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Peter Liang, on the force for less than two years, will stand trial for the death of 28-year old Akai Gurley, who was shot at the Lewis Pink houses in East New York last November.
He faces up to 15 years on charges that include manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree assault and two counts of official misconduct.
Joining us with a closer look at the case are Paul Martin, an attorney who represented one of the officers in the Sean Bell shooting case, and Ian Niles, also a defense attorney, who was a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.
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Great pictures! I've always wondered: what is that darker space about halfway up the building? I was thinking maybe a sky lobby, but didn't know for sure.
WNET 13 is going to be showing a tour of Hearst Tower tonight at 8:30 (treasures of NY series). Sorry for late notice, just caught the promo.
Interesting show - lot of great inside views. Loved the Good Housekeeping labs and test kitchens - and they have the original living room/dining room preserved up in the tower!
Also some interesting tidbits - Foster was in town for the final planning meeting the day before the design was to be submitted to the board... on September 12th. They decided to go forward anyway a month later.
Rainwater is collected in the roof - and used for both cooling and the signature lobby waterfall. Probably not shocking, but they needed custom designed window washers for the undulating exterior.
2 Window Washers Rescued From Outside Midtown High-Rise's 45th Floor By MARC SANTORA
Two window washers who were stranded nearly 500 feet above the streets of Midtown Manhattan after their work platform snapped were rescued on Wednesday by New York City firefighters.
The platform, connected to scaffolding, seemed to have snapped in the middle, although it was not immediately clear what caused it to malfunction. The accident was first reported at 2:39 p.m. at the Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets, and the men were brought to safety around 4:15 p.m., fire officials said.
Rescue workers broke out a window on the 45th floor, two stories below the roof, in order to reach the workers. The window washers, both men, were wearing harnesses at the time of the accident, and firefighters lowered an extra set of harnesses to them.
Chief William Seelig of the Fire Department said they had decided that knocking out the window was safer than trying to hoist the men up onto the roof.
The dramatic rescue was broadcast live by several local television stations, which showed the stranded men trying to remain as still as possible before being pulled to safety. A large crowd gathered below before being pushed back by the police.
Part of Eighth Avenue was shut down, with officials concerned about both the stability of the window-washing rig and the possibility of falling glass when they broke a window.
The Hearst Tower, at 300 West 57th Street, is one of the most modern and distinct buildings in the city, with radically angled panes of glass rising above the original 1928 Hearst International Magazine Building as his pedestal.
Designed by the architect Norman Foster, it was the first skyscraper approved for construction in New York City after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. When Mr. Foster submitted his unconventional design, according to an article in The New Yorker, the first question the building owners asked was, "How are you going to clean those windows?"
That became the challenge of Tractel-Swingstage, a Toronto-based company and the world's largest manufacturer of scaffolding and window-cleaning platforms, the magazine described in a detailed article on the equipment.
It took three years and more than $3 million to come up with a model.
"The result, a rectangular steel box the size of a Smart car, supporting a 40-foot mast and a hydraulic boom arm attached by six strands of wire rope to a telescopic cleaning basket, houses a computer that monitors 67 electromechanical safety sensors and switches, and runs around the roof of the Hearst Tower on 420 feet of elevated steel track," the magazine reported.
Scott Borland, the project's construction manager, told the magazine that it was "like a ride at Disneyland."

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Cetera CEO open to 'transformative deals' after recruiting 800 advisors
Following a year of major changes, Cetera Financial Group is open to more "transformative deals" in 2019, its CEO says. The network struck the largest M&A deal in the independent broker-dealer space in 2018.
The six-firm, 7,700-advisor IBD network also notched record recruiting in terms of gross dealer concessions in the fourth quarter following the purchase of a majority stake in Cetera by private equity firm GenStar Capital for a reported $1.7 billion, according to CEO Robert "RJ" Moore.
Neither Moore's firm nor Lightyear Capital-backed Advisor Group have confirmed reports of discussions regarding a potential sale of a majority ownership stake in the four firm, 5,000-advisor IBD network. However, Cetera is considering deals for smaller IBDs, tuck-in acquisitions and larger firms, Moore says.
"We have access to capital and we have access to capabilities that essentially give us the entry point to whatever type of transaction that we would find beneficial to our company," says Moore. "And we can do that at scale."
Advisor Group's private equity backer helped it make deals last year to acquire two firms and act as the preferred affiliation partner for a third one, boosting the firm's headcount by approximately 2,500 advisors. Lightyear has retained Barclays to advise on a potential sale, three sources told PE Hub last week.
While Advisor Group issued a statement saying it wouldn't respond to "continued speculation," the company says Barclays has been its advisor on a debt offering since August. Advisor Group CEO Jamie Price denied an earlier report in Financial Advisor magazine about "serious talks" with Genstar.
"We are not in discussions with Genstar or Cetera," Price said. "It is well known that private equity firms are interested in this industry. Given the success and momentum of our company, it is not surprising that this would lead to speculation and rumors."
The private equity firm completed the largest IBD purchase of the year by acquiring the majority of the 7,700-advisor network.October 9
Ron Carson's firm and other major practices within the IBD network praise its choice of a new PE backer.July 20
The owner of RIA aggregator Mercer Advisors has pledged to maintain the IBD network's current structure under the deal.July 17
Representatives for Barclays declined to comment, and Moore declined to discuss any specifics about potential acquisitions.
Moore and Mimi Bock, president of Cetera Advisors and First Allied Securities, cite a half dozen new committees for advisors plus an engagement council meeting regularly with the network's board as both unique in the industry and a product of the Genstar deal.
The recently-completed year brought several changes to Cetera, including the sale of its majority stake about two years after its parent firm came out of bankruptcy protection. The network also divided its six IBDs into traditional and specialty channels, and hired Bock from LPL Financial to lead two of its firms.
In addition to the councils aimed at dialogue between advisors and management, the Genstar deal has led to major technology spending, an equity participation plan for advisors and capital investments for recruiting and other growth plans at individual practices, Bock says.
"We actually want our partnership to be aligned where our interests are the advisors' interest and the advisors' interests are ours," Bock says. "These are not million dollar investments, but they make a huge difference to an advisor who is looking for some cash flow to grow."
Cetera is also teaming up with its largest offices of supervisory jurisdiction — or "regions" in the company's parlance — to carry out marketing, training and recruiting programs. Pete Bush's Horizon Financial Group, Ron Carson's companies and Dan May's AdvisorNet Financial are all participating.
