invitation to tap into our intuition and involve ourselves in the spiritual and transformative processes happening around and within us. Just like Moses communicated with the creators of the universe, angel numbers are a means of communication between us and the spiritual realm.
So, the next time you see a particular number sequence, pay attention to the message it carries. Trust in the meanings they hold and know that the angels are giving you guidance and support. Whether it’s about love, money, or a spiritual awakening, angel numbers are there to assist you on your journey of self-discovery and manifestation.
Section 3: Understanding the Spiritual Significance Behind Angel Number Sequences
Angel number sequences play a significant role in our spiritual journey and can offer guidance and insight into various aspects of our lives. These sequences are believed to be messages from the angels, sent to us as a means of communication and support.
When it comes to understanding the spiritual significance behind angel number sequences, it is important to look at the deeper meaning and symbolism associated with each individual number. Each number carries its own unique vibration and holds a specific message.
For example, the number 1 often represents new beginnings and taking the first steps towards manifesting your desires. It is a reminder from the angels that you have the power to create the life you want and to trust in the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer.
The number 2 is associated with partnerships and balance. It reminds us to seek harmony in our relationships and to trust in the divine timing of things. It serves as a reminder that we are never alone and that the angels are always guiding and supporting us.
Angel number sequences like 123, 1111, or 888 often carry special significance. These sequences are believed to be powerful messages from the angels that should be paid attention to. They may indicate that a divine door or gate is opening for you, and it is important to step through it with trust and faith.
It is also important to note that angel number sequences can have different meanings and interpretations depending on the context and your own personal journey. What may be true for someone else may not necessarily be true for you.
Angel number sequences can be seen as a tool for personal growth and spiritual development. They can provide guidance and clarity when we are feeling lost or uncertain. By trusting in the messages and guidance from the angels, we can align ourselves with our divine purpose and live a more fulfilling life.
Some people also believe that angel number sequences can be a form of divine intervention, a way for the angels to intervene in our lives and provide blessings and assistance when needed the most. These sequences can offer a sense of comfort and reassurance in times of difficulty or challenge.
To fully understand the spiritual significance behind angel number sequences, it is important to combine our own intuition and interpretation with the guidance and messages received from the angels. This requires trusting in our own inner wisdom and being open to receiving messages in various forms.
As a lightworker, it is important to interpret angel number sequences with love and compassion. The messages we receive from the angels are meant to uplift and support us on our spiritual journey, not to instill fear or doubt. By trusting in the messages and guidance received, we can navigate through life with a greater sense of purpose and clarity.
In the grand tapestry of life, angel number sequences are like the numerals that connect the various chapters together. They provide a roadmap for our personal and spiritual growth, guiding us forward and helping us grow. Like the chapters in a book, each number sequence holds a specific message and meaning.
Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the angel number sequences that come into our lives. They can serve as a powerful tool for self-discovery and personal transformation. By trusting in the messages and guidance of the angels, we can unlock the door to a deeper understanding of ourselves and our spiritual journey.
Section 4: Decoding the Hidden Messages in Angel Number Sequences
Above and Beyond Numerals
Angel numbers go beyond regular numbers that we encounter in our daily lives. They carry a spiritual message, guiding us towards a deeper understanding of ourselves and our connection to the Universe. These numbers often show up when we need guidance or reassurance.
An angel number sequence is a repetitive series of numbers that appears consistently in your life. This repetitiveness helps to grab your attention and shows that there is a message behind the numbers.
Decoding the Messages
So, how can you decode the hidden messages within angel number sequences? The interpretations may vary from person to person, but there are some practical steps you can take to uncover their meaning:
- Pay Attention to Repetition: When you see a number sequence repeating, such as 444 or 1010, it’s a significant sign. Take note and start paying attention to the patterns.
- Seek Inner Guidance: Trust your intuition and seek guidance from your higher self. The answers you seek may already be within you.
- Align with Your Life: Angel number sequences often involve aligning yourself with your life’s purpose and divine plan. Pay close attention to the messages your angels are conveying in order to align your actions with your soul’s calling.
- Surrender and Let Go: If you’re feeling overwhelmed or unsure about a situation, angel numbers remind you to surrender and let go of control. Trust that the Universe has a plan for you.
- Practice Patience and Trust: The appearance of angel number sequences is a sign that your desires are in the process of manifesting. Have patience and trust the timing of the Universe.
- Discover the Virtue Number: Each angel number sequence has a virtue associated with it. For example, the number 444 is often interpreted as a message of stability and practicality, while the number 777 symbolizes inner wisdom and enlightenment.
- See the Signs in Your Life: Angel number sequences not only appear in numbers, but also in signs and symbols throughout your day-to-day experiences. Stay aware and stay open to receiving messages from the angelic realm.
- Detaching from Negative Thoughts: Angel numbers show up to help you detach from negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. When you see these numbers, take it as a reminder to let go of worry and focus on positive energy.
- Boost Your Faith: Angel number sequences boost your faith and give you a spiritual boost. They reassure you that you are not alone and that your prayers and intentions are being heard and answered.
- Believe in Yourself: Remember that angel numbers are messages of love and support. They remind you to believe in yourself and your abilities. Trust that you have the power to manifest your desires.
Through these steps and interpretations, you can uncover the hidden messages within angel number sequences. They serve as a guiding light on your earthly journey, providing direction and insight from the heavenly realms.
The Impact on Your Relationship with the Angels
Working with angel number sequences has the power to deepen your relationship with the angelic realm. As you become more aware of the signs and messages, you strengthen your connection with your guardian angels.
Angel numbers can be seen as a sort of divine conversation between you and the angels. The more you pay attention and interpret the messages, the more you will receive in return. It’s like a train that keeps on moving, with each sequence leading to another moment of divine interaction.
Remember, the angels are always there to guide and support you. By opening yourself to the messages of angel numbers, you invite their loving presence into your life.
