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Irish Footballer that Played for Manchester United - Harry Baird
Harry Baird - Introduction
Harry Baird was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and starred for Linfield FC. At the time that he signed for Manchester United he was viewed as one of the best strikers on the island of Ireland. His reputation was such that the Manchester United manager at the time, Scott Duncan, had to pay £3,500 to sign the Belfast man.
Harry Baird & Manchester United
Baird joined United in early 1937. Duncan immediately brought him into the United first team and on 23 January 1937 Harry Baird made his Manchester United debut away to Sheffield Wednesday. United lost that match 1-0. Unfortunately for Baird United were on the slippery slope to relegation down to the Second Division. The team lost their first six matches of that season.
Harry Baird scored the first of his 18 Manchester United goals on 13 February 1937 in a 1-3 home defeat to Brentford. Following relegation Duncan was replaced by Walter Crickmer as Manchester United. The team's, and Baird's, fortunes improved under Crickmer.
United and Aston Villa were the twin dominant forces in Division Two in that season and both gained promotion to the First Division with the Reds taking the runners-up position. Baird scored a number of significant goals as United secured promotion.
Unfortunately the Belfast
man did not enjoy the fruits of his efforts with United as he was transferred
to Huddersfield Town in September 1938. Harry Baird's last start for Manchester
United was on 7 May 1938 in a 2-0 against Bury. His last goal for United
was the third goal in a 3-1 Bradford (Park Avenue) AFC.
Harry Baird - Northern Ireland Career
Harry Baird won just a single cap for his country when he played against England at Wembley on 16 November 1938. It was a bitter-sweet match for Baird as the occasion of his one and only cap was also a 7-0 drubbing by the English.
Harry Baird - Man Utd & Northern Ireland Statistics
|Manchester United History - Irish Man Utd Players|
Anderson - Harry Baird - Billy
Behan - George
Best - Jackie Blanchflower
- Robbie Brady
History - Liverpool
Irish Players - Liverpool
Glasgow Celtic History - Celtic's Irish Players
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Sorry for being a day late, I’m supposed to post on Fridays, but I kind of got caught up in working on the Third Edition of The Artifact. It’s pretty exciting stuff and I don’t like interrupting flow when I’m in it. So that I don’t interrupt my flow, I’ll talk about a subject that I just smacked into related to Social Conflict. I’ve been thinking about this subject for a while and thought I had it pretty well down to a science but just realized I was missing an element that’s important for realistic and character driven Social Conflict and that is principles and priorities.
When I was writing Steampunkfitters I included the concept of a personal code that the character wouldn’t cross. In some ways it seemed a bit rigid but now that I think of it, is more or less how people handle things even if they don’t notice it on the surface. Obviously in a modern setting, most people aren’t going to follow the same moral codes as those found in the 19th century but they still do exist, they just tend to be more self serving. For instance, one could imagine a modern character that, consciously or unconsciously, lives by the principal “No one disrespects me.” Another could be “Don’t do anything that’ll get you fired, I need this job.”
Those would be the principles but what about priorities? The way I’m looking at this, a priority is how a person weighs how important a subject is. For instance a person’s priorities could be, myself, my kids, my job, mom and dad and boardgames. When there’s a conflict between taking care of this person’s job or his kids, his kids wins out because they come first.
The problem with using this model and assigning it to a modern game is that people don’t usually consciously think in these terms, they just react to habits that they’ve built up over time. Giving the process a rigid structure seems inauthentic to the modern psyche.
That’s unfortunate because in a social conflict, a character should really be immune to things that blatantly violate their principles and priorities. So what can we do?
Leave It Up To The Player
So one option is to let the players say “My character would never take that bribe because it goes against who they are.” It could work with the right players. You know, that perfect player that would never misuse the system because he knows the GM could use it later to drive a story. Maybe a little misuse is okay because it leaves the player with more agency over their player.
Where I start to have a big problem with this is that now the GM has to develop a clear mental model for how the merchant in this town thinks because the players want to convince him that they’re his best friend and he should totally help them out by giving them free stuff. You know they’ll try it. It leaves a big mental load on the GM who will resort to cookie cutter NPC motives for all the guards around the palace because they all love the lord of the land.
A GM usually has a lot of mental load remembering how the rules work, making him generate mental models for NPCs on the fly is a bit much.
This one might seem a little random (and it is) but it would resolve the issue of coming up with mental models on the fly.
Whenever a character successfully defends against a social attack, the player (or GM) gets to write down what drove them to reject the idea that was being pushed on them. If a similar issue comes up in the future, they get to use the precedence to boost their ability to defend themselves. There would, of course have to be some limit on how much precedence it would be practical to record.
This makes it easier on the GM, he lets the dice tell him as to who this character is. Unfortunately this makes an NPC potentially very easy to push over on the first attempt but harder and harder as he defends which is exactly the opposite of how a real social interaction would take place. Usually at first a stranger is a black box that you don’t know how to influence and then as you learn about them through conversation you begin to see how to key in on things they see as important.
Along with that thought, you can try to blindly guess what a person’s motives are or you can strike up a conversation with them, get to know them a little, then with that information try to work around that. This would be an effective model, but it would also suggest that everyone knew how to do this. In my experience, most people aren’t aware of how to do this. It also doesn’t resolve the issue of knowing what motivates an NPC, it’s just a different model on how the interaction should take place.
Tables, Tables and More Tables
You could list a group of principles and priorities on a table and then roll on them for each NPC. This is probably the most straightforward way of doing this but it takes up a lot of space and it’s mechanically very slow. Each NPC needs to be rolled for so you need the tables for almost every encounter. My other issue with this is that each culture you’re dealing with potentially has their own set of tables.
The problem with skipping over this idea is that it leaves a player with a character that could be influenced into something that they feel the character would never do. The protection of having a core set of internal rules that they hold as important to who they are is really important to having a character with a cohesive personality. The question is, what’s the simplest way of implementing this concept? | <urn:uuid:1cc97069-336d-4fb8-9a94-ee1df764db8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.theartifact.net/?p=962 | 2022-01-17T01:18:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.977042 | 1,216 |
|Joe Lance Williams (AKA JW)
He has performed live on stage with Carl Gardner Sr. for several years, personally hand picked by Carl in July 2001.
Born June 16,1949. Has performed live on stage with Carl Gardner the original lead singer and founder of The Coasters since 2001. He grew up in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, just 60 miles from the music capital of the south,his birth
|DENNIS ANDERSON – baritone
Dennis Anderson- joined the group after the death of Carl Gardner in 2011.
Born October 11,1946 Started playing bass guitar for many groups including the Broadways and the Escorts. He came from a gospel musical family and began singing in church at a very early age. In 1979, Dennis played the role of Judas in Jesus Christ Super Star and 1982 Ain’t Misbehavin’. Over the years he performed on stage with other groups before joining The Coasters in 2011 after the death of Carl Gardner.(The original lead singer and founder of The Coasters). Dennis lives in Jackson, New Jersey.
|EDDIE WHITFIELD – bass
He joined the Coasters in November 2009 after auditioning for Carl Sr. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born December 26,1948. Joined The Coasters in November 2009 after auditioning for Carl Gardner. Nicknamed “Fast Eddie” Started singing when he was just a teenager and can sing both bass and baritone. He toured and recorded with group by the name of Neighbors Complaint. He was on their record “Piece Of Mind” His great bass really impresses on Charlie Brown, Zing With The Strings of My Heart and Yakety Yak. Eddie lives in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
|PRIMO CANDELARIA -tenor
He joined the Coasters in October 2008 after an audition for Carl Sr.
Born October 3,1952 . Joined The Coasters in October 2008 after an audition for Carl Gardner. Primo has been singing since he was 10 years old. He teaches choreography and also produced many shows. He was also with the group Chapter One for several years and sang with the Intruders and many other professional groups. He has been a great asset to the continuation of the Original Coasters. Primo lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | <urn:uuid:81731327-4032-4a29-9332-9b273a5ac302> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.theoriginalcoasters.com/biography/ | 2022-01-17T00:46:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.973206 | 498 |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Weiler Request for Comments: 5781 SPARTA, Inc. Category: Informational D. Ward ISSN: 2070-1721 Juniper R. Housley Vigil Security February 2010
The rsync URI Scheme
This document specifies the rsync Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License.
URIs were previously defined in RFC 2396, which was obsoleted by RFC 3986 [RFC3986]. The procedures for registering new URI schemes are defined in RFC 4395 [RFC4395]. The rsync utility provides fast incremental file transfer [rsync]. This document defines a URI scheme for rsync.
This section contains the registration template for the rsync URI scheme in accordance with RFC 4395 [RFC4395]. This URI scheme is for the rsync protocol using TCP as the transport protocol. Other transports, such as rsync over SSH, are not supported by this URI scheme.
URI scheme name: rsync
URI scheme syntax: An rsync URI describes a source or destination for the rsync application including a hostname, path, and optional user and port. The generic form of the rsync URI is:
The rsync URI follows the general syntax from RFC 3986 and is defined by the following ABNF [RFC5234]:
rsyncuri = "rsync:" hier-part ; See RFC 3986 for the definition ; of hier-part
URI scheme semantics: An rsync URI may be used as either a source or destination for the rsync application. If the port is not specified, it defaults to 873.
Encoding considerations: Since the rsync URI is defined using standard elements from RFC 3986, no special encoding considerations are present.
Applications/protocols that use this URI scheme name: The only application that uses rsync URIs is rsync.
Interoperability considerations: Since only one application is expected to make use of rsync URIs, this URI scheme is expected to have few interoperability concerns.
Weiler, et al. Informational [Page 2]
RFC 5781 rsync URI February 2010
Security considerations: Section 7 of RFC 3986 describes general security considerations for URI schemes. The considerations about reliability and consistency, malicious construction, rare IP address formats, sensitive information, and semantic attacks all apply to rsync URIs. The considerations about transcoding do not apply. Given how rsync is regularly used, it is expected that most applications will not be bothered by data accessed via a given rsync URI changing over time.
Many security considerations for the usage of URIs are discussed in Section 7 of [RFC3986]. The considerations about reliability and consistency, malicious construction, rare IP address formats, sensitive information, and semantic attacks all apply to rsync URIs. The considerations about transcoding do not apply. The rsync URI scheme has no particularly unique security considerations.
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BC FORUM Recommended Event
Name of Event:
The Women’s March on Washington: Vancouver
Saturday, January 21, 2017, starting at 10 am
Jack Poole Plaza, downtown Vancouver waterfront
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Common CAHSS 2021: Teaching the History and Literature of the Holocaust: A Roundtable Discussion of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Holocaust Studies with Mark Karau, Valerie Murrenus-Pilmaier, Tabatha Zwicky, Cari Mattson, and Charles Kriescher was recorded live on Monday, November 29, 2021.
This is a roundtable discussion of our HUM 483: The History and Literature of the Holocaust Learning Community with perspectives from the instructors and students. We feel that this course is transformative for both its content, interactive nature, & reflection on who determines what “true” means.
The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for the third annual Common CAHSS Conference 2021 event themed “Truth, Information, Misinformation, and Democracy,” sought to explore the role of the modern university in supporting the “continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” which has been part of the University of Wisconsin identity for over a century.
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Director:ALFONSO GOMEZ-REJON (ME, EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, AMERICAN HORROR STORY)
Starring: ADDISON TIMLIN (THAT AWKWARD MOMENT), TRAVIS TOPE (MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN), GARY COLE (PINEAPPLE EXPRESS), JOSHUA LEONARD (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), ANTHONY ANDERSON (SCREAM 4), DENIS O’HARE (AMERICAN HORROR STORY), EDWARD HERRMANN (THE WOLF OF WALL STREET) & VERONICA CARTWRIGHT (NON-STOP, ALIEN)
Based on a terrifying true story, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (American Horror Story) makes his striking feature debut with this shrewd remake of the seventies horror of the same name, inspired by the unsolved murder spree that took place in the American border town of Texarkana in 1946.
Set in a world in which the original film exists and is very much part of popular consciousness The Town That Dreaded Sundown picks up 65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town, when the brutal “Moonlight Murders” suddenly begin again. Texarkana’s quiet streets are plagued by a masked maniac who bears striking resemblance to the same Phantom Killer who wreaked havoc decades before. Is it a copycat crime? Has somebody seen the original film too many times or is it something even more sinister?
A lonely high school girl, with dark secrets of her own, may be the key to catching the murderer in this riveting collaboration between the producers of the hit series American Horror Story and the blockbuster Paranormal Activity franchise. | <urn:uuid:853b34a5-fba3-4cbb-8c23-8a589396148e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://caveofcult.co.uk/metrodome-release-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown-2014-on-dvd-monday-17th-august-2015/ | 2022-01-17T00:15:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.840511 | 371 |
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The OAK-D-PoE baseboard offers full 802.3af, Class 3 PoE compliance with 1000BASE-T speeds. The OAK-D-POE baseboard has three on-board cameras which implement stereo and RGB vision, piped directly into the DepthAI SoM for depth and AI processing. The data is then output to a host via USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-C) or via 1000BASE-T ethernet connection. Ther OAK-D-POE board exposes boot selection switches, allowing the end user to boot the OAK-SoM-Pro module from USB or the on-board eMMC or NOR flash.
Dimensions and Weight¶
Width: 130 mm
Height: 101 mm
Length: 31 mm
Fully compatible with all OAK-D features
IP67 rated enclosure compatible with standard tripod mount (1/4”-20)
Interface for OAK-SoM-Pro
USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) power source
1000BASE-T ethernet for data
Header access for OAK-SoM-Pro 1.8V Aux Signals (I2C, , Module Reset)
Micro SD connector for DepthAI SoM 3.3V SDIO
On-board PCIe ref clk for OAK-SoM-Pro and PCIe/Ethernet bridge
User-selectable OAK-SoM-Pro boot configuration switches
Design files produced with Altium Designer 20
PoE injector is required to power the device.
Minimal and maximal perceiving distances of the camera¶
Minimal depth perceiving distance of the camera depends on mono camera FOV, resolution, baseline and stereo depth mode, more info is available on the Stereo Depth documentation.
OAK-D-PoE has a baseline of 7.5cm and by varying the resolution and stereo depth mode, we get the following minimal depth perceiving distances:
Min distance (800P): ~ 70cm
Min distance (400P): ~ 35cm
Min distance with extended disparity (800P): ~ 35cm
Min distance with extended disparity (400P): ~ 19.6cm
Maximal perceiving distance for OAK-D-PoE: 38.4 meters
For more information about the maximum distance see the Stereo Depth documentation.
Power usage for OAK-D-PoE ranges between 2.00 W (standby) and 5.5 W (max consumption). More information on the power usage is below:
Standby: 2.00 W
Normal operation (running
python depthai_demo.py): 5.25 W
Max consumption power (running
python depthai_demo.py -s left right color disparity rectified_left depth): 5.50 W
For more information on how to start with POE devices, check our guide Getting started with PoE.
The OAK-D-POE accepts power input from any 802.3af, Class 3 PoE circuitry. So this for example includes any/every PoE UniFi Switch (e.g. US-8-150W) and any other standard POE switch and/or 802.3af PoE injector. Power consumption is typically 5W, leaving ~7.5W available if active lighting is desired additionally over PoE/etc.
If an outdoor rated PoE switch is needed, one option is the EP-S16.
Interfacing with the OAK-SoM-Pro is also possible with PoE board connector pads J5 which expose OAK-SoM-Pro auxiliary I/O. This header is Amphenol/FCI 20021121-00010T1LF or equivalent. Please refer to the schematics for pinout information.
The reset button resets the OAK-SoM-Pro only. The 5V LED indicates 5V power is present on the PoE Board. The PG LED indicates “power good” from the OAK-SoM-Pro. The “RUN” LED indicates that the OAK-SoM-Pro is not in reset.
Caution should be taken when handling any PoE circuit board. Do not directly touch the circuitry as potentials up to and exceeding 57V may exist. Always use electronics handling best practices. | <urn:uuid:deb697d6-ccb4-4117-96f0-4429b9b69590> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://docs.luxonis.com/projects/hardware/en/latest/pages/SJ2088POE.html | 2022-01-17T01:39:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.775768 | 958 |
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Pico DrumsA device for uploading samples to modules. In addition to this device, Google Chrome plug-in for upload software is required. * USB cable (mini-B) is not included.
- Pico Drum ProgrammerDownload (Google Chrome Plugin) and install
- Prepare the sample you want to use with 44.1kHz / 16Bit mono
- Start Pico Drum Programmer
- Make a sample list. Select a file from the "Browse" button or drag and drop to add samples to the sample list.You can also preview sounds and delete samples from the sample list.It is also possible to first select the default sample list from "Choose a sample set" and replace some of it.
- Connect the programmer to your PC and power on the Pico Drums module as shown in the picture below.
- When you press the "Program" button, the samples in the sample list will be sent to the module. Please note that the samples that were previously included will be erased. | <urn:uuid:77b33479-fab4-4813-aaab-e81650e5c67a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://en.clockfacemodular.com/products/erica-synths-pico-drums-programmer | 2022-01-17T01:41:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.917797 | 215 |
Athletes are human too. They dedicate a crazy amount of time and resources to their sport that many people can’t even fathom. So, they too deserve to have treats, cheat days, and yes, even alcohol. Whatever their reason, be it to calm their nerves or dampen the sensation of physical post-event pain. But consider the fact that consuming five or more alcoholic beverages in just one night can affect your brain and physical activities for up to three days.
So, should athletes really drink? What is the middle ground for the athletes to drink? And most importantly, how does alcohol affect an athlete's performance?
Effects of Alcohol on Athlete's Performance
Performance and Recovery
Post-workout, it becomes essential to replenish the body's glycogen stores and stimulate muscle protein synthesis. Which is why consuming a combination of carbohydrates and protein is recommended. However, if you consume alcohol after a workout, alcohol tends to diminish muscle protein synthesis by over 37% and interferes with glycogen replenishment, resulting in a delay in the recovery process. This makes it extremely difficult to boost athletic performance and muscle growth over time.
Several studies show that alcohol, even when consumed with a protein source post-workout, could still diminish muscle protein synthesis by over 24%, impairing muscle growth and repair. Alcohol also impairs hydration status, affecting the quality and duration of upcoming workouts. If you're recovering from an injury, consuming alcohol could also prolong your recovery time.
Slows Reaction Time
Being a sedative, even small amounts of alcohol can result in slow reaction time and decreased hand-eye coordination. It can affect your sports performance for up to 72 hours after drinking. This impairs performance, slows your reaction time and increases the risk for of injury.
It Inhibits Nutrient Absorption
Alcohol itself is devoid of vitamins and minerals. Therefore, it is extremely limited in its nutritional value. Beyond that, it also keeps the body from absorbing these nutrients from other sources like Thiamine (Vitamin B1), which is involved in metabolizing the food we eat into fuel and forming haemoglobin. As this nutrient metabolizes carbohydrates, it plays an essential role in optimal performance. In addition, alcohol also depletes the body's zinc resources, affecting an athlete's endurance level drastically.
Injuries and Complications
Alcohol prolongs the recovery period. It causes more bleeding and swelling in the area of a soft tissue injury.
- Muscle injuries
Alcohol also masks pain which could lead to delay in the treatment process. If an athlete can't feel the pain of an injury, they are less likely to pay attention to it. This could lead to worsening the injury and slowing down the recovery process.
Sleep and Muscle Growth
Studies show alcohol helps us fall asleep faster, but we should be concerned about the quality of sleep. Alcohol disrupts our restorative sleep cycles, reducing rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Lack of sleep is associated with an increased risk of sports injuries.
Cortisol and testosterone are two of the hormones that influence muscle growth. Cortisol promotes protein breakdown, whereas testosterone stimulates protein synthesis. Alcohol (2-3 drinks per day) leads to lower testosterone levels by decreasing testosterone secretion, impairing protein synthesis and negatively affecting resistance training results over time.
The Bottom Line
Overall, the effects of alcohol vary considerably from person to person, with multiple contributing factors.
The effects of alcohol on athletic performance differ depending on the amount consumed, demographics, and form of training.
As a result, specific recommendations are difficult to make. Athletes should follow the same safe and responsible drinking guidelines as the general public. Binge drinking is never recommended because it impacts an athlete's performance and prevent him/her from performing at the expected or desired level. Also, athletes should be encouraged to follow recommended nutrition and hydration guidelines for recovery before consuming alcohol post an athletic event.
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A cardiac nurse and a healthcare reimbursement consultant are splitting $3.5 million as their share of a $23 million settlement by 51 hospitals that allegedly violated Medicare coverage rules about implanting heart defibrillation devices in patients.
Leatrice Ford Richards and Thomas Schuhmann filed a qui tam lawsuit on behalf of the United States in federal district court in the Southern District of Florida.
They alleged hospitals were charging Medicare for implantable cardioverter defibrillatos, or ICDs, for patients who weren’t elegible.
Only patients with certain clinical characteristics and risk factors qualify for an ICD covered by Medicare.
Each device costs about about $25,000.
ICDs work like external defibrillators often found in airports and office buildings. But ICDs are small enough to be implanted in a patient’s chest.
There’s a 40-day waiting period before an ICD is implanted in a patient who has suffered from a heart attack and a 90-day waiting period for a patient who has had by-pass surgery or angioplasty.
From 2003 to 2010, each of the 51 settling hospitals in 15 states allegedly implanted ICDs during the waiting periods.
A list of the settling hospitals is here (pdf).
The settlements were the final stage of a nationwide investigation into the practices of hundreds of hospitals improperly billing Medicare for the devices. With the latest resolutions, the DOJ’s s investigation has produced settlements with more than 500 hospitals totaling more than $280 million.
The qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act permit private citizens to bring lawsuits on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of the proceeds of any settlement or judgment awarded against a defendant.
This lawsuit was U.S. ex rel. Ford et al. v. Abbott Northwestern et al. No. 08-cv-20071 (S.D. Fla.)
The DOJ said the claims resolved by the settlements were allegations only and didn’t determine liability.
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Over 2 years after the release of UFC 3, EA and UFC have officially revealed UFC 4. UFC 4 is set for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next month, August 14th. The game features cover star’s of Current UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya and Jorge Masvidal, who’s challenging for the UFC Welterweight Champion against current champion Kamaru Usman in a couple of hours at UFC 251. UFC 4 will come with a Pre-Order bonus of boxes Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, along with a Backyard Customization Pack and Kumite Customization Pack containing cosmetic items. With all of this info also came a reveal trailer which you can look at below.
As to be expected from a new release in a sports video game franchise there’s a bunch of new additions and upgrades to UFC 4 in many departments as told by EA in their press release.