"It is so exciting to see how much interest advisors are showing in our organization because of the help Cetera's business development team is delivering," May said in a statement. "I honestly don't think we've ever been this busy talking to new advisors."
The network recruited more than 800 advisors with $5.3 billion in client assets in 2018 under another ex-LPL veteran, Michael Murray, who joined Cetera last May as its head of business development. Moore declines to state the privately-held firm's net recruiting metrics or any other specific totals.
In 2017, the company added 784 new advisors with client assets of $15 billion, a higher figure which Moore attributes to Carson's transition. Cetera's largest IBD, Cetera Advisor Networks, and bank and credit union-focused Cetera Financial Institutions grew the most through recruiting in 2018, he says.
The two firms, along with Cetera Financial Specialists, also tapped between 150 and 200 new entrants to wealth management through the company's training programs last year. The Genstar deal is "being validated by the movement of advisors towards us," according to Moore.
"We maintained our independence, we maintained our privacy and we picked up a partner with very strong access to capital," he says. "The fact that we still have different communities and many firms is a compelling distinction for us."


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Senate Finance boss shares ideas on tax laws
State Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, has one of the Legislature's most powerful jobs as Texas faces the prospect of a multibillion-dollar budget gap in the next two years. If Ogden fends off a challenge by Democrat Stephen Wyman in November, he's expected to continue to influence spending and government services. He spoke recently with Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac.
Q: You have called the state tax system "rickety." What is the biggest problem with it?
A: It's rickety in the sense that the sales tax laws are very confusing, and there are more exemptions than there are items subject to the sales tax, and we would do ourselves some good if we went in there and cleaned up that statute. ... I personally think if we had a broader-base, lower-rate sales tax it would improve things in Texas. But there's a key in there. I mean if you broaden the base, you can lower the rate. I'm not trying to raise taxes.
Q: How much more money do you think that could bring in, or should it bring in?
A: I would want it to initially be revenue neutral, but I would argue that over time ... as the economy grows, a broader-base, lower-rate tax would raise more money over the long haul than the one we have.
Q: On the budget, lawmakers face a minimum $11 billion shortfall in the next session.
A: No, I disagree. ... I don't think you can define it yet because you don't know — when you say shortfall, you imply some sort of mandatory spending level and some sort of predetermined revenue level, neither of which we have. There's no shortfall if you don't spend it. And we don't know yet what our revenue projections are.
Q: State agencies were asked to identify possible budget cuts to help with the shortfall. Some have asked for exemptions, including the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which suggested cuts would affect public safety. Do you think they or any other additional agencies should get exemptions?
A: We're looking at that on a case-by-case basis. ... But the best way to cut a budget is the best way to have a sales tax. It needs to be a broad-based, low-percentage cut. And the more people you exempt, the more difficult it is on the remaining. ... So, at least my argument is, if our target is going to be a billion-dollar reduction in 2011, make it as broad a base as possible.
Q: On another financial challenge you've already been looking at, four in 10 Texas school districts are using reserve funds to help balance their current budgets. Public school enrollment is growing, with most of that growth coming from low-income families. Another school-finance lawsuit may be filed to force changes. Do you think the Legislature will change the school funding system in 2011 to give school districts access to more money to educate the growing population?
A: I don't know. There's not more money out there, so any changes in the school finance system would have to be made in ways that uses the money we do have more efficiently, more equitably, and maybe reduces — this term hasn't been used before in school finance, but I think it's relevant — the diversions. ... I think there is some merit in looking at whether a lot of that money that's out of the Foundation School Program should actually be in it. But at the end of the day, this is not magic. No one should expect next session large increases in funding for anything. And so you're going to have to tighten your belt.
Q: How likely is it that lawmakers will face another big budget shortfall in 2013, with fewer resources to bridge the gap?
A: Wouldn't want to speculate. Tell me what the price of oil is going to be in 2013. I'm serious. The price of oil's 35 bucks, it's going to be bad. The price of oil is about 100 bucks, I think Texas will be fine.
A final thought from Ogden: What is the biggest mistake that the Legislature has made over the years with respect to the tax system? It's carving out exemptions. ... And we do this session after session, and so increasingly what you have is a system that's very complex. It's creating exemptions the true cost of which we don't know, and the burden is then being shifted to the people that weren't lucky enough or rich enough to come down here and carve out their own exemption. And so our tax system really is rickety.


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Darkmark8910 posted a topic in PZ SuggestionsKentucky as a state is known for bourbon; Kentuckians claim bourbon as their own, usually citing Elijah Craig as their inspiration. Heaven Hills is based out of Louisville and has been since the 1910s, and they make many well-known brands of whisky (like Evan Williams, see others at https://www.heavenhill.com/history.php --- must be 21+ to view). So while Louisville might be a long ways' away, including the liquor manufacturing for the inevitable whisky companies in Louisville doesn't have to be! Perhaps for a longer-term feature, we could work on a distilling method for liquor, perhaps something like this: 1. Build a rain barrel. 2. Put milled (IE processed) grains into it; using corn would work 3. Put hot water in the barrel 4. Put yeast (yes, cooking yeast) into it 5. Put into a fermenter (basically a big steel barrel), keep it temp-controlled, and wait 3 days (7 if no electricity for temp-control), occasionally "watering" it with cold water. Congrats, you made beer! 6. Continue toward whisky. Build or find a column still. Building a still would require cooking and metalworking skill. Distilling takes a few hours, so setting this up like a kitchen stove item (with an on/off button and a place to put the fermented beer) might not be a bad idea. Congrats, you made icky-tasting whisky! 7. Build a cask to store well. Perhaps you could even re-use the rain barrel from #1. Carpentry skill dictates how good the barrel is; if you build a bad barrel, you may lose some of the liquor. 8. Let it age if you're inclined. Congrats, you made better whisky! In-game reasons for this: Long-term, non-spoilable happiness item-making Long-term manufacturing of disinfectant An alternative to jarring for food storage A long-term way to get wasted & make bad PZ survivor decisions Later down the line, for a Louisville bourbon distillery and NPC item-trading as a commodity Downsides: If it's made too detailed, it could be confusing Outside of roleplayers, not many players would get wasted on purpose Anybody in this forum made their own liquor before? What may I be missing? P.S. Maybe you could even convince Indiestone management you need to tour a local whisky manufacturer and/or try to make your own Indiestone whisky for research purposes.... Sources w/ pictures & charts: https://blog.distiller.com/making-whiskey-mash-bill/ https://blog.distiller.com/whiskey-deconstructed-distillation/ http://www.ispirits.com.au/wawcs0148057/faqs.html https://www.whisky.com/information/knowledge/production/overview/how-bourbon-whiskey-is-made/bourbon-distillation.html


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Players who haven't been around all that long often don't put much stock into the poker face. However, it is a very important aspect of the game in the live setting and is somewhat of a double edged sword.
