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Monday, June 2, 2008
PANE CASALINGO - PAIN ITALIEN
Bread making and baking are real consuming passions, hobbies which destresse me and make me happy! I need to be around flour, otherwise I tend to feel melancholic and as if something important for my inner harmony would missing...
Creating and testing new recipes, kneading dough, admiring the beauty of rising loaves, enjoying the bewitching smell of a freshly baked loaf and biting into the golden crust and fluffy interior of a slice of bread are all soul healing, incomparable epicurian experiences which send shivers through me spine in a very transcendental way. It's my own personal drug. Healthy maybe, but addictive nonetheless!
In order to start June in a pleasant way, I wanted to share with you the recipe for a bread which I very much love as it looks and tastes very professional, although it is easy to make and is composed solely with simple and basic ingredients (flour, salt, water and yeast). Nothing exceptional here, except for the extraordinary loaf which will come out of your oven and which you'll greedily devour and savor until the last crumb disappears!
"Pane Casalingo" literally means " Home-Baked Bread" andis common all over Italy. It is one of the oldest traditional recipes, passed down from mother to daughter. It seems to have been created by pure inadvertance when somebody forgot a mixture of flour and water a few days, and discovered that it had become sour as well aspuffy. At the origin, this bread was baked directly on the stone floor of a very hot wood-fired oven.
Ingredients for the "Starter":1 1/4 Tsp Dried yeast60ml Water125ml Tepid milk1 Tsp Malt extract (see remarks)200g Strong white flourIngredients for the "Dough":1 1/4 Tsp Dried yeast200ml Water300g Strong white flour2 Tsp SaltMethod for the "Starter":1. Sprinkle the yeast into the water and milk in a bowl.2. Leave for 5 minutes, then add the malt extract and stir to dissolve.3. Add the flour and mix to form a thick paste.4. Cover with a tea towel and leave to ferment for 12 hours.Method for the "Dough":5. Sprinkle the yeast into 100ml of the water in a bowl. Leave for 5 minutes.6. Stir to dissolve.7. Mix the flour and the salt together in a large bowl.8. Make a well in the centre, and add the yeasted water and the starter.9. Pour half of the remaining water into the well.
10. Mix in the flour and stir in the reserved water, as needed in order to form a soft dough.11. Turn the dough out on a floured work surface and knead for about 5 minutes.12. Cover with a tea towel and allow to rest for 10 minutes.13. Knead for a further 5 minutes.14. Put the dough in a clean bowl and cover with a teat towel.15. Leave to rise until trebbled in size, about 2 hours.16. Preheat the oven to 200°C (400° F) and knock back and chafe (see remarks) for 5 minutes, then rest for 10 minutes.17. Shape the dough into a round loaf and place on on oiled baking sheet.18. Cover with a tea towel and leave to prove until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
19. Dust with flour and cut thee parallel slashes 1/2cm (1/4 inch) deep across the top of the loaf, then three more in the opposite direction to make a criss-cross pattern.20. Bake in preheated oven (200° C/400° F) for 50 minutes until golden and hollow-sounding when tapped underneath.21. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Remarks:Yeast alternative - For the starter, use 10g fresh yeast and for the dough, use 10g fresh yeast.I had no "malt extract", so I used the same quantity Ovomaltine.Chafe - Form the dough into a ball by cupping your hands gently around it and applying a light downwards pressure to the sides, while simoultaneously rotating the dough continuously in a steady clockwise motion. Continue until the dough is formed into an even, round shape.
Serving suggestions:This bread tastes fantastic with strong and soft cheeses such as Brie de Meaux, raw milk Camembert, Maroille, Munster, raw milk French Reblochon and Epoisses.Pate, terrines and vegetable/meat spreads will also pair well with this loaf.It is also ideal for making bruschette.
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rosa, i loved your introduction words. i feel the same about bread baking. glad to hear i'm not the only one bearing a bbocd ( bread baking obsesive compulsive disorder ), hehe :)it is always amazing and relaxing to produce a big loaf. thanks for sharing. will try to make it.
Rosa,I found your web site when I visited Babeth. I am a bread lover too, I tried to make my own bread at least once a week. Your bread looks so delice and I can't wait to try it myself. I'll get back to you with the result!
Hi Rosa,It's me again, just wondering wether you've tried the infamous (among some chef/baker) NY Times "No Knead Bread"? It works for me especially when I don't have the time to do all the work (knead the dough) but longing to make my own bread. It was surprisingly good, crusty, chewy and one of those bread that seem like you work (endlessly) in the kitchen. If you curious how's the texture looks like here is the photohttp://elrasbaking.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-knead-bread-with-poppy-sesames-and.htmlIt's worth trying!
I can really understand the need to be around flour in order to just relax. I feel the same but not necessarily about baking but cooking in general.This recipe reminds me of the bread I use to buy as a child. Even if it wans't homemade it was a terrific loaf. Bookmarked! | {
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Mothering alone: cross-national comparisons of later-life disability and health among women who were single mothers.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Epidemiology; and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Health, London, UK.
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Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany.
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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Single motherhood is associated with poorer health, but whether this association varies between countries is not known. We examine associations between single motherhood and poor later-life health in the USA, England and 13 European countries.
METHODS:
Data came from 25 125 women aged 50+ who participated in the US Health and Retirement Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We tested whether single motherhood at ages 16-49 was associated with increased risk of limitations with activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental ADL and fair/poor self-rated health in later life.
RESULTS:
33% of American mothers had experienced single motherhood before age 50, versus 22% in England, 38% in Scandinavia, 22% in Western Europe and 10% in Southern Europe. Single mothers had higher risk of poorer health and disability in later life than married mothers, but associations varied between countries. For example, risk ratios for ADL limitations were 1.51 (95% CI 1.29 to 1.98) in England, 1.50 (1.10 to 2.05) in Scandinavia and 1.27 (1.17 to 1.40) in the USA, versus 1.09 (0.80 to 1.47) in Western Europe, 1.13 (0.80 to 1.60) in Southern Europe and 0.93 (0.66 to 1.31) in Eastern Europe. Women who were single mothers before age 20, for 8+ years, or resulting from divorce or non-marital childbearing, were at particular risk.
CONCLUSIONS:
Single motherhood during early-adulthood or mid-adulthood is associated with poorer health in later life. Risks were greatest in England, the USA and Scandinavia. Selection and causation mechanisms might both explain between-country variation.
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.
Single motherhood and adjusted relative risks of disability and SRH among mothers aged 50+, by quartiles of single motherhood durationNotes:“*” indicates p value < 0.05.Data from ELSA, SHARE, and HRS are pooled in this analysis. Adjusted relative risks were obtained from modified Poisson regressions, with robust variance clustered at individual level. Key independent variables include binary indicators on quartiles of single motherhood duration: 1–3 years, 4–7 years, 8–13 years, 14+ years. The comparison group is mothers who never had single motherhood experience before age 50. Additional covariates include age, age squared, education, number of children, current marital status, time of interview, and country-fixed effects. Data are weighted by sampling weights.
Single motherhood and adjusted Relative risks of disability and SRH among mothers aged 50+, by causes or ages of single motherhood, conditional on single motherhood durationNotes:“*” indicates p value < 0.05.Adjusted relative risks (RRs) of single motherhood by causes and ages of the single motherhood experience were estimated by running two sets of Poisson regressions: one has causes and quartiles of single motherhood duration as key independent variables, while the other has ages and quartiles of single motherhood duration as key independent variables. RRs reported in Figure 2-a and 2-b reflect the RRs of single mothers assuming a single motherhood duration of 8–13 years. The comparison group is mothers who never had single motherhood experience before age 50. Additional covariates include age, age squared, education, number of children, current marital status, time of interview, and country-fixed effects. | {
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Matson boosts fuel surcharge 4 percentage points to record 47.5%
Matson Navigation Co. is boosting the cost of shipping goods between the mainland and Hawaii for the fourth time this year.
The state's largest ocean shipper said today it will raise the fuel surcharge on June 12 by 4 percentage points to a record 47.5 percent — the highest ever since Matson started imposing the fee in 1999 — from 43.5 percent for its Hawaii service. The hike follows back-to-back 8.5 percentage-point-increases in March and May.
The company said it has sustained near record high fuel prices over the past month and also will raise the surcharge to 49 percent from 45 percent for its Guam/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia service the same day.
"Since announcing our last increase on March 31, fuel prices not only failed to stabilize, but continued to rise," said Dave Hoppes, senior vice president, in a statement. "Matson recognizes that energy costs are a major concern for all businesses, as well as consumers. Unfortunately, transportation companies are especially hard hit, with fuel consumption an unavoidable and significant component of operating costs. We are just now beginning to recover some of the extraordinary fuel-related costs that necessitated our last increase." | {
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My Guinness World Record Success
In 2003, with my uni life behind me, I watched more movies than any other person in history. This is the true tale of my triumph.
To Boldly Sit: How I became a World Record Holder
[Originally published in Semper Floreat, the Student magazine at the University of Queensland.]
Spot my teddy bear Hamilton providing moral support
In December 2002, after a failed tilt at the UQ Student Union Presidency, I decided a Road Trip was in order. My friend Rob Byrne and I decided to drive to Melbourne – and the first stop on our 4,500km odyssey was, of course, a Book Store.
Rob was hunting a new translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but I picked up the Guinness Book of World Records. As Rob looked over my shoulder, I opened the tome to a random page…
…and there, catching our eyes simultaneously, was a record we had never seen before: World’s Longest Movie Marathon.
Remarkably, the record in 2002 stood at a pithy 41 hours. We could watch movies for 41 hours. Heck, we could probably go longer. We could be world record holders!!
Clearly, destiny awaited. But how exactly does one go about breaking a Guinness World Record? I jumped online, submitted my details, and waited for a response. I was informed this could take 6-8 weeks.
Guinness Rules
Exactly 6-8 weeks later, an e-mail arrived. Attached were the strict rules of the Movie Marathon, as well as news that the record had been broken: it now stood at 59 hours and 27 minutes.
The rules are tough. For instance, it has to be in a public cinema; you need two witnesses and a medical supervisor to be present at all times; and you can only go to the toilet during a 15 minute break after every third film.
Realising we could veil this as a charity event to mask our egos, we decided to use the event to raise money for the State Emergency Service (SES). They loved the idea, and better still most of them have medical training. Throw in a few med student friends, and the witness condition was met!
We then went looking for sponsorship. Sure, the rules were strict, but they were open to interpretation. A ‘cinema’ basically meant a projection screen – Panasonic jumped on board to lend us two projectors.
We talked to Damo at the now defunct V’s Caffé Indooroopilly about giving us free coffee – he offered us half a café, and agreed to remain open for the entire event.
Suddenly, we had a cinema, a public place, and free coffee.
Brisbane radio’s B105 Black Thunders covering the event.
We quickly isolated the Toilet Rule as the toughest. Sure, you don’t need a whizz every 6 hours – but what if you’re not ready to go at the right time? What if you’re busting, and you’re only halfway through The Godfather Part 1? There had to be a way around it…
…and there was. The rules say “every third movie” and later that all movies had to be “feature length” (70 minutes for all you trivia fans). If we kept the films short, that meant we could keep the piss-stops close together. It would also maximise our 15 minutes breaks.
Rob and I started by putting together a list of movies, and their running time (which, with the rules, included all the credits). Video Ezy Kenmore came on board, so we spent an hour there and an hour with our collections compiling the list. That was when we discovered that Rob has no taste in films. (His version of events says I have no taste in films, but I don’t see him writing an article for Semper, so my version sticks. History is written by the good looking.)
We compromised, with the power to veto, and in the end agreed it would be best to have mostly films we know and love – an untested and deathly boring film at 3am could sink us. We grouped our selection into lots of three movies, pairing longer films with shorter films so our toilet breaks were never more than 6 hours apart.
Finally, we had to select a team to break the record. Other attempts involved huge numbers of random individuals – the 59 hours was set at a cinema in South Africa by more than 100 people – but we knew a small group was the key. In the end, only two others felt they had it in them: good friends Brett Cruice and Joel Dawson.
The Day Arrives
We began our attempt on Saturday June 21st, 2003. V’s Caffé had been remodelled into a “cinema”. The videos were stacked up. The projectors were readied. The witnesses arrived. The lights went down. And Breakfast at Tiffany’s (my favourite film) began. If we were to break the record, we would need to live here and watch this screen from 9am Saturday to 8.28pm Monday night.
The first hours progressed as anticipated, and nervousness was replaced by the simmering thrill that only comes when you make history. As the sun set – June 21st was the shortest day of the year – we settled in for the night.
Saturday passed without incident, but not even daylight could save Joel, who had started the attempt under a cloud of illness. Despite me donning a frock and make-up to dance along to the choreographed cheerleading numbers, he fell asleep during Bring It On and was evicted.
As the movies blended into each other, it became an exercise in following rules and staying awake. A routine developed; the first movie of any set was easy; in the second film, a light snack to boost energy might be in order; only during the third film would one consider a beverage – usually water. We all made it past 36 hours without a single coffee.
During a break after 2 days, unaware of the pain to come
Can you spell diuretic?
Then, tragedy struck. In the wee small hours of Monday morning, as we passed the 41 hour mark we had once aspired to, Rob’s poor taste in movies almost cost me the record. Freddy Got Fingered, which I had been assured was riotously funny, was not. Struggling to find meaning in a film devoid of humour, I went perilously close to snoozing. Despite it being the first film in a set, I asked Damo to make me a coffee.
The caffeine was instantaneous. So too was the movement of all bodily fluids to my bladder.
I needed to pee. Badly. And there were still more than five hours, and at least one Adam Sandler film, before I could use the bathroom.
Five hours. 300 minutes. 18,000 seconds. At least three lifetimes. In that time I invented, refined, and mastered the art of Tantric bladder control. Dawn crept through the window. It appeared that I was going to be survive. And in walked an ABC Radio journalist with only one question on her mind.
You will be pleased to learn, dear reader, that in addition to holding a world record, I have been interviewed live on ABC Radio about my incredible need to pee. How badly did I need to go? How many minutes until I could? They even called a doctor to discuss the damage I was doing to my kidneys – he advised my bladder was bearing the brunt of any lasting injury. Thanks Doc!
The journalist left, but I still had fifteen minutes. I pride myself on never giving up. I had come so far. Interestingly, if you’re into this sort of thing, peeing in a bottle is not against Guinness Rules. Workplace Health and Safety on the other hand…
One of our many media calls – this is the infamous ABC Radio interview
Cometh the Hour
With this treacherous incident behind me, I knew the record would be mine. Not even a technical glitch that threatened to end the attempt with the record in sight could dampen my enthusiasm.
8pm Monday passed. V’s Caffé was packed. Phone calls were rolling in. I got a text message from Scotland. And the crowd began the countdown.
Nothing – and here I include Graduation, Childbirth, and walking on the moon – can compare with the moment the room erupted. We had done it. We had watched more films, under tighter conditions, than any person in history. Any person. Ever.
The 3 of us at the end. Looking young – I’d only recently found my first grey hair!
Jacob’s Philosophical Crap
We eventually lasted four more hours, moving into Tuesday. We could have carried on, but knew no matter what record we set it would eventually be broken. At that point we were atop a pinnacle of endurance. We were the best in the world.
Our record – 63 hours and 27 minutes – was approved and acknowledged by Guinness World Records. We never made the book, and our effort has been surpassed at least three times. I understand the current record sits at 72 hours. Others are preparing to break that.
Such is life. I have no desire to re-set the record – I’ve already achieved that. But the memory of those days, and that moment, is something nobody can ever take away.
This Certificate hangs in my office, and even now I use the experience in some of my presentations
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State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst Releases Task Force Study
A study on Brenham State School operations and spending, recommends that it look into independent living for its clients.
The study was conducted by a 26-member task force, which state representative Lois Kolkhorst created.
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Despite earning big money, why are some people in big debt and have no savings.
I think it's definitely a psychological thing. I had parents who were professionals & earned very good money, but never had any money, because while they are both intelligent people they are financially illiterate. Money was just wasted on needless things and quite often financial problems would crop up.
The experience as a child changed my whole mindset and as an adult I've saved & invested with every pay rise. Just added up my latest total and im around £200,000 after 12 years....and it really was very easy! I don't earn big money (just above minimum wage) I did have a small inheritance and have done well with my investments.
The key is not to chase the posh cars/clothes/phones. I absolutely love my life, I live it to the full but that money gives me so much security and happiness you wouldn't believe. I know that if I want I can walk out of work tomorrow I can, it gives you choices. And that security is worth far more than material things.
As others have said it's important to live life and enjoy it, we only come this way once, but what I don't understand is why most people haven't "seen the light" (time is precious, we don't have much so why spend most of our life at work to buy things that make us feel better about going to work, which then results in us having to be at work almost forever) I work with people who hate work, are desperate to leave but have no prospect of ever being able to become they are driving the posh car, the designer clothes etc
I think Social Media has caused a huge upsurge in people becoming more reckless with money. Everyone wants to look wealthy and show off, and what better way than to flaunt the next holiday you are on, the new flashy car or the new Rolex watch to the X number followers on your social media accounts.
Look at guys like Conor McGregor, a huge global star, always flaunting and bleating on about how rich he is, a sickening show off. People try to copy him or be him. Look at how many copy cat McGregor suits there are. People growing beards and buying checkered suits haha.
Take cars for example. It wasn't that long ago that people drove older cars without any real hesitation. Now new drivers are wanting brand new cars. The average of the cars on the road must have reduced significantly in the last 10-15 years.
It's quite interesting looking at the car park at work. The cars driven by the youngsters in customer services on low wages are significantly newer than the cars driven by older staff on vastly better salaries. Those who can afford them tend to not buy them, not sure what that really says unless it's learning from experience.
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I think Social Media has caused a huge upsurge in people becoming more reckless with money. Everyone wants to look wealthy and show off, and what better way than to flaunt the next holiday you are on, the new flashy car or the new Rolex watch to the X number followers on your social media accounts.
Very true. I saw a comment from someone a few weeks ago about how much in debt they were. Next post was showing all these fantastic outfits they'd just bought, none of which could be described as essential
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Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
It's quite interesting looking at the car park at work. The cars driven by the youngsters in customer services on low wages are significantly newer than the cars driven by older staff on vastly better salaries. Those who can afford them tend to not buy them, not sure what that really says unless it's learning from experience.
Funny you say that. On another forum I frequent one of the younger members posted this during a chat about car leasing v car buying...
Friday before last I got my first personal lease.
£213 a month, £1200 deposit, Volkswagen Golf TDI 1.6 SE Nav Edition.
Sold my 09 plate CAT D Fiesta for £1200 cash, that covered the deposit. 24 month contract. 20k mileage allowance.
£2556 a year. £5112 in total over two years. It's nothing really? Give it back after 2 years and upgrade to a nice little C-Class at 24 if I'm in the position that I'm hoping I will be.
Indeed. Also he conveniently forgot the £1200 deposit from his calcs so it's £6300 which won't be available for the next deposit so he's gone from owning an asset worth £1200 to owning nothing after paying out £5100 over 2 years.
Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
Rinse & repeat & they could buy a totally new car. As for the 20k mileage allowance, well it would be enough now - no commuting & long distances only rarely, but back in my "youth" that would be gone in a year (or less).
I spent my money doing things & going places not on a status symbol. But then I never did care too much about what other people thought about me.
I don't think that anyone having no emergency funds, living from payday to payday in overdraft and needing loans to cover unexpected items could be seen as anything other than worse than having savings to cover such items. Entirely their choice how to live their life but I can't see a lot of dispute that spending more than you earn is less preferable to having savings. Obviously the level of savings could make a massive difference.
Yes, I agree with you - just to be clear I'm not disputing that debt is best avoided, my point was more about OP's more contentious recommendations around lifestyle choices and not being materialistic - I'm not denying OP's right to have those opinions but just feel that it's a bit steep to criticise those who choose to take a different view, especially in the wording of the thread title.
Or to put it another way, expressions such as 'you can't take it with you' and 'no pockets in a shroud' may be tired cliches but that doesn't necessarily make them invalid! Fundamentally I do agree that people should live within their means though, but just don't have an issue with those who choose to spend it all on whatever they want....
Indeed. Also he conveniently forgot the £1200 deposit from his calcs so it's £6300 which won't be available for the next deposit so he's gone from owning an asset worth £1200 to owning nothing after paying out £5100 over 2 years.
It's quite interesting looking at the car park at work. The cars driven by the youngsters in customer services on low wages are significantly newer than the cars driven by older staff on vastly better salaries. Those who can afford them tend to not buy them, not sure what that really says unless it's learning from experience.
I've noticed that myself and think there's various reasons as to why this happens. There's an element of competition and an element of not knowing any better. With a bit more maturity people take a number of years to get that impressing people you don't like won't make you happy. However young lads chasing girls will strive to show their wealth though as its a primary indicator of success. In biological terms "investing" money in a flash car is probably a good investment for a young lad. Once married and settled down they'll have less disposable income, have learnt from their financial mistakes and will no longer be competing for women.
Just like the animal world we watch wildlife program showing all the various strategies in displays - "peacock-ing"
So it is in humans, females are looking for nest and offspring providers and that means in today's world looking at male earnings potential.
100,000 years ago it would have been ability to provide food, safety and kill cave bear!
That these evolutionary adaptions work is proved by the fact that those that do not have them are destined not to mate and pass on their genes so the peacocks with the small tail dies out.
Showing such displays of apparent wealth by the male even if false or pointless in life (like the male peacock's tail) is going to get you a "better quality" of female.
Of course females do the same via makeup and false t*ts to attract males.
Those who refuse to 'play the game' usually end up living permanently on their own.
The main advantage of car ownership is the ability to go as and when you want in an instant and to visit places where without a car it would be next to impossible to access. Want to visit Avebury stone circle or the White Horse hill in Wiltshire without a car - no chance. Same for example the Museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop Wilts. Equally the mountains and scenery of mid/north Wales - essentially inaccessible without a car.
Just like the animal world we watch wildlife program showing all the various strategies in displays - "peacock-ing"
So it is in humans, females are looking for nest and offspring providers and that means in today's world looking at male earnings potential.
100,000 years ago it would have been ability to provide food, safety and kill cave bear!
That these evolutionary adaptions work is proved by the fact that those that do not have them are destined not to mate and pass on their genes so the peacocks with the small tail dies out.
Showing such displays of apparent wealth by the male even if false or pointless in life (like the male peacock's tail) is going to get you a "better quality" of female.
Of course females do the same via makeup and false t*ts to attract males.
Those who refuse to 'play the game' usually end up living permanently on their own.
The main advantage of car ownership is the ability to go as and when you want in an instant and to visit places where without a car it would be next to impossible to access. Want to visit Avebury stone circle or the White Horse hill in Wiltshire without a car - no chance. Same for example the Museum of Army Flying in Middle Wallop Wilts. Equally the mountains and scenery of mid/north Wales - essentially inaccessible without a car.
Two different things there. Mating and the other benefits of owning an car. On the second point, that can be covered without owning one*, it's just a matter of balancing the various costs and a lot of people are saying new technology will seriously change the balance towards non-ownership.
Thats what they have been doing for 30 years. I think it was Sir Geoffrey Howe who really developed the wheeze of reducing income tax and replacing it with stealth taxes (20% VAT... Insurance Premium Tax... Tax on building sand we dredge from the sea bed etc etc) Succesive governments have carried it on.
Its a sneaky way of increasing inequality whilst presenting it as something else. Every time they increase the income tax threshold by £1,000 they say its to reduce tax for the low paid. But of course the lowest paid weren't paying income tax anyway, but will be hammered by the stealth taxes the Government slips in to replace income tax. Even the guy sleeping in a cardboard box pays stealth taxes. Those earning a bit more will save £1,000 x the basic rate. But those who save the most are the highest paid saving £1,000 x ther highest rate. Yet the Government aided by the right wing press presents it as help for the low paid. Brilliant.
Well that's interesting, because the last time I mentioned Frank on a forum I was told that it's communism.
I think you need to read the book before you start arguing with it, because what Frank advocates has absolutely nothing to do with the Howe policies you describe. In fact he devotes a large part of the book to explaining what's wrong with them just as you have. Frank's policies will reduce inequality rather than increasing it, which is precisely his objective.
Despite earning big money, why are some people in big debt and have no savings.
I think it's definitely a psychological thing. I had parents who were professionals & earned very good money, but never had any money, because while they are both intelligent people they are financially illiterate. Money was just wasted on needless things and quite often financial problems would crop up.
The experience as a child changed my whole mindset and as an adult I've saved & invested with every pay rise. Just added up my latest total and im around £200,000 after 12 years....and it really was very easy! I don't earn big money (just above minimum wage) I did have a small inheritance and have done well with my investments.
The key is not to chase the posh cars/clothes/phones. I absolutely love my life, I live it to the full but that money gives me so much security and happiness you wouldn't believe. I know that if I want I can walk out of work tomorrow I can, it gives you choices. And that security is worth far more than material things.
As others have said it's important to live life and enjoy it, we only come this way once, but what I don't understand is why most people haven't "seen the light" (time is precious, we don't have much so why spend most of our life at work to buy things that make us feel better about going to work, which then results in us having to be at work almost forever) I work with people who hate work, are desperate to leave but have no prospect of ever being able to become they are driving the posh car, the designer clothes etc
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The experience as a child changed my whole mindset and as an adult I've saved & invested with every pay rise. Just added up my latest total and im around £200,000 after 12 years....and it really was very easy! I don't earn big money (just above minimum wage) I did have a small inheritance and have done well with my investments.
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Hebrews 11:6 is about as straight forward as a verse could possibly be, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.” (NASU) If any human wants to please the Creator, he will have to exercise faith in the Creator. The created human will have to believe in the existence and benevolence of the Creator. The Bible makes such a definitive statement about no other human quality being required in order to please God. Other than praises extolling the character of God, there is only one statement that I am aware of which appears four times in the Bible. “The righteous man will live by faith.” (Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews10:38) The Bible is clear that faith is unquestionably necessary to be rightly related to God. Ephesians 2:8-10 tells us that the Christian life is governed by faith from beginning to end, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” (NASU) Faith is present at salvation. Faith is not the basis of salvation but the instrument through which salvation is received. Faith is also the instrument through which we receive the good works God has given us to do.
What is faith? The Bible (especially Hebrews 11) is full of examples of true faith and examples of a lack of faith. The primary ingredient in faith is trust. Without an element of trust, there is no such thing as faith. A mere belief in God’s existence is not enough to please God. Demons/evil spirits believe in the existence of God but that belief yields no benefit. (James 2:19, Matthew 8:29, Mark 1:21, Acts 19:15) The one who will please God must submit to God because He trusts God. Hebrews 11:1-3 offers a good start toward defining faith, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” (NASU) Having faith means we believe that God, and God alone, is responsible for our beginning and controls our destiny. 2 Timothy 1:12reinforces this idea, “for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.” (NASU)
How does one obtain faith? Ephesians 2:8 (quoted above) and Romans 12:3 indicate that the very faith by which we please God is a gift from Him, “God has allotted to each a measure of faith.” (NASU) In Luke 17:5 we are given an example of the disciples asking Jesus to increase their faith. In Mark 9:24 the father of a son possessed by an unclean spirit asked Jesus to increase his faith. Romans 10:14-17 tells us that faith comes from the word of Christ, “How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? … So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (NASU) 1 Thessalonians 1:5 speaks of the Holy Spirit’s role, “for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit.” (NASU) Praise God for the gift of faith by which we can please Him...……..…[email protected] | {
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Selected Comments at the Groundbreaking Ceremony to Build the Bridge to Koh Puos Island (Snake Island) in Sihanoukville
The 900 – Meter Bridge
It is indeed my great pleasure to join with all of you in the ground breaking ceremony to build the 900 meter bridge of Koh Puos which will connect the beach of Hawaii to the island of Koh Puos (Snake Island). I would like to take this opportune moment to express my sincere appreciation and thank to the efforts made by the Ministry of Public Work and Transports as well as other concerned parties in clearing problems here to get such an achievement to move ahead.
In between 1994-95 an investment project was signed after the package bidding between the Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh and it is going without saying that the issue of having casino in Phnom Penh had in fact started from here. The casino was not taking place when I was the leader of the State of Cambodia. It was from the same package of this investment. When the Kingdom was starting its first term there was this package bidding between the city of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville for which the cost of consultancy was three million US dollars. Unfortunately the 1997 Asian financial crisis made it impossible for the company that won the bidding to fulfill the commitment.
There had been so many requests there later by various companies and I have the belief that anyone country that has the possibility to make investment here is the one who has the ability to build the bridge. I have said that if they invest in building five star hotel but they do not have bridge and use engine boats or hanging cars, there was no need for a five-star hotel investment. So my point is that whoever has the ability to build the bridge would have the green light from me for investment.
There have been many discussions as to how high should the bridge be from the water level. A suggestion was raised that we should have the bridge 45 meters above the water surface so as to allow shipping through to the port. With a compromise from both sides the Cambodian engineering and the company, we have come to an agreement of a height of 32.5 meter above sea level. Our patrol ship could also pass through under it if there is a need. This should resolve the issue of having a water area overlapping between tourist and shipping lane reserves.
Clarifying National Sovereignty
Are we selling the island to foreign countries as we developit? I am asking this because it is a sensitive topic that I should try and make clear. In Cambodia, one can be accused of selling anything from island or land to Angkor Wat. People who said such a thing were those who at one point had been the one who initiated package sale of the island too. In China, the Qing dynasty rented land of Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, and Macau to Portugal. When the rent expires Hong Kong and Macau have become one-country two system administrative zones and both are under the Chinese sovereignty.
It is what is left by the colony but China maintains its control over the sovereignty of the two and therefore all infrastructures have now become the Chinese properties. As for Cambodia, we do not sell our land to Russia but offers on a concession investment. We have similar cases in Thailand, Malaysia and other islands in Africa. If we want more jobs we need to have growth and to achieve growth we need to have investment. We are determined that the private sector is the engine of growth whereas the Government is the economist who leads the economic policy and provides guidance wherever is necessary. If we do not have the investment to build the bridge, the company of Koh Puos also has not got the opportunity to make investment.
The Biggest Investment from Russia
It is the first ever investment at the cost of 300 million Euros by the Russian company in Cambodia. In the near future there is a request by another Russian company to invest in another island – Koh Krabei. I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to HE Ambassador of Russia for his efforts in bringing the Russian investment to Cambodia. I would like to welcome the company and others that are coming along.
Aside from the lease amount, more important is the jobs to be created. Take for instance there will be a hotel of 2000 rooms and about 3000 jobs are being created. What our people can see beyond is the fact that tourists come in package of air fees, visas, airport tax, food supply services, etc. The average estimation of jobs for our people has been between 20,000 and 25,000. So it is important to state here that the contract is for 99 years and after the completion of the agreement, the land will be transferred to the state. After that the state will go on leasing to those who are interested.
The Dragon Head Setup
We have to make effort to improve our beaches and city facilities as one of the most important poles of the country’s economy. Here we have tourists, seaport and special economic zone – Stoeung Hav, Prey Nub and the Sihanoukville port with the Japanese assistance. It is a pole with many service areas.
In Sahanoukville we have already connected it to Phnom Penh by the NR 4, to Vietnam by the NR 3 and to Koh Kong and Thailand by NR 48. We also have the Kang Keng airport in operation whereas the deep seaport is in full operation too. Here lies the head dragon economy of the country. More banks come here and perhaps more will go to the island. We might have a stock exchange center here too.
Projects under study are the provision of electricity, with the possibility of wiring between Sihanoukville and Kompot, from Kompot to Takeo and to Phnom Penh, with the possible electric source from Vietnam. We also look at the possibility of wiring electricity from Kirirom to Veal Rinh too. This is indeed the sixth bridge across the sea corridors – one in Koh Kong, four on the NR 48 and this sixth one will be finished by 2010. People will then travel on this bridge to the island free of charge.
A Drug Addict
Because the election is approaching I would in this occasion like to present you, especially our people in the Sihanoukville constituency, former members of the SRP, who have now become the members of the Cambodian People’s Party … In one of the Apsara Radio talk shows led by HE Sok Eisan, I heard HE Ngo Sovan said that in the SRP people have been made to believe that Hun Sen takes addictive drug in cigarettes. That was absurd. It is a serious offense. When I offered a cigarette to HE Om Kim Sea, after taking it, he said to HE Ngo So Van, Hun Sen’s cigarette is normal. They have insulted me for my wounded eye, now they affront me by accusing that I am a drug addict. Isn’t it too much?./. | {
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Chuck Wicks Gets Engaged to Kasi Williams, Jason Aldean’s Sister
Chuck Wicks and girlfriend Kasi Rosa Williams are getting married. The singer and radio host proposed in Canada on Thursday night (March 7), and through tears and snowflakes she said "yes."
Williams is Jason Aldean's younger sister. The pair have been dating since at least last June, which is when they started sharing pictures of each other on social media. Wicks confirmed the news in August with Aldean quickly giving his blessing.
"The one thing I told my sister when I found out they were kind of talking," Aldean recalls (quote via the Ty, Kelly & Chuck podcast from Aug. 13), "I was like, 'I'll be honest, there's a lot of people in Nashville I would be completely against you dating, but I don't have anything bad to say about Chuck."
A pair of Instagram videos show how the moment went down. Both tag the Fairmont Chateau, Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada. There's heavy snow on the ground as they first take a horse-drawn carriage ride and then find themselves alone between trees, with a camera running on a tripod. Williams doesn't seem to know what's happening until Wicks starts to take a knee and she starts to quiver. It's difficult to hear what they say other than "Oh my God!" but everything ends well. Wicks confirms they are engaged in his caption saying, "I’ve waited forever for you and now I will forever be yours."
Wicks scored Top 40 hits between 2007 and 2009, most notably "Stealing Cinderella" and is now a co-host on the Ty Bentil Show. He's never been married but was in a high profile relationship with Julianne Hough a decade ago. Williams was previously married to Bill Morstad. Fox News reports she was step mom to his children from a previous relationship. | {
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I am writing to you because I believe I have the most amazing idea for a story ever written. You see, there is this guy and he has visions of alternate realities and worlds but he just thinks he is going crazy and doesn’t really give it a second thought but then his wife gets cancer and dies so he starts to think that maybe it’s a sign that he should find his wife in this alternate reality world. So he starts doing these experiments in his basement using machines that his father gave him because his father was this big scientist before he mysteriously disappeared when he was a child. So anyway, what happens is he learns that his blood is the key to time travel and he has to put it into this device that lets him move back and forth between worlds and he goes to the other side where he finds his alternate reality version of his wife and tries to make her fall in love with him.
I don’t really have any writing credits per se but I have a lot of ambition and I am the Entertainment editor of my school paper. I have always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid and I have a photographic memory. I have my own blog at WilcoPeterson.com. Wilco Peterson is my pen name, I really don’t want to give out my real name because I would prefer to remain mysterious like Salinger except a science fiction writer. Anyway, give my story a read and let me know what you think. I can’t wait to hear back from you!
So I haven’t heard from you, Mr. Davis which really upsets me because I thought my story was really good. I showed it to some people I talk to in my online writing group and they said it was awesome. I know it’s only been a few weeks but I was sure I would hear something by now. Then I tried emailing you and got some generic message that said: We will reply to you as soon as we get a chance. Thank you. I don’t appreciate being treated like that, like some nothing, some nobody! Just because I’m a college kid doesn’t mean I’m not a person! I would appreciate a little respect.
I called and talked to your secretary, she was really rude to me. She told me that you were busy but then I called an hour later and she said you were out to lunch, I know I cussed at her and I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to lose my temper. Look, I’m not some psycho or something and I am willing to forget about all the drama, just write me an email or something. My email address is [email protected]. I have a lot more stories that I want to show you and they are really good. I think I could make you a lot of money if you will just publish me. I really don’t want to have to ask again. Attached is a story about a nuclear butterfly that can produce sonic waves with his wings.
Who in the fuck do you think you are? Yeah, I read your bio on your website, I know you went to UCLA and that you graduated top of your class and that you have had novels published under a pseudonym and yeah, I read your books. They were okay. Your writing was kind of heavyhanded if you ask me. Yet I try to send you something new and revolutionary. You ignore me and then you finally send it back with red marks all over it and tell me that it is “clichéd and cartoony”. What was “cartoony” in your opinion? You mean the time bubbles or when he tells her that he loves her and then the layers in the folds of time implode then she turns to dust? How is that cartoony? You said the writing style was something like a freshmen in high school would write and that words were misspelled. Did you ever think that I did that on purpose? Maybe that was how the character spoke!
What really pissed me off is that you circled that one part, the love scene, the most romantic part in the whole story and you wrote LOL in the margins. You couldn’t even use real words, you had to use internet lingo to give your commentary. I want to know who your boss is, I mean like the owner of the whole company, not just you Mr. editor-in-chief. You stuck up piece of shit. I’ll have you know that I have won awards in Journalism and that one of my poems was even published in an anthology in India. No, I haven’t been paid for my writing yet but soon people will realize how good I am and I will outsell Stephen King even. You have no idea who you are fucking with.