In gameplay, fluid clinch-to-strike combinations offer more responsive and authentic stand-up gameplay experiences, while overhauled takedown and ground mechanics deliver more control in those key phases of the fight. No matter how or where players play, EA SPORTS UFC 4 puts them at the center of every fight. Fluid clinch control brings RPM into the art of the ‘clinch’, adding a key element of strategy to the striking system. RPM Tech drives a takedown overhaul, with a slew of new takedown animations, driven by player control and fighter attributes. A new submission system was built to offer a simplified player experience, with more ways to transition into submission attempts, accelerate a finish, or deploy high-impact slams to escape them.
Additionally, an overhaul to Career Mode introduces a brand-new way to develop fighter backstories and offers an in-depth evolution process for the duration of the fighter’s career. The new fighter evolution feature lets players dictate a fighter’s skillset, as every punch thrown, or every takedown executed builds fighters up in that specific discipline. Relationship Building brings the impact of partnerships and rivalries into UFC 4, learning from both friend and foe to gain experience and learn vital skills. Players can pick their path, which allows them to choose the fights, weight class and rivalries they want, ensuring no two careers are alike.
The one thing we don’t know is will your purchase of UFC 4 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One carry over with a free version to the inevitable PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions surely coming at some point in the future. I’m sure EA will announce will shed some light on that soon, but I’m almost 100% sure they’ll go the Cyberpunk 2077 route and have the purchase carry over.
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Last July I discovered that I was not alone in the state of Maine. That there were indeed geeks living among us! I discovered that Maine has its very own convention in the form of PortConMaine organized by someone who I worked with at my day job. Julie York and her husband, Ryan, own Weekend Anime in Westbrook, Maine. They’re avid gamers, new parents, and in their spare time, convention rock stars. As someone who never quite manages to get down to Boston for PAX, and gazes longingly at the pictures of SDCC, I was beyond excited to find out that there was a con right in my back yard. PortCon started in 2002 and calls itself a “celebration of geek culture interests including anime, gaming, science fiction, costuming, fantasy, video gaming, boffer combat, comics, pop culture, steampunk, and more!”
PortCon offers everything that its bigger brothers and sisters around the U.S. do. Purchase costume supplies, games, clothes, toys, figures, and well, pretty much anything you can think of from vendors based locally as well as some from further afield. There is always a solid roster of special guests. This year’s list includes anime voice actress Cherami Leigh and novelist Keith R.A. DeCandido. The schedule is a thing of beauty with time for gaming, panels, and a variety of cosplay events. One of the highlights of the event is the parade and fashion show. Cosplayers line up on Saturday morning for a march from the hotel to a nearby mall. Once there, participants vie for prizes in a fashion show. The event is sponsored by Newbury Comics and the Maine Mall.
This year’s convention runs from June 20 to June 23 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in South Portland. I got together with Julie recently to ask her a few questions.
GM: What led you to start PortCon?
JY: I ran an event at UMF called New England Mini-Con. It was the first anime convention in New England, back in March 1999. I had a lot of fun doing it and found out that I really, really, REALLY enjoy planning and organizing events. When I graduated college, I was already thinking of how to get a Gen Con style event in Maine.
GM: When was the first time you looked around and thought, “We’ve done it”?
JY: The year I started reserving hotel rooms for staff was the year I thought we finally made it.
GM: What seems to be the most popular thing at PortCon?
JY: Wearing costumes and having fun is the most popular thing to do at PortCon. We’re much more laid back and smaller in scale than larger events, so we’re a lot more friendly and community oriented. The most popular events include: Extreme Geek (an 18+ gameshow that’s hilariously crude), the Techno Dance Party (our rave without the implications of drugs the term “rave” gives), and the cosplay parade (the costume contest on Saturday).
JY: Seeing everyone once a year and celebrating all the things we like to do. I love how it’s not JUST one hobby, how we try hard to include everyone.
GM: Is PortCon family friendly? Do you allow for strollers?
JY: It is family friendly but strollers would not fit in our current venue. At the moment the largest venue in southern Maine that will host us is the DoubleTree, and once we’re all packed in it’s not particularly stroller friendly. The Holiday Inn is the next step in terms of a bigger space but they recently denied our group’s request to move there. There are over 2,000 people [in attendance], so strollers are a no go. I usually suggest that parents use baby slings or carriers. People will move if strollers are there, but it is very crowded.
GM: What do you hope people get out of PortCon?
JY: I hope they have fun, meet people, and they find something they love and something they might love in the future. I want them to experience new things as well as things they already know.
GM: Do you go in costume?
JY: Yup! If I have time.
JY: Cthulhu. (pictured here)
GM: What is your costume this year? Will your son and husband be in costume?
JY: I might not do one. I’m finding it hard to sew and have an infant. I have craft club time so maybe if I can do something quick. I was thinking of having my husband and son be in a matching costume of some kind: maybe Max and a Wild Thing? Or Nunu from League of Legends? Again, I’m the one who sews so it depends. It’s “A Year of Decadence” so I already have my fancy dress… The Geekling will only be coming on Sunday because he’s so young and we’ll be so busy.
GM: What are you most looking forward to this year?
JY: Seeing all my once a year convention friends. 🙂
GM: You’re a geek mom; what do you geek out over most?
JY: Events, fishing, hunting, family, and certain TV shows. Dr. Who and Game of Thrones are my current must-see shows.
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In current version, the unseen crit bonus for Shadowstrike effect is not in effect because of a bug. This patch will fix this problem.
However, even after the fix, with the current setting of Shadowstrike, it will not trigger for any damage with
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President, Endocrine and Metabolism Society of Nigeria, Prof. Olufemi Fasanmade, says Nigeria has only about 150 active endocrinologists serving its estimated 200 million population.
Fasanmade said the number was ‘grossly inadequate,’ compared to what obtains in the United States of America.
Speaking in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, he said there were about 150 active endocrinologists — including adult and paediatric endocrinologists; some endocrine surgeons, pathologists, and gynecologists.
“The number is grossly inadequate. New York City alone has more than all the endocrinologists in Nigeria. Some states in Nigeria have just one or two,” Fasanmade said.
He noted that diabetes is on the increase because the population is getting older, poverty is increasing and people are getting fatter.
He said one in 10 adults in Nigeria has diabetes, noting that there are between three and five million people with diabetes in Nigeria, warning that the number might double over the next two decades.
“Every year, the number keeps increasing and Africa has the highest rise of diabetes because our population is getting older, poverty is increasing and people are getting fatter.
“From all the projections, we will be having double of that number in the next 20 years; we will be having 10-20 million people with diabetes,” Fasanmade warned.
He said there are increased cases of diabetes in Nigeria because the population is gradually ageing, the westernization of the local population is also increasing and exercise/physical activities are reducing (insecurity, longer sitting hours, etc.) while people have more access to cheap unhealthy food as seen in the proliferation of fast food outlets, food delivery companies, etc.
“Typically children and adolescents are usually type 1; but of late, in the past two or three decades, more children are being diagnosed with the type 2 variant which used to predominantly occur in the middle-aged and elderly.
Fasanmade, who is also a professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and Consultant Endocrinologist, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, said diabetes affects all organs of the body and that the complications affect many systems and can lead to stroke, heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure, impotence, and miscarriages.
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He said diabetics face the burden of stigmatisation, inability to meet up with the cost of treatment and tests, and limited access to health care.
“The way forward is to prevent the disease through the adoption of a healthy lifestyle, abstinence from alcohol, soft drinks, and fast food consumption and smoking cessation,” he noted.
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Joshua vs Usyk Live Reddit: Heavyweight superstar Anthony Joshua (24-1, 22 KOs) is all set to put his WBA, WBO and IBF world titles on the line Saturday against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk (18-3, 13 KOs).
It’s certainly the biggest fight of Usyk’s career, but it’s also a critical hurdle for Joshua, who needs to get a win to set up a potential unification fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury.
Joshua is one of the hardest hitters in boxing’s top division and has consistently worked to improve his technique since his stunning upset loss to Andy Ruiz in June 2019.
The 31-year-old was able to get his revenge against the American just six months later and has since gone on to beat 39-year-old Kubrat Pulev, easily outclassing him in a ninth-round knockout win.
Usyk, 34, is a relative newcomer to the heavyweight ranks. He spent most of his career at cruiserweight, becoming the unified champion in 2018.
A tricky, technically sound southpaw, the Ukrainian has moved up to the heavyweight division in search of greater glory. A win over Joshua would be a career highlight and put him in prime position for another blockbuster or two.
Joshua vs Usyk Fight Info
When: Saturday, Sep. 25 at 1 p.m. ET (main card, ring walk approx. 5:10 p.m. ET per DAZN.com)
Where: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
Live stream: DAZN (US), Sky Sports Box Office (UK)
TV: Sky Sports Box Office (UK)
Odds (via FanDuel): Joshua -310, Usyk +225
The oddsmakers are favoring Joshua in this match, and for good reason. He’s the champion, after all, and has fought his entire career at heavyweight.
His right hand is a fearsome weapon, not quite at Deontay Wilder’s level, but fairly close. He’s also shown greater patience since the loss to Ruiz, working behind his jab and waiting for clean opportunities rather than assuming he can weather any storm en route to a knockout blow.
Some will rightly wonder if Usyk will be able to withstand Joshua’s best power punches. The challenger hasn’t been knocked down in his career, but he’s never faced anyone as powerful as the British fighter. He had some trouble with Derek Chisora’s size in a close, unanimous-decision win in October.
Heavyweight fighter Dillian Whyte thinks Usyk lacks the firepower needed to trouble Joshua.
“It’s a dead fight. Usyk hasn’t looked good,” he said, per Jordan Seward of the Daily Mail.
“Who has he fought at heavyweight? Chazz Witherspoon, Derek Chisora. He looked terrible in the fights. He has no punch power.”
While Joshua has plenty working in his favor, Usyk is more than capable of pulling off a big upset here.
Strong on the defensive front, he’s not going to make it easy for Joshua to string together combinations. Usyk also has fast hands and, as a southpaw, he’ll be able to return fire at awkward angles.
Tony Bellew, who lost to Usyk at cruiserweight in 2018, believes this will be Joshua’s toughest test yet.
“As a natural boxer and his technical ability, no one is anywhere near as good a boxer as him in the heavyweight division. He’s in a league of his own,” he told Josh Fordham of TalkSport.
It should also be noted that Joshua’s chin has failed him before. He lost to Ruiz by TKO, and Wladimir Klitschko was able to knock him down in their epic title fight in 2017. Usyk’s likeliest route to victory is on the cards, but a shock KO isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
If the fight is close in the later rounds, Usyk may want to gun for the knockout. The crowd is going to be on Joshua’s side here, and there’s all kinds of pressure to get him and Fury in the ring together. It may be tough for him to earn a narrow-decision victory.
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- Other celebrities including Arci Muñoz and JC de Vera reacted on the video as well
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Kapamilya star Angel Locsin has stunned the online community with her latest post on her social media account.
KAMI learned that the actress uploaded a behind-the-scenes video of one of her stunts in ‘The General’s Daughter.’
According to Angel, “Thank you for the trust @dreamscapeph Sir @montie08 Last 6 days... #TGDMahuli.”
Her post, however, prompted her close friend, Chito Miranda to ‘reprimand’ her for doing the stunt, “Sira ka talaga! Todo hataw pa yung pag-flip eh ingatan mo nga sarili mo! Lalo na yung likod mo! Tigas ng ulo... pero kahit ano sabihin ko astig ka pa rin talaga.”
It can be worth noting that Angel revealed back in 2015 that she backed out from the movie, ‘Darna,’ after suffering a spinal injury.
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Aside from Chito, other celebrities reacted to the viral post as well.
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As reported earlier by KAMI, Maja Salvador recently tweeted about Angel Locsin’s scenes in ‘The General’s Daughter.' Her tweet prompted Angel to reply with a funny message. Their conversation garnered reactions from netizens as well.
Angel Locsin is a veteran and well-known actress, endorser, and talent show judge in the Philippines. She became more prominent after portraying the iconic “Darna” role.
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In this video, we interviewed Jacob Batalon from 'Spider-Man' who shared his first reaction upon finding out he landed the role of Ned Leeds! Check out more of our videos - on KAMI HumanMeter YouTube channel! | <urn:uuid:628059b8-3dc6-4ec9-93d6-bfb403f4303f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://kami.com.ph/96593-angel-locsin-pinagsabihan-ni-chito-miranda-dahil-sa-kanyang-online-post.html | 2022-01-17T01:31:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.892972 | 646 |
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Treasure of berber populations that abundantly use this oil rich in unsaponifiable and Vitamin E, the fruit of Argan tree has several regenerative properties.
As cosmetic care, it is used to soften and nourish the dry skins and blurs the skin imperfections. In application before the shampoo, it fortifies and softens the dry hair. Its colour and its odour are natural.
Ecological and Organic Cosmetic certified by Ecocert Greenlife according to Ecocert standard.
100% of total ingredients are from Organic Farming.
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Use befor the shampoo, it fortifies and softens the dry hair.
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In order to be successful in your job interview, you need to have strong negotiation skills. It is difficult for both the interviewer and the candidate when there are unresolved issues from previous work experiences. To avoid this happening, it is important that any of these issues be resolved before coming into an interview.
In this blog post, we will discuss some tips on how to improve your negotiation skills during a job interview so that you can successfully get hired. Make sure you negotiate for the appropriate salary that is based on your experience. It’s important to know what other people in a similar job are making, and then figure out how much more or less you want than them.
Find out about benefits packages before accepting an offer so there will be no surprises later. You should also ask if there are any ways to improve this package – it never hurts to try! – Be aware of where the company stands financially; do they have money to invest in new projects? Or are they struggling with budgeting issues? This information can help tailor your negotiation skills accordingly and determine whether or not this would be a good fit for both parties involved. | <urn:uuid:c19a6a7c-69df-4c9e-a003-3cd3ea29b32b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://muminkaffe.com/as-part-of-the-interview-process-any-unresolved-issues-should-be-_______/ | 2022-01-17T01:21:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.96406 | 227 |
Day 59: The bloons still have noticed me sniping them in this bush...
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International Services | | Apr 18, 2019
The US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed on 17 December 2017, has dramatically changed the analysis and available strategies for structuring cross-border operations. Meaning, to realise tax optimisation, business owners must be aware of those changes. For example, in addition to a decreased corporate rate from 35% to 21%, and the full expensing of plant and equipment acquisitions, there is a now a reduced effective rate of 13.125% for domestic companies’ income from selling products or services to foreign customers directly or through related parties.
Also, now available is a 20% deduction on qualified business income of pass-through entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, S Corporations, estates and trusts. This deduction can reduce the top marginal rate from 37% to 29.6%. Regarding income of controlled foreign corporations (CFCs), most of which is now called “global intangible low-taxed income” (GILTI), US corporate shareholders benefit from an automatic 50% deduction on such foreign income (taxed currently as a deemed dividend) reducing the effective US tax rate to 10.5%. Also, corporate shareholders are allowed an indirect foreign tax credit for 80% of foreign tax paid, which should reduce the US tax to zero where the foreign tax rate is at least 13.125%. This reduced effective rate is not available to US individual or pass-through shareholders. This means that US individuals who earn GILTI through a US pass-through structure pay tax rates as high as 37%.
US corporations are also the only type of shareholder that can benefit from a full tax exemption on certain types of foreign income. This exemption is not available to US individuals or pass-through entities.
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The Praxis Natural Dye Gardens
Praxis is working with the The Cleveland Seed Bank to design and plant our indigo gardens.
Read about our covid response volunteer indigo adoption program.
In 2018 we turned a vacant Cleveland lot into a natural dye garden! The Praxis Natural Dye garden is located at the corner of Corsica Avenue and E 156th Street. Praxis is thrilled to be doubling the scale of our natural dye crop in 2019! Thanks to a generous partnership with Hospice of the Western Reserve, we will be sharing one of their lots in South Collinwood! We look forward to a prosperous relationship with Hospice of the Western Reserve and Hannah Gibbons School, CMSD K-8 located across the street.
We grow weld and marigolds along the perimeter of the garden, and Indigo as the main crop in the center of the garden. The outer perimeter plants yield beautiful flowers and when cropped and boiled in water, extract bright and beautiful shades of yellow which can be used to dye any natural fabric such as cotton, silk or wool. Indigo is the oldest known natural dye. Discovered in India, there is evidence of Indigo in Egyptian tombs. This also makes Indigo the most permanent and long lasting natural dye. Many cultures have their own uses for Indigo but in the United States you will find the color mostly in denim. However, natural Indigo has been replaced with a synthetic version, which, like all synthetic dyes, is terrible for the environment. It is our goal to create an indigo crop which would not only be used for educational programming to spread the word to our local communities the important of natural dye practices, but also could be sold as an alternative to local clothing companies and manufacturers who use synthetic indigo and are looking for a smaller carbon footprint.
In 2018 we harvested 100 pounds of indigo. Praxis is proud to host Creative Fusion in 2019 sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation. We invited Creative Fusion artists Tony Williams(Cleveland), Roland Ricketts(Indiana), and Maria and Eduardo Portillo(Venezuela) to use our Cleveland grown Indigo with the help of the community. Click here for more info on the banner project. | <urn:uuid:3ef4ef1f-2488-4db8-b7c4-0dab93c97b96> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://praxisfiberworkshop.com/garden/ | 2022-01-17T00:22:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.943929 | 449 |
1901 “Station Agent” Stove
The Iconic railroad station pot belly. Union Stove Works in Peekskill, NY. Made these in three sizes, this, the #20 being the smallest and rarest. Completely restored, refitted and resealed to new condition. Beautifully replated nickle plated hardware as well.
This currently can burn wood or coal. It can also be retrofitted to burn gas or run on electricity. (extra cost for fitting)
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Our heavy jersey tee made from 100% organic long-staple cotton is the perfect stand-alone t-shirt when you want to go for a little more character. The top applied neck rib and patch pocket with rounded corners combined with the incredible thickness and softness gives it the perfect combination of a tailored but still relaxed everyday look. A true full blood with an accentuated shape that will fit most body types and stand the test of time.
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- Stamp and color image as shown.
- Cut pieces and assemble card.
- For more information, contact Jennie at [email protected]
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Copic® Markers (E30, E33, E35, V01, V12, V15, E00, E11, R20)
Ribbon by May Arts
ZipDry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives
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Grilled Chilli Oil
(Nam Prik Pao)
This makes 2 tablespoons, allow it to cool and store in a screw-topped jar in the fridge, top it up with sunflower oil to keep the paste soft.
5 cloves garlic peeled
5 shallots peeled
5 long red dried chillies
1 tbsp ground dried shrimps
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
8 tbsp sunflower oil plus more for storage
How to make it….
- Heat up grill whilst you are peeling the garlic and shallots. Cut the shallots in half. Place garlic, shallots and chillies on tin foil under the grill, turn when the skins of the chillies blister and start to char. Watch out as chillies will be done very quickly. If you burn them they will smoke badly. You may need to remove the chillies and allow the garlic and shallots to continue cooking.
- Pound the dried shrimps in pestle and mortar and transfer to another dish. Allow chillies cool then gently shake to allow the seeds to fall out, chop.
- When the garlic and shallots are done pound them together with the chillies in a pestle and mortar to make a paste.
- Heat the oil in a small frying pan and add the paste. Stir it all into the oil. Add sugar, salt and pounded shrimps. Cook for 5 mins stirring all the time. | <urn:uuid:8f9c0b92-be68-4fb1-902b-633d4d06918e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://store.beverleyglock.com/grilled-chilli-oil/ | 2022-01-17T01:56:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.899014 | 298 |
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Uber is a transport services company, the European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled, requiring it to accept stricter regulation and licensing within the EU as a taxi operator.
The decision in Luxembourg, after a challenge brought by taxi drivers in Barcelona, will apply across the whole of the EU, including the UK. It cannot be appealed against.
ECJ notify Uber is a transport company, not a digital agency. Rules will be same as for black cabs
Uber had denied it was a transport company, arguing instead it was a computer services business with operations that should be subject to an EU directive governing e-commerce and prohibiting restrictions on the establishment of such organizations. Source: Guardian
Uber is a transportation company, according to a landmark ruling from Europe’s highest court.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that the U.S. ride-hailing app is a transportation firm and not a digital company. The verdict is a long-awaited judgment expected to have major implications for how Uber is regulated throughout Europe.
“The service provided by Uber connecting individuals with non-professional drivers is covered by services in the field of transport,” the ECJ said. “Member states can, therefore, regulate the conditions for providing that service,” it added.
Uber has long-considered itself an “information society service” which connects drivers and passengers through inter-mediation via their app. This subtle classification has helped to protect the multi-billion dollar start-up from national regulations and means it has been treated as a digital service operating across borders in the EU‘s single market | <urn:uuid:d7ada7c5-1e73-4b1d-81d7-f6ce151b5d2e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://toptechretailnews.com/2017/12/21/war-is-sorted-out-finally-ecj-apprise-uber-is-not-a-digital-agency/ | 2022-01-17T00:43:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300253.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117000754-20220117030754-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.9638 | 339 |
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Spring is here! Sure, it doesn’t feel like it with us spending every damn day of our lives indoors for the last few weeks (and the foreseeable future), but the warming weather is practically begging us to go outside. We spent the first week of quarantine strictly staying inside and avoiding public gatherings like the grocery store at all costs, but by the end of last week? We were Zooming with our enemies, just dying for a little connection.
The bad news — if you don’t follow the news, in which case we envy you — is that life is going to be like this for a while. And while we don’t have spring parties to look forward to or music festivals to flash our fists at, we still have the ability to go on walks in the neighborhood in fly kicks. Treat your daily walk like you’re navigating a club line and stay stylin’ with all the best footwear and apparel fits dropping this week.
Adidas UltraBOOST DNA
If you love the general shape, comfort, and design features of the UltraBOOST but don’t need the runner-focused tech, the DNA is for you. Swapping out the lightweight mesh upper for a thick patent-leather make-up, the UltraBOOST DNA is like an UltraBOOST crossed with the Adidas Superstar, giving you an old-meets-new design aesthetic that’ll appeal to UltraBOOST fans and fashion over function people alike.
The leather upper makeup drops in both a white and black colorway.
The Adidas UltraBOOST DNA is out now for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair through the Adidas online store.
Adidas 4D Run 1.0
If on the other hand, you’re digging the white and black Superstar-esque UltraBOOSTS but are still looking for a performance-based sneaker for your running routine, consider grabbing the 4D Runners. The sneakers feature elegant gold-foil branding and a lightweight future-leaning synthetic semi-translucent upper atop the 4D’s signature textured midsole. The translucent upper is much more apparent on the black pair, giving the sneaker an overall muted look that isn’t quite as intense as it’s UltraBOOST counterpart — something to consider if you’re all-in on black colorways.
