text
stringlengths 4
5.48M
| meta
stringlengths 14
6.54k
|
|---|---|
Unveiling of new art installation at Liverpool ONE
Liverpool ONE is set to unveil a bright and eye-catching art installation produced by a local artist.
The ‘Holiday Home’, located on Custom House Place outside John Lewis, is part of Culture Liverpool’s ‘Very Public Art’ project – a series of eight installations and activations showcasing local communities and their creativity.
The unveiling comes as visitors once again begin exploring the city and provides exciting new visual additions which are both free and outdoors!
The ‘Holiday Home’ is a vibrant and artistic take on domestic architecture and line drawings by Richard Woods, an artist from Chester. The installation features bold block colours and thick black outlines, creating a unique and cartoon-like appearance.
Made of birch plywood and timber, the art stands at four metres tall, weighing in at 1,300kg.
Donna Howitt, Place Strategy Director at Liverpool ONE, said:
“It’s a great honour to host such incredible art for such a meaningful project, especially following the return to a new normal.
“This is the perfect opportunity for people to get out and enjoy local talent in a safe environment.
“The Holiday Home makes a great addition to the estate.”
Following the increase of staycations this year, Liverpool ONE is encouraging visitors to take inspiration from its Holiday Home by sharing an image with the installation alongside why being at home in the UK this summer makes you happy.
The other pieces of artwork can be seen at St Nicholas’ Church, William Brown Street, Hope Street, Chinatown, and on statues around the city. Find out more here: www.visitliverpool.com/verypublicart
Richard’s other recent projects include installations at Frieze London, Wander Art in London, a major architectural commission for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea and the interior of the Comme des Garçons flagship store in Osaka.
To learn more about Richard and the Holiday Home, visit:
www.richardwoodsstudio.com/Holiday-Homes
READ MORE: Liverpool Cathedral spectacular art installation takes flight | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6336016654968262, "wiki_prob": 0.36639833450317383, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line209441"} |
Home Read Join Conflict 0: Revolution For History, Diversity, and Robots
Join Conflict 0: Revolution For History, Diversity, and Robots
Alyssa Wejebe
Brazilian game developer, Black River Studios showcased their new mobile tactics game Conflict 0: Revolution at this year’s GDC. The game is currently available on Android devices and iOS.
“[It] started as a game for another platform, and then eventually we ported to Android,” said Ronaldo Nonato, who works in marketing and publication at Black River.
Conflict 0: Revolution revolves around an eponymous revolution triggered by government corruption. This event builds a wall that divides the rich from everyone else in the fictional land of Navaha.
Spotlight on Latin America’s Past
While this might sound all too familiar to current events in America, Nonato explained that the game drew from Latin American history.
“Even though based on Latin America, the main antagonist is a corrupt politician, and I guess you have that all over the world,” Nonato said.
When asked if part of the goal behind Conflict 0: Revolution was to give more attention to Latin American history, Nonato responded that wasn’t exactly the case.
“It does get a lot of attention [in Latin America], but maybe not in games media,” Nonato said. He expanded on this, saying that the history of Latin America is such an integral part of the region, that it made sense to have it factor into the game. Nonato added that some people want to escape it. Alternatively, some people are so touched by it, they want to continue discussing it.
But Nonato said that Conflict 0: Revolution is not realistic, pointing out that players can ride giant robots to war. He specified that the game’s underlying concepts are more based on history. Strict historical accuracy was not the goal.
According to Nonato, other influences on Conflict 0: Revolution included games like Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance Wars, XCOM, and recently Wargroove. But he added that these games were mostly for “mechanical inspiration, design inspiration.”
Localized and Diversified
A lot of promotional material and the game’s cover image shown on both the Google Play store and the App Store, prominently feature female characters.
“Definitely wanted a strong female character in the front,” Nonato said, explaining that there are women leaders in the game. According to the Google Play store description, players can learn about the four leaders of the revolution known as the Sovereigns.
Nonato added that diversity was important to Black River. This led to having a varied cast for the starter squad that included people of different races, ethnicity, and genders.
There is another layer to Black River’s dedication to diversity that suggests personal experience is a factor. Nonato said that generally in gaming, Latin Americans are “not very well represented.”
To contrast this, the game has characters that are representative of Latin America in terms of their clothing, skin colors, and manner of speaking.
He also said that while Conflict 0: Revolution is fully localized in English, players will still see Spanish in graffiti and on the map found in the game.
“To make it look even closer to us,” Nonato said. “And by us, I mean Latin Americans.”
Alyssa Wejebe writes about games, reads about games, and plays them too. RPG, hack-and-slash, and fighting games are some of her favorite genres. She loves nonhuman characters. One of her earliest gaming memories center around battling her grandmother and younger brothers in “Super Bomberman 2” on the SNES.
@AlyssaWejebe
Columnist @unwinnable + copyeditor @IdeasOnFirePhD. @TesseraEdits alum. Previous editing/writing: @jnovelclub @ArtStationHQ @_smARTMagazine_ + more. She/Her.
RT @Paul_Dini: https://t.co/yq6EbYp47G - 3 months ago
Latest posts by Alyssa Wejebe (see all)
Art and Science in Saurian - December 18, 2019
Defining Indie Games and their History at IndieCade - December 16, 2019
Nicholas Kole on Turning Music into Art in Soundfall - December 9, 2019
Get Caffeinated With Guinea Pig Parkour - December 2, 2019
Black River Studios
Conflict 0: Revolution
Turn-Based Tactics
Previous articleFollow the Path You Make in Areia
Next articleThe 10 Best Upcoming Indie Games of EGX Rezzed 2019 | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7022802829742432, "wiki_prob": 0.7022802829742432, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line781554"} |
SECONDARY MARKET ADVISORY FAQ
Q: What if I forgot my password or would like to change it?
Please click on the “Forgot your password?” link located above the password field on the login screen and you will be prompted for your email address. Instructions will be emailed to the email address provided.
Q: Which browsers are supported by the Kroll Secondary Market Advisory?
The Secondary Market Platform (SMA) has been optimized for Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, and Google Chrome. Please note: Browsers on mobile Mac platforms such as iPad and iPhone, and the Safari browser on laptop or desktop products, are incompatible. Customers using Safari on a Mac laptop or desktop product are advised to use an alternate browser like Chrome. If you experience website access or application issues unrelated to your password, it may be caused by your company’s IT security settings. When you are unsure whether your company allows you to follow the next steps and adjust browser settings, due to security reasons, please check with your company IT department first, before you proceed.
Q: How do I contact Support?
The best way to contact support is by using the Contact Us link. Your inquiry will then automatically be routed to the correct team whether this is about usage issues or technical issues.
Cookies Disclosure Disclosure EU U.S. Privacy Shield Legal Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement Privacy
Securities are offered in the United States through Kroll Securities, LLC. Member FINRA/SIPC. Securities are offered in the United Kingdom by Kroll Securities Ltd. (DPSL), which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5495570302009583, "wiki_prob": 0.45044296979904175, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line31727"} |
Posted on April 28, 2007 July 10, 2017
So I jumped the gun slightly. Our BOE has the applications on hand for the three new ALTs in our area, but they’re waiting for the reply forms to come in before they contact the ALTs. That didn’t stop me from going through and noting pieces of info on each of them to pass on to interested ALTs, though, since the chances of someone backing out at this point are generally low, but of course I won’t actually do anything. Everyone’s really curious and excited.
I also called No. 1 Travel today to inquire into a one-way ticket from Osaka to Atlanta–and I teared up while doing so. I wasn’t expecting that, but at the same time, it wasn’t a complete surprise either.
I spent an hour drafting an e-mail in Word to send to my successor, and thinking about Ikeda and Miyoshi-shi and Japan and my job and life here in an objective way and in terms of what a new ALT would probably want to hear made it all more therapeutic, being able to objectify it and think more about helping the new person adjust, and taking the emphasis off me. It was only after that that I realized we were still waiting on the reply forms, but it was nice to get that out of the way.
But…yeah. I have a successor. And it’s not just some random entity–it’s a person with a face and a life and interests and hobbies. This is definitely starting to feel very real, and very surreal, all at once.
I got my successor’s information today.
My boss also asked me to start looking ASAP for deals on return flights, and to help look for a successor for Chalice, who’s leaving in September.
This is all becoming painfully real.
At 9:03 this morning, I was sitting in the staffroom of my all-Thursday elementary school when the room suddenly shook. I thought it was a nearby truck, until I realized within about three seconds that the shaking was constant, which was when it clicked that it was an earthquake. It was then that the room really started to shake, like some giant had stomped down hard on the ground outside our building, and another teacher and I kind of dove under our desks and waited it out. It ended seconds later, with the whole thing taking around 10-15 seconds.
It turned out to be a magnitude 5.4 quake (measured as a 4 on the Japanese “shindo” scale, which is based more on what people felt rather than the actual scientific measurement; 4 is moderate, and 5 is when things start falling down), and the epicenter of the quake was less than 20 kilometers (12-15 miles) away, under Shikokuchuo City in eastern Ehime Prefecture, just across the border from us. Almost all the Tokushima ALTs felt it (we flocked to our AJET forum and posted as soon as it happened), and it was felt as far away as western Honshu and eastern Kyushu. We ALTs in the west felt it very strongly (Miyoshi and Mima, the area to our east, were the only parts of Tokushima that registered it at shindo 4; the rest registered it as shindo 3 and 2), and it freaked us all out. Nothing fell off the walls and nobody was hurt–though I think the teachers ran into someone who was on his/her bicycle and fell over because of the quake–but it was pretty scary nonetheless.
(Here’s the USGS Current Seismicity webpage for our region. My town is actually within that orange box, on the right-hand edge.)
The thing that really gets me, though, is that there’ve only been two English-language news articles written about this, on the Mainichi and Bloomberg websites. (I haven’t checked any Japanese-language news sites.) The Japanese site of course referenced the location accurately, but Bloomberg referenced it as happening “on Shikoku, across the Seto Inland Sea from Hiroshima.” (Paraphrased. It actually happened across from Okayama Prefecture, to the east of Hiroshima, but few people in the west have heard of it.) Why is it that the articles that make my friends and family send me anxious e-mails checking up on me are always about earthquakes in northern Japan or somewhere near Tokyo (which, as the title of this blog suggests, I am nowhere near), yet the one time we actually have a quake that did have a moderate effect on this part of Japan–and it’s relatively rare compared to how often the north feels earthquakes–the news is strangely silent about it? That’s what we get for living in the sticks, I guess.
Anyway, this is my second week of spending my Thursdays at this elementary school. I taught three consecutive classes today and am still surprisingly awake–I think because of the cup of coffee I had between classes 1 and 2 and because of the apple I had with lunch. I’ve never taught kids this tiny before (on their own and not part of a bigger mixed-age group, anyway), and teaching the first-years this morning (30 minutes after the quake, no less; everyone had settled down and I was still a bit frazzled) was a challenge and made me feel as uncertain as I did in my early months here. The second-year and third-year classes went a lot more smoothly. It’s really cool to see how confident the kids are on their own, and I like that many of them have warmed to me already, though of course there are still a few timid kids. The second-year girls had even made me a ring out of a daisy, and presented it to me when class started! It was a perfect fit for my right ring finger.
I don’t know if I’ve ever talked about the kinds of things I plan for the classes. I’m still not used to planning for really little kids, especially since the projected schedule the school has given me has me working on introductions and greetings for 2 months, but I’ve already done most of what I know how to do, so after this will just be a lot of review. Anyway, every week I add a little more to our starting/ending greetings (going from just “hello!” and “thank you! See you!” last week to “hello, Miss Sumisa! Hello, [other teacher’s name!”] and replacing that with “thank you” for the end. It’s over the first-graders’ heads, but the second-graders are grasping it more quickly and the third-years are pretty much with me; I just need to back it up every week.
I also did an activity (inspired by something I read on GenkiEnglish.com) with all 3 classes, where I taught them “good morning”/”good afternoon”/”good evening”/”good night” and had them do a gesture for each (sitting up and stretching as if waking up for “good morning,” having them stand and wave with their arms above their heads for “good afternoon” to show the sun was high in the sky, having them stand and wave with their hands parallel to their shoulders to show the sun was lower, for “good evening,” and pretending to sleep for “good night”). The second- and third-year kids really got it, but once again, the first-years kept forgetting. I need to come up with activities that function around the idea that little kids have really short attention spans–this week was really a learning experience for me.
There are also these action-word sheets from ESLkidstuff.com that I got a lot of mileage out of during my first year (I would very highly recommend paying the $25/year to have access to their materials, by the way), and I went through those with them last week and have been taking the kids through those again today, since TPR activities are really successful with elementary school kids in general. With the third-years today, though, I skipped that in lieu of having them review their self-introductions–and the kids were so afraid of messing up that they’d written the katakana (phonetic-sounding alphabet) characters for the words on their desks or even their arms to reference, even though I was helping them through everything!
On the whole, it’s going well so far, at this school and otherwise. My junior high schedule has been a bit messed up due to katei houmon, and I went in yesterday right after my morning elementary school and found that our class had been moved up a period, which actually meant I was a few minutes late, so I dropped my bags and dashed to the classroom. I was tired and had a bad headache last night, just from getting used to this very different schedule, but I think I’ll have it down in a few weeks.
I now have less than 3 months until the end of my contract. It’s a scary prospect. The end is in sight, and I’m getting started on networking and job searching, and I’m trying to prepare myself emotionally for when I leave. I’m not looking forward to it–I have a lot to look forward to, with being back in my field and moving forward and being much closer to my family and friends again, but I have a lot I’ll be leaving behind, and very regretfully at that.
The open mic night was a lot of fun. It was my first time in many months going out to the city, and it was great getting to see people I don’t hang out with normally. There were a lot of Japanese people there, as well as a big crowd of ALTs, so when I played my three songs (the format was different; it was the Ugly Men (the band in the “midwest” who invites area ALTs out to dinner every Sunday night), then a break during which ALTs could play their own music, then the Ugly Men again) I got a bit nervous, but it was a really warm and supportive crowd. And–Dad will really like this–I volunteered to front the band and sing during “Hotel California” by the Eagles. The band was great, Rob on his sanshin was great (and he had some really fascinating tales to tell about the sanshin and his experiences in Okinawa), all the other ALTs who sang were great…it was a good night.
This afternoon I’m going to either drive up or catch a train up to Takamatsu, because I haven’t spent any time in a sizeable city I’m familiar with in a while–Sally’s up there so it’ll be nice to have some company while wandering around.
I think I’m being hit by a bit of seasonal depression again–not nearly as strongly as last spring, but I’ve been a bit down all week. I’m not sure if I’m homesick or beginning to come to terms with the fact that the end is very nearly in sight, or if I’m feeling a bit of both. I very dearly miss the company of my best friends from Atlanta, and there are times when I miss having a crowd of truly like-minded people to hang with (there are some wonderful people here, but while I consider myself a very liberal person, there are some points I have fairly conservative views about, which are different from many of their views). But different views aside, there’s a great group here…and thinking about the fact that the next flight I board will most likely be my flight to America is a bit painful.
I’m wondering if it was a good idea to put on Contact while tidying up today. The film and the book both move me to tears every time because they encapsulate me so, so well (particularly the film, I think)…I think the last thing I need right now is something to trigger my emotions and set me off, but at the same time, I feel like the message of the film is really relevant to what I’m doing here, especially at this point in my JET career, as I’m beginning my post-JET job search and assessing how it’s impacted me and will continue to from here on out. JET is a stepping-stone for all its participants. For some people, it has a very direct impact on their futures, and it makes them decide to switch gears to go into education or Asian studies or something related to Japan. For others, it has a more indirect influence, and for still others, it doesn’t have much of an impact at all professionally. However, it does impact all of us for better or for worse, and it changes our views of the world and what we want out of life, as well as how we all search for our own answers and our own truths.
Huh–I’m really puzzled as to why anyone would e-mail this post to anybody else. It came up in my referral logs, and I’m wondering if somebody I work with has found my blog (it lists the “region” as Hyogo, a nearby prefecture, but the town is listed as Ikeda)…I’m always very conscious of what I write in case that happens, but wow.
Sorry, it’s been a long week as I’ve adjusted to my new schedule and the new groups of kids in my classes. Things look like they’re going to work out well. I was honestly concerned about this new load of classes at this one elementary school, but the kids are adorable and the teachers I work with are great, and I think it’s going to be just fine. I’m adjusting my method of keeping notes so it’ll be a lot easier for my successor to keep everything straight.
I also wanted to address the Virginia Tech shooting…but I really don’t know what to say. I read the news every chance I could get at first but there are some issues I have with how the stories are being reported, and I got a bit overloaded by everything. I was truly shocked and saddened by it–and I was also saddened by the fact that on the very same day, over 170 people were killed in Iraq. It’s so easy to gloss over something happening somewhere we don’t know about, but those people in Iraq who’ve died are just as human as the students and teachers who were gunned down in Blacksburg.
I have to run back to work now, since I’m just home for lunch. There’s an open mic night in Tokushima City tonight, which I’m finally dragging my westie friends out to, and I have a grand total of one song prepared–I foresee lots of hasty post-work cramming to get ready.
Rugby and geeks
Oh, yeah, it’s my 5th anniversary of being a US citizen today. It’s ironic that I’m not even living in the US right now. It was cool being an Indian citizen for most of my life, though of course I identify more with living in the US, but I heard that there was a movement to make all Indians all across the world automatically dual-citizens. That would be wonderful if it happened in our lifetimes–it’d facilitate much easier travel to and from India, for one, and it’s just something cool to claim, that you’re a dual-citizen.
Rugby was fun yesterday–I was going to go today, but I was really tired from yesterday evening. Anyway, as of yesterday, Su-Touch-I, Tokushima’s team, had won one game, tied one, and lost two. It was fun going out there and hanging out with people and cheering our team on, and enjoying the gorgeous day. The mountains from Mima/Mino are so beautiful.
After the tournament ended for the day, we prepared for the huge barbecue. The people who were assigned to cut onions conveniently didn’t, leaving the unfortunate task up to us. I helped out for an hour by chopping and slicing onions with Joey, Pickles, and Kim-chan. Did you know that if you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth, you don’t suffer so much from the onion fumes?
I didn’t think ahead enough to realize that I would totally reek of onions for the rest of the night, especially since I wasn’t staying for the barbecue but heading out east to hang out with people, so I ran home, changed and put on nice-smelling powders and stuff…but it’s been a day and I’ve washed my hands 7 or 8 times since then and even showered and they still kind of smell like onions.
I got to Kiet’s place around 7, and Genna and Victor arrived not too long after, and we kicked off what ended up being a really, really fun evening. I love hanging out with sciency, geeky types (Genna double-majored in English and genetics, and Victor majored in computer science, and I think Kiet majored in an interdisciplinary degree like mine and is fairly computer-savvy), and being with them made me feel like I was back in university; well-rounded scientists are my soulmates. Star Wars and Pirates of Dark Water and geology (because of a Japanese natural-disaster flick we watched, Nihon Chinbotsu/”Japan sinks”) were all discussed at length, during dinner and our subsequent 3-hour poker game.
Seriously, what a great evening.
We wrapped up around 1 AM, and I crashed there and left around 9:30 because Kiet was going hiking. I’ve been pretty zonked out all day, so I’ve just been lazing around my apartment, meaning to clean and doing no such thing.
I did, however, begin the online transition of the AJET officers, adding the proper permissions to this year’s new folks (Jill, Pickles, Josh, and Victor as webmaster) and posting that I’d be removing permissions from this past year’s people this week, and requesting to change ownership of the tokersajet.com account. It’s a shame to have to end it…with the exception of moderating childish outbursts on occasion, I’ve really enjoyed it.
TGIF, hard-core
Wow, today was rough. But at least it’s over.
I slogged through my two eikaiwas–for some reason I find it a lot more challenging to teach classes of adults, maybe because they’re all adults and not like my peers. We have a few new people in each–and Sleeping Lady did not come today, which was a huge relief.
As soon as those finished, I ate lunch really quickly, then went to the elementary school, since I didn’t know what time the class started. It turns out I had almost an hour till my class, so I had time to relax and chat with teachers and the kyouto I was already friends with–but there was a bit of a fiasco with the laminator, with two of the hand-drawn world flags I’d made last year getting caught inside (seriously, they went in and just didn’t come out, and it’s a small unit, like 12″x3″x3″) and a teacher burned two of his fingers when trying to extract the laminated B4-sized page (two A4-sized flags in a B4-sized laminating sheet; it came out completely folded up accordian-style). The nurse had to tend to him and he was running his hand under the sink’s water for a solid 15-20 minutes. I feel kind of guilty about that.
I also met the teacher who’s teaching the 5-6nens–she’s just a couple of years older than me, but she’s married and already has two kids. She was really sweet, though. She’s actually from ECC Junior and not from Kumon; that’s actually her last name, and we all were confused.
Anyway, then came the schoolwide introduction in the gym–the kocho had kind of interviewed me in the staffroom, and she introduced both of us and then we did our own self-intros, and then the first-graders left for the day and it was on me to lead games with the rest of the kids. I played two games, which actually went over really well with students and teachers alike, thankfully! (Huge thanks to the JETjapan LiveJournal group for giving me some very awesome suggestions yesterday.) Playing in the gym as compared to a small classroom made a huge difference.
After that was the introductory class for the 4th-graders, which went really well, and the kids are a really good group (there’s one who’s been attending an English juku and was really eager to speak up as often as he could; that kind of situation is tough, where you want to encourage his wonderful English while doubly encouraging the rest of the class to not feel shy about speaking up). I felt my blood sugar taking a nosedive in mid-class and I had to fight to keep my energy up and my focus together, but I slogged my way through the rest of the class successfully.
I came home and went to lie down for a bit, and ended up sleeping for nearly 2 hours. The usual westie crowd went out for okonomiyaki for a couple of hours, and the lady actually brought out vegetable oil for me to use instead of (non-veg) lard, which was cool. Starting classes this week really wore all of us out, so we called it a night after that.
It’s raining now, but hopefully it’ll let up–the weekend-long, nationwide AJET Tokushima Touch Rugby Tournament kicks off tomorrow (heh, “kicks off”–pun not intended). There are over a dozen teams coming from all over Japan–I think the other Shikoku prefectures are sending teams (Ehime definitely is), and most of the rest come from Honshu, though there may be one from Kyushu or something. It’s quite a long way to come for people anywhere east of Kinki/Kansai or maybe Chuubu, so it’s mainly western Japan that comes out, but it’s still a really cool thing, to have so many ALTs from all over Japan congregating less than 30 minutes from here! I’ll be cheerleading for Tokushima (theoretically, though Brian, a former Radical Cheerleader, is actually making pom-poms), so if you read this and are going to be there, come say hi!
Well, it was a good day
A call came in at the BOE at 3PM, and it was from the new Elementary School of Doom (the Double-Length school lost that title upon my realization of how much I actually loved it there once I left)–the one where I’ll be teaching all the students. The kyouto–who’d previously been kyouto at a different elementary school of mine but was switched there during the annual staff change–came by the BOE last week and told me that she’d moved there, and wanted to know when I could come in, and I volunteered to come in this week. I volunteered. I then proceeded to put it out of mind as I got back to what I was doing, and didn’t write it down in my planner or on my calendar.
Anyway, that kyouto called today saying that they’d thought I was coming in, and would I be able to come in the afternoon for a little bit? This was at 3:30 PM. I immediately apologized (while going, “oh, crap” mentally) and said I’d be there ASAP, and left within five minutes, and arrived there just before 4:00. I finally got home around 5:30.
While I’m glad I did spend time at the BOE today, since I spent about half my day planning for tomorrow’s eikaiwas and next week’s intro elementary school lessons, I do wish I’d gone to this school earlier. What I completely forgot about was the obligatory staff introductions and my own jikoshoukai, plus meeting the new kocho. We also had an hour-long planning meeting. I actually am not teaching every student in the school after all–they’ve brought in a teacher from Kumon to teach the 5th- and 6th-years, but as a result, they decided not to combine the 1st- and 2nd-years after all, so I’m still teaching four separate classes. They did already buy a lot of materials and said I probably could just use the same lesson for several classes, though, which will make things much easier–but right now I’m teaching three consecutive classes on Thursdays. (Hopefully, that’s subject to change.)
And on top of that–I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon, and they want me to do a self-intro to the whole school, which is fine, but then they want me to do a 40-minute game class with the 2nd-6th graders. That’s eighty-two kids. And immediately after that, they’d like me to do an intro lesson with the 4th-years! I’m especially glad I stayed at the BOE this morning, then, to iron out my intro plan for next week.
We have an enkai tonight, just across the street, in about 20 minutes. I think I may drink something alcoholic there after all.
A pleasant Thursday
(Happy birthday, Dad!)
The weather’s warm and beautiful today, and I’ve brought out the flip-flops in place of my sneakers. It’s not quite time for the annual wardrobe switch, but it’s quite nice today. For some reason, warm weather takes me back to my first few weeks and months in Japan, and everything feels new and unusual again. It’s a bit disconcerting, but it’s also good, because it gives me perspective on where I am and what I’m doing, and it means I’m not taking it all for granted.
My eikaiwas (adult conversation classes) start tomorrow–and guess who’s back? Sleeping Lady. She’s my one “enemy” in town, after the half-hour verbal fight we got into a year ago after she used me as a human dictionary and was just selfish and self-absorbed the whole time, focusing only on her medical conditions and not on how her behavior was affecting the rest of the class and affecting the teacher. She unfortunately just squeezed into the 10th spot of the 10-person beginners class. My BOE and community center have expressed extreme sympathy over this, because she has a reputation for making trouble like this with whatever she does, evidently.
I’m not looking forward to killing three random hours at my BOE this afternoon, since I can’t really do any more elementary school planning without internet/printer access. I guess I’ll just look busy and figure something out, but for now it’s back to work. We have an enkai tonight (at the restaurant across the street, where Batty Lady works), and tomorrow’s Friday, and Saturday’s the touch rugby tournament (a national one, held about 30 minutes from here) and some other stuff. Things just feel pretty good right now.
What I did on my spring vacation
(Oh, man, this is another mammoth entry…sorry! Just think how much longer it would’ve been if I’d written it in paragraph-form, and count yourselves grateful. Or something.)
I finally remembered to grab the notebook with my bullet-point retrospective during my mad dash to get to work on time this morning (I was ten minutes late, but I did get the notebook). I’m flipping through it and I can’t help but laugh at the fact that I wrote down 2 full pages’ worth of Korean phrases, front and back, and in the end I only ended up using two during the whole trip: “kam sah ham-ni-dah” (thank you–unsure of the proper romanization) and “gogi” (meat–I used this in conjunction with the English word “no” at the Seoul Station Burger King), and I had to fight to keep myself from busting out with Japanese every single time I opened my mouth to talk to a Korean person, too.
I guess it’s kind of a pride issue. I mean, after living in Japan for nearly two years and achieving a more or less pera-pera language level (according to the teachers I work with, anyway; the kyouto-sensei actually said as much during the shokuin shoukai at the nyuugakushiki yesterday, which really surprised me, to the point that I stifled a surprised and self-conscious laugh in front of the whole assembly and on Ikeda cable TV, which had a camera crew there taping it–very smooth), I want to be able to operate as seamlessly anywhere in Asia as I can in Japan, and I want to prepare myself accordingly so I don’t stick out as a blatant tourist and newcomer to eastern Asia. I definitely wanted to try using the language, and I regret that I didn’t, but there was always the point to consider that I had no familiarity with Korean outside of watching KBS segments on NHK, and there was no guarantee I’d understand the responses I’d receive. The same would hold true in any other non-Japanese language in Asia, outside of conversational Tamil in India.
Actually, speaking of languages, do any of you who studied Spanish in high school or watched public TV in the US remember a show called Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish? Someone on the Facebook Destinos group posted a link to a site that has all the Destinos episodes streaming, and I spent some time this weekend watching the first several episodes and reliving so many great memories (I still remember so many nuances about that show–ahh, how natsukashii to see Raquel Rodriguez’s massive shoulder pads and rocking 80s fashion sense and Don Fernando crumpling that letter fifty times again!), as well as recalling a lot of Spanish. I had a great Spanish foundation and can still remember a lot and produce an accurate Spanish accent, and I was able to understand almost everything that was said, which was a really good feeling. Man, what a great show. I actually named my scarlet-colored Toyota Corolla back in the US Rosario, in honor of this show. (I know “Rosario” means “rosary,” but it also sounds like “rose,” and roses are red, and it’s a red car, so…)
Okay, ANYWAY. On to Korea!
left work an hour early, picked up Julie and went to the Miyoshi Highway Oasis to catch a bus to Matsuyama
took the Matsuyama-Kokura overnight ferry
arrived in Kokura, caught a slow train to Hakata (Fukuoka)
had a lunchtime hanami at Shofukuji Temple in Fukuoka
caught the Kobee hydrofoil from Hakata Port and endured a very, very rocky 3-hour ride to Busan, South Korea – nearly missed our ferry because we forgot about going through immigration in Hakata
caught the KTX from Busan to Seoul, after getting our land legs back
caught a taxi from Seoul Station to our hostel, the Guesthouse Korea
hit up a konbini for a late-night dinnery snack
Friday, March 30 – all around Seoul:
met two girls (one Colombian, one Korean) living in Kagoshima (in Japan), who took us to a pharmacy so Julie could buy motion sickness meds for the trip home
ran into Sara and Steve that morning (and a chatty British guy, probably in his mid-30s, who shot down the DMZ tour we planned to go on and said it was boring and a waste)
had these really delicious veggie foods from a streetside vendor–these little rice-based tubes in a spicy tomato-based sauce, and those fish-shaped anko-filled tarts you can find in Japan, but these were crispy and fresh
went to a really cute coffeeshop in Anguk Station for a late breakfast/brunch
went to the bookstore next door, where we found lots of hilarious Engrish, and where I finally found the blue-black pens Hamza had requested me to buy for him (the ink is blue in some light and black in others)
toured Changdeokgung Palace, the auxiliary-turned-primary palace of the last Korean dynasty
caught a taxi to Itaewon, the international (and very touristy) district
they went to have bulgogi (Korean barbecue) for lunch, so I had Indo-Pakistani food instead
we met up at Starbucks and then wandered the extremely overtouristy street vendor stalls, all selling cheap stuff for too much
don’t remember what we did for dinner
after 2 unsuccessful attempts to find a karaoke bar (we actually found a male snack bar the first time–lots of hot Japanese-speaking Korean guys, one of whom was watching p*rn in the back room), we found a nice one
we tried catching a taxi back to the hostel, but the taxi driver abruptly dropped us off in front of several malls–which was cool, because there were some concerts and stuff going on
caught the subway back
* edited, to avoid really nasty Google hits
Saturday, March 31 – DMZ Tour Day:
got a late start; I ran to a konbini to get lunch food since I didn’t know what our options would be like, and I ran into the same British dude from the previous day, hereafter referred to as Our Sarcastic British Friend, who asked me if we went clubbing because “you got such an early start today”
we were picked up at 11:20 for the tour, and we joined a bunch of Japanese tourists and an Aussie guy named Will, and then we picked up our bilingual tour guide and drove an hour north of Seoul, and suddenly we started driving alongside a barbed-wire fence with guardposts every 200 meters, which was it
our passports were checked at the border by a very young- and fresh-looking soldier (South Korean men must serve 2 mandatory years in the military; North Korean men serve 9 and women serve 7)
we visited a tunnel the North Koreans had started to dig under the border and into South Korea, with the intent of pouring troops into SK to attack Seoul, until the South Koreans noticed and intercepted it–defectors told SK authorities that there were 20 tunnels built, but only four have been discovered, the most recent in 1991…ironically, the NKs vehemently denied it was theirs at first, but once SK converted it into a tourist attraction and made money from it, NK started demanding to receive some of the profit!
we visited an overlook just 400 meters from the actual SK/NK border; it was really foggy, which added immensely to the mood of the setting, but though the terrain was uniform between the north and south, it was really amazing and chilling, realizing that we were looking at North Korea–there was a camera line about 15 feet behind the observation point, and a person stepped ahead of the line and snapped some photos, and immediately a soldier took his camera and deleted the photos
Dorasan Station is a unifying station within the DMZ connecting the northern and southern rail lines; there are trains 3 times a day that go there from Seoul, but no further. There are a lot of very optimistic signs and images throughout the station–the architecture is very spacious and light, and there’s a big parking lot under construction, in anticipation of the day when the two Koreas will be united again (there’s a DMZ because they never actually declared peace after the Korean War–just a ceasefire)
we also learned that despite the utter separation of the north and south (families torn apart for decades, even), there have been attempts lately for peace, like a factory town in NK that’s staffed by SK workers and that gets free power from SK
visited a town of SK citizens living in the DMZ who grow organic goods, and Julie and I bought some brown rice (DMZ-brand brown rice! I’m saving the packaging)
returned to Seoul, where we were for whatever reason ferried to an amethyst jewelry gallery where ladies with high-pressure sales pitches tried to push us to buy stuff…very awkward
rested up at the hostel for a bit, then hit up the Insadong district, which was wonderful–very artsy and lively and organic, lots of truly authentic and high-quality goods
went to Sanchon, a dinner theater restaurant run by a former monk who cooks up a 12-course 100% vegetarian meal (it was delicious), with traditional Korean dance and music for about an hour starting at 8PM
Sunday, April 1
Julie went on a Winter Sonata drama tour (WS is the most popular drama in Korean history), so I hung out with Sara and Steve for the day
the weather was very, very dusty (dust from the Gobi Desert!), and the sky was yellow–it made all my photos appear sepia-tinted
we went to the Jongmyo Royal Shrine, which was a huge temple complex, and which I enjoyed far more than Changdeokgung Palace
caught the commuter rail to the 63 Building on the outskirts of Seoul, which is the tallest building in eastern Asia–we went to the top floor and tried to take photos but the dust made everything very hazy; we had lunch at the bottom in the food court
had coffee in the Anguk Station coffeehouse for about an hour, just hung out and chatted
met up with Julie at the hostel (she had a great time on the tour) and went back to Insadong
there was a multistory bazaar of sorts of stores run by independent artists, which had some agreement with the MoMA in NYC–Julie and I went through every single one when Sara and Steve went back to the hostel for Sara’s camera, and I’m amazed I bought as little as I did because there were so many gorgeous pieces there
Julie, Sara, and Steve really wanted to have Indian food (I actually would have preferred to have Korean food, haha), so we went to this Insadong restaurant called Little India–it had a great and really relaxed atmosphere, and they served AUTHENTIC CHAPATIS AND MADRAS COFFEE! The curry was mad spicy, though, way too spicy for all of us, especially Julie
we wandered the backstreets, taking our time going back, since it was our last night there, and Julie and I said our farewells to Sara and Steve
I was accosted by Our Sarcastic British Friend once I got there, and he kept me talking for about 45 minutes…I only realized later that the reason he was talking mainly to me was because he was Indian or at least half, but while he looked kind of dusky, I didn’t pick up on it at all–anyway, he wanted to learn more about JET, but he seemed pretty opportunistic and was trying to ask me how much we make and the like, so I sort of evaded his questions, and ended our conversation by playing the I’m Tired card soon after he described himself as “insidious”
I woke up Sara and Steve at 7 AM, since their alarms weren’t working
Julie and I caught the subway to Seoul Station, and I had Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast–SO, SO GOOD!
we decided to buy Burger King food for the 3-hour KTX train (like Japan’s shinkansen, but much cheaper) to Busan…I actually was mentally prepping myself to fight for veggie food, and I even drew a picture of a burger with the meat on the side at Julie’s insistence, but as soon as I said the word “vegetarian” to the guy behind the counter, he understood, and immediately put in my order for a Whopper with no meat with no problems–a far cry from the pained smiles and hesitation of every single Japanese McDonald’s employee I’ve had the same conversation with! Julie and I had a good laugh about that
caught our KTX to Busan, walked to the ferry port and got straight on our JR Beetle hydrofoil back to Fukuoka/Hakata–the ride was much more pleasant
when we got into Fukuoka, we shipped off our suitcases to my apartment
we totally lucked out and found a great izakaya right outside Hakata Station
slight mess-up with the train times, but we caught a 10:15 PM Kamome Express train out of Hakata/Fukuoka and to Nagasaki, and got to our hotel by 12:15 AM – Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey was on TV
breakfast at Royal Host, Japan’s equivalent of Denny’s
visited the atomic bomb hypocentre and the Peace Park, bought some drinks and sat under the sakura for a while in the park
spent time wandering around
headed to Glover Garden in the afternoon, a garden with houses and buildings from the Dutch citizens of Nagasaki–we had tea and cake there to hold us till dinner, and just spent time wandering around…and it was beautiful! Neither of us were expecting a whole lot, I think, but we were very, very impressed, especially by the views the houses gave of Nagasaki Harbor
also wandered briefly around the remnants of Dejima, the manmade island the Dutch were confined to during Japan’s period of seclusion (the island has since been incorporated into the mainland)
went back to the hotel, went in search of a French/Russian restaurant called Harbin, and a really, really sweet woman named Nou-san (who’d spent time in the US and was really eager to practice her English with us) walked us most of the way there!
the restaurant was really fancy–the food was wonderful, and we each had a glass of very strong red wine, but my veggie food wasn’t at all filling and I made the very stereotypical mood of hitting up McDonald’s after we left
went back to the hotel, where Michael Keaton’s Live In Baghdad was on, about the CNN crew who was in Baghdad when the US attacked Iraq during the Persian Gulf conflict–a surprisingly good film
Julie and I split up–she left early to head out to Aso and spend the rest of her week in Kyushu
I checked out and went to the Genbaku Hakubutsukan (atomic bomb museum)…like Hiroshima, there were some very chilling exhibits there, but I was really turned off by how this museum painted the western allies as the aggressors and said nothing about Japan’s true role in the war–granted, I didn’t pick up the audio guide, and the museum could have been focusing more on the actual atrocities and less on the history, but the history they did present felt very slanted to me, and I left quickly and with a bad taste in my mouth
Chalice had recommended a temple, but I got a bit mixed up and didn’t make it out there, but that was okay–did some walking, and the weather was really nice
had lunch, got my Starbucks Nagasaki receipt, and got back only to find that I’d just narrowly missed the 1:30 train to Fukuoka/Hakata (by 6 minutes) and had to wait for an hour
caught the 2:30…and we got a very clear and incredible view of Unzen and the Shimabara Peninsula that left me truly transfixed and just staring at it for 15 solid minutes
after getting into Hakata, I bought some snacks for the shink ride and then caught an eastbound Nozomi
caught my local express train in Okayama with no problems (it was the first train out of Okayama I’d been on that was going to split with half the cars going to Kochi via Ikeda (my line) and half going to Tokushima)
got home, went grocery shopping, met up with Chalice and Ashley, found a package from Linsday and a postcard from Andy’s trip to Egypt, and Chalice very kindly took me to retrieve my car from the Miyoshi Highway Oasis
(The next day, my suitcases came in, and Chalice and Ashley and I had an afternoon hanami under the sakura in the park right behind our place, and on Saturday I picked up Julie and took her and her suitcase back to Mikamo, and on Sunday, Julie, Brian, Ashley, Brian’s friend Jen, and I had a late-night hanami in the same park, and we all lived happily ever after. The end!) | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6028913855552673, "wiki_prob": 0.39710861444473267, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line268581"} |
Agave Plant: How to Grow and Care for Them
The Agave plant belongs to the over 200 Agave species and hails from the Central, South, North American, and the Caribbean region. These are succulents and have large leaves with spiny tips. The stiff and large specimen grows to 10 feet in height and width. The small Agaves are dish-sized with no spines and bear soft leaves.
What is Agave plant?
Types of Agave plant
1. Agave attenuate
2. Agave parviflora
3. Agave tequilana azul
4. Agave victoria-reginae
Things to Consider about Evergreen Trees
The Ideal Conditions for Agave plant
Benefits of Agave Plant
Are Agave Plants Toxic?
How to Grow Agave plant?
Care for Agave Plant
Agave is the botanical name of the Agave plant and is a monocyte genus that is native to the arid and hot American region. The word Agave comes from the Greek word Agavos which means Illustrious. Studies on human remains show that Agave was used more than 10000 yearsback for fiber and food. It was in 1500 that Agave plants started finding use in manufacturing tequila.
Common Name Agave, century plant
Family Agave
Plant Type Perennial succulent
Plant Size & Spread Different varieties that average 1 to 10 feet wide and from 1 to 20 feet tall
Bloom Time Most plants will bloom only once in their entire lifetime
Flower Color White, Yellow Green
Toxicity Mildly toxic
There are many kinds of Agave plant species that differ in their appearance and size. Here we are going to discuss about 4 types of Agave Plants.
It is a spineless Agave species also known by the names dragon tree Agave and foxtail Agave. It grows to a height of 4 or 5 feet and is a bit wide.
The leaves of this Agave plant species have white marks and a curled filament that give it its hairy look. The plant grows only 6 inches in length. It takes 6 to 8 years to bloom and produce green flowers.
The Weber blue Agave finds use in making tequila. It is also a great plant to add to your garden. The plant reaches a height of 6 feet and flowers in 6 to 8 years. Its blooms are yellow
The plant species when gets mature, its leaves turn broad and cup on the inside. It thus forms a dome-shaped structure. The plant reaches a 1-foot height and produces cream-colored flowers. It takes the plant around 20 to 30 years to produce flowers.
If you are interested to know more about the types of agave, read our article for 17 Types of Agave Plants With Pictures.
When to Plant Agave plant?
The best season to plant the Agave plants variety is in the spring season or early fall. When the Agave plant matures, which usually takes many years, then it produces a tall flower stalk that grows from the center of the plant.
The flowers are shaped like a bell and last for long. These are usually in the shades of green, yellow or white. Most of the Agave species will die once the flower produces the berry seed pods.
How Long Does Agave plant Take to Grow?
The Agave plant usually grows in 6 or 10 years which depends on the weather, soil, and environmental factors. Some plants take even longer to completely mature.
Before you plant the Agave plant you need to first prepare the substrate. For this, mix an equal amount of garden soil, broken brick or granite, and sand. The prepared substrate should be sterilized well which can be done by placing it in a microwave for 3 minutes.
The container needs to be filled with the substrate but leave at least 0.5 inches of space on the top. Add a lot of water and let the container stand to give time for the water to decant.
Then plant the Agave seed leaving at least 0.4 inches of space between each seed. Use a thin substrate layer to cover the seed again and then finish off the process by covering the seed with a fine and thin gravel layer. The grain of the gravel should not be bigger than 0.12 inches. Then water it again.
Here are some benefits of why you may want to grow Agave plants in your home garden.
These add to the aesthetic beauty of your garden being a focal point of your outdoor landscape.
The plants are very low maintenance.
The plant has medicinal properties and is known to be good for the bones.
The Agave plant extract is used topically to heal wounds.
Agave plant contains saponins that lower the level of cholesterol in the body.
The Agave flowers and stalks are edible and can be roasted or eaten raw.
Agave syrup is a healthy substitute for sugar.
Agave nectar is applied on hair to strengthen it.
Many traditional alcoholic drinks like mescal and tequila use the sweet juice from the Agave flower stalk.
The leaves of the plant are used to make weaving mats and paper.
Agave is mildly toxic as it contains oxalate crystals that are present on its leaves. This irritates the throat, skin, and mouth. These are also toxic to cats and dogs
The key to growing a healthy Agave plant is to ensure that the soil is well-drained and that the plant receives ample sunlight.
Agave is a succulent plant and produces shallow roots so you can grow them in a shallow container that does not need a lot of soil. The container should be able to take the plant’s weight.
Use a potting mix of succulents ensuring that it is well-drained. Water the container once a week during the summer months and once monthly during the winter months. Always check if the surface is dry and only then water the plant.
Agave plant needs moisture for seed germination so always cover the container with a plastic bag or glass to keep the moisture inside.
The container that contains the seed should not be exposed to direct sunlight but should be kept in a warm area.
The germination should start in 4 days or a maximum of 2 weeks. If it does not germinate by then the plant is never going to germinate.
Remove the glass and let the container stay moisturized for 2 weeks after you plant it.
The Agaves that breed from seed will first start with one leaf.
It is important to not change the light regime especially when the plant is in its sensitive years.
The plant will usually start to form new leaves four weeks after the germination process is over. It takes three leaves after which the Agave plant starts looking like a mature plant
The plant prefers full sun but can tolerate a bit of shade. If the climate is hot then it can handle more shade.
The mature plants are tolerant to drought, but when the plant is first established, water it every four or five days in the first month.
Most of the Agave plant species cannot tolerate frost. These usually like warm climate while in the winter months when they rest these need cool temperature. The night temperature of over 55 degrees Fahrenheit and a day temperature of 65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal for the plant.
The Agave plants like climate with low humidity since high humidity cause the crown to rot.
The plant needs well-drained soil that is rocky or sandy with a pH level of 6.6 to 6.8. Poorly drained soil causes the root to rot.
It is important to shelter the plant from cold wind else the plant will get damaged.
The main idea of pruning the Agave plant is to remove any dead leaves and eradicate the diseased areas. Seasonal pruning may also be carried out.
The Agave plant does not need a lot of care though these do benefit from occasional trims. The plant does not like heavy pruning that can cause the plant to die if you remove the healthy leaves. Care should be taken to remove only the dead and damaged leaves.
Agave plant does not need fertilizing but if you wish to do so then use a well-balanced and soluble fertilizer and ensure that you sprinkle it with care. It should be sprayed at the plant’s base in the early growing season. The fertilizer should contain phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium.
Feeding is not necessary since it will encourage flowering and if the plant starts to flower then it will die soon.
To propagate the Agave plant all that you need to do is to separate the pup from the parent plant using a trowel or a sharp knife. You may also twist them with your hand with less exertion.
Pests and diseases do not generally cause harm to the Agave plant. The Agave snout weevil though at times burrows into the center of the plant and lays its egg which collapses the plant.
The Agave plant is an architectural plant, ideal to be planted in your home garden. These are sturdy, low maintenance, and visually stimulating. The plant needs very less water, comes in varied sizes and shapes, and has an array of colors from silvery blue to dark green. Learning how to grow and care for them makes it easy to incorporate the Agave plant into your garden. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.741813063621521, "wiki_prob": 0.258186936378479, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1286035"} |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands has announced it will start culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds.
The islands’ Department of Environment said the culling will take place in the eastern region of Cayman Brac island, where only 13 brown booby fledglings out of 42 eggs survived last year.
Officials said Tuesday that they will launch a humane trap and euthanasia program to help protect a new nesting season that is underway. They said any microchipped cats caught in the traps will be returned to identifiable owners.
Brown boobies breed in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, building nests only in the ground. They are not considered an endangered species worldwide. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6066341996192932, "wiki_prob": 0.3933658003807068, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line971884"} |
Tag: Auburn Tigers
Brian Kelly praises LSU identity after Auburn: ‘That’s a culture win’
No. 25 LSU has bounced back quite nicely from a season-opening 24-23 loss to Florida State, reeling off four straight wins. The last one, a come-from-behind 21-17 victory over Auburn, is what first-year coach Brian Kelly described as ‘a culture win.’ — Read on http://www.on3.com/college/lsu-tigers/news/culture-win-auburn-tigers-brian-kelly-raves-about-lsu-identity-gritty-gutty/
Three Observations From LSU’s Victory Over Auburn
The Tigers' defensive dominance stole the show while the passing attack just couldn't get into a rhythm all night. — Read on http://www.si.com/college/lsu/.amp/football/three-observations-from-lsus-victory-over-auburn
Film review: How LSU made adjustments to overcome 17-0 deficit in win over Auburn
At the 9:38 mark of the second quarter Saturday night, LSU trailed 17-0 on the road as it struggled on both sides of the ball. The defense uncharacteristically allowed wide open receivers, and the offense couldn’t sustain drives. — Read on http://www.nola.com/sports/lsu/article_00f568c0-42a0-11ed-92bc-635e0cdfc135.amp.html
3 things I liked, 3 things I didn’t like about LSU’s win
Auburn outplayed LSU badly as it rolled to that 17-0 lead midway through the 2nd quarter. This game could have easily turned into a replica of the 48-11 beatdown that Auburn handed LSU the last time these teams met in Jordan-Hare 2 years ago. — Read on http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/lsu-football/lsu-football-3-things-i-liked-didnt-like-about-win-over-auburn/
Three pivotal moments from Auburn’s loss to LSU
much of the first half in Saturday night’s football game, Bryan Harsin’s Auburn Tigers were in control of an SEC West showdown versus visiting LSU. — Read on 247sports.com/college/auburn/Article/Auburn-fell-to-LSU-on-Saturday-to-drop-to-3-2-on-the-season-194640712/Amp/
COMEBACK KINGS: TIGERS SHUTOUT AUBURN IN A SECOND HALF ROAD COMEBACK WIN 21-17
Brian Kelly's LSU strolled into Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium as double digit favorites on a three game winning streak, facing a listless squad led by their dead man walking head coach and a toxic environment pointing to his impending ouster. — Read on http://www.lsuodyssey.com/post/comeback-kings-tigers-shutout-auburn-in-a-second-half-road-comeback-win-27-17
LSU Sixty Football Recap
LSU Sixty Football Recap — Read on lsusports.net/news/2022/10/02/live-now-lsu-sixty-2022-episode-5/
Auburn outplayed LSU badly as it rolled to that 17-0 lead midway through the 2nd quarter. This game could have easily turned into a replica of the 48-11 beatdown that Auburn handed LSU the last time these teams met in Jordan-Hare 2 years ago. — Read on http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/lsu-football/lsu-football-3-things-i-liked-didnt-like-about-win-over-auburn/amp/
Bryan Harsin addresses his job security following loss to LSU
Many are speculating that this game could spell the end of Harsin’s tenure on The Plains, but as of Sunday morning, no moves had been made. — Read on http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/auburn-football/bryan-harsin-addresses-his-job-security-following-loss-to-lsu/amp/
LSU Brian Kelly, WIN over Auburn postgame
LSU head football coach Brian Kelly spoke with the media following the Tigers win over Auburn, 21-17. — Read on m.youtube.com/watch
Auburn Football: Twitter reacts to Auburn collapsing against LSU
After being gifted a win against Missouri last week Auburn and Bryan Harsin needed to make a statement against the LSU Tigers Saturday. — Read on auburnwire.usatoday.com/lists/auburn-football-twitter-reacts-to-auburn-blowing-a-17-point-lead-against-lsu/
Auburn Football: Harsin, players speak after the loss to LSU
While Robby Ashford had his best college game, the home Tigers were unable to overcome their four turnovers and another poor offensive performance in the second half. — Read on auburnwire.usatoday.com/lists/auburn-football-everything-bryan-harsin-players-said-after-losing-to-lsu/
Brian Kelly after Auburn win: Winning is hard in the SEC
After LSU defeated Auburn 21-17 on Saturday night, head coach Brian Kelly shared his thoughts after how hard getting a win in the SEC was. Kelly’s Tigers beat Bryan Harsin’s Tigers on the road in their SEC West showdown, after trailing 17-0 in the second quarter. — Read on http://www.on3.com/college/lsu-tigers/news/brian-kelly-after-auburn-win-winning-hard-sec-conference-road-game/
Auburn DB LAUNCHES Jayden Daniels’ Shoe Into Orbit After Failed Tackle
Jayden Daniels’ shoe may not have landed yet. The LSU quarterback had it launched into orbit during Saturday’s game against Auburn and it couldn’t have been funnier. — Read on http://www.outkick.com/auburn-football-lsu-donovan-kaufman-viral-shoe-toss-jayden-daniels/
Auburn football blows 17-point lead in self-destructive loss to LSU
John Emery Jr. stomped the last five yards into the end zone. It was an aggressive punctuation to a 20-yard, go-ahead touchdown run. — Read on http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2022/10/02/auburn-football-score-lsu-bryan-harsin-blown-leads/69512949007/
LSU Comes From Behind to Beat Auburn, 21-17
Falling behind 17-0 in the second quarter, LSU scored 21 unanswered points to beat Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday night, 21-17. — Read on lsusports.net/news/2022/10/01/football-comes-fom-behind-to-beat-auburn-21-17/
LSU Football: How to watch Week 5 game at Auburn
The Tigers face their first true road test of the season on Saturday when it heads to eastern Alabama to take on Auburn. Both teams sit at 3-1 on the season entering the contest, though AU was blown out at home by Penn State and narrowly survived against Missouri last weekend. — Read on lsutigerswire.usatoday.com/lists/lsu-football-auburn-how-to-watch-injury-report-week-5/
Preview: Tigers Head to The Plains for First SEC Road Game
Riding three consecutive wins, LSU (3-1) travels to the Plains for the first true road game of the season against Auburn (3-1) on Saturday night. — Read on lsusports.net/news/2022/09/30/preview-tigers-head-to-the-plains-for-first-sec-road-game/
Auburn receiver Koy Moore delivers strong message to Kayshon Boutte, LSU ahead of SEC tilt
LSU just got some late-arriving smack talk to pin to their bulletin board ahead of a matchup with Auburn this weekend. Former LSU and current Auburn receiver Koy Moore went on the The War Rapport podcast and had the heat ready for his former team and the wide receiver room. — Read on http://www.on3.com/college/auburn-tigers/news/watch-auburn-receiver-koy-moore-delivers-strong-message-to-kayshon-boutte-lsu-ahead-of-sec-tilt/
Brian Kelly reveals how LSU is preparing for the environment against Auburn
LSU coach Brian Kelly explains how he and his staff are trying to replicate opposing atmospheres in practice this week ahead of Auburn game — Read on http://www.on3.com/college/lsu-tigers/news/brian-kelly-reveals-how-lsu-is-preparing-for-the-environment-against-auburn/
Former LSU football player calls out the Tigers’ wide receivers
The LSU football program has been a revolving door over the last few seasons. Players, coaches and assistants alike have all come and gone as the Tigers take on a full-scale rebuild. The last two seasons in Baton Rouge have been anything but pretty. Ed Orgeron is now out the door and the program seems …
Continue reading "Former LSU football player calls out the Tigers’ wide receivers"
LSU names additional captain for Saturday’s rivalry clash with Auburn
LSU has named running Josh Williams the offensive captain for the Tigers’ road game this Saturday against Auburn. — Read on http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/lsu-football/lsu-names-additional-captain-for-saturdays-rivalry-clash-with-auburn/amp/
Playing Dirty: Auburn
It’s finally time for LSU to play a REAL rivalry game! No more guessing if the team is good based on a meaningless blowout, this is what college football is all about. LSU-Auburn, where things are guaranteed to get weird. — Read on http://www.andthevalleyshook.com/platform/amp/2022/9/30/23379704/playing-dirty-auburn
Brian Kelly reveals LSU RB will miss Week 5 game vs. Auburn
Brian Kelly recently announced that the LSU Tigers will be without one of their running backs this weekend at Auburn. — Read on http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/lsu-football/brian-kelly-reveals-lsu-rb-will-miss-week-5-game-vs-auburn/
Brian Kelly Press Conference – Sept. 29 – LSU
Brian Kelly Press Conference – Sept. 29 – LSU — Read on lsusports.net/news/2022/09/29/brian-kelly-press-conference-sept-29/
LSU vs. Auburn: Brian Kelly preaches consistency on offense ahead of first SEC road game as head coach
Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers are leaving Baton Rouge for the team's first true road game of the season this weekend against Auburn. — Read on 247sports.com/Article/LSU-vs-Auburn-Brian-Kelly-preaches-consistency-on-offense-ahead-of-first-SEC-road-game-as-head-coach-194395122/Amp/
LSU’s front 7 on defense a concern for Auburn
As his football team continues preparation for Saturday night’s home game vs. LSU, Auburn’s head coach, Bryan Harsin, offered high praise on Wednesday about what he is seeing from LSU’s defense as a whole and the guys up near the line of scrimmage in particular. The teams will face off at 6 p.m. CDT at Jordan-Hare Stadium. …
Continue reading "LSU’s front 7 on defense a concern for Auburn" | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7134718894958496, "wiki_prob": 0.7134718894958496, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line735040"} |
Overclocking NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition
Video CardsNVIDIA RTX 3000 SeriesNVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti SeriesReviews
By Brent Justice
1440p Gameplay Performance
Our Goal in Testing
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Specs
Overclocking GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition
Metro Exodus Enhanced
Wolfenstein Youngblood
4K Gameplay Performance
Power and Temperature
Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE
To begin our performance evaluation, we will look at 1440p performance. 4K will be on the next page. We will include Ray Tracing and DLSS under each game, as needed.
We will start off with Metro Exodus Enhanced, which requires Ray Tracing, it is enabled at all times. We have also included DLSS performance numbers for comparison. When we overclocked the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE performance improved by 7% without DLSS. With DLSS enabled, performance increased by 6%. The overclock did not make the game playable without DLSS, but with DLSS it brought performance more consistently above 60FPS. The overclock is 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 FE. This performance advantage is more like it, and much more acceptable. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE overclocked is 13% slower than the GeForce RTX 3080 FE, so it is much closer than before.
In Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE has improved performance by 7%. It definitely makes this game smoother and more enjoyable, and very playable. This is 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 FE. Interestingly, the Radeon RX 6800 is still faster, however, by 4%. The overclocked GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE is only within 12% of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE however, so it’s inching closer.
When we turn on Medium Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 performance drops to unplayable levels, even at 1440p. Overclocking will not make the game playable. However, it does improve by 7%. The game only becomes playable with Medium Ray Tracing when you enable DLSS. Then it is very playable, and overclocking the RTX 3070 Ti FE will push you over 70FPS average.
PUshing the game even higher to “Ultra” Ray Tracing is of course also unplayable, also on the RTX 3080 FE. However, once we turn on DLSS performance improves. This is where overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE really helps. With DLSS enabled, the overclocked RTX 3070 Ti FE is 7% faster. It allows the game to be average over 60FPS, so the overclock really made a difference with DLSS. This is 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 FE. The RTX 3070 Ti FE overclocked comes within 13% of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE with DLSS.
In Dirt 5 performance is very good at 1440p, very playable. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE does something interesting, it makes it perform just over the Radeon RX 6800, whereas before, it was well under that performance. The performance increase is 8%, and the highest so far. That is 12% faster than the RTX 3070 FE.
With Ray Tracing turned on, performance is also very playable. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE here also takes it over the Radeon RX 6800 performance by 5%. Before, it was just at the same performance. Overclocking has improved performance by 6%. It’s within only 10% of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE, now that it is overclocked. That’s very close in performance.
In Watch Dogs Legion overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE has improved performance by 7%. However, the AMD Radeon RX 6800 is still faster, even compared to the overclocked RTX 3070 Ti FE. Overclocked, it’s within 9% of the GeForce RTX 3080 FE, the closest performance yet.
Turning on Ray Tracing is demanding in this game. We aren’t sure what is going on with the Radeon RX 6800 here, we tested and re-tested, and 19FPS was consistent. This game just received a new patch, and we are using that patch, it’s possible there is a bug or driver bug, it shouldn’t be that slow. Regardless, the GeForce RTX cards are also not playable without DLSS. Overclocking has improved performance by 14%. When we turn on DLSS, performance gets a lot better, but still arguably not playable. The GeForce RTX 3080 FE is, however.
Horizon Zero Dawn performs very well at the highest settings at 1440p. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE has improved performance by 7%. This pushes performance over the Radeon RX 6800 by 4%. It is 14% faster than the RTX 3070 FE. It’s only 6% lower than the RTX 3080 FE, so a much better value over the RTX 3080 for this game at 1440p.
In Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 we don’t see much scaling at 1440p, as we are mostly CPU bound currently. The GeForce RTX 3080 is the only one that really stands out. Overclocking doesn’t help much, but that changes at 4K.
In Red Dead Redemption 2 the AMD Radeon RX 6800 is strong once again, it’s actually just ahead of the overclocked GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE. Overclocking it has improved performance by 7%. This makes it 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 FE. It’s within 11% of the RTX 3080 FE performance.
In Wolfenstein Youngblood overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE has improved performance by 7%. The RTX 3080 FE is still 16% faster.
This game is very playable with Ray Tracing turned on. Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE has improved performance by 8%. This makes it 15% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 FE. Turn on DLSS, and performance skyrockets.
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti FE
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition
RTX 3070 Ti FE
Brent Justicehttps://www.thefpsreview.com
Former managing editor of GPUs at HardOCP for 18 years, Brent Justice has been reviewing computer components since the late 90s, educated in the art and method of the computer hardware review, he brings experience, knowledge, and hands-on testing with a gamer-oriented and hardware enthusiast perspective. You can follow him on Twitter - @Brent_Justice You can sub to his YouTube channel - Justice Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/JusticeGamingChannel You can check out his computer builds on KIT - @BrentJustice https://kit.co/BrentJustice | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.586350679397583, "wiki_prob": 0.413649320602417, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1455410"} |
Luke Bryan’s wife Caroline and Little Big Town’s Phillip Sweet’s wife Becky share some real-life moments that define what it’s like to be the women behind the men.
In a new podcast, “Get Real! with Caroline Hobby,” Luke Bryan’s wife Caroline and Little Big Town’s Phillip Sweet’s wife Becky opened up about hiding cleavage flasks, making suitcase beds, and being road-widow besties.
In the podcast Caroline reveals the two women met on the red carpet when they were both standing waiting for the guys to finish and feeling very nervous. Caroline says
“We were shaking. I just wanted to be out of the way. Becky had on this beautiful low cut dress, and I said, “I’m gonna be here for a while because Luke is gonna be talking for a while. God, I really wish I had a drink.” She pulled a flask out of her cleavage. I went, “I don’t know who you are, but I like you.” That’s how you start a great friendship.”
Caroline also talked up about how far they’ve come together saying:
“Our first house had a bathroom floor that was rotted out. In order to hop in the shower, you had to step over this big area so you wouldn’t fall through the hole. And now we don’t even know how we went from there to here. We have such a long history, it does make us appreciate each other more because we did this from absolutely nothing. I can honestly say that Luke has never changed.”
Meanwhile Philip’s wife Becky revealed the time she face planted on the red carpet!
“There were all these cable and it was raining and I was trying to gracefully go over them. My heel caught and I face planted. Like nose to the carpet, all the way down. Martina (McBride)’s sweet, sweet bodyguard picked me up like a Barbie underneath my armpits.”
TODAY ON GET REAL PODCAST: Caroline Bryan and Becky Sweet: LIVE Podcast from CMA Fest 2019! LINK IN BIO 🎙 _____ This is a special episode. It’s a live interview w two of the most amazing wives in country music. @linabryan3, married to @lukebryan and @sweetladijane, married to @phillipsweet of @littlebigtown. We talk about everything: how they met on a red carpet in the early days of their husbands careers, both super nervous, and Becky whipped out a flask from her cleavage which started their best friendship of 15 years. They tell me what it’s like to go from the bottom to the top of the music industry, and what they’ve learned along the way, plus parenting on the road and why it’s good to have your husbands be afraid of you a little bit! We also take a couple questions from the live audience. This episode is SO MUCH FUN! LINK IN BIO!! ____ Make sure you watch “CMA Fest,” the Music Event of Summer, featuring performances by Country Music’s biggest stars on Sunday, Aug. 4 at 8|7c on ABC. @cma
A post shared by CaroHobby (@carohobby) on Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27am PDT | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6562203764915466, "wiki_prob": 0.34377962350845337, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line155087"} |
CEBP Focus Archive
Progress and Priorities
Collection: Epidemiology of Aging and Cancer
Collection: Cancer Epidemiology in Asian American and Pacific Islander Populations
Collection: US Cancer Disparities Statistics
Collection: Cancer Epidemiology in Hispanic/Latino Populations
Collection: Colorectal Cancer: Screening and Early-Onset CRC
Collection: Informing Public Health Policy
All CEBP Special Collections
'Best 'Of' Collection
Frederick P. Li Impact Award
Research Articles| September 01 2014
Prevalence and Correlates of Smoking and Cessation-Related Behavior among Survivors of Ten Cancers: Findings from a Nationwide Survey Nine Years after Diagnosis
J. Lee Westmaas;
J. Lee Westmaas *
1Behavioral Research Center (BRC), American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
*Corresponding Author: J. Lee Westmaas, Behavioral Research Center, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. Phone: 404-329-7730; Fax: 404-929-6832; E-mail: [email protected]
Kassandra I. Alcaraz;
Kassandra I. Alcaraz
Carla J. Berg;
Carla J. Berg
2Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kevin D. Stein
Author & Article Information
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Online (http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/).
Received: January 17 2014
Revision Received: May 29 2014
Accepted: June 06 2014
©2014 American Association for Cancer Research.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2014) 23 (9): 1783–1792.
https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0046
A commentary has been published: Highlights of This Issue
Article Versions Icon Versions
Version of Record September 1 2014
Proof August 6 2014
J. Lee Westmaas, Kassandra I. Alcaraz, Carla J. Berg, Kevin D. Stein; Prevalence and Correlates of Smoking and Cessation-Related Behavior among Survivors of Ten Cancers: Findings from a Nationwide Survey Nine Years after Diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1 September 2014; 23 (9): 1783–1792. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0046
Background: Smoking is detrimental to recovery and survival from cancer, but many cancer survivors continue to smoke. Information is lacking on smoking patterns of survivors many years after diagnosis and correlates of smoking status and patterns, likelihood of quitting, and intentions to quit.
Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were conducted among survivors of 10 cancers recruited by stratified random sampling from cancer registries in a nationwide, longitudinal, quality-of-life study (n = 2,938).
Results: Approximately 9 years after diagnosis, 9.3% of all survivors were current (past 30-day) smokers. Smoking prevalence was highest among survivors of bladder (17.2%), lung (14.9%), and ovarian (11.6%) cancers. Most current smokers (83%) smoked daily, averaging 14.7 cigarettes per day (cpd). Forty percent of daily smokers smoked more than 15 cpd. Nondaily smokers smoked a mean of 10.9 days in the last 30 days and averaged 5.7 cpd on smoking days. Current smoking was associated with younger age, lower education and income, and greater alcohol consumption. Quitting after diagnosis was associated with having a smoking-related cancer. Roughly, a third of current smokers intended to quit, 40% within the next month. The odds of intending to quit were lower if survivors were married, older, or smoked more.
Conclusions: This population-based study indicated that smoking can persist long after initial diagnosis and at high levels and identified characteristics associated with quitting and intentions to quit.
Impact: Findings can be used to identify survivors most at risk for continued smoking and to inform tailoring of cessation treatments for survivors. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 23(9); 1783–92. ©2014 AACR.
This article is featured in Highlights of This Issue, p. 1705
Prevalence and patterns of smoking in survivors
Cigarette smoking decreases the effectiveness of cancer treatments, increases the probability of recurrence, and reduces survival time (1, 2). Yet a significant proportion of cancer survivors continue to smoke tobacco post-diagnosis (3–7). Population-based, cross-sectional surveys estimate that between 15% and 18% of cancer survivors currently smoke (8–11), but prevalence varies by type of cancer diagnosis (9, 10) and is higher among younger survivors (8, 10) and those diagnosed with smoking-related cancers (11). There is a lack of information on smoking prevalence and cessation interventions for survivors many years after diagnosis, however. High smoking rates would suggest the need for interventions at points well after recovery, and knowledge of factors associated with smoking behavior could inform clinical practice and, potentially, the tailoring of interventions—an important aspect of effective treatment for this population (12).