- Angel Numbers 101: The Meaning of 111, 123, 444, and More by Doreen Virtue
- The Angelic Origins of the Soul: Discovering Your Divine Purpose by Tricia McCannon
- The Gospel of Moses: Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism by Hindy Najman
Section 5: Angel Numbers and their Influence on Personal Growth and Transformation
In the realm of numerology, angel numbers are often seen as heralds from the spiritual realm. These numbers carry significance and can provide guidance and transformation in various aspects of life. Whether you’re in doubt, facing challenges, or have high expectations regarding certain situations, angel numbers can offer insights and support.
The impact of angel numbers was brought into the limelight in 2008 when Doreen Virtue, a well-known spiritual author, published a series of books involving angel numbers. Since then, people around the world have started to notice and pay attention to these repetitive number sequences that appear in their lives. If you’re wondering how to recognize and interpret angel numbers, this section will guide you through the process.
Angel numbers can manifest in various ways, whether through license plates, clocks, phone numbers, or any other situation where numbers appear repetitively. For example, if you keep seeing the number 101, it might be a sign to let go of worries and doubts, as this number often signifies new beginnings and positive transformations.
To accurately interpret the meaning of angel numbers, you must combine your intuition with the inherent meaning of each number. For instance, the number 6 often represents material aspects of life, such as home and family, while the number 5 suggests change and adventure. By paying attention to your feelings and combining them with the numerical composition, you can gain deeper insights into your current situation.
Angel numbers serve as a practical and helpful signal from the spiritual world to assist you on your journey of personal growth and transformation. They can appear as single digits, double digits, or even five-digit sequences. No matter their form, these numbers are believed to be messages from your angels, guiding you towards a more fulfilling and authentic life.
Angel numbers are everywhere, and by simply being in possession of this knowledge, you begin to connect with the creators of the universe. They believe in helping you navigate through life’s ups and downs and providing you with the necessary guidance for personal transformation.
The number 1234 is a perfect example of how angel numbers can influence personal growth and transformation. This sequence often signifies that you’re on the right path and that your efforts are paying off. It encourages you to keep working towards your goals, as positive changes are coming your way.
When angel numbers appear repetitively in your life, don’t dismiss them as mere coincidence. Instead, take the time to ponder their meaning and reflect on how they might relate to situations that are currently unfolding. Through meditation and self-exploration, you can tap into the deeper meanings of these numbers and unlock their transformative power.
In conclusion, angel numbers have the potential to significantly impact your life by providing guidance and insights in your personal growth journey. By paying attention to these numbers and embracing their meaning, you can align yourself with the positive energies of the universe and experience profound transformations.
- Virtue, D. (2008). Angel Numbers 101: The Meaning of 111, 123, 444, and Other Number Sequences. Hay House Inc.
What is the meaning of angel number 1234?
Angel number 1234 is a message from the angels that you are on the right path towards achieving your goals and dreams. It signifies that you have a strong foundation and the necessary support from the Universe to manifest your desires. The angels are encouraging you to stay focused, remain positive, and take action towards your aspirations.
What does it mean when you keep seeing the number sequence 1234?
Seeing the number sequence 1234 repeatedly is a sign from the angels that you are in alignment with your divine purpose. It indicates that you are progressing in a harmonious and balanced way. The angels are reminding you to trust the journey, have faith in yourself, and continue moving forward with confidence.
How can I interpret angel number 1234 in my life?
When interpreting angel number 1234 in your life, reflect on the specific areas where you are seeing this number. It could be related to your career, relationships, or personal growth. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions when you encounter this number, as it may provide guidance, inspiration, or reassurance in those areas. Trust your intuition and listen to the messages the angels are trying to convey.
What steps should I take when I see angel number 1234?
When you see angel number 1234, it is a sign to take action towards your goals and aspirations. Break down your dreams into smaller, manageable steps, and start making progress on them. Stay organized, stay focused, and stay positive. Trust that the angels are supporting you every step of the way and believe in yourself and your abilities.
Can angel number 1234 have a negative meaning?
No, angel number 1234 does not have a negative meaning. It is a message of encouragement, support, and positive energy from the angels. However, it is important to remember that the interpretation of angel numbers is subjective. If you find any negative connotations or associations with the number 1234 in your personal beliefs or experiences, it is always best to trust your intuition and seek guidance from your own spiritual beliefs or practices.
What is the meaning of angel number 1234?
Angel number 1234 is often seen as a sign from the angels that you are on the right path towards achieving your goals and dreams. This number sequence encourages you to stay focused and take steps towards your desired future.
Why am I seeing angel number 1234?
You are seeing angel number 1234 because the angels want to communicate with you and provide guidance and support. This number sequence is a reminder to stay positive and keep moving forward in your life.
How can I interpret angel number 1234 in my life?
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Here at Susan's Farm we are involved in many different types of research projects that are important to finding a sustainable future for farming.
We aim to always improve our practices and make sure that we are doing what is best and right for the nature and livestock that call Susan's Farm home.
Research will always be the most important part in finding new ways in which we can help the environment and keep the farm running.
It encourages younger generations to expand their knowledge and to push forward into thinking outside the box when it comes to finding new methods of how to improve farming and keeping our environment clean.
There are many different research projects happening at the farm.
Click on the green boxes on the right hand side of the page for more infomation
We have many different people who visit the farm to conduct research, including staff, work placement students and academic researchers.
They research many different things including the people who use the farm, the wildlife that inhabit it and the environment itself.
We encourage everyone to be a researcher! Look at our Citizen Science Projects to see how you can become involved.
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One of the main criticisms leveled at Walt Disney World management by people like me is that they’re too quick to discard much-loved older attractions in favor of things that are more “thrilling”, cheaper to operate, or that tie in better to whatever licensed characters the Company is currently trying to market. In light of this climate, it’s truly amazing that the Carousel of Progress is still operating.