Phil Ivey, real name Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best poker players to ever grace this earth. His massive personality and phenomenal poker skills have taken him to the top of the poker world throughout the past 20 years. To try your hand at becoming one of the best, we suggest Carbon Poker for USA players. He was born in Riverside, California on Feburary 1st 1976, and started playing poker around his twenties were he got his first nickname "No Home Jerome" come from the ID he used to play at the local casino and later on he got the nickname "Tiger Woods of Poker".
It was from here Ivey started to hone his skills and slowly start to become noticed as a very scary opponent.
"The Corporation" vs Andrew Beal
Perhaps one of the most notable stories surrounding Ivey's poker career is that of his Heads Up battle with billionaire banker Andrew Beal back in 2006. According to several reports around that time, Ivey and Beal played three days of poker against each other, with Ivey coming out on top with a cool $16.6m profit. This whole saga stemmed from an ongoing battle between Beal and several top players for many years before that, in which the players then decided to club together, coin themselves 'The Corporation' and take on Beal. It was also reported that the $16.6m win meant that 'The Corporation' had won back $10m they had lost to Beal previously and added the $6.6m to their bankroll as a whole.
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Phil Ivey have had a glorious poker carrier having won ten World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets as well as one World Poker Tour (WPT) Final and also appearing nine times at the final table.
Ivey was named Poker Players of the Year by "All In Magazine" in 2005 and 2009
As TheHendonMob reports Phil Ivey has accumulated more than 23 million dollars from tournaments alone, and over $10m in online winnings. A big percentage of this money came from other regular high stakes players such as Patrik Antonius, Viktor Blom, and Tom Dwan.
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Players who haven't been around all that long often don't put much stock into the poker face. However, it is a very important aspect of the game in the live setting and is somewhat of a double edged sword.
He may be famous for losing one of the highest-stakes matches ever to take place, but Andy Beal hasn't felt the pinch.
The Borgata Casino filed a new pleading in the edge sorting case versus Phil Ivey requesting that the poker champ's counterclaims be dismissed.
Big:B;orgata's lawsuit against Phil Ivey has been allowed to proceed to court, the Pressofatlanticcity reported. After losing his legal battle against the Crockfords late last year, the high roller
The Phil Ivey edge-sorting case has spilled over into a court battle between the Borgata casino and the card manufacturers.
Borgata can claim only $27 from the card manufacturers they blamed for Ivey's massive win!
Maybe next time you open your favorite poker room or go to your nearby casino, you will too go deep into the tank and start thinking about actually making epic folds. Because it happened ladies and gents at this year's WSOP Main Event.
You're only going to get them one time in several thousand hands, and when you do there are only two hands that can beat them, so folding quads seems like a very unlikely occurrence in any event. But it happens.
Ming Zhang, a baccarat dealer from Alexandria, Virginia, now faces up to five years in prison
The real highlight is the contribution of the elusive and camera shy Phil Ivey who Daniel tries to draw out on the subject of a slightly odd PLO hand.


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Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
After giving birth his mother whispered his name with her dying breath. All she got out was "Rump" and so the hero of our book has been forced to live with this most unfortunate name his entire life. It would be bad enough to be named Rump in our world but in Rump's world your name determines your destiny. Rump is sure that his mother meant for his name to be longer and more grand but died before she had the chance to finish. When Rump finds an old spinning wheel he discovers that he can turn straw into gold and is sure that his destiny is about to change. His grandmother warns him that magic always comes with a price but Rump ignores her warnings and sets off on a quest to find his entire intended name and change his fate. I love fairy tales both original and fractured but this telling didn't capture me the way folk literature usually does. Parts of Rump's quest were humorous but other bits just left me skimming to get onto the next section.
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Kylie Jenner's Baby Girl Stormi Webster Already Living 'Million Dollar Life': Birkin Bags, Bling & More
Kylie Jenner isn't taking motherhood lightly! HL learned she's giving her daughter Stormi Webster everything she could ever want — including bling and Birkin bags!
Kylie Jenner's daughter Stormi Webster was only brought into the world on Feb. 1, but she's already super stylish! "Stormi is only a week old and she's already living a million dollar life. She's got so many designer clothes already and more stuff arrives every day. A lot of stuff she's been gifted has been custom made just for her," a source close to the baby's mother tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "Apparently, she's even got her very own baby Birkin bag. Of course she's got bling too —Travis [Scott] made sure of that and has already had a little butterfly diamond chain made for her. Kylie is beyond proud of her little princess and she's having so much fun pampering her." Can I be reborn as a Kardashian-Jenner kid?
The 20-year-old star kept her pregnancy with her firstborn child incredibly private to prepare for motherhood in a "positive, stress free and healthy way," but unfortunately it didn't give all of her family members time to prep for the new arrival. When Kylie's half-brother Brody Jenner was stopped by TMZ at LAX airport, he confessed he hasn't met his newborn niece yet. In fact, he didn't even know he was going to be an uncle until after it happened! "Well, to be honest, I didn't even know she was pregnant for the entire pregnancy… But yeah, now I've found out and yeah, for sure, I'd love to see her," he said.
It's pretty shocking that the former star of The Hills didn't know his half-sibling was pregnant considering how close she is with her mom's side of the family. Khloe Kardashian, 33, recently gushed to Extra about how effortlessly Kylie has taken to parenthood. "She's so great. This is so natural for her… and just seeing her so at peace with everything, I'm really happy for her." So sweet!
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Watersports cancelled after dangerous blue green algae found at Alton Water
PUBLISHED: 07:58 21 July 2018 | UPDATED: 01:03 22 July 2018
Visitors to a popular reservoir have been told not to enter the water after dangerous blue green algae was found.
The discovery of the toxins - which if swallowed can cause illnesses including skin rashes, eye irritation, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever and muscle and joint pain - at Alton Water means watersports and other activities will be cancelled.
The news has sparked dismay among many excited to visit the splash park after the 8,000 square metre site was revealed in May.