There is also a lack of data on patterns of smoking, such as daily versus nondaily smoking, or heaviness of smoking (i.e., cigarettes per day), among cancer survivors long after treatment for initial diagnoses has ended. Recently, research has pointed to significant increases in the prevalence of nondaily smoking in the general population (13, 14). Evidence of a high prevalence of nondaily smoking among long-term survivors who smoke has implications for cessation interventions; for example, the dangers of nondaily smoking would need to be addressed in treatment. Moreover, the dearth of evidence-based treatments for nondaily smokers suggests a gap in our capacity to successfully treat survivors who are also chronic nondaily smokers.
Predictors of quitting among survivors
A number of studies have examined sociodemographic and other factors associated with subsequent quitting among those who smoked at the time of diagnosis. For example, in a study of 566 individuals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; ref. 7), cross-sectional analyses found that the likelihood of (self-reported) smoking post-diagnosis was associated with being female, younger, Hispanic, underweight or normal weight, and not having a smoking-related cancer. Other studies have corroborated findings regarding female gender (15) and younger age (15) and also documented lower income and/or education (16) and type of cancer (17) as predictors of quitting smoking post-diagnosis. These studies have been limited by small samples frequently from a single institution, a focus on single or smoking-related cancers, and on survivors relatively soon after their diagnosis (16–19). Thus, more research is needed to corroborate these findings and to explore other variables that may be associated with continued smoking versus quitting among cancer survivors years after diagnosis. For example, medical conditions or physical limitations of which smoking may be a cause (e.g., comorbid conditions such as heart disease) or that could conceivably influence smokers' motivation to quit or their smoking status (e.g., an additional cancer diagnosis) have not been included in prior studies of risk factors for continued smoking. Given associations of smoking with mental health conditions such as depression, and with alcohol abuse (20, 21), examining these variables' relationships with smoking status among survivors also seems particularly important.
Some survivors who currently smoke years after diagnosis may also still have intentions of quitting, but the prevalence of intentions to quit has not been examined or reported for longer term survivors. Investigating the prevalence of intentions to quit, and their predictors, however, would help to identify those who may be more receptive to smoking cessation interventions years after recovery.
To address the aforementioned research and gaps in the literature, we used cross-sectional data from the last wave of a longitudinal study (when smoking status was assessed) of long-term survivors of 10 cancers identified from cancer registries in 11 states (22). Specifically, we examined (i) prevalence and correlates of current smoking and smoking patterns among cancer survivors, (ii) correlates of cessation versus current smoking after cancer diagnosis, and (iii) correlates of planning to quit smoking (and when) among current smokers.
Analyses for the current cross-sectional study used data on smoking status assessed at the third wave of the American Cancer Society's Study of Cancer Survivors-I (SCS-I), which is a longitudinal nationwide study of adult cancer survivors. Participants were initially selected through stratified random sampling from 11 state cancer registries covering all 4 census regions (West, Midwest, Northeast, and South). Smoking status questions were included in the third wave of data collection to maximize the amount of time since cancer diagnosis (i.e., several years post-diagnosis).
Samples for SCS-I were stratified on the basis of age, race/ethnicity, and cancer type. Survivors who were younger than 55 years and belonged to racial and ethnic minorities were oversampled. Study eligibility criteria included: (i) being at least 18 years of age at the time of diagnosis, (ii) diagnosed with 1 of the 10 most highly incident cancers at the time of participant recruitment (i.e., breast, prostate, bladder, uterine, skin melanoma, colorectal, kidney, non–Hodgkin lymphoma, ovarian, and lung), (iii) diagnosed with a local, regional, or distant Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER; ref. 23) summary stage (except inclusion of in situ cases for bladder cancer), (iv) diagnosed between January 2000 and September 2003, and (v) fluent in English or Spanish. For initial recruitment, physician consent for surveying participants was obtained (physician consent rate of 93.0%). The case recruitment rate for the first survey (after refusals, ineligibility, deceased status, and unlocatability) was 42.1% (n = 6,309). In all, 3 waves of surveys were administered by either mail or telephone between July 2000 and December 2011. Retention rates for the second and third surveys were 80% and 70%, respectively (relative to enrollment in the first survey). The third survey was completed by 3,138 individuals between January 2010 and December 2011, approximately 9 years after diagnosis. Of these, 2,938 (93.6%) answered questions on smoking status and comprised the total sample for the cross-sectional analyses reported herein. The Institutional Review Board of Emory University (Atlanta, GA) approved SCS-I, and additional approvals were obtained for each state, including the Connecticut Department of Public Health Human Investigation Committee. A detailed discussion of recruitment and methodology is available elsewhere (22).
Sociodemographic variables.
Gender was recorded from cancer registries, and survey questions asked participants their age, marital status, household income, race/ethnicity, and education. The latter 4 variables were recoded to fewer categories (see tables) to attain adequate cell sizes in statistical analyses.
Cancer-related variables.
SEER stage and cancer type were recorded on the basis of cancer registry data and confirmed by self-report of cancer diagnosis in the baseline survey. Among self-reported diagnoses (n = 2,694), agreement with registry data was high (97.9%), with registry diagnoses used for the remaining cases. Colorectal, bladder, kidney, lung, and mucinous ovarian cancers were classified as smoking-related cancers (24). Among the cases of ovarian cancer (n = 121), only 3 were mucinous ovarian. These 3 cases were excluded in analyses of relationships between smoking-related cancers and smoking behavior.
The survey also asked if in the past 5 years “the same cancer came back (recurrence)?,” “the cancer spread to another part of your body (metastasis)?,” and “you were diagnosed with another type of cancer?” (“yes” or “no” response). In addition, participants were asked if they had received cancer treatments in the past 5 years from a list that included surgery to remove the cancer, chemotherapy, radiation treatment, bone marrow or stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy (“yes” or “no” response). A dichotomous variable was created to indicate whether or not any of the above treatments was received in the past 5 years. Years since diagnosis was calculated on the basis of age at diagnosis and at survey completion.
Other health-related variables.
Participants indicated if they had been treated in the past 5 years (“yes” or “no” response) for any of 26 medical conditions [Alzheimer's disease, dementia, high cholesterol, gastrointestinal problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack, heart disease, other heart conditions, stroke, neuropathy, circulatory problems, anemia, lymphedema, thyroid disorders, arthritis, pulmonary/breathing problems, hearing loss, osteoporosis, anxiety, depression, mental health problems (other than anxiety or depression), alcohol abuse, liver disease, kidney problems, urinary tract problems]. After excluding responses for anxiety, depression, mental health problems other than depression or anxiety, and alcohol abuse, conditions were summed to create a final comorbidity index. Responses to the anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems were used to create a dichotomous variable representing having received any mental health treatment (or not) in the past 5 years. Treatment for alcohol abuse was examined separately.
Two variables assessed alcohol frequency and quantity [adapted from the 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey; ref. 25)] Respondents were asked “on average, how frequently did you drink any alcoholic beverage (beer, wine, or liquor) in the past month?” Response options were “never or less than 1 day per month,” “1–4 days per month,” “2–5 days per week,” and “6–7 days per week.” From these responses, a dichotomous variable was created to indicate drinking frequency of 1 d/wk or less or 2 d/wk or more. Respondents were also asked “on days that you do drink, how many drinks of alcohol (beer, wine, or liquor) do you have on average?”. Responses were “I don't drink alcohol,” “1 drink per day,” “2 drinks per day,” and “3 or more drinks per day.” A 3-category variable was created to indicate no drinking, 1 drink per day, or 2 or more drinks per day. Physical functioning was assessed using the physical functioning subscale of the 12-item Medical Outcomes Study-Short Form (MOS SF-12; ref. 26). Current body mass index (BMI) was calculated on the basis of self-reported weight and height.
Smoking behavior.
Standard questions for classifying smoking status were used. Respondents were asked whether they smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire life and whether they “never smoked cigarettes” or now smoked cigarettes “every day,” “some days,” or “not at all.” Never smokers had not smoked at least 100 cigarettes and indicated never having smoked. Former smokers had smoked at least 100 cigarettes and were not currently smoking. Current smokers had smoked at least 100 cigarettes and currently smoked every day or some days; someday, smokers were asked the number of days smoked in the past 30 days and number of cigarettes smoked on those days. Using responses to a question asking at what age they had quit for good, former smokers were further subdivided into 2 groups: those who had quit at or after diagnosis and those who had quit before diagnosis.
To capture differences in intensity of smoking between daily and nondaily smokers using a common metric, we calculated a measure of average cigarettes smoked per day (cpd) over the past 30 days for nondaily smokers by multiplying the number of smoking days in the last 30-day period by cigarettes smoked per day on those days and divided the result by 30. This was incorporated with daily smokers' cpd to create a final measure of cpd for all current smokers.
Current smokers were also asked whether they planned to quit smoking. Response options were “yes,” “no,” and “not sure.” Because of low frequencies of survivors not planning to quit (see results), the latter 2 categories were combined to create a dichotomous variable representing intentions of quitting versus not sure (or not). Those who answered “yes” were further asked when they planned to quit. Options were “less than a month from now,” “in the next 3 months,” “in the next 6 months,” and “after 6 or more months.” Because of low frequencies for the last 3 categories, they were merged to create a dichotomous variable representing smokers who planned to quit in less than a month versus in the next 3 months or later.
Analysis plan
Participant characteristics were examined using descriptive statistics. We examined bivariate associations of sociodemographic factors, cancer-related factors, and other health factors with (i) smoking status (never/former/current smoker), (ii) smoking pattern (i.e., daily vs. nondaily), (iii) having quit after diagnosis versus currently smoking, and (iv) planning to quit smoking in the future (and when) among current smokers. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted in which statistically significant factors from bivariate analyses were the independent variables in predicting smoking status, quitting pattern, quitting after diagnosis versus currently smoking, and intentions to quit smoking (and when) among current smokers. Because smoking status was a 3-category variable, a multinomial logistic regression rather than binary logistic regression was used (with current smokers as the reference group). Final regression models were built using a backward stepwise method. Analyses were conducted using SPSS 20; alpha was set at 0.05 for all analyses.
Sample characteristics
Sixty percent (n = 1,763) of the sample was female, participants' mean age was 65.5 years (SD = 11.1), the majority (91.9%; n = 2,700) of the sample was Caucasian, and approximately one third (30.3%) had an annual household income of $39,999 or less (Table 1). The average time since first diagnosis was 8.9 years (SD = 0.7). In the past 5 years, 7.3% (n = 214) had experienced a recurrence of their cancer, the cancer had metastasized for 3.3% (n = 98), and for 8% (n = 236), a new cancer was diagnosed. Almost 19% (n = 551) reported having received some form of cancer treatment in the last 5 years. The proportion of the total sample with smoking-related cancers was 28.3% (n = 830). Twenty-one percent of the sample (n = 624) had received mental health treatment in the past 5 years but less than 1% (n = 8) for alcohol abuse.
Sample characteristics as a function of wave 3 smoking status in SCS-I
Never smokers .
Former smokers .
Current smokers .
Total N = 2,938 .
n = 1,457 (49.6%) .
n = 272 (9.3%) .
n(%)/M(SD) .
χ2/F test .
P .
Sociodemographic variables
Caucasian/White 2,700 (91.9) 1,326 (91.0) 1,125 (93.1) 249 (91.5) χ2(4, 2,937) = 8.5 0.075
African-American/Black 175 (6.0) 91 (6.2) 63 (5.2) 21 (7.7)
Other 62 (2.1) 39 (2.7) 21 (1.7) 2 (0.7)
Male 1,175 (40.0) 438 (30.1) 626 (51.8) 111 (40.8) χ2(2, 2,938) = 129.9 0.000
Female 1,763 (60.0) 1,019 (69.9) 583 (48.2) 161 (59.2)
High school or less 973 (33.1) 440 (30.2) 421 (34.8) 112 (41.2) χ2(2, 2,928) = 16.3 0.000
Post-secondary 1,955 (66.5) 1,013 (69.5) 787 (65.1) 155 (57.0)
Not married 848 (28.9) 408 (28.0) 345 (28.5) 95 (34.9) χ2(2, 2,935) = 5.4 0.067
Married 2,087 (71.0) 1,047 (71.9) 863 (71.4) 177 (65.1)
Less than $19,999 331 (11.3) 154 (10.6) 121 (10.0) 56 (20.6) χ2(6, 2,492) = 38.0 0.000
$20,000–$39,999 559 (19.0) 253 (17.4) 248 (20.5) 58 (21.3)
$75,000 or more 760 (25.9) 412 (28.3) 300 (24.8) 48 (17.6)
Age 65.5 (11.1) 64.4a (11.7) 67.7b (10.9) 61.8c (8.8) F(2, 2,937) = 45.8 0.000
Cancer-related variables
SEER stage
In situ 77 (2.6) 24 (1.6) 39 (3.2) 14 (5.1) χ2(6, 2,938) = 15.9 0.014
Localized 1,990 (67.7) 988 (67.8) 829 (68.6) 173 (63.6)
Regional 697 (23.7) 356 (24.4) 273 (22.6) 68 (25.0)
Distant 174 (5.9) 89 (6.1) 68 (5.6) 17 (6.2)
Cancer recurrence in the past 5 years
Yes 214 (7.3) 90 (6.2) 96 (7.9) 28 (10.3) χ2(2, 2,938) = 7.1 0.029
No 2,724 (92.7) 1,367 (93.8) 1,113 (92.1) 244 (89.7)
Cancer metastasized in the past 5 years
Yes 98 (3.3) 47 (3.2) 37 (3.1) 14 (5.1) χ2(2, 2,938) = 3.1 0.212
New cancer diagnosis in the past 5 years
Yes 236 (8.0) 104 (7.1) 111 (9.2) 21 (7.7) χ2(2, 2,938) = 3.8 0.152
Cancer treatment in the past 5 years
Yes 551 (18.8) 243 (16.7) 253 (20.9) 55 (20.2) χ2(2, 2,938) = 8.2 0.016
No 2,387 (81.2) 1,214 (83.3) 956 (79.1) 217 (79.8)
Cancer smoking related
Yes 830 (28.3) 344 (23.6) 404 (33.4) 82 (30.1) χ2(2, 2,938) = 31.9 0.000
Years since diagnosis 8.9 (0.7) 8.9 (0.7) 8.9 (0.7) 9.0 (0.7) F(2, 2,937) = 1.9 0.094
Other health-related variables
Mental health treatment in the past 5 years
Alcohol abuse treatment in the past 5 years
Yes 8 (0.3) 2 (0.1) 3 (0.2) 3 (1.1) χ2(2, 2,938) = 7.9 0.019
Alcohol frequency
1 d/wk or less 2,138 (72.7) 1,163 (79.8) 790 (65.3) 185 (68.0) χ2(2, 2,915) = 72.3 0.000
2 d/wk or more 777 (26.4) 285 (19.6) 407 (33.7) 85 (31.3)
Alcohol quantity
None 1,210 (41.2) 700 (48.0) 417 (34.5) 93 (34.2) χ2(4, 2,887) = 117.0 0.000
1 drink/d 980 (33.4) 495 (34.0) 418 (34.6) 67 (24.6)
2 or more drinks/d 697 (23.7) 238 (16.3) 351 (29.0) 108 (39.7)
Physical functioning 46.4 (10.4) 47.5a (10.1) 45.6b (10.2) 43.9c (11.6) F(2, 2,937) = 20.71 0.000
Comorbid conditions 2.5 (2.1) 2.4a (2.1) 2.7b (2.1) 2.4a,b (2.1) F(2, 2,937) = 8.84 0.000
BMI 28.7 (6.1) 28.8a (6.6) 28.8a (5.7) 27.3b (5.5) F(2, 2,893) = 7.56 0.001
NOTE: Means with different subscripts differ significantly at P = 0.05 with Bonferroni correction (and means sharing a subscript do not differ significantly). Subtotals may not equal actual totals due to exclusion of respondents missing data on a particular characteristic.
Prevalence and correlates of current smoking
Of the entire sample, 9.3% (n = 272) were current smokers, 41.2% (n = 1,209) were former smokers, and 49.6% (n = 1,457) were never smokers (as assessed at the final wave). Of the 1,209 former smokers, 88.6% (n = 1,072) had quit before their diagnosis.
Bivariate analyses indicated that sociodemographic variables significantly associated with current smoking status were younger age, female gender, lower education, and lower income (see Table 1 for proportions and test statistics). Cancer-related variables associated with current smoking (vs. never smoking) were in situ diagnosis of the initial cancer and recurrence of the initial cancer in the past 5 years. Current and former smoking were associated with receiving cancer treatment in the last 5 years and with diagnosis of a smoking-related cancer. The prevalence of current smoking differed by cancer type [χ2(27) = 223.4, P = 0.0001] and was highest among bladder (17.2%), lung (14.9%), and ovarian (11.6%) survivors and lowest among survivors of colorectal (6.8%), kidney (7.3%), and skin melanoma (7.6%) cancers.
Health-related variables associated with current smoking status were having received mental health treatment in the past 5 years and greater consumption of alcohol (both frequency and quantity; Table 1). Only 8 individuals reported having received treatment for alcohol abuse in the past 5 years, so this variable was dropped from further analyses. Current smokers' physical functioning and BMI were lower than that of former smokers' and never smokers'. Current smokers' number of comorbid conditions did not differ from that of former smokers or never smokers, although former and never smokers differed significantly (Table 1).
The final multinomial logistic regression model indicated that compared with the odds of being a current smoker, the odds of being a never or former smoker were greater for survivors who were older (ORs > 1.04) and had higher income (ORs > 1.71), physical functioning (ORs > 1.02), and BMI (ORs > 1.08; Table 2). The odds of being a never or former smoker were lower for survivors who drank 2 or more drinks per day (ORs < 0.59). Compared with being a current smoker, the odds of being a never smoker were lower for males (OR, 0.60), higher for survivors with more than a high school education (OR, 1.54), and lower for survivors who had received mental health treatment in the past 5 years (OR, 0.56).
Multinomial logistic regression model comparing current smokers with never and former smokers
Never smokers (vs. current smokers) .
Former smokers (vs. current smokers) .
OR (95% CI) .
Age 1.04a (1.02–1.05) 1.06a (1.05–1.08)
Female (Ref) 1.0 1.0
Male 0.60b (0.43–0.82) 1.23 (0.85–1.57)
≤High school (Ref) 1.0 1.0
>High school 1.54c (1.10–2.14) 1.19 (0.85–1.62)
<$19,999 (Ref) 1.0 1.0
$20,000–$39,999 1.71c (1.08–2.72) 2.03b (1.27–3.24)
$40,000–$74,999 1.95b (1.25–3.05) 2.36a (1.50–3.71)
≥$75,000 4.17a (2.48–7.01) 4.13a (2.43–7.01)
None (Ref) 1.0 1.0
Treatment in last 5 years 0.56d 0.83 (0.59–1.17)
1 drink/d 0.66c (0.45–0.97) 1.05 (0.71–1.55)
2 or more drinks/d 0.23a (0.15–0.33) 0.59b (0.41–0.87)
Physical functioning 1.04a (1.02–1.05) 1.02b (1.01–1.04)
BMI 1.09a (1.06–1.12) 1.08a (1.05–1.11)
NOTE: Model χ2(22) = 374.8, P < 0.0001.
aP < 0.0001.
bP < 0.01.
cP < 0.05.
dP < 0.001.
Prevalence and correlates of daily versus nondaily smoking
Among the sample's 272 current smokers, 83.1% smoked every day (n = 226) and 16.9% smoked some days (n = 46). Daily smokers smoked a mean of 14.7 cpd (SD = 8.0; range = 1–50 cpd). Nondaily smokers smoked an average of 10.8 days in the last 30 days (SD = 6.9) and on those days smoked an average of 5.7 cpd (SD = 5.2; range = 1–20 cpd).
Bivariate analyses indicated that only education was associated with whether current smokers smoked daily versus nondaily [χ2(8) = 4.28, P = 0.039; which obviated multivariate analyses]. Specifically, while 55% of daily smokers had more than a high school education, an even greater proportion of nondaily smokers did (72%).
Prevalence and correlates of quitting after diagnosis versus current smoking
Of the 1,209 former smokers, 11% (n = 137) were smokers at the time of diagnosis but had quit since then. Assuming that the 272 current smokers in the overall sample had also been smoking at the time of their diagnosis, the number of smokers who smoked at the time of diagnosis was 409 (272 + 137), and the proportion of these individuals who had subsequently quit was 33.5% (137 of 409).
In bivariate analyses, quitting after diagnosis was associated with having had a smoking-related cancer, more comorbid conditions, and higher BMI (Supplementary Table S1). The multivariate analysis [χ2(3) = 23.03, P = 0.0001] indicated that the odds of having quit after diagnosis were greater for survivors whose cancer was smoking-related [OR, 1.73; confidence interval (CI), 1.11–2.68; P = 0.01], who had higher BMI (OR, 1.06; CI, 1.03–1.10; P = 0.001), and marginally more current comorbid medical conditions (OR, 1.10; CI, 1.00–1.21; P = 0.06).
Prevalence and correlates of intention to quit among current smokers
Of the 272 current smokers in the sample, 268 (98.5%) responded to the question about intentions of quitting; 46.6% (n = 125) indicated planning to quit, 10.1% (n = 27) did not plan to quit, and 43.3% (n = 116) were “not sure.”
Bivariate analyses indicated that sociodemographic variables associated with intending to quit (vs. not sure or not) were being not married and of younger age (Supplementary Table S2). No cancer-related variables were associated with intending to quit. Health-related variables associated with intentions of quitting were higher BMI, smoking fewer cpd, being a nondaily smoker, and drinking 1 d/wk or less (vs. 2 d/wk or more).
Multivariate analyses indicated that the odds of intending to quit smoking were lower for married (vs. unmarried) survivors (OR, 0.57; CI, 0.33–0.98, P = 0.04), for older survivors (OR, 0.96; CI, 0.93–0.99; P = 0.01), for those who smoked more cpd on average (OR, 0.96, CI, 0.93–0.99; P = 0.01), and marginally for those who drank 2 or more drinks per day (OR, 0.59; CI, 0.33–1.03; P = 0.06).
Prevalence and correlates of immediacy of intentions to quit
Of the 125 smokers who indicated planning to quit, 124 responded to the question of when; 39.5% (n = 49) planned to quit “less than a month from now,” with the remainder (n = 75) planning to quit in the next 3 months or later.
Bivariate analyses indicated that none of the sociodemographic variables were significantly associated with planning to quit in a month or less (Supplementary Table S3). Planning to quit within a month was significantly associated with an initial cancer that was smoking-related and marginally (P = 0.07) with having had cancer treatment in the past 5 years. Variables assessing cancer recurrence, metastasis, and new cancer diagnoses were dropped from further analyses because of low frequencies (<5 cases per cell). Planning to quit within a month was also associated with smoking fewer cpd and being a nondaily smoker. Multivariate analyses [χ2(2) = 16.13, P = 0.0001] indicated that the odds of planning to quit in less than a month were greater for survivors who had been diagnosed with a smoking-related cancer (OR, 2.32; CI, 1.03–5.24; P = 0.043), and for survivors who were nondaily (vs. daily) smokers (OR, 4.78; CI, 1.85–12.39; P = 0.001).
The current study aimed to address gaps in research regarding long-term cancer survivors' smoking behavior and their predictors. Compared with other studies (10, 11), this cross-sectional sample of survivors 9 years after diagnosis documented a lower smoking prevalence of 9.3%. A plausible explanation is mortality from cancer (particularly lung cancer, which has a low survival rate) in the 9 years since being diagnosed. Declining smoking prevalence in the general population more recently may also play a role.
Similar to prior studies (8–10), current smokers in the sample were of younger age compared with never and former smokers. Lower household income among survivors was also associated with increased odds of being a current smoker. Compared with former and never smokers, current smokers also had lower scores on physical functioning and slightly lower BMI. Survivors who still smoked were also more likely to drink more frequently (compared with never smokers) and to drink more on the days they drank (compared with former and never smokers). They were also more likely to have received treatment for mental health in the previous 5 years. These results suggest that alcohol consumption and mood management may need to be addressed or incorporated in interventions for survivors who smoke many years after diagnosis.
Overall, results indicated that survivors who smoked daily smoked at relatively high levels and would likely have a difficult time quitting because of their tobacco dependence (27). Moreover, a sizeable minority smoked nondaily, which was associated with higher education. Although it would need to be confirmed in future research, nondaily smoking may represent an attempt by some survivors to reduce their risk of negative health consequences, given prior research showing that some survivors believe that reducing their smoking is beneficial for their recovery (28). The findings that smoking fewer cpd was associated with greater odds of intending to quit, and nondaily smoking (vs. daily smoking) with intending to quit sooner rather than later, suggests that lighter or nondaily smokers may be receptive to, and thus a prime target for, cessation treatments, even many years after diagnosis. Cessation treatments for these survivors should of course incorporate information about the hazards of any amount of smoking (even nondaily) for cancer-free survival and of its effects on other non-cancer outcomes (e.g., heart disease). This information is standard for cessation treatments in the general population but should hold particular significance for survivors who could potentially experience late effects of treatments that result in decreased physical health (29).
Increasing all survivors' access to cessation support from oncologists, however, will be necessary to translate motivation to actual success in quitting. Prior research indicates that while oncologists do ask about smoking and quitting and are supportive of providing cessation assistance to patients with cancer who smoke, in practice their provision of cessation assistance and follow-up of smoking status is much lower (30, 31). Whatever the reasons (e.g., reluctance to address tobacco use in older patients, time constraints), this could be ameliorated by automated systems that screen for tobacco use and provide referrals to available treatments (32), regardless of smoking level or age. While minimal treatment could offer significant benefits, heavier smoking survivors may require more comprehensive care to address their unique treatment needs (e.g., psychiatric comorbidity; ref. 33). On the basis of the smoking patterns observed in the current study, follow-up of survivors about their smoking habits well after initial treatment and recovery is warranted, which in conjunction with improving access to appropriate cessation treatment could potentially reduce smoking prevalence in survivors.
Smoking prevalence also varied considerably by cancer type. The highest rates were found among survivors of bladder, lung, and ovarian cancers, the first 2 of which are smoking-related cancers. The inclusion of in situ cases for bladder cancer, and the longer progression from in situ to invasive disease, may have inflated the smoking prevalence in this sample. In any event, almost a fifth of patients with bladder cancer were still smoking 9 years after diagnosis, which is comparable to smoking prevalence in the general population. A smaller proportion of patients with lung cancer (15%) still smoked.
The finding of these levels of smoking among survivors with bladder and lung cancer is reason for concern. Post hoc analyses indicated that most bladder and lung cancer survivors were daily smokers (90% and 85%, respectively) who smoked a median of 10 or more cpd (median of 14 cpd for bladder cancer survivors). In addition to their tobacco dependence, which makes quitting more difficult, a possibility is that these survivors are less motivated to quit because they have survived this long after their initial diagnosis. Moreover, survivors of bladder cancer, which has relatively high survivability, may believe that because their cancer is relatively curable or has a longer predicted survival, they can continue smoking without great fear that they will suffer severe negative cancer- or other health-related consequences—and indeed current smokers' comorbidity did not differ from that of never and former smokers. Future research could examine support for this proposition and its implications for treatment. It is likely that soon after diagnosis is the most advantageous time to encourage quitting [i.e., a “teachable moment” (refs. 34, 35)] and that with the passage of time, survivors may become less motivated if additional comorbid conditions do not appear.
Results also indicated that the odds of having quit after diagnosis (vs. current smoking) were higher among survivors whose cancer was smoking-related. This result may partly be an artifact of greater mortality among those who continued smoking past their diagnosis. Post-diagnosis smoking is associated with increased all-cause mortality, decreased overall survival, and increased cancer mortality compared with never smoking, according to a summary of this research in the 2014 Surgeon General's Report (1). Thus, in the 9 years after diagnosis, a significant number of continuing smokers may have died. It is also possible that oncologists or health care providers in contact with survivors of a tobacco-related malignancy may be more likely to address their tobacco use, both at the time of diagnosis and subsequently. This may also explain why among current smokers who planned to quit, diagnosis of a smoking-related cancer was associated with more immediate plans to quit. Whatever the reason, these results indicate that long after diagnosis some survivors are motivated to quit and should be offered treatment.
Results also indicated that older smokers in the current study were less likely to plan to quit. While the effect was not strong, it suggests the possibility that older longer term survivors who smoke may feel that the effort or difficulties in quitting (e.g., withdrawal symptoms) may not be worth the possible gain in greater life expectancy and/or reduced morbidity. Studies that assess older survivors' perceptions of the benefits and costs of quitting would help determine the plausibility of this hypothesis.
Although previous research found that being widowed or divorced, compared with being married, is associated with increased smoking prevalence (9), the current study found that married smokers had lower intentions of quitting. This was unexpected and to our knowledge has not been previously reported. Future prospective research with large samples should seek to understand why being married is associated with lower motivation to quit among long-term survivors who smoke (e.g., having a spouse who smokes). It may be that marriage initially decreases the risk of smoking among survivors (assuming the partner does not smoke) but that this beneficial effect may disappear many years after diagnosis.
In spite of attrition across waves, sociodemographic characteristics of the final sample were comparable to other population-based studies such as the National Health Information Survey (NHIS; ref. 36) and BRFSS (11). Nevertheless, data suggest that older, male, and non-white individuals are less likely to respond to surveys (37, 38), which may translate to a conservative estimate of smoking prevalence in the current study.
An advantage of the current study was its use of registry-reported cancer diagnosis which reduces the likelihood of misclassification of cancer diagnosis compared with self-report. Similar to other large population-based surveys of cancer survivors, a limitation is self-report of smoking status and other health-related variables. Self-report of smoking in this study may not be a significant source of bias, however, as a study of newly diagnosed patients with cancer found that self-report of current and never smoking corresponded 100% with cotinine validation (39). In contrast, it was those who self-reported recent quitting within a year for whom there were discrepancies between self-report and biochemical validation; in the current study, however, only 1.2% of respondents reported quitting within a year of our assessment of smoking status. Still, smoking prevalence observed may be conservative as some current smokers may have died in the 9 years since diagnosis or declined participation because of poorer health. Finally, although we assessed and interpreted results for intentions to quit, other conditions may need to be present for intentions to translate to actions (27). Nevertheless, intentions have been shown to be predictors of health behavior change among survivors (40).
In sum, this study identified smoking patterns and correlates of current smoking, quitting after diagnosis, and quitting intentions 9 years after cancer diagnosis. Some survivors' daily levels of smoking suggest a dependence on tobacco, and there was a significant frequency of nondaily smoking among those who smoked. Prior research suggests that many survivors are interested in quitting following their diagnosis (28, 41). Those who smoke heavily long after their diagnosis may require more intense treatment addressing specific psychosocial characteristics such as perceptions of risk, beliefs of fatalism, etc., that may influence motivation to quit. Effective cessation treatment for cancer survivors exists (12, 42), but future population-based studies examining the importance of psychosocial variables, and their relationships to other health-related variables in predicting current smoking or motivation to quit, will further contribute to enhancing cessation strategies for all survivors who smoke. For example, we propose that the relatively high survivability of a cancer, in the absence of comorbid conditions long after diagnosis, may contribute to reduced perceptions of risk or severity that lower interest in quitting among some long-term survivors who smoked at the time of diagnosis. If supported by evidence, this would be important to address in treatment for long-term survivors. Attention to patient–provider communication, and feelings of stigma and guilt by survivors with smoking-related cancers, is also warranted (43). Any intervention, however, will need to address the unique disease- and treatment-related complexities of cancer survivors (34) to be maximally effective.
No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
Conception and design: J.L. Westmaas, K.D. Stein
Development of methodology: J.L. Westmaas, K.I. Alcaraz, K.D. Stein
Acquisition of data (provided animals, acquired and managed patients, provided facilities, etc.): K.D. Stein
Analysis and interpretation of data (e.g., statistical analysis, biostatistics, computational analysis): J.L. Westmaas, K.I. Alcaraz, C.J. Berg, K.D. Stein
Writing, review, and/or revision of the manuscript: J.L. Westmaas, K.I. Alcaraz, C.J. Berg, K.D. Stein
Administrative, technical, or material support (i.e., reporting or organizing data, constructing databases): J.L. Westmaas
Study supervision: K.D. Stein
Certain data used in this study were obtained from the Connecticut Tumor Registry located in the Connecticut Department of Public Health. The authors assume full responsibility for analyses and interpretation of these data. The authors thank all the study participants; the physicians of the participants; Susan Higgins, MD; Project Director Annie O'Neill; Rajni Mehta, Director of the Rapid Case Ascertainment Shared Resource of the Yale Cancer Center and the following Connecticut Hospitals: Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Danbury Hospital, Hartford Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, New Britain General Hospital, Bradley Memorial Hospital, Yale/New Haven Hospital, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, St. Mary's Hospital, Hospital of St. Raphael, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Stamford Hospital, William W. Backus Hospital, Windham Hospital, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Griffin Hospital, Bristol Hospital, Johnson Memorial Hospital, Day Kimball Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, Milford Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Sharon Hospital, and Waterbury Hospital.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) Studies of Cancer Survivors (SCS) were funded as an intramural program of research conducted by the ACS Behavioral Research Center.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The Health Consequences of Smoking —50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health
Smoking at diagnosis and survival in cancer patients
Int J Cancer
Govindan
Smoking urges and relapse among lung cancer patients: findings from a preliminary retrospective study
Prev Med
Nisenbaum
Elashoff
Smoking behavior following diagnosis in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer
Cancer Causes Control
Dresler
Smoking cessation and lung cancer resection
Sanderson Cox
Patten
McGinnis
, et al
Smoking behavior of 226 patients with diagnosis of stage IIIA/IIIB non-small cell lung cancer
Psychooncology
Moody-Thomas
Who tended to continue smoking after cancer diagnosis: the national health and nutrition examination survey 1999–2008
Cancer Trends Progress Report – 2011/2012 Update NCI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD
. [cited
2014 Jan 5
: http://progressreport.cancer.gov.
Smoking patterns in cancer survivors
Nicotine Tob Res
Disparities in smoking and cessation status among cancer survivors and non-cancer individuals: a population-based study from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
J Cancer Surviv
Buchannan
Ekwueme
Surveillance of demographic characteristics and health behaviors among adult cancer survivors–Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2009
MMWR Surveill Summ
ER LC
Vidrine
Fingeret
Tobacco dependence and its treatment
DeVita VT
Lawrence TS
Rosenberg SA
, editors.
Cancer: principles & practice of oncology
. p.
Sutfin
Occasional smoking in college: who, what, when and why?
Addict Behav
Shiffman
Tindle
Mitchell-Miland
Characteristics and smoking patterns of intermittent smokers
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol
Schnoll
Langer
Predictors of smoking cessation among cancer patients enrolled in a smoking cessation program
Acta Oncol
Smoking relapse during the first year after treatment for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
Pinsker
Ahluwalia
Correlates of continued smoking versus cessation among survivors of smoking-related cancers
Malstrom
Correlates of tobacco use among smokers and recent quitters diagnosed with cancer
Patient Educ Couns
Basen-Engquist
Spiess
Pisters
Health behaviors and depressive symptoms in testicular cancer survivors
Prochaska
Treatment of smokers with co-occurring disorders: emphasis on integration in mental health and addiction treatment settings
Annu Rev Clin Psychol
Smoking and mental illness–breaking the link
Kepner
Buskirk
The rationale, design, and implementation of the American Cancer Society's studies of cancer survivors
Seersholm
Kokjensen
Survival in relation to lung-function and smoking cessation in patients with severe hereditary alpha(1)-antitrypsin deficiency
The Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans:
Tobacco Smoking. IARC Monographs
Vol 100E
Behavioral risk factor surveillance survey
[cited 2014 Apr 8]. Available
from: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/questionnaires.htm.
Kosinski
A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity
Giovino
Predictors of cessation in a cohort of current and former smokers followed over 13 years
Suppl 3
Ostroff
Harm reduction and cessation efforts and interest in cessation resources among survivors of smoking-related cancers
Syrjala
Andrykowski
Physical and psychological long-term and late effects of cancer
Tobacco use in the oncology setting: advancing clinical practice and research
Practice patterns and perceptions of thoracic oncology providers on tobacco use and cessation in cancer patients
J Thorac Oncol
Zevon
Hysert
Automated tobacco assessment and cessation support for cancer patients
Rabius
Karam-Hage
Blalock
Cinciripini
“Meaningful use” provides a meaningful opportunity
Lazev
Successes and failures of the teachable moment - Smoking cessation in cancer patients
Lipkus
Understanding the potential of teachable moments: the case of smoking cessation
Health Educ Res
Trivers
Changes among US Cancer Survivors: Comparing Demographic, Diagnostic, and Health Care Findings from the 1992 and 2010 National Health Interview Surveys
ISRN Oncol
Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
.;
Are nonrespondents to health surveys less healthy than respondents?
J Off Stat
Michael Cummings
Accuracy of self-reported tobacco use in newly diagnosed cancer patients
Gaffey
Relationships between psychosocial factors and health behavior change in cancer survivors: an integrative review
Ann Behav Med
Moadel
Prevalence and predictors of continued tobacco use after treatment of patients with head and neck cancer
de Moor
Smoking prevention and cessation interventions for cancer survivors
Semin Oncol Nurs
Patient–provider communication and perspectives on smoking cessation and relapse in the oncology setting
Supplementary Tables 1-3
Supplementary Table 1. Relationships of sociodemographic, cancer- and other health-related variables with having quit smoking after diagnosis versus current smoking. Supplementary Table 2. Prevalence of intentions to quit in relationship to sociodemographic, cancer, and other health-related variables among current smokers. Supplementary Table 3. Intentions of quitting within a month versus later in relationship to sociodemographic, cancer, and other health-related variables among current smokers.
- docx file
Highlights of This IssueSelected Articles from This Issue | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5364004969596863, "wiki_prob": 0.4635995030403137, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1717589"} |
Intel Soars After CEO Bob Swan Announces Resignation
Dan Loeb wins again.
Just two weeks after Third Point launched an activist campaign targeting Intel, when on Dec 29, Dan Loeb sent a letter to the chip-challenged semiconductor company urging it “to evaluate strategic alternatives” including “potential divestment of certain failed acquisitions,” and in which Loeb said that Intel’s most urgent task was addressing its “human capital management issue”, as many of its talented chip designers have fled, “demoralized by the status quo”, moments ago we got the latest departure of “human capital” when CNBC reported that CEO Bob Swan was stepping down effective February 15, and would be replaced by VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger .
The stock has reacted furiously, surging as much as 14% premarket…
…. while VMWare shares are down 5%.
Shortly after the CNBC report, Intel confirmed the resignation, issuing the following press release:
Intel Appoints Tech Industry Leader Pat Gelsinger as New CEO
Intel today announced that its board of directors has appointed 40-year technology industry leader Pat Gelsinger as its new chief executive officer, effective Feb. 15, 2021. Gelsinger will also join the Intel board of directors upon assuming the role. He will succeed Bob Swan, who will remain CEO until Feb. 15.
Today’s announcement is unrelated to Intel’s 2020 financial performance. Intel expects its fourth-quarter 2020 revenue and EPS to exceed its prior guidance provided on Oct. 22, 2020. In addition, the company has made strong progress on its 7nm process technology and plans on providing an update when it reports its full fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 results as previously scheduled on Jan. 21, 2021.
Gelsinger is a highly respected CEO and industry veteran with more than four decades of technology and leadership experience, including 30 years at Intel where he began his career.
“Pat is a proven technology leader with a distinguished track record of innovation, talent development, and a deep knowledge of Intel. He will continue a values-based cultural leadership approach with a hyper focus on operational execution,” said Omar Ishrak, independent chairman of the Intel board. “After careful consideration, the board concluded that now is the right time to make this leadership change to draw on Pat’s technology and engineering expertise during this critical period of transformation at Intel. The board is confident that Pat, together with the rest of the leadership team, will ensure strong execution of Intel’s strategy to build on its product leadership and take advantage of the significant opportunities ahead as it continues to transform from a CPU to a multi-architecture XPU company.”
“I am thrilled to rejoin and lead Intel forward at this important time for the company, our industry and our nation,” said Gelsinger. “Having begun my career at Intel and learned at the feet of Grove, Noyce and Moore, it’s my privilege and honor to return in this leadership capacity. I have tremendous regard for the company’s rich history and powerful technologies that have created the world’s digital infrastructure. I believe Intel has significant potential to continue to reshape the future of technology and look forward to working with the incredibly talented global Intel team to accelerate innovation and create value for our customers and shareholders.”
“The board and I deeply appreciate Bob Swan for his leadership and significant contributions through this period of transformation for Intel,” continued Ishrak. “Under his leadership, Intel has made significant progress on its strategy to transform into a multi-architecture XPU company to capitalize on market shifts and extend Intel’s reach into fast-growing markets. Bob has also been instrumental in reenergizing the company’s culture to drive better execution of our product and innovation roadmap. He leaves Intel in a strong strategic and financial position, and we thank him for his ongoing guidance as he works with Pat to ensure the leadership transition is seamless.”
“My goal over the past two years has been to position Intel for a new era of distributed intelligence, improving execution to strengthen our core CPU franchise and extending our reach to accelerate growth,” said Swan. “With significant progress made across those priorities, we’re now at the right juncture to make this transition to the next leader of Intel. I am fully supportive of the board’s selection of Pat and have great confidence that, under his leadership and the rest of the management team, Intel will continue to lead the market as one of the world’s most influential technology companies.”
Most recently, Gelsinger served as the CEO of VMware since 2012, where he significantly transformed the company into a recognized global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security, almost tripling the company’s annual revenues. Prior to joining VMware, Gelsinger was president and chief operating officer of EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC, overseeing engineering and operations for information storage, data computing, backup and recovery, RSA security and enterprise solutions. Before joining EMC, he spent 30 years at Intel, becoming the company’s first chief technology officer and driving the creation of key industry technologies such as USB and Wi-Fi. He was the architect of the original 80486 processor, led 14 different microprocessor programs and played key roles in the Core and Xeon families.
Always gracious when winning, moments ago Dan Loeb tweeted “Swan is a class act and did the right thing for all stake holders stepping aside for Gelsinger.”
Swan is a class act and did the right thing for all stake holders stepping aside for Gelsinger. https://t.co/lWdi5t41um
— Daniel S. Loeb (@DanielSLoeb1) January 13, 2021
← The Top 10 Weather and Climate Events of a Record-setting Year
Will Trump Be First US President Removed From Office or Convicted Post-Tenure? →
Conservative French Presidential Candidate Warns Of “Civil War”
These Key Similarities Between Lenin’s Red Terror and America’s Woke Culture Reveal Left’s Blueprint For Complete Takeover
Final Q1 GDP Estimate Comes In At 6.4%, As Expected | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.945228099822998, "wiki_prob": 0.945228099822998, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line429835"} |
Bollywood News and Articles
Tusshar Kapoor
Tina Datta
Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia Deshmukh
Ankita Shrivastava
Sonali Kulkarni
Donal Bisht
Rituparna Sengupta
Vindu Dara Singh
Ayan Mukerji
'Lost' trailer shows Yami Gautam Dhar's character of crime reporter in pursuit of truth
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) The trailer of the upcoming Yami Gautam Dhar-starrer film 'Lost' was unveiled on Wednesday. It shows the actress playing a crime reporter who is on a relentless search for the truth behind the sudden disappearance of a young theatre activist played by Tushar Pandey.
Category: India, Maharashtra,Cinema/Showbiz,Bollywood
'Jawan' director Atlee Kumar, wife Priya become parents
Chennai, Feb 1 (IANS) The Director of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer 'Jawan', Atlee Kumar and his wife Priya Mohan have announced the arrival of their baby boy.
Category: India, Tamil Nadu,Cinema/Showbiz,Bollywood,Southern Cinema
Aamir turns photgrapher as Salman poses with his family
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Aamir Khan channelled his inner photographer as his friend Salman Khan posed with his family for a picture.
Kriti Sanon: I want to shift gear constantly & not stay in a particular zone
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kriti Sanon, who is gearing up for her upcoming film 'Shehzada', likes to walk the fine line between high-content and high-entertainment films and the films in her pipeline for this year prove the same.
Hrithik Roshan pens note for 'kind hearted rock star' Jackson Wang
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan wrote an appreciation post for K-pop star Jackson Wang, whom he called a "kind-hearted rock star" and thanked him for his music.
Anurag Kashyap lavishes praise on Kapil Sharma's performance in 'Zwigato'
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is awaiting the release of his next film 'Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat', recently heaped praise on actor-comedian Kapil Sharma for his work in the film 'Zwigato'.
Subhash Ghai announces new film with his 'Hero' Jackie Shroff
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff, who is celebrating his birthday on Wednesday, received a special gift from director Subhash Ghai in the form of a new film.
'Pathaan' collects a historic Rs. 634 cr gross worldwide in 7 days
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) It's been seven days since Shah Rukh Khan's film 'Pathaan' released and it seems it is in no mood to slow down at the box-office as the action entertainer has raked in Rs. 634 crore gross worldwide in just one week since its release on January 25.
After 'Channa Mereya', Ranbir, Arijit, Pritam come together for 'Tere Pyaar Mein'
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) The first song 'Tere Pyaar Mein' from the upcoming Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer rom-com 'Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar' hit the airwaves on Wednesday.
Ananya Panday to headline Vikramaditya Motwane's cyber-thriller film
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Bollywood actress Ananya Panday is set to headline a cyber-thriller film. The yet-to-be-titled film is being directed by filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane, who is known for films like 'Lootera', 'Udaan', 'Bhavesh Joshi Superhero', and 'AK vs. AK'.
Ozzy Osbourne cancels UK, Europe tour following health condition
Los Angeles, Feb 1 (IANS) Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne has cancelled his UK and Europe tour after saying that he is "not physically capable" of performing.
Category: International, United States,Cinema/Showbiz,Bollywood,Hollywood
Paul Rudd's secret to his youthful looks: A good night's sleep!
Los Angeles, Feb 1 (IANS) Ant-Man star Paul Rudd has opened up about how he stays looking young and revealed that logging a solid eight hours sleep at night is crucial to looking and feeling good - even more than hitting the gym.
Category: International, United States,Cinema/Showbiz,Bollywood
Anubhav Sinha's 'Bheed' is based on backdrop of 2020 nationwide lockdown
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Director Anubhav Sinha, who is known for films such as 'Mulk', 'Article 15' and 'Thappad', is set to roll out another film titled 'Bheed'. The film promises to be a powerful commentary on modern society and is based in the backdrop of the 2020 India lockdown. The film stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Kapur, Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza, and Ashutosh Rana, and is scheduled to release on March 24, 2023.
Disha Patani explores Mumbai streets with K-popper Jackson Wang
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Disha Patani is known to be an ardent K-pop fan and follower. The actress time and again shares her love for Korean songs, anime and films on social media and otherwise.
Varun, Janhvi's 'Bawaal' pushed owing to VFX and technical requirements
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) The release of the upcoming Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor-starrer film 'Bawaal' has been pushed to a later date. The reason behind it is said to be the VFX and other technical requirements of the film.
The roaring success of 'Pathaan' inches towards Rs 600 cr gross worldwide
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Shah Rukh Khan, John Abraham and Deepika Padukone-starrer 'Pathaan' is on a record-breaking run at the domestic and overseas box office as it collected Rs 591 crore gross worldwide in just six days.
How Raashii Khanna bagged 'Farzi': 'Destiny works in mysterious ways'
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Multi-lingual star Raashii Khanna has shared how she bagged her part in the Raj and DK show 'Farzi' starring Shahid Kapoor and Vijay Sethupati.
Aditya Roy Kapur, Mrunal Thakur-starrer 'Gumraah' to release on April 7
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Actors Aditya Roy Kapur and Mrunal Thakur's upcoming film 'Gumraah' gets a release date - the crime thriller based on true events is set to hit the big screens on April 7.
Alaya F celebrates 3 years of 'Jawaani Jaaneman', says film changed her life
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Actress Alaya F, who is currently gearing up for her upcoming film 'Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat', is celebrating 3 years of her debut film 'Jawaani Jaaneman'.
SRK croons 'Aankhon Mein Teri' for 'Pathaan' co-star Deepika Padukone
Mumbai, Jan 31 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is currently basking in the phenomenal success of his latest release 'Pathaan', recently sang a song for Deepika Padukone, the female lead in the superhit movie.
Richa Chadha returns to her passion for Kathak after Bhansali's 'Heeramandi'
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) Bollywood actress Richa Chadha, who began to pursue Kathak for the web series 'Heeramandi' directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, will continue learning the dance form.
Kareena's new character is inspired by Kate Winslet's in 'Mare of Easttown'
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor Khan is marking a new phase in her glittering career with a brace of films that she terms as "shockingly different." She shared that her character in the upcoming Hansal Mehta film was inspired in part by Hollywood star Kate Winslet's role in 'Mare of Easttown'.
Shah Rukh Khan greets his 'mahmaans' as fans swarm outside Mannat
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) To celebrate the roaring success of 'Pathaan' and also to catch a glimpse of their beloved star, thousands of people, whom Shah Rukh Khan called his "mehmaan", gathered around his Mumbai residence, Mannat.
Aditya Roy Kapur did a rigorous homework for his part in 'The Night Manager'
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) Bollywood actor Aditya Roy Kapur, who is gearing up for the release of his webseries 'The Night Manager', spent time with actual night managers to get a sense of their world and their profession.
In just five days, 'Pathaan' mints a whopping Rs 542 cr worldwide
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's latest release 'Pathaan', which also stars John Abraham and Deepika Padukone, is unstoppable as it has made a whopping Rs 542 crore gross worldwide in just five days since its release on January 25.
Fatima Sana Shaikh shares pics from Anurag Basu's Saraswati pooja celebration
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) Bollywood actress Fatima Sana Shaikh, who is known for films such as 'Dangal' and 'Ludo', recently attended the Saraswati pooja held at director Anurag Basu's house along with the team of 'Metro...In Dino'.
DJ Diplo surprises fans performing in Aishwarya Rai sweatshirt at Lollapalooza
Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) American DJ Diplo, who recently set the stage on fire at the first Indian edition of the multi-genre music festival Lollapalooza, performed for the packed crowd at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai while wearing a black sweatshirt with the print of Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Manoj Bajpayee recounts shooting the 'cloth-washing' scene in 'Gangs of Wasseypur'
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee spilled some beans about the 'cloth-washing' scene in 'Gangs of Wasseypur'.
'Mom is no more,' says Rakhi Sawant
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Rakhi Sawant has shared a video informing her fans about the demise of her mother, Jaya Bheda, at a hospital in Mumbai due to endometrial cancer.
Category: India, Maharashtra,Cinema/Showbiz,Human Interest/Society,Bollywood
Vicky Kaushal turns DJ in Anurag Kashyap's 'Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat'
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal will be seen playing the titular role of DJ Mohabbat in the Anurag Kashyap directorial 'Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat'. This marks the fourth collaboration between Anurag Kashyap and the actor.
'Splitsvilla X4': Sunny Leone motivates contestant, shares about her trying days
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) 'Splitsvilla X4' host Sunny Leone shared her struggle story to motivate the contestant Kashish Thakur on the show.
Madhu Kandhari on Rajkumar Santoshi and 'Gandhi Godse: Ek Yudh'
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Actress Madhu Kandhari, who is best known for 'Hush Hush', 'Delhi Crime 2' and 'Pal Pal Dil ke Paas', is now being seen as Nirmala Devi in 'Gandhi Godse: Ek Yudh', helmed by director Rajkumar Santoshi.
B-town stars from Hrithik to Huma amp up Lollapalooza glam quotient
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Day 1 of the Indian edition of the multi-genre music festival Lollapalooza was a musical extravaganza in the truest sense. Wooing the audience on the first day were some of the most sought-after global and homegrown artistes; but the fest also saw Bollywood actors Hrithik Roshan, Sussanne Khan, Kajol, Rajkummar Rao, Patralekha and Huma Qureshi enjoying the music.
Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas get matching tattoos
Los Angeles, Jan 28 (IANS) Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her American pop-star husband Nick Jonas have got themselves matching tattoos.
Padma Shri awardee Raveena Tandon to grace new OTT show after 'Aranyak'
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) After an overwhelming response to her streaming show 'Aranyak', Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon, who reigned in Bollywood in the 1990s and was recently awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in the country, is set to star in another OTT show.
Kangana warns Bollywood to stay away from politics amid 'Pathaan' success
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) On Saturday morning, actress-filmmaker Kangana Ranaut warned Bollywood and asked them to 'enjoy their success' and 'stay away from politics' amid the roaring success of Shah Rukh Khan's latest release 'Pathaan'.
Sonu Sood 'at a loss for words' as fan makes 87K-sq-ft portrait of actor
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) Bollywood actor and humanist Sonu Sood was pleasantly surprised after he got to know that an astounding 87,000 square feet portrait of him had been created in Kolhapur city of Maharashtra as a part of Republic Day celebrations.
Anil Kapoor has an appetite for the current & latest, reveals Tillotama Shome
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) Actress Tillotama Shome, who is gearing up for the release of her streaming show 'The Night Manager', has shared an interesting anecdote about actor Anil Kapoor. The actress said that Anil loves to engage with new actors and likes to keep himself updated on trends and current affairs.
'BB16': Archana calls Kartik Aaryan 'bhaiya' while enacting romantic scene
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) A romantic scene turned into a comedy moment, when 'Bigg Boss 16' contestant Archana Gautam called Bollywood star Kartik Aaryan, who came on the sets of the show to promote his film 'Shehzada', "bhaiyya".
Athiya Shetty shares pic in saree from pre-wedding ceremony
Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) Bollywood actress Athiya Shetty on Saturday treated her fans to some unseen pictures from her pre-wedding ceremony dressed in a stunning golden saree with pink blouse and traditional polki jewellery.
Abdu Rozik shows his love for 'Pathaan', joins SRK fans outside Mannat
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) Abdu Rozik, who was most recently seen on 'Bigg Boss 16' and is a popular Tajikstani singer, was spotted outside Shah Rukh Khan's home in Mumbai, Mannat, showing his love for the superstar along with other fans waiting outside to meet and greet their hero.
Dinesh Vijan to adapt 'Vichhoda' by Harinder Sikka, writer behind 'Raazi'
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) Dinesh Vijan's Maddock Films, the production house behind such critically acclaimed films as 'Stree', 'Hindi Medium', 'Luka Chuppi', 'Badlapur', 'Love Aaj Kal' and 'Cocktail', has announced a partnership with Indian Navy officer-turned-bestselling author Harinder Sikka.
Tanishk Bagchi, Sachin-Jigar come together for 'Farzi'
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) Music composer duo Sachin Sanghvi, and Jigar Saraiya, popularly known as Sachin-Jigar have collaborated with Tanishk Bagchi for the music of the upcoming eight-episode crime thriller 'Farzi'.
Gurfateh Pirzada, Anjali Sivaraman find it challenging to play their characters in 'Class'
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) 'Guilty' actor Gurfateh Pirzada and 'Cobalt Blue' actress Anjali Sivaraman will be seen playing the role of Neeraj and Suhani in the upcoming web series 'Class' which is an Indian adaptation of Spanish drama 'Elite'.
Shambhavi Singh joins the cast of 'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai'
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) Shambhavi Singh, who has made her TV debut with the longest-running show 'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai'(YRKKH), considered her latest project as the biggest break of her career and expressed the hope that fans will like her role in the show.
Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui slams 'Mission Majnu': Hire some good researchers
Mumbai, Jan 27 (IANS) Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui has slammed 'Mission Majnu' starring Sidharth Malhotra for 'misrepresentation' of Pakistanis in the movie, which he tagged as 'distasteful' and 'factually incorrect' and slammed it for 'poor story, poorer execution, poorest research'.
Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel-starrer 'Gadar' returns with sequel on Aug 11
Mumbai, Jan 26 (IANS) Bollywood actor Sunny Deol's 'Gadar', which shattered box-office records 22 years ago, is returning with its sequel. The first poster from the sequel titled 'Gadar 2' was unveiled on Thursday and it shows an intense Tara Singh, played by Sunny, holding a hammer.
Yami Gautam Dhar-starrer 'Lost' to drop on OTT on Feb 16
Mumbai, Jan 26 (IANS) Taking the direct-to-digital route, the Yami Gautam Dhar-starrer film 'Lost' is all set to drop on OTT on February 16. The film, which also stars Pankaj Kapur, Rahul Khanna, Neil Bhoopalam, Pia Bajpiee and Tushar Pandey in key roles, has been helmed by Aniruddha Roy Choudhury of 'Pink' fame.
Nawaz to make his Telugu debut in Venkatesh's 'Saindhav'
Hyderabad, Jan 26 (IANS) A day after announcing the title and releasing the first glimpse of Tollywood star Venkatesh's 75th film 'Saindhav', the makers have said that Bollywood star Nawazuddin Siddiqui has come on board to play a major role in the movie.
Category: India, Charleston,Cinema/Showbiz,Bollywood,Southern Cinema
Amruta Khanvilkar to play long-distance runner Lalita Babar in biopic
Mumbai, Jan 26 (IANS) Amruta Khanvilkar, who has been part of several Marathi and Bollywood films, is all set to play the Indian long-distance runner, Lalita Shivaji Babar in the Marathi sports biopic based on her life and achievements. The makers have released the poster of the film on the occasion of Republic Day.
Category: India, Maharashtra,Cinema/Showbiz,Religion,Bollywood | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.992120087146759, "wiki_prob": 0.992120087146759, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line71871"} |
5 things wrong with Celtics after monumental collapse vs. Knicks
By Nicole Ganglani · 4 min read
The Boston Celtics are a mess this season. Thursday’s loss to the New York Knicks in which they blew a 25-point lead just exposed a lot of their flaws that have been there since October. They can’t seem to go on a winning streak and somehow now find themselves holding the 11th seed in the Eastern Conference.
What happened to the Celtics against the Knicks on Thursday’s thrilling matchup continues to raise red flags. Is it time to panic? Not just yet, but there are reasons to be concerned.
Here are five things currently wrong with the Boston Celtics.
What’s wrong with the Boston Celtics?
1. Celtics’ offense gets too stagnant
In the modern NBA, it’s difficult to rely on iso basketball so much throughout the game unless you have elite iso scorers. The Celtics invested in defense with the hiring of Ime Udoka, but little did they know that their offense was going to suffer despite having Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on their squad. They currently rank No. 22 in the league in offensive rating (108.3) and don’t get creative with their offensive sets and actions, especially in crunch time.
Isolating on so many possessions when the game is on the line often leads to a lot of tough jumpers. Udoka has to do a better job of putting his players in the right place to succeed on offense. He needs to balance the possessions between both Tatum and Brown and find ways to develop their chemistry together on the court, while also finding the right lineups around them to provide enough shooting and defense.
2. Ime Udoka needs to be a better leader
After Thursday’s collapse to the Knicks, Udoka called out his team and mentioned that they need more leadership, or basically someone who can help the Celtics calm down when they face pressure situations. Maybe it’s time for Udoka to look in the mirror and realize that he has to not just be the coach but also the leader of this young team. He’s the coach and cannot lose the respect in the locker room by pointing out that Boston doesn’t have any form of leadership.
Celtics comments this season
Marcus Smart on Tatum and Brown: "They don’t want to pass the ball."
Jaylen Brown on Al Horford’s comments: "Searching and looking in the mirror? Nah."
Ime Udoka on team: "They lack mental toughness." pic.twitter.com/IZwNxUo0kZ
— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 7, 2022
3. Get Jayson Tatum some help
Aside from blowing a 25-point lead, another ugly problem for the Celtics is that Tatum cannot do everything. He had a spectacular game, scoring 36 points to along with nine assists and six rebounds in 40 minutes. He also carried the team on every single play down the stretch. How much more can he do?
we have a 23 year old reminiscing about the good old days, this is absolutely a code red situation https://t.co/copRRSdpZn
— Neon Genesis Evan Fournier (@JeremyFrom413) January 7, 2022
In addition to Tatum carrying the load, how would he feel afterwards knowing that his head coach just pointed out the lack of leadership in his team? Maybe Tatum isn’t this sensitive, but he certainly could use some help right now. When the 23-year-old is reminiscing about the good ol’ days, there’s certainly a problem with this team right now.
4. Their current record is a concern
As mentioned, the Celtics are now 11th in the Eastern Conference standings, and they’re also last in the Atlantic Division. Some of their losses can be blamed due to their injuries and the effects of COVID, but they have no choice but to deal with it. It’s going to be tough for them to climb back up and make a playoff push if they still want to have home-court advantage or even avoid the play-in tournament.
I know divisions don't matter anymore, but it's still startling to see the Celtics in last place pic.twitter.com/STAqm6biGq
— Zach Kram (@zachkram) January 7, 2022
Are you 1000% an NBA fan?
🚨 Get viral NBA graphics, memes, rumors and trending sports news delivered right to your inbox with the Clutch newsletter.
Your clutchest email address 🏀
Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown’s latest feat vs. Nets never seen in NBA history
David Yapkowitz · 6 hours ago
Nets star Kyrie Irving’s immediate reaction to embarrassing blowout loss vs. Celtics
Paolo Songco · 6 hours ago
This season’s Eastern Conference is pretty deep and filled with teams that have played better than they have compared to a few seasons ago. The last thing they want to do is to start watching the standings and hope their competitors in the East fall back down since they no longer can control their record.
5. Celtics’ perimeter defense has to be better
One of the most glaring problems the Celtics had against the Knicks was letting Evan Fournier score 41 points on them. Besides Fournier’s outburst, the Celtics also let the Knicks shoot 50% from the 3-point area. Where was the perimeter defense? Marcus Smart is supposed to be their anchor, but Boston’s defense heavily depends on switching, which requires everyone to cooperate.
Evan Fournier has tied J.R. Smith's Knicks record with 10 3-pt FG tonight against the Celtics.
He is the first Knicks player with three 30-point games against the Celtics in a single season since Patrick Ewing had 3 in 1996-97. pic.twitter.com/6ORC0Kymzl
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 7, 2022
The Celtics have to find a way to improve their point-of-attack defense and also rim protection when it matters. This will help lessen their load on offense as well, especially if they allow their opponents to score less.
Boston may have several issues, but here’s the good news: they still have time to fix all of this before the playoffs. Maybe the trade deadline or some buyout market acquisitions can hide the flaws of this team.
Tags: Boston Celtics, ime udoka, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart
PS Plus Collection on PS5 is closing – get the games before it does | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6570027470588684, "wiki_prob": 0.3429972529411316, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line417546"} |
[Photos Provided by Where Y'at Magazine Staff]
Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Pete Fountain and Rev. Frank Coco
10:13 January 30, 2017
By: Keith John Paul Horcasitas
“Dere goes dat famous Clarinetest, Pete Fountain, whom I've seen so many times on Johnny Carson,” I yelled to David Laroussini, my grade school buddy, as we were standing with many others on St. Charles Ave. enjoying Mardi Gras in the early 80s!
“And check dat out, Buckaro (David's nickname) – dat real priest, not a fake one in costume, with Pete - just led my Manresa (House of Retreats – Convent, LA) Retreat!” > joining Pete was Fr. Coco, SJ, a late Jesuit priest who could belt out Jazz songs so well in a duet with Pete Fountain, as well as with Al Hirt, Ronnie Cole and others!
David's mother had a condo at 3201 St. Charles Ave., where Rex takes one of its few cross-overs on the famous Green Streetcar Street, so we had the best vantage point to take in the world's greatest free show, as well as an easy place to get goodies nearby and take care of business when nature called on to that!
“I'm be right back, Dave; I'm going to get another Dixie brew and some jambalaya from Mr. Ignatius (flashback to a name who would become so synonymous with N'Awlins/da Big Easy: from John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces!), one of my then Audubon Street neighbors who always set up his BBQ and cooking gear right in the middle of St. Charles Ave. with many other folks.
“Okay,” Buckaro replied and added, “I'm going inside to get some of dat famous King Cake my mother always gets from Cajun land – definitely better than Haydells, McKenzies, and even better dan Randazzos!”
“Wait,” I blurted out … don't forget to get me a piece without da baby!!! - HA HA!”
A few years earlier, in 1979, how could Buckaro and me forget when Mardi Gras had been cancelled due to a Police Strike, and we joined Neal Hattier and Scott Vincent and saw the cool funeral, Second Line and other fun dedicated to lost Mardi Gras displayed on Bourbon Street, as well as with Pete and Fr. Coco and the Half-Fast Marching Club sashaying by!
What great memories indelibly etched in my heart, mind and soul…
And what great local musicians we lost in 2016, including Pete Fountain (July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016) and in 2006 - Fr. James Coco, SJ (October 8, 1920 – September 7, 2006)!
So join me on Fat Tuesday (February 28th, 2017), right before Ash Wednesday, in honoring these saintly "Half-Fast (used be called “Half-Assed”) Marching Club" members who will still be taking their lubricated "Just a Closer Walks with Thee" in spirit from Commander's Palace, down St. Charles Ave., Canal Street to Bourbon Street into the French Quarter, and to end at the Monteleone Hotel – make more new wonderful memories!
Not long later, on Tax Day, Saturday April 15, Holy Saturday – sandwiched (“muffalettaed / poboyed”) between Good Friday and Easter – also join me and other musicians and runners in honoring past musicians like Fountain and Coco, and current stars like the Neville Brothers who perform at the Annual Fairgrounds' Jazz Fest (April 28 – May 7, 2017; I hope to get to see Tom Petty!), at the All State Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic (CCC) 10K (6.2 Miles)!
Many current musicians have difficulty in keeping their health care needs in check, as they may not have adequate health insurance. I have joined forces to help one of the CCC's Charity Teams, NOMC – a 501(c) organization - (The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic and Assistance Foundation), which was founded in 1998 to provide primary care, comprehensive occupational care, and mental health/social services to New Orleans' musicians; the NOMC now serves 2500+ local performers - from vocalists to brass bands from Mardi Gras Indians to sound engineers.
There are also many other great not-for-profit organizations that you may also want to pledge for per the CCC, including Gleason Initiative Foundation, Boys Hope Girls Hope, Bastion Community of Resilience, Covenant House of New Orleans, Youth Run NOLA Inc., Northshore Community Foundation – DBA Kicken' Parkinson's, Second Harvester of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, Ochnsner Clinic Foundation, LA SPCA, Kelly Gibson Foundation, 50 Legs in 50 Days Inc.
Heartfelt Valentine's Blessings on all!!!
Film Reflections for Black History Month
Inside and Outside Atlanta: From Downtown to Stone Mountain
Harry Potter Comes to New Orleans
Where To Get A Slice of King Cake in New Orleans | King Cake Available By The Slice in NOLA
Best Uptown New Orleans' Bars | Most Popular NOLA Uptown Bars
The Tragic Tale of a Talented Man: Schnyder’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird
Open Call for Love-Themed Short Films by Local Filmmakers
JPAS Announces List of Early 2023 Shows
Where To Get Mardi Gras King Cake | The Best King Cake Bakeries in New Orleans
Maurice Schmidt Art Collection Coming to NOLA | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.697249710559845, "wiki_prob": 0.30275028944015503, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1737345"} |
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring sheet music for organ
By Johann Sebastian Bach, exclusive transcription - high-quality digital sheet music download (...
Home > Scores > Instruments > Organ Sheet Music > Easy Organ Sheet Music > Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Moderato Playing:
Skill Level: easy/intermediate
Duration: 3' 13"
Note Range: D2-C6
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
by Johann Sebastian Bach, transcription for organ solo
User Rating: (2 user reviews)
"Nice organ trio arrangement of this famous cantata movement, which works quite well on a single manual and pedal too." [show more]
About "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
High-quality Digital sheet music for organ.