The Carousel premiered at the 1964 World’s Fair, and by all accounts it was one of Walt Disney’s favorite shows. Its four scenes showed the impact of electricity and electrical devices on the American family in twenty-year increments, starting in the 1900s and ending in an idealized version of the 1960s, with the family enjoying technologies that were supposed to be right around the corner. In 1975, the show made its home on the southeast corner of Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland in Florida, featuring a new theme song “Now is the Time” and a slightly updated closing scene depicting an idealized home of the 1970s. The Carousel was updated a few more times over the years (most notably in 1985 to remove all references to GE after that company ended its sponsorship) but it received its biggest overhaul in 1993, as part of the “New Tomorrowland” rehab. The original theme song, “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” was restored, the show was renamed “Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress”, and an introductory video was added to the queue area to emphasize the show’s connection to Walt and the 1964 World’s Fair. Also, the final scene was tweaked yet again to show the family enjoying virtual reality video games and accidentally burning their Christmas turkey in a voice-controlled oven. None of the featured technology looked to hit the mainstream for another decade at least. The scene could easily remain in place for six to eight years without looking dated. Or so it seemed.
Unfortunately, as early as 1995 the “present-day” Carousel family was beginning their slide toward obsolescence. Why? Because the creators of the ‘93 show failed to account for the Internet revolution. To be fair, in 1993 the Internet was not much of a blip on anyone’s radar. According to technology pundits at the time, virtual reality and CD-ROM were the Next Big Things. And since the show had received at least one update during each decade of its operation, it was reasonable to assume that by 2003 or so, the Carousel would be tweaked again to keep up with the times.
Seventeen years later, we’re still waiting. And each time the “modern-day” daughter character remarks to the grandfather that people of his day “didn’t even have car phones”, you can be sure that at least one kid will tug on his mom’s sleeve and whisper “Mommy, what’s a car phone?”
Also, how crazy is it that the son and the grandmother are playing their video game with Power Gloves?
Sorry, but I just had to work the Power Glove joke in there.
Seriously, though, something needs to happen with the Carousel. And I don’t mean simply updating the final scene again to reflect the world of 2010. Consider: the original show showed us the innovations of the 20th century in twenty-year intervals, starting at the turn of the century and ending in the ‘60s. If you reset the final scene to the modern day, then you’ll have a show that takes three twenty-year jumps forward followed by one huge fifty-year jump. And that’s just silly.
The original Carousel was a look back at a period of time that was still fairly fresh in everyone’s memory. In order for the show to resonate with modern audiences in the same way, you’d have to overhaul the entire thing. The first scene would be set in 1950s, the second in the 1970s, the third in the 1990s before we arrived at the 2010s. However, keeping it fresh and relevant would necessitate a big upgrade every ten years in which the “oldest” scene would be discarded and a new final scene set in the current decade would have to be designed and built. Given that Team Disney Orlando is extremely reluctant to spend any kind of money at all on the Florida theme parks unless it comes from a corporate sponsor (TDO did not want to embark upon the costly Fantasyland expansion project; they had to be ordered to do it by Corporate headquarters in Burbank) I can’t imagine they’d actually do this. Which leaves us with only one other option:
Since it’s already called “Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress”, why not just restore the final scene of the show to what it was in 1964? I mean, the first three scenes are almost exactly as they were in ‘64 (minus the General Electric references) so you might as well be consistent. Sure, it means turning the show into a museum piece, but really that’s all it is anyway. Currently, it’s caught in the awkward position of trying to pretend it’s still up-to-date even though everyone knows it’s not. If they restore it to its 1964 incarnation, it’ll become the kind of attraction Team Disney Orlando likes best: the kind that requires only periodic maintenance. Disney could promote it with some kind of a “you won’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been” theme.
Sure, it might seem incongruous to have an attraction devoted to the past in a place called “Tomorrowland”, but since the rest of the land is devoted to cartoon characters, gasoline-powered go-carts, and a roller coaster that hasn’t changed much since the ‘70s, the 1964 Carousel really wouldn’t be so out-of-place.
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The To Live In Two Worlds collection is unique in that it showcases Jutz’s diverse talents. The album features the stories of rambling vagabond musicians, the hard life of mill workers, tragic Civil War characters both real and imagined, semi-forgotten regional legends and new stories of more recent real-life dramas and tragedies that will be tomorrow’s parables.
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As the UK hosts COP26, the eyes of the world are on global heads of state as they chart the course of future international climate collaboration and action. Countries are being asked to come forward with ambitious 2030 emissions reductions targets that align with reaching net zero by 2050.
Alok Sharma’s clear objectives for the UK Presidency include accelerating electric vehicle roll out and unleashing the trillions in private and public finance to meet global net zero.
SMEs hope that the COP26 event will bring about measures that will help them become more sustainable, according to a report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Mike Cherry, national chair of the FSB, said small firms “are keen to play their part” in regard to climate change, but often lack the resources, finances and dedicated specialists enjoyed by larger businesses, “so can find identifying and taking the necessary steps a challenge”. A poll by the FSB shows that while the majority of SMEs are concerned about climate change, just one in three have a plan in place to help tackle it.
Fighting climate change will be a huge collective global effort, but what can individual businesses do right now to balance their profits and the planet – and what is preventing them from taking action right now?
Although it is continuously evolving, ‘green tech’ has been with us for the past 20 years. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a “technology whose use is intended to mitigate or reverse the effects of human activity on the environment”.
To date, the biggest single barrier to adopting these new technologies has been the substantial up front capital costs typically associated with the acquisition, commissioning and installation of green energy assets, prior to the benefits being realised.
While the vast majority of companies are willing to make positive noises when it comes to making their business greener, the number who are willing to make the required investment, that doesn’t just amount to ‘greenwashing’, has historically been smaller. Asset finance is ideally suited to enabling businesses to acquire the latest, most energy-efficient equipment, technology and vehicles quickly, easily and affordably. It eliminates the need to make a large upfront payment and matches the business outlay to the outcomes of adopting the technology by spreading the cost of the useful life of the assets concerned.
Asset finance can help your business acquire a wide range of green energy assets from biomass boilers and CHP systems, recycling machinery, Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels, LED lighting, agri-tech solutions and wind turbine technology to electric cars and vehicles and EV car charging stations and much more.
At Propel, we strongly support the Finance & Leasing Association’s (FLA) Building on Net Zero Plan, which sets out a clear and consistent approach to green finance, including the introduction of a ‘Green Finance Guarantee’ (GFG), further support for net zero commercial vehicles including plant & machinery (electric, hydrogen and other forms of alternative fuel) and supportive measures for businesses including capital allowance changes.