After the discovery on Friday, July 20, Anglian Water - which manages Alton Water - said it had "taken the decision to temporarily close the water sports facilities and the Aqua Park with immediate effect as a precaution".
• Alton Water latest in string of blue-green algae victims as blooms thrive in heat
A statement on its website published shortly after 11pm added: "While we know this will be disappointing for people booked into the Aqua Park or expecting to use the water sports facilities, the safety of the visitors is our top priority.
"We will be testing the water twice daily and will reopen the facilities once algal levels return to normal."
The statement said Aqua Park will be contacting people to reschedule bookings as soon as the algal levels are back to normal - but said it was likely to mean cancellations over the coming days.
It also said Water Sports Centre customers' sessions would be cancelled and while that Alton Water's campsite is still open to visitors, access to the water will not be allowed.
With blue green algae known to be fatal to pets, the statement added: "Please note dogs should be kept on a lead at all times and should not be allowed to enter the water at any point.
"We are sorry for the disappointment caused to visitors who will no doubt have been looking forward to their day out. We know the Aqua Park is hugely popular, as are the other water sports facilities, but algal blooms are a natural occurrence and therefore difficult to predict or prevent."
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Suspect arrested in deadly Sacramento County orchard shooting
Victim was killed in orchard near Twin Cities Road in June 2017
Victim was killed in orchard near Twin Cities Road in June 2017
Investigators arrested a suspect Monday in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a Sacramento County orchard eight months ago, the sheriff's department said.
Steven Rejon, 19, was already in custody for an unrelated case when he was identified as a suspect in the death of Demoria Ellis-Rivers, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said.
Ellis-Rivers' body was found by an orchard worker near Twin Cities Road, just east of River Road in June 2017. The sheriff's department said he had a gunshot wound to his upper body.
Investigators believe Ellis-Rivers was shot and killed at the orchard.
The motive behind the shooting was not released.
Rejon is being held in the Sacramento County Jail without bail.
Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department at 916-874-5115.


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OK, so I've finally bitten the bullet and taken to the Blogosphere again. The purpose of this blog is somewhere for me to write about one of my favourite things in the whole wide world – Food. More specifically, eating out or my own cooking adventures. However, there will be the occasional post about my other loves – Mainly gin-based stories and the odd bit of culture here and there.
As the title suggests, I will mainly be Birmingham (UK) centric as that's where I live. However, it won't be exclusively Birmingham as well, a girl needs to travel to other places (for the good food, if nothing else)
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Should be a good way to kick off the season for both teams. I expect Vandy to win big, in spite of the fact that they are without Festus Ezeli, their key big man. As I've said before, playing in Vanderbilt's arena is really difficult because of the way their court configuration throws off an opposing player's depth perception. Oregon hasn't competed in Nashville before and Vanderbilt will have a huge home-court advantage.
At any rate, Vandy will be really good this year. The Commodores have just missed picking up a few victories in football. Won't be the case in hoops. They will spank some teams.
Oregon has a chance, since Tony Woods, the former UGA recruit, is eligible after sitting out as a transfer from Wake Forest. Jeremy Jacob says he's healthy. Hopefully, he can avoid serious knee problems this year. In the end, though, I expect that John Jenkins, Jeff Taylor and the rest of the Vandy cast should be able to run their motion offense and win by 10 to 15 points.
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Mirages: Prototypes for religion and mythology
In 1980 near Christmas, travelling on a local bus from a professional commitment in a copper mine in southern Peru north through the Nazca desert, I asked the driver to drop me at one of the famous huge stripes shaped by Nazca civilization. When looking along it towards the horizon I saw a huge lake, an optical mirage. This phenomenon of a desert mirage is the well known down projection of the blue sky and appears when looking over heated ground in still atmosphere (When looking over a cool ground the inverted phenomenon is occasionally seen, landscapes projected upside down into the sky). This mirage in the Nazca desert appeared because, due to the El Nino current, the strong wind had ceased. Seeing this illusion of water I felt I understood what the Nazca people were searching with their huge canals in the dry desert (the failing wind brings rain into the Andean mountains from where fresh river water arrives within two weeks) and decided to study everything I could find about mirages in relation to human imagination. I realized that the only natural phenomenon that suggested another world to early humans, which could not be understood as an environmental phenomenon, became a rich source of inspirations for mythology and religion. Three books resulted (Books Ref. 4, 5, 6).
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I. Labour's policy on immigration is as yet unclear.
Corbyn has said that, though Labour is not 'wedded' to 'free movement', he refuses to set reducing immigration as a goal, or set any targets.
The Labour manifesto committed Labour to a "fair" system of managing immigration, without it being clear what that meant. There were some inclusive, humane signals such as a promise to review Britain's diabolical asylum system, and end income thresholds for residency. But what does 'fairness' look like when it comes to migrant labour? Is it even possible?
A Labour policy paper leaked during the general election indicated that the party would favour adapting the current five-tiered visa system, "including the currently unused tier applicable to those seeking low-skilled, unskilled or seasonal work".
This would imply that, rather than using the Schengenian 'free movement' system, Labour would operate a US-style 'green card' system. In such a system, those migrating at the bottom tier might have a shorter visa stay than those higher up. This might potentially change the composition of labour migration -- indeed, Nigel Farage might get exactly what he claimed to want, with more migrants coming from other parts of the world like India. But it need not necessarily reduce the total number of migrants, since Labour has made it clear that reducing net totals is not a priority. What it would do, unarguably, is significantly expand border controls.
II. Schengenian 'free movement' is a liberal institution that is also racist in principle. Free movement, so far as it goes, is desirable, and something is lost by ending even this limited form. The answer to Schengen racism is not Little Britain racism. However, it is analytical dereliction not to grapple with what 'free movement' actually means.
The Schengen Agreement is one of the laws of the European Union, originally developed in 1985. Incorporated into the EU legal structure with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997, this law allows for the free movement of people within the Union.
It is one of the famous "four freedoms" in the Union, the others being freedoms for capital. Free movement of people was a logical extension of the plans to create a single market: in effect, to treat the members of the Union as parts of one interlocked capitalist economy.
But freedom within meant raising walls and razor-wire to the outside. Coterminously, therefore, there was a tightening of border controls around Europe, and new systems such as FRONTEX were created to help prevent what it called, and continues to call, illegal migration.