This item includes: PDF (digital sheet music to download and print), Interactive Sheet Music (for online playing, transposition and printing), MIDI and Mp3 audio files*
classical, wedding, traditional, christmas, winter, holiday, christian, inspirational, hymn, sacred, advent, carol, festival, love
Key Signature:
Time Signature:
♩. = 66 BPM
9 (actual music: 6 pages)
D2-C6
-Select Instrument/Ensemble- concert band (COMPLETE) [easy/intermediate version] concert band (f.score) string orchestra string orchestra (f.score) full orchestra full orchestra (f.score) concert band (COMPLETE) [intermediate version] ukulele guitar ensemble alto saxophone solo trumpet solo horn solo cello solo flute solo clarinet solo tenor saxophone solo trombone solo banjo solo piano, voice or other instruments alto saxophone & piano brass quintet flute & piano flute, horn & piano guitar solo horn & piano piano solo trumpet & piano tuba & piano tuba in Eb & piano cello & piano violin & piano viola & piano
💡 Listen to the audio file below! (included in this item)
More Johann Sebastian Bach sheet music
More Christmas Organ Sheet Music
More sheet music for organ
More Organ Solo Sheet Music
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (NEW EDITION) for piano solo
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for alto saxophone and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (New Edition) for brass quintet
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for cello and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for flute and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for flute, horn and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for horn and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for guitar solo
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for trumpet and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for tuba and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for tuba in Eb and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring for viola and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (NEW EDITION) for violin and piano
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (COMPLETE) for string orchestra
Reviews about Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring:
Nice arrangement for organ by SIMON T * VSM MEMBER * on November 2022
Nice organ trio arrangement of this famous cantata movement, which works quite well on a single manual and pedal too.
Missing fingerings by Kat Nuv on August 2018
Nice version for organ, even though I'd have appreciated some fingerings. The download was easy and fast though.
Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565 for organ solo
Eight Little Preludes & Fugues for organ solo
Fugue in G minor BWV 578 for organ solo
Schubler Chorales (simplified) for organ solo
Four Part Chorales (1-50) for organ, piano or keyboard
skill level: easy/medium
More for organ solo... | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5984315276145935, "wiki_prob": 0.4015684723854065, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line702804"} |
[spectre] (fwd) CFP: Konak and Villa (Sarajevo, 15-17 Sep 22)
Andreas Broeckmann Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:50:57 -0700
From: Ajla Bajramovic
Subject: CFP: Konak and Villa (Sarajevo, 15-17 Sep 22)
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sep 15–17, 2022
Konak and Villa: Convergences and transmutations of the representative residence in 19th century Southeast Europe
The villa as we know it was born in an age of pandemics and epidemics. The patricians’ withdrawal from the congested cities of Tuscany, the Veneto, and Rome to their environs helped establish the design of representative country houses as a reputable artistic task. Later, improved communications made possible the villa’s reinvention as a place of permanent residence on the fringes of Europe’s industrializing cities. Its erstwhile seclusion was exchanged for a clustering in emerging neighborhoods of the middle and upper classes. Such zonings had become part and parcel of 19th -century urbanization. In the continent’s southeast, the modern-age villa of Western provenance encountered and consecutively transmuted (but not necessarily supplanted) traditional forms of elite habitation. Of the many terms associated with such, konak was by far the most commonly used. Beyond its broader meaning, this term also designated more specifically the residence of the provincial administrator (and, eventually, of provincial administration). In their most typical variants, villa and konak shared many features – notably their detached standing, the elevated socio-economic status of their owners, and the refined interiors and gardens in which this status was echoed. The two types also markedly differed in other aspects – notably the typical (modern) villa’s conspicuous visibility from the public street, contrasting with the konak’s traditional concealment behind walls.
Our conference seeks to bring together current research on representative residences in Southeast Europe. It focuses on works of the 19th century and aims to document various stages and phenomena, while recognizing the singularity of each object. We are particularly interested in discussing how the architecture of elite habitations corresponded to functions (such as co-use as workplace) and desired qualities (such as the ability to survey the surroundings, with elements like verandas and towers as interfaces); how ambitions of distinction were communicated (e.g. through symmetry or other markers of monumentality); and how the residence communicated with the city’s core area and outskirts as well as with their surrounding public space. We also invite the addressing of issues of preservation and rehabilitation for public uses, as well as questions of interior design and landscaping.
Please submit proposals for contributions (including information about institutional affiliation) by May 29, 2022, to [email protected]. Invited speakers’ costs for travel and accommodation will be covered by the organizers. On account of constraints sustained by the ongoing pandemic, the number of listeners will be limited and contingent on registration.
The conference is organized by European Research Council project no. 758099 at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Cantonal Institution for the Protection of Cultural, Historical and Nature Heritage (Sarajevo)
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Konak and Villa (Sarajevo, 15-17 Sep 22). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 27, 2022. <https://arthist.net/archive/36531>.
SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe
Info, archive and help:
http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
Vorherige Nachricht
Nach Thread sortieren
Nach Datum sortieren
Nächste Nachricht
Antwort per Email an
Das Email-Archiv home
spectre - Alle Nachrichten
spectre - Über die Liste
Mailing-Liste hinzufügen
[email protected] | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5265223383903503, "wiki_prob": 0.5265223383903503, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line117764"} |
717-664-4040 | Request a Quote
BOPP Films
Polyester Films
Cast PP Films
Metallized Films
Specialty Films
Custom Roll Slitting
Inventory Stocking Program
Contract Film Slitting
Film Sheeting
Why Choose PennPac?
Industry Insights & News
One of the biggest reasons why customers trust PennPac for their supply of flexible packaging films is our focus on quality and continuous improvement. By investing in our internal resources – from our employees to our production capabilities – we are always improving for the good of our customers and our organization. One significant investment … Continued
High Barrier Films for the Flexible Packaging Market
In our last blog post of 2022, we touched on how food and beverage consumption has increased in the U.S. and sparked growth in the packaging films market. One category of flexible thermoforming films in particular has reaped the benefits of this growth – high barrier food films. Barrier film is a key component of … Continued
Flexible Packaging Films for Food & Beverage
The consumption of food and beverage products in the U.S. has grown significantly over the years. Along with this growth has come an increased need for new food packaging solutions that can help extend shelf life while at the same time preserving the flavor and taste of these products. Plastic films are playing a huge … Continued
A Look at PennPac’s Inventory Stocking Program
Inventory management has come a long way since its early beginning, which many experts say dates back thousands of years. If you go back in history, there are archeological findings that suggest early-day writing was born from inventory management…when tally marks on bone pieces and cave walls kept track of food items, weapons, and other … Continued
PET Packaging Film 101: Understanding the Basics of Polyester Film
When it comes to flexible packaging films, there are many options to choose from. But there is one film that is often a top pick because of its versatility and high-performance characteristics – PET packaging film. What is Polyester Film? PET stands for Polyethylene Terephthalate. It’s often referred to by its common name, Polyester, but … Continued
Unpacking PACK EXPO International 2022
PennPac recently exhibited at PACK EXPO International 2022, the packaging and processing industry’s most comprehensive trade show. The event, produced by PMMI (The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies), took place October 23-26 in Chicago, IL and drew over 2,000 exhibitors and 40,000 attendees from over 40 industries. It was the first in-person show in … Continued
3 Things to Know About PennPac Contract Film Slitting Services
In addition to sheeting and custom roll slitting services, did you know PennPac also offers contract film slitting services? This type of film-slitting service is designed for customers that have their own material inventory but are facing operational inefficiencies or production backlogs when it comes to their internal slitting operations. Working with PennPac takes the … Continued
Need to Package, Label, or Laminate? Use Versatile BOPP Film
BOPP film, or Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene film, is one of the most popular flexible packaging films available. Its unique properties make BOPP a smart alternative to cellophane, and it is typically used as an overwrap film to package a wide range of products. BOPP packaging film is produced by stretching the material in two different … Continued
Join PennPac at PACK EXPO International 2022
PennPac is excited to announce our attendance at this year’s PACK EXPO International, the packaging and processing industry’s most comprehensive trade show. The event takes place in Chicago, Illinois from October 23-26th at McCormick Place Convention Center. PennPac will be exhibiting at Booth W-25069 in the West Building, which is home to the Containers and … Continued
A Look at SQF Certification and Its Importance
PennPac’s commitment to quality is one of the biggest reasons we’ve been able to maintain our position as a leading flexible packaging film supplier for over 25 years. From our products and services to our team of employees, quality and continuous improvement are vital parts of everything we do. One example of our continuous improvement … Continued
PennPac News
Email: [email protected]
PennPac Company
345 East Stiegel Street
Manheim, PA 17545
136 Leader Drive
Piedmont, SC 29673
Copyright © 2023 PennPac Company. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7255798578262329, "wiki_prob": 0.2744201421737671, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line350178"} |
CEO of Kuaishou Su Hua: Kuaishou reaches 1 billion global monthly active users
PR Newswire Asia
BEIJING, June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China Media Group (CMG) and Kuaishou held a joint press conference officially announcing a short video strategic partnership on Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Kuaishou now holds the official broadcasting rights for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Kuaishou is the first short video and live-streaming platform globally to become an official broadcaster of the Olympics Games.
Su Hua, CEO of Kuaishou Technology, emphasised at the conference that Kuaishou remains true to its beginning aspirations of recording and sharing life stories. He also notes that it's an honor for Kuaishou to be able to document and enjoy the Olympic Games with all users. As a pioneer since 2011, Kuaishou has provided internet users globally the opportunity to record and share their life stories. The platform witnessed the growth and development of various aspects of society and gradually became a base for modern day social media platforms. Presently Kuaishou has 1 billion monthly active users from all around the globe. People from different countries of varying ages and diverse lifestyles get to interact with and learn from each other. Kuaishou was chosen as its principles and communities are in alignment with the spirit of the Olympic Games.
Su also mentioned that Kuaishou's multiple successful partnerships with CMG has allowed for Kuaishou to explore new ways to allow users to enjoy a more convenient participation experience for large scale events. For example, the parade was first live-streamed from multiple angles during the 2019 National Day celebration, which garnered over 1 billion views. Furthermore, CCTV's 2020 New Year's Gala debuted a new Kuaishou interactive feature of "videos+likes." The new feature gathered over 63.9 billion interactions - defined as user comment and sending red packets - and even setting a new record of number of likes for an event. The feature has influenced users to now watch the New Year's Gala on dual screens for a boosted experience.
Kuaishou is confident in providing top quality broadcast of the games as the platform is home to thriving sports communities and has much experience in hosting broadcasts about major sporting events. According to Su, there are nearly 50,000 high-quality sports content creators and 150 million users who are sports fans on Kuaishou. Currently, the sports content on Kuaishou covers sports like football, basketball, boxing, snooker, racing, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. In March, Kuaishou even became the official livestream and short video partner of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The total views of the live streams during the 2020-2021 season reached a high of 810 million and achieved over 360 million interactions. Kuaishou users have also repurposed content from the live stream to create meaningful and enriching content of their own, indicating an extremely successful event.
For the Olympic Games partnership, Kuaishou announced plans to make use of its unique product capabilities and technological expertise to create a series of interactive features that can allow users to participate virtually as part of the Olympics. At the same time, Kuaishou is committed to improve its promotional methods of the games, to explore different angles of capturing the games and ensure full coverage of all events. Kuaishou will work with CMG in hopes of producing the most interactive experience with extensive coverage of the Olympic Games in history. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8659101128578186, "wiki_prob": 0.8659101128578186, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line735691"} |
in Personal Technology, Televisions
2015 Philips TV lineup could divide opinion
by Peter Chubb April 24, 2015, 17:35
Philips has yet to announce its full TV lineup for 2015, although we are told that Android OS will power around 80 percent of the new models. If this is the case, then we could see a divide of opinion, as we know that many consumers are still not convinced with this operating system.
If what is being reported is true, then new Ambilight TV models for 2015 will also feature Google’s OS, which will further add to the immersive experience of the TV itself. However, we do know that these models come into their own while watching movies and playing games.
According to Android Central, it is not just the top of the line models coming with Android OS installed, as many of the new entry-level Full HD models will as well.
We are not certain how many new models Phillips will release this year, but we are told that at least 38 will be released sporting Android OS. As for availability, it looks as though many of them will be launched in the first half of 2015, so only a couple of months to go then.
One thing we do know though, and that is the fact none of these models will compete with the new range from Sony, or possibly Vizio come to that.
Previous article 2015 Ariel Nomad review roundup utterly impresses
Next article Maybach and Smart SUV launch not imminent
2015 Ariel Nomad review roundup utterly impresses
Maybach and Smart SUV launch not imminent | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.738105297088623, "wiki_prob": 0.26189470291137695, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line63017"} |
Viber & WhatsApp: +386 40 530 718
Business in Slovenia
Business in Europe
Life in Slovenia
Immigration to Slovenia
A single work and residence permit for foreigners in Slovenia
Real estate in Slovenia
Investing in Slovenia
Education in Slovenia
Taxes in Slovenia
[contact-form-7 id="23564" title="Do you have a question for us? Do not hasitate to contact us."]
Viber | WhatsApp | Phone: +386 1 600 6270 | About
Education in Slovenia/EU: does business setup require a specific level?
Alja Arko2021-06-16T16:08:38+02:00
Business, Entrepreneurship business in EU, business in Slovenia, company registration, education in Slovenia, legal support
Education in Slovenia/EU – you do not need a specific level to open a company!
When people are setting up the business in Europe they often ask if they need a specific level of education. In Slovenia, the level of education is not relevant when setting up the business. But in some of the business activities, you would need to have a specific degree in Slovenia in order to carry them out. Those are regulated and craft activities. Let us check, which ones they are.
Call us on +386 40 530 718 (Viber/WhatsApp) or skype data.business7 to learn more about business in Slovenia/EU!
For most businesses you do not need to have any level of education in Slovenia!
Do you want to open a company? Just to open a company in Slovenia, you do not need to show your level of education. And also for the most business activities, there are no conditions for a certain level of education in Slovenia to perform it. They include simple construction, consulting, marketing, renting own real estate, etc. Here, it is enough that you register the right activity. You can follow us on our Facebook and Instagram. There we post updates on different business activities.
Who can get pension in Slovenia/EU?
The examples of the businesses where you need to have a level of education in Slovenia
When do you need a level of education? One of the businesses where you need to show a minimal level of education is brokerage in real estate rent or purchases. Here, you would need to apply for a license. One of the conditions of the license is a level of education in Slovenia. It has to be at least the national professional qualification. It has to state that you are a real estate broker.
Do you plan to open a man power agency? Then you would also need to show at least VII. level of education in Slovenia. You would also need to pass an exam for this profession.
If you also plan to engage in child care, you would need to have had at least finished middle school in the right field. Our legal advisors can also consult you in every step of the way.
Do you also want to learn about the salary in Slovenia? Use our free calculator!
What about the craft activities?
Do you plan to open a company that also does craft activities? Then you would need to obtain the permit from the Chamber of Crafts. This requires a level of education in Slovenia. Which are craft activities? They include: most construction, hairdressing, cosmetics, repair shop for cars, baking sweets and bread, etc.
For those businesses you would need to have finished the correct school. The other way to prove it is to pass the national professional exam. If you do not have the correct education in Slovenia, you can hire an employee who has it. This way you can apply for the license or the permit and not need to obtain the degree yourself. The craft permit is issued for the company, not just for the employee.
By clicking the 'Post comment' button I agree that DATA d.o.o. collects and processes personal data for sending e-news. You can cancel your consent at any time. For additional explanations and rights from the General Data Protection Regulation, please write to: [email protected] For more information about protecting your personal data, please read the Privacy Notice.
By clicking the 'Post comment' button I agree that DATA d.o.o. collects and processes personal data for the purpose of executing ordered services. You can cancel your consent at any time. For additional explanations and rights from the General Data Protection Regulation, please write to: [email protected] For more information about protecting your personal data, please read the Privacy Notice. *
Open a company for food delivery in Slovenia
Is your new idea for expanding your business to open a company for food delivery in Slovenia. Probably you... read more
Web seminar on business and immigration to Slovenia/EU: apply now!
Are you exploring the options of starting a business in EU? Also, would you like to relocate to Slovenia?... read more
Digital business conduct in Slovenia – a proposal for new tax rules
Digital business in Europe is increasingly on the rise, while current tax rules are not keeping pace with digital... read more
Capital of the company in Slovenia/EU
The initial capital of a limited liability company (d.o.o.) in Slovenia is one of the conditions for the registration... read more
Expand your business to EU – register a company in Slovenia
Do you want to expand your business to EU and register a company in Slovenia, but you do not... read more
European company – business and residency in EU
European company is great oportunity for business and work and residence permit in EU European company gives you possibility to... read more
New developments on UK exiting EU – Brexit
31st January 2020 is the deadline for United Kingdom exiting the European Union. However, there have been new developments... read more
International trade – business in Slovenia, EU
International trade – business idea Would you like to start a business in Slovenia and register an activity of international... read more
Ltd taxation information before company registration
Taxation Ltd – what are the differences? Companies typically pay taxes on profits. However, some types pay different rates. This... read more
How to open a business in Slovenia, Europe
Do you dream of expanding your business or opening a new business in Europe? Are you reviewing the possible... read more
Тelephone: +386 1 6006 274
Alja ArkoBusiness consultant
First and Last Name:*
Contact Email:*
By clicking the 'Send' button, I agree that DATA d.o.o. collects and processes personal information in order to send e-news. You can withdraw your consent at any time. For further clarifications and rights from the General Data Protection Regulation, please write to: [email protected]. For more information on personal data protection, see the Privacy Notice.
Company registration for foreigners in Slovenia – how to open February 1, 2023
Founding capital to open a company in only 14 days! January 31, 2023
Open your company at DATA point / Slovenia January 27, 2023
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia – EU
Monday – Friday from 8.30 am – 4.00 pm
Company registration for foreigners in Slovenia – how to open
Founding capital to open a company in only 14 days!
Open your company at DATA point / Slovenia
Register a Branch office in Slovenia / EU
Open company in Slovenia – why it’s the best option!
Open a company in Slovenia – questions before registration
By clicking the ‘SUBMIT’ button I agree that DATA d.o.o. collects and processes personal data for sending e-news. You can cancel your consent at any time. For additional explanations and rights from the General Data Protection Regulation, please write to: [email protected] For more information about protecting your personal data, please read the Privacy Notice.
© Copyright 2019. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Notice | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6532707214355469, "wiki_prob": 0.3467292785644531, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line643251"} |
Tiano leads National to 30-20 win in NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
By Joe Reedy Jan. 18, 2020 10:24 PM EST
Hickson, Liberty run past New Mexico State 49-28
Saturday’s best
By The Associated Press Nov. 23, 2019 08:51 PM EST
Huntley’s 3 TDs helps carry New Mexico St. past UTEP 44-35
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Jason Huntley had 191 yards rushing on 14 carries with three touchdowns and New Mexico State beat UTEP 44-35 on Saturday. ...
Kennedy, King help Georgia Southern roll over NMSU 41-7
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Wesley Kennedy III and J.D. King ran for 143 yards apiece — each with two touchdowns — as Georgia Southern jumped out to an early lead...
Mack's late TD run helps Liberty beat New Mexico State 20-13
Oct. 06, 2019 12:12 AM EDT
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Joshua Mack ran for a 4-yard touchdown with six minutes left and Liberty held off New Mexico State for a 20-13 victory on Saturday night. ...
Fresno State beats New Mexico State 30-17
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Jalen Cropper ran for 118 yards and a touchdown, Wylan Free caught two interceptions and Fresno State beat New Mexico State 30-17 on Saturday...
Tuioti leads New Mexico past New Mexico State 55-52
By Glen Rosales Sep. 21, 2019 08:23 PM EDT
Tagovailoa, No. 2 Alabama romp over New Mexico State, 62-10
By John Zenor Sep. 07, 2019 07:11 PM EDT
Scorcher: No. 2 Bama, New Mexico St meet with temp in 90s
By John Zenor Sep. 06, 2019 09:56 AM EDT
No. 2 Alabama faces New Mexico State in home opener
By The Associated Press Sep. 05, 2019 01:11 PM EDT
No. 23 Washington State enters new season with untested QB
By Nicholas K. Geranios Aug. 30, 2019 04:00 AM EDT
No. 23 Washington St. seeks 3rd straight season-opening win
By The Associated Press Aug. 29, 2019 04:53 PM EDT
Liberty holds off New Mexico State 28-21
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Stephen Calvert threw two touchdown passes, Solomon Ajayi returned an interception 26 yards for a score and Liberty jumped out to a big lead...
Huntley, Adkins spark New Mexico State to 52-42 triumph
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Jason Huntley returned the opening kickoff 99 yards for a score and added three more touchdowns and New Mexico State held on to beat Alcorn...
Jones return sparks Texas State past New Mexico State, 27-20
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Willie Jones III threw for two touchdowns and ran for a third as Texas State pulled away from New Mexico State, 27-20 in a Sun Belt...
Georgia Southern bowl-eligible after 48-31 victory
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Logan Wright and Wesley Kennedy III combined for 233 yards rushing and Georgia Southern defeated New Mexico State 48-31 on Saturday to win...
STAT WATCH: Alabama hits midway point atop offensive charts
By Eric Olson Oct. 15, 2018 03:08 AM EDT
Nunez throws 5 TDs as Louisiana runs past New Mexico St.
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Andre Nunez threw for 315 yards and five touchdowns, Elijah Mitchell scored three touchdowns and Louisiana beat New Mexico State 66-38 on... | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9726242423057556, "wiki_prob": 0.9726242423057556, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line335270"} |
By Amira Zubairi Canadian Startup News, Launches September 29, 2016
Communitech announces first cohort of female-led companies for its Fierce Founders Accelerator
Communitech has announced that nine companies will be joining the first cohort of its recently launched Fierce Founders Accelerator, a program to supports female-led businesses by providing them with resources and expertise to grow.
The Fierce Founders Accelerator, which is the first female-focused accelerator in Canada, was launched to promote more diversity in Canada’s tech sector by eliminating barriers for female entrepreneurs who want to start companies.
“Startups in the accelerator will have direct support from Communitech’s investor network, improve their strategies and business plans, drive sales, and scale revenue,” said Danielle Graham, the manager of Communitech’s Women in Tech Program.
“Startups in the accelerator will have direct support from Communitech’s investor network.”
In June 2016, the accelerator received $880,000 in funding from the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. Startups participating in the accelerator will receive up to $30,000 in funding, the opportunity to live up to 6 months at the CommunitechHub, and mentoring and business support from Communitech’s experts.
Among the nine companies that will be joining the accelerator, five of them participated in the two-week Fierce Founders Bootcamp in the summer of 2016, where they had the opportunity to receive funding to help their businesses grow. The first cohort includes companies like Borealis Wind, whose team has developed a device that prevents ice on wind turbine blades to improve their efficiency; and Navi, which is a platform that helps publishers retain their mobile and web readers.
“Coming from an engineering background, I lacked concrete business knowledge. The bootcamp was an amazing learning opportunity,” said Daniela Roeper, the founder of Borealis Wind. “I’ll continue to learn from and connect with brilliant, driven women in the accelerator.”
The first cohort of the Fierce Founders Accelerator is below:
Borealis Wind
Oneiric
Squiggle Park
Think Dirty
Hal Cal
This Space Works
Binary Tattoo
AccelerateKitchener-Waterloo
Amira Zubairi
Amira Zubairi is a staff writer and content creator at BetaKit with a strong interest in Canadian startup, business, and legal tech news. In her free time, Amira indulges in baking desserts, working out, and watching legal shows.
0 replies on “Communitech announces first cohort of female-led companies for its Fierce Founders Accelerator” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8588753342628479, "wiki_prob": 0.8588753342628479, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line248219"} |
F T I
Graduate Student Research Features
Research Vlogs
Research institutes/centres
Invest in Faculty
Advance Research
Departments/Schools
Dean's Lecture Series
Green Collar Podcast
Changemaker Awards
Environmental Stewardship Challenge
Geography PhD graduate builds life-long connections and affinity for 3D GIScience while earning third degree from SFU
Joint Majors
Communicating Your Research to the Public
Graduate professional programs
Learning from the Global Pandemic
Women Bending the Curve on Climate Change
Engaging the Community to Build Flood Resilience: 12,000 Rain Gardens for the Puget Sound
Engaging the university community in realizing sustainabiity: a transformational approach
Engaging Citizens in Bike Lane Proposals: A Toronto Experience
Climate Narratives
Branching into Environment
Bridging Environments
Spark a Discussion
Be Matched with a Mentor
Welcome Team & EnvironMentors
Scholarship, Awards & Bursaries
Student submissions
Meet the Teaching Fellow
Teaching Squares
REDIRECT ONLY
Geography, Convocation, Students
by Britni Cachelin
Ian Lochhead has a long history with SFU, completing a bachelor's degree, master’s of science, and now his doctorate in SFU’s Department of Geography. He’s worked on many diverse research projects in 3D geographic information science (GIScience) and spent hours having thought-provoking discussions in SFU’s Spatial Interface Research Lab (SIRL). “I have built some wonderful friendships and professional relationships that I will carry with me when I start the next stage of my career,” he says.
When Ian took his first undergraduate course in geographic information systems (GIS), he didn’t quite know what to expect. Discovering a fascination with the material, he pursued a spatial information systems certificate, where he was exposed to what are now his specialties — 3D spatial data capture and geographic visualization. A final project where he combined conventional GIS workflows with 3D modelling and game development software to produce a model of the Academic Quadrangle, complete with simulated human movement inside, cemented his passion for 3D GIScience.
Since his start at SFU, Ian has worked on multiple research projects with Nicholas Hedley, director of SFU’s SIRL and professor in the Department of Geography. They’ve built a strong working relationship, and after completing his master’s, Ian decided to pursue his PhD to continue to learn from and work with Hedley.
With his PhD research, Ian sought to contribute to the body of knowledge on emerging technology in 3D GIScience. More experiential than conventional 2D methods of representing geographic information, 3D visualizations can enhance collaboration and learning opportunities, “presenting an opportunity to connect people, data, and spatial phenomena in new and meaningful ways” says Ian.
SFU’s SIRL lab conducts research and development in mixed, virtual, and augmented reality, building cutting-edge geovisualizations and simulations. As a member of the lab, Ian has been involved in producing high-resolution 3D models of sections of BC’s coastline, engineering a 3D platform to document and monitor changes in glass sponge reef structures in Howe Sound, and developing a virtual reality hoverboard for users to explore Martian landforms. He has also designed immersive exhibits at the Museum of Vancouver to teach Greek cultural history to children.
Ian is now actively pursuing a career in consulting, extended reality research and development, or product management. He’s also looking forward to future collaborations with Hedley.
Safety & Risk
SFU Maps & Directions
SFU Admissions
Simon Fraser University respectfully acknowledges the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples on whose unceded traditional territories our three campuses reside.
Terms & Conditions© Simon Fraser University | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6989259123802185, "wiki_prob": 0.6989259123802185, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1781629"} |
Drug Treatment Rehabs in Palo Alto, CA
Family and Children Services Palo Alto Office
Family and Children Services Palo Alto Office is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 375 Cambridge Avenue in Palo Alto, California.
Momentum for Mental Health La Selva/Outpt Services/Palo Alto
Momentum for Mental Health La Selva/Outpt Services/Palo Alto is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 206 South California Avenue in Palo Alto, California.
Community Counseling Center is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 2415 University Avenue in Palo Alto, California.
Free at Last Malaika House
Free at Last Malaika House is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 819-823 Jamie Lane in Palo Alto, California.
VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Addiction Treatment Service
VA Palo Alto Healthcare System Addiction Treatment Service is a substance abuse treatment facility based at 3801 Miranda Avenue ATS in Palo Alto, California. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7195057272911072, "wiki_prob": 0.2804942727088928, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line530385"} |
Inspection Date: July 24, 2019
The licensing inspector conducted an unannounced monitoring inspection Wednesday, July 24, 2019 from 11:25am to 1:20pm . The children were observed dancing to music, playing dress up, and practicing deep breathing exercises. . The infants were observed sleeping and eating lunch. All classrooms, as well as the playground were inspected today. The center does not administer medicine. The center does not provide transportation. Five children?s records and three new employee records were reviewed during this inspection. The center's first aid kit and emergency supplies were inspected. Last emergency drill:06/11/2019 Last shelter-in-place drill: 02/23/2019 Last fire inspection: 12/28/2018 Last health inspection: 12/28/2018 Total enrollment today: 29 Today, the following child to staff ratios were observed: Infants ?7:2 Toddlers & Twos ?7:2 Threes-8:1 Preschool (four to five years old)?7:1 The violations from the previous inspections were checked for corrections. There were no repeat violations found during today?s inspection. If you have any questions about this inspection, please contact your licensing inspector, Roshon Casey, at (804) 662-9760.
Description: Based on a review of staff records and staff interview on 07/24/2019, the center did not ensure that each staff record contained written information to demonstrate that the individual possesses the orientation training required by the job position. EVIDENCE: 1. The record of Staff #1, whose date of hire was 07/08/2019, did not contain documentation of orientation training. 2. Staff #4 stated that Staff #1 completed the training on the first day, however did not have the documentation available.
: Staff completed the orientation checklist on the first day, but it can't be located. Will have staff complete another one today.
Description: Based on observation on 07/24/2019, the center did not ensure that over-the-counter skin products shall not be kept beyond the expiration date of the product. EVIDENCE: Desitin diaper rash cream belonging to Child #6 was observed in the infant classroom. The cream's expiration date was 12/2018.
: Will send home today. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5942893624305725, "wiki_prob": 0.4057106375694275, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1696695"} |
Scary Stuff - Could This Happen In The US?
Putin signs expanded anti-LGBTQ laws in Russia, in latest crackdown on rights
CNN: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a bill that expands a ban on so-called LGBTQ “propaganda” in Russia, making it illegal for anyone to promote same-sex relationships or suggest that non-heterosexual orientations are “normal.”
Vladimir Putin's walk:
the 'gunslinger gait'
The package of amendments signed by Putin include heavier penalties for anyone promoting “non-traditional sexual relations and/or preferences,” as well as pedophilia and gender transition. Under the new law, it will be banned across the internet, media, books, audiovisual services, cinema, and advertising.
Under the new law, individuals can be fined up to 400,000 rubles ($6,370) for “LGBT propaganda” and up to 200,000 rubles ($3,185) for “demonstrations of LGBT and information that encourages a change of gender among teenagers.”
These fines rise to up to 5 million rubles ($80,000) and 4 million rubles ($64,000) respectively for legal entities. [I would assume this would including writing a transgender blog]
But the broadening of the “LGBT propaganda” law is just the latest in many steps that Putin’s government has taken in recent months to crush the last pockets of opposition, liberal values and free speech in Russia.
The Palm Beach Post: Florida leaders misrepresented research before ban on gender-affirming care | PolitiFact
Florida's Republican-Fascist
Governor, Ron DeSantis
Behind Florida's decision to block clinical services for transgender adolescents is a talking point — repeated by the state's governor and top medical authorities — that most cases of gender incongruence fade over time.
The Florida Board of Medicine voted Nov. 4 to approve a rule that barred physicians from performing surgical procedures on minors to alter "primary or secondary sexual characteristics" and from prescribing them medication to suppress puberty and hormones. The rule included an exception for patients who were already receiving those treatments.
Two days later, Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said gender-affirming care is "an example of ideology overtaking the practice of medicine," touting that he worked with the board to take a stand against it.
DeSantis said during a Nov. 6 campaign event.
So why are you mutilating their body parts? Over 80% of the dysphoria amongst teenagers resolves itself by the time they become older,"
[A total Lie and misrepresentation of the facts!]
A study published in July, for instance, sought to develop an estimate of transgender children who later stop identifying with a gender incongruent with their assigned sex. (The American Academy of Pediatrics - Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition)
It evaluated 300 transgender children over five years. To participate in the study, children must have already begun social transitioning, which often involves changing names, haircuts and pronouns.
Researchers from Princeton University's TransYouth Project followed up with participants in-person and online. At the end of the five years, 94% of participants still identified as transgender.
New York Intelligencer: Ron DeSantis Would Kill Democracy Slowly and Methodically Whether he’s as bad as Trump isn’t the question.
The conclusion: Whether a President DeSantis would be more or less dangerous than Trump is not a question I can answer with any confidence. Trump poses a greater danger of triggering an immediate constitutional crisis, while DeSantis is more likely to methodically strangle democracy through a series of illiberal Orbanist steps like he has modeled in Florida. I suppose the threat of a quick death is more dire than the threat of a slow one, but I have little confidence in projecting out these comparative dangers. The only meaningful conclusion I can make about the choice of Trump versus DeSantis is “neither.”
Posted by rhonda's escape at 5:00 AM
Year In Review '22
Political Year In Review 2022
Definition of 'Woman'...
I Love A success Story - Kiley May
Personal Style - Holiday Outings '22
Happy Holiday '22
Cute Clothes
Feminine Differential - Tie Front
Effeminate vs Feminine
The Winter Solstice '22 - Stay Warm
The Price-Is-Right - Flare Jeans
My Holiday Meetup in Red
Political Week In Review 12-18-2022
Beauty Is...
Goodbye Old Friend...
Feminine Differential - Holiday Red
Iconic Women 2022
What Is Fascism?
Time Interview - Tommy Dorfman
Just Put On....
Feminine Differential - Embellished Jeans
I Love A success Story - Maxine Heron
Feminine Differential - Bows
25 Easy Everyday Outfits for Women Over 50
Political Week In Review 12-4-2022
The Woman Inside
Songbird - Christine McVie
He's 'Feminine' & I'm 'Masculine... | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6765556335449219, "wiki_prob": 0.3234443664550781, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line853242"} |
e3-2018-microsoftxbox-briefing
E3/E3 2018/Microsoft Xbox One
News by Lindsay M.
It’s the beginning of the second day of four that consist of various E3 press conferences and digital events, and here to start things off is the Xbox Briefing, which I really believe is more of a “Microsoft” briefing now. We expect very little surprise from this event, but hopefully there are at least a couple of indies to really shine or maybe a big surprise (yeah, right).
Related reading: Catch up pin E3 2018 yesterday’s E3 conference.
Welcome the tag line: “Jump in.”
Halo Infinite (World Premiere)
This looks really good, visually, whatever it is. The water effects are especially impressive. And there there’s a bunch of army dudes with guns, and my interest is lost. Ah, Halo. Of course. Looks great, lacks substance, the Xbox Way! Halo Infinite. (And apparently a new engine that makes it pretty.)
Welcome to the briefing!
Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, comes onto the stage. He’s talking about everyone watching, and all I am wondering if if this is live captioned for those hard of hearing? I can only assume not, but Microsoft out of any E3 presenter should be able to do this. He’s talking about gaming (a word I hate) bringing us together through competition and story. Apparently gaming fosters real community, although I see little of that outside of the indies. Wait, he referred to games as an art form. PHIL SPENCER SAID GAMES ARE ART. Wow… just… wow… even the dudebros have to admit it now!
In this briefing we are promised 50 games, 18 exclusives, and 15 world premieres. So are you ready for this? Because I’m suddenly very very afraid. That is a lot of information in not a lot of time and my fingers and crying already.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Exclusive)
This game is gorgeous and definitely Ori from the get-go. The animation, the use of colours, the soundtrack, the characters, it’s all right up my alley.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (World Premiere)
From Software and Activision so I’m not bother to talk about it. Moving on.
From Bethesda, we have Todd Howard. That means it’s Fallout 76 time, and a few fans are going wild. He’s definitely ramping up to something that can be played with a lot of people simultaneously. Fallout 4 is on Xbox GamePass starting today, but what really matters is the first look at Fallout 76. It’s a prequel to the entire series, four times the size of Fallout 4, set in the hills of West Virginia, you are one of the first to emerge into the Wasteland.
The fighting has stopped and the fallout has settled, but you must rebuild homes, hearts, and minds. And America itself. How patriotic. You can pre-order the title on June 15.
The Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit (World Premiere)
The music that began this trailer made me scream Life Is Strange 2, but it’s not. It’s an original story by Dontnod though!
On June 26, you can download this game for free and experience the story of a father and a son. The Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit. The Life is Strange Twitter account confirms the game will also be available on PC and PlayStation 4.
Crackdown 3 (Exclusive)
I hear Terry Crews, so this must be Crackdown 3. I know nothing of the series, but it looks like in the future people in fancy suits blow things up a bunch?
Nier: Automota
Nier: Automota finally comes to Xbox with the Become as Gods edition, which includes all previously-released DLC.
Apparently I’m all about water effects today, because all I can focus on is how the water on the ground looks in this trailer for Metro Exodus. As far a shooty games, the Metro series isn’t too bad, but they do all start looking the same (as do many other series) after a while. February 22, 2019.
The latest game in a legendary series, for the first time ever, Kingdom Hearts is coming to Xbox. There’s Frozen, so I hope you’re prepared for that darn Snowman song to be in your head for another two years. You can also swing by Rapunzel’s hair and help Hercules save someone from sudden squishing, or run around Andy’s room with Woody and Buzz. Play it on January 29.
Sea of Thieves (Exclusive)
There’s been a bunch of friends made and a bunch of hours played, and now there will be more content to use to make more friends and play more hours. Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores are expansion packs, coming soon.
It’s a DICE title (EA) — so this means we’re looks at Battlefield V. It’s a look at Norway specifically, a lovely setting but we all know what will happen in it.
Forza Horizon 4 (World Premiere Exclusive)
Microsoft Studios means maybe an indie title? That’s an awfully fast car for an indie title…. The license plate says Horizon: Forza Horizon 4. Ooh there’s some wicked precipitation on camera moments — darn it, there I go again with the rain thing! There are cars are boats and motorbikes.
Ralph Fulton is coming to stage to talk about it, so we get a brief reprieve from having games thrown at our faces. It’s set in Britain and features dynamic seasons that change “everything,” apparently. October 2, and on GamePass the same day.
New Microsoft-acquired studios
Microsoft went on a quest to find creative teams, and now The Initiative has been formed as a new Microsoft Studio. It’s based in Santa Monica, California. Undead Labs is joining Microsoft Studios. Playground Games has also been acquired; it is the team behind Forza Horizon. The fourth new acquisition is Ninja Theory, the dev behind Hellblade. And there’s a FIFTH, crap, it’s Compulsion Games. I’d rather they stay independent but I understand why it’s happened. Microsoft has been incredibly supportive of We Happy Few and I’m happy for the team! Speaking of…
I’m always up for a new trailer for We Happy Few. In the game, people are forced to take pills of “joy,” which disguises the dilapidated world to them before making each turn violent and against each other.
The game has progressed massively since its original preview release, and I continue to be more excited to play the final product after skipping every update in between. And we have a release date! August 10 on Xbox, as well as PlayStation 4 and PC.
Playerunknown’s Battleground (Exclusive)
Or whatever this is. Let’s forge ahead, it’s not worth the effort to even watch.
Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition (World Premiere)
Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition is coming to Xbox One, including content and characters coming to the West for the first time.
This is something we don’t often expect to see on Xbox so it is more than welcome.
The Division 2 (World Premiere)
Washington, DC. America is on the brink of collapse but some people have survived. Urban Warfare. It’s a Tom Clancy title for sure, I’m guessing — correctly! — The Division 2. We get a trailer as well as some gameplay footage.
I see sub-par water effects. 1/10, do not play. March 15
A note from the writer
55 minutes in, and we’re only 15 games deep into the promised 50. That means at some point, Microsoft will dump two dozens titles on us very quickly. Indies? Backwards compatibility?
Here we go, Xbox GamePass head of beginner, Ashley Speicher. Is this that “bunch” we’re expecting? She’s asking, what if you didn’t have to choose between games? I say, everyone has to, we only have so much time in the world. But I do see what she’s getting at, for those who purchase big titles all the time GamePass would be a big save. Now there’s fast-start, different to ready-to-start, fast-start uses other user’s data about how they play the game to decide what needs to be downloaded first. This will be included in the June update. But no bunches, unless the few titles coming to GamePass that have already been released count.
Here’s the bunch! Xbox, if you’re listening, stop doing this. It’s irritating and gives none of the titles the time deserved. Or at least make a place it is easy to access the information quickly.
Anyway, the entire list of 22 titles:
Outer Wilds
Afterparty XXX
Kingdom Two Crowns
The Gold Club 2019
Warhammer Vermintide II
Fringe Wars
Conqueror’s Blade
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Planet Alpha
Islands of Nyne
Harold Halibut: A Homemade Adventure
Bomber Crew
Children of Morta
The Wind Road
WarGroove
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal means Tomb Raider! I got into the series when it was revamped and am now obsessed, despite my weird opinion that Go is the best. Shadow of the Tomb Raiser is due out September 14, 2018.
Session (Exclusive)
I recognize this game, it’s the Skate-type title made when fans couldn’t get their beloved franchise rebooted. I’d rather wait for the franchise that will never ever be rebooted, it’s more fun to complain about. Also, I’ve tried Sessions on PC and it is way complicated.
Black Desert (Exclusive)
From Pearl Abyss. The story seems cool, about someone born three times who met her death three times. It’s MMO RPG, which I can’t really play so I’m a bit bummed out.
Devil May Cry 5 (World Premiere)
Immediately, this trailer is extremely violent and gory. It’s been a decade. It’s from Capcom. Devil May Cry 5. Quippy dialogue and really, really big monsters ahead!
The crowd is excited. I’m excited. You’re excited! This promises to be the biggest adventure game the devs have created. The game was made for the fans, which can be good or bad depending on the fans, no?
Cuphead in the Delicious Last Course (Console Launch Exclusive)
The Cuphead fad continues, with new DLC called “The Delicious Last Course.” New bosses, locations, a new playable character, and more. Coming next year.
Tunic (Console Launch Exclusive)
Oh my goodness this is adorable and I need it! The little fox. The scenery. The graphics. The sounds. Did I mention the little fox that is the lead character? Like, fox meets legend of Zelda.
Jump Force (World Premiere)
Bandai Namco’s next title. It’s familiar and unsurprising, it’s…. Jump Force? It releases next year. It has all the anime. No, really, it does.
Dying Light 2 (World Premiere)
Sorry, I’m getting extremely bored and tired of these games. Dying Light 2 is happening. It promises to continue the fluid parkour system and scary, scary nights. This is The Modern Dark Ages.
Battletoads (World Premiere Exclusive)
A lot of time has passed in this comic book world… I’m seeing The Wolf Among Us II? Ha, I’m way off. It’s Battletoads time! Body-morphing genre mashups and broad non-feature specific thingies!
Just Cause 4 (World Premiere Exclusive)
Same old. Ooh look at the dude wearing a gun and staring into the sunset. Deep. December 4.
Gears of War x3 (World Premiere Exclusive)
That’s a new Gears of War! Ew, no, it’s Funko. Gross. That makes it even worse, somehow. Gears POP is apparently a game. BUT Gears Tactics is coming, so I suppose that will also be something to… do?
Oh wait, there’s Gears 5. An actual title. That’s a start. The war for humanity has escalated in the city and within Kait herself.
Welcome back, Specter!
Specter is back, talking tech. It is working on AI, the next consoles, etc. And this surprises people for some reason? The company is now committed to first-party games, hence the five new teams they’ve taken on. I don’t like these sweeping statements. “You’ll always experience the best of gaming on Xbox.” Ummmm no, no, I won’t.
Cyberpunk 22 (World Premiere Exclusive)
Oh look a fake computer glitch, clearly leading into LIFE IS STRANGE 2. I lied. Cyberpunk 2077. I’m awful at guessing. And really eagerly waiting to see Life Is Strange 2, although I assume it will most likely be at Square Enix’s event tomorrow.
There’s another compilation happening, featuring what we’ve seen in this briefing. Really, other than the Dontnod title and some of the indies that flashed on the screen, very little is of interest to me. What about you? If you missed it, or want to watch again, the entire briefing is available here.
– Lindsay M.
The catch-up coffee: Monday, June 11, 2018
e3-2018-devolver-digital-event | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.630023181438446, "wiki_prob": 0.630023181438446, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1232450"} |
Bemidji Area Schools predicts growing enrollment
BEMIDJI--Bemidji Area Schools predicts that more and more K-12 students will be enrolled there over the next few years, a projection that will influence the school district's revenue expectations for the 2017-18 school year.
By Joe Bowen
BEMIDJI-Bemidji Area Schools predicts that more and more K-12 students will be enrolled there over the next few years, a projection that will influence the school district's revenue expectations for the 2017-18 school year.
Chris Leinen, the school district's director of business services, told the school board on Monday that the "ENPRO" student enrollment projection system predicts the district will have an "average daily membership" of 5,090.5 students at the end of the 2016-2017 school year, up from an average of 5,022.8 in 2015-2016.
The school district's revenue projections for the 2017-18 school year will stem from that predicted end-of-year membership figure-which is based on a hard count of students enrolled in the district earlier this fall, previous enrollment data and factors like county birth rates-because of the way the state apportions money to school districts.
Bemidji Area Schools receives the bulk of its state money from funding formulas that consider the number of "pupil units" the district has. The number of pupil units is based on the district's average daily membership.
Revenue projections for next year's budget, then, go hand-in-hand with the average daily membership the district projects to have at the end of this school year. Leinen said the predicted "ADM" figure will get combined with an audited budget later this winter to predict how much money the district can expect to take in next year.
"ADM at the end of the year is what we get paid on," Leinen told the board. Bemidji Area Schools receives about $7,500 from the state for every "pupil unit" enrolled in the district.
Different models offer increasingly varied average daily membership predictions the further into the future they project, Leinen said, sometimes varying by as many as 150 students after a few modeled years. While that number might seem insignificant in a district with more than 5,000 students, Leinen said it can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in projected revenue changes.
The membership figure is projected to rise to 5,127.9 students at the end of the 2017-18 school year and 5,134.4 the year after that, according to documents supplied at the school board's regular November meeting.
The school district predicts that grades 1-5 will grow for the next three years then level off, Leinen told the board. Grades 6-8 are projected to grow substantially in that time, as well, when those younger students matriculate into middle school and beyond.
"We're looking at filling up the middle school and, eventually then, filling up the high school as well," Leinen said.
Related Topics: BEMIDJI AREA SCHOOLS
Joe Bowen is an award-winning reporter at the Duluth News Tribune. He covers schools and education across the Northland.
You can reach him at:
612-710-8576 (cell and Signal, an encrypted messaging app)
[email protected]
@Boejowen on Twitter
Joe Bowen on Facebook | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9587584733963013, "wiki_prob": 0.9587584733963013, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1008354"} |
Chipset Driver
The Intel(R) Chipset Device Software includes WiX Toolset 3.10 software governed by and distributed in
accordance with the terms of the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL).
Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)
This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license.
If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here
as under U.S. copyright law.
A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.
A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license.
"Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.
(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations
in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to
reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution
or any derivative works that you create.
(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in
section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed
patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution
in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software.
3. Conditions and Limitations
(A) Reciprocal Grants- For any file you distribute that contains code from the software (in source code or
binary format), you must provide recipients the source code to that file along with a copy of this license,
which license will govern that file. You may license other files that are entirely your own work and do not
contain code from the software under any terms you choose.
(B) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or
trademarks.
(C) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the
software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.
(D) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and
attribution notices that are present in the software.
(E) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license
by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the
software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
(F) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties,
guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot
change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
Intel distributes the WiX Toolset 3.10 software in unmodified, binary form. To get a copy of WiX Toolset 3.10
source code, go to CodePlex http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/99514, or contact Intel.
Previous: Graphics Driver
Next: Intel Dynamic Tuning Technology | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6760271191596985, "wiki_prob": 0.3239728808403015, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line344246"} |
USA: BLM Activist Livestreams His Own Arrest After Allegedly Setting Fire In Washington State. Marxist Democrat Governor Inslee Addressed Media About Wildfires In His State And BLAMED CLIMATE CHANGE!
An Antifa militant in Oregon is responsible for the fires. He livestreamed his own arrest. Holy crap! https://t.co/v4vlOfvTVI
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 10, 2020
The Post Millenial
BLM activist livestreams his own arrest after allegedly setting fire in Washington State
written by Mia Cathell
Thursday September 10, 2020
A BLM activist and alleged arsonist charged for reckless burning in the second degree had reported a fire set in Washington and then filmed his subsequent arrest.
Jeffrey Acord, 36 of Pallyup, called 911 Wednesday evening to report a fire in the median of Highway 167 near Tacoma, Washington. After dialing dispatch services, Acord then livestreamed the incident to his Facebook page, providing constant narration.
Pierce County has a great team of law enforcement in this county serving all citizens in our county from many different agencies. We are happy to be a part of the team! This was a great arrest today! @wspd1pio @FifePD #proudofblue https://t.co/wj0PeUutdr
— Puyallup Police (@PuyallupPD) September 10, 2020
According to Q13 Fox, Washington State Patrol Trooper Ryan Burke reported that a man was caught setting a fire in the brush. State patrol also sourced a woman who cited a man walking on the highway in Sumner holding a lighter.
When an officer questioned Acord's presence, the suspect claimed that he was recovering his $1,000 recording equipment, because the camera case allegedly flew out of his backpack while biking the previous day to his girlfriend's place in Bellevue.
"I've been out here all day searching for my camera," Acord told police, also noting the loss of his camera bag on the freeway in a prior Facebook post. "I'm trying to cover the area thoroughly."
Acord was then arrested for implicating himself at the scene of the fire.
"There's nothing you can connect to me to this at all," Acord stated before the video cut out. "I was literally calling this in."
The fire was contained to the interstate and extinguished by the local fire department. Puyallup Police were forced to close the northbound ramp.
Acord was detained with bail set at $1,000 and then transferred from the Pallyup City Jail to the Pierce County Jail where he was booked under a separate burglary charge.
Reckless burning in the second degree is a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to 364 days in jail.
The Post Millennial researched Acord's history of anti-police protesting and encounters with law enforcement. In June, Acord led a Black Lives Matter march in Seattle. Previously in 2014, Acord was caught with a cache of weapons and arrested during the Ferguson Decision Protest. Officers found the man carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of illegal fireworks in his car, according to a KOMO news report. When officers contacted Acord, he admitted to carrying a loaded gun without a permit. His bail was set for $10,000. The following charges were levelled against him.
Acord attempted to justify the 2014 case as "a misunderstanding" to arresting officers in Wednesday's camera footage.
"I was crucified," Acord said to police.
Sources told Protester Privilege that Acord is now a suspect in two other local fires. As of Thursday morning, the Sumner Grade Fire in Sumner, that destroyed four homes, and Bonney Lake has burned more than 800 acres.
The unprecedented fires raging in Washington State have become a seasonal norm but some suspect arson because of the locations of the smaller fires in suburban neighborhoods and in proximity to interstate highways. Residents of Bonney Lake told Kiro 7 news that they found broken glass with newspaper in the brush. Residents of Buckley Washington have reported similar claims in neighborhood social media groups.
WARNING: Multiple sources in Emergency Response have confirmed that the fires along the West Coast are caused by dozens of arsonists.
These fires are allegedly linked to Antifa and the Riots.
Read this warning ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/x1HVVsAIJy
— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) September 10, 2020
In response to the allegations of arson, Washington State Representative Jim Walsh released a statement: “I am getting a lot of reports from residents of Washington State that the current wave of wild fires in Washington and Oregon may be caused or at least made worse by politically motivated arsonists. How could their motives be political? To set fire to blame them on climate change? ... we have pretty good evidence that several of the major fires burning recently in Washington were human made but not arson. However, a larger number of the fires burning in Oregon seem to have suspicious origins and a growing number of people in Washington are reporting suspicious behavior on the part of strangers and visitors which raises concerns.”
This is a video of the fire that started in Graham, WA. If you look at the top right-hand corner, a vehicle can be seen driving off right before the fire erupts. #WestCoastFires pic.twitter.com/76x0DZOQmG
Walsh continued: “Right now our focus is on containing and fighting the fires and keeping people safe as it should be. There will be time later to investigate the origins of the various fires.”
The situation is being made worse by conditions in the area. According to one firefighter, “[W]e have these fires EVERY year about this time. What we don’t have are these weather conditions! It has dried out the 'ground fuels' and made a us into a tinderbox.”
The Oregonian reported that a group of wildfires in Lincoln County, destroying more than 2,400 acres, may have been caused by human activity opposed to lightning or other natural ignition sources.
Even with allegations swirling, residents' reports of people throwing flaming items from their cars and other suspicious activity all while arrests are being made for in Spokane, Puyallup and elsewhere including the nearby state of Oregon for arson in connection with the wildfires, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee continued to blame the fires on climate change.
We are not going to surrender the future of this state to climate change. We are stronger, smarter and more resilient than that.
And I’ll be thinking of these fires and the communities they're impacting when we take our next steps to defeat climate change. https://t.co/HYk0pM9VX8
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) September 10, 2020
When I saw this map of fires this morning, I knew @GovInslee was lying when he said the cause was CLiMatE ChANgE. #BidenRiots pic.twitter.com/YVQEEL20Vn
Earlier in the day, Jeffrey Acord called in his own arson @PuyallupPD. He even filmed himself at the fires on Facebook livestream.
After questioning him, the Puyallup Police Department arrested him on suspicion that he started the fires. #AntifaFires #BidenFires pic.twitter.com/pSIvD2sSUn
BREAKING: @PuyallupPD arrested Jeffrey Acord in relation to the Arson along 167 hwy.
In 2014 during an ANTI-POLICE protest, Acord was charged with possession of a concealed weapon without permit, carrying a knife, and illegal possession of fireworks. https://t.co/RGgDNkzZiT
Seattle Police Arrest Ferguson Protester After Finding Cache of Weapons
written by Elisa Hahn
November 27, 2014 👈👈👈
A man arrested during Monday night’s Ferguson-related protest in Seattle faces several charges after police say they uncovered a cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives in his backpack and car.
Jeffrey Alan Acord, 31, was charged Wednesday with possession of a concealed weapon without a permit, carrying a dangerous knife and illegal possession of fireworks, reported NBC affiliate KING5. According to police, a witness saw Acord reach under a vehicle while holding a road flare, and when they searched him, they found a loaded 9 mm handgun without a permit and a 7-inch knife. More weapons, including an assault rifle and a shotgun, as well as a box of fireworks, were found in his car after police secured a search warrant, The Seattle Times reported.
“I don’t know what his plans were, but it’s obviously of great concern that someone would come to an event in Seattle with those weapons readily available,” Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said Wednesday, according to the newspaper.
Four others were arrested in the city on Monday, as demonstrations erupted across the country following a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Seattle police said they are still searching for another suspect who threw fireworks off a freeway overpass during the protests. No one was hurt.
Seattle police arrest 31 y.o. Jeffrey Acord for unlawful poss of firearms and possession of illegal fireworks. pic.twitter.com/ahfaAg11Ya
— elisa hahn (@ElisaTHahn) November 27, 2014
UPDATE 9/10/20 at 4:08pm: Added info below.
👇 I remembered Islamic terrorists arson threat after I posted news 👇
White Supremacists are Marxists and have always been aligned with Islam.
BOTH hate America, hate Capitalism, hate Jews, hate Israel.
👉VERY RELATED👈
Homeland Security Today, USA
ISIS Claims Escalating Use of Wildfire Arson as Terror Tactic
written by Bridget Johnson
Long promoting the use of arson — both of occupied structures and of tinder-dry wildlands — as a cheap terror tactic that requires little skill but can inflict immense fear and harm, ISIS claims the terror group is behind a series of wildfires in Iraq and Syria.
In the group’s official weekly newsletter, al-Naba, ISIS said the targets were “apostates” whose “hearts have long been burned” and vowed the blazes are “just the beginning.”
ISIS also emphasized the economic impact of the fires, noting “many agricultural lands have been destroyed” and “tons of crops,” including wheat and barley, went up in flames in the jihadists’ “harvest of another kind.”
ISIS noted at the beginning of the al-Naba article that it’s summer; terror groups, in encouraging the use of wildfire arson in the past, have stressed that picking dry, hot, windy weather will intensify their efforts.
Iraq’s Civil Defense Directorate said Monday 6,103 acres of farmland had burned in 136 separate fires over the past 18 days, spanning 11 provinces. The statement did not confirm nor deny ISIS’ claim of responsibility, but the provinces most harmed — Salahuddin, Nineveh, Kirkuk, Diyala — correspond with areas already suffering under ISIS’ escalating guerrilla campaign that has included kidnappings and murders.
“ISIS entered the village of Palani, where parts of my family belong, threatened farmers that they would need to pay taxes to prevent their grain fields from being set on fire,” tweeted Kamaran Palani, a research fellow at the Middle East Research Institute, on May 21. “The men don’t sleep at night defending the village & the women come back to the village during the day.”
In Syria, farmers in Deir ez-Zour blame ISIS for setting wildfires and have been calling for more protection for their lands; ISIS claimed blazes in Al-Hasakah province, also along the Iraqi border. Syria Civil Defence, or the White Helmets, says the regime shelling of Khan Sheikhoun has sparked wildfires, while Assadists on social media have been accusing the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces of torching agricultural land.
In the al-Naba article, “Roll Up Your Sleeves and Begin the Harvest — May Allah Bless What You Reap,” ISIS reminded “soldiers of the caliphate” that they “have before you millions of acres… their plantations, fields and homes, as well as their economic foundation” to burn.
In threats directed at the West, ISIS and al-Qaeda have linked their calls for wildland arson to devastating fires occurring at that time, stressing to supporters that they can wreak similar havoc by intentionally sparking blazes as their method of jihad.
“O america, This is the punishment of bombing Muslims in Syria,” stated a November threat from ISIS supporters that circulated online with an image of the California wildfires. “This is Allah’s punishment for you. And in shaa Allah, you will see more fires.
At the time, official ISIS media also highlighted the damage and death toll of the wildfires in multiple issues of al-Naba.
In January 2017, ISIS’ now-defunct Rumiyah magazine told would-be jihadists that “incendiary attacks have played a significant role in modern and guerrilla warfare, as well as in ‘lone wolf’ terrorism,” and said wildfires around Israel that month “demonstrated the lethality of such an effortless operation.”
The magazine suggested targets for arson jihad to “include houses and apartment buildings, forest areas adjacent to residential areas, factories that produce cars, furniture, clothing, flammable substances, etc., gas stations, hospitals, bars, dance clubs, night clubs, banks, car showrooms, schools, universities, as well as churches, Rafidi [Shiite] temples, and so forth. The options are vast, leaving no excuse for delay.”
Jihadists were advised to time arson attacks “preferably in the later part of night to the early hours of morning when people are generally asleep,” and were instructed how to block off exits in an effort to increase casualties. ISIS also specifically addressed wildfires, telling operatives to look for dry brush “as fire cannot endure in damp or wet environments.”
Also during last year’s California wildfires, supporters of al-Qaeda — which has a lengthy history of promoting wildfire arson — circulated news photos from the blazes with the Quran verse, “They will question you about the mountains. Say: ‘My Lord will scatter them as ashes.'”
A tutorial in a 2012 issue of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine highlighted the damage caused by various wildfires and instructed jihadists on picking optimum weather conditions for arson and where to set a blaze to inflict maximum devastation.
“In America, there are more houses built in the country sides than in the cities. It is difficult to choose a better place other than in the valleys of Montana where the population increases rapidly. In the year 2000, a fire that is considered to be the biggest in the American history flared up in one of those valleys. It spread in a space equal to that of London. The fire burnt down 70 houses as well as a hundred car. On July of the same year and in the same place, a thunderstorm lighted 78 massive blazes in just one day, most of them were deadly firestorms,” the “Open Source Jihad” article said.
“We mention such examples only to show the magnitude of the destructive impact that fires or firebombs make, to then ask the question: Is it possible for us to cause a similar destructive impact using a similar weapon? The answer is: Yes, it is possible. Even in a shorter time and with much bigger destructive impact,” the Inspire tutorial continued, offering a step-by-step guide on building an “ember bomb” with a timer to spark a conflagration.
“The most important damaging result… is the spreading of terror among the targeted community,” al-Qaeda said.
The National Interagency Fire Center said in its May outlook that, at the peak of the U.S. fire season expected this upcomin August, major influencers will be a “heavy crop of grasses and fine fuels” across California along with moderate drought in the Pacific Northwest. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8097808361053467, "wiki_prob": 0.8097808361053467, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1256859"} |
Special: Recharge your brain with a Meditative Story by Arianna Huffington
As an entrepreneur, you have to find a way to recharge. This new podcast — from the creators of Masters of Scale – was designed to create calm amid an always-on schedule. The particular episode we’re sharing was inspired by Reid’s interview with Arianna Huffington, where she told a sliver of this story: it starts in the tiny Athens apartment where she grew up and takes her to the University of Cambridge. Listen for the lesson she learned from her mother … about embracing life’s journey without being attached to the outcome. A lesson every founder needs to hear. Interspersed with the story, you’ll hear prompts from a guide to help you center your mind; after the story, your guide leads you on a quiet meditation to help you recharge and refresh. If you like the effects – the way the episode makes you feel — subscribe to Meditative Story on the app you’re using now.
FacebookTwitterRedditLinkedIn
Tagged as:entrepreneurshipGrowth
Master the art of storytelling w/charity: water’s Scott Harrison
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner – How to set the drumbeat
Bill Gates — How to accelerate history | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7372048497200012, "wiki_prob": 0.2627951502799988, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1347474"} |
the same may be set off against the plain- | added that the plaintiffs, on December 11, tiffs' demand.
1903, and, again, on the 23d day of March, The second joint plea of the same de- 1904, without the knowledge or consent of fendants (so numbered in the record) set the defendant, entered into other agreeup in substance the same agreement as the ments with Monaghan and McGuire to sell first, except that agreement was alleged to to them, at different prices and terms of have been made September 11, 1903, and the sale, the merchandise purchased from plainbond was conditioned for the payment by tiffs by them, and that since December 11, the principals for all merchandise to be fur. 1903, the plaintiffs have refused to sell nished by the plaintiffs on four months' merchandise to Monaghan and McGuire at credit. The plea also omitted the agree the prices named in the agreement, though ment that the principals (Monaghan and requested to do so, whereby the defendant McGuire) would not be required to pay the was discharged from his liability. plaintiffs until they (the principals in the The third separate plea (numbered 3 in bond) could make collections from their cus- the record) alleged that the merchandise tomers. The plea also alleged that the mentioned in the declaration as having been plaintiffs, shortly after the execution of the sold was purchased by the defendants Mon. bond in suit, wrongfully refused to sell to aghan and McGuire under an agreement not the principals therein merchandise on credit under seal, entered into before and since to the amouné of $10,000 at and for the the 11th day of September, 1903, between prices stated in the agreement, and wholly them and the plaintiffs, and not according neglected and refused to perform the agree to the terms of the bond mentioned in the ment between them and the principals in declaration, wherefore the defendant prayed the bond, whereby Monaghan and McGuire judgment if he ought to be charged with were forced to abandon their said business the said debt by virtue of said bond. and lose all the money and time expended by Subsequently the same defendant filed them in and about the same, and amounting three additional pleas. By the first addito not less than $10,000, and were, and each tional plea (which is numbered 4 in the of them was, injured and damaged in the record) he alleges that prior to signing the sum of $10,000, for which sum the said bond plaintiffs agreed with the principals J. Charles McGuire claimed judgment against therein to sell the merchandise referred to the plaintiffs, and the defendants were will in the bond at and for certain prices speciing that the same should be set off against fied in a letter dated August 25, 1903, sent the claim of plaintiffs.
by the plaintiffs to the principals in the Thereafter the defendant William Mc- bond. The plaintiffs represented to the deGuire filed three separate pleas. The first fendant that the agreement was applicable separate plea (numbered 1 in the record) to all merchandise to be purchased under
) alleged an indebtedness of the plaintiffs to the bond, and plaintiffs thereby intended to William McGuire in the sum of $5,000, for induce defendant to sign the bond, which that, on the 11th day of September, 1903, he did in reliance upon that statement. and in consideration of plaintiffs agreeing Thereafter the principals purchased from the to sell merchandise to Monaghan and Mc- plaintiffs merchandise amounting to $14,Guire at and for certain prices named in 477.16 and no more, and the sum of $10,the agreement, and to give them a continu- 617.55 was for merchandise purchased at ous credit of $10,000 for merchandise sold the prices agreed upon, and the balance, to them by plaintiffs, the defendants did $3,859.61, was for merchandise purchased at agree to and did sign the bond mentioned greatly enhanced prices, made under an in the declaration, but the plaintiffs wrong. agreement entered into on or about the 11th fully refused to perform the agreement, or day of December, 1903, without the knowlto sell to Monaghan and McGuire merchan-edge or consent of defendant; that the dise at the prices named in the agreement, principals paid plaintiffs on account of said or to allow them the continuous credit men- sum of $10,617.55 the sum of $9,100.48, leavtioned therein, whereby they were prevented ing due to the plaintiffs under the bond from paying for the merchandise purchased $1,517.07 and no more. and mentioned in the declaration, and the By the second additional plea (numbered defendant thereby incurred great liability, 5 in the record) the defendant set up suband was injured and damaged in the sum stantially the same agreement as to signing of $5,000, and claimed judgment therefor, the bond and the consideration therefor, and was willing that the same might be set and then made the additional averment that off against the demand of plaintiffs. the agreement was that the plaintiffs would
The second separate plea (numbered 2 in not at any time exceed the sum of $10,000 the record) set forth the same agreement in their sales to the principals, but the and bond and consideration therefor that is plaintiffs failed to perform the conditions, mentioned in the first separate plea, and Tor any of them, and refused to sell at the agreed prices, and also permitted the 1904. The condition of the boud meant that indebtedness of the principals to continue the defendants should not be called upon from December 10, 1903, to January 21, to pay until after the expiration of four 1904, to be greatly in excess of $10,000, by months from the date of each of the respecall of which defendant was discharged. tive purchases. The defendants had, as the
By the third additional plea (numbered 6 pleadings show, paid for all the merchandise in the record) the defendant alleged the purchased, except the balance therein statpartnership agreement between the princi-ed, and four months had in fact elapsed pals in the bond, but did not allege that since the last sale. The defendants have, there had been any time ever agreed upon therefore, obtained four months after the for the continuance of such partnership, and purchase before they were called upon to further alleged that during the year 1903 ! pay. We think the declaration was suffithe principals in the bond had established, cient. a good business, and the bond was executed We are also of opinion that the two joint and delivered to the plaintiffs for the pur- pleas of J. Charles McGuire and William pose of establishing and maintaining the McGuire, and the first separate plea of the credit of the principals with the plaintiffs; latter, which, it is contended, set up offsets but that, on or about January 12, 1904, the to the plaintiffs' claim, did not allege facts plaintiffs, for the purpose of securing the with sufficient distinctness to constitute a customers which the principals in the bond defense to the action. Neither of these had obtained for themselves, and for the pleas is sufficiently distinct to constitute a purpose of selling directly to those custom- good pleading. What the special agreement ers, wrongfully induced Monaghan to with was that is alleged to have been made bedraw from the partnership and enter the tween the principals in the bond and the employ of plaintiffs, which Monaghan did, plaintiffs, in consideration of which the bond and that thereby the business of the prin- was signed by the surety, is not stated with cipals was wholly destroyed, and by reason any degree of particularity. It simply thereof they were unable to pay for the states that the agreement in this respect merchandise referred to in the bond and was that the merchandise should be sold to declaration, all of which was without the the principals in the bond at and for cerknowledge or consent of the defendant, by tain prices specified in the agreement, but reason whereof defendant was discharged the pleas do not set them forth, nor do they from all liability under the bond.
state for how long a time such agreement
was to remain in existence, nor how the deMr. Lorenzo A. Bailey for plaintiffs in fendants suffered damage to the extent error.
named in the pleas, or to any extent. It is Messrs. Eugene A. Jones, Simon Wolf, and impossible for a court to see how these Myer Cohen for defendants in error. damages would necessarily or probably flow
from a violation of said agreement, or that Mr. Justice Peckham, after making the they could form a basis for any legal deforegoing statement, delivered the opinion mand flowing from not longer fulfilling the of the court:
terms of the alleged contract. The damThe declaration in this case is attacked ages alleged in the pleas are most remote, by the defendants under the rule that the vague, and shadowy in their nature, such as court will go back to the first substantial could not have been contemplated by any defect appearing in the pleadings before the party to the alleged agreement, as the probfiling of the demurrer. The criticism made able result of its violation. While rules of by the defendants upon the declaration is pleading have become more liberal in modern that it does not sufficiently show a violation days, yet, in order to found a cause of acof the terms of the bond. The defendants tion on the alleged shortcomings of another, say the bond limits the liability of the sure they must at least be so far plainly set up ties to pay for such merchandise only as as to show actual damage and the wrongful was sold on a four months' credit, and that act of the other party as the proximate and the declaration does not show that the terms natural cause. The particulars of the alof the sale of the merchandise were those leged resulting damages should be so far which were set forth in the bond. The set forth that the court may be able to see declaration shows a failure to pay for cer- therefrom that such alleged damages are tain merchandise alleged to have been sold neither obscure, vague, nor shadowy, but to the defendants, amounting to a stated might, and probably would, naturally result sum on the date set forth in the particu- from the acts complained of. Within such lars of demand, which demand was annexed limitations, which have always existed, the to and forms a part of the declaration. This three pleas are insufficient. demand showed that the last item of sale The next succeeding plea is marked in the was made July 27 prior to December 11, I record the second separate plea of the de
fendant William McGuire. The court be- chased under the bond, would require parol low treated this plea, together with the evidence, as there is no pretense that these third separate plea of the defendant, and representations were made in writing, or his fifth (in truth, the second) additional that the letter referred to them in any way. plea, as together resting upon common The same consideration existing in regard ground. We think they may be properly so to the pleas last mentioned would operate regarded. It is seen from the whole record here and render the plea insufficient. that the principals in the bond sued on were The third additional plea (marked 6 in expecting to have business transactions with the record) attempts to set up a cause of tne plaintiffs, by purchasing from them li-action against the plaintiffs because, as alquors, which they expected to sell to others leged, they induced the defendant Monaat profit, but the plaintiffs did not care to ghan to dissolve the partnership between sell the goods to these principals without him and McGuire and to enter the plaintiffs' some security for payment of the goods sold employ, for the purpose, on plaintiffs' part, when cash payment was not exacted. The of increasing the plaintiffs' profits and with bond in suit was thereupon agreed to be intent to wrongfully destroy the business of given as security for the payment of the the defendants Monaghan and McGuire. As merchandise to be sold by the plaintiffs to the court below well says, there is in this plea the principals, and which the principals were no allegation as to how long the partnerbound to pay for in four months after the ship was to continue, and no action would date of each respective purchase. This is lie for terminating or inducing the terminaa clear and separate contract between the tion of a partnership at will. Karrick v. plaintiffs and the signers of the bond, and Hannaman, 168 U. S. 328, 333, 42 L. ed. 484, there is nothing in the declaration or bond 488, 18 Sup. Ct. Rep. 135. We do not see which shows the existence of any other how any legal damage to the sureties under agreement than that mentioned therein, or such circumstances can be said to be the that an alteration in the prices of the goods proximate, natural, or probable result of sold to the principals by the plaintiffs could, such action on the part of the plaintiffs. or would, have any effect upon the liability After the dissolution of the partnership of of the sureties. The bond being complete course no sales could thereafter be made, in itself on its face, it cannot be seen that and in relation to sales already made with any future alteration of the prices for the credit according to the terms of the bond, sale of the merchandise, arrived at between it is impossible to see how it could be said the plaintiffs and the principals in the bond, that the ruin of the business of the prinwould be material to or alter the liability of cipals of the bond, and hence the damage to the sureties for the payment of the mer- the sureties, could be regarded as the probchandise sold and delivered at the prices able consequence of the act of the plaintiffs agreed upon, after four months from the in procuring Monaghan to dissolve the partdate of purchase. There is no allegation in nership and enter their employ. Whether these pleas that any separate agreement treated as an offset or recoupment, or simwas in writing, and the bond itself does not ply as an independent cause of action, the show the existence of any other agreement plea does not set up facts sufficient to conor the sale of the property upon any other stitute a valid set-off, recoupment, or cause conditions than those mentioned in the bond of action. itself. Under such circumstances evidence The judgment of the Court of Appeals by parol going to show any other agreement was right and is affirmed. between the principals of the bond and the plaintiffs would not be admissible. Seitz v. Brewers' Refrigerating Mach. Co. 141 U. S. JOHN W. CLARK, Plff. in Err., 510, 35 L. ed. 837, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 46; Domestic Sewing Mach. Co. v. Webster, 47 LOUIS GERSTLEY and William Gerstley, Iowa, 357. In holding these pleas insuffi- Surviving Partners of the Firm Trading cient we think the court below was right. as Rosskam, Gerstley, & Company.