The Adidas 4D Run 1.0 is set to drop on April 2nd for a retail price of $220. Pick up a pair at the Adidas online store.
Casablanca x New Balance 327
Our collective quarantine has made it so we’re not really appreciating spring to its fullest extent. It’s hard to embrace a season that’s all about going outside when, you know, we can’t go outside. So remind yourself of the season by slipping on a pair of these New Balance 327s made in collaboration with Casablanca. The two colorways — a green/orange combo and a green-on-green — are sure to be a visual reminder of what the outside world is like, and the elegant design is sure to stay in pristine quality until the summer when you’ll finally be able to rock them in public.
The Casablanca x New Balance 327 is set to drop on April 4th for a yet-to-be-announced price. Pick up a pair through New Balance.
Stüssy x Nike Air Zoom Spiridon Caged 2
If you missed out on the Stüssy-exclusive Spiridon Caged 2 drop last week, you’ll have a second chance to pick up a pair through Nike SNKRS, which probably won’t inspire too much confidence given how often the app fails people. Dropping in either a “Pure Platinum” or Fossil” colorway, this special collaboration between Stüssy and Nike is just dripping with tossed-off no-fuss Dad-vibes, but still packing some forward-thinking tech for support. Featuring a caged Zoom Air unit in the heel, for a responsive cushioning, and a full-length foam midsole that is lightweight, flexible, and durable for added traction defense.
Considering all we can do these days is go for a walk, you might as well look fly while you’re doing it.
Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Court Purple
Get on your King sh*t with this royal colorway of the Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG. A classic sneaker in a classic colorway, While a royal purple was never Jordan’s thing, the sneakers are a reminder of who the true king of the court is and always will be. Subtle black accents on the collar, laces, and swoosh bring the whole thing together for a dope colorway of one of the best sneaker silhouettes in the game.
The Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Court Purple is set to drop on April 4th for a retail price of $170. Pick up a pair through Nike SNKRS on April 11th.
Supreme Lamborghini/ Spring 2020 Collection
Supreme is once again teaming up with Lamborghini for a new spring-color focused collection that implements Lamborghini’s iconic raging bull logo. The seven-piece collection features jerseys, short-sleeve t-shirts, branded skateboards and beanies, mechanic coveralls (because Supreme always has to be right on the nose) as well as hooded worker’s jackets.
Admittedly, I’m always a little torn when it comes to luxury car company clothing collabs — is this meant only for people who drive Lambos? What if you’re just a Lambo fan? Is it corny to like the iconography and design aesthetic of something you can’t afford?
But also… who cares? Life is too short to get hung up on stuff like that. If you dig it, pick it up!
If you’re not down for the Lamborghini collaboration, Supreme is also launching it’s week 6 drop, which features early spring essentials like hooded sweatshirts, sweatpants, corduroy jackets, and cargo pants.
The Supreme Lamborghini/ Spring 2020 collection will be accessible exclusively online and drops on April 2nd at 11 am EST. Due to the coronavirus lockdowns, Supreme is offering free shipping on all orders over $150.
Palace x EVISU Spring Collection
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been covering Palace’s near-endless clip of spring drops, and now they’re linking up with EVISU for a spring collection that pays homage to the London club scene of the late ’90s and early ’00s. That look translates to lots of heavy denim, in the form of a pocket-heavy jacket, jeans, and of course the London club staple — the bucket hat. For the denim-averse, the collection also consists of dual-branded pullovers, crewnecks, and t-shirts, which are on a more subtle tip.
Mark Gonzales x Adidas Shmoofoil
Skate legend Mark Gonzales is dropping his “Shmoofoil” graffiti-inspired apparel line through Adidas and the result is one of the most fun apparel collections out of the three-stripes in some time. Highlights of the collection include the Shmoofoil pattern hoodie and matching sweatpants, and the spring-appropriate mint hoodie. The complete collection is rounded out by t-shirts, shorts, and track jackets for a skate-friendly line of spring essentials.
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Haldirams Namkeen – Khatta Meetha is a sweet, crunchy and sour snack that will tickle all your taste buds. It has sugary accents with a tart spice flavoring, golden raisins and salty chickpea flour strings.
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The Santa Ynez Valley
Central California is full of sprawling vineyards and exceptional varietals, but it’s Santa Barbara’s urban wine scene that is attracting the attention these days. Located a stone’s throw from volleyball friendly East Beach, the city's wine zone lies in the heart of its downtown: an arty, industrial area, where oenophiles and hipsters unite at the newly renovated Municipal Winemakers tasting room, open since 2007.
Winemaker David Potter crafts small-lot wines with grapes sourced from select vineyards in Santa Barbara County (and he's still a part of the winemaking team for two popular Central Coast vineyards, Fess Parker Winery and Epiphany Cellars). Potter's current releases include Bright White, a crisp, dry Riesling; Bright Red, a spicy blend of Grenache, Cinsault, and Syrah; and Dark Red, a concentrated mix of Cabernet and Syrah.
Dave Potter checks harvest.
The Municipal Tasting Room has a 2009 Syrah and 2010 Chardonnay on tap–available by the glass ($7) or in one-liter refillable growlers that read, “drink this now” ($25). Its generous wine club, called Club Awesome (because, well, it’s just that), offers an inviting venue for sampling local varietals, learning about the winemaking process, and kicking back with friends.
After recently expanding the tasting room to accommodate even more thirsty patrons, the airy industrial space has a tin roof, a concrete floor, and is appointed with vintage file cabinets, typewriters, marquee-style signs, and other throwback, eclectic touches. Huge barn doors open to a breezy patio where visitors imbibe amid the ocean air, and out front, a rotation of food trucks stop by with offerings to pair with tastings.
This holiday season, tasting room expert Cassidy Ugles suggests pairing the 2009 MCS - a light bodied, earthy blend of Mourvedre, Carignane, and Syrah - with turkey dinner, while the 2009 Cabernet’s notes of tobacco, mint, and crushed berries compliments dark chocolate desserts. He says that more intrepid chefs who might whip up, say, a suckling pig belly, would be best suited with the 2008 Dark Red, a blend of 55-percent Syrah, 40-percent Cabernet, and five-percent petite Bordeaux.
If someone else is cooking this year, Municipal’s recyclable growlers make a fun, quirky gift, and the one-liter bottles–equivalent to one-and-a-third bottles of wine–are always a hit at dinner parties. Now open until 11 pm Thursday through Saturday, the tasting room is also an off the beaten path hot spot for a nightcap with in-the-know wine lovers.
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Published on 21st May 2018
Finance & Accounting roles involve adaptability now more than ever. Gone are the days where hiring managers only look for technical skills and experience in the industry. Kam Wai Peng, CFO of AirAsia, takes us through the changes within the finance space with respect to digital transformation and what direction the industry is taking. She also shares advice for budding finance professionals on how to succeed in their field.
You’ve been in this industry for a long time now. As we move into the digital age, what changes have you observed in the industry in the last two years?
More companies are starting to embrace technology and move towards paperless, cashless transactions. Stakeholders expect to be provided with requested information at a faster pace. With these examples of digital transformation, cyber security becomes important and necessary to protect data.
As a leader, what direction do you see the industry taking in the future? What areas, techniques or systems do you foresee the industry expanding to?
In my opinion, more shared services will be set up taking over mundane tasks like accounting, payroll, maintenance operations, etc. There will probably be more demand for cloud-based services. In addition, more establishments will also be moving towards cashless transactions.
However, with these changes, there is also a danger where operators do not have enough knowledge on how these services work. This could be attributed to the rate at which technology progresses. The downside? Companies or teams that can’t cope will fall behind.
Digital transformation within the industry includes the implementation of automation. Some teams are apprehensive to change as it brings uncertainty. What can companies do to ensure smooth operations should this scenario occur?
Companies have to start preparing their employees on how to embrace the change. They need to move away from activities to value-added services or service-oriented activities. People in the business need to understand that this change is not only unique to their organisation but is present in all organisations.
In today’s world, finance professionals are expected to be well-rounded and have a strong understanding around the business’ activities. What are your thoughts on this?
I absolutely agree with this. For example, standard
s requirements and regulatory compliance, are easily available on the internet. Professionals in our department need to be aware of the business activities to help them make better decisions. If they do not learn about the business, they will be unable to contribute value and help take the business forward.
With tough competition in applying to jobs in finance, how can candidates stand out against their peers?
To me attitude is the most important attribute, besides being good at their area of expertise. Having a positive attitude translates to a willingness to learn, capacity to grow and ability to take criticism. Someone with this trait takes pride in their work and communicates well with others in the company or team. All in all, beneficial to the growth of an organisation.
Finally, what advice do you have to a junior in finance about the journey of a financial professional?
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Throughout history, illusions and spectacles have entranced people into believing in the paranormal. Magicians, psychics, and mystics have long employed tricks of the senses to leave us amazed and curious of the unknown. As science and technology advanced at the turn of the 20th century, illusionists concocted new and innovative ways of tricking their audiences by blurring the line between science and the paranormal.
One person who is uniquely qualified to recount this history is Matthew L. Tompkins, a former professional magician who recently completed his doctoral studies in Oxford’s experimental psychology department. His new book, The Spectacle of Illusion, offers a comprehensive examination of paranormal illusions since the 1800s.
Here, Tompkins shares with BuzzFeed News his expertise on the human mind’s susceptibility to illusion, as well as some curious history of the paranormal.
How has your experience as a magician informed your research as a psychologist?
Matthew L. Tompkins: My experimental work and my approach to teaching and science communication have been heavily influenced by my past experiences working as a professional magician. For Spectacle of Illusion, the focus is on how scientists have attempted to study extraordinary phenomena, and how they’ve interacted and been influenced by the work of people who practice illusions, such as magicians and fraudulent mystics.
These sorts of interactions can cut in both directions. On the one hand, practitioners of illusions have directly offered valuable insights that have helped drive advances in human psychology. One of my favorite is examples of this comes from one of the earliest systematic attempts to explore the psychology of eyewitness testimony. In the late 1880s, the amateur magician S.J. Davey helped design an experiment in which he used his sleight-of-hand knowledge to stage hoax séances — the researchers were interested in how people’s recollections of the events might deviate from what actually happened. Ironically, for a study of memory reliability, this experiment itself has been largely forgotten.
On the other hand, individuals have used illusions to conduct elaborate hoaxes that have tricked researchers into embracing false conclusions. The American spirit medium “Dr.” Henry Slade famously convinced a number of prominent German scientists to try to rewrite fundamental laws of physics to accommodate the concept of intelligent extra-dimensional spirit people.
What was it about this era that made something so obviously unbelievable today, feel so authentic back then?
MT: Much of The Spectacle of Illusion is focused around turn of the 20th century. This time period is fascinating to me because of three key historical developments that were all happening in concert. One development was the rise of “modern magic” — the style of performance spearheaded by the French stage magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, from whom Houdini adapted his own stage name.
The second was the development of “modern spiritualism,” which was sold as a new kind of religion that offered empirical evidence of miraculous phenomena, where more traditional religions might have preached faith. And the third development was the emergence of experimental psychology as a scientific discipline, as researchers like William James and Wilhelm Wundt sought to legitimize the idea that the human mind itself could be the subject of empirical investigations — an idea that some of their colleagues thought was just as radical as the claim that mediums could talk to dead people.
The interplay between these three movements is really the driving narrative of the book. How fraudulent spiritualists would adapt magic-trick methods to in order to create illusions of empirical miracles. How magicians would use the act of debunking fraudulent spiritualists as a platform for promoting their own brands of entertainment. And how psychologists sought to develop methods to scientifically explore illusions and deception — variously embracing and confronting spiritual mediums, and sometimes appealing to magicians’ practical expertise to help drive their research.
Are any of these “illusions” still used today to deceive people?
MT: Absolutely. While magic methods and psychic cons have certainly developed over the years in many ways, there are definitely some core principles that seem to remain relatively dependable.
Hot reading techniques are a lovely example of this idea. Broadly speaking, cold and hot reading methods are used by performers to give the illusion of having access to knowledge or information that they couldn’t possibly have obtained by normal means. The performer might claim that information was obtained telepathically, or they might claim that the information was obtained by spirits whispering in ways only a psychically sensitive person like themselves can hear. The presentation is really only limited by the performer’s imagination.
These days, you can often learn a great deal of information about a person based on their publicly available social media. The effect remains the same, and the principle is similar, but Facebook updates can be used in place of informal networks of fraudulent mediums.
Can you talk a bit on how you went about uncovering these histories and researching this book?
MT: Happily, I’d already been in the habit of collecting stories about magicians, psychics, and scientists when Thames & Hudson initially approached me to write the book. My research had begun when I first decided to conduct visual cognition experiments involving magic tricks as part of my doctoral project. In the process of preparing that project, I went searching for other examples of researchers who’d conducted similar work.
Unsurprisingly, it’s not a huge body of literature. In the present day, there’s been some great work by folks like professor Richard Wiseman and Dr. Gustav Kuhn, but I really dropped down a rabbit hole when I started looking further back. Turned out that a number of legendary figures in experimental psychology had been involved with magic and spiritualism, but it wasn’t the sort of work you’d find referenced in a contemporary textbook.
Has this book been a passion project for you?
MT: As an experimental psychologist and magician who incorporates magic methods into my experiments, I definitely feel a strong personal connection to this project.
Additionally, in the process of researching many of these events, I found myself developing a weird sort of affection for these characters. Even the ones who might, in hindsight, seem a bit...morally dubious. I love that I have the opportunity to make some of their stories better known again. Based on my own experiences and research, I’m quite skeptical of the claim that it’s possible to psychically or spiritually communicate with the dead, but I absolutely get the appeal of connecting with the past. I just prefer to connect via archives as opposed to mediums.
After your research was complete, was there any aspect of these histories that was entirely unexpected?
MT: I was initially quite taken aback by how intimately psychical research and early experimental psychology were intertwined. I can understand why psychologists were so keen to distance themselves from what they considered to be pseudoscientific ideas, but I think in some cases this has led to some really cool work fading into obscurity.
It was quite fun, as someone with a background in contemporary cognitive psychology, to wade into some of this early work. These were situations where the researchers were working in entirely new fields and developing novel methodological paradigms, often with mixed results. I was delighted to unearth little gems of work that ended up being remarkably prescient — forgotten studies of memory and unnoticed experiments on noticing.
What do you hope people will take away from this book?
MT: Psychology is an interesting science because people tend to believe that they are innately experts in their own cognitive processes. On a day-to-day basis, we all successfully navigate and interact with the world around us by using are perceptions and our memories. But in many ways, these processes do not operate in the way that we might intuitively feel they do.
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For a couple of years now, the Grand Theft Auto franchise has become internationally infamous for it’s mature content. The media loves to bash it, parent like to blame it and Jack Thompson want’s the Take Two CEO’s mother to feel sorry about it.
After spending a good amount of time in GTA IV, I realised that there are some really good lessons that we can learn from playing the game. So I decided to make a short list and discuss a few of these important life lessons, in no particular order.
GTA Life Lesson No.1: Driving when you’re hammered is a pretty bad idea
When news of the ability to drive when drunk in GTA IV got around, the faeces really hit the air-conditioner. The media was all over it and still are, calling it irresponsible and reckless.
On the contrary, GTA has shown me exactly how bad an idea it actually is. The first time I did one of the drinking side missions, I climbed into a car and attempted to drive, I realised very quickly that it wasn’t the best idea I had ever had. Not only does the game do a great job of representing the effects of heavy drinking, it made me actually want to hurl as my vision blurred and my view bobbed up, down, left and right. When I finally arrived, my car was smashed up and I had a couple of cops trying to pull me over. From now on, if I have to take one of my in-game buddies drinking, I call a cab.
Don’t drink and drive, not only do you endanger your own life, but the lives of your passengers as well as pedestrians and other motorists. You risk damaging your vehicle, or even writing it, and yourself, off. If you haven’t already organised a designated driver, call a cab to collect you from your drinking hole. If that isn’t an option, organise for a friend or family member to come and get you instead.
GTA Life Lesson No.2: If you take care of your friends, your friends will take care of you.
For their fourth installment of the three dimensional GTA franchise, Rockstar added a system whereby you gain new friends, are able to hang out with them and even benefit from the friendship.
The friends system in GTA IV can get annoying to some, but isn’t that how things work in real life? If one of your buddies invites you out and you turn them down, they will understand. Do it over and over again and the friendship will slowly start to crumble, especially if you don’t bother to ever give them a call either.
People benefit from their friendships, be it company, assistance or some brown sugar. If in GTA, your friendship with one of the characters grows, you can also gain special benefits. Some friends will send help, others will come and collect you if you need a ride, things that aren’t uncommon in everyday life.
Take care of your buddies and in most cases, they will return the favour. Ignore them and they will start to fade away. If you’re the type of guy who is always happy to help a buddy out, chances are that when your in trouble, one of your buddies will be there to give a hand.
GTA Life Lesson No.3: Don’t mess with the Po-Po
Pigs, Cops, the Fuzz, call em’ what you want, the police are no joke in the real world. Mess with them and you are going to be in a world of doggy doo-doo.
In GTA, you run into the police a lot. In some cases, you get away. In some, you don’t. Now most of us aren’t going to be pulling out our nine’s and popping caps into a couple of fools on the freeway, but looking for any sort of trouble can deliver you straight into a run-in with the police and what I have realised is that if you are looking for trouble, you are going to find it and in the real world, there is no such thing as a respawn.
GTA IV has bumped up police activity significantly. Frankly, they are everywhere and if you do something stupid, they are going to come after you. Resist and they will make your life a lot worse, if not shorter. The fantasy of running from the police in a high speed car chase is one that is portrayed in GTA a lot, giving you the opportunity to lose them and laugh as they wonder where you went. In real life, the same situation would have us shaking in our boots as we lay face down on the floor to avoid any sort of complications. Watching reality TV has show us exactly what happens to the fools who run from the cops, they get owned, hard.
Don’t be an idiot. If police arrive for any reason, be it your stupidity or someone else’s, don’t get in their way. If you are the fool in question, keep your rights in mind, but don’t cause unnecessary trouble. Run and you are screwed, fight back and you are screwed even more, it’s that simple. GTA has done a great job of letting us know that running from the cops can be an exhilarating experience and I sure hope it is and that you enjoy it, because it will probably be your last. If you do manage to keep your car out of the river and the bullets out of your lungs, you can look forward to a lovely vacation in the chookie where big burly men will take you on romantic dates and sing Barry White to you in the showers.
These are just a few of the things that I have learnt from my experience with GTA IV. If you have any more that you want to share, leave it in the comments. This game clearly hasn’t been designed as the murder simulator that people make it out to be. For example, you can be a cab driver, put fires out, help fight crime not to mention go bowling with buddies. Granted, Niko Bellic ain’t no saint, but he values his friendships and takes care of his family.
Hell will freeze over the day I see a news article that reads “New Grand Theft Auto videogame teaches people to value their friendships and family”. Obviously no one will ever do that, but if they are allowed to only focus on the violence, then surely it’s not wrong of anyone to only focus on the good things every once in a while.
I wont be holding my breath.
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Apart #1675, , Almagro
Fernandez de la Hoz street
Two Bedrooms Exterior apartment.
Metro: Gregorio Marañon (L10) / Iglesias (L1)
Two bedrooms exterior apartment in 1st floor.
Living room with sofa, TV, Internet-Wifi and dining table for 4 peoples.
American fully equipped kitchen with vitroceramic, oven, microwave, dishwasher, washing machine and large fridge.
Master bedroom with double bed, fitted wardrobe and ensuite bathroom.
Second bedroom with trundle bed and fitted wardrobe.
One additional bathroom with shower.
Bed linen and towels provided.
Supply according to contract (electricity, water, gas, internet).
- 1 double bed
- 1 single bed
- Air conditioning
- Bed linen
- Coffee maker
- Ironing board
- Washing machine
Deposit / Deposit: 2 months at check-in, refundable up to 30 days after check out if the apartment is delivered in good conditions.
Check-in / check-out: From 10:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday, subject to availability of our agents. Check-ins or check-outs outside these hours have an extra charge (consult our agents).
Supplies: Fixed charge or according to consumption, consult before with our agents.
Payment of rent and supplies: First week of each month.
- -Bachelor parties not allowed
- -Hooligans not allowed
- -Not adapted for disabled guests
- -Parties not allowed
- -Pets not allowed
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The European Union has confirmed it will no longer permit sales of the widely used actives in insecticides chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl; after 31/01/2020.
The move was expected after the recent report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that “that no safe exposure level – or toxicological reference value – can be set for the substance.”
Once the commission formally adopts the regulations, member states must withdraw all authorisations for plant protection products containing the active substances. A period of grace for final storage, disposal and use of a maximum of three months may be granted by countries. After any products containing these actives cannot be sold within the EU.
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The Mila Skinny Jean for women features an authentic, 5-year vintage dark blue denim wash that’s been uniquely worn-in to mimic a pair of genuine vintage jeans. The Mila offers a fitted silhouette through the hips and leg for a skinny fit with a super high-rise waist. This women’s jean is designed in a lightweight denim fabrication with super stretch for a luxurious feel and comfortable wear.
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What is Fmsb?
The Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards Board (FMSB) is a standards setting body for the wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets. FMSB is practitioner led and operated by the major participants in wholesale markets.
What is FICC Market?
The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) is a regulatory agency that deals with the confirmation, settlement, and delivery of fixed-income assets in the U.S. The FICC ensures the systematic and efficient settlement and clearing of U.S. government securities and mortgage-backed security (MBS) transactions in the …
When was Fmsb established?
The FMSB was established in 2015 as a private sector response to the Conduct issues revealed in global wholesale FICC markets after the financial crisis. It was put into place to help raise standards of conduct in global wholesale markets and thereby make those markets more transparent, fair and effective.
What are FICC products?
What is FICC Trading? It includes buying and selling of securities in both cash and derivative instruments for interest-rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies and commodities. Investment banks usually maintain a portfolio of FICC securities to meet clients’ trading demand.
What is fixed income in finance?
Fixed income is an investment approach focused on preservation of capital and income. It typically includes investments like government and corporate bonds, CDs and money market funds. Fixed income can offer a steady stream of income with less risk than stocks.
Is FX part of FICC?
More Focus on “The Macro” – Since FICC includes products such as FX, commodities, and government bonds, you’ll get more questions about GDP, interest rates, yield curves, inflation, monetary policy, exchange rates, and so on. You must understand how these factors influence the markets.
Is Ficc a CCP?
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), is a central counterparty (CCP) and the leading provider of trade comparison, netting and settlement for the U.S. Government securities marketplace.