The majority of 'illegal' migrants arrive with passport and visa by plane, and work in the jobs they were hired to work in. But that is not what the labelling was getting at. If states, is it were, 'state', one of the ways they do so is by creating social classifications and giving them normative and juridical force. Any naming in this sense is performative. To call a particular group of immigrants illegal if you are a state is, in a way, to make them so. Certainly, insofar as the states of the European Union preemptively deemed the vast majority of asylum seekers to be 'illegal', it treated them as such, and developed expanding systems of surveillance and monitoring to arrange speedy deporttations.
The Dublin Agreement, struck in 2004, stated that refugees had to place their asylum claim in the first country they arrived at. In practice, since refugees travel overland or by sea, often the first country they arrive at will be Greece or Italy, so that countries of north-western Europe like Germany aren't bothered. Their fingerprints are taken where they land, and fed into a database so that they can be tracked.
Since 2009, the unelected executive of the EU, the European Commission, has been developing new protocols under the rubric of the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, tightening up frontier controls and mandating deportation of all 'illegals' in all member states. These changes were informed by the increasingly securitarian and Islamophobic drift of many member states, especially France which then held the EU presidency, in the aftermath of the 'war on terror'.
And, of course, the system is currently supported not only by FRONTEX raids on refugee boats, resulting in a spike in mediterranean drownings, but also by the biggest of all illegal pushbacks, consecrated in the deal between Merkel and Erdogan.
If you take the approach of Domenico Losurdo, there is nothing particularly paradoxical in a fundamentally liberal institution, free movement, having this fundamentally racist obverse. Liberalism has always been distinguished by its logic of exclusions; there is always someone for whom the universal doesn't apply.
III. There has, since the 1990s, been a significant increase in labour migration in the United Kingdom, the great majority of it coming from within the European Union. The percentage of foreign-born workers in the UK increased from 3 million (7.2% of the total labour force) in 1993 to 7 million (16.7%) in 2015.
About a third of these live and work in London, on the pattern of 'global cities'. The low-paid among them, the majority, have become a racialised 'reserve army of labour' in the classic marxian pattern. This has been accompanied, not by the thinning out of the middle expected by 'global cities' literature, but by professionalisation of occupations in the London labour market, with a growing number of managers and professionals. Nonetheless, there was some occupational polarisation with an absolute increase in top jobs, and a complementary absolute increase in the number of low-wage jobs at the bottom.
Why has this happened? There is a marxist political economy, rooted in the study of migrant economies in apartheid South Africa, which can explain some of it. In particular, the costs of reproducing migrant labour in a 'free movement' zone are much lower than the costs of reproducing domestic labour. The price of labour is suppressed by a number of factors, including the fact that for short-term migrants, the inputs are determined in part by prices in Warsaw or Bucharest -- so, if you have a family to send money back to, a little extra money made in London counts for a lot more back home. There are also the collective conditions of housing and transport for many workers, which reduces costs even more.
But, of course, 'the economy' is never free-standing, never exists apart from its political and legal constitution. The impact of welfare policies, labour market laws, and 'managed migration' collectively help constitute hierarchies in work. Successive British governments since the Thatcher-era have made a competitive advantage out of low wage labour, relying on supply-side improvements to reduce the 'natural' level of unemployment. They have rolled back state protections and wage bargaining, imposed competition in local services, and relied on markets to discipline the bottom end of the labour market and impose flexibility. Changes to the welfare system, hailed as 'workfare', have been designed to promote this flexibility and low-wage culture. This means that where labour markets are tight, and shortages need to be filled, it is less likely that they will be filled by raising wages: that is not what is meant by 'making work pay'.
It is within this broadly neoliberal growth formula that it makes sense for employers to turn to low-wage, insecure migrant labour. The Work Foundation, a think-tank initially set up under Will Hutton's leadership, elucidates some of the assumptions behind this. In short, it argues that given the government's macroeconomic commitments, the choice was between turning to migrant labour, or using high interest rates to deflate wage pressures arising from tighter labour markets at the bottom.
In other words, this racialised form of labour market segregation is not just a product of economic processes, but is a result of a whole orientation of statecraft -- what David Harvey somewhere called a "spatio-temporal fix" for capitalist dysfunction.
IV. Does this mean, then, that UK-born workers are in some sense being undercut by migrant workers? Not so fast.
First of all, remember that many of the new low-wage jobs which have been created simply couldn't be filled by workers born and permanently residing in the UK, given the costs of reproducing their labour. The jobs market is not, in that sense, a zero-sum game. Migration allowed for a significant expansion in total employment, some of which otherwise would not have happened.
Second, insofar as there is increased competition in the labour market, there is very little evidence for any generalised wage-depressant effect. Research suggests that there is no net negative impact from migration on wages. Many studies, for example by the centre-left IPPR think-tank, suggest a moderate net increase in wages, as does a similar study by the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CRAM) at UCL.
Third, there is, however, plenty of evidence that migrant labour itself is exploited by this system, and that insofar as there are wage-depressant effects at the bottom, migrant workers are the ones to suffer. This is indicated by LSE research, which finds that "the only sizeable effect of increased immigration is on the wages of those immigrants who are already here."
The CRAM analysis suggests that in fact the moderate overall growth of wages is concentrated at the top of the wage structure, and that one possible explanation for this is that as migrant workers are being paid less than the market value of their labour in the UK, there is an additional surplus that is redistributed up the chain.
On top of this, some of the redistribution is worked out through the social wage. The net fiscal impact of immigration was estimated by the Migration Observatory at Oxford to be small but positive. And the OBR estimates that higher rates of migration, by increasing the working age population relative to the dependent population, reduces the pressure on government borrowing. This doesn't mean migration in certain areas didn't increase the load on local services; it just means that there was no reason why the government couldn't have more than covered any additional outlay necessary.
In the last analysis, in marxist terms, all state expenditures are a deduction from profits. Even if they're funded by consumption taxes, that merely tends to push up the price of labour. Of course, things in the real world are never as pure as in the last analysis, since raising consumption taxes can be one moment in a wider process of ruling class struggle intended to cut working-class consumption overall. That is, after all, what austerity is all about. And it is quite possible that concretely, in the actual rhythm of political struggle, an increase in revenues to the Treasury would have helped offset the pressure to cut expenditures. But, from the point of view of this last analysis, we would have to say that the net contribution of migrant labour to British coffers is a net saving to profits.