I found out what you tried to do. Don’t you know that the address I gave you was a post office box, faggot?! Also I gave a fake name and used a fake ID so I didn’t get your little restraining order but the person at the place said the police were looking for me and she tried to call the cops before I ran out of there. Lucky for me she doesn’t have my real home address cause I used a fake ID to open the box so she has no idea of where I really live. Did you really think that was necessary? Are you really that scared of me? I’m sorry I had to lie and pretend I was your brother to get you on the phone. You forced me to desperate measures. Asking me if I was on medication and shit, it’s none of your fucking business if I’m bipolar, schizophrenic or if I happen to have OCD.
I stopped taking those medications months ago because they were affecting my ability to think clearly. Then I wrote that amazing story for you and you just ripped it to pieces like it was nothing. I am attaching another story for you to read called, “Apocalypse in Black”, it’s about this old lady who goes back in time and visits her younger self and tries to warn herself not to make the same mistakes twice. She ends up having the kid she got pregnant with instead of aborting it and when she goes back into the future, she has grandkids. It’s actually a really heartwarming story. Just read it and if you like it, publish it please. I am willing to forget about all this misunderstanding between us. I will stop calling your office, just email me please.
I can’t believe you have let things go this far. I have tried to reason with you, man to man but you simply aren’t logical. How can you be so cruel to someone with so little? All I wanted was a chance for other people to read my writing, how can you do this to me? Do you want me to kill myself, is that it? You want me to blow my brains out, then you can sit in your office and laugh with your secretary and let her give you a blowjob while you open a bottle of champagne and celebrate my death. You think you are better than me, don’t you? You probably have had everything handed to you, your entire life and never wanted for anything. I have had to fight for everything I have. Nothing has ever come easy to me. You wouldn’t know about that.
I never knew my real father. My mother was a fucking whore. My grandmother was the only one who ever loved me and she left me some money when she died. Because of you, I have had to leave school because I was expelled for being arrested and fighting with the cops then getting tasered in the school parking lot while people watched and stared. I think you can find the video on Youtube . I’m sure you and your whore secretary will watch it and laugh with your cum dripping down her face. Fucking whore. She threatens to call the police every time I call your office, why won’t you just talk to me? Please. We can work this out. I don’t want it to go any farther than this but you are pushing me to the edge. You have taken everything from me. They treated me like shit in jail, took my clothes and checked me for drugs, then these niggers in the cell tried to kick my ass before the pigs put me in another cell. All of this because you refuse to publish my stories. This isn’t over, Davis. I will get my revenge.
By now, you know that I am in LA. I took all the money I had out of my bank account in Florida and flew out here. You got the cops on my ass and you have them looking for me but you won’t find me bitch because I have a million faces. I have a million eyes and I can be anyone that I want to be. So you know my real name now, you know about my life, where I went to school but you don’t really know me. Not like you think you can from a case profile but I know where you work, where you live, where your children go to school, where your wife goes on Sunday afternoons. I have seen the cops in front of your house looking for me, I have walked right under their noses because people never see people like me. They just ignore them. So you just wait, you try to live your life and one day when you least expect it, I will get my revenge.
The other night I saw you fucking your wife and yes, the cops were there but they still didn’t spot me. I am that good. I looked in through your bedroom window and saw your wife’s ugly tits and you stick your tiny little dick in her stretched out pussy. I laughed to myself. Your daughter Lucy is very beautiful, only seven years old, so innocent, she likes kittens doesn’t she? Yeah I know you got a cop at the school but like I said, I can be anyone at any time. I am that good. I am like a viper and when I am ready to strike I will and you won’t see me coming. By the way, I have enclosed a short story for your magazine called, “ Blasphemy: A Love Story”. It takes place in an alternate universe where Jesus is still alive but he sells products on the Home Shopping Network. He even hocks the nails from his palms during the crucifixtion and they sell for millions of dollars. It’s a story about consumerism. Read it and you might like it.
I didn’t make the decision to kidnap your daughter lightly. I wouldn’t have killed the nanny bitch either but she wouldn’t let go of her hand. So I had to stab her in the neck, if she was smart, she would have just held her throat until the paramedics came, stupid cunt. Seriously though, your daughter is the sweetest and cutest little girl, she is very obedient and has hardly given me any trouble at all. Don’t worry I am feeding her and I won’t molest her, I’m not like that. I think I made it pretty obvious in my last letter that if you didn’t publish my story I would do something bad. DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU? Are you really going to make me say it? I know your cop friends are reading this, probably putting their pig fingers all over it looking for fingerprints, some way to figure out where I am. I wear gloves when I write the letters, I make sure to mail them discreetly, I’m not stupid.
Okay, let me make it clear this time. PRINT MY STORIES OR I WILL MURDER YOUR FUCKING DAUGHTER AND CUT HER IN PIECES. Okay, now that we got that drama out of the way we can get back to what matters, the writing. Enclosed is a new story called, “Androids that Dream of Electric Sheep”, it’s a take on the Philip K. Dick story. Get it? Anyway in the story there is this android who learns to become human and he meets this clone girl who has the recovered memories of her genetic counterpart who has died over 200 years ago so she starts seeking out the ancestors of her originator. Anyway, eventually the android guy gets jealous and starts killing her bloodline, it’s a dark love story. The world will love it. I expect it to get cover art and front page. In fact, I expect the entire issue to be dedicated to me and for you to print all the stories I have sent you so far. If not, I will cut your daughter’s fingers off. Okay? There I said it. Are you happy now? You made me out to be the bad guy.
You know, in an alternate universe, none of this had to happen because you just published my first story and weren’t such an asshole about it. Sad that we exist in this world, isn’t it?
This is all your fault I hope you know. I saw you on the news. I heard you say that you will pay anyone fifteen grand who helps find me dead or alive before the police cut you off the mike. Then I had some chink bitch recognize me when I was getting something to eat and try to call the cops. I had to stab that bitch and now I got another homicide on my hands. All because you refused to publish my stories even after I threatened your daughter’s life! Did you think I wasn’t serious?! I figured it out, the cops told you not to compromise with me because then I would have the upper hand and it would never end, they always say that shit. But when I mailed you your daughter’s finger I bet you regretted listening to them real quick. I saw your wife sobbing on the news and then I knew.
I was able to get her phone number because I’m a hacker. Hence that’s why you and your pig friends couldn’t track down my email or when I log into my website to address my fans. Did you know there is a Facebook page someone made for me? They are calling me the next great serial killer. I could be famous! Anyway, I talked to your slut wife and she agreed to meet me one on one after you fagged out on me and let your “honey bear’s” finger get cut off. I met that bitch at this hotel room and she obeyed my orders and really did come alone. I told her to take off her clothes and made her suck my dick, I told her I would give your daughter back if she sucked it real good and swallowed. Then that bitch tried to bite my dick off and that’s why I cut up her face. I didn’t do it to be mean, she forced me to do it. You and your wife are a pair of psychos, man. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know I am enclosing another story. If you don’t publish it,
I bet you and your slut wife are celebrating. Maybe she gives you better head then she did me. She looks like a slut. I hope both you motherfuckers die a slow and painful death. I hope your daughter gets hit by a car and you get ball cancer. Of course, some bastard at the motel called the cops cause your little bitch daughter couldn’t stop crying and then the cops showed up and I tried to get through the window, got shot, then I was able to trade your daughter’s life for mine before I slipped away barely after killing two officers. Now you have made me the most wanted man in the county and I am all over the news. I can’t go anywhere, I had to change my appearance yet again. I can barely go out to get food to eat. I am living on the fucking streets and it’s all because of you! Of course the cops are going to come down hard on me, they will probably ass rape me with their nightsticks for killing their “bros”.
The one good thing that came out of this is that you published my stories, a couple hundred copies of the magazine got out before you got your daughter and then tried to pull them all off the market, having them destroyed then encouraging anyone who bought a copy to burn it. Now they are the hottest item on Ebay, people are selling copies of the serial killer’s sci-fi stories for hundreds of dollars! I have over a million fans on twitter. Yes, I can still tweet. I have a pay per minute cell phone and an internet connection, bitch, this is the modern age! You can’t take away my voice. Now I will be more famous than ever. So thank you, Max. Thank you for making me a celebrity.
The Infamous,
Martin Verrill aka Wilco Peterson
Associated Press.
December 15th, 2012
INFAMOUS ‘SCI-FI KILLER’ FINALLY CAPTURED
Christina Milner, staff writer
LOS ANGELES—A long reign of terror has finally ended for publisher Maxwell Davis who has been stalked by psychotic fan Martin Verrill (aka Wilco Peterson). On Friday evening, Verrill was spotted by an undercover police officer in downtown LA soliciting sex from a prostitute. The officer recognized him and placed him under arrest. He was booked on four counts of manslaughter, kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted murder. Since July, the story has taken the nation by storm inspiring a Facebook campaign to “Publish the Psycho Killer” in an attempt to end his reign of terror. Officers advised against giving into his demands resulting in the kidnapping of Davis’ daughter in September. When Davis still refused to publish him, Verrill severed one of the fingers of Davis’ daughter and sent it to him in the mail. Davis’ wife then attempted to deal with the killer by herself resulting in her sexual assault and near murder. After that, Davis finally published the serial killer’s fiction in his nationally lauded magazine, LightBrigade which usually publishes literary fiction and had never published science-fiction in its twenty year history. Davis remarked that he was unsure why Verrill targeted him and his magazine when it was not the market for his types of work. He said Verrill became unnaturally aggressive when he did not respond back almost instantly, calling obsessively and making threats. After a restraining order was released back in March, that was when things spiraled out of control and Verrill came to LA to enact his ‘revenge fantasy’.
After publication of the pieces which sold more copies than any other issue in the magazine’s history, Davis attempted to have all copies removed when his daughter was recovered. Yet copies that weren’t destroyed or previously bought sold on the internet for up to fifteen thousand dollars. Critics are calling the pieces, “a disturbing look into the mind of a sociopath with delusions of grandeur”. Davis and his wife have refused to comment on Verrill except to say they were glad it was finally over. Verrill will be arraigned in court on Monday, a spectacle which is sure to be the beginning of the trial of 2013. Already five book publishers have offered to publish his fiction and/or memoirs describing the events leading up to his psychotic break. Barbara Walters has scheduled an interview next week and Verrill’s name has become the latest topic for the nighttime talk show circuit. Psychotherapist Ann Montgomery gave an initial observation of Verrill who she describes as “strangely child-like and innocent despite his psychosis”. The defendants will most likely go for an insanity plea.
When asked why he did it, Verrill himself said, “In another universe, this has already happened and everything that was meant to be is now coming true.” | {
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Monday, June 1, 2015
IWSG - Monday - Find Your Character's Voice
Welcome to the Insecure Writer's Support Group for June. We are meeting on the first Wednesday of the month, but I needed to post early. I hope this doesn't confuse you. This group is hosted by Alex J. Cavavaugh and you can visit the main website HERE. This is a bloghop so visit other members from the list at the website.
Find Your Character's Voice
You can find a character's voice by asking questions. Ask more questions than what does he/she look like. Nat Russo has an excellent post on his website: "How Do You Find A Character's Voice?". Here is an example of his questions:
Who are you?
What do you care about most in the world?
What really ticks you off?
If you could do one thing and succeed at it, what would it be?
Nat's interview questions make you realize the whole person. When you are finished asking questions, you may not write everything in your story, but your character, good or bad, is well rounded.
I'd Love To Hear From You!
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About Me
My passion for writing comes from the world I've experienced. I spent part of my life as a musician, a mother, an RN and finally a writer. I like to go back and explore those worlds to find the richness in each one. I'm always in the process of creating something and this blog is a reflection of that creativity. When looking for a story, I've learned the thing to do is to forget everything except the spectacle of life. "I will live this day to it's fullest. Time is the coin of my life and I choose to spend it wisely." ~Unknown | {
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This week President Trump said of China's president Xi Jinping, "Well, he's a friend of mine. I have great respect for him. We've gotten to know each other very well. A great leader ... I like being with him a lot. And he's a very special person."
The president spoke at a press conference with President Macron of France, just hours after Liu Xiaobo had died. Liu, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, was suffering from late stage liver cancer in a hospital in northeast China, after the government refused to let him leave the country for treatment.
Liu Xiaobo was 61 and had been imprisoned since 2008 for "inciting subversion of state power." He was one of the authors of the Charter 08 declaration that called for democracy and free speech in China, and was sent to prison even before that statement could be published.
Liu Xiaobo led a hunger strike during the Tiananmen Square protests in which hundreds or perhaps even thousands of people died when Chinese troops beat, shot and crushed demonstrators during protests in the early morning hours of June 4, 1989. He was jailed for almost two years thereafter, and three times after that. Liu was in prison when he received the Nobel in 2010, for what the committee called his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." After being informed, he reportedly said: "I dedicate this prize to the lost souls of 4 June."
All presidents have compelling reasons to keep a cordial relationship with China. It is rich, powerful and essential to the world's economy. But in the hours after Liu Xiaobo died, the two leaders who met to celebrate their nations' shared principles of liberty did not mark the loss of a man who gave his life to the struggle for liberty in his country. In fact, President Trump paused to salute the man who heads the regime that imprisoned Liu Xiaobo.
We might ask ourselves a few questions, too. Will Americans who go to China on cultural exchanges speak up against a government that suppresses artists, writers and thinkers, like Liu Xiaobo, who create culture? Will any of the American universities that have opened profitable outposts in China speak up against censorship, and in defense of those, including students, who are imprisoned for free speech?
As Liu Xiaobo said in the Nobel speech he was not permitted to deliver in person, "Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth."
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
This week, President Trump said of China's President Xi Jinping - well, he's a friend of mine. I have great respect for him. We've gotten to know each other very well, a great leader. I like being with him a lot, and he's a very special person. The president spoke at a press conference with President Macron of France just hours after Liu Xiaobo had died. Liu, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, was suffering from late-stage liver cancer in a hospital in Northeast China after the government refused to let him leave the country for treatment.
Liu Xiaobo was 61 and had been imprisoned since 2008 for inciting subversion of state power. He was one of the authors of the Charter 08 declaration that called for democracy and free speech in China and was sent to prison even before that statement could be published. Liu Xiaobo led a hunger strike during the Tiananmen Square protests in which hundreds or perhaps even thousands of people died when Chinese troops beat, shot and crushed demonstrators during protests in the early morning hours of June 4, 1989. He was jailed for two years thereafter and three times after that.
Liu was in prison when he received the Nobel in 2010 for what the committee called his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. When he was informed, he reportedly said, I dedicate this prize to the lost souls of 4 June. All presidents have compelling reasons to keep a cordial relationship with China. It is rich, powerful and essential to the world's economy. But in the hours after Liu Xiaobo died, the two leaders who met to celebrate their nation's shared principles of liberty did not mark the loss of a man who gave his life to the struggle for liberty in his country. In fact, President Trump paused to salute the man who heads the regime that imprisoned Liu Xiaobo.
We might ask ourselves a few questions too. Will Americans who go to China on cultural exchanges speak up against a government that suppresses artists, writers and thinkers like Liu Xiaobo, who create culture? Will any of the American universities that have opened profitable outposts in China speak up against censorship and in defense of those, including students, who are imprisoned for free speech? As Liu Xiaobo said in the Nobel speech he was not permitted to deliver in person - free expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | {
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A Cleaner World
From the challenges in coal power to the advancement in wind, solar, and energy storage, the utility industry continues to change.
Market conditions and the regulatory environment, including the EPA's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power generators by 32% by 2030, are making it necessary for utilities to invest in upgrades and modernize their generation plants and transmission and distribution grids. With deep supplier relationships and a diverse product portfolio, WESCO is helping utilities?manage equipment replacement upgrades, while providing the resources to better manage their supply chains. | {
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Audio: Fantasy Foreplay Week #3
In this week’s Progress Software Fantasy Foreplay, Zo shares his feelings about “Sweet Caroline”, and Zo’s Jets-Pats song. We also received a random rock history fact from Dan Shaughnessy, and a special message from Bill Belichick! Also, Nick Cattles gives you two names to start in your fantasy lineups this week and two to sit. | {
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Sexual Harassment at Work: Guidance for Victims
Sexual harassment at work is an unlawful form of discrimination involving unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature.
Employers are under a legal duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
The Equality Act 2010 states that a person’s conduct amounts to sexual harassment if it is either meant to, or has the effect of, violating your dignity. In addition, this legislation seeks to provide victims with protection from working in an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
Sexual harassment can have a destructive impact on careers and personal life and cause stress, depression and illness. In some cases, police involvement becomes necessary.
If you believe you have been a victim of sexual harassment at work, there are certain steps you – and your employer – are expected to take.
Examples of unlawful conduct
There are many types of behaviour, actions and words that would be considered sexual harassment, for example:
Sexist emails, gossip, comments and jokes
Physical contact or assault
Demands and requests for sexual favours (‘propositions’)
Comments about your appearance – negative or otherwise
Improper questions about your sex life
Displaying or sharing sexually explicit or offensive material
The conduct complained of does not even have to be aimed at the victim personally. If a sexist comment is made in an office for example, and it is overheard by someone who takes ‘justifiable’ offence to it, this can constitute indirect sexual harassment, which is also unlawful.
Is it just harmless banter?
While the views of the person responsible for the alleged harassment are taken into consideration, it’s how the victim perceives the conduct that is the determining factor.
This approach has been made clear by several employment law decisions rejecting a so-called ‘only banter defence’.
One such case involved a female employee told by her male manager to show plenty of cleavage in an interview with him, in order to secure a job promotion. The employee asked that her manager be moved elsewhere but her employer refused to do so, viewing his conduct as trivial. Her employment was terminated when she declined to continue to work with him and she made a successful claim for unfair dismissal. (Driskel v Peninsula Business Services, 2000)
I believe I am the victim of sexual harassment. What should I do?
It’s important to raise the issue at the earliest possible opportunity, either with the person(s) responsible or with your manager. It’s also recommended that you keep a contemporaneous record or diary of the incidents with as much detail as possible, should you need to refer to this as evidence at a later date, along with any attempts made to stop the harassment. Witness details can also prove beneficial.
If you are not satisfied with how the matter is handled within your team you may choose to make a formal complaint (‘grievance’) to your employer so they have an opportunity to investigate and take steps to try and prevent the conduct from continuing.
Your employer should consider taking disciplinary action against the alleged perpetrator. Some employees have access to their Trade Union during this process.
The Police must also take complaints of sexual offences seriously and workplace incidents such as assault and rape should be notified to them. This would be an essential step in order to claim for criminal injuries compensation.
If raising a grievance does not have the desired outcome, or your complaint is simply not acted on, you may have grounds to make a claim for compensation in an Employment Tribunal.
This is because you are also protected from being treated less favourably by your employer as a result of the sexual harassment. Your employer is under a duty to take reasonable steps to resolve the issue, these could include:
Investigating all complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace
Providing support to the individual making the complaint throughout the
investigation process
Taking necessary disciplinary action against the perpetrator
Involving the police where required
Taking preventative steps against sexual harassment e.g through anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies, educating staff on what is expected of personnel and what constitutes unacceptable behaviour
Practically speaking, most claims are made against the employer rather than the individual person responsible. Victims often find themselves being bullied, or harassed – another form of victimisation – as a result of complaining about the conduct. Studies have shown that many incidents go unreported by victims due to fears of being treated differently or losing their job.
If your employer has failed to take reasonable steps, you may also pursue a claim against your employer.
When should I seek legal advice?
In order to protect your interests, take legal advice as soon as any issues at work arise. Instruct a solicitor specialising in employment law, who is experienced in this field and can assess your case and advise on your next steps.
The first step in any potential claim is to notify the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (‘ACAS’). Whilst this is a formal requirement, the need to take part in conciliation is not mandatory.
There are very strict time limits should you wish to proceed with legal action and your case may not be heard if you do not begin your claim in time. A Solicitor can advise you further on this, along with the possible solutions available to your dispute and the likely overall value of any potential claim. | {
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Like this:
While patiently waiting for our 1-in-2500 limited edition album The Gate to arrive this week from the sonic headquarters of Swans, we went looking for other extended psychedelic monster jams.
And that’s how we ended up with a massive musical marathon courtesy of Germany’s Electric Moon. This guitar-bass-drums trio, formed in 2009, has been playing festivals all over Europe and releasing many mind-blowing albums in the process. Here are three of our favorites so far.
Inferno
This is the first one we listened to, and we were hooked.
D Tune
This one incorporates synth sounds, and has a more driving, upbeat vibe.
Flaming Lake
This video has some cool space imagery to go with the jams.
P.S. Yes, The Gate did finally arrive on Saturday. With three of its songs clocking in around 30 minutes each, it is a supremely awesome sonic experience of pure Swans power. | {
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Tristan Torres knew he felt different as a young child, but didn’t know anything about people whose gender does not easily fit into a box. “I didn’t have a word for it until I was 15,” he says. “I learned about transgender people from Jerry Springer.”
Over the next year he began to venture little by little into a more authentic life. When he came out to his mom at 15, Torres thought first of his safety. He says he was worried about what his Puerto Rican mother would think, but he was most afraid of how her boyfriend—who collects KKK and Nazi paraphernalia—might react.
“I came out before Thanksgiving, because I knew she couldn’t kick me out because of all the family,” Torres, now 18, says. “She cried a lot—a lot. And then the conversation started about kicking me out.”
A year later, Torres found himself thrown out of the house and in the foster care system. In just nine months, he was placed in two homes, in which he faced constant abuse and threats by those entrusted to care for him.
At his first placement, his foster mother would lock him in a bedroom and chastise him—denouncing his “lifestyle” and saying he was confusing her biological children—until Torres would end up “curled up in a ball on the floor, crying,” he says. He had to fight both his social worker and attorney in order to be moved to a second foster home.
“I was like, ‘Are you serious? I’m the one who has to step in and advocate for myself?’” Torres says.
After an initially pleasant honeymoon period at his second placement, Torres eventually found himself excluded from family outings and denied food if he did something “wrong,” such as correct a family member who used the incorrect gender pronouns. He says he lived on M&Ms and waited for his foster parents to leave the house in order to eat a proper meal.
Then, Torres’ foster father lashed out saying, “You’re a freak. Your only friends are transsexuals at The Center.”
That night, Torres couldn’t take it anymore. He left through his bedroom window and reunited with his mom.
Torres’ experiences have shaped his work. He volunteers full-time at The Center, and works closely with both foster kids and transgender youth. He is a key member of an advocacy group called FAAYT (Foster and Adoptive Youth Together) and works with FosterClub, a nationwide nonprofit for people who have been in foster care. He’s even creating a resource guide for LGBT and foster youth.
Because of Torres’ uncertain living situation during foster care and constant bullying in high school, he fell behind and is two credits shy of his diploma. Even without his unsafe home life, school itself has proven not just problematic but scary at times. Torres went to six different Valley high schools, where he was bullied not just by students, but also by teachers.
In one instance, a substitute teacher refused to acknowledge Torres’ chosen name and would use his birth name during roll call in front of the class—even after Torres explained his situation.
Another time, Torres was pulled out of class by the school nurse, who told him that he could no longer use any bathroom at school—boys or girls—and insisted he could only use the bathroom in the nurse’s office.
He says he had to explain to her Nevada’s public accommodations law, which was modified in 2011 to include gender identity and expression. The law protects trans and gender non-conforming individuals from being denied access to public spaces, including schools.
Even with these protections, there has been scant education about the law provided to schools, and those who face discrimination have few resources to help them. Violations of transgender discrimination laws are filed with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, but it’s often a slow process to investigate complaints. For many transgender students here and across the country, it’s simply easier to change schools or drop out.
Of the K-12 transgender students in the Western region surveyed by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 74 percent reported harassment, 36 percent reported physical assault and 12 percent reported sexual violence. According to the survey, 17 percent of students face harassment that is so severe that they leave school.
Torres’ experience is not unique. In September, the Elko County School District voted unanimously to deny a transgender 13-year-old student to use the boys’ restroom. His mother told Think Progress that her son felt uncomfortable using the girls’ bathroom after coming out. Another student’s mother complained, saying that other boys should not be pressured to use a stall.
For many transgender people, things as routine as finding a doctor or getting a driver’s license can be difficult. When Torres tried to find a doctor who could prescribe hormone-replacement therapy as part of his female-to-male transition, he found only one pediatric endocrinologist in Las Vegas who took such patients.
Another circumstance was when Torres recently went to update his driver’s license to reflect both a legal name change and to change his gender marker. Torres brought his court order verifying his legal name change, but says the DMV employee refused to change his gender marker unless he provided papers showing he “had the surgery.”
Nevada law does not require any form of surgery to change the gender marker on state-issued ID. However, there is a Medical Certification and Authorization (Gender Change) form that must be signed by a physician, a fact Torres had to learn the hard way. “I have to learn everything,” he says. “I have to use every tool to protect myself.”
When asked what the biggest issue for transgender people is, Torres’ answer comes quickly: murder.
In July, The Advocate called the murder of transgender people–—specifically transgender women of color—an epidemic, citing 21 murders of transgender women. That exceeds the number in all of 2014, The Advocate reports.
“Regardless of age, we are all suffering, because we’re trans. I say that because there is so much suffering when you are transgender,” Torres says. “It’s so hard. So many of us are getting abused, beaten, raped, murdered.”
With everything he has already gone through in his young life, it would be easy for Torres to turn jaded, but he is quick to smile and is a self-proclaimed hugger. He’s living with his mother while he finishes high school. Recently, The Center awarded him a $25,000 scholarship, and he is looking forward to moving out and studying communications at UNLV.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Raiding a Brothel in my city, the City of Joy
Those who know me and my views are aware that I rarely see eye to eye with the famed New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. A twice-winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, as well as winner of various other awards, Kristof has impeccable credentials and is engaged in laudable social work. But his political arguments and world-views leave a lot to be desired, and can at best be described as 'wishy-washy' in a Charlie Brown-ish way.
Be that as it may, when Kristof sticks to reporting facts, he is a fabulous and intrepid journalist. His May 25, 2011, Op Ed in the New York Times ("Raiding a Brothel in India") is at once fascinating and horrifying.
Investigators with International Justice Mission (IJM), a Washington-based aid group that fights human trafficking, requested Kristof's presence as an eminent journalist, when they went undercover looking for prostituted children in my city, Kolkata, the famed City of Joy. IJM investigators had spotted a particular young girl, and were trying to gather more evidence in order to convince the Kolkata police to free the girl.
Kristof agreed (-I sincerely applaud his courage-). After an initial foray into the Sonagachhi area, the well-known Red-light district of the city of Kolkata, the IJM investigators and Kristof led Kolkata Police back and were able to rescue not one, but FIVE girls, including a teenager and two children, aged 5 and 10 years. The raid led to the arrest of one pimp and warrants against a couple of others.
The five fortunate girls were rescued, and would probably be appropriately rehabilitated - especially since they have received attention of foreign media. Unfortunately, however, I honestly don't know if this raid would have a lasting effect, or even the desired effect in this instance. There is no dearth of corruption in the ranks of the police, and the arrests may not even lead to an indictment. This sort of situation further complicates efforts against human trafficking, for which there is no easy solution to begin with. However, as Kristof indicates:
experience in several countries suggests that prosecuting pimps and brothel-owners makes a difference. A study in Cebu, Philippines, found that helping police and courts target child prostitution resulted in 87 arrests over four years — and a 79 percent reduction in the number of children in the sex trade.
There is hope. If the (newly-instated) Government for the State of West Bengal - with a woman Chief Minister at the helm - so desires, it has the ability to stamp out human trafficking and violence and other crimes against women and children. But will it?
Kristof observes:
Unicef has estimated that worldwide 1.8 million children enter the sex trade each year. Too many are in the United States, which should prosecute pimps much more aggressively, but the worst abuses take place in countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Cambodia
Further, he brings up what is possibly the most horrifying aspect of this and a tight slap on the face of civilization and civilized society:
India probably has more modern slaves than any country in the world. It has millions of women and girls in its brothels, often held captive for their first few years until they grow resigned to their fate. China surely has more prostitutes, but they are typically working voluntarily. India’s brothels are also unusually violent, with ferocious beatings common and pimps sometimes even killing girls who are uncooperative. (Emphasis mine)
I don't know if Kristof realizes this, but this is not uncommon or unexpected - because the pimps have been brought up in the same misogyny-laden culture and traditions that gives men a sense of entitlement over women, and considers women as property and chattel, to be given away or used however. Until and unless a sea change is brought about in that mentality, until and unless we are able to impart sanity and rationality to the next generations, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own actions, the cycle of violence against women and children cannot be broken.
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There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore... the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it. (Terry Pratchett - Thief of Time, 2002) | {
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An Adventure On The High Seas Stormed By Pirates
British retirees Rachel and Paul Chandler were sailing in the Indian Ocean in 2009 when their boat was hijacked by Somali pirates. They were held captive in Somalia for more than a year. Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks to the couple about their experience, which they documented in the memoir Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates.
And now I'd like to change direction. Let's head to the paradise islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. That's where a British couple had set sail when they were captured by Somali pirates. In 2009, Rachel and Paul Chandler were enjoying their voyage until a gang of armed men stormed the boat. The Chandlers spent more than a year in captivity because their captors wanted millions in ransom, money their family back in England didn't have.
Rachel and Paul Chandler have documented their ordeal in the book, "Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates," and they join me now.
Welcome to the show.
RACHEL CHANDLER: Thank you.
PAUL CHANDLER: Hello, Viviana.
CHANDLER: Hello.
CHANDLER: Hi.
HURTADO: Hello. And, Rachel, describe for us what happened at the moment you were hijacked.
CHANDLER: I was sitting on deck, and it was nighttime, about 2:30 in the morning, and it was quiet. There were no ships around. And, all of a sudden, I heard the noise of an engine and I thought it must be a passing fisherman, so I looked out and I saw this suspicious boat approaching. I grabbed a spotlight and shone it at them, and they responded with a gunshot. So I was immediately very frightened. And very soon, they were upon us and boarding our yacht and pointing guns at me, telling me to stop the engine and to switch on lights. And I was actually petrified, of course.
Paul was down below sleeping at the time, because we do watches. And he was on his off-watch, so he then came up on deck and the men were all surrounding us. There were eight of them at first.
HURTADO: Just jumping in there, Paul, as Rachel just said, you were asleep when the pirates came onboard. So did you wake up when you started to hear a commotion?
CHANDLER: Certainly, the cracks of two gunshots brought me wide awake instantly, and I knew there was something very horrible going on.
HURTADO: What do you remember about the men who kidnapped you?
CHANDLER: Well, we had them onboard for five or six days, so we got to observe them quite closely. Some were perhaps in their 30s, and some were late teens and early 20s. Some seemed more experienced and more knowledgeable about what they were doing, and others were just youngsters who thought that by having a gun and going out to sea, they could make themselves some money.
HURTADO: You were taken off your boat and eventually brought to land, and that's where you spent most of the time in captivity. Rachel, what was the hardest thing to deal with during those months?
CHANDLER: Well, the hardest thing was when they decided to separate us in order to put more pressure on Paul to beg for money. And they kept us apart for three months, and I found that really, really hard to deal with. There I was, in the middle of a lawless country, far away from, you know, any hope of rescue. And I had to struggle to keep my emotions calm, to - not to feel angry and frustrated with what they were doing to us. And I really did struggle at times with the loneliness, as well. But I did learn eventually to just get control of my emotion and just accept that there was nothing that I could do, and that I must just be a good hostage.
HURTADO: If you're just joining us, this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Viviana Hurtado. We're talking about the memoir, "Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates." Our guests are authors Paul and Rachel Chandler, who survived a kidnapping at sea.
Paul, a New York Times article about your kidnapping - you were quoted in this article as saying everyone was in on it. Can you explain what you mean by that?
CHANDLER: Yes. I meant the local community in the area where we were held for the long period. Many of the pirates had homes there, and it was obvious from the limited interaction we had with visitors to the camp or when we were round about the town that they had the full support of all the local community. There was no sense of disquiet or unease at what they were doing, and that was initially quite a shock to me.
HURTADO: Rachel, your hopes of release were raised when your family air-dropped $440,000 in June of 2010, but you weren't freed until November. So how did it finally happen?
CHANDLER: Well, when it finally happened, it was a great surprise to us because we'd not heard from anyone, from our family or anyone for some months. And, all of a sudden, the gang leader told us that we would be leaving. And we found it very hard to believe. And, in the morning - because this was - we'd set off in the afternoon. We drove all the way through the night. And in the morning, we were approached by a man who introduced himself as a British Somali, a man called Dahir, and he told us he was going to take us away and to freedom. That's a moment that I shall never forget.
CHANDLER: He said - he was waving a British passport as he approached at the crack of dawn, and he said, I'm Dahir. I'm from Leytonstone. I've come to take you home.
HURTADO: Oh, my goodness.
CHANDLER: Leytonstone is in East London.
HURTADO: Why did he do that?
CHANDLER: He has since told us that it was because he himself was a refugee from Somalia in the late '90s, and he was welcomed in Britain, and he and his family had made their home in Britain. And when they heard about our plight - in particular, his younger son, Yusuf, begged his father to try and do something to help us. And so he actually spent many, many months in the background trying to find out what the situation was, because he originally came from the area where we were being held. And so he knew many of the families of the pirate gang who took us.
And so he was able to softly, softly, behind the scenes, negotiate our release. And he did it because he said, you know, it's payback time. The British people have been good to me and, you know, I must help these British people.
HURTADO: I understand that you're setting sail soon. Where are you going?
CHANDLER: Yes. Tentatively, we're heading south and across the Atlantic towards Brazil. We've just launched Lynn Rival, having spent 18 months working very hard on putting her back together. And we're going to go back to warm water, live-aboard cruising. And we don't plan to visit the east coast of Africa for some years, until maybe in a decade or so. The situation will be safe there.
HURTADO: Paul and Rachel Chandler's book, "Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Pirates," will be released in America next week. The Chandlers joined me from the BBC studios in Plymouth, England, before they set sail again. Thanks for speaking with us, and bon voyage.
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Downtown’s Golden Swann is changing with the times.
The shop, an Auburn staple for 31 years, is moving its emphasis from collectibles to jewelry and glass art.
“We have to reinvent ourselves,” co-owner Margareta Swann said Tuesday. “9/11 put a big kibosh on collectibles. Now with the economy, it’s out.”
Customers will still find their favorite Swarovski pieces, but Swann and her husband, Ben Asgarzadeh, have decided to focus solely on U.S. artists, phasing out inventory from China, India and other foreign countries.
“We want to support our own country,” Asgarzadeh said. “We have so many good artists here, so we need to support them.”
Swann is in the process of choosing artisans for the store.
“We’ve signed up Salvatore Polizzi and Linda and Tim Lazer,” Swann said.
New York-born Polizzi moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Known as the glass blower to the stars, his work is collected by Stephen Spielberg, Madonna and Denzel Washington, to name a few.
Tim Lazer is a Northern California glass blower known for his vases, paperweights, perfume vials and ornaments.
A selection of Polizzi’s vases has arrived and an order of Lazer items will be on shelves in a few days, Swann said.
For the Golden Swann, the impact of the economy has been exacerbated by competition in collectibles from Web sites like eBay.
“Instead of walking away from it, we’re doing something new,” Swann said.
Down the street at Art Accents, Auburn Chamber of Commerce President Ann Rivero said she’s seeing that a lot of that sort of proactive response as local business owners look for ways to stay afloat in tough times.
“They’re taking this as an opportunity to do business in a new way,” Rivero said. “People are asking questions and looking at different ways to do things. I see people looking for a niche.”
In preparation for the changeover, Swann and Asgarzadeh have invested $50,000 in a remodel, including purchasing a $36,000 laser welder.
They’ve always offered custom jewelry design, redesign and repair, but the state-of-the-art welder expands capabilities. The laser’s adjustable controls build in greater flexibility for on-the-spot repairs.
“We can repair costume jewelry from lead to titanium,” Swann said.
They’ve even created a waiting area, bringing in a table and chairs so customers can be comfortable while the jewelry repair work is being done.
“We can take your old jewelry and make new jewelry,” Swann said. “We can design from scratch — one-of-a-kind pieces or duplicates of an old piece and make it new, or restore a piece.”
They can also size rings up or down and convert clip earrings to posts or the other way around.
The business, started by Swann, originally began as a jewelry and fine arts store.
“Higher technology is allowing us to do more things — giving us a bigger spectrum,” Swann said. “I’m so jazzed, I can’t believe it. (Goldsmith) Jeff (Balasa) and Ben are walking on cloud nine now that we have that laser welder.”