Is fixed income a good career?
Most importantly fixed income job is one of the most reliable and secure careers in the financial world as it entails less risk and offers a diverse range of investment options for all.
What is the difference between DTCC and NSCC?
As noted above, NSCC is a subsidiary of DTCC. Along with NSCC, DTCC manages an additional four clearing corporations and one depository. DTCC is the world’s largest financial services corporation dealing in post-trade transactions.
Who owns Ficc?
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation/Parent organizations
Who is the FMSB and what does it do?
The Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards Board (FMSB) is a standards setting body for the wholesale Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) markets. We are practitioner-led and owned and operated by the major participants in wholesale markets.
Who is the FICC markets Standards Board ( FMSB )?
FICC Markets Standards Board – Committed to sustaining the integrity of wholesale FICC markets The Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards Board (FMSB) is a standards setting body for the wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets.
How to register a foreign money services business ( FMSB )?
Please address questions about FMSBs to [email protected] To register your FMSB with FINTRAC, the following information must be provided with your completed registration form. each person who owns or controls, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of the entity or the shares of the entity.
Where is the FMSB registered office in London?
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Whats in the Box?
The box includes the Refrigerator, freezer, microwave, oven and dishwasher doors all open and close. Cordless phone. Paper towel holder. Chalkboard surface on the freezer.
Time to cook up a little fun! Our KidKraft Uptown Natural Play Kitchen has a hip, modern look that young chefs are sure to love. With tile-look backsplash and sleek countertops, the design is emulated from trendy real-life kitchens. Every appliance is interactive, including doors that open and close, knobs that turn and click and a working chalkboard on the freezer door. Kids will love taking calls on the cordless play phone that attaches to the side of the refrigerator. Keep all accessories neat and handy with the pegs for hanging utensils and the side towel rack. Crafted from composite wood, the Uptown Natural contemporary kitchen is a sturdy and stylish addition to playtime.
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Female sexuales are wingless and oviparous, while the males may or may not be wingless.
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Types of Investments: You have a variety of options when pursuing an investment portfolio.
FIRST-TIME INVESTORS OFTEN FIND THE PROCESS INTIMIDATING. AND LET’S BE HONEST: EVEN THOSE WITH AN EXTENSIVE PORTFOLIO MAY STILL NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES ASSOCIATED WITH INVESTMENT RISK STRATEGIES, REBALANCING, AND OTHER INVESTMENT TERMS.
With that in mind, we offer you a primer on some of the more common investment types, providing you with an overview of their characteristics. You may find value in consulting a financial professional, who will be well-versed in these investments and their associated risks, along with the role they can play in helping you achieve your financial goals.
Stocks are perhaps the most well-known investment type. When you purchase a company’s stock, or shares, you are purchasing an ownership interest in that company. Larger companies may be publicly traded, which means that you can buy stock. When you invest in stock, you are hoping that the price will increase after your purchase, which you could then sell for a profit. However, if the price of a stock falls, you will lose money if you later sell the stock. For this reason, the purchase of stock carries inherent risk. You can purchase stock online or by working with a broker.
Bonds are typically offered by business (corporate bonds) or government entities (municipal bonds) when they are seeking to raise money. Your purchase is therefore a loan to that entity. After your purchase, your bond accrues interest, which is payable when the bond matures. The maturity date is a predetermined duration specified in your purchase agreement. At that point, you receive your principal plus interest. Rates of return for bonds are typically modest, though they generally carry lower risk than stocks. However, there is still risk. For instance, if you buy corporate bonds, the company could go out of business. And, if you buy government bonds, the government could default on their payment. U.S. Treasury bonds, however, are generally considered to have lower risks than corporate and municipal bonds.
A mutual fund includes investments from multiple investors, whose money is managed by a fund manager who selects the mutual fund’s securities. Mutual funds can include a variety of investments, like stocks, bonds, and other securities. Depending on their investments, a mutual fund can carry risks similar to stocks and bonds. However, the prospect of investment diversification has the ability to lessen risk. An index fund is a type of mutual fund that seeks to passively track an index. For instance, a NASDAQ index fund will try to mirror its performance to the NASDAQ by investing in companies from that index. These typically have lower fees because there isn’t an active fund manager.
Gold, like silver or crude oil, is a commodity that can be held as an investment. The price of commodities is based on supply as well as consumer fears, which can be impacted sharply by external factors, like political actions. Generally, investing in gold and other commodities is considered risky.
You can invest in real estate in several ways—purchasing and flipping homes, investing in apartments or trailer parks, purchasing a business building, among others. Generally, the cost of entry to purchase real estate is high, though there are crowd-funded real estate investment opportunities that provide buy-in for those with less cash. You earn money on a real estate investment when you sell it at a higher price than you paid for it (after fees and expenses). There is risk associated with real estate, as market values are impacted by supply/demand and other economic factors. These are just a few of the major investment types. There are others— annuities, retirement plans, and cryptocurrency, to name a few. Because there are risks associated when purchasing any type of investment, you may find it helpful to consult a financial professional.
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It's another beautiful day to be alive here at the peak of recorded human history!
And it’s been another beautiful hyper productive week here in Don Studios LA working on the new Alan Watts album and avoiding TDH (Tom Hanks Disease)!
The podcast just dropped, I talk about how being homeless helped me get really good at sleeping, how to NOT BURN OUT, how the Alan Watts album is going, people’s reactions to the Marcus Aurelius album and loads more.
Like we always do at this time: Here are your links for the week’s epic Meaningwave activities!
MEDITATIONS VOL. 1 the album is out now!
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TWO DJ MIXES
We dropped TWO epic DJ mixes this week!
EPIC 90 MINUTE LIVE LOFI MIX! ALL DON BEATS! https://www.meaningwave.com/blogs/news/epic-90-minute-live-lofi-mix-all-don-beats-lofi-hip-hop-thinkspot-sessions-6
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25 November 2019
Renovating a bathroom can often seem daunting. But when you take a good look at all the different elements that go into a renovation, the process looks a lot more manageable.
We know it’s a big task, so we’ve broken down bathroom renovations into five key steps to consider before taking on the transformation.
Taking a step by step look at a suggested bathroom renovation order of work, we’ll also answer some of the most common questions we hear, like how much a bathroom renovation should cost and how long it will take.
Whether you choose to renovate your bathroom yourself or call in the experts, there are five key steps you need to consider:
> Assessing your requirements
> Setting a budget
> Choosing the perfect design
> Removing your old bathroom
> Installing your new bathroom
Take a good long look at your bathroom, evaluate how you use it and what you’d like to improve.
If you don’t use the bath often, or if you don’t have children using the bathroom, it may be better suited for you to transform your bathing area into a walk-in shower.
Although it’s not all about functionality - if you have a large bathroom with unused space, you may want to add a free-standing bath to create a fantastic statement piece.
There are hundreds of great adaptations you can make to your bathroom. To avoid getting lost in bathroom renovation ideas, note down your bathroom essentials - what you definitely can’t do without. This will also help you to set a practical budget.
Once you’ve decided on your bathroom necessities, it is time to decide how much you wish to spend on your bathroom upgrade. You’ll need to consider the following costs:
> Sanitary ware and fitted furniture
> Wall and floor coverings
> Lighting and ventilation
> Labour rates (fitters, plumbers, electricians and decorators)
Be realistic: the cost of fixtures and fittings can vary widely depending on the quality and type of goods you choose.
The labour costs will also vary depending on your bathroom size and the plumbing and electrical work you require.
Set a budget with a little flexibility until you’ve chosen your bathroom renovation design and fittings.
The next step in the bathroom renovation order of work is selecting your bathroom design through your choice of finishing touches that cover:
> Colour scheme
> Sanitary ware
> Wall and floor coverings
> Fitted furniture
> Heating and ventilation
Your choice of colour scheme helps to set the mood and tone of your bathroom.Brighter colours such as yellows, oranges and greens can help to boost your mood, whilst lighter colours such as white and beige help to turn your bathroom into a relaxing sanctuary.
There are of course plenty of options when it comes to sanitaryware too, and as a bathroom renovation can be a relatively large investment, it’s always best to view the sanitaryware first. Whether you’re completing a bathroom renovation alone or getting help, we recommend visiting a bathroom showroom before you make any sanitaryware purchases.
This allows you to view WCs, showers, baths and basins directly, ensuring the size, colour and quality matches your requirements.
Here, you can make bathroom design choices according to your budget. For example, if you require high shine wall coverings to bounce light around your bathroom, you can choose between glass tiles or acrylic wall boards, both varying widely in cost per unit.
Review how much natural light your bathroom windows are currently providing, then decide the type of lighting you require. Options include:
> Task lights - used to illuminate areas that are needed to perform a specific task.
> Ceiling lights - used to create general illumination
> Down lights - provide a good level of ambient lighting and can be used to enhance statement features within a bathroom.
Consider fitted furniture if you have limited space or want to hide away your bathroom amenities. Savvy storage solutions include wall cabinets, built-in vanity units, bathroom wall niches and recessed fitted furniture.
There are several heating options in bathrooms, but the main heating solutions are heated towel rails and underfloor heating.
Heated towel rails are a sleek addition to any bathroom design, whilst underfloor heating is a great option for bathrooms with tile flooring, particularly wet rooms.
Ventilation isn’t a necessity when renovating a bathroom, although it is now a legal requirement in newly built homes. Ventilation can be provided via standard fans, which need to be manually turned on and off, or humidistat fans, which work off the amount of humidity in the bathroom.
If you decide to go with an expert bathroom fitter, you’ll benefit from professional design advice. You’ll be able to discuss your bathroom requirements and create a design that is best suited for you, your space and your budget.
If you’re not doing everything by yourself, your chosen fitter will arrive on site to begin the process of removing your old bathroom suite, wall and floor coverings. A skip will usually be provided on site to get rid of any unnecessary items.
A protective film needs to be laid from the doorway to the bathroom to avoid any flooring getting dirty and or damaged.
The final step in the bathroom renovation order of work process is the actual installation. Theusual bathroom installation stages are:
1. First fix
The first fix consists of any plumbing and electrical requirements.
2. Wall coverings
Walls are covered with your choice of tile or wall boards.
3. Floor coverings
Floors are covered with your choice of tile or vinyl flooring.
4. Sanitary ware and furniture installation
Your choice of sanitary ware and fitted furniture are installed.
5. Finishing touches
Finishing touches including mirrors and bathroom accessories are included at this stage.
For a standard sized bathroom, on average a renovation will take two weeks (80 hours).
Of course, this can vary depending on your specific requirements, and additions to labour time can be added depending on the task. For example, if you choose to move your toilet, extra time will be added to change the location of your waste pipe.
On average, improving an existing suite will cost between £3 - 6k.
A complete refurbishment, with new fixtures, fittings, tiling etc costs between £6 - 8K
Significant redesign, involving complete refurbishment including layout change some minor building work costs £8K+
Ultimately, the average bathroom renovation cost will vary depending on your choice of wall and floor coverings, sanitaryware, fitted furniture and labour costs.
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The New Leaf Managing Mental Health Course is designed to give your managers and supervisors the knowledge and tools to successfully lead a mentally healthy team.
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Asimina Triloba commonly called the Pawpaw Tree, is an understory deciduous tree. Unlike other members of the Annonaceae family, the Asimina triloba is cold hardy so it will grow in the UK. Throughout history, the fruit of the Pawpaw has been used as a food staple. The tree’s origins can be traced back to the Southeastern United States. It was one of the first American plants that was ever introduced by Peter Collinson in 1736.
Asimina Triloba produces large, ovate leaves that measure 20 centimeters in length. During the months of May and June, unusual eye-catching purple flowers emerge that have a pungent aroma. Unlike other flowers that depend on bees for pollination, the flowers of the Pawpaw rely on flies. The flowers also attract butterflies. Following flowering, large edible fruits appear. The fruit of the Pawpaw Tree are not normally found in food markets because the fruit has a short shelf life. During the autumn months, the foliage turns yellow and orange.
Height and Spread of Asimina Triloba The Pawpaw Tree grows to a height of 3 to 4 metres with a similar spread.
How Hardy is Asimina Triloba The Pawpaw Tree is hardy in UK zones 6 meaning it can withstand temperatures down to -15 C.
How to Use Asimina Triloba This tree’s unusual appearance will draw visual interest from onlookers. Plant it in a location where it can be admired. It makes an excellent specimen tree.
How to Care for Asimina Triloba Plant this fruit tree in full sun or partial shade. It will develop a larger crop of fruit when placed in full sun. It grows well in all soil types and can withstand wet roots for a short period of time. As the tree grows, it frequently develops suckers around its base which should be removed to maintain the tree’s appearance.
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Growing up in the Bay Area, I didn’t know much regarding home types outside of personal experience. However, whenever I visited San Francisco, I loved to see another type of home: the floating houseboat.
Houseboats have a significant connection to American history and innovation in terms of housing availability and affordability. While even the term “houseboat” may call to mind the canals of Amsterdam or London, houseboats in the U.S. can be found all along the West Coast, with houseboat communities in the Lake Union and Portage Bay neighborhoods of Seattle and along both the Willamette River and Columbia River in Portland.
With a competitive Emerald City housing market, finding a good deal on a home has become continuously difficult, with Realtor.com finding the median list price at $475,000 in December 2020, up 11.1% from the year prior. Hence, what better time to both (a) find a great deal on a home and (b) find a unique home to completely love?
Address: 1629 N. Jantzen, Portland, OR 97127
Home Size: 1,064 square feet
Amenities: Open floor plan with vaulted ceiling; outdoor patio on the marina
Located on Hayden Island along the Columbia River, this floating bungalow offers an opportunity for prospective homebuyers to get their feet wet (both literally and figuratively). Built in 1935, the bungalow is selling for nearly half the price of what’s offered in the city’s housing market, and all for a little slice of space along the river alongside 178 other floating homes in this community.
The house is quaint, with 1.1 bedrooms and 1 bath, and comes in at just over 1,000 square feet. Yet, the additional amenities that make the home so charming shine through in each and every nook and cranny.
Upon entering, prospective buyers will be greeted with a huge open floor plan living area. High-vaulted ceilings bring in gorgeous light, encouraging you to head out to the backyard patio for some morning stretches and meditation.
“That view will never change,” realtor Karla Divine said.
After centering your calm to start the day, head on inside to enjoy all that the kitchen has to offer. Currently, the kitchen includes gas appliances, a free-standing range, and free-standing refrigerator; additionally, with the darkened wood cabinetry and terra cotta walls, the kitchen mixes the dark and soft palettes to make you feel right at home while cooking up some delicious meals.
Head on back to the bedroom, with enough space for all of your bedroom needs, as well as a walk-in closet for all of your fabulous apparel. This area also gets great light, with high windows and ceilings to perfectly radiate that glow off throughout your morning and day.
While all of these aspects help to make this an attractive property for prospective buyers, there’s also so much more. The home has been updated with engineered hardwood flooring throughout, has a jacuzzi tub, and had a new float built just three years ago.
“You don’t find many livable properties under $300,000 here,” Divine said. “This one is priced great.”
The area itself is an additional cherry on top of this home. Hayden Island is located between the border of Washington state and Oregon, and is recognized as one of Portland’s 95 neighborhoods. Currently, there are five floating home communities on the island, all gated, and the island has a great deal of open space with walking and bike paths and beaches.
While Hayden Island has just over 3,000 residents, the city itself offers a great deal more for its population of 664,571 residents. Once situated in this home, head into the city to enjoy all that Portland has to offer, from the International Rose Test Garden and Japanese Garden to delicious donuts from the ever-popular Voodoo Doughnuts or (a personal favorite) Blue Star Donuts.
Living in Oregon comes with a host of other advantages, including no state sales tax, legalized marijuana and a host of outdoors activity in relation to local companies Nike, Danner and Keen.
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times (up to 8 hours)
-Must be able to occasionally work in outdoor hot/humid weather
conditions as well as indoor warm/humid environments.
-Must be able to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with
hands and arms; and talk or hear.
-Heavy work -- exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally
and/or 50 pounds of force frequently and /or 20 pounds of force
constantly to lift, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
-The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
-Must be able to work and be flexible with all shifts, weekends,
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identify and welcome current patrons.
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them posted on what is happening in the department.
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And how your team will use them in your workflow
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This is what your team’s workflow will look like. The goal is to make it way easier for you to have a system running in the background so you can get back to focusing on the core parts of your job.
We don’t even have training. We basically say, ‘Hey guys, go to the site, take a few pictures’ and they’re good to go.
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Why this winter’s partywear has gone back to the 1990s
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Rails full of clothing and “nothing to wear”? I hear you. One big takeaway from the past 18 months is the overwhelming amount of stuff I have accumulated in my adult life. Two house moves, plus many a weekend spent sifting through the contents of boxes, have left me feeling uninspired, weighed down and listless about my wardrobe. And I work in fashion. So in a pre-emptive “new year, new me” state of mind, any purchases are now more considered than before. Can I find something new that’s actually old, or revisit high street stalwarts, some of which are making strides in their designs and manufacturing?
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The Villa della Farnesina alla Lungara, in the heart of Rione Trastevere, is one of the noblest and harmonious creations of the Italian Renaissance.
The wealthy Sienese-born banker Agostino Chigi built it as his residence, in the most splendid period of his life, away from the troubles and the gloomy townhouse in Via dei Banchi. The project, developed between 1505 and 1520, was by Baldassarre Peruzzi.
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After all that splendor during Agostino's life, in the villa bivouacked the Lanzichenecchi during the sack of Rome. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese The Younger purchased it in 1590. From his family name comes the title of Farnesina to distinguish it from Palazzo Farnese, on the other side of the river. Michelangelo's project was to build a bridge over the Tiber that should have connected the two properties of the Farnese family.
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Today, I get personal, and talk about the (highly positive) impact of gaming on my ongoingly-awful health.
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Some Pa. mental health patients end up with felonies, jail instead of the care they need
A part of the law for aggravated assault in Pennsylvania meant to protect occupations likely to be victimized can have serious consequences for people who lash out in the midst of a crisis.
One night, Brandon Bedford just broke down.
He was at his girlfriend’s home in Dover Township — he had been drinking a little bit — on Feb. 6, 2011, and became overwhelmed about the death of his brother, Tyler, who killed himself several months earlier. Bedford was involuntarily committed to York Hospital for mental health treatment. That’s where, prosecutors said, he punched a nurse, threw one of his shoes and spit blood onto her face three times.
Bedford doesn’t remember trying to hurt anybody. It’s all kind of a blur.
Later, Bedford, who had been on probation for robbery, was arrested at the York County Judicial Center. He eventually pleaded no contest to aggravated assault, a felony, and was later sentenced to 11 1/2 to 23 months in York County Prison. He was immediately released, having served 408 days, or more than 13 months.
“It was horrible,” said Bedford, 29, who lives in West Manchester Township and works on a farm. “I’m being locked away from everything — from my family — everything.”
Under normal circumstances, Bedford would’ve likely been charged with simple assault, a misdemeanor. But registered nurses are one of at least 38 occupations considered protected classes and afforded special status in the law for aggravated assault.
In Pennsylvania, people who cause or attempt to cause harm to those including doctors, emergency medical technicians and psychiatric aides at work can be charged with aggravated assault, which carries a maximum sentence of five to 10 years in prison. Supporters of the provision say public servants deserve extra protection in the workplace.
But in some cases, the measure has swept up individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis into the criminal justice system — even in situations in which it’s questionable that they actually hurt someone else.
“We want people who are operating under a mental health disability to have treatment and be able to have services so they can function in society,” said First Assistant Public Defender Clasina Houtman, who added that these convictions make it more difficult for individuals to find employment and housing.
“And if we’re charging them with felonies, that’s going to hamper the exact thing we’re trying to do in the first place.”
‘We’re trying to help the public and trying to help people’
Pennsylvania’s modern crimes code dates back to 1972.
Typically, a person must cause or attempt to cause “serious bodily injury” to be guilty of aggravated assault. That’s an injury that “creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.”
Law enforcement, for context, often charges people with aggravated assault — though sometimes it's at a higher grading — in connection to shootings.
But that’s not the case when it comes to attacks involving people who are in a protected class.
Prosecutors have to prove that someone caused or attempted to cause “bodily injury,” which is defined as “impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.” That’s the standard for simple assault. And it’s a much lower threshold to meet.
Throughout the last four decades, the Legislature has continued to add occupations to the list of those who are given special status under the law. It now includes everyone from parking enforcement officers to public utility employees.
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People in the health care profession argue that these enhanced penalties are necessary. Their workplace, they say, has become increasingly dangerous. The heroin and opioid epidemic in the United States has contributed to the problem.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration states that 75 percent of the almost 25,000 assaults that are reported annually in the workplace happen in the health care and social services setting, said Betsy Snook, CEO of the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association.
The Joint Commission, she said, notes that 25 percent of nurses report that a patient or a family member of a patient has physically assaulted them. Workers in the health care setting are also four times more likely to be victimized than those in private industry. That’s according to the American Nurses Association.
“Doctors and nurses are doing this job to help people,” said Dr. Ted Christopher, an emergency physician who’s the immediate past president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. “In emergency medicine, you can’t pick and choose who you want to help.”
Christopher is also the Green Family Foundation and John and Patricia Walsh professor and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He said he’s been verbally assaulted countless times and physically assaulted one time in his career.
State Sen. Judy Ward, R-Blair, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton and Huntingdon counties, sponsored legislation when she served in the House that would’ve added all health care practitioners to the list of protected classes. She plans to reintroduce the bill, which would cover everyone from social workers to optometrists.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association and the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania supported the legislation.
“Health practitioners are really looking at this because it has become a problem,” said Ward, who spent more than 20 years as a nurse. “I just feel there’s not enough protection for health care workers,” she added.
The experience of being assaulted in the health care setting can profoundly affect an employee’s life.
Darin Bachmeier, a mental health security officer at York Hospital, was working on Jan. 28, 2016, when he suffered an assault at the hands of a man who has Asperger’s syndrome and had checked himself into a psychiatric program.
In a victim-impact statement, Bachmeier wrote that he needed to be seen in the emergency room, adding that he experienced soreness, headaches and problems sleeping. He pushed for the maximum sentence.
He said the experience made him feel more exposed to future physical altercations with patients as well as with those in the public. The man, he said, continued to harass and threaten him.
“This attack has shaken the very foundation of my abilities as a security guard in York Hospital,” wrote Bachmeier, who could not be reached for comment. “I am left to suffer in silence with this weakness as I find it difficult to openly complain.”
‘I wasn't brought up to be a felon'
At the same time, people who are experiencing a mental health crisis can end up facing felony prosecution for relatively minor incidents.