However, all of these effects are minor relative to the total labour market and to total state expenditures. What I am describing is a situation in which a combination of 'workfare', 'flexibility', privatisation, competition, 'free movement' in some areas, and 'managed migration' in others, increased the rate of exploitation of migrant workers to the benefit of the capitalist class. But it is also a truism that labour market segregation harms the bargaining power of those supposedly in the 'privileged' position in it.
V. All of these claims and measurements are, of course, relative to a set of prevailing macroeconomic assumptions. If you make a different set of assumptions about how economies work, then different conclusions are entailed.
What I mean is this. The debate about migrant labour is structured around the red herring of whether 'free movement' undercuts UK-born workers in terms of employment and wages. Even if there were significant evidence of it doing so, it would be a red herring, since the grammar of the question is wrong. There is no abstract 'free movement', only the freedom of movement within a given economic and policy context. You can have free movement on a neoliberal and racist-exclusionary basis -- which, indeed, is part of a system which does disadvantage UK-born workers as well as migrant workers -- or you can have free movement on a socialist, or at least social-democratic, basis.
For example, suppose a Labour government were to reverse decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Suppose that, in place of counter-inflation it privileged full employment and high wages as its main economic policy priority. Suppose its goal was to create competitive advantages through state investment, rather than eke out competitive advantages from low-wage labour. Suppose it rolled back anti-union legislation, so that the long decline of union representation was reversed. Suppose it reorganised the welfare state, abolishing workfare and sanctions and all the forms of coercion designed to make people more available for low-wage work. Suppose it rolled back privatisation and competition measures, and introduced collective bargaining where possible.
Setting aside the difficulties in actually achieving this against entrenched opposition from the business class, such an approach would have to imply an attack on labour market segregation. If anyone is tempted to say this means ending free movement, let me say they've missed the point entirely. Creating new legal restrictions on migrant labour simply increases its precarity and vulnerability.
By expanding the remit of the border men, and intensifying surveillance, one wouldn't even necessarily reduce the total amount of migration -- and Labour has said this isn't a priority -- but it would help drive migrant workers further into the shadows where they are more susceptible to violence and hyper-exploitation. They would end up with less pay, with more immiserated existence, living in even worse death-trap accommodation. It would create more "illegal" migrants, and thus more misery. That doesn't suppress wage-competition. It might give it a new, more segregated structure, with a sharpened, racialised set of advantages and disadvantages -- but that would in aggregate intensify labour market competition and strengthen the bargaining position of employers, particularly the cut-throat poverty employers.
Rather, for a leftist growth model to work, one would need to give up completely on the idea of squeezing a competitive advantage out of a bargain basement economy. One would need, if anything, a far more egalitarian labour market policy. One would need to proactively suppress labour market segregation on all axes. One would need various measures to ban exploitation along gender and racial axes. One would need all workers, regardless of origin, to have equal pay for the same work, equal access to the state, equal protection under law, equal access to housing and welfare, equal access to union representation, and so on.
Breaking with neoliberalism means breaking, not with free movement as a goal and principle, but with a racially segregated labour system. This isn't uncomplicated. Suppressing competition through state intervention reduces the 'pull' factors for migrants. From a certain point of view, it reduces their opportunities. But it does so, precisely by levelling up, by attacking labour market segregation as a principle.
VI. It would be completely unrealistic to expect Labour to embrace an open borders policy. The balance of forces in Labour, let alone the wider country, simply wouldn't let that happen. I'm not even sure who would be able to organise around such a demand, or what the political effects of doing so would be. "Momentum for Open Borders"? I can't see it.
However, that doesn't mean progress cannot be made, and reaction resisted. To an extent, it already has been. In the New Labour era, we had what proved to be a toxic combination; a 'free movement' system organised along segregated patterns supported by labour market and workfare policy; and a set of political triangulations in which every other week a minister would expound on the need to control immigration and enforce integration, especially of those troublesome Muslims. Taken alongside the breakdown of large, unionised workforces as Labour allowed manufacturing to go bust, and the concomitant growth of racial segregation among UK-born workers in the labour market, this contributed to gains made by the far right.
The last general election abruptly changed the dynamic. Labour didn't win, but it surged to a degree without precedent post-1945. And it did so, despite (or because of) the fact that Corbyn was widely depicted as someone who wanted an immigration free-for-all. Despite (or because of) the fact that he was attacked day in and day out as an alibi of foreign terrorists. Despite (or because of) the fact that he systematically repudiated the very right-wing arguments on immigration to which all previous Labour leaderships have grovellingly deferred. Despite (or because of) the fact that he refused to set a target for reducing immigration levels.
Yes, Labour's official position was ambiguous, and yes that may have softened the attitude of some of the 'red' Ukippers, and defused some of the attacks. But in retrospect, and in future, I don't think it can be taken for granted that a broadly pro-immigrant stance is an electoral liability. I think, with the electorate changing, it is possible over the medium term to a) win the argument for maintaining such free movement as we currently have, b) win the argument for de-stigmatising refugees, abolishing the detention centres and ending the appalling conditions in Calais; and c) addressing the decades-long, systematic, racist exclusions aimed at citizens of what used to be called the 'New Commonwealth'.
At the very least, the election showed that provided it has a radical agenda that excites its supporters, Labour doesn't have to be scared of the Crosby smear-and-dog-whistle machine, of tabloid poison, or even of Ukip. The Left can be confident, rather than cowed, in its arguments. It doesn't have to accept either a defensive posture of uncritically crawling to the EU and its version of free movement, or an even more defensive posture of demanding an end to free movement.


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East Africa locust invasion approaching full-blown crisis
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- Locust swarms are ravaging crops in East Africa, with Kenya hit hard
- If the trend continues, the region may need food aid soon
- Spraying with pesticides may help control but could destroy beneficial insects.
"Breeding continues in the Horn of Africa, which will cause locusts to increase further in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya with new swarms forming in March and April," explains the FAO in a forecast released yesterday (10 February).
The desert locusts have as of last month destroyed 70,000 hectares of farmland in Ethiopia and Somalia since their last December outbreak, threatening food security in both countries, according to the FAO, adding that a kilometre square locust swam can eat the same amount of food in a day as about 35,000 people.
This is the worst desert locust invasion Kenya has had in 70 years while Ethiopia and Somalia experienced an invasion of this magnitude 25 years ago, FAO explains. It is threatening food security and livelihoods in the region.
"Urgent efforts must be made to stop them from increasing to protect the livelihoods of farmers and livestock holders."