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Justin Schultz had his best game in some time against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night, and the coaching staff milked it for all it was worth, giving the young defenceman nearly 30 minutes of ice-time. It wasn’t enough as the Oilers fell 5-2 to St. Louis on a night where defencemen both old and young let the team down and goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov was not sharp.
Nail Yakupov scored a goal and finished plus-one, continuing a run of excellent play, and Mark Arcobello had the other goal for the Oilers.
Player Grades
The following are the player grades for the Oilers, with 10 being a “perfect” game, 9 extraordinary, 8 great, 7 good, 6 above average, 5 average, 4 below average, 3 poor, 2 terrible and 1 deserving of almost instant demotion. Compiled by Jonathan Willis.
#2 Jeff Petry, 5. Petry made his first giveaway of the game early in the first period, resulting in a scoring chance for St. Louis. He made up for it a little over halfway into the same frame, laying a heavy hit in the corner of his own zone and taking the puck off a fallen Vladimir Sobotka. He did the same thing with a little under three minutes left in the opening frame, hip-checking a Blues’ attacker and putting the puck into question; Jordan Eberle and Martin Marincin would eventually win the battle to start the play moving the other way. He took a delay of game minor after putting the puck over the glass near the end of the first. Almost got in trouble in the second when he couldn’t handle a pass, but he made a desperation play and negated the mistake.
#4 Taylor Hall, 4. Hall made a really nice takeaway in his own end on the shift following Mark Arcobello’s goal to prevent a dangerous chance against. He made a poor giveaway to Max Lapierre (of all people) trying to exit his zone in the third which led to an unthreatening shot against. He was a non-factor offensively, doing little while his linemates carried the mail in that respect.
#14 Jordan Eberle, 5. Eberle made two bad turnovers in his own end on his first shift of the game, leading to the Blues’ opening scoring chance of the night. He wasn’t trying to do creative things either; he just coughed the puck up in routine plays. He made up for it two shifts later, stealing the puck in his own end off a lost defensive zone draw that led to two really good chances, including one by Eberle on the rebound. A second sneaky takeaway in the offensive zone – victimizing David Backes –didn’t result in a chance thanks to some nice work defensively by the Blues but it came awfully close. He had another chance late in the second on the rebound of a sneaky Jeff Petry shot.
#15 Nick Schultz, 4. Schultz took what was a pretty weak penalty for tripping T.J. Oshiein the first period, but it looked more like a blown call than anything as Oshie just went down while Schultz was forcing him to the outside; St. Louis scored but it’s hard to blame Schultz for what he did. More problematic was a ‘puck as grenade’ moment near the end of the frame, but fortunately for Schultz nobody was on the ball enough to capitalize on the error.
#19 Justin Schultz, 7. Schultz made a smart jump into the play and took a sharp shot just under halfway through the first period for Edmonton’s secondscoring chance of the game. He had a nice defensive zone play early in the second, making a sharp pass to Nick Schultz under pressure to start an Edmonton attack that led to Nail Yakupov’s goal. A sharp pinch turned a Jay Bouwmeester ring-around the boards into an Oilers offensive zone possession and led to Mark Arcobello’s goal. He made another smart play, stealing the puck in his own end early in the third and then a weaker giveaway two shifts later that Andrew Ference had to cover for. Overall he had a really good game for the Oilers, playing over 28 minutes on the night.
#20 Luke Gazdic, 5. Gazdic’s first really memorable shift featured a bad defensive zone giveaway which led to an Oilers’ icing seconds later, which in turn led to Max Lapierre’s 2-1 goal. His next memorable shift came immediately after, when he did some nice work in front of the net and worked the puck out front to Mark Arcobello, who knotted the game at two. He had a couple of punishing hits on the forecheck on the shift directly following the Blues’ 4-2 goal.
#21 Andrew Ference, 3. Ference had an awful shift roughly three minutes in, first losing a footrace to an iced puck and then blowing a tire in the corner; he could have been called for interfering with Ryan Reaves but the referees let it go and the result was just a good scoring chance for St. Louis. He prevented a Blues’ scoring chance later in the same frame by standing in a shooting lane and having the wrist shot go off his leg but then later in that same shift allowed a chance because he couldn’t tie up T.J. Oshie in front of the net. He picked up an assist on Mark Arcobello’s goal later on by the simple expedient of putting the puck on net when he got an opportunity. A few minutes later he again came up short in a footrace against Reaves and then got into trouble in front of his own net for a chance against. Reaves had his number over the game; late in the second period the two got tangled in the corner and Ference had to limp off the ice after his skate broke. The referees’ refusal to blow the play dead lead to another chance against.
#26 Mark Arcobello, 6. Arcobello had the Oilers’ first chance of the game, a tip of a Jeff Petry point shot on his second shift of the night. He had an effective forecheck in place of Ales Hemsky on the third line midway through the third; hitting Jordan Leopold against the boards and creating a turnover with a little help from Boyd Gordon. He also scored one of two Oilers goals on the night.
#27 Boyd Gordon, 5. Gordon is an aggressive penalty killer who really showed his value on his first shift during Ryan Jones’ penalty, forcing the issue at his own blue line and working the puck all the way down the ice. He further won 11 of 20 faceoffs.
#28 Ryan Jones, 5. Jones made a really nice play on the Oilers’ 2-2 goal at the offensive blue line (where he was covering for a pinching Justin Schultz), faking the shot and then working the puck to Andrew Ference. He took a delay of game penalty on a clear that went awry later in the same period, which allowed St. Louis to take the 3-2 lead.
#57 David Perron, 5. The Oilers ended up pinned in their own zone on a long shift less than five minutes in after a terrible giveaway by Perron; he eventually managed to clear the puck but only after a chance against and the opportunity for many more. He did a nicer job defending in his own end later on, breaking up a dangerous cross-ice pass to key an Oilers’ rush. He made a nice play at the offensive blue line to get the puck to Nail Yakupov for Edmonton’s first goal. The first and only chance of the game off his stick came near the end of the second period, a shot from the slot that went just wide. He got caught with a hit in his own end with just under five minutes left in the game and coughed up the puck, though nothing came of it.
#59 Brad Hunt, 2. Hunt was exposed badly on Max Lapierre’s goal, with the veteran NHL’er pushing him off the puck and then taking it hard to the net. He had a really nice hit behind his own net to separate Ryan Reaves from the puck on his very next shift. He made a bad turnover behind his own net early in the third, leading to a dangerous Chris Stewart shot from just outside the scoring chance area. He made a terrible play right in front of his own net in the third that David Backes took away and had a great chance off.
#64 Nail Yakupov, 6. Yakupov had some nice hard backchecking moments in the first period, including one where it looked like he got a stick in the way of a dangerous shot from a pinching Alex Pietrangelo. His strong play continued into the second, where he was given space by a crossed-up Jay Bouwmeester and took advantage, driving in and hammering a shot home. He stripped Patrick Berglund of the puck at the offensive blue line early in the third, though the Oilers couldn’t do much with the possession.
#80 Ilya Bryzgalov, 5. He made a great poke-check at the halfway point of the game with Patrick Berglund alone in front to negate what would have been a great chance against, but despite that play this wasn’t Bryzgalov’s night. He allowed four goals on 29 shots for a 0.862 save percentage on the night.
#83 Ales Hemsky, 5. Dallas Eakins used the third line against David Backes’ unit at times on Tuesday night, and Hemsky had a nice moment in that defensive role early in the first, racing hard for a loose puck along the boards in his own zone, getting to it first and clearing it despite the fact he had to take a heavy hit on the play. He got in on the forecheck do, making a point of laying his body heavily into Alex Pietrangelo off a dump-in later in the first. He took his second hard hit on the cycle in the offensive zone courtesy of Ryan Reaves and was clearly shaken up on the play. He had another physical battle after landing a pretty decent hit on Brendan Morrow that the Blues’ forward took exception to. Eventually he was taken out of the game due to the Reaves hit.
#85 Martin Marincin, 4. A defensive zone turnover on Marincin’s first shift let to a somewhat dangerous shot against. He had a weak moment while trying to kill Nick Schultz’s first period penalty too, getting beat cleanly one-on-one by Chris Stewart moments before the Blues opened the scoring. He showed his upside on a simple play halfway through the second though, taking a puck under pressure and calmly moving it forward in a way the other two guys on the Oilers’ left side often struggle to. He made a defensive zone giveaway early in the third, but Sam Gagner covered for him.
#89 Sam Gagner, 5. Gagner earned the second assist on Nail Yakupov’s goal, tipping a cleared puck at the red line which David Perron calmed down. He had a nice scoring chance on his next shift off some really good passing work by both Perron and Yakupov. He made a bad defensive gaffe late in the third, giving the puck away in his own end.
#93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 6. Nugent-Hopkins had a glorious shorthanded scoring chance early in the second period, picking off a cross-ice pass and creating a breakaway; he couldn’t score but it was a smart play all the same. He had another decent chance in the third, ringing a puck off the crossbar on a bit of a sharp-angled shot.
#94 Ryan Smyth, 6. For a guy without a lot of footspeed, Smyth is effective on the forecheck – he showed it on his first shift by seizing a loose puck in the offensive zone and tossing it toward the net. He followed that up a couple of shifts later with some yeoman’s work directly in front of the net, turning a Boyd Gordon faceoff win into a nice scoring chance. A bad clearing attempt during the Oilers’ second penalty kill led to one scoring chance against; a better one early in the second period did much to ice that same penalty. He made a great pass to Andrew Ference has Ference closed to the net at the start of the third but the Oilers’ captain didn’t realize it was there; it would have been a superb chance.
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Psycho-Educational Group Intervention Based on Reality Therapy to Cope with Academic ProcrastinationThis study explored the efficacy of a psycho-educational group intervention based on reality therapy for treating youth with academic procrastination. The participants consisted of undergraduates from a state university located in the Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey. A 10-session training program based on reality therapy was implemented with the experimental group, and a no treatment control group served as the comparison. Pre-test, post-test, and follow-up measure for the experimental and control groups were analyzed used in the research. Two-way analysis of variance split plot design. The findings showed that the trai...Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - September 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
CBT Delivered in a Specialized Depression Clinic for College Students with Depressive SymptomsThis study utilized a novel recruitment strategy and examined the efficacy of CBT provided by specialists in a depression clinical research center. We conducted depression screenings at four universities in the Boston area. 30 college students (ages 18 –24 between 2009 and 2013) who were experiencing symptoms of depression and/or suicidal ideation were offered 12-weeks of a flexible manualized form of CBT. CBT resulted in a significant reduction in depression, anxiety, suicidality, and some forms of negative cognition. CBT was effective for redu cing depression and related symptoms, including suicidality. Larger-scal...Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - August 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Aversive Indecisiveness Predicts Risks for and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Over Avoidant IndecisivenessAbstractIndecisiveness is defined as a maladaptive trait resulting in difficulty making decisions across time and situations. Indecisiveness is positively correlated with measures of anxiety, worry, and depression and has been listed as a symptom of Major Depressive Disorder for decades. Indecisiveness is also a distinguishing cognitive process associated with other disorders, such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder, and Hoarding Disorder. Recently, indecisiveness has been found to be represented by two distinct dimensions, labeled aversive and avoidant indecisiveness. Aversive indecisive...Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - August 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Contribution to Validation of the Short Schema Mode Inventory in an Italian Clinical Versus Non-clinical PopulationAbstractSchema therapy (ST) has been proven to be an effective psychotherapy model in the treatment of complex personality disorders. ST helps analyze causes of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral alteration in patients using schemas and modes (i.e., sets of emotional states, coping responses and schemas active in a given moment). ST finds its empirical validation in the short Schema Mode Inventory (SMI), a practical tool consisting of 14 subscales assessing 14 different mode categories, grouped in 4 (child, coping, parent and adult modes) high-order categories used to assess different modes at different times. We introdu...Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - August 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
An Emotional Skills Intervention for Elementary Children with Autism in China: A Pilot StudyAbstractThe purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of an emotional skills intervention on behavioral and emotional competence, as well as on communication for children with autism in China. Eight children (seven boys and one girl), aged 7 to 8, participated in this study. We used a pre and posttest group design. The intervention consisted of 10 group sessions and four individual sessions. Each group session had two or three children. The intervention curriculum consisted of emotion recognition, emotion recognition within context, self-expression of emotions, seeking help when encountering problems, and tech...Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - July 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Logical Foundation for Rational Emotive Behaviour TherapyAbstractRational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) depends on the implications A ⊃ B and B ⊃ C where A is an activating event, B is a belief and C is an emotional consequence. We use this idea to present a logical theory for REBT, and show how it can be used to create a computer program that can be used as a therapist’s aid. (Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy)Source: Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research | {
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Preston Hogue
We’ve outgrown the original concept of application security. In the late ’90s, most applications weren’t used on the Internet, so security was focused on the software development lifecycle and making sure that developers were following best practices for secure coding.
Secure code is still a big part of application security, but it’s not the whole picture. We need to take a much broader view of the topic. The way I see it, we should take a risk-based approach, analyzing all the components that make up an application, and then develop a strategy that delivers the most security to the app as a whole. Because when one component of an app is compromised—whether it’s a code vulnerability, network availability, SSL, or DNS—the entire application, as well as the data it houses, is affected.
For example, think about availability. Today, most apps are Internet-based, so a volumetric DDoS attack can cripple, or even take down, an application. Now, that’s got nothing to do with secure code, but it’s vitally important to the overall health of your application because no one can get to it.
Or what if a password gets stolen? Confidentiality has nothing to do with secure code, either. But your app is still compromised and your data can be exposed. That’s why we need to apply the core principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability to all components of an application, identify weaknesses where they occur, and fix them.
Looking at application security from a risk-based perspective lets you focus on component failures and helps you provide the most robust security for the data that’s the ultimate target of most attacks.
Data theft has become so common today because attackers have a convenient way to get to it: the application. Using a risk-based approach lets you to focus on what’s most important to your business, whether it’s preventing someone from defacing your web site or protecting against data breaches. This risk-based approach strengthens your overall security posture while also making sure you get the most value from the money you’re spending.
Here’s the thing: 72 percent of all attacks happen at the application level, but companies spend only 10 percent of their security budget on application security. That just doesn’t make sense.
With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things and the applications that go along with it, this issue is rapidly getting more complex. In 2010, there were 200 million web apps; today, it’s a billion. In 2020, it could easily be 5 billion. All those apps are vulnerability vectors. Just think about the Wi-Fi-enabled Barbie or a smart refrigerator and multiply that by 1,000. Or, 10,000.
That’s why it’s time to broaden our view of application security, so we’re in a better position to effectively secure all the components that make up our apps, safeguard our data, and protect our businesses.
jeremiah Grossman
If we had to create a simple visual, application security is about protecting what is seen within the walls of a web browser. More specifically, the websites where over two billion people shop, pay their bills, learn, share their most intimate secrets, find out where something is, and so much more.
It stands to reason that something this important, the web, has become the most common avenue of cyber-attacks. Another reason for this is that websites and web applications exist largely outside the sphere of traditional security protections like firewalls, antivirus software, and TLS/SSL encryption.
Imagine also that the source of greatest vulnerability and risk is also the area that people are the least focused on protecting. If you don’t agree, just follow the money. Organizations generally spend 90 percent of their security budget on firewalls and antivirus software. But the bulk of the risk, and the breaches we all read about, are predominately due to software that’s not secure, particularly web applications.
If cybersecurity is to get better, we have to change our way of thinking and understand that the primary job of application security is making sure that our software is secure.
Yes, I know it sounds so simple! Organizations must ensure that new websites and new software are coded securely, AND just as important, organizations must address the countless vulnerabilities that already exist in their websites. Websites that were built without any kind of secure software development lifecycle.
The problem is, even many security people really don’t understand how software is built and designed because their backgrounds and skill sets are often limited to network-layer security. It’s time to evolve.
For example, PCI DSS compliance requires that businesses protect themselves against the OWASP Top 10, so you have a bunch of people thinking that application security begins and ends with the Top 10. They’re just trying to check a box and say, OK, we’re done with app sec, let’s move on to the next thing.
That’s not how it works because that’s not how the bad guys work. The bad guys are quite happy and well-equipped to exploit websites using dozens of other techniques that aren’t on the OWASP Top Ten. Not to mention that no company has an OWASP Top Ten problem. It’s usually a Top 3-5 problem, and that varies greatly from organization to organization.
I constantly advise companies to invest more in developer education, performing static analysis, implementing web application firewalls, and other practices. I tell them to do anything except continue the status quo of spending large sums on firewalls and antivirus software. Anyone who is paying attention knows that won’t do anything to curtail the most common method of cyber-attack.
And in what seems to be a new trend surfacing, antivirus software itself is riddled with holes that can be exploited, and yet the industry spends $8 billion a year on it. That’s a lot of money spent on security software that makes us less secure. Let’s be clear, firewalls and antivirus have a place in the InfoSec ecosystem, it’s just that security budgets are grossly out of line with present-day risks and how business invests in IT. Furthermore, it’s imperative that more people working in the security community better understand software—and software security—if we’re going to effectively protect our applications and the underlying data.
Remember, finding and fixing vulnerabilities isn’t an academic exercise; it’s all about keeping a sentient attacker out of our systems and away from the data they protect. But without a clear picture of their adversaries, security professionals will have a difficult time developing effective strategies to defeat them.
I think the biggest driver of change will be the influence that cybersecurity insurance companies have on the way we practice not only application security, but all things computer security. As claims increase and insurers get more actuarial data, they’ll better understand the security measures companies were taking, as well as how the attackers breached the system.
At that point, insurance companies will be perfectly positioned to say, you must do application security this way or your premiums will go up. That’s going to be a wake-up call for the security community. And it might be the only way our outdated vision of application security is going to evolve. | {
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Who will win
With only two days to go before South Australian's head to
the polls, many people are wondering what the election is all about. So if you
are meeting mates to watch the contest and want to look intelligent, or just
want to spend Friday in the office making yourself look like you have some idea
about politics. Have a look at my idiots guide to every seat in Saturday's
contest, with info on the candidates and some quirky facts that will make you
look very impressive to the cute blonde across the room.
Set to see the end of the 12 years of Labor rule, read below why the newspaper editors will be looking for a headline to match "Rannslide" which headed every Advertiser article following the 2006 election.
Coming up later will be a drinking game guide for anyone, who needs to get plastered to consider the idea of watching the ABC for five hours straight.
Adelaide:
Rachel Sanderson won this for the Libs in 2010, when former
Lord Mayor Joan Lomax-Smith was on the nose. The Labor party focused on the
marginal seats to ensure they held onto power and Lomax-Smith ended up with a
10 per cent swing against her losing to Rachel Sanderson. Since redistributions
in the 90s it should really be a Labor seat, but with a margin of 4.2 to the
Libs and the general trend to the Libs, it will be a positive start for them.
Facts to impress your
mates: The 14.7 per cent swing against Labor incumbent Jane Lomax-Smith in
2010 was the second biggest in the state.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 1 – Labor 0
Ashford:
This is the first of four key marginal seats that the
Liberals will need to win to gain power.The redistributions here have absolutely killed Labor. In the
“Rannslide” of 2006, there was a 12 per cent swing to Labor and then they gave
it all back in 2010 with a 10 per cent swing against the Government. Incumbent
Steph Key was a Minister in first Rann government, but lost out when more MPs
came on board in 2006. Terina Monteagle (what a name!) is the Liberal
candidate. I can’t pick this one with all the swings from the last two
elections, but with the new boundaries helping the Liberals and a general swing
set to head their way, I am giving it to Monteagle.
This is a seat that starts in the inner city on Greenhill Rd
and heads all the way to Crafers. Vikki Chapman has been there for 12 years and
the lady who reminds everybody of the lady around town with her perfect makeup
and strong perfume, while constantly making them giggle as her eyebrow
continues on in world of its own will take this seat again. Her margin might
even hit the 25 per cent margin. Standing for Labor is Ella Waters, one of the
strong contingent of young candidates at this election that both parties are
giving exposure campaign process too.
Facts to impress your
mates: Seat is named after Sir William Bragg, Proffessor of Physics at
Adelaide University, who with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg win 1915 Nobel Prize
for Physics.
Result: Liberal
Hold
Liberal 3- Labor 0
Bright:
The tightest seat in the state, Labor actually lost the
first preference vote in 2010, getting home by just 167 votes after preference
distribution.Ironically for the name of
the seat it has been the lack of brightness from the current member Minister
for Transport Services, Chloe Fox that will see this seat change hands.
Constant blunders from Fox have alienated her from the electorate and the seat
will go to Marion Councillor David Spiers.
Facts to impress your
mates: Bright had the biggest swing in the 2006 election, 14.4 per cent,
but just two elections later, Chloe Fox is set to lose the seat.
Result: Liberal
Gain
Liberal 4- Labor 0
Chaffey:
Out near the fruit growing areas of Renmark, Berri and
Loxton, for years this was the seat of controversial National MP Karlene
Maywald who helped the Labor Party take government in the 2002 hung parliament.
There was a 20 per cent swing to the Libs Tim Whetstone in 2010 and his margin
will on increase in this Liberal heartland. Wonder if he has a bet with Vikki
Chapman about who will end up with a bigger margin?
Facts to impress your
mates: In 2010 Family First had more first preference votes than Labor.
Result: Liberal
Hold
Liberal 5 – Labor 0
Cheltenham:
This is the Premier’s seat. Jay Weatherill had a swing of 9
per cent against him in 2010, but still holds the seat by 16 per cent! He will
win the seat and may even increase his margin now he is Premier. The voters may
be forced to have a by-election because I doubt Jay will stay around if Labor
get done. Up against him is a Uni student Jack Batty. Both parties like putting
up young people that will shut up and won’t complain for more funds in seats
they have no chance in.
Facts to impress your
mates: The seat was previously known as Price, to honour South Australia’s
first Labor Premier Tom Price.
Result: Labor Hold
Liberal 5 - Labor 1
Colton:
One of the seats that may decide if we end up with a
minority government of the Liberal party wins in their own right.Held by 4.0 percent after the last election,
the redistributions have again killed the government, reducing the margin to
3.6 per cent. People like Paul Caica as a person, mum said he was awfully nice
when he rang up on the phone, and Labor is putting a lot of effort into this
seat. But Joe Barry his Liberal opponent is also presenting himself as the
local knockabout bloke, a former businessman turned copper. They should have
used a different photo on the Barry on the posters, he is a lot thinner than
the photo suggests.
Facts impress your
mates: A state wide poll had this seat at 50/50 just three weeks out from
the election, the closest in the State.
Result: Labor to sandbag and hang on.
Liberal 5 – Labor 2
Croydon:
Michael Atkinson has been the member for 25 years in one of
the safest seats for the Labor Party. He has been there during the highs and
the lows of the Labor fortunes during that time, including being one of the few
of his party to hold on to their seat at the 1994 election following the State
Bank disaster. He causes controversy, but is loved among his electorate, being
involved in many local issues as he goes around on his bicycle. Intelligent,
witty and strange, one reason I want Labor to get back in is so Atkinson can
stay on as Speaker and continue to chastise unruly members by quoting 13th
century Westminster Statue.An opponent
of political posters on street poles he asks supporters to instead place them
on their properties. So far I have seen one on a backstreet in Brompton when I
got lost looking for my girlfriend’s house.
Glenda Nobel is standing for Liberal and her mature nature
and solid background in business and politics might see her reduce Labor’s
margin for the second election in a row.
Facts to impress your
mates: Family First candidate Nkweto (NK) Nkamba was born and grew up in
Zambia.
Result: Labor Hold
Liberal 5 - Labor 3
Davenport:
Another safe seat, where the party seat to lose has saved
money by endorsing a young candidate who won’t ask for much extra money or
support. In this case it’s the Labor party who have put up Lucie Lock-Weir to
challenge Shadow treasure Iain Evans. Lock-Weir is a 19 uni student in the
second year of a six year course at Flinders.Lock-Weir might receive a few votes from some young guys who like the
look of her, but Evans will increase the Liberals margin here.
Fact to impress your
mates:Talk about how despite this
always being a safe Liberal seat, Evans’ father Stan a life time Liberal, won
the seat as an independent against future Premier Dean Brown in 1986, after he
lost the pre-selection battle with Brown.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 6 Labor 3
Dunstan:
Named after one of the most famous Labor premiers,
ironically the seat is held by Liberal leader Steven Marshall. Generally who
wins the seat wins government. The exception was last election, when Vinni
Ciccarello had a 10 per cent swing against her to lose the seat to Marshall,
but Labor hung on overall. Marshall is up against Jo Chapely for Labor, who is
an expert in Aboriginal studies and speaks the Pitantatjara Aboriginal
language. Expect Marshall to increase
the margin of 4.8 per cent to around 7.
Facts to impress your
mates: Marshall won the Liberal leadership in just his first term as a
parliamentarian. He is also from the Marshall family that makes Marshall
Furniture.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 7- Labor 3.
Elder:
This is another seat where the redistribution has killed
Labor, reducing their margin from 3.6 per cent, to 2 per cent.
Both sides have new candidates, with the retirement of
‘part-time Pat’ Conlon, who has been serving as a politician part time after he
lost his spot in the Labor ministry when Jay Weatherill took over the
leadership. You probably are thinking you have seen the new Labor candidate
Annabel Digance on election posters before. You have, she twice contested and
lost the Federal seat of Boothby in 2010 and 2013.She is up against, a young vibrant Carolyn
Habib. You cannot underestimate the importance of electoral posters; when
asking an apolitical friend of mine what she thought of the election, she could
not even tell me what seat she was in. However, after some tedious questioning,
I managed to discover that she is in Elder, and that she is going to vote for
Habib “because she is the pretty one right?” Never underestimate the importance
of looks to win the swinging voter!
Whether it is as an episode of Next Top Model or because of
polices, the Liberals will win this seat, to put them further on the road to
victory.
Facts to impress your
mates: The seat is named after Thomas Elder who arrived in Adelaide in 1854
and set up the wool broker company Elder Smith and Company.He also donated large amounts of money to
help establish Adelaide Uni.
Result: Liberal Gain
Liberal 8- Labor 3.
Enfield:
A strong traditional working class strong hold for Labor,
they have held the seat since its establishment in 1970. Attorney-General John
Rau has been the member since 2002 when he defeated former Labor MP Ralph
Clarke for pre-selection. Thirty-three year old bank executive and Prospect
Councillor Scott Roberts is his Liberal opponent, but Roberts won’t be moving
from local to state politics anytime soon.
Facts to impress your
mates: Rau when the party endorsement from Rau only after a branch stacking
controversy, which Clarke successfully fought through the courts, but still not
gaining endorsement he stood unsuccessfully as an independent.
Result: Labor Hold
Liberal 8- Labor 4
Finniss:
This electorate in the south of the State covers Kangaroo
Island, with sitting member Michael Pengilly having an office in Kingscote.
Unsurprisingly being a rural electorate with lots of farmers
it is head by over 10 per cent by the Liberal Party. Melanie Smart is Labor
Party’s sacrificial lamb.
Facts to impress your
mates: Sitting member Michael Pengilly is a former Mayor of Kangaroo
Island.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 9- Labor 4
Fisher:
Controversial independent Bob Such holds this seat that runs
through the southern suburbs of Happy Valley, Aberfoyle Park and the like. Held
it as a member of the Liberal Party from 1989 to 2000 and stood as an
independent in 2002 loosing much of the primary vote but holding on with Labor preferences.He increased his majority at both 2006 and
2010 and holds the seat now by 17 per cent. Sam Duluk is standing for the
Liberal Party and Labor have put another young guy in a seat they are not going
to win, Flinders University Accounting graduate Jake Neville.
Facts to impress your
mates: A former Liberal Party member, Such as apart of Dean Brown’s Cabinet
from 1994 to 1996.
Result: Independent
Hold.
Liberal 9 – Labor 4, Independent 1
Flinders:
At 26.2 per cent the biggest margin of any seat in
parliament, the seat covers most of the Eyre Peninsular including Port Lincoln
and Ceduna. The Liberals took it from fellow conservatives the Nationals and
Peter Treloar won it at the last time and will do so again in 2014. The
Nationals are not putting up a candidate, but Matthew Deane is standing for
Labor.
Facts to impress your
mates: At 26.2 per cent the biggest margin of any seat held by either
party.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 10 – Labor 4 – Independent 1.
Florey:
This is one of the seats that could fall to the Liberal
Party and decide if it is a hung parliament of a Liberal majority. Helping the
Labor chances is that Frances Bedford has been the sitting member since 1997.
Bedford had a massive majority before the big swing to the Liberals in 2010.
She is a popular local member having lived in the area for a long time and been
a member of a range of local community groups. He opponent Damien Wyld is a
smart, savvy young man but does not have local connection of his opponent. This
is a tough one; can Labor sandbag the seat like they did in 2010? I just think
the trend against the party is to big this time.
Facts to impress your
mates: Family First candidate Richard Bunting has unsuccessfully consisted
four different seats (Lee, Port Adelaide, Hindmarsh and Florey) at previous
state and federal elections.
Result: Liberal Gain
Liberal 11- Labor 4 Independent 1
Frome:
One three seats held by independents. After years of being a
swinging seat, it became safe Liberal in 2002 when then Premier Rob Kerin
experienced an eight per cent swing. When Kerin retired from Parliament in
2009, causing a by-election, local councillor Geoff Broke decided to stand as
an independent. Labor preferences saw him home and he increased that majority
in 2010 and will win again, Locals Kendall Johnson and Marcus Connelly are
standing for Liberal and Labor respectively.
Facts to impress your mates: Former Liberal leader Martin
Hamilton-Smith made a fool of himself in 2009, when he claimed the seat for the
Liberal Party at the 2009 by-election seven days before the polls were
finalised and the Liberals eventually lost out to Brock.
Result: Independent
Hold.
Liberal 11 – Labor 4 – Independent 2.
Giles:
The only Labor seat outside of metropolitan Adelaide, it
takes in Whyalla and the surrounding areas. Held by Lyn Bruer her retirement
and the Liberals exposure that standing Labor candidate Eddie Hughes received a
seven day suspended prison sentence in for assaulting a police officer,
resisting arrest and loitering in 1983, will decrease their 12 per cent
majority. They will still win despite coming up against a popular Whyalla local
in Liberal candidate Brenadette Abraham.
Facts to impress your mates: Since 1993, the only seat Labor
has held outside of greater metropolitan Adelaide.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 11 – Labor 5 – Independent 2.
Goyder:
In the area north of Adelaide taking in Yorke Peninsula,
around the areas of Port Wakefield, Ardrossan, Yorketown and Maitland among
others. Always in conservative hands, it became a very safe seat with a massive
swing to the Liberals Steven Griffiths in 2010. Again the major party seat to
lose is endorsing a token candidate, 20 year old former local girl Elyse Ramsay
who is studying Media Law at Adelaide Uni. Help the poor girl out, she only has
86 twitter followers.
Facts to impress your mates: Nationals candidate Kim
McWaters is one of just two of his party standing for lower house seats.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 12- Labor 5 Independent 2
Hammond:
This seat was held by rouge Liberal Peter Lewis from 1979
until 2006. A former member of the Liberal cabinet he was expelled from caucus
in 2000 and having gained the seat again as an independent in 2002, reneged on
a deal with the Liberal Party to help Labor form a minority government, taking
on the role of speaker. He was finally removed from that position in 2005 when
he made unsubstantiated claims that a government minister was involved with
members of the police in a paedophile ring, support from Nationals member
Karlyne Maywald allowing Labor to retain government. Lewis did not stand in
2006 and since then it has gone back to being a Liberal seat with a big
majority to member Adrian Pederick.
Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Union worker Lou
Bailey is the Labor candidate and Rachel Titley is one of two National members
running for a seat.
Facts to impress your
mates: Juts give out every detail about how much of a freak Peter Lewis
was/is.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 13 – Labor 5 – Independent 2
Hartley:
Out in the Campbelltown, Magill area it is held by Labor
minister Grace Portolesi. She won by 2.3% at the last election, but again the
redistribution has killed the government and the margin now is 0.1 per cent. It
has generally been held by the government at the time and is like Colton and
example of South Australian bellwether seat. Portolesi might have a bit of an
advantage owning to her high profile as a minister, but with the big swing set
to hit Labor, this is one of the important seats that will fall to the
Liberals.
Facts to impress your
mates: Both Portolesi and Liberal candidate Vincent Tarzia are of Italian
decent, as was the former member Joe Scalzy and bout 10 per cent of voters were
born in Italy. So just yell out “mamma mia!” whenever Hartley is mentioned in
the telecast and if anyone gives you a strange look, explain the above.
Result: Liberal Gain.
Liberal 14 – Labor 5 – Independent 2
Heysen:
This Adelaide Hills electorate covers Mount Barker, Handorf,
Stirling and Meadows among many others. It has always gone to the Libs, but the
Australian Democrats always polled well, but don’t have any candidates anymore.
It is held by former Liberal leader Isobel Redmond, with two more young
candidates with no chance, Paul Yiallorous (Labor) and 19 year old Amy Park
(Dignity for the Disabled).
Facts to impress your
mates: Whenever anyone bags Yillorous about his age, just yell out “he is
ok for a young kid, at least he doesn’t have Facebook!”
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 15 – Labor 5 – Independent 2
Karuna:
Down Christies Beach, Noarlunga way, we have a seat Labor
seat. Or is it? At 8.8 per cent it would take less of a swing than those that
took down both Jane Lomax-Smith and Vinni Ciccarello in 2010.Retiring member, former Health minister John
Hill also had a 14 per cent swing against him 2010, and with a less well known
face, hoisting the Labor flag, a big swing against them is likely. Chris Picton
was previously a member of Hill’s staff while the Liberals Ben Caudle is a software
engineer. Former West Torrens footballer, Kym Richardson is standing as in
independent. I think the Libs will win this one you know.
Facts to impress your mates: Haven’t got much interesting
here, but could just stroke your beard and say that despite the margin you
think the Libs might just win the seat.
Result: Liberal Gain
Liberal 16 – Labor 5 – Independent 2.
Kavel:
This is another rural electorate that the Libs have a huge
margin in. Those farmers really don’t like socialists! The seat has Lobethal,
Gumeracha and Nairne among its major population centres and the current
opposition margin is 15.8 per cent. Since its creation in 1970, it has always
been a conservative seat and the Liberals Mark Goldsworthy will win a four
term.
Facts to impress your
mates: Was the seat of former Premier John Olsen when he came back to state
politics from the Senate in 1990. Tom Playford the son of the long serving
premier stood as independent in 2002 and as the Family First candidate in 2006.
And finally a strong rumour is that the current Family First candidate Darryl
Scott is actually Father Christmas.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 17 – Labor 5 – Independent 2
Lee:
The third seat where the Labor chances are hurt by a
retiring member with a big profile, this time Michael Wright, who has
represented the seat since 1997 and was a former member of Cabinet Heading out
towards Semaphore way, it is one of the few seats where Labor get a slight
advantage from the redistribution to have a margin of 7.6 per cent. The most
congested of all the ballot papers with six candidates, the Liberal / Labor
duopoly is affected by the standing of controversial Port Adelaide Enfield
Mayor Gary Johanson who picked up 24.3 per cent of first pretence votes when he
stood in the 2012 Port Adelaide by-election. Labor candidate Stephen Mulligan
is Jay Weatherill’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Liberal candidate Liz Davies was
Liberal candidate for the Federal seat of Makin in 2010. Who is going to win
it? I think Labor will hang on because the Johanson factor will make it
difficult for the Libs to gain too much of a swing.
Facts to impress your
mates: Liz Davies drove around in a car with pink batts during the 2010
Federal campaign to protest against the Government’s handling of the roof
insulation scheme.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 17 – Labor 6 – Independent 2.
Light:
Minister Tony Piccolo could be in trouble here, holding the
seat by under three per cent. Based around Gawler and northern parts of
Elizabeth and Munno Parra, but redistribution has again killed the government, cutting
its majority in half. It was a conservative seat from 1938 until Piccolo won it
in 2006 and he bucked the swing in 2010, holding on to help Labor continue in
government. Cosie Costa, was the losing candidate in 2010 and I never like the
chances of people having a second dip. I reckon the public feels you have had
your chance and should step aside and give someone else ago. On that terrible
logic alone, I am going for Piccolo to hold on somehow, but then again what do
I know?
Facts to impress your
mates: Tony Piccolo has the best side burns in state politics.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 17 – Labor 7 – Independent 2
Little Parra:
One the two seats along with Ramsey that covers Elizabeth,
Salisbury and Craigmore areas, it is a very safe Labor seat held by Lee
Odenwalden with a margin of 11 per cent, the Labor party margin s increased by
redistribution, but in a seat they would have won anyway.A strong area of Labor heartland, the Libs
actually put up a real candidate in Salisbury Councillor Damien Pilkington.