Since Propel was founded in 1996, we have been funding the revolution in green energy assets and technology, from LED technology to renewable energy in the agriculture sector and electric vehicles for business use.
Whether your business is looking to acquire one asset or to invest in a comprehensive ESG project, Propel is here to help you on the path to a sustainable future.
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A Picture Polish stamping plate for nail polish lovers!
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Let me share a perspective. I see Money as a friend. The more care and respect you treat them with, the more they will stick around. If you don’t appreciate Money or completely ignore them, they will run away from you.
Money of itself is not dirty. It’s the concepts around Money that might put you off or make you feel greedy or a bad person for wanting more of it.
Why is it important to make friends with Money?
Money has superpowers – it gives you options. Money can take you places. It gives you freedom and peace of mind to create the rest of your life the way you want it.
Money is everywhere, it’s abundant. It is like energy, it’s never lost. But how can you make so that more of it lands on your promises?
It’s easy. Ask yourself what you usually do to maintain and develop a good relationship with a friend. You:
- catch up regularly.
- spend time together.
- have projects/activities in common.
- have fun times together.
- accept their flaws and cheer them up in bad times.
- are there for them and they’re there for you.
- can rely on them anytime, you can call them in the middle of the night and they will be there for you.
Here is an idea:
Set a recurring date with Money
Book a time slot for you and Money. Money is your pal. Set a recurring event in your calendar. I usually do it once a month. Every quarter I do a longer session. Set a reminder about it a few days in advice.
Chris Guillebeau calls it the “Mo’ Money Day” in his Born for this book. His original idea is to spend a block of time on brainstorming things you can do to improve your current cash flow. The purpose is to make more money. I build on top of it, adding the very important element of reconnecting to what Money can bring in your life. There are experiences and emotions Money can create for you – why not connect with them in the first place? This answers your “Why” and fuels up your motivation.
There’s a magic of setting an intention in your mind. In this whole month, your mind will work for you in the background – scanning the terrain and analyzing opportunities. You will notice and remember an article on investing, you will spot a potential partner for a business venture, or a thing you would like to own/experience for yourself. It’s almost automatic. Once you put the initial framework in place, your mind will take over. You just need to show up.
Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
Tips on how to date Money
You won’t need to do all of these things every month. For some though it’s crucial that you keep repeating until they become a habit.
What to do before the date
- Prepare as if you would meet an actual friend. Dress up smartly, put on perfume and/or makeup. It might sound stupid but it’s all about the intention. I got this idea from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic book which is tremendous by the way. She talks about treating creativity like a lover: sneak off alone whenever you can (‘You can get a lot done in 15 minutes, as any furtive teenager can tell you,’ she says). I apply this trick to Money.
Seduce your creativity (or Money). Get dressed up, light a candle, put on some lipstick, woo creativity (or Money) to come to you. – Elizabeth Gilbert in Big Magic
- Set your intention for the following couple of hours. Something in the lines of: “I am putting my financial life in order. This will give me clarity on where stand and power to take the next step”.
- Dedicate a limited interval of time. You don’t want to spend countless hours over bills and feel lost and overwhelmed. 3 hours should be enough as a start.
- Switch your phone off and get into the mood.
- Make a plan for the day (what tasks to perform).
What to do on the date
- Track down all your personal monthly expenses and household expenses. What happened in the previous month money-wise? What are your biggest expenses? Do you oversee a big expense coming up (car repair, dental bill, or a big unplanned purchase)?
- Audit your transactions – checking account, credit cards, PayPal, direct debits, purchases on Amazon, etc. Mistakes happen, scan for overcharging or some expenses that should not be there.
- Calculate and track your net worth.
- Remind yourself of your financial goals. If you don’t have goals yet, go ahead and define them. Saving for a big trip, paying off your mortgage or saving for a sabbatical year? Now it’s time to face the truth. I will never get tired of repeating how important is to visualize those goals and track the progress.
- Look around for unused stuff that doesn’t bring joy. If you haven’t used it for 6 + months you should consider getting rid of it – sell, donate, or trash it.
- Reevaluate and cancel unused services. Call your providers to see if they can offer better conditions.
- Brainstorm possible side income streams (a side hustle, anyone?)
- File your taxes
- Look at what you can automate – have you tried any expense tracking app, what options does your bank provide that you haven’t used yet? I use Toshl to track my expenses. I use automatic savings withdrawal every month.
- Look at your investments and rebalance them if needed. If you are not investing yet, see here how you can start.
The long-term relationship with Money
- Read a money book, watch interviews of people who you admire and who inspire you.
- Dream BIG. It’s a dream, why limit yourself? Remind yourself where you want to be in 5 years. Money for itself is just paper and abstract numbers in your online banking. What matters is what you are going to do with the money. How it will improve your life and the life of the people around you. A visualization board is a very powerful tool. Put there all pictures and concepts which resonate with you. You can use Pinterest as well.
- This is a very important one: Choose an item/activity which you will spend your money on and will give you great pleasure. Money is there to be enjoyed and to be appreciated. There is much more of it from where it comes, so treat yourself to a spa treatment, to new running shoes or a fancy dinner with a loved one. As long as it’s once a month, it will enhance your life without exhausting your bank account.
- Write down your doubts, limiting beliefs, concerns, fears, etc. Are they realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?
- Pick a money/success mantra/goal for the upcoming month. In the initial stages of putting in shape my finances, a regular goal was to reduce to a minimum the money I spend for lunch by packing my own healthy food.
An example of a mantra is: “Today is a delightful day. Money comes to me in expected and unexpected ways.” or “I deserve the best, and I accept the best now”. Thanks, Louise Hay for the affirmations.
Go for it!
Do you remember when you were a child? You spend countless hours dreaming and making worlds up? This is what you need to start doing again. Life’s responsibilities are catching up with you but you can fight back. Set time and space aside for recalibrating your compass and making sure you are sailing in the right direction.
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Two of the most provocative murals painted in New York this summer come from Nemo’s, an Italian street artist on his first visit to NYC. Both pieces can be found in Williamsburg, a neighborhood where murals function as billboards and billboards masquerade as murals.