Keith Cressman, FAO
The FAO say that the region experienced abnormally heavy rains between October and December last year, with flooding in regions that are normally semi-arid, creating conditions that are favourable for locust breeding, which can grow substantially if not disrupted.
"Locust swarms have started laying eggs and another generation of breeding will increase locust numbers," says Keith Cressman, a senior locust forecasting officer at the FAO. "Urgent efforts must be made to stop them from increasing to protect the livelihoods of farmers and livestock holders."
Cressman adds that the desert locust invasion began as a result of a cyclone that swept through Eastern Ethiopia and North-eastern Somalia in December last year, bringing heavy rains to the area and creating favourable conditions for the insects to breed for the next six months.
The Horn of Africa, made up of countries Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, has about 115 million people. "About US$70 million is needed to support rapid control operations such as spraying with insecticides," the FAO explains.
Stephen Njoka, the director-general of Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa, tells SciDev.Net: "Climate change could be behind this invasion, for example the current rains in Kenya are very unusual, making vegetation available to the pests and creating suitable egg laying sites in the soil."
Njoka says that aerial and ground spraying with safe pesticides are the best ways to control locust invasion.
Because locusts have been found to be nutritious in some communities and cultures in the regions, eating them may be a mild measure of control given the overwhelming numbers of the insects, Njoka suggests.
Daniel Otaye, an associate professor and chairman in the Department of Biological Sciences, Egerton University in Kenya, says: "The invasion poses disastrous effects on the East African region that is still smarting from insecurity, droughts and aggressive floods."
According to Otaye, the insects can devour a whole acreage of crops such as maize and sorghum and ravage pasture for livestock.
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But Otaye adds that the use of pesticides in the control of locusts is a source of concern as pesticides might have devastating effects on other beneficial insects such as bees, green lacewings, dragonflies and many others that equally contribute to the ecosystem health.
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Kotooshu (L) has 3 wins and 1 loss after 4 rounds in Tokyo
Both professional Bulgarian sumo wrestlers in Japan's elite division won their matches from the 4th day of the January tournament in Tokyo.
Kaloyan Mahlyanov – Kotooshu beat Aminishiki with an "oshitaoshi" technique, to earn his 3rd win of the tournament. Kotooshu, who was demoted to the rank of Sekiwake in November, must score at least 10 wins in Tokyo in order to have any hopes of regaining his Ozeki rank.
The other Bulgarian, Daniel Ivanov – Aoiyama beat Shohozan to equal his record at 2-2. Aoiyama will face a tough opponent, Ozeki Kisenosato in Thursday's lineup.
Kotooshu, the tallest wrestler in the top division (202cm), will meet the shortest (168cm) Toyonoshima. Surprisingly, Toyonoshima has a positive balance in their overall matches (16-15)
The Grand Champion Hakuho remains undefeated after 4 rounds.
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Shanghai red-braised pork with eggs
If you're looking for something to make for the Chinese New Year try this marvellous recipe from Fuchsia Dunlop's Land of Fish & Rice (Note: Fuchsia recommends you make it a day ahead.)
Fuchsia writes: Red-braised pork, in which chunks of belly pork are simmered with soy sauce, rice wine and sugar, is beloved across China, and there are many regional variations. In Jiangnan, and especially Shanghai, they like theirs dark, sleek and seductively sweet. The pork is only cooked for about an hour in total, so the meat and fat retain a little spring in their step. A secondary ingredient is often added, such as bamboo shoot, deep-fried tofu, cuttlefish, salted fish or, as in this recipe, hard-boiled eggs. The dish is a perfect accompaniment to plain white rice; I do recommend that you serve it also with something light and refreshing, such as stir-fried greens.
At the Dragon Well Manor restaurant in Hangzhou, they call this dish Motherly Love Pork because of an old local story. Once upon a time, they say, there was a woman whose son had travelled to Beijing to sit the imperial civil service examinations. Eagerly awaiting his return, she cooked up his favourite dish, a slow-simmered stew of pork and eggs. But the road was long and the travelling uncertain, so her son didn't arrive when expected, and she took the pot off the stove and went to bed. The next day, she warmed up the stew and waited again for him, but he didn't arrive. By the time her son actually reached home on the third day, the stew had been heated up three times, and the meat was inconceivably tender and unctuous, the sauce dark and profound.
Shanghai red-braised pork with eggs - shang hai hong shao rou 上海红烧肉
6 eggs, small if possible
20g fresh ginger, skin on
1 spring onion, white part only
750g pork belly, skin on
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 star anise
A small piece of cassia bark
3 tbsp Shaoxing wine
700ml stock or hot water
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1½ tbsp plus 1 tsp dark soy sauce
3 tbsp caster sugar or 40g rock sugar
Hard-boil the eggs in a pan of boiling water, then cool and shell them. In each egg, make 6–8 shallow slashes lengthways to allow the flavours of the stew to enter. Smack the ginger and spring onion gently with the flat side of a Chinese cleaver or a rolling pin to loosen their fibres.
Put the pork in a pan, cover with cold water, bring to the boil over a high flame and boil for 5 minutes. Drain and rinse it under the cold tap. When cool enough to handle, cut the meat through the skin into 2–3 cm cubes (if your piece of belly is thick, you may want to cut each piece in half so they end up more cube-like).
Heat the oil in a seasoned wok over a high flame. Add the ginger, spring onion, star anise and cassia and stir-fry briefly until they smell wonderful. Add the pork and fry for another 1–2 minutes until the meat is faintly golden and some of the oil is running out of the fat. Splash the Shaoxing wine around the edges of the pan. Add the hard-boiled eggs and stock or hot water, along with the light soy sauce, 1½ tablespoons dark soy sauce and the sugar. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Pour into a pot or a bowl, allow to cool, then chill overnight. In the morning, remove the layer of pale fat that has settled on the surface. Tip the meat and jellied liquid back into a wok, reheat gently, then boil over a high flame to reduce the sauce, stirring constantly. Remove and discard the ginger, spring onion and whole spices. After 10–15 minutes, when the liquid has reduced by about half, stir in the remaining dark soy sauce.
Shortly before you wish to serve, bring to the boil over a high flame and reduce the sauce to a few centimetres of dark, sleek gravy. Turn out into a serving dish. Then go and welcome your son back from his imperial civil service examinations!
If you have any leftovers – unlikely, in my experience – you can reheat them with a little water and some dried bamboo shoot, winter melon, tofu knots, deep-fried tofu puffs or radishes. In fact, you might wish, like some of my Chinese friends, to red-braise odd scraps of fatty pork just to cook vegetables, because it makes them so delicious.