Facts to impress your
mates: Sitting member Odenwaldon was born in London and migrated to
Australia with his parents in 1981.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 17 – Labor 8 – Independent 2
MacKilliop:
Mitch Williams won this seat as an Independent Liberal in
1997, beating controversial former leader Dale Baker before he re-joined the
Liberal party the next year. One of the smallest ballot papers, with only three
candidates, Labor and The Greens joining the Liberals in contesting the seat. Mitch
will win with an even bigger majority.
Facts to impress your
mates: Williams was deputy leader for two and half years under Isobel
Redmond.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 18 – Labor 8 - Independent 2
Mawson:
This is a marginal Labor seat that is on the edge at this
election. Labor’s cause is helped by the fact that the local member is a
minister in Leon Bignell, in a seat which covers the outer suburbs of Hackham,
Onkaparinga, Noarlunga and Seaford among others. A bellwether seat, the member
for Mawson always sat on the Government side of the House from 1990 until 2002,
when Robert Brokenshire held on for the Libs despite Labor forming government.
Brokenshire lost to Bignell in 2006 and has since gone on to contest the seat
as a member of Family First and now represents that Party in the Legislative
Council. Mawson was one of just four seats to swing to Labor in 2010. Stephen
Annells, a former agricultural marketer, will push Bignell close, but I think
the Sports Minister will hold on.
One the big five that could drop to the Libs and end up
deciding the election, it is currently held by first term MP Alan Sibbons with
a margin of just 2.4 per cent. Based around, Sturt, Warradale, Dover Gardens
and crossing over Main South Road into O’Halloran Hill, it is a traditional
Labor seat. Held by Kris Hanna as a Labor member in 1997 and 2002, before
resigning from the party, he won the seat in 2006 as Independent, before coming
third to Sibbons in 2010. Liberals candidate is former Ten Sports reporter
Corey Wingard, who was made redundant by the station when they lost the rights
to broadcast the AFL. His profile will boost him up, but Hanna’s preferences
will flow to Sibbons. Another to buck the trend? No I think the general trend
to Liberal will be repeated here and a one stalwart Labor seat will fall in to
conservative hands.
Facts to impress your
mates: Kris Hanna joined The Greens for less than six months in 2003 before
deciding to run as an Independent in 2006.
Result: Liberal Gain
Liberal 19 – Labor 9 - Independent 2.
Morialta:
Always a slight Liberal seat, covering, Paradise,
Dernancourt, Athelstone and Newton it also heads up to the hills around Cuddle
Creek. Labor won it in the ‘Rannslide’ of 2006, but it had an amazing swing of
11 per cent back to the Liberals John Gardiner in 2010. Again this is a seat where
the redistribution helps Labor but won’t actually help their chances. I can see
a further above average swing to the Libs John Gardiner and he will have an
easy win over opponent Clare Scriven.
Facts to impress your
mates: Gardiner is current Opposition Whip.
Result: Liberal Hold
Liberal 20 - Labor 9 - Independent 2
Morphett:
Situated in Glenelg and surrounding suburbs it is a safe
Liberal seat held by Doctor Duncan McFetridge since 2002 and has been held by
the Liberals since 1979. His Labor opponent Tim Looker is a Holdfast Bay
Councillor and having his third crack at beating McFetridge. I suppose the
Labor hierarchy know they are not going to win it whoever they put up, so if
Looker wants to keep and trying and losing I suppose they say all the best to him.
Facts to impress your
mates: Greens candidate Matthew Carey is son of famous Sturt footballer
Peter Carey and has been blind since birth.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 21 - Labor 9 - Independent 2
Mount Gambier:
A Labor seat up until the 70s, it was held by Rory McEwen as
Independent from 1997 until 2010, McEwen only standing as an Independent after
he was beaten for Liberal Party pre selection. He retired in 2010 and the seat
was expected to go back to the Lib’s but was won by another Independent, local
Mayor Don Pegler on the back of Labor preferences. Pegler was well behind on
first preference votes in 2010, and with another swing expected to the Liberal
party, I expect he will fall to the Liberals Troy Bell.
Facts to impress your
mates: Labor candidate Jim Maher stood the party in 2002 and his wife Viv
was the Labor candidate in 2010. Must have some strong ideology because surely
by now they know they are not going to win.
Result: Liberal Gain.
Liberal 22 - Labor 9 - Independent 2
Napier:
Minister Michael O’Brien does not want to spend four years
in opposition and like many of his counterparts is retiring at this election. But
he leaves behind a very safe Labor seat in the Party’s heartland areas around
Smithfield, Elizabeth Downs, Munno Parra and Blakeview. O’Brien’s retirement
has led to factional controversy, with Senator, and member of the Party’s
right, Don Farrell putting up his hand to contest the seat. Farrell’s
announcement had Premier and member of the Left faction Jay Weatherill
threatening to quit, and Labor eventually choice a local candidate in unionist
John Gee. Gee will beat off his opponents including Liberal Party candidate
Robert Leggatt.
Facts to impress your mates: Watch out for controversy after
the election over who is to be Labor leader in opposition. The Right are
annoyed that they give Left member Weatherill the Premiership, but received
nothing in return by the blocking of Farrell.
Result: Labor Hold
Liberal 22 - Labor 10 - Independent 2
Newland:
Another seat that crosses from strong Labor territory of the
outer suburbs, to the Liberal heartland of the Adelaide Hills, taking in
Banksia Park, Tea Tree Gully, Ridgehaven and parts of Hope Valley, while also
taking in the hills areas of Houghton and Inglewood among others.
Labor do get a boost here, with an increase from 2.2 to 2.6
percent with redistribution, but Minister Tom Kenyon was lucky to hold on last
time and I think he will be making a return to the rugby field for Adelaide
University after Saturday, when the Liberals Glen Docherty, who has been a
Playford Councillor since he was 19 makes his way into State Parliament.
Facts to impress your mates: The seat is named after Simpson
Newland who was a member of a pioneer family and wrote the book “Paving the
Way.”
Result: Liberal Gain.
Liberal 23 - Labor 10 - Independent 2
Playford:
Takes in Parra Hills, Ingle Farm, Gepps Cross and other
nearby suburbs and at 14.7 per cent Minister Jack Snelling has one of the
biggest Labor margins in the state in a seat ironically named after the long
serving Country League Premier Sir Thomas Playford who lead the state for a
record 28 years. Michael Santagata is the Liberal candidate.
Facts to impress your mates: Jack Snelling was just 24 when
elected in 1997.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 23 - Labor 11
- Independent 2.
Port Adelaide:
Susan Close won this seat in a by-election after controversial
Treasure Kevin Foley, retried in 2011. Young Salisbury Councillor Brad Vermeer
is her Liberal opponent.
Facts to impress your
mates: Family First candidate Bruce Hambour contested the seat in 2010 and
has stood for election in the Federal seat of Port Adelaide at the last three
Federal elections. One question. Why?
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 23 – Labor 12 Independent 2.
Ramsay:
On the northern border of Port Adelaide, Ramsay is another
safe Labor seat, held by Zoe Bettison who it at a by-election following the
resignation of former Premier Mike Rann. It has hit the front the page of the
Advertiser during the campaign after Liberal candidate Anthony Antoniadis made
Facebook comments about the residents of the electorate, saying they smelt,
were more interested in gambling than looking after their children, were not
willing to work and were criminals. Despite calls for the government to have
Antoniadis dis endorsed by the Liberals, Steven Marshall, while rebuking the
comments unsurprisingly stood by him. The underlying fact is it would cost the
Party to much time and money to find a new candidate and reprint posters and
campaign material in seat even Marshall admitted on ABC Radio ‘we are not going
to win.’
Facts to impress your mates: With the comments of
Antoniadis, I would stand around, again stroking my beard saying, ‘this might
be one of the few seats with a swing to Labor.’ If participating in an election
drinking game, any mention of the Facebook tirade by any of the commentators
should be worth two fingers.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 23 - Labor 13 - Independent 2
Reynell:
Sitting Labor member Gay Thompson is retiring after holding
this southern suburbs seat since 1997.There should be a swing against new Labor candidate Katrine Hildyard to
Liberal candidate Heidi Greaves, but not enough for Labor to lose the seat.
Facts to impress your
mates: Labor candidate Hildyard got caught out early in the campaign, when
she sent party workers down various streets when campaigning to check if people
were home and would like to meet the candidate. The ‘sorry we missed you notes’
were all signed with the name Katrine Hildyard, and the several obviously
different samples of handwriting was pounced on by the Libs.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberals 23 - Labor 14 - Independent 2
Schubert:
Long serving MP Ivan Venning is retiring from this safe
Liberal seat in the Barossa Valley. New candidate is manager of Barossa Fine
Foods Stephan Knoll, while Labor has picked another Uni student in a seat they
are going to lose in Adam Slobodian.
Facts to impress your mates: Retiring MP Venning is the only
person to have represented this electorate since its creation in 1993.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 24 - Labor 14 - Independent 2
Stuart:
A wide electorate which covers Wipena Pound, the Flinders
Ranges and Oodnadatta Track, with the main population centre in Port Augusta
and other towns including Orroroo, Peterborough, Jamestown Burra and Morgan, it
is a very conservative electorate. The seat was held by Peter Gunn for 40 years
until his retirement in 2010 and current Liberal Dan Van Holst Pellekaan (try
saying that 20 times fast) has a margin of 7.6 per cent. Van Holst Pellekaan’s
opponent is young Port Augusta local Josh Vines.
Facts to impress your
mates: Stuart is the second biggest electorate in the state and mobile
polling booths are the only way for some rural constitutes to exercise their
vote.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 25 - Labor14 - Independent 2
Taylor:
Another northern suburbs safe Labor seat, Taylor covers the
Defence Force facility at Edinburgh, as well as parts of Burton, Paralowie,
Salisbury and Elizabeth South.Leesa
Vlahos holds the seat by 12.6 per cent and her Liberal opponent, Alex Hyde is
the current President of the South Australian Young Liberals.
Facts to impress your
mates:The seat that was held by
former Premier Lynn Arnold was one of the 10 Labor won at the 1994 election
debacle.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 25 - Labor 15 - Independent 2
Torrens:
On the northern bank of the River Torrens, this seat covers
Klemzig, Oakden, Northgate, Windsor Garden and Holden Hill as well as other
local areas. Redistribution actually helps the Government, pushing the margin
from 7.8 to 8.2 per cent and they may need it. They was a big swing last time and
Family First also gained a large number of first preference votes, with their
preferences heading to the Liberals.Labor is also hurt that the long-time local member Robyn Geraghty is
retiring, and voters will be faced with two fresh faces. For Labor it is Dana
Wortley, a former teacher and journalist and for the Liberals Michael Manetta.
Manetta will be hurt by the exposure that he had a drink driving conviction in
1998, his blood alcohol reading 0.159. In the basis of the big swings against
Labor (despite that fact that I have called for Labor to hold onto some closer
seats) I will go out on a limb and call this one for Liberal.
Facts to impress your
mates: Dana Wortley is the wife of upper house MP Russell Wortley and is
former Labor Senator for South Australia.
Result: Liberal Gain
Liberal 26 - Labor 15 - Independent 2
Unley:
In the leafy rich suburbs just south of the city, including
Goodwood, Glenside, Fullerton and Unley among others, it is unsurprisingly a
safe Liberal seat held by shadow minister David Pisoni. It has had long periods
of dominance for each side of politics the Liberals holding it from 1938 to
1962, Labor from ’62 until 1993 and Liberal since then. Pisoni is a former managing
director of his own business while his opponent Lara Golding is a High School
teacher. Libs to increase their 12 per cent margin.
Facts to impress your
mates:At the 1973 election local
activists, upset at the quality of the candidates, nominated Susie Creamcheese
on behalf of the Happy Birthday Party. Ms Creamcheese won 6 per cent of the
primary vote.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 27 - Labor 15 - Independents 2
Waite:
Containing affluent suburbs such as Belair, Daw Park,
Hawthorn and Mitcham among others, it is held by Shadow Minister and former
opposition leader Martin Hamilton-Smith by a massive margin. This is the one
time I would like the secret ballot removed. Hamilton-Smith’s Labor opponent is
the rather ravishing Rebekah Huppatz, and it would be great to know how many
men under 30 suddenly vote Labor! Huppatz has caused some consternation during
the campaign, not being seen much in the electorate as she continues to work in
her full time role in the office of Federal MP Amanda Risworth in Canberra.
Facts to impress to
your mates: This seat in its former incarnation as Mitchell was the only
electorate that the Australian Democrats ever elected a member.
Result: Liberal Hold.
Liberal 28 - Labor 15 - Independents 2
West Torrens:
Held by Tom ‘fully sick Greek’ Koutsantonis, Minister for
Transport and Infrastructure, Minster for Mineral Resources and Energy, and
Minister for Housing and Urban Development as well as all things Fully Sick,
since 1997.It covers the suburbs that
lie between the Parklands in the east and the Airport in the West. Serge
‘Vodka’ Ambrose his Russian Liberal opponent should be given a 1000 vote head
start just because he has a cool name like Serge. But he will not win, his task
of overturning 12 per cent made more difficult by Family First directing their
preferences towards Labor.
Facts to impress your
mates: Just start playing ‘Zorba the Greek’ and tell everyone how you are
getting a new subwoofer installed in your car.
Result: Labor Hold.
Liberal 28 - Labor 16 - independents 2.
Wright:
This seat covers the outer northern suburbs of Salisbury
East, Gulfview Heights, Wynn Vale, Greenwith and Golden Grove and is easily
held by Labor Minister Jennifer Rankine. Tax accountant Lyn Petrie is the
Liberal candidate one of five on the ballot paper.
Facts to impress your
mates: Independent Child Protection Education candidate Danyse Soester was
on the governing council of a western suburbs school while a child sexual assault
took place during Jay Weatherill’s time as Education Minister. Soester’s belief
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Army to Equip Brigade of Abrams with Active Protection System by 2020
The Army plans to equip a brigade of Abrams main battle tanks with the Trophy active protection system by 2020, a service official said Oct. 9.
The Army has been testing the system — which can shoot down anti-tank guided missiles and rocket-propelled grenades — said Col. Glenn Dean, program manager of the Army’s Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
"The Army made a decision [that] we would move forward on phase two — which is our final series of testing — and phase three — which is production and deployment, essentially — simultaneously,” he said during a media briefing at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C.
The service plans to outfit a brigade of Abrams to be stationed in Europe with Trophy by 2020, and hopefully sooner, he added.
Besides the Abrams, the Army is testing active protection systems on the Bradley fighting vehicle and the Stryker combat vehicle, said Maj. Gen. David Bassett, program executive officer for ground combat systems.
“Our goal is to get recent, relevant, characterizing information on each of those platforms and capabilities,” he said. “This is about getting a broad range of information to inform Army decision making going forward.”
The Army wants to integrate APS into its platforms “sooner than later,” he added. To that end, the acquisition process has been accelerated.
Instead of drafting requirements, testing a technology exhaustively and then fielding it after an extended amount of time, the Army decided to approach the process differently, Bassett noted.
“Rather than starting with that requirement, we said, ‘OK, let’s install some systems,” he said. “[Let’s] get them on the platforms and characterize their performance to test for the capabilities and limitations of those systems.
“In an era where everybody wants us to do acquisition differently, this is a different model that we followed and I think it’s a great framework that we may be able to use to evaluate other existing systems,” Bassett added.
The Abrams — which is using Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Leonardo DRS’ Trophy system — is the most far along in testing, Dean said.
Trophy was tested at Camp Grayling, Michigan, this past winter, he noted. The location provided the system with a good stress test for cold environments, he said.
Following that, Trophy was brought to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, for live testing, he said.
“[We were] shooting actual threats,” Dean said. “I’m happy to say we tried to kill an Abrams about 48 times and failed.”
The testing has provided the Army with valuable data, he said. For example, when Trophy was installed it added weight to the tank.. That impacted the balance of the turret, which initially concerned officials because that could impact its stabilization. The Army put together a team that came up with a plan to mitigate the balance issue, he noted.
Overall, the Army is happy with the performance of the system, Dean said.
The service is also testing General Dynamics and IMI Systems’ Iron Fist on the Bradley, and Artis’ Iron Curtain on the Stryker, he said. Those systems, however, are not as far into testing as Trophy, he added. That’s partly because of funding delays, he said.
“The Bradley and Stryker also represent a little bit more challenging” integration process, he noted. Additionally, “the maturity of those systems may not quite as high as advertised.”Bassett noted that the Army is not locked in to working with any of the contractors down the line, and the service could change its mind as it seeks a more long-term APS solution.
Iron Fist (General Dynamics)
Kevin Sims, senior director of business development and marketing for munitions, armaments and platform systems at General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems division, acknowledged that Iron Fist is a bit behind.
“From a contractual perspective, we started later than some of those other systems. We were the last guy,” he said. Additionally, the Bradley poses some unique integration issues.
“The Bradley vehicle is challenging because of the size, weight and power [constraints]. There’s not a lot of space on the roof,” he said. “It has been a little bit of a challenge on the integration perspective.”
However, Sims was confident that the company would meet all of the performance parameters that the Army had laid out for the system, he noted. “We feel pretty good about that,” he said.
IMI Systems is the manufacturer of Iron Fist, and General Dynamics is the prime contractor for it in the United States, he said.
Iron Curtain (Artis)
Keith Brendley, CEO at Artis, said contractor testing of the Iron Curtain system on the Stryker has been completed.
“It did very well and the evidence of that is the fact that we’ve moved on to this … government testing, which is the second phase,” he said.
Iron Curtain is currently about a quarter to a third way through the second phase, he added.
One advantage of Iron Curtain is that it attaches to the hull of the system, he said. That “is much more easy to integrate, and we can protect the turret from the hull if needed because we can either look down, shoot down or look up, shoot up.”
Brendley said the company's system is applicable to almost any type of vehicle, and has been integrated onto tracked platforms in the past. Right now the company is focused on Stryker testing, but would “welcome further opportunities from the Army as they arise.”
Michael O’Leary, director of business development at Leonardo DRS, said the company is interested in potentially providing Trophy for the Bradley and Stryker. The company has listened to the Army about its concerns for size, weight and power on the vehicles and is currently developing a smaller system.
“A lightweight Trophy exists today and we’re going to finish that development [and] qualify it in time to … contribute to the decision making for the Army on the other platforms,” he told National Defense during the show.
O’Leary declined to say how much smaller the system would be compared to the current version. He noted that the company is working to ensure that performance is not sacrificed to reduce its size.
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NSA hack: SWIFT and EastNets reject security breach claims
Last week it was reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created tools that exploit security weaknesses, enabling it to monitor bank transfers on the SWIFT global banking network. The hacking tools are said to have enabled access to two SWIFT service bureaus, one of which is reported to be Dubai-based EastNets.
The BBC reported that the NSA-created hacking tools had been leaked online by a hacking group called Shadow Brokers. The article said: “Such a hack could have enabled the US to covertly monitor financial transactions”.
EastNets, which has 1,000 customers in 120 countries, including 22 of the top 50 global banks, has completely refuted the claims made by Shadow Brokers. It said there is “no credibility to the online claim of a compromise of EastNets customer information on its SWIFT service bureau”. The EastNets statement went on to say: “The reports of an alleged hacker-compromised EastNets Service Bureau (ENSB) network is totally false and unfounded. The EastNets Network internal Security Unit has ran a complete check of its servers and found no hacker compromise or any vulnerabilities. The EastNets Service Bureau runs on a separate secure network that cannot be accessed over the public networks. The photos shown on twitter, claiming compromised information, is about pages that are outdated and obsolete, generated on a low-level internal server that is retired since 2013.”
SWIFT: 'network not compromised'
SWIFT has said that the allegations date back to 2013, that they concern two service bureaus and that the SWIFT global network and messaging services have not been compromised. It said in its statement:
“The allegations suggest there may have been attempts to gain unauthorised access to data at two service bureaux. The exploits do not target SWIFT’s infrastructure or data. There is no impact on SWIFT’s infrastructure or data, and there is no evidence to suggest that there has been any unauthorised access to SWIFT’s network or messaging services. The material that has been published by Shadow Brokers, and which dates back several years, suggests that attempts may have been made by unauthorised third parties to access communications between these service bureaux and their customers. While this information is historic, we are in close contact with the service bureaux to remind them of their responsibility to inform their customers and to perform additional checks against the identified and other known threats, as well as to make sure that any necessary additional preventative measures are put in place.”
The files containing the malware (or 'exploits'/security weaknesses), which are thought to have been created by the NSA and have now been leaked online by the hacking group Shadow Brokers, would have been worth up to $2 million if sold privately, according to one estimate.
SWIFT was breached by a cyber attack in 2016, when criminals stole $81m from the Bangladeshi central bank.
Customers must secure internal software immediately
In its statement, SWIFT advised customers to:
pay close attention to your own security;
take security into consideration when selecting a service bureau and working with other third party providers;
CTMfile take: This is a very worrying story for all corporates that use service bureaus. SWIFT's advice to corporates is to tighten up on internal security and install software security updates and patches immediately. There doesn't seem to be an answer yet on what the NSA was – allegedly – monitoring and why. | {
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Gamers from all around gather once again to celebrate the final year of the current gen. XBox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii took center stage. This was also the debut of our new DJ Max Technika 3 arcade machine and the Videogame History Museum donation box :)
To commemorate the store's new museum exhibit (which features the history of Sega), this month's NAVA theme honored one of our all-time favorite videogame companies. It's Sega. The 6pm tournament was "General Chaos" and one of the game's designers, Brian F Colin, joined us in a live Skype interview afterward.
This month's party/collector meeting/tournament night was themed around the Pokemon phenomena. It featured battles, a special exhibit, a tournament table for card game players, and people dressed as various Pokemon.
Gamers from the tri-state area converge in Clifton, NJ to enjoy a day of Neo Geo gaming. The home (AES) system, arcade (MVS) cabinet, the new Neo Geo X console/handheld, and Neo Geo Pocket Color linked gaming were among the day's celebrities.
Vintage computers take center stage at the monthly NAVA meeting. Commodore 64, Atari 130XE, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Apple Macintosh and the "executive" Commodore SX-64 portable were all fired up and ready. They don't make computers like these anymore.
Gamers from the tri-state area converge in Clifton, NJ to celebrate this monthly event, this time paying tribute to the games that were never found in stores. Homebrews and prototypes took center stage, with the likes of Propeller Arena (Dreamcast), Frogger (Vectrex), Gunfight (Atari 2600), and Sonic Lost Worlds (Genesis) among others getting the spotlight.
Gamers (many in costume) gather at the store's monthlly day of gaming, trading, and chatter. Plenty of "Zombies Ate My Neighbors", Atari 2600 "Halloween" and arcade "Ghosts & Goblins" on tap for the day.
This was the first of our monthly gatherings where NAVA members were given the opportunity to come up with their own theme. The selected entry was this Russian-themed NAVA submitted by longtime NAVA guy Daniel Patrick Howard. Tengen Tetris was the night's tournament and Karnov was the arcade high score challenge. | {
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McCain accuses Paul of working for Putin
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Do these accusations violate the Senate Rule 19 against imputing another senator?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was halted from speaking earlier this year on those grounds
(CNN)Sen. John McCain accused Sen. Rand Paul of "working for Vladimir Putin" on the Senate floor Wednesday, leading some to wonder if the Arizona Republican had violated Rule 19, a Senate regulation evoked earlier this year when one senator imputes the honor of another.
McCain's comments came after Paul objected to a resolution that would allow Montenegro to join the NATO alliance. McCain responded by lobbing accusations at his fellow GOP senator multiple times, both before and after Paul objected to the vote, though the Kentucky senator did not add additional defense Wednesday.
Pointedly singling out the "gentleman from Kentucky," McCain said those who object "are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin."
When Paul formally objected, McCain reiterated his opinion.
"The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin," he said.
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The sharp attack had some congressional observers wondering how McCain hadn't violated Rule 19, as the GOP said Sen. Elizabeth Warren had when she criticized former-senator-now-Attorney-General Jeff Sessions earlier this year.
Warren was halted from speaking after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called her out of order -- citing Rule 19 -- for allegedly impugning a fellow senator. Warren was reading a decades-old letter by Coretta Scott King condemning Sessions ahead of his attorney general nomination vote.
The unusual scene shocked many and turned into a quasi-movement on the left unified by one rallying cry. It came from a letter released by McConnell describing the invocation of the rule, saying that Warren "was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."
"I think John McCain violated Rule 19 on Rand Paul. ... So do these accusations violate the Senate rule against impugning another senator?" Roll Call reporter Niels Lesniewski tweeted, to which, Paul adviser Doug Stafford responded "See you in court" in a tweet written in Russian.
Rule 19 of the Senate rules states, "No senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."
When asked about whether he thinks he violated Rule 19, a spokeswoman for McCain nevertheless persisted in focusing on Paul's vote on Montenegro.
"Sen. McCain believes that the person who benefits the most from Congress' failure to ratify Montenegro's ascension to NATO is Vladimir Putin," Julie Tarallo, a McCain spokeswoman, told CNN. "The senators who support this treaty, and certainly the people of Montenegro, deserved an explanation from Sen. Paul."
After the harsh words were exchanged on the Senate floor, Montenegro's Ambassador to the US, Nebojsa Kaludjerovic, told CNN that while it's obvious that "Sen. Paul still objects to the resolution," what is "most important is that at least 98 senators are in favor of it." The ambassador said the "key now is finding the time to vote" and he hopes "it might be done soon."
The Pentagon sides with McCain and is also in favor of Montenegro's membership. A spokesperson from the Department of Defense said that they "continue to support Montenegro's NATO membership," and added that "ratification of Montenegro's accession will be an important reminder of this commitment."
Rule 19 is open to interpretation by Senate members, and its invocation is up to the senators and the member presiding. It's notable that after it was invoked against Warren the Senate Historian's Office scrambled to determine when it was last enforced. They were not able to provide a definitive count of the times it's been used. | {
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Access to NDA documentation
What does NDA stands for?
NDA stands for Non Disclosure Agreement. This means, when you agree to an NDA, you are agreeing to not disclose the information you are receiving, to parties other than whom are listed in the agreement you are signing or agreeing to.
Doesn't XFree86.org have NDA documentation?
XFree86.org had documentation for some pieces of video hardware that was obtained under NDA. They were not able to distribute that documentation to other people freely, only to others who had signed a blanket NDA with XFree86.org. That NDA was the primary feature of the XFree86.org member program.
XFree86.org has since ended its member program and the documentation they previously offered is no longer available.
What are the steps that one should take to get NDA documentation?
What're the reasons behind NDA?
I'd just like to comment a bit about the mechanisms involved here, at least as I myself see them. It is not limited to any particular vendor nor to any particular individual seeking information. Also, my comments are solely my own, and do not in any way reflect any opinions of my employer, or of any hardware vendors, etc.
In a perfect world, all vendors would just allow access to their documentation outright and freely. However, we aren't in that utopia yet, and they do indeed control access to their documentation, whether or not individuals like that or not. So, to get to that documentation, we very much need to play by their rules. Again, I speak of no particular company here, or individuals.
If they want to restrict access to information, then IMHO, there needs to be some mechanism in place to determine who gets documentation, and who does not get it. If it were as simple as: Joe Blow signs up, is automatically accepted without any question, clicks on NDA agreement, and then gets the docs, they might as well just publish the docs on their website freely for anyone to download anyways, as they wouldn't be restricting information at all.
Who should they give their docs to? Do they want just anyone having the docs? Or do they want competent developers that are most likely to really use the information to produce real results?
What metric gauges the decision? Does Joe programmer have a CS degree in 3D work, thus more likely to successfully use the information to complete some open source work? Is he a video game programmer? What has he done? Or is he just someone who is wanting to help, and is good intentioned, but might not actually have the skills and/or time to truly contribute? How do they know? For all they know, someone could say they are working on fixing a bug in XFree86, however actually they are working for a competitor for example. Who knows what the logic behind it all, or cares. Either way, some metric is needed to decide how to divulge information.
If the purpose of using an NDA is to restrict access to information, yet let capable individuals access that information to yield working results, and thus improve support for and promote a hardware vendor's product well, there needs to be some metric with which to gauge someone, and whether they are truly capable, or whether they are just "good intentioned".
If someone is working for a graphics company for example, is affiliated with some past work such as DRI, XFree86, perhaps has their name in the kernel credits for graphics work, or has some credential showing their capabilities, then it would stand to reason the chances are much higher that they could use the information and produce results. Probability-wise that is.
If someone is not working for a company who does graphics, or is writing video drivers, or affiliated with XFree86 and/or DRI, or some other similar thing, they could (not would, just could) potentially be a higher risk of information leakage IMHO. It stands to reason then, that a company may want to see some credentials before allowing access to information. By having people become XFree86 members first, I think it is a very good metric to see who is serious on working on code. XFree86 does not have difficult membership requirements, and any programmer who is capable of taking register level documentation from a hardware manufacturer, and producing useful results from it, is also very capable of quickly becoming an XFree86 member.
To do so, one need only fix a bug in XFree86, or perhaps add a feature, even something small. It is a small measure of one's capabilities to do the job. Once someone has passed the test of writing some small patch, that fixes something in X, they have shown some level of troubleshooting skill, some level of proficiency, and are much more likely to also continue to contribute to the project in the future. By passing that test, one can elect to join XFree86 as a member, which involves reading a web page, firing off an email, and then bouncing a few emails, agreeing to the XFree86 NDA.
Once one is an XFree86 member, they open up a lot of doors, including access to information that XFree86 has under NDA, and other private stuff. One can then come to a hardware vendor, asking for technical specifications under NDA with something more than "I know how to program C, and have good intentions", they can say, "I am an XFree86 member wanting to add support for foo, and/or fix bar in driver baz on your fooblaster card." I don't know of any XFree86 developer who has been refused information by vendors who support open source after having adequately went through the right channels, and proved that they are truly serious about the work they'd like to do, by passing a few litmus tests.
In all honesty, I think if someone thinks fixing a bug in XFree86 and becoming a member is too much of a hassle, then they are most likely not going to come through on any serious code at all anyways, and are thus more likely to be a information leak to a particular hardware vendor than an asset.
People certainly don't need to jump into the lake completely, it makes at least some sense to me that they should commit to dipping their leg in up to their knee, rather than just putting their toe in, and wanting full scuba gear. Scuba equipment given to them, may end up sitting on a shelf, rather than being used for whatever it is scuba divers use their equipment for.
OK.. that was an oddball analogy, but it does the job. ;)
My above thoughts on the logic involved behind these processes, may be way off mark, but that is what I've come up with, while watching the processes at work, and trying to look at the situation from the various different sides involved.
I guess it could be stated more like this:
You can get much further with a smile and a few bugfixes accepted into the code base, than you can get with a smile alone.
You can quote me on that. ;) | {
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Directions
Thornes is on Northampton’s Main Street, a lively business district that is a local and regional destination for shopping, restaurants and cultural events. Getting here couldn’t be easier with the intersection of Route 90 and Interstate 91, known as the “Crossroads of Western New England,” close by.
from the EAST:
Mass Pike / I-90 West to Exit 4 I-91 North toward Holyoke
Exit 18 for Route 5 North toward Northampton Center (Pleasant Street)
Left onto Route 5 North (Pleasant Street)
Left onto Main Street at light to Thornes
or
Left off Route 5 North (Pleasant Street) onto Hampton Avenue at the Northampton Chamber of Commerce (before the center of town) and into the parking garage which has a walkway to Thornes on Level 3.
from the WEST:
Mass Pike / I-90 East to Exit 4 I-91 North toward Holyoke
Exit 18 for Route 5 North toward Northampton Center (Pleasant Street)
Left onto Route 5 North (Pleasant Street)
Left onto Main Street at light to Thornes
or
Left off Route 5 North (Pleasant Street) onto Hampton Avenue at the Northampton Chamber of Commerce (before the center of town) and into the parking garage which has a walkway to Thornes on Level 3.
from the SOUTH:
Left off Route 5 North (Pleasant Street) onto Hampton Avenue at the Northampton Chamber of Commerce (before the center of town) and into the parking garage which has a walkway to Thornes on Level 3.
Parking
Convenient, covered parking right next door AND THE FIRST HOUR IS FREE!
Short and long-term parking are available in Northampton’s E.J. Gare Municipal Parking lot which is located at 85 Hampton Avenue, Northampton, MA. This lot provides convenient skywalk access to Thornes Main Level. Handicapped parking is available on Level 3 of the Gare Municipal lot.
Additional municipal parking is available behind and nearby Thornes with lots just off Route 5 (Pleasant Street) or via Old South Street, off of Main Street. On-street parking is free after 6 pm and free all day Sundays and holidays.
Hours
CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
SOME STORES OPEN LATER
Please note Thornes is closed on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas. | {
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Market stir fry
With the summer produce available in abundance we are featuring it in a series of food demonstrations during the market. We have had Pesto making by Gabriel Caplett of Duke’s Farm and Market Stir fry by Leanne Hatfield assisted by Aleut Hatfield of Seeds and Spores Family Farm. This Saturday Andrew Sear from Diggs will be guest chef at the market this week. He will be highlighting quick pickling techniques as a way to enjoy and preserve the summer bounty.
Veggie saute
Onions – slice
Savory Cabbage – slice
Fennel – chop
Peppers – mix of green, red, yellow and purple – chop
Zucchini – mix of green, striped, yellow and patty pan – chop
Green Beans – chop
Fresh Basil and Marjoram – chop
How to make it
The important first step to create a quality stir fry is to wash, slice, chop all the vegetables prior to beginning to cook.
Add the sliced onions and savoy cabbage to hot pan with olive oil. Cook lightly, add the rest of the chopped veggies, stirring to cook. Cook to your desired texture. Remove the pan from the heat, season with salt and add the fresh herbs. the onions and cabbage may be slightly caramelized, but it is important not to overcook the remaining vegetables. The goal is to retain flavors, textures and colors. To finish off the stir fry, top with chopped fresh heirloom tomatoes and Crispy Kale.
Pan roasted crispy kale
Wash and dry the kale. Remove the leaves from the thick center stem. Chop, then add the kale to a hot, dry cast iron pan. Stir until it begins to get crispy, then stir in some olive oil (just a bit, you do not want it saturated or soggy) and salt before removing from the heat. | {
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One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest.
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest.
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catalan
I remember planning the night before planning to not take a shower the next day until I got to my friend Dani’s place, because I would be walking out in the hot sun with my luggage again. Even though it would only be for about 15-20 minutes, that much time dragging luggage around in the sun can make all the difference. I had taken one the evening before I left St. Petersburg and I try to only take one every other day because it is supposed to be better for your skin and hair, but this usually ends up being every day and a half or even every day because I hate being dirty. Unfortunately this morning I just felt so dirty that I had to take a shower. I got up early because I was still on St. Petersburg time and used to waking up at 7:30 am for class, and the first thing I did was shower (without a towel).
Throughout my travels this last year I have often not had a towel to use, or only a very small one. When I traveled in Russia, I used a hand towel, which was actually a sufficient size to serve the purpose of drying myself off. When I traveled over winter with Kenzy and Ali, Kenzy and I both did not use towels because we didn’t have them to bring with us. Drip drying was good enough. This time I still didn’t have a towel to use, but I needed a shower (I think the lack of towel was another reason I had intended to wait until I got to Dani’s to shower, because I assumed she had some that I might be able to use).
Dream Cube Hostel thankfully has breakfast included since I didn’t have any groceries. The breakfast was the typical European hostel breakfast. There was coffee, tea, and milk of course, some fruit, cornflakes, bread that you could make toast with and jams to put on the toast. I decided to take a couple of pears and an apple and cut them up to put on my cereal. This was the breakfast that we had had almost every morning while we traveled in the winter, with slight variations here and there, and this was the best I could come up with, with what I had to work with.
(The park we visited)
After I had finished eating breakfast, I let Dani know that I was ready to come over whenever she was. She wanted to take some time to clean up after our other friend left, so I got back to work booking flights and hostels and communicating with my friend in France to see if I could come visit. As has been my intention throughout this trip, I tried to study some Russian, but everyone wants to know what you are doing so it is very difficult in the hostel environment.
(The pond at the park)
Eventually Dani was ready for me so I headed in her direction. The street between us was on a hill, and thankfully I was headed downhill rather than up.
I found what I thought was her building, and realized that we hadn’t talked about a way for me to contact her when I got there. I managed to get in the building and stood around for a while looking at the mailboxes or for some clue as to where in the building she stayed. Eventually I decided it might be better to exit the building because anyone who came in kind of gave me a strange look since I was standing there with my luggage looking lost in a building that you had to have a key or have someone buzz you in to enter.
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(Barcelona’s Arch of Triumph)
I stood back out on the street looking at the buttons that would call each apartment (because sometimes they have names next to them), and then Dani came out probably not even five minutes later to throw some clothes away. (She was leaving Barcelona soon at this point and had to decrease the amount of possessions she owned abroad because she could not carry it all home).