In one case, a woman, 28, of York, was charged with aggravated assault for struggling with three employees at York Hospital after being taken there for crisis intervention services on June 18, 2015.
She later pleaded no contest to a lesser charge, simple assault, for two years’ probation.
“None of the individuals sustained injury in the incident,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Kelley Margetas said when she explained to the judge what happened.
Or take what happened to Carolyn Farley.
In an interview at her home in the Harrisburg-area, Farley, 57, recalled how she was in an abusive relationship with someone who struggled with schizophrenia and an addiction to alcohol.
She started to drink to escape him. That’s what happened on June 22, 2010. Her boyfriend ended up calling an ambulance.
When she woke up at York Hospital, Farley had no idea that she’d bitten a registered nurse in the forearm and punched another in the jaw. At the time, her blood alcohol content was at least 0.40 percent — that’s five times the legal limit for driving in Pennsylvania. She was in total disbelief when her sister broke the news.
Farley said her father was a police officer, and her mother was a nurse. She said she’d never had any prior run-ins with the law, besides maybe getting a speeding ticket or a parking ticket. It wasn’t in her DNA to be aggressive.
She stayed in the hospital for several more days and was guarded the entire time. Farley said she was led out in handcuffs — an experience that she described as humiliating — and spent the night in custody.
Later, Farley pleaded no contest to two counts of aggravated assault in exchange for four years’ probation.
During the hearing, Senior Judge John H. Chronister discussed the allegation that she had bitten one of the nurses in the forearm.
“That normally would only be simple assault, but because of her being a registered nurse at the hospital and in the performance of her duties, that makes it become aggravated assault,” Chronister said.
Farley said she later fell into a deep depression, mostly out of shame and disbelief. She’s struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. She said she’s had trouble finding jobs — and has stopped looking for one.
“It was devastating,” she said.
“I wasn’t brought up to be a felon,” Farley later added. “I’ve never had any issues with the law, any brushes with the law.”
On Oct. 28, 2015, Jessica Herbst was walking up the street while under the influence of alcohol near her home in the Brogue area of Chanceford Township. That's when someone called the police.
She called her fiancé for a ride. Police later pulled him over and, at the urging of a family member, involuntarily committed her to York Hospital.
In an interview, Herbst said she’s been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression and bipolar disorder with bouts of mania. Drinking, she said, amplifies the issues. She wasn’t taking any medication at the time.
Later, Herbst punched an EMT in the head when he tried to put her in restraints. She was given some kind of medication to calm her down, but she ended up falling asleep.
When she woke up, Herbst said a nurse asked her if she was feeling better. Employees told her that she could leave. “And,” she said, “they said I would be getting my charges in the mail.”
That’s when they told her what happened.
“It was unintentional,” said Herbst, 35, who’s a stay-at-home mother. “I don’t even remember doing it.”
She said she was shocked and became upset after finding out that she’d been charged with aggravated assault. Herbst learned about the added protections for emergency medical services personnel through her research on the internet. She was really scared about the possibility of facing jail time.
Herbst later pleaded no contest to simple assault in exchange for two years’ probation.
She said she doesn’t agree with the law.
“I think people should be held accountable for their actions,” Herbst said. “But I think, sometimes, peoples’ actions aren’t always intentional. And things aren’t always avoidable.”
In 1997, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in a case called Commonwealth v. Wertelet, threw out a woman’s conviction for aggravated assault. She had twice kicked a Pennsylvania State Police trooper in the shin with her heel while being taken into custody.
The trooper testified that the pain was “similar to bumping your shin on a coffee table in the dark when you’re walking through the house.” But the court ruled that wasn’t enough to meet even the lower threshold of “bodily injury.”
In the opinion, Judge John G. Brosky wrote that while the Legislature undoubtedly intended to provide greater protection to police officers, that doesn’t mean the law was meant to lessen what an assault is to a situation that involves “relatively harmless physical contact.”
But the law can get complicated.
Mental health issues are not a legal defense to aggravated assault — unless someone meets the extremely high burden of being criminally insane.
Voluntary intoxication is also not a defense to the crime.
‘We’re enhancing penalties for behavior that has already been deemed criminal’
Critics argue that there are already rules on the books for assault. They say there are also profound consequences to saddling people with a felony conviction for the rest of their lives.
Nyssa Taylor, criminal justice policy counsel at the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said there’s been a continuing effort on the part of the Legislature to expand the crimes code and increase penalties for behavior that’s already been deemed to be criminal.
But Taylor said the crimes code is not working any better now than it was in the past. These policies, she said, lead to more incarceration.
“Pennsylvania has a mass incarceration crisis,” said Taylor, who added that the state locks people up at the highest rate in the Northeast. “We are wildly out of step when it comes to the number of people we have in the criminal justice system.”
If someone is charged with aggravated assault, he or she could experience pretrial detention because a judge set bail at a higher amount. The sentencing guidelines also create an incentive for people to plead guilty, Taylor said.
Even if the charge is withdrawn as part of a plea agreement, it will still show up on a background check unless it’s expunged. And that might not be an option.
State Rep. Greg Vitali, D-Delaware and Montgomery counties, was one of six lawmakers in the House who voted against the bill that would’ve added all health care professionals to the list of protected classes.
On the House floor, Vitali expressed a concern about when existing crimes are elevated to felony offenses. He said he hadn’t received an explanation why the current law wouldn’t protect the public.
“They contain important restrictions on a person's civil rights, like the ability to carry a gun, the ability to have certain employment opportunities in schooling and health care,” he said. “I do not think we should attach a felony status without due consideration.”
In an interview, Vitali said he believes it’s the obligation of a member who presents a bill for approval to make the case as to why it’s needed.
Vitali said it’s good politics to appear to be tough on crime. He said he’s seen a lot of “designer crimes” that are introduced without any awareness about how the existing crimes code already addresses the conduct.
“I find that it’s, you know, somewhere, there’s some high-profile case of someone pulling up to a 7-Eleven and stealing a car with a baby in it,” Vitali said. “You just know, two days later, someone’s going to do a bill, ‘Theft of a car with a child in the car at a convenience store.’”
‘What do you do with someone who has a severe mental health disorder and assaults someone?’
In an interview, York County District Attorney Dave Sunday, who took office in 2018, said law enforcement continues to investigate cases even after charges are filed — sometimes, even right up until trial.
Every situation, he said, is different. Aggravated assault isn’t automatically filed against people. Sometimes, after a prosecutor examines the facts and circumstances in a case, he or she will agree to reduce the charges.
When it’s appropriate, Sunday said, prosecutors try to “fashion a guilty plea and a sentence that fits the specific nuances of that situation.” He said these decisions are often made in a collaborative fashion, with the police and victims.
“What do you do with someone who has a severe mental health disorder and assaults someone? Is throwing them in a prison cell for three years — what does that do? Does that protect society? Does that punish them?” Sunday said. “And, often times, the answer’s, ‘No.’”
But in other cases, Sunday said the extra protection given to certain people in the law for aggravated assault is “right on.” “For the benefit of society, we can’t have people feeling it’s OK to assault a police officer. Period,” he said. “That can’t happen.”
“The protection exists, but it doesn’t always have to be used,” Sunday said. “And that’s the important thing.”
Most people who have mental health issues do not commit crimes, said Greg Rowe, director of legislation and policy at the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association.
Rowe said treatment and incarceration are not mutually exclusive. But he said he believes everyone would like to see improvements in the mental health system. He said there's no easy answer in these situations.
“Nobody wants our doctors or nurses or mental health care practitioners to be punching bags,” Rowe said. “Balancing that — trying to provide suitable treatment plans for those with mental health issues — is the challenge.”
Bedford, the man who was prosecuted for aggravated assault after being involuntarily committed, said he spent three days at York Hospital but no one mentioned the charges. He said he learned when someone showed him a copy of the newspaper.
Prosecutors, he said, originally offered him a sentence of four to eight years in prison. He said he was prepared to go to trial but took the plea agreement because he just didn’t want to sit around anymore.
As part of his sentence for a probation violation, Bedford was ordered to undergo treatment. He said he’s struggled with mental health issues throughout his life, including anxiety.
“Don’t let your past control you. You can do more with your life than you have done so far,” Common Pleas Judge Craig T. Trebilcock said. “Sitting around in chains wearing orange and being hauled back and forth from court, that’s no way to live a life.”
Today, Bedford said he’s doing “pretty good.” But he said he didn’t end up receiving enough help. Instead, he said, he was placed on house arrest and ordered to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet.
Bedford said he later went back to court to get it removed.
“And that was the end of it,” he said.
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List of protected classes in the law for aggravated assault in Pa.:
- Police officers
- County adult probation or parole officers
- County juvenile probation or parole officers
- Agents of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
- Deputy sheriffs
- Liquor control enforcement agents
- Officers or employees of a correctional institution, county jail or prison, juvenile detention center or other facilities
- Attorney general
- Deputy attorney generals
- District attorneys
- Assistant district attorneys
- Public defenders
- Assistant public defenders
- Federal law enforcement officials
- State law enforcement officials
- Local law enforcement officials
- Any person who’s employed to assist or who assists a federal, state or local law enforcement official
- Emergency medical services personnel (The term includes, but is not limited to, the following positions: Doctors; residents; interns; registered nurses; licensed practical nurses; nurse aides; ambulance attendants and operators; paramedics; emergency medical technicians; and members of a hospital security force.)
- Parking enforcement officers
- Magisterial district judges
- Deputy constables
- Psychiatric aides
- Teachers, school board members and other employees in the field
- Lieutenant governor
- Auditor general
- State treasurer
- Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
- Employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- People engaged in the private detective business
- Employees or agents of a county children and youth social service agency or the legal representative of the agency
- Public utility employees and electric cooperative employees
- Wildlife conservation officers and deputy wildlife conservation officers of the Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Waterways conservation officers and deputy waterways conservation officers of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
List of proposed protected classes in the law for aggravated assault in Pa.:
Here’s a look at some of the bills that were introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, but did not pass, in the 2017-2018 Regular Session that would’ve expanded the list of protected classes:
1. HB 646 (Then-State Rep. Judy Ward, R-Blair County):
- A health care practitioner. (It was defined as any health care professional who has a license, permit or certificate from the Pennsylvania Department of State’s Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. That included the following jobs: social workers; pharmacists; physical therapists; occupational therapists; athletic trainers, dietician-nutritionists; massage therapists; optometrists; podiatrists; physician assistants; and respiratory therapists.)
2. SB 445 (State Sen. Donald White, R-Armstrong, Butler, Indiana and Westmoreland counties):
- A health care practitioner in a health care facility. (The list would’ve included places ranging from a physician’s office to a renal dialysis center.)
3. HB 986 (State Rep. Peter Schweyer, D-Lehigh County):
- An employee of a transportation company.
‘What we’re trying to do as the police department is be reasonable’
In York County, several cases involving people who are experiencing mental health crises seem to originate out of York Hospital and Merakey, a behavioral health facility in North York.
In a statement, Philip Hess, senior vice president of WellSpan Health, and president of WellSpan Philhaven, said the company is committed to ensuring a safe, caring environment.
“Our clinicians are dedicated to providing compassionate care with respect for our patients. We recognize some may be seeking help during a mental health crisis,” Hess said. “At all times, we seek to maintain calm and our staff are trained in de-escalation techniques.”
Merakey is in the jurisdiction of the Northern York County Regional Police Department.
Northern County Regional Police Lt. Gregg Anderson, who’s in charge of patrol, said a police officer who’s dispatched to a call first makes sure that everyone is safe. He or she then investigates to determine whether a crime took place — and what needs to be done to protect the victim.
Anderson said the police look at the criteria of the crime as well as the severity of the injuries. They get the victim’s perspective and try to talk to the perpetrator.
Law enforcement, he said, takes the totality of the circumstances into account.
“What we’re trying to do as the police department is be reasonable,” Anderson said. “Apply the law correctly — there’s different gradings of it — and get it right the first time and make the appropriate charge.”
York City Police Chief Troy Bankert said law enforcement looks at the totality of the circumstances and uses its discretion.
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July 29, 2017
Never-Before-Seen Paintings by Kurt Cobain Will Get Star Treatment at the Seattle Art Fair
By Eileen Kinsella
Artwork by former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain will be front and center at next month’s Seattle Art Fair (August 3–6). The never-before-seen paintings will be presented by the fine arts division of the United Talent Agency. This marks the first time the division, which launched in 2015, has participated in an art fair.
The presentation will feature two original works by Cobain (neither of which will be for sale) alongside work by other rebel artists from the past 30 years, including Mike Kelley, Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Elizabeth Peyton, and Raymond Pettibon. (Some of these works will be for sale.)
Joshua Roth, the head of UTA’s fine arts division, tells artnet News that given Cobain’s well-known skills as an “influential creator, it’s not too much of a leap” for viewers to see that he was a talented visual artist as well. (It runs in the family: Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, is currently having her second solo art show on the West Coast, at Pasadena’s Gallery 30 South.)
Cobain’s paintings, which will be shown alongside some of his notebooks, have been in storage since his death in 1994. Dozens of other paintings and drawing-filled notebooks remain in the estate, which UTA began to represent last year. UTA has long represented Cobain’s widow Courtney Love, and Roth says he has gotten to know her in recent years.
With this new art-fair project, UTA further blurs the line between Hollywood talent agency and traditional gallery. Last year, UTA opened its own gallery space in Boyle Heights to mount creative projects with artists, including Enoc Perez, Jake & Dinos Chapman, and Larry Clark.
Why bring the show on the road to Seattle? Roth tells artnet News, “Bringing this particular exhibit to Seattle allows us to meet people and interact in fun an interesting ways.” (Cobain was also born in nearby Aberdeen, Washington, and died in the city.)
Meanwhile, another division of UTA is working on a feature film about Cobain, and Roth hopes to mount a complementary touring exhibition. He cites the major Rolling Stones touring show “Exhibitionism” as a model to emulate, noting that ideally the show would start or conclude in Seattle.
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Start your foreign study consulting business
Demand for studying in foreign universities has risen significantly amongst Indian students. Earlier demand for admission to foreign institutes was limited only to higher education and scholarships programs. But now, students are seeking admission to various foreign institutes for undergraduate, postgraduate, high-school and for an array of professional courses.
Studying in foreign universities is regarded prestigious and advantageous for getting rewarding jobs in this competitive marketplace. Open foreign policies, easy remittance solutions and encouragement from foreign institutes that are offering special courses and fees for Indian students are couple of factors to promote popularity of foreign study amongst middle income group families. Several fairs are now organized year round in various parts of the country and attract thousands of interested students and their parents seeking information on studying opportunities at various foreign institutions.
<p/.However, even today it isn’t easy to get all inside information on all the foreign institutes offering courses to Indian students. Foreign study consulting businesses, in such cases, remain the main source of information for interested candidates. In India, these students are helped by consulting agencies, who offer specialized services to them in finding diverse course choices, information of admission procedures, fees and other assistances.
About this business
Consultants work as mediators between foreign universities and students in helping them find the best courses from reputable education centers. As the scopes for studying abroad has increased significantly, number of students seeking admission to foreign institutes at various levels has also expanded. Staring a consulting business is both rewarding and lucrative but definitely not easy. First off, internet has made it really easy for students to get information firsthand about different institutes and courses offered by them. Secondly, the marketplace for consultants is highly competitive as they all target a small group. Staying ahead of competition by offering excellent service always is what differentiates an average consulting agency from an excellent one. However, most importantly, one needs a good understanding of the market and a consolidated marketing plan to put his business ahead of competition. Consultancies offering studying abroad solutions need rigorous marketing and branding solution to create a name in the market.
Current market trend
Obviously, demand for studying in various foreign universities has increased amongst Indian students. For many decades, top level foreign institutes have attracted Indian students for higher education and the trend only became stronger with time. Number of students seeking admission at various foreign institutes has increased significantly during the last year despite fluctuation of Indian currency which has made foreign education pricy.
For students universities in USA and Europe remain the main attraction although popularity of countries like Australia and Singapore are also on a rise. Easily available student loans for studying abroad have further worked as an encouragement.
Level of competition
Consulting agencies are required to complete on a tough ground. The marketplace comprises both small and large franchises. To survive competition most agencies now offer an array of ancillary services to customers. The list of their services may include.
- Admission information
- Admission solution
- Examination support and coaching for – GRE, GMAT, TOEFL and IELTS
- Visa processing – student visa, working visa, permanent residency
- Career counseling
- Education advisory services
- Scholarship and education loan guidance
- Assistance with application and enrollment procedure
- Pre-departure counseling
Who can start this business?
Anyone with a strong outlook and a determination with flair for entrepreneurship can start consulting agency. It needs spirit to help students in achieving their dreams. One can start it as home-based business. Since it allows one to define working hours and efforts, it is an ideal business choice for housewives, working professionals and even retired professionals.
Skill set you need
The role of an academic counselor isn’t easy. It requires understanding of students’ requirements and demands along with thorough understanding of online educational trends. Experience as a counselor can be a great help in launching a successful career as foreign study consultant. Following are a few set of skills required to establish a consulting agency and reaching the break-even.
- Understanding of world education system
- Understanding of consulting business
- Understanding of competition
- Experience of dealing with students
- Network with leading and prestigious educational institutes
- Knowledge of commission system
- Communication skills
- Level of riskProfit feasibility
Internet has facilitated easy sharing of information. Your business would be considered non-existing if you aren’t present online. Your foreign consulting agency needs a website to manage relationship with both foreign institutes and domestic students. A professionally built website is a formidable tool for your business helping you highlight your services, solutions and expertise.
A Comprehensive and structured marketing campaign will help in establishing your brand name in the market amongst your clientele. A consulting agency needs a well-planned marketing strategy that incorporates both off-line and online marketing solutions.
Off line: Success of consulting agency depends on building relationships with students and parents. Following are some ideas of direct marketing for your consultancy business.
- Attending college campuses to create awareness amongst students
- Participating or organizing career fairs
- Attending career counseling programs
- Advertising with conventional media
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In the present work, we investigated the dark and photoinduced cytotoxic activity of the new chlorophyll-a derivatives which contain the substituents of oligoethylene glycol on the periphery of their macrocycles. an activation of the genes which control the cell cycle and detoxification of the free radicals after an exposure of HeLa cells to Compound 21 and to red light. High photodynamic activity of this compound and PF 573228 the ability to oxidize biomolecules was demonstrated on nuclear-free mice erythrocytes. In addition, it was shown that Compound 21 is effectively activated with low energy 700 nm light, which can penetrate deep into the tissue. Thus, Compound 21 is a prospective substance for development of the new drugs for photodynamic therapy of cancer. (((and happened under the action of photoactivated Compound 21 at a concentration of 0.4 M. This indicates an induction of cell cycle arrest in some of the cells. The cyclin-dependent kinases expression level was not changed after treatment of cells with the same concentration of Compound 21 without light exposure. Table 3 Relative expression of genes of stress-response systems in HeLa cells after treatment with Compound 21 (0.4 M) in the dark and with photoactivation. 2.4. Ability of Compound to Penetrate the Plasmalemma We used the autofluorescence of Compound 21 to determine its ability to penetrate the plasmalemma. Analysis of the fluorescence spectrum of the water solution of the compound (0.5 M) showed a distinct photon emission with the maximum intensity at = 660 nm provided that the exciting wavelength was lower than 350 nm with a maximum at 330 nm. The water solution was prepared the same way as for biotests, PF 573228 with a transitional step of dissolving in DMSO. The use of fluorescent microscopy allowed us to visualize accumulation of the tested Compound 21 in the cell after incubation with it (Figure 5). The cells which were incubated for 40 min in the growth media, containing 1 M of Compound 21, and cleaned with PBS give off fluorescence in debt range then. Fluorescence had not been distributed in the cell evenly. The cytoplasm was stained a lot more than the nucleus. The fluorescence had not been noticed if the cells had been incubated in the same development moderate with DMSO but without Substance 21. This known fact we can make a conclusion how the compound penetrates in to the cells. Figure 5 Spectral range of fluorescence excitation (A) and emission (B) of 0.5 M Substance 21 solution. Light micrographs (C, remaining column) and fluorescent micrographs (C, correct column) of cells after 40 min treatment with Substance 21 (C, top row) and without … 2.5. Apoptosis-Induced and Genotoxic Activity of Chemical substance < 0.005), meaning apoptosis was induced. After 24 h caspase-3 activity lowers towards the control level. Significantly, PhotolonTM medication found in this scholarly research for comparison didn't induce caspase-dependent apoptosis . Shape 7 Caspase-3 ATF1 activity in HeLa cells after treatment with Substance 21 at night (40 min and 22 h) and with photoactivation (2 h at night accompanied by 20 min under reddish colored light and once again 40 min or 22 h at night). The info were normalized relating … In the Shape 5C, we are able to see how the nucleus is much less stained by Substance 21 compared to the cytoplasm. This suggests that it either did not penetrate the nucleus, or penetrated but to a lesser degree than in the cytoplasm. In this case, such a rapid activation of PF 573228 caspase 3 and DNA fragmentation can be explained by direct damaging and permeabilization of mitochondrial membrane. Some compounds are known to permeabilize the mitochondrial outer membrane without activation of upstream signaling [17,18]. At the same time, we can not exclude the ability of Compound 21 to directly induce DNA damage given the fact of increasing the number PF 573228 of slightly fragmented nucleoids (Figure 6B) and activation of proapoptotic gene BAX after the photoinduced treatment (Table 3). 2.6. The Ability of Compound to PF 573228 Destroy Anuclear Cells and to Oxidize Biomolecules To measure the activity of Compound 21 on the protein and membrane structures in a nuclear-free. | <urn:uuid:3159ffe8-ac25-491f-bc48-9ea8a665b178> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://labourlists.org/in-the-present-work-we-investigated-the-dark-and-photoinduced-cytotoxic/ | 2022-01-18T10:48:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.932711 | 934 |
CFA Institute ESG Disclosure Standards Consultation Paper
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In January 2020, CFA Institute formed an ESG Working Group to help develop proposals for the core concepts of a voluntary, global industry standard: the CFA Institute ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products (the "Standard"). The ESG Working Group consists of 15 volunteers who have wide-ranging industry experience and deep expertise with investment products that have ESG-related features.
The development of the Standard was prompted by increasing awareness of ESG matters among investors and greater availability of ESG data and information that can be used in decision-making; as well as concerns that the inconsistency and variation in ESG-related disclosures, terminology, and investment approaches contribute to confusion and misunderstanding.