This leaves the fourth (the first additional) and the sixth (the third additional) McGuire v. Gerstley, ante, p. 332.
This case is governed by the decision in pleas. The fourth plea alleges that the merchandise referred to in the bond was to be
[No. 169.] sold at and for certain prices specified in a letter dated August 25, 1903, and sent by | Argued January 17, 18, 1907. Decided
February 25, 1907. plaintiffs to Monaghan and McGuire. What those Prices weren is not stated in the plea; IERBOR to the Court of Appeals of while the representations
the District of Columbia to a to have been made, that the agreement was judgment which affirmed a judgment of the applicable to all merchandise to be pur- I Supreme Court of the District in favor of
27 S. C.-22.
plaintiffs in an action on a bond given to ing a carrier from liability for loss by fire secure sales of merchandis on credit. Af- is valid although the regular freight rates firmed.
were charged and no option was given to the See same case below, 26 App. D. C. 205. shipper to receive any other form of bill of The facts are stated in the opinion.
lading. * Mr. Lorenzo A. Bailey for plaintiff in er
Carriers-delivery to-negligence of agent.
2. A carrier which issues bills of lading ror. Messrs. Eugene A. Jones, Simon Wolf, and to a shipper in return for receipts given by
a compress company for cotton in the lai. Myer Cohen for defendants in error.
ter's custody is liable for loss by fire due to
the negligence of the servants of the comMr. Justice Peckham delivered the opin- press company in caring for the cotton ion of the court:
while awaiting the compression and loading The defendants in error, plaintiffs below, which the railway company had ordered obtained judgment against the plaintiff in done for its own convenience and at its own error for $5,000 and interest in April, 1905, cost, where such company, if it did not rein the supreme court of the District of Co- tender of the cotton, or if it were not a val
gard the presentation of the receipts as a lumbia, which judgment was affirmed by the id tender, could, notwithstanding the rules court of appeals (26 App. D. C. 205), and of the Texas state railroad commission as the plaintiff in error has brought the case well as its own rules, have refused to sign here for review.
the bills of lading. It is the same action as the foregoing case, just decided, but the plaintiff in er
[No. 176.] ror, who was one of the sureties in the bond, separately filed special pleas to the declara- Argued January 24, 1907. Decided Febru.
ary 25, 1907. tion, which were separately demurred to, and the supreme court sustained the demurrer. On appeal to the court of appeals IN ERROR to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Cirthe demurrer was not disposed of at the cuit to review a judgment which affirmed a same time as the demurrers to the other judgment of the Circuit Court for the Westpleas in the case, but was postponed to a ern District of Arkansas, Texarkana Divi. subsequent time,-April 7, 1905. On that
sion, entered on a directed verdict in favor datc the demurrer was sustained and the of defendant in an action to charge a carjudgment previously entered affirmed against rier with liability for a loss by fire. Judg. this plaintiff in error, who then brought the ments of both courts reversed and the cause case here on a separate writ of error. remanded for a new trial. The special pleas filed by the plaintiff in
See same case below, 139 Fed. 127. error were seven in number, the first six being the same as filed by the other plain
Statement by Mr. Justice Peckham: tiffs in error in the case. The seventh set
The plaintiffs in error, who were plainup the failure of the plaintiffs to give notice tiffs below, filed their complaint against the to the sureties that the principals in the railway company in the circuit court of the bond had not paid for the goods at the ex- United States for the western district of piration of the term of credit allowed them, Arkansas, Texarkana division. The case and also that the time had been extended by a rose under the laws of the United States, the plaintiffs in which the principals in the as the defendant was incorporated under an bond might pay for the goods sold to them. act of Congress passed March 3, 1871 [16 No definite term of extension was stated. Stat. at L. 573, chap. 122], which act was What has already been said in regard to amended by one passed May 2, 1872 [17 the other six pleas in the case determines Stat. at L. 59, chap. 132], among other the decision in regard to the same pleas things changing the name of the corporahereinabove set forth. In regard to the tion to that under which it was sued in seventh plea the plaintiff in error says in this case. Upon the trial the court dihis brief in this court that he makes no rected a verdict for the defendant, which point concerning the same.
was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals Judgment affirmed.
(139 Fed. 127), and the plaintiffs have come here by writ of error.
The action was to recover damages against W. A. ARTHUR and John C. Ware, Part- the defendant for loss by fire of 50 bales
ners as W. A. Arthur & Co., Piffs. in of cotton, which were burned at Texarkana, Err.,
Texas, September 19, 1900, and which the TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. the defendant at that place, under a through
plaintiffs allege had been duly delivered to Carriers-limiting liability-loss by fire. bill of lading for transportation to Utica,
1. A clause in a bill of lading exempt. 'New York. In the third clause of the con. *Ed. Note.-For cases in point, see vol. 9, Cent. Dig. Carriers, $ 637.
ditions stated in the bill of lading was a ported to that place as a place of concentraprovision “that neither the Texas & Pacifiction, where it might be classified and subseRailway Company nor any connecting car-quently transported to the East and other rier handling said cotton shall be liable for parts of the country by the railroads. damages to or destruction of said cotton The Union Compress Company was an by fire.” In the fifth clause of the bill of independent corporation, doing business at lading it was provided that "each carrier Texarkana, as a compressor of cotton, which over whose road the cotton is to be carried it compressed for the various railroads havhereunder shall have the privilege, at its | ing tracks at that place. The compress own cost, to compress the same for greater company had a platform on its own land
a convenience in handling and forwarding, and of about 400 x 600 feet, upon which cotton shall not be responsible for deviation or un- was delivered from wagons and from railavoidable delays in procuring such com- road cars, and the receipt of the cotton was pression.'
acknowledged by the compress company. Although the cotton was destroyed by fire, From this platform cotton was loaded on the plaintiffs alleged that they were not con respective cars of the different railroads, cluded by the fire clause, which they al- the tracks of which surrounded the platlege was void “because (1) said bill of lad- form on three of its sides. This platform ing was executed by said plaintiffs under was within the state of Texas. Substanduress; (2) said provision is unreasonable; tially all the cotton received at Texarkana and (3) was without a consideration.” The was received at this platform. The local freight rates charged in the bill were the platform of the defendant company was not regular rates for the shipment of cotton over calculated to receive cotton for shipment all lines of railway between Texarkana and by the company, on account of its small size, Utica, New York, and no option was given to and the defendant's agent testified that he said plaintiffs, as they allege in their com- would not know what to do with cotton plaint, to receive any other form of bill of if offered at this platform, except to send lading than that exempting the defendant it to the platform of the compress company. from liability for loss of the cotton by fire, When cotton was placed on the platform of and plaintiffs allege they did not assent the compress company it did not then comthereto.
press it, but it remained there until further It was also alleged that the place where orders were given, as herein stated. After the cotton was stored after its delivery delivery on the platform, and after the shipto the railway company by the plaintiffs per had procured the written acknowledg. was not a safe place, being on the plat- ment of the receipt of the cotton by the form of the Union Compress Company; compress company, the practice was for the that the platform was not inclosed, and that shipper, when he was ready to have it there was no proper provision made to pre-shipped, to go to the railway company, and, vent the destruction of the cotton by fire, upon the surrender of the receipts of the and that the cotton was at such place ex-compress company to the agent of the railposed to the sparks of passing engines, and way company, the shipper would receive that the employees of the Union Compress from such agent a bill of lading for the Company, which was the agent of the de- cotton, which acknowledged its receipt by fendant, neglected to care for the cotton, the company and the place and person it which caught fire from sparks from a pass-was consigned to, and the shipper had nothing engine and was destroyed, September 19, ing further to do in regard to the cotton. 1900, whereby defendant became liable to He issued no orders for compressing it, and the plaintiffs in the sum of $2,605, the value was not allowed to route it by any particof the cotton. The defendant, by answer, ular route. He would identify the cotton put in issue all the allegations as to negli covered by the bill and give the destination gence by its own servants or by the serv- point of the cotton and the name of the ants or agents of the compress company, consignee, and there his right ended. The and also denied that the plaintiffs had ever railroad company, when it received from the delivered the cotton to the railway com- shipper the compress company's receipt, and pany; and alleged that at the time it was gave its bill of lading to the shipper, took destroyed it was in the possession and con- the receipts of the compress company and trol of the compress company, which was gave them up, and directed the company to not its agent, and over which it had no compress the cotton and obtain insurance control.
upon it covering the responsibility of the Upon the trial evidence was given tending | railroad company, and. load it into cars to to prove the following facts: The plaintiffs, be designated by the railroad company's with offices at Texarkana, were extensive agent. It was a general understanding bebuyers of cotton, which they purchased in tween the railroad company and the comthe surrounding country and had it trans- press company that when the former de. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8492497205734253, "wiki_prob": 0.8492497205734253, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line589350"} |
FIFA World Cup: Argentina coach denies they were poor winners in match against Netherlands
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni and defender Nicolas Tagliafico have denied they were poor winners in their action-packed and incident-laced quarterfinal win over The Netherlands.
Tagliafico has defended his actions and those of his teammates, suggesting such scenes can happen again.
“Those situations happen in the world of football; we are not machines. The emotions were running high.
“It has happened in previous matches. It will likely happen again. This was a World Cup quarterfinal, with two teams fighting it out,” he added.
Argentina face Croatia in the first World Cup semifinal on Tuesday, after overcoming the Netherlands on penalties.
The Copa America champions led 2-0 at Lusail Stadium yet were pegged back to a 2-2 draw by Wout Weghorst’s double.
But Emiliano Martinez’s saves paved the way for Lautaro Martinez to score the winning penalty in the shoot-out and send Argentina through to the last four.
The match was not without controversy. Some of Argentina’s players celebrated wildly in front of the Netherlands squad, while there were tussles on the touchline and Lionel Messi seemed to confront Oranje coach Louis van Gaal.
Scaloni, however, does not believe his team behaved poorly.
“The game was played the way we have to play, both teams did that,” he said at a press conference.
“I’m not convinced of this idea of unsporting behaviour. We play with pride, the way we have to play and then the referee is in charge of decisions. We respect all the teams, the Netherlands, Croatia and all the opponents. That’s one of the main characteristics of our personality.”
“Some games, things can happen, arguments, challenging times. That’s why there’s a referee to ensure there’s justice,” he added.
German Cup: Leipzig beat Hannover 4-0 to storm into semis
Dortmund draw with Sevilla; Maccabi Haifa shock Juventus in UEFA Champions...
FIFA World Cup: Records Messi set up while leading Argentina to...
Promotion will lead to longer and better league, says Indian football... | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.916498064994812, "wiki_prob": 0.916498064994812, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line436667"} |
Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2010
revoked
Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2010: revoked, on the close of 30 September 2019, by regulation 14 of the Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2017 (LI 2017/212).
Print/Download PDF [2.6MB]
Reprint as at 1 October 2019
(SR 2010/81)
Anand Satyanand, Governor-General
At Wellington this 29th day of March 2010
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.
Pursuant to section 27 of the Fair Trading Act 1986, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, and on the recommendation of the Minister of Consumer Affairs given in accordance with section 27(3) of that Act, makes the following regulations.
2 Commencement
Consumer information standards for water efficiency
5 Consumer information standards for water efficiency
Labelling of water-using equipment when supplied or physically displayed
6 Labelling of water-using equipment with star rating of 1 or more stars
7 Labelling of water-using equipment with star rating of zero stars
8 Information on labels must comply with information labelling requirements specified in Schedule 1
9 Additional information requirements for equipment requiring ancillary components to achieve stated star rating or water consumption
10 Showers and tap equipment may display reduced-size label
11 Labelling requirements satisfied by compliance with AS/NZS 6400
Information requirements when offering to supply on Internet
12 Information requirements when offering to supply on Internet
Information labelling requirements
Placement of labels for unpackaged equipment
These regulations are the Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2010.
These regulations come into force on 1 April 2011.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
AS/NZS 2007.1 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2007.1:2005: Performance of household electrical appliances—Dishwashers, Part 1: Methods for measuring performance, energy and water consumption (ISBN 0–7337–7061–4)
AS/NZS 2007.2 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2007.2:2005: Performance of household electrical appliances—Dishwashers, Part 2: Energy efficiency labelling requirements (ISBN 0–7337–7058–4)
AS/NZS 2040.1 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2040.1:2005: Performance of household electrical appliances—Clothes washing machines, Part 1: Methods for measuring performance, energy and water consumption (ISBN 0–7337–7059–2)
AS/NZS 2040.2 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2040.2:2005: Performance of household electrical appliances—Clothes washing machines, Part 2: Energy efficiency labelling requirements (ISBN 0–7337–7060–6)
AS/NZS 3662 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3662:2005: Performance of showers for bathing, as reissued incorporating amendments January 2009 (ISBN 0–7337–6642–0)
AS/NZS 3718 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3718:2005: Water supply—Tap ware, as reissued December 2008 (ISBN 0–7337–6738–9)
AS/NZS 6400 means the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 6400:2005: Water efficient products—Rating and labelling, as reissued incorporating amendments December 2006 (ISBN 0–7337–6717–6)
model means a range of items of the same brand of water-using equipment where each item has the same water efficiency performance characteristics
rated capacity means, in relation to a dishwasher, the number of complete place settings, as defined in clause 1.4.8 of AS/NZS 2007.1, that the manufacturer claims can be cleaned and dried when loaded in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions and with sections 4.3 and 5.2 of AS/NZS 2007.1
rated load capacity means, in relation to a clothes washing machine, the maximum mass of normally soiled cotton (to the nearest 0.5 kg) that the manufacturer claims can be treated by the clothes washing machine in accordance with the requirements of AS/NZS 2040.1
star rating means, in relation to water-using equipment, the number of stars to which that equipment is entitled, ascertained in accordance with the requirements for that equipment set out in Schedule 1
stated wash programme means the wash programme used to determine water efficiency, being,—
in relation to a dishwasher, the programme, including all associated specific settings, nominated by the person commissioning the testing, to wash a normally soiled load at rated capacity in accordance with subclause 2.2.1 of AS/NZ 2007.2 with the exception of compliance with the performance criteria specified in that subclause; and
in relation to a clothes washing machine, the programme, including all associated specific settings, nominated by the person commissioning the testing, to wash a normally soiled cotton load at rated load capacity, in accordance with subclause 2.2.1 of AS/NZ 2040.2 with the exception of compliance with the performance criteria specified in that section
water consumption means, in relation to water-using equipment, the water consumption of that equipment ascertained in accordance with the requirements for that equipment set out in Schedule 1
water-using equipment means the following equipment (within the meaning given to each in AS/NZS 6400):
clothes washing machines:
dishwashers:
lavatory equipment:
tap equipment:
urinal equipment (except for waterless urinals).
On and from 1 April 2011, these regulations apply to water-using equipment that was or is—
manufactured in New Zealand on or after 1 April 2011; or
imported into New Zealand on or after 1 April 2011.
On and from 1 April 2013, these regulations apply to all water-using equipment.
However, these regulations do not apply to water-using equipment that has been used by a person in New Zealand.
In subclause (3), equipment is not used by a person by reason only that the person acquired the equipment for the purpose of resupplying it in trade.
The requirements set out in regulations 6 to 12 and Schedules 1 to 3 are, for the purposes of section 27 of the Fair Trading Act 1986, consumer information standards for the water-using equipment to which these regulations apply.
Water-using equipment that has a star rating of 1 or more stars must, when supplied or physically displayed for supply, have the following displayed in a way that is easily readable and clearly visible and attributable to the equipment:
for all packaged equipment, a label in the form required for that equipment by Part 1 of Schedule 2 displayed on the packaging:
for unpackaged clothes washing machines and dishwashers, a label in the form required for that equipment by Part 1 of Schedule 2 displayed in the manner set out for that equipment in Schedule 3:
for unpackaged lavatory equipment, showers, tap equipment, or urinal equipment, either—
a label in the form required for that equipment by Part 1 of Schedule 2 displayed—
in the manner set out for that equipment in Schedule 3; or
in accordance with section B.2 of Annex B of AS/NZS 6400; or
both of the following phrases:
the phrase “water efficiency” together with the star rating; and
the phrase “water consumption” together with the water consumption:
for showers and tap equipment, the intended water supply pressure (that is, mains pressure or low/unequal pressure).
Water-using equipment that has a star rating of zero stars must, when supplied or physically displayed for supply, have the following displayed in a way that is easily readable and clearly visible and attributable to the equipment:
the phrase “WATER WARNING” in capital letters; and
the phrase “NOT WATER EFFICIENT when tested in accordance with AS/NZS 6400” (with the first 3 words in capital letters).
A label that is required to be displayed on water-using equipment by regulation 6 or 7 must comply with any applicable information labelling requirements specified in Schedule 1.
Lavatory equipment, showers, tap equipment, or urinal equipment that requires an ancillary component or ancillary components to achieve its stated star rating or water consumption must, when supplied, have the following information identified in a way that is attributable to the equipment:
the ancillary component or components; and
any assembly or installation instructions for that component or those components; and
the advice that the components and equipment described in paragraphs (a) and (b) are required for the lavatory equipment, showers, tap equipment, or urinal equipment to achieve its stated star rating or water consumption.
Showers and tap equipment (whether packaged or unpackaged) may display a reduced-size label (see variations of AS/NZS 6400 figures B2 and B10 illustrated in Schedule 2) if the full-size label does not fit on the equipment or its packaging.
Water-using equipment that is labelled in compliance with AS/NZS 6400 is to be treated as complying with the requirements of regulations 6 to 9.
Offers to supply water-using equipment on an Internet site must contain one of the following in a way that is easily readable and clearly visible and attributable to the equipment:
a reproduction of the label referred to in regulation 6 or 7 that would be required to be displayed when the water-using equipment is supplied or physically displayed for supply; or
for water-using equipment that has a star rating of zero stars, both of the following phrases:
the phrase “NOT WATER EFFICIENT when tested in accordance with AS/NZS 6400” (with the first 3 words in capital letters); or
for water-using equipment with a star rating of 1 or more stars, all of the following phrases and information:
the phrase “water consumption” together with the water consumption; and
in the case of a dishwasher, the rated capacity before the phrase “place settings” ; and
in the case of a clothes washing machine, the rated load capacity before the expression “kg” ; and
in the case of a shower or tap equipment, the intended water supply pressure (that is, mains pressure or low/unequal pressure).
Offers to supply dishwashers or clothes washing machines on an Internet site must also display the stated wash programme in a way that is easily readable and clearly visible and attributable to the equipment.
A label referred to in subclause (1)(a) may be scaled up or down on the Internet site, provided it is still easily readable and clearly visible.
Schedule 1 Information labelling requirements
rr 5, 8
Clothes washing machines
Brand name Identify the model’s brand name, for example, the trading name of the model’s manufacturer or other identifier.
Model identifier Identify the model concerned, for example, by a model number or another identifier.
Star rating State the model’s star rating, after calculating it in accordance with subclauses 2.3.3 and 2.3.5 of AS/NZS 6400, except that subclause 2.3.3 is varied as follows:
Omit “4” and substitute “3” .
Add “The water extraction index requirements in clause 3.4 of AS/NZS 2040.2 are optional.”
Water consumption State the model’s water consumption, after calculating it in accordance with subclause 2.3.4 of AS/NZS 6400.
Rated load capacity State the model’s rated load capacity before the expression “kg” .
Stated wash programme
Identify the wash programme used to determine the water efficiency of the clothes washing machine at its rated load capacity.
Add “The drying index requirements in clause 3.5 of AS/NZS 2007.2 are optional.”
Rated capacity State the model’s rated capacity before the expression “place settings” .
Identify the wash programme used to determine the water efficiency of the dishwasher at its rated capacity.
Lavatory equipment
Omit “The water consumption of lavatory equipment shall not exceed 5.5 L, when determined in accordance with subclause 2.4.4” .
Replace “Not applicable” in Item 6, 0 Stars (warning) in Table 3.2 of AS/NZS 6400, with “For single flush cisterns with a discharge flush volume greater than 5.5 L” and “For dual-flush cisterns an average flush volume greater than 5.5 L” .
Water consumption State the model’s water consumption, after calculating it in accordance with subclause 2.4.4 of AS/NZS 6400, in the form of,—
• for single flush cisterns, litres per full flush; and
• for dual-flush cisterns, 3 figures, being litres per full flush, litres per half flush, and average flush.
State the model’s star rating, after calculating it in accordance with subclauses 2.1.3 and 2.1.5 of AS/NZS 6400, except that subclause 2.1.3 is varied as follows:
Omit “registered as” in both places where it appears.
Add “For showers supplied or offered for supply for use where the water supply is of low or unequal pressure, the testing must be carried out using a stabilised dynamic flow pressure of 35 kPa. The results must be interpreted in accordance with AS/NZS 3662, where the average flow rate at that pressure is to be treated as the nominal flow rate.”
Water consumption State the model’s water consumption, after calculating it in accordance with subclause 2.1.4 of AS/NZS 6400, except that subclause 2.1.4 is varied as follows:
Add “For showers supplied or offered for supply for use where the water supply is of low or unequal pressure, the water consumption is taken to be the average flow rate (determined in accordance with AS/NZS 3662) at a stabilised dynamic flow pressure of 35 kPa.”
Tap equipment
Add “For tap equipment supplied or offered for supply for use where the water supply is of low or unequal pressure, the testing must be carried out using a stabilised dynamic flow pressure of 35 kPa. The results must be interpreted in accordance with AS/NZS 3718, where the average flow rate at that pressure is to be treated as the nominal flow rate.”
Add “For tap equipment supplied or offered for supply for use where the water supply is of low or unequal pressure, the water consumption is taken to be the average flow rate (determined in accordance with AS/NZS 3718) at a stabilised dynamic flow pressure of 35kPa.”
Urinal equipment
Star rating State the model’s star rating, after calculating it in accordance with subclauses 2.5.3 and 2.5.5 of AS/NZS 6400.
Schedule 2 Labels
rr 5, 6, 7
Part 1 Labels for water-using equipment with star rating of 1 or more stars
Clothes washing machine labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.4 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400 and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B5 or B6 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
the following rules apply:
the number of shaded stars or half stars must be equivalent to the model’s star rating; and
the portion of the background arch directly behind the shaded star or stars must be shaded light blue (Pantone 5513) or monochrome if permitted by clause B.4; and
the background to the section above the bottom dark blue section must be shaded light blue (Pantone 5513); and
the dimensions and font sizes within the light blue section, but not the height of the light blue section itself, may be adjusted to the extent reasonably necessary to accommodate the variations illustrated below:
figure B5 is varied as illustrated:
Dishwasher labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.3 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B3 or B4 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
Lavatory equipment labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.5 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B7 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
Shower labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.2 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B1 or B2 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
figure B1 is varied as illustrated for equipment intended for use in mains pressure systems:
figure B1 is varied as illustrated for equipment intended for use in low or unequal pressure systems:
Tap equipment labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.7 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B9 or B10 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
subclause B.3.7 is varied by omitting all references to flow controllers:
figure B10 is varied as illustrated for equipment intended for use in mains pressure systems:
figure B10 is varied as illustrated for equipment intended for use in low or unequal pressure systems:
Urinal equipment labels must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.6 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B8 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
Part 2 Labels for water-using equipment with star rating of zero stars
Labels for water-using equipment with a star rating of zero stars must comply with subclauses B.3.1 and B.3.8 and clause B.4 of AS/NZS 6400, and be in the format and dimensions indicated in figure B11 or B12 of AS/NZS 6400, except that—
the dimensions and font sizes within the light blue section, but not the height of the light blue section itself, may be adjusted to the extent reasonably necessary to accommodate the variations illustrated below; and
figures B11 and B12 are varied by replacing “Does not comply with AS/NZS 6400” with “not water efficient” and by replacing “a joint government and industry program” with “the more stars the more water efficient” :
figure B11 is also varied as illustrated:
Schedule 3 Placement of labels for unpackaged equipment
1 Clothes washing machines
The label must be—
affixed to the clothes washing machine; or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the clothes washing machine.
2 Dishwashers
affixed to the dishwasher; or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the dishwasher.
3 Lavatory equipment
affixed to the lavatory equipment; or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the lavatory equipment; or
placed adjacent to the lavatory equipment on any display for the equipment.
4 Showers
affixed to the shower; or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the shower; or
placed adjacent to the shower on any display for the shower.
5 Tap equipment
affixed to the tap equipment; or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the tap equipment; or
placed adjacent to the tap equipment on any display for the tap equipment.
6 Urinal equipment
affixed to the urinal equipment (which may include placement on its flushing mechanism); or
on both sides of a swing tag affixed to the urinal equipment; or
placed adjacent to the urinal equipment on any display for the equipment.
Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 1 April 2011, prescribe consumer information standards for clothes washing machines, dishwashers, lavatory equipment, showers, tap equipment, and urinal equipment (the equipment).
The regulations apply, on and from 1 April 2011, to unused equipment manufactured in or imported into New Zealand on or after that date.
On and from 1 April 2013, these regulations will apply to all unused equipment.
The regulations require the labelling of equipment when it is supplied or physically displayed. The labelling requirements depend on whether the equipment is packaged or unpackaged, and there is a text alternative for a label for unpackaged lavatory equipment, showers, tap equipment, and urinal equipment. Any ancillary component necessary to achieve the water efficiency of the equipment must be identified, along with assembly or installation instructions, when the equipment is supplied.
The regulations also require that offers to supply equipment on an Internet site must contain certain information about water efficiency.
Date of notification in Gazette: 1 April 2010.
This is a reprint of the Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2010 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.
Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations 2017 (LI 2017/212): regulation 14 | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5071718692779541, "wiki_prob": 0.5071718692779541, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1099606"} |
Chrome 71 will guard you against those dodgy premium text scams
By Chris Smith November 8, 2018 7:28 pm GMT
Google’s forthcoming Chrome 71 update will dish out warnings to web users when it appears they may be fooled into signing up for dodgy text subscription services.
The company will warn users “the page ahead may try to charge you money” when sites request phone numbers from visitors, prior to them being able to access content. In these instances, Google will tell users “these charges could be one-time or recurring and may not be obvious. If you don’t want this, go back.”
The new feature could prevent users being tricked into agreeing to receive premium text services that ding user’s mobile accounts every time a message comes their way. The firm says (via Engadget) millions of people are tricked into signing up for these servers, and many aren’t even aware of it.
Related: Best smartphones 2018
Websites will have an opportunity to avoid warnings being served to their visitors by complying with Google’s new protocol. The company is asking purveyors of mobile sites to clearly display whether/how much users will be charged if they enter their mobile number.
If the pages are clear in this manner, Google will not display the warning. Webmasters will also be given notice by Google before the warnings come into play, allowing them to clean up their act. Otherwise, they’ll be treated as a malicious site by Google, from Chrome 71 onwards, which is expected to roll out in December.
The new version of the browser will also broaden Google’s crackdown on deceptive ads. Google says it is fighting back against naughty ads that redirect users to new tabs and windows, when they attempt to close them. Ads that show fake play buttons, system messages or phish for personal information are on the hit list.
The company says its current measures aren’t doing the job, and it hopes the threat of a blanket ban on all ads for sites that regularly show this kind of content will discourage offenders. Websites will have a 30-day grace period to get rid of the abusive advertisements, but a failure to comply will see all ads disabled, potentially cutting off the revenue supply for websites in question.
Have you fallen for one of the premium text scams? Drop us a line @TrustedReviews on Twitter. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5849218368530273, "wiki_prob": 0.5849218368530273, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1488770"} |
PM Netanyahu to attend ceremony marking Adani Group's entry into Israel through Haifa port acquisition
Gautam Adani, the Founder and Chairman of the Adani Group, will also attend the ceremony at Haifa Port Temporary Cruise Terminal in this northern coastal city of Israel on Tuesday.
Minister: Cyprus exceeds renewable energy source targets
Natasa Pilides told reporters that renewable sources produced almost 15.2per cent of Cyprus' electricity last year, nearly 4per cent more than in 2019. Contributing to that figure was an nearly 3per cent increase in electricity generated from solar panels from 2020, reaching 9.2per cent last year.
Israel's Econergy secures 250 mln eur financing for renewable projects
RGREEN INVEST will provide 87.5 million euros in corporate financing to Econergy International Limited, the British subsidiary of the Israeli-listed company, to strengthen the company's pipeline development and growth plans in Britain.
Israel launches plan for generating solar electricity in agricultural lands
The plan, at a cost of 17 million shekels (about $5 million), includes more than 130 pilot programmes, which will be spread over a total area of about 2 square km, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a joint statement from the country's energy and agriculture ministries.
Israel signs deal to secure economic rights to gas field on maritime border with Lebanon
Israel said that it has signed an agreement with the two energy companies licensed by Lebanon to drill in a gas field on the maritime border between the two countries to secure its economic rights to the field.
Total to launch sea exploration after Lebanon-Israel deal
The border deal envisages that the disputed waters would be divided along a line straddling the "Qana" natural gas field in the Mediterranean. Total said gas production would be based on the Lebanese side, in the so-called Block 9, but Israel would be compensated for gas extracted from its side of the line, under a separately signed deal between Total and Israel.
Israel, Jordan move forward with water-for-energy deal
The idea, first announced a year ago, is for Jordan to build 600 megawatts of solar generating capacity that would be exported to Israel. In return, Israel would provide water-scarce Jordan with 200 million cubic metres of desalinated water.
Israeli PM visits gas rig after landmark maritime deal with Lebanon
Standing at the Karish rig, where gas production started on October 26, Lapid said on Sunday the natural gas field "is the energy and economic future" of Israel, reports Xinhua news agency.
Israel, Lebanon to sign maritime border deal that unlocks gas riches
The US-brokered deal, hailed by President Joe Biden as a "historic breakthrough", comes as Western powers clamour to open up new gas production and reduce vulnerability to supply cuts from Russia.
Energean starts gas production at Israel's Karish site
Energean said gas is being produced from the Karish Main-02 well and the flow of gas is being steadily increased. The Karish Main-01 and Karish Main-03 wells are expected to be opened up in approximately two and four weeks, respectively, it added.
Egypt oil min says framework agreement in place on Gaza Marine field
Egypt's state-owned gas company EGAS is aiming to take over development of the field, Egyptian and Palestinian officials told Reuters earlier this month. If concluded, the agreement would be a boost for the cash-strapped Palestinian economy.
Egypt is set to take part in developing Gaza's offshore gas field: officials
The project was last in the hands of oil major Shell , which gave up its stake in 2018. The Palestinians have been looking for a new foreign group to take over. Palestinian companies would keep at least 55per cent of the shares, according to a cabinet decision at the time.
Lebanon asks TotalEnergies to launch gas search 'immediately'
Lebanon's search for gas riches in the hydrocarbon-rich eastern Mediterranean had stalled since 2020 over competing claims with Israel over offshore gas fields.
Energy firm starts tests at sensitive Israel-Lebanon border gas field
Beirut has reportedly made claims to parts of Karish, and the Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, which holds huge influence in Lebanon, has previously threatened attacks if Israel began production from the field.
Israel upbeat on draft Lebanese demarcation deal, sees gas profit-sharing
After years of stop-start shuttle diplomacy, agreement seems closer than ever. As Beirut mulls the 10-page draft - details of which have been kept under wraps - the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement called it "a very important step" on Saturday while Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a powerful Hezbollah ally, deemed it "positive".
Capricorn to merge with NewMed in Israel-Egypt gas tie-up, ditching Tullow
The Capricorn-NewMed deal would create an Israel-Egypt focused gas producer including NewMed's stake in Israel's giant Leviathan offshore field at a time when Europe is looking for non-Russian energy supplies.
Israeli PM vows to begin production in contested gas field
Yair Lapid's announcement in a statement from his office came at a sensitive time in long-running efforts by a US mediator to resolve a dispute over the countries' maritime border. US officials have said they are making progress, but need more time to reach a solution.
Sensitive offshore gas field key to Israel's energy strategy
Israel and Lebanon, still technically at war, have engaged in on-off US mediated talks since 2020 to delineate their Mediterranean border, which could allow both countries to boost offshore natural gas exploration.
Cyprus, Israel vow speedy end to gas row
Israeli Energy Minister Karine Elharrar held talks in Nicosia with her Cypriot counterpart, Natasa Pilides, to end a decade-long row over exploiting the reservoir in the eastern Mediterranean.
Israel launches plan to accelerate renewable energy deployment
The plan aims to set up renewable energy facilities in all new, non-residential constructions in Israel, and to remove barriers to expanding the electricity grid to carry more electricity generated by renewable energy, Xinhua news agency cited the statement as saying. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9201791882514954, "wiki_prob": 0.9201791882514954, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1544800"} |
Clear 13°. Wind Chill: 9°. Wind: SW 0 mph.
Wind Chill: 9°
HomeABC National‘Blizzard of the century’: Death toll rises as Buffalo digs out
‘Blizzard of the century’: Death toll rises as Buffalo digs out
Thu, December 29, 2022 by ABC News
JamesBrey/Getty Images/STOCK
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — At least 60 people have died nationwide from the wintry weather that wreaked havoc across the U.S. over Christmas weekend.
The most deaths are in western New York, where 38 people have died in the wake of a massive lake-effect snowstorm, local officials announced Wednesday.
Hochul called the storm “the blizzard of the century” in western New York during a news conference Monday and said the White House has promised to quickly approve an emergency disaster declaration. President Joe Biden said he spoke to Hochul on Monday afternoon. He approved a federal emergency declaration in New York Monday evening.
Thirty-seven of New York’s deaths are in Erie County, which includes the city of Buffalo, Mark Poloncarz, the executive of Erie County, said Wednesday. One storm-related death was reported in neighboring Niagara County, officials said.
Poloncarz said two new storm-related deaths were confirmed overnight by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office.
He said 29 of the deaths in Erie County occurred in the city of Buffalo. Poloncarz said three people who died, two men and a woman, remained unidentified Wednesday morning.
Among the storm-related causes of death confirmed by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office were three people who suffered heart attacks while shoveling or blowing snow, 14 people who were found outside and three who died due to an EMS delay.
Poloncarz said National Guard troopers and an emergency medical services task force are going door to door Wednesday conducting wellness checks at locations they could not be reached during the storm.
Among those who perished in the storm in Buffalo was William Clay, who died on his 56th birthday, his sister, Sophia Clay, told ABC News. Sophia Clay said her brother was on his way to a store on Friday when the weather worsened. His body was found frozen on a street, authorities said.
William Clay, according to his sister, was the father of one son, a grandfather of two, and one of seven siblings. She said he read the Bible daily and could quote scripture by heart.
“He’s one of those people that it was in his heart. He spoke it; he lived it. He was a great brother, he was a great grandfather, he was a great friend,” Sophia Clay said.
A driving state of emergency remains in effect in Erie County and Poloncarz said police will start issuing summons to people driving around — “joyriding” — in violation of the driving ban.
Some bus service has been restored in the Buffalo, said Mayor Bryron Brown. Poloncarz said about 65% of all city streets have at least one lane of traffic open and crews are working to get lane open on all state and county roads by the end of Wednesday.
Poloncarz said he’s been talking to state officials about taking over future snow response operations in Buffalo because the city has time and again dropped the ball.
“The mayor’s not going to be happy to hear about it, but storm after storm after storm after storm the city unfortunately is the last one to be open. And that shouldn’t be the case,” Poloncarz said. “It’s embarrassing to tell the truth.”
A driving ban remained in effect for the city of Buffalo, but Poloncarz said people were not heeding the ban and getting stuck, causing delays for emergency vehicles, snowplows and other large pieces of equipment trying to clear the streets of mountains of snow and abandoned vehicles.
He said 100 National Guard police officers and additional New York State troopers are in Buffalo to prevent unauthorized vehicles from entering the city.
“People just are not obeying the driving ban,” said Poloncarz, justifying the use of military police to enforce the ban.
Buffalo received more than 50 inches of snow over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Reports of looting
Poloncarz also said that police are investigating scattered reports of looting in Buffalo.
“I’m heartbroken about the deaths, just absolutely devastated to see as many deaths. And then to find out that there’s looting going on in our community at the same time we’re still recovering bodies is just horrible,” Poloncarz said.
Daniel Neaverth Jr., the Erie County commissioner of Emergency Services, said more than a dozen gas stations in the county have been reported inoperable “because the convenience side of them has been looted and the equipment inside has been rendered ineffective and thus the pumps for the fueling are ineffective.”
Neaverth said the looting was hampering emergency vehicles from fueling up.
“So if you don’t think there’s a trickle down from going looting and grabbing individual little things, this is a drastic implication for us that we now have to deal with to find alternate fuel sources,” Neaverth said.
Brown said police responded to several looting in the city of Buffalo and have made some arrests. The mayor said it was “reprehensible” that people are taking advantage of a natural disaster, calling the looters “the lowest of the low.”
At one point, 23,000 households lost power, said Jackie Bray, the state commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. National Grid, the local utility company, said Wednesday that about 840 customers remain without power.
‘Winter wonderland tour’ bus rescue
Polocarz added that hundreds of cars were left abandoned on roadways across the county, including tractor-trailer rigs and buses.
“There are cars everywhere pointing the wrong direction on roads. They’ve basically been plowed in and need to be dug out and towed,” Poloncarz said.
Among the hundreds who had to be rescued was a group of tourists from around the world on a “winter wonderland bus tour,” Poloncarz said. He said the bus got stuck in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna and that rescue crews had to evacuate passengers and take them to a nearby shelter.
“These tourists are getting more than they bargained for with regards to their ‘winter wonderland tour’ as they’ve gone through one of the worst storms in U.S. history,” Poloncarz said.
The “colossal” snowstorm brought winds of nearly 80 mph to Buffalo, the governor said.
“This will go down in history as the most devastating storm” in Buffalo, Hochul said during a Christmas morning news conference.
Poloncarz said Monday that the death toll has now outpaced the Blizzard of 1977.
This storm marked the first time in history that the Buffalo Fire Department couldn’t respond to any calls, officials said. National Guardsmen have been called in.
Hundreds of people have been rescued from cars, Hochul said, adding, “We still have people who need to be rescued.”
Buffalo’s airport is expected to reopen on Wednesday. Pittsburgh’s airport sent plows to help dig out the runways.
The National Hockey League canceled the Tuesday game between the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets due to the weather and the Sabres not being able to travel from Buffalo in time for the game.
Weather fatalities across the nation
Weather-related fatalities were also reported in Ohio, Vermont, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky, according to The Associated Press.
The storm comes as brutally cold air slammed the country on Christmas morning.
The temperature plunged to minus 9 degrees in Minneapolis, 2 degrees in Chicago, 3 degrees in Denver, 15 degrees in New York, 16 degrees in Atlanta and 21 degrees in Dallas.
More than 6.3 million customers across the United States were without power at some point over the holiday weekend, officials said.
More than 165,000 customers woke up without power on Christmas morning across Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Virginia and Florida. The majority of those customers had power restored by Monday, though 15,800 customers in Maine and 13,900 in New York — the vast majority in Erie County — remained without power Monday afternoon.
Airlines continue to cancel thousands of flights in what is becoming a Christmas nightmare for so many. More than 18,200 flights have been canceled since Wednesday, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website. More than 3,000 flights were canceled into, out of or within the United States on Christmas Eve, and more than 2,000 flights were canceled on Christmas Day.
Another 3,500 flights were canceled in the United States Monday, as of 3:30 p.m. Southwest Airlines is having significant systemwide issues and has canceled 2,600, or about 65%, of scheduled flights.
Mother of Karon Blake speaks out about her son’s death
Judge poised to render verdict against former officer charged in George Floyd’s death
Man accused of torturing woman in Oregon dead following weeklong manhunt: Police
Man dies after brawl breaks out at Vermont middle school basketball game: Police
DC subway employee fatally shot as gunman opens fire in multiple locations
New York City snow drought finally broken with half-inch of snow | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9808771014213562, "wiki_prob": 0.9808771014213562, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line155217"} |
Catalog Number: PWR 2BRC
Instructor: Rebecca Richardson
Prerequisite: None
Whenever a remake comes out or a book gets made into a movie, critics and audiences are quick to say “the original was better.” And yet, Hollywood and television studios -- and their audiences --love a reboot, a remake, a franchise, or an adaptation. From NBC’s Will & Grace to the new Mary Poppins movie, familiarity and nostalgia sell. Many movies and series are also adapted across cultures and languages, like the Danish Forbrydelsen, which became The Killing for American audiences, or the British Office, which got its own successful American makeover.
In this class we’ll question what’s at stake in such cultural recyclings. Why do audiences respond to familiarity? What can adaptations and remakes tell us about their cultural and political moments? To answer such questions, we’ll draw on work in adaptation, film, and music studies, and on theories of remixing, remediating, and translating. We’ll consider the biological analogies of “remixing,” and the legal boundary between “fair use” and infringing on copyright. Finally, we’ll consider how these debates and theories tap into longstanding associations between creativity and originality, as well as imitation and popular culture. Students will choose their own angles within this theme for their research project. For example, projects could center on the reception of a popular book turned film or television series, from Pride and Prejudice to Game of Thrones. Along the way, we’ll practice what we study as we adapt our research projects across essays and presentations. Students will also produce a third adaptation of their research in a form of their choice, whether an infographic, an op-ed, a piece of art, or even a poem.
(5 minute live oral presentation; written text of 600-1200 words): In this assignment, students write a proposal for a research project related to the theme of adaptation, framing the research question and situating it in their preliminary research. Projects could investigate how recent adaptations of Frankenstein have given voice to fears about bioethics in the age of stem cell research and CRISPR; how mashup artists like Girl Talk whose first album The New York Times called “a lawsuit waiting to happen”have shaped debates about originality and copyright; or how recent Marvel comics have reimagined the source materials in ways that respond to concerns about representation in Hollywood.
(3000-3600 words; 10-12 pages) Students will craft a well-researched argument that investigates how the rhetoric of adaptation works in their particular case studies and fields of inquiry.
(10 minute live oral presentation with appropriate multimedia support) With this assignment, students will translate their research-based argument into a live oral presentation with media support. Students will think critically about how to employ the rhetoric of adaptation in their own presentations of their research, and about how their strategies will differ across the written and oral versions of their research arguments.
(Creative adaptation + ~500 word reflection) This assignment will ask students to engage more creatively with our class theme by reimagining/rebooting their RBA into a genre of their choice—a comic, an infographic, a poem, etc. Students will write a brief reflection that provides an explanation of their rhetorical choices, which will be the basis for their grade for this assignment. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5034460425376892, "wiki_prob": 0.4965539574623108, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1265095"} |
Home › Not My Girl - Ages 6+
Not My Girl - Ages 6+
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected.
Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can’t be her daughter. “Not my girl!” she says angrily.
Margaret’s years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can’t even stomach her mother’s food. Her only comfort is in the books she learned to read at school.
Gradually, Margaret relearns the words and ways of her people. With time, she earns her father’s trust enough to be given a dogsled of her own. As her family watches with pride, Margaret knows she has found her place once more.
Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight. A poignant story of a determined young girl’s struggle to belong, it will both move and inspire readers everywhere.
Short-listed, da Vinci Eye Award 2015
Commended, Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention 2015
Joint winner, USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List 2015
Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Award 2015
Commended, Skipping Stones Honor Award 2015
Short-listed, Information Book Award, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada 2015
Joint winner, Storytelling World Award 2015
Joint winner, Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection, Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2015
Christy Jordan-Fenton lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Margaret Pokiak-Fenton is her children’s grandmother. Jordan-Fenton practices traditional ceremonies with the Kainai Blackfoot.
Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton is an Inuvialuk elder and artisan who spent her early years on Banks Island in the high Arctic. She now lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia.
Gabrielle Grimard has illustrated over 30 picture books, including When I Was Eight and Not My Girl for Annick Press. She is the author and illustrator of Lila and the Crow. She lives in Quebec, Canada.
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fento
Illustrator: Gabrielle Grimard
Product dimensions: 36 pages, 9 X 8.96 X 0.1 in
Publisher: Annick Press
Recommended for ages 6-9. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.689084529876709, "wiki_prob": 0.310915470123291, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1833762"} |
Features Business & Marketing
North American suppliers pursue Middle East market
In the Middle East, as populations and infrastructure grow, public and private stakeholders are looking for new ways to protect people and property. With solutions ranging from large-scale homeland security strategies to risk-specific equipment and products, leading suppliers from the United States and Canada will compete for defense and security business at Milipol Qatar in Doha, October 31 through November 2.
October 26, 2016 By SP&T Staff
“In an increasingly dangerous world, security is a growth market, and competition lurks around every corner,” says Tom Kallman, president and CEO of Kallman Worldwide. “From surveillance and weapons to equipment and training, our North American exhibitors are bringing exceptional innovation, ideas and experience to Milipol Qatar.”
Kallman Worldwide is organizing the North American Pavilion at Milipol Qatar, in coordination with numerous government agencies, including the U.S. departments of Commerce, Defense and State and their Canadian counterparts.
Canadian manufacturer Newcon Optik has its sights set on new business at the Milipol show. The company is exhibiting a number of innovative gunsights and accessories including the Seeker Series of mountable laser rangefinders.
The Seeker rangefinders are versatile, lightweight and MIL-SPEC modules capable of being boresighted to practically any optical system, including spotting scopes, binoculars, and thermal imagers, as well as mounted onto rifles and integrated into complex fire control systems.
Newcon Optik also offers NVS 27M, an exceptionally lightweight and versatile Gen 3 night vision clip-on that is rugged, compact and durable.
Another exhibitor at the North American Pavilion, Passport Systems, develops advanced active and passive solutions to rapidly and automatically detect, localize and identify concealed threats and contraband. These are suitable for a broad range of applications, including pedestrian-, vehicle-, and fixed-facility-based approaches. The company was recently presented with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) Security Innovation Award.
Pavilion exhibitors, ranging from publicly-traded stalwarts such as General Dynamics Land Systems Canada and Raytheon to privately held small-and-medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 250 employees, are looking to initiate or strengthen international partnerships that will generate new business and create more jobs back home.
Axis building through acquisition, innovation
Integrator of the Year Gala 2016 | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5181559324264526, "wiki_prob": 0.48184406757354736, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line71920"} |
Home/harassment
NoisyFebruary 15, 2021
Quickies: Science Twitter doing its thing…
Are you ready for some drama? University of New Hampshire professor who posed as a woman of color on Twitter so he could harass actual women on color has finally resigned. NPR might not be willing to name him, but the good old Science Drama Queen Twitter account figured out who it was long ago. Speaking of science drama… it’s…
NoisyOctober 4, 2019
Quickies: A controversial moment, a vicious proposal, a ridiculous claim, and a potty mouth
Welcome to your Friday Quickies! Brandt Jean’s Act Of Grace Toward His Brother’s Killer Sparks A Debate Over Forgiving – NPR does a pretty good job of capturing a wide array of voices, specifically black voices, commenting on this controversial moment. You all heard how the Trump administration actually considered a gorram alligator-filled moat for a border wall, right? The…
NoisyJune 10, 2019
Confessions of a Former Asshole Physicist
As a physics professor, it’s my main job to teach my students to think about forces and fields, solve engineering problems, and understand what an image of a black hole can tell us about the nature of spacetime. As a professor at a liberal arts college, I also think it’s important to talk about science as a uniquely human endeavor…
Jamie BernsteinDecember 13, 2016
How to Guide for Criticizing Conservative Women Without Being a Sexist Asshole
Two years ago I wrote a piece arguing that threatening women with rape or violence and using gendered slurs to smear them was not ok to do even when the woman in question is an awful person. Although this seems obvious to many of us, it has become the most controversial thing I have ever written, with detractors trying to…
Courtney CaldwellMarch 7, 2016
Peeple: Harassment is Destiny?
The controversial “Yelp for People” app, Peeple, has launched today for iOS users (their site touts a nauseatingly sanguine “Character is Destiny” tagline). For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, here is the app in the creator’s words: “Peeple is a positivity app for positive people that allows you to leave or receive recommendations in the following 3 Categories: Professional, Personal, and Dating.”…
Jamie BernsteinDecember 9, 2014
Fun Fact! Even Awful Women Don’t Deserve Rape Threats
TW for sexist slurs and threats of gender violence. Recently, the online discussion over the harassment of women has become a hot topic. We’ve dealt with our share of harassment here at Skepchick and we’ve stood up for others who we have seen being harassed . Sarah wrote a great piece last week about how so much of the so called “criticism” directed…
Amy RothDecember 1, 2014
Online Harassers Prove My Point Yet Again
This post and the video within contains NSFW language and discussion of online harassment and rape and death threats. Because of course it does! Can you even believe it? I know, I know, we should be skeptical of outrageous claims but it’s TOTALLY true. We STILL GET VICIOUS HATE MAIL ABOUT COFFEE AND ELEVATORS. STILL. TODAY. Yup. I brought up…
Amy RothJune 3, 2014
Ask Surly Amy: How To Help Fight Sexism On The Internet
It’s been a while and things have been wild but I’m bringing back my Ask Surly Amy series because I have opinions and advice and I can not contain these feelings any longer. Besides, we get a shit-ton of emails sent in that ask us all kinds of random stuff and Rebecca just files them in the virtual round filing… | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6955332159996033, "wiki_prob": 0.30446678400039673, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line451983"} |
Supporting the ‘Warm this winter’ campaign
We’re backing the national ‘Warm This Winter’ campaign, calling on the government to provide emergency support, help to upgrade homes and access to cheap energy to lessen reliance on gas and oil.
Brighton & Hove commended for climate action
Local action to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergencies has been recognised by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), with Brighton & Hove City Council achieving a CDP score of A- for 2022.
London Marathon Events takes over the Brighton Marathon
Brighton Marathon will go ahead on Sunday 2 April 2023. All places purchased by runners and charities for 2023 will be honoured by London Marathon Events.
New soft play facility proposed for Withdean Sports Complex
An exciting new soft play facility could be coming to Withdean Sports Complex next year.
Exciting new era for BTN BikeShare as Beryl announced as new provider
We have agreed a contract with the UK’s leading micromobility provider, Beryl, to deliver the city’s new e-bike share scheme.
New films to help with social worker recruitment drive
Some of our current social workers explain how and why they began their careers supporting children and families, and the importance of their work.
Court upholds decision to revoke taxi driver’s licences
A court has upheld a decision by the council to remove the licenses from a taxi driver in the interests of safeguarding the public.
Enjoy a low waste Christmas!
Tips on reducing waste, changes to collection days and recycling this Christmas, including Christmas tree recycling sites.
Update on 'Strep A' infection
Joint statement from the UK Health Security Agency and the council on a suspected invasive Group A streptococcal infection.
Results of the Wish ward by-election
Bella Sankey has been elected as councillor for the Wish ward following a by-election on Thursday 8 December 2022. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9152213335037231, "wiki_prob": 0.9152213335037231, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1014953"} |
Restoration planned for Kingston Boy Scout Hall
By Ken Park • November 15, 2019 8:30 am
Tags: Kingston
Inside Smiley Scout Hall in Kingston 1961 (photo courtesy of Troop 555)
The Robert P. Smiley Boy Scout Hall in Kingston is set to receive a facelift this spring after years of fundraising efforts. Additionally, the Kingston Historical Society has applied to have the hall designated as a historical site.
The original boy scout troop in Kingston, Toop 528, was charted in 1936 but moved to Ollala in 1946. When Kingston Post 7329 VFW arrived in 1948, Major. Albert H. Swift sponsored a new troop, christening it Troop 555 otherwise known as “The Triple Nickel.”
The program struggled to generate participation until 1951, when former Eagle Scout, Robert P. Smiley was able to revive it by holding the first meeting in the basement of a nearby service station. Until the hall was completed in 1961, the meetings were held at the homes of various scoutmasters.
Smiley met with Kitsap County Commissioner Ed Swan at the site on the northwest corner of Kola Kole Park, to authorize the building of the hall at that site. According to information presented to the state, the agreement was sealed with only a handshake that was witnessed by Smiley’s son, Robert J. Smiley and no legal documents were signed.
Construction on the hall began in 1959, with eleven volunteers plus the scouts themselves. Wood and logs were donated by the Port Gamble Mill while Art and Darrell Steele along with Bill and Sonny Woodward poured the concrete slab on which it sits. Art Steele solicited businesses for materials while Smiley collected $900 to go towards construction by collecting newspapers.
Over the decades the biggest issue for the scout hall has been participation in the scouting program.
In fact, in 1986 the fire department threatened to tear down the hall because it appeared to be abandoned due to lack of scouts. Smiley again rallied the community and within 30 days and again with help from an Eagle Scout a former Scoutmaster, Allen Chessman, they were able to clean the building up and shutter the broken windows. Monthly pancake breakfasts were held in the VFW Hall to raise funds and recruit more scouts.
In 1993 county commissioner Chris Endresen reassured Troop 555 that they had use of the scout hall as long as there was an active troop in Kingston.
From 1961 to 2018 Troop 555 has produced 42 Eagle Scouts who have projects all over North Kitsap.
The first time the scout hall ever received any kind of restoration was in 1996. The hall was given a new roof, new interior, and a new paint job. A plaque was dedicated to the builders of the original hall. The hall was dedicated to Smiley on the 50th anniversary of the revival of the troop in 2001.
After his passing in 1993, a foundation was created in Smiley’s name, The Smiley Charitable Fund, which donated $14,000 in 2019 challenging the Kingston North Kitsap Rotary Club to match the donations for a second restoration of the Scout Hall. The club became sponsors of the scouts in August 2019.
“[The Scout Hall ] has served for nearly 60 years as a haven for young men in Kingston, and its surrounding communities … to develop as citizens, to embark on adventures in wilderness areas around the region and to realize improvement projects with positive and lasting effects on Kitsap County,” Duane Drummond, committee chairman of Troop 1555 said.
In this second round of restoration, the hall will be home to Troop 1555 and Pack 4555 who refer to themselves as “ The Grand Old Nickel.”
The exterior of Smiley Scout Hall 1961 (photo courtesy of Troop 555)
Current Smiley Scout Hall (photo courtesy of Troop 1555)
Old Stone Chimney ( courtesy of Troop 1555)
Troop 555 insignia circa 1993 (photo courtesy of Troop 555)
State meet preview: Swimmers to watch and schedule of events
2A state playoffs preview: No. 9 North Kitsap at No. 8 Archbishop Murphy
More Stories From This Author
Poulsbo utility payment plan set...
By Ken Park
Hope replaces hard topic in...
Poulsbrew now canceled
M’s honor 2 from Poulsbo | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7056930065155029, "wiki_prob": 0.7056930065155029, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1382064"} |
English to Spanish Translator – Google Translator | How to Translate English to Spanish
Have you ever wondered if there is an English to Spanish Translator? People have issues with languages a lot, I have seen someone who has this issue and he did not know what to do at that moment. The article says English to Spanish Translator, if I may ask how can you can translate English to Spanish is it possible. Yes, it is, with the help of google chrome translate and the google mobile translate app. Translating is also known as changing from one language to another language just as we have here.
As e have read so far, still on the topic English to Spanish translator. And I ask a question if it is possible to translate or change a language from one form to another which is to another language. And I said yes it is very much possible with the help of the translator app and the chrome translator. In other to understand what this article is all about we really need to know more about it by going into full details about google translator.
CHECKOUT >>> What you Need to Learn and Speak Fluent Japanese on Duolingo
Google translator is a device for multilingual statistical and neural translation. It was brought to broad by the Google platform to help people translate text and websites from one language to another. Mostly from those languages that we do not understand or speak. You can use this translator service on your PC chrome browser and also on your smartphone as an app. Beginning the explanation from the chrome users.
Google Chrome Translator
Pc chrome users are not left out, they are also counted lucky among users that can access the translator service. There are times whereby you are browsing through your PC Chrome browser. Then you step into a site and you notice that the site was not of English or of the language you do speak or understand, that is why this device is also extended to web users. With the help of the translator, you are free to change or translate any language to another.
What we are discussing here is how you can translate English to Spanish language. I think this article is meant for those people who live in span, but you can also rephrase the article turning it to your understanding of how you can translate Spanish to English. Now let talk about how you can get or install the translator into your chrome PC browser.
Installing Google Chrome Translator
To install the translator to your chrome browser this what you should do.
Open your chrome browser and search for “Google chrome translate extension”.
Click on the first lint and it will take you to a page telling you to “Add to chrome”.
Click on it and wait for the extension to download and after downloading it, the translate extension will be available in your chrome browser. Whenever you come across a site that is not of Spanish. It will automatically translate itself but first, you have to set it to the language you want to translate to by changing it to Spanish or the language you want it to translate to. PC also has their translator app, you can download it by typing these “Download translator for PC” inside your browser. Look for a download link and click on it. Follow the steps to download the app and after downloading it, locate the app inside your PC file manager by switching to the download folder. Tap on the app and follow the steps to install it also.
Google Translate App for Mobile
As I have said, that it has a mobile app for mobile device users. Those people that do make use of smartphones. It is possible for you to make use of the translator but you have to download the app into your smartphone. To download the app, you have to access your app store and search for “Translate” using the search bar tool. Click the install button when you finally see the app and wait for it to be downloaded, then the installation process will now come up.
How to Translate English to Spanish
For you to use the translator app on your PC or smartphone is very easy. You don’t anyone to direct you on how you can do it. What you do is this, when someone sends you are message in English and you do speak Spanish. Copy the text and open the translate app, you will see two options there, since you are translating from English to Spanish. Paste the text on the first box under the English, while the other box changes the language there to Spanish and so when you paste the English text inside the English box the translation will come up in the Spanish box. You can do these to Spanish to English also, just make sure your first box is the language you are translating from, while the second box is the language you are translating to.
CHECKOUT >>> Duolingo Learn Japanese – Duolingo For Japanese | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6809579133987427, "wiki_prob": 0.3190420866012573, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line724899"} |
Capital Fictions
Nicola Piper and Matt Withers, Temporary Labour Migration in Asia: Protracted Precarity and Truncated Rights
Symposium on private rental sector in the UK and Australia
by Adam David Morton on February 28, 2017
Adam David Morton | February 28, 2017
Tags: Australia finance housing
Australia, finance, housing
Unpacking the Private Rental Investment Boom in the UK and Australia
Declining home ownership and an expanding private rental sector have been dominant global trends over the past decade. In Australia, this pattern has seen private rental expand from 21% of all households to 26% in the ten years to 2013/14. Albeit from a lower base, the UK’s private rental sector (PRS) has expanded even more rapidly – from 10% to 18% over a similar period. Prodigious amounts of capital have been ploughed into rental property acquisition as investor landlords have expanded their holdings across housing markets of many kinds.
Drawing on recently completed and currently ongoing research, this symposium will explore some of the underlying drivers of the above trend, its institutional nature and its urban spatial embodiment and will include a focus on:
Private rental revival: An international political economy perspective (Prof Peter Kemp, Oxford University);
Rebuilding the rented sector in the UK, the role of Buy to Let, Build to Rent and Housing Associations (Prof Peter Williams, Cambridge University);
Institutional change in Australia’s private rental sector (Prof Kath Hulse, Swinburne University); and
The changing geography of private rental investment in Sydney: Work in progress (Prof Hal Pawson, UNSW)
For full event details click here.
To register your attendance (free of charge, but registration is essential) click here.
Author: Adam David Morton
Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.
The Federal Budget: seeking ‘return to normal’ or radical reform?
The budget delivered this week by the Federal government aims to get the economy ‘back to normal’. Is this the right goal? What if the old ‘normal’ was deeply flawed, a...
Reducing gender inequality and boosting the economy: fiscal policy after COVID-19
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 health crisis have increased gender inequalities in the Australian labour market. With women over-represented in lower-p...
A Four-Day Week with No Pay Cut: For a Workers’ Answer to Unemployment
The most optimistic assessment by the Reserve Bank is that it will take a “few years” to reverse “much” (i.e. not all) of the increase in unemployment from the Covid-19...
Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History
Class Structure in Australian History has been ignored for most of its life as an academic publication. Historians argued the text was not empirically rigorous; left-wing c... | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6505170464515686, "wiki_prob": 0.3494829535484314, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1350775"} |
Home Breaking News UBTECH COLLABORATES WITH UPMH ON AI & ROBOTICS EDUCATION
UBTECH COLLABORATES WITH UPMH ON AI & ROBOTICS EDUCATION
KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — World leading humanoid start-up UBTECH is collaborating with UPM Holdings Sdn Bhd (UPMH) to introduce an AI & Robotics training and education programme in Malaysia.
A statement issued by UPMH today said that UPMH, UBTECH China (UBTECH) and M & N RPATech Sdn Bhd (M & N) yesterday signed a virtual Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the strategic partnership in education.
The MOU was signed by UPMH group chief executive officer Khairul Faizi Khalid, UBTECH Robotics Corp Ltd vice president Paul Wu and M & N RPATech Sdn Bhd chief operating officer Sukhbir Singh Manhore Singh.
“This is an initiative by UPMH to develop and create awareness in the field of AI & Robotics education in Malaysia, which will be proposed for schools, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) students and participants from other higher learning institutions who are interested to undertake and learn more in the field of AI & Robotics,” the statement said.
UPMH said about 50 to 100 students were expected to take part in the AI and Robotics education programme in the next three to six months.
Through the collaboration, UPMH hoped to contribute towards AI & Robotics talent development in Malaysia and to help achieve Malaysia’s vision to be South East Asia’s Industry 4.0 hub.
UBTECH, a maker of humanoid robots backed by China technology, is a global leading AI and humanoid robotics company founded in 2012 while UPMH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UPM.
Previous articleCOVID-19 : SINGAPORE’S TALLY EXCEEDS 12,000-MARK
Next articleCOVID-19: No drastic spike during MCO third phase, pandemic under control – Health DG
Communications and Multimedia Industry contributes 8.2 pct of Bursa Malaysia market...
No proposal to amend UMNO’s constitution on no contest for president,... | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8280795812606812, "wiki_prob": 0.8280795812606812, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line265192"} |
Local Foundations for Stronger Democracy, statement by Nobel Prize Roger B.Myerson
by Roger B. Myerson
2 Oct 2013, Statement - Introductory Plenary Session, 16:30-18:30
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is the foremost global organization for promoting democratic local government throughout the world. Local democracy is vital for democratic development. In some parts of the world, however, the establishment of responsible democratic local governments has been resisted by powerful vested interests for centralization. In the face of such forces against local democracy, UCLG has an important role as the international advocate of democratic local government.
Successful democracy requires more than just elections. For democracy to be effective, voters must have a choice among qualified candidates with proven records of public service who have developed good reputations for exercising power responsibly in elected office. When such trusted leadership is lacking, democracy is inevitably fragile. This essential supply of trusted democratic leadership can develop best in responsible institutions of local government, where successful local leaders can prove their qualifications to become strong competitive candidates for higher office. When locally elected leaders have full responsibility for both the successes and failures of their local administration, then those who succeed will enlarge the nation's supply of popularly trusted leaders.