After we made it inside, we started off the day (it was probably 1 or 2pm at this point so “starting” might not be the proper word) in a very relaxed manor. Dani took a nap because she was tired from having our other friend over, and talked to my friend with whom I planned to visit Istanbul until it came time for me to attend my online orientation for my summer program.
(The arch up close)
Eventually Dani got up and decided to show me a little bit of the city. We went to a beautiful park with a pond, and spent some time walking through it and just enjoying the greenery, and catching up of course.
(Looking for contact cleaner, or on the way)
(A little background on us. Dani and I met at my university in Pennsylvania. She was a junior (3rd year) when I was a freshman (1st year). We met on the cheer team. We both cheered that year and were both treated badly by the captains. She was also in the sorority I joined my sophomore (2nd) year, and she was a major part in me joining. Not because she tried to convince me to join or not join, she (and most of the rest of my sorority) was just the type of person I would want to call my sister. Through mutual experiences, and just having enough in common we became good friends and close sisters).
(All of the pigeons)
After walking through the park, she showed me that Barcelona had an arch of triumph, like France (not that I have seen the one in France because I have not been there yet).
Before heading back in the direction of home, we decided to look at an optometry store to see if they had the contact solution that I needed. I had not worn my contacts for the last 2 months while I studied because I ran out of the cleaner and could not figure out how to get it in Russia. We asked a lady and thought she understood what I wanted. The bottle I was sold was weird, but I needed to wear my contacts so I thought I would give it a try.
Dani had spent all of her money while our other friend was with her, so she did not have much to spend with me. On that first night she showed me a small restaurant that she said was very local, and the plan was for me to eat there and her to eat back at her apartment since I wanted to try something local.
(Modern Art)
At first I sat outside because the weather was nice, but the waiter immediately asked me what I wanted, and when I asked for a menu, he said they didn’t have any and beckoned me inside. He sat me at a table and handed me a menu in English and one in Spanish. I was supposed to find what I wanted in English then find it on the menu in Spanish because the man did not speak a word of English. Unfortunately the menus were slightly different. I wanted some sort of sausage with mushroom sauce, and instead ended up with sausages with fries. At least the fries were real, and the meal was only about 6 euros, which is very inexpensive for a bigger city like Barcelona.
That night, after I returned, we broke out the vodka. Dani apologetically mentioned that she did not have shot glasses, but funnily and fittingly enough (because I had been in Russia), I did. We definitely did not finish the bottle that night. We only got about a third of the way through it, and then we decided to head to a bar. The bar we were planning to go to was called the Dow-Jones Bar or something. The idea was that the price of drinks would go up if someone bought one, but if one had not been sold in a while then the price would start dropping. I thought it was a really cool idea, so I wanted to see it.
The night did not really go as planned and we left the bar almost as soon as we arrived and returned home to watch a movie or something. I want to ask my friend before I put additional information about the night and Barcelona in general in my blog.
On the 17th my Russian visa, which had been extended the previous semester, expired. After something like this you cannot feel physically different, but the mental realization was kind of shocking. Russia, and specifically St. Petersburg, had been my home for so long and for such a significant time in my life, and I was leaving the city behind without a notion of when I would be able to return. Who knows when I will be back? But I promised everyone that I would return, including myself.
I had a few rubles leftover, so I decided to buy a bottle of good vodka (0.5 liters) to take to my friend who I would see in Barcelona. The first night in Barcelona I stayed in a hostel because my friend had another friend visiting her and could not host two people at once.
I arrived in Barcelona at the airport at about 8 am. As I was going through passport control, I was stopped because they asked my for my return flight information. At that point I did not have any flight beyond Barcelona booked, so I could tell them when I was leaving the European Union, but I could not give them documents confirming what I said. Normally this is not a problem when flying into the EU, but there are certain cities that are more interested in such information. We all know the rules concerning travel, so it really should not be a problem, but after getting to know more about Barcelona I understood why. At passport control they took my passport and made me sit off to the side for about 10 minutes, then someone came to talk to me and give my passport back, but I was immediately let through. They did stamp my passport, but it makes me wonder if they put a flag on my passport or something, although I doubt it. I have never broken the law, so they would have no reason to. I don’t know why they needed it for so long, but at least it was returned to me.
(Coming in for landing)
After entering the luggage carrousel area of the airport and picking up my checked bag, the first thing I did was try to withdraw money because I needed cash for transportation as well as paying for the hostel upon my arrival. There were two ATMs right next to each other, so I tried one a couple times, then the other and was a little worried that they didn’t work. I decided to go online to try to check my bank account to see if there was a problem, but this was easier said than done. My phone had updated a few weeks before and ever since the update it has trouble connecting to free wifi, which has proved to be very frustrating because I have no data plan abroad and internet is pretty important when trying to find your way around another city, much less another country. (But, of course, people managed this before wifi as well)
(Not the most beautiful area of the coastline)
Finally I did manage to connect to the internet, only to receive an email warning that there was unusual activity on my card. I realized I had forgotten to tell the bank I was traveling after I completed my program in Russia. I had only warned them I would be abroad until May 17th, and then the plan was for me to go home (the plan that had been created before I left the United States in June). I quickly let the bank know that the attempts to use my card were not due to fraud, and then set a travel alert on my bank account to let them know where else I was planning to travel. After I overcame this headache, I was immediately able to withdraw money and move onto the next headache of trying to find my way to the hostel I would be staying at for the night. I had purposely booked a hostel located about a 15 minute walk from where my friend had told me she lived in Barcelona so that I would not have to struggle to get my bags onto additional transportation to get there.
The directions the hostel gave if one wanted to use public transportation and not pay for a taxi required a person to make two transfers on the transportation. First, from bus to metro, and then from metro to tram. I decided before I started my journey that this was a bit excessive, so I went to ask information how to get to the hostel to see if they had another option. It seemed that they did – a transfer simply from one bus to another.
I went on my way (paying the bus driver with a 20 euro note. In Russia he probably would not have let me ride the bus, but I didn’t have anything smaller because I had just withdrawn money) and found myself at the main plaza (sort of a giant roundabout) where I would make a transfer to the next bus. Unfortunately, it was not as easy as the lady at information had described. The plaza had bus stops on every connecting street, so I went around in a circle from street to street, with all of my luggage, checking the bus stops and trying to figure out the map of transportation to see if my bus would be there. (In addition to walking around with my luggage, I was still wearing the jeans and light jacket I had donned the night before when I was headed to the airport in St. Petersburg, so I was very warm). The bus stop I wanted was not there as far as I could tell. In the end I decided to try the metro. I am used to using the metro in Russia. I know the one in St. Petersburg very well, and I can get around on the one in Moscow too, and after traveling on so many in the winter I thought it wouldn’t be a problem for me to take this one. What I found was a mess. The entrances weren’t clear, so I ended up carrying (not rolling) my luggage through a mess of underground passageways, up and down stairs, that were supposed to be “convenient connections.” I did eventually make it to the right area and found my way to the tram. Getting on the tram was pretty straightforward, but after getting off, I got lost again.
(At the first plaza)
The directions after getting off the tram seemed pretty straightforward. Normally I think I am pretty capable of getting around alone and reading a map, since I have had to do this multiple times without a GPS, but I have to get lost sometimes, otherwise I won’t learn. At the end of the tram was another roundabout that I ended up walking around, with all of my luggage with me as well. I finally did find the correct street I was looking for and made it to the hostel where I would be staying for the night. I walked in the front door and found, as with many European hostels, the hostel was on the second floor, so I had to walk up the stairs with all of my luggage. I don’t like taking multiple trips if I don’t have to, so backpack on my back, 50 pounds in one hand and the carry-on in the other; I made my way up the narrow stairs. They heard me coming as the bag occasionally hit the wall, but I made it.
I found reception at the top. A man was working there at the time when I arrived (in his late 20’s); he took one look at me and understood that I was tired (after staying up all night for the plane ride, and then walking around for a while with my luggage, how could I not be). Unfortunately the beds weren’t ready because they were still cleaning the rooms and changing the sheets, but at least I was able to sit in one place.
As I mentioned before, I was stopped at passport control, so I decided that since I could not sleep, that this would be a good time to start booking the rest of my trip. At this point (one May 17th) I only had my trip figured out until May 26th.
Finally the bed was ready, so the rest of my day was spent taking a long nap. The hostel I stayed at was called “Dream Cube.” The beds were such that we basically slept in our own cubes. The room I was in probably had 6 beds, but each bed had a curtain that shut out the light and separated you from the rest of the people in the room. It was very nice to have these curtains since I wanted to sleep in the middle of the afternoon. The hostel was very comfortable, and I would recommend it if you choose to travel to Barcelona.
(My shadow in the hot sun with my luggage and light jacket)
When I finally woke up, it was much later. This was my first time staying in a hostel by myself because when I traveled alone in Lithuania, I chose to stay with hosts. People traveling in groups bigger than 2 are intimidating to people who choose to travel alone, because I have been in those groups, and unless you approach others, people won’t bother you. Traveling alone you make your friends along the way and go see sights with people from the hostel if you choose. Since I was only in the Barcelona hostel for one night, the social aspect was not as important, but I ended up speaking with fellow hostel-stayers as well as the man working there, for hours. The man was Catalan – the cultural group that is native to Barcelona. He was very nice, so I did not get the initial experience of the Catalan people that I later understood them to be.
The man working there offered me some of his soup, which I decided to try because I think at this point in the day the only thing I had eaten was a bag of peanuts, and it was also too late to go out and buy groceries, not that I really wanted to because I was only there for one night. It was apparently a traditional Catalan summer soup. It was cold and really good in the heat. Although I am from California and warm weather is usually very normal for me, I was not used to the heat anymore because in Russia it had still been cool enough that I often needed a light jacket, and I had not even been out of Russia for 24 hours at this point.
I did end up meeting some very interesting people at this hostel and really enjoyed my stay. Unfortunately I will not stay in touch with them because it was a brief meeting, and you cannot stay in touch with everyone. One conversation I remember having was with a guy, who I believe was from Chile. He was studying in Holland and traveling with a friend he met there. We had a conversation about South American names and how they tend to use both last names from their parents, as well as remembering a few names back on the father’s side of the family. He said if you did not do this, you would never know that you might be related to someone. This is part of the reason why in films from this area of the world the names are so long, but not the only reason. He mentioned that in these films, often a person would add a religious phrase, which would make their name even longer and sound more complicated or interesting.
We had many interesting conversations, but unfortunately it was too long ago now for me to remember.
Since I had slept earlier I ended up staying up later than most people there, but at least without people to talk to I got some work done. | {
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Nevada: $530 Million in Marijuana Sold in FY 2018, State Has Over 8,000 Full-Time Marijuana Jobs
According to a new report by the Nevada Dispensary Association, there was over $500 million in marijuana and marijuana products sold legally in the state in fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018).
Of the $529.9 million in marijuana sold, $424.9 million was recreational marijuana, with the remaining $105 million coming from the sale of medical marijuana. These sales brought in nearly $70 million in tax revenue for the state.
The report also found that the legal marijuana industry has brought at least 8,300 new full-time jobs to the state. From this, there was $443.3 million in labor income (direct, indirect and induced).
In Nevada, marijuana was legalized by voters in 2016. The state’s first legal marijuana sales took place the following year. Marijuana is taxed with a 10% excise tax on sales, and a 15% wholesale tax.
Nevada is one of nine states in the U.S. with legalized marijuana, with all but one of them (Vermont) allowing legal sales. | {
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HISTORICAL GENRE: European Historical RomanceSETTING: England 1876HEROINE: 37 year old retired courtesan with a son
Once, a long time ago, Coco Wild learned to never allow a man's kiss to move her, for that way led to downfall. A slender beauty with alluring eyes, she built impregnable defenses around her emotions. The men who came to adore her, fought to conquer her and learn her mysteries, made her the toast of London, but none were able to rouse her passions. But that hard-taught lesson is about to unravel because of Sir James Stoker. Back in England with a treasure of gold from his adventures, newly knighted by Queen Victoria herself, and feted everywhere, the handsome explorer has the world at his feet. He's exactly the man Coco might have dreamed about when she was young: a tall, fair hero with a charming smile. Now he's turned his energy toward winning her, the most desirable and the least attainable woman he knows; and Coco's aft-aid James may just find his way past the thorns that have so long protected her from the world, and awaken her slumbering heart...with just one kiss.
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And the romance? Just beautiful. The theme here is both characters' awakening, not sexual, but emotional awakening, Sleeping Beauty style, and there is a poetic scene in the dentist's office where under the influence of nitrous oxide, she experiences a revelation. (read more)
Judith Ivory does not idealize her heroes and heroines. Certainly they are always larger than life, but she is such a close and truthful observer of human behavior that the portraits she draws are not uniformly pretty. While some readers may find this unappealing, others such as myself find it utterly fascinating. Sleeping Beauty will definitely have my vote for one of the best books of the year. (read more) | {
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Establishes a national monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) protecting 941,000 acres of federal land between Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave Preserve along historic Route 66 in San Bernardino County.
Protects approximately 266,000 acres of land that were donated to or purchased by the federal government over the last decade for conservation.
Permits the construction of transmission lines to facilitate the transfer of renewable energy generated in the California desert and adjacent states.
Provides solar energy companies with potential projects currently proposed inside the monument boundaries to relocate to federal solar energy zones being developed by the Department of the Interior.
Establishes an advisory committee to develop the management plan for the monument. The committee will be comprised of representatives from local, state and federal government, conservation and recreation groups, and local Native American tribes.
Title XIV: Sand to Snow National Monument
Establishes a national monument covering approximately 134,000 acres of federal land between Joshua Tree National Park and the San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The monument would be jointly managed by the BLM and the Forest Service with management guidance from an advisory committee comprised of local, state and federal government, conservation and recreation groups, and local Native American tribes.
Title V: Wilderness
Designates approximately 250,000 acres in five BLM Wilderness Study Areas near Fort Irwin as wilderness as well as portions of Death Valley National Park (90,000 acres) and the San Bernardino National Forest (4,300 acres).
Releases approximately 126,000 acres in the Cady and Soda Mountains that were designated wilderness study areas in the 1994 California Desert Protection Act, thereby allowing vehicular access to these areas.
Title VI: Vinagre Wash Special Management Area
Designates a “special management area” covering a total of 76,000 acres in eastern Imperial County in order to conserve, protect and enhance plant and wildlife management as well as nationally significant ecological, recreational, archeological, and cultural resources. The area also contains approximately 49,000 acres of potential wilderness and approximately 12,000 acres of former private land donated to the federal government for conservation.
Permitted uses would be hiking, camping, mountain biking, sightseeing, hunting, off-highway vehicle use on designated routes and horseback riding. Prohibited uses would include new mining, permanent roads, commercial uses, or activities that would preclude the potential wilderness areas from becoming wilderness in the future.
Title VII: National Park System Additions
Adds approximately 74,000 acres of land to the National Park System, including:
Death Valley: Approximately 41,000 acres, including a narrow strip of land between the southern boundary of the park (31,000 acres known as the “Bowling Alley”) and Ft. Irwin that was designated a wilderness study area by the Desert Protection Act and a former mining area (6,400 acres known as the “Crater Area”) in the north that is entirely surrounded by park wilderness.
Mojave Preserve: Almost 30,000 acres on the northeastern corner of the park known as Castle Mountain, which was left out of the Desert Protection Act due to mining which has now ceased.
Joshua Tree: Approximately 2,900 acres in multiple small parcels of BLM land on the northern boundary of the park that have been identified for disposal.
Title XVIII: Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas
Designates four existing, administratively designated off-highway vehicle areas in San Bernardino County as permanent off-highway vehicle recreation areas. Land management would remain as it exists today, but the BLM would be given discretion whether to require a new site specific management plan or simply modify its existing desert-wide management plan.
BLM lands in Johnson Valley that are not needed for the for the expansion of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center would become part of the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area.
Requires the Secretary to conduct a study to determine what, if any, lands adjacent to these recreation areas would be suitable for inclusion and authorizes the Department to do so.
Title XIX: MiscellaneousSection 1901: State land transfers and exchanges.
Requires the Department of Interior to work with the state to complete the exchange of approximately 370,000 acres of state school lands located in California desert over the next ten years. Small isolated parcels of state land in wilderness, national parks and monuments would be exchanged for federal lands elsewhere that could potentially provide the state with viable sites for renewable energy development, off-highway vehicle recreation or other commercial purposes.
Transfers 934 acres currently designated as a BLM wilderness study area to Anza Borrego State Park to be managed as state wilderness, which surrounds it on three sides.
Requires the Department of the Interior to work with local government to potentially transfer BLM lands for municipal infrastructure needs.
Section 1902: Ensures continued military training activities.
Ensures the right of the Department of Defense to conduct low-level overflights over wilderness, national parks and national monuments.
Section 1903: Climate change and wildlife corridors.
Requires the Department of the Interior to study the impact of climate change on California desert species migration, incorporate their results and recommendations into land use management plans, and consider the study’s findings when making decisions granting rights of way for projects on public lands.
Section 1904: Prohibited uses of donated and acquired land.
Prohibits the use of donated or acquired lands for development, mining, off-highway vehicle use (except designated routes), grazing, military training and other surface disturbing activities. This prohibition would apply only to public lands within the California Desert Conservation Area.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make limited exceptions in cases where it is deemed in the public interest. Comparable lands would have to be purchased and donated to the federal government as mitigation for lost acreage.
Authorizes the Secretary to accept easements and deed restrictions on donated lands within the California Desert Conservation Area in the future.
Section 1905: Tribal uses and interests.
Requires the Secretary to ensure access for tribal cultural activities within national parks, monuments, wilderness and other designated within the bill.
Requires the Secretary to develop a cultural resources management plan to protect a sacred tribal trail along the Colorado River between southern Nevada and the California-Baja border.
Section 520: Native groundwater supplies.
Protects the Mojave Preserve’s native groundwater supplies by prohibiting the Department of the Interior from processing rights-of-way applications for nearby projects that are likely to use more groundwater than is naturally restored to the local aquifer each year.
Section 102: Wild and scenic rivers.
Designates 76 miles of wild and scenic rivers, including Deep Creek and the Whitewater River in and near the San Bernardino National Forest and the Amargosa River and Surprise Canyon Creek near Death Valley National Park.
Fund its new Renewable Energy Permitting Offices with revenues in the existing BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund, which can currently only be used for Oil and Gas permitting.
Establish new memoranda of understanding with states to expedite permitting of renewable energy projects.
Use the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund to expedite Fish and Wildlife Service permits for renewable energy proposals on private lands.
Use 50 percent of income generated from renewable energy projects on Federal Land to (1) replenish the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund, (2) increase the size of the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, and (3) establish a fund for the purpose of reclaiming any abandoned renewable energy project sites.
Return the remaining 50 percent of income to state and county governments for the purpose of improving permitting and increasing conservation.
Section 202: Establishes a process to eliminate the backlog of renewable energy development proposals on Federal Land. This section would establish deadlines on both Federal agencies and applicants to expedite the environmental review of renewable energy development proposals, to prioritize development proposals in which the developer makes significant progress, and to turn down ill conceived and speculative proposals. Applicants who fail to meet deadlines will be rejected in favor of developers who make progress on their sites. The Bureau of Land Management would replace its first-come, first-serve permit review process with a process that would give priority to renewable energy developers who have (1) completed their biological and cultural studies, (2) submitted an accepted development plan and a plan for securing necessary water, and (3) applied for an interconnection to the power grid. The Secretary of the Interior has used similar criteria to declare renewable energy proposals on a permitting “fast track.”Section 203: Establish a coordinated plan to develop renewable energy on Federal Land. This section would require the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Forest Service to undertake Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements of renewable energy potential on Federal land, with the goal of identifying zones where renewable energy production is in the public interest, and where environmental approval of renewable energy projects can be expedited. Section 204: Requires the Department of Defense (DoD) to Study Renewable Energy Potential. This section would instruct the DoD to study the viability of developing a renewable energy program on Southwest military bases. Military bases in California and Nevada have thousands of disturbed acres which cannot be used for training and may be good places for renewable energy development. Base leaders are working to develop renewable energy as a result of a DoD goal to generate 25 percent of all energy from renewable sources by 2025. But the efforts are not coordinated, and this study would focus personnel on this matter formally.
Section 205: Pilot Program to Establish Endangered Species Mitigation Zones: In order to better coordinate endangered species protection and reduce barriers to shifting development from Federal land to private land, renewable energy developers proposing to develop private lands would contribute money to an endowed fund that would be used to better manage, in perpetuity, habitat for desert tortoise and other endangered or threatened species on at least 200,000 acres of specified public lands. Recent research indicates that, especially for protection of the Desert Tortoise, better and more active management of existing federal land is a more effective way to protect the species than acquiring additional mitigation acres in an uncoordinated manner. BLM would adopt a management plan for each zone in consultation with the Fish & Wildlife Service and an expert advisory panel. Section 206: Bonding: Developers proposing renewable energy projects on Federal land would be required to purchase and hold a bond to fund the eventual clean up and restoration of projects proposed on public lands. Section 207: Clarify Permitting Requirements for Temporary Weather Measurement Equipment: This section would permit the Bureau of Land Management to expedite the permitting of wind and solar measurement devices. Section 208: Report: The Secretary of the Interior shall have to report regularly to Congress on progress permitting renewable energy projects on public lands.Section 209: Establish loan guarantees and grants for advanced technology and underground transmission lines. New technologies could upgrade the capacity of the electricity transmission grid without requiring the permitting and construction of massive new towers. Newly designed higher capacity wires can be strung from existing towers, and new technologies allow for more cost effective underground transmission. However, utilities resist deploying these new technologies because they are not yet proven and they remain more expensive. By providing support for these innovations, grants and loan guarantees would help prove these emerging technologies in a cost effective public-private partnership.
I saw this on the horizon and thought I'd post it here. This hasn't passed into law yet... After having read the whole thing I did have some concerns about the 90,000 acres that would be designated wilderness in Death Valley. Anything designated wilderness is closed to vehicular travel.
The bill would release some wilderness lands so that they could be accessed by vehicle. | {
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Is It Safe to Go Bowling When You’re Pregnant?
In a word, yes. But, with any pregnancy exercise, it’s best to take a few precautions before signing up for your local bowling league.
As your pregnancy progresses, you’ll start dropping things. Constantly. This isn’t just because your little peanut is kicking you harder than usual, causing you to lose your balance or grip on your favorite coffee mug.
This is due to your powerful body getting ready to deliver your babe by releasing the hormone “relaxin.”
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The goal of this aptly named hormone is to help your birthing parts literally “relax” to prepare for child birth. But, it has some side effects that can be a little frustrating.
Your ligaments and joints are stretching out a bit as they make room for your little one which is going to throw off your center of balance.
This doesn’t apply to the body parts used for childbirth, your hands, feet, arms and even face are going to be affected. Since you also use your hips, hands and legs to toss a bowling bowl down that shiny lane, be aware that you may not get that coveted perfect score.
The best exercising advice I heard during my pregnancy was “if you didn’t exercise like this before you were pregnant, it probably isn’t best to start while you are pregnant.”
Follow that advice while out at the alley by grabbing a lighter ball when your turn rolls around. Heck, even do the “grandma style” of bowling. That’s a sure fire way to alleviate any concerns about your potential gutter balls.
If you have any health concerns, you should always consult your doctor first. Bowling can cause strains in certain muscles and aggravate preexisting conditions.
I’m not interested in bowling, what other types of exercise are there?
There are plenty of low impact activites that you can do while pregnant. These suggestions will help you maintain that pre-mama body and alleviate some of those pesky pregnant symptoms we all love to hate.
Just Keep Swimming
If you are pregnant during the summer, take advantage of those warm days and head to your local outdoor public pool. Enjoy it when that teenage lifeguard blows their whistle and yells “adult swim time!” Swim a few laps then reward yourself with a trashy magazine. Ahem, I definitely meant top-rated parenting book.
The great thing about swimming is that it will help cool you down. Any pregnant lady knows how appreciated that little cool off can be in the middle of July. Just make sure you stay hydrated when you vacate the pool. Dehydration + pregnancy isn’t a fun combo.
If you are lucky enough to have a great indoor pool nearby, join it! Use those pre-determined swimming lanes to feel weightless (for once). Swimming is great because it doesn’t put pressure on your hands or ankles. That little trick will help alleviate any of your swollen extremities. There might even be a few classes for pregnant ladies that you can join. Group classes are less intimidating and you might make some new pregnancy and mama friends!
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Pre-natal yoga classes are your friend. While they are basically glorified stretching, you’ll be so happy you went. If you were a yogi before you became pregnant, you’ll be able to maintain your positions with some slight modifications. Because of the aforementioned “relaxin,” you are going to be a bit off center which can make positions like Warrior a little wobbly.
If you are new to yoga, don’t worry! Find a reputible local yoga studio that offers pre-natal classes. Usually, studios will give you your first class at a discount if you’ve never been. Let your instructor know that you’ve never been to a class before you start. Being upfront with any specific issues you’ve been having will help make your class more effective.
Each trimester is going to present a new list of challenges to your ever changing bod. The nice thing about yoga is that it is totally adaptable to however you’re feeling. If you are nauseous and want to hang out in child’s pose for 45 minutes, do your thing girlfriend. If you are struggling with hip pain, your instructor can guide you through poses to stretch those core muscles.
The real perk? Savasana is basically a glorified nap complete with essential oils.
Walk It Out
Get back to basics with this tip. No matter what time of year, you can find a place to take a brisk walk. Grab a girlfriend and head to your closest mall. Take a few laps while also hitting up your favorite sales. Two birds, one stone.
If you happen to have a treadmill in your house or apartment, that’s an even bigger perk. Tune in to your favorite show and walk it out for a half hour. Or, towards the ninth month, waddle it out. Even a brief bout of low impact exercise like walking will help you out during your pregnancy.
Not only does walking cover the basics like maintaining your pre-pregnancy weight and boost your heart health. It has also been said that exercise during pregnancy can potentially create a shorter, easier labor. Another perk? It can help to ease the dreaded pregnancy constipation. That right there is reason enough to get walking.
Again, if you have any health concerns or problems, please consult with your doctor. Low impact exercise can be a definite add to your pregnancy but only if it is safe and healthy for you and your babe. Take it easy and have fun.
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May 17 High Velocity Bowling
One of the best new downloadable games you never heard of is coming to the PlayStation Network in roughly a month. Despite receiving virtually no press, Sony had High Velocity Bowling stuck in the back of their Gamer's Day event in San Diego. The results were surprising.
Everyone loves Wii Sports Bowling. It is super easy to pick up the controller and bowl against your friends. Sony is taking the idea of motion controlled bowling and adding in a more sophisticated look with better physics and a realistic engine that will cause you to approach bowling like you would in real life.
Players will find several modes in High Velocity Bowling. These include: Head to Head, Tournament, and Trick Shots. Each mode offers its own fun and variety. As you play through HVB, players will be able to unlock other characters--each with their own particular strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately, there is no option to create your own player. This is something that the Developers wanted to integrate but they were under time restraints and decided to concentrate on other aspects of the game instead. While it is possible that the feature could be added in some sort of add-on pack--it may never see the light of day. If the public is receptive to High Velocity Bowling, Sony could potentially integrate it into Home. This is all speculation and nothing was promised by the developer. But because the Home version of bowling is nowhere near as fun and enjoyable as High Velocity Bowling, Sony should strongly consider this.
Another feature that is currently MIA is online play. Due to the development schedule of the game, there was not time to integrate any online modes into the core gameplay mechanic. Depending on how the game sells on the PlayStation Network, I was told that an online mode will be available this summer that will run roughly five dollars. It is possible that the five dollars will include some other features as well. In addition to offering online play, the developers would also love to incorporate video chat, voice chat, online tournaments, and more. However, before they are ready to commit any additional costs or resources, High Velocity Bowling needs to generate some sales on the PlayStation Network. For a game that has its future dependent on sales, I am surprised this was the first time anyone has really seen this game before.
As we mentioned above, there isn't any online multiplayer in the current version of High Velocity Bowling. But players can still have fun by participating in the local multiplayer modes. Utilizing one Sixaxis controller in the pass along mode or by using multiple controllers, you and your buddies will be able to share in bowling fun around your TV. It may not be quite as fun as online multiplayer but it will add a lot of replay value until the online add-on pack is available for purchase.
The area shown to us at Sony's Gamer's Day event put the player inside a small room with two lanes. High Velocity Bowling showcases more realistic graphics than what Sony is using inside of the PlayStation Home bowling game. It is also a drastic improvement over what Nintendo gave us in Wii Sports Bowling. To play, players hold the controller by grasping the Sixaxis in their hand. After this is done, they line up their shot and hit the X button. Once that is done, you move the cursor right or left to determine where you will throw the ball. A simple press of the X button will then take you to the actual shot. Players must then hold down the X button, for a straight shot, or the L2/R2 button for a shot with hook. Also, depending on the speed at which you swing your arm will determine how well you throw the ball. If you over-swing the ball, you will lose accuracy and potentially ruin your shot.
HVB is still being tweaked and the developers were watching closely to see how players were handling the game. I was told that they were going to add several markers to the User Interface to assist the player in lining up their shot easier and hitting the "sweet spot" of power.
High Velocity Bowling will be rolling its way on the PlayStation Network by the end of June for a retail price of $9.99. Besides the $4.99 price point of the upcoming online multiplayer add-on, any other add-on packs have yet to be given a price. We should also expect a demo to hit the Online Store shortly after release. High Velocity Bowling is looking like it will be an excellent addition to the PSN and a title worthy of purchase.
Screenshots for High Velocity Bowling
Kaleb is the Editor & Publisher of CVGames and the host of the Parents Press Play Podcast. As a husband and homeschooling father to four boys, Kaleb provides a unique perspective on the gaming industry alongside other areas of entertainment and technology that have been enhanced by his 20+ years of covering these fields.
When not podcasting at Parents Press Play or covering the industry at CVGames, Kaleb loves to bowl, cook, spend time with his family, and cheer on the San Francisco 49ers and Texas Rangers. However, the truth is that he can never get enough time sharing his love of video games and other areas of entertainment and technology that he covers through his website and podcast!
Kaleb is the Editor & Publisher of CVGames and the host of the Parents Press Play Podcast. As a husband and homeschooling father to four boys, Kaleb provides a unique perspective on the gaming industry alongside other areas of entertainment and technology that have been enhanced by his 20+ years of covering these fields.
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CUNA Regulatory Comment Call
October 19, 2007
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board (the Agencies) issued a joint
proposed rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (Act).
The proposal designates the following five payment systems that could be used in connection
with a restricted transaction: automated clearing house systems (ACH); card systems, check
collection systems, money transmitting businesses; and wire transfer systems.
Most participants from the ACH, check collection and wire transfer systems will be exempt.
Participants in these systems that are not exempt are those with a customer relationship with the
Internet gambling business and those that send or receive certain cross-border transactions,
including credit unions if they engage in these activities.
This means that participants in card systems and within money transfer businesses would be
covered by the rule, including credit unions participating in these systems.
All non-exempt participants would be required to either establish or implement policies and
procedures to identify and block, prevent or prohibit restricted transactions or rely on and
comply with the policies and procedures established by the payment system.
The proposal provides nonexclusive examples of policies and procedures for each designated
payment system.
A safe harbor is provided to anyone that identifies and blocks a transaction if it is
restricted, the participant believes it is restricted or the transaction is blocked in reliance on
the policies and procedures.
This is a very confusing proposal and we dont pretend to have all the answers because the
regulators certainly dont.
Comments are due to the Treasury and the Federal Reserve by December 12, 2007. Please
submit your comments to CUNA by November 25, 2007. Please feel free to fax your responses
to CUNA at 202-638-7052 or e-mail them to CUNA SVP and Deputy General Counsel Mary Dunn at
[email protected] or Assistant General Counsel Lilly Thomas at
[email protected] or by telephone at 202-638-5777.
BACKGROUND
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (Act) was enacted as Title VIII of the
Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006 and signed into law on October 13, 2006. This
Act prohibits persons engaged in the business of betting or wagering from knowingly accepting payments
from another engaged in unlawful Internet gambling. Among other provisions, the Act directs the
Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department to implement its provisions, in consultation with the
Department of Justice. They were directed to designate the payments systems that could be used to make
a restricted transaction under the Act (an illegal Internet gambling transaction). Designating a
payment system subjects it and the financial transaction providers, such as financial institutions, to
regulation. Federal financial institution regulators, including NCUA, are to enforce the rule, when
finalized, for the institutions they supervise. (NCUA will enforce the rule for all federally insured
credit unions; privately insured stated chartered credit unions will be under the Federal Trade
Commissions enforcement.)
The Act directs that the regulation must require payment systems covered by the rule and financial
transaction providers (including financial institutions) participating in each covered payment system
to establish policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to identify and block restricted
transactions. The rules must identify the types of policies and procedures that would be deemed to be
reasonably designed to meet the Acts objectives. The agencies are required to exempt any
transactions or participants in payment systems from the requirements of the rule if the regulators
determine it is not reasonably practical to identify and block such transactions.
The Act provides that a participant, such as a financial institution, in a payment system that is
covered by the rule will be deemed to be in compliance if it relies on the policies and procedures of
the payment system and such policies and procedures comply with the rule.
HIGHLIGHTS
The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board (the Agencies) issued a
joint proposed rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (Act).
The proposed rule would require participants in designated payment systems to establish
policies and procedures reasonably designed to identify and block or prevent transactions
in connection with unlawful Internet gambling.
The proposal designates five payment systems that could be used in connection with a
restricted transaction:
Participants in these payment systems include financial institutions that participate in,
are members of, or have contracted for services with a designated payment system.
Exemptions
The proposal exempts most participants in the ACH systems, check collection systems, and
wire transfer systems. Participants in these systems that are not exempt are those that
would have a customer relationship with the Internet gambling business and those that
send or receive certain cross-border transactions. Specifically, the first participant in
the United States that receives an incoming cross-border ACH debit or check collection
transaction directly from a foreign institution is not exempt. In the case of outgoing wire
transfers and ACH credit transactions, the originators financial institution or the
intermediary financial institution in the U.S. that sends the wire transfer transaction, or
the gateway operator that sends the ACH credit entry directly to a foreign bank is also not
exempt.
Specifically, the following participants in each payment system below would be exempt
from requirements to establish written policies and procedures to prevent or prohibit
restricted transactions:
ACH systems
The ACH Operator, except one that receives instructions to originate an
ACH debit transaction or send a credit transaction directly from a foreign
sender;
The originating depository financial institution (ODFI) in an ACH credit
transaction; and
The originators financial institution or intermediary financial institution
except one that sends or credits a wire transfer transaction directly to a foreign
bank.
Requirements for Non-Exempt Participants
In addition to participants that have a business relationship with an Internet gambling
business or receive or send certain cross-border transactions, participants in the credit
card services and money transmitting businesses are not exempt.
All non-exempt participants would be required to either:
Establish and implement policies and procedures to identify and block, or
otherwise prevent or prohibit restricted transactions; or
Rely on and comply with the policies and procedures established by the payment
system as long as its policies and procedures comply with the regulation.
The proposed regulations provide examples of policies and procedures for each designated
payment system. The examples are nonexclusive and participants are directed to use the
policies and procedures in a risk-based manner tailoring them to their type of business and
to the different types of restricted transactions.
Generally, policies and procedures for each system should be designed to prevent or prohibit
restricted transactions and include measures to be taken when restricted transactions are
discovered. Additionally, policies and procedures should address methods for conducting due
diligence in establishing and maintaining a commercial account relationship and should be
designed to ensure that the commercial customer does not originate or receive restricted
transactions.
Card Systems Examples
Policies and procedures for participants in card systems, including merchant acquirers, card
system operators, and card issuers, such as credit unions should:
Address methods for conducting due diligence in establishing or maintaining
a merchant/customer relationship. They should be designed to ensure that the
merchant/customer will not receive restricted transactions through the card system
by screening potential merchant customers to ascertain the nature of their business
and include in the merchant customer agreement that the merchant may not receive
restricted transactions through the card system.
Include procedures to identify and block or prevent or prohibit restricted
transactions by:
Establishing transaction and merchant/business category codes required to
accompany the authorization request and enabling the issuer or operator to
identify and deny authorization for a restricted transaction.
Monitoring or testing 1.) potential restricted transactions to ensure
authorization requests are coded correctly; 2.) websites to detect unauthorized
use of the card system including its trademark; or 3.) payment patterns to
detect suspicious payment volumes from a merchant customer.
Include procedures to be followed, such as assessing fines or denying access to the card system, when it is discovered that a merchant received restricted transactions through the card system.
Automated Clearing House System (ACH) Examples
Policies and procedures of the ODFIs and third-party senders in ACH debit transactions
and RDFIs in ACH credit transactions should:
Address methods for conducting due diligence in establishing or maintaining a
customer relationship. They should be designed to ensure that the customer will not
originate restricted debit transactions or receive restricted credit transactions by
screening potential commercial customers to ascertain the nature of their business
and include in the commercial customer agreement that the customer may not receive
restricted transactions.