The purpose of the Standard is to provide greater transparency and comparability for investors by enabling asset managers to clearly communicate the ESG-related features of their investment products. The Standard will establish fundamental requirements and disclosure requirements for investment products with ESG-related features, procedures for independent examination of disclosures, and a classification of ESG-related features by ESG-related needs. The Standard will therefore primarily focus on disclosure requirements for investment products with ESG-related features so that investors can more comprehensively evaluate whether an investment product will meet their needs, or not. It is distinctly different from other standards that seek to establish disclosure requirements for corporate issuers, prescribe requirements for the labeling or rating of securities or investment products, or define best practice for a particular strategy or approach.
The proposed core concepts of the Standard are outlined in the Consultation Paper on the development of ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products released by CFA Institute on 19 August 2020. This Consultation Paper is attached. In understanding the scope, it is important to note that CFA Institute is not seeking to define what constitutes an ESG or sustainable investment product or strategy or to make determinations about the relative strength of any one ESG-related investment approach versus another. Rather, the Standard will establish disclosure requirements so that investors can more easily understand the features offered by a particular investment product and make comparisons among investment products.
The Consultation Paper defines ESG-related features as components or capabilities of investment products that can be combined in different ways to meet different investor needs. It goes on to propose definitions for six ESG-related features, listed briefly here. The features are expected to serve as a backbone of the Standard in that they are a mechanism to connect investor needs and disclosure requirements.
- ESG Integration: Explicitly considers ESG-related factors that are material to the risk and return of the investment, alongside traditional financial factors, when making investment decisions.
- ESG-Related Exclusions: Excludes securities, issuers, or companies from the investment product based on certain ESG-related activities, business practices, or business segments.
- Best-in-Class: Aims to invest in companies and issuers that perform better than peers on one or more performance metrics related to ESG matters.
- ESG-Related Thematic Focus: Aims to invest in sectors, industries, or companies that are expected to benefit from long-term macro or structural ESG-related trends.
- Impact Objective: Seeks to generate a positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.
- Proxy voting, Engagement and Stewardship: Uses rights and position of ownership to influence issuers' or companies' activities or behaviors.
This Consultation Paper sets forth several proposals for the design of the key elements of the
Standard. The proposals include
- general disclosure requirements
- ESG-related feature definitions and feature-specific disclosure requirements
- a classification matrix that maps ESG-related needs to ESG-related features
procedures for independent examination of ESG-related disclosures
The Standard is expected to have four primary types of users: asset managers, investors, consultants and advisors, and database providers. Asset managers can use the Standard for clearly communicating ESG-related product features. Investors and consultants/advisors can use the Standard to discuss, assess, and compare investment products with ESG-related features. Database providers can use the Standard to improve investment product search functions.
The goal for the Consultation Paper is to elicit feedback from the wider investment community on the proposed scope, structure, and design principles of the Standard in order to help shape the Exposure Draft, and then ultimately the ESG Disclosure Standards on Investment Products (release date May 2021). The proposed format of the feedback is expected to be provided on a pre-drafted response form which is set up with reference to the 44 questions posed within the Consultation Paper.
CFA Institute ESG Disclosure Standards Consultation Paper Response Request commentary for member and other interested parties.CFA Societies and members around the world are encouraged to participate in the consultative process by submitting comment letters and engaging in local stakeholder outreach.
To this end and given the notable depth of knowledge of ESG matters within the South African marketplace, CFA Society South Africa has decided to establish a Consultation Paper Response Team in an effort to co-ordinate and collate responses from South African stakeholders and members. Delphine Govender, CFA, board member of CFA Society South Africa, will chair this response team working group and provide the link between both the local society and CFA Institute.
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An everyday man, living less than ordinary life in New York City, simply makes his way about his work life and one at home. A kind heart and an empathetic soul, who tended to think of others before he thought of himself.
With his childhood totally left behind and gone with the final resting of his father, Nathan has come to terms with his past as he forges his life in the present, unaware of what lies ahead.
An unlikely friendship, a random act of violence, a budding romance, all part of a life changed.
“When it’s your time, there’s nothing you can do to change that outcome. The only thing you can do is meet it head on. You have to hope that the life you had with others, while you were here, has made a positive impact.” – Brian Devron
“Where there is darkness, you are light. Where others know fear, you will be brave. When there are setbacks, you will persevere. Where others find weakness, you bring strength. Where there is despair, you are hope. Where cowardice falls, you rise courageously. Where others do not have the ability to believe, you have faith. You will suffer, so that others will endure. You will triumph where others would fall." - Cici Johnson
“This is it; it all changes tonight. Anything I do tonight, at a minimum, is going to at least expose all of this to the world." - Nathan Devron.
Nathan Devron, like many people, has known loss. He has compassion and a strong sense of justice. It's easy to see him as an ordinary guy--until he isn't.
When suddenly endowed with super powers, it's no surprise that he feels he must pursue justice and right wrongs. What is less obvious is the fact that he takes his power seriously without feeling it makes him better than others.
If you like larger than life heroes (AKA superheroes), you will love this novel. From an old woman who turns out to be a witch bearing a mystical gift of a bracelet that can invoke the Greek Gods of Olympus, to Nathan's superhero t-shirt collection, this story contains all the elements one expects from a superhero story. Fans of Superman, Spiderman, and Batman will find much to like about this plot-driven adventure.
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Black Lives Matter. Black Voices Matter. Black Stories Matter. Black Art Matters.
We hear you and we stand with you.
The Board of Directors of 2nd Star Productions recognizes that we have not done enough towards making our company truly representative of the community it serves. Our board of directors, our productions, our production teams, and our casts have not reflected the racial diversity of Bowie, Prince George’s County, and the surrounding Washington, DC Area. Although we at 2nd Star are saddened to have to pause our operations during the pandemic, we plan to use this pause to refocus our energies and efforts toward creating meaningful change in our organization.
We believe that:
- Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society.
- 2nd Star must ensure that the stories we share with our audience resonate with more than a single group. This intercultural and intersectional approach allows for a diverse audience to come together around a shared story and recognizable experiences.
At 2nd Star, we commit to:
- Formally adopting a diversity, equity, and inclusion statement that will inform all of our policies and procedures as a company. To be completed at our next Membership meeting in July 2020.
- Adding a formal color-conscious casting policy to our Operations Manual, and including color-conscious practices as part of the on-boarding of Board members and production staff. Manual update to be completed at our next Membership meeting in July 2020. On-boarding will be ongoing once we can resume productions.
- Requiring all 2nd Star Board members to participate in diversity and inclusion training annually. We acknowledge that there is much work to be done and much we do not know. To be completed by the end of August. In future years, it will be between March and the end of June following elections.
- Establishing a newly formed Outreach Committee, including a diversity liaison, to engage diverse production staff, performers, and patrons and focus on expanding diversity at all levels of our organization. Our outreach liaison will also serve as an accountability partner to ensure that the Board is on track to meeting commitments and establishing new ones as 2nd Star continues to grow. Liaison and Committee to be set no later than September. Targeted outreach will be incorporated into season and director selection fall/winter 2020, and into other activities as 2nd Star can resume them in light of the pandemic.
- Ensuring that show selection excites and engages our diverse community, with a concentrated focus on playwrights, composers, and lyricists whose work reflects a diversity of experiences. Ongoing each year, starting with the fall/winter 2020 process as we select our 2021/2022 season.
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While visiting the dentist is not high on anyone’s list of favorite things to do, for some people the anxiety goes way beyond the usual. Thankfully, Dr. Robert Harrell and his highly skilled staff at Adult Dentistry of Ballantyne understand the fear and can alleviate it through a variety of sedation methods. Many patients are surprised to discover that sedation isn’t reserved for root canals and similar procedures. It can be a gamechanger for regular cleanings and scaling appointments, too. Discover more about dental anxiety below:
Most people can live with having some anxiety about going to the dentist. For those with dental phobia, however, the thought of a dental visit is terrifying. They may be so frightened, in fact, that they’ll do just about anything to avoid a dental appointment.
A phobia is an intense, unreasonable fear. People can fear a specific activity, object or situation. People with dental phobia often put off routine care for years or even decades. To avoid it, they’ll put up with gum infections (periodontal disease), pain, or even broken and unsightly teeth.
Dental anxiety and phobia are extremely common. It has been estimated that 9% to 15% of Americans avoid seeing the dentist because of anxiety and fear. That’s about 30 million to 40 million people. In a survey by the British Dental Health Foundation, 36% of those who didn’t see a dentist regularly said that fear was the main reason. Learn more about how common dental anxiety is from Colgate
Different Sedation Options Are Available To Maximize Your Comfort
At ADOB, we want to openly discuss your dental anxiety and come up with a suitable plan. Skipping out on your mouthcare is not the solution, but coming to our practice is. Our staff wants you to enjoy a pleasant and fear-free experience from the moment you walk through our door. Simply discussing your concerns with us will let us share the variety of options we have to help you feel secure about setting a dental appointment.
Keep reading to learn more about dental sedation practices:
A lot of people are so phobic about going to the dentist that they prefer not to have any treatment.
For people who avoid dentists like the plague, sedation dentistry may take away some of their anxiety. Sedation can be used for everything from invasive procedures to a simple tooth cleaning. How it’s used depends on the severity of the fear.
What Is Sedation Dentistry?
Sedation dentistry uses medication to help patients relax during dental procedures. It’s sometimes referred to as “sleep dentistry,” although that’s not entirely accurate. Patients are usually awake with the exception of those who are under general anesthesia.
The levels of sedation used include:
Inhaled minimal sedation. You breathe nitrous oxide — otherwise known as “laughing gas” — combined with oxygen through a mask that’s placed over your nose. The gas helps you relax. Your dentist can control the amount of sedation you receive, and the gas tends to wear off quickly. This is the only form of sedation where you may be able to drive yourself home after the procedure.
Oral sedation. Depending on the total dose given, oral sedation can range from minimal to moderate. For minimal sedation, you take a pill. Typically, the pill is Halcion, which is a member of the same drug family as Valium, and it’s usually taken about an hour before the procedure. The pill will make you drowsy, although you’ll still be awake. A larger dose may be given to produce moderate sedation. This is the type of anesthesia most commonly associated with sedation dentistry. Some people become groggy enough from moderate oral sedation to actually fall asleep during the procedure. They usually can, though, be awakened with a gentle shake.
IV moderate sedation. You receive the sedative drug through a vein, so it goes to work more quickly. This method allows the dentist to continually adjust the level of sedation.
Deep sedation and general anesthesia. You will get medications that will make you either almost unconscious or totally unconscious — deeply asleep — during the procedure. While you are under general anesthesia, you cannot easily be awakened until the effects of the anesthesia wear off or are reversed with medication. Read more about common oral sedation practices compliments of WebMD
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UPDATE August 6, 2020
The Alice Springs News put questions raised by Don Fuller about Project Sea Dragon to Chief Minister Michael Gunner. He replied, and Dr Fuller in turn responded to Mr Gunner’s points. That exchange is below, followed by Dr Fuller’s full report.
QUESTION BY THE NEWS: Could you please confirm or correct the facts below about the aquaculture / prawn project Sea Dragon?
The Core Breeding Centre and Broodstock Maturation Centre was going to be located at Bynoe Harbour, near Darwin; a hatchery at Gunn Point and the Grow-Out Facility at Legune Station. The required finance to commence the construction of the project remains unavailable.
This suggests potential lenders (including NAIF) are concerned about one or more of the following factors: An ability to repay the interest and principal on the loan; the amount of funding required; available collateral to act as security for the loan.
MR GUNNER’S ANSWER: Project Sea Dragon prawn aquaculture project will be the largest of its kind in Australia and will ultimately see the development of up to 10,000 hectares of ponds for black tiger prawn production facilities.
At full scale the project has the potential to create around 1500 ongoing jobs, of which around 1000 will be located in the Northern Territory.
Construction and earthworks for the Core Breeding and Maturation Centre, located at Bynoe Harbour commenced earlier this year, and early works at the Legune Grow-Out Facility have also been complete.
Seafarms are committed to delivering this project and have appointed a sole arranger to help secure up to $150m of debt for stage one construction of the project.
RESPONSE TO THE CHIEF MINISTER FROM DON FULLER: As reported, the Chief Minister has been forced to admit that funding issues have impacted the prawn project. He is quoted as saying: “Unfortunately, it’s that private sector side of things where [the projects] haven’t been able to get the cash … which is frustrating.”
Mr Gunner, who oversees the major projects portfolio in Cabinet said the company behind the mega prawn farm, Seafarms Australia, had recently managed to raise some private sector funding but was yet to secure a key loan from the federally-funded $5 billion North Australia Infrastructure Facility.
While the company may have appointed a “sole arranger” to help secure up to $150m of debt for stage one of the Project, so far neither the wider international or Australian financial market nor the Commonwealth government has shown sufficient confidence in the Project to provide the large amount of finance required.
This has finally been acknowledged by the Chief Minister.
It suggests the risks associated with the Project are being assessed as unfavourable by major lenders, compared to the likely financial return. This begs the question as to why the NT government would have spent substantial sums building roads for the Project when there is a risk that the Project will not proceed.
Would not it have been far more preferable to wait until the private sector and Commonwealth government had completed their economic assessments of the Project before committing Territory funding?
Would not it have also been preferable if competent economic and financial analysis and assessment were undertaken by the Territory Government before proceeding to spend taxpayer monies in this manner?
This prevents limited taxpayer funding being spent on roads likely to have an important economic stimulus effect to key, high performing industries in the Territory, such as tourism.
A far more certain and guaranteed economic return would have come from sealing the Mereenie Loop road in the centre, for example. This is crucial to tourism recovery in the centre of Australia and would have generated a substantial financial return.
QUESTION BY THE NEWS: The NT Government has completed the road to Gunn Point at a cost of $32.2m. With the Commonwealth it has also been involved in awarding a $58m tender for the first section upgrade of the Keep River Road as a signal of strong financial support for the project. How much to the $58m did the NT contribute?
Was the principal purpose of these roads, worth together $90m, to serve the Sea Dragon project? What are they used for now?
MR GUNNER’S ANSWER: The upgrade of Gunn Point Road was 100% funded by the Northern Territory Government and the upgrade of Keep River Plains Road is funded 80% by the Commonwealth and 20% by the Northern Territory Government.
There are other purposes and development opportunities that the sealing of these roads support.
Keep River Plains Road provides access to large parcels of agricultural land, currently being advertised by NT Land Corporation, as well as potential onshore gas.
Gunn Point Road currently serves many different purposes including access to agriculture, mining, tourism and fishing facilities and is also access to the future development of Murrumajuk and Glyde Point.
RESPONSE TO THE CHIEF MINISTER FROM DON FULLER: But, such alternative projects these new roads are supposed to support are blue sky, or rather, likely to be pie in the sky opportunities rather than established, viable economic opportunities.
By contrast, the Mereenie Loop and further expenditure in key Territory and national parks for valuable infrastructure development designed to support the growth of tourism would provide a far higher economic return in the form of jobs and economic activity.
Tourism is an established growth sector for the economy and for the Territory, in particular. While tourism generates substantial jobs and economic returns to the Territory it has been largely ignored by the Gunner government, too focussed on political point scoring with large, high risk projects without adequate economic and financial analysis and understanding by government.
That is, the Gunner government is way out of its depth, to the expense of all Territorians. There have been numerous examples of this during the Gunner government, including the Charles Darwin University inner city Darwin development and the construction of the new grandstand in the Chief Minister’s electorate.
Additional examples include evidence disclosed by the Auditor General that the NT Government handed out “billions of dollars” in grants without proper record-keeping and without proper oversight and the approval of $10.5m of taxpayer funding to Darwin water bottler NT Beverages, despite the company being deeply in debt and on the brink of financial collapse.
This government has shown a fatal lack of competence in economic and financial management and understanding. This has had a major impact on funding and desperately needed support for established industries, such as tourism, vital to the economy of Central Australia.
PROJECT SEA DRAGON – ANOTHER NORTHERN GAMBLE TO BREAK THE BANK?
By Dr DON FULLER
The majority of land-based aquaculture in Australia is concentrated in Queensland. An important exception to this is Humpty Doo Barramundi Farm, located at the headwaters of the Adelaide River.
Queensland has less than 1, 000 hectares dedicated to aquaculture. The majority of this is in prawn farming. However, the industry has not shown evidence of growth for over a decade.
In part this is due to the fact that prawn farming and aquaculture in general, is a high risk, capital intensive, site specific operation which requires a high degree of technical expertise. It requires management who are flexible and adaptable and able to deal with sudden changes in conditions. Management must be technically proficient and extremely competent in risk management, marketing and liaison with government bodies.
On 20 December 2013, a company called CO2 Group announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Western Australian Resources Ltd (WARL) had executed agreements to acquire the business and assets of the Queensland prawn aquaculture company Seafarm Pty Ltd. CO2 had been an environmental services company with operations in Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia.
In February 2014, CO2 Group was renamed Commodities Group Limited. The Group demerged its environmental business to focus on aquaculture. To this end the ASX Listed Company Commodities Group Limited (ASX:COZ) became the ASX Listed Seafarms Group (ASX: SFG).
On April 20, 2018 the Australian Stock Exchange announced the listing of SFG which offered ‘shareholders the opportunity to invest in the company that’s dedicated to operating, building and investing in sustainable aquaculture.’
From a concentration on the environmental industry the Group had refocused on the aquaculture industry. This appeared to be a particularly challenging change of direction given the specialized technical skills and high degree of experience required in the field of aquaculture. It also appeared to have little in common with the previous industry the Group had been involved in. Such changed requirements could be expected to be particularly challenging for the senior management and board of this now, quite different, operation.
Project Sea Dragon
Purchasing the Seafarm prawn operation in Queensland gave the company the platform and justification to become involved in formulating the concept and development of Project Sea Dragon.
This is a very large scale, integrated, land-based, prawn aquaculture project in Northern Australia. It is proposed to produce year round volumes of prawns for export markets, principally in Asia.
Stage 1 of the Project is proposed to comprise around 1,000 hectares of prawn farming ponds and associated infrastructure. The prawn grow-out facilities are to be located at Legune Station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. In addition, there will be $90 million spent on a range of breeding program, processing and export facilities that will be located in, or near Darwin, Exmouth, Kununurra and Wyndham.
Main Project Component of Project Sea Dragon
At full capacity, the Project will consist of the following components:
- Broodstock facilities and Hatcheries – to breed and raise 100 million post-larvae per year, to be transferred into the production system.
- Land-based, pond grow-out facilities. This will consist of 10,000 hectares (100 square kms) of production ponds and an additional 5,000 hectares of additional water treatment ponds/canals.
- Product Processing Facilites
- Product Export and Transportation Facilities
Beside this a number of other infrastructure components are required. These include:
- Feed Mills – to produce pelletised feed products to feed the prawns in the production systems.
- Feed Raw Materials Supply – agriculture product supply/production systems to access materials for the pelletised feed. These include large quantities of soya beans, lupins, maize and wheat. There is also the need for transportation systems to deliver the materials from growing locations to the Feed Mills
- Additional support infrastructure is required including;
- Electrical Power generation- For driving pumps and aeration systems and also for Feed Mill and Product Processing Facility.
It is expected that (1) The Founder Stock Centre and Quarantine Centre will be located at Exmouth, WA. This is where wild caught prawns will be held, tested and bred to produce disease-free stock for the production system. (2) The Core Breeding Centre and Broodstock Maturation Centre will be located at Bynoe Harbour, near Darwin. (3) A Hatchery for spawning and rearing tanks for producing disease-free post larval prawns to stock the grow-out facility, will be located at Gunn Point. (4) The Grow-Out Facility will be based at Legune Station in the N.T. (5) The Processing Plant is to be based at Kununurra.
This is a huge project. At full capacity, it is estimated that the Project will require capital expenditure of around $1.25 billion. Annual production of prawns is estimated at 125,000 tonnes per annum. The construction stage of the Project will employ around 300 people, with on-going operational employment of around 1,700.
While the Queensland operations are primarily intended to demonstrate the operating concepts for Project Sea Dragon it is difficult to understand how such concepts can be transferred from what is a relatively small operation of some 160 hectares of growing out ponds and a total production of 1,770 tonnes – to an enormous scale-up, involving 10,000 hectares and 125,000 tonnes per annum.
This is not to mention the quite different geographical and climatic characteristics of Northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory to Queensland. Such differences include remoteness from skilled labour, high transport costs and elevated costs of production.
Such barriers to commercial development are likely to be an important reason why such a large-scale aquaculture development has not been attempted anywhere in Australia, much less the extremely challenging Australian North.
It therefore begs the question why the proponents of such a Project would choose this region of Australia. Is it likely that an important influence has been the possibility of attracting large amounts of government funding, directed at the development of the north?
If so, then perhaps the commercial realities including the large scale capital establishment costs and relatively high operating costs become less important to the owners and managers of the enterprise. However, whether such a situation can be maintained in the medium to longer run without substantial appreciation of commercial realities, remains an important question.
Capital Start-Up Requirements
Since 2014, substantial effort has been expended into attempting to attract the required large amount of capital funding for Project Sea Dragon.
In a submission to the Inquiry into the Development of Northern Australia, it has been indicated that Seafarms has funded the project development to the completion of a Preliminary Feasibility Study stage (Stage 1) – and is now seeking a partner for the following stages:
- Stage 2 – completion of ‘Bankable Feasibility’ through to the financial investment decision. It is stated that the partner may wish to exit at the completion of Stage 2. However, it is not clear what would be gained by such a decision. Alternatively, it is stated a partner may make a decision to progress to;
- Stage 3 – Development Funding (Engineering, Procurement, Construction phase); and
- Stage 4 – Operations.
To this end, Seafarms has ‘embarked on a marketing program’ with a number of foreign state-owned enterprises, sovereign and private investment funds, large global food companies and several investment banks.
In addition, the Group has successfully sought to have the Project recognized as a Project of State Significance in WA and the NT. It has also been given Major Project Status with the Commonwealth Government.
Such a ‘marketing program’ has not been successful in attracting anything like the required funding for the Project from commercial sources of funding. This raises important questions as to the way in which the Project is perceived by experienced commercial financial intermediaries.
During the last financial year, Seafarms Group announced the following financial events, relating to capital requirements.
- Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd, a major Japanese seafood company, undertook an equity investment in Seafarms shares at 10 cents per share equating to an equity raising of $24.99 million on 7 August 2018.
- A share placement to major domestic, institutional and professional investors at 9 cents per share resulted in equity raising of $20 million on 12 April 2019.
- Nippon Suisan Kaisha’s further investment in the Group, pursuant to the top-up rights under the Shareholder Rights Agreement finalised in August 2018 at 9 cents per share resulting in an equity raising of $3 million on 15 May 2019
- Seafarms Group Sharepurchase Plan, provided eligible shareholders the opportunity to subscribe for up to $15,000 each in Seafarms at 9 cents per share, raised $4.3m on 29 May 2019.