We must recognize, however, that new competition from popular local leaders may often be against the vested interests of established incumbent national leaders. In a centralized state where governors and mayors are appointed by the national leader, these positions may be among the most valued rewards that a leader can offer to loyal supporters. Then what leader could afford to disappoint his or her supporters by letting such valuable positions be given away by local voters instead? It is not surprising that national leaders have often chosen to retain centralized control of local government, even when political decentralization could strengthen their country's democratic system.
For example, consider the recent political changes in Egypt. If the transition to democracy there had started with local elections, many factions would have gotten opportunities to start building reputations for responsible democratic leadership in different areas. But in a presidential election, only one candidate can win the prize of centralized national power. Like Egypt's old 1971 constitution, its recent 2012 constitution promised to transfer authority to locally elected councils, but only gradually, after a delay of some years that would allow current national leaders to retain power over local government.[ii] Such centralization might have seemed convenient for the short-term interests of national leaders, but it leftEgypt's new democracy perilously vulnerable to fears of another autocracy. Empowerment of trusted local leadership throughout the country could have reduced such fears. It is unfortunate that UCLG's message about the vital importance of local democracy was not widely heard among the voices of the Arab Spring.
Excessive centralization can also harm economic development. People in poor communities can build and maintain roads and schools and other local public goods that are essential for economic development, but they can accomplish this only when their efforts are coordinated by local leaders whom they trust. Such trust can be expected only from leaders whose authority is based in local politics. Local officials whose positions depend on national political patronage are inevitably less concerned about developing trust among the residents of a small poor community.
Interactions between local politics and national politics can strengthen democracy at both levels. As I have observed, local democracy can strengthen national democratic competition when elected offices in municipal and provincial governments provide a ladder of democratic advancement that effective leaders can climb from local politics into national politics. But conversely, national democracy can strengthen local democratic competition when national political parties provide alternatives to established local leaders. Local political bosses should know that if they lose popular support then they could face serious challengers from a rival national party. For such mutually-reinforcing political interactions, the institutional pillars for a strong democratic system should include both a multi-party national assembly and elected local councils with clear autonomous responsibilities.
A constitutional system with democratic local government can become politically stable once it is established. When governors and mayors are locally elected, they become local power-brokers from whom national politicians must regularly seek support in their competition for national power, and so it then would be very costly for any national leader to threaten the constitutional powers of these elected local officials. Thus, a transition to a decentralized democratic system, once achieved, can be self-sustaining.
What can the international community do to encourage the growth of local democracy throughout the world? Most importantly, when leaders of a nation promise their people a transition to democracy, global voices for democracy should help to assure that people do not ignore the potential value of including some decentralized local democracy in such a transition from the start.
International donors of economic assistance funds can help promote responsible local governments by including elected local governments as partners in economic development projects. Donors should insist that any country that gets their assistance should allow its local governments to apply directly for some portion of the country's development assistance funds.
UCLG can have a major impact by disseminating information about democratic local governments in its Global Observatory of Local Democracy (GOLD). Academic research in comparative politics has often neglected local government simply because political scientists found it difficult to gather detailed information about local political systems in many countries. The work of UCLG GOLD in providing a comprehensive data set about democratic local governments (including their electoral systems, comparative budgetary responsibilities, and dates of major local-government reforms) may be the best way to promote academic research that will increase understanding in this area. Then academic political scientists can train the next generation of public officials to better appreciate the value of local democracy.
With broader understanding of the benefits of democratic local government, we can truly imagine a world in which people everywhere can trust their local and national leaders to provide the public goods and services that are essential for the welfare and prosperity of their communities.
[i] This paper is prepared for presentation in a panel on "Imagine Society, Build Democracy" at the 2013 World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments.
[ii] See Article 162 in the 1971 constitution and Article 235 in the 2012 constitution. In English translations of both documents, the word "gradual" is used to describe the promised devolution of power to locally elected councils.
See also http://cheaptalk.org/2011/02/18/what-egypt-can-learn-from-ukraine/
This paper is available at
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/research/uclg2013.pdf
Roger B.Meyerson | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6038129925727844, "wiki_prob": 0.3961870074272156, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1790143"} |
June 22nd, 2022 | 13:40 CEST
Nordex, Saturn Oil + Gas, Shell - Reality vs Idealism: Long in oil stocks!
The idea that renewable energies will feed the world's entire energy needs is desirable but unrealistic in the short term. In the political debate in Germany, we are currently seeing how far apart the target images of "green" or "sustainable" and security of supply can be. In an exemplary manner - and this is meant with a wink - Europe's largest economy is shutting down its nuclear power plants and now suddenly realizes that its great dependence on Russia's gas supplies is creating a supply risk. Now a ramp-up of coal-fired power plants is supposed to fix it. For logical and forward-looking investors, oil stocks are worth a look.
time to read: 4 minutes | Author: Carsten Mainitz
ISIN: NORDEX SE O.N. | DE000A0D6554 , Saturn Oil + Gas Inc. | CA80412L8832 , Shell PLC | GB00BP6MXD84
"[...] The Oxbow Asset now delivers a substantial free cash flow stream to internally fund our impactful drilling and workover programs. [...]" John Jeffrey, CEO, Saturn Oil + Gas Inc.
Carsten Mainitz
The native Rhineland-Palatinate has been a passionate market participant for more than 25 years. After studying business administration in Mannheim, he worked as a journalist, in equity sales and many years in equity research.
Nordex - Share falls like a stone
The shares of the northern German wind turbine manufacturer are clearly suffering. Although the Company should "actually" be one of the beneficiaries of the energy turnaround, the share price speaks a different language. In the last few days, the share has sunk below EUR 9 and has thus fallen by a third from its high in the spring of 2021.
The Group's market capitalization is currently around EUR 1.4 billion. The analyst community bravely sticks to its buy recommendations, even if the price targets have been cut. On average, the experts believe that the shares have an upside potential of 73% over the next 12 months. Purposeful optimism? The last profit achieved by the North Germans was in the 2017 financial year, which stood at just EUR 0.3 million.
The current fiscal year will also be coloured red. The Company has been pointing this out for some time. With the recently published Q1 figures, Nordex has put butter on the fish, which did not go down well with investors. The loss increased by almost EUR 100 million in the first three months to around EUR 151 million. The operating result (EBITDA) before realignment costs was EUR -52 million, compared with EUR +10 million in the previous year. Nordex cited the costs of realigning rotor blade production, lower installation output and increased raw material and logistics costs as reasons for the poor performance.
"The start to 2022 has been difficult and has certainly gone differently than everyone expected," CEO José Luis Blanco commented on the quarterly figures. He added that there were still "significant supply chain disruptions." Nevertheless, the group leader maintained his medium-term forecast with an operating margin of 8%. For 2022, the wind turbine manufacturer assumes -4 to 0% for this key figure. Given the very weak start to the year, investors would be better off looking at the lower end of the target ranges. Even if a small profit could be generated operationally in the next fiscal year, Nordex will not post a profit until 2024 at the earliest - this is what the analyst consensus suggests.
Thus, there are currently few aspects on the horizon as to why the stock should end its downward trend soon. The challenging framework conditions were recently joined by homemade problems. Due to a cyber security incident, the Group could not publish its figures on time and, as a result, has to leave the SDAX.
Saturn Oil & Gas - A completely different league
Under the leadership of CEO John Jeffrey, the Canadians have achieved extremely impressive growth over the past two years. The goal of becoming a leading publicly traded light oil producer and growing by acquiring and developing undervalued, low-risk projects has now been achieved with the latest acquisition, having already increased production by a factor of 20 with the Viking Assets acquisition last year.
Saturn announced plans to now acquire additional assets in the Viking area of west-central Saskatchewan for approximately CAD 260 million. This will increase production per day at full capacity by more than half to around 11,400 boe/d. In addition, there will be synergy effects, which will reduce costs.
To finance the transaction, the Company has already announced the closing of a CAD 75 million bought deal and a planned placement without broker participation of CAD 3 million. The placement price per share is CAD 2.75. In addition, buyers will receive one warrant per two shares with a subscription price of CAD 3.20 and a one-year term.
Although the stock reacted negatively to the large pending dilution in the short term - the deal is expected to go through in early July - the acquisition makes a lot of sense from a strategic perspective. The big picture with high oil and gas prices and a resulting significant profitability is right. The analysts at GBC believe that the shares have the potential to multiply. The experts at researchanalyst.com also rate the stock as offering good opportunities.
Shell - Favorite among the oil multinationals
The recent slide in oil prices has also dragged down the share prices of oil multinationals such as Shell. Meanwhile, the shares of the British company are rising again, also spurred by positive analyst comments. RBS expert John Musk recently formulated a price target of just under EUR 35 for the stock, corresponding to an upside potential of around 40%. Moreover, according to Musk's rating, Shell is one of the favourites within the sector.
High commodity prices boost profits in the sector and thus free cash flows. According to analyst estimates, the P/E ratio in this and the next fiscal year is 5 for Shell, and the P/B ratio will drop significantly from the current 1 in the next few years. The dividend yield is expected to rise above 4% in the future.
In the short and medium-term, there is no way around established energy sources such as oil, gas and coal. Security of supply trumps dogma. Analysts thus recommend oil stocks such as Shell and Saturn for good reason. In the case of the Canadians, investors have the opportunity to profit from an upcoming revaluation. Nordex is an example of how not all companies in the "green energy" sector manage to operate profitably. Watching is better than investing here.
Commented by Nico Popp on January 31st, 2023 | 14:33 CET
This new project changes everything: Deutsche Bank, Aspermont, Alibaba
When processes go digital, great opportunities arise: automation and scaling can ensure growth and turn established business models into high-flyers. But which companies should investors actively support in their transformation? Where is there real potential for investors, and where are companies just spreading buzzwords? We highlight three stocks for you. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6429241299629211, "wiki_prob": 0.35707587003707886, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line7460"} |
AirAsia X plans to increase A330 fleet to meet demand
November, 2022 | Airline, Asia/Pacific | 0 |
AirAsia X is planning to increase its operating fleet of A330 by more than double, to 13 A330 aircraft to meet the rising consumer demand. The new aircraft are planning to enter the AirAsia X fleet by mid-2023. Tunku Dato’ Mahmood Fawzy, Chairman of AirAsia X, said: “The airline expects to reach more than 15 hours of aircraft utilization and introduce daily frequencies to its core markets for selected routes with high demand.” AAX currently operates a fleet of six A330s. Prior to the pandemic, the airline had placed an order for 78 A330-900 aircraft, but the order was brought
PreviousEx-Air Asia and Qatar Airways exec Malik joins Ink Innovation
NextNorse Atlantic announces “successful” end to $30m equity drive
Large and mid-sized business jets shine, report says
LOT expands network to North America
Air Zim denied ground handling services
Lufthansa Group raises earnings forecast for 2022 based on Q3 preliminary | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5799426436424255, "wiki_prob": 0.42005735635757446, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1132507"} |
NEWSNewsVideo: Meta threatens to remove all news from Facebook
Video: Meta threatens to remove all news from Facebook
Source: YouTube Fox News
News LiveTube Newsdesk - 13 seconds ago
LIVE LiveTube Newsdesk - 50 seconds ago
Video: Various Activities Put Up to Celebrate Lantern Festival
Asia LiveTube Newsdesk - 2 hours ago
People across China are holding various activities and preparing food for the upcoming Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar signals the end of Spring Festival celebrations, and it falls on February 5 this year. https://www.cctvplus.com/news/20230202/8310040.shtml#!language=1 Welcome to subscribe us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsContent.CCTVPLUS Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCTV_Plus LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cctv-news-content Video on Demand: www.cctvplus.com If you are in demand of this video footage, please contact with our business development team via email: [email protected]
Video: ✈️ Boeing said goodbye to the iconic 747 on Jan 31.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUzuJXxPxc Source: YouTube Channel News Asia | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7403758764266968, "wiki_prob": 0.2596241235733032, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1013091"} |
Madden NFL 23 - 15 Features You Need to Know About
Aug-29-2022 PST Tag: buy Madden Coins, cheap Mut Coins, Madden 23 Coins, Mut 23 Coins
Meta Description: There is a lot to know about the new football game Madden 23 released by EA, and we have all the information you need here.
For EA's yearly sports games, incremental updates are usually the norm. On the most recent hardware, though, the next soccer simulator from EA Tiburon is in its third season. The main approach promised by Madden NFL 23 takes advantage of the potent AI and computational capabilities of the top gaming PCs Xbox Series X|S and PS5. Older technology prevents you from using Madden NFL 23's unique gaming features.
However, many features and updates have been added in this new season of Madden 23 NFL, but the gaming currency is the same as in the previous season, "MUT Coins." To make your team strong and skilled, you must collect a bundle of Madden 23 Coins if you want to show aggression while playing the game. If you cannot collect and don't have time to earn while playing the game, this problem also has a solution: you can buy MUT 23 coins easily from any trusted online store.
In order to gain insight into what the game will be like before its release on August 19, we will try to review a few new features before the game is released:
1. Madden 23: FieldSENSE Offensive Line Overhauls
The offensive game in Madden NFL 23 is said to have undergone a significant overhaul. Runners are now reportedly able to slow down, immediately shift their weight, or make ultra-fluid 360-degree cuts for quick direction changes, giving them the freedom to get through any open gaps in the defensive line. Instead of relying too much on speed or raw strength, the running game seems to be a lot more delicate affair.
2. Madden 23: Field SENSE Defensive Line Overhauls
The defensive play in Madden NFL 23 has also been updated. As part of the defense, next-generation Hit-Stick physics have been added that enable blow-up blocks, mid-air knockouts, force turnovers, and physics-based gang tackles that allow you to assist a tackle already in progress. This is part of a development by EA called "Hit Everything."
3. Madden 23: It's John Madden on the cover
It's exciting to see living legend John Madden on this year's cover of Madden NFL 23. John Madden's appearance on the cover of this year's issue is a dignified tribute to the legendary coach and pundit - and series' namesake - following his unexpected death in December.
4. Madden 23: all-new passing system
Among the biggest changes in Madden NFL 23's passing system are the targeting reticule and passing meter. In this way, quarterbacks are able to distribute the ball with surgical accuracy, passing it to only wide receivers who can catch it after using reticules to lead receivers and passing meters to drop in back-shoulder throws.
5. Madden 23: All-Madden Edition
A selection of two elite players, 3 days early access, 4600 Madden points, and all Madden gear and strategy items are included with this version. Despite the high price tag, there is still roughly a week remaining to get an additional pre-order bonus of an All-Madden Team Elite Player for the All-Madden Edition.
6. Madden 23: Defensive Back Battles vs Wide Receiver
In Madden NFL 23, wide receivers and defensive backs compete against each other one-on-one. This is a feature designed to complement the new skills-based passing mechanic. A receiver can use moves to drop defenders and escape into open spaces, while safety ties and cornerbacks can pressure the line to slow him down.
7. Madden 23: Mid-Preseason Launching
There will be a Madden NFL 23 release on August 19, when the NFL 2022 preseason runs from August 5 to August 28. This is consistent with Madden's past practices and ensures that players can become familiar with the game's upgraded mechanics before the NFL season officially kicks off on September 8.
8. Madden 23: Upgraded Contracts System
For Madden NFL 23, franchise mode also receives an improvement. The key word here is authenticity, with athletes' real-time contract discussions influenced by factors like income and location in addition to the allure of playing for their club. According to EA Tiburon, the NFL free agency period is expected to be more dramatic as athletes become more driven to get the best deal possible for themselves.
9. Madden 23: Commitment to realism
EA Tiburon has also updated the dynamic gameday mechanisms. In other words, home advantage will be more apparent, players will mishear plays owing to crowd noise, and play-by-play, momentum, and team confidence will change.
10. Madden 23: Overhauled Bye Week Scenarios
As another element of Madden NFL 23, bye weeks will receive an overhaul as players and coaches recover from their football season's grind. The bye week features that have been announced for Madden NFL 23 took effect in April, and EA Tiburon updates it regularly throughout the year.
11. Madden 23: Starting to Emerge Rookie Ratings
Observing how rookies perform is one of the most thrilling components of every new NFL season. Normally, EA releases rookie ratings throughout draught week, but they have mainly kept quiet this year. New participants have begun to provide specifics in the last week by sharing stories on their social media profiles.
12. Madden 23: X-Factor Abilities Return
For Madden NFL 23, the superstar abilities that correspond to their real-life equivalents are back. The PS5 beta has already revealed the list of players who have received an X-Factor ability. There is a chance that more players will be added to the roster in September when the NFL season begins. Superstars, or those with talents that are superior to their metrics but aren't quite at the X-Factor level, are also expected to remain. However, X-Factor hot streaks are brand-new in Madden NFL 23. As a result, a game will begin with one or more opponents having their X-Factor talent active, increasing the difficulty immediately.
13. Madden 23: Create-A-Team Mode Still Missing
Despite being one of the most often asked-for features by series fans, create-a-team will sadly not be returning in Madden 23. The ability to create your own squad out of a plethora of randomly selected alternatives or create a fantasy franchise by handpicking NFL players in Madden 23 is perplexing, despite EA Tiburon's claims that they are taking feedback from past editions into account.
14. Madden 23: Franchise Modes Return and Ultimate Team
Create-A-team may still be on the outside looking in because of EA's Ultimate Squad option, but Madden 23 allows you to assemble your ideal team of active NFL players, Hall of Famers, and sporting superstars. The face of the Franchise is also returned, giving gamers the option to take charge of their own athlete who is vying for NFL greatness and "play their way into the history books."
15. Madden 23: Crossplay Between Diff Gen Consoles
The Cross-Play feature for Madden NFL 23 hasn't been officially announced yet. Sadly, it's probable that it won't be included in the newest version of EA's football simulation before its August release.
Do these features have the potential to change the way we interact with games in the future? Which elements will become the most influential factors in the future? Which of the changes you have liked the most about Madden 23 so far is your favorite? mmoexp has all the latest tips, info, and news about Madden 23. Stay tuned with mmoexp and stay up-to-date.
Official Facebook Account
Follow us on facebook for more information,More games more joy
buy Madden Coins
cheap Mut Coins | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7020242810249329, "wiki_prob": 0.7020242810249329, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line921622"} |
PEOPLE/COMPANY MOVES
Data & Lists
In the Markets
Chasing Giants
Data List Subscription
Asked & Answered
Gotham Gigs
NYC Champions
NY's Comeback
Stats and the City
On Politics
Health Pulse
Who's News
Health Pulse Extra
Subscribe to Health Pulse
Health Pulse Pro Corporate Membership
Crain's Forum
Rising Stars in Real Estate
Rising Stars in Banking & Financing
Esri Geospatial Technology
Giving Guide 2022
2022 Empire Whole Health Awards
Business Evolution Insights
Nonprofit Gala Guide
Spotlight on Westchester
Contributing Partners
Quick Take
Talking Columns
CFO Forecast 2022
2022 Meeting and Event Planners Guide
CIO of the Year 2022
Sponsored Photo Galleries
Webcast Archives
Airbnb launches charm offensive, with Brooklyn as test case
Andrew J. Hawkins
Tourist destinations in Cuba are now showing up in Airbnb searches.
Brooklyn is the top destination for users of the controversial room-sharing service Airbnb, with thousands of hosts listed on the site and hundreds of thousands of guests passing through the borough every year. So it's only natural that Kings County serve as a test site for Airbnb's global plan to encourage its users to spend their money at the businesses near where they stay.
The startup is announcing a new partnership with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Wednesday to bring Airbnb hosts together with small business owners and devise ways to support each others businesses. Hosts will be encouraged to promote local businesses to their guests, while business owners will learn how to cater to tourists using Airbnb.
"We've never really done anything like this before," said Molly Turner, global head for civic partnerships at Airbnb. "The more we can encourage Airbnb hosts to build personal relationships with the businesses in their neighborhood to learn what's new in their neighborhood, events that are going on, block parties, gallery walks, borough-wide events—the more we can help our hosts get access to local knowledge, the better experience they can provide to their guests."
If the program is a success in Brooklyn, Airbnb plans to expand it to other cities across the globe, Ms. Turner said.
Airbnb has not always been welcomed with open-arms in New York and its latest initiative could help its image. Last year, the city's powerful hotel union joined affordable-housing advocates to push back against room-sharing site. Their group—Share Better—has organized housing groups and anti-Airbnb elected officials to counteract the millions spent by the popular home-sharing service to influence political and public opinion.
Both sides point to victories, but the broader outcome has been a stalemate—and not much harm to Airbnb's bottom line. Revenue to Airbnb and its hosts from private, short-term rentals in New York City grew tenfold between 2010 and 2014, and exceeded $282 million in 2014, according to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Last year, nearly one-third of Airbnb visitors to New York chose Brooklyn as their primary destination, and nearly half of all Airbnb visitors to New York City paid a visit to Brooklyn on their trip, the company reported in an economic impact study released last May.
Carlo Scissura, president of the Brooklyn chamber, said Airbnb was providing funding for his group to hire an "neighborhood outreach organizer" who would serve as a liaison between Airbnb hosts and surrounding businesses. The company is also sponsoring the chamber's "Explore Brooklyn" tourism website, and serves as a "champion" level member of the organization, which requires a $15,000 donation.
"You come to Brooklyn, you stay in an Airbnb: What do you do?" Mr. Scissura said. "We don't want you to go to Manhattan, of course. We want you to stay in the neighborhood."
Mr. Scissura said the goal is to avoid neighborhoods already popular with tourists, like downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg, and focus on less-traveled ones like Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. The new partnership is the latest effort by the Brooklyn chamber to collaborate with high-profile tech companies in the service of small businesses.
Supporters of Airbnb say Airbnb helps open up expensive cities like New York to tourists who may not be able to afford an expensive hotel stay. But opponents say the startup is in flagrant violation of state law, which prohibits whole apartments from being rented out short-term.
A spokesman for Share Better called the partnership with the Brooklyn chamber a PR stunt.
"It's just another transaction for Airbnb to try and buy goodwill when their operation is unequivocally exacerbating the affordable housing crisis in New York City," said Austin Shafran, the group's spokesman.
Ms. Turner said her company was committed to continuing to work with local governments to devise ways to allow the service to operate legally. She wouldn't say, though, who was responsible—Airbnb or the chamber—for ensuring the hosts involved in this project were not purveyors of illegal hotels.
"This is going to be a very bottom-up, grassroots initiative where we're going to encourage Brooklyn businesses to reach out and find their neighbors, friends and customers who are Airbnb hosts and connect with them personally on a one-on-one basis about how they can build stronger ties to access the visitors who are coming into their community," she said. "Hopefully together they can build long-term personal relationships."
Investor-vetting startup raises $10M to become a TurboTax for fund managers
U.S. officials shun Chinese-owned Waldorf-Astoria over espionage concerns
Citadel to pay priciest rent in city history, if not the world
Compete with Uber or die, judge tells taxi industry
Nail salons aim to file suit against Cuomo over wage bond
Upper West Side apt. building to be sold for $150M
Develop, don't displace
Fred Wilson's mission to train tech teachers
Hearst invests $21 million in digital pop-culture brand
German media giant close to acquiring Business Insider for $560M
Brooklyn retailers are missing out on $6 billion worth of sales
Peloton no longer at 'brink of extinction' as shares rise 27%
Why BuzzFeed’s penny stock is now trading at $2.50
Sponsored Content: Not-for-profit strategies for tackling risk in a changing environment
Ruth’s Chris Steak House closing Midtown location after 30 years
What ‘middle class’ means in New York City
Vornado writes down Midtown portfolio by $500M
Long Island contractor used Sandy relief funds on Lamborghini, Porsche, Jaguar, feds say
Hochul proposes higher payroll taxes, casino revenue to fund MTA
Trending Now - Our Trending Now newsletter delivers the stories sparking conversations across New York City. Sign up today.
Staying current is easy with Crain's news delivered straight to your inbox, free of charge. Click below to see everything we have to offer.
Don't miss the chance to get the biggest news first! Stay connected to New York business news in print and online
Crain’s New York Business is the trusted voice of the New York business community—connecting businesses across the five boroughs by providing analysis and opinion on how to navigate New York’s complex business and political landscape.
Contact us/ Help Center
Crain jobs
Crain's Power Breakfasts
Crain's Events
Past Crain's Events
Crain's New York Business app | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9366806745529175, "wiki_prob": 0.9366806745529175, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line668958"} |
Consulting, accompagnement & mentoring
Blockchain, Cryptos & Web3
Accompagnement Entrepreneurs
Pinterest Boards
My best G+ posts
Tag: Reggae
More 80s music memories (7)
Post author By Didier J. MARY
No Comments on More 80s music memories (7)
Cosmic Sound by Enkel Dika
Already published many of my music memories, but here’s one more 80s music post…
Shalamar – The Second Time Around (1979)
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me (1981)
Rick James – Super Freak (1981)
Musical Youth – Pass The Dutchie (1982)
Midnight Oil – Power and the Passion (1982)
David Bowie – Let’s Dance (1983)
The Romantics – Talking in Your Sleep (1983)
Sade – Smooth Operator (1984)
The Style Council – Shout To The Top (1984)
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (1986)
And don’t forget Tainted Love, the cover by Soft Cell in 1981!
More 80s music: Nena
On this date, 40 years ago
January 14, 1983 – Nena: Nena is released.
# Allmusic 4/5
Nena is the debut album by German band Nena. It was released on this date in 1983 and became a real breakthrough in the German pop music. It was part of the music genre called Neue Deutsche Welle (meaning “New German Wave”) movement.
The album was a great success in West Germany and the single “99 Luftballons” reached successful No. 1 in the music charts worldwide including Australia, Austria, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
by Alan Severa, allmusic
The first Nena album was released at the start of 1983 and became the dominant sensation of the West German music scene throughout the year.
Starting with the 1982 breakthrough debut single “Nur Geträumt,” Nena arrived at a very distinct period of German pop history, the period of the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle or NDW, the German new wave. However, by 1982 German new wave music had been watered down by various bandwagon jumpers who transformed the tension- and doom-laden atmosphere of the music of the original late-’70s new wave bands into upbeat synth pop with jokey, ironic, and even romantic lyrics.
Nena was immediately pigeonholed as an NDW act, but she and her band were in fact a more unique proposition: a group of musicians with a strong intuitive grasp of both classic pop and rock formulas. All five members contributed to the songwriting, with Carlo Karges and Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen providing the essential core of the repertoire. They arrived on the scene with a fully formed, confident music vision of their very own. The sound of the Nena band had in fact nothing to do with the stripped-down structures typical of actual new wave music. Even the use of the then in-vogue synthesizer sound (acting as the leading instrumental sound throughout the album) was firmly incorporated into the general basic power pop-oriented drive of a classic hard rock lineup. The pristine production and the unique touch of a slight but characteristic early-’60s melodic pop influence (including leaning toward essentially romantic imagery in the lyrics) were one thing that made the music special. The other factor was Nena Kerner herself. Her vocal style, remarkably reminiscent of early-’60s Connie Francis, and the excitement generated by her personality — by turns sweet or moody — proved thoroughly captivating. However, she always insisted that she saw herself as a member of the band and not as their leader. The classic across-the-board appeal of the band’s music led to such a level of success that it practically buried the whole NDW movement beneath it by 1985. The album is still regarded as an unsurpassed classic of German pop history, although most later Nena albums are not far behind in quality. The second single, “99 Luftballons” — a fable of nuclear war brought about by a bunch of balloons in the sky being mistaken on radar for a pre-emptive missile attack — went on to become a number one hit in the U.S. and worldwide in early 1984.
Kino (“Cinema”) – 2:39
Indianer (“Indian”) -3:14
Vollmond (“Full moon”) – 3:00
Nur geträumt (“Only dreaming”) – 3:37
Tanz auf dem Vulkan (“Dance on the volcano”) – 3:15
99 Luftballons (literally: “99 air ballons”) – 3:49
Zaubertrick (“Magic trick”) – 4:14
Einmal ist keinmal (“Once is not once”) – 2:42
Leuchtturm (“Lighthouse”, literally: “Light tower”) – 3:14
Ich bleib’ im Bett (“I stay in bed”) – 2:40
Noch einmal (“Once again”) – 3:55
Satellitenstadt (“Satellite town”) – 4:32
NENA – 99 Red Balloons (English version, 1984)
More 80s music memories probably to come…
Check the index if you’re looking for more…
Tags 80smusic, New Wave, Pop, Reggae, Rock
Retrouvez-moi ci-dessous :
60smusic 70smusic 80smusic 90smusic AcidJazz Afrique Art Bitcoin Blockchain Blues Brésil Caturday Cinemagraph Coffee Comics & Cartoons Couleurs Cover Cryptomonnaies Design Disco Electro Ethereum Food Art Food Design Formation France Full Album Funk GIF HipHop Humour Jazz Lego Live Music New Wave NFTs OST Photographie Photographie N&B Pop Publicité Punk QOTD Remixed RnB Rock Soul Music Street Art The Beatles Web3
The Java Jive – Ink Spots
Happy Birthday Marsupilami!
Erik Satie – “Trois Gymnopédies”
Crypto et Web3 (index)
Cryptos / Web3 = Vaporware
African Music Forum
Baaba Maal – Agreement
K1 de Ultimate – Talazo ’84
Aly Keita – Akan
Louis Armstrong sings “Black and Blue” in Ghana
© 2023 Didier J. MARY (blog)
Privacy Policy / Données Personnelles & Cookies | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7774851322174072, "wiki_prob": 0.7774851322174072, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1417347"} |
Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb
Home/Lifestyle/Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb – The Whizz Entrepreneur from Egypt who has been quite famous among the teens lately
Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb – The Whizz Entrepreneur from Egypt who has been quite famous among the teens lately
The Telegraph NewsApril 21, 2022
There are millions of influencers out there who are desperate to make an impact in society. Everyone craves fame, be it a novice or a professional. The thing that people usually ignore is the capability to maintain that fame. Maverick Entrepreneur from Egypt, Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb is the kind of person who not only earned fame real quick but also possessed the talent to maintain that fame. Let us learn how Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb gives his YouTube Subscribers and his Instagram followers, the content they aspire. https://www.eldyar.net/290079
Entrepreneur Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb is an eng, YouTuber, actor and influencer whose content has been really viral recently. He has seen a lot of obstacles in his life and career and this has made him a humble man. He wasn’t born with a silver spoon and has seen a difficult childhood. Nader Nabeel shares really good content on his YouTube page and his Instagram @nadernabill_ He shares funny videos, song reels and short videos of 1-2 minutes from his personal life. This entrepreneur and influencer started really small and has earned all this by his sheer determination and hardwork. He believes that apart from talent, the will to give your 200% for your dreams, the dedication to do your work is what plays an integral role in deciding if you can achieve your goals or not. “Hard Work beats talent, if talent doesn’t work hard” says Entrepreneur Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb.
Entrepreneur Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb in his initial career didn’t get the fame and attention he is getting now. This is a time that comes in every Influencer’s life at least once, when they get discouraged and stop trying again. Even at such a stage, he never stopped making videos and instead of focusing on fame and attention, he always made sure that the quality of the content should be impressive and that it should connect with others. He believes in entertaining people with his quality content.
Today, Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb posts amazing videos and receives a lot of love and attention from the fans which he always deserved. He is a wanderer as well, he loves to visit different places. He has posted many pictures of him, hanging out with friends, exploring different places and enjoying his life.
He believes one should enjoy his/her life, they get it for once. “Never let that child inside you die” his policies say.
He is quite famous among teenagers and understands his responsibilities that they learn from him. With being conscious about the messages teenagers and people get by his videos, he always shares quality content.
“Being an Influencer is a tough task, you have to be presentable even at the worst of your days. Content is something that can never be taught, it is natural but it is also something that can easily lose its spark if you stop working on it. This is the reason there have been very few World known comedians and I want to be the next one.” shares Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb.
Entrepreneur from Egypt Entrepreneur Nader Nabeel influencer Nader Nabeel Said Abu Taleb YouTuber
Saleh Daxi: The Whizz Entrepreneur who has made it huge in the photography Industry of Arab
Oral Asformas - The Digital Marketing Entrepreneur who lit up his life through his Never-Back-Down attitude | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6294188499450684, "wiki_prob": 0.37058115005493164, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1427930"} |
Battle Detail
Campaign:
Sheridan's Valley Campaign
Principal Commanders:
Major General Horatio Wright [US] Major General Jubal Early [CS]
Forces Engaged:
47210 total (US 31945; CS 15265;)
Estimated Casualties:
7682 total (US 5672; CS 2010;)
At dawn, October 19, 1864, the Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early surprised the Federal army at Cedar Creek and routed the VIII and XIX Army Corps. Commander Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan arrived from Winchester to rally his troops, and, in the afternoon, launched a crushing counterattack, which recovered the battlefield. Sheridan's victory at Cedar Creek broke the back of the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley. Lincoln rode the momentum of Sheridan's victories in the Valley and Sherman's successes in Georgia to re-election.
Union Victory
CWSAC Reference #:
VA122
Preservation Priority:
Civil War Teaching With Historic Places
International Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Antietam National Battlefield
Shiloh National Military Park
View All Related Parks
American Battlefield Protection Program
View All Related Programs | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7116702198982239, "wiki_prob": 0.2883297801017761, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1350733"} |
High-Quality Event Rental Equipment
Birthday Party Event Rentals
Quinceanera Event Rentals
Corporate Event Rentals
1. Statement
1.1. We recognize that protecting privacy is everyone's concern and for that reason, we are committed to keeping our user’s information confidential. This Privacy Policy not only explains how we collect, share and use any information related to your personal data when you use our website but also how you can access, update or otherwise take control of your Personal Information.
1.2. Your use of this site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy.
2.1. "Personal Information" is recorded information about an identifiable individual but excludes any information that is not considered as such by Privacy Laws
2.2. "Privacy Laws" means the Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector, S.Q. P-39.1 and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, C.5. and their respective regulations from their enforcement bodies.
2.3. "Privacy Policy" means the present Privacy Policy for the collection, use, disclosure, retention and destruction of Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Laws.
3. Discretion
Some provisions of this Privacy Policy may exceed regulatory requirements. In such circumstance, we have full discretion with respect to their application.
4.1. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information is information about you that can be used to identify you. When you interact with us through our website, we may collect Personal Information such as, but not limited to:
4.1.1.Full name, age, date of birth, gender and marital status (if applicable);
4.1.2.Billing and delivery postal addresses;
4.1.3.Payment information such as credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information;
4.1.4.Phone numbers (including mobile phone) and e-mail details;
4.1.5.Cookies, should you choose to accept them when consulting our website;
4.1.6.User name and password;
4.1.7.Information retrieved while browsing our website, your IP address, operating system and browser type, device type and time zone setting;
4.1.8.The date and time of your visit to our website;
4.1.9.The pages of our website that you access;
4.1.10. The documents you retrieved and any other correspondence with us;
4.1.11. All other information relevant to the services we are providing.
5.1. Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on a computer for the purpose of identifying that browser during interaction on the website. Cookies may be used to store items such as identifiers and user preferences. Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
5.2. Cookies are considered "persistent" when stored by a web browser. These cookies remain valid until their set expiry date, unless the user deleted them prior to said expiry date. Cookies are considered "session cookies" in the case they expire at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. While cookies do not typically contain information that personally identifies a user, Personal Information that we store about a user may be connected to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
5.3. On our website, we use cookies to:
5.3.1.Identify you when you visit our website;
5.3.2.Help us manage the content contained our website;
5.3.3.Help creators manage content while organizing and updating the website;
5.3.4.Store information about your preferences and to personalize our website for you;
5.3.5. Use them as part of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login information, and in general to protect our website and services;
5.3.6.Help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services;
5.3.7.Manage the promotion of our services, in order to attract interest and engagement.
5.4. If you do not wish cookies to be used, your browser's options may be set to refuse cookies and/or delete cookies.
Set cookies options.
6. Information collected and its purpose
6.1. Personal Information will only be collected with your consent, such as information voluntarily provided to us through our website. We strongly believe in both minimizing the data we collect and limiting its use and purpose to only that for which we have been given permission, as necessary to deliver the services you purchase or interact with, or as we might be required or permitted for legal compliance, government request, court orders or other lawful purposes
6.2. Personal Information to manage our business and maintain and develop further relationships. Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website and what content on our website is of interest to them. Purposes for which we collect Personal Information include but are not limited to :
6.2.1.Respond to your requests, comments or questions;
6.2.2.To process orders or to receive information about our website, service or product;
6.2.3.To improve the content, appearance and utility of the website and to trace our visitors' use of the website for internal inquiry purposes;
6.2.4.To provide any necessary notices and to notify our users of updates to the website;
6.2.5.With your consent, to send email offers, announcements, or newsletters to your email address and help us create content that is most relevant to you;
6.2.6.To execute our obligations arising from a contract entered into between yourself (the user) and us;
6.2.7.Management analysis, forecasting, business planning and transactions, ensuring our compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
6.2.8.For research, statistical and other purposes (such as improving our website, products and services) or measuring the effectiveness of our advertising.
6.3. If we are required to use or disclose your Personal Information for a purpose that differs from the purpose described herein, we will obtain your consent before using or disclosing the Personal Information.
7. Data storage and security
The Personal Information that we collect is stored in our servers.Once we receive personal data from you, we will use strict procedures and take reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect this information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure to ensure that personal data remains confidential.
7.1. We implemented the customary security safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity of the information collected, including the physical, organizational and technological measures. These measures restrict access to your Personal Information from anyone who is not authorized to have access to it.
7.2. We will limit access to Personal Information about you to only those employees who need that information to provide products or services to you. Personal Information will only be used or disclosed for the purposes for which it was collected with consent and will be kept as long as required to serve those purposes.
7.3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you should be aware that, no data transmission of information or other publicly accessible communications networks over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any such information.
8. Responsibility
8.1. We are responsible for the Personal Information collected from our users. In order to properly control the information processed, kept and used. We have appointed LINKEO to ensure our compliance with the Privacy Laws.
8.2. VERONICA'S PARTY EVENTS LLC
8.2.1.Address:13901 SW 143rd Ct Unit 7 Miami 33186
8.2.2.Telephone:786-318-7526
8.3. Appointed contact:
8.3.1.Name:JORGE O, SR SALAZAR
9. Disclosure and retention of your Personal Information
9.1. We will not sell, rent or dispose in any manner, your Person Information to third parties except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy or agreed upon individually in a separate agreement.
9.2. Any complaint, issue or problem that we become aware of that violates this Privacy Policy will be treated as confidential. However, some disclosures may be necessary to resolve the issues and implement appropriate solutions.
9.3. We retain Personal Information we collect from you where we have an ongoing business and need to do so, for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements. We keep your Personal Information in a form that allows us to identify you for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes for which we are processing your data and do not store your data for longer, unless we must comply with applicable laws.
9.4. Personal Information that is no longer required to fulfil the identified purposes will be destroyed, erased, or made anonymous.
10. Access to your Personal Information
10.1. You have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request that: (i) we correct or update any such Personal Information; or (ii) such Personal Information be unsubscribed from the email marketing database.
10.2. If you wish to update your Personal Information, we invite you to contact us by any method provided for in section 8.2. When contacting us, we may request Personal Information to verify your identity and in order to be sure we handle your request correctly.
10.3. If you make a request to delete your Personal Information and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased and/or use, the request will be honored only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any services purchased and/or used, or required for business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.
10.4. In the event that you have provided your consent to collect and use your Personal Information, you may make a withdrawal of consent.
11. Failure to provide Personal Information
11.1. When we need to collect Personal Information by law or in order to provide our services and you fail to provide the information requested, we may not be able to carry out the services in which you have contracted us to do. In these circumstances we may have to cancel our agreement or contract.
11.2. We will notify you in the case of cancelation due to failure to provide Personal Information
12.1. We are committed to being transparent with regard to the Personal Information we collect, use and store. We invite you to contact us using any of the methods provided for in section 8.2 with any questions you may have.
13.1. This Policy is effective as of 8th april 2021, and supersedes all prior versions.
13.2. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy when appropriate and without prior notice. We therefore encourage you to refer back to this policy on a regular basis.
Veronica's Party Events
13901 SW 143rd Ct Unit 7
Mon–Fri 9am - 5pm
Sat 9am - 12pm | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.717911422252655, "wiki_prob": 0.28208857774734497, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1776916"} |
news year: 2013
Business Models | May 28, 2013
ISOJ: News industry must drop legacy model, embrace disruption to survive, says Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert
By Alejandro Martínez
There is a way for news organizations that have grown and thrived under legacy models to survive – they have to drop it. That, in a nutshell, is the message that Deseret News CEO Clark Gilbert gave during his keynote panel at the first session of the International Symposium on Online Journalism on Friday April 19. Gilbert, a former … Read More
Data Visualization | May 28, 2013
Kim Rees on data visualization: There’s a story in every piece of data
By Maria-Xenia Hardt
Multimedia narratives and data visualization were the hot topics on Saturday afternoon at IOSJ. In an interview beforehand, Kim Rees, co-Founder of Periscopic, talked about telling the story behind the numbers. Rees and her colleagues at Periscopic, who describe themselves as a “socially-conscious data visualization firm,” have been visualizing data in new and interactive way … Read More
Engagement | May 28, 2013
Andy Carvin on ‘pushing the button anyways’
By Jessica Huff
NPR’s social media strategist, Andy Carvin, solemnly took the ISOJ podium on Friday, reminiscing his fondest memories of cheering on one runner after another every April. Just days after the Boston Marathon bombing, Carvin spoke from the heart as he pointed out that both the tragedies of Newtown and Boston have something in common “aside … Read More
Survival of the fittest on the second day of ISOJ
Just past 8:30 a.m. or so, tireless journalists gathered in the Capitol Room at the Blanton Museum to participate in the research breakfast, a new feature that was added to the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) for the first time this year. The breakfast gives four researchers the chance to introduce their current projects … Read More
Chris Courtney: “Assume you’re doing it wrong. Talk to your costumers. Don’t build anything before you know who they are.”
ISOJ 2013: Chris Courtney, of the Texas Tribune, speaks during the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism, from Knight Center on Vimeo. Chris Courtney’s presentation at ISOJ was Rock’n’Roll, not just because of its pop culture references. Courtney, a developer for the Chicago Tribune’s News Application team who helped to launch hundreds of media products, … Read More
Clark Gilbert talks about “Innovation, Journalism and Future of journalism” at 14th Annual ISOJ Conference
By Esmeralda Coronado Valles
Guests at the 14th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism received a special treat to kick off the conference. Clark Gilbert, President and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and Deseret Digital Media, delivered a keynote speech to a packed house at UT’s Blanton Museum of Art’s auditorium titled, “Innovation, Journalism and the Future of Newspaper” on … Read More
NPR’s Andy Carvin warns journalists to revamp culture of social media
By Reihaneh Hajibeigi
The warnings from NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin were heard loud and clear at the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism. By recognizing his mistakes, Carvin was allowed to share his experiences and concerns with an auditorium filled with students, educators and journalists alike. “We are no longer the media we are used to being, and … Read More
Advertising | May 28, 2013
A profitable model: How The Dallas Morning News plans to change the game
By Roy Varney
“Hope is not a strategy,” said Jim Moroney, CEO of The Dallas Morning News, on Friday at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. According to Moroney, the old ways of creating quality journalism no longer provide a profitable business model, and that simply hoping that ad and print revenue will “level out” is an … Read More
Registration | April 16, 2013
ISOJ attendees can celebrate with double the fun
By Melissa Suran
The International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) kicks off this year with The Texas Tribune/PBS MediaShift Mixer on Thursday, April 18. The party will be held at the Hole in the Wall on 2538 Guadalupe St. in Austin. “We’re impressed to have about 120 RSVPs already for the mixer,” said Mark Glaser of PBS MediaShift. … Read More
Multimedia | April 12, 2013
ISOJ journal breaks new ground again: no more gap between conference and publication
For the first time, #ISOJ – The official journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism will be launched at the first day of the conference, containing peer-reviewed research papers presented during that same conference. The new issue of the journal will be available in paperback and e-book editions on the morning of ISOJ’s opening, … Read More | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5130640268325806, "wiki_prob": 0.5130640268325806, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line636945"} |
We're backing Britain
Press releases and latest news
bp pulse makes £2 million available to improve UK’s legacy charging infrastructure
Investment by bp pulse to deliver radical improvement in reliability of older UK charging infrastructure
bp pulse is working with local authorities to upgrade legacy charge points in their communities with new, high-quality hardware
Over £400,000 already committed with a further £1.5 million of funding made available for charge point owners
bp pulse is pledging to radically improve the reliability of the UK’s legacy public charging infrastructure by working with local authorities to upgrade and replace charge points across the country – meaning EV drivers will be able to charge in more places, more easily.
The company has already agreed over £400,000 in infrastructure investment to replace more than 50 legacy charge points, which are typically owned by local authorities and were originally installed with government grant funding. Further discussions are already underway relating to an additional £750,000 of funding available for legacy charge point owners, which could see over 300 units upgraded.
In total, bp pulse has made £2 million available and will work closely with local authorities and other charge point owners over the coming months to replace older infrastructure as quickly as possible.
Transport Minister Rachel Maclean said: “I’m delighted to see that steps are being taken to upgrade public EV charge points, increasing their reliability and taking us one step closer to delivering on the commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. We’re determined to deliver a world-leading electric vehicle charging network right across the country, as we build back greener and accelerate towards a net-zero transport future.”
Matteo de Renzi, CEO of bp pulse, said, “While we remain focused on expanding our network, in particular with the proliferation of convenient ultra-fast charging, we know that many of the issues experienced by drivers come from legacy charging infrastructure, so our investment in upgrading it will significantly improve the experience of EV drivers across the country.”
A decade has passed since the first significant roll-out of public charging infrastructure under the Plugged in Places scheme. Many of these early charge points were not installed with long-term sustainability in mind, and much of the UK’s legacy network has suffered from under-investment. As a result, EV drivers are faced with charge points that are no longer usable.
The funding provided by bp pulse will enable local communities to benefit from upgraded infrastructure, bringing it up to modern standards of reliability and accessibility.
In Milton Keynes, for example, bp pulse has now replaced the majority of legacy third-party manufacturer rapid chargers, upgrading them to the supplier’s own UK-made 50kW chargers, including contactless payment terminals. The upgrade means that bp pulse can provide more effective operational support and ongoing maintenance of the network.
About bp pulse
bp pulse (formerly bp Chargemaster) is one of the UK’s leading providers of electric vehicle charging infrastructure and operates Polar, the largest electric vehicle charging network in the UK. Founded in 2008, the company provides a comprehensive, flexible and practical range of electric vehicle charging solutions. bp Chargemaster has supplied over 60,000 public, workplace and home charging units, and is now rolling out 150kW ultra-rapid chargers on bp retail sites. bp Chargemaster is a wholly owned subsidiary of the bp Group.
Tom Callow
Email: [email protected]
Torque Agency Group: Alex Michaelides:
Email: [email protected]
Keeping safe at our retail sites
bp pulse
BP p.l.c.
Disclaimer *Market data delayed by 20 minutes. Delivered by Investis. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7723308801651001, "wiki_prob": 0.7723308801651001, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1176597"} |
Czwartek, 2 Lutego w Radio Derf
Playlista Pomoc Parametry Play
Bluesdelta Play
Jazz Play
Blues Standards Play
Soul Play
Bluesrock Play
Polski blues
-=-=-=-=-=- FROM MEMPHIS TO NORFOLK – ZBIÓR ARTYKUŁÓW PRZEDSTAWIAJĄCYCH SYLWETKI WCZESNYCH BLUESMANÓW Z DELTY MISSISIPI, ZAPRASZAMY DO LEKTURY !!! -=-=-=-=-=-
NOWOŚĆ : The Brothers - March 10, 2020 Madison Square Garden (Live) (2021) 4 CD
NOWOŚĆ : Buddy Guy - [2022] - The Blues Don`t Lie
Bluesdelta
08:42:33 Napoleon Strickland - Mississippi Delta Blues Jam In Memphis - Back Water Rising
08:38:30 bukka white memphis country blues festival -02 - kid gal blues
08:36:04 Big Joe Williams - George Mitchell Boxset, Cd 1 - Everyone Got A Woman
08:33:25 Skip James - Blues from the Delta - Everybody Leaving Here
08:30:28 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Blind Lemon Jefferson [Milestone] - Broke and Hungry
08:27:26 Alberta Hunter - The Definitive Charley Patton - Down South Blues
08:25:06 Rev. Pearly Brown - Georgia Street Singer - Nobody`s Fault But Mine
08:20:22 Jimmy Duck Holmes - Done Got Tired of Tryin - Wake Up, Woman
08:17:42 Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues - The Early Years : 1927 - 1935 - Disc 3 - Hillbilly Willie`s Blues
Aktualnie: "Son House - Forever On My Mind - Forever On My Mind"
08:28:40 Return To Forever - 1972 09 15 Studio 10 Hamburg - Noon Song
08:21:35 Medeski Martin&Wood - Shack-Man - Lifeblood
08:16:38 Dino Coccia Widespace II - Swung Drawn&Altered - Iron City
08:09:52 Marsalis, Wynton - Live At The House Of Tribes - Donna Lee
07:53:24 Miller-Garrett-Petrucciani-Lagrene-White - Dreyfus Night In Paris - Looking Up
07:50:02 Jaco Pastorius Big Band - Word Of Mouth Revisited - Continuum
07:44:16 Chick Corea`s Elektric Band - Inside Out - Tale of Daring (Chapter 3)
07:36:18 Pat Metheny Trio - Day Trip - At Last You`re Here
07:30:48 Pee Wee Ellis - Ridin` Mighty High - Oh My God
Aktualnie: "Jaco Pastorius + Metheney + Di - Jaco - Donkey"
Blues Standards
08:38:12 Albert Collins, Etta James, Joe Walsh - Jump The Blues Away - Rocky Mountain way
08:31:39 Koko Taylor - Old School - All Your Love
08:27:57 T-Model Ford&Gravelroad - Taledragger - I`m Coming Home
08:23:23 Lil` Ed&The Blues Imperials - Get Wild - Once In A Lifetime
08:17:49 Albert King - Red House - Red House
08:10:24 B.B.King - Live at the Apollo - Sweet Sixteen
08:06:44 Magic Slim - Snakebite - Man You Need
08:01:23 John Primer - Call Me John Primer - Look At Little Sister
07:57:08 John Primer - The Real Deal - Stop Draggin` That Chain Around
Aktualnie: "Luther Allison - 1977 - Love Me Papa - Luther`s Boogie"
Aktualnie: "Przepraszamy, serwer jest tymczasowo niedostępny. Wrócimy najszybciej jak to możliwe!"
08:42:20 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double - Live Alive - Change it
08:37:20 John Mayer - Any Given Thursday - Disc 2 - My Stupid Mouth
08:33:03 Beth Hart - 37 Days - Over You
08:26:06 Gov`t Mule - Life Before Insanity - Gov`t Mule , Fallen Down
08:22:08 Santana - The Woodstock Experience - Evil Ways
08:17:32 Joe Bonamassa - A New Day Yesterday Live - Trouble Waiting
08:09:12 Gov`t Mule - Life Before Insanity - Gov`t Mule , No Need To Suffer
07:59:52 Gov`t Mule - CD1 The Best Of The Capricorn Years - Soulshine
07:56:28 Cry Of Love - Brother - Pretty As You Please
Aktualnie: "Dave Matthews Band - Live In Rio - CD 2 - Don`t Drink The Water"
08:37:27 Slawek Wierzcholski i Nocna Zmiana Bluesa - Satry Blues Night Live 2001 - Papieros na sniadanie
08:32:42 After Blues - Zobacz jak pieknie - Kilka pytan
08:29:11 Martyna Jakubowicz - Te 30 urodziny - Zyczenia
08:25:57 Boogie Chilli - Live Time Blues - Crossroads Blues (Robert Johnson)
08:21:50 Kasa Chorych - W Filharmonii 1 CD - Chc ci kocha
08:15:34 Jan Kyks Skrzek - In Memoriam - Modlitwa Bluesmana w Pociagu
08:07:56 Breakout - NOL - W pochodzie codziennoci
08:04:44 Blues Doctors - tak calymi dniami - tak calymi dniami
07:58:49 KRZAK - NIEPOKONANI - Dla Fredka
Aktualnie: "Coolish Blues Session - Boogieman - Sikora blues"
From Memphis to Norfolk
linki nadesłane
o Radio Derf
reklama w Radio Derf
reportaże i wywiady
transmisje live
odwiedzający
Wizyty:
start: 2007-07-03 [8952122] Wizyt łącznie
[1113] Wizyt dzisiaj
[286] Zarejestrowanych użytkowników
[0] Zalogowanych
[921] Aktualności
[7] Koncertów
[0] Nieopublikowanych
[7] Archiwalnych
[93] Galerii
[18] Linków
[0] Postów RD
[55] Reportaży/Relacji
[120] Tematów forum
[2449] Postów forum
<< (921 dokumentów/strona 1 z 116/dokumenty 1-8) >>
PLAYLISTA: The Brothers - March 10, 2020 Madison Square Garden (Live)
Autor: administrator, 2022-09-10 09:19:29
One of the last large-scale concerts to take place before the pandemic started came when The Allman Brothers Band alumni teamed up as The Brothers at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 10, 2020. While remastered video and audio of the show was rebroadcast and shared last June, the concert film/live album The Brothers / March 10, 2020 / Madison Square Garden / New York, NY featuring DVD, Blu-Ray and CDs arrives via Peach Records/The Orchard/nugs.net on July 23 with downloads also coming along with streams on nugs.net and the Amazon Prime service CODA as per Rolling Stone.
The Brothers featured co-founding drummer Jaimoe along with Duane Trucks in the role held down by his late uncle, Butch Trucks, as well as longtime ABB members Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes on guitar, bassist Oteil Burbridge and percussionist Marc Quinones. Additionally, Reese Wynans, the musician Gregg Allman replaced when the group changed their name from Second Coming to The Allman Brothers Band, was on keys with pianist and 1972 – 1976 ABB member Chuck Leavell serving as special guest.
“It was a one-off celebration of 50 years of the band and it was sold out. But I know a bunch of people who had tickets who didn’t come,” Derek Trucks told Rolling Stone’s David Browne in the days following the concert. “My parents were unable to make it. They were worried about traveling and their doctor told them not to hop on a plane to New York. So that was bittersweet in a lot of ways. You wish it had been slammed to the rafters and everyone wouldn’t have had that in the back of their mind.”
However, the show came off well with a pair of marathon sets and “Midnight Rider”/”Whipping Post” encore. Derek added “it felt good” regarding the concert and that “everyone’s head was in the right place.” A portion of proceeds from The Brothers / March 10, 2020 / Madison Square Garden / New York, NY will go towards The Big House Museum in Macon, Georgia. The building was the ABB home from 1970 – 1973 and now keeps the band’s legacy alive as their official museum.
Disc 1 (37:01)
1. Don't Want You No More (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (02:43)
2. It's Not My Cross to Bear (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:00)
3. Statesboro Blues (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (04:39)
4. Revival (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (04:16)
5. Trouble No More (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (04:18)
6. Don't Keep Me Wonderin' (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:55)
7. Black Hearted Woman (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (10:10)
1. Dreams (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (13:24)
2. Hot 'Lanta (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (06:15)
3. Come and Go Blues (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (04:49)
4. Soulshine (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (09:09)
5. Stand Back (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:03)
6. Jessica (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (13:31)
1. Mountain Jam (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (18:46)
2. Blue Sky (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (10:05)
3. Desdemona (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (12:31)
4. Ain't Wastin' Time No More (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (09:33)
5. Every Hungry Woman (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (08:38)
1. Melissa (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:52)
2. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (15:44)
3. No One to Run With (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:19)
4. One Way Out (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (05:43)
5. Jaimoe & Warren Greetings (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (01:08)
6. Midnight Rider (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (04:17)
7. Whipping Post (3-10-20 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY) (14:22)
[0] komentarzy skomentuj
Ocena: -654321
Twój komentarz zostanie dodany po zaakceptowaniu przez moderatora
PLAYLISTA STANDARD: John Mayall - The Sun Is Shining Down (2022)
On his latest album, 'The Sun is Shining Down', out via Forty Below Records, Blues legend John Mayall teams up with a stellar cast to deliver a funky soulful affair punctuated by brass, violins, harmonica and electric ukulele.
Special guests include, The Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell, fast rising roots rocker Marcus King, Americana icon Buddy Miller, Scarlet Rivera of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, Chicago blues guitar mainstay Melvin Taylor and Hawaiian ukulele star Jake Shimabukuro. Also on hand are Mayall's longtime dynamic Chicago rhythm section of Greg Rzab on bass guitar and Jay Davenport on drums with Austin's multi-talented and charismatic Carolyn Wonderland on guitar.
Recorded at Robby Krieger's (The Doors) Horse Latitudes studio with Grammy nominated Producer Eric Corne, 'The Sun is Shining Down' is Mayall's 5th studio album for Forty Below Records, a fruitful partnership that began with 2014's A Special Life.
''I couldn't be happier with the new record,'' exclaims Mayall. ''I can't wait to share it with my fans. Each one of these special guests brings something unique to the album and our team works so well together. I think you can hear that chemistry in the music,'' raves Mayall.
The album explores a range of styles and eclectic instruments with guests Scarlet Rivera's violin, Jake Shimabukaro's electric ukulele and Mike Campbell, Marcus King, Buddy Miller and Melvin Taylor on guitars. As significant as each of these guest turns is, however, they can't overshadow Mayall's own spirited vocals, iconic harmonica and lyrical keyboard work.. ''John shines throughout this album, exuding a joy and gratitude that are infectious. We all want to give that back to him,'' adds Producer Eric Corne.
1. Hungry and Ready (feat. Melvin Taylor) (5:00)
2. Can't Take No More (feat. Marcus King) (3:45)
3. I'm As Good As Gone (feat. Buddy Miller) (4:23)
4. Got to Find a Better Way (feat. Scarlet Rivera) (5:00)
5. Chills and Thrills (feat. Mike Campbell) (5:20)
6. One Special Lady (feat. Jake Shimabukuro) (4:18)
7. A Quitter Never Wins (4:33)
8. Deep Blue Sea (feat. Scarlet Rivera) (4:25)
9. Driving Wheel (feat. Melvin Taylor) (3:41)
10. The Sun is Shining Down (feat. Carolyn Wonderland) (5:20)
PLAYLISTA BLUESDELTA: Son House - Forever On My Mind (2022)
A new Son House album of previously unreleased recordings from the legendary ''Father of the Delta Blues'' features the never-before-released title track, ''Forever On My Mind.'' The album comes from noted blues manager and historian Dick Waterman's archives which were the first upon Son House's 1964 rediscovery. Restored to remarkable clarity by producer Dan Auerbach for Easy Eye Sound, they represent the earliest recordings of House after his return to the limelight after 20-plus years away.
01. Forever on My Mind (5:36)
02. Preachin’ Blues (5:16)
03. Empire State Express (4:30)
04. Death Letter (5:51)
05. The Way Mother Did (3:40)
06. Louise McGhee (6:44)
07. Pony Blues (4:47)
08. Levee Camp Moan (6:38)
PLAYLISTA: Gov't Mule - Heavy Load Blues (2021)
Gov’t Mule is back! The band’s first-ever blues album, Heavy Load Blues, will be released Friday, November 12 on Fantasy Records. The new record is available for pre-order now at all DSPs HERE and each pre-save will include an instant download of the first song, “Heavy Load.” CD and Vinyl packages – including a deluxe edition featuring additional studio and live tracks.
“For me, personally, it’s kind of been on my list of things to do for years. I didn’t know if it was gonna be a solo album or a Gov’t Mule record. We play some traditional blues on stage from time to time and although it’s usually never more than a few songs per show, our approach to the blues is unique and based on our collective chemistry as a band. This album gave us a mission. Although in some way it was ‘anything goes,’ we wanted to stay true to the spirit of the blues in a traditional sense. It’s not a blues/rock record – it’s a blues record. We wanted it sonically to sound different from a normal Gov’t Mule record.” – Warren Haynes
01. Gov't Mule - Blues Before Sunrise
02. Gov't Mule - Hole In My Soul
03. Gov't Mule - Wake Up Dead
04. Gov't Mule - Love Is A Mean Old World
05. Gov't Mule - Snatch It Back And Hold It > Hold It Back > Snatch It Back And Hold It (Medley)
06. Gov't Mule - Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City
07. Gov't Mule - (Brother Bill) Last Clean Shirt
08. Gov't Mule - Make It Rain
09. Gov't Mule - Heavy Load
10. Gov't Mule - Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
11. Gov't Mule - If Heartaches Were Nickels
12. Gov't Mule - I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
13. Gov't Mule - Black Horizon
PLAYLISTA BLUES ROCK: Beth Hart - A Tribute To Led Zeppelin (2022)
Not so surprising to learn that Beth Hart is taking on the Led Zeppelin monument in an entire album, after shielding her concerts so much with covers of Whole Lotta Love. Slash had even joined him in 2010.
Rare are those who can rub themselves into Robert Plant's voice without looking pale. But the Californian is far from being one of them and Rob Cavallo understood it very quickly when he heard him improvising on Led Zep, during recording sessions for his latest album War In My Mind (2019).
The American producer at the head of Warner already had the idea of an album, driven by sound engineer Doug McKean with handpicked musicians: Tim Pierce on guitar (Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner), Chris Chaney (Rob Zombie, Slash) on bass, Jamie Muhoberac (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones) on keyboards and drummer Dorian Crozier (Celine Dion, Joe Cocker).
This tribute therefore begins very strongly with Beth's favorite, Whole Lotta Love, on which she excels, then aligns the blockbusters of the Page and Plant repertoire: Kashmir, Stairway To Heaven, Black Dog … If the flashy and massive orchestration signed Dave Campbell can leave more than one on the tile – the purists first –, this tribute proves that Beth Hart, who finds in the airship blues the perfect ground of expression for her hoarse and powerful voice, at the crossroads of a Janis Joplin and of an Aretha Franklin, remains far too underestimated.
01. Beth Hart - Whole Lotta Love
02. Beth Hart - Kashmir
03. Beth Hart - Stairway To Heaven
04. Beth Hart - The Crunge
05. Beth Hart - Dancing Days, Pt. 1
06. Beth Hart - When The Levee Breaks
08. Beth Hart - Black Dog
09. Beth Hart - No Quarter
10. Beth Hart - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
11. Beth Hart - Good Times Bad Times
12. Beth Hart - The Rain Song
PLAYLISTA: Tedeschi Trucks Band - I Am The Moon II. Crescent (2022)
Tedeschi Trucks Band invite you to experience I AM THE MOON, an expansive, inspired, and ambitious musical journey that propels the treasured American ensemble into new and thrilling creative territory.
During the pandemic and its corresponding isolation, Tedeschi Trucks Band, one of the music’s most admired and successful live music draws, was searching for something to hold on to; a way to connect to each other and their craft.
They had come off a triumphant performance of Derek and the Dominoes’ classic Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs with Trey Anastasio at the LOCKN’ Festival, which subsequently led to the release of the band’s acclaimed live album, last summer’s Layla: Revisited. Looking for an idea, TTB vocalist Mike Mattison turned to Layla’s rich source material for inspiration: Layla and Majnun, the legendary ninety-page narrative poem of star-crossed lovers by 12th Century Sufi poet Nizami.
As a writing exercise, Mattison challenged the group to delve into the poem’s deeper themes. As he pointed out, Clapton’s “Layla” only used one element of the poem - Majnun’s love-madness - whereas the poem itself contains multitudes: family drama, classism, isolation, judgment, and the severe cost of single-minded mania, even in the cause of love. (Indeed, Layla and Majnun is believed to be the inspiration behind Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and many other eastern and western literary classics.) Challenge accepted. With a burst of creativity and focus over the course of the next year, the band wrote and recorded the best material of their career: an electric and vibrant conceptualization that spans the richness of American music as only they can.
The prolific sessions were so successful, they ended up with a little over two hours of essential music. Despite its sprawling nature, the tracks on I AM THE MOON are concise and visceral, epitomizing and enhancing the collaborative nature of the storytelling.
1. Playing With My Emotions
2. Ain't That Something
3. All The Love
4. So Long Savior
5. Rainy Day
6. La Di Da
7. Hold That Line
PLAYLISTA: Tedeschi Trucks Band - I Am The Moon I. Crescent (2022)
Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am The Moon” is a four album rock ‘n’ roll event. Inspired by classical literature and driven by the isolation and mourning of the pandemic era, “I Am The Moon” features 24 original tracks and more than two hours of music. The four albums that comprise “I Am The Moon”— I. Crescent, II. Ascension, III. The Fall, and IV. Farewell — will be released in successive months beginning with “I Am The Moon” –
I. Crescent, available digitally and on CD, Friday, June 3rd. (All vinyl configurations, including individual LPs and the 4-LP “I Am The Moon” Deluxe Box will be available on September 9th).
The concept behind Tedeschi Trucks Band’s I Am The Moon, the GRAMMY-winning band’s fifth studio recording, was suggested by TTB vocalist Mike Mattison in May 2020, two months after the band was forced off the road by the pandemic. The 12th century poem Layla & Majnun by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi was the title inspiration for Eric Clapton’s 1970 double-LP with Derek and the Dominoes, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – an influential album for TTB. But Ganjavi’s source material resonated with Mattison and the rest of the band in an altogether different way. Finding complex themes and storylines that inspired their creative process, they forged a new, modern interpretation of the vast 100-page poem. I Am The Moon was written collectively and collaboratively, with band members contributing their own unique perspectives on the work.
By January 2021 the band was recording at Tedeschi and Trucks’ home studio, Swamp Raga, in Jacksonville, FL, with Derek behind the soundboard as producer and long-time studio engineer Bobby Tis in charge of recording and mixing.
Operatic in scope, Tedeschi Trucks Band explores romantic relationships, collective struggle, faith, and the human experience on I Am The Moon.
1. Hear My Dear (05:34)
2. Fall In (05:48)
3. I Am The Moon (05:14)
4. Circles 'Round The Sun (06:16)
5. Pasaquan (12:15)
NATCHEZ BLUES. Living Blues No 210, XI/XII.2010
By Scott Baretta
Podobnie, jak w przypadku leżącej nieco dalej na północ Delty, istnienie Natchez jest nierozerwalnie związane z rzeką Mississippi. Podczas jednak, gdy gospodarczy rozwój Delty poprzedzić musiała budowa skomplikowanego systemu tam chroniącego przed corocznymi powodziami, Natchez już od tysięcy lat przyciągało osadników dogodnym położeniem na wysokim brzegu rzeki.
Korzystnym warunkom geograficznym Natchez zawdzięcza handlowy boom w XVIII i XIX wieku, jednak to właśnie one doprowadziły w końcu do upadku miasta. Miasto zawdzięczało bogactwo rzecznym parowcom, których epoce położyły kres pociągi, a później sieć autostrad. Dziś miasto leży z dala od uczęszczanych szlaków, dobrą godzinę drogi od Interstate 55, a jedynymi statkami cumującymi u jego nabrzeży są pływające kasyna...
c.d. w dziale Artykuły
<< (921 dokumentów//strona 1 z 116/dokumenty 1-8) >>
Dziś jest: 2023-02-02
81 lat temu...
1942.02.02 w St. Matthews w Pd. Karolinie ur. się James Blood Ulmer, wybitny gitarzysta i wokalista jazzowy i bluesowy, przekraczający granice gatunków. Zadebiutował albumem Revealing.