First came 1 Gram (which happens to be the weight of a dollar bill). Brooklyn Street Art notes that the piece faced a bit of censorship, in that the wall owner didn’t like the penis on Nemo’s character and the artist agreed to remove it. But it seems a bit silly to quibble over castration when the penis was a relatively minor component of the mural and it’s overall message is already so bold and potentially controversial.
Nemo’s followed that up with Stocks – Pillory. At first, the mural might seem a bit cliché: Another critique of the TV entertaining us with the public shaming our latest victim. Except that it’s not quite so simple and cliché. The victim isn’t trapped. The key is just around the corner, and the “prisoner” could probably reach it if he tried. Or, better yet, he could just back right out of his prison. The hole of the pillory are much larger than his head and his hands. But instead of slipping out to freedom, he maintains his clearly painful television existence. And we watch on. Entertained.
Actually, in both murals, the men are there by choice. In Stocks – Pillory, the man rests in the faux-pillory, and in 1 Gram, he feeds himself into the meat slicer. All it would take to stop the agony would be for them to take a step back to examine their lives. But we all know that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. And so the torture of contemporary society continues.
No matter how you read them, neither mural is decorative, the dominant trend in “street art muralism” lately. You’d be hard-pressed to find many street artists painting such provocative murals, especially in New York City. Unless of course, the mural is actually just an ad. When street artists are judged by their murals and those murals get them gallery shows and print releases and larger murals and corporate-commissioned murals, when “street art muralism” is a career path, decorative sells. Why mess with that?
So many street artists are like Nemo’s men: seeing no viable alternative, they sacrifice themselves to the entertainment, advertising, and real estate industries. But the biggest names in Italian street art buck the trend. Nemo’s follows in the tradition of Blu, Ericailcane, and Ozmo, as well as the notoriously rebellious attitude of FAME Festival.
What makes these Italians different? I don’t have a good answer. It could be nothing more than accepting nothing less than their true vision. The power to walk away. When Blu’s mural was buffed in LA, he left town rather than paint something else. When Blu’s murals were being used as as marketing tools in the gentrification of Berlin, he buffed them. When Ericailcane painted a mural critical of Mexico’s president, he painted his ideal mural and then faced a destructive act of censorship rather than self-censoring from the start.
But that’s just a negotiating tactic. It doesn’t explain why other street artists stick to decoration, or why mural festivals tend to work with those artists. So maybe they shouldn’t. The alternative isn’t an impossibility. Take a page of Nemo’s book. You can step back from the pillory and you can stop slicing off your face.
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‘Holiday in the Trenches’ Exhibit to Open During Full Weekend of Seasonal Events at America’s National Churchill Museum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fulton, Mo. ‒ America’s National Churchill Museum on the campus of Westminster College announced today that a unique student-created, curated and displayed exhibit will officially open on Dec. 3, with a Members Preview and holiday event to take place Dec. 2.
“Holiday in the Trenches” is open to the public and free with admission to the Museum.
The immersive display — which examines the experience of Allied soldiers during World War II — is the first of its kind created by students in Westminster’s new Museum Studies program, which the College launched this fall in cooperation with the Museum.
Dr. Nichol Allen, Westminster’s Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, explains that visitors will be intrigued by the previously untold stories of soldiers and how they coped with war.
“They will witness history from the front lines, which will be a poignant and bittersweet experience for all,” Allen says. “And learning about that experience really inspired the students, whose admiration for the Greatest Generation is visible throughout the exhibit.”
Among the items students studied and then carefully displayed are letters that reveal soldiers played games, wrote letters, listened to music and created trench art during the holidays when they were not in active combat.
“Holiday in the Trenches” runs through Jan. 6 in the Museum’s Anson Cutts Gallery. The Museum’s special exhibition “Winston Churchill: Passion for Painting” will also be on view through Dec. 31.
The Members Preview of “Holiday in the Trenches” is part of the Museum’s High Roads to the Holidays event that will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 2.*
The weekend will conclude with the 39th Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, part of America’s National Churchill Museum.
Lessons and Carols is free and open to the public.
Timothy Riley, the Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator of the Museum, says all events taking place during the busy weekend of Dec. 2 showcase the season and honor the rich tradition of Christmastide at the Museum.
He adds the “Holiday in the Trenches” exhibit is reason to return to the Museum for those who have visited in the past.
Riley reflects, “The exhibition will show how soldiers, in most challenging circumstances, wished, above all, for peace on earth and goodwill toward all, which is something we still wish for today.”
*High Roads to the Holidays includes the opportunity to meet students who created “Holiday in the Trenches,” a gallery talk by Riley titled “1940: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at the White House,” carol singing, children’s activities and a reception featuring British-themed food and drink. Attendees will also be the first to see the historic Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, decorated for Christmastide. Admission to High Roads to the Holidays is free for Museum members and $20 for individuals 13 and older, which will automatically be applied to an annual membership if purchased during the event. Membership levels begin at $60. Children 12 and under are free.
ABOUT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: Founded in 1851 and home of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, Westminster College in Fulton is ranked prestigiously by U.S. News & World Report as the only National Liberal Arts College in Missouri. Westminster is listed as one of the top institutions in the country for economic mobility and return on investment, placing in the top 16 percent for graduate earnings with a more than 90 percent placement rate. Westminster also is a Forbes Best Value College that focuses on educating and inspiring students to become the world leaders of tomorrow. To find out more about Westminster, please visit the College’s website.
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About a year before Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, another white police officer, Randall Kerrick, shot and killed another unarmed black man, Jonathan Ferrell, near Charlotte, North Carolina. Both shootings made the national news, but it was Michael Brown's death, a year ago yesterday, that sparked days of public protests and gave new energy to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which had formed in response to the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by George Zimmerman, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida.
The dramatically different public responses to the police shootings of Ferrell and Brown can be largely explained by the dramatically different official responses. Kerrick was immediately arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter, and his trial began last week. Wilson was never charged with a crime. Three months after the shooting, a grand jury convened by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, after proceedings in which McCulloch's underlings acted more like defense attorneys than prosecutors, declined to indict Wilson.