Include procedures to be followed, such as assessing fines, preventing the
transaction or closing the account, when it is discovered that a customer originated
or received restricted transactions.
The proposal also includes examples of policies and procedures for ACH gateway operators
and third-party senders receiving instructions from foreign senders, which would not apply
to credit unions.
Check Collection System Examples
Policies and procedures of a depositary institution should:
Address methods for conducting due diligence in establishing or maintaining a customer
relationship to ensure that the customer would not receive restricted transactions such as
screening potential commercial customers to ascertain the nature of the business and include in
the commercial customer agreement that the customer may not deposit checks that constitute
restricted transactions.
Procedures should include actions to be taken, such as refusing checks for deposit and closing
the account, when the depository institution becomes aware that the customer deposited checks that
are restricted transactions.
Depository institutions that receive a check for collection directly from a foreign bank
should have policies and procedures in place that address methods for conducting due diligence in
establishing or maintaining the correspondent relationship with the foreign bank.
They should include a term in its agreement requiring the foreign bank to have policies and
procedures in place to ensure that the correspondent relationship will not be used to process
restricted transactions.
Additionally, procedures should include actions to be taken, such as denying check collection
services for the foreign bank or closing the correspondent account, when it is discovered that a
foreign bank sent checks that are restricted transactions.
Wire Transfer System Examples
The policies and procedures of a beneficiarys financial institution in a wire transfer
should:
Address methods for conducting due diligence in establishing or maintaining a
commercial customer relationship to ensure that the customer would not receive restricted
transactions such as screening potential commercial customers to ascertain the nature of
the business and include in the commercial customer agreement that the customer may not
receive restricted transactions.
Both the beneficiarys financial institution as well as an originators financial
institution or intermediary bank that sends or credits a wire transfer directly to a
foreign bank should have procedures that include actions to be taken, such as denying
access to the wire transfer system and closing the account, when restricted transactions
are discovered.
Money Transmitting Business Examples
The example of policies and procedures of money transmitting businesses include addressing
methods for conducting due diligence in establishing or maintaining a commercial relationships.
The policies and procedures should be designed to ensure that the commercial subscriber will not
receive restricted transactions through the money transmitting business by screening potential
commercial subscribers to ascertain the nature of their business and include in their agreement
that the subscriber may not receive restricted transactions.
The money transmitting business should Include procedures to identify and block or prevent
or prohibit restricted transactions by monitoring or testing:
Websites to detect unauthorized use of the money transmitting business including its
trademark; or
Payment patterns to detect suspicious payment volumes.
Procedures should include what actions should be followed, such as assessing fines, denying
access or closing accounts, when it is discovered that restricted transactions have been
received.
Safe Harbor
The proposal provides a safe harbor to anyone that identifies and blocks or a transaction or refuses to honor a transaction if:
The transaction is restricted or the participant reasonably believes the transaction
is restricted; or
The non-exempt participant blocked the transaction in reliance on the policies and
procedures of the designated payment system in an effort to comply with the regulation.
Definitions
The following are key definitions listed in the proposal:
Unlawful Internet gambling transaction to place, receive or otherwise knowingly
transmit a bet or wager by any means that involves the use, at least in part, of the
Internet where such a bet or wager is unlawful under any applicable Federal or State
law where the bet or wager is initiated, received or otherwise made.
Restricted (payment) transaction one which a person engaged in the business of
betting or wagering is prohibited from accepting in connection with another persons
participation in unlawful Internet gambling. Such transactions include credit or the
proceeds of credit, electronic fund transfers, funds transmitted by or through a money
transmitting business or the proceeds of such transfers, and any check, draft or similar
instrument that is drawn by or on behalf of the other person and is drawn on or payable
at or through any financial institution.
Participant in a designated payment system an operator of a designated payment
system or a financial institution that is a member of or has contracted for financial
transaction services with, or is participating in a designated payment system.
Automated clearing house system or ACH system a funds transfer system, primarily
governed by the ACH rules. The terms used in this proposal when referring to ACH systems
are those terms that are defined in the ACH Rules.
Card Issuer any person who issues a credit, debit, or pre-paid card as well as any
stored value products, issued or authorized by the operator of the system.
Money transmitting business or service is any business other than a depository
institution which provides check cashing, currency exchange, or money transmitting or remittance services, or issues or redeems money orders, travelers checks, and other similar instruments.
QUESTIONS REGARDING THE PROPOSAL
Is this rule well-constructed or do you find it confusing? Why?
Please explain.
Do you believe that the list of five designated payment systems is too broad
or too narrow? Do you agree with the current list of designated payment systems,
or should new and emerging systems be included?
Please explain.
Do you agree with the list of exempt participants? Do you believe any
additional exemptions should be included or should existing exemptions be
removed?
Please explain.
The proposed rule currently exempts Originating Depository Financial
Institutions (ODFIs) from establishing and implementing policies and
procedures. Do you believe it is impractical for an ODFI to implement
policies and procedures in an ACH credit transaction? Does the burden
outweigh any benefit in identifying and blocking restricted transactions?
The proposal specifically exempts the originators financial institution
and intermediary financial institution in a domestic wire transfer. Do you
believe it is impractical for these participants to implement policies and
procedures in a wire transaction?
Do you believe it is appropriate for participants to incorporate into
their account opening procedures the proposals due diligence provisions,
including periodic confirmation of the nature and type of a commercial
customers business?
Do you support the inclusion of examples of policies and procedures?
Are the examples too broad or too specific?
Do you believe ongoing monitoring and testing should be incorporated in
the examples for the ACH, wire and check cashing systems?
Do you believe it is practical and cost-effective for card systems to develop
additional merchant codes to include lawful Internet gambling?
Do you believe that the agencies should establish and maintain a list of
unlawful Internet gambling businesses for participants to access and use when
blocking restricted transactions?
Do you agree with the proposed definitions of the terms, specifically of the
designated payment systems and participants? If not, please explain.
Do you believe six month after the joint final rules are published is sufficient time
for financial institutions and other participants to comply? | {
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Federal Member for Wannon, David Hawker, today officially launched the Branxholme Community Hall redevelopment at Branxholme.
Mr Hawker said Australian Government Regional Partnerships programme funding of more than $35,000 assisted the Combined Pre-Schools of Southern Grampians Incorporated to construct toilets, a storage area, a covered deck, reception area and also refurbish the existing kitchen and meeting rooms.
“This project has extended the existing community hall into a multi-purpose community centre that allows for a greater range of health, education, recreational and sporting activities,” Mr Hawker said.
“The Community Hall incorporates the local kindergarten which until now did not meet Victorian State Government standards. These improvements have been important to ensure quality facilities for children attending the pre-school and to help the town cope with the recent influx of families to the region”, he said.
Mr Hawker congratulated the local community for working together to access Regional Partnerships programme funding.
“I would particularly like to thank the Greater Green Triangle Area Consultative Committee for helping to bring this project to fruition,” he said.
“I would also like to acknowledge the financial support provided by The Southern Grampians Shire, the Branxholme Hall Committee and Timbercorp.”
The Regional Partnerships programme continues the Australian Government’s approach of working with local communities to support their ideas. A total of $271.2 million is available under the Regional Partnerships programme from 2006-07 to 2009-10.
Mr Hawker said the Regional Partnerships programme would deliver benefits to communities well into the future, not only from programme funding, but from the higher levels of economic activity and improved social amenity which the programme was generating.
Since its inception in July 2003, the Regional Partnerships programme has, on average, attracted a further three dollars from other sources for every dollar invested by the Australian Government.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg’s NewTV closes a billion dollar round, says report
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new mobile video startup NewTV, which snagged Meg Whitman as CEO in January, has now closed on $1 billion in funding, according to a report out today in CNN. Investors in the round include Disney, 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros, Entertainment One and other media companies, with a combined $200 million investment, while institutional investors from the U.S. and China made up the rest.
The news follows a May report from Bloomberg, which said NewTV had then raised around $800 million. It had also said 21st Century Fox and Warner Bros. were investors.
Last fall, an SEC filing revealed WndrCo was looking to raise as much as $2 billion. That could indicate that the round CNN is reporting is still in the process of raising.
NewTV declined to comment, when TechCrunch reached them for confirmation.
Details are still fairly sparse on NewTV, which is being incubated by Katzenberg’s WndrCo, a holding company that’s also invested in startups including Mixcloud, Axios, Node, Flowspace, Whistle Sports, and TYT Network.
So far, we know NewTV aims to bring high-quality Hollywood production values and storytelling to mobile, but in a different format. Instead of producing regular-length TV shows, it aims to release content in “bite-sized formats of 10 minutes or less.” This will also involve custom-designed technology built specifically for mobile, it claims.
But it’s unclear why – beyond having Katzenberg and now Whitman’s names attached – this makes the company worth a billion dollar investment. The market for this type of content hasn’t really been proven out. After all, today’s youngest video consumers are happy with YouTube – their TV alternative of sorts – which is filled with short-form video.
And while YouTubers’ grasp of production values and storytelling chops may fall short of “Hollywood” standards, streaming services like Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and others are filling in the gaps in terms of quality, and are growing sizable subscriber bases.
If there is actually demand for “high-quality short-form” video, it seems content producers could just sell to existing distributors directly.
It’s also unclear for now if NewTV aims to own and distribute its content to others, act as its own standalone streaming service, or plans for a mixture of both.
In any event, as CNN points out, even a large round like this is a small bet for the bigger media companies involved. In addition, they don’t want to miss a shot at backing Katzenberg’s latest – especially given his prior successes at Paramount, Disney and DreamWorks. | {
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Starting off breakfast with a little Angelina Ballerina on the iPad...
Day 206 - July 25
Swim lessons have begun again and this little girl is loving it!
Day 207 - July 26
Stole this one from last week because I needed a filler but here is Amelia with her great-uncle Darin ;-) As many of you know, Amelia can be quite shy when first meeting people and while she has met Darin before, it had been awhile, but she warmed right up to him.
Day 208 - July 27
We were at the grocery store after swim lessons and Amelia was tuckered out. She put her head down on the handle and fell asleep...here's what it looked like from the top (to give some perspective)
Day 209 - July 28
First fire of the season that hit close to home. That's the back edge of the fire on the left side of the screen and you can see the trucks and cars of volunteers from the fire department lining the road leading up to it. This particular fire was directly across the street from the Big Cat Care rescue near our house. Very scary for them...in fact, this fire re-ignited in the middle of the night and thankfully, the owners' Great Pyrenees dogs started barking, woke them up, and when they discovered the fire had reignited, they called the fire department again.
Day 210 - July 29
Mi-Wah, my high maintenance barn cat, needed his first of several seasonal allergy shots so it was off to the vet. Like most cats, Mi-Wah does not like going there and apparently, all the cats like to hide in this cabinet door, so the tech opened it so Mi-Wah could climb inside and "hide". Didn't get him out of his shot though...
Day 211 - July 30
Speaking of cats, here are my other two showing some brotherly love. They sat there for awhile grooming each other and as it does most times, inevitably turned into a wrestling match! | {
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Kira is beautiful,I assume you have contacted shelters,put up posters,even contact the local newspaper and sometimes radio stations will help out.
Someone else here will be able to give you sites where you can also post.
Please let us know if there is a happy ending and you find her,I certainly hope so,good luck!
Search parties work well too, cover areas over and over again...leaving the dogs favourite treats along the trail if in wooded area. Go back to the same area more then once. Talk to local people and leave posters with them.
When I dog search I give them to taxi drivers, cops, emt's, firemen and tow truck drivers. I put some on windshields of cars and at mail boxes and the big green boxes the letter carriers go to!
Did she get spooked? What happen that she got lost? Many times people find dogs and keep them for awhile before contacting their local shelters because they think the dog is cute and the owner is being punished for letting the dog get away. Happens all the time!
Does she have a dog friend that is friendly with her? Even family pets can trace and track...it doesn't take much. Give the dog her scent from her bedding and keep going back to the area she was lost. Call her name A LOT, call it LOUD and use a friendly tone.
No it's not a global tracking system Heidi, what a microchip is...is a chip inserted between the shoulders of a dog/cat. When they are picked up as strays, shelters and vets can scan the dog with a wand and pick up the number code (like if you were to scan something at a grocery store and the number comes up on the computer screen).
They use this number to input into the database which holds all the microchip numbers for pets. The owner info comes up
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Cats only have nine lives because they stole them from dogs!Teehee
Followed most of your suggestions Luba, thanks again for the great help.
She was spooked in the woods when our other dog(border collie) got into a scruff with two other dogs. My mother didn't see her disappear, and we haven't heard a single sound from her yet. The lady who was walking the other dogs told my mother(eventually) she had seen Kira on the trail ahead of her, but she ran into the woods again.
We had one phone-call today giving us a tip, if it's correct Kira seems to be moving in the right direction, back to our house.
I wish we had a 'tracking chip'. It was one of the first things we checked, but alas, not on her. Thanks for the kind words all.
Take your border collie out to the area you think she is at ....if the wind is blowing the right direction she may smell her pal.
I don't know if your border collie is a barker but if you can get out there and get the dog to bark, that would be great.
Good that you got a phone call, that is great news are you confident from the call it was your dog?
Go out as frequently as you can and just keep calling and calling and calling.
I've suggested to people if they know the dog is in a certain area to take a portable BBQ out and cook some stinky burgers and hot dogs. The smell of the food will bring the dog to you. It worked bringing a lost dog outta the woods once So it's worth a try if you know the area.
Very best of luck.
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Ack, very, very sorry to post so late. You already know the good news, she was found after 12 or so days, around 12km from home. In great condition besides a sunburned nose and some weight-loss. We had the help of some great people who kept us updated with her location. Many thanks to everyone here who helped as well, and thanks also to Marko for posting for us . | {
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“Being poor or even living in Laventille does not cause one to engage in crime or any other behaviour, but they make certain lines of conduct easier or more difficult. When poverty or unemployment is treated within the context of strong families and an active socialising church, crime and vandalism are likely to remain low.
“But families are being weakened and we are yet to find a replacement for the church or mandir in the shaping of lives. We then throw the job of social control onto the TTPS, which is not equipped for this type of work.
“When faced with this challenge, it is important for us to remember that ‘Zero tolerance’ blustery overreaction can exacerbate the situation…”
The following Letter to the Editor on Trinidad and Tobago’s response to its crime problem was submitted by Noble Phillip of Blue Range:
Photo: A thug shows off his weapon in Trinidad.
No police strategy, by itself, can return crime to the levels we had in the mid-70s.
Yet we long for the ability to conduct our affairs in public without great anxiety; and we wish that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) will protect us from the criminal elements and from unbearable ruffians. How can this be achieved?
Since the mid-70s, our society has changed from one that was community based (“all ah we is one”) to one where our individual objectives are priority (“devil take the hindmost”). We retreated to a place of exclusion, averting our eyes from human suffering on the pretext that such persons are lazy, deserving of their lot in life.
The last two decades have created distance between us, predicated on wealth. Simultaneously, there has been a decline in acceptance of personal responsibility and a rise in victimhood as we pursue material goals, rejecting our communal past.
Being poor or even living in Laventille does not cause one to engage in crime or any other behaviour, but they make certain lines of conduct easier or more difficult. When poverty or unemployment is treated within the context of strong families and an active socialising church, crime and vandalism are likely to remain low.
But families are being weakened and we are yet to find a replacement for the church or mandir in the shaping of lives. We then throw the job of social control onto the TTPS, which is not equipped for this type of work.
Photo: Morvant residents enjoy their first taste of Pro League football as Morvant Caledonia United and San Juan Jabloteh battled at the Morvant Recreation Ground on 16 October 2016.(Courtesy Sean Morrison/Wired868)
When faced with this challenge, it is important for us to remember that “zero tolerance” blustery overreaction can exacerbate the situation. One type of response does not fit all circumstances.
The lower reporting rates by residents in crime-ridden areas reflect their lack of confidence in the police, not complicity with criminals. By putting pressure on the police to achieve ‘results’, we increase the potential to falsify evidence and increase corruption.
‘Killing criminals’, as part of policing, compromises organisational values of honesty and integrity and damages their own quality of life. Policing should aim ‘to reduce crime, disorder and fear’. That there is a hardened core is indisputable; but the response to them ought not to guide the response to all others.
In a 2010 UNDP survey, we were more afraid of crime than our Jamaican peers and 70% of us believed that the justice system was corrupt. That perception was driven by corrupt senior officials, bribe taking and the involvement of some in crime.
Photo: Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith (far left) at the 2018 Independence Day parade.(Copyright Office of the Prime Minister)
Magically, we now expect our police to be above board in extra-judicial killings, giving evidence and recording crime. The recent significant drug find at the Prisons is a sobering context.
David Rudder’s ‘Madman Rant’ is appropriate here: “somebody clean out the weed well fast… somebody letting the cocaine pass.”
To rage against reasoned inquiry is not confidence inducing. We ought not to compromise the role of the Police Complaints Authority, it preserves our confidence in the Police Service.
Tackling the drug trade is crucial. It is cloaked in violence, normalises illegal behaviour and encourages availability of firearms. We need better ballistics training and problem diagnostics to increase the odds of conviction. If we do not have convictions, the criminals is obliged to ignore our ‘gun talk’.
We need more foot patrols—not mobile ones—using firm and effective discretion. Foot patrols enable the building of community relationships and facilitate the gathering of intelligence within the community. Unfair treatment, perceived or real, cuts that connection.
As our straitened economic circumstances bite, tensions will rise and only a spark will be needed to ignite serious disorder. But our Greenvale experience shows us we can take hold of the fate of our community. We can help each other, jointly confronting the powers-that-be who fall down on the job we gave them.
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A number of researchers have identified the steepness (Gini coefficient) of income inequality as being a significant predictor of violent crime. Places where everyone is poor or places where everyone is rich do not show those levels of violent crime. The rational is that those engaging in violent crime are ill equipped to achieve socially acceptable dominance in socially acceptable ways so violence is the means to achieve wealth and status.
Juxtapose this with the research which shows that IQ is the greatest predictor of success in society. The trait of conscientiousness is also a strong indicator but to a lesser extent.
And add for good measure our penchant for corruption and abhorrence for planning,procedure and execution (might be attributed to IQ scores) and we get an incubator for violent crime.
So consider:
the income inequality of the 70’s vs present;
IQ of those involved in violent crime vs those that are not;
The conscientiousness of those involved in violent crime vs those not involved; (more difficult to measure)
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Crews Work to Staunch North Dakota Fracking Blow Out
Crews in North Dakota are working to seal a leaking oil well. According to the Associated Press, officials are calling the leak, the result of a well blowout, the worst in the state since it saw a resurgence of the gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
The leak was first reported Wednesday about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Killdeer. The well sets atop the Killdeer Aquifer, the source of drinking water in the area. According to the Bismarck Tribune, crews are now working to plug the well with three cement caps injected at depths between 8,000 and 9,000 feet.
Sanjel Corp., of Canada, was conducting the fifth of a 19-stage fracture, each one injecting 370,000 gallons of water and gel chemicals at 8,000 pounds per square inch of pressure when the blowout occurred, the Bismarck Tribune said.
A spokesperson for Denbury Onshore, which was leasing the well, said it continued leaking about two barrels of mostly water each minute on Thursday morning, according to the Associated Press. As of yesterday morning, 1,007 barrels of water and 125 barrels of oil had been recovered. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting that a total of 2,000 barrels of oil and fluid have so far leaked from the well.
The leak occurred when steel and concrete casing within the wellbore failed, according to the Associated Press. The leak is said to be confined to the drilling pad. A protective dike was built Wednesday to keep oil from a nearby creek.
The state health department said monitoring wells would be drilled by the end of the week to test groundwater in the area. The state’s director of the Department of Mineral Resources told the Bismarck Tribune that only one of the chemicals used in the fracking fluid, potassium hydroxide, is toxic. However, he maintained it did not pose a risk at the dilution ratio used in the fracking fluid. He also maintained that the Killdeer Aquifer flows less than one foot a day, so it would take decades for any contamination to reach the community’s drinking wells. If needed, he said the aquifer would be remediated.
The state’s investigation of the incident will focus on whether or not pressure testing regulations instituted only two years ago were being followed at the site, the Bismarck Tribune said. | {
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There are three things that I think makes this photo better than most airplane photos... first, you capture the landscape and mountains fairly clearly; second, you don't try to hide the wing, in fact it is in there in full view; and third... you capture the circular shape of the window. Actually, that's my favorite part. It frames the whole photo perfectly. Nice job! | {
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10 Gamer Wedding Invitations
“1-up” your fellow brides with this collection of video game themed wedding invitations, that will fill anyone’s health bar.
Looking for a creative way to invite your family and friends to your big day? Or even if you go the more traditional route for your wedding, a fun invite will make you the envy of all your friends. Here are some great examples of video game themed wedding invitations that others have used to make their wedding invites “powered-up”, with the likes of Pac-man, Portal and Mario. Because nothing says wedding like 8-bit hearts.
If you are an 80′s Atari games fan, this is the right one for you! Created by Illustrator and comic artist Carla Berrocal.
This Pac-Man wedding invitation was created by Can find it on his Deviant Art page The Shiver. | {
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The high assist rate corresponds with Blatt’s Princeton background. He played under Pete Carrill at the Ivy League school. Those Russia teams did not have an offensive star, but rather a lot of solid players who worked well together.
But while Blatt’s Maccabi Tel Aviv teams have also played slow, they haven’t assisted at a high rate. And they’ve been better offensively than defensively.
The good news is that Blatt has had success on both ends of the floor. The bad news is that he’ll likely have much of the same roster that Mike Brown had this season. Under Brown, the Cavs were the seventh most improved defensive team in the league, but they actually regressed defensively after acquiring Luol Deng from Chicago and finished with below average marks on both offense and defense.
For Blatt to succeed, he’ll need to get Kyrie Irving to share the ball, put some effort into the defensive end of the floor, and take on a leadership role. Really, how well this works out is more about Cleveland’s supposed franchise player than it is about their new coach.
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wow….an NBA columnist who judges 15 years of work by 4 international competitions stats. That is great coach scouting indeed…my 4 yr old nephew could have done some deeper research. And btw, to all of those who say “no need to go overseas for coaches”…that’s the same exact thing you said when dirk, tony or manu were drafted. And last, Blatt is not even the best coach you’ll find overthere….the best is named Ettore Messina.
Blatt, like European Basketball in general, cannot be appreciated through stats. Blatt is first and foremost smart. He knows how to get the best out of players everyone else gave up on. He’s an amazing scout and talent finder. He also has a proven record of doing more with less. He’s tough and demanding of his players and yet they love him and respect him. And after years in Maccbi Tel Aviv he knows all about egos and politics. This is going to be interesting.
He has the European wide experience, club & country, he’s won all possible competitions (almost) & has a great ratio of wins in close games.
His play style is flexible & he has the ability to adjust the best style to the squad he has under his disposal & the league he’s contending.
Mind you, he doesn’t have a “slow style”, usually the European game is slower than the NBA tempo, due to different foul rules (among other elements). I guess he can accommodate to the NBA life.
He’s a very polite, modest & nice guy as well & he’s not shy to learn, improve & rethink style.
In his last season he started badly, there were noises that his club would consider sacking him, but he proved everyone’s wrong & went to make a historical season with a treble of European trophy & the 2 domestic trophies with style.
First of all Israel is in the middle of 3 continents – Asia Africa and Europe so technically we can choose where to play or compete. years ago we played the World-Cup through competing against Asia’s teams. Right now we are part of Europe by so many ways and thats why we play the football and basketball leagues at the European ones. Moreover as a solid fact nowadays we basically can’t compete in Asia because almost half of it won’t play against israeli teams, for instance in the olympics some times when there is a match between an Iranian player/team and an Israeli one they are not showing up and they are having a technical lost…
Has a great %% of wins in close games. If it is within 1-2 posessions – almost never lost by his teams in Europe. Looking forward to see if it is continued in NBA. Known as a great motivator but with huge attention to detail. Coached mostly overachieving underdogs ending up with some titles under his belt.
2 biggest issues. 1st – they do need more practice time, those coaches from Europe. They historically played 1-2 games per week and there has been a 3rd game in some limited weeks for only 2-3 last years. So expect him to originally have extra issues with back-to-backs and long series away from Cleveland when preactice time is especially limited.
2nd – they rarely play series of games, a lot of single game eliminations. What he sais in the video above: “We would never beat such an opponent in a serie..” Only national play-offs are series until 2 or 3 wins. So if he ever gets to the playoffs – will be a great challenge for Blatt to adapt to that.
well the last point isn’t exactly correct. First of all, if you come to think about it, most NBA coaches didn’t get to coach that much in a series because most teams don’t get to the playoff/eliminated early. Blatt on the other hand played in winning teams, so whenever there’s a playoff, he usually played the most of it.
Second of all, the euroleague also has one series stage – when it comes down to the final eight. So I don’t think he is lacking anything on that front.
Good luck Dave!!!
Toronto and Vanciuver (former Grizz) were not in the Us, so why they played and still play in the NBA? Stupid united states native league. Your comment is very offensive in many ways, just look to your own but at first, to your so-called “America”(rs, dude) country?
The competition between coach Blatt and Tyronn Lue is ridiculous.
With all do respect to Tyronn Lue, David Blatt is one the best coaches in the world today.
Blatt has a proven experiment, and shows amazing results also when coming as an underdog.
For Blatt to succeed, he’ll need to get Kyrie Irving to share the ball, put some effort into the defensive end of the floor, and take on a leadership role.
couldnt agree more, but thats not easy to do with someone who’s encouraged by his huge fanbase and everyone around him that he’s great as he is. that all star game MVP didn’t help much either. it’s all mental with this team. if they work hard and listen to their coach, they’re talented enough to get 4-5 in the eastern conference no problem.
However, he is also adaptive, having worked miracles with squads that lacked the proper players and having altered the playing style entirely within rotations. Blatt has taken anonymous or regressing players, year after year, and have turned them into stars by building the team around them. | {
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An Ordinance amending Section 7.08.140 of the Metropolitan Code by
prohibiting certain conduct by beer permit holders including prohibiting the
sale of single can or bottle of beer by off-sale permit holders.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. Section 7.08.140 of the Metropolitan Code shall be and the same
is hereby amended by adding the following new provisions:
“Q. To allow gambling
or gambling devices of any kind or description contrary to state law on the
premises.
R. To allow solicitation for purposes of prostitution on the premises.
S. To allow or engage in any criminal activity on the premises.
T. To display or sell beer from an ice tub when the premises are located within
an urban zoning overlay district mapped area indicated on a zoning overlay
map adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article III of Section 17.40. The
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the holders of on-sale permits
or of special events permits.
U. To sell beer and malt beverages in quantities of less than seventy (70)
ounces per bottle or a factory-packaged six-pack when the premises are located
within an urban zoning overlay district mapped area indicated on a zoning overlay
map adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article III of Section 17.40. The
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the holders of on-sale permits
or of special events permits.”
Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, the
welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring
it.
Sponsored by: Leo Waters
AMENDMENT NO.
1TO ORDINANCE NO. BL2003-1363
Mr. President:
I move to amend Ordinance No. BL2003-1363 by deleting Section 1 in its entirety
and substituting in lieu thereof the following new Section 1:
“Section 1. Section
7.08.140 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws shall be and the same is hereby
amended by adding the following new provisions:
‘Q. To allow gambling
or gambling devices of any kind or description contrary to state law on the
premises.
R. To allow solicitation for purposes of prostitution on the premises. | {
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About Karin Gottschalk
I was brought up, as so many of my generation were, to be seen and not heard, and preferably not be seen at all. Modesty was considered the supreme virtue. So speaking about achievements does not come easy. Here is an attempt at a list of some of them.
Family background is ethnic, rural, uneducated and working class, and I was born in a tiny town beside a river in far north Queensland aka FNQ.
Took up documentary photography as a means of coping with extreme culture shock after I was moved at the age of 13 from an eastern states capital city to a tiny west coast town on the edge of the desert and the southern ocean, going from one of the finest senior high schools run on university lines on the east coast to one of the most disadvantaged junior high schools in Australia.
Formal schooling effectively ended at the age of 13, following family tradition.
After teaching myself photography with a Kodak Instamatic 33 and staging my first photography exhibition, was offered a job as part-time newspaper photographer and then district correspondent for a newspaper group in regional Western Australia from age 15, later moving to another regional newspaper group closer to Perth.
Exhibits officer for a regional museum in southwest of Western Australia producing photographs, artworks and restoring historic farm and industrial machinery, while also working as a wedding photographer to put myself through university.
Enrolled in photography, conceptual art, printmaking, painting and art history at Curtin University School of Art and Design in Perth, Western Australia. Denied right to study filmmaking there due to being enrolled in Fine Art and not Design.
As a consequence, concurrent to my enrolment at Curtin I studied filmmaking and cinematography at Central College of TAFE, later tutoring there in cinematography and consulting on design of new photography teaching facilities.
Winner of tertiary-level Channel 7 Young Filmmakers Festival Award and special cinematography award for a groundbreaking 28-minute science fiction feature film co-produced with Central College of TAFE as a student. The awards were then rescinded by festival board members from Curtin University’s School of Art and Design due to their dispute with Central College of TAFE on its right to tertiary status. “I’m sure you understand the School’s prestige mustn’t be damaged by TAFE college students winning for the very first time,” we were told minutes before curtains-up on Festival Award presentation night. The prizes were apparently to be an all expenses-paid trip to the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney along with accelerated entry into a degree stream and with a scholarship. I would have chosen the Cinematography degree program. It is easy to forget how tightly access to information and professional training was controlled by powerful men in the era before the World Wide Web, #MeToo and #TimesUp.
Production assistant on German telemovie and Canadian television series in Western Australia.
Commercial and corporate photographer on location for mining companies and corporations in Western Australia.
Magazine editorial portrait photographer for a range of glossy magazines and broadsheet newspapers in Sydney, specializing in emotive full-face close-up portraits, semi-surreal environmental portraits and documentary reportage about creative and innovative Australians. Discovered my work was being collected by a number of respected Australian art directors and designers.
Acquired debilitating photochemical reaction dermatitis leading to permanent photochemical allergy requiring stepping away from analog photography, later taking up digital photography and moviemaking when hardware and software had become sophisticated, accessible and affordable.
Conceived, cofounded and worked as European Contributing Editor for (not only) Black+White magazine, based in Sydney then London.
Built global networks of photographers and directors twice, once as subjects for magazine stories and once for commissioning and producing for global advertising campaigns for major brands including adidas, BBC, English Heritage, Harrods, Hyundai, Porsche and many others.
AMX Studios pioneered e-commerce with some of the first online stores and I worked with them on proofs of concept of new online business models for BT (formerly British Telecom) using the latter’s world-first high-speed fibre broadband network in central London.
Conceived processes and technologies for placing photo libraries online in early days of the World Wide Web then set about convincing established London photo agencies and picture libraries to develop online presences.
Commissioned, briefed and produced established and up-and-coming photographers and directors for global and national advertising campaigns, scouted talented young photographers to help them get their first step up the career ladder, with special emphasis on undervalued female photographers and promising young Australian photographers.
Fortunate enough to have worked with some of the finest copywriters, art directors, photographers and directors in the world, and my partner is one of the finest technical writers/illustrators in the world, one of the rare ones with a combined engineering and advertising agency background.
Researched, wrote and pre-produced TV series on the motivations and methods of notable Australian and foreign photographers. My New Director Program commission to produce and direct the first 50-minute episode of the series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was cancelled at the very last minute due to demands from the then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, as he imagined that the episode based on the experiences in Laos of a war photojournalist might just possibly reveal the illegal actions of a past President of the United States during and after the Vietnam War. | {
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I first introduce myself on tiki central at the end of 2010 and then road life kept me away from carving and internet for a while. But recently, being fed up with fixing my van (40years old mercedes), which is also my house, I decided to have a go with some antler and tried my very first 3D-kind tiki carving. I only carved some maori inspired pendants before that.
And even though the result is far from what I can see on this forum, I decided that it was time to go back to carving more frequently and because coming back to tiki central was also part of my choice, I thought I should share some pictures with you.
My very first carving
My first bone pendant
Some others
This one still need is paua eye
And, the very first tiki and THE tools for it
Thanks for your comment Amate, I will try to find some time for the next tiki, should be in birch, but I don't know yet about the size, it will depend on what I can get my hands on.....
About my work I should try to remember that the perfect is the enemy of the good, I always seem to reach a point where one curve does not "flow" enough and I sand to much...well, I guess that's the normal process of learning
Thanks Surfintiki, I would like to try some big stuff, but I live in a van with my other half and our 3 dogs, and between the bones and wood pieces (all over), the surfboards, the spear-fishing gear, the skateboard, the tools....etc, and due to the fact that my other half also do some clothe and leather work....well she might get cranky if I put a Big log in the middle of the van lol but I will find a way
On 2012-05-28 09:20, Cljha wrote:Thanks Surfintiki, I would like to try some big stuff, but I live in a van with my other half and our 3 dogs, and between the bones and wood pieces (all over), the surfboards, the spear-fishing gear, the skateboard, the tools....etc, and due to the fact that my other half also do some clothe and leather work....well she might get cranky if I put a Big log in the middle of the van lol but I will find a way
Haha, I've got the same problem (well a small apartment). Just keep doing the small stuff mate!
Some more work....
My very first moai, this idea came actually after seeing a moia by hang10tiki and finding a piece of wild cherry that was suppose to be burning wood
and 2 more maori hooks,
one from unknown driftwood
and a bone one which is the basic typical maori hook, style need the lashing on this one
6/6/2012, one update, Wild cherry maori Toki, with first try of "tattooing" some motifs, plus the closing pearl turn out of a wild cherry micro-burl | {
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Payment on claims from survivors and families affected by Tazreen factory fire completed
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Clean Clothes Campaign and the International Labor Rights Forum are delighted to report that a scheme set up to provide compensation to people affected by the Tazreen Fashions fire of 2012 has now completed its work of providing loss of income payments to all injured workers and to the dependants of those who were killed.
The , which used a system for calculating and distributing awards based upon a similar initiative designed for those affected by the Rana Plaza building collapse, announced last Friday that the work to collect claims, carry out medical assessments, calculate amounts owed to each beneficiary, and distribute payments is now complete.
On 24 November 2012 a fire ripped through the Tazreen Fashions garment factory in Bangladesh, killing 113 workers and injuring nearly 200. Three years later, in September 2015, the Tazreen Claims Administration Trust was established as a result of an agreement signed in 2014 by C&A, C&A Foundation, IndustriALL Global Union, and the Clean Clothes Campaign. This agreement led to the establishment of the Tazreen Claims Administration Trust in October 2015.
In November 2015, $2.5 million was paid into a Fund set up to cover the cost of the awards by brands that sourced from Tazreen Fashions. The remainder of each award had already been provided through payments made in the immediate aftermath of the fire by the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Fund. C&A Foundation and Fung Foundation each contributed $1 million (Sean John’s Enyce brand was represented by Li & Fung, which placed their orders). Smaller amounts were provided by Walmart (via BRAC USA), KiK and El Corte Ingles. Other brands whose clothing was made at Tazreen, including Dickies, Disney, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Karl Rieker, Piazza Italia, Sears, Soffe (by Delta Apparel), and Teddy Smith, failed to contribute.
“It remains disappointing that most of the companies whose clothes were produced at Tazreen never acknowledged their responsibility and paid nothing at all into the Fund, and Walmart – whose stores the bulk of Tazreen’s product was destined to – paid only $250,000,” said Liana Foxvog of the International Labor Rights Forum.
The first claims were processed in October 2015, and the processing of applications and medical assessments was completed in April 2016. A period followed during which claimants were provided with advice and support in investing their payments, with 116 beneficiaries being supported to join a government bond scheme, known as shanchaipatra, which guarantees a high interest rate and a regular payment.
Claims process completed
By the end of June 2016 the majority of the Tazreen Claims Administration Trust’s work was completed: in total they had paid out a total of BDT 167,463,882 ($2.17 million) to 582 family members of 103 deceased workers and 10 missing workers, and to 174 workers who continue to suffer injury as a result of the fire. These payments were in addition to initial payments made by the Prime Minister’s Fund.
“We are pleased that the injured workers and families of the deceased have finally received these payments, which will keep them out of the most dire forms of poverty, although the payments are based on the very low wages common in the garment industry, and therefore remain relatively small,” said Liana Foxvog of ILRF.
The remaining task is to ensure ongoing medical treatment for the workers who are still suffering physical and psychological injuries. $350,000 is due to be transferred to a separate Trust in Dhaka, which is in the process of being established, to provide treatment referral services to workers injured in both the Rana Plaza and Tazreen disasters. It is hoped that this new Trust will lay the groundwork for a permanent referral service to all workers suffering workplace injury.