Shanghai red-braised pork
Omit the eggs and increase the amount of pork to 1kg. Use only 1½ tbsp light soy sauce, 1½ tbsp plus 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 2½ tbsp sugar and 500ml hot water.
What to drink: I'd serve a ripe Aussie grenache with this, maybe even an amarone.
Recipe taken from Land of Fish and Rice, published by Bloomsbury, £26. Photo © Yuki Sugiura
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To be honest, even the BBC are pushing people away from traditional TV. For example, a lot of the sports events that the BBC covers now are available through the BBC sport app, but aren't shown on traditional TV.
For example last week from Thursday to Sunday I was watching the British Open wheelchair tennis, which was covered by the BBC and the BBC sport app but wasn't shown on live TV and before that on Tuesday and Wednesday I was watching the British Open wheelchair tennis through their YouTube channel, but once the BBC started covering it. The quality of the BBC stream was much better, so I used the BBC instead. From that point on.
If you haven't seen wheelchair tennis. I highly recommend catching the gentleman's wheelchair doubles final on BBC iPlayer
The only major rule difference in wheelchair tennis is that the ball can bounce twice the first bounce must be inside the court boundaries, but the second bounce can be anywhere most wheelchair tennis players will try to take the ball on the first bounce
I use Amazon, NowTV, Netflix & TVPlayer for my TV Viewing, there's so much more to choose from & being able to have the Sky Sports Channels for a day is handy as I can get it when I want to watch my Football Team play & don't need to pay for the rest of the time, and it's also cheaper than having Sky or Virgin.
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School holidays are almost over but NSW Health is
urging parents to keep their children home if they are sick, with flu cases
amongst children and younger adults still on the rise.
NSW Health's Director of Communicable Disease, Dr
Vicky Sheppeard, said the flu is disproportionally affecting those under 20
years, so it is crucial families remember simple hygiene precautions.
"More than 20 children under five years of age were
admitted to hospital with influenza-like illness in the past week," Dr
Sheppeard said.
"The flu is still about so I urge parents not to send
their children back to school if they are ill and to follow simple hygiene
"Minimising the spread of flu only requires a few simple
steps from everyone, including covering coughs and sneezes, washing your hands
thoroughly and staying home if you are ill. Remember, vaccination is still your
best protection and it is not too late to have a flu shot."
The latest weekly Influenza
Surveillance Report shows 6,418
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previous week, taking the yearly total to 47,822. Six people diagnosed with flu
died in the last week and three additional deaths were confirmed from earlier
in the season, bringing the annual total to 79 confirmed deaths.
Dr Sheppeard said 2.45 million doses of
Government-funded flu vaccines have been distributed across NSW, including over
195,000 doses for children six months to three years, and 1.18 million doses
for people 65 years and over. A free vaccine is still available for eligible
people who have not yet had their shot.
"While data suggests we may have reached the peak of
the flu season this will be confirmed in subsequent weeks, so everyone needs to
remember to keep taking precautions," Dr Sheppeard said.
"If you are sick it is best to avoid visiting elderly
relatives at aged-care facilities. In the year to date there have been 154
confirmed influenza outbreaks in aged-care facilities, 24 of which were
reported this week."
Flu shots are free under the National Immunisation
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The NSW Government continues a
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A new creative studio launched in Bromsgrove this week, dedicated to helping businesses across the region grow and providing opportunities for young people to break into the creative industries.
Studio B61 is run by Graphic Designer Hannah Dudley with an impressive portfolio of high profile clients – including Harris Lamb Property Consultancy and Spire Healthcare.
Studio B61 will be a true creative hub for the region, with branding, design, printing services and a photography studio all available from their site on Sanders Road Industrial Estate.
Local photographers and creative students will also benefit from the range of facilities available at Studio B61. They have already offered an internship to a Coventry University Graphic Design student starting in September.
"It's not an easy industry to break into" said Creative Director Hannah Dudley. "Employers and clients want to see an impressive portfolio as well as qualifications and work experience isn't always easy to find. We're really keen to provide hands on opportunities to young people so they can start to build their portfolios. We wouldn't be here if we hadn't had that opportunity, so it's important to us to give back now we can."
Studio B61 opened on Monday 7th August on Sanders Road Industrial Estate, Bromsgrove.
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N4250 Lakeshore Drive, Kewaunee, WI 54216
- Single Family Home
- Status: Active
- Mailing City: Kewaunee
- County: Kewaunee
- 5 Bedrooms
- 3 Full Bathrooms
- 2 Half Bathrooms
- Est. Square Footage: 5,000
- Garage Size: 3 or 3.5 Cars
- School Dist: Kewaunee
- Property Taxes: $15,682
- Property Tax Year: 2019
- Body of Water: Michigan
- Access Type: Lake
- Hot Line: 877.593.1660
- Listing Company: Shorewest - Green Bay
- Price/SqFt: $290
Property Description
N4250 Lakeshore Drive, Kewaunee, WI 54216 - Luxury living along the lake at its finest! Beautiful Cedar Home with over 1200 feet of lake frontage and 42 acres of a mix of woods, meticulous landscaping and walking trails to enjoy the abundance of wildlife. 5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, screened garden room, loft, hardwood floors throughout, skylights, 3 fireplaces. Glass & concrete, zinc, & granite counter tops. Finished living space in lower level; large laundry/workspace. Large deck for entertaining, sauna, hot tub, and access to the beach complete your outdoor experience! Large garden shed & unique painted silo on property.
Room Dimensions
- Living Rm: 31x23
- Kitchen: 14x25
- Family Rm: 17x26
- Dining Rm: 21x12
- BR 2: 12x13
- BR 3: 12x13
- Other Rm: 17x16
- Other_2: 20x19
- Master BR: 15x18
- BR 4: 12x10
- BR 5: 12x10
- Laundry Rm: 29x21
Additional features
Other Rooms
- Finished Pre-2020, Full, Sump Pump, Walkout Entrance-Door
Building and Construction
- Construction Type: E A-Frame
Land Features
- Waterfront/Access: Y
Property History
MLS Number New Status Previous Status Activity Date New List Price Previous List Price Sold Price DOM 50204433 Jul 15 2020 11:16AM $1,450,000 $1,650,000 496 50204433 Active Jun 7 2019 11:39AM $1,650,000 496
Market Conditions
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