Although the two incidents were broadly similar, local officials and police critics were basically on the same page in Charlotte but took radically different views of the shooting in Ferguson. In explaining that contrast, it is hard to overstate the importance of video evidence, which played a crucial role in Charlotte, where police cars had dashcams, but was missing in Ferguson, where the police department had purchased a couple of dashcams but had not installed them yet. Various disputed uses of police force that have come to light in the year since Wilson's deadly encounter with Brown reinforce the utility of dashcams, body cameras, and cellphones in holding armed agents of the state to account when they step over the line—and in vindicating them when they don't.
Kerrick shot Ferrell early in the morning on September 14, 2013, after Ferrell crashed his car and was mistaken for a burglar when he sought help at a nearby house. A 34-second dashcam video, played last week for the jury in Kerrick's trial, shows what happened after he and two other officers arrived at the scene in response to the report of a home intruder. Ferrell initially walks calmly toward the officers, until the light from a stun gun's laser sight appears on his chest. Then he takes off, running between two patrol cars. Ferrell is now off camera, but Kerrick can be heard repeatedly ordering him to the ground. Within three seconds of the first command, Kerrick fires four rounds, then another eight. From the moment that Ferrell starts running until Kerrick completely empties his weapon, 11 seconds elapse.
That video persuaded Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe to arrest Kerrick the day of the shooting. "Our investigation has shown that Officer Kerrick did not have a lawful right to discharge his weapon during this encounter," the police department said. Prosecutors argue that Ferrell ran between the police cars because he was alarmed by the laser lights on his chest, which as far as he knew came from a firearm. They say he fell to the ground after Kerrick fired four rounds at him but that Kerrick, who also had fallen to the ground after stumbling in a ditch while walking backward, fired eight more rounds because Ferrell kept moving. Ten of the bullets struck Ferrell.
Shortly after the shooting, in a videotaped interview that the jury saw on Friday, Kerrick said he fired when Ferrell failed to obey his commands and got within 10 feet of him. "It did not faze him," he said. "He kept coming toward me. I fired again." Kerrick said he ended up on the ground but he wasn't sure how, and Ferrell began climbing up his legs. "There was nothing I could do to get him off of me," he said. "Then I fired again." By contrast, in his opening statement last week, Kerrick's lawyer said Ferrell had tackled him and punched him in the face while trying to grab his gun.
It remains to be seen whether the jury will find Kerrick's self-defense claim plausible. But Darren Wilson's was, as a Justice Department report released last March shows. A combination of physical evidence and reports from the most credible eyewitnesses confirms that Brown, whom Wilson stopped because he (correctly) suspected him of involvement in a convenience store robbery, punched him through the window of his patrol car and grabbed at his gun; ran off after Wilson fired two shots, one of which hit Brown's thumb; turned around and approached Wilson after the officer got out of his car; and was moving toward him as Wilson fired eight more rounds. Given those facts, Wilson's avowed belief that Brown would seriously injure or kill him upon closing the distance between them seems reasonable, whether or not that was Brown's intent. One can argue about whether Wilson should have gotten out of his car to pursue Brown. But once he did, it is plausible that the circumstances justified his use of deadly force.
Without dashcam footage of the encounter between Wilson and Brown, however, it was difficult to assess the officer's self-defense claim, especially in light of conflicting eyewitness reports. And without video to disprove them, inflammatory accounts from eyewitnesses (or purported eyewitnesses)—including a discredited claim that Wilson had shot Brown while the latter was standing still with his arms in the air, trying to surrender—fanned the flames of outrage.
Local officials fed public distrust by failing to promptly identify Wilson and clearly outline his version of events. Without the context of the narrative that eventually emerged, the Ferguson Police Department's August 15 release of surveillance camera footage showing Brown stealing cigarillos from a convenience store and intimidating the clerk who tried to stop him seemed like an irrelevant attempt at character assassination.
During the grand jury proceedings, prosecutors highlighted evidence in Wilson's favor, a reversal of the usual approach, and portrayed Brown as a suspect rather than a victim. Even if the grand jury reached the correct result (and the Justice Department's report makes a strong case that it did), the rigged process highlighted the double standard that police officers enjoy when they kill people.
That double standard also was apparent in the case of George Zimmerman, who like Wilson had a credible self-defense claim that was backed by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence. He nevertheless had to go through the ordeal of a trial, during which it became abundantly clear that the prosecution could not come close to proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt. That does not necessarily mean Zimmerman's use of deadly force was legally justified, but his account was at least plausible, which was all that was required to acquit him.
The upshot, unfortunately, is that the #BlackLivesMatter movement's two seminal cases are not very good examples of unjustified deadly force deployed against African Americans. Also unfortunately, there is no shortage of other, more apposite cases, including the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore as a result of injuries sustained during a ride in a police van, Sandra Bland's suicide in jail following a trumped-up arrest in Waller County, Texas, and the shootings of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Walter Scott in North Charleston, and Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati. Video evidence played an important role in all of these cases—including Bland's, where it showed how a state trooper needlessly escalated a routine traffic stop into a felony arrest, and Gray's, where it showed him stepping into the police van unaided, proving that his disabling and ultimately lethal injuries occurred later.
As demonstrated by a grand jury's rejection of charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who put Garner in a chokehold, video evidence is no guarantee of an indictment, let alone a conviction. The footage may omit important details, while others may be open to interpretation. Even the Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King in 1991, an incident that gave us one of the best-known video records of police brutality, managed to convince a California jury that their use of force could be justified. In other cases, video evidence may unambiguously confirm an officer's account. If that had happened in Ferguson, the shooting of Michael Brown never would have acquired the symbolic significance it did.