Although the process of waiting has been long for these families, the completion of the claims process is an important victory. The Tazreen survivors have finally won recognition of their rights, after being overshadowed by the scale of the Rana Plaza disaster. The Tazreen claims process also establishes further both the possibility and the necessity of ensuring that victims of any future disasters are provided with loss of income payments and support in line with international norms and standards.
“The achievement of fair and transparent payments to the Tazreen workers is something to celebrate,” said Samantha Maher of the Clean Clothes Campaign. “The campaigning undertaken by CCC, ILRF and other allies was vital in getting this outcome and proves that we can make progress when we stand together with workers fighting for justice. We also pay tribute to the work of the Bangladesh groups who supported this process, the amazing staff at the Tazreen Claims Trust - in particular to the Executive Commissioner, Dr Kazazi -, and of course to the Tazreen workers, who refused to allow the deaths of their loved ones go unrecognised.”
While the claims process has concluded, the struggle of the Tazreen families is far from over. They are demanding that those responsible for the deaths and injury of their loved ones are held to account and they continue to wait for the prosecution of Delwar Hossain, the owner of Tazreen Fashions. We will continue to support them in their struggle until full justice is achieved. | {
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Species on climate change hit list named
14 December 2009 | International news release
The Arctic Fox, Leatherback Turtle and Koala are among the species destined to be hardest hit by climate change, according to a new IUCN review.
The report, Species and Climate Change, focuses on 10 species, including the Beluga Whale, Clownfish, Emperor Penguin, Quiver Tree, Ringed Seal, salmon and staghorn corals, which all highlight the way climate change is adversely affecting marine, terrestrial and freshwater habitats.
“Humans are not the only ones whose fate is at stake here in Copenhagen – some of our favourite species are also taking the fall for our CO2 emissions,” says report co-author Wendy Foden. “This report should act as a wake-up call to governments to make real commitments to cut CO2 emissions if we are to avoid a drastically changed natural world. We simply don’t have the time for drawn-out political wrangling. We need strong commitments and we need them now.”
Polar species are being affected by loss of ice due to global warming, according to the report. The Ringed Seal is being forced further north as the sea ice it relies on for pup-rearing retreats. The Emperor Penguin, highly adapted to unforgiving Antarctic conditions, faces a similar problem. Regional sea ice, which it needs for mating, chick-rearing and moulting, is declining. Reduced ice cover also means less krill, affecting food availability for the Emperor Penguin and many other Antarctic species.
The Arctic tundra on which the Arctic Fox depends is disappearing as warming temperatures allow new plant species to flourish. As the habitat changes from tundra to forest, the Red Fox, which preys on the Arctic Fox and competes with it for food, is able to move further north, reducing the Arctic Fox’s territory.
The Arctic’s Beluga Whale is likely to be affected by global warming both directly, through loss of sea ice and subsequent difficulty finding prey, and indirectly, through human activity as melting sea ice opens up previously inaccessible areas. Ship strikes, pollution and gas and oil exploration all put this highly sociable mammal at risk.
“Ordinary people are not powerless to stop these tragic losses,” says Simon Stuart, Chair of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission.“They can cut down on their own CO2 emissions and voice their support for strong action by their Governments to change the dire climate prognosis we are currently facing.”
The impacts of climate change are not confined to polar regions. In more tropical areas, staghorn corals, which include some 160 species, are severely affected by rising ocean temperatures, which causes coral bleaching. Ocean acidification, the result of too much CO2 in the oceans, weakens the corals’ skeletons.
Clownfish, of “Finding Nemo” fame, are also victims of ocean acidification. Acidic water disrupts their sense of smell, impairing their ability to find their specific host anemone, which they rely on for protection. Salmon, worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the commercial fishing industry, are threatened by increases in water temperature, which reduces water’s oxygen levels, increases their susceptibility to disease and disrupts their breeding efforts.
Australia’s iconic Koala faces malnutrition and ultimate starvation as the nutritional quality of Eucalyptus leaves declines as CO2 levels increase. The Leatherback Turtle, another iconic species, is being affected by rising sea levels and increased storm activity due to climate change which destroys its nesting habitats. Temperature increases may lead to a reduction in the proportion of males relative to females.
An increase in CO2 levels does not just affect animals however; it also impacts on the world’s plants. The Quiver Tree, found in the Namib Desert region of southern Africa, is losing populations in the equator-ward parts of their distribution range due to drought stress. They highlight the problems that all plants and slow-moving species face in keeping up with rapidly accelerating changing climate.
“Several of the species highlighted in the report are already listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, due to other threats such as habitat destruction or over harvesting,” says Jean-Christophe Vié, Deputy Head of IUCN’s Species Programme.“Others are not currently threatened on the IUCN Red List, but will be very soon as the effects of climate change materialise. For a large portion of biodiversity, climate change is an additional and major threat.”
High resolution photos available for download at: www.iucn.orgVideo b-roll (two minutes) available on Associated Press Television News feed on December 14, 2009, 09:15-09:30 GMT and repeated at 19:00-19:15 GMT.
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What Is Jeopardy!'?
Sherlock Holmes wouldn't have cared much for the TV game show Jeopardy! Holmes was never one for stuffing his deerstalker full of trivia. In an early Holmes adventure, A Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson was aghast that the great detective seemed almost totally ignorant of philosophy, politics or contemporary literature. Most shocking of all, Holmes was unaware that the earth traveled around the sun.
"Now that I do know it," said Holmes. "I shall do my best to forget it."
Holmes's theory was that the brain is like an empty attic, best furnished judiciously. "It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent," he said. "There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Jeopardy!' is a crowded attic in which contestants rummage around trying to locate bits and pieces of buried information. Jeopardy!'s gimmick is that it reverses the standard quiz show format; the game board provides the answers, and contestants must supply the questions. (This leads to the constant Jeopardy! refrain: "Frame your answer in the form of a question, please.") A game consists of three increasingly difficult rounds—Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy—during which contestants supply questions to answers in categories as diverse as chemical warfare and famous pigs. Like the balance in a bankbook, the score on Jeopardy!' is kept in dollars, but only the winner actually gets to keep the cash he has accumulated during the course of the show. At the end of the TV season, the top 15 money winners return for Jeopardy! 's Tournament of Champions, the NCAAs of the game-show world. "They're equally divided among the smoothest and the loneliest-looking people on Jeopardy!" says Clare Quinn, herself a 34-year-old Jeopardy! junkie from Chester Springs. Pa. "Half of them look like Norm on Cheers." The rest bear an uncomfortable resemblance to people you'd see in a supermarket carefully pricing Campbell's Soup-For-One. All of them, however, have one thing in common: They have committed to memory an Everest of information—facts without judgment or ambiguity. A Jeopardy! question does not force you to wrestle with a proposition but simply requires you to be able to recall a morsel of data—the who, the what, the where, but never the why. The show is both a cause and a symptom of the Information Age's lust for naked data.
Jeopardy! has been around since 1964, so in a sense it is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, though it was off the air from 1975 to 1978 and again from 1979 to 1984. In its current incarnation, the show is slicker, faster, more high-tech. The mechanical marvel of the original game board, with its pivoting question slats, has been replaced by an electronic marvel that would make H.G. Wells envious. Gone too is the robust, if somewhat unctuous, original host of the show. Art Fleming, who has been supplanted by the natty, clipped and aloof Alex Trebek.
Obviously, the times are right for Jeopardy/Trivial Pursuit only whetted the Baby Boomers' appetite for the data diet. Today Jeopardy! is the second-highest rated show in syndicated television history, just behind Wheel of Fortune. In New York City, where it airs weekday nights from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m., Jeopardy! so swamped the CBS Evening News that Dan Rather's broadcast had to be moved up by half an hour.
Each night 11.9 million infomaniacs tune in to see contestants unload arsenals of minutiae. "Without the show, there would be a vacuum in my life," says Quinn, who has a degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. "I'd have absolutely no use for my liberal arts education."
TALK SHOW HOSTS FOR $200: Sometime between the release of his hit record, I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts, in 1949, and the day he introduced Nancy Reagan to her astrologer, Merv Griffin created Jeopardy! As Griffin recalls, he and his former wife, Julann, were on a plane talking about the quiz show scandals of the '50s. "Why don't you do a show where you give the contestants the answers?" Julann joked.
"Sure, and I'll end up in the slammer." said Merv.
"Suppose I said, 'Five thousand two hundred eighty feet.' "
"How many feet in a mile?" Merv shot back.
"Seventy-nine Wistful Vista."
"Wow! What was Fibber McGee and Molly's address?"
And on that slender column of trivia. Jeopardy! was built.
In the early days, questions about the show's survival outnumbered the answers. "The only people we could get to appear were these heavy intellectuals and earth mamas we pulled out of bookstores," says Griffin. "None of them seemed too concerned with grooming. I was very nervous about it."
Griffin appreciates the value of appearance. As a radio crooner in the '50s, he was billed as "America's romantic new singing star." But 250-pound tenors don't seem nearly as romantic on TV, so directors had to devise ways to keep Merv out of camera range. "They had me sing behind 14 dancing girls and a potted plant," he says.
Ironically, it was on TV that Griffin achieved his greatest fame, first as the host of a game show called Play Your Hunch, and then seated on a chat-show couch, purring, laughing obligingly and comparing life-styles and sport-jacket linings with the rich and shameless. "I ask a lot of questions, read all the local papers." coos the man who made himself master of the trivial interview. "I am a thick blotter of mostly useless information."
In 1975, he remembered the word game called Hangman that he and his sister had played as kids in the backseat of the family car. Out of that memory came Wheel of Fortune. Eleven years later he sold Merv Griffin Enterprises, which consisted mostly of Jeopardy! and Wheel, to Coca-Cola for a reported $250 million. But he still has a hand in his production company and often watches the shows it produces. He also watches the stock market. Last year he bought Donald Trump's share of Resorts International for more than $160 million (the entire Resorts deal cost Griffin $364 million). He now estimates his personal worth at $1 billion.
And what sort of guy is Merv?
"What is overweight?" deadpans Trebek.
QUIZ SHOW HOSTS FOR $100: Trebek wants to set the record straight. "Jeopardy! is not a game show," he intones. "It's a quiz show."
Trebek may not want us to confuse Jeopardy! with The Diamond Head Game, that short-lived 1975 TV quiz show set in Waikiki Beach in which contestants dived for dollar bills that spewed from a papier-m‚Äö√†√∂¬¨¢chè volcano. Or with Mike Wallace's Who Pays?, a 1959 production on which contestants matched butlers, chauffeurs and maids with their celebrity employers.
Among that dim tribe of telegenic creatures known as M.C.'s, Trebek clearly considers himself the best and the brightest. A French-Canadian with a degree in philosophy from the University of Ottawa, he dazzles viewers with his ability to pronounce such difficult French words as coup de grace, trompe l'oeil and buffet. "Every morning when I wake up I look at my pillow to see if any gray matter has been leached out," he says.
Trebek's precisely snipped gray-black mustache is the most distinguished on television. His hair is shot with gray. too. He's always nicely turned out in a low-button single-breasted suit or a long double-breasted one, all supplied by Mr. Guy of Beverly Hills. Trebek is, in fact, better dressed than his contestants.
At 48, he is a contemporary virtuoso of the television manner: His style is restrained and underplayed, all unthreatening surface. He has a raised-eyebrow quality that makes you think he's not taking things quite seriously. Yet he's a fastidious fellow who puts all his light clothes on white hangers, puts his dark clothes on brown ones, and arranges all his spices alphabetically. The buzz in Hollywood is that Trebek once threw a fit when someone switched the basil and the oregano.
"When I was younger, I knew everything," he confides. "Not only did I know everything, but I remembered it. Now that I'm old, I remember only things that never happened."
That last line was borrowed from Mark Twain, a mother lode of Jeopardy! nuggets. "You learn something by watching Jeopardy!" says Trebek, who says he knows about 10% of the correct responses on the show. "One of our prime purposes is to reinforce the learning ethic in this country. Educators have touted Jeopardy! as a centerpiece for literary motivation. It's the kind of show that appeals to your higher principles and your loftier intellectual aspirations."
And your sense of greed. Still, though champions typically win about $10,000 a show. Trebek insists the contestants are not in it for the money. "They're in it to show off," he says.
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVES FOR $300: "I used to memorize trivia to impress people, to act knowledgeable." says Dave Traini, a Jeopardy! contestant in 1986. "It's a way to control your environment—if you know everything. People think I'm a genius, but I'm really not. I just know a lot of material. It's dilettantism taken to the nth degree. In our society, people mistake knowledge for intelligence. If only facts could be distilled to wisdom.
"I harbored a dream to get on Jeopardy! for 20 years. Every night I'd come home from work—I was an eighth-grade science teacher—turn on the game shows and keep score. I kept telling my wife. Betty Ann. 'Hey, I'm doing as well as these boobs.' I kept working on her, kept working on her. "If I get on, I'll buy a new car, a new dishwasher." Finally, she said. O.K.
"Well, I got on and won enough to buy the car and the dishwasher. I won so much that I qualified for the Tournament of Champions. For 14 months I crammed. I brainwashed myself to begin every sentence. What is...? When is...? Where is...? I bought seven different trivia board games. I took the cards with me everywhere and flipped through them every spare moment. I had stacks of trivia books, almanacs, media guides. I watched a couple of hundred movies; you've got be up on actors and their roles. I memorized the hundred highest mountains, the muscles of the human body, the moons of all the planets. I even carried around a copy of the Constitution. Want to know who signed?
"Reflexes are everything. The most terrifying part is knowing the answer and buzzing in and not being able to be recognized. Your buzz doesn't register until Alex has finished the last syllable of the question. You have to hone in on the rhythm of his voice while racing through every fact you know. I spent hours on my eye-to-hand reaction time. I looked all over until I found a Mickey Mouse pen with just the right clicker to simulate the buzzer. I'd stand in front of the TV just clicking and clicking. I used my forefinger, not my thumb; it's faster, you know. After a little practice it was like I'd invented a new technology, like I was on the cutting edge.
"I wanted to be ready for any possible question. What's the color on top of a stoplight? Red? Green? Have you ever stopped to look at what the eight juices are in V8 juice? I have. What about the nine muses? Is knowing the nine muses gonna pay off anywhere in life? No, except in Jeopardy! It's very important.
"In the semifinals I was asked to name the two gemstones that end in nyx. Not such a tough question. After all, I'd memorized all the gemstones the other day in my hotel room. But I froze up. Gemstones for a thousand and I'm paralyzed. I remembered onyx but not sardonyx. And the thing was, I knew it the day before. I knew it.
"I made it to the finals, where I faced my toughest opponent, a New York actor named Bob Verini. He knew the term for the upside-down e that represents a phonetically in the word about. [What is a schwa?] I didn't. Bob had his own cheering section—just two or three guys really, but very vocal ones. They didn't unnerve me, though. Final Jeopardy did. The category was 19th-century Democrats: 'He said, "I am the last president of the United States." ' It was the first time I'd been mystified by a question. I just gazed at the board for about half of the allotted 30 seconds, really panicking. It was as if I were being led to the scaffold for my execution and someone asked, "What's the capital of Venezuela?' I thought. Which Democrat's term ended near the start of the Civil War? It had to be James Buchanan. I looked at Bob, who was keeping an inscrutable poker face. For a few fleeting moments I thought he missed it. In fact he had. But he'd bet just enough so that even if he lost, he'd be a dollar ahead of me. I lost by a lousy buck. I suppose it's better to lose that way than to get wiped out completely.
"Two years have passed since my tournament appearance, and people still stop me to ask if I'm the guy from Jeopardy!" says Traini, now a 38-year-old high school administrator in Franklinville, N.J. "I keep thinking, When's the last time anybody will remember? For now, I'm still famous. And for what? It's not like I won the Nobel Prize, but people have started looking at me as a smart sort of person."
COMPULSIVE-OBSESSIVES FOR $400: "How did I prepare for the Tournament of Champions?" says Steve Rogitz, who played Jeopardy! in 1985. "I'll tell you how I prepared: I had my suit pressed. I figured either I knew the answers or I didn't."
Rogitz is a big man, bluff and burly. His hair is red and untamed, his face broad and open, his eyes quizzical. He is possessed of the ease that goes with being very good at a job you like very much.
Until four years ago, that job was delivering mail in the Los Angeles area, where he still lives and where he now drives a truck. He had never been much of a student—in fact, he had never been anything of a student. As a senior at South High in Torrance, he finished 629th in his class. Out of 641. "I knew I screwed up a lot, but I hadn't realized it was that bad," he says. "At least there were 12 people dumber than me."
He joined the Air Force, took a brief stab at college, then got a job with the Post Office. But he always had a head for trivia. "I read lots of magazines on my route," Rogitz says. "I can talk superficially on a lot of subjects but well on none."
He tried to talk his wife, Pat, into letting him try out for Jeopardy! but she wasn't listening. "Pat always thought I read too much," he says. "She'd get on me for remembering stupid stuff like the date Washington crossed the Delaware, but not remembering the important stuff like taking out the garbage. I got her to calm down, though, and come with me to the studio."
It was there Rogitz realized his predicament. "At least half the contestants were more intelligent than me," he says, "and all had more education." He needed an edge. "I was up against a guy who'd won three games in a row. A smart guy but a little tentative at buzzing in. So I decided to buzz first. I got hot, real hot, and started running categories. I felt like Minnesota Fats in The Hustler—buzzing those questions, getting the rhythm down. I don't know if any kind of intelligence was required, but, man, I was fast."
Rogitz cackles and rubs his hands, all energy, glee and fierce competition. "I had the old champ shook." he says. "I just wouldn't let him in the game. During the commercial I see he's sweating. So I ease up beside him and say. 'Gee. you weren't sweating on the other shows. What's the matter?' He looked like he couldn't guess his weight."
As the new champ, Rogitz returned the following day to defend his crown. He had breakfast in the coffee shop. "It's time to leave," said Pat.
"Hey," said Rogitz. "They can't start without me."
He had a point. "All the eager beavers had shown up an hour early." he says. "They waited in the reception room. And waited. And waited. I thought I'd let them stew a little. Finally, the door opens and a hush comes over them. If there had been a piano playing, it would have stopped. 'Hello, everybody!' I say. There's fear in their eyes. They can see I'm champ. I'm struttin' a little, and they're thinking. Wow! He's cool! The champ is cool!"
Onstage, Rogitz kept his cool. Sometimes he blurted out answers he didn't even know he knew. "Shakespeare!" he fairly shouts. "I guess I knew the basics. Like Romeo and Juliet. I'd never actually read it, but I saw the movie. And I remembered Macbeth from a junior high drama class. I think there was a witch in it."
When in doubt, he relied on Holmesian deduction. "They wanted me to name the Everly Brothers song that played when Roy Scheider died in All That Jazz. Logic told me it had to be Bye Bye Love. What else could it have been? Wake Up, Little Susie?"
In all, Rogitz won five games—the maximum allowed under Jeopardy! law—and nearly $35,000. Ten months later he placed third among 15 contestants in the Tournament of Champions and raked in another $5,100. "When I got back." he says, "somebody in the Post Office showed me a U.S.A. Today piece about the tournament. Trebek was quoted as saying, 'These are 15 of the brightest people in the country.' Hey, I said, the second-place finisher was Canadian. I guess that means I'm the second-brightest guy in America."
TRIVIALISTS FOR $500: John Pankratz. a history professor at Albright College in Reading. Pa., has a theory about Jeopardy! "In 19th-century America." he says, "the aesthetic standards of domestic portraiture painting created the appreciation of the kind of representation that photography could produce. So Jeopardy!, with its emphasis on a sort of reductionist facticity, its data base of objectified information—instantly recallable—anticipated our fascination with the computer."
Conversations with Pankratz tend to blossom into a series of small lectures that seems to trail brilliant exotic blooms like a bougainvillea vine. He watches Jeopardy! two or three times a week. "It relaxes me," he says, "and there's also a large element of nostalgia."
As a senior at DeVilbiss High in Toledo, Pankratz was a member of the quiz bowl team that won the city trivia championship. He keeps the trophy near his copy of the 1968-69 Pot O' Gold, the DeVilbiss yearbook, which devotes a half-page picture to that championship season. It's the only place in the Pot O' Gold where Pankratz is spelled correctly.
He's 37 now, a vigorous upright guy with an ironic sense of humor. With a Jeopardy! telecast as a backdrop, he expounds on Jeopardiana from a straight-backed chair in the handsome, comfortable sitting room of the early 18th-century town-house he owns on Philadelphia's Elfreth's Alley. (What is the oldest continuously inhabited residential street in the U.S.?)
"If two ideas come to mind," he says, "go for the more obvious one. Read the World Book, not the Britannica. A high school encyclopedia is the level of sophistication. Any education beyond that is a handicap. Nothing you learned in college is of any help in Jeopardy!'
The first contestant chooses the category Fish Facts. The TV casts aquarium-blue shadows on the wall.
"This fish lacks a certain organ and spends most of its time on the ocean bottom," says Trebek.
Like most Jeopardy! junkies, Pankratz gets a vicarious thrill from spitting out answers before the contestants. But this one stumps him, and he shakes his head in disgust. "Fish facts isn't my area of expertise," he alibis.
Musical instruments are, and he plays the category like a concertina. By the time the Spain category rolls along, Pankratz is looking almost cocky. "I'd be willing to bet one of the answers is Franco, another is the Alhambra, another is Barcelona and another is Toledo." He"s not even close. "Spain for $500." says Trebek. "These people occupied the peninsula that bears their name 2,000 years ago."
"Who were the Visigoths?" says Pankratz before Trebek even finishes the question.
He shrugs and throws up his hands. "I don't know," he mutters. "Maybe I was smarter when I was 17."
TRIVIALISTS FOR $100: Harry Eisenberg sits behind a big disheveled desk in front of a bookcase crammed with encyclopedias, almanacs and atlases. The walls are covered with lists of Jeopardy! categories that have already been used, the detritus of civilization—The Dick Van Dyke Show, Those Darned Etruscans, Pickles. Reams of computer printouts spill onto a couch. The room has a faintly 19th-century look. Bartleby the Scrivener would not have been uncomfortable here.
As the Jeopardy! chief of research, Eisenberg oversees the show's fact factory. "Jeopardy! may be the only show where intelligence—or at least a form of intelligence—is rewarded and looked up to." he says. He was working as a photocopier salesman in the early "80s when he heard Jeopardy! was being revived and needed a whole new staff. Citing his master's degree in history, he applied. He was told to submit a sample game board. "The question that clinched the job was in word origins." he recalls. "It was something like, 'A term for prostitutes from the Civil War general who believed they raised troops' morale.' " Fans of General Joseph Hooker know the answer.
The pursuit of the trivial is no trivial pursuit, according to Eisenberg. "We have 230 shows a year, and we prepare 73 questions per show," he says, ticking off the calculations in his head. "That's 16,790 questions a season." Hard questions, easy questions, really tough Final Jeopardy questions. Eisenberg and his staff of 12 professional trivialists toss potential questions around a conference table, fine-tuning them. "We're looking for clear, concise interesting questions." he says, "not trick or boring questions. We don't want ones only a Ph.D. or a nuclear physicist would know."
Eisenberg is the final arbiter of any dispute. During taping sessions he and his adepts monitor the answers from the back of the studio, reference books at the ready.
"What would happen if the Pope came on and we had to call him wrong?" asks writer Carol Campbell.
The constant quest for questions has skewed Eisenberg's perspective. "Everything has become a potential question." he says. In case of sudden inspiration, he always has a pad handy. Questions come to him in dreams, while shaving, on vacation in Texas. "I found one in the AAA Travel Guide," he says. "The name of the Lone Star city that was the first word uttered by a man on the moon." If you guessed Throckmorton, try again. (What is Houston?)
"In general, people know U.S. geography," says Campbell. "They do O.K. on Europe, moderate on Asia, but get scared stiff when confronted with Africa or South America. Africa's the worst because the names and borders change so often."
"Did you know Dahomey changed its name to Burkina Faso?" asks Eisenberg.
"Check the World Book," suggests Campbell. "That's the quick-and-dirty way."
Every fact is checked and rechecked through independent sources before it is approved for use on the air. If a source proves particularly unreliable, it's consigned to a part of the library known as Trivia Hell. Will and Ariel Durant's histories reside there, as does The Encyclopedia of Women's Myths and Secrets.
When a fact can't be verified by ordinary methods. Eisenberg's trivialists go straight to the source. A major controversy erupted over Howdy Doody's freckles. Did he really have 48 freckles to match the number of states at the time he made his debut? Eisenberg's trivialists tracked down Buffalo Bob Smith in an obscure corner of Maine. "Forty-eight is correct." said Buffalo Bob. Now we can all breathe a little easier.
"We do a lot of hard facts." says Easterling. "For instance, which actress won the first Oscar? That's part of film history, not trivia."
"If I were a schoolteacher, I'd much rather have my students watching Jeopardy! than shoot-em-ups," says Eisenberg. "We have shows that quote important people, like Khadaffi and Stalin. Jeopardy! isn't going to change the direction in which society is moving, but it's part of the world we live in. It's part of reality."
GAME-SHOW HOSTS FOR $200: The walls of Art Fleming's Buffalo Flats Saloon & Grill in Breckenridge, Colo., are covered with the heads of various deceased animals. "What is a deer?" he asks. "What is a moose?" Though Fleming hasn't appeared on Jeopardy! in 11 years, in a sense he has never left. He hosts a Sunday trivia-style radio show out of St. Louis. He stages mock-Jeopardy! contests at business conventions. He presides over a weekly talk show called Biff America at Buffalo Flats on local TV, which includes a section that is a Jeopardy! knockoff. Winners get plastic buffalo piggy banks.
Jeopardy! purists still regard Fleming as the authentic Mr. Know-It-All, a title he doesn't exactly discourage. He can scarcely walk down the street without being petitioned.
"Mr. Fleming! Mr. Fleming! Could you help me, please? My wife and I have been arguing."
"And you need my help?"
"It's about General Custer. Was he killed in 1876 or 1878?"
"Oh," says Fleming. "June of 1876."
"I knew you'd know!"
Thirteen years on Jeopardy! provided him with a more or less inexhaustible fund of stories. "Every show was like opening night on Broadway." he says. And you believe him. Indomitably genial. Fleming is somehow friendly without being overfamiliar, chipper without being coy, articulate without being showy or pedantic. Aside from an affinity for pocket squares, he and Trebek have little in common. Under Fleming. Jeopardy! was a little slow, a trifle square, slightly dull, not unlike much of America in those days.
"When Merv and Julann first approached me with the idea, I thought the show might last three or four weeks," he says. "But I said, "Let's try it. It sounds kinky.' Well, it went for 13 years—2,858 shows."
Being a trivia meister has not been all fun and games. Fleming remembers appearing once on Hollywood Squares—occupying the secret square no less—when he was asked to pick out the woman who won Wimbledon in 1938. "I said Helen Wills Moody," he says, "but I really had no idea." The contestant believed him so implicitly that she put $11,100 on his answer.
"How do you know he's not bluffing?" asked Peter Marshall, then the Squares M.C.
"My God!" says Fleming. "What a burden to put on a person's shoulders!"
Fleming claims to watch the new Jeopardy! infrequently, and then only for a handful of questions. "It's much too easy," he says, "And the prizes! In my day, runners-up used to get to keep their prize money. Now they get a carton of dog food or something! You finish a dollar out of first place and you win a year's supply of lip gloss!"
He hates the glitz, the polish. "It's not part of the real world." he says, "it's part of Hollywood."
In his day, the show was filmed in Manhattan. "People are more intelligent in New York," says Fleming, a native of the Bronx. "New Yorkers are alive, with-it. They know what's going on in the world. In California there's no mental stimulation. A typical conversation consists of 'I've got a new diet. How's your tennis game? Are those clothes from Gucci?' And then you look at each other."
Fleming laughs at Trebek's grandiose claims as to the show's educational value. "To me Jeopardy! has always been one big party game." Fleming says. "That's all it is. I mean, you're not doing open-heart surgery. It's an entertaining way to fill up 30 minutes of air time, but basically fluff."
The trivia boom disturbs him. "Nowadays everything's got to be condensed." he says. "No lengthy explanations. Don't bore me with the details. Just the facts, ma'am. Instant total gratification. When I was host. Jeopardy! was just a show. Now it's a state of mind."
But Fleming doesn't have time to brood. Here comes another burden to shoulder.
"Mr. Fleming! Mr. Fleming! My wife and I are having a terrible row."
"How can I help?"
"Tell me the name of the royal house to which James I of England belonged."
"What is the House of Stuart?"
"Damn it, I knew you'd know."
GAME OBSESSIVES FOR $1,000: O.K., I'll come right out and admit it. I have a Jeopardy! problem. I find the show painful to watch. It reminds me too much of my formal education.
My teachers presumed I should be filled with facts, much like a well-stuffed cabbage ready to be consumed by the cold, cruel world of experience that lay beyond my educational life. My system of note-taking was a testament to this cabbage stuffing. It was roughly based on the cuneiform writing of the ancient Sumerians. The notes were congeries of eel-like figures surrounded by mounds of interlocking ovals. I could always gauge my interest in a class by the intricacy of my drawings. If the cabbage stuffer was engaging, the accompanying artwork was generally sketchy. But if she was boring, the pages of my notebook would be filled with minutely detailed vistas. It took the Sumerians generations to develop their style. Mine took just 12 years of schooling. When I felt I couldn't decipher them, I called a Sumerian.
So it was with some apprehension that I agreed to try out for Jeopardy! last December. A line of 50 would-be contestants stretched up Sunset Boulevard. Some were riffling through a world almanac, others the Guinness Book of Essential Facts. Slung over one sailor's shoulder was a five-volume set on the British monarchs. I thought I recognized him from my 11th-grade chemistry class. He was the geek who used to raise his hand to say, "Weren't we supposed to have a quiz today?"
I sidled up beside a tall, droopy-looking guy whose sepulchral appearance reminded me of Floyd the Barber on the old Andy Griffith Show. He had a sparse mustache bristling across his upper lip, a Bob Dylan songbook under his arm and a T-shirt that said KLAATU BARADA NIKTO. "The phrase is from The Day the Earth Stood Still," he kindly explained. "It stopped the robot Gort from destroying our planet."
He asked if he could zap me with his best stuff. "Sure," I said. He reminded me to frame my answers in the form of questions.
"Geronimo's name meant this in Apache."
"What is, 'Kenneth, what's the frequency?' "
"Nope. Try, What is He Who Yawns?"
"That was my next guess."
"This Hall of Famer got his start in Hibbing, Minnesota."
"Who is Roger Maris?"
"Sorry. The answer is. Who is Bob Dylan? He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
We were shepherded into a large studio and handed blank exam forms. I sat next to Floyd. I figured something might rub off.
"This is the general knowledge test," he whispered. "Fifty questions. If you pass, they put you through a mock game of Jeopardy Hi you make that cut, there's still a charisma test."
"How much general knowledge do I have to know?" I asked.
"A lot."
"What's a lot?"
"A lot."
The questions appeared on a TV monitor as Trebek's disembodied voice read along. I felt as if I were taking a midterm in a class I'd forgotten to attend.
"What is the only female animal that has antlers?"
"Who wrote the novel on which Carmen is based?"
"What's the name of Isaac Newton's dog?"
Right about then I drifted off. I was shaken from my reverie by Floyd. "It's all over now. Baby Blue," he hissed. Dylan again. Floyd passed me his sheet. Every blank was filled in; some answers were even annotated.
I looked down at my own sheet. The doodling along the margins suggested a convention of M&M's. I didn't even bother to stick around for the results.
I began feeling a little hungry. Thinking of M&M's has that effect on me. I walked to the Mexican cantina across the street.
"What is a panucho?" I asked the waitress.
"Is that a question or an answer?" she snapped.
Just as I got up to leave, Floyd shuffled in. His head was down, his shoes scraped the floor.
"How did it go?" I inquired.
"Terrible," he drawled in a sleepy singsong, "just terrible."
"But you knew most of the answers!"
"Most of the answers? I knew all the answers. I pressed the buzzer before anyone else. But they told me I wasn't loud enough. They said I wasn't lively. It just isn't fair. I spent months preparing, and I lose on personality."
I shook my head at the injustice of it.
"It's like Dylan says," he said. "The answer is blowin' in the wind."
I waited a moment before asking, "Could you rephrase that in the form of a question?"
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How to Mould Agriculture as a Growth Engine in Uttara Andhra
HighlightFrom the times immemorial, historians described India as a land of milk and honey as it is blessed with innumerable natural resources Dubbed as AnnapoornaThe food bowl of India Andhra Pradesh is a major producer of rice, wheat, Sugar Cane, Cotton, Maize, pulses, spices, tobacco and chilly
From the times immemorial, historians described India as a land of milk and honey as it is blessed with innumerable natural resources. Dubbed as ‘Annapoorna(The food bowl of India) Andhra Pradesh is a major producer of rice, wheat, Sugar Cane, Cotton, Maize, pulses, spices, tobacco and chilly. There is no dearth for perennial rivers like The Godavari, Krishna, Penna, Nagavali and Vamshadhara that emerges from both the eastern and the WesternGhats surrounding the state.
Andhra Pradesh is also the proud owner of the fertile alluvial soil in and around the river catchment areas and the delta basin. Yet, the state in general and the Northern part of the Andhra Pradesh in particular is unable to feed its own people. It is a dire necessity today for AP to re-evaluate why her children are dying due to hunger and malnutrition and why the farmersfrom the northern part of the state are migrating from their native land, leaving their kith and kin and their community in search of livelihood?
Unlike Israel, a nation located on the Southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, with a desert and semi arid climate, the three northern Andhra districts namely Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram and Vishakhapatnam are blessed with abundant water resources drawn from the perennial rivers flowing across these three districts namely Nagavali, Vamshadhara, and their tributaries including ‘Tandava’, ‘Sharada’, Champavathi, MahendraTanaya,Bahuda, Gosthanialong with innumerable other tanks, water reservoirs, waterfalls and canals.
Why the farmers of the Uttara Andhra region are drifting away from one of the world’s most ancient occupations, namely the agriculture? Traditionally, the farmers inherit the knowledge on soil, seed and cultivation practices from their ancestors. They are trained for ages only to work and live in the farm lands. With no water around and with meager resources in hand to invest onseeds, manure, pest controls and labor, farmers are selling their valuable lands at a throw away prices to work as daily wage labors in factories, construction sites and restaurants to feed their families. As a result, the farmers are losing landownership and majority turning landless laborers.
The table above clearly explains that the geographical area available from the 3 Northern Andhra districts is 23537 Sq. kilometers. Out of this only 11.26 lakh hectares cultivable land available in Uttara Andhraonly 5.44 lakh hectors is using for cultivation with irrigated water. However, the three neighboring districts of the Uttara Andhra, namely East and West Godavari and Guntur possess 31983 sq. Km of land and 20.73 lakh hectors of land is available for cultivation, where 15.13 hectors of areas could get irrigation. While less than 50% of the land is brought under cultivation in the three Uttara Andhra districts, 70 to 80% of the land is cultivable in the neighboring districts. The population pressure is equally mounting on Uttara Andhra districts reaching 10 million, which is double the population of Singapore.
Agriculture happened to be the sole contributor of the economy in the past by employing more than 80% of the rural population. It is gradually shrinking; Therateof employment in the rural areas of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram,and Visakhapatnam is 37%, 36%, and 36% respectively.Only 12.8% in Srikakulam, 18.3% in Vizianagaram and 17.0 4 in Visakhapatnam are engaged in agriculture. The predominantly rural population of the Uttara Andhra, comprising of schedule caste, schedule tribes and the economically and socially backward sections (more than 80%) can’t be absorbed in other sectors with meager literacy levels (less than 50%). The only way to generate income in these secretions of the population is to increase the land under cultivation by clearing suitable forest and non-forest areas.
Although water resources are in plenty in multiple forms in these three districts, they are not accessible to the people as there are no reservoirs and canals that could preserve and supply water for cultivation. Together, these three districts could generate 200 TMC of water annually and at least 100 TMC of water is getting dried-up in the ocean. Out of 40000 water ponds in the entire state, 25000 of them are located within these three districts. There are 9 thousand fresh water ponds in Srikakulam, 4 thousand in Vishakhapatnam, and 10 thousand of them are there in the Vijayanagaram district. Together, these three districts are holding 65% of the minor water sources in the state. However, majority of these water sources are subjected to arbitrary and illegal encroachments or else became dump yards due to lack of maintenance.