1935.02.02 w Detroit w wieku 41 lat zmarła Clara Smith, jedna z najbardziej znanych śpiewaczek bluesowych lat 20-tych, występująca u boku Louisa Armstronga i Fletchera Hendersona.
1959.02.02 Urodził się Andrzej Ryszka, perkusista grupy Krzak.
1983.02.02 W Hollandale w stanie Missisipi zmarł 86-letni Sam Chatmon, weteran country bluesa.
121 lat temu...
1902.02.02 w Bolton, MS ur. się Walter Vinson, członek legendarnego zespołu Mississippi Sheiks.
[również w treści]
Nie jesteś zalogowany/-a
Powered by PHP, Copyright (c) 2007-2023 ..::bestyjek::.. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8078504800796509, "wiki_prob": 0.8078504800796509, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line101761"} |
by ncagriculture | Jun 19, 2009
Each week we’ll round up the latest N.C. agricultural headlines from newspapers across the state and country, as well as excerpts from the stories. Click on the links to go straight to each paper’s full story.
“How a Cabarrus farm is growing the next generation of farmers,” Charlotte Observer: As squash, okra and Swiss chard bask on a sunny slope outside town, another crop is also taking root: budding farmers. Cabarrus County’s answer to consumers clamoring for locally grown foods – a demand undercut by aging growers – is to teach a new generation how to work the land. …
“Hops may become WNC’s next hot crop,” Hendersonville Times-News: The next time you pick up a pint of locally brewed beer, it might contain local ingredients. In conjunction with North Carolina Cooperative Extension, mountain farmers are being encouraged to try something new – grow hops. Jeanine Davis, associate professor and extension specialist at the Mountain Horticulture Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River, said the extension is encouraging farmers to develop alternative crops in North Carolina. …
Interview: Steve Troxler, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner, 680 WPTF: Audio of Commissioner Troxler’s interview with WPTF’s Scott Fitzgerald. Topics include NCFarmFresh.com, food safety and the OLF.
“Efland farm comes full circle — naturally,” Raleigh News & Observer: Ten years ago, walking around a certain 61-acre parcel of land in Efland was more like off-roading. All you could see were overgrown weeds and trees coming out of nutritionally parched soil that had been slashed and burned several times in previous decades. Ben Bergmann and Noah Ranells, then N.C. State University professors teaching and researching agro-forestry and soil science, could see much more. …
“Fruits of N.C. farmers shine in ‘Best Dish’ competition,” Durham Herald-Sun: Chef Patrick Cowden of The Weathervane restaurant at A Southern Season in Chapel Hill isn’t too surprised about being a finalist in the “Best Dish in North Carolina” contest of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The dishes he entered are tasty and creative for sure, but Cowden said the contest isn’t just about a few dishes, but a restaurant’s dedication to using North Carolina food. That’s something that’s already a Weathervane priority. …
“Venus’ flytraps: Comeback of the clones,” Fayetteville Observer: The creepy, subterranean Venus’ flytrap has blossomed into a rock star at Southeastern Community College. Near the heart of where the carnivorous plant once thrived, students are cultivating these wonders of nature in campus laboratories. … “It’s rare, but it’s not endangered. It’s a step down from endangered,” said Laura Gadd, a botanist with the N.C. Plant Conservation program. … | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7421432733535767, "wiki_prob": 0.25785672664642334, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1861881"} |
Peugeot CEO Linda Jackson unveils the Peugeot Inception Concept car during the Stellantis keynote at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas.…
Peugeot CEO Linda Jackson unveils the Peugeot Inception Concept car during the Stellantis keynote at the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
CES 2023: Stellantis preps cost cuts due to higher EV prices
by: TOM KRISHER, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares says his company has to work on cutting costs globally in order to keep electric vehicles affordable for the middle class.
Among the cuts are reducing the number of the automaker’s factories because electric vehicles cost about 40% more than those powered by gasoline.
Without cost reductions, EVs will be too expensive for the middle class, shrinking the market and driving costs up more, Tavares told reporters Thursday at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas.
“If the size of the market shrinks, you are back to square one because you are reducing the efficiency and effectiveness of your manufacturing operation,” he said. “You go from hero to zero in three years if you stop working on costs.”
Stellantis began the factory reduction process in the U.S. last month when it announced plans to idle its plant in Belvidere, Illinois. In February, it plans to lay off about 1,350 people at the plant indefinitely. The plant about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Chicago now makes the Jeep Cherokee small SUV but has no new vehicle allocated to it.
Tavares said he’s not certain about costs going up or whether Belvidere will be closed, but said Stellantis must be prepared for a shrinking auto market globally.
“We’ll see how things move in the next few months,” he said, adding that a significant economic slowdown won’t help the Belvidere plant. But he said that if the economy comes back strongly, there’s no recession and consumers are still buying vehicles, “Then we’ll adapt our decisions.”
He said worries about electric vehicle affordability extend to Italy, France, Spain, Greece and other European counties “which means we need to accelerate the cost reduction on that technology to make it more affordable.”
Stellantis, he said, has seen its production costs rise, especially raw materials and because of the shortage of computer chips. It has to cut fixed, variable and distribution costs to offset those, plus the increased cost of EVs. Otherwise vehicles will be too expensive or profit margins will drop, Tavares said.
“Are we sure that we will not need the (factory) capacity? No, we are not sure,” he said. “If you keep for a signification amount of time capacity that you don’t use, you put yourself in trouble. That’s what experience shows. So you need to continually adjust your capacity to your needs.” | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.824705183506012, "wiki_prob": 0.824705183506012, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1623892"} |
Blacks in Business
Dallas Examiner
Black History – Dallas Then & Now
The College Guide
Monday Night Politics
Local Commentaries
Voices from Community
ACL – DFW Businesses
Black Experience
Healthy Appetite
Voter Roll Call
[ February 8, 2023 ] COVID-19 Vaccines Can Slightly Alter Menstrual Cycle Temporarily, But Don’t Harm Fertility Coronavirus
[ February 7, 2023 ] Gov. DeSantis has charted a course to the White House that cuts straight through the swamp of white supremacy Perspectives
[ February 7, 2023 ] No safe spaces Perspectives
[ February 7, 2023 ] Black History and The Dallas Examiner Local Commentaries
[ February 7, 2023 ] Taking on the symptom that is gun violence and the disease behind it Perspectives
HomeHealthArrive alive: Parkland trauma physician warns of holiday highway hazards
Arrive alive: Parkland trauma physician warns of holiday highway hazards
December 10, 2022 Charity Chukwu Health 0
Dallas Highway – Photo by Muhammad/Pixabay
Special to The Dallas Examiner
Whether it’s making a “happy holidays” phone call from behind the wheel, rushing to the next party or indulging in some rum eggnog before hitting the road, Parkland Health physicians warn travelers to be careful this holiday season.
Driving when you’re tired, impaired or distracted is always dangerous. Add in the end of Daylight Saving Time, low visibility, the potential for wet or icy conditions and the pressures that come with the holiday season, and this may be one of the most dangerous times to be on the road.
“It’s important to stop and rest before you head out, minimize distractions inside the vehicle and slow down – especially if you’re traveling after sunset,” said Jeffery Metzger, MD, chief of Emergency Services at Parkland and associate professor of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. “When it’s dark, you can’t tell if you’re driving on a dry road or if you’re coming up on black ice. Too many times people are in a hurry and instead of attending a holiday party they’re making an unplanned trip to the trauma center.”
During last year’s holiday season, 518 patients were treated in Parkland’s Emergency Department as a result of a car or motorcycle crash, between Nov. 1, 2021, through Jan. 2, 2022.
“Although we don’t know the exact cause of each crash, the number of visits would validate that either the weather conditions were bad, the drivers were impaired or distracted or both,” Metzger said. “Especially during the holiday season, we see a lot of patients who were thinking of the list of items they need to get done rather than concentrating on the task at hand, which is getting to their destination safely.
As an emergency room physician, he has witnessed first-hand the results of a distracted driver.
“In just that split second, lives can be changed forever or even lost,” he said, noting that a majority of the crashes may have been prevented.
Tens of millions of Americans hit the road each year to celebrate the holidays – often traveling long distances, under stress and in hazardous weather, according to the American Safety Council. Three of the top four most dangerous holidays to be on the road include (in order) Thanksgiving, New Year’s Day and Christmas. Since many employers don’t give workers the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off, Thanksgiving Day tends to be a day of rushed, distracted and fatigued driving, the safety council reported.
As for Christmas, most traffic accidents occur between the afternoon of Christmas Eve and the evening of Christmas Day. However, traffic accidents and fatalities tend to decline when Christmas falls on a weekday instead of a weekend, the report said.
So that you don’t become a statistic, the AAA offers a few tips to help you avoid distractions on the roadways:
Put it away. Place your mobile device out of sight to prevent temptation.
Know where you’re going. If using a navigation system, program the destination before driving.
Ask passengers for help. If riding with someone, seek their help to navigate, make a call or send a message.
Pull over. If you must call or text while on the road, pull off the road safely and stop first.
Be a good passenger. Speak out if the driver of your vehicle is distracted.
Activate Do Not Disturb. Setting up this feature on iPhone or Android devices will prevent calls from coming in while you’re driving.
“Having a safe holiday season is what we want for everyone,” Metzger said. “But the Rees-Jones Trauma Center at Parkland always stands ready for those who need our services.”
Celebrate the holidays with festive Mexican favorites
Slow cognitive decline with flavonols, study says
View our e-edition
Youth Make a Difference
Coronavirus testing & Resources
Parenting Today
version 2 300×250 static
Copyright @ 2023 Dallas Examiner - Site Designed by No Regret Media | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7502970099449158, "wiki_prob": 0.7502970099449158, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line221556"} |
The Foreign Unit Trust & US Taxation, PFIC, FBAR & FATCA
1 Foreign Unit Trust for US Taxation, PFIC, FBAR & FATCA
2 What is a Unit Trust?
3 Unit Trust and US Tax
4 Unit Trust & FBAR (FinCEN Form 114)
5 Unit Trust & FATCA (Form 8938)
6 Unit Trust & PFIC (Form 8621)
7 About Our International Tax Law Firm
The Unit Trust for US Taxation, PFIC, FBAR & FATCA Explained
Foreign Unit Trust for US Taxation, PFIC, FBAR & FATCA
While many foreign countries have tax-deferred investments which help Taxpayers save for retirement, the disparity between the US Tax System (based on Worldwide Income) and foreign tax systems (usually based on Residence) may result in an unwanted US tax implication for foreigners who are also considered to be US persons. The term US Person refers to more than just citizens and can also include Lawful Permanent Residents and Foreign Nationals who meet the Substantial Presence Test. Even though there may be a tax treaty with a foreign county, most treaties refer specifically to pension or other retirement plans – and not other forms of investments which while may serve in purpose as a retirement supplement (such as a UK ISA or Indian PPF) – does not qualify as a retirement plan. A common issue arises with the Unit Trust, which resembles a mutual fund but has a key difference which may remove it from PFIC territory – although is still taxable and reportable for FATCA and FBAR.
What is a Unit Trust?
In concept the Unit Trust operates similar to the mutual fund or ETF, in that it is pooled funds in which the pooled funds are then split into “trusts,” which are then sold to shareholders. As provided by Lloyds Bank:
A unit trust is a type of mutual fund where money from many investors (called “unit holders”), is managed by a fund manager to achieve a specific return. This fund manager then creates a portfolio of investments and assets.
With a unit trust, the fund manager invests in bonds or shares of businesses on the stock market. The fund is then split into units, which is what you buy when you invest in a unit fund.
Unit trusts are one of the most popular forms of investment funds. They are generally used by investors who want to buy shares and other assets across a mixed portfolio but have limited time or expertise to manage such investments.
Unit Trust and US Tax
From a US Tax perspective, the Unit Trust is taxable. That is because the foreign investment is generating income and the income would then be taxed in the U.S. – since there is no exception for unit trusts to avoid Tax in the United States, such as how a pension plan may defer (or even avoid) US Tax. If the Unit Trust is considered a Mutual Fund per se, then it may be considered PFIC – this would result in a “deferred tax,” but the ultimate tax consequences are usually far worse unless an MTM or QEF election was made.
Unit Trust & FBAR (FinCEN Form 114)
The Unit Trust is considered a foreign financial account and therefore would be reportable each year on the FBAR (Foreign Bank and Financial Account Reporting aka FinCEN Form 114).
Unit Trust & FATCA (Form 8938)
Since the Unit Trust is considered a foreign financial account, it would also (not instead of) be reportable each year on for FATCA Form 8938 as well (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act).
Unit Trust & PFIC (Form 8621)
Whether or not the Unit Trust is reportable for PFIC can boil down to semantics. Not all unit trusts are incorporated – in fact, most unit trusts are not incorporated. Therefore, if the Unit Trust is not incorporated, then it may not meet the requirements of the PFIC – which generally requires that the trust be a foreign corporation. The problem is if that if the first year elections such as MTM or QEF are missed, then it would require cleansing election later if a late election is made, which could have serious tax implications and so it is something to discuss in detail with your experienced Board-Certified Tax Law Specialist before making any proactive submission to the IRS.
About Our International Tax Law Firm | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5807147026062012, "wiki_prob": 0.5807147026062012, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1843379"} |
The How and The Why
by Sarah Treem
January 28th - February 20th, 2022
Allen Barton
Faye Viviana and Andrea Nittoli Kelly
Evolution and emotion collide in Sarah Treem's thought-provoking and sharp play about science, family, and survival of the fittest. On the eve of a prestigious conference, an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth with an established leader in the field. This intimate and keenly perceptive play explores the difficult choices faced by women of every generation.
Subscribe for Latest Updates & News
Follow Crimson Square | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6912130117416382, "wiki_prob": 0.3087869882583618, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line872449"} |
Posted inSteady Habits
PODCAST: As deadlines loom, could Connecticut face an eviction crisis?
by John Dankosky July 20, 2020 @ 5:30 am Updated January 30, 2022 @ 9:20 pm
Seila Mosquera-Bruno, Commissioner of the Department of Housing, speaks at a press conference held to announce an aid package for undocumented immigrants. Cloe Poisson / CTMirror.org
This week on “Steady Habits,” a look at how Connecticut’s Housing Commissioner and housing advocates are approaching the rental crisis caused by Covid-19.
Affordable housing is already out of reach for many residents. But the Covid-19 shutdown has made that problem much worse. Despite an eviction moratorium that’s been extended to the end of August, housing advocates are worried that thousands will be forced out of their homes because they can’t afford to pay their current rent or the back rent they owe.
And that’s just one deadline looming. The other is the end of this month, when the federal unemployment insurance that’s paying people who’ve lost their jobs an extra $600 per week goes away.
Federal lawmakers are working on an extension of those benefits – but it’s likely that the next round won’t be so generous. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont is among those who was calling for those benefits to end, saying it “discourages work,” by paying people more to be unemployed than their jobs were paying them. Last week, Lamont walked that opposition back a bit, saying he was talking about the “specific amount.”
But his Housing Commissioner, Seila Mosquero-Bruno sees how that insurance has helped people. She tells me that we as a state, “sometimes don’t appreciate” how hard it is for people, especially working minimum wage jobs, to make their rent during a crisis.
Her department rolled out a rental relief program last week that requires tenants to apply for assistance that will ultimately go to their landlords. Housing advocates say that’s putting too much strain on already stressed tenants – and that the amount of money Connecticut is allocating, $10 million dollars, only about $4000 per household, is far short of what’s needed.
In this episode, we talk to the Housing Commissioner, and with Ashley Blount of the Cancel Rent Coalition.
John DankoskyEvent / Podcast Host
[email protected]
John is CT Mirror's Director of Events. A well-known and highly-regarded radio personality and moderator, he divides his time between CT Mirror — where he heads up our events program and serves as a multi-platform consultant — and the NPR / PRI program Science Friday. Previously, John was executive editor of the New England News Collaborative and the host of NEXT, a weekly program about New England. He also appeared weekly on The Wheelhouse, WNPR’s news roundtable program. His 25 years in public media also include serving as vice president of news for Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, host of WNPR’s Where We Live, and regular fill-in host for the PRI program Science Friday in New York. He was twice recognized by PRNDI as America’s best public radio call-in show.
More by John Dankosky | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7487198710441589, "wiki_prob": 0.25128012895584106, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1553675"} |
$370,000 Final Bid
9 Westfort Dr Meriden CT 06451
Property Front View
Exterior Address Verification
Exterior Neighborhood (street photo)
Property Side View
Property Rear View
Auction Ended
This property is being sold subject to seller approval.
Final Bid
By confirming below, you are expected to perform if this bid is accepted by the Seller. If not, penalties* can be assessed. Thank you.
The Highest Bid, at the conclusion of the auction, will be sent to the Seller for review.
Bid Confirmation
Congratulations! You are the Highest Bidder.
5 Minutes Rule
If anyone bids in the last 5 minutes of the bidding period, the deadline will be extended by 5 minutes. The bidding period will automatically extend for a successive 5 minute period until 5 minutes pass with no new bids placed. At this point, the bidding period closes.
123 ABC Lane 12435
Bid Increment
(Buyer's premium will be 5% of the winning bid amount or the minimum fee of $2,500 (US), whichever is greater)
Total Purchase Price
This is to show you're serious about purchasing. It is due within 48 hours. Earnest money deposit will be applied to your closing costs on the closing date.
(3% of the Total Purchase Price or the minimum of $3,000 (US), whichever is greater)
Buyer typically pays 10% to 15% of Purchase Price in closing costs.
See a list of items buyer typically pays. Contact the Listing Agent for typical buyer fees
By confirming below, you are expected to perform if this bid is accepted by the Seller. If not, penalties* can be assessed.
I Attest and Place Bid
*Per the terms of the Auction Participation Agreement.
You will receive an email including a link to the property that will verify your bid. In addition, there will be a notification within your user dashboard regarding the express checkout form. This form must be completed within 24 hours.
Note: Please submit your highest and best offer. All pre-auction offers submitted will be considered your highest and best offer.
FIRST LOOK PROGRAM
Submit Pre-Auction Offer
Confirm Own It Now Purchase
Own It Now Price
Submit Own It Now
Sorry, this auction has ended and your bid was not accepted.
This property is currently in an exclusive listing period and only offers from owner-occupants, HUD-approved nonprofits, and governmental entities will be considered until the exclusive listing period expires on 00/00/00.
If you are a HUD-approved nonprofit or governmental entity, please contact the National Community Stabilization Trust (NCST) for more information and to submit an offer.
Go to NCST
Learn more about the First Look Program
The First Look Program is an exclusive listing period for the purchase of select properties by eligible buyers. If a pre-auction offer was not accepted by the seller during the First Look period, the auction will begin for all bidders after 00/00/00.
Please select the buyer type from below to determine which program you would like to participate in.
California First Look Program
ViewHide program details
California-Based Owner-Occupants
A natural person who will occupy the property as their primary residence within 60 days of the trustee's deed being recorded.
They will maintain their occupancy for at least one year.
They are not any of the following:
The mortgagor or trustor.
The child, spouse, or parent of the mortgagor or trustor.
The grantor of a living trust that was named in the title to the property when the notice of default was recorded.
An employee, officer, or member of the mortgagor or trustor.
A person with an ownership interest in the mortgagor, unless the mortgagor is a publicly traded company.
They are not acting as the agent of any other person or entity in purchasing the real property.
California-Based Nonprofits
The nonprofit corporation that has a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service affirming its tax-exempt status pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is not a private foundation as that term is defined in Section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code.
The nonprofit corporation is based in California.
All of the board members of the nonprofit corporation have their primary residence in California.
The primary activity of the nonprofit corporation is the development and preservation of affordable rental or home ownership housing in California.
California-Based Governmental Entities
The state, a county, city, district, public authority, or public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the state. Governmental entities must provide a signed statement on their letterhead stating that they are a governmental entity.
California-Based Community Land Trusts
A community land trust based in California, as defined in clause (ii) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 402.1 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
California-Based Limited Equity Housing Co-Ops
A limited equity housing cooperation, as defined in Section 817 of the California Civil Code, that is based in California.
HUD First Look Program
Owner-Occupants
Owner-occupant buyers must provide a signed statement that they intend to use the property as their primary residence.
HUD-Approved Nonprofits
HUD-approved nonprofits must appear on the list of HUD-approved nonprofits under any of the authorizations listed.
Seller Select First Look Program
The nonprofit corporation has a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service affirming its tax-exempt status pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is not a private foundation as that term is defined in Section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code.
By clicking Next, I attest that I am a qualified buyer
It is a criminal offense to trespass on this property. Please contact the listing agent for occupancy status.
Take a look at this 2002 custom build Ranch style home with 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms,2 full baths and 1 haft bath, 3 car garages. DO NOT DISTURB THE OCCUPANTS. This property is being sold occupied and could involve additional costs. Please refer to the purchase contract for fees/costs paid by seller/buyer. This property has been placed in an upcoming …online event. All bids should be submitted at www.xome.com/auctions void where prohibited . All offers received prior to the event period should be submitted by the buyer or buyer s agent by clicking on the Make Offer button on the Property Details page on Xome.com. All offers will be reviewed and responded to within 3 business days. All properties are subject to a 5% buyer s premium pursuant to the Auction Participation Agreement and Terms & Conditions minimums will apply . Please contact listing agent for details and commission paid on this property. Xome is offering a new program allowing the Buyer to use the Seller s Eviction attorney to continue with the eviction process after the Buyer closes on the transaction. This will save the Buyer time and money by not having to restart the process. If Buyer elects to move forward with the seller s open eviction action, they will retain the seller s eviction firm and will be required to sign a retainer agreement at closing. Purchasing this asset does not require you to move forward with the seller s open eviction action. + Read more
P113IWZ
3 Garage Spaces
Bank Owned (REO)
View Listing Details
Luis Gomes - Vylla Home - IDX provided courtesy of Realcomp II Ltd., via Xome Inc. and , Copyright 2023 Realcomp II Ltd. Shareholders
Reduced Reserve
#505 - REO - Seller Select Showcse
Listing Agent Info Email Agent
Luis Gomes
License # RES.0755103
+1 (860) 706 3272 [email protected]
Vylla Home
Brokerage License # REB.0788920
Seth Lesselbaum
License # REB.0789978
Current market conditions for 9 Westfort Dr
The Auctioneer may bid on behalf of the Seller up to the amount of the Reserve Price by placing successive or consecutive bids for a property or by placing bids in response to other bidders. Any such bids placed by the Auctioneer will not result in a Winning Bid.
There is a Buyer's Premium Fee based on a percent of the Winning Bid Amount with a minimum Fee. The Buyer's Premium will be 5 percent of the Winning Bid Amount or the Minimum Fee of $2,500 (US), whichever is greater. The payment of the Buyer's Premium fee shall be a condition of Closing.
Property is being offered “AS IS, WHERE IS”.
There are no inspections or financing contingencies.
The Earnest Money Deposit will be 3 percent of the Total Purchase Price or the Minimum of $3,000 (US), whichever is greater.
Buyer will receive a Special Warranty Deed (SWD) or equivalent.
Please contact the listing agent directly with questions or inquiries regarding this property.
Pre-Auction Offers - Offers must be submitted at least 48 hours prior to the start of the Auction Event. If the Pre-Auction offer is not accepted by the Seller before the Auction starts, it will be deemed rejected. If rejected, we encourage all buyers to bid once the Auction begins.
Buyers of occupied properties will be required to abide by all local, state, and federal laws and orders when working with occupants of an acquired property. In response to the COVID-19 coronavirus declared pandemic, local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and moratoriums have been enacted to protect those who suffer hardships and are negatively impacted by the virus. The buyer may be required to sign an acknowledgement indicating that the Subject Property and any or all occupants residing therein may be protected by one or more occupancy laws or orders, and the buyer commits to honor and comply with all such applicable laws, regulations, orders, and moratoriums. In particular, the buyer will agree not to commence any court action or other legal proceedings to evict or dispossess the current occupants of the Subject Property until doing so does not violate any such law, regulation, order, or moratorium. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7212759256362915, "wiki_prob": 0.2787240743637085, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1295288"} |
Cobra king f6 hybrid review
August 16, 2017Cobra hybrids
The Cobra King F6 Hybrid can be defined as the best save club, as solid and consistent because they come, which marks Cobra’s recently elevated standards with regards to golf gear. The Cobra King F6 Hybrid retails for $199 (MSRP) and it is probably the most forgiving and longest hybrid within the company’s portfolio, promoting enhanced spin and launch via its comprehensive adjustability options, also it’s the only real high finish hybrid obtainable in Cobra’s catalog in the present season. When it comes to design, the Cobra King F6 Hybrid has a full-round pear-like shape along with a medium feet print,by no mean bulbous and certainly unsurprising. You will find small aesthetic variations between your previous generation that are apparent especially around the sole, where you will find at a close look the black-vibrant orange fixed weight, as well as the us dot pattern texture around the fringe of the crown. Cobra made the decision to give the King F6 hybrid in only one colorway, i.e. a black finish, but that is virtually no problem in my opinion.
It should be noted the previous generations were obtainable in vibrant colors, like blue, red or orange. Unlike the prior generations, which seemed like a little metal wood, having a springy metallic tone along with a trampoline like feel, the brand new Cobra King F6 Hybrid has a completely different feel, as with stronger, in addition to a stronger (thwack like) seem. Some players will like the stronger and responsive feeling and seem from the new Cobra King F6 Hybrid, others will love the trampoline like vibe in the last generation, here it’s dependent on (acquired) taste. Performance wise, the Cobra King F6 Hybrid is made for promoting a simple-high launch in mid-air, via its specifically designed deep and occasional center of gravity. After playing a couple of models with this particular baby, I came across the Cobra King F6 Hybrid creates a fantastic choice if you are searching for doing things like a fairway wood alternative, offering lots of distance and forgiveness along with a high ball trajectory, coupled with a gentle landing. An execllent feature from the Cobra King F6 Hybrid is its precision, unlike other hybrids available on the market. To become fair, I have to tell you just how the F6 is astoundingly accurate, supplying a tight dispersion, being amazingly foreseeable and consistent, round after round, the right traits for any hybrid. Main point here, the Cobra King F6 Hybrid is a superb choice if you are searching for reliable precision and solid feel.
Resourse: http://golf-info-guide.com/golf-hybrid-reviews/cobra-king-f6-hybrid-review/
Affordable Golf – Cobra F6 Hybrid Review
Sodthong: Is this suitable for a 16 handicapper ?
We always have 1xbet link on our site http://bet-rate.com
best over the counter viagra | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6721376180648804, "wiki_prob": 0.32786238193511963, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1801615"} |
Genre: Post Punk, Alt. Rock, Electronic, Experimental
Label: Ghostly International
The fourth album from HTRK, the duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, arrives five years on from 2014's Psychic 9-5 Club. While some much-loved HTRK hallmarks remain—the combination of space and intimacy, the unmistakable interplay between Yang's guitars and Standish's vocals—Venus in Leo differs markedly in its energy, returning to HTRK’s underground rock past with the stylistic playfulness and variety of a modern mixtape.
Over the soft strums of acoustic guitar, the album’s introduction, “Into the Drama,” posits a theory that “what was once considered self-sabotage could be revisited as being under the influence of Venus in Leo,” Standish explains. Fingerpicked guitar loops rise slowly and fall over a cold, brittle beat. Previously released lovesong “Mentions” finds Standish exploring the lack of physical intimacy in the social media age. Elsewhere, there are emotional highs, like on the kaleidoscopic single “You Know How to Make Me Happy,” which details a suspended state of ecstasy, Standish commending her partner’s conscious efforts to prop her up with compliments. “New Year’s Day” traces a flimsy resolution to get healthier, instantly busted by an evening of debauchery, recalling “the worst possible start to the year with bad friends and bad behavior.” The silver lining is the sunrise: “pink, red, orange, white, peach” Standish repeats as the track laps with a velvety, hypnotic refrain.
Archetypal themes emerge as the band explore the makings of personality. Standish revisits her childhood home in a recurring dream (“Dream Symbol”), a doomed first kiss (“New Year’s Eve”) and high drama (“Venus in Leo”). Recorded more or less live in HTRK’s home studio in the Dandenong Ranges outside of Melbourne, the album’s simple production reveals gorgeous, toned-back arrangements and an evolving, idiosyncratic songcraft.
It's been ten years since HTRK released their breakthrough first album, Marry Me Tonight. The band has undergone profound changes, with the first two albums released amid the deaths of close friend and collaborator Rowland S. Howard and HTRK co-founder Sean Stewart. Psychic 9-5 Club set them on a path of self-discovery, and Venus in Leo marks a spirited new chapter by one of the most distinctive bands of the past decade.
(Press Note)
*Venus In Leo is HRTK's latest album and offers up nine tracks of chill, ambient, and hauntingly atmospheric sounding post punk, alt. rock, electronic, and experimental pop. Overall, Venus In Leo makes for an awesome listen and is a definite must listen for fans of Drowse, Giles Corey, Have A Nice Life, and other-like minded bands. Highly recommended! Enjoy! Leo In Venus was released via Ghostly International records on August 30th, 2019.
HRTK on Bandcamp
TAGS: Alt. Rock, Australia, Electronic, experimental, HRTK, Post Punk | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7546418309211731, "wiki_prob": 0.7546418309211731, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line729141"} |
I think, if I’d experienced Octavia’s words, which bring such dignity to the bumpy journey artists and organizers can travel en route to our life’s work, especially culture change work, when I was 16, I might have seen more clearly how my obsession could someday become an impassioned career, one that has brought me to the incredible job I now have leading the Pop Culture Collaborative, a fund that supports a powerful field of artists, organizers, strategists, researchers and funders who are just as fascinated by this question as I am.
2. What is your current greatest professional challenge?
Bridgit Antoinette Evans: Since our launch in 2017, the Pop Culture Collaborative has offered our staff and the more than 200 funders we’ve convened a laboratory in which to investigate how to resource the pop culture for social change field to achieve narrative change goals at the scale of millions of people.
Before 2020, I would have said that our greatest challenge was to make the case to philanthropy that narrative change work is real work, just like organizing, policy and litigation work. If just systems are the bones of a healthy society, pluralist culture is its breath, heartbeat and muscles; one cannot flourish without the other. But the COVID pandemic, racial justice protests and election season have made it clear that the next chapter in the march towards justice, democracy and our pluralist potential is unfolding on the terrain of culture, including the pop culture we engage with every day. Toxic movements enlivened by racist and misogynist narratives and ideas recognize this and are amassing the narrative infrastructure they need to contend for the future they seek. In order to build social justice narrative power at that scale, philanthropy needs to make historic, transformational investments in the narrative change field. Our team is doing all we can to expand resources for our grantees.
3. How does your gender identity inform your work?
Bridgit Antoinette Evans: As a philanthropic leader, my strategic approach is rooted in the Abundance Mindset. This is no accident: I am a Black, queer woman whose mother, aunties, and uncle contributed their genius to the deep South movement to dismantle Jim Crow. The expanse of imagination required to believe that social change of that magnitude is possible is astonishing. Like these women, I know that no matter how ferocious the backlash, it is so often Black people, especially cis and trans women and nonbinary people, who have the instinct to make a way out of no way; to dream and then scaffold the future even when others lose hope. This practice of resilient abundance sits at the heart of my leadership at the Pop Culture Collaborative, where we recognize that BIPOC, cis and trans women, and nonbinary people are natural stewards of America’s future. From Patrisse Cullors to Crystal Echo Hawk, Tarana Burke to Ai-jen Poo, Ava DuVernay to Imara Jones and Storm Smith, our grantees are guiding millions of people through this portal moment and onto the path towards the pluralist society we are capable of becoming. Philanthropy can do more to invest in their ability to contend for narrative and political power at the national and global level.
4. What inspires you most about your work?
Tracy Van Slyke: I used to walk home from school every day with my nose buried in a book. My parents would regularly get calls about how I was almost hit by a car because I never looked up crossing the street. Combine my passion for immersive stories with growing up in a household steeped in fights for justice, and it is only fitting that I am now a passionate advocate for the power of women and BIPOC storytellers, movement leaders and pop culture fans to co-create new narrative environments that can lead us to a pluralist future.
I love how the Pop Culture Collaborative is often the first seed funder in the leaders who design, test and build foundational narrative infrastructure. For example, when we launched, we listened to the artists who knew how the entertainment industry was broken. Since then, we have invested in grantee partners Break the Room, Unleashing Giants and The Barcid Foundation to design alternative television writers room models. We have supported ARRAY Crew, ColorCreative, Yes, And Laughter Lab and Starfish Accelerator to launch new pipeline programs into the industry. All of these efforts skip Band-Aid solutions, and focus on innovative leadership that centers the narrative power of BIPOC, trans, disabled and immigrant artists and workers inside Hollywood.
5. How can philanthropy support gender equity?
Tracy Van Slyke: At the narrative level, the gender justice movement is siloed into reproductive justice, safety, caregiving, work equity, gender identity; and even race, economic strata, geography, and religion. While there has been meaningful strategic communications investments, it has been difficult to engage in shared narrative analysis, visioning and strategy design powerful enough to subsume the racist, patriarchal narratives rooted in mass media and pop culture that underlie all these issues and communities. This is a critical moment for philanthropy to invest in narrative infrastructure for the gender justice movement: cross-sector partnerships within mass media industries; investments in values-aligned artists as both storytellers and entrepreneurs; multi-year support in the culture change strategies of BIPOC, immigrant and trans-led gender justice organizations; and more. In addition, the Collaborative is exploring how to support a cross-section of gender justice leaders and artists to continuously come together in a cohort to share learnings on narrative change strategies, explore the core mental models that currently shape millions of people’s views of race, patriarchy and society; build transformational relationships; and co-create a long-term narrative vision.
6. In the next 10 years, where do you see gender equity movements taking us?
Tracy Van Slyke: Gender justice touches all aspects of our work and our world. It is not just tied to women; it is inherently connected to queer and transgender, racial, immigrant, Indigenous, disability, climate and reproductive justice issues. If philanthropy invests appropriately to unleash the narrative superpowers of gender justice movements and artists to, as Bridgit says, “transform the narrative waters we swim in,” in 10 years, tens of millions of people will recognize that it is their work to fight for a society that is unshackled from the toxicity of racist and patriarchal beliefs and systems. The gender justice movement will have played a critical role establishing gender, racial and economic justice as societal norms; and creating new ways of understanding our roles, our relationships and the way we behave toward each other. In this world, men have re-imagined themselves outside of misogynistic norms, and women, trans and genderfluid people will be able to own their joy and have a deep sense of belonging. We will have created the infrastructure, systems and policies to support those communities as core and critical members of our society.
More on Bridgit Antoinette Evans and and Tracy Van Slyke:
Bridgit Antoinette Evans is Chief Executive Officer and Tracy Van Slyke Chief Strategy Officer of the Pop Culture Collaborative, a philanthropic resource and funder learning community working to transform the narrative landscape in the U.S. around people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims and Indigenous peoples, especially those who are women, queer, trans, nonbinary and/or disabled.
This interview has been minimally edited.
What Will You Find in Our Gender Equality Funder Database?
Author: Julia Travers
I often cover innovations in science, the arts and social justice. Find my work with NPR, Discover Magazine, APR and Earth Island Journal, among other publications. My portfolio is at jtravers.journoportfolio.com. View all posts by Julia Travers
Author Julia TraversPosted on August 22, 2021 August 23, 2021 Categories Activism, Arts funding, CEO Women, Civil Society, Feminist Funding, Feminist Philanthropy, Feminist Strategy, Fiction, Film Funding, Gender Lens Thinking, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Nonprofit Women Leaders, Philanthropy Women, Political Struggle, Reproductive Rights, Women Leaders, Women of Color, Women SpeakTags Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Feminist Giving IRL, Pop Culture Collaborative, Tracy Van Slyke
Previous Previous post: Electing Women is Key to Happiness: New Report
Next Next post: The Feminist Factor: How is Feminism Changing the World? | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6551865339279175, "wiki_prob": 0.6551865339279175, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line836122"} |
HomeNewsCOVID-1918 new COVID-19 cases reported in Grande Prairie
NewsCOVID-19
18 new COVID-19 cases reported in Grande Prairie
By John Watson
AHS reported 18 new cases of COVID-19 in the City of Grande Prairie on Sunday, alongside three recoveries. (Supplied, AHS)
Alberta Health Services is reporting 18 new cases of COVID-19 in the City of Grande Prairie, as well as three recoveries. As of Sunday, there are 96 active cases in the city, 446 recoveries, and five fatalities reported.
The County of Grande Prairie saw one COVID-19 case recovery on Sunday and no new cases. A total of 19 active cases remain in the County, as well as 164 recoveries and one fatality.
There are now 1,147 active cases of COVID-19 in the AHS North zone. Of these, 29 people are currently in hospital with five admitted to the ICU. No new fatalities in the region were recorded on Sunday.
A total of 1,735 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded across Alberta on December 6th from 20,358 completed tests. There are currently 20,067 active cases of COVID-19 province-wide.
Of the 609 people currently hospitalized, 108 require intensive care. AHS is reporting 16 fatalities from numbers collected on Sunday, bringing Alberta’s total death toll to 631 people. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5002695918083191, "wiki_prob": 0.5002695918083191, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1395453"} |
November 9, 2020 April 13, 2021
PS5: The Ultimate FAQ
2,934 0 1,003
Share this on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in a new window)
Everything you want to know about PlayStation 5, all in one place.
Sid Shuman (he/him) Senior Director, SIE Content Communications
Welcome! It’s time to share in-depth details about the PlayStation 5 hardware, the DualSense wireless controller, system features, software details, and much, much, much more.
This list of frequently asked questions is a work in progress, and we’ll continue to chase questions and update information here as we get ready for launch later this month.
If you have additional questions, be sure to leave them in the comments below. But for now – please enjoy.
The Console Hardware
The Ultra High-Speed SSD
GPU, CPU and RAM
The DualSense Wireless Controller
Playing PS4 Games on PS5
PS5 Blu-Ray Discs
PS VR, Media Controller and Other PS5 Accessories
PS VR, PS Camera, PS Move Controller, PS VR Aim Controller
Media Remote
PS5 Headset and PS4 Headsets
Additional Peripheral Support
The PS5 UX and Apps
PS5 User Experience
PS Store and Digital Content
Party, Friends, and Network Features
Creating and Sharing Content
What is PlayStation 5’s release date, and what is its retail price?
PlayStation 5 will launch worldwide on the following dates, with the local suggested retail price:
Country Release Date RRP (local currency)
North America November 12, 2020 PS5 console: $499.99 (suggested retail price)
PS5 Digital Edition console: $399.99 (suggested retail price)
PS5 console: CDN $629.99
PS5 Digital Edition console: CDN $499
Mexico November 12, 2020 PS5 console: $13,999 (Mexican pesos)
PS5 Digital Edition console: $11,499 (Mexican pesos)
Brazil November 19, 2020 PS5 console: R$ 4699,00. (Brazilian real)
PS5 Digital Edition console: R$ 4199,00. (Brazilian real)
United Kingdom November 19, 2020 PS5 console: £449.99
PS5 Digital Edition console: £359.99
Europe November 19, 2020 PS5 console: €499.99
PS5 Digital Edition console: €399.99
What’s the difference between the PS5 console and the PS5 Digital Edition console?
The only difference between the PS5 console and the PS5 Digital Edition console is the inclusion of an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive in the PS5 console. The PS5 Digital Edition console does not feature a disc drive.
The PS5 console features an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive that will allow you to play PS5 Blu-ray disc games and PS4 Blu-ray disc games, as well as play video from 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, standard Blu-ray discs, and DVDs.
The PS5 Digital Edition console does not have an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive. PS5 Digital Edition console owners will be able to buy PS5 and PS4 games from PlayStation Store or access games via PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now (an ongoing paid subscription is required for each, sold separately).
And more than 99% of the 4,000+ PS4 games can also be played on either the PS5 console or the PS5 Digital Edition console, though with the PS5 Digital Edition console these games will need to be downloaded from PlayStation Store while the PS5 model with a Blu-ray disc drive will also support PS4 Blu-ray discs.
You can learn more about playing PS4 games on PS5 here.
Note: Blu-ray discs cannot be used with the PS5 Digital Edition console. If you own PS4 Blu-ray Discs, you will not be able to use them with a PS5 Digital Edition console.
Are there any performance differences between the PS5 console and the PS5 Digital Edition console?
No. The consoles’ performance is identical, outside the existence of a disc drive.
What are the physical dimensions of the PS5 console and the PS5 Digital Edition console? How much do they weigh?
The PS5 console is approximately 390mm x 104mm x 260mm (width x height x depth), excluding the Base, and weighs in at around 4.5kg.
The PS5 Digital Edition console is approximately 390mm x 92mm x 260mm (width x height x depth), weighing in at around 3.9kg.
Can I use both PS5 console models in either horizontal or vertical orientation?
Yes, both PS5 models include a Base that allows users to adjust the console for vertical or horizontal placement. Watch our PS5 teardown video to see how it works.
Will PS5 be available in other color schemes?
There won’t be additional colors or designs available for either of the PS5 models at launch.
What input/output ports and connectivity features does PS5 support?
Front of Console USB Type-C® port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps)
USB Type-A port (Hi-Speed USB)
Back of Console USB Type-A port (Super-Speed USB 10Gbps) x2
Networking Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)Wifi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax
Does PS5 use an external ‘power brick’?
No, PS5 is designed with an internal power supply.
What is included in the PS5 box at launch?
Whichever model you choose, you’ll get:
The PS5 console or PS5 Digital Edition console
One DualSense wireless controller
USB Type-C to Type A charging cable for the DualSense wireless controller
HDMI cable (compatible with Ultra High Speed defined by HDMI v2.1)
Base that allows you to orient the console either vertically or horizontally
Quick Start and Safety guide.
Additionally, both PS5 models come with a free game pre-installed. Astro’s Playroom is a brand-new platformer that allows PS5 players to explore four worlds, each one showcasing innovative gameplay using the new and versatile features of the DualSense wireless controller.
What’s special about PS5’s SSD?
PS5’s ultra-high-speed SSD and integrated custom I/O system were developed with the goal of removing barriers to play – specifically loading screens. Developers are able to stream assets into PS5 games at an incredibly fast rate, so PS5 play experiences can be seamless and dynamic, with near-instantaneous fast travel through large game worlds. This enhanced speed will enable game developers to create larger, richer worlds without traditional limitations, such as load times, and also allows gamers to spend more time gaming than waiting.
Read what some developers are saying about the PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD in this article.
What’s the difference between the PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD and other SSDs?
The 5.5GB/s (raw) read bandwidth of PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD is on the cutting edge thanks to its advanced, highly customized design and integrated I/O, including a custom decompressor (learn more here). We developed it with the specific goal of reducing load times and maximizing the developer’s ability to access game data at super-fast speeds.
We believe it represents a true generational leap in data access, and will unleash game developers to create larger, richer, and more seamless play experiences than ever before.
Does PS5 improve my ability to download and store games?
Similar to PS4, PS5 games can offer a feature called “Preferred Install” that allows players to choose which part of a game to install first. This can allow a player to prioritize access to a particular mode or feature. An example could be prioritizing the installation of the single-player or multiplayer component of a game.
In supported PS5 games, players can also choose to remove specific modes or content they no longer want in order to free up storage space. Developers will ultimately determine the level of support offered for these features, but the goal is to maximize storage flexibility.
Downloading and applying game software updates on PS5 should work more quickly than on the PS4 console in general, as the data size of updates and patches is managed more effectively.
Additionally, a feature on the updated PlayStation App for mobile devices will allow players to remotely manage their PS5’s storage if they run out of space when queuing a game to download to their console via the app.
Can I store or play PS5 games from a USB drive?
Yes. With the April PS5 system software update, you can now transfer your PS5 games to USB extended storage from your console’s internal storage. It’s a great way to extend the storage capabilities of your PS5 console, and you can seamlessly copy your PS5 games back to the console’s internal storage when you’re ready to play. It is faster to reinstall PS5 games from USB extended storage than to re-download or copy them from a disc.
You can also store and play PS4 games from a compatible USB drive connected to PS5. For more details, keep reading.
Can I expand PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD storage?
PS5 features an expansion port that will, in the future, enable players to add M.2 SSD storage to be used for installing and playing PS5 games.
This M.2 SSD storage upgrade functionality will come to PS5 after launch as part of a system software update. We’ll share more details in the future, including around which type of M.2 SSD storage drive will be compatible with PS5.
On day one, you’ll be able to connect a compatible USB drive and use it to store and play your PS4 games. You’ll be able to play PS4 games while they remain stored on the external device. PS5 games need to reside on PS5’s internal SSD before play.
What’s an M.2 SSD drive?
M.2 SSD drives are a high-speed SSD medium that you can use to upgrade storage capacity in supported devices. Both PS5 models will support M.2 SSD storage expansion following a future system software update coming after launch.
Will I need to use a specific type or speed of M.2 SSD drive with my PS5?
Yes, a minimum performance level for the M.2 SSD drive will be required, and we’ll share more details in the future.
Should I buy an M.2 SSD drive for my PS5 at launch?
No. For now, we recommend that you hold off on purchasing any M.2 SSD drives intended for use with PS5. We will share more details on recommended drives in the future. M.2 SSD storage functionality will come to PS5 after launch with an upcoming system software update.
What is Tempest 3D AudioTech?
Tempest 3D AudioTech is PS5’s custom engine for 3D Audio. It will provide high-quality audio and allow games to offer a much deeper sense of immersion via the custom 3D Audio implementation with a PS5-compatible headset.
How does PS5’s 3D Audio benefit gameplay?
Games will tap into PS5’s advanced 3D Audio capabilities in different ways based on the goals of the development team. Among other advanced audio features, PS5’s 3D Audio supports highly accurate audio positioning.
Examples could be hearing an arrow zip past the player’s head, or hearing footsteps in another room and detecting the enemy’s location.
Will every PS5 game benefit from 3D Audio?
Yes. Even simple channel-based audio will have additional dimensionality thanks to PS5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech. The exact 3D Audio effects may vary title by title, and developer optimization will provide the best experience
More broadly, PS5’s audio processing capabilities are considerably more advanced than PS4’s, so PS5 game developers will have powerful new tools to create great in-game audio.
What types of headsets can I use to enjoy 3D Audio?
The PULSE 3D wireless headset has been engineered to take full advantage of PS5’s 3D Audio capabilities. With a refined design, dual noise-cancelling microphones, and an array of easy-access controls, the PULSE 3D wireless headset offers a seamless experience.
Players can also experience 3D Audio on PS5 with a PS5-compatible headset that you may already own, either through the console’s USB connection, or by plugging an analog headset into the DualSense wireless controller’s 3.5mm headset jack.
Is 3D Audio available through TV speakers?
TV speaker virtual surround sound won’t be available on launch day for PS5 but is planned for a future update.
How do I get the best 3D Audio experience on PS5?
Using a PS5-compatible stereo headset offers the best 3D Audio experience due to the ability to deliver audio to each ear separately. In addition, since everyone’s ears are a little bit different, PS5 provides a set of built-in user profiles that players can choose from to get the best sound for them.
What are the specs of the AMD CPU and GPU?
CPU x86-64-AMD Ryzen™ “Zen 2”
8 Cores / 16 Threads
Variable frequency, up to 3.5 GHz
GPU AMD Radeon™ RDNA 2-based graphics engine
Ray Tracing Acceleration
Variable frequency, up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS)
System Memory GDDR6 16GB
448GB/s Bandwidth
What exactly is ray tracing, and how will it make PS5 games look better?
Hardware-based ray tracing acceleration is integrated into PS5’s graphics processing unit (GPU), and developers have many ways to tap into these capabilities.
In a nutshell, ray tracing in graphics simulates the way light interacts with objects and surfaces, with a goal of generating more in-game visual detail. PS5 game developers can take advantage of ray tracing to make the effects of water, glass, light refraction, shadows, and surfaces look more realistic or striking, depending on their goals for their game.
Broader benefits, such as unified lighting models or other advanced effects, are also possible depending on the developer’s goals for their PS5 title.
What buttons are featured on PS5?
The PS5 console has a Power button and an Eject button for Blu-ray Discs. The PS5 Digital Edition console only has a Power button.
How loud will PS5 be when I’m playing games?
Our goal is for PS5 to be quieter than PS4. This is due to changes in the power delivery and cooling systems, as well as custom engineering work including a custom heatsink and a liquid metal-based thermal interface material.
You can take a close look at PS5’s cooling system in our recent teardown video.
Does PS5 feature a rest mode? What functions are possible while in rest mode?
Yes. When the system is placed in rest mode, the screen will turn off, the status indicator will shift to orange, and PS5 will enter a low-power state. You can set the system to perform actions such as downloading files or charging the DualSense wireless controller from a USB port while it’s in rest mode.
Rest mode for PS5 will be enabled by default in all markets.
What are the best practices when setting up my PS5 at home?
To maintain good ventilation, follow these guidelines below:
Place the console at least 10 cm (4 in) away from a wall surface.
Do not place on a carpet or rug with long fibers.
Do not place in a narrow or cramped space.
Do not cover with cloth.
Do not allow dust to build up on the vents. Use a cleaning tool such as a vacuum cleaner to remove dust buildup.
Will PS5 require a 4K TV? What resolutions are supported?
No, PS5 does not require a 4K TV. Supported resolutions are 720p, 1080i, 1080p, and 2160p. PS5 can output resolutions up to 2160p (4K UHD) when connected to a 4K display.
PS5 is compatible with 8K displays at launch, and after a future system software update will be able to output resolutions up to 8K when content is available, with supported software.
Does PS5 support HDR?
Yes, PS5 will support the HDR10 specification.
Can I connect my PS5 to my surround sound system or sound bar?
Yes, players can use PS5’s HDMI OUT port to connect to your TV or sound system.
Which audio output formats does PS5 support?
PS5 will support the following audio formats:
Dolby Digital (max 5.1ch)
Dolby Digital Plus (max 7.1ch)
Dolby TrueHD (max 7.1ch)
DTS (max 5.1ch)
DTS-HD High Resolution Audio (max 7.1ch)
DTS-HD Master Audio (max 7.1ch)
AAC (max 5.1ch)
Linear PCM (max 7.1ch)
Dolby ATMOS and DTS:X available for Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc video (when connected to a supported device)
What kind of HDMI cable should I use to connect the PS5 to my TV or receiver?
The included HDMI cable is recommended, but in general, use an Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable that supports HDMI 2.1.
Will PS5 support 4K at 120Hz modes?
Yes, PS5 supports the HDMI 2.1 specification. HDMI 2.1 supports 4K 120Hz, but HDMI 2.1-compatible 4K TVs have not yet fully penetrated the market.
Does PS5 support VRR?
PS5 hardware supports Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) through HDMI 2.1. After a future system software update, PS5 owners will be able to use the VRR feature of compatible TVs when playing games that support VRR.
What are the differences between the DualSense wireless controller and the DualShock 4 wireless controller?
The DualSense wireless controller elevates the way players engage with games. That’s thanks to several immersive next-generation features, including haptic feedback technology and adaptive triggers.
Both haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are designed to produce powerful tactile sensations that deepen player immersion and increase gaming interactivity.
Learn more about the DualSense wireless controller here.
What are the physical dimensions and weight for the DualSense wireless controller?
The DualSense wireless controller measures approximately 160mm x 66mm x 106mm (width x height x depth), excluding the largest projection. It weighs approximately 280g.
How does the DualSense wireless controller’s haptic feedback technology work?
Next-generation haptic feedback replaces traditional “rumble” features with dual actuators, offering a more immersive suite of powerful physical sensations. We expect that game developers will find many interesting and useful ways to tap into DualSense wireless controller’s unique haptic capabilities, from deepening player immersion to communicating various gameplay states, and much more.
Players will be able to reduce the effect or disable the feature if they prefer.
How does the haptic feedback intensity of the DualSense wireless controller compare to the “rumble” feature from the DualShock 4 wireless controller?
In the case of traditional “rumble” technology, two small motors spin in order to create a vibrating or shaking sensation that can increase immersion.
The DualSense wireless controller’s next-generation haptic technology uses dual actuators instead of motors, and the results are quicker, more precise, and far more tactile. These haptic effects can produce a far wider range of physical sensations, from gentle pulsing centered in a specific part of the controller, to more robust physical effects.
When playing a PS4 game on PS5, the DualSense wireless controller’s haptic effects will simulate the “rumble” effects of the DualShock 4 wireless controller. Players interested in experiencing the PS4 game’s original “rumble” effects can use a DualShock 4 wireless controller to play PS4 games on their PS5. For games that require a front-facing lightbar, the DualShock 4 wireless controller is required.
For the best PS VR experience on PS5 we recommend using a DualShock 4 wireless controller. Selected games may require PlayStation Move motion controllers or be compatible with the PlayStation VR Aim controller.
Players will need to use a DualSense wireless controller to play PS5 games.
What are in-game examples of the haptic feedback used by the DualSense wireless controller?
Examples include the feeling of metal striking metal in Demon’s Souls or feeling the texture of the surface Astro runs across in Astro’s Playroom. There are plenty of other examples you can read here, straight from PS5 game developers.
How do the adaptive triggers work?
The new adaptive triggers – incorporated into the L2 and R2 buttons – can create powerful, real-time trigger effects that simulate your in-game actions. For example, a player could pull a bow string in a game and feel the resistance as the string grows taut. Or they could press the brake pedal in a driving game and feel the resistance as they steer around a tight curve. Read other examples here, straight from PS5 game developers.
Developers can independently program the resistance of each trigger, so we’re expecting to see some pretty creative implementations once PS5 launches!
Players will be able to reduce or disable the trigger effects if they prefer. If a game doesn’t use the feature, the L2 and R2 buttons behave similarly to the buttons on the DualShock 4 wireless controller.
Does the DualSense wireless controller include a built-in speaker?
Thanks to a higher sampling frequency and acoustic improvements, the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated speaker produces clearer sounds than the DualShock 4 wireless controller.
Over the years, game developers have used DualShock 4 wireless controller’s speaker to boost immersion in creative ways, and we’re excited to see them carry on that tradition with the DualSense wireless controller.
Does the DualSense wireless controller include a built-in microphone?
Yes, the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated microphone array and built-in echo cancellation will enable players to quickly chat with friends without setting up a headset – ideal for jumping into a quick conversation with a friend. But if you’re planning to chat for an extended period, you may want to have a headset handy.
A mute button on the front of the DualSense wireless controller will allow users to toggle the mic on and off. A short button press will mute or unmute the controller mic, as well as the mic on a wired headset or USB headset, while a long press will mute the mic input as well as all PS5 audio output from your connected TV, speakers, or headset.
Does the DualSense wireless controller have a headset jack?
Yes, the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated headset jack will allow players to plug in a headset, earbuds, or another compatible audio device, similar to PS4. Players can also connect a wired headset and chat with friends in multiplayer games.
Will PS5 or the DualSense wireless controller support voice dictation?
Yes, players will be able to use dictation features to type messages or enter phrases for search, using either the DualSense wireless controller’s mic, or a headset mic. At launch, supported languages include Japanese, US English, UK English, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, French, Canadian French, Italian, and German.
Does the DualSense wireless controller feature motion controls?
Yes, the controller features an integrated six-axis motion sensing system (a three-axis gyroscope and a three-axis accelerometer).
Does the touch pad on the DualSense wireless controller have any new capabilities?
The touch pad is now slightly larger and easier for players to reach. The touch pad also features a light bar that can be used to show controller status and can display various colors to communicate gameplay status, similar to what you may have experienced with the DualShock 4 wireless controller.
Does the DualSense wireless controller have a ‘Share’ button?
Yes, the Create button is designed to build upon the success of our industry-first Share button. With the Create button, we’re once again empowering players to create engaging gameplay content to share with the world, or just to enjoy for themselves.
Watch our PS5 UX video to learn more about how the Create button works.
Does the DualSense wireless controller have a light bar?
Yes, the DualSense wireless controller features player-facing light bars. For PS4 games that require a forward-facing lightbar and are playable on PS5, players will need to use a DualShock 4 wireless controller for gameplay. For the best PS VR experience on PS5 we recommend using a DualShock 4 wireless controller. Selected games may require PlayStation Move motion controllers or be compatible with the PlayStation VR Aim controller.
The light bars on the DualSense wireless controller lay to the right and left of the touch pad, and can display various colors to communicate gameplay status, similar to what you may have experienced with the DualShock 4 wireless controller.
Below the touch pad, the player indicator will communicate which player you are — useful when playing locally with other people.
Will the DualSense wireless controller have improved input latency compared to the DualShock 4 controller?
Input latency has been optimized on the DualSense wireless controller compared to the DualShock 4 wireless controller.
Will DualSense controller support any accessibility options?
Yes, PS5 players will be able to reduce or disable the force of haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Players can also remap buttons on the controller. And the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated microphone allows for voice dictation features, making it easier for players to search for content with their voice.
To learn more about other accessibility features available for PS5, read below.
How do I charge the DualSense wireless controller?
The DualSense wireless controller can be charged in two main ways. One is via the USB Type-C® port, which players can connect to PS5 (or a compatible charging device) using the included USB cable.
Additionally, the DualSense Charging Station (sold separately) can charge up to two controllers simultaneously.
How long will the DualSense controller last on a full charge? How long will it take to recharge?
Under most conditions, battery life is expected to be similar to the DualShock 4 wireless controller. Recharging time when connected to PS5 or the DualSense Charging Station is estimated at approximately three hours.
How many DualSense controllers can be connected to PS5 at any one time?
Up to four DualSense controllers can be connected to one PS5 at a time. When playing with multiple players locally, the DualSense wireless controller’s player indicator (located just under the touch pad) will communicate which player you are.
Can I connect the DualSense wireless controller to my PS5 via a USB cable, and play it in a “wired” mode?
Yes, the DualSense controller operates in a wireless mode using Bluetooth 5.1, or in a “wired” USB mode by connecting it directly to the PS5 using the included USB cable.
Does the DualSense wireless controller come in black (or any other color)?
In the future, other colors will become available. But there are no announcements to share at this time.
Can I use the DualSense wireless controller with my PS4 console?
The DualSense wireless controller is not compatible with the PS4 console.
Can I use my existing DualShock 4 wireless controller with my PS5?
For PS4 games played on PS5, players can use either the DualShock 4 wireless controller or the DualSense wireless controller.
PS5 games will require use of the DualSense wireless controller, as they have been designed to take advantage of its immersive new features.
For the best PS VR experience on PS5, we recommend using a DualShock 4 wireless controller. Select games may require PlayStation Move motion controllers or be compatible with the PlayStation VR Aim controller. The new HD Camera for PS5 is not compatible with PS VR.
PS VR games will also require the PS Camera (PS4) and the PS camera adaptor. Click here for more information.
Can I use the DualSense wireless controller with my PC?
Remote Play on PC supports the DualSense wireless controller via a USB wired connection.
Can I use third-party controllers, like the SCUF Vantage or Astro C40 TR, with PS5?
Existing “specialty” controllers that are designed for and licensed for the PS4 console, such as steering wheel controllers and arcade fight sticks, will work on PS5 if the PS5 or PS4 game supports it.
Licensed PS4 controllers with a standard gamepad formfactor, such as the SCUF Vantage and Astro C40 TR, will work with PS4 games played on PS5. They are not supported for playing PS5 games.
How do I pair a DualSense wireless controller to PS5?
Pairing is easy: just connect the DualSense wireless controller to PS5 using the included USB cable, and turn on the controller by pressing the PS button.
What headsets are compatible with the DualSense wireless controller’s headset jack?
Headsets that can be connected via the headset jack are supported.
What games will be available for purchase on PS5’s launch day?
See below for the latest list of titles currently scheduled for the rest of 2020. This list is a work-in-progress and may change. Games may be available on PS Store, disc, or both and can vary by country. Consult your local retailer for more info.
SIE Worldwide Studios Games: Launch Day
Astro’s Playroom (Japan Studio) (Pre-installed on PS5)
Demon’s Souls (SIE Worldwide Studios, Bluepoint Games)
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games)
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (included with Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition) (Insomniac Games)
Sackboy: A Big Adventure (Sumo Digital)
SIE Worldwide Studios Games: Also in Development
Also confirmed to be in development from Worldwide Studios: Destruction AllStars (Lucid Games), Returnal (Housemarque Games), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla), Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Insomniac Games), Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital), and the next entry in the God of War series (Santa Monica Studio)
Third-Party Games: Launch Day
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
Borderlands 3 (2K)
Bugsnax (Young Horses)
Note: available at launch on PlayStation 5 to PlayStation Plus subscribers at no extra cost until January 4, 2021, except in China and Saudi Arabia.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision) (November 13)
Dead by Daylight (Behaviour Interactive)
Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition (Capcom)
Dirt 5 (Codemasters)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Godfall (Gearbox Publishing)
Goonya Fighter (Mutan)
King Oddball (10Tons Ltd)
Maneater (Tripwire Interactive)
NBA 2K21 (2K)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Observer: System Redux (Bloober)
Overcooked! All You Can Eat (Team 17)
The Pathless (Annapurna Interactive)
Planet Coaster (Frontier)
Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition
Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft)
WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship
What other PS5 games are confirmed to be in development?
There are a large number of games confirmed to be in development for PS5, too many to fully list here. Please keep checking PlayStation.Blog and PlayStation.com for updates on future releases.
Is there a difference in performance if I choose to install a PS5 game from a Blu-ray Disc, versus purchasing it digitally and downloading it?
No, once the game installs to the ultra-high speed SSD, the performance will be identical whether you installed the game via Blu-ray Disc or downloaded it via PlayStation Store.
Can I suspend a PS5 game and resume it from where I paused?
Much like on the PS4 console, if you have a game running and you put your PS5 in rest mode, or start a media app, the game will resume where you left off once you’re ready to play again.
If you start up a second PS5 game or fully power off the console, the first game you were playing will automatically close, and won’t automatically resume from your previous moment of gameplay. However, thanks to PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD, you will be able to load back into your installed PS5 game quickly and get right back to playing.
Are PS5 games region-locked?
Can I access my digital game collection from any PS5? If so, how?
Players can log in to any console with your PlayStation account and access their content while logged in. This is easy to do using the new PlayStation App for mobile devices, which allows players to sign in to a console from the app without having to enter your password on the screen with a controller.
Will my PS5 Trophy list be separate from my other PS Trophies?
Trophy lists will combine PS3, PS Vita, PS4, and PS5 Trophies, sorted chronologically by order of most recently unlocked.
Trophies have recently seen other updates – read up on the new details here.
Are there any changes to refunds on digital purchases? Will they be different if I purchase a PS5 Digital Edition console?
PlayStation Store refund and cancellation policies will remain the same. For more information on United States policies for digital purchases, please visit: https://support.playstation.com/s/article/Requesting-a-Refund
Can I play PS4 games on PS5?
Yes. When the PlayStation 5 console launches this November, more than 99 percent of the 4000+ games available on PS4 will be playable on it.
Learn more about playing PS4 games on PS5 here.
Will PS4 games benefit from playing on PS5?
Yes. Select PS4 games will see increased loading speeds when played on PS5, and will also leverage Game Boost, offering improved or more stable framerates. Some games with unlocked framerates or dynamic resolution up to 4K may see higher fidelity.
On PS5, PS4 games benefit from Game Boost automatically, and it doesn’t need to be toggled on or off like PS4 Pro’s Boost Mode feature. Additionally, PS4 games will also take advantage of some of PS5’s new UX features.
Additionally, if a PS4 game supported PS4 Pro enhancements such as improved graphics, higher resolutions, or increased performance and framerates, these will be available in the PS5 gameplay experience.
Does PS5’s ultra-high speed SSD provide any benefit for playing PS4 or PlayStation VR games?
PS4 and PlayStation VR games will load more quickly when stored on and played from PS5’s internal SSD, but they won’t leverage the full next-generation capabilities of the SSD.
Can I play PS4 games from a USB drive?
Yes. Storing PS4 games and playing them off a USB drive is a great way to access PS4 games on PS5 and enable easy access to PS4 games without needing to use any of PS5’s internal storage. We recommend doing this to save space on the internal console storage for PS5 games, which can’t be played off an extended storage drive.
Players can also set a system preference on PS5 that will, by default, install all PS4 games (including digital purchases from PlayStation Store, and game data from Blu-ray discs) and future game patches directly to a connected USB drive.
Note: Not all USB drives will work with PS5. An extended storage drive can’t be used through a USB hub, and two or more extended storage drives can’t be connected to PS5 at the same time.
Is there a particular type of USB drive I should use for storing PS4 games for play on my PS5?
Use a SuperSpeed USB or faster (USB 3.0 or later) storage drive with 250 GB minimum and 8 TB maximum capacity. To use a USB drive as extended storage, format the drive as extended storage by following these steps: Go to Settings > Storage > Extended Storage and select Format as Extended Storage. USB drives that were used as extended storage on your PS4 console do not need to be formatted. Devices with a faster specification may result in shorter load times for PS4 games stored on the drive.
If I bought digital PS4 games at PlayStation Store, can I download them on PS5?
Yes. When the PlayStation 5 console launches this November, more than 99 percent of the 4000+ games available on PS4 will be playable on it. Refer to this guide for more information.
Will PS4 demos or betas be playable on PS5?
The majority of legacy PS4 demos and betas will not be playable on PS5. Moving forward, however, new demos and betas will be playable on the PS5.
Are there specific PS5 and PS4 versions of games?
Yes. PS5 games are unique and specially made to tap into the special benefits of the next generation of console gaming, including the DualSense wireless controller’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, ultra-fast loading times, enhanced visuals and 3D Audio.
If I have a PS4 game, can I upgrade it to a PS5 version?
Certain PS4 games can be upgraded to the digital PS5 version of the game on a PS5 console. When using a PS5 console, you may have the option to upgrade a disc or digital PS4 game to the digital PS5 version. Depending on the game, this upgrade may occur at no additional cost, may require a purchase, and may be available for a limited time. An internet connection is required. For more information, refer here.
For an example, the PS4 version of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and the PS4 version of Sackboy: A Big Adventure both offer upgrades to the digital PS5 versions of the games at no additional cost. If you own PS4 versions of these games, simply visit the game’s Hub for that title on your PS5 (Note: you’ll need to insert the PS4 disc into your PS5 console first if you bought the physical disc rather than the PS Store version of the PS4 game), and you’ll see an offer to download the PS5 version.
Please note: Blu-ray discs are not compatible with the PS5 Digital Edition. If you own PS4 Blu-ray discs, you will not be able to use them with the PS5 Digital Edition console, including to redeem offers to upgrade a PS4 game to a PS5 version. You can, however, upgrade eligible digital games.
If I don’t upgrade my PS4 game to the PS5 version, or if there is no PS5 version, can I still play the PS4 version of the game on PS5?
Yes, if the PS4 version of the game is compatible on the PS5, it will be playable on PS5 without upgrading. More than 99% of the 4,000+ PS4 games are compatible with PS5. Refer to this guide for more information.
If I have a PS4 game disc, but I own the PS5 Digital Edition, can I upgrade my game?
No, you wouldn’t be able to upgrade the physical copy or play it on the console, since the PS5 Digital Edition does not include a Blu-ray disc drive.
How do I transfer my PS4 game save files to PS5?
Players can transfer game save files from a PS4 console to PS5 using a LAN cable, by connecting wirelessly (WiFi), or saving the save files to a compatible USB drive. And if you are an active PS Plus member, you can transfer your PS4 game saves to your PS5 using cloud storage.
Can I transfer save game progress from a PS4 game to a PS5 version of that same game?