Still, in situations where police use excessive force, a video record can make a decisive difference by counteracting the tendency of police departments, local prosecutors, and jurors to give cops a bigger benefit of the doubt than ordinary, badgeless citizens are apt to receive. Ray Tensing, the University of Cincinnati police officer who was indicted last month for murder in the death of motorist Samuel DuBose, claimed he fired in self-defense because he was being dragged by DuBose's car—an account that was contradicted by footage from the body camera Tensing was wearing. Michael Slager, the North Charleston police officer who killed Walter Scott after a routine traffic stop last April, claimed he "felt threatened" because Scott had grabbed his Taser. Cellphone video shot by a bystander showed Slager firing eight rounds at Scott as he ran away, which led to Slager's arrest. In cases like these, seeing is disbelieving. | <urn:uuid:52800d6e-3cce-4e5f-9bb5-03593e1622ff> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://reason.com/2015/08/10/the-missing-footage-of-michael-browns-sh/ | 2023-12-05T21:10:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.979687 | 1,873 | [
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Patrick Rodgers, Matt Wallace, Gary Woodland discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM Show
The weather and the stock market. Why? Because they're all live. Stock market is moving. Prices are changing things were happening. The weather changes. You have plans. You want to see the weather. You know that they watch things that are live that are changing. That are not scripted. And they binge. Watch the rest. That's why you watch any new shows. Now every commercial is for drugs. It's for Afflictions and people. Ask your doctor about Don't take this if you're allergic to it. Well, thanks for that. What I was going to do is wait to see what I was allergic to. And then take that. That the FDA for you, but that's who's watching. Only the old people are watching. And you turn on these commercials. They're all for old people because those only people love watching television. Except for sports. You don't see nearly as many. Adds pharmaceutical ads in sports Programming. You see some, but not nearly as much. Because They have a younger audience. And advertisers feel they can reach that younger audience. And in the golf and tennis world, the affluent audience. Where the money is so That's how it works, and as long as it's going up They could do whatever they want, and they continue to do whatever they want. And Life goes on. Just fine. We just adapt. We're the ones that adapt, not them. That's basically what it comes down to. We adapt. All right. Bottom of the hour Update time will get that We'll come back. Take some more phone calls Chris Moore for Kent Carmen, and this is CBS Sports Radio. See me? Yes. Sports sports flag. Alright, Chris. Let's take a quick check of the afternoon Baseball scoreboard? Well, nothing going on now because the tarp is on the field in the Bronx. The Yankees and National is getting ready to get underway as they continue their three game Syriza at Yankee Stadium Actors or Cory Clubber. That's the pitching matchup when things do get underway so far. No start time just yet as showers rolled through the area. Meanwhile, coming up, the Rockies will be squaring off against the Cardinals and the Cubs host The Pirates seven games highlight the MBA schedule tonight, including the Blazers, tipping up against the Spurs in Portland. The Lakers are off following last night's five point loss to the Blazers, which dropped out lay into seventh place in the Western Conference standings. Ah, full game behind Portland with five games to go apiece. Pelican Star forward Sion Williamson will be out indefinitely with a fractured left finger and injury. Team executive David Griffin says could have been avoided if the league did a better job officiating there. Star player no timetable for Zion's return. He sustained the injury during Tuesday's win over Golden State couple of matinee days in the NHL just about to get underway. The Rangers wrapping up their regular season against the Bruins in Boston, while the Penguins skate against the sabers in Pittsburgh. In the NFL. Jets head coach Robert Sallis says he hopes the team can lock up an extension with safety Marcus made GM Jo Douglas said he planned to revisit talks after the draft. Two sides have until July 15th to get a deal done. Free agent Richard Sherman's reportedly been in talks with the Niners about a possible return. Sherman also spoken with the Seahawks while receiving some interest from the Saints and Raiders from college football. Tennessee top tackler linebacker Henry Toto Oh is transferring to Alabama. It's the second straight week, Alabama head coach Nick Saban pulled an impact player from the portal after locking up former Ohio State wide receiver Jamison Williams. Round three is underway at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. Today. Patrick Rodgers, Matt Wallace and Gary Woodland share a one shot lead at six under America her squids Give us your thoughts on this year's NFL draft 855 to 1 to four. CBS. We're open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week.. | <urn:uuid:dc0f0287-0d08-4aa7-a11f-3030f7ffb2d0> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://search.audioburst.com/burst/fa940c63-d492-4b27-93d1-0e7c6353deea | 2023-12-05T22:38:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.965282 | 839 | [
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Soon, one will not have to pay in cash to a taxi driver or for using buses but just ‘flash’ the card before a machine and go one’s way.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai yesterday announced the introduction of a Unified Automated Card Project which would cover all modes of transport, including buses, taxis and abras, and parking.
The project costing Dh102 million would be completed in phases. The project is being handled by Electronic Document Centre (EDC).
The fourth quarter of 2008 would see its introduction in buses, taxis, abras and waterbuses. Phase two would see the Dubai Metro also starting to accept the card.
RTA sources told Khaleej Times that there would be a system at a later stage in which the same card could be used to buy things like movie tickets and fill petrol.
According to the RTA officials, there would be two types of cards. One, known as the plastic cards, would be for people who use public transport services on a permanent basis. The second, called the Paper Ticket, would be for a short term basis valid upto a maximum of one week.
Ali Mahdi, Director of the Unified Automated Card of Transport Systems, said, “The cost of the cards has not been decided yet.”
The system works like this. If a person is travelling in the metro, he would just need to wave the card in front of a machine near the exit gate when he is coming out. The machine would automatically calculate the fare and deduct the amount from the card. Once the money in the card is over, one can top it up just like the phone cards. “Recharging could be done in any of the metro and bus stations,” Ali Mahdi said.
He said the parking metres in Dubai would also be upgraded so that the cards could be used.
“We are not going to change the existing system at the moment. Gradually, we would stop the manufacture of the existing parking cards. The new cards would replace them,” added the official.
“This card is safe, difficult to counterfeit and modelled on worldwide practices. In the future, it could be sold at the commercial outlets, petrol stations and ATMs. This will make it accessible to our customers and enhance their confidence in the services delivered by the RTA,” said Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the RTA.
Ali Mahdi said the top-up method would be made easier. “Facilities will also be provided for ‘auto top-up’ where cards are linked to a designated credit or debit account of the cardholder for debiting the recharge amount. Internet top-ups will also be available.”
All transactions, including sales, top-up and usage transactions, would be processed through a central clearing house operated under the direct control of RTA, through the Unified Card Department, said the official.