When you have abundant water resources and plenty of land still available for cultivation, the only way to employ your rural population is to adopt a holistic land and water management methods. Rural participation and awareness is important in driving the tribal population towards more productive employment. Out of 10 million populations from the three districts, 36% are rural and only 10% are employed in agriculture and the rest are underemployed or unemployed. By fixing the wastages in the form of leakages and by completing the pending irrigation projects in these three districts possible, it is possible to increase the cultivable area to at least 30 lakh hectors. By making the best use of at least 80 TMC water, (out of available 325 TMC including water getting from Uttara Andhra SujalaSravanthi) and by adopting organic farming practices, it is possible to employ 4 lakh more people in agricultural sector and feed 40 Lakh additional people inUttara Andhra.
Dr Srinubabu Gedela has completed Ph D from Andhra University and Postdoctorate from Stanford University. The research work is part of Pulsus Group CSR activity | {
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Statement by Prince Charles at State Dinner
Thank you, Mr. President, for those
incredibly kind words and for gathering us all here for this special
dinner. The warmth of your hospitality
this evening mirrors that of the welcome that my wife and I have been so
touched to receive throughout our stay in The Gambia, and we could hardly be
more grateful to you, your government and the people of The Gambia for all the
arrangements that have been made on our behalf.
I can only say, Ladies and Gentlemen, how
sorry I am that it has taken us all these years to come and see you. I remember quite clearly The Queen and The
Duke of Edinburgh returning from their own visit to The Gambia in 1961, when I
was just thirteen, and telling me how much they had enjoyed their time
here. I remember seeing some of the
photographs that my father had somehow managed to take with his miniature Minox
camera and thinking how marvellous it would be to visit myself one day. Little did I know that it would take me
nearly fifty-seven years to get here!
Having enjoyed our visit as we have, all I can say, however, is that it
has been well worth the wait!
It has given us both particular pleasure to
be able to celebrate the strength of the ties between our two countries and the
many areas in which we work together closely in our shared interest. We have also been fortunate to meet so many
people who are making a profound difference to this partnership, whether
British or Gambian or, indeed, one of the countless people who have a home in
both countries and are, in so many ways, a living bridge between us.
Last week, at St James’s Palace in London,
my wife and I invited representatives of the British Gambian community – as
well as the British Ghanaian and Nigerian communities – to join us for a
Reception to celebrate the remarkable contribution that these communities make
to life in the United Kingdom and to the relationship between our countries.
These people-to-people connections are, it
seems to me, one of the greatest strengths of the Commonwealth, and are
absolutely vital in a changing world where so many of the enormous challenges
we face – of dangerously accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization,
unsustainable population growth, youth unemployment alongside ocean
acidification, threatened marine ecosystems and unsustainable fisheries – are
ones that are common to us all.
I firmly believe that the Commonwealth
offers us the best hope of coming together to address some of these challenges,
and I was delighted, therefore, that earlier this year The Gambia, once again,
took her place among the Commonwealth family of nations. Precisely because of everything that this
country and her people have been through in recent years, The Gambia can play a
vital role in defending our Commonwealth values of democracy, tolerance, human
rights and the Rule of Law.
Knowing just how difficult The Gambia’s
recent history has been, and how much pain and injustice the Gambian people
have endured, I can only express my heartfelt admiration for the courage and
determination you have all shown in turning your back on twenty-two years of
autocratic rule and embracing a peaceful and democratic transition of
power. In so doing, this country has
offered an example to the World, and proof of the enduring power of our
Commonwealth values.
This was just the beginning, of course, and
I can only say, Mr. President, that the British people and, indeed, all of your
fellow Commonwealth citizens, will continue to support the Government and
people of The Gambia on the journey you are taking towards peace, stability and
sustainable economic growth. We in the
United Kingdom know, from our bitter experience of conflict on the island of
Ireland – and of the wrongs that were done and the injustice that was
perpetrated, on all sides – just how
hard it can be to lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But it has to be done, if a future is to be
built which does justice to the sacrifice of all those who came before, and to
the aspirations of all those who come after.
I know you share this view, Mr. President,
and that you are committed to building a better future for The Gambia – whether
through the work of the Truth, Reconciliation & Reparations Commission to
bring closure to those that suffered under the former regime; or through the
efforts of the Constitutional Review to ensure that the principles of
democracy, human rights and good governance are protected; or through bold
reforms to provide the vital economic growth and job creation that your young
population deserves.
As I said this morning at McCarthy Square,
please know that the United Kingdom, and the other members of the Commonwealth,
stand with all of you, as you build your country anew. The Gambia and her people have the most
extraordinary potential and I have every confidence that over the years ahead
we will see that potential realized in so many ways.
Once again, Mr. President, my wife and I
would like to offer you, and the people of The Gambia, our heartfelt thanks for
the wonderful welcome that has been afforded to us here. It has given us the greatest pleasure and
pride to be able to join you in celebrating the ties between the United Kingdom
and The Gambia, and between the members of our Commonwealth family, and I can
assure you that we will take back with us a host of special memories.
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Can I invite you to raise your glasses and
join me in a toast to the enduring friendship between us, and to the President
and people of The Gambia. | {
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Bin Laden's driver to leave Guantanamo for Yemen
Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver currently being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to Yemen, CNN reported late Monday, citing unnamed US sources.
Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver currently being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to Yemen, CNN reported late Monday, citing unnamed US sources.
A jury of six US military officers at a Guantanamo terrorism trial in August sentenced Hamdan to five years and six months in prison for supporting terrorism, which, taking into account time served, amounted to only an additional five months.
The Pentagon refused to confirm the release report.
"In general we don’t talk about transfers until they are completed," Pentagon spokesman Mark Ballesteros told AFP.
Hamdan, a native of Yemen and about 40 years old, was picked up by US forces in Afghanistan in late 2001, and arrived at the Guantanamo prison in 2002.
According to CNN, Hamdan will serve out the remainder of his term in Yemen.
Around 100 of the roughly 250 "war on terror" suspects being held in Guantanamo are from Yemen. Washington has not reached and agreement with Sanaa that would allow US officials to send home more Yemeni prisoners.
"We have not had confidence that the Yemeni government would take the required measures to protect civilian population from the detainees once released," another Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, told AFP.
Hamdan was bin Laden's former driver and sometimes bodyguard, but denied any involvement in terrorist activities.
During the trial Hamdan's lawyers emphasized that their client had cooperated with US officials ever since he was detained.
Prosecutors tried to portray Hamdan as a cunning "Al-Qaeda warrior" and ruthless henchman to bin Laden, the mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
But defense attorneys described him as merely a hapless driver and insignificant figure within the Al-Qaeda network.
Between 1996 and November of 2001, Hamdan drove or accompanied Osama bin Laden to various Al-Qaeda-sponsored training camps, press conferences or lectures, the indictment said.
In the trial Hamdan was found guilty on one count of providing material support to terrorism, but was cleared of more serious charges that he conspired and plotted attacks for Al-Qaeda.
The US military holds inmates at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, indefinitely without charge, a policy that has been condemned at home and abroad as a violation of basic human rights. | {
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About Me: These perky breasts can’t stand another moment not being touched by you, so please be the one who gets to be with me tonight. I love to treat a man like the king that he is and let him have his way with me in whatever way he wants. I love to be sweet and affectionate, giving the ultimate girlfriend experience just as much as I love to be sultry and sexy. I am great at both.
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About Me:Do you like breasts or booty more? Well with me, I’m never going to make you pick. Have the best of both worlds. I can give you young, innocent and naive - looking for a sexual awakening. I can also give you a sexy and sultry mistress who knows exactly how she likes it. Whatever you’ve been dreaming of I know that I am it. Have a date with me and I’ll prove it to you but try to work around my exclusivity because I don’t just pleasure any man.
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About Me:Marilyn is a gorgeous fresh faced blonde bombshell. She will take your breath away with her HUGE bust and mesmerising eyes. She always dresses to impress and is the perfect girl for any style of date. As the cherry on top of this already amazing sounding girl, she is qualified in the art of massage, so she can give you a sensual, relaxing massage to calm you at the end of a rough day. Or possibly trying something new as she is very open to new ideas and finding new things to do in the bedroom.
About Me:Cleo is a sassy young thing and at 5'2" she is a pocket rocket, sure to go off in the bedroom. Cleo has gorgeous brown eyes and big plump lips, she is very pretty & has lovely bronzed skin. This 18yo is intriguing and exotic, full of confidence and charm. Cleo is affectionate and offers an exceptional girlfriend experience, massage & pegging ;).
About Me:Celine is the definition of a true escort. She is a curvy bombshell with sinful curves, delightful personality, and an affectionate nature. She loves men, and really knows how to show it in the confines of her boudoir. Let her stimulate you with her sensuous nature.
About Me:Bonnie is attractive, sensual, and great company. She has old fashioned values and loves to pamper a man to show you how special you are. A true lady, she’s lots of fun, with good conversation. But don’t be deceived, she knows how to thrill you for an unforgettable experience.
About Me:Mila has been sent from heavens to mesmerize mere mortals. She is simply an 18 year old pure perfection. This fresh faced, youthful, Mila Kunis look alike has traffic stopping looks, sexy pout, and a young, tight body full of sensuous promise. She also loves playing naughty games, and is a professional stripper.
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Kelly
Age25
Height5'5" (165cm)
Hair ColourBlonde
Eye ColourChestnut Brown
Weight62 kgs
Bust14G
Measurement38-30-42
About Me:I'm a down-to-earth girl, with a bit of a sassy side. I love to be wild and daring, and I'm always curious about experimenting. let me show you how raunchy I can be!
Amber
Age18
Height5'7"
Hair ColourSandy Blonde
Eye ColourHazel Brown
Weight60 kgs
Bust37D Cup (Full + natural)
Measurement36-29-37
About Me:I am your typical girl-next-door. I know you’ll fall for my fine features and long caramel hair that I always have cascading down my back. I want you to get lost in my dreamy sea green eyes and be lost in the depths of my bosom. I know exactly how to make a man’s night and I would love to satisfy your desires now.
Jana
Age20
Height5'5" (163 cms)
Hair ColourTrue Blonde
Eye ColourMelting Brown
Weight48 kgs
Bust36DD Cup (Full & natural)
Measurement36-22-34
About Me:I'm a true blonde beauty who's straight from the pages of your favourite naughty magazine, except I'm even better: I'm real and eager and willing to please.
Isabella
Age32
Height5'5" (165 cms)
Hair ColourLong Glossy Black/Brown
Eye ColourDeep Dark Black/Brown
Weight50 kgs
Bust36D Cup Full
Measurement36-25-35
About Me:I'm a striking European beauty who loves the finer things in life. If you spoil me, I can do anything to spoil you in return.
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Roger didn't change his name, he just chooses to go by his middle name. Lots of people do that. A good friend of mine is named Elizabeth Marie, but chooses to go by Marie because she doesn't like her first name. It's not that unusual.
As for why Syd chose to go by Syd rather than Roger, he took his name from a local Cambridge musician named Sid Barrett, but chose to change the spelling to differentiate between the two. | {
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“The King’s Heirs” takes place two years after Alistair was turned into the fox statue. In other words, Alistair’s hair was originally black and has turned gray after being alive for thousands of years. Alistair wasn’t born with gray hair, he got it over time. | {
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The Arty Side
I know this is a book blog.
But reading isn’t the only hobby I have. I love to draw and paint, and every time I mention that on here, people seem really interested. So I thought I’d add a page showing some of my art – especially since most of it is book fan art anyway!
I am by no means an amazing artist. I will never say I am. I really struggle with drawing people, and yet that’s all I seem to want to do because fan art. But you know, I might as well try.
I’ll keep the most recent at the top, and update it whenever there’s something new, so the further down you scroll…the older they are. (You might want to stay near the top). Also, this won’t be everything I’ve done – not by a long shot – just the things I have on my walls and in my sketchbook!
This will be a very long page no doubt, so if you don’t want to look through it all, I recommend just having a quick look through this year’s, since that’s the latest!
30th June 2017. A drawing of a wolf I made for my Nan.
28th May 2017. A quick painting I did of a character for my small writing piece,In The Few Minutes It Takes. Done with acrylic paint, watercolour paint, and a black fineliner.
Throughout 2017 I’ve been bullet journaling, so I do small tidbits of art every month in here. There a mix of drawing, painting, calligraphy, mood mandalas, all sorts. I have a playlist on my booktube channel where I add flip throughs and tutorials (though there’s only a couple at the moment – more are coming!), soclick hereif you’d like to see!
Fan art for Christine Spoor’s debut novel, The Changeling’s Journey. I drew and painted these entirely based off her pinterest board and many questions about specifics (hair colour/eye colour etc), since it’s not released until Summer 2017. Painted with acrylic paint, black sharpie used for outlines and detail.
November 16th 2016. Recreation of the cover for The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski. Part of a book cover recreation project for college – previous two shown below.
November 10th 2016. Recreation of the Blue Lily, Lily Blue book cover. After the recreation of The Creeper Man cover (shown below), I did a few more recreations for a college photojournalism project. This one was done with acrylic paint (do not recommend, is a pain in the backside to get off face once dry) 😆
October 25th 2016. Make-Up imitation of The Creeper Man book cover. Wanted to play with makeup art in the run up to Halloween, but with something different this year. I decided to replicate the cover of one of my favourite horror books – The Creeper Man by Dawn Kurtagich.
August 29th 2016. Calligraphy. My first try at calligraphy, imitating the typography/fonts from the covers of my most anticipated reads at the time.
July 29th 2016. Bibliophile Canvas. Made with acrylic paint, a black fine liner and a small stretched canvas. Click here to see a blog post on how I made it.
July 10th 2016. Lady of the Night Court painting – Fan Art for A Court Of Mist And Fury by Sarah J Maas. Done with acrylic paint.
June 4th 2016. Watercolour painting of a random made up fantasy style mountain landscape.
May 31st 2016. Wall quote for my bedroom – “To the people who look at the stars and wish. To the stars who listen – and the dreams that are answered.” A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas. Each individual letter was painted, cut out and stuck to the wall (the last line was actually adjusted a bit after the photo, since it looks a bit wonky). Sarah J Maas actually retweeted this!
May 22nd 2016. Wall quote “Rattle the stars” – Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. Each letter individually painted, cut out and stuck on the wall.
May 14th 2016. Arm tattoo design inspired by the A Court of Thorns and Roses cover. Drawn in liquid eyeliner.
April 12th 2016. Peacock drawing, coloured with felt tip pens. I named this one Henrietta, because I was going through my Raven Boys phase and the feathers reminded me of the series.
April 5th 2016. Fan Art of Aelin from Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas, taking a break to satisfy her fondness for chocolates and shopping. Drawn with a black ink pen. Sarah J Maas retweeted this and told me she loved it, so that was a major fangirl moment for me!
March 5th 2016. Fan Art of Winter from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Done with acrylic paint.
February 12th 2016. Arm design inspired by A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. Drawn with black pencil eyeliner.
Thank you! I used eyeliner for them both, it says under the images 😊 the ACOMAF one was liquid eyeliner and the ADSOM was pencil eyeliner 😆 don’t know why I didn’t just use paint, though I suppose it was easier to remove!
I love your quote on your wall, it looks lovely especially with the fairylights going over it!
I also love your picture of Feyre, you are super talented. It is exactly how I pictured Feyre in my head when reading the books. Can’t wait to see what other artsy wonders end up on this page 🙂 | {
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If you think your family has issues, watch 'Dexter'
USA TODAY's Robert Bianco previews the weekend of June 28th's TV lineup from the Critic's Corner. If you think your family has issues, tune into Showtime on Sunday night and watch 'Dexter.'
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Thinking of buying an airplane but feeling a little scared by the current credit crisis? AirFleet Capital's Jim Blessing sat down with us at AOPA Expo in San Jose to explain why aircraft loans have been somewhat insulated from the credit crunch. With fewer people applying, this might even be a good time to take the plunge.
Question of the Week
Picture of the Week
Ted Runciman of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire (England) enlists the Turkish Air Force in our latest "Picture of the Week." Click through to read more about the top photos and see other stunning shots from AVweb readers. | {
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I have a problem! Deep inside, I have a terrible longing and I don’t
know what to do. I can’t even tell Mom…! I’m scared but, OK, here it
is: I’m tired of washing Daddy’s underwear and carefully plucking the
sweaterberries off Mom’s Sunday sweater. I want to go to Big City! But
my friends tell me that if I do, I’ll lose my moral fiber. But I’m 21
and I have a really fast metabolism, so I don’t think I really need
all the Metagutcil ™ they keep giving me!
Yours truly,
Sandra Slide
Dear Slip-n-Slide,
You are in BIG TROUBLE! Don’t make it harder on yourself by wandering
down the primrose path. Especially avoid the super cheap deal on
Browndog bus (sponsored by Metagutcil ™) that will take you through Big
City and all the way to San Francisco for exactly the amount you have
in that plastic baggie hidden in the septic tank. Your tooth fairy and
angora-rabbit sitting money is supposed to go the church, remember??
And whatever you do, do not arrive just in time to make it to TheOasis for Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls. Do not,
and I repeat, do not, show up there with your pink suitcase in hand,
and let someone “nice” take you home and feed you after the show.
But, and I mean a big but, you may not even make it through the emotional
rollercoaster ride they have in store for you. First of all, some of
the singers have very big arms and hair on their wrists. Secondly, I’m
not sure that all of the cast members, particularly Karla Rossi
(Lavale William Davis) have shown their birth certificates to anyone,
ever. But, and this is a smaller but equally important but, almost all
of the characters are named after beverages. Now, this may not seem
like an insult to our intelligence at first, but then you realize they
are not only beverages, but foreign beverages.
I want to be clear here, I do not like Chardonnay (John Paul
Gonzalez), either as a beverage or a character. Just because a
terrible thing happens to her (I know I’m not spoiling it, since you
won’t see it, ever) and she has to learn to sing and tell jokes and
eat with her mouth only, doesn’t mean I have pity for her. And I just
want to say that the last time I checked, those orange prison outfits
were pantsuits not dresses.
In a story that’s supposed to be about friendship, but is instead about selfishness, Chardonnay and Chablis (D’Arcy Drollinger) are cast aside even by their “best” friend Gewurtztraminer (Nancy French) — as if any country on God’s good Earth would call a beverage that!
Nancy French, photo by Gareth Gooch
Gewurtztraminer is skinnier and smoother, so of course everyone likes her better, even though the others play their guitars like they had a whole band behind them. Like a band on one of those late night TV shows that get beamed in from the coast when we’re supposed to be late night hook-rugging for the Hook Rug competition. As a matter of fact, my own entry this year has a message that The Oasis people should take to heart before they make more shows aimed at further loosening the moral fiber that is just beginning to stiffen now that we have a real American in the White House:
A society who kills its fetuses
is really killing its Girl Scouts
Just take a moment to take that in. And keep this in mind, these coastal elites think we don’t get their double on-tenders. They think we don’t know they’re trying to press on our tender places. The whole story gets moving because some “producer” called Richard Face (Manuel Caneri) discovers Gewurztraminer and gives her a real name, Sherry.
They think we won’t get the reference to the last time someone who knew a thing or two about the inner lives of fetuses was in the White House. They may as well have called the producer “Cheney Face.” They try to manipulate my fantasies of getting to know the Vice President by showing this Face engaging in sexual activities with Chablis, even though he’s already married to Mrs. Cheney, I mean Sherry. They suggest he was some kind of manipulator aiming to squeeze the life out of our country to make him and his pals rich.
Whatever you do, Slippy-Slidey, don’t get on that Browndog bus that leaves tomorrow from just behind the Save-n-Go, where you can tell your parents you’re going for special needles to knit angora rabbit fur. Do not get on that bus! Because that bus will lead you to Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls, a show they’ll tell you has been around in one form or another for twenty years. As if that were American history! You might meet someone “nice” there who buys you a drink and tells you life is short and you should have some “fun.” Listen very carefully, Slippy: don’t let the big hair cloud your eyes (and by the way, it’s not even real!!), the outfits dazzle you, or the fast pace, pun-master lyrics, and great comic timing draw you in.
They’ll tell you we all have dreams, like Cristal Anderson (Melinda Campero) who always wanted to sing, but never got the chance (chance, chance, chance). No! Your chance (chance, chance, chance) is right here in Carrie Nation, where our performances are not queer, but are clear. We’re stiffening our moral fibers and thrusting into a new dawn, and finally we have the leadership we need to keep women — with and without deep voices — from taking up the dream-space that real white men need and deserve. | {
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Currently, many companies tend to choose children as their target market to advertise their products. While some advertisers argue that these advertisements are informative, I personally believe that this marketing strategy negatively affects youngsters and their parents.
On the one hand, there are some reasons to believe that advertisements aimed at children contain useful information. Firstly, thanks to commercials, parents may be aware of the products that are useful for their children. For example, some nutritious brands of milk are widely advertised on TV, which parents can consider buying for their children if they are confused by the wide variety of brands available in the market. Secondly, since advertisements often havecreative content in order to get people’s attention, children can be interested in this marketing industry if they are exposed to advertisements regularly. As a result, they may work as an innovative advertiser when they grow up.
On the other hand, I believe that choosing children as the target market to introduce products is harmful to both these individuals and their parents. As the young are inexperienced, they may fully believe that the information in advertisements is true. If they are attracted by these exaggerated commercials, they will be likely to insist their parents to buy them products which are unnecessary and sometimes even unhealthy. For instance, we can easily find advertisements of different brands of instant noodles and soft drinks either on TV or on the internet, and these consumer goods are often known as unhealthy. If they are advertised in an attractive way, youngsters will put pressure on their parents to buy them these things.
In conclusion, while some people believe that advertisements aimed at children are useful, I would argue that this method of advertising has adverse effects on both inexperienced youngsters and their parents.
An often debated topic is
whether advertising has a major influence on the growing similarity of people’s
lifestyle in the modern world. Personally, I partly agree with this opinion for
a number of reasons.
On the one hand, the power of
advertising is undeniable. The growth of the advertising industry has resulted
in many people buying products of the same manufacture, which can be seen in
the case of consumer goods. Today, the advertising campaigns of multinational
companies such as Unilever have been
so successful that
their products almost
dominate the market.
Smaller enterprises tend not
to be able
to compete with
these giant market leaders
due to their disadvantages of capital poured into
advertising programs. Thus, costumers are often swayed to buy products of
famous brands rather than those made by less well-known companies.
On the other hand, it is also
true that people have the tendency to copy others’ lifestyles without being
affected by advertising. For example, it is valid to argue that many young
people are trying to emulate the fashion styles of their idols. Many Vietnamese
youths manage to purchase the same clothes, dye their hair and wear the same
perfume as their stars do. People can also turn to their social relations for
advice when they need to buy something. For instance, junior citizens usually
ask their friends before they come to a final decision on buying a smart phone.
In conclusion, it is true that
advertising has bridged the gap between each individual’s lifestyle in modern
society. However, I believe that it is not the sole factor that contributes to
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An
Air Force Captain and an Army Captain were sitting next to each other
on an airplane. The Air Force Captain leans
over to the Army Captain and asks if he wants to play a fun game. The
Army Captain just wants to sleep, so he politely
declines, turns away and tries to sleep.
The
Air Force Captain persists and explains that it is a really easy game.
He says, "I ask a question and if you don't kow the answer, you pay
me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll
pay you $5."
Again,
the Army Captain politely declines and tried to sleep.
The Air Force Captain, now somewhat agitated, says, "Okay,
if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I
don't know the answer, I pay you $50!"
Now, that got the Army Captain's attention, so he agrees to the
game.
The
Air Force Captain asks the first question. "What's the distance from
the earth to the moon?" The Army Captain doesn't say a word, but
reaches for his wallet instead and hands the Air Force Captain $5.
Now it is the Army Captain's turn. He asks the Air Force Captain,
"What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down
on four?"
The
Air Force Captain looks at him with a puzzled expression, takes out his
notebook computer, looks
through all his references, and after about half an hour, wakes the Army
Captain and hands the Army Captain $50.
The Army Captain politely takes the $50, turns away and tries to return
to sleep.
The Airforce Captain, a little miffed, asks, "Well, what's
the answer to the question?"
Without
a word, the Army Captain reaches into his wallet, hands $5 to the Air
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San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stepped up to the podium today at the NFL Scouting Combine and spoke to the media about quarterbacks, defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, free agent evaluations, and much more.
Shanahan discussed the report that Colin Kaepernick would opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent. "I know that we don't really have any under contract," Shanahan said. "Kaepernick is but just seeing that today that he's probably going to opt out here in a week or so -- whenever that is. So we don't have anyone on our roster so I've thrown them into the category of everybody else who is free agents and possibilities going into the draft. Those are the guys that we're comparing to who you see in the free agent market, who there is in the draft and trade possibilities and our guys who were on our roster last year is really the group we're picking from."
You can watch the full video of Shanahan speaking at the NFL Scouting Combine below.
Other key takeaways from the discussion with the press:
Shanahan said that, over the past few weeks, they have been working to evaluate the players currently on the 49ers roster.
Shanahan would not discuss Kirk Cousins because he is under contract with Washington.
Film on a player is by far the most important aspect of evaluating college quarterbacks. If you like the film, then you go into how they can handle the pressures of the most important position in sports.
Right now, he sees Carlos Hyde being their running back. "I don't think he's a finished product," Shanahan said. "I think there's a lot more to his game."
"A year of tape is pretty good," Shanahan said regarding evaluating a college player with just a year of starting experience. "You get to see a lot."
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EASY Chicken Noodle Soup
I feel so utterly domesticated (in a good way) when I make soup. I mean, there’s no need to ever buy a can again with recipes that are this easy.
This chicken noodle soup is a favorite of Brocks’, so I make it for him a lot. He loves me for it, and I love it because it only takes about 15 minutes…shhhh don’t tell!
You Will Need:
8 Cups of Chicken Broth
3-4 stalks of Celery, chopped
3-4 Carrots, chopped
2 1/2 cups of Egg Noodles
Salt, Pepper and Parsley (fresh or dried) to taste
2 Chicken Breasts, cooked and diced
.
How To:
Bring the chicken both to a boil
Add all other ingredients, cover pot and lower heat.
Cook for 10 mins, until veggies and noodles are cooked.
Taste, and add more seasonings if needed.
Add the chicken breasts.
As with all recipes you can play with this and customize to how you like your soup. I like mine to be heavy on noodles, veggies and chicken and lower on broth. If you like brothy soups, just add more. Serves about 4-5 bowls.
Don’t wait till you get a cold to enjoy this one, it’s SO good!
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I agree that this is an easy and delicious soup – however, I always find that the flavor is not as rich when you use only chicken breasts. Here is another suggestion-
Buy a rotisserie chicken at the grocery store
Remove the breast meat (approx 2 cups) which is perfect amount for ANOTHER meal
Put it in a pot with 8 cups water, celery, carrots, onions and seasoning as stated above along with a cup of brown rice
Bring to a boil then simmer for an hour
Take whole chicken out – the meat will fall off the bone – separate skin and bones and put meat back in
Optional: add a bag of spinach (whole leaves or torn) which wilts down and adds more veggies
There you go – the cooking of whole chicken gives rich flavor to soup and is just as easy!
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Ex-Trojan Garbanzo voted Big South’s top attacker
The Coastal Carolina University men’s soccer team was voted first in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason poll, as voted by the league’s men’s soccer coaches, as announced Tuesday by the league office.
In addition, the coaches voted Chanticleer forward Ricky Garbanzo, the former Northwestern Trojan standout, as the league’s preseason attacking player of the year. Garbanzo’s fellow Chanticleer, defender Shawn McLaws, was tabbed the preseason defensive player of the year.
The Chanticleers’ sweep of the preseason player of the year awards is the third in as many seasons for the program. Last year, eventual NSCAA All-American and MLS SuperDraft first round selection Pedro Ribeiro was named the preseason attacking player of the year, while Uchenna Uzo, who enters his final season with the Chants, was chosen as the preseason defensive player of the year.
The Chanticleers, ranked No. 17 in the NSCAA preseason national rankings, received seven first-place votes and 96 total points to repeat as Big South champions in 2014. Coastal Carolina has won three consecutive regular season titles and has reached the “Sweet 16” of the NCAA championship each of the past two seasons.
The Chants are coming off a 19-5-0 season and 9-1-0 Big South record in 2013.
Winthrop and High Point tied for the No. 2 spot with 82 points each, with the Eagles receiving two first-place votes. Campbell tallied the final first-place vote and 65 total points to finish fourth in the voting, while Liberty was fifth with 58 points. Radford claimed the sixth position with 48 points, just ahead of Gardner-Webb (seventh, 43 points). Longwood garnered eighth-place with 35 points, followed by UNC Asheville (23 points) and Presbyterian College (18 points).
Garbanzo has already been named to the MAC Hermann Trophy watch list to open the 2014 season. A two-time First-Team All-Big South selection, Garbanzo led Coastal with 13 goals in 2013 and was second in scoring with 27 points. He ranked ninth in the nation in goals and 22nd in points a year ago, and recorded a team and Big South season-high eight game-winning goals in 2013. Garbanzo is currently 13th all-time in Big South history with 32 career goals, 14 of which are game-winners. Garbanzo received four first-place votes and 16 points in the voting, ahead of High Point’s Mamadee Nyepon (13 points, two first-place votes) and Gardner-Webb’s Denzel Clarke (10 points, one first-place vote).
McLaws (Edmond, Okla.) is the reigning Big South Defensive Player of the Year. He earned First-Team All-Big South honors in 2013, in addition to Big South All-Tournament Team and NSCAA All-South Atlantic Region second-team accolades last season. A versatile defender, McLaws has played right back, center back and defensive midfield for the Chanticleers, often making the transition in-game. He started all 23 matches he played last season and helped Coastal to a 0.83 goals against average and 12 shutouts – both League bests. McLaws tallied eight first-place votes and 26 total points, ahead of High Point goalkeeper Kody Palmer (10 points).
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NEW YORK (CBS 2) – The price to fly this holiday season is up as much as 18 percent compared to last year thanks to disappearing discounts.
While many frequent travelers prefer to fly, the changes in policies across the airline industry are frustrating.
“You know they cut the ticket, but the added fees made it worse,” said Diane Hatcman, of Norwalk, Conn.
Hatchman is referring to the check-in baggage and on-board meals—both items that are no longer complimentary for flyers.
It’s a price that has traveler Jimmy King questioning the airlines.
“If I did what we did before, to eat, board early, sure it would double the price,” King said. “Not double the price. It’d add a third to the price of this ticket.”
George Hobica of AirfareWatchdog.com said airlines are even scaling back on bereavement fares. A decade ago, they were 50 percent off. Now some carriers only offer 5 to 20 percent off.
“Some of the fees may seem unfair, but they do represent a cost that is incurred by the airline,” Hobica said.
Traveler Joe Piasevoli said it’s unfair to flyers.
“It’s almost as if the airlines are preying on people because they just don’t have the time to go through the process for a bereavement fare,” Piasevoli said.
Soon, there may be no discounts for babies either. As a safety measure, the Federal Aviation Administration may require parents buy a separate seat for any child under the age of two.
Shaindy Bass and her husband say they’d rather drive home to Iowa than pay $900 to fly with their 2-year-old daughter.
“It’s a waste of money. They’re not going to sit in their seat anyway. And I don’t think it’s any safer. What’s the point? If there’s turbulence, my kid is going to want to be in my arms. Not in the seat,” Bass said.
Even passengers who travel without a seat are paying more than they used to. The price for a pet to fly sometimes costs more than their owner’s ticket. | {
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New Spireites defender Scott Wiseman says that it’s fantastic to be back in pre-season training.
Wiseman has enjoyed a busy summer having recently signed for the club and also getting married. And while it’s been a summer that he’ll never forget, he’s glad to be up and running with his new team mates.
“Any footballer will tell you that it’s all well and good having time off in the summer but there comes a time when you’re sick of doing nothing and you want the routine back,” he told iFollow.
“You want to get back in training and amongst the boys and to be working hard more than anything.
“It’s been tough! The gaffer has not let us have it easy, we’ve got straight into it and hit the ground running and the boys have applied themselves magnificently.”
“It’s never easy coming back to pre-season, but this one has been particularly tough especially the first day, yesterday we did some testing and we’ve hit it hard again today!”
An experienced professional, Wiseman has a good idea what to expect from pre-season, but this one has been slightly different as he’s also getting to know new team mates as well as training methods.
Such experiences can be daunting for any player, but the former Scunthorpe United man says that settling in has been made easy.
He said: “It’s been one of those rare occasions where I’ve come into a club and that I don’t really know anyone other than Joe [Anyon] who I’ve signed with.
“But it’s been a good fresh start for me and the lads have welcomed me in more than anywhere else that I’ve been.”
Wiseman was speaking just hours after the Spireites found out their 2017/18 fixture list, with a home match with Grimsby Town to kick off proceedings on Saturday, August 5 (3pm).
The Gibraltar international has had a good look at the fixture list and he likes how things have turned out.
Wiseman said: “My initial thoughts are that it’s a good start for us, we’ve shouldn’t be scared of anyonecoming into this league.
“We’ve got Grimsby to start off with and that’s our first point of focus. Then for me personally I look at the Christmas fixtures to see where we are around that time because it’s an exciting time for the fans and families.
“There’s always one thing that you guarantee on the first game of the season and that’s that everyone is excited. The lads are going to be raring to go and we’ll be giving everything.”
Manager Gary Caldwell said that he wants his players to make a statement on the opening weekend of the season and Wiseman echoed those sentiments, believing that a good start will bode well for the remainder of the season.
He added: “It doesn’t matter where you start, but it is nice to be at home as that’s where you’re familiar with and this season we’re looking to the make the Proact a real fortress.
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Archer's True Name is Nikola Tesla (ニコラ・テスラ, Nikora Tesura?), a man recognized as a genius scientist, a "worthy rival" of the King of Inventors Edison, who "controlled electromagnetism" from the 19th century to 20th century. Recognized as a "prodigy without equal" and the "Modern Prometheus", he was one of the great scholars who "clarified the power of thunder and lightning", previously described in various mythologies as a "legend of god." The "man who revealed Zeus' thunder to the world", he brought about "electricity" to human civilization.
Dubbed as the "Professor Thunder and Lightning" by Mark Twain, Archer is a haughty individual recognized as a "devil of fierce and magnificent intellect." His wish upon the Holy Grail is "to complete the Nikola Tesla World System", to bring about the "advent of a new world in which interacting electric currents come and go in space itself." He is willing to spare no efforts in the restoration of human history for the sake of that wish.
He is summoned by Makiri Zolgen before the latter is killed by Mordred. He knocks out everyone present and then heads towards the surface, intending to fully activate the "Demonic Fog". As the Protagonist, Mash Kyrielight and Mordred catch up with Tesla, he has already started activating the "Demonic Fog", causing it to begin to absorb energy all around it. However, Mordred manages to use her Noble Phantasm, Clarent Blood Arthur, to temporarily destroy a part of the fog and attacks Tesla. However, the fog soon reforms, allowing Tesla to escape.
As he arrives to the surface, he creates a stairway to the sky, but he encounters Kintoki and Tamamo-no-Mae, who fight him. Tesla though manages to escape again, running up the stairway. However, the Protagonist's party manage to finally catch up to Tesla and defeat him, causing him to fade away.
Archer qualifies for the Archer-class due to having brought about what can be called the "second coming of gods of thunder and lightning", sublimated as his Noble Phantasm, System Keraunos. As it was previously a power only endowed by beings from the Age of Gods, Archer raising civilization by making it available to all is seen as a turning point in human history, granting him the high EX rank of the Pioneer of the Stars skill. Archer can use his lightning for a number of things, such as making stairs that he, and others, can walk on. [1][2] | {
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According to the site, Rob is staying clear from any imagery of Blac Chyna. Sources say, he heard about the provocative music video, but he’s trying to move on. “Rob is totally over Blac Chyna now and has no desire to see her try to be sexy in Belly‘s ‘P.O.P. (Power of P***y)’ video,” one source said. “When given the opportunity to see Blac strut her stuff, Rob was like, ‘No thanks, I have been there and done that, I am over it.’ Blac has caused Rob too much grief in his life and he is trying to move on and put their past behind him.”
“P.O.P” will appear on Belly’s upcoming release Glorious. You can check out the music video below, where a scantily clad Chyna winks at the camera during the line, “She took you for everything / You let her do it again.” We’ll let you be the judge. | {
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The ad, which touts the Vermont senator’s success raising millions of dollars from small donors, appears to represent a small buy – less likely to reach mass TV audiences than to offer a counter-point to Clinton’s visit.
In the ad, Sanders supporters ask for $27 – the average amount his donors give, according to the campaign – to advance causes including free college tuition, universal healthcare and getting “big money out of politics.”
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“If you can’t afford to attend tonight’s event with Secretary Clinton, we invite you to join Bernie’s fundraiser for the low price of turning on your television,” Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, said in a prepared statement.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, is scheduled to appear with George Clooney at fundraisers in the Bay Area on Friday and in Los Angeles on Saturday.
She is also expected to speak at a public event in Los Angeles.
The Sanders campaign said its ad will run on KGO-TV in San Francisco on Friday and on a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles the following day.
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