- Equity raising fees were $1.4m.
It is noteworthy that on 7 August 2018, Seafarms Group issued 5,320,622 unlisted share options to Nippon Suisan Kaisha (Nissui). The Options are subject to a voluntary 3-year escrow period, have an exercise period of 5 years at an exercise price of 6.2 cents per unlisted option. At the 30 June, 2019, these 5, 320, 622 unlisted options remain unexercised. As the current share price of around 0.051 is well below the exercise price such options are not likely to be exercised.
On 12 December 2018 the Group issued 50 000 000 and 30 000 000 unlisted share options to AAM Investment partners as part of the transaction involving the Grow-Out facility at Legune Station. Both sets of options are subject to a 12 month escrow period and have an exercise period of 3 years and 5 years respectively at an exercise price of 9.7 cents per unlisted option. At 30 June, 2019, both unlisted options remain exercised and are also unlikely to be exercised due to the falling share price.
On March 25, 2020 Seafarms Group announced the private placement of 416,666,666 shares at a price of AUD 0.03 per share for gross proceeds of AUD $12,500,000 on March 25, 2020.
Such equity raisings are insufficient for the extensive start-up capital required for even Stage 1 of the Project.
In a recent update on Financing for the Project the company stated that financing was ‘well advanced’. However, no further details on this were provided, other than to indicate that a ‘number of international banks were at various stages of their due diligence processes’ and that a ‘number of parties were expressing potential interest in direct equity participation’ in the Project.
However, no finance of any magnitude had materialized. The results of a financial analysis of Seafarms is likely to make the sourcing of the required finance even more problematic for potential investors. A financial analysis of Seafarms would be undertaken by a significant potential investor to Project Sea Dragon. The results of one such financial analysis of Seafarms are discussed in a following section.
Potential Government Involvement
As mentioned, Project Sea Dragon has been recognized as a ‘Project of State Significance’ in WA and also the NT and it has been given ‘Major Project Status’ by the Commonwealth government.
Major Project Status from the Commonwealth provides recognition for the Project as having national significance for economic growth and employment for regional Australia. The Project can therefore expect to receive assistance from the Major Projects Facilitation Agency in the coordination and facilitation of Commonwealth government approvals, such as environmental, bio-security, or foreign investment approvals.
Major Project Status in the NT recognizes that such Projects are significant contributors to the economic development of the NT, through the creation of jobs and business opportunities. Such Projects can be expected to receive substantial NT government assistance through the facilitation of the required approvals as well as importantly, assistance with the provision of essential infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and other facilities.
It is likely that the recognition of Major Project Status by the Commonwealth will also assist a Project to receive funding support from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF).
This is a Commonwealth Government $5 billion lending facility to assist finance projects via the governments of the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia to achieve growth in the economies and populations of these regions and encourage and complement private sector investment in Northern Australia.
NAIF can lend up to 100% of the debt for a project, providing the Commonwealth does not bear the majority risk in a project.
This is likely to prove a very attractive option to Project Sea Dragon, particularly as financial intermediaries in the private sector, both domestic and international, appear reluctant to lend substantial sums to commence construction of the Project.
Current Project Status
The Project has been reported by the Company as ‘shovel ready’.
Stage 1 has approvals in place and preparatory tendering has been completed to enable construction to commence.
However, the required finance to commence the construction of the Project remains unavailable. This suggests potential lenders to the Project are concerned about one or more, of the following factors:
- An ability to repay the interest and principal on the loan.
- The amount of funding required.
- Available collateral to act as security for the loan.
With respect to the first point, lenders are concerned with what is known as the Debt to Income Ratio. Where this is high, as in the case of the Seafarms Group, lenders will be concerned about the increased risk of undertaking such a loan. In a later section dealing with the Financial Analysis of the Seafarms Group this, and other relevant ratios from the Group’s financial statements will be discussed.
Despite the apparent difficulties being experienced to attract the necessary funding for the commencement of Project Sea Dragon, it has been reported that the Company worked with the NT Government to amend its Project Development Agreement to provide Seafarms with tenure at Bynoe Harbour.
Apparently all approvals are in place, including the development, clearing and aquaculture licenses. The company reported using the ‘current Dry Season to commence clearing for the sites of the broodstock maturation centre at Bynoe Harbour. Inlet and outlet ponds have been formed and site fencing has also commenced.’
One wonders whether such development should have commenced if the required funding is not forthcoming.
Seafarms has signed a Sub-Lease and Cooperation Agreement with AAM Investment Group (AAMIG). AAMIG completed the purchase of the Legune Perpetual Pastoral Lease in December and an arrangement has been made between Seafarms and AAMIG to utilize the land for the grow-out ponds and associated infrastructure.
In addition to such Company developments the NT Government has completed the road to Gunn Point at a cost of $32.2 million. With the Commonwealth it has also been involved in awarding a $58 million tender for the first section upgrade of the Keep River Road as a signal of strong financial support for the Project.
It is important to consider what company financial information the NT Government considered before deciding to expend such an amount of taxpayer funds at this stage.
In particular, information available on the financial status of the Seafarms Group should be regarded as having an important influence on the likely level of risk ascribed to the Project by both commercial and public sector lenders of finance.
If this Project does not proceed it is almost certain to be the case that expenditure by the NT government could have achieved a far greater return to the Territory community if spent on alternative options.
Earnings and Risk Analysis
The on-line financial analyst ‘Simply Wall Street’ has undertaken a financial analysis of the Seafarms Group.
Key findings include the following;
- In 2019 the aquaculture segment of the Group ran at a loss of $18, 216, 237. This followed a loss of $14, 262, 502, in the previous year.
A risk analysis undertaken by the financial analyst found that:
- Earnings have declined by 17.07% over the past five years.
- The share price has been highly volatile – particularly over the last 3 months.
- Existing shareholdings have been diluted in the past year, and
- The Seafarms Group does not have a ‘meaningful’ market capitalisation.
With regard to the share price, this reached a high of $0.15 in September 2018. It then fell to 0.10 by 12 September 2019. By 27 March 2020 the share price fell far further, to a low of $0.03. It recovered slightly to $0.049 by 30 June, 2020. This had a major impact on the value of the company and can be expected to have a significant negative impact on the capacity of Seafarms to borrow for Project Sea Dragon.
On June 19, 2020 Simply Wall Street reported that ‘shareholders will doubtless be very grateful to see the share price up 37% in the last quarter. But that is minimal compensation for the share price under-performing over the last year. The cold reality is that the stock has dropped 40% in one year, under-performing the market.’
The analyst goes on to report that given that Seafarms Group didn’t make a profit in the last twelve months the focus should be on revenue growth for anyone interested in investing in the company. Companies without profits it is argued, are expected to grow revenue every year and at a relatively fast pace. Unless this is done it is difficult to be confident that the company will be sustainable if revenue growth is negligible, and it never makes a profit.
In the last twelve months Seafarms Group increased its revenue by 2.0%. This is not regarded as a sufficiently high growth rate considering it doesn’t make profits.
The Balance Sheet is rated as ‘Mediocre’ with ‘weak fundamentals’ – from the perspective of financial strength.
A financial ratio analysis of Seafarms Group indicated that the Return on Capital Employed by Shareholders earned a negative 44.5% three years ago, compared with a negative 31.3% last year. The debt to equity ratio of Seafarms is considered high at 44.4%. Seafarms Group debt to equity ratio increased from 35.3% to 44.4% over the last five years.
Such findings act to further constrain the borrowing ability of Seafarms Group.
Simply Wall Street notes that the Seafarms Group is characterized by a lack of Institutional Ownership. Institutional ownership is defined as the amount of a company’s stock owned by organisations such as mutual or pension funds, insurance companies, investment firms, or other large entities that manage funds on behalf of others.
There are a number of reasons why this might be the case. For example, it may be hard for institutions to purchase larger amounts of shares if the amount traded is low. On the other hand, it is possible that professional investors are avoiding a company because they assess the risk to be too high and the return too low. It is also noted that hedge funds don’t have a meaningful investment in the Seafarms Group.
As at 30 June 2019, the largest shareholder was Avatar Industries Pty. Ltd. at 20.31%. This was followed by Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. at 12.68% and Gabor Holdings Pty. Ltd. at 9.74%. According to Simply Wall Street the top 12 shareholders had a combined ownership of 51% implying that the company is not widely held.
Insider ownership of a company can be positive when it signals that leaders of the organisation are thinking like the true owners of a company. However, it may also serve to diminish the influence on decision making of other shareholders, including institutional shareholders. This can be expected to be taken into account and to be of concern to such potential investors.
The Directors of Seafarms Group as at 30 June, 2019 were Ian Norman Trahar, Harley Ronald Whitcombe, Dr Christopher David Mitchell and Paul John Favretto.
Ian Trahar is the Executive Chairman of the Seafarms Group. He is also a Director and significant shareholder of Avatar Industries Pty. Ltd, an unlisted private company. Ian Trahar is also a Director of Gabor Holdings. In addition, Paul Favretto has held the position of Managing Director of Avatar Industries.
Simply Wall Street notes that Seafarms has no CEO, or no data can be found relating to this position. This is important from a governance and management perspective. Usually for example, the CEO would be responsible for the management of the company with other line managers reporting to the position. Presumably this role is undertaken by the Managing Director of the Seafarms Group.
Trading Query – Seafarms Group (SFG) by the ASX
On 20 April 2020, the ASX Listings Compliance Officer formally wrote to the Company Secretary of Seafarms Group regarding a change in the price of SFG’s securities from an intraday low of $0.055 to an intraday high of $0.074. A significant increase in the volume of SFG’s securities traded was also noted.
In light of this, the company was asked to respond to a number of questions related to whether the company was aware of ‘any information concerning it that has not been announced to the market which, if known by some in the market, could explain the recent trading in its securities?’
The Company Secretary responded that the Company was not aware of any information that had not been announced to the market, which if known by some in the market, could explain the recent trading in the securities.
Summary and Conclusions
Project Sea Dragon appears as a project on a scale never before attempted in Australia, much less the difficult and testing business and commercial environment of the North of Australia.
While the Seafarms Group has been involved in aquaculture since 2013, this is not regarded as a particularly long time, given the special technical requirements of this industry. It is also important to note that the prawn farming industry has not grown in Queensland for the last ten years.
The Project now envisaged by Seafarms is around 10 times larger than the current scale of all aquaculture operations in Queensland. Seafarms has around 160 hectares currently involved with prawn farming in Queensland. An expansion to that of 10,000 hectares of ponds would be at a scale around 63 times larger than their current operations.
The construction of the required infrastructure, plant and equipment calls for a very large amount of capital, estimated at $1.25 billion. Annual production of prawns is also projected to be over 60 times the current output of Seafarms. On-going operational employment requirements are in the order of nearly 2000 people.
To date it appears the company has had difficulty getting close to the amount of capital required for such a massive project. It appears that if it is to proceed there will be a need for a significant amount of government funding.
To be successful the company also faces a number of other major obstacles common to all business enterprises in the North of Australia. This includes difficulties securing a technically skilled and reliable labour force, which is a very important requirement for this particular industry.
Additional obstacles can be expected with regard to remoteness from key suppliers, transport and logistics costs associated with integrating the various stages of the production process and the on-going costs associated with a harsh and unpredictable climate.
It would appear particularly risky, given such potential obstacles, to attempt to develop this project in such a rapid, large scale, approach.
Experience with successful aquaculture operations in the Territory have demonstrated that it is often necessary to commence at a smaller scale. This enables the necessary learning and understandings to successfully deal with the substantial commercial obstacles in establishing successful commercial operations in the North of Australia.
For example, it is not clear how prawn aquaculture arrangements will need to change and adapt to the different environmental and climatic conditions of the North of Australia compared to Queensland, or whether certain infections or diseases are likely to be more difficult to manage in a changed environment. Such considerations have previously proved fatal to other primary production enterprises in the North of Australia.
As pointed out by Glen Morrison in Rural Weekly – an often-quoted piece of research with regard to large scale primary development in Northern Australia is ‘The Northern Myth: A Study of the Physical and Economic Limits to Agricultural and Pastoral Development in Tropical Australia’, by Davidson. While this related to the Ord River Development, many of the arguments are relevant to large scale development in other projects within primary industry such as aquaculture.
Davidson concluded the idea to develop the North was “a platitude uncritically accepted by many Australians.”
Davidson’s findings have since been reinforced by a number of independent studies.
As the Northern Futures Collaborative Research Network suggests there are three big influences shaping Australia, which collide in the North.
The first is ‘Big Development’. This is often characterised by the drive to build major infrastructure projects, including dams and agricultural development, mining and gas.
The second is ‘Big Conservation’. This tends to require the North to be like untouched wilderness, a pristine ecology that requires preservation.
The third are the policies aimed at seeking to promote Indigenous well-being.
Often these major aspects are considered in isolation of each other. However, for those living in the North, such influences are inseparable. It would therefore prove valuable if government policy makers at both the Commonwealth and Territory levels could spend more time and effort considering where such major influences intersect and the likely implications of such intersections.
The financial analysis presented by Simply Wall Street highlights important financial challenges facing Seafarms Group. It would seem important that key indicators such as revenue, production and net income will need to increase before key investors can be encouraged to invest in such a Project, given the risks and to the extent required.
The current financials of the company, are likely to dissuade many investors from becoming involved in such a large scale, high risk project, without more evidence that the obstacles confronting this development can be overcome at reasonable levels of cost and return.
If the commercial sector is not prepared to lend the required finance then, if the Project is to proceed, it is likely that the principal responsibility will fall on the shoulders of the taxpayer.
Given the major financial difficulties confronting the NT Government and now the Commonwealth following coronavirus, can this Project really be regarded as an optimum use of limited taxpayer funds, given the significant risks that have been discussed?
This does not seem to have been a question for the Gunner government to ponder. The NT government has awarded contracts worth $32.2m to upgrade the Gunn Point Road for Project Sea Dragon. It has also become involved in the up-grade of the Keep River Plains Road for the Project.
On 15 June, 2020 the ABC reported that the Chief Minister was forced to admit that ‘funding issues and the pandemic have impacted the prawn project.’
‘Unfortunately, it’s that private sector side of things [Author itlalics] where [the projects] haven’t been able to get the cash … which is frustrating.’ Mr Gunner, who oversees the major projects portfolio in Cabinet said the company behind the mega prawn farm, Seafarms Australia, had recently managed to raise some private sector funding but was yet to secure a key loan from the federally-funded $5 billion North Australia Infrastructure Facility.
This suggests that the Commonwealth is being far more careful with taxpayer funding than the Gunner Labor government. As the person responsible for major projects in the NT Cabinet, Mr Gunner should appreciate the reasons why the private sector is being far more careful about the ‘headlong’ financing of this project.
Presumably the Commonwealth is also more cautious about building high cost roads in remote regions’ to no particular place’ or for no particular purpose.
Commercial operations are required to satisfy the owners of their company that a financing decision is likely to have a positive economic and commercial outcome. No such constraints appear to act on the financial decisions of the Gunner government. Major financial decisions have been undertaken in a number of cases without serious commercial or economic analysis or business plans – often with disastrous results for the Budget.
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When dividing the head with an open mouth into eight parts ignore the extra height added due to the jaw being lower down. A very in-depth video on how features a placed in the head.
A wedge for the nose a long thin line for the mouth and a shorter line to define the lower lip this lower line is not always included though.
How to draw anime and manga noses. It consists of three basic simple shapes. Draw the eyes ears and mouth. If youre drawing a young anime character draw a circle using your hands or a compass depending on your preferences.
Styles of Anime Noses. In the video you will learn how to draw a nose for example from different angles and how the nose curve smooths out when the face is looking more forward than to the side. This short and easy-to-understand instruction will teach you how to draw anime and manga characters from several perspectives front side and 34.
Here is your basic anime- and manga-style nose and mouth. How to Draw Anime Ears Rotation of Anime Ears. This basic recipe can of course be modified across various styles.
AnimeOutline is one of the best and largest resources for quality original anime and manga style drawing. How to draw Manga. This art tutorial is a bit lengthy but it does explain rather nicely how to draw manga face and head.
Start outlining jaws and neck from the last 2 lines drawn in step 1. Sketch a slightly curved line for the bridge of the nose and complete it by drawing a second line with an inward curve to form the tip of the nose. Drawing the lips is only necessary in a few cases in order to show the expression of the manga mouth.
Use this as a starting point for your manga characters. Another common way to draw an anime nose is with some very basic shading. It consists of three basic simple shapes.
You can also add a nostril when sketching the nose from this view. Make the clumpclumps in the. The curve of the nose and its bottom part.
Once finished in about five hours you will fully understand how to draw manga or anime faces and hair from eyes to noses to mouths and even expressionsemotions. Be careful so that you dont accidentally erase the facial features youve. You can also add a nostril when sketching the nose from this view.
All youll need to do is draw a short line near the lower line of the nose. Make sure to pause the video after each step and look at the screen every few seconds while you are drawing. So if like my friend you have a passion to learn how to draw manga or anime then check out the free preview lessons.
How to draw anime and manga noses Anime. First make a guideline by vertically and horizontally dividing the head in half. Explore Japanese comics influential visual style and learn how to draw manga and anime-style sequential art.
Shaded Nose Front View Drawing Anime nose shadow drawing. Tough in some more stylized characters this is not always be the case. Here is your basic anime- and manga-style nose and mouth.
Just for demonstration you can see how the mouth might look in a colored anime. If you place a classic anime nose over a realistic one youll notice that it borrows just the crucial elements. In frontal views like this you can get away with using very few lines to define the nose and mouth.
You can make this completely black or a greydarken skin tone depending on weather you are using color not not. How to Draw an Open Anime Manga Mouths on the Head Open vs closed anime mouth. A wedge for the nose a long thin line for the mouth and a shorter line to define the lower lip this lower line is not always included though.
The corners of the mouth the line where the lips meet and the shading above or below the lips are enough to give the mouth its plasticity. If you place a classic anime nose over a realistic one youll notice that it borrows just the crucial elements. Mar 11 2018 – Explore Winnies board Manga noses on Pinterest.
How to draw anime sketch. Drawing an Anime or Manga Nose Using Light and Shadow Anime nose shadow drawing different views. I hope you like it.
How To Draw THE NOSE CARTOON NOSES Vs ANIME – YouTube. To make the anime nose drawing more complex you need to add some shadows. First it is necessary to depict the outlines of the shadow itself then using a dense but light hatching paint over this area of the shadow.
This tutorial explains how to draw an anime girls face and anime faces in general from the side view in different states and with different expressions. Please share and leave your comments. The Complete Guide to Drawing an Anime and Manga Nose.
In frontal views like this you can get away with using very few lines to define the nose and mouth. For an open mouth the jaw can be drawn lower down. Even though it may be the most basic nose for the front view you have to consider proper placement of the nose.
This article demonstrates how to draw anime and manga noses in various styles from the front side and 34 angles. In the anime shadows are drawn very easily. With the animemanga style you can simply draw a nose by making a dot or a dash.
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Wargaming Labs Presents the Top-down Shooter Hybrid Wars, Built Using Photon Realtime
Hybrid Wars lets you command and upgrade your own arsenal of futuristic mechs to take on wave after wave of enemy forces. Jump into a classic top-down shooter experience as you obliterate over 50 types of enemy and team up with friends to cause more mayhem. Harness an arsenal of diverse machines—Bomber and Assault mechs, tanks, motorboats, and a wicked variety of helicopters—to rise to the top of the food chain.
With 8 huge locations to explore and over 150 objectives to complete, Hybrid Wars immerses you in a future where those with the quickest wits and biggest guns survive. Published by WG Labs, a unit within Wargaming, and developed by Extreme Developers, Hybrid Wars captures classic ‘90s nostalgia and brings it crashing into the future.
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by Joseph N. Schneiderman
On August 23, 2016, the Supreme Judicial Court held that a student who was unlawfully suspended under the felony suspension statute, G.L. c.71, §37H1/2, did not need to seek review of her suspension to pursue the statutory tort of unlawful exclusion from public school, G.L. c.76, §16. Goodwin v. Lee Public Schools, 475 Mass. 280 (2016). This victory for students’ rights offers an opportunity for the Legislature to take action to further stem the flow of children in the school to prison pipeline.
The Case and Holding
Katelynn Goodwin was a senior at Lee Middle and High School in the Berkshires. In late December 2011, the principal suspended Ms. Goodwin under the felony suspension statute because the Lee Police suspected her involvement in a weapons theft. There was one obvious problem, however: a felony complaint never issued against Ms. Goodwin. Indeed, the superintendent admitted that Ms. Goodwin “perhaps not been charged yet.” A misdemeanor complaint ultimately issued against her in April 2012 for receiving stolen property. The school offered to lift the suspension but refused to allow Ms. Goodwin to graduate with her class. Ms. Goodwin graduated alone through an online program in 2013.
In December 2014, Ms. Goodwin sued for damages. A judge of the Superior Court dismissed Ms. Goodwin’s complaint on the grounds that she failed to appeal her suspension within five days pursuant to the felony suspension statute’s administrative process. Ms. Goodwin timely appealed and the SJC allowed her application for direct appellate review.
A unanimous Court reinstated Ms. Goodwin’s complaint and agreed that her right to tort recovery for unlawful exclusion constitutes a separate and distinct remedy from seeking reinstatement to school. The Court recalled that the statutory tort of unlawful exclusion has existed since 1845, although there have been relatively few recent cases analyzing the claims. The felony suspension statute, enacted in 1994, authorizes a principal to suspend when: (1) a student is charged with or convicted of a felony; and (2) the student’s continued presence would have a substantial detrimental effect on the general welfare of the school. A student could appeal the suspension to the superintendent-but the school committee does not review suspensions under the felony suspension statute. 475 Mass. at 284-286, compare G.L. c. 76, §17.
The Court reasoned that the felony suspension statute was only “triggered ‘[u]pon the issuance of a criminal complaint charging a student with a felony.’” Goodwin, 475 Mass. at 287 (quoting §37H1/2). Because the principal suspended Ms. Goodwin without any felony complaint issuing against her, the suspension violated Section 37H1/2 and Ms. Goodwin did not need to pursue any administrative review before seeking damages. The Court also rejected the notion that the felony suspension statute precluded any recovery in tort. Instead, the statute simply provides an “additional, immediate, review of a decision to exclude them from school, with the goal of readmission.” Id. at 288. Ms. Goodwin thus deserved her day in court.
Goodwin marks an overdue moment of accountability for schools in the crisis of juvenile delinquency based school suspensions. Some felony charges decidedly warrant suspension to preserve school safety. See Doe v. Superintendent of Schools of Stoughton, 437 Mass. 1 (2002) (principal properly suspended a high school freshman charged with the rape of a primary school student on the same campus). There are many “felony” crimes, however, that should never warrant a suspension, absent aggravating circumstances.