The unified card service would be launched for public buses, water buses, taxis and parking metres in the fourth quarter of 2008.In the third quarter of 2009, the unified card would be launched in Dubai Metro, whereas in the fourth quarter of 2009, more customer care-related services would be introduced on the web, including online recharging (topping up) and automatic reloading to start using the same card on the Metro.
Sheikh Hamdan interacted with children and met the medical teams supervising the treatment and rehabilitation plans
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I’ll bet that over 90% of all Motorhomes have an awning fitted. I’ll go one further and bet that the majority of them don’t get used more than a few days per year. There now that’s a controversial statement. Well maybe I don’t have any real evidence on the last bit but it’s a good lead in to the love affair we have with awnings.
But first let’s look at the differences between an awning as fitted to a camper van verses an awning as fitted to a caravan. I have to go over the basics even if most of you already know them. In their basic form camper van awnings have a wind out roof supported by two legs and consist of two folding arms attached to a metal rail at the front and a metal rail bolted on to the camper van body.. The manufacturers state that they are only suitable for protecting against the sun or light rain. There is little or no protection against wind. In fact wind is the main issue with the camper van awning. Sides for these awnings are extras and even with the better versions they are not entirely waterproof or wind proof.
Caravan awnings on the other hand come not only with sides, they are fully waterproof and mostly wind proof. They are kept inside the caravan or towing vehicle when not in use. The awning is attached to the caravan by inserting the awning into a rail around the edge of the caravan that makes a water tight seal and the awning becomes part of the caravan. The sides and front are sealed and zipped into the fabric and they have a full set of awning poles that fit together to make the whole structure solid. Caravan awnings offer much better security for property as your items are enclosed within the awning base. Camper van awnings are open.
Camper van awning manufacturers offer front and side panels to give the awnings more protection but they lack a proper set of poles nor do the panels zip in properly. At best they offer only limited protection but they do extend the times you can safely use them. The biggest problem with a camper van basic awning is that they are prone to damage by wind. Even when they are tied down with storm guys the wind can play havoc with the roof and it is a brave owner that leaves his awning extended over night.
As a general comment awnings fitted to camping cars are higher up than caravans and use winch handles to extend or retract them making them much quicker to assemble or retract than taking down a caravan awning. Many camper van awning manufacturers offer centre poles to help reduce the flapping during light wind. Later models such as the Omnistor 8000 have tensioners that keep the roof fabric taut also reducing flapping.
Mechanical or Electrical operation.
There are two types of awning – wind out or those that have an electric motor to extend or retract the canvass. While our awning is electric I must say I prefer manual as you have more control and don’t have to worry about flat batteries or electrical failure. That said all electric awnings have a manual override (but it takes a while to set it up). The advantages of electric are that it makes it easier when single handed as while the motor extends the awning you can be setting out the legs. Beware that some electric awnings for reasons beyond me use 240 volt motors meaning you will need to add the cost of an inverter if you don’t already own one. Tip: Remember where to awning motor fuse is located.
Camper van awnings come in a variety of sizes just as caravan awnings do. Obviously smaller awnings are easier to manage in bad weather but also don’t protect you as much from the sun. Smaller awnings can deal with the wind better due to their smaller area. One point that does annoy me is that dealers seem to fit awnings central to the side of the camper van and don’t take into account windows or rear garage doors (even habitation doors for that matter) It is more practical to fit the awning so that each end is in between windows, doors and clears rear garage doors because if you do buy a Safari or Residence kit then you include or exclude any openings making a much better fit to the side of the camper and so have better weather protection. If you look at the photo above and try to picture that awning fitted originally some 18 inches further forward so if you fitted sides they would have been halfway across the drivers side window and halfway across the rear garage. It was a simple job to move it back 18 inches and become more usable.
Residence or Safari
These are sides and fronts that enclose the camper van awning turning it into a similar item as the caravan awning making it more secure. The major differences are that with the Safari room the sides are clipped on to the roof fabric so do NOT make a weatherproof seal. The sides use a pole to trap the fabric to the side of the camper using ties to hold it in position. Fronts are fine as they slide into a groove similar to the awning rail on a caravan. Other than that there are no extra poles so the whole structure is still flimsy in windy weather.
The Residence is a much more solid affair that uses poles at either end of the roof awning and seals the sides in making a waterproof seal. The sides also butt up to the camper van side but use a thicker padding to give a better seal. There is still the problem with joining the sides to the front and it is done by using ties. Residences are much better in bad weather but not really weather proof and they do cost quite a lot more to buy than a Safari room.
Sun blockers or screens
I should mention that there are sun screen and wind breakers that are available to slide into the front rail to offer protection against the sun. These are available in a variety of sizes or panels and panels can be added or removed to suit. Panels offer little or no protection against wind and can be purchased for as little as £20 per 2 foot panel width.
I mention rain even though you would think it glaringly obvious that rain collecting on the roof or your awning can damage the fabric through sheer weight alone yet every year we see fellow campers that don’t bother to lower one side pole to allow the rain to fall away and so finish up with a large puddle in the middle of the roof and take fun in poking the centre to remove the water only to find the fabric has stretched and will not retract away properly.
Stand Alone Awnings
There are a number of awnings available for smaller camper vans (not that larger vans couldn’t use them) that are similar in construction to tents and have flaps that pull over the top of these camper vans to provide weather protection. The main advantages are that they offer similar support as a normal tent and so are weather proof and can stand windy conditions but they can be left in position when the camper van is driven away to go sight seeing or shopping saving having to take it down every time you move.
One of the drawbacks of having a large awning is that it is more suseptable to wind than smaller ones and even small flurries of wind can be very worrying. Our awning can only be extended on really calm days – in UK or Europe those days are few and far between. We cannot leave it extended over night. We also use Aires most of the time and that means when the surface is tarmac then you cannot peg down the awning so again more worrying with wind. Also some Aires don’t allow awnings to be used as the parking spaces are too close together to allow more than 6 mtrs between camper vans. You can hardly argue given these Aires are free. Life style is also a feature as many camper van families don’t tend to stay more than a few days at any one place so taking out and in the awning is just another chore. Camper van owners use their vehicles all year round and there is little point in extending an awning in freezing weather with rain, snow, wind, frost etc. – you get the picture…..
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