The ability to transfer game saves between a PS4 version and a PS5 version of the same game is a developer decision and will vary title by title for cross-generational games.
For Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, if players decide to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, their game saves will transfer. Sackboy: A Big Adventure also will support game save transfers from PS4 to PS5 in an update that will be delivered before the end of the year.
Note: If players originally purchased a PS4 game disc, the PS5 console with an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive is required to upgrade to the PS5 version of the game and transfer their saves over.
How does online multiplayer work with PS4 games when played on a PS5?
Whether you’re playing a multiplayer PS4 game on your PS4 or PS5 (via backward compatibility), you will be able to play with other players on either console for the same game.
If I’m playing a PS4 game, can I play with my friend who is playing the PS5 version of that game, or vice-versa?
It is possible to play together depending on the game, though support must be provided by the game’s developer.
Can PS4 and PS5 players communicate via voice chat?
Yes, PS4 and PS5 players (and users of the new PlayStation app for mobile devices) can communicate via voice chat in Parties. Depending on the game, in-game chat will also work across PS4 and PS5 versions of a game.
How will game invites work between the PS4 and PS5?
Players will be able to send and receive invitations for games that support cross-gen play across the PS4 and PS5. Once the PS5 launches, if you receive an invitation to join a game session, the notification will display which platform the game supports. If a PS5 game does not have a PS4 version available, PS4 players will not receive the invite.
Will I still have access to my PS4 PlayStation Plus games library on PS5?
Yes. If a PS4 game is playable on the PS5, and you are still a PlayStation Plus member, you will be able to download it onto your PS5 and play.
Will PS Now be available on PS5?
Yes, players with a PS Now subscription will be able to use PlayStation Now with their PS5, both for streaming and downloading of supported games.
Will PlayStation Plus offer PS5 games?
All PlayStation Plus members will continue to receive at least two great PS4 games each month.
It is our goal to add PS5 games regularly to the monthly games lineup, so check back with us at PS Blog for our monthly PlayStation Plus announcements.
What is The PlayStation Plus Collection?
PlayStation Plus members who are PS5 owners will be able to redeem and play a curated library of PS4 games that defined the generation, like Batman: Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, Fallout 4, God of War, Monster Hunter: World, Persona 5 and many more.
The PlayStation Plus Collection will be available on November 12 when PS5 launches in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, and November 19 when PS5 launches throughout the rest of the world, including Europe, Middle East, South America, Asia and South Africa.
The number and availability of titles in The PlayStation Plus Collection may vary by country, and The PlayStation Plus Collection is not available in China.
What games are included with The PlayStation Plus Collection at the launch of PS5?
The PlayStation Plus Collection will be an added benefit for existing benefits that PlayStation Plus members receive for the same great subscription price. Once a player redeems a game from the PlayStation Plus Collection, they can keep the games for as long as they are an active PlayStation Plus member. PS4 games redeemed from the PlayStation Plus Collection and played on PS5 will see benefits such as increased loading speed and improved or more stable framerates with PS5’s Game Boost.
From SIE Worldwide Studios:
Infamous Second Son
From our third-party publishers and developers:
Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
Can I play original PlayStation, PS2, or PS3 games on PS5?
No, PS5 will play PS5 games and more than 99% of PS4 games, including PlayStation VR games, only.
What video disc formats does the PS5 console support?
The PS5 console version with a Blu-ray disc drive supports video playback from 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, standard Blu-rays, and DVDs. Please note that the PS5 Digital Edition console does not support any optical discs.
Do PS5 game discs hold more data than PS4 discs?
Yes. PS5 Blu-ray discs can store up to 100GB of game data, compared to the 50GB storage offered by PS4 Blu-ray discs.
Will the PS5 console play PS4 Blu-ray discs?
Yes, PS4 Blu-ray discs are compatible with the PS5 console, provided that the PS4 game is supported. Refer to this guide for more information on playing PS4 games on the PS5 console. Please note that the PS5 Digital Edition console does not support any optical discs.
Does PS5 support 3D Blu-ray movies?
No, 3D stereoscopic output is not supported on PS5.
Can I play PS VR games on PS5?
Yes, PlayStation VR games are included among the thousands of PS4 games that are playable on PS5. Playing PS VR games on a PS5 requires a PS VR headset, PlayStation Camera for PS4* and a PlayStation Camera adaptor (no purchase required, visit playstation.com/camera-adaptor for details).
The PS VR headset, PS Camera, DualShock 4 wireless controller, PS Move controllers, and PS VR Aim controller are all sold separately from PS5.
*Model CUH-ZEY1 or CUH-ZEY2
Can I use PS4’s PS Camera with PS5?
Yes. PS Camera will be required for PS VR and PS Move gameplay for supported PS4 games on PS5. PS Camera will also support broadcasting on PS5.
Connecting PS Camera to PS5 will require the PlayStation Camera adaptor (no purchase required, visit playstation.com/camera-adaptor for details).
Can I use PlayStation Move motion controllers or the PS VR Aim Controller with PS5?
Yes, you can use PlayStation Move controllers or the PS VR Aim Controller in supported PS4 games on PS5, including PS VR software. You’ll need to connect the PS Camera to PS5 to enable PS Move or PS VR Aim Controller support, which requires the PlayStation Camera adaptor (no purchase required, visit playstation.com/camera-adaptor for details).
How do I get the PS Camera adaptor?
Visit playstation.com/camera-adaptor for details.
What is the HD Camera?
The HD Camera for PS5 features two sensitive, wide-angle lens 1920×1080 cameras that can measure depth of space – useful for seamlessly cropping the background off of a broadcaster. The PS5 Camera connects via USB Type-A connector on the back of the console.
Learn more about the HD Camera here.
What are the physical dimensions and weight for the HD Camera?
The dimensions are approximately 100mm x 41mm x 75mm (width x height x depth), and it weighs approximately 92g. The cable length is approximately 2 meters.
Can I use PS5’s new HD Camera with my PS VR headset?
No, the new HD Camera will not support PlayStation VR. You’ll need to use the PlayStation Camera and the PlayStation Camera adaptor to connect it to your PS5.
Is there a microphone built into the camera?
No. You’ll be able to use a headset, or the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated mic.
What is the Media Remote?
The Media Remote is a convenient option for watching movies and shows on PS5. It includes dedicated buttons for popular streaming apps, playback controls, and a navigational control pad.
Learn more about the Media Remote here.
What are the physical dimensions and weight for the Media Remote?
The dimensions are approximately 45mm x 145mm x 26mm, excluding the largest projection, and weighs in at approximately 55g.
Can I use the Media Remote to play games?
No, the Media Remote is designed only to provide a simple, easy way to watch video content on PS5.
Does it run on replaceable or rechargeable batteries?
The Media Controller runs on two AA batteries, which are included.
Does the Media Remote support voice input?
The mic on the Media Remote can be used for voice dictation by pressing the mic icon on the On-Screen Keyboard when it appears, or in select media applications that support voice input modes. The physical mic button on the Media Remote is reserved for future functionality.
What is the PULSE 3D Wireless Headset, and how is it different from previous PlayStation headsets?
The PULSE 3D wireless headset is the official headset for PS5 and features a refined design with dual noise-cancelling microphones, USB Type-C charging, and easy-to-access controls including a built-in mic mute, master volume, and in-game audio to chat mix controls. A dedicated mic monitoring button lets you check how you sound to your teammates.
You can connect the PULSE 3D wireless headset to your PS5 or PS4 console using the included wireless adaptor. You can use the 3.5mm headset jack to connect to other audio sources, such as the DualShock wireless controller, PlayStation VR, or a mobile device.
Learn more about the PULSE 3D wireless headset here.
What are the physical dimensions and weight of the PULSE 3D wireless headset?
The dimensions are approximately 213mm x 190mm x 91mm, and it weighs approximately 292g.
How long does the PULSE 3D wireless headset’s battery last on a single charge?
The PULSE 3D Wireless Headset is estimated to last for up to 12 hours of wireless play using its built-in rechargeable battery.
Can I use the official Gold or Platinum wireless headsets with PS5?
Yes, the official Gold Wireless Headset and Platinum Wireless Headset are natively supported on PS5, using either the included wireless USB adaptor or the 3.5mm headset jack on the DualSense wireless controller.
Can I use third-party headsets with PS5?
Officially licensed headsets from third-party manufacturers will be available after the launch of PS5. Some headsets licensed for the PS4 console may work or may require a device firmware update. Please consult with your headset’s manufacturer for compatibility questions.
Wireless headsets from third-party companies that use a Bluetooth connection will not be supported on PS5, though most USB and analog headsets will be supported.
Headsets that can connect to a 3.5mm jack, USB-A, or USB-C will work for 3D Audio.
Can I connect a keyboard and mouse with PS5?
Yes, USB and Bluetooth keyboards and mice are supported at a system level, though game developers will decide whether to support at a game level.
Will I be able to use my PS4 fight stick with PS5?
Many licensed PS4 arcade fight sticks should be compatible with PS4 games that are playable on PS5. Please consult with your fight stick’s manufacturer for compatibility questions.
What were the goals of the PS5 user experience (UX)?
The goal was to ensure that play time is valuable and meaningful. PS5’s new user experience (UX) is completely centered on the player – to provide a truly next-generation experience with increased immediacy and deeper immersion, quickly connecting you to great games and a passionate gaming community.
What are some of the most notable differences in PS5’s user interface from PS4?
PS5’s new UX introduces a number of new features designed to make your gaming experiences more immediate, more immersive, and more personalized.
One of the highlights is the new Control Center, which works like an evolved version of the PS4 console’s Quick Menu. A single press of the PS button will bring up Control Center on PS5, providing immediate access to frequently used system features – all without leaving the game.
Activities are another new feature designed to bring you closer to key elements of gameplay. Activities are displayed via on-screen Cards in the Control Center and in the hubs of supported games, and enable you to discover new gameplay opportunities, return to things you missed, jump directly into levels or challenges you want to play, and much more.
Other types of Cards include Game Help, Screen Sharing, and more. Some cards can be put in picture-in-picture mode or pin-to-side mode, so you can view them without having to leave the game.
To learn more about the PS5 user experience, watch our video tour.
Will PS5 automatically download game patches and game updates for the games that I’ve played?
Yes. When the auto-download feature is activated and you’re connected to the internet, PS5 will automatically search for game updates for games that you frequently play. Game updates will also download while the console is in rest mode, if the user selects a power profile that allows connection to the internet. When you play a game, PS5 will automatically search for game updates.
Will PS5’s UI support folders or themes at launch?
No, PS5 will not support folders or themes at launch.
Will the PS5 user experience offer official updates or news?
Yes, all PS5 owners globally will get official news from publishers for games they own or follow in each game’s hub, as well as recent stories in their language in a special Card in Control Center, and in the PlayStation App for mobile devices.
At launch, PS5 owners in the United States can also visit Explore on the home screen to see all of these stories together in one place, so you can see what’s going on with games you’re excited about or games you’ve set aside. In addition, Explore allows you to access live broadcasts, shared video, and images that are trending in the community from games you follow, and get updates from PlayStation.
Will we need to download a system update on day one?
Yes, there will be a PS5 system software to the latest version on day one.
If I’m not online, can I install system updates via a USB drive?
Yes, as with the PS4 console, you will be able to download new system software updates to your PC from PlayStation.com and transfer them to PS5 using a USB drive formatted for FAT32 or exFAT.
What is Game Help, and how does it work?
Game Help is a system-level feature for PS Plus members only on PS5 that may offer helpful hints, tips, and tricks to help you move forward in select PS5 games. The feature is purely optional, but it’s designed to be quicker and easier than searching the web for some types of tips and should help you avoid game spoilers.
Watch our PS5 user experience tour to see how Game Help works.
What accessibility options does PS5 offer?
PS5 players will be able to reduce or disable the force of haptic feedback and adaptive triggers on the DualSense wireless controller and remap buttons on the controller.
A voice dictation feature provides a simple and fast way for users to input text compared to a virtual keyboard: simply speak the words and they’ll appear on-screen. The feature will work with a headset, the DualSense wireless controller’s integrated microphone, or the Media Remote.
An integrated screen reader provides users with options to hear on-screen text and have controls read out loud. Users can also customize their display settings to invert colors, make text larger or smaller, bold text, adjust contrast, invert color, color correction, auto-scroll speed, and reduce motion settings.
Additionally, a chat transcription feature provides the ability for voice chat audio to be transcribed into text, and also for typed text to be spoken to other players in voice chat.
Voice dictation, screen reader, and chat transcription on PS5 support the following languages: English (US), English (UK), Japanese, German, Italian, French, Canadian French, Spanish, Latin American Spanish.
Screen Zoom. You can now adjust the magnification of the screen to suit your preference from the Settings menu.
Is PlayStation Store improved on PS5?
PS Store on PS5 is now fully integrated into the system with lightning-fast browsing and a simplified, smarter layout that makes it easy to find the right game.
Can I buy PS4 and PS VR games at PS Store on PS5?
Yes, any PS4 and PS VR games that are playable on PS5 will be available for purchase on PS5 through PS Store.
How will the PlayStation App for mobile devices support PS5?
The updated PlayStation App for mobile devices has been reimagined to enhance your gaming experiences on both PS4 and PS5, including an updated user interface, Messages integration, voice chat and Party groups, natively integrated PlayStation Store and remote downloads, PlayStation news, and new features for PS5.
You can get a full overview here.
How can I manage PS5 downloads remotely?
The new PlayStation App for iOS (12.2 or later) and Android (6.0 or later) mobile devices features a native PlayStation Store experience that enables fast and smooth shopping and browsing, with the ability to remotely purchase and download games and add-ons directly to your PS4 and PS5.
When PS5 arrives, you’ll be able to remotely launch games, manage storage on your console, and quickly sign in to PS5 straight from the PS App.
Additionally, you can use PlayStation.com to manage downloads remotely.
Where will I find all of my PS5 and PS4 games?
From PS5’s home screen, the “Game Library” will show all the PS5 and PS4 games you’ve purchased or played. This includes games you were able to play as a PS Plus or PS Now subscriber. If those subscriptions have lapsed you will need to buy new subscriptions to be able to play those games again (note: PS Now service availability varies by country).
Where will I find all of my entertainment and media apps?
From PS5’s Media homescreen, you can easily find and launch media apps you’ve recently used. Other apps you’ve downloaded but haven’t used lately can be found in the App Library.
When you want to try something new, use the All Apps hub to download a new app, or use the TV & Video hub to find recommended shows across your apps and new apps you haven’t yet downloaded.
Not sure what app has a movie or a show you’re interested in? Universal Search will let you know where you can find it and help you get there.
Which entertainment apps will be available for PS5 at launch?
Popular entertainment apps such as Netflix, Apple TV +, YouTube, Disney+, and Spotify will be available on PS5 at launch, though availability will differ by region. Additional app info can be found here.
Will streaming apps differ across countries, depending on what services are available regionally?
Yes, Internet access and an account for PlayStation Network will be required, and streaming services may require a paid subscription and may not be available in all countries or regions.
How do I access media apps and services on PS5?
Media apps are easy to access on the PS5’s home screen, in a dedicated Media section.
Will PS5 entertainment apps offer support for 4K resolution and HDR?
Yes, if the app supports these features.
Can I listen to my own music while playing on PS5?
Yes. Spotify will be supported at launch, enabling music playback, including as in-game background music. Players can also listen to music from a USB drive, including MP3, FLAC, and AAC formats.
How will social features like Friends List and Party be improved with PS5?
PS5 expands the concept of Parties into a dedicated hangout space for you and up to 99 of your friends. You can share game content, plan play sessions, or just catch up over voice chat or text chat with users across PS4, PS5, and the new PlayStation app for mobile devices.
On PS5, the newly upgraded Parties are fast, convenient, and richly interactive places. Want to play a few multiplayer games? Jump straight into a match with your Party participants – no further invites required.
Want to chat with a friend while showing off what you’re playing? Start a voice chat in your Party and you can activate the “Share Screen” feature, which uses low-latency technology so you can show you friends what you’re playing now in real time, while keeping an eye on their game progress, too.
Want to share your gaming experience? Using Share Play (PlayStation Plus membership required), you can also hand over control of your game to a trusted friend or use it to play a local co-op game together.
A new feature called Game Base acts as your social hub on PlayStation. Game Base collects all your Friends, Parties, chat conversations, and more in one convenient and persistent place across PS5, PS4, and the new PlayStation app for mobile devices, so you can stay connected with your friends on PlayStation wherever you are.
How many players can participate in the voice chat in a Party at any one time on PS5?
You can have up to 16 people participate in a voice chat across the PS4 and PS5, and the new PlayStation App for mobile devices.
What Family/Parental controls are available with PS5?
If you’re an adult with an account for PlayStation Network, you can create an account for your child and become a family manager. This can be done in the Family Management section of your account settings.
The family manager can:
Manage playtime.
Manage purchases from the family manager wallet.
Manage access to games, videos, and apps.
Disable messaging and voice chat.
Block videos, broadcasts, and pictures created by other players.
Appoint other adults in the family as “guardians.” This allows them to set and change controls, such as how much can be spent from your wallet, for all the child family members.
Additionally, parental controls allow the family manager to institute age level restrictions for certain games and media, playable hours, spending limits, communication with other players, and use of PlayStation VR.
Can I change my Online ID?
Yes! Please visit this page for more details.
Can I customize my privacy options to Appear Offline?
Yes, you can Appear Offline. In a new feature on PS5, you can also set your status to “Busy,” to let friends and other players know not to disturb you.
Can I link other services to my PlayStation account?
Yes. PS5 offers integrated features with Spotify, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube, and you can link your account to these services.
How does the new Create button on the DualSense wireless controller work?
The Create button gives players the ability to capture just the right moment in their gaming session. In the Create menu, you can choose to save a portion of your past gameplay, start a manual recording, take a great screenshot, or broadcast gameplay.
Additionally, the most common controls that players like to change (recording resolution, screenshot format, whether to include voice chat audio in the recording) are easily available without having to leave the game.
What video length can I capture on PS5?
PS5 automatically captures the last 60 minutes of gameplay. To save the footage, you’ll press the Create button and select “save recent gameplay.” There, you can select as little as the last 15 seconds, up to the last 60 minutes of your play session.
PS5 automatically captures the past 60 minutes of your gameplay at 1080p resolution. 4K resolution is also available if you manually record your gameplay using the Create button.
What resolution will video content be captured at?
By default, recorded video is saved at 1080p and up to 60 frames per second. 4K video recording is also available if you manually record your gameplay using the Create button.
There is a setting in the Create Menu called Manual Recording Resolution, which is visible when your PS5 is connected to a 4K capable TV. Players will be able to choose between 1920×1080 (default) or 3840×2160. The setting stays until you or another player on your console changes it or connects the console to a non-4K TV.
Where are my captured screenshots and video content stored on PS5?
Captured screenshots and videos are saved to the Media Gallery on PS5. The Media Gallery is accessible in the Games home screen, and allows for viewing, editing, sharing, copying to a USB drive, and playback of USB-based media.
How can I save the video and images I record on PS5 to another device?
Players can select images and videos and copy them to an external USB drive.
What options do I have for outputting captured video? Can I stream or export video in 4K from my PS5 to external services?
1080p and 4K video can be shared to external services, but the output resolution may be reduced depending on the shared platform.
In which formats and resolutions can I capture screenshots on PS5?
You can save screenshots as JPEG or PNG formats at 1920×1080 or 3840×2160 resolutions. Players can also capture (and view) HDR screenshots if PS5 is connected to an HDR display. When HDR screenshots are exported or shared, PS5 converts them to a standard JPEG image.
Where can I share content at launch?
Players can share screenshots and video clips (up to 3 minutes long) with friends in their Parties on PS5 or the PlayStation App for mobile devices. Players can also share to external services including Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.
Can I transmit my shared content to the new PlayStation App for mobile devices for easy mobile sharing?
Players can share images and videos in Parties via Game Base, and that content is viewable on the new PlayStation app for mobile devices.
Does PS5 offer capture device support?
Yes. PS5 will allow the use of external HDMI-based capture devices by disabling HDCP in the Settings menu.
What improvements does Share Factory Studio on PS5 offer over Share Factory on PS4?
Share Factory Studio is a powerful media editor for your PS5. The app offers a much more robust set of editing features than the basic quick-edit feature for your gameplay capture. Share Factory Studio on PS5 provides a new set of tools and many new features, such as 4K HDR video support. Create visual wonders and share them for others to see!
What are Share Screen and Share Play?
Share Screen is a new feature for PS5. Share Screen allows a user to broadcast their game screen in real time to up to 16 Party members in a voice chat. Think of it as a small-scale game broadcast session between friends.
While using Share Screen, a player can use Share Play (active PlayStation Plus subscription required), to pass a “virtual controller” to another voice chat participant, who can then play the game remotely for up to one hour while the Party continues to watch and chat.
Share Play will also allow up to two players to play a local co-op game together, even if the other player does not own the game.
Can I transfer my captured media (gameplay clips, screenshots) from PS4 to PS5?
No, though you can export them via the built-in Capture Gallery application to a compatible USB drive from your PS4 console for safekeeping.
How many users can sign into one PS5?
Up to 16 users can be registered to one PS5, and up to four users can log in at the same time.
Does PS5 feature a web browser?
No, the PS5 system doesn’t include a dedicated web browser app.
How does Remote Play on PS5 work?
Players will be able to access their PS5 from a PC or mobile device via Remote Play in the same way as PS4. With PS5, you’ll also be able to access your PS5 from a PS4 console or another PS5 via Remote Play.
Learn more about Remote Play, including app download links, here .
Are there any other changes to Remote Play with the launch of PS5?
We’re updating PS4’s Remote Play feature. Now, in addition to being able to access your PS4 from a PC or a mobile device, your PS4 can access other consoles via Remote Play too, right on your TV. This includes the ability to connect to your PS5 and stream a PS5 game to your PS4 so you can play it there.
Additionally, Remote Play will add support for up to three additional users to join the Remote Play session, which allows users to enjoy local multiplayer games via Remote Play.
I don’t see my question answered in this document. How do I get it answered?
We will be updating this post more in the future, so leave your question in the comments below and keep checking back!
faqplaystation 5ps5
More details at PlayStation.com
PS5 Beta Introduces Discord Voice Chat, VRR support for 1440p, and more PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for February: Evil Dead: The Game, OlliOlliWorld, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Mafia: Definitive Edition PlayStation kicks off new year with increased supply of PS5 consoles, new spot Seeing the world of Horizon Call of the Mountain through new eyes
Share of the Week – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Kristen Zitani (she/her) Content Communications Specialist, SIE
Date published: January 20, 2023 3
Games Under 20 promotion comes to PlayStation Store
James Thivierge Associate Digital Promotions Manager
Date published: January 17, 2023 11
New Forspoken Collection revealed
Yuki Matsuzawa Art Director, Luminous Productions
PlayStation Store’s top downloads of 2022
Gillen McAllister (he/him) Senior Specialist, Content Communications, SIE | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8809853792190552, "wiki_prob": 0.8809853792190552, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1826347"} |
Home > Board Books > Canadian Animals 123
Canadian Animals 123
Canadian Concepts
Geraldo Valério
GERALDO VALÉRIO is a children's book author and illustrator whose books have been published in Canada, the United States and many other countries around the world, including Brazil, China, France, Portugal, and the UK. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
GERALDO VALÉRIO is a children's book author and illustrator whose books have been published in Canada, the United States and many other countries around the world, including Brazil, China, France, Portugal, and the UK. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
By Geraldo Valério
From 1 to 3 | 22 pages, color
Canadian Animals 123 $11.95 CAD
ISBN: 9781771473477 | Board book | $11.95 CAD ISBN: 9781771472890 | Hardback | $16.95 CAD ISBN: 9781771472890 | Hardback | $16.95 CAD
This bold and colorful introduction to numbers from 1 to 10 with Canadian wildlife is now available in board book format. Each number is shown alongside a matching quantity of Canadian animals rendered playfully in Geraldo Valério’s signature paper collage style: bighorn sheep, grebes, mantids, and more!Geraldo Valério
Lexile® CodeNP
Canadian Indies 2018 Books for Everybody Gift Guide,
Canadian Animals ABC
Board book $11.95 CAD
Canadian Animals in Colour
Book $11.95 CAD Currently out of stock
You Are Two
You Are One | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5918623805046082, "wiki_prob": 0.40813761949539185, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1379162"} |
Marcus Mariota: Dynasty Target #1
Written by Levi Andrew
Wow! What an offseason for the Titans. From adding Defensive playmakers in Free Agency to Adding Decker late in June. The biggest winner of the offseason was Marcus Mariota. He got a slew of new weapons around him. Corey Davis the best WR in the draft to another red zone weapon in Decker. Before breaking his leg, Mariota had 3,426 yards, 26 touchdowns, 9 INT, also adding 349 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns on the ground. That was with subpar WRs outside of Rishard Matthews.
This year Mariota’s only struggle should be coming back from injury. Maybe with all his shiny new weapons, he won’t have to worry about rushing. We know what he can do on the ground just watch his college film. He doesn’t need it though. Over his first 2 years in the NFL his average QB rating is 93.55 and leads the NFL in red zone passer rating. Decker since 2012 has been 2nd in red zone TDs. 19 of Mariota’s touchdowns came in the red zone, Matthews accounted for 6 of those, Walker 5, Murray 3. The other five TD’s came from players no longer on the roster.
Let’s break down all of Marcus’s weapons he has this year and their value, then we will breakdown Marcus.
Rishard Matthews: I foresee Matthews starting as the #1 WR on the Titans. He has a connection with Mariota from last year when they combined for 65/945/9. I don’t see Corey Davis cutting into his production as much as I do Decker. I can see Matthews getting more looks outside of the red zone this year. I have him at 26 in my rankings right now when he finished 14th last year. That was with the thinking of his TDs regressing and getting more yards.
Eric Decker: What a great signing by Tennessee. Starting in 2011 Decker has had 5 or more TD’s every year until last year when he went to IR week 3. He had 2 TDs when he went down though. Decker could greatly improve this offense with his presence on the field and in the red zone. I had Decker at WR50 before the signing I will be moving him to the late 30s most likely. I can see Decker hurting Walkers TD's in the red zone.
Corey Davis: Davis is an excellent route runner, can also sell double moves amazing. Watching some tape, he lacks a little acceleration, but when he gets going he excels. Watching him take some bubble screens to the house is a thing of beauty. With his first-round pedigree, it's kind of expected for him to be a Day 1 contributor. But with Decker being the same mold and type of receiver I feel they let him come along slowly. Let Decker teach him things and make him special. I have Davis as my WR41 right now, I may bump him slightly higher because coverage may focus on Matthews, Decker, Murray, and Walker.
Delanie Walker: Marcus’s first year in the NFL he relied heavily on Walker. Turning in a 94/1088/6, in 2016, Walker finished with 65/800/7. But one of those TDs came with Matt Cassel in the game. I can see Walker’s TD’s improving a little bit with the weapons on the outside and in the backfield, he will be able to have the middle of the field all to himself. Mariota will still lean on his TE, which makes him my TE6.
Demarco Murray / Derrick Henry: Murray had 53 receptions last year, that’s only 12 less the Walker and Mathews. But only coming up with 377 yards and 3 TDs. Henry had 13/137. Murray averaged 7.1 YPC and Henry 10.5 YPC. Yes, they are skewed but it proves Henry could have some impact in the pass game when he takes over.
All the rest, Tajae Sharp, Harry Douglas, Eric Weems, Taywan Taylor, Jace Amaro, Jonnu Smith:
I think the Titans will keep 5 WRs on the roster through the year, and Taylor is too good to go to the practice squad. So, Douglas and Weems are on the roster bubble.
Smith is an amazing player. He absolutely showed his freak athlete skills at the combine, running a 4.62-40 with a 38” vert, 10’7” broad. If he can learn to catch more with his hands and not his body, Smith and Walker could make an amazing TE tandem. Amaro could end up being cut during the preseason.
After all my gushing about the Titans skill players, I’m about to convince you why Marcus Mariota should be your Dynasty QB.
Marcus has never thrown more than 10 INT dating back to his first college season, he also never had less than 700 rushing yards in every college season. In 2014 his best college year he finished with 4,454/42/4 on 445 pass attempts with 304 completions. He also had 135/770/15. He also caught a TD that year. This was all without Chip Kelly.
Marcus has thrown for 451 pass attempts last year and only completed 276. That is horrible. But think about the reasons I just gave above. With his WRs and TEs he has this season I could see Mariota having a season like his last college season, throwing-wise, maybe not as high in the rushing.
The Titans are playing smash-mouth football and Mariota has players to catch the ball now. I had him at QB11, Now I think I may be moving him up to QB 5-7 area. Yes, Decker is on a one-year deal, but he has a home in Nashville and his wife is a country singer. If he pays off this season he could end up getting a contract to stay longer. Corey Davis is there for the next 5 years, Murray and Henry till 2019, Matthews and Walker till the end of 2018.
Now think of the possibilities of Marcus from here on out finishing with at least 4,000 passing yards and 30-35 TDs, 9 INTs, 350 rushing yards with 4-6 TDs every year. That is a Top-5 QB. Those numbers are all achievable for Mariota. He’s proven he could do it with his old scheme in college, but with his 451 pass attempts last year, it’s not like the coaching staff is holding him back from reaching those numbers. With his WR’s even catching another 40 passes, could easily push him over those marks. Every arrow is pointing up for him.
I will be buying every share of Mariota that I can get this year and in my Dynasty League.
Follow me on Twitter @LeviAndrewFF | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.571183979511261, "wiki_prob": 0.571183979511261, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1770522"} |
Brabhsáil
Brabhsáil A-Z
Brabhsáil de réir scríbhneora
Scéal is déanaí
Altanna nua
Tuilleadh
Treoirlínte eagarthóireachta
Foilseacháin chlóite
Leasuithe agus moltaí
Gender - Any -FemaleMale
Religion - Any -AnglicanBaptistBuddhistCatholicHinduHumanistIslamJewishMethodistOtherOther Protestant non-conformistPresbyterianQuakerSikhUnitarian
Career - Any -Administration and DiplomacyAgricultureArchitectureArts and CraftsBusiness and FinanceClassics and LanguagesCrimeEccentricsEducationEngineering and TechnologyFolkloreGaelic and Norse LordsGentry and AristocracyGeography, Cartography and SurveyingHistory, Archaeology and AntiquarianismIndustryIrish AbroadIrish LanguageJournalism and BroadcastingLabour and Trades UnionsLandlordsLawLegendary figuresLibraries and MuseumsLiteratureManual WorkMedicineMilitaryMiscellaneousMusic and DancePhilanthropy and Community WorkPhilosophyPhotographyPolicePoliticsPrinting and PublishingReligionSaintsScholarshipScience and TechnologySocial SciencesSocial ServicesSportThe SeaTheatre, Film and TVTrade and RetailingTransport and CommunicationsTravel and Exploration
Place of birth - Any -Ireland-Belfast-Co. Antrim-Co. Armagh-Co. Carlow-Co. Cavan-Co. Clare-Co. Cork-Co. Donegal-Co. Down-Co. Dublin-Co. Fermanagh-Co. Galway-Co. Kerry-Co. Kildare-Co. Kilkenny-Co. Laois-Co. Leitrim-Co. Limerick-Co. Londonderry-Co. Longford-Co. Louth-Co. Mayo-Co. Meath-Co. Monaghan-Co. Offaly-Co. Roscommon-Co. Sligo-Co. Tipperary-Co. Tyrone-Co. Waterford-Co. Westmeath-Co. Wexford-Co. WicklowTanzaniaAfghanistanAlgeriaAntarcticArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBarbadosBelgiumBohemiaBoliviaBulgariaBurundiCanadaCeylonChileChinaColombiaCroatiaCyprusCzech RepublicCzechoslovakiaDenmarkDominicaEcuadorEgyptEnglandEstoniaFranceGambiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGuernseyGuyanaHollandHong KongHungaryIndiaIranIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJerseyKenyaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMaltaMauritiusMexicoMonacoMoroccoNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaNorwayPakistanPalestineParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalRussiaScotlandSerbiaSlovakiaSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSudanSwedenSwitzerlandThailandTobagoTrinidadTurkeyUkraineUSAWalesZaireZambiaZimbabwe
Place of death - Any -Ireland-Belfast-Co. Antrim-Co. Armagh-Co. Carlow-Co. Cavan-Co. Clare-Co. Cork-Co. Donegal-Co. Down-Co. Dublin-Co. Fermanagh-Co. Galway-Co. Kerry-Co. Kildare-Co. Kilkenny-Co. Laois-Co. Leitrim-Co. Limerick-Co. Londonderry-Co. Longford-Co. Louth-Co. Mayo-Co. Meath-Co. Monaghan-Co. Offaly-Co. Roscommon-Co. Sligo-Co. Tipperary-Co. Tyrone-Co. Waterford-Co. Westmeath-Co. Wexford-Co. WicklowTanzaniaAfghanistanAlgeriaAntarcticArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBarbadosBelgiumBohemiaBoliviaBulgariaBurundiCanadaCeylonChileChinaColombiaCroatiaCyprusCzech RepublicCzechoslovakiaDenmarkDominicaEcuadorEgyptEnglandEstoniaFranceGambiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGuernseyGuyanaHollandHong KongHungaryIndiaIranIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJerseyKenyaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMaltaMauritiusMexicoMonacoMoroccoNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaNorwayPakistanPalestineParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalRussiaScotlandSerbiaSlovakiaSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSudanSwedenSwitzerlandThailandTobagoTrinidadTurkeyUkraineUSAWalesZaireZambiaZimbabwe
Sort by Name AscName DescDate of birth AscDate of birth DescDate of death AscDate of death Desc
Displaying 1 - 25 of 998 results on page 1 of 40
Acheson, Anne Crawford
Acheson, Anne Crawford (1882–1962), sculptor, was born in Portadown, Co. Armagh, one of several daughters of John Acheson and Harriet Glasgow Acheson, and was educated in Victoria College and later in the School of Art (both in Belfast) and then at the Royal College of Art, London,…...
Adrain, Robert
Adrain, Robert (1775–1843), mathematician, was born 30 September 1775 in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, eldest among five children of a schoolteacher; his parents' names are not known. He received a good education, though he was self-taught in the higher mathematics. He lost both…...
Algar, Joseph
Algar, Joseph (1890–1958), chemist, was born 15 April 1890 at 22 Arnott St, Dublin, eldest of eight children of Herbert Okell Algar, originally from Warwickshire, and Celia Algar (née Kelly) from Dublin. His father, who converted to catholicism on his marriage, was a master tailor…...
Allan, Henry
Allan, Henry (1865–1912), painter, was born 18 June 1865 in Dundalk, Co. Louth, youngest son of William Allan, distiller, of Bachelor's Walk, Dundalk, and his wife Anne, daughter of the Rev. Solomon Browne, presbyterian minister of Castledawson, Co. Londonderry. He began his…...
Allman, George James
Allman, George James (1812–98), botanist and zoologist, was born at Cork, son of James Clugston Allman, a cotton manufacturer and, later, a distiller at nearby Bandon, and his wife, Sarah, née Lane; he was educated at the RBAI…...
Allman, George Johnston
Allman, George Johnston (1824–1904), mathematician, was born 28 September 1824 in Dublin, a younger son of William Allman (qv), botanist. After a brilliant undergraduate career at TCD, he…...
Allman, William
Allman, William (1776–1846), physician and botanist, was born 7 February 1776 at Kingston, Jamaica, son of Thomas Allman, described as a ‘gentleman’; from the age of four he was brought up in his mother's native Waterford. He entered TCD…...
Alment, Mary Martha
Alment, Mary Martha (1834–1908) artist, was born 9 April 1834 at St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, the daughter of William F. Alment, who was the son of John Alment (1740?–1787), a huguenot scientific and mathematical instrument maker. Mary studied art at the…...
Alton, Bryan Gerard
Alton, Bryan Gerard (1919–91), physician, politician, and goldsmith, was born in Dublin on 5 June 1919, the only child of Norman Bindon Alton, bank inspector, and his wife, Mary Frances (née Hayes). The family lived at 119 Morehampton Road until his father died in 1925. Bryan and his…...
Anderson, Alexander
Anderson, Alexander (1858–1936), physicist and university administrator, was born 12 May 1858 near Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, son of Daniel Anderson of Camus, Coleraine. He attended QCG, graduating BA…...
Anderson, John (1815–1905), woollen merchant, geologist, bibliographer, and local politician, was born 8 July 1815 near Coleraine, Co. Londonderry. After moving to Belfast he entered (1840) the woollen business in Donegall St. founded by James Young in 1795. Anderson's eminence…...
Anderson, Richard John
Anderson, Richard John (1848–1914), scientist, was born 29 July 1848, second son of Richard Anderson and Elizabeth Anderson (née Harcourt) of Ballybot, Newry, Co. Down. He attended Newry School, and graduated MA and…...
Andrews, Mary Katherine
This is a co-subject for the entry on Andrews, Thomas. View the original entry....
Andrews, Thomas
Andrews, Thomas (1813–85), doctor, physical chemist, and university administrator, was born 19 December 1813 at 3 Donegall Square, Belfast, eldest son of Thomas John Andrews, linen merchant, of the well known Andrews family of Comber, and Elizabeth Andrews (née Stevenson) of…...
Andrews, William
Andrews, William (1802–80), naturalist, is said to have been born in Chichester, Sussex, England. Nothing is known of his family background or education; he is probably not the same as a William Andrews in Alumni Dublinenses, but he seems to have lived in Dublin as a young…...
Annesley, Mabel Marguerite
Annesley, Mabel Marguerite (1881–1959), wood engraver and watercolourist, was born 25 February 1881 at Castlewellan, Co. Down, only daughter among two children of Hugh, 5th earl of Annesley, of Castlewellan, and his first wife, Mabel Wilhelmina Frances (née Markham). She was…...
Antisell, Thomas
Antisell, Thomas (1817–93), physician, scientist, and Young Irelander, was born 16 January 1817 in Dublin, younger son of Thomas Christopher Antisell (b. 1766), KC (home circuit), of Gloucester St., Dublin, and Sraduff, near Birr, King's Co. (…...
Apjohn, James
Apjohn, James (1796–1886), chemist and mineralogist, was born 1 September 1796 at Granard, Co. Limerick, son of Thomas Apjohn, tax collector, of Sunville House, Limerick. He attended Tipperary grammar school, and entered TCD (1813),…...
Archer, William
Archer, William (1827–97), naturalist and librarian, was born 6 May 1827 (some sources have 1830), the eldest son of Richard Archer (1796?–1849), perpetual curate of Maghera hamlet, Co. Down, and his wife, Jane Matilda (née Campbell). Nothing is known of his education, though his…...
Arensberg, Conrad Maynadier
Arensberg, Conrad Maynadier (1910–97), anthropologist and sociologist, was born 12 September 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the eldest of the four sons of Charles F. C. Arensberg, attorney, from a steel and banking dynasty, and his wife, Emily Wright Maynadier Arensberg (née…...
Armstrong, Arthur
Armstrong, Arthur (1924–96), painter, was born 12 January 1924 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, one of three sons among six children of James Charlton Armstrong, house-painter and decorator, and his wife Margaret (née Howard). Soon after his birth the family moved to Belfast. He…...
Armstrong, Edward Allworthy
Armstrong, Edward Allworthy (1900–78), clergyman, ornithologist, and scholar, was born 8 October 1900 in Belfast, son of Hamilton Armstrong and Mary Armstrong (née Allworthy), and grandson of Samuel Allworthy, a prominent Belfast physician. Armstrong was educated at…...
Armstrong, Sir Walter
Armstrong, Sir Walter (1850–1918), art historian and gallery director, was born 7 February 1850 in Roxburghshire, Scotland, eldest son of Walter Armstrong of Hawick, and educated at Harrow and Oxford (BA 1873). He taught at art schools in London…...
Ashford, William
Ashford, William (1746–1824), artist, was christened on 20 May 1746 in St. Martin's parish church, Birmingham, the son of Richard Ashford of Birmingham. Nothing is recorded of his early life in England but he almost certainly had some form of technical and/or artistic education. He…...
Assicus (T'Assach)
Assicus (T'Assach) (d. c.508), an artisan – i.e. coppersmith – of supposed Gaulish origin, came to Ireland at some stage during the mission of St Patrick (qv) and was later consecrated a bishop by him.…...
Catholic (183)
Anglican (170)
Presbyterian (33)
Quaker (10)
Humanist (7)
Other Protestant non-conformist (5)
Unitarian (5)
Buddhist (1)
(-) Arts and Crafts (526)
(-) Science and Technology (435)
(-) Crime (50)
Administration and Diplomacy (777)
Business and Finance (765)
Gentry and Aristocracy (681)
Journalism and Broadcasting (623)
History, Archaeology and Antiquarianism (613)
Medicine (605)
Gaelic and Norse Lords (537)
Irish Language (371)
Music and Dance (324)
Theatre, Film and TV (308)
Philanthropy and Community Work (257)
Engineering and Technology (212)
Classics and Languages (194)
Saints (167)
Printing and Publishing (163)
Labour and Trades Unions (156)
Travel and Exploration (130)
The Sea (83)
Libraries and Museums (71)
Geography, Cartography and Surveying (50)
Transport and Communications (42)
Eccentrics (21)
Manual Work (20)
Irish Abroad (18)
Legendary figures (18)
Scholarship (14)
Landlords (3)
Trade and Retailing (3) | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.608040988445282, "wiki_prob": 0.608040988445282, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line825749"} |
SDR (Part time)
Do you want to contribute to a better society where people feel empowered to change their lives for the better? Do you also have experience with B2B SaaS solutions ? Love new meetings, new business and are solution-oriented? Are you used to creating new opportunities and great results? Then we want to meet you!
We are looking for university or similar students who want to gain valuable knowledge and experience whilst being part of an exciting growth journey with us! You will work two or more days a week and be part of a fantastic team consisting of other sales development representatives, customer success managers and account executives whilst reporting directly to our Head of Sales. This is a perfect job to combine with current studies.
Your main focus will be customer acquisition in the private as well as the public sector. You will play a key role in growing Lingio and your efforts will be the essential difference in how we can attract new customers. You will be responsible for identifying and generating sales opportunities through outbound but also inbound prospecting activities.
About Lingio
Lingio started as a volunteer project in the summer of 2015 in connection with the then sharp increase in the number of refugees arriving in Sweden. Three former colleagues from Spotify, EA Games and MTG wanted to contribute and help the new arrivals to get into Swedish society and the labor market faster - and therefore developed an app specifically aimed at new arrivals to learn the Swedish language. Lingio's digital language courses have helped thousands of people grow, gain confidence and develop in their workplace. Our vision is to provide society with a service/product that contributes to improved integration and a better society, while building a profitable business. We have been named Best Social Tech Startup 2016, Initiative of the Year 2017 by Ledarna, and Innovation of the Year 2018 by IFMA, and won PTS innovation competition 2020.
Competitive salary and commission
30 paid vacation days
Wellness benefit 4000kr/year
Pension according to ITP
Breakfast at the office everyday
Opportunity to work from other locations
Fun off-sites and team activities
Macbook, phone and other necessary work tools
Super cozy and central work office in Stockholm (Drottninggatan)
A diverse, modern and inclusive work environment
Working in a company that truly makes a difference
Our recruitment process
Introduction interview - Learn more about Lingio and introduce yourself
Case - Showcase your skills by conducting a business or technical case
Skills interview - Meet the team, focus on your background and knowledge
Culture add interview - Discuss our values and culture, are we a perfect match?
Tech and content
"I’m a hockey-watching gamer who likes to play old Nintendo games. I also enjoy diving into complicated spreadsheets when I'm not juggling translations or debugging and quality checking"
Customer success / Office manager
"Being service-minded is my thing and I’m always keen to go that extra mile! Innovation and creativity are my driving forces, and I love to arrange fun happenings"
"My job is to make Lingio world-famous, powered by our kick-ass global marketing team. Letting curiosity lead my way, I am hosting a futurism podcast, and engaging in communities such as TedX"
"I find it inspiring to work with a product that has a positive impact on society. When I’m not working, you’ll find me in the forest, among mushrooms and berries, or skating in the wintertime"
Identifying prospects, creating awareness, and building demand.
Booking meetings by leveraging a mix of phone calls, emails, content, and more.
Continuously analyse, refine, optimize and disrupt our business development process.
Clearly communicate Lingio's value proposition and link directly to customer ROI.
It’s nice if you also have experience in:
Working with Hubspot
Been part of onboarding, utilising and evaluating new tools for lead generation.
Managing data quality in CRM.
Fun offsites and team activities
Super central work office in Stockholm
A diverse modern and inclusive work environment
Born in the summer of 2015, Lingio came about as a volunteer response to the European refugee crisis. Three former colleagues from Spotify, EA Games and MTG found a mutual interest in helping asylum seekers set up in their new home country and crack the labor market – faster. Developing and targeting an app specifically for freshly arrived residents to learn the Swedish language, Lingio's first digital language courses helped thousands grow into confident Swedish speakers, enter the workforce and develop.
We are in a growth phase and are constantly on the lookout for new amazing colleagues who want to contribute to a better society where people feel empowered to change their lives for the better.
We believe in the power of together and hire people to do what they are passionate about. We know that it's the people that make the company and not the other way around. There's no I in team, we build together, support each other and succeed together.
1. Introduction interviewGet to know Lingio better and introduce yourself
2. CaseShow your skills by conducting a business or technical case
3. Competence interviewMeet the team, focus on your background and knowledge
4. Culture interviewDiscuss our values and culture, are we a perfect fit?
Ellie Engström | Contact Person
Lingio | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6486589312553406, "wiki_prob": 0.3513410687446594, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1784349"} |
Watch Maneskin Cover Britney Spears’ ‘Womanizer’ at Coachella 2022
Philip Trapp Published: April 18, 2022
SME / Matt Winkelmeyer, Getty Images
Maneskin will soon set out on their first-ever North American tour. Ahead of the trek, the Italian hitmakers stopped at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday (April 17), where the quartet made a retro Britney Spears hit, "Womanizer," a sexy rock song of their own.
Perhaps it was Maneskin lead singer Damiano David's suggestive stage outfit that got the band's Britney Spears cover attention from The Independent and NME. Not to take away from the group's inventive garage-rock take on the dance single from the pop star's 2008 album, Circus. The Spears track was a Top 40 No. 1 in the U.S. and elsewhere when it was originally released.
Down toward the bottom of the post, see a couple of fan-captured clips of Maneskin's "Womanizer" rendition at Coachella 2022.
Maneskin's set on Day 3 of the annual music fest's first of two weekends in Indio, Calif., also included plenty of the burgeoning act's original tunes, such as their current calling card, last year's chart-topping 2017 cover of The Four Seasons' soulful "Beggin'."
Maneskin have steadily gained international attention since taking last year's Eurovision Song Contest, weeks after winning the biggest song contest in their home country at Sanremo Festival. Taking their success across the pond, Maneskin made their first U.S. visit last November. It included their American TV debut on The Tonight Show and concerts that, for one, had them opening for The Rolling Stones.
"We don't feel that we have to prove ourselves to be a real rock band or anything like that," David told Loudwire last year. "We're just doing music. If it's considered rock or pop or whatever, it's entirely not important to us. The main thing is I think people should just listen to the music and judge the music without having preconceived notions."
Clips of Maneskin Covering Britney Spears' "Womanizer" at Coachella - April 17, 2022
We'll update this space if better video of the Maneskin performance emerges. For those interested, below is the Britney Spears original.
Britney Spears, "Womanizer"
The Best Cover Songs From 40 Rock Bands
Source: Watch Maneskin Cover Britney Spears’ ‘Womanizer’ at Coachella 2022
Filed Under: Coachella, Maneskin
Maneskin Singer Calls MTV VMA Censorship ‘Prejudice’ Toward Rock + Women
Maneskin Bring Wailing Guitars, Vocal Acrobatics to Power Ballad ‘The Loneliest’
Rockers at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards [Photos]
MTV Apparently Censored Maneskin’s Televised 2022 VMA Performance
Maneskin Recruit Jimmy Fallon to Play Bass on ‘Supermodel’ for ‘Tonight Show’ Appearance
Maneskin Take Inspiration From Los Angeles on New Song ‘Supermodel’
Hayley Williams Sings ‘Misery Business’ for First Time Since 2018 With Billie Eilish
Måneskin Perform ‘Beggin” and ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ on SNL
Coachella + Stagecoach Festivals Abandon Vaccine Mandate for 2022 | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9936736822128296, "wiki_prob": 0.9936736822128296, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line387304"} |
MobileSoftware
Apple Planning To Build A Second Data Center For iCloud Services In China
Ali Salman • Feb 6, 2018 03:43 PM EST
But what about app developers?
It has come to light that Apple is planning to build its second data center in Xinhua, China. The operation date is set to 2020 and the location is in Ulanqab City according to the report by Xinhua Net. So what will the second data center hold for the company? It is said that the second center will provide the company with various iCloud services. There are additional plans part of the program, so let's dive in to see some more details on the matter.
Apple Plans To Open Its Second Data Center In Xinhua, China
As we have mentioned earlier, Apple is planning to build another data center in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Religion and it will provide various iCloud related services for users in the Chinese mainland. Plans regarding the new data center state that will be completely dependent on renewable energy sources, similar to what Apple's other data centers are operating on.
Related StoryJason R. Wilson
Intel & NVIDIA Chips Still In Use Openly For Chinese Military & Nuclear Research
Apple Inc., the United States tech giant, will build a data center in Ulanqab City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after its first data center in southwestern Guizhou Province, the local government has announced.
The company announced its first center in China last summer, which was also the first China-based data center located in the region of the Southern province of Guizhou. It was also set up in partnership with the data management firm Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry. It was also part of the country's new and updated cybersecurity law. This was definitely a good move by Apple as it would mark the company in the country's good books.
Reuter reported that Apple was the first foreign tech company to announce changes made in the data storage arrangements in China to comply with the updated cybersecurity law implemented in June. The law required foreign firms to store data within the country. Apple has assured reporters that it had set strong privacy and security protections and that "No backdoors will be created into any of our systems."
There will be more to the story, so be sure to stay tuned in for more details. We will share more details on the company's second data center in Xinhua. China as it appears. So do stay tuned in. This is all for now, folks. What are your thoughts on Apple planning to build a second data center in China? Share your views with us the comments section below.
News Source: Reuters
iPhone Owners In South Korea Lose Lawsuit Claiming That Apple Was Slowing Down Devices To Increase Battery Life
Larger Apple Watch Ultra With Over 50mm Case Size and microLED Display Rumored to Launch Next Year
Apple Could Launch An All-Screen Foldable Notebook With A 20.5-Inch Display In 2025
Rip-Roaring Demand: Tesla Increases Giga Shanghai Output to 20,000 Units per Week for February and March
AMD Ryzen 7000 X3D CPU Prices Confirmed: 7950X3D $699, 7900X3D $599, 7800X3D $449 US on 28th February
Dead Space Remake Reportedly Runs Faster on NVIDIA GPUs with Manual Activation of ReBAR
First Galaxy S23 Ultra GPU Benchmark Shows Samsung’s Latest Flagship Is Twice As The Galaxy S22 Ultra | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5187351703643799, "wiki_prob": 0.5187351703643799, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1243336"} |
red-logo
Police looking for hit-and-run driver who injured jogger
The help of the public is needed to find a driver who hit and seriously injured a jogger, then drove off without stopping.
The injured man, 36 years old, was jogging on the shoulder in the 15200 block of the Woodinville-Duvall Road in Woodinville on May 1 shortly before 5 p.m. He was hit from behind and thrown into a telephone pole about 25 feet from the point of impact.
The vehicle did not stop. It was described by witnesses as a 2003 or 2004 Nissan Pathfinder with a roof rack. The color is a light burgundy.
The vehicle had a disabled license plate, and may have damage to the hood area.
The man who was hit had very extensive bruising, abrasions, road rash, and broken bones. He was very athletic prior to the incident, and has told detectives he has severe, lingering injuries. Before the accident he could bench press 275 pounds and run “10 miles at a pop”. Now he said he can’t stand more than a few minutes in one place without getting dizzy, and has debilitating back pain.
“This has definitely altered my life,” he said.
If anyone has any information as to the driver or vehicle involved in this hit and run, they are asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at (206) 296-3311 (24 hrs) or 9-1-1.
City giving the green light: New pilot program to streamline permitting process
Students on track with WASL standards
Will teen’s killer be released from prison? | Podcast
Eye care product linked to antibiotic-resistant infections
Democrats advance assault weapons ban, new rules for gun buyers
You Never Know What Will Happen. WA Cares Gives Peace of Mind.
King County’s new prosecuting attorney announces task force units
Washington State Department of Health and CDC encourage residents to stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears.
By Reporter Staff • February 1, 2023 2:00 pm
The measures passed a House committee without Republican support. They are part of a broader agenda to curb gun violence.
By Jerry Cornfield [email protected] • January 31, 2023 10:10 am
Leesa Manion said the units are focused on public safety and “King County’s greatest areas of concern”
By Cameron Sheppard • January 25, 2023 2:30 pm
© 2023 Redmond Reporter and Sound Publishing. All Rights Reserved. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9846261143684387, "wiki_prob": 0.9846261143684387, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1832541"} |
Como ParkSchool NewsSt. Anthony Park
News from Como Park Senior High School
Students lead book drive for neighboring elementary school
Members of Como Park High School’s National Honor Society (NHS) teamed up with the Children’s Book Express to collect more than 500 books for students at Como Park Elementary School.
The Children’s Book Express has been working to get books into the hands of young students since 2000. Founded by Phil Martin, a retired English professor from Minneapolis Technical and Community College, the organization has delivered more than 26,000 books to elementary-age students.
Como NHS members Gabe Reynolds and Shyann Salverda made the book drive their senior service project. Since last fall, the two seniors helped promote the project and collect the books that will be distributed to elementary students this spring.
“Gabe and Shyann are doing much that will impact children at Como Elementary School,” Martin said. “They have shown great commitment.”
Como students Mario Sanchez-Lopez, Keleenah Yang, Eli Pattison and Jackson Kerr team up to win the Urban Regional Econ Challenge at the Federal Reserve.
Como econ students rise to the challenge
Eight Como AP Macroeconomics students spent a day at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis this spring competing in the Regional Invitational Econ Challenge. The two teams of four students worked individually and collaboratively to demonstrate their knowledge of economic concepts and theories.
Both of Como’s teams finished in the top three out of 14 teams. The team of Mario Sanchez-Lopez, Keleenah Yang, Eli Pattison and Jackson Kerr qualified for the quiz bowl and emerged as the regional champions. They advanced to the State Econ Challenge held April 11 and competed against five other regional winners from across the state.
Champs!
The JROTC Drill Team were the champions at a recent competition in Sioux Falls, S.D., at the end of March. Como’s cadets took home the championship trophy. A dozen schools from across the region participated in this annual event. This is the second time in school history that Como has earned the top prize.
History Day winners
St. Paul’s Regional History Day event was held March 17 at Johnson High School. Six Como students advanced to the State History Day competition, which will be held Saturday, April 28, at the University of Minnesota. State qualifiers in individual exhibits are: Caitlin Jones, Emma Mueller and Kayla Selbitschka. Kao Nou Lee, Lee Thao and William Farley qualified for state with their group website. Earning honorable mention at regions are: Pany Thor, Trinh Nguyen and David Amobi for their website, and Roa Lay and Naw Sei for their group exhibit.
Previous PostLearn about solar group-buys at May workshop
Next PostNews from Murray Middle School | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5694447159767151, "wiki_prob": 0.4305552840232849, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line254161"} |
Huge increase in number of people seeking credit counselling amid challenging economy January 26, 2023
Lebanon’s top prosecutor files charges against Beirut blast judge January 26, 2023
Dakar 2 summit: ‘Africa must learn to feed itself’, says Macky Sall January 26, 2023
‘Alcohol reduction measures’ for crime-riddled NT ‘needs’ to be part of reforms January 26, 2023
Damian Lillard calls 60-point night ‘pretty simple’ after Trail Blazers win January 26, 2023
Home News Canada
Huge increase in number of people seeking credit counselling amid challenging economy
inCanada
For the Credit Counselling Society–the last year has been very busy.
“Looking at activities this January to last January, the number of people reaching out to us is up over 100 per cent,” said Scott Hannah, president & CEO of Credit Counselling Society. “We’ve had to hire additional staff, just so we can meet demand for consumers.”
The society is a non-profit organization that provides debt help at no cost.
Hannah said he’s watched demand for services grow substantially since the Bank of Canada started increasing the benchmark interest rate.
“Consumers are being hit with a perfect storm,” Hannah told Global News. “You’ve got interest rate hikes, which amounted to eight increases in a row and inflation, which last August hit an almost 40-year high, so we’re dealing with really unique situations, which many people have never experienced before.”
But it’s not just the number of people coming in for help in managing their debts that’s changed, so has the urgency of people needing assistance.
“In the past, people were more inclined to say let me schedule an appointment with you, either for a few days down the road or next week. People want help now,” Hannah said.
“So we’ve evolved to having a standby counselling model. When you’re calling, we’re going to have someone ready and available to help you address your situation. So we’ve seen a real heightened desire amongst consumers to address their situations, so the stress levels are up noticeably.”
On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada increased its benchmark interest rate to 4.5 per cent, an increase of 25 basis points.
“Not surprised. It was pretty expected,” said Peter McGrath, a Kelowna mortgage broker with Axiom Mortgage Solutions. “So that 25 basis points is kind of in line with what everyone was expecting.”
The latest hike is the first of 2023 but the eighth consecutive one in less than a year as the Central Bank works to curb inflation.
“What it means for the average borrower that has a variable or a line of credit, they’re going to expect to see their payment go up a little bit next month,” McGrath said.
McGrath told Global News that for the average homeowner with a variable mortgage, the latest increase will amount to about $15 more per every $100,000 of borrowed money.
“So that isn’t really going to be a massive hit to the pocketbook, however, there’s a lot of backlog and planning that has already had a lot of stress to families.”
For those on fixed mortgages who are facing renewal, the hit as a result of the continued hikes may be substantial.
“You’ll be affected by your renewals coming up and it’ll go from where you had it five years ago to today’s rates,” McGrath said. “It could be a big jump.”
The prime rate at banks now sits at 6.7 per cent, an increase of 4.25 per cent since the bank started increasing the rate.
The growing cost of borrowing money is affecting people’s buying power.
“If you have an income of, let’s say $25,000, back in the day, you would have been able to qualify for around $145,000. Today, we’re looking at $105,000,” McGrath said. “So it’s about a 28-per cent reduction in your buying power.”
The nearly 40-year high inflation rate of 8.1 per cent in mid-2022 has cooled and clocked in at 6.3 per cent in December.
The Bank of Canada expects inflation to decline significantly in the months ahead with a predicted decrease to three per cent by the middle of 2023 and two per cent next year.
© 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
Kelowna, B.C. pilot project aims to keep the homeless warm during cold snaps
The City of Kelowna is taking a page out of...
Haiti’s UN envoy says she heard ‘caution,’ not ‘no’ from Canada, U.S. over intervention
The U.N. special envoy for Haiti said Wednesday she heard...
Developer applies for rezoning to allow development on former Kensington Manor site
The City of Calgary has received an application for a...
B.C. man frees trapped moose from wire fence
A B.C. man quickly jumped into action to save an...
Joint funding for land-based learning centre for 4th First Nations University of Canada campus
Both the federal and Saskatchewan governments announced they will fund...
Flair Airlines suspends service between Kitchener-Waterloo and Montreal
Flair Airlines has suspended service between Waterloo International Airport and...
Lebanon’s top prosecutor files charges against Beirut blast judge
Dakar 2 summit: ‘Africa must learn to feed itself’, says Macky Sall
‘Alcohol reduction measures’ for crime-riddled NT ‘needs’ to be part of reforms
Mother of 2 living in downtown Toronto on rising inflation: ‘I’m struggling a lot’ | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9735581874847412, "wiki_prob": 0.9735581874847412, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line565672"} |
A Photo Has Gone Viral Showing A Cop Parked In A Handicapped Spot At An IHOP
The photo led to an internal Lafayette Police investigation, which found that the officer was not at fault.
by Rachel Zarrell
Updated on July 18, 2015, 10:35 pmPosted on July 14, 2015, 11:10 pm
A photo of a police cruiser parked in a handicapped spot outside of an Indiana IHOP while a man on a scooter posed nearby has gone viral and was the cause of an internal review at the local police department.
The picture was posted to Reddit by a user named Susan Dyer on Monday, and had over 1 million views and 4,000 comments within 24 hours. Dyer told BuzzFeed News the original picture was posted on a local Facebook page for Lafayette, Indiana, where she lives.
In a statement, Lafayatte Police Chief Patrick Flannelly said he first saw the photo Sunday night and "immediately initiated an internal investigation to determine the circumstances."
"It was incredibly disappointing to see the image and embarrassing to our agency," he said. "Outside of an officer responding to the business for life-saving action, there is no reason for a police car to be parked in that spot, period."
The Lafayette IHOP.
The review ultimately concluded that the officer was not doing official business at the IHOP, but the officer told the sheriff he had failed to see the handicap markings on the ground.
teamfangirl.com
I get blinded by pancake lust, too.
The department determined the space was inadequately marked as handicap parking because it lacked a vertical sign and other signifiers required under Indiana law.
Flannelly said that no vehicle, whether belonging to a police officer or private citizen, would have been ticketed for using the space.
"The officer's actions were determined to be an honest mistake," he said.
Rachel Zarrell
Contact Rachel Zarrell at [email protected]. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9504997730255127, "wiki_prob": 0.9504997730255127, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1847588"} |
Are Jordans Comfortable? Find Out The Answer
Brands / January 5, 2021 July 30, 2021
Jordans should be comfortable. They are, after all, athletic wear. Athletic wear has a reputation for being comfortable enough to run and jump in. Comfort is why athletic wear has become popular even with people who aren’t athletes.
The Air Jordan 1, however, is an exception to the rule. It is meant for style rather than comfort. The technology used to make it way back in 85 may have been cutting edge. Not so much anymore. True, it has the “Air” unit, but it’s barely noticeable.
Of course, it is unfair to judge an entire series based on the first product. It’s kind of like with pancakes. The first one’s going to be a bit of a mess that gets thrown into the dog’s dish. Many follow up Jordans were actually quite comfortable. Many of them had their own pros and cons.
Take, for instance, the Air Jordan 2. As it is a mere year older than the Air Jordan 1, you wouldn’t expect that much improvement. However, necessity became the mother of invention that year.
Sir Altitude broke his foot and needed something extra comfortable. This shoe features a full-length Air unit to deliver that extra comfort while the high-top cut while a molded heel counter provides additional ankle support.
Others In The Jordan Line
The Shoes Aren’t Murder But Paying For Them Is
So, Why Do People Wear Them?
Now, if you don’t mind not having any laces (it can take some getting used to) the Air Jordan 19 is very comfortable while still being supportive. It’s got a boxy; almost boot-like design but the mesh instep makes the shoe very breathable.
If you like the retro style but also like to be comfortable then you might like the Retro 12. It’s based on Tinker Hatfield’s classic design but with the added benefit of Air Max Cushioning. They’re great shoes whether you want to be like Mike or just dance the Macarena.
One of the newest types of Jordan is the Air Jordan 35, dubbed “Sisterhood” in honor of women in sports and the inspiration they bring. That gap under the arch big enough for a gerbil to crawl through does give pause.
However, this appears to be instrumental to the excellent support these shoes provide. The cushioning, though, is where these shoes really have it going on. It is best described as bouncy and responsive.
Do you want a shoe that’s breathable, shows off your cool socks, and isn’t your dad’s sandal? You might like the Air Jordan 2010. Not only is the shoe breathable but the asymmetrical build fits the natural asymmetry of the foot. The double-stacked Zoom Air setup makes this shoe ultra-comfortable.
The tongue has some issues and people with Achilles problems may not find it very comfortable. 2010 was not the year we made contact, but it was the year Jordan made an unusual looking but very comfortable shoe.
The Air Jordan 2012 is a bit stiff but well-cushioned enough. Granted, just enough. The ventilation, however, is a little better than mediocre. The superlative traction and fine materials may tend to balance the comfort flaws out.
2012 wasn’t the end of the world the Mayans told us it would be, but it did produce a Jordan that sacrificed comfort for functionality. The question is, what good is it to play basketball in shoes that hurt your feet?
If Jordans don’t make your feet uncomfortable, they could very well make your wallet uncomfortable! The average Jordan sneaker costs roughly thirty-five dollars more than the average basketball sneaker.
Not only do they have the name of the Greatest Of All Time as their name brand, but the first Jordan’s had a colorway that went contrary to the NBA’s uniform rules. Wearing them became a sign of rebellion.
Of course, when Mike broke his foot in the first Air Jordan, there was talk of him wanted to take his business to Adidas. Lucky for Nike and sneaker fans everywhere, His Airness decided to give Nike one more chance.
Designer Tinker Hatfield was put in the game and he came up with the Air Max technology, the iconic mid-cut, and of course that Jumpman logo that tells you that you have the real McCoy…well, the real Hatfield.
Jordans, are, of course, a luxury brand. They do have some practical elements that one looks for in a basketball shoe such as traction, responsiveness, shock absorption, and heel support. However, they are also a fashion statement. And that statement is “I have a lot of money to blow on something that’s just going to go on my feet.”
Why do people still wear Jordans? Not only are they expensive but MJ has been retired from sports for years now. After all, we can’t very well expect a fifty-seven-year-old to do slam dunks. (Granted, he’d probably be better at it than me.) So why do Zoomers who are too young to have seen Space Jam in theaters wear Jordans?
Well, people still wear Chucks even though Chuck Taylor died a month before the Moon Landing. The product has to have something substantial in it; something that outlasts such ephemeral things as fame, fads, and life itself.
Their high price makes them a bit of a status symbol. Expensive clothes are often thought of as being very formal. Not so with Jordans. You can wear them casually and people will still know you’re someone who pushes stacks.
Even though Jordan is off the court his legacy as being one of the best basketball players still lives and may always live. People who play basketball want to play like he did the way people who play baseball want to play like Babe Ruth. In a way, tangible shoes can make a dream feel more real.
So, are Jordans comfortable? That depends on which ones you get. Some are built for comfort, some are built for speed. Some are meant for wide feet, some for narrow feet, and some even for flat feet.
Yet another reason why Jordans have kept their popularity is that they’re always trying to improve themselves. There’s a good chance that the next Jordan’s release will be more comfortable than the last. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5965368151664734, "wiki_prob": 0.5965368151664734, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line793933"} |
Raid Quotations
Raid Quotes from:
Arne Ljungqvist
Richard Collins
Robert Kerr
Adnan Dulaimi
Ajay Gupta
Alan Doss
Alex Grossman
Bryan Whitman
Charles Foster
Chuck Hagel
Douglas Coffman
Greg Palmore
Janis Karpinski
Citizens Quotes
What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.
The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.
Certainly Quotes
Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.
Scott Long
Sort Quotes
We're still sort of suffering from the (Pat) Buchanan raid in 2000.
Abu Quotes
If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.
If this man was on the U.S. payroll until last week, what has changed in the last few days to make him subject of a raid of this type?
Behind Quotes
Basically, the giveaway is a response to the raid -- to show that city officials and community is behind us. We want the DEA to stay out of the medical marijuana business.
I can't not speak out against what is a raid on education funds.
Paul Hubbert
Care Quotes
I got a can of Raid and took care of it, ... I love Raid.