Specifically, a felony constitutes “any offense punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison,” G.L. c. 274, §1. Therefore, a student who has a fake driver’s license faces suspension if the principal believes that having a fake license poses substantial detrimental effect to the general welfare of the school. G.L. c. 90, §24B (punishable by five years in state prison.) The sheer breadth of offenses that may trigger suspension has grave potential to thwart a child’s education and the command that allegedly delinquent children “shall be treated not as criminals but as children needing aid, encouragement of guidance.” G.L. c. 119, §53.
Between 1997 and 2011, principals suspended an average of more than 100 students per year under the felony suspension statute. Melanie Riccobene Jarboe, “Expelled to Nowhere”: School Exclusion Laws in Massachusetts, 31 B.C. Third World L.J. 343, 376 (2011). Courts tended not to review suspensions critically, despite “ample indication that principals [suspended] indiscriminately and [did not] carefully consider each case”, as the Commissioner of Education urged. Id. at 352, 360. Those suspensions inevitably flushed students into the school to prison pipeline. Id. at 349–51, 357, 365–69.
The review process is messy at best. A student or parent must request review in writing within five days.. Goodwin, 475 Mass. at 282, n.4. There is also no guidepost to judicial review, and certiorari becomes the only (default) option, which does not account for the best rehabilitative interests of a child. Doe, 437 Mass. at 5. An unlawful suspension may deprive a student of their future. See Commonwealth v. Mogelinski, 466 Mass. 627, 647-648 (2013), S.C., 473 Mass. 164 (2015). (“futurelessness” may overcome a child who endures a prolonged delinquency case.)
Finally, there is no freestanding right to counsel in suspension proceedings. And, unfortunately, “many parents often do not have the mindset, time, or means to pursue redress against the educational system…and the parents who do have the resources are often ostracized, frustrated, and unsuccessful.” Expelled to Nowhere, 31 B.C. Third World L.J. at 352.
Where Do We Go After Goodwin?
The Legislature has three concrete ways to build on Goodwin to spur continued accountability. First, the Legislature should limit suspensions only to when a student stands indicted as a youthful offender for a felony offense that involves infliction or risk of serious bodily harm. G.L. c.119, §54.
Second, as the Court implicitly suggested, the Legislature should create flexibility in the administrative review process and expressly establish procedures for judicial review to the Juvenile Court–which has a statutory mandate to further the best rehabilitative interests of children. G.L. c.119, §§1, 53.
Finally, the Legislature should create an independent right to appointed counsel in suspension hearings-with the right to commence the process for tort recovery for unlawful exclusion pursuant to the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act. These changes would ensure due process for students and further the goal of ending unlawful exclusions from education.
Joe Schneiderman has an appellate practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut with a particular affinity for and focus on juvenile delinquency and municipal law. Joe gratefully dedicates this article to: his mother Ro (who passed away three weeks after he filed Ms. Goodwin’s brief), as well as his dear friend, mentor, and teacher, Robert Kyff. | <urn:uuid:f196203f-efc1-4b56-8a4a-639fca1334e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://bostonbarjournal.com/tag/goodwin-v-lee-public-schools/ | 2022-01-18T11:30:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.944694 | 1,535 |
The protests in downtown Minneapolis began on October seventh. Sheriff’s deputies have made eight arrests and issued thirty-five trespassing notices.
Jordan Greenway runs into Darcy Kuemper, sparks fight
Kuemper got knocked out of the game, leading to the brawl.
MacKinnon's controversial goal helps Avalanche top Wild
Kirill Kaprizov's two goals were spoiled by a questionable call.
Attorney accused of sex assault misses hearing, DMs judge
He was arrested the next day after a warrant was issued,
Charges: Man who killed father with hammer says 'the devil made me do it'
The 33-year-old has been charged with murder.
Winter Carnival: Get vaccinated or test negative before coming
Organizers are also reminding people to be mindful of the city's emergency regulations.
2-year-old California girl hurt in crash in southern MN
Another passenger was also injured.
Did either of these 2 MN homes get voted the 'Ugliest House in America'?
This story contains spoilers for the HGTV series.
Driver, 15 years old, hurt when car collides with SUV
The road was wet at the time, the State Patrol said.
Twin Cities family featured on Andrew Zimmern's 'Family Dinner'
The episode made its TV debut Sunday.
California-inspired restaurant opens this week in downtown Minneapolis
It's located on the ground floor of the IDS Center.
Minnesotans have the Badgers back in the national spotlight
Three of Wisconsin's four leading scorers are from Minnesota.
Liriano retires: Remembering his meteoric rise as a rookie
There was no one better than Liriano from mid-May to late-July in 2006.
ACLU asks Hennepin County to rescind OccupyMN restrictions
The ACLU of Minnesota sent a letter to Hennepin County commissioners after officials announced more restrictions on OccupyMN protesters downtown. The ACLU says the new restrictions "run afoul of the First Amendment."
Hennepin County Board approves new policy banning OccupyMN camp-out
While the policy doesn't officially go into effect until next week, the Southwest Journal reports sheriff's deputies were ordered to take down signs and personal items that were left unattended at Government Plaza.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office tries to secure underwater robot
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is attempting to secure funding to purchase an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to expedite underwater searches and help protect divers. The device will help officers search dark depths in rivers and lakes to help locate criminal evidence and possibly drowning victims.
Hennepin County sued by Occupy Minnesota protester
Melissa Hill was the first Occupy Minnesota arrested outside the Hennepin County Government Center. The trespassing charges against her were eventually dropped. Now she's suing the county and Sheriff Rich Stanek, saying her Constitutional rights were violated.
Police arrest two OccupyMN protesters over the weekend in Minneapolis
Two activists are charged with burglary, trespassing and obstruction of justice charges. The TC Daily Planet reports they were part of the ongoing Occupy Minnesota protest that moved to a foreclosed home in Minneapolis.
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Uber has just released a brand new mobile app that provides many new features, as well as many improvements over the previous one. According to Uber's statement, the new app experience is currently being tested in hundreds of US and international cities.
The new app will show Rides, Eats and any futures options that Uber plans to add side by side so users can choose their preferred method of transport faster and easier. One of the most important new features included in the new app is called Verify Your Ride .
It will allow Uber customers to choose to receive a unique four-digit PIN that can orally give their drivers that they are in the right car. The driver will only be able to start the trip in the app when the correct PIN is entered. Uber plans to further enhance the security features offered in their mobile app using a new technology that uses ultrasonic waves to automatically confirm that customers are in the right car.
Text to 91[ads1]1 is an upgraded version of last year's emergency button included in the Uber app. The new option allows users to send a text message to 911 in cities and counties that support this technology. The text message is automatically prepared to include trip details such as the make and model of the car, license plate and location.
Bike Lane Alert will be available in late October and will allow Uber riders in more than 200 cities around the world to receive an in-app notification when dropped off near a bike lane .
Last but not least, Improved real-time ID check is intended to help the Uber driver match the account in the company's system. Unlike previous security measures that only required motorists to offer Uber basic selfies, the new feature prompts them to perform a random series of basic gestures such as smiling, blinking and / or turning their heads, which should add a new layer of safety .
the same news, Uber announced that starting next month, it will begin displaying bikes and scooters on the map inside the Uber app. The new feature will be available in all 28 cities where the company's JUMP bikes or scooters are available, plus dozens of US cities where lime scooters are available through the Uber app. | <urn:uuid:92a412d5-0826-4356-b653-7026fa48be99> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://businessglitz.com/uber-launches-new-mobile-app-adds-important-new-features/ | 2022-01-18T09:54:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.948767 | 437 |
Newly released CivicScience data show that 68% of Americans surveyed still pay for some sort of live television programming in one way or another.
But why, you ask?
News. Thirty percent of Americans who pay for live television say a main reason they do so is for local and / or cable news. Watching other programming as it airs and live sporting events are neck and neck for runner up, 23% and 22% of respondents answering these respectively.
The gap between the remaining three reasons is large. Having poor Internet connection, not being able to get out of a contract, and tuning in for competition shows all sit right around 5%.
While it’s not too surprising that older people are more likely to pay for live TV of some kind, that’s not the entire story. Sixty-two percent of 18- to 24-year-olds polled pay for live TV access of some kind. The 25- to 34-year-olds are the least likely to do so.
This overall age data is generally mimicked when compared to the top three reasons (news, watching shows as they air, live sports). Two things did stand out, though:
- Anyone 35 and older is more likely to pay for live TV for live sports than their counterparts
- Adults under 25 and those 35 and up are also more likely to pay for TV for news; 25- to 34-year-olds are much less likely to do so
Back to the idea of paying for live TV for the news once more, comparing it to politics (it’s an election year, after all). To the surprise of exactly no one, political Conservatives and Moderates are a bit more likely to pay for live TV for access to news than their Liberal counterparts. However, on the flip side, it’s still somewhat strong across all political persuasions.
Ending on the overarching related topic of cord-cutting, it should be noted that CivicScience is observing an increase in people canceling their cable / satellite subscriptions and moving to streaming-only services since the pandemic started to pick up. | <urn:uuid:6d87dfdb-9035-420f-8eaf-a0e5554d16b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://civicscience.com/news-is-the-top-reason-people-still-pay-for-live-tv/ | 2022-01-18T09:59:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.970391 | 429 |
Hi everyone! I’m back this week to share my project I created for Eileen Hull’s Inspiration Team this month. I’ve been longing for the beach so I decided I would create a simple fold over tag card using an assortment of Eileen’s diecuts, thinlits and a new printable that I picked up on Etsy.
I thought I had photographed steps of embossing and the dies I had cut out but I didn’t…so sorry about that but it does happen especially when I get into a groove and I’m crafting away.
I embossed one end of the tag with Star Burst Embossing Folder (#659879 retired) and lightly inked of that with a mix blues, greens and purple chalk inks. I cut out the middle size tag from the Waterfall Card and Tags Thinlits, the circle diecut from the Ornament Box Diecut and the wreath from the Wreath and Snowflake Thinlits along with a couple of beach girls that I printed from the Beach Girls Printable and cut out.
Before adhering the middle size tag to the base of the card I embossed and lightly applied chalk ink to the raised areas. Next I added two small strips of patterned cardstock toward the bottom of the card before gluing the circle and wreath to the base of the card. I printed the “Take Me to the Beach” and “Do You Hear the Ocean?” sentiments from my computer, cut out, inked edges and added the first sentiment to the base. I also adhered the woman in the bathing suit and two sand dollars that I had fussy cut from a scrap of cardstock to the card and added a flatback pearl to the center of the sand dollar.
The inside of the card I dug up a shell diecut from my stash and with a crafters knife I cut a “pocket” along the inside edge of the shell.
I glued the bottom of the shell diecut to the card, added the other sentiment to the bottom corner and placed the bathing suit girls in the slit of the shell.
If I choose to, later on, I can add more tags or I could even place a gift card in the “pocket” behind the shell and give as a gift. There’s endless possibilities.
As always if you have any questions about this project please let me know. Also if you haven’t stopped by Eileen Hull’s blog lately to see what the Inspiration and Educator Teams have been up you can find those posts HERE and HERE.
Sizzix/Eileen Hull: Waterfall Card and Tags Thinlits
Sizzix/Eileen Hull: Ornament Box Diecut
Sizzix/Eileen Hull: Wreath and Snowflake Thinlits
Sizzix/Eileen Hull: Star Burst Embossing Folder (#659879 retired)
Various Patterned Cardstocks
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Swan Lake @ Heath Ledger Theatre
Friday, February 15, 2019
This raw and gritty contemporary dance and theatre adaptation created by writer, director and choreographer, Michael Keegan-Dolan, was relevant, subversive and horrifying; the standing ovation at the end of the performance, an indication of just how phenomenal the show was.
Set in the lower socioeconomic area of The Midlands in Ireland, this performance was bleak and disconcerting, full of dark, sardonic humour exploring the darkest parts of the human condition: abuse, suicide and the descent and rise from mental illness. However, it was also a fable of love, hope and transformation; about the light that is only made possible because of the dark.
The story was being told as we arrived at the theatre. The house lights were up, stage lights full; a man was wearing worn white underwear and was tied to a breeze block by a thick white rope around his neck, walking around the stage in circles bleating like a goat. As the audience found their seats, two more characters took to the stage, a young man in an old dirty tracksuit and a plain black beanie and an old frail lady, with long grey hair who was sitting in a wheelchair (the frail old lady just happened to be Australian dance legend Elizabeth Cameron Dalman). Once the house lights went down, three ‘watchers’ joined the stage, and the terrifying beauty began.
The dancing was ritualistic and loose but so perfectly timed and fluid. There was an element of the grotesque in the way the dancers moved at points; the swan sisters were reminiscent of crushed little birds flapping around on the ground clinging to life with ferocity. At other times the dancing was light and ethereal, the rhythms of their bodies perfectly in unison to the music being played live on stage. The balance of contemporary and traditional folk dancing, with elements of ballet, suited the dramatic elements on stage and the narrative was engaging and enthralling.
The action slipped from the farcical and nonsensical to the seriously technical and emotionally confronting. It moved through moments where the cast was acting like children playing on a stage to times of raw human emotion. It would turn dark and violent, the cast screaming and writhing to the sounds of high-pitched violins, the actors physically beating their bodies on the sets, on each other, into the dance. The angel/bird wings were thrown and thrashed around the stage until they were left wilted and plucked – handled so delicately by the dancers at the start, then tossed with reckless abandon towards the end. This was not just a deconstruction of a classic tale, they ripped the feathers out of Swan Lake and left them, literally, scattered around the theatre.
The music was incredibly evocative, switching from the upbeat rhythms of traditional Irish folk to the dark and sinister tones of Nordic traditional music. When the dancing was frantic and violent, the music worked harmoniously to create the sense of madness, the violin screeching out of tune, the bow dragging across the strings as the dancers were pulled across the stage. The four musicians, members of the Dublin band Slow Moving Clouds which consisted of the violin, double bass, guitar and nyckelharpa (Swedish key harp), sat upstage for the beginning part of the performance and then joined the action towards the end. The band was more than just music accompaniment, each member was a part of the action, singing with the cast and entering the stage when the narrative required it and providing an exhilarating aural experience to the amazing visuals that the cast was creating.
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Enhancing Your Ethical Base
Thus far in Living Media Ethics we have covered how consciousness and conscience work in tandem to shape values, foresee consequences and discern truth. Consciousness and conscience also inform each other to overcome challenges associated with falsehood, manipulation, temptation and bias. In this section, we utilize consciousness and conscience more selectively to enhance our values. Through case studies by and interviews with journalists and practitioners, we will deepen our intuition and sharpen our awareness to prepare for unforeseen conflicts, exercising fairness. We also will explore other fairness-related tenets such as corrections, apologies and discretion and inspirational tenets such as forgiveness, compassion and empathy. We also will identify power bases leading to empowerment, overcoming challenge in everyday matters and even in actionable ones such as sexual harassment. Lastly media practitioners will discuss value systems across platforms, motivating you to create your own ethics code to include in your digital clipbooks or portfolios.
FAIRNESS: Level the Playing Fields
Abstract: The chapter discusses the basics of fairness, one of the most treasured components of any value system. Fairness requires continuous assessment of behavior and choices to ascertain if they were accurate, truthful and appropriate and whether they could have been improved upon to meet those desired goals. In analyzing that, fair-minded people pay special attention to viewpoint of all who might be affected by behaviors and choices. To make that point, case studies are provided from journalists and practitioners. Methods also are provided to help you achieve ever-higher levels of fairness. Practical applications follow as they pertain to corrections, apologies, fact-checking and discretion—an ethical value associated with fairness—that enhances credibility and professionalism. Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Clarence Page provides a short essay on a decision to retract one of his columns after he realized that it may have been unfair. That is a powerful example of commitment to fairness, enhancing credibility and reputation. Ending personal and communal journal exercises put these concepts to the test as readers recall times they were treated unfairly or may have treated others unfairly … and what they derived from the experience.
Fairness Means Continuous Improvement
Ethical journalists strive to achieve fairness and then assess whether they have, making adjustments to prepare for the next encounter. That makes fairness one of the most important values in any system. Embracing fairness, you live ethics. You eventually ensure ever-greater levels of ethical behavior because of the continual goal of self-examination and improvement. Fair-minded people know right from wrong. They commit to truth, especially to full disclosure, not only in what they disseminate but also about their own motivations and desires. They might be manipulated or tempted by others, but because they emphasize preparedness, they are less apt to be tricked or enticed the next time. Fair-minded people also promote inclusivity; they do not discriminate because racism is a lie. Moreover, they seek justice and a level playing field for themselves and others in society.
However, to embrace fairness and use it to enhance values, you also must have courage. You have to accept truth as you find it, even if that truth goes against everything that you have hitherto believed. You have to acknowledge, openly and freely, when you have been manipulated, tempted or biased; pride or ambition cannot stand in the way of such disclosures. For these and other reasons, we have postponed our discussion about fairness until this point. Fairness seems simple but assumes that we can foresee consequences, accept responsibility and admit and adjust for our biases. That requires commitment. Thus, before embracing fairness, media professionals must have good knowledge of influence, responsibility, truth, integrity, inclusivity and other concepts covered in previous chapters of Living Media Ethics.
Defined, fairness is a continual process of improvement involving the evaluation of work and behavior to determine (a) whether the work is accurate or truthful, (b) whether the behavior is honest or appropriate, and (c) whether methods or values can be enhanced to meet those goals.
Justice is the byproduct of the fairness process. When performed impartially, the end result of fairness restores balance, makes things whole, sets things right. Many philosophers, not to mention media professionals, believe that life is unfair; truth, relative; and objectivity, impossible. But they still embrace justice whose roots trace back to Aristotle who professed that justice was the preeminent objective for humankind because our cultures and communities are inherently social.[i] In other words, to safeguard our communal way of life we have to get along, especially in a nation whose work ethic pivots on social mobility. Ethicist Anita L. Allen states that fairness has a basic requirement: “In the United States we are forced to compete with other people for many of the good and necessary things in life, so the playing field of competition should be level.”[ii]
News must be impartial, balanced and fair, or journalists do injustice to those they cover—so much so, at times, that outlets are sued for libel. Advertising and public relations also must take pains to be fair, especially when dealing with competitors or competitive bidding. Trade libel typically involves unfair, disparaging content leveled against a competitor; trade slander involves the spoken word, perhaps in an online video or broadcast. Advertisers commit libel or slander when they create unfair content that disparages competitors. Moreover, as communication agencies know, bidding processes and requests for proposals must be unbiased and “on the level” so that competition can flourish along with merit as part of our work ethic. According to the U.S. Justice Department:
American consumers have the right to expect the benefits of free and open competition—the best goods and services at the lowest prices. … The competitive [bidding] process only works, however, when competitors set prices honestly and independently. When competitors collude, prices are inflated and the customer is cheated. Price fixing, bid rigging, and other forms of collusion are illegal and are subject to criminal prosecution by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.[iii]
As you can see, the courts and Justice Departments hold media practitioners to higher standards of fairness than those in other professions because our words, images and sounds are transmitted via powerful technology to the public and influence culture and society.
[i] Anita L. Allen, The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the Twenty-First Century Moral Landscape, (New York: Hyperion, 2004), xxxii.
[ii] Ibid, 39.
[iii] See “Price Fixing, Bid Rigging and Market Allocation Schemes,” U.S. Department of Justice, June 25, 2015, https://www.justice.gov/atr/price-fixing-bid-rigging-and-market-allocation-schemes | <urn:uuid:6287399d-8404-40de-9771-1cca6205a88d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://livingethics.org/excerpt/ | 2022-01-18T09:26:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.944742 | 1,389 |
Yesterday my good friend, Ruth Armitage posted a link to to a book "Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often to Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist." You know how something said, or an article you read, or (in this case) a book title is just what you need to spur you on?
Seeing that book title was a good reminder to me that I don't always have to go to the studio and create a masterpiece. Sometimes it is just a wonderful thing to experiment and paint for the fun of it. The idea of having fun with some small works on papers really appealed to me. As I was searching through my file drawers, I came across some pieces that had not been successful, but already had paint and collage on them.
Sometimes I find it easier to work on "stuff" rather than start with white paper. So I tried to capture some more successful parts of these 12 x 15 inch papers.
So this was reduced to
Cropped Old Work
Ponds #2,5 x 7 inches
Which became this finished small work on paper.
Ponds #3, 5 x 7 inches
Here are a couple more examples of the small works on paper I did today.
Ponds #1, 8 x 8 inches
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M&R 2016 Gathering attendees,
The Museums and Race Steering Committee would like to apologize for the inconvenience and emotional injuries that were caused during the registration process and session conversations. We are very sorry. Our goal in organizing the Gathering was to provide a space for authentic engagement around museums and race, which also grappled with topics like power, privilege, diversity and inclusion. According to some of the feedback that we received it is clear to this committee that we fell short of that goal. We hope that this apology serves as a step towards reconciliation to those who were injured and/or inconvenienced during this event.
We have already started to meet as a group to address these hard lessons and we know and understand that we cannot do this alone. Our hope is that we can involve more people in the planning and participation of next year’s gathering so that we can work together in developing a safe space for dialogue, coalition building and best practices that will meet everyone’s needs surrounding these important issues. We plan to use our website and our social media (Twitter and Facebook) to act as portals of interaction so that individuals can work in partnership around these important matters in our field.
For those who have not had an opportunity to share their feedback on the survey concerning the Gathering here is the link.
The survey will close Friday June 24, 2016.
We would also like to acknowledge those who came from near and far just to participate and Museums and Race. We appreciate the efforts you made to attend and we are committed to working with you on dismantling systemic racism in the museum field.
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The jury is back on gender diversity among Supreme Court advocates for the 2019 term, and the verdict isn’t encouraging for women.
Of the 156 times that lawyers argued at the high court between the beginning of October and the just-concluded phone-in session, women were at the podium or on the other end of the line only 20 times, or 13%.
Despite greater attention than ever on boosting diversity in the legal profession, the percentage of female advocates this time around tests the lowest end of the spectrum. The number of female advocates in recent terms has ranged from 12% to 21%.
Moreover, the dearth of appearances by women from private practice—compared with government of academia—is acute. Of the 70 arguments done by lawyers from law firms, just eight were conducted by women. | <urn:uuid:7125eefd-1b49-4128-9652-67467ced7772> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/an-uphill-climb-for-women-supreme-court-advocates-gets-steeper | 2022-01-18T09:47:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300810.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118092443-20220118122443-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.969594 | 163 |
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