Drinking Quotes
He'd talk about the referendum (scheduled for Oct. 15), reconstruction projects, sewer projects, you name it, ... We wound up in the Iraqi version of Starbucks, drinking chai with locals. It was easily the most interesting raid I've ever been on.
Steve Warren
Advance Quotes
Hardware acceleration is vital to RAID 6, and Intel was the first to deliver it via a commercially available I/O processor. The Intel IOP331 I/O processor is crucial to meeting the needs of Promise's cost-conscious customers, who need enterprise-class data protection in SMB-priced solutions. We are dedicated to working together with companies such as Promise to advance availability of standards-based building blocks so that companies of all sizes can protect their critical data more effectively.
Action Quotes
Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.
Breakfast Quotes
Some of the girls who didn't eat cereal, would just raid the fridge in the morning, ... One had a breakfast of hot dogs and chocolate milk.
Evidence Quotes
We have such evidence that this raid was necessary.
Arrest Quotes
We have always said that men in police and Interior Ministry commando uniforms use Interior Ministry vehicles, raid our houses and arrest our sons. After a short time, we find some of them tortured or killed and thrown either on a sidewalk or in the river. We have warned all the officials and the American forces, but they did not respond to our calls until the American forces found this group.
Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes
We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,
But more importantly, we felt that the raid had to be done because there was a risk that an individual who was occupying the residence, did have a weapon. And in fact we seized an imitation handgun.
You bet there'll be congressional hearings. I think both branches, the legislative branch and the judiciary branch, should look into this in depth, because this is a frightening event, that American citizens can expect that the executive branch on their own can decide whether to raid a home.
We found the rationale for the raid flimsy. The stated reason was that there was information threatening national security that was about to be revealed. Yet we have seen no evidence that this is actually the case.
Information Quotes
We had such information that a raid was a necessity.
Announce Quotes
We think it's highly inappropriate that they would announce a raid at this time that we are going through contract negotiations,
Peter Fiske
Barry Quotes
Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?
Attacks Quotes
An Iraqi special operations force conducted a raid in one of the neighborhoods in northeast Baghdad to disrupt a terrorist cell that had been responsible for not only conducting attacks on Iraqi security forces and coalition forces but also in kidnapping Iraqi civilians in the local area.
Budget Quotes
The small to midsize business segment is a very large part of the hosted market, ... Software-as-service lets companies get CRM in place quickly without having to raid the I.T. budget to do it.
Rob Bois
Few Quotes
Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.
Meghan Coward
Advanced Quotes
Adaptec became the leader in the SCSI RAID controller market because customers knew if they chose the Adaptec brand their data was safe. Now we are extending this leadership to the next generation of SCSI by making these new, advanced data protection features which have been shipping for 10 months in top tier servers, standard on all our SAS RAID controllers as well as our SATA II RAID Controllers.
Tim Connolly
This is a big day on the RAID side.
Leaders And Leadership Quotes
They had also captured three of our leaders in a raid last month. We do not know if they are dead or alive.
Kughalo Mulatonu
Brings Quotes
This price for RAID storage has been unheard of and brings a new level of data protection at a low price.
Appetite Quotes
There's an old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, in its never-ending appetite for more of your hard-earned income, the government has not only embraced that old saying, it's taken it a step further. Under the current tax code, Uncle Sam treats death as another chance to raid your savings, taking money that should go to your family and loved ones.
Mark Greene
Bombing Quotes
It's not always necessary ... I don't always do it. But if something important has happened, and it hasn't been resolved, like this bombing raid on Libya ... I just postulate that.
Anyone Quotes
The feeling on the ground here was that neither the family nor the Cuban-American leadership had any intention of ever handing the boy over. For weeks they'd essentially told the government that the only way to get the boy was to come and fetch him. To anyone watching this unfold over the last few weeks, the claim that a deal was near in the wee hours before the raid rings a little hollow.
Tim Padgett
Attempts Quotes
If there are attempts to raid defense for lesser priorities, or to raid homeland security for lesser priorities, then we'll resist that. And I think pretty strongly. So, I think that's the difference between last year and a wartime era.
Mitchell Daniels
In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria.
Richard Engel
Arrested Quotes
In this one raid alone, the number of individuals arrested surpassed more than what we took in for the whole year last year.
Air Quotes
In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.
Michael Bond
Ask Quotes
I don't think that any of our friends want to see a helicopter raid at midnight and rockets going in there without some sense of coordination and coalition building that I think is vital because then you have to ask the next question always: 'What happens next?'
Community Quotes
By doing this raid the international community has hit a raw nerve, targeting this institution which allegedly is linked to illegal parallel institutions.
Israeli Quotes
You can say for sure that the U.S. did not know about the Israeli raid before it happened.
This is a complete raid on the taxpayer dollars. The previous owners should have been responsible for the cleanup; now the City of Dearborn is stuck with the cleanup costs.
The main focus or reason behind the raid yesterday was the fact that there were outstanding warrants for individuals that we were attempting to apprehend, | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6281651854515076, "wiki_prob": 0.37183481454849243, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line635964"} |
Jaraiyia Alize’ – The Piano Man (OFFICIAL VIDEO) | @JaraiyiaAlize
1 year ago Tampa Mystic
Jaraiyia Alize’ – The Piano Man (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://youtu.be/2LtoGdIxz88Since the beginning of 2021, Jaraiyia Alize’, has become a hot topic for R&B and Hip-Hop fans. Today, the Danville, Illinois, native artist will release her first project of the year. It is called ‘The Piano Man’. Jaraiyia Alize’ has been approaching the R&B and hip-hop limelight for months, and now, it seems, she’s bathing in it. Jaraiyia Alize’ will soon be in the ranks of the fastest-rising up-and-coming artists of the month on streaming and more. Jaraiyia Alize’ had a breakout moment with the release of her music videos and short film trailers. She keeps building and growing her streams from there. In August, he reached the Top 200 Apple Music song charts for the first time thanks to a growing fanbase she calls Pearlz. Jaraiyia Alize´, is on her way to becoming the music industry’s next most promising songstress. Jaraiyia has an intense and relatable story to tell and what better way for her to express those emotions through singing and making music. With inspirational icons to admire such as, Beyonce’, Rihanna, Anita Baker, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift; it’s with versatility and personal experiences that have molded Jaraiyia into yet another iconic artist in the making. Now working on an upcoming project with some notable collaborations such as Travis Cherry, Jaraiyia Alize’, plans to create music that inspires and memorizes fans. “I believe that I can bring diversity to the music industry. I love music from all cultures and walks of life. Music is what connects us as beings, and I want to connect us all. Through my music I plan to uplift, guide, educate, and heal the world. The legacy that I will leave behind is self-love, peace, and harmony amongst all Pearlz. I want to be remembered as the artist that healed the world.” Stay connected with musician and talented artist Jaraiyia Alize’. Jaraiyia Alize’ released her first ever NFT Project ‘Jaraiyia Alize’. This NFT project represents Jaraiyia’s first venture into the world of digital assets and is out now. The Piano Man non-fungible token (NFT) is part of Jaraiyia Alize’s first NFT collection along with The Pearlz NFT Auction. You can purchase it via M&G Collections and Rarible.
JARAIYIA ALIZE’ NFT COLLECTION
https://glaschowski.wixsite.com/jaraiyiaalizenft
https://rarible.com/token/0x60f80121c31a0d46b5279700f9df786054aa5ee5:1201055?tab=bids
https://rarible.com/token/0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:671600?tab=owners
Follow Jaraiyia Alize’
http://wwwjaraiyiaalize.com
https://twitter.com/JaraiyiaAlize
https://www.facebook.com/AlizeDreams
https://www.instagram.com/jaraiyia_alize/
https://tidal.com/browse/track/194086833
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1581019784
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/251790792
https://www.tiktok.com/@jaraiyia.alize?lang=en
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09CJWVRTF
https://www.shazam.com/track/581263321/the-piano-man
https://us.napster.com/artist/jaraiyia-alize/album/the-piano-man
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcpDxzASS2FarjJ0g8UqfEA
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-piano-man-single/1581020474
https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Man-Explicit-Jaraiyia-Alize/dp/B09CJWVRTF
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TrwObTfnl0xTC9zE2aX3n?si=90d6ed76ce124991
Previous Tre Hoover Drop Visual to “New Race” Directed by Stay Focused Films
Next Shiesty Z4 – The View ft. 9arick [Official Music Video] | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5070928931236267, "wiki_prob": 0.4929071068763733, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1613467"} |
HomeNewsOttawa announces more details on ending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
Ottawa announces more details on ending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
Thursday, Aug. 20th, 2020
Parliament Hill (Vista Stock Photo)
Ottawa has extended the Canada Emergency Response Benefit by another four weeks.
Officials announced Thursday afternoon that after that the 4 million Canadians still on CERB will be transitioned to either a new “simplified” Employment Insurance system, or the new Canada Recovery Benefit as of September 27th.
They say the government is also creating a new sickness benefit and a caregiver benefit.
It’s estimated the total cost of the extension to CERB, the changes to employment insurance, and the three new benefits will be approximately $37-billion.
The changes to Employment Insurance and the new programs will be put in place for one year.
It was also announced that Employment Insurance benefits will be frozen for two years. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5719954371452332, "wiki_prob": 0.42800456285476685, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line870535"} |
Britney Spears & Sam Asghari wed – Socialite Life
By Teresa Blackmon On Jun 10, 2022
Oops! … she did it again! Britney Spears is a married woman after tying the knot with fiancé Sam Asghari during an intimate ceremony held in front of friends and family.
The princess of pop, 40, and fitness trainer, 28, said their “I dos” while making it official on Thursday, opting for a Los Angeles-based wedding at her home in Thousand Oaks.
JLRED
Guests included Drew Barrymore, Madonna, and Paris Hilton. People broked the pop star walked down the aisle to Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love.
Spears said that Donatella Versace would be designing her dress for the highly-anticipated affair, teasing that it was being “made as we speak” back in November 2021.
Interestingly, her sons, Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15, whom she shares with ex Kevin Federline, were not present for their mom’s big day.
“Kevin and the boys are happy for Britney and wish her and Sam all the best going forward,” Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told TMZ.
Her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, as well as parents, Lynne Spears and Jamie Spears, were reportedly not invited.
Prior to Asghari, she was married to Jason Alexander for 55 hours in 2004 and to Federline from 2004 to 2007.
In a shocking turn of events, Alexander crashed her wedding on Thursday and documented it all via live stream before the police responded.
Asghari and Spears met on the set of her Slumber Party music video in 2016, going on to announce their engagement in September 2021.
The actor continued to be a rock in her life throughout the singer’s conservatorship battle, which ended in her favor.
Spears celebrated the termination of her conservatorship in November by joyfully dancing with Asghari on a date night shortly after she gained her freedom back. “History was made today. Britney is Free!” the groom-to-be wrote at the time.
Over the past few months, the couple has gone through many highs and lows. In May, they suffered a pregnancy loss.
“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy,” Spears and Asghari posted to fans. “This is a devastating time for any parent.”
Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency / MEGA
“Perhaps we should have waited to announce until we were further along however we were overly excited to share the good news,” their joint statement continued. “Our love for each other is our strength. We will continue trying to expand our beautiful family. We are grateful for all of your support.”
Cole Sprouse, Gus Kenworthy, Pietro Boselli, and more Insta Snaps – Socialite Life
Rumor: New 2023 12-inch MacBook could feature M2 Pro, Max | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8681888580322266, "wiki_prob": 0.8681888580322266, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1649817"} |
NFL Fantasy Football
Hannah Wilkes
Her Huddle Presenter & NFL Reporter
Deshaun Watson's NFL return tells women 'they don't matter' and undermines league's progress on diversity and inclusion, says Hannah Wilkes
Deshaun Watson served an 11-game suspension and was fined $5m after being accused by more than two dozen women of sexual assault and misconduct during massage sessions; Hannah Wilkes presents the Her Huddle podcast, a weekly show which celebrates women working in and around the NFL
Last Updated: 05/12/22 9:16am
Deshaun Watson is due to return to action in the NFL this Sunday, playing for the first time for the Cleveland Browns against his former team, the Houston Texans
It's really hard to focus purely on the match-ups and playoff storylines present in the NFL as we enter Week 13.
I would love to use this space to speak solely about the playoff-clinching scenarios, the deep NFL Fantasy sleepers who could prove the difference makers, or the excitement of an AFC Championship rematch between Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow on Sunday.
But I can't. Because this week Deshaun Watson returns as a starting quarterback in the NFL.
And while he may be able to get back to his $46m-per-year job, there are multiple women who have sought counselling, closed their businesses and suffered with their mental health allegedly because of his previous behaviour. It's not 'back to normal' for them.
Watson refuses to answer non-football questions after NFL suspension
Listen to Her Huddle podcast episodes
Spotify Due to your consent preferences, you’re not able to view this Privacy Options
This isn't conjecture. This is evidenced by Sue L. Robinson, the former federal judge appointed by the NFL and NFL Players' Association to investigate the complaints of sexual misconduct and assault by Watson.
Her report listed how some of the women interviewed sought professional help, suffered sleepless nights and depression, and felt unable to return to the job that they loved. It all fed into the conclusion that the NFL proved "by a preponderance of evidence" that Watson engaged in sexual assault as defined by the NFL, that his conduct posed a "genuine danger to the safety and well-being of another person". His conduct undermined the integrity of the league.
Background to Deshaun Watson sexual misconduct allegations
More than two dozen women have accused Watson of sexual assault and other inappropriate sexual misconduct during massage sessions.
Over the summer, Watson agreed to settle 23 of 24 lawsuits filed against him.
The NFL ruled Watson's behaviour with massage therapists as "egregious" and "predatory", fining him $5m and handing down an 11-game suspension, in addition to mandatory counselling and treatment.
There are two lawsuits still pending. One of the original 24 complaints, and a further suit filed on October 13, with a woman claiming Watson pressured her into oral sex during a massage session in 2020.
Two other women filed criminal complaints against Watson but did not sue him, but two grand juries in Texas declined to pursue criminal charges.
Watson has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, saying he didn't harass or force himself on any women.
Watson will play for the Cleveland Browns against his former team, the Houston Texans on Sunday, with 10 of his accusers planning to attend the game according to their lawyer Tony Buzbee.
Watson signed a $230m fully guaranteed contract with the Browns in March - the richest in NFL history.
I know you know all this, I know it has been discussed multiple times and in multiple ways. I know that if you are someone with the slightest moral compass, you find it at the very least unsettling and uncomfortable that Watson is returning to the sport so soon and on such a lucrative contract that secures him the most guaranteed money in NFL history.
I also know that, according to the attorney Tony Buzbee, most of the women involved in filing the suits against Watson do now want to move on with their lives, quite rightly so too, but that doesn't mean we should stop talking about it.
It still matters because, in the face of allegations from more than two dozen women - 23 suits settled and two still pending - one man gets to return to business as usual.
It matters because those women were forced to release their names in order for their claims to be legitimised.
It matters because Calvin Ridley was banned for an entire season and fined $11m for making a $1,500 dollar bet on an NFL game. Watson was suspended 11 games and fined $5m.
It matters because if you know a woman (and I'd be amazed if you've never met a single one of us, we are everywhere), then I almost guarantee that you actually know a woman who's suffered some form of sexually inappropriate behaviour. Know a woman that has had comments made in a space where she should feel safe and protected, felt like something was "a bit off" but likely didn't want to make a fuss or "blow it out of proportion". And this is me talking in the mildest of terms.
It matters because, despite having complied with his mandated counselling sessions and rolling out the "I'm sorry if I triggered anyone" line, Deshaun Watson hasn't actually, genuinely, apologised. At least beyond the awkwardly-staged preseason interview in which he said sorry to "all of the women that I have impacted" before once again denying any wrongdoing merely days after his 11-game suspension had been agreed.
It's worth recalling that prior to the aforementioned 'apology', Sue L. Robinson had noted Watson's lack of remorse in her decision-making, which the NFL had stated they would appeal.
Watson to return to NFL after suspension
Latest NFL news & videos
NFL Week 13 games live on Sky Sports
Latest NFL playoff picture
It matters because the sum of all these parts is a system and a culture where women are repeatedly told, in a myriad of ways, that they are 'less than'. Their experiences are less important than the ability of an elite sportsman. Their collective voices are less powerful than a wealthy man. That they, essentially, don't matter.
In a sport that celebrates diversity and inclusion, one which is patting itself on the back for the number of women in coaching jobs, celebrating more women than ever in executive boardrooms and applauding having more female fans than ever, it matters.
Learn more about NFL
NFL playoffs explained
Play the Super Bowl Challenge
NFL 2022 season fixtures
Final NFL divisional standings
Subscribe to Inside the Huddle
Can Mahomes slay the NFL's giant? | Neil Reynolds' Championship Sunday wrap
Mahomes fires Chiefs into Super Bowl despite ankle injury struggles
Eagles crush banged-up 49ers to reach Super Bowl
NFL playoffs recap: Chiefs beat Bengals in thriller to face Eagles at Super Bowl
Wilks 'disappointed, not defeated' over Panthers snub
Kelce Bros on their 'last actual fist fight' | 'He punched me the face!'
King: Brady was the ultimate professional
'He's the greatest we will ever see' | Reynolds reflects on Brady's incredible career
'Father time doesn't make exceptions' | Brady retires 'for real'
Brady on brink of tears in emotional retirement announcement
Premier League January transfers: Club by club
Galtier: Responsibility does not lie with PSG over Ziyech document gaffe | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9160268902778625, "wiki_prob": 0.9160268902778625, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line269876"} |
Indie Biotech
© 2016 -> Creative Commons BY-SA.
Built with Hugo
Theme Blackburn (Mod)
This is Tracker free!
Codon Optimisation: A Hidden Process Behind IndieBB
indie biotech / DIYbio / indiebb / plasmid / synthetic biology / how to / guides / codon optimisation / pysplicer / python / programming
I've posted twice recently after a prolonged blogging absence, and here I am again. Perhaps I should always be running a crowdfunding campaign, so that I have a stake in blogging; I'd be far more prolific! I'm too principled (or, to some “dogmatic”) to include advertisement on this or any blog, and flattr revenue is far too thin to encourage more than the occasional post otherwise.
In any case, today I'd like to share something with you all that I've been meaning to write up for ages anyway, but which becomes especially relevant in light of my IndieBB DIYbio/Biohacking/Teaching plasmid design project.
This is the story of how I was faced with a synthetic biology design problem for which there were few acceptable existing solutions, and how it lead me to design my own software for gene design. This software is being used to design IndieBB, so you might have a stake in it already!
Reminder: Like the preceding post, this post gets into the technical details of DNA design. It is not necessary that IndieBB users understand any of this; the kit is designed for total beginners!
Green Fluorescent Protein: Little Green Cells
One of the included genes in IndieBB is the “Green Fluorescent Protein” (GFP) from the jellyfish A.victoria, a widely used biotechnology tool which, when expressed within a cell in sufficient quantity, makes a cell visibly fluorescent. So, colonies of E.coli will be green under a full-spectrum or ultra-violet (UV-A) strip-lamp, allowing you to see you've succeeded in making engineered cells.
When the gene for GFP (which, as a protein, had been known of for long before transgenics emerged) was first discovered, it was a great day for biotech. Finally, a protein that doesn't need to be extracted from cells to detect; you can just illuminate the cells, and notice that they're more fluorescent than before! Things got even better when, several years later, an enhanced variant of GFP called “eGFP” was discovered; this was several times more fluorescent and, in modest quantity, was clearly visible by eye. It also had a better excitation spectrum (the range of light frequencies which can make it fluoresce), meaning handheld UV-LEDs could be used instead of UV-striplamps.
(Image credits: Wikipedia)
Sadly, while GFP is out of patent by now (it was ludicrous in the first place that a patent could be obtained on a natural gene), eGFP is still burdened by several patents which will not expire for a few years. This means any reasonable hope of making an open source product on eGFP is dead in the water until those patents die, and in the mean-time we're stuck with GFP.
“Natural” or “wild type” GFP, being significantly less fluorescent than eGFP, needs to be expressed (produced) in cells in much greater quantity, and to achieve this in synthetic biology we do one or both of two things: place the gene under the control of a strong promoter, and codon optimise the gene. The first is a matter of copy and paste, but the latter is far more involved and murky.
Codon Optimisation
If you're well-read on DNA, you may know that a “gene” is a section of DNA that instructs a cell how to, and under what circumstances to, produce a protein. The protein then goes on to be or do something useful for the cell.
The protein itself is coded for by a sub-set of the gene called the “Coding Sequence”, usually shortened to “CDS”. This happens through a process called “transcription”, where the DNA, starting near the “promoter” region and ending near the “terminator” region is copied to a molecule of RNA. This RNA transcript is then translated according to the RNA code by a protein:RNA complex called a ribosome. Translation uses triplets (codons) of RNA nucleotides to assemble single amino acids into a chain of amino acids, which is called a “protein”.
The ribosome, and the RNA code, are two of the strongest indicators that all known life on earth evolved from a common origin; they are both highly similar across all known species. The RNA code varies between groups of life usually in only one or two places at a time, and even then many of the differences are circumstantial.
However, while the language remains the same, the dialect differs widely. While jellyfish like A.victoria and bacteria like E.coli broadly agree on which three-nucleotide “words” (codons) code for which amino acids, they differ greatly in their relative usage of words which may code for the same amino acid. The RNA code is redundant, meaning that for some amino acids there are many different codons which are used..but some species don't use some codons at all, whereas other species might use those same codons exclusively. Trying to copy a gene between distantly related species may fail simply because the gene contains “words” which the target species no longer understands, or doesn't like to use under normal circumstances.
Enter codon optimisation, one of synthetic biology's darker arts. In principal, if the relative usage of codons can make a protein perform worse in one species than another, then the reverse is also true. Using alternative codons to encode each amino acid of a CDS can make the cell make the protein in higher quantities, or while depleting fewer scarce codons that might be needed for other genes.
As a bonus, while you are re-writing the CDS of a gene anyway, you can specify extraneous things you'd like to do at the same time. Perhaps you want to purge your CDS of target sites for a particular (or many) enzyme, or you'd like to prevent any sequences being created which could form strong secondary structures (areas where DNA folds up into origami) that might interfere with the translation of the RNA code. Let's call all of this stuff-you-don't-want “excluded sequences” or “excludes”.
But from that simple principal there is a blossoming of complexity. What's the best way to optimise genes? At first, people assumed a “best pick” method would work well; analyse the target species, identify the codons that species uses most often, and then always use that codon unless it would create some excluded sequence, in which case you fall back to the second-best, and so on.
Best pick is better than nothing in cases where a gene otherwise won't work at all. But, the weight of evidence appears to suggest that it doesn't usually improve gene expression when the gene already works acceptably, on average. Some genes improve, others actually get worse.
An alternative method came into favour which attempted instead to match the relative codon usage of the gene with the relative codon usage of the target cell. So, if upon inspection a species likes to use the four available codons for a particular amino acid in a 4:3:2:1 ratio, then you try to match that ratio in your target gene.
This system actually works better, but it's still not perfect (though nothing ever will be). But, better refinements weren't long coming, and there are now several ways of optimising that function, basically, on a random allotment of codons according to a desired final frequency. Some prefer to choose codons according to their relative usage in a subset of cellular proteins believed to be very important, or highly expressed. In at least once case an empirical study determined the best codons to use by mutating many, many copies of some “test” genes and assessing which codons were associated with high expression, though this is expensive and time consuming, and has only been done for E.coli so far.
But at this point, the method remains the same, with the precise details being left to a codon usage table (CUT). Using this method, you specify your gene, and your list of excludes, and your CUT, and your program hopefully churns out a better copy of the gene for the target species, ready to be ordered from a gene synthesis company.
Things seemed fairly stable for a while, until the whole thing got murkier again. First, it became apparent that, once codon scarcity was removed as the primary cause of expression problems, the next most common problem with designed genes was the presence of secondary structures in the CDS region of the gene: the aforementioned “DNA/RNA origami” that can cause RNA templates to fold up, concealing their beginning from eager ribosomes. It would later be demonstrated that, generally speaking, this was most true of the “leader” region where the ribosomes bind and pick up momentum, and less true of the later regions. This is actually (apparently) because the ribosomes themselves, once bound, help to flatten out the RNA and prevent structures from forming.
Once the structure issue was better documented, some bright spark, noticing a few details in “natural” codon usage in wild genes and some contradictory details in custom-made genes, asked whether the speed with which a ribosome translates an RNA template can at times be too fast, the opposite of what everyone else assumed. The assumption made was that, if ribosomes all start at high velocity as soon as they find and stick to an RNA template, then they'll be thinly spaced as they all progress along the template. If the lead ribosome pauses for some reason; say, it finds a codon that's used rarely, or the amino acid it needs is suddenly not available when required, then you could get a Ribosome pile-up!
Studies into this actually bore out the idea that ribosomal collisions could occur, and could lead to problems expressing a protein that was, according to the best available knowledge of the day, “highly optimised”. This has become known as the “on-ramp” hypothesis; for good outcomes, the early portion of an RNA template should actually be less optimal than the rest, so that ribosomes start out slow before speeding up later, allowing them to space out slightly and preventing collisions. This appears to be what most wild genes with high transcription rates do, and it appears to be beneficial for designed genes, too.
With me so far? So, the state-of-the-art in gene design today looks like this:
Pick codons according to a frequency table, in preferential order of empirically-determined-to-be-best, used-in-highly-expressed-genes, or overall-frequency-in-the-target-organism's-genome.
Try to avoid secondary structures in the region that becomes the RNA transcript, particularly in the initial portion.
Try to make the initial portion of the RNA transcript be less optimal than the rest, to create an on-ramp for ribosomes.
Do all of this while avoiding a list of sequences that you've determined, for structural, efficiency or convenience reasons, to be better off excluded from the final sequence.
Got that? Now the problem; nothing like this existed.
Codon Optimisation Software Woes
When I began designing genes, I used a tool called jcat, which had a handy web-interface, to design some genes for expression in B.subtilis (readers of prior posts will recall that I was attempting something like IndieBB in that species back then, and that I've promised to relate the full story during the crowdfunding campaign).
jcat is a best-pick tool; it prefers to use the most-commonly-used codon for the target species whenever possible. It could exclude sequences from the final design, but seemingly only by specific sequence, rather than using the more useful generic IUPAC-notation (where an expanded set of letters allow you to specify “A or T” or “not G” instead of having to use only A, C, T or G).
I also made use of the gene optimisation system provided as a free service for customers (more on this trend later) by Mr Gene, a since defunct (I think) gene synthesis company, which also appeared to make use of the best-pick system for design. It, too, would allow specific sequences (not IUPAC) to be excluded from the target design, but no IUPAC.
As I became aware that best-pick was being discredited, I started looking around for more up-to-date systems, but I found that all the newer available tools I could find that specified which system they used (best pick or CUT-based) were proprietary, and had very specific terms of use; most were provided by gene synthesis companies who insisted that you buy the resulting gene from them! My more antiauthoritarian users may be like me in balking at this, and may further suggest “screw that, design and buy elsewhere anyway”. But, dear reader, even if I were scurrilous enough to do so (:)), it's possible that a proprietary program could be embedding a “watermark” in the resulting DNA which is provably linked to the system, and could later result in a burden of intellectual property should the resulting DNA become useful or wildly successful. Also, I'm a purist; why didn't good software exist for codon optimisation?
So, I wrote my own CUT-based codon optimisation system, and as a bonus I included code that would not only permit exact sequence exclude-lists, but also extended IUPAC-notation exclude-lists. So instead of specifying three separate excludes ["TAG", "CAG", "GAG"], you could just say “BAG”, meaning [not-A]AG. I called this python codon optimisation system PySplicer, because it was written in Python and it eventually made of of a splicing system to rapidly triage a good-ish gene from hundreds of initial candidates, prior to more involved gene editing to resolve excluded sequences.
The first PySplicer was a raw CUT-based design tool with exclude lists, written in the most awful, incomprehensible sort of code. It was one huge script, with one huge Python Class containing tens of methods which each handled a small part of the job, and cross-called one another, sometimes recursively. It was impossible to understand unless you'd written it, and indeed several months later, when I sat down to rewrite the whole thing, I was challenged to understand my own thought process, too! But, at this point I'd fulfilled parts 1 and 4 from the above list of “current best practice in CDS design”.
When I later wanted to rewrite and improve PySplicer, I had by then learned of the on-ramp hypothesis and the importance of DNA/RNA structure to gene expression. I wanted to create the best available gene design software, and that meant implementing all four of the above features. Also, I wanted the code to be not-terrible, so others could see how it worked and help improve it as we learned more about gene design in future. I had been digging into structure analysis tools written for DNA that were written in a now-rare language called FORTRAN, and found them so difficult to read and understand that I felt pity for anyone in my position someday!
Rewriting PySplicer to fill out the list above is a story in computer coding, and I won't burden the reader, presumably a biology and not programming enthusiast (but possibly both), with the full details.
Suffice to say, fulfilling problem #2, structure analysis, required that PySplicer forfeit being a “pure python” program, because structure analysis is considered one of the harder problems in bioinformatics and requires highly optimised computer code. Not to mention that re-writing it in Python would have required half a year's work! So instead PySplicer requires that you install a well-regarded and current package written in C called “ViennaRNA", and then hands off that part of the gene design process to ViennaRNA.
Problem #3 was easier; merely altering the codon usage tables used for the initial portion of the gene suffices to reduce the overall level of optimisation, providing the on-ramp.
Testing PySplicer, Designing a Free/Libre GFP
Of course, programming a codon optimisation tool (by now, it ought to be properly considered a “CDS” optimisation tool I suppose) is meaningless if it's not used to design genes for testing or use. I follow the philosophy that one should eat one's own dog-food; I use the tools I propose to others. So, I used PySplicer in a project which involved Green Fluorescent Protein, which I introduced in the above section.
The results were very favourable. While wild-type GFP was often lamented for its poor fluorescence in the available scientific literature, often to the point that it was impossible to see and hard to distinguish, my optimised wild-type GFP was clearly and satisfyingly fluorescent to the naked eye under a small blacklight, even in a brightly lit room and without any filters. This is the green fluorescent protein shown in the crowdfunding video, in fact:
A comparison of E.coli cells bearing PySplicer optimised wtGFP under incandescent and UV illumination. Cells are already somewhat aged, with reduced fluorescence overall and particularly in regions of dense growth.
So, if you've followed me this far, from start to finish, I hope you'll have a sense of the amount of “invisible” effort that has gone into IndieBB already. In the end of the day, IndieBB (if successful in raising funds) will be a black-box beginner's project, requiring no knowledge of its working in order for you and others to use it and learn from it. But to provide that level of ease has required a lot of effort, time and experience from me. And along the way, I've already been creating and releasing valuable tools for other synthetic biologists (and perhaps you) to use.
Share, if you like. Fediverse sharing is preferred, though.
A Primer on Plasmid Design (For IndieBB)
What Will Your IndieBB Be? | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.600391149520874, "wiki_prob": 0.399608850479126, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line723399"} |
Mandala, 2020
Print : Screen Print 72 x 72 x 0.1 cm 28.3 x 28.3 x 0 inch
Silkscreen on paper, signed and numbered
Declicart galerie • Vaison la romaine, France
72 x 72 x 0.1 cm 28.3 x 28.3 x 0 inch
Black frame with glass
85 x 85 x 2 cm 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
The artwork is available for pickup from the gallery in Vaison la Romaine, France or can be delivered to the address of your choice within 2 to 3 weeks after validation of your order. The work is insured during transport, so it's risk-free.
Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
Peace Dove HPM
Dalai Lama Compassion
Blue harmony Ying & Yang
Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0 inch
Green power factory - Red
Parks for everyone
Works in prints from Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Floral Harmony (Red Yin Yang)
Activist Artists
Famous Street Artists
Provocative Artists
Figurative Street Artists
American Icons
Art deco-style artists
Shepard Fairey alias Obey was born in 1970 in Charleston, US.
He gets to know the universe of graphic design very early, at age 14, when he draws images to be printed on t-shirts and skateboards. He is influenced by the work of artists such as Andy Warhol or Russian artist Alexander Rodtchenko.
In the late 1980s, Obey and a group of friends from the Rhode Island School of Design create a series of stickers and posters with the figure of wrestler Andre the Giant and stick thousands of them on the walls of American cities. Andre the Giant Has a Posse is one of the first and most important "viral" Street Art campaigns, showing the ability and force of this new illegal means of expression.
His work became world famous during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, with the creation of the poster HOPE of Barack Obama that became an icon of the campaign. The Institute of contemporary art in Boston considered Obey as one of the best and most influential street artists of our time.
More works from Declicart galerie
John Matos Crash
Dirosa Magazine
Yann-Eric Eichenberger
Gipé
Reano Feros
Repy One
Les jumeaux
Richard Di Rosa (dit Buddy)
Festival d'Avignon
Maurice Douard
A Pop Art Interior
Art Déco Interior
Curated by Artsper: Making a Splash
Curated by Artsper: Swinging Sixties
Curated by Artsper: The Show Must Go On
Frieze Los Angeles
Inspired by Art Nouveau
Inspired by Francisco de Goya
Inspired by Graphic Design
Inspired by James Ensor
Love in Art
Shepard Fairey: Posters
The Spirit of the Seventies
Typography in Art | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.719600260257721, "wiki_prob": 0.28039973974227905, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line581492"} |
Business Information Today
More examples In spite of final night time’s terrorist attack, most individuals appear to be going about their business as if nothing had happened. Indigenous community initiatives might qualify for funding to cowl 100 percent of whole project costs. Addressing immediate needs in Indigenous communities We launched a distinctions-based Indigenous Community Support Fund to handle immediate wants in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation communities. Disaster mitigation and adaptation projects, together with natural infrastructure, flood and fireplace mitigation, and tree planting and associated infrastructure. Launching the Emissions Reduction Fund We are providing as a lot as $750 million to create a new Emissions Reduction Fund to support staff and reduce emissions in Canada’s oil and fuel sector, with a focus on methane.
See AppleCare choices Learn more about Apple SupportFor extra specialized assist, join with an authorized Apple Consultant. Many provide onsite or virtual IT help, experience in your industry, …
Business News, Latest Business News And Business News Today
U.S. equity markets have been decrease Thursday as merchants digested robust employment knowledge and what that might mean for future inflation. Niti Aayog has been entrusted with the duty of choice of names of two public sector banks and one basic insurance company for the privatisation as announced in the Budget . PTINiti Aayog has been entrusted with the duty of number of names of two public sector banks and one common insurance firm for the privatisation as announced within the Budget . Intraday Data provided by FACTSET and subject to phrases of use. Real-time final sale knowledge for U.S. stock quotes mirror trades reported through Nasdaq only. Intraday knowledge delayed a minimum of 15 minutes or per trade requirements.
The first item in the news today is the latest elections that took place throughout the country.
Wojcikowski graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s diploma in finance.
Australia’s financial
Claimed to provide pedal help for 25 miles / 40km, this bike isn’t one for giant days out but should show adequate for most people’s commutes and short leisure rides. Fitted with a 360 diploma digital camera, 8 microphones, and a speaker, it aims to duplicate an in-person assembly while separated from colleagues. With an 18-foot audio pickup radius and an automated zoom that responds to who is talking at the time, it’s a complicated bit of kit that integrates with Zoom, Slack, Google Hangouts and more.
Users do not have to unlock, show, or hand over their system to a TSA officer to present their mobile driver’s license or ID, said Apple. Additional states will provide driver’s licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app quickly, based on Apple, together with Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Ohio, as nicely as the territory of Puerto Rico. Apple beforehand announced that Georgia, … | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6512156128883362, "wiki_prob": 0.3487843871116638, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1129602"} |
VeloNews Events Giro d'Italia
Fernando Gaviria averts disaster after barriers stay strong in Giro d’Italia sprint
Improved safety measures helped the Argentine sprinter avoid a major crash in Sunday's sprint at the Giro d'Italia.
May 10, 2021 Andrew Hood
Fernando Gaviria, shown here at Brugge - De Panne, avoided a crash Sunday at the Giro d'Italia. Photo: DAVID STOCKMAN/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images
Unlock this article and more benefits with 25% off.
Already have an Outside Account? Sign in
25% Off Outside+.
$4.99/month $3.75/month*
Get the one subscription to fuel all your adventures.
Map your next adventure with our premium GPS apps: Gaia GPS Premium and Trailforks Pro.
Read unlimited digital content from 15+ brands, including Outside Magazine, Triathlete, Ski, Trail Runner, and VeloNews.
Watch 600+ hours of endurance challenges, cycling and skiing action, and travel documentaries.
Learn from the pros with expert-led online courses.
Join Outside+
*Outside memberships are billed annually. You may cancel your membership at anytime, but no refunds will be issued for payments already made. Upon cancellation, you will have access to your membership through the end of your paid year. More Details
Fernando Gaviria hit the barriers in the finale of Sunday’s sprint stage at the Giro d’Italia, but it wasn’t a replay of the disaster that unfolded last summer at the Tour de Pologne.
Though the dynamics of the two incidents were very different, strong, well-placed barriers at the finish line in Novara helped stave off disaster for the Argentine sprinter at the Giro.
Unlike the horrific crash last summer, the fencing held Sunday, and Gaviria was able to stay upright.
“It could have been worse, and thank God we didn’t crash,” Gaviria said. “These are things that happen in a race.”
Also read: Tim Merlier wins opening sprint at 2021 Giro d’Italia
Gaviria, 26, was edged into the fences with about 175m to go by UAE-Team Emirates teammate Sebastian Molano, who inadvertently closed down his teammate on his right when he sat up from his lead-out.
Gaviria was trying to squeeze past along the fences and was forced to ease off his sprint. And though he smashed his shoulder and hand on the fencing, he did not crash and the barriers did not collapse.
No repeat of the disaster at Tour de Pologne
Fabio Jakobsen crashes during the 2020 Tour of Poland Photo: Luc Claessen/Getty Images
The outcome Sunday was very different from what happened to Fabio Jakobsen at the Polish tour.
In August, race fences collapsed after Jakobsen was barged into the barriers by Dylan Groenewegen, and the Deceuninck-Quick-Step sprinter nearly died from injuries from an impact with a finish-line bollard.
Jakobsen: ‘Groenewegen has not offered personal apology’
Groenewegen on sprint: ‘I’m a winner, I always want more’
Why did the fences collapse in August, but hold up on Sunday?
There are a few important distinctions between the dramatically different outcomes.
First, speed and dynamics were dissimilar between the two incidents. Last summer, Jakobsen was sprinting at full speed on a downhill finale when Groenewegen shut down his lane, hitting speeds up to 70kph.
On Sunday, Gaviria was able to slow down and was not purposely closed down. His teammate Molano later apologized for the miscue.
“I’m really sorry for what happened today,” Molano said. “There are situations in the race that get out of hand. I always give 100 percent for my team, and we’ll keep working together to reach our goal.”
A safe sports arena is what the athletes/riders deserve, good example @giroditalia . https://t.co/eukv0nNIyx
— Richard Plugge (@RichardPlugge) May 9, 2021
Another critical difference? The fencing held.
Again, the speed and velocity of the two incidents are wildly different. Jakobsen was carrying much more speed than Gaviria when he slammed into the barriers. The big difference, of course, was the barriers held firm Sunday.
The quality of the fencing at the Giro finale was sturdier than at Poland last summer. And there were more fans Sunday than last year. Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) pointed out last week fans pressing into fencing also help the barriers stay upright.
In the wake of the Jakobsen crash and other long-simmering safety issues, UCI and race organizers worked behind the scenes over the winter to implement a series of new safety regulations.
Though rules such as the ban on the “super tuck” position or controlling refuse received more media attention, the enhanced safety regulations were on full view Sunday.
Also read: Unintended consequences of the ‘super tuck’ ban
The fencing lining Sunday’s sprint finale included a few key characteristics that helped stave off disaster. Not only did it not buckle from the impact, but the fencing was also angled back, and covered with padding and materials that created a smoother surface and covered the barrier support beams.
That meant that Gaviria, who also showed off some excellent bike-handling skills, could graze the barriers, but not be knocked back into the peloton or tangle his wheel against the base of the barriers.
Some races feature materials or the base of the barriers that actually protrude from the barriers. In 2017, when Peter Sagan was ejected from the Tour de France for closing Mark Cavendish into the fences, an important factor in seeing Cavendish’s crash made even worse was his impact with a foam sponsor sign that protruded from the padding.
The UCI added a “TV commissaire” for the 2018 race season and beyond after controversy ensued following Peter Sagan’s disqualification from the 2017 Tour de France. Photo: ©Tim De Waele | Getty Images (File).
On Sunday, Gaviria shrugged off the incident as one of the things that can happen in the high-stakes game of grand tour sprinting.
“I hit the barriers, but we have to analyze with the team what can be improved and see if the next days we can do it a lot better,” Gaviria said. “I was feeling good and we had confidence we could do a good sprint. We are happy about the fitness, and we’ll try again tomorrow.”
Gaviria can thank his world-class bike-handlings skills (and God), but the quality of the fencing along the finish line was a decisive factor, too.
Fernando Gaviria averted disaster in Sunday’s sprint stage at the Giro d’Italia. Photo: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images
After ‘heartbreak and success’ Simon Yates considering switch from Giro d’Italia to Tour de France
Giro d’Italia 2023: Analyzing the possible GC contenders
Giro d’Italia 2023: 5 key stages that will light up the race
Sadhbh O'Shea
Giro d’Italia review: The good, the bad, and the (sometimes) boring
Dylan Groenewegen
Fernando Gaviria
Vuelta a San Juan S2: Fabio Jakobsen fastest in lightning-fast finish
Vuelta a San Juan S2: Fabio Jakobsen first in lightning-fast finish
UCI points battle offers new lifeline for peloton’s sprinters | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.864940881729126, "wiki_prob": 0.864940881729126, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1599870"} |
Seattle Leader Who…
Seattle Leader Who Called For Defunding Police Wants VIP Treatment From Police Over Threats
Kshama Sawant is a radical, far-left socialist who sits on the Seattle City Council.
She is one of the people who has been demanding the defunding of police for months.
Yet now that she has received some threats, she is complaining that the police investigation of the threats is too slow.
Why is she even involving the police? Hasn’t she forfeited her ability to use the police for her own safety?
KTTH Radio in Seattle reports:
Rantz: Seattle CM who defunded police complains of slow investigation, wants VIP treatment
After defunding the Seattle Police Department, with promises of more cuts to come, Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is criticizing a detective for not offering her VIP treatment in an investigation into email threats she received.
Sawant wants extra attention and resources to resolve the issue. But that isn’t possible. The SPD’s staffing is exceptionally low thanks to Sawant’s successful crusade to chase police officers out of town and cut their budget.
It’s an odd demand, not just because Sawant routinely attacks the police, but because she didn’t bother to do even a modicum of research into the basics of police work. Honestly, watching a single episode of Law & Order could clear up most of her ignorance…
In a Twitter tirade, coinciding with another press release to garner sympathetic media coverage, Sawant again played victim.
Typical double standards from the left…
Councilmember Kshama Sawant bragged about leading a “rebellion” that created CHAZ, which directly led to the murder of two black teenagers.
Her base is a big part of Antifa. They try to murder police officers. I actually don’t think she’s ever condemned any of the rioting. https://t.co/dxBpTo9Lf9
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) February 10, 2021
Police for me but not for thee.
Cross posted from American Lookout. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6073325872421265, "wiki_prob": 0.39266741275787354, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1036243"} |
Coyotes a challenge for rural residents
Posted by James Morgan | Feb 22, 2019 | Agriculture, Environment, News
Coyotes are dangerous. Contrary to Saturday morning cartoon memories, they are not hapless creatures trying to catch a roadrunner with various ACME products. These are wild animals that kill livestock and pose a danger to pets and people.
According to the Canadian Wildlife Federation and Environment and Climate Change Canada, the presenters of the Hinterland Who’s Who series of short TV wildlife films, the coyote is a native species to North America and is a canine just like wolves and dogs. Originally confined to the prairie provinces, they became established in Ontario and Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s.
In recent weeks, The Review received many comments on social media from readers who said they regularly hear and see coyotes near their homes—both in urban and rural areas.
Readers said they have heard and seen many of them in and around Vankleek Hill and along Cassburn Road.
Others said they have had coyotes right outside their homes at night, and one person said the howling was so loud one night that “it drowned out the TV.”
Farmers in Ontario who lose livestock to coyotes can receive compensation for their losses through the Ontario Wildlife Damage Compensation Program of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). At the local level, the program is administered by municipalities.
Jeff LeRoy is the municipal investigator for East Hawkesbury. When a farmer loses an animal to coyotes or any other predator, they call him, and he goes to the farm and gathers evidence proving that the animal was killed by a predatory animal. Evidence means taking three to six photos of each animal and its injuries to prove it did not die of natural causes. He must visit the affected farm within 48 hours of the killing, because coyotes will return to eat leftovers.
After the evidence is gathered and forms completed, inspectors give them to the municipal clerk who then sends the application to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) for approval within seven days of the investigation. If the application is approved, the amount OMAFRA pays the farmer is based on the market value of the animal. OMAFRA now does all the valuing. In the past, investigators like LeRoy did it.
Farmers do not always get compensation, though. Gilles Faubert of Elishka Farm on Green Lane Road said that three years ago, a coyote “tore a sheep apart” on his farm. He had a veterinarian come and survey the damage and applied for compensation. The application was rejected because the farm is not Faubert’s sole source of income.
LeRoy also said that farmers do not always get the compensation they apply for. He said there was only one case of a farmer applying for compensation in East Hawkesbury in the past year, and that application was rejected.
According to LeRoy, although several photos were taken and every form was properly completed, OMAFRA determined there was insufficient evidence to grant compensation.
After dark is when livestock are most at risk of being attacked by coyotes. LeRoy said most sheep farmers are keeping their animals, particularly sheep, inside the barn overnight.
“We try to keep the animals inside at night,” said Faubert. He has 10 sheep and 45 goats on his 86-acre property.
The Ontario government is making changes to the compensation program which it claims will make it more accessible for farmers.
The changes include giving more ways to provide evidence, and compensation that better reflects the market price of animals.
Another plan is to develop a more transparent and independent appeals process for denied applications.
Right now, appeals are all handled by OMAFRA in Guelph.
The government also plans to increase and improve training for municipal inspectors like Jeff LeRoy.
He said he is just learning about the changes and finding out about which new policies and procedures he will have to learn.
There is an open coyote hunting season in Wildlife Management Unit 65, which includes Prescott-Russell.
PreviousUnited Way recommends community-wide response to support growing senior population
NextInkidoo Art For You – Ice sculpture by Susan Valyi | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.633607804775238, "wiki_prob": 0.36639219522476196, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1487884"} |
14 Dec, 2020 17:18
Scientists identify 8 specific genetic variants linked with severe Covid-19 infection in possible life-saving breakthrough
FILE PHOTO. © Pixabay / Gerd Altmann
A new study of thousands of critical Covid-19 patients has revealed eight genetic sequences common to those who suffer life-threatening cases. This may lead to medications which could be the difference between life and death.
Most critical Covid-19 cases typically result from an inflammatory injury to either the lungs or blood vessels – or both – which can result in the body overreacting and creating a so-called ‘cytokine storm’, in which the patient’s own defenses work against themselves.
Researchers have now discovered at least some of the genes that play a key role in determining whether a patient is genetically predisposed to severe Covid-19 infection, as well as other respiratory viral infections such as influenza.
The scientists, led by the University of Edinburgh in the UK, examined the genetic profiles of 2,244 critically ill Covid-19 patients from 208 British intensive care units in a genome-wide association study (GWAS).
Also on rt.com Wine & chocolate stop Covid? Study finds certain foods can kill the coronavirus
These genomes were then compared against control genomes which were selected from the UK Biobank, with five controls per patient, all of whom were Covid-19-free.
The GWAS turned up eight genetic sequences that were disproportionately represented in the severe Covid-19 patients' genetic profiles. The findings were validated using two independent population studies.
The vast majority of the population have not had their genomes sequenced, so the findings may not have an impact on an individual level, but they could greatly assist the pharmaceutical industry in producing more effective treatments which may literally be the difference between life and death.
“For example, the TYK2 gene is associated with the inflammatory responses that are known to cause the 'cytokine storm' that is responsible for the death of younger patients who contract [Covid-19],” said clinical senior lecturer David Strain of the University of Exeter and the British Medical Association, who was not involved in the research.
Also on rt.com The enemy of our enemy: Scientists re-engineer bacteria to attack pathogens and leave healthy cells unharmed
The research could help with the development of treatments which block the corresponding TYK2 receptor, which might prove crucial, as individuals susceptible to this 'cytokine storm' are lower down the priority list for Covid-19 vaccines.
Furthermore, the rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib already targets TYK2, so clinical trials testing its efficacy in treating severe Covid-19 cases could take place relatively quickly.
Other existing drugs on the market could also undergo clinical trials relatively quickly, thanks to the work of the researchers.
‘Stolen election’ hysteria is the new ‘Russian interference’ – and both are the result of US institutional erosion
Hundreds of endangered seals mysteriously found dead on shores of Russia’s Caspian Sea, and nobody knows why | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8776552677154541, "wiki_prob": 0.8776552677154541, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line4120"} |
Demolition Derby presented by Taylor & Messick
Date: Friday, July 28 2023
Delaware Lottery presents the 2023 Summer Concert Series
$18 Grandstand/Clubhouse
$20 Stadium
*plus service fee
DEMOLITION DERBY PRESENTED BY TAYLOR AND MESSICK
The Delaware State Fair's Demolition Derby will be held Friday night, July 28th. Get your tickets as soon as possible to this fan favorite event that sells out nearly every year! Join the crowd in cheering for your favorite vehicle as participants face off in multiple classes such as compact cars, trucks and SUVs, welding classes and more. Don't miss the kick off show; the Kid's Power Wheels Competition! Where kid's ages 4 to 10 take the track for their own version of a Demolition Derby. It's a night under the lights as competitors crash, rebuild and repeat in hopes that their vehicle is the last one running!
Delaware State Fairgrounds
The Delaware State Fair, Inc. is a diverse, volunteer supported non-profit community based…
18500 S Dupont Hwy Harrington, Delaware
Location: Delaware State Fair | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8789793252944946, "wiki_prob": 0.8789793252944946, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1264014"} |
Stats & Analysis
Yale vs Syracuse Preview
analytics lacrosse, Ben Reeves, lacrosse analytics, NCAA lacrosse tournament, Sergio Salcido, Syracuse lacrosse, Syracuse Orange, Yale Bulldogs, Yale lacrosse, Yale Syracuse Odds, Yale Syracuse Preview, Yale Syracuse Stream 0 Comment May 14, 2017
Yale at Syracuse is one of the most anticipated games of the opening weekend.
Which of Sunday’s #NCAALax Championship matchups are you most looking forward to watching on @ESPNU?
— NCAA Lacrosse (@NCAA_Lax) May 12, 2017
So we would be remiss to not create a Yale vs Syracuse Preview. Syracuse, the #2 seed, draws a Bulldogs team led by Ben Reeves. Game will be broadcast/streamed on ESPNU. As with several other first round matchups, there is a sentiment that Syracuse was unfortunate to draw a team as good as Yale right off the bat. Our Lax-ELO model thinks that Syracuse is the favorite, but not a heavy favorite. Based on current Lax-ELO ratings and the home-field bonus for the Orange, the model says, they’ve got a 58% chance to advance.
Offense gets the headlines
Syracuse comes into this game as the #6 top efficiency offense. Yale appears on the list at #12. And since both defenses are in the bottom half of Division 1, a forecast of fireworks would seem fitting, especially in the perfect dome conditions.
Both teams tend to play slower than the average offense, with Syracuse averaging 41 seconds before a first shot (34th in the country). Yale is even slower, taking 44 seconds to get a first shot off (57th in the country). These are two teams that work it around, probing for opportunities.
Yale’s pacing has resulted in a pretty good time of possession advantage for the Bulldogs. They have averaged 31.7 minutes of possession per game. Good for 7th in the nation. Syracuse on the other hand, has held the ball for 29.7 minutes (27th in the nation).
There are some stylistic differences
But even though they look comparable on the surface, there are some stylistic differences that bear noting. And if you are Yale, this seems aligned with your strengths. For Syracuse, perhaps not so much.
The chart below shows a comparison of the two teams’ offensive effectiveness, split up by the length of the possession. We have also included all D1 teams for comparison.
We can see that Syracuse’s offense is about 10 percentage points better than the average D1 offense in possessions that last less than 40 seconds. There is a mismatch there. They are at their best in quick possessions and very long possessions (100+ seconds). And we can see this show up in the games that they’ve lost. In the chart below, note the large green bar in the 40-60 second bucket. When they’ve lost games, they’ve had lots of possessions in the time range that has not been kind to them.
Keep an eye on when Syracuse is taking their first shot on possessions. If it’s coming in the first 40 seconds of the possessions, they’ll be taking advantage of their strengths. If they attack after 40 seconds, they are going to be going after some lower likelihood chances.
Yale is in a boat going the other direction
If you are watching Yale, the opposite applies. Where Syracuse may want to be more aggressive, to be in line with their offensive strengths, if you see Yale starting to take quick shots, that could be a bad sign. As we saw above, Yale is most effective in possessions that are between 40 and 80 seconds.
And in the chart below, we can see that in wins, roughly 50% of their possessions have a first shot between 40 and 80 seconds. Only about 38% of their possessions have a first shot quicker than 40 seconds. In losses, 50% the numbers are flipped, and far more possessions feature quick shots.
And certainly, a team that is losing big in the 4th quarter is probably going to be taking more quick shots. But if you see Yale getting caught up in a footrace early in the game, be worried. The trends suggest that Syracuse is in a better position if the game is played at a faster pace.
Ground ball count will be crucial
Both of these teams stand out in one specific offensive situation: unsettled possessions after a ground ball pickup. We split possessions into four categories, based on how the possession is gained: faceoff wins, defensive stops, ground balls, and penalties.
Both of these teams are much better on possessions that start with groundballs than all other possessions. Syracuse transforms from the 6th to 3rd best offense in the country when it’s a possession that starts like this. Yale goes from #12 to #6.
So both teams are at their best on possessions that start with ground balls. Ground balls tend get outsized importance because they are a great proxy for effort. But like fumbles in football, there is certainly an element of luck involved.
Since both teams are great in unsettled situations, a few bounces could lead to a few extra juicy possessions. And a few extra juicy possessions could have a big impact on the outcome of this one.
Stats & Analysis /
‹ A Clue to North Carolina’s Turn-around › Top Individual Performances (NCAA 1st Round) | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5394942164421082, "wiki_prob": 0.5394942164421082, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1061010"} |
Posted by Jon Rappoport Posted on 3 March 2022
Real war vs. phony war; turn on the news bubble machine
“The CIA infiltrated the media.” That statement wore out its welcome decades ago. The media ARE the CIA.
The only proviso, if you want to call it that: most reporters are too stupid to realize who they slave for.
I mention this because we’re not getting war news, we’re getting CIA news.
Now on the other hand, here is a WRITER—I don’t know who he is; his handle is Good Citizen on Substack. I’ll tell you this. If I could, I’d appoint him to head up negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine in a New York minute. Screw in your brain tightly and read what he recently laid down in one of his carpet bombing runs:
“Imagine this scenario of aggression. Russia has established something called SATA. (Surround America Together Alliance) with the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada and all of Central America. Article 5 of SATA says if one goes to war, they all go to war. Putin is trying to get Mexico to join. He orchestrated a coup there in 2014 and installed a puppet dictator who helps enrich Putin through Putin’s crack head son. He keeps assuring Mexico they will join SATA one day, even though the other countries would not approve the vote and they don’t meet some minimum requirements. Other politicians in the duma send their kids to be on boards of Mexican companies to collect paychecks of $50,000 per month. Russia keeps sending weapons to Mexico who has a neo-Nazi force of nationalists near the border who take shots at English speaking American separatists who would prefer to be part of the United States. Cease fires are broken 2000 times over 8 years, leaving 14,000 dead in the conflict. The U.S. has taken a patient stance, trying to reason with the Mexican coke-head dictator but he keeps accepting SATA weapons and money. Last week the Mexican dictator said he doesn’t just want SATA membership, he wants Russian nukes in his country aimed at the United States. That was the final straw. Tuesday the U.S. launched air strikes across Mexico and declared those English speaking American states as independent republics.”
It’s hard for Americans to consider that they’re living in a news bubble cut off from reality. That grisly fate is supposed to befall lesser countries.
And when American news involves foreign policy, the bubble is double, because that’s where American oligarchs have traditionally stolen a great deal of their money, and “don’t tell the children” has always been the motto of the CIA.
For readers who’ve been following my 2-year assault on the medical bubble surrounding the non-pandemic called COVID, think of the CIA as the CDC of political criminality. The CIA locks down countries. They “vaccinate countries and improve their immunity” by staging coups. They tell you which countries are viruses. They “stop the spread.”
We only see the least clever CIA people delivering the news on television, because those anchors have to be dumb; they have to believe they’re dispensing truth. They have to be unaware that cover stories, limited hangouts, false trails, appeals to authority, and straw man arguments are the stock-in-trade of standard intelligence operations.
If you told anchors Lester “Lurch” Holt or David “Sears underwear model” Muir that the puppet-comedian President of the Ukraine was handing out thousands of weapons to ordinary untrained citizens with the inevitable effect of many of them dying—for television coverage—Lester and David would have no idea what you were talking about.
Here’s a CIA-CDC parallel. The first great signal that the CIA had captured American news came in the wake of the JFK assassination—when US media unanimously agreed the Warren Commission had the facts straight: Oswald acted alone. This, despite nagging evidence (which piled up in future years) that the CIA itself had engineered the President’s murder.
In 1986, in a notorious deal between the US Congress and vaccine manufacturers, a law was passed which ruled out a citizen suing a manufacturer for toxic vaccine damage. Instead, the plaintiff had to appeal to a Kafka-esque federal “court” for compensation. At that point, the truth began to dawn. The CDC was in the big business of buying and selling vaccines; it was also in charge of reporting statistics on vaccine damage; and it was also conducting studies to assess vaccine safety and efficacy. News media took no notice of any of these facts—which when you added them up, amounted to mass murder by vaxx.
Two giant news bubbles, inside which the American population lived. Unaware.
Just as the CIA travels to distant lands, subverts and topples governments, paves the way for mega-corporate takeovers, and then feeds fantasies back to news networks, the medical CIA—the CDC—has it own crew of invaders. They’re called the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).
These trained medical personnel carry out several hundred missions a year, to foreign lands where possible “outbreaks” are occurring.
They are the virus hunters. They’ve never met a non-existent virus they didn’t love.
Graduates of this EIS program, as proudly stated by the CDC, have gone on to occupy key positions in the overall medical cartel: Surgeons General; CDC directors; medical school deans and professors; medical foundation executives; drug-company and insurance executives; state health officials; MEDICAL EDITORS AND REPORTERS IN MEDIA OUTLETS. —Power, at key junctures.
It’s a loyal insider’s club. They collaborate to float prime-cut, A-number-one cover stories of extraordinary dimensions. They invent reality out of thin air.
They front for the medical cartel. And they provide cover for the crimes of mega-corporations. There’s a foreign town where poverty-stricken people are dying, because horrendous pesticides are running into the soil? No, it’s a virus. There’s a city where the industrial pollution is driving people over the edge into immune-system failure? No, it’s a virus. Dead fish are floating on a yellow and purple river next to a factory pipe that’s pouring steaming poison into the water? No, it’s a new virus no one knew existed.
And here’s the capper. Their propaganda is so good most of the EIS people (just like the news anchors) believe it themselves. You don’t achieve that kind of robotic servitude without intense brainwashing. The first installment of the mind-control program is called medical school.
The EIS would have you imagine the whole world is being attacked by viruses, all the time. That’s their mission.
Bubbles.
News bubbles.
War news bubbles.
Medical and pandemic news bubbles.
Try one on for size.
Walk inside one and live there.
Nothing to lose, except your mind.
And everything that follows from that.
Political Manipulation US News War and Terror | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6037957668304443, "wiki_prob": 0.39620423316955566, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line482333"} |
BY JOHN GUADAGNOWith this edition of the Conduit, we are in the throes of the summer season. The Fourth of July has passed with the only summer holiday remaining being Labor Day. I hope you and your family are enjoying the season, even though it has been an unusually hot one. As of my last writing, we have had several heatwaves and it is only mid-July. Make sure to stay cool when you can and remember that when on the job sites, keep hydrated to prevent heat exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses.Our ongoing building improvements are moving into a new phase. With the lighting retrofit of... Read More
President's Report, Conduit Newsletter
Brothers and Sisters,The new C.O.P.E. pins have been mailed out to the Brothers and Sisters who have contributed to the C.O.P.E. fund. The pin is a show of appreciation for your dedication and commitment to the C.O.P.E. cause. C.O.P.E. pins are mailed out based on a list of names of contributors.If you have contributed and did not receive a C.O.P.E. pin, please call the President’s office at 1-631- 273-4567 ext. 241.Your Brother in Solidarity,Joshua E. Margolis, C.O.P.E. Committee ChairmanEmail: [email protected] | Cell phone 1-516-361-0508
Cope: Political Action, Conduit Newsletter
Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh traveled to Pittsburgh in late June for the first meeting of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. The roundtable featured Local 5 organizer Bill Garner and counterparts from seven other unions. President Biden created the task force in April, giving appointed cabinet members and top advisors six months to report back on how the federal government can support union growth and collective bargaining. “You had the vice president and secretary of labor walk into a union hall — our hall — and sit down with a... Read More
President Joe Biden proposed the largest investment in American infrastructure since World War II back in March. Four weeks later, he renewed his call for the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan during an address to Congress, with the IBEW at the heart of his pitch. Today, President Biden and Congress are working to pass a bill that will upgrade America’s flagging infrastructure, better position the U.S. as a global competitor and aggressively combat climate change. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework deal that was announced on June 24 includes plans to modernize the electric grid, expand... Read More
President Biden Has A Special Message For IBEW Members!
CONDUIT - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022, Inside IBEW Local 25
IBEW Joins Others to Keep Good-Paying Jobs on Long Island
It started in Rhode Island, where Providence Local 99 played a key role in the nation’s first offshore wind farm near Block Island. That showed the power of early support for such projects and it’s why the IBEW is part of a consortium of groups trying to bring such a facility to Long Island. Deepwater Wind, which also developed the Block Island project, plans to build a 15-turbine farm about 30 miles off the southeast coast of Long Island, with fabrication and construction work starting in 2019.“If we don’t start working on it now, it will never happen,” said Tim McCarthy, a business... Read More
Pres. Lonnie Stephenson Speaks on COVID-19 and Racial Justice
CARES ACT - Coronavirus
Please see the following link for Unemployment Information-https://www.labor.ny.gov/ui/cares-act.shtm Thank you. Business Manager Kevin Casey(631) 273-4567
Green Building and Renewable Energy on Long Island
Block_Island_offshore_wind_farm_P6290638m-620x330.jpg
Working with Long Island's Most Experienced Electricians means that customers of our signatory contractors are able to reduce their ongoing energy and operating costs, and create healthier, safer, and more productive working environments for their workers, improving their health, productivity, and profitability. As more and more companies, developers, commercial real estate firms, healthcare facilities and others on Long Island strive for energy efficiency via the LEED Certification, the Long Island... Read More
Advocating For Democratic Reforms With New Senate Rules
NLRB Adds Chops To Toothless Labor Laws
Executive Order : Federal Government To Go Green
IBEW MEMBERS AT WHITE HOUSE FOR BILL SIGNING
BOOSTING THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE
FORMER MINE WORKERS OFFICIAL APPOINTED AS OSHA HEAD | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5030627846717834, "wiki_prob": 0.5030627846717834, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line393357"} |
bobe.me / Tags / ba.
Result: `ba.`
ba. mocks pseudo-artists in their new single and video
Lithuanian rockers "ba." has a Christmas present for you - a new single “Pažadai” (eng. - “Promises”) from their latest album “NAUTO". Listen...
Rock band 'ba.' releases album inspired by stormy seas
The popularity wave of Lithuanian rockers 'ba.' continues to rise. In addition to performing the biggest rock concert in Vingis park for a local band since the 90s and signing with Sony Music, the band has finally released their new album, 'NAUTO'.
Lithuanian band ba. goes big - new video, upcoming album and Sony Music
Single "ŠOKIS" is not just a new song with an accompanying video. It also heralds the bands upcoming album to be first released with the global record label Sony Music Entertainment.
Global weekly: Pink Floyd, AURORA, Måneskin, Thom Yorke, The Rolling Stones and more
By Evelīna on Apr 09, 2022
Justinas Jarutis and THE ROOP take home the most prizes at M.A.M.A. awards 2021 in Lithuania
Kristians Kalva & Simon Gelsdorf release experimental jazz album "Impro Sketches Vol.1"
By Evelīna on Jan 09, 2022
Act now! - here is how you can help and support Ukraine
By Evelīna on Mar 02, 2022
Meet The Young Estonian Talent – Karl Killing
Music Festival ‘Enkurfests’ Returns With Its Second Edition | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9965750575065613, "wiki_prob": 0.9965750575065613, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line6853"} |
Sheriff: Defiant NYC bar owner hit deputy with his car
By Wire Report
Grant City
Mac's Public House co-owner Danny Presti is seen outside of the bar. (FOX5NY)
NEW YORK - The co-owner of a New York City bar that authorities said has been defying coronavirus restrictions was taken into custody early Sunday after running over a deputy with a car, authorities said.
Danny Presti tried to drive away from his bar, Mac's Public House, as deputies were arresting him for serving patrons in violation of city and state closure orders, Sheriff Joseph Fucito said.
Deputies attempted to arrest Presti as he left the bar early Sunday, but Presti got into his car, struck a deputy and kept driving for about 100 yards as the deputy was left hanging onto the hood, Fucito said.
Presti, 34, was eventually stopped and apprehended, the sheriff said. Charges against him were pending.
NYC BAR CREATES 'AUTONOMOUS ZONE' TO SKIRT CORONAVIRUS RULES
Mark Fonte, an attorney for Presti, said he had not yet had an opportunity to speak to his client. Fonte said he expected Presti to be arraigned later Sunday.
The injured deputy was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries. The deputy's condition wasn't immediately available.
BAR RAIDED FOR IGNORING CORONAVIRUS RULES
The Staten Island bar was the site of protests last week after the sheriff's office arrested Presti on charges of violating restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus and obstructing governmental administration.
The tavern is in an area designated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an orange zone because of spiking COVID-19 rates and was not supposed to be serving customers indoors. But the owners had declared the bar an “autonomous zone,” a nod to protesters who claimed control over a Seattle neighborhood in June.
Bar becomes ‘autonomous zone’ in bid to stay open
A Staten Island bar refused to abide by coronavirus rules put in place as cases were rising.
A spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio said Presti's actions showed a disregard for human life. “In both of these instances, whether it’s flouting public health laws or ramming a car into a uniformed deputy, this individual has endangered the lives of others,” said the spokesperson, Bill Neidhardt.
Authorities said the bar was still serving patrons Saturday night even though it was ordered closed entirely after Presti's earlier arrest.
Deputies surveilling the pub saw that the front door to the bar was locked but customers were being directed to a building next door, Fucito said. From there, they were able to enter Mac's Public House through a back door and order food and beverages, he said.
Staten Island is much more conservative than the rest of New York City and is the only one of the city's five boroughs that voted for Republican President Donald Trump in November. The borough is home to many police officers and firefighters and is usually seen as supportive of law enforcement. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9871616363525391, "wiki_prob": 0.9871616363525391, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1497231"